BBC Radio 1 - Top 20 Show - Tom Browne - 09 Oct 1977
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It's Sunday October 9th 1977 and Dad has re-mortgaged the house in order to buy a top-of-the-range Panasonic Stereo music centre. Costing the astronomical sum of £389, it's immediately by far the most technologically advanced bit of equipment in the house, after our 1975 22-inch Philips colour TV - considered far too expensive (and too unreliable) to buy - rented from Visionhire.
The music centre sits with reverence and fear at the back of the living-room on its own altar; a wood-grain effect flat-pack cabinet, bought especially for the purpose from MFI.
This is isn't something I'll be allowed to handle very often - after all, I'm only 13 - but today is a special occasion. I've spent this week's wages from my paper-round on a Scotch Chrome C120 cassette and I'm given permission to hit the beautiful "play"and "record" keys together as the Greenwich Time Signal begins for 6 o'clock. The result is this recording...
You Tube's auto-copyright system prevents me from uploading the entire programme, but I hope these edited highlights give you enough of a flavour of the original show.
Tom Browne is on great form, 5 years into his tenure as host of the "Top 20", broadcast across both Radio 1 and 2's transmitter networks. For younger generations he may sound an unlikely choice to present the nation's top chart show but, for those of us of a certain age, his classy James Mason approach to broadcasting goes hand in hand with the hits of the mid '70s.
The New Wave sound is just beginning to enter the charts in the guise of the Boomtown Rats and the Stranglers, otherwise it's a distinctly middle-of-the-road rundown with artists as diverse as Space, the Dooleys and Yes. The shock of Elvis's death back in August is still being felt through Danny Mirror's tribute and the King's own former number one, "Way Down".
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Used to love this show-I recorded the songs with a microphone onto my cassette player
Happy days
I'm so glad we all appreciate him.
+Andrew Howden I like to think he'd be really touched that he still has such a following!
since digitization has come in everyone has been reviving all their old recordings. i have collected old Tom Browne Top 20s now for over 10 years due to digital mastering on to CD through people on the internet. When I listened in the 70s my parents would put it on at 6 o'clock every Sunday Evening and I would sit there and listen. I had never heard an FM Radio back in 1977 when I was 5 but now realize that people who had a good stereo system recorded the top 20 through Radio 2 to get the best quality recording. Tom Browne is a legend and I think he did a good job of it. I could go on.
I have a huge collection of chart shows (Radio One and Radio Two) going back to the early 1960s up to the early 1980s.
Pick of the Pops, Solid Gold Sixty, Top Twenty and Top Forty.
They are currently on cassette tapes and I am transferring them to MP3
It is going to take months; I will have a list of shows and dates ready in the near future and hope to swap and share with other collectors of such shows.
He was my soothing Sunday favourite - the fact that he never did TOTP or roadshows was a bonus.
Loved this ...Memories of starting my working life, the day after.
I'd forgotten about Tom Browne. I was 15 at the time of this chart. Thanks.
An extraordinarily dignified broadcaster echoing down the decades; was a favourite here in Ireland also in those years - loved the touch of wit - we had a compliment here about a sports presenter "who could make a bad match good" . Tom Browne could present a mediocre list of hits as if they were the best songs of the century - his gravitas would have stood him good in Law, Politics or anywhere else he wished to apply himself! Nobody of his calibre has appeared since.
Maurice O'Brien That's really interesting to hear your perspective and I totally agree! His style may be out of fashion now but, to those of us of a certain age, he IS the sound of Sunday evenings and those all important chart positions. I think his smooth vocal style made the wit all the sharper and his occasional battle with the jingle machines all the more entertaining.
This is how the chart show should be, a serious chart show with a proper presenter it's a shame it's nothing like this now
Besides being a presenter, Tom was also an actor, his best known role being 'James Bonfils' in 'Emmerdale Farm' (as it was then). This could account for his smooth voice as he would have learned good diction at drama school.
James Mason does the top 20.
With the programme going out on both Radio 1 and Radio 2 - and, as a result of both stations taking it, BBC local radio stations as well, it needed a presenter whose voice didn't sound out of place on either station - someone like Tommy Vance would have been a bit loud for the Radio 2 audience and someone like David Jacobs would have sounded old-fashioned for the Radio 1 audience - due to the mix of music that permeated the charts throughout the 1970s, though, it might - even back then - have seemed strange hearing Charles Aznavour, Shirley Bassey and Tom Jones on Radio 1 and the likes of Donna Summer, Ram Jam, The Stranglers and The Boomtown Rats on Radio 2 - even when the charts became exclusive to Radio 1, shortly after Simon Bates took over, songs got played on the Top 40 (as it had become at this time) that Radio 1 never shoehorned into its regular daily playlist - by the early 80s, Foster & Allen were penetrating the nether regions of the chart and Julio Iglesias was number 1!
Just come across this. I have a copy of the Top 20 from March 14th 1976. Quality isn't as good as it could be as I was stuck in the middle of Dartmoor with a mono radio/recorder. May be possible to clean it up with the right software. You're welcome to it if you don't already have it.
I have a huge collection of chart shows (Radio One and Radio
Two) going back to the early 1960s up to the early 1980s.
Pick of the Pops, Solid Gold Sixty, Top Twenty and Top Forty.
They are currently on cassette tapes and I am transferring
them to MP3
It is going to take months; I will have a list of shows and
dates ready in the near future and hope to swap and share with other collectors
of such shows.
can we talk - mssg me - I'd like to get some copies of shows
Thanks for sharing. I Would love to hear the show in it's entirety with the songs in. Would it be possible for the whole show to be shared?
What's the music used during the countdown at the end... Just sounds brilliant
Utopia by Giorgio Moroder.
Thanks!
Get the whole 'From here to eternity' CD. Side 1 is a complete montage including this.
The countdown music is "From Here To Eternity" by Giorgio Moroder, who produced a lot of hits for Donna Summer.
Can anyone tell me the synthy music he uses for the chart run down near the end?
Sure thing! Check out Giorgio Moroder - Utopia (Me Giorgio). Fantastic:-)
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tom Browne the man is a legend. James mason you are dead right, God I cud listen to there voice ALL day it definitely has something .today they just babble, maybe they should listen to this.....😍😍😍😍😍😍😍