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Top of the Pops (TOTP) is a British music chart television programme, made by the BBC and broadcast weekly between 1 January 1964 and 30 July 2006. The programme was the world's longest-running weekly music show. For most of its history, it was broadcast on Thursday evenings on BBC One.
ZZ Top (27 January) Wendy Moten (3 February) Joe Roberts (3 February) Elastica (10 February) The Cranberries (10 February) Carleen Anderson (10 February) The Wildhearts (17 February) Beck (17 February) Barbara Tucker (3 March) Doop (10 March) Marcella Detroit (10 March) Soul Asylum (24 March) Worlds Apart (24 March) Frances Ruffelle (31 March ...
The Rezillos – "Top of the Pops", "Destination Venus" The Rich Kids – "Rich Kids" Cliff Richard – "Please Remember Me" Tom Robinson Band – "Up Against The Wall", "Don't Take No for an Answer" Rokotto – "Funk Theory" Rose Royce – "Love Don't Live Here Anymore" San Jose featuring Rodriguez Argentina – "Argentine Melody (Cancion de ...
Upon its inception in 1964, Top of the Pops was presented by a team of disc jockeys in rotation: Alan Freeman, David Jacobs, Pete Murray and Jimmy Savile.Savile presented the very first episode from Dickenson Road Studios in Manchester on 1 January 1964 and would continue as the longest-serving presenter until hosting his final show on 30 August 1984.
Whilst producers were aware of the switch to the new group, Bill Cotton, the then head of the light entertainment unit of which Top Of The Pops was part, was not. This group started as a seven-piece with three men ( Gavin Trace , Floyd Pearce and Phil Steggles ) and four women (Menhenick, Gillespie, Patti Hammond and Lulu Cartwright ).
Top of the Pops began on 1 January 1964 [30] as a weekly programme playing a selection of records from the current charts. From November 1964, Top of the Pops had an all-girl dance troupe regularly appearing, the Go-Jos, formed and choreographed by another ex-Beat Girl, Jo Cook. Through to the beginning of 1968, professional dancing had been ...
Top of the Pops (record series), a series of albums issued by Pickwick Records "Top of the Pops" (song), a 1991 song by The Smithereens "Top of the Pops", a song by The Kinks, from the album Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One
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