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Subject: Re: Repeats of Top of the Pops on BBC Four. Part 26. Tue Oct 24, 2023 8:00 pm
Playing out with Deuce and I Need You.
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Subject: Re: Repeats of Top of the Pops on BBC Four. Part 26. Tue Oct 24, 2023 8:00 pm
And Paul Harris with Spinning Away.
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Subject: Re: Repeats of Top of the Pops on BBC Four. Part 26. Tue Oct 24, 2023 8:01 pm
And more people who seem to want to represent us in Europe.
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Subject: Re: Repeats of Top of the Pops on BBC Four. Part 26. Tue Oct 24, 2023 8:01 pm
Someone called FFF who are going for that Nirvana vibe that always goes well in Eurovision.
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Subject: Re: Repeats of Top of the Pops on BBC Four. Part 26. Tue Oct 24, 2023 8:02 pm
Love City Groove with Love City Groove.
I remember this one.
Weren't they something to do with Jonathan King?
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Subject: Re: Repeats of Top of the Pops on BBC Four. Part 26. Tue Oct 24, 2023 8:03 pm
It is over.
It was a normal episode with no real highlights to speak of.
Now to look back at the thread and see what everybody else made of it.
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Subject: Re: Repeats of Top of the Pops on BBC Four. Part 26. Tue Oct 24, 2023 8:07 pm
The Call of the Wendigo wrote:
I wonder what the vocals on the record sound like?
In fairness, they don't sound any better than they did on the live performance.
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Subject: Re: Repeats of Top of the Pops on BBC Four. Part 26. Tue Oct 24, 2023 8:08 pm
I assumed the studio performance would have some leather-lunged hefty lass belting it out like a good 'un, Black Box style.
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Subject: Re: Repeats of Top of the Pops on BBC Four. Part 26. Tue Oct 24, 2023 9:02 pm
The Call of the Wendigo wrote:
Now that's made me half-remember that woman I'd forgotten about who was in Eastenders and had a hit once.
Sophie Lawrence?
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Subject: Re: Repeats of Top of the Pops on BBC Four. Part 26. Tue Oct 24, 2023 9:05 pm
The Call of the Wendigo wrote:
Duran Duran - Perfect Day.
The Call of the Wendigo wrote:
Why do I have no memory of this?
Well, in fairness it did only get to number 28. It's from their much maligned album of covers, which includes their version of White Lines (Don't Don't Do It).
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Subject: Re: Repeats of Top of the Pops on BBC Four. Part 26. Tue Oct 24, 2023 9:06 pm
The Call of the Wendigo wrote:
Who would've thought Toni Halliday ever made it onto TOTP?
Who is she?
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Subject: Re: Repeats of Top of the Pops on BBC Four. Part 26. Tue Oct 24, 2023 9:08 pm
The Call of the Wendigo wrote:
Love City Groove with Love City Groove.
I remember this one.
Weren't they something to do with Jonathan King?
I think all UK Eurovision acts were.
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Subject: Re: Repeats of Top of the Pops on BBC Four. Part 26. Tue Oct 24, 2023 9:09 pm
Actually, I'm not sure they were. He was more Brit Awards.
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Subject: Re: Repeats of Top of the Pops on BBC Four. Part 26. Tue Oct 24, 2023 9:25 pm
Butterfield wrote:
The Call of the Wendigo wrote:
Who would've thought Toni Halliday ever made it onto TOTP?
Who is she?
The lead singer of Curve.
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Subject: Re: Repeats of Top of the Pops on BBC Four. Part 26. Tue Oct 24, 2023 9:30 pm
Butterfield wrote:
The Call of the Wendigo wrote:
Love City Groove with Love City Groove.
I remember this one.
Weren't they something to do with Jonathan King?
I think all UK Eurovision acts were.
Butterfield wrote:
Actually, I'm not sure they were. He was more Brit Awards.
Wikipedia wrote:
Jonathan King, then working for BBC Television, tasked with finding and producing an entry for Eurovision, requested that the song be submitted for the "A Song for Europe" contest in 1995.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_City_Groove
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Subject: Re: Repeats of Top of the Pops on BBC Four. Part 26. Tue Oct 24, 2023 11:21 pm
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It's not what you could call harmonically nimble.
Could this be the start of a new ‘authentic reggae’ style meme?
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Subject: Re: Repeats of Top of the Pops on BBC Four. Part 26. Mon Oct 30, 2023 8:00 pm
Now to watch the episode from March 30th, 1995.
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Subject: Re: Repeats of Top of the Pops on BBC Four. Part 26. Mon Oct 30, 2023 8:01 pm
Introduced by Hole.
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Subject: Re: Repeats of Top of the Pops on BBC Four. Part 26. Mon Oct 30, 2023 8:01 pm
No falling records.
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Subject: Re: Repeats of Top of the Pops on BBC Four. Part 26. Mon Oct 30, 2023 8:02 pm
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