Didn’t think I’d ever see this again given the vile Savile. I’m the guy with the pink bowler hat in the first 3 seconds. I remember it as if it were yesterday. (My daughter now has the hat!).
I was so obsessed with Olivia's A Little More Love. My mum asked me who it was & what the song was called. I told her it was It gets Me Nowhere by Sandy in Grease. The next day she came home with the single.
It wasn't until I helped my wife put on a school production of Grease that I actually realised what the lyrics to Grease Lightin actually were...very different times.....
I had that haysi fantaysi hit "John Wayne is big leggy" in my recommended, who would've thought it lol..now I'm off to Google greased lightening, ( I was always rubbish at catching the lyrics) 😁
@@bhamacukThey be cancelled quicker than one could say ( in person this is my best impression of someone(!), sadly ( eh, should l say this?)), ' Showaddywaddy'.
Risque lyrics have been a staple of pop music for a long time. Check out "TV is the Thing" by Dinah Washington and this one from the 1930s. m.ruclips.net/video/x359GgVRWaE/видео.html
I played "New York, New York" for a cousin of mine who lived in New York from 1967 to 1980 and wrote a book about the gentrification he saw. He never heard the song before and loved it. The song reminds me a lot of Billy Joel.
I will definitely have watched this at the time. ON-J and JT seemed to dominate the charts in 1978... and John Farrar did pretty well too! Always find it funny how the singer out of Racey is the same height as the drummer - and HE is sitting down!
Such a shame my childhood memories have been tainted by Jimmy Saville, Rolf Harris and Dave Lee Travis . The Grease soundtrack Album was released this year but my Sister was still playing it regularly way into the 1980’s
Gee wow! Only just at high school at the time, loved mid to late 70s period ❤❤❤❤ I luv music from 30s to 50s, dads influenced me. But this late 70s thing I was growing up with was great, the disco, rock n roll revival, punk new wave along the way. Something for everyone. ❤❤❤❤ PS. I'm female a little bit older, never ever sport a platinum blonde hairdo with glasses. SAVILE CHIC IS NOT THE WAY TO GO! I LEARNED SINCE!! Slightly different now ❤❤❤❤ Enjoy the nostalgia anyway.
Thank you so much Marfun for these fantastic and SUPERLATIVE TOTP uploads of AMAZING picture and audio quality ...you are really skillful and talented in doing this , I for one am truly appreciative. Thank you!
That New York New York by Gerard Kenny got loads of air play even though it was only a very minor a hit. For some reason, the DJs or the compilers of the playlist seemed to love it.
I remember there was a huge buzz about her in the UK at this time .This live version of B A B Y doesn't really do the actual 45 single justice . ,It should have been a big hit and she should have had much more commercial success and acclaim . ( I have the song on one of her CDs & still play it to this day. )
Jimmy Saville had the hair of an abused Barbie doll, the eyes of Marty Feldman, and the personality of a deranged clown, yet people loved him. Hard to understand.
How much is true and how much isn’t as regards the late great Jimmy Savile? He were an excellent DJ and I wish people would move on with the times including those who don’t know the facts. I remember J Savile in positive ways how he raised so much funds and his wonderful program Jim, l Fix It. He also ran a wonderful program on a Sunday afternoon many years ago on Radio One called Savile‘s time travels. If it’s so bad, why was nothing detected and it’s funny how everyone raised the alleged alarm after his death. Now then now then everyone is entitled to their opinion on water under a bridge.
@16:52 Dollar, she sings ``And they`ll be dancin in the moonlight... I wonder if thats the same moonlight the two of them were asking each other who were they with in it?
A clever comment. You know your dollar songs. They were a very melodious double act that couldn't be repeated. Pity David went on to become a grumpy man. Very vain too. However as a group Dollar were in my opinion simply brilliant.
1978 in the U.S. wasn't so much the year of _Grease_ as it was of RSO Records which issued the soundtrack to that, _Saturday Night Fever . . . and _Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band_ . Anyways . . . this same week's U.S. Top 30 for comparison and contrast . . . 30. "New York Groove" _by Ace Frehley_ 29. "Ready To Take A Chance Again" _by Barry Manilow_ 28. "You Needed Me" _by Anne Murray_ 27. "I'm Every Woman" _by Chaka Khan_ 26. "Promises" _by Eric Clapton_ 25. "We've Got Tonite" _by Bob Seger And The Silver Bullet Band_ 24. "The Power Of Gold" _by Dan Fogelberg / Tim Weisberg_ 23. "Part Time Love" _by Elton John_ 22. "Ooh Baby Baby" _by Linda Ronstadt_ 21. "Don't Want To Live Without It" _by Pablo Cruise_ 20. "How You Gonna See Me Now" _by Alice Cooper_ 19. "Change Of Heart" _by Eric Carmen_ 18. "Sweet Life" _by Paul Davis_ 17. "Double Vision" _by Foreigner_ 16. "Straight On" _by Heart_ 15. "Hold The Line" _by Toto_ 14. "Alive Again" _by Chicago_ 13. "Y.M.C.A." _by the Village People_ 12. "Too Much Heaven" _by the Bee Gees_ 11. "Strange Way" _by Firefall_ 10. "(Our Love) Don't Throw It All Away" _by Andy Gibb_ 09. "Sharing The Night Together" _by Dr. Hook_ 08. "My Life" _by Billy Joel_ 07. "Time Passages" _by Al Stewart_ 06. "I Love The Nightlife (Disco 'Round)" _by Alicia Bridges_ 05. "How Much I Feel" _by Ambrosia_ 04. "I Just Wanna Stop" _by Gino Vannelli_ 03. "You Don't Bring Me Flowers" _by Barbra And Neil_ 02. "Mac Arthur Park" _by Donna Summer_ 01. "Le Freak" _by Chic_
Oh the years are rolled back to a time before the horror of Thatcher ... If only we knew then what was around the corner. And of course Thatcher's big mate, Jimmy Savile, the man who she helped get the keys to hospitals full of vulnerable patients.
No, they preferred to make the Boomtown Rats change their lyrics from 'pus and grime' to 'blood and tears pour down the drains and the sewers'. Tits and pussy wagon were OK in 1978. Different times
@markl8740 as a 10-year-old kid at the time, I too noticed the lyric change on "Rat Trap" when my mother bought me the single compared to the version played on Radio 1's chart show. That said station chopped the hell out of it's 5-minute running time
He said: I have here a present that can be claimed by any male hospital worker (probably refering to himself as he did visit hospitals quite frequently). How about some Olivia Newton John
This is great of course too for sure. Even with savile in it but he is part of it i guess too nonetheless. Because of him i guess this edition was not reshown on bbc four sadly although they could edit it surely so too i wonder.
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Didn’t think I’d ever see this again given the vile Savile. I’m the guy with the pink bowler hat in the first 3 seconds. I remember it as if it were yesterday. (My daughter now has the hat!).
Pink bowler eh, were you trying to catch Jimmy's eye? 😅
What was it like standing next to Jimmy
Ignore VILE Saville....You looked great 😂 and the music was FAB🎉
@@SirAntoniousBlock
I’ve got a sick sense of humour but that was over the line!
@@nibsvkh So you don't really have a sense of humour then....
lovely Olivia, miss her
R.I.P Olivia Luv the Fun Hit The Rumour Never be Forgotten
Olivia was a superb singer . Karen carpenter also had that heavenly voice. Bless them
Priceless unforgettable days. Take me back there please.
Agree does seem a much simpler and gentle time.
Ditto
@@tonymorgan2264 We did not realise it at the time.
Unreliable cars, black and white tv, everything else was brown.
It was certainly an unforgettable time for those who knew Jimmy Savile
Really makes your skin crawl watching Savill with his hands on those young ladies. Didn’t think anything of it back in the day though did we….
🙉🙈🙊
Agree enemy in plain sight
She's not looking delighted!!...
i always knew there was a reason i always found him creepy
A lot of folk did but kept it quiet.
At the same time though,don't eradicate history just because of certain individuals.
People were so much thinner in those days
Apart from Rachel Sweet ( real name? Surely not?) . Now I'm fat shaming ,probably..OK , I think the lady's a gordita
Even the pedophiles.
And no hideous tattoos.
@@philipbonner6486.Your so right 👍
Rachel sweet looks healthy and certainly not fat just normal @@jaysterling26
Olivia Newton-John 😊
😭
Incredible, Olivia is singing that live. Very rare for those days. What a voice.
I saw this being recorded after the Top of the Pops I went too, I was also lucky to meet her that day.
45 years ago anniversary tomorrow night I was watching this with my dad! Thursday, 7 December 1978!
Noted… think I was too…dad would come home, sit in his chair. And sleep 😂😂
I was so obsessed with Olivia's A Little More Love. My mum asked me who it was & what the song was called. I told her it was It gets Me Nowhere by Sandy in Grease. The next day she came home with the single.
It’s a fabulous track 👍
Olivia Newton JOHN
The Records with drummer Will Birch from the Kursaal Flyers backing Rachel Sweet! Poptastic!
RIP John Wicks😢
Fabadabadopolistic mate!
It wasn't until I helped my wife put on a school production of Grease that I actually realised what the lyrics to Grease Lightin actually were...very different times.....
I had that haysi fantaysi hit "John Wayne is big leggy" in my recommended, who would've thought it lol..now I'm off to Google greased lightening, ( I was always rubbish at catching the lyrics) 😁
This was performed at my kid's junior school play once, unedited. Can't believe how they got away with it lol
@@bhamacukThey be cancelled quicker than one could say ( in person this is my best impression of someone(!), sadly ( eh, should l say this?)), ' Showaddywaddy'.
@@bhamacukI suppose they wouldn’t quite understand the meaning of a “pussy wagon” !
Risque lyrics have been a staple of pop music for a long time.
Check out "TV is the Thing" by Dinah Washington and this one from the 1930s. m.ruclips.net/video/x359GgVRWaE/видео.html
Lol, such was the innocent, bubblegum image of Grease, the sheer naughtiness of some of the lyrics apparently flew right by the censors unnoticed : )
I played "New York, New York" for a cousin of mine who lived in New York from 1967 to 1980 and wrote a book about the gentrification he saw. He never heard the song before and loved it. The song reminds me a lot of Billy Joel.
So long time ago great memories its 2023 do i mis this
Great up load. I think the audience were practicing for the zombie movie audition
I thought I knew all the Goodies songs, but that Duck one was a new one on me. Still, it only took me 46 years to hear it(!)
Ditto
Lucky you
Gerard Kenny (New York, New York)also wrote the music to "I could be so good for you" with Dennis Waterman. FACT!
In the City of light on a Rag time night, it's something more than free ❤
Wrong. I won't tell you why you're wrong... but you are. Although I will admit that you are 50% right...
The wrong Kenny
That's totally punk
Every song makes Me smile....
Great happy Music ❤
Wow Rachel Sweet B.A.B.Y And Dollar
Backing band: The Records
I will definitely have watched this at the time. ON-J and JT seemed to dominate the charts in 1978... and John Farrar did pretty well too! Always find it funny how the singer out of Racey is the same height as the drummer - and HE is sitting down!
@12:37 Girl to Jimmy: "Control yourself, creep."
She didn’t look happy at all 😢
That Muppet was praying on little kids.
Didn't know he was religious, huh.
@@stephenhowell5611 Unluckily for him, he burns in hell.
Holy crap. Rachel Sweet backed by The Records. Rare footage indeed!
The music is also fantastic.
Y'know,watching these old shows I realise that Top of the Pops was just a variety show .
Such a shame my childhood memories have been tainted by Jimmy Saville, Rolf Harris and Dave Lee Travis . The Grease soundtrack Album was released this year but my Sister was still playing it regularly way into the 1980’s
& Noel Edmonds - owner of both a small red box & a large chopper.
Margaret thatcher
Mine hasn't, I wasn't aware of what they did when I was a child, thankfully.
Gee wow! Only just at high school at the time, loved mid to late 70s period ❤❤❤❤ I luv music from 30s to 50s, dads influenced me. But this late 70s thing I was growing up with was great, the disco, rock n roll revival, punk new wave along the way. Something for everyone. ❤❤❤❤ PS. I'm female a little bit older, never ever sport a platinum blonde hairdo with glasses. SAVILE CHIC IS NOT THE WAY TO GO! I LEARNED SINCE!! Slightly different now ❤❤❤❤ Enjoy the nostalgia anyway.
Great sounds the mad monk is back one cool dude😊😊❤
Jimmy Savile ?
Thank you so much Marfun for these fantastic and SUPERLATIVE TOTP uploads of AMAZING picture and audio quality ...you are really skillful and talented in doing this , I for one am truly appreciative.
Thank you!
That New York New York by Gerard Kenny got loads of air play even though it was only a very minor a hit. For some reason, the DJs or the compilers of the playlist seemed to love it.
That great song still get played loads on the radio in England.
shooting star wasnt released in australia until june 1979 and lay your love on me by racy three months later
Dollar, Sally Oldfield, et al All memorable 😊
Oh Sir Jimmy Savile, such a talented man, as it goes
He was a sick and twisted pedo!!
National treasure ❤
Loved this show Now then, Now then , big cigar, sovereign rings now then and great music TOTP's was great 🙂 and still is 👍
Olivia Newton John and Britt Ekland never seen in the same room !
Rachel sweet now a tv producer in usa❤
I remember there was a huge buzz about her in the UK at this time .This live version of B A B Y doesn't really do the actual 45 single justice . ,It should have been a big hit and she should have had much more commercial success and acclaim . ( I have the song on one of her CDs & still play it to this day. )
Olivia is very talented ❤
was.
Olivia Newton John with that dance move of looking over her shoulders at 14:13 or was she just keeping an eye out for Saville😱
😂😂😂
Oliver Newton John sweeping her hair just like Cliff Richards
Jimmy Saville had the hair of an abused Barbie doll, the eyes of Marty Feldman, and the personality of a deranged clown, yet people loved him. Hard to understand.
Because they were hypnotized by his evilness the vile creature
That's such an amusing and accurate description of the monster!!
i didnt liked his show never liked him when i was a kid he freaked me out
How much is true and how much isn’t as regards the late great Jimmy Savile? He were an excellent DJ and I wish people would move on with the times including those who don’t know the facts. I remember J Savile in positive ways how he raised so much funds and his wonderful program Jim, l Fix It. He also ran a wonderful program on a Sunday afternoon many years ago on Radio One called Savile‘s time travels. If it’s so bad, why was nothing detected and it’s funny how everyone raised the alleged alarm after his death. Now then now then everyone is entitled to their opinion on water under a bridge.
Lovely shame that creature was on it but we didn’t know then great happy times miss them
Two songs missing,Sarah Brightman I Lost My Heart To A Starship Trooper and Boney M Marys Boy Child.
Blimey, Rachel sweet, I saw her live 1 month before this at Huddersfield poly Stiff records tour.
Good old Jimmy. Crazy guy! Wonder whatever happened to him? Is he still with us?
@16:52 Dollar, she sings ``And they`ll be dancin in the moonlight... I wonder if thats the same moonlight the two of them were asking each other who were they with in it?
David van Day came across as a twat then and he didn't get any better.
A clever comment. You know your dollar songs. They were a very melodious double act that couldn't be repeated. Pity David went on to become a grumpy man. Very vain too. However as a group Dollar were in my opinion simply brilliant.
@@neilhilton35 Agreed, especially the Trevor Horn tunes.
1978 in the U.S. wasn't so much the year of _Grease_ as it was of RSO Records which issued the soundtrack to that, _Saturday Night Fever . . . and _Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band_ . Anyways . . . this same week's U.S. Top 30 for comparison and contrast . . .
30. "New York Groove" _by Ace Frehley_
29. "Ready To Take A Chance Again" _by Barry Manilow_
28. "You Needed Me" _by Anne Murray_
27. "I'm Every Woman" _by Chaka Khan_
26. "Promises" _by Eric Clapton_
25. "We've Got Tonite" _by Bob Seger And The Silver Bullet Band_
24. "The Power Of Gold" _by Dan Fogelberg / Tim Weisberg_
23. "Part Time Love" _by Elton John_
22. "Ooh Baby Baby" _by Linda Ronstadt_
21. "Don't Want To Live Without It" _by Pablo Cruise_
20. "How You Gonna See Me Now" _by Alice Cooper_
19. "Change Of Heart" _by Eric Carmen_
18. "Sweet Life" _by Paul Davis_
17. "Double Vision" _by Foreigner_
16. "Straight On" _by Heart_
15. "Hold The Line" _by Toto_
14. "Alive Again" _by Chicago_
13. "Y.M.C.A." _by the Village People_
12. "Too Much Heaven" _by the Bee Gees_
11. "Strange Way" _by Firefall_
10. "(Our Love) Don't Throw It All Away" _by Andy Gibb_
09. "Sharing The Night Together" _by Dr. Hook_
08. "My Life" _by Billy Joel_
07. "Time Passages" _by Al Stewart_
06. "I Love The Nightlife (Disco 'Round)" _by Alicia Bridges_
05. "How Much I Feel" _by Ambrosia_
04. "I Just Wanna Stop" _by Gino Vannelli_
03. "You Don't Bring Me Flowers" _by Barbra And Neil_
02. "Mac Arthur Park" _by Donna Summer_
01. "Le Freak" _by Chic_
And we get... A Mans Best Friend is his Duck!
"Will a little more love bring a Happy Ending".. no, but it'll make me walk funny for the next few days.
Dollar was brilliant, and a brilliant backing band.
You sure?
what a taste in music you have
Backing band seemed a bit underwhelmed to me .
Theresa from Dollar.....gulp!
When I was a tot at this time i was obsessed and fascinating by the pencil thin mikes they had. Often used pens to make believe! 😅
Like punk never was.
Why didn’t the believe Johnny Lydon when he told the truth about that beast ??
Because the BBC kept it quiet and I'm sure there many other pedophiles working for the BBC still.
Omg it's that fella who used to do the show on Saturday evening where he helped the kids. Aww i loved him.
what you mean the pedophile jimmy savile........ he has the word evil in his name........
Sarcasm?? Lol! 👹
Dear Jimmy. Can you fix it for me
Well then. Well then. Has it happens has it happens. I can fix it for you 💙 if you fix something for me first?
Oh the years are rolled back to a time before the horror of Thatcher ... If only we knew then what was around the corner.
And of course Thatcher's big mate, Jimmy Savile, the man who she helped get the keys to hospitals full of vulnerable patients.
Exactly!! Two monsters together. Add in ol' Charlie and you have the axis of evil. 💯👹👹👹
Cry me a river hughesy 😂😂😂
I'm surprised that auntie beeb let John Travolta's "Shit" and "Tit" from Greased lighting slip through!
They only recently decided to remove those, but kept Pussy Wagon in
I am surprised the BBC didn't edit 'tit' and 'shit' on Greased Lightnin'
Or "she's a real pussy wagon"....or "the chicks'll cream for greased lightnin"!
No, they preferred to make the Boomtown Rats change their lyrics from 'pus and grime' to 'blood and tears pour down the drains and the sewers'. Tits and pussy wagon were OK in 1978. Different times
Maybe the censors didn’t understand “the chicks’ll cream” !
Right. There's a lot they DID edit those years though, from what I've heard, because the public wasn't supposed to know🤫
@markl8740 as a 10-year-old kid at the time, I too noticed the lyric change on "Rat Trap" when my mother bought me the single compared to the version played on Radio 1's chart show. That said station chopped the hell out of it's 5-minute running time
We want Jimmy we want Jimmy
simp
Sir Jim! 👍👍
.,....To go straight to hell, yes!
Bloody pollock, you are!!!!!
12:33 what did he say? and She doesn't look very impressed
He said: I have here a present that can be claimed by any male hospital worker (probably refering to himself as he did visit hospitals quite frequently). How about some Olivia Newton John
Hiding in plain sight. What an animal
Saville the Peroxide Ponce.
Oh dear, what was that drivel at the end? So glad such 'novelty' records died a death!
The reason stuff like that was on totp was because it was in the charts, people were buying it.
"You'll get a nasty suck, if you muck around with his duck".
Racey. Hated that record at the time but those dancers. She picked him up without a grimace. Strong girl.
Sue from Legs & Co . Very accomplished dancer .
Probably helps that he’s about four feet tall.
Oh,come on... he was about the size of a Ken doll.
What was tune that opened the show the one the opened the countdown any ideas 😊
This is great of course too for sure. Even with savile in it but he is part of it i guess too nonetheless. Because of him i guess this edition was not reshown on bbc four sadly although they could edit it surely so too i wonder.
I was 14 then so would've been perfectly safe in the audience. Far too old.
Did nobody vet the lyrics to greased lightning? Lol. This would have gone out at 7.30 on a Thursday night. Also Olivia's trousers were a bit tight....
This whole episode should've been X rated.
Even Rachel Sweet was saucy AF.
And did you see how tight the guy in Dollars trousers were? No wonder he could reach the high notes!
First single i eve 27:59 r bought😢racey
What was that other show Sir Jimmy frequented? Oh yes i remember now ''Jim'll F'cks It ''
A great episode spoiled at the end by that garbage. And, of course, the monster.
Are you joking?
The whole episode was filth and depravity. 😂
It's the 7th December 2023 a Thursday 01.30
Oh dear 😂😂
racey needed a new wardrobe manager
Who.is the singer/band @ 03:22
So YMCA was-the 70s version of Relax.
It got so bad the people rebelled. The effing goodies ffs
Thank god for punk/new wave.
Punk had pretty much come and gone by this stage though
The same year as Grease but ONJ seems more raunchy.
It knocks me sick looking at that creep now, knowing what we know about him. MONSTER
Why has he got the Leeds United sweat band on his right hand didn't even support us
who did he support?
Man Utd
Figures for a guy from Leeds.@@otters61
Red army
Why is jimmy saville still on you tube?
Ignoring all the awkward Sa-vile moments , thankfully easy to skip over..... some good music - Great live version of New York , New York
Racey should have been bigger the The Beatles.
Racey should have been arrested.
Racey should have been on the Titanic.
I would prefer if Jimmy Savile didnt appear on my feed.
I think People should see history as it was not how people today chose how it should look
Savile shouldn’t get airtime😤
Now then now then
Don't you love Jimmy
No
Are you speaking from the personal experience of your younger self?
Hi was part of my life during the 70s@@SirAntoniousBlock
@@philipbonner6486uuuuuuuuhhh uuuuuuuuhhh now then now then uuuuuuuuhhh uuuuuuuuhhh
@@michaelsandford1015 Was it broken, did he fix it for you?
Is that first singer Tina Charles
No it's Rachel Sweet
Who's Rachel Sweet ?
@@tomsanders8714 never heard of her, and I caught the name this time, very similar to Tina Charles
The first singer..
Wish they would cut the bit out with Savile!
Now then now then. Ffs
Good music , shame about the Nonce
As ever TOTP picks the worst singles to showcase.
The goodies who actually bought that record at woolies. 🤔
People were dying in the streets..
Thanks to Labour. History about to repeat itself in 2024...
@@blastfromthepast-o1d Thanks to people doing nothing.
@@Jack-il3qv No... thanks to people voting Labour.
@@blastfromthepast-o1d Yes, what you say is true. There are people who believe that the only ones who walk past dying people in the street are Labour voters.
I thought they destroyed all the ones with JS
What a load of ……
Olivia the greatest
They had a load of crap on these show’s. The presenters were puppets for the BBC, they were very annoying.
Yet again the crap to excellence ratio is 10 to 1.
That Sally Oldfield song is horrible... just sayin'.
No. It's not. Loved this song when it came out. Bought the single.
Normally I can tolerate TOTP but not with Savile on the show