73 for me as well. Mainly cos I can’t remember them doing an Everett episode yet.
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Smokie were the headliners at a huge (it seemed huge at the time) British Forces Germany youth clubs get together, at RAF Brűggen (my Dad's camp) in 78.
It was reet posh, with chicken and chips in a basket. Didn't stop the traditional army v RAF/our-camp-better-than-your-camp fights breaking out. I can't remember if that was the one where a fight broke out and I was knocked out of an open window (that may have been a similar "let's get them all together" 'do' near Dűsseldorf airport).
I wasn't involved in the fight, I hasten to add, and my memory of the fall from the (ground floor) window was that I was really pissed and it just made me laugh hysterically.
I have no memory of Smokie from that night, sorry.Last edited by Felicity, I guess so; 17-04-2018, 11:53.
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The segment on Danny Mirror is great. So much to talk about that Neil and Taylor didn't even get into the arrangement of the song. Danny Mirror could not impersonate Elvis any more if he finished of with a "thangyooverymuch" before leaving the building. The arrangement steals more than a bar or two from that of "The Wonder Of You", and the backing singers are doing their best impression of those Elvis had in his live shows (particularly the ones in the laughing version of "Are You Lonesome Tonight"). It's all quite magnificent, and magnificently bad.
Incidentally, Neil's laughing at Taylor's bon mots is endearingly infectious, isn't it?
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Incidentally, the discussion of Soul Train was timely since I reposted this reflection on the show and its impact just last week.
A good time to also share this gallery of stills from Soul Train again.
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I needed a trigger warning for that clip of Sav*l* introducing Jonathan King's 'Una Paloma Blanca'.
Which makes me think: what is the most 'Yewtree'-heavy clip ever? Is there a Sav+King*+DLT combo?
*Strictly King is not Operation Yewtree but he is part of the butchering of the episodes that we shorten to 'Yewtree' on these TOTP-repeats threads.Last edited by Satchmo Distel; 19-04-2018, 12:59.
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Originally posted by Satchmo Distel View PostI needed a trigger warning for that clip of Sav*l* introducing Jonathan King's 'Una Paloma Blanca'.
Which makes me think: what is the most 'Yewtree'-heavy clip ever? Is there a Sav+King*+DLT combo?
*Strictly King is not Operation Yewtree but he is part of the butchering of the episodes that we shorten to 'Yewtree' on these TOTP-repeats threads.
But admittedly that would take some scouring.
Originally posted by Gangster Octopus View PostIs Yewtree one better than U2?
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It's Chart Music Day!!!
(If only Nish could sort out the link on the website...)
*Link fine, it's me that's fucked up.Last edited by Gerontophile; 03-05-2018, 12:06.
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Haven't got to the end of the podcast, but it seems that Samantha Fox did appear at half-time at the Hamburger SV vs Liverpool friendly. Followed by Alphaville.
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The blurb on the website promises: "Chris de Burgh shits out what could be the worst No.1 of the decade." It's not even the worst #1 of 1986, or did Wicksy die for nothing?. And less than a year before, Jennifer Rush's "The Power Of Love" was at #1.
For all my hatred of "Lady In Red", which was intense the first time I heard it and has not diminished a bit in the intervening three decades, I cannot consent to honouring it with placing it at the top of anything. Let every loser indeed win this one.
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