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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.
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However, the BBC decided in mid-1968 to replace the Go-Jos with Pan's People on Top of the Pops. Their final performance was on 20 June 1968, dancing to Jumping Jack Flash by The Rolling Stones. Only one Top of the Pops performance by the Go-Jos is known to survive, Reflections by Diana Ross and the Supremes, [2] transmitted on 26 December 1967.
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.
The original format of the show consisted of various segments including "recorded for recall", which would show TOTP performances from a certain decade, "video stir" which featured a new music video from a popular artist in the charts, the "first time" would feature an artist's first TOTP appearance, "world hits" would feature a new international hit, "tomorrows hits" would feature artists who ...
Lorn Alastair "Johnnie" Stewart (7 November 1917 – 29 April 2005) was a British television producer who worked for the BBC. In 1964, he co-created and co-produced the long-running music programme Top of the Pops with Stanley Dorfman and Bill Cotton.
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 ...