Top of the pops ( Top 30 Rundown 15/11/73 )
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- Опубликовано: 17 окт 2024
- This is the opening sequence and the Top 30 rundown as seen on the edition broadcast on 15/11/73. This is followed by Alvin Stardust and My Cooca-choo which was the first number on the show that week.
Great Stuf!
Music has totally gone down the pan since then.
Brilliant stuff. I was 13 then and still listen to music from that time. Bowie, Slade, T. Rex etc. We were spoiled.
Great Music...
So do I fantastic times
Same here, I was 13, too. There was so much great stuff at exactly the same time.... amazing
Me, 2!
Happy days! 😀
omg I was 12 in 73 ;) Those were the proper Top of the pops days :)!!
Same as
Yeah 61er myself. 😊
18 me
Too true!
My Coo Ca Choo was the song that really introduced me to Alvin's music. Lovely to see the beautiful Lynsey De Paul in the run down loooooooooooooooove you.
Jealous Minds, Hamburger Heaven, Red Dress, Good Love will never Die.... Great music. 👏👏
1973 and 1979 were the best years for Pop music in the 1970's. the 70's as a whole were pop at its best, but those two stand out.
British music in 1973 is summarized in Glam.
Looking at the singles and studio albums that were number 1 for 4 or more weeks we have:
The Sweet - Block Buster 5 weeks no. 1
Elton John - Don't Shoot Me I'm Only the Piano Player 6 weeks no. 1
Slade - Cum On Feel the Noize 4 weeks no. 1
David Bowie - Aladdin Sane 5 weeks no. 1
Wizzard - See My Baby Jive 4 weeks no. 1
Gary Glitter - I'm the Leader of the Gang (I Am) 4 weeks no. 1
Simon Park Orchestra - Eye Level 4 weeks no. 1 (only this could stop glam)
David Bowie - Pin Ups 5 weeks no. 1
Gary Glitter - I Love You Love Me Love 4 weeks no. 1
Slade - Merry Xmas Everybody 5 weeks no. 1
actually,myFavourites are:1971+1977...
The 1970's was a great time, the music was good, the ones i just seen the charts here just now we never see in the charts anymore, I actually saw max bygraves!..he's good. nowadays its all rap, violence, drugs, music has indeed declined since the seventies, it actually showed alot by the end of the 80's, we need to get the feel we had back then. Come on slade! come on max, david essex, come on sir cliff, legends!
Punk Rock killed the music for me.
@@petergoddard262 Punk and Rap(with a silent capital C) has killed popular music.
Aww, another soundtrack to my youth!! Remember buying some of these 45s! Great charts! 70s had some of the greatest music EVER. And such variety!
verygoodresponseDEEDEE...😚😶
Good chart rundown to a good Ringo Starr hit and to top it all the great Alvin Stardust.
One of the things I miss about the 70s (and not much else , mind you) is that you could have Perry Como and David Bowie in the same countdown.
In the U.S., as late as early 1971 Mr. Como shared space in the Top 10 with the likes of Santana and ex-Beatle George Harrison.
Such a cool start and a chart packed with great tunes!
The " Hey years of Glam Rock ! happy years !
Alvin's first appeared on TV, I was 12 and watching, love at first sight x
Yes, with "I Love, You Love, Me Love", which stayed there until Slade's "Merry Xmas Everybody" knocked it off just before Christmas.
The first time I saw Alvin, and I still love him
All those fantastic artists in the top 30
50 years ago, wow where does the time go.
Absolutely mesmerising performance by Alvin, I never forgot, This is absolute best video for sound evanswho, some Coo Ca Choo vids don't have it, missing some quality. But your;s does justice to Alvin and to my memory, thank you
I was a teenager in the early 1970s good music
The song of the Top 30 countdown is RINGO STARR "Photograph"
Great to see Bowie with 2 singles here, on the album chart that week he was number 1 with Pin Ups for the third consecutive week (debut at number 1) the top 10 albums were completed by the who, elton, perry como, status quo , slade, bryan ferry, pink floyd, the carpenters and genesis. In the top 12 and 15 there were two other Bowie albums.
Alvin Stardust, scarred me to death with his Sparkley Glove,I always crossed the road Ok,"Hey Don't be a fool"Public information Film in the 70s.
Number illustrations during opening sequence are by Leslie Chapman / McKinley Howell
Love this intro of top of the pops so cool
I was banged up from '72 through to '77; Fridays were totp-s. Whacked off like a madman imagining Stardust gnawing on me knob - holding it just like that in kid leather gloves - glorious days.
RIP
@evanswho Well said, sir! Back in those halcyon days of 1973 - and indeed for a considerable number of years after that - birds were not interested in looking 'hard'; they just wanted to look gorgeous. As a middle-aged man (in my mid-40's), i look back at the 1970's nostalgically. Not everything was better in those days, but pop and rock music certainly was ...... and another positive aspect of the 1970's (in my own personal opinion) was that MEN WERE MEN ...... AND BIRDS WERE BIRDS !!
birds are still birds. I've got a bird feeder full of nuts hanging from a small yew tree in my garden, and the joy I get from watching starlings, sparrows Robin's and blackbirds feeding from it is precious indeed.
Alvin was my Hero in my teen years and still is RIP Alvin Stardust gone but never forgotton
I was scared of him!!! Honestly I hid behind the settee!!! Haha
@@gaynordurdy7689 LOL Gaynor ,1 of my young sisters the same ..it was GG We should have been worried about ,,Peace to the world worrying times now
Both Alvin Stardusts - the erstwhile Shane Fenton (ne Bernard Jewry) and now the original "voice" heard on "My Coo Ca Choo," Peter Shelley.
'Hey, you must be out of your tiny minds!' Green cross code advert from 1976 ;-)
@@danw1374🤭👍👍😂
Thanks for posting! Alvin Rocks!!! I was 7yrs old and he was MY coo ca choo lololololol!
My coo ca choo was one of the first singles I ever bought. I remember my mom laughing that Alvin Stardust wore a ring outside his gloves.
Alvin is miming to a vocal by Pete Shelley. Shane Fenton didn’t sing on an Alvin Stardust recording until Jealous Mind.
Similar to the glamorous Luan Peters miming to 5000 Volts "I'm On Fire" on Top Of The Pops in 1975. The actual vocal was sang by Tina Charles who later had major hits in her own name. Luan Peters acted in many British television series including one episode of Fawlty Towers.
Fantastic single
Best of ringos hits written by the legend George Harrison
So 3 Beatles represented in the Top 30! Also Paul and Wings probably with something of the Band On The Run album..
Yes I would love to see a Stuart Henry clip. I have a few Radio 1 clips but no video. I used to love his Radio 1 shows.
I was 14 years old when this edition of TOTP was broadcast. Being a big Gary Glitter fan, I was thrilled when I Love You Love Me Love entered the singles chart at number one, a rare event at that time! Thanks for putting it on RUclips.
I woudnt saying being gary glitter peado lover
I was a Bowie fan and I was thrilled when Bowie achieved that with his albums "Aladdin Sane," "Pin Ups" and "Diamond Dogs." As for Gary Glitter, I really liked some songs like "Hello, Hello I'm Back Again!", I saw him live that year, it was a good experience.
Hello I see you have quite a few videos of TOTP 1973/4 and I wondered if you had one I appeared in. I was standing next to Dave Lee Travis when he was introducing, I think, Ronnie Lane singing "How Come?" which was released in late 1973 and I think that's when I was there. I was wearing a long purple dress and I'd love to be able to find it and show it to my children (now that I'm 58!)
That's a memory for you all ....I hope that you find the show on YT.
One of Ringo Starr's few solo hits. I thought it was OK.
Ringo Starr's "Photograph"
I bought the Album, ' Ringo' and still have it .... obviously it's on vinyl. 🙂
The wedding being referred to is Princess Anne and Captain Mark Phillips. I remember watching that 'in colour' around someone else's house as we only had a b&w TV at the time! btw that's Pete Shelly singing with Alvin miming.
Those where the days gone by
An amazing title sequence for the time. I guess the video effects on the numbers were done purely by fiddling with the stability of the video signal? Also bear in mind that all captions in those days were done with rubdown lettering on pieces of blue card.
In all, a classic 1970's episode with the colour separation overlay etc. Plus added weirdness with the scary Gary Glitter image.
tony looks so young
he iz still excellent on radio
+Charles Young Owned
Alvin Stardust looking all mean and moody. Haha, his smile almost cracks a couple of times. Good memories.
thats great alvin
When girls looked like girls, and when david bowie looked like a lady : )
Does anyone else hear "Spirit in the Sky"?
yes, I do ! I am curious what norman greenbaum would have said about that ! you have a very good sense of observation, kudos from romania ! gelu batir, rm.valcea town, the 12th of March, 2020
Yes, I've always thought they were very similar.
After all these years, I've never noticed that before. A bit like Gene Genie and Blockbuster. 😉
great mutton chops on alvin
15th November 1973, 12 years old, 3 weeks off my 13th birthday, all of life and family intact around me, yet 2 weeks later all would change. Like it does for us all of course. It still stings.
1:14 he was guest host for Casey Kasem in Saturday night live premiere day
Can’t believe it took Wink Martindale 15 years to chart in the UK for a song made in the late 50s long before becoming a game show host.
It was his second time round with this in the UK charts, the first having been ten years earlier. (Frankly, that should have been his lot - and Max Bygraves' too.)
I wonder where the georgeous girl at 1:23 is now. She's the one with the long dark hair and lovely eyes. So pretty! If she's watching this drop me a message...I know it was coming up 40 years ago but I live in hope! :)
Jay Moore All the audience will be grandads and grandmas now
My God, I was ten on the 15th Nov 1973!
16 years old then 67 today gone in a flash
por favor ,EVANSWHO podrias subir la parte del video donde esta la banda NAZARETH ? desde ya gracias es mi banda favorita . soy fanatica de TOP OF THE POP!!!
The best music
Nice to know that Alvin loved his cooker.
That pushy young man on Tony Blackburn's left is _determined_ to be on camera - bumping & shoving all and sundry!
He recognises the absurdity of the situation and is havin' a laff !
Great intro fab girls
oh i found out wowzers!! i knew it was ringo starr it sounds like him but then it doesnt at the same time... great song ringo!!
Ah,back when girls were slim,fresh faced with natural hair colours.
Yes my thoughts too. They were also relaxed, sexy and unlike now they loved guys.
.... and no bloody tattoos!
Gorgeous girls too 😍
wish they said what the actual songs were
Well Eins Festival re-showed this in 2009 in place of the 14/1/71 edition, but things didn't go to plan as GG had to be chopped out as it made out that Barry Blue was the last act on after Kiki Dee, as it was just the BBC's decision at the time that Glitter had to be skipped and they cut him in the 25/1/73 edition too, but that got all sorted as it to be "warts and all" after Jonathan King complained to the BBC in 2011.
It is the CCS (Alexis Korner) version.
When I was a kid back then I couldn't figure out how Alvin could hold his mic arm up for so long all the way through a song and was convinced he must have a false one.
No one in the playground at school believed me but I was so sure I ended up having a punch up with one kid who had the termerity to voice the opinion that I was a fucking idiot.
That's so funny!!!
For me - it was more the hair! How did it stay put..?
Thanks lol i actually figured that out the very same day i ask the question, a little research.. thanks!
Grap song from Poundshop Gary Glitter. Great tune from Ringo. I think the wedding that Tony B refers to was Princess Anne
Alvin Stardust is now being prescribed by the NHS as an emetic.
I was 13 at the time and never understood the love of the old rock such as this Alvin Stardust. Same for Mud and Showaddy.
He was sodding appalling!
@@Sieffre_Tawr - You probably wouldn't have understood the love for Sha Na Na or Flash Cadillac if you'd lived in the U.S. . . .
Attractive Band!
great ranking!!!! :D
All tank tops, long hair and NHS specs lol
Isn't actually Alvin Stardust singing this, it was written and recorded by Peter Shelley using the name
'Alvin Stardust', he even appeared as 'Alvin' on T.V.s 'Lift Off'. He had no desire to become his own creation,
so a new 'face' was required and former 60s singer Shane Fenton became the new 'Alvin'.
incorrect
I like top of the pops used to watch it Helen goff
Wats the song playin during the count down?
That lad accidentally elbowed that girl in the face @ 2min 20s and never said sorry.. lol
Take me back to 73 anyday
Was that Garry Glitter at #1?
Leader of the free world 🌎 !
Meanwhile, here is the U.S. Top 30 for the same week, to compare and contrast with the UK lot spotlit on "TOTP":
( * - did not chart in UK)
30. "Let's Get It On" _by Marvin Gaye_
29. "Leave Me Alone (Ruby Red Dress)" _by Helen Reddy_ *
28. "Hurts So Good" _by Millie Jackson_ *
27. "Ooh Baby" _by Gilbert O'Sullivan_
26. "Summer (The First Time)" _by Bobby Goldsboro_
25. "If You're Ready (Come Go With Me)" _by The Staple Singers_ *
24. "Hello It's Me" _by Todd Rundgren_ *
23. "That Lady (Part 1)" _by the Isley Brothers_
22. "Nutbush City Limits" _by Ike And Tina Turner_
21. "We May Never Pass This Way (Again)" _by Seals And Crofts_ *
20. "The Most Beautiful Girl" _by Charlie Rich_
19. "Knockin' On Heaven's Door" _by Bob Dylan_
18. "Cheaper To Keep Her" _by Johnnie Taylor_ *
17. "Why Me" _by Kris Kristofferson_ *
16. "Ramblin' Man" _by The Allman Brothers Band_ *
15. "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" _by Elton John_
14. "Half-Breed" _by Chér_ *
13. "The Love I Lost (Part 1)" _by Harold Melvin And The Bluenotes_
12. "You're A Special Part Of Me" _by Diana Ross And Marvin Gaye_ *
11. "All I Know" _by (Art) Garfunkel_ *
10. "I Got A Name" _by Jim Croce_ *
09. "Just You 'N' Me" _by Chicago_ *
08. "Angie" _by The Rolling Stones_
07. "Top Of The World" _by the Carpenters_ (same as in UK - fancy that!)
06. "Paper Roses" _by Marie Osmond_ (notice - a different Osmond is #6 on each chart across the pond from one another)
05. "Space Race" _by Billy Preston_ *
04. "Photograph" _by Ringo Starr_
03. "Heartache - It's A Lovebeat" _by The DeFranco Family Featuring Tony DeFranco_ *
02. "Midnight Train To Georgia" _by Gladys Knight And The Pips_
01. "Keep On Truckin' (Part 1)" _by Eddie Kendricks_
That Who entry at #30 did not see U.S. single release; conversely, the one that did - an edited "Love, Reign O'er Me" - was not ish'd as a single in the UK.
Thanks for the Top 30 chart! This week (15 November 2023), The Beatles are at #7 in the US and #1 in Britain.
That's good info. Nice to see so many lots of similar tastes. Charlie Rich, Nutbush, Goldsboro etc. all reached the UK chart at some point.👍
@@paullancaster7066 - And that's the operative word. Similar.
@@wmbrown6 16 of the US hits made the charts in the UK. As far as I recall. 👍
is there even charts compiled today? And when is the last time a new Christmas song was brought out aside from fairytale of NY?
Alvin stardust's looks like Bradley Walsh.😘
He does a little, now you mention it, Maurice.
so do i - but imagine a chart with bowie, dylan and macca - with gary glitter (wtf?) at number one!! what the hell was going on?
And two days later I appeared on this wacky planet
actully this was brodcast on the 15th of november as the wedding was the day before
So it would have been recorded on the same day as the wedding (Wednesday ?).I believe the acts had a run through rehearsal in the afternoons.Then filming the actual programme with the audience began at 7.30pm.It was then edited down to fit the time-slot for the Thursday night. However,sometimes TOTP was shown on Fridays around the mid 70's.I think they even tried a Friday night trial for a while.But the TV audience objected to the change,as it spoilt their Friday Night out on the town.Thursday was the day before pay day.So most people were skint by Thursday and rarely went out.Which partly explains why it had a regular 25 Million weekly tv audience.
Great times, star jumpers, Lionel Blair's, platforms, rickets and diptheria. All four of us kids sleeping top to toe
in the same bed. Unfortunately we all wet the bed so I slept in the shallow end.
Rickets? Diptheria? Luxury!
She'd probably now be in her mid-fifties.
Great memories. Loved the mid 70s 👍
I was 5 years old and it's hard to imagine those fresh young faces there are now wrinkly silver tops.
don't worry love will come soon, be patient and your dreams will come true.
It perfected his untouchable image!
The 'wedding' would be Anne and Mark (Capt. Phillips). Willie Hamilton was always suitably 'pithy'.
As a 23 year old princess, she was caught doing 100 mph in her new Reliant Scimitar and all 'charges' were dismissed.
title song for Top of the pops was a part of "whole lot of love" by Led Zepplin
Whatever he turned out to be now, the glitter band sound was as much part of the 70s glam rock era. Im disgusted by his later years but I wont be two faced in admitting back in the 70s I loved the gliiter sound in among The Sweet,Mud, Suzi Quatro etc etc. The whole group shouldnt be judged on what he has done.
U still a gary glitter fan?
Great music
"c'mon let's go t' me flat" - quality.
That girl in the opening titles looks stoned out of her box!
How's about that then. Who wants to nip off to me caravan & play hide the cigar, wheeey-heyyy?
Sadly so many faces from that Top 30 are no longer with us. David Bowie, David Cassidy, Les Gray, Karen Carpenter, Lynsey De Paul, Alvin Stardust, to name but a few... yet the evil Glitter monster is still breathing - there's no justice sometimes!
Actually, BOTH Alvin Stardusts - the ex-Shane Fenton (ne Bernard Jewry) and the "voice" on "My Coo Ca Choo" - Peter Shelley.
love to see the girls now
alvin stardust RIP
...and typical TOTP camera work on the Alvin S number - homing in on the gormless bass player during the guitar solo.
the bass player was Tim Brooke Taylor of the goodies
Ah, Alvin the Ratcatcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang who was married to Lynsey de Paul. My plans for escape were already in gestation at 12 years old 🇨🇵🇪🇺
married to Liza Goddard actress
@@markfernandes9715 +1 Same same but different 👍? Apologies for that error of memory - a true senior moment 🙏.
Great times? Alvin Stardust? May the good Lord preserve us.