This was too twee for its own good, a nice tune but spoiled by the singers' self consciously cheesy traditional outfits. Nice outro kiss to the camera.Buck Fizz with “My My Camera Never Lies” according to Garth Croaks (he mis-named a number of acts and songs, so he gets the treatment back), and sounding more like 2 Dollars’ worth. Complete your Bucks Fizz collection. The Boomtown Rats' horn section actually consisted of a bass saxophone and a soprano trombone, both fairly rare instruments. Meanwhile, Stanley Appel - who produced 'Top of the Pops' in the 90s - previously questioned the decision to axe the long-running music show. Well, we say 'killed off', but only in the way you kill off a rat by hammering in its head after the mousetrap only managed to maim it because you had the snapper set too sensitively. In fairness to Jez Coleman, a war did break out a week after this show, though it was safely confined to the other end of the Atlantic! Check this out!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVkvkWE_ao4. It has power, certainly, but not quite as epic as they could sound. Tap the camera icon at the top of your screen to switch between the front and back cameras. His song Little Man, What Now is about the actor's appearance on the nostalgia show Looks Familiar where the guests failed to recognise who he was. I did enjoy the Altered Images opener on the show, and Clare's summer wardrobe on display. AZLyrics. I won't spoil the joke if you haven't heard it. Well I guess it was now British summertime two days after the show went out in 1982, and the thought of changing the clocks on the weekend immediately following this show in 1982, was call for the summer dresses to come out, and boy did clare look great in it. thanks to the olympics (i watched the athletics avidly, but you can keep the rest as far as i'm concerned) it seems like ages since i've watched a show, but of course this one is only a week on from the last one we saw!hosts: garth crooks may have gone on to have a long career working for the beeb (even if he's regarded as a bit of a joke by his media colleagues), but here he's plainly more at home on the pitch than in the studio. Top of the Pops is the name of a series of records issued by Pickwick Records on their Hallmark label, which contain anonymous cover versions of recent and current hit singles. Most boring ever Zoo dance routine in the background, too.No recollection of this Boomtown Rats single, no wonder, it's mediocre cod reggae, maybe they should never have gotten rid of the pyjamas?The Nolans, not sure of the concept behind this video, they seem to be interested in being courted until they notice the names of their suitors on the telegram or card. The Rats are back, complete with enormous sax, but they were now on the slide. A blog to follow each edition of Top of the Pops broadcast on BBC4. and 'Dragonfly' would fail to chart, and the sisters would lose their deal with Epic soon afterwards. It was so much more beautiful than my … it was also a bit unsettling watching the others acting rather timidly and apathetically despite the aggressiveness of the music (they reminded me of those guys that filled in for the likes of saxon on the post-strike test show). The camera keeps popping up while I am doing other thing, and I don't need to see my lovely face while checking my email, etc. Intriguingly, the 45cat website shows a picture sleeve of an unsuccessful re-issue follow-up with Pluto appearing to wear the same gear as for his TOTP appearance. The camera doesn’t lie, it just tells a story From 19th-century fairies to Forties actresses, we have always twisted the photographic truth By Gaby Wood 18 July 2014 • 6:10am Top of the Pops Like Us I'm not back from holiday just yet so I'm posting the blog for May 3rd 1984 before I've had a chance to watch it myself. Julio has a very strange semi-mullet haircut which almost makes Donald Trump's look normal. Play out with The Associates which isn't really a dance tune in the accepted sense but the cheerleaders make the most of it. Lots of pops, clicks and cracks. But the camera never lies. While I was always a Jay Aston gazer on Bucks Fizz, I must admit that Cheryl Baker was looking very good in her red bathing suit, despite not being a fan of hers as much as Miss Aston.With regard to the Nolans video, I thought it was very good, and hilarious when the bellboy came in between the girls to disrupt their emotional melancholy of the song and their worry over the person 'loving them too hard'. ?Garth Crook, sorry Crooks introduces Buck Fizz. Somewhere In My Top of the Pops Somewhere in the studio someone had found some asbestos, and that's why we're stuck in a corridor watching videos for the 2nd June 1988 edition of Top of the Pops! You know, the show that's hidden away in the … Bucks Fizz were considerably bolder musically at this time, but I don't like My Camera Never Lies very much. Still stuck in a reggae groove, this isn't actually a bad effort, though the lyrics further extend the obsession with Tarzan and jungles that has been a notable feature of the early 1982 music scene.The Nolans' video was a bit weird, looking like it was filmed in some kind of garden centre. He sounds constantly on the verge of apoplexy and has a weird habit of emphasising certain WORDS for NO reason.Anyway, back to then when he was marginally less irritating. Stanley said: "I don't know if … The recordings were intended to replicate the sound of the original hits as closely as possible. Chris De Burgh – “Missing You” (15) In the studio to perform what became his second and final top ten hit when it peaked at number 3. Before 2004, the chart was only based on the sales of physical singles. Sinitta – “Cross My Broken Heart” (30) (breaker) Became her third of four top ten hits when it peaked at number 6 Simon Harris – “Bass (How Low Can You Go)” (29) (breaker) … Four years after punk music and we're buying this? Its half a decent idea, but probably should have stayed on their album.The Nolans - 'Dont Push Me Too Hard'. The BBC has killed off Top Of The Pops after 42 years. Bet they needed a forklift for the sax and a detective to locate the song’s tune.A weak tea effort by The Nolans, hindered by the bell hop and that lurgi-riddled scratching parrot. It looks like Russell Tovey delivering the flowers but it can't be as he isn't old enough. The Goombays then celebrate hitting the top with some hideously loud shirts and another dose of fire-eating (I noticed the male backing singer initially forgot to collect the torch as well), before some rather unremarkable dancing to The Associates concludes an unremarkable edition. Something from the 80s!Booooo! 1983. Playing via Spotify Playing via YouTube Playback options someone here was asking how tall (or rather how short) peter powell was while back - well he and garth seemed about the same height, and according to wikipedia the latter is 5'8". Some bands were unlucky in only getting one big hit while missing out with many others. It seems a bit weird that he was on it at all, given the celebrity co-host idea had been binned more than a year earlier, but maybe someone at the Beeb thought he had potential? I have done a fair bit of research on this and it seems to be accepted in the vinyl community that some records will never sound good. "The Camera Never Lies". This is AWFUL. This was an unexpected surprise at the time. Gillian … Back after hols and now a week behind:See Those Eyes. This sounds like a 1970s Barry White song with new vocals.Killing Joke with Jaz Coleman hiding his unibrow with help of a beekeepers outfit. I see you take a bite. despite their lack of commercial success killing joke were staples in the weekly music papers, due to their firebrand personalities as much as their music - as i was reminded by reading on wiki, jez had actually decamped to iceland at this point as he was convinced apocolypse was upon us (would iceland have remained unscathed as a result? Must admit I had no idea who Pete's co-host is, but I don't follow football. As has already been mentioned, nice to see the Space keyboardist back on TOTP!It's also nice to see Chas & Dave leave their novelty comfort zone and come up with a decent song for once. album: "The Camera Never Lies" (1987) Face To Face. and the other girls get a chance to shine for a change instead of just backing bernie. The Elvis single was the live "laughing" version recorded in 1969 in Las Vegas. Pleasant enough but nothing special.Boomtown Rats – House on Fire – My goodness me, I recall the first time I saw the video of ‘I don’t like Mondays’ and the impact it made on me at the time. To pull the wool over my eyes. What is it with bowties on this episode? PS In fact, would Garth have been the first-ever black presenter of TOTP? About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works … I seem to have acquired an extra letter e in my name? Therefore I have heard enough of this kind of garbage to last a lifetime!Boomtown Rats - When we were trying to list cod-reggae songs ages ago, how did we forget this? Sct353, that long olympics break seems to have worked wonders for you, but thanks for the heads up on this weeks new Elvis chart entry. 6 track of the Kinks ' eighth studio album Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One is called "Top of the Pops" and narrates the path to stardom by reaching No. To keep him company Michael Hurrrlll does exactly what Glenn Hoddle would later go on to do - pick an injured Spurs player when there were much better options out there. Interesting that Chas & Dave had put out the first performance of this as the video rather than appearing in the TOTP studio which they traditionally they seemed to be at one with. I mean they seemed to take a leaf out of Magic Fly's Space from 1977, with the Kendo Nakasaki style helmet on one of the band members. Bucks Fizz – My Camera never lies – Andy Hill and Nicky Martin really pull out all the stops for this wonderful piece of pop and we have the best of all to come next with one of their most underrated songs ever… Cheryl manages … However, I was out shooting with Dustin Olsen a few months back and looked at the back of his camera to see how the photos were coming out. I heard it on the radio a couple of weeks ago and it still sounded like a fantastic pop tune. This band got exactly what they deserved, 'Love Like Blood' being by far the best thing they ever did.If that 'spaceman' helmet isn't from Blakes 7 or Doctor Who stock, I'll be amazed!Chas & Dave - These days regarded as the very fine pop song that is, which is as it should be as it is truly brilliant. Good Grief! Killing Joke naturally provide a big contrast, but after a promising start I thought this degenerated into a shouty mess. Nice to see the keyboard player from Space was getting more work.Then a repeat of Pluto, with what I've noticed looks like Bobby Ball (sans braces) in the background.After that Chas and Dave proved they were no novelty song practitioners, with their cross between a Cockney knees-up and a Barry White ballad. THREE! Galantis, David Guetta & Little Mix's Heartbreak Anthem: First listen preview, The Little Things debuts at Number 1 on the Official Film Chart, Duran Duran announce new album Future Past, BTS' Official Top 10 most streamed songs in Ireland, Years & Years announce Kylie Minogue collaboration, Anitta talks Girl From Rio, new album, and plans for global domination. What did we deserve to be given Garth Crooks as a presenter?He's bad enough now and to me embodies the modern ethos of 'if he's played the game, he's good enough to commentate on it'. Discover releases, reviews, credits, songs, and more about Bucks Fizz - My Camera Never Lies at Discogs. It's easy to sneer at Foster & Allen, especially in those ludicrous outfits, but I have a soft spot for folk music and this was well performed - it was also worth it for the self-conscious slow dancing of Fairbrass and friends in the background. I couldn't quite get the joke with Killing Joke. Halcyon.Meanwhile, grab your coat and come back with me to the mid seventies for this peculiarily awful edition which is rammed to the gills with groaningly,achingly, middle-of-the-roadingly, chicken-in-a-basket, Seaside Special, nans and granddads nodding approvingly while cramming another Werthers Original into their gobs nonsense.Having seen the line-up for tonight, the entire Radio 1 roster went down with a stomach bug, leaving Ol' Smiley Face alone to man the barricades. part II:killing joke: i had no idea they had appeared on totp prior to having the hit "love like blood" so this was a bit of a surprise. Oo er! If someone were blindfolded or this was part of a pub quiz, and would need to hazard a guess as to who were singing, you could have excused the majority for thinking it was UB40. I certainly did, well worth giving us a little 1982 breathing space. Hurray! The song itself is OK, but like Altered Images they are breaking no new ground here. Altered Images were great, I loved the Nolans video, Killing Joke - no memory of this whatsoever, but I've heard worse. Dross.Boomtown Rats. In fact ‘Your Honour; was released after that in 1976 but did not chart so not sure what prompted the resurgence in 1982?Solar system flavoured music chart:-I was born to love you – Freddie MercuryVenus – Shocking BluePlanet Earth – Duran DuranLife on Mars? Greg Edwards was the first ever black presenter of Top of the Pops and hosted three (wiped) editions, 07-03-74, 04-04-74 and 18-04-74. http://s15.photobucket.com/user/leechm/media/TOTP%20Stuff/TOTP18-4-74_zpse2ed81b7.jpg.html. He was also convinced the apocalypse was imminent, and had the windows of his house painted in preparation for the dreaded event. I wonder if she watched Crooks on this show and thought 'I could do better than that'?Julio on vid again and then- according to Crooks- 'Buck Fizz'. I thought Rockney was the drummer. Oh yes My Camera-ra Never Lies. Lord knows why he decided to repeat most of the intro after their song, at which point Garth Croaks called them Foster and Hallen. Astonishingly he is still on TV to this day and astonishingly he hasn't improved.Anyway the show. Lets see how the poseurs dance to this....Terribly, as it happens. The novelty was wearing off…Julio Iglesias – Yours – Baffled how this guy got so high in the charts with his MOTR stuff at the height of 1982? It counts photons, collecting, recording the number that arrive at the … At one point Chas and Dave were billed as Chas and Dave with Rockney. Song information for My Camera Never Lies - Bucks Fizz on AllMusic My Camera Never Lies - Bucks Fizz | Song Info | AllMusic AllMusic relies heavily on JavaScript. Some good synergies here. this glossy lightly-funky disco effort reminds me of something far more famous that i can't put my finger on, and i'm impressed with the songwriting (it threatens to modulate more than once, and eventually does so later on) and arrangement (other than the cheap-sounding string synth). i almost laughed out loud in disbelief when he did his frank carson impression!altered images: musically probably the best of theirs so far, and clare's best vocal performance too even though her singing style is still a bit annoying. who does nothing but mime on keyboards! ), to be replaced by a horn section featuring an enormous saxophone that quite clearly wasn't actually used on the recording. Killing Joke's Adorations was a fantastic single. Those teeth!That Julio video again. I wonder - while he was over here from Florida, did Pluto go for the photo-shoot in the clobber first, or TOTP first, or did the record company get permission to use one of those celebrated 'behind the scenes' mugshot photos taken at the Beeb?PS - Chas and Dave. The latter is on decent form, his copybook only blotted by the Frank Carson impression and his seeming inability to keep his hands off the heads of audience members.Clare Grogan appears to have some kind of paper doily on her head, but it can't disguise the fact that this new single is relentlessly ploughing the same musical furrow as the previous two, to diminishing returns. ~ or is it the return of Top of the Pops 1982! The two guys are just busting out their patented moves with no thought to matching to the beat or rythmn of the song.Finally the song fades, the screen goes dark and we are clear.A horrible,horrible show. the speccy guy playing (air) accordian looks like he can't believe they're still getting invited on the show. Oh, and the song was good too! I also remember the catchy ‘Dat’ from 1976 which reached no. This was a lot better than I expected it to be, I liked love Like Blood a lot but I always thought their early stuff was unlistenable but this proved otherwise.A repeat from Pluto with the annoyingly animated crowd who were all standing/dancing reallycloselytogether.Chas and Dave on video, who's have thought. Benny Hill did a parody of Top of the Pops in January 1971 called "Top of the Tops". Unlike Peter Powell who is his usual self. The No. Double tap the home button to view all open apps. Kudos for their miming though - with all the overlapping vocals on it, it's not the easiest one to mime!Foster & Allen - I have Irish in-laws. Split Enz also suffered a radio ban for their single "Six Months in A Leaky Boat" during the Falklands conflict. unlikely i would have said), which explained his unavailability for the show. yet another song i have no recollection of whatsoever, and another that was pleasantly listenable against my expectations - like the rats, had someone i had a bit more time for recorded this then it might well have become a favourite of mine from that era. Would have made up for that attack on my eardrums. The strings really do shine and it’s a great single and the best song on the show.Goombay Dance Band – Seven Tears – Three weeks at number one for this admittedly catchy song notwithstanding the fire eating novelty. Country: UK • Genre: Electronic, Pop • Style: Synth-pop, Vocal A bit more thought needed in the staging, please.Jesus Feckin Christ! Eurovision quiz: Can you score more than 'nul points'? Ensure no other apps are using the camera. It seems The Nolans’ long player which featured the last two hits and “Crashing Down” was way behind schedule due to touring commitments, and it was completed by the gals each being offered a carrot of £25,000 each to record the vocals through the night to beat the deadline the next day. to my ears this is far superior to that, and (even though they're a bit late on this particular band wagon) perhaps the best thing they ever did. Not that this episode was particularly worth waiting for….Garth Crooks and PP? Bucks Fizz, Chas & Dave and The Asociates were the only decent tunes - 4.Crooks has no charisma, no experience,an annnoying speaking voice and - like all footballers apart from Leighton Baines- no taste in music. So much to love here from the girls' Edwardian bathing beauty outfits (or are they Came-rara skirts?) Official singles Chart results matching: my camera never lies. Oh, and the dance 'routine' was atrocious and the costumes were horrendous too. May 13, 2021 21:08. I see you tempt the night. to my ears it sounded like conventional trumpet and trombone on the recording (perhaps yet another effort by the ubiquitous dick cuthell and rico, who seemed to corner the market for horn sections on british pop recordings in the early 80's?). This was sadly the last Nolans hit as the next single ‘Crashing down’ didn’t crash into the charts.Killing Joke – Empire Song – Hmmm don’t remember this and listening I can see why. We trans people have a complex relationship with our own image, and a lot of us never manage to quite come to terms with it. WOW! Were there any black jocks on Radio 1 at that time? i'm not keen on jay's victorian bathing costume thoughfoster & allen: after the fureys (and davey arthur, lest we forget) another blip on the synth pop landscape - the only reason i can think of that this drivel became popular at this time was that fellow countryman wigon played it to death on his radio 2 show? I wouldn't have admitted it at the time but this is superb.Next up Mulligan and O'Hare, sorry, Foster and Allan. Nice combination even if Garth is now better known as a compelling MOTD pundit than a TOTP presenter.Altered Images – See those eyes – I always think of ‘see her eyes they are bright tonight’ whenever I see this title and ‘Torch’ this song ain’t. This list shows singles that peaked in the Top 10 of the UK Singles Chart during 1982, as well as singles which peaked in 1981 and 1983 but were in the top 10 in 1982. To be sure, the camera never lies… With regard to the song, I thought it was crap. But here it gets losy amidst a sea of cloyingly similar piffle. Badfinger - Come And Get It - Top Of The Pops - 1970 - YouTube. So who has enjoyed the Olympics? I think he does OK actually, one or two understandably nervous stumbles aside, and he is a pretty good match for PP. He gets 3.Which is still 1 more than Powell - 2.Now excuse me while I try to remember where I parked my De Lorean. Is the dancer Carrie Grant (Carrie Gray at the time), she is supposed to be a dancer/cheerleader on some of these 1982 shows. This one really is their finest moment. They were about of equal ability, but kudos for mentioning Powell's Shape Up and Dance LP (or whatever it was called).Anyway, on with the music, and Altered Images with Clare no longer barging into her bandmates, resplendent in co-ordinated outfit, though can anyone actually hear an accordion on this track?Bilingual, suit-fondling Julio Iglesias next, were those Dollar's mirrors he was brooding over?Buck(s) Fizz with their catchy as hell tribute to truth in photography, obviously this was before Photoshop. Only 9 months after this appearance on TOTP, they would return ingloriously to their cabaret roots with a pitiful cover of The Kids From Fame's 'Starmaker' on Mike Yarwood's ITV Christmas show.BTW, the young messenger's uniform in the sisters' video reminds me of the similar powder-blue outfit worn by the late comic actor Malcolm McFee - whom you may remember as Craven from 'Please Sir!' I didn't think the Nolans' single sounded like a hit, but at least it sounded more like a song than that Saturdays attempt! The song seems to hold well, especially complementing well the Elvis Presley new entry in the chart rundown at No.27 with Are You Lonesome tonight. The audience dance on nevertheless. This should be interesting. The impact is immediate: This week, “Harlem Shake,” the nattering dance track by Brooklyn-based producer Baauer that has launched a thousand dorky viral videos, leaps to the top of the pops. You can tell me you were home. is she a future sleb like whirling dervish michael sundin to the left? It's the godawful Killing Joke.Chas & Dave.Normally this would have come as a nice change of pace from all that glam New Romantic and Synth stuff. Can open camera, but can't close it without Ctrl/Alt/Del, end task. The UK Singles Chart is one of many music charts compiled by the Official Charts Company that calculates the best-selling singles of the week in the United Kingdom. Not as memorable as that other hit…what was it called now…?Bucks Fizz – My Camera never lies – Andy Hill and Nicky Martin really pull out all the stops for this wonderful piece of pop and we have the best of all to come next with one of their most underrated songs ever… Cheryl manages to upstage Jay in the outfit stakes on this performance.Foster and Allen – A bunch of thyme – Terry Wogan influenced no doubt just like the Fureys and Davey Arthur. TOP OF THE POPS 08/08/68 Introduced by Alan Freeman & Jimmy Savile Bruce Channel - Keep On (Studio) Dusty Springfield - I Close My Eyes And Count To Ten (Studio) Long John Baldry - When The Sun Comes Shinin’ Thru (Studio) Bitter lyrics, sweeping strings, a real diamond in the rough, might be the best thing on the show.Lastly, still threatening to set off the sprinklers, it's The Goombay Dance Band, although if they really were a dance band their shuffle from one foot to the other wasn't exactly impressive.OK, not quite all, we had The Associates to finish on for an episode that embodies the phrase "mixed bag". Bearing in mind the copious use of the word ‘backfire’ in the lyrics, ironic how the appearance backfired and failed to get this testing track a mugshot.A very tastefully done video for Chas and Dave, though I though Dave should have had a tie with bass guitars on rather than pianos like Chas’s.

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