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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.
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.
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.
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.
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]
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 ...
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.
Samantha Juste (born Sandra Slater; 31 May 1944 – 5 February 2014) [1] [2] was a British model and television presenter who appeared in the mid-1960s as the "disc girl" on the BBC television programme Top of the Pops. In 1968, she married Micky Dolenz of the Monkees. Their daughter is actress Ami Dolenz.