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Top of the Pops (also known by its abbreviation TOTP) is a British music chart television programme.Until 2006, it was shown each week on the BBC and is now licensed for national versions around the world.
Top of the Pops was first broadcast from Dickenson Road Studios in Manchester Dusty Springfield was the first act to be featured on the show [4] The Rolling Stones were the first group to appear on the show [4] (group pictured in concert in The Hague in 1967) The first edition of Top of the Pops was broadcast on Wednesday, 1 January
This list of performers on Top of the Pops includes popular music recording artists and musical ensembles who have performed on Top of the Pops, a weekly BBC television programme that featured artists from the UK Singles Chart.
This list of performances on Top of the Pops is a chronological account of popular songs performed by recording artists and musical ensembles on Top of the Pops, a weekly BBC One television programme that featured artists from the UK Singles Chart.
Top of the Pops 2 (also known as TOTP2) is a British television music show broadcast on BBC Two showing archive footage from the long-running Top of the Pops show, some dating back to the 1960s when the programme first aired on British television, as well as other surviving BBC programmes.
There was a rigid production schedule for the group necessitated by Top of the Pops being a weekly chart show. [18] [19] The typical schedule for a recorded Top of the Pops was as follows: Wednesday: The show was recorded at Television Centre including the Legs & Co. segment. A track was selected the same evening for the following week's show ...
Robert Henry Douglas Drane (10 March 1927 – 18 June 2011), known professionally as Robin Nash, was a British television producer and executive, who was probably best known as producer of Top of the Pops from 1973 to 1980. At the BBC, he became Head of Variety and later Head of Television Comedy.
In April 1968, a Top of the Pops choreographer, Virginia Mason, [7] auditioned for dancers for a routine on Top of The Pops (Simon Says by the 1910 Fruitgum Company); two of whom that were successful (Ruth Pearson and Patricia "Dee Dee" Wilde) were part of the existing six-female dance troupe, Pan's People. [8]