OGWT
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Re: OGWT
Top of the Pops dealt with the singles charts and I suspect most of those were the usual 2.5 - 3 minute songs (although Bohemian Rhapsody in 1975 was longer). OGWT usually covered tracks that were frequently longer and not, er, "pop".
It's all a matter of taste. The well-known and controversial classical conductor Sir Thomas Beecham was once asked,
"Have you played any Stockhausen?"
"No, but I have trodden in some."
It's all a matter of taste. The well-known and controversial classical conductor Sir Thomas Beecham was once asked,
"Have you played any Stockhausen?"
"No, but I have trodden in some."
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Re: OGWT
Ready Steady Go! (with Cathy "Oi'll give it foive" McGowan) comes to mind ...MJMcCready wrote: ↑Thu Mar 21, 2024 9:01 pm... I don't think ITV had a music show back then but could be wrong.
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Generation X: Ready, Steady Go! (featuring on '20 of Another Kind').Mike Gunn wrote: ↑Fri Mar 22, 2024 9:47 amReady Steady, Go! (with Cathy "Oi'll give it foive" McGowan) comes to mind ...MJMcCready wrote: ↑Thu Mar 21, 2024 9:01 pm... I don't think ITV had a music show back then but could be wrong.
Ready, Steady, Go
I'm not in love with television
I'm not in love with the radio
I'm not in love with the Kings Road
Because I'm in love with Cathy McGowan - she said...
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Re: OGWT
Some that were longer featured on TOTP only in truncated form. Even Number Ones like Wizzard's See My Baby Jive were subjected to this treatment.Kevin Thurlow wrote: ↑Thu Mar 21, 2024 10:46 pmTop of the Pops dealt with the singles charts and I suspect most of those were the usual 2.5 - 3 minute songs (although Bohemian Rhapsody in 1975 was longer).
"The chess-board is the world ..... the player on the other side is hidden from us ..... he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance."
(He doesn't let you resign and start again, either.)
(He doesn't let you resign and start again, either.)
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Oh heavens to Murgatroyd, not here too ....Mike Gunn wrote: ↑Fri Mar 22, 2024 9:47 amReady Steady Go! (with Cathy "Oi'll give it foive" McGowan) comes to mind ...MJMcCready wrote: ↑Thu Mar 21, 2024 9:01 pm... I don't think ITV had a music show back then but could be wrong.
The "Oi'll give it foive" girl was Janice Nicholls, who appeared on another ITV show altogether (Thank Your Lucky Stars, in their Spin-A-Disc review segment). Not much to be found on-line about her, but this is as good as any.
"The chess-board is the world ..... the player on the other side is hidden from us ..... he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance."
(He doesn't let you resign and start again, either.)
(He doesn't let you resign and start again, either.)