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MJMcCready
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Re: OGWT

Post by MJMcCready » Thu Mar 21, 2024 9:01 pm

I suspect that's about right, either that or just music lovers who had little else to watch or didn't want to watch BBC1 or ITV since that was all there was. I don't think ITV had a music show back then but could be wrong.
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Re: OGWT

Post by Matt Mackenzie » Thu Mar 21, 2024 10:32 pm

ITV had various "music shows", but none that lasted as long or had the overall impact of OGWT.
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Re: OGWT

Post by Kevin Thurlow » Thu Mar 21, 2024 10:46 pm

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,
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"No, but I have trodden in some."
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Re: OGWT

Post by MJMcCready » Thu Mar 21, 2024 11:06 pm

That's rather disparaging. Stockhausen has music well worth listening to.
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Re: OGWT

Post by Mike Gunn » Fri Mar 22, 2024 9:47 am

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! (with Cathy "Oi'll give it foive" McGowan) comes to mind ...
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Re: OGWT

Post by Kevin Thurlow » Fri Mar 22, 2024 10:31 am

"Ready Steady Go! (with Cathy "Oi'll give it foive" McGowan) comes to mind ..."

Surprisingly, that only ran from 1963 - 1966.
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Re: OGWT

Post by MJMcCready » Fri Mar 22, 2024 6:37 pm

I found a BBC documentary about it on youtube, I shall have a look later, thanks.
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Re: OGWT

Post by Angus French » Fri Mar 22, 2024 11:13 pm

Mike Gunn wrote: ↑
Fri Mar 22, 2024 9:47 am
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! (with Cathy "Oi'll give it foive" McGowan) comes to mind ...
Generation X: Ready, Steady Go! (featuring on '20 of Another Kind').
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

Post by John Clarke » Fri Mar 22, 2024 11:50 pm

Kevin Thurlow wrote: ↑
Thu Mar 21, 2024 10:46 pm
 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).
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.
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Re: OGWT

Post by John Clarke » Sat Mar 23, 2024 12:03 am

Mike Gunn wrote: ↑
Fri Mar 22, 2024 9:47 am
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! (with Cathy "Oi'll give it foive" McGowan) comes to mind ...
Oh heavens to Murgatroyd, not here too ....

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.
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Re: OGWT

Post by James Pratt » Sat Mar 23, 2024 10:33 pm

John Clarke is correct. I had thought it was Monica Rose who appeared with Hughie Green. But no, Janice Nicholls.
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Re: OGWT

Post by MJMcCready » Sun Mar 24, 2024 10:29 am

I watched the documentary on Ready Steady Go and it was claimed that Top of the Pops was the BBC answer to it. Sounds about right.
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