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A new entry at Number 26...
Posted by tkdmart on 2 September 2011 - 10:51am.
It's Abba with 'Dancing Queen'.
TOTP 76, you continue to amaze me!
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Good one last night.
I never knew Twiggy was a singer. The Hot Chocolate song was excellent too, I'd never heard it before.
She has an album coming out for Xmas.
Oh yes.
I was also amazed.
Nowadays, it is inconceivable that a new single by a major artist (and ABBA were as major as it got in 1976) would limp into the charts at no 26.
Anything less than straight in at Number One would now be unthinkable.
Thing is...
Abba probably sold more copies to get to No.26 than it needs to be No.1 these days
I would imagine the smasheroo at No.75...
probably sold more than a No.1 of today.
Number one singles
tend to sell 50,000 a week and can often do over 100,000.
Before downloading took off things did get quiet, but singles sales are as high now as they have ever been, aided no doubt by price and convenience.
That's actually quite surprising.
.
It's received wisdom
that singles don't sell as well as they once did, perpetuated by those of us who don't follow the charts as avidly as in their younger days.
One Direction had sold 83,000 singles by the end of Monday this week, and the song only came out on Sunday.
They must be getting fed up with the No.1
Don't Go Breaking My Heart got cut off somewhere in the 2nd verse. Then again, it's been no.1 for ages; 4-5 weeks seems to be the norm.
Yes, I remember them doing that sort of thing
Bohemian Rhapsody was severely shortened by TOTP after week 3 or 4.
I hope
we don't get Blue Jeans again next week. I don't know why but I find Ruby Flipper slightly unsettling.
Yup
Ruby Flipper are just the worst.
Not long now
Before they're axed in favour of Legs & Co.
I notice one of the male dancers - Gavin - has already been let go.
I never knew twiggy was a singer
She wasn't, last nights totp made that obviously clear.
Jesse Green - Nice and Slow
I've had this bloody song and that flute riff in my head all day today. The prob with this week is that it was mainly the same tracks as last week as the episode the week inbetween had been wiped.
No TOTP76 next week but get ready for about 15 different Word threads about the next episode in 2 weeks time..............
.................Noel Edmonds and Krautrock.
An appearance by Can. I Want More.
Sorry.....couldn't wait for this...
Christ Noel Edmonds was embarrassing...
He almost makes DLT look like a model of sophistication and tact.
I've always had a resistance to Can,
mainly due to their regular appearance on those achingly self-conscious 'all time greatest albums' lists that NME used to do in the 80s (see also Sun Ra, Captain Beefheart, Television...).
Must try and, ahem, listen without prejudice'.
It's strange to reminded of a time...
... when the whole world didn't know "Dancing Queen", if you see what I mean, and interesting to see it comparatively getting so little fanfare, for a track that would be still filling wedding disco dancefloors (and putting bums on West End theatre seats) 35 years later. I'm feeling old now...
Anyone know...
1. Tonights edition was 26/08/76.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b014b9nj
Why the timelag - werent the shows were supposed to be shown 35 years to the day?
2. If tonight was 26/08/76, where the hell were Can?
Eh?
EH?
...no disrespect to the likes of Ruby Flipper, Acker Bilk, Robin Sarsedt, Ruby Flipper, Sir Cliff and Ruby Flipper. Plus Noel's timeless banter (esp. chatting up the bird at the end - what a class act).
3. Given the timelag, anyone know how much longer we have to wait for Pussycat and the triumphant return of Tina Charles and the Wurzels?
Well....
1. There's some episodes from 1976 either missing from the archives or unusable. To get around the gap in the schedule, one episode a month is being dropped in favour of The Sky At Night to allow the Christmas episodes to appear at roughly the correct time. As the missing episodes are not equally scattered about, it does mean that they're currently running a couple of weeks astray. Things will soon catch up.
2. Back in 1976, the length of TOTP episodes varied, depending upon what other shows were being shown on BBC1 on a Thursday evening. Unfortunately that means that some episodes have to be edited to fit into the 7:30pm 30 minute slot, but they are shown in full when repeated later. The good news is that all of the remaining normal episodes from 1976 are 30 minutes long, so there should be no more need for an edit unless there's some contractual issues. The Can does appear in another edition later in the year.
3. The Wurzels will be appearing next week, with Pussycat about three weeks later.
This is annoying having so many TOTP threads on Word....
......I put similar comments on the Blancmange TOTP subject earlier last night.
The Can performance being edited was a bloody joke. Seriously, the most interesting track on the episode.
It is on the late night 40minute repeat which should be on again over the weekend. Annoying it had to be removed from the 30minute edit.