Post by David Saunders on Nov 26, 2008 14:34:07 GMT
Many editions of Top of the Pops from 1964-1977 were wiped or never recorded before June 1967.
If you have any editions or inserts from any editions, can you please consider forwarding them (or a copy of your master recordings) to: Dick Fiddy (at the BFI) or Christopher Perry (at Kaleidoscope)?
Many viewers would benefit from editions and inserts that currently only exist outside the BBC, both visual/sound and audio only recordings of Top of the Pops, which could then be archived for future transmissions, including on archive programmes like TOTP 2 and music documentaries where little or no coverage of Top of the Pops is available for the artists/songs/instrumentals in question.
Dick and Christopher are both actively involved in “Missing Believed Wiped”, which focuses on retrieving, restoring and archiving lost material that was never recorded or once was but was then subsequently wiped.
Your help could make all the difference for the future of the archives of Top of the Pops, and indeed any (music) programme.
*= Owned at the British Film Institute (BFI) - ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/series/14539
Very likely complete editions, but not stated to verify, however as the first edition is listed, up to several editions will be just reference information and not exist at the BFI
= Owned privately - www.privatevideolibrary.co.uk/libcat.html
Very likely complete editions unless otherwise stated
gaztotp.blogspot.com - “Top of the Pops – The Missing Link” (Gary Jordan)
homepage.ntlworld.com/e.watkins/musictv/interest.htm - “Nostalgia TV” (Paul Watkins)
Sources/Credits: YOU TUBE; MISSING EPISODES FORUM; STEVE PHILLIPS; GARY JORDAN; PAUL WATKINS
MONTAGE
Including recordings existing at the BBC mixed in with those existing only outside the BBC:
youtube.com/watch?v=sQfTSpIC7Vg
Editions (on closing credits) are as follows:-
(Top left): 06/08/70; (Top right): 10/09/70; (Bottom): 15/10/70
06/08/70 (Jimmy Savile) - Shirley Bassey, Fair Weather, The Foundations, Richard Harris, Heads Hands and Feet, The Jackson Five, Johnny Johnson and the Bandwagon, Marmalade, The Peddlers, Elvis Presley, Jerry Reed, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, Jimmy Ruffin, Stevie Wonder;
10/09/70 (Jimmy Savile) - Bobby Bloom, Blue Mink, Jimmy Cliff, Deep Purple, Desmond Dekker, Family, Aretha Franklin, Rod McKuen, Freda Payne, Martha Reeves and the Vandellas, Smokey Robinson, Dusty Springfield, Special Guest Peter Max
15/10/70 (Jimmy Savile, Tony Blackburn) - Richard Barnes, Baskin and Copperfield, The Carpenters, Christie, Deep Purple, Horace Faith, The Hollies, Matthews Southern Comfort, Freda Payne, The Rattles, Jimmy Ruffin - Exists at the BBC, but only Tony opens the show, so presumably Jimmy Savile didn't co-present this edition after all?
OTHER RECORDINGS OUTSIDE THE BBC
Top of the Pops
youtube.com/watch?v=sQfTSpIC7Vg
06/08/70 (Jimmy Savile): May be a complete edition, as the owner has broadcast clips from it, including the closing credits: Shirley Bassey, Fair Weather, The Foundations, Richard Harris, Heads Hands and Feet, The Jackson Five, Johnny Johnson and the Bandwagon, Marmalade, The Peddlers, Elvis Presley, Jerry Reed, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, Jimmy Ruffin, Stevie Wonder
Heads Hands and Feet - Which song did they perform?
06/08/70 (Jimmy Savile): Performance?
Not known to exist anywhere
NOT LISTED ON THE TOTP 2 DATABASE
Top of the Pops
youtube.com/watch?v=sQfTSpIC7Vg
10/09/70 (Jimmy Savile): May be a complete edition, as the owner has broadcast clips from it, including the closing credits: Bobby Bloom, Blue Mink, Jimmy Cliff, Deep Purple, Desmond Dekker, Family, Aretha Franklin, Rod McKuen, Freda Payne, Martha Reeves and the Vandellas, Smokey Robinson, Dusty Springfield, Special Guest Peter Max
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrBDivsSe3k&feature=related - The Sweet-The Ballroom Blitz
1973, Which edition? (13/09, 20/09 and 04/10 listed): Performance - Broadcast on Top of the Pops?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qswKeWhjaUc&feature=related - The Sweet-The Ballroom Blitz
1973, Which edition? (13/09, 20/09 and 04/10 listed): Performance - Broadcast on Top of the Pops?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BN-PE8a51s&feature=related - The Sweet-The Ballroom Blitz
1973, Which edition? (13/09, 20/09 and 04/10 listed): Performance - Broadcast on Top of the Pops?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7mr55bv8JQ&feature=related - The Sweet-The Ballroom Blitz
1973, Which edition? (13/09, 20/09 and 04/10 listed): Performance - Broadcast on Top of the Pops?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUVGmjz8kw4&feature=related - The Sweet-The Ballroom Blitz
1973, Which edition? (13/09, 20/09 and 04/10 listed): Performance - Broadcast on Top of the Pops?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VVW-8s8o4w - The Sweet-The Ballroom Blitz
1973, Which edition? (13/09, 20/09 and 04/10 listed): Performance - Broadcast on Top of the Pops?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmCIe2VEOtE - The Sweet-The Ballroom Blitz
1973, Which edition? (13/09, 20/09 and 04/10 listed): Performance - Broadcast on Top of the Pops?
Bruce Forsyth-Didn’t He Do Well
08/02/73 (Tony Blackburn): Performance
Does this exist privately? or as an insert at the BBC?, or neither?
It’s wishful thinking that this performance would exist, but there’s a still of Bruce on Top of the Pops from this edition via this link:
www.radiotimes.com/content/features/galleries/bruce-forsyth/08/ BROKEN LINK
Top of the Pops
04/10/73 (Jimmy Savile, Tony Blackburn, Noel Edmonds, Kenny Everett): 500th edition - Complete edition exists in private hands, including at the Private Video Library, b/w
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Qv6QTrWXN4 - Noel Edmonds intro; The Who-5:15; Brief glimpse of Jimmy Savile wearing a 500th edition t-shirt
04/10/73 (Jimmy Savile, Tony Blackburn, Noel Edmonds, Kenny Everett): Performance - From the 500th edition, from the musical Quadrophenia
www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5t4Kvb0wTU - The Who-5:15
04/10/73 (Jimmy Savile, Tony Blackburn, Noel Edmonds, Kenny Everett), b/w: Performance - From the 500th edition, from the musical Quadrophenia
Also exists on "Ultra Rare Wiped TOTP", a 4 DVD bootleg set
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S875A4NdS0U - The Who-5:15; Brief glimpse of Jimmy Savile wearing a 500th edition t-shirt
04/10/73 (Jimmy Savile, Tony Blackburn, Noel Edmonds, Kenny Everett), b/w: Performance – From the 500th edition, from the musical Quadrophenia
Also exists on "Ultra Rare Wiped TOTP", a 4 DVD bootleg set
The Who-5:15
04/10/73 (Jimmy Savile, Tony Blackburn, Noel Edmonds, Kenny Everett), b/w: Performance – From the 500th edition, from the musical Quadrophenia
Also exists on "Ultra Rare Wiped TOTP", a 4 DVD bootleg set
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBMfM-EcVJM - Charlie Rich-The Most Beautiful Girl (Promo Film)
14/03/74 (Noel Edmonds), b/w: Insert - Broadcast on Top of the Pops? – In colour
Exists on "Ultra Rare Wiped TOTP", a 4 DVD bootleg set
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aztub_hMXTc - Roxy Music-Love is the Drug
1975, Which edition? (23/10 and 06/11 listed): Performance – Broadcast on Top of the Pops?
NOT LISTED ON THE TOTP 2 DATABASE
“Swap of the Pops”
27/12/76 (Noel Edmonds, Keith Chegwin): Complete edition - Never broadcast? – On the BFI database it states that Abba, Mud, Showaddywaddy, Smokie, John Christie, The Wurzels and Dr. Hook performed on the show *
If you have any editions or inserts from any editions, can you please consider forwarding them (or a copy of your master recordings) to: Dick Fiddy (at the BFI) or Christopher Perry (at Kaleidoscope)?
Many viewers would benefit from editions and inserts that currently only exist outside the BBC, both visual/sound and audio only recordings of Top of the Pops, which could then be archived for future transmissions, including on archive programmes like TOTP 2 and music documentaries where little or no coverage of Top of the Pops is available for the artists/songs/instrumentals in question.
Dick and Christopher are both actively involved in “Missing Believed Wiped”, which focuses on retrieving, restoring and archiving lost material that was never recorded or once was but was then subsequently wiped.
Your help could make all the difference for the future of the archives of Top of the Pops, and indeed any (music) programme.
*= Owned at the British Film Institute (BFI) - ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/series/14539
Very likely complete editions, but not stated to verify, however as the first edition is listed, up to several editions will be just reference information and not exist at the BFI
= Owned privately - www.privatevideolibrary.co.uk/libcat.html
Very likely complete editions unless otherwise stated
gaztotp.blogspot.com - “Top of the Pops – The Missing Link” (Gary Jordan)
homepage.ntlworld.com/e.watkins/musictv/interest.htm - “Nostalgia TV” (Paul Watkins)
Sources/Credits: YOU TUBE; MISSING EPISODES FORUM; STEVE PHILLIPS; GARY JORDAN; PAUL WATKINS
MONTAGE
Including recordings existing at the BBC mixed in with those existing only outside the BBC:
youtube.com/watch?v=sQfTSpIC7Vg
Editions (on closing credits) are as follows:-
(Top left): 06/08/70; (Top right): 10/09/70; (Bottom): 15/10/70
06/08/70 (Jimmy Savile) - Shirley Bassey, Fair Weather, The Foundations, Richard Harris, Heads Hands and Feet, The Jackson Five, Johnny Johnson and the Bandwagon, Marmalade, The Peddlers, Elvis Presley, Jerry Reed, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, Jimmy Ruffin, Stevie Wonder;
10/09/70 (Jimmy Savile) - Bobby Bloom, Blue Mink, Jimmy Cliff, Deep Purple, Desmond Dekker, Family, Aretha Franklin, Rod McKuen, Freda Payne, Martha Reeves and the Vandellas, Smokey Robinson, Dusty Springfield, Special Guest Peter Max
15/10/70 (Jimmy Savile, Tony Blackburn) - Richard Barnes, Baskin and Copperfield, The Carpenters, Christie, Deep Purple, Horace Faith, The Hollies, Matthews Southern Comfort, Freda Payne, The Rattles, Jimmy Ruffin - Exists at the BBC, but only Tony opens the show, so presumably Jimmy Savile didn't co-present this edition after all?
OTHER RECORDINGS OUTSIDE THE BBC
Top of the Pops
youtube.com/watch?v=sQfTSpIC7Vg
06/08/70 (Jimmy Savile): May be a complete edition, as the owner has broadcast clips from it, including the closing credits: Shirley Bassey, Fair Weather, The Foundations, Richard Harris, Heads Hands and Feet, The Jackson Five, Johnny Johnson and the Bandwagon, Marmalade, The Peddlers, Elvis Presley, Jerry Reed, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, Jimmy Ruffin, Stevie Wonder
Heads Hands and Feet - Which song did they perform?
06/08/70 (Jimmy Savile): Performance?
Not known to exist anywhere
NOT LISTED ON THE TOTP 2 DATABASE
Top of the Pops
youtube.com/watch?v=sQfTSpIC7Vg
10/09/70 (Jimmy Savile): May be a complete edition, as the owner has broadcast clips from it, including the closing credits: Bobby Bloom, Blue Mink, Jimmy Cliff, Deep Purple, Desmond Dekker, Family, Aretha Franklin, Rod McKuen, Freda Payne, Martha Reeves and the Vandellas, Smokey Robinson, Dusty Springfield, Special Guest Peter Max
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrBDivsSe3k&feature=related - The Sweet-The Ballroom Blitz
1973, Which edition? (13/09, 20/09 and 04/10 listed): Performance - Broadcast on Top of the Pops?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qswKeWhjaUc&feature=related - The Sweet-The Ballroom Blitz
1973, Which edition? (13/09, 20/09 and 04/10 listed): Performance - Broadcast on Top of the Pops?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BN-PE8a51s&feature=related - The Sweet-The Ballroom Blitz
1973, Which edition? (13/09, 20/09 and 04/10 listed): Performance - Broadcast on Top of the Pops?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7mr55bv8JQ&feature=related - The Sweet-The Ballroom Blitz
1973, Which edition? (13/09, 20/09 and 04/10 listed): Performance - Broadcast on Top of the Pops?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUVGmjz8kw4&feature=related - The Sweet-The Ballroom Blitz
1973, Which edition? (13/09, 20/09 and 04/10 listed): Performance - Broadcast on Top of the Pops?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VVW-8s8o4w - The Sweet-The Ballroom Blitz
1973, Which edition? (13/09, 20/09 and 04/10 listed): Performance - Broadcast on Top of the Pops?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmCIe2VEOtE - The Sweet-The Ballroom Blitz
1973, Which edition? (13/09, 20/09 and 04/10 listed): Performance - Broadcast on Top of the Pops?
Bruce Forsyth-Didn’t He Do Well
08/02/73 (Tony Blackburn): Performance
Does this exist privately? or as an insert at the BBC?, or neither?
It’s wishful thinking that this performance would exist, but there’s a still of Bruce on Top of the Pops from this edition via this link:
www.radiotimes.com/content/features/galleries/bruce-forsyth/08/ BROKEN LINK
Top of the Pops
04/10/73 (Jimmy Savile, Tony Blackburn, Noel Edmonds, Kenny Everett): 500th edition - Complete edition exists in private hands, including at the Private Video Library, b/w
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Qv6QTrWXN4 - Noel Edmonds intro; The Who-5:15; Brief glimpse of Jimmy Savile wearing a 500th edition t-shirt
04/10/73 (Jimmy Savile, Tony Blackburn, Noel Edmonds, Kenny Everett): Performance - From the 500th edition, from the musical Quadrophenia
www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5t4Kvb0wTU - The Who-5:15
04/10/73 (Jimmy Savile, Tony Blackburn, Noel Edmonds, Kenny Everett), b/w: Performance - From the 500th edition, from the musical Quadrophenia
Also exists on "Ultra Rare Wiped TOTP", a 4 DVD bootleg set
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S875A4NdS0U - The Who-5:15; Brief glimpse of Jimmy Savile wearing a 500th edition t-shirt
04/10/73 (Jimmy Savile, Tony Blackburn, Noel Edmonds, Kenny Everett), b/w: Performance – From the 500th edition, from the musical Quadrophenia
Also exists on "Ultra Rare Wiped TOTP", a 4 DVD bootleg set
The Who-5:15
04/10/73 (Jimmy Savile, Tony Blackburn, Noel Edmonds, Kenny Everett), b/w: Performance – From the 500th edition, from the musical Quadrophenia
Also exists on "Ultra Rare Wiped TOTP", a 4 DVD bootleg set
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBMfM-EcVJM - Charlie Rich-The Most Beautiful Girl (Promo Film)
14/03/74 (Noel Edmonds), b/w: Insert - Broadcast on Top of the Pops? – In colour
Exists on "Ultra Rare Wiped TOTP", a 4 DVD bootleg set
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aztub_hMXTc - Roxy Music-Love is the Drug
1975, Which edition? (23/10 and 06/11 listed): Performance – Broadcast on Top of the Pops?
NOT LISTED ON THE TOTP 2 DATABASE
“Swap of the Pops”
27/12/76 (Noel Edmonds, Keith Chegwin): Complete edition - Never broadcast? – On the BFI database it states that Abba, Mud, Showaddywaddy, Smokie, John Christie, The Wurzels and Dr. Hook performed on the show *