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The BBC's 'Top of the Pops' To Fold
IMDB ^ | June 21 2006 | Studio Briefing

Posted on 06/21/2006 5:58:47 PM PDT by RightWingAtheist

Top of the Pops, one of the longest-running shows in British television history, will end its run after 42 years on July 30, the BBC announced Tuesday. With the show now attracting an audience of fewer than one million, "the time has come to bring the show to its natural conclusion," said the BBC's director of television Jana Bennett. During its lifetime, TOTP had featured virtually every major British musical group, and many American ones as well. Its first show, which aired on Jan. 1 1964, included a performance by The Rolling Stones, singing "I Wanna Be Your Man." At its peak in the 1970s, it attracted 19 million viewers each week, but in recent years it has fallen victim to MTV and the Internet. Jimmy Savile, the original host, told the BBC Tuesday, "In those days you would have to wait until Thursday night to get your [pop music] fix, and you don't need to do that anymore."


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: bbc; music; pop; rock; topofthepops; tv
You'd think they'd have folded nearly twenty years ago, when they played this
1 posted on 06/21/2006 5:58:51 PM PDT by RightWingAtheist
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To: RightWingAtheist

ROFLMAO!!! What the HELL was that!???!!!


2 posted on 06/21/2006 6:01:02 PM PDT by Hildy ("Whenever someone smiles at me all I see is a chimpanzee begging for its life." - Dwight Schrute)
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To: RightWingAtheist

"a performance by The Rolling Stones, singing "I Wanna Be Your Man."

The Stones doing a Beatles' song? I don't think so.


3 posted on 06/21/2006 6:03:55 PM PDT by popdonnelly
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To: RightWingAtheist

"Top of the Pops, one of the longest-running shows in British television history, will end its run after 42 years on July 30, the BBC announced Tuesday. With the show now attracting an audience of fewer than one million,"

Either audiences have fragmented so much that there is no crossover appeal anymore or else what we "know" as pop and what audience WANT to hear are two different things.


4 posted on 06/21/2006 6:07:07 PM PDT by weegee (happy holidays and seasons greetings...)
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To: popdonnelly

Yep. It happened.


5 posted on 06/21/2006 6:08:25 PM PDT by weegee (happy holidays and seasons greetings...)
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To: RightWingAtheist

hahahaha!

I just HAD to play that...didn't I?


6 posted on 06/21/2006 6:08:32 PM PDT by dakine
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To: RightWingAtheist

"In those days you would have to wait until Thursday night to get your [pop music] fix, and you don't need to do that anymore."

Maybe they should switch to playing ROCK music. The kind written about lovingly in Mojo magazine (it's British).

There is so little actual rock and roll in the mass media (radio, television, movies) that I would be happy with a single tv program once a week.


7 posted on 06/21/2006 6:10:00 PM PDT by weegee (happy holidays and seasons greetings...)
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To: Hildy

"The Holiday Rap" by MC Miker G and DJ Sven. They were a pair of Dutch recording engineers who, in 1987, had a big hit in Europe and Canada with their remix of Madonna's song Holiday. If you think American white rappers are lame enough, they've got nothing on European ones.


8 posted on 06/21/2006 6:16:09 PM PDT by RightWingAtheist (Creationism is to conservatism what Howard Dean is to liberalism)
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To: popdonnelly
The Stones doing a Beatles' song? I don't think so.

Think again. The song was reportedly written FOR the Stones, before the Beatles exploded onto the music scene. Google search: Rolling Stones + I wanna be your Man

9 posted on 06/21/2006 6:20:13 PM PDT by Michael.SF. ("I don't think Pat Kennedy is crazy, he's just a drunk" -- G. Gordon Liddy (5-10-06))
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To: popdonnelly

I Wanna Be Your Man was one of their first singles.


10 posted on 06/21/2006 6:21:02 PM PDT by Jack Wilson
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To: popdonnelly

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuNdNeplBSw&search=i%20wanna%20be%20your%20man%20rolling%20stones
Watch the Stones sing it here


11 posted on 06/21/2006 7:09:07 PM PDT by philo
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To: RightWingAtheist
Oh... my... god...

Way back in the mid- and late 80s, I used to take an aerobics class at a local gym here in Orlando. The instructor, this Ultra Queeny guy who used choreograph dance routines at Disney, included this 'song' in every one of his mix tapes.

I'd forgotten it had even existed until now--suddenly I'm awash in memories of striped leotards, leg warmers, big hair and this flaming little Femme boy in bright yellow spandex and floopy socks, yelling, "WORK IT YOU LAZY B*TCHES! WORK IT GOOD!"

Sigh... sometimes the 80s don't seem so golden, you know...

12 posted on 06/21/2006 7:23:29 PM PDT by RepoGirl ("Bobby, if you weren't my son... I'd hug you...")
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suddenly I'm awash in memories of striped leotards, leg warmers, big hair and this flaming little Femme boy in bright yellow spandex and floopy socks, yelling, "WORK IT YOU LAZY B*TCHES! WORK IT GOOD!"

Did he look like this?

I love YouTube :-)

13 posted on 06/22/2006 6:58:44 AM PDT by RightWingAtheist (Creationism is to conservatism what Howard Dean is to liberalism)
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To: philo; weegee
Great find! Too bad the sound is so low. It's made me try to go find some other vintage Stones clips on YouTube. Unfortunately, whoever put up the clip of them on the Ed Sullivan show had to take it down. Their TAMI Show performance isn't there yet...but look at what is...
14 posted on 06/24/2006 11:15:06 AM PDT by RightWingAtheist (Creationism is to conservatism what Howard Dean is to liberalism)
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To: philo

Funking fantastic!!! Great guitar by Brian and the camera was on him almost as much as Mick Jagger. This seems live and not done to a pre-recorded track. Your guess?


15 posted on 06/24/2006 11:21:01 AM PDT by dennisw (Muhammad and his alter-ego allah need to be discredited)
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To: RightWingAtheist

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsEn-irHVw4&search=brian%20jones

Mo Stones. Not Fade Away circa 1966


16 posted on 06/24/2006 11:23:33 AM PDT by dennisw (Muhammad and his alter-ego allah need to be discredited)
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To: RightWingAtheist

I'm speechless.


17 posted on 06/24/2006 11:25:09 AM PDT by Wolfie
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To: popdonnelly

I Wanna Be Your Man - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Wanna_Be_Your_Man

Lennon And McCartney wanted to be the next Goffin and King or even Rogers and Hammerstein.

That is, they wanted to be *the* standards songwriting team of their day.

To that end they gave/sold a number of their songs to other groups.


18 posted on 06/24/2006 11:34:49 AM PDT by Sam Hill
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To: dennisw

It's from some British show since they hadn't been to the states yet. But I can't place the show.
But I was always kinda partial to these guys....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZaWKkKR1M0&search=pretty%20things%20roadrunner
And this Howlin Wolf clip from a German TV studio in 64 is amazing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzc-WjFJO5g&search=howlin%20wolf


19 posted on 06/24/2006 5:18:24 PM PDT by philo
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