Man, I forgot how gold Kenny was; I just came on here because of Pans People segment on Ghetto Child. The whole farm boy ‘milking things we don’t mention’ was hilarious.
Bly me! I remember this episode clearly as it was one that I taped on an old C90 cassette and played over and over again. Absolute silence had to be maintained during the recording otherwise voices, footsteps etc could be clearly heard in the background. Kenny Everett added his own brand of nuttiness to a Thursday night institution and made it an absolute hoot! Thanks for posting! "It's me..."
Yes, it has always been said, but it actually and factually works in reality when applied to the 2000s and onwards music....A horse could piss a better tune than whats out now.@@seanconnolly7386
I enjoyed the show. I had just turned 13 in the September before. 1973 was a good year for music. Interesting also to see the audience and their fashions and hairstyles.
The seventies was a magical wonderful time for the rock music especially post 1973 to 74 beautiful memories and yes its a lot better than today's so called music but I suppose it's about different eras in music i only know that the seventies was my era absolutely fantastic
GREAT memories...of having to be on my best behaviour in order to watch this programme, also watching it on a Baird rented black and white T.V, really enjoying the pop music, then the next day being Friday so we going home from boarding school to lots more pops.
Had my 9th birthday in Oct that year, great memories from back then, of course the majority of folk would've watched TOTPS on black & white Tvs - Not many years later Punk Rock came into my life & is still my only Religion to this day - i was 60 two weeks ago.... cheers for vid mate... 😎👍
I was a ten year old boy my sisters 5 of them all 15 and up used me as their make up doll fantastic memories I loved Sweet and I have now got a massive collection of singles and albums
Top Of The Pops usually ran for about 50 minutes on a Thursday night, usually between 7:20 and 8:10 pm, between Tomorrow’s World and something American - from sometime around 1983 or so, running times seemed to vary - one edition ran for precisely 15 minutes, featuring a song, then the countdown 40 to 20, then another song, then the countdown 20 to 1, then the number one, then the song played over the closing titles - with only 15 minutes to play with, there wasn’t time to play the few songs that they did play in full! They finally settled on 30 minute editions for the remainder of its run! That song by Engelbert Humperdinck gave Malcolm Roberts his best-known hit! Eye Level was the theme from a series filmed in Amsterdam called Van Der Valk - stories about a Dutch detective, made for the English market! Strange song to top the charts, alongside of Slade and ELO!
Great stuff DJGray1. We, as a group of apprentices studying in Birmingham, saw an ELO concert in the Birmingham town hall in 73or74. Great nostalgia & music. Keep on posting, much appreciated.
ELO pure class. Very young looking Status Quo kicking off their top 5 career, steering Radio Caroline in from the North Sea. Slade quirky but foot-tapping. As for Kenny Everett: "you've got a fine set of udders my dear:" couldn't say that today! Haven't heard "Eye Level" for 50 years, really takes one back to the 70s.
I was only 7 in 1973 so I didn’t get to see any episodes with Kenny Everett. He’s great, true comedian. That first song must be Nilsson, or an accurate copy. ELO were very cool early on, this song has shades of Heard It Through the Grapevine with 3 copies of the Beatles in each chorus. Status Quo were a stalwart of the UK charts for about 20 years. This early classic is very welcome in my ears. They were anti-progressive really, the anti-Yes. Patchouli, anyone? The Detroit Spinners is a nice song, sort of in the Stylistics style, if you’ll excuse the pun. The pumping chorus sort of skips half a beat, very good, that. Englebert Humperdick takes Macca’s famous first line for a walk around Scott Walker’s house. Like Adele today, he seems to be giving voice to people who are struggling to get by. Also like today’s singers, he seems to have misread ‘volume’ for ‘emotion’. Slade are in show-band mode in this one, this may be my favourite tune of theirs, the Xmas songs and others make me wince. The Tip for the Top doesn’t seem to have came good chart wise, but I really like the song, in a Laura Nyro / 5th Dimension mode with some really interesting changes. Perhaps it was too 60 for 73. Simon Park is a genuine treat, his library music is generally superb and well worth seeking out. He was cool enough to be sampled by Madlib. There was a dance for Nutbush City Limits which people would always do in the heavy discos, which would leave you exhausted but exhilarated.
She was always my favourite Pan's Person, too! My best friend's older sister (we were 14 year old schoolboys at the time) looked just like Cherry. Needless to say myself and all my other friends were hopelessly in love with her... 🙂
One great thing about popular music in the 70's was the sheer variety that could be had. Rock, Pop, and an orchestra all in one show! Van Der Vark was the name of the show that, 'eye level', was the theme to.
Ich frage mich was der Typ da unten rechts im Video macht? Macht er sich wichtig? Und wo kommt plötzlich die Werbung, mitten im Video her? Dieser Beitrag ist Murks ‼️
😂I love how horrendous songs got on as well, presumably due to some sort of 'arrangement', for example that Engelbert Humperdinck massacre of Solitaire - fantastic.
Meanwhile, for comparison and contrast, the U.S. Top 30 for this period (counting down) . . . 30. "In The Midnight Hour" _by Cross Country_ * 29. "Hurts So Good" _by Millie Jackson_ * 28. "Get It Together" _by The Jackson 5_ * 27. "You've Never Been This Far Before" _by Conway Twitty_ * 26. "Space Race" _by Billy Preston_ * 25. "Touch Me In The Morning" by _Diana Ross_ 24. "Rocky Mountain Way" _by Joe Walsh_ 23. "Why Me" _by Kris Kristofferson_ * 22. "Brother Louie" _by Stories_ * 21. "Say, Has Anybody Seen My Sweet Gypsy Rose" _by Dawn Featuring Tony Orlando_ 20. "Knockin' On Heaven's Door" _by Bob Dylan_ 19. "All I Know" _by Art Garfunkel_ * 18. "Delta Dawn" _by Helen Reddy_ * 17. "Basketball Jones Featuring Tyrone Shoelaces" _by Cheech And Chong_ * 16. "My Maria" _by B.W. Stevenson_ * 15. "China Grove" _by The Doobie Brothers_ * 14. "Free Ride" _by The Edgar Winter Group_ * 13. "Paper Roses" _by Marie Osmond_ 12. "Heartbeat - It's A Lovebeat" _by The DeFranco Family Featuring Tony DeFranco_ * 11. "Yes We Can Can" by _The Pointer Sisters_ * 10. "We're An American Band" _by Grand Funk_ * 09. "Keep On Truckin' " _by Eddie Kendricks_ 08. "Midnight Train To Georgia" _by Gladys Knight And The Pips_ 07. "Loves Me Like A Rock" _by Paul Simon (With The Dixie Hummingbirds)_ 06. "That Lady (Part 1)" _by the Isley Brothers_ 05. "Angie" _by The Rolling Stones_ 04. "Higher Ground" _by Stevie Wonder_ 03. "Let's Get It On" _by Marvin Gaye_ 02. "Ramblin' Man" _by The Allman Brothers Band_ * 01. "Half-Breed" _by Chér_ * * Did not chart in Britain.
TOTP was a great production in it's day thanks to the then sensible programme unit of the BBC - Pity the plonker in the RH corner continues to spoil the picture!
Some proper British music!. Pans ppl were great dancers. Why was the guy in corner getting all excited feigning as if he's trying to teach us 'this is how u ort to react'. 🙄 No thanks.
Love the content DJ Gray, but we're you aware that you are still in shot & obscuring part of the screen featuring the artists which inhibits the viewer from getting totally lost down memory lane.
Ahhh memories…summer ..butlins..my 1st real kiss…when music was great…the memories are just as good…shame about the geezer in the corner…kinda spoils it a bit
Meanwhile, "Eye Level" itself, in the U.S., is better known as the music heard in the background of commercials for KLM Royal Dutch Airlines for most of the decade.
Sharp as a nail Kenny Everett was (his tv show on freeview some evenings). Four years or so earlier he’d been bounced off the beeb for alluding live on his radio show to the then transport ministers wife passing her driving test first time because of bribery! He was a breath of fresh air, crazy cobbled together sped up tapes etc. Thanks Kenny ps we will slightly forgive him the supporting thatcher which eventually bit him on the ankle anyway
1973 was my first year as a teenager, many happy memories instantly brought to mind by some of the best music. For me this music will never get old.
Never will be topped 70s by far the best so many happy memories
Man, I forgot how gold Kenny was; I just came on here because of Pans People segment on Ghetto Child. The whole farm boy ‘milking things we don’t mention’ was hilarious.
He was a one-off.
Bly me! I remember this episode clearly as it was one that I taped on an old C90 cassette and played over and over again. Absolute silence had to be maintained during the recording otherwise voices, footsteps etc could be clearly heard in the background. Kenny Everett added his own brand of nuttiness to a Thursday night institution and made it an absolute hoot! Thanks for posting! "It's me..."
The legendary original QUO! The brilliantAlan Lancaster!
I was 11 years old.
I have to say 1973 was a great great.
Great music in those days still love listening to it now not the rubbish today x
Just enjoy it without hating on something else
when music was music and still is better then todays rubbish
I remember my dad saying that back then that this was rubbish and his music was better.😊
@@seanconnolly7386 Same as every generation and always will be; we had some great music in the seventies but also swathes of banal garbage.
nah, the 70s had a lot of garbage. But the glam rock was amazing
@@seanconnolly7386And his father before him.
Yes, it has always been said, but it actually and factually works in reality when applied to the 2000s and onwards music....A horse could piss a better tune than whats out now.@@seanconnolly7386
Just goes to show how the music industry has gone down, in that one week we had Quo, Slade and ELO ... great music!
None of them were playing live.
@@gweilospur5877 And?
@@johnhughes8466 But?
Quite right. And Sweet at no. 3!
Exactly. Now there are groups playing on programmes and six months later they’re forgotten about
I enjoyed the show. I had just turned 13 in the September before. 1973 was a good year for music. Interesting also to see the audience and their fashions and hairstyles.
The seventies was a magical wonderful time for the rock music especially post 1973 to 74 beautiful memories and yes its a lot better than today's so called music but I suppose it's about different eras in music i only know that the seventies was my era absolutely fantastic
Detroit Spinners ..Ghetto Child what a great song.
Yes it was. That era of male vocal bands in the 70s never quite got the love that male and female vocal groups got in the 60s.
GREAT memories...of having to be on my best behaviour in order to watch this programme, also watching it on a Baird rented black and white T.V, really enjoying the pop music, then the next day being Friday so we going home from boarding school to lots more pops.
Caroline was the first single l ever bought from Woolworths in Marian Square, Netherton!
Always wondered what happened to my tanktop!
Had my 9th birthday in Oct that year, great memories from back then, of course the majority of folk would've watched TOTPS on black & white Tvs - Not many years later Punk Rock came into my life & is still my only Religion to this day - i was 60 two weeks ago.... cheers for vid mate... 😎👍
Mr. Humperdink's awesome voice.
I was a ten year old boy my sisters 5 of them all 15 and up used me as their make up doll fantastic memories I loved Sweet and I have now got a massive collection of singles and albums
Top Of The Pops usually ran for about 50 minutes on a Thursday night, usually between 7:20 and 8:10 pm, between Tomorrow’s World and something American - from sometime around 1983 or so, running times seemed to vary - one edition ran for precisely 15 minutes, featuring a song, then the countdown 40 to 20, then another song, then the countdown 20 to 1, then the number one, then the song played over the closing titles - with only 15 minutes to play with, there wasn’t time to play the few songs that they did play in full! They finally settled on 30 minute editions for the remainder of its run!
That song by Engelbert Humperdinck gave Malcolm Roberts his best-known hit!
Eye Level was the theme from a series filmed in Amsterdam called Van Der Valk - stories about a Dutch detective, made for the English market! Strange song to top the charts, alongside of Slade and ELO!
My 21st on the 15th of October, Ruined by the fateful 1-1 draw with Poland at Wembley
Great stuff, keep them coming....
Love the wild variety of music on the 70s TOTP. From Glam Rock to Symphonic Pop.
Thank you for sharing this.
Thank you I enjoyed that, I was 15 at that time.
Gorgeous group of guys the quo lads were back then.
I felt so sorry in 2012 when Engelbert came a humiliating second to last place in Eurovision. He was such a star.
It was a crap song though...l'm surprised he didn't realise it.
Eng had a great voice, but that Eurovision entry was dreadful
I was an Unappreciated 7 yr old..More Please .😊❤
Great stuff DJGray1. We, as a group of apprentices studying in Birmingham, saw an ELO concert in the Birmingham town hall in 73or74. Great nostalgia & music. Keep on posting, much appreciated.
What a fantastic performance from Mr Humperdink
ELO pure class. Very young looking Status Quo kicking off their top 5 career, steering Radio Caroline in from the North Sea. Slade quirky but foot-tapping. As for Kenny Everett: "you've got a fine set of udders my dear:" couldn't say that today! Haven't heard "Eye Level" for 50 years, really takes one back to the 70s.
One of the very few times that you will see Rick Parfitt singing into a mic on Francis Rossi's left hand side.
Thumbs down during Pans People ? ? Sheer beauty, never mind the music !
It’s a great song and Pans People are excellent here as well.
Perfect skin, not one blackhead in sight.
@@hardlines2635uncool
What memories!
I was only 7 in 1973 so I didn’t get to see any episodes with Kenny Everett. He’s great, true comedian. That first song must be Nilsson, or an accurate copy. ELO were very cool early on, this song has shades of Heard It Through the Grapevine with 3 copies of the Beatles in each chorus. Status Quo were a stalwart of the UK charts for about 20 years. This early classic is very welcome in my ears. They were anti-progressive really, the anti-Yes. Patchouli, anyone? The Detroit Spinners is a nice song, sort of in the Stylistics style, if you’ll excuse the pun. The pumping chorus sort of skips half a beat, very good, that. Englebert Humperdick takes Macca’s famous first line for a walk around Scott Walker’s house. Like Adele today, he seems to be giving voice to people who are struggling to get by. Also like today’s singers, he seems to have misread ‘volume’ for ‘emotion’. Slade are in show-band mode in this one, this may be my favourite tune of theirs, the Xmas songs and others make me wince. The Tip for the Top doesn’t seem to have came good chart wise, but I really like the song, in a Laura Nyro / 5th Dimension mode with some really interesting changes. Perhaps it was too 60 for 73. Simon Park is a genuine treat, his library music is generally superb and well worth seeking out. He was cool enough to be sampled by Madlib. There was a dance for Nutbush City Limits which people would always do in the heavy discos, which would leave you exhausted but exhilarated.
So funny! I used to do the 👍👎 When the countdown came on! I thought I was the alone in the madness! Oh I was 13 in 73.
The very week England played that fateful 1-1 draw against Poland. My 21st the day before, as l celebrate my 71st today 15th October 2023!
Classic Caroline by Status Quo Rockin'
Greatest days. Greatest music
😮 yeah why i mean we're waiting with baited breath for Umpeldink 😮 ha ha xx.
Thank you DJ Gray 1 It would be brilliant if you could find top of the pops recording of Roxy Music performing Pyjamarama.
I may have seen this when first broadcast,as was 12 ,but it would have been in black&white!!
OMG! 50 years ago ...
Ah, Cherry Gillespie. As beautiful as I remember her.
She was always my favourite Pan's Person, too! My best friend's older sister (we were 14 year old schoolboys at the time) looked just like Cherry. Needless to say myself and all my other friends were hopelessly in love with her... 🙂
@@rikkinadir7979 Ah, the friend's gorgeous older sister. We all had a crush on one of them!
Thanks. the BBC bar I bet was fun with Slade, Quo, ELO & Pans People.🎉
The legends T.O.T.P bar, i remember being there when Adam and the Ants took 15 takes to do their song, Quo 1 take and off....
They aren't all I the studio at the same time. Took all day to shoot the studio stuff with bands coming and going. I watched it one day I 1978.
You are not really the 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 guy are you?@@pauljones9061
Yes, but why is there a guy sitting there in the corner? Weird.
Probably The biggest Collars in TV history...nevertheless a magnificent performance from Englebert.
Tony Christy had bigger in a later episode.
The programme you couldn't remember was Van der Valk a Dutch detective . "Oo's nicked me tulips "
Eye Level if I remember rightly?
@@gaskellr44 Yep .
The TV show you are trying to remember was Van De Volk, Dutch Detective
The wee lad wi the tanktop dancing to the Qou looks so cute awww .. 6 years later doing the same dance to the Specials skinhead moonstomp prob lol
Pity we have to put up with the guy at the bottom right of the screen.
Worth watching just for Kenny Everett. Genius!
Wonderful ELO but was JEff miming? And that after getting the top class strings to attend.
One great thing about popular music in the 70's was the sheer variety that could be had. Rock, Pop, and an orchestra all in one show!
Van Der Vark was the name of the show that, 'eye level', was the theme to.
The 70s were the best decade for musical diversity, absolutely. It was Van Der Valk" btw and now there's even a remake.
'Caroline' now there's a tune!
Ich frage mich was der Typ da unten rechts im Video macht? Macht er sich wichtig? Und wo kommt plötzlich die Werbung, mitten im Video her?
Dieser Beitrag ist Murks ‼️
Went to high school with a guy who looked just like dave hill (slade) shout out to andrew mugsy marks and debbie eaton ❤ hobart.
Brilliant.
Did Kenny really say to that girl, "I bet you've got a fine set of udders my dear"?
Yes! Wildly inappropriate thing to say to a young girl, but he did work for the BBC in the '70s so..........!
Shocking...amazed by that.
It wasn't personal - he was gay!!
@@lemming9984 Yes, but nobody knew that at the time.
@@lemming9984So what? No one knew then and he shouldn't get a free pass for it anyway.
There's nothing the uploader can do about the BBC DOG but why does he have to retain the picture-in picture throughout?
Who cares. thank him for putting it up & nice to see the guy.
Its the , I love me syndrome.
Creepy
Status Quo, 👍
Eye Level is 'echoed' in the theme to the current series
😂I love how horrendous songs got on as well, presumably due to some sort of 'arrangement', for example that Engelbert Humperdinck massacre of Solitaire - fantastic.
Very true.
Meanwhile, for comparison and contrast, the U.S. Top 30 for this period (counting down) . . .
30. "In The Midnight Hour" _by Cross Country_ *
29. "Hurts So Good" _by Millie Jackson_ *
28. "Get It Together" _by The Jackson 5_ *
27. "You've Never Been This Far Before" _by Conway Twitty_ *
26. "Space Race" _by Billy Preston_ *
25. "Touch Me In The Morning" by _Diana Ross_
24. "Rocky Mountain Way" _by Joe Walsh_
23. "Why Me" _by Kris Kristofferson_ *
22. "Brother Louie" _by Stories_ *
21. "Say, Has Anybody Seen My Sweet Gypsy Rose" _by Dawn Featuring Tony Orlando_
20. "Knockin' On Heaven's Door" _by Bob Dylan_
19. "All I Know" _by Art Garfunkel_ *
18. "Delta Dawn" _by Helen Reddy_ *
17. "Basketball Jones Featuring Tyrone Shoelaces" _by Cheech And Chong_ *
16. "My Maria" _by B.W. Stevenson_ *
15. "China Grove" _by The Doobie Brothers_ *
14. "Free Ride" _by The Edgar Winter Group_ *
13. "Paper Roses" _by Marie Osmond_
12. "Heartbeat - It's A Lovebeat" _by The DeFranco Family Featuring Tony DeFranco_ *
11. "Yes We Can Can" by _The Pointer Sisters_ *
10. "We're An American Band" _by Grand Funk_ *
09. "Keep On Truckin' " _by Eddie Kendricks_
08. "Midnight Train To Georgia" _by Gladys Knight And The Pips_
07. "Loves Me Like A Rock" _by Paul Simon (With The Dixie Hummingbirds)_
06. "That Lady (Part 1)" _by the Isley Brothers_
05. "Angie" _by The Rolling Stones_
04. "Higher Ground" _by Stevie Wonder_
03. "Let's Get It On" _by Marvin Gaye_
02. "Ramblin' Man" _by The Allman Brothers Band_ *
01. "Half-Breed" _by Chér_ *
* Did not chart in Britain.
I like ELO, most tunes ❤❤❤❤
SLADE! Great band!
YESSSSS
Kenny was very good , one of the best..also not with us
Best DJ ever. And rockin good show.
I could never work out wether kenny was more of a comedian than a dj rather than the other way around
He was a comic dj lol.
Kenny Everett, genius
Jeff Lynne looks like a werewolf
ELO & Status Quo back to back - can it get any better. This takes me to my happy place.
What's with that annoying ad for bloody LinkedIn?
Adverts right in the middle of the bloody songs, though.
It’s a bit creepy having that guy sitting in the bottom corner..!
I'd much rather see ya kitty kat in corner
Nostalgia is a seductive liar.
💋
Couldn't give half a new p for ya visual reactions old man
Kenny Everett to be honest I didn't get him at thime but my god was he so ahead of his time brillliant😊
I freakin out.. Peeping tom in corner of my screen. Go away !
I know. Why is he there.
TOTP was a great production in it's day thanks to the then sensible programme unit of the BBC - Pity the plonker in the RH corner continues to spoil the picture!
You could land a Harrier jump jet on Englebert's wing collars
Layne Staley as Moderator
The dawn of the disco era.
Pity the British bullshit corporation made them mime instead of just letting them sing and play live! Thanks for the upload though
A lot of them wanted to mime, as they couldn’t reproduce the sound of the record live.
Because most of them couldn't play well enough which is why session musicians and singers were used for the records.
The REAL reason for the "singing live" dictate was the Musicians Union.
Not a BBC decision at all.
slade were the best live band of the 70,s early 80,s with out a doubt, should of played live aid,
Thanks D Jay Gray.
God I love Kenny Everett. Didn't know he presented TOTP.
Omg
Some proper British music!.
Pans ppl were great dancers. Why was the guy in corner getting all excited feigning as if he's trying to teach us 'this is how u ort to react'. 🙄
No thanks.
Pan's People
Love the content DJ Gray, but we're you aware that you are still in shot & obscuring part of the screen featuring the artists which inhibits the viewer from getting totally lost down memory lane.
What's the Man doing in the right hand corner Go away
get out of the picture
Was 17. Just left school.
Ahhh memories…summer ..butlins..my 1st real kiss…when music was great…the memories are just as good…shame about the geezer in the corner…kinda spoils it a bit
I guessin u in corner ya 30 minutes of fame huh
The tv programme was Van Der Valk
Ah thanks used to watch that with my dad.
Meanwhile, "Eye Level" itself, in the U.S., is better known as the music heard in the background of commercials for KLM Royal Dutch Airlines for most of the decade.
I was 20 at T have to be alove.
2:47 2:47 2:47 2:48 2:48 2:48
Seeing u in corner as annoying as Saville on show mate
Bev doesn't change at all
Sharp as a nail Kenny Everett was (his tv show on freeview some evenings). Four years or so earlier he’d been bounced off the beeb for alluding live
on his radio show to the then transport ministers wife passing her driving test first time because of bribery! He was a breath of fresh air, crazy cobbled together sped up tapes etc. Thanks Kenny ps we will slightly forgive him the supporting thatcher which eventually bit him on the ankle anyway
Vander Valk or something. Dutch copper