TOTP 21/10/71

[graham hammond]

According to BBC records this edition of TOTP resides in their archives yet apart from the Rod Stewart performance I haven't seen any of it. It would be great to see a different clip of Slade's "coz I luv you" and The Fortunes performing "freedom come, freedom go". Does anyone know anything about this show?

[nicadare]

Oct 15, 2011 9:21:06 GMT graham hammond said:

According to BBC records this edition of TOTP resides in their archives yet apart from the Rod Stewart performance I haven't seen any of it. It would be great to see a different clip of Slade's "coz I luv you" and The Fortunes performing "freedom come, freedom go". Does anyone know anything about this show?

This episode has been wiped, nothing survives from this show.

[graham hammond]

Not according to the BBC Motion Gallery.

[Paul Watkins]

That's very interesting Graham.
The database would seem to indicate that this edition does indeed survive.

Details:
LLV9240W1/1TOP OF THE POPSBBC 21/10/71
Catalogue:
LONPROG
Catalogue Page:
9648182
Item Duration:
00:35:00.000+01:00

Subject
Jimmy SAVILE presents the latest Top 40 hits. Taking part are Scott WALKER
"I Still See You", Scott ENGLISH "Brandy", Rod STEWART and the Faces "Maggie May", Slade "Cos I Love You", The Fortunes "Freedom Come, Freedom Go".
> sps vt, cpyrt film
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Featuring Pan's People and singers 'The Ladybirds' (Maggie STREDDER, Gloria
GEORGE & Marion DAVIES). Orchestra conducted by Johnny PEARSON)
CPYRT FILM: 'Elvis Presley' 2m51s Caravel Films

[nicadare]

Indeed interesting

21-10-71: Presenter: Jimmy Savile (Wiped)

(2) REDBONE – Witch Queen Of New Orleans (crowd dancing) (and charts)
(6) THE FORTUNES – Freedom Come, Freedom Go
(29) ELVIS PRESLEY – I’m Leavin’ (video)
(NEW) SCOTT WALKER – I Still See You
(12) DANYEL GERRARD – Butterfly ®
(NEW) SLADE – Coz I Luv You
(10) TITANIC – Sultana (danced to by Pan’s People)
(25) SCOTT ENGLISH – Brandy
(NEW) THE NEW SEEKERS – Good Old Fashioned Music
(1) ROD STEWART – Maggie May
(19) AL GREEN – Tired Of Being Alone

[garyjordanbrum]

have known about this for some time it could be the edition recovered by the BFI this was 1st logged on BBCMG 12 months ago it even comes up searching for the individual performers it never used to.

[Jeff Leach]

Gary, You mentioned that it was recovered by the BFI a while back - where was it recovered from ? Is it colour video tape or a black and white tele recording ? surely a major find as 71 has a very poor survival rate.

[Deleted]

I must admit, I wasn't aware of this edition existing either. With Motion Gallery, maybe it could be the same as with the old Infax system, whereby if an item (such as a film insert) survived, the whole edition appeared itemised. Just a thought.

There were two TOTP editions from this period that Kal turned up on 1500 format in 2008 (18/11/71 and 2/12/71) but apart from those, this new development is news!

[Ray Langstone (was saintsray)]

I'll ask the Beeb. I know my contact is very busy at the moment, so it may take time.

[Ray Langstone (was saintsray)]

All that the BBC have is Rod Stewart (and the Faces) performing Maggie May - which was a copy made for ZDF, incidentally. The rest of the programme does not exist, unfortunately. The confusion stems from someone listing it as existing just because of the one clip.

[Paul Varley]

And interestingly enough about the Maggie May clip, not only does the original insert survive but it also survives as part of the 27/12/71 and '10 years' 27/12/73 special.

Hardly anything for 1971, and one of the few remaining clips exists in three places!