Thanks for posting this, I watched almost all of it. I was a youngster when this was broadcast. It's appalling frankly, but it's history. Prime-time TV back then.
I liked Leo remember him seeming to lose the plot a bit when he was on Big Brother (or something like that) and had escaped was going on about being stitched up and he could have been a superstar, next time I saw him he was fine I don’t think he was in a good place and should never have been in there
@@nealhalfpenny415 A family friend worked for Chrysalis Records back in the 70s. He was a legendary prima Donna and temperamental pita. Short man syndrome they used to joke
You never forget your first love, I’d been going out with mine for 5 months when this was on we must have watched it always watched TOTP thanks for posting many happy memories ….. where has nearly 50 years gone!
No, punk was born because vinyl prices and A&R costs had rocketed due to the OPEC oil crisis, and the recording industry wanted to recoup some of their outlay and regain their profitability by signing acts that didn’t rack up huge recording and touring overheads. If your record was meant to sound bad, it didn’t matter that it was pressed on recycled vinyl. Punk was about money.
@@markofsaltburn The recording industry wouldn't have been able to sign any punk acts if they didn't exist in the first place. Punk was born out of anger towards unemployment and the rubbish in the charts felt by the youth of the day. The money came later.
Nobody cared enough to do anything substantive about child sexual abuse prior to the 1980s. Anybody who was stupid enough to approach the police was dismissed as a loony, children weren’t listened to, and abuse survivors were frequently dismissed as delusional fantasists by psychiatrists. If it wasn’t for second-wave feminists setting up incest survivor’s groups, lobbying for legal change and fighting the ingrained denialism of the psychiatric profession k1ddy-fiddling would’ve continued to be a joke and men would’ve continued to get away with it. The BBC was no more or less ambivalent towards child abuse than any other public institution, including the police, the church and the medical profession, and those institutions reflected widespread public indifference to child welfare. There has never been a safer time to be a child in the West, and you definitely don’t have (small c) conservative institutions to thank for that. Learn some history.
I was 11yrs old. Sweet Times, very exciting to be a child in those days...and kind of dangerous with the likes of Saville on the prowl at those times... .
I was old enough to have been defiled by Saville had I been in hospital and in his area. Look at that audience! Who knows which ones were abused by Saville, that evening
The Glitter Band without GG was on before Jonathan King, technically the late Gerry Shepard had nothing to do with any sexual harassment whatsoever, only the next singer appeared did with his George Baker Selection cover.
Saville was voted the UKs favourite DJ by the public for many years during the 60s and 70s- I've never understood why- he had zero personality and was a crap DJ. As I kid I always found him to be a creep- just look at the faces of the girls he's pawing- they all look terrified. Top of the Pops was crap but it was all we had back in the day apart from Whistle Test and for a couple of years ITV had Supersonic. So many British acts were 2nd and 3rd rate. It was rare to see any of the top class US artists appear live on the show and almost as rare we might get a video performance from a US show like Soul Train. It was all done on the cheap and god it looks it- compare and contrast with the production values we've come to expect today.
For comparison and contrast, here's the U.S. Top 30 of the same week: 30. "Why Can't We Be Friends?" _by War_ 29. "How Long (Betcha' Got A Chick On The Side)" _by The Pointer Sisters_ 28. "Ain't No Way To Treat A Lady" _by Helen Reddy_ 27. "The Proud One" _by The Osmonds_ 26. "Feelings" _by Morris Albert_ 25. "Dance With Me" _by Orleans_ 24. "Daisy Jane" _by America_ 23. "(I Believe) There's Nothing Stronger Than Our Love" _by Paul Anka With Odia Coates_ 22. "Black Superman - Muhammad Ali" _by Johnny Wakelin And The Kinshasa Band_ 21. "Solitaire" _by the Carpenters_ 20. "Tush" _by ZZ Top_ 19. "Run Joey Run" _by David Geddes_ 18. "Someone Saved My Life Tonight" _by Elton John_ 17. "Holdin' On To Yesterday" _by Ambrosia_ 16. "Third Rate Romance" _by The Amazing Rhythm Aces_ 15. "I'm Sorry" _by John Denver_ 14. "Ballroom Blitz" _by the Sweet_ 13. "That's The Way Of The World" _by Earth, Wind And Fire_ 12. "Feel Like Makin' Love" _by Bad Company_ 11. "Wasted Days And Wasted Nights" _by Freddy Fender_ 10. "One Of These Nights" _by the Eagles_ 09. "Could It Be Magic" _by Barry Manilow_ 08. "Fight The Power Part 1" _by The Isley Brothers_ 07. "Fame" _by David Bowie_ 06. "Jive Talkin' " _by the Bee Gees_ 05. "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)" _by James Taylor_ 04. "At Seventeen" _by Janis Ian_ 03. "Get Down Tonight" _by KC And The Sunshine Band_ 02. "Fallin' In Love" _by Hamilton, Joe Frank And Reynolds_ 01. "Rhinestone Cowboy" _by Glen Campbell_
Taking aside what he did Johnathan King was always a dick never liked him how the hell did he ‘discover’ Genesis and 10cc but from what they said he did stitch 10cc up
Shawawdy waddy have got to be the biggest ripp off group of uther people's songs ever all that money for no writing of their own apart from the early day's
Carrying a lot of dead wood, incidentally this was the third record I ever owned, the first two were blockbuster by sweet and part of the union by the straws and I am just realising there were two years between the first two and the third so don’t anybody say I was spoiled when I was young!
Huh? This was four years after “Maggie May” and the “Every Picture Tells A Story” album. Both were huge hits. He was so well-established by the time that this and “Atlantic Crossing” (his SIXTH solo album) came out that he was already a tax exile, and was already being dismissed as a sell-out and an old fart.
@@markofsaltburn Agree. It was time to make Atlantic Crossing just for the money and get a foot in US of A as all British did. Their music wasn t getting any better ( in fact worse) but they it was all for the money. Rod also wrote great songs btw.
@@markofsaltburn did my homework and your quite right, musically Maggie may gave him the leg-up in his career but it appears Atlantic crossing was rod working on his image a lot more, the Lycra and make-up seems to have gone up a level !
None of them had hits in 1976. Of the groups you mention, only the Stranglers made the top 10 in 1977. Punk was really not that popular, its media celebrity was in inverse proportion to public taste.
@@craiggerrard5117It wasn't meant to be popular.It was so OUT THERE in comparison to the mainstream.. that's probably why it was so shocking at the time.(I was only 8)😁.
Thanks for posting this, I watched almost all of it. I was a youngster when this was broadcast. It's appalling frankly, but it's history. Prime-time TV back then.
Say what you like about Leo Sayer but he had a great voice.... and sang live here.
Good songs too, unlike today. Listen to his albums, you'll like.
13:10. One creepy fucker
Always an irritating little cnt. My dad worked for Chrysalis Records in the 70s. LS was a legendary twat and pita
I liked Leo remember him seeming to lose the plot a bit when he was on Big Brother (or something like that) and had escaped was going on about being stitched up and he could have been a superstar, next time I saw him he was fine I don’t think he was in a good place and should never have been in there
@@nealhalfpenny415 A family friend worked for Chrysalis Records back in the 70s. He was a legendary prima Donna and temperamental pita. Short man syndrome they used to joke
Great sounds then , and wonderful times , great days to live
Not if you were friends with jimmy and jonathon
@@geoffmitchell6515pratt
You never forget your first love, I’d been going out with mine for 5 months when this was on we must have watched it always watched TOTP thanks for posting many happy memories
….. where has nearly 50 years gone!
65 to 75 were the great years for music
Agrred but i would go up to early 80s as well
Thanks for the memory's i was in my late teens then thank you sir for the video. Thank you
This is my first Top Of The Pops having been born the previous Sunday 😂
Now I’m gutted I was 19 🙈
Buddy Gask was a great lead singer, really liked his style too. Dave Bartram seemed a bit envious of him; quite ungracious when Buddy died
I sensed that but wasnt sure
Bartram was the better singer between him and Buddy Gask imo
Buddy was easily the better singer.
Punk was born from the frustration of listening to most of this stuff.
No, punk was born because vinyl prices and A&R costs had rocketed due to the OPEC oil crisis, and the recording industry wanted to recoup some of their outlay and regain their profitability by signing acts that didn’t rack up huge recording and touring overheads. If your record was meant to sound bad, it didn’t matter that it was pressed on recycled vinyl. Punk was about money.
@@markofsaltburn The recording industry wouldn't have been able to sign any punk acts if they didn't exist in the first place. Punk was born out of anger towards unemployment and the rubbish in the charts felt by the youth of the day. The money came later.
@@joehart7260 To be fair a lot of punk was just as shite
@@MarkStevens8899 Yeah true, but Shite with substance if that makes sense. Punk paved the way for bands like The Jam and Joy Division.
Lol .my era .no hard feelings x
It's all about the Music
Chris Spedding, what a great guitarist..Mike Batt- father oft the wombles...a beautiful time:-). And the glitterband
Where was Chris Spedding? I remember Motorbiking
Chris Spedding was also one of the Wombles
Jimmy savile and Jonathan king, pillars of the BBC, So proud!
Nobody cared enough to do anything substantive about child sexual abuse prior to the 1980s. Anybody who was stupid enough to approach the police was dismissed as a loony, children weren’t listened to, and abuse survivors were frequently dismissed as delusional fantasists by psychiatrists. If it wasn’t for second-wave feminists setting up incest survivor’s groups, lobbying for legal change and fighting the ingrained denialism of the psychiatric profession k1ddy-fiddling would’ve continued to be a joke and men would’ve continued to get away with it.
The BBC was no more or less ambivalent towards child abuse than any other public institution, including the police, the church and the medical profession, and those institutions reflected widespread public indifference to child welfare.
There has never been a safer time to be a child in the West, and you definitely don’t have (small c) conservative institutions to thank for that.
Learn some history.
Goes with the territory, unfortunately. Still does.
Old news, let's just move on. I still enjoy watching it whoever is DJ.
Savile just could not help his self had to have hands on !!!!
Dispatched from the section of the BBC Archive now under armed guard and in a lead line container...
Superb. Thanks for posting
Carnival Fashion clothing, Great music, and Long Hair, what more entertainment can you get 🙂👍
the good old days when you could have a privalidged white lead vocalist, and nobody cared
?????? Oh for the days when people could spell.
@@rejectionisprotection4448 Some people have lived a privileged life and believe they are superior to others.
?????
The date of this show was my 13th birthday!Great memories!
gorgeous KC
Ah thats the way i like it ah ah😅
Seeing Al Matthews - Better known as Sgt Apone from 'Aliens' was an unexpected treat..
Never knew that but can see it now. I'm off for a re watch of Aliens...
Yeah he was great here
The young Mr.Stewart. Amazing voice and looks.🎉
Glitterband excellent thanks for posting
Love this one of sailing with rod stewert
Dan the man , also had a great rock voice with Nazareth ,also was a supporter of his home town team like Stuart Adamson.
Dunfermline
Is 1975...really nearly FIFTY years ago??
Nearly 48 years ago.
I was 11yrs old. Sweet Times, very exciting to be a child in those days...and kind of dangerous with the likes of Saville on the prowl at those times... .
Showaddywaddy !!!!!!!
Saville and King on the same show, boy these were hiding on plain sight.
I was old enough to have been defiled by Saville had I been in hospital and in his area. Look at that audience! Who knows which ones were abused by Saville, that evening
Well, I was there and he didn't bother me (once I'd wanked him off). You people are soooo uptight.
The 2 he’s got headlocked at the end definitely look very uncomfortable
There's always one...
Enjoyed that.
Great year
The Glitter Band without GG was on before Jonathan King, technically the late Gerry Shepard had nothing to do with any sexual harassment whatsoever, only the next singer appeared did with his George Baker Selection cover.
All this time, I thought it was Malcolm Allured singing this, on lead vocals, not Buddy Gask.
Saville was voted the UKs favourite DJ by the public for many years during the 60s and 70s- I've never understood why- he had zero personality and was a crap DJ. As I kid I always found him to be a creep- just look at the faces of the girls he's pawing- they all look terrified.
Top of the Pops was crap but it was all we had back in the day apart from Whistle Test and for a couple of years ITV had Supersonic. So many British acts were 2nd and 3rd rate. It was rare to see any of the top class US artists appear live on the show and almost as rare we might get a video performance from a US show like Soul Train.
It was all done on the cheap and god it looks it- compare and contrast with the production values we've come to expect today.
Sailing, Rod Stewart, written by Gavin Sutherland of the Sutherland Brothers.
I didn't know that
@@mandytyers4481 Neither did I M.
They also recorded it first, so rod stewart is only a cover version
R S did a few covers. Like Cat Stevens great First Cut which kept The Sex pistols from getting their number one the following year.
Few months later Sutherland brothers and quiver had there own big hit arms of Mary .
Rod Stewart blends in well with the crowd LOL.
29:04 those sailors on that ship must have been saying " oohh hello ducky " as Rod walked past
Procol harums last ever chart entry.
JIM'LL FIX IT... FOR CHARLES AND PHILIP. GOT KNIGHTED FOR DOING SO..
Jonathan King saying no-one can take my freedom away😂
The first act 5000 Volts, is she miming to Tina Charles voice ?
Yep.
The day after my birthday.
For comparison and contrast, here's the U.S. Top 30 of the same week:
30. "Why Can't We Be Friends?" _by War_
29. "How Long (Betcha' Got A Chick On The Side)" _by The Pointer Sisters_
28. "Ain't No Way To Treat A Lady" _by Helen Reddy_
27. "The Proud One" _by The Osmonds_
26. "Feelings" _by Morris Albert_
25. "Dance With Me" _by Orleans_
24. "Daisy Jane" _by America_
23. "(I Believe) There's Nothing Stronger Than Our Love" _by Paul Anka With Odia Coates_
22. "Black Superman - Muhammad Ali" _by Johnny Wakelin And The Kinshasa Band_
21. "Solitaire" _by the Carpenters_
20. "Tush" _by ZZ Top_
19. "Run Joey Run" _by David Geddes_
18. "Someone Saved My Life Tonight" _by Elton John_
17. "Holdin' On To Yesterday" _by Ambrosia_
16. "Third Rate Romance" _by The Amazing Rhythm Aces_
15. "I'm Sorry" _by John Denver_
14. "Ballroom Blitz" _by the Sweet_
13. "That's The Way Of The World" _by Earth, Wind And Fire_
12. "Feel Like Makin' Love" _by Bad Company_
11. "Wasted Days And Wasted Nights" _by Freddy Fender_
10. "One Of These Nights" _by the Eagles_
09. "Could It Be Magic" _by Barry Manilow_
08. "Fight The Power Part 1" _by The Isley Brothers_
07. "Fame" _by David Bowie_
06. "Jive Talkin' " _by the Bee Gees_
05. "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)" _by James Taylor_
04. "At Seventeen" _by Janis Ian_
03. "Get Down Tonight" _by KC And The Sunshine Band_
02. "Fallin' In Love" _by Hamilton, Joe Frank And Reynolds_
01. "Rhinestone Cowboy" _by Glen Campbell_
Now then Now then.
Then now.
Why did the Showaddywaddy band members always look so pissed off?
Rod Stewart must have been wearing his platform boots walking through the market he looked rather tall to me
Warning …. Jimmy Saville & Jonathon King on this show
The 70s really were the decade that taste forgot..
Rubbish
Best decade ever for popular music.
What utter pish , and why did no one notice that Savile was just a complete weirdo the way he behaves in from of camera .
All this talk about Punk saving music. It was a two minute fad of talentless shite that sold out faster than you can say Anarchy in the UK.
I think you'll find punk saved music a year later and rid us of king and most of the dross on here.
Saville the peroxide ponce.
King was also a kid fiddler
So?
Yes great sounds 60s and 70s , down side with that Jim plocker!
Owz about that then? Mmm. Yes.
Taking aside what he did Johnathan King was always a dick never liked him how the hell did he ‘discover’ Genesis and 10cc but from what they said he did stitch 10cc up
That’s why they left his label uk , they done ok after they left him .
Pan's People were fine as though.
Bloke bulgers.
1974-75 were really the worst years for pop. 67-68 was bad and so was virtually all the 80's but nothing's as bad as just before punk.
Maybe to an arrogant pretentious kunt like you
@@jmxtvarchive9064 Oooh dear.
67 to 68 brilliant bands and songs!!!!!
Gary Brooker sounds as though he's singing live here.
Along with the invisible flautist.
Here's one for the tv license payers in the next century...
Dan McCafferty 🏆
👌👌
as it happens. goodness gracious me. i have with me some. para ceta mol.
Get your hands off that woman, Sav!
Woman,man,child,corpe - he wasn’t too fussy.
Sounded like Tina Charles on 5,000 Volts record.
Because it is. Luan Peters was a better looking front woman. Just like "Black Box" 14 years later.
@@rejectionisprotection4448 I get it now. Talent doesn't matter, only the looks.
jimmy saville is still dead ok
Shawawdy waddy have got to be the biggest ripp off group of uther people's songs ever all that money for no writing of their own apart from the early day's
Carrying a lot of dead wood, incidentally this was the third record I ever owned, the first two were blockbuster by sweet and part of the union by the straws and I am just realising there were two years between the first two and the third so don’t anybody say I was spoiled when I was young!
It was the Teddy Boy image thing .I liked them to be honest .alot of bands do covers . X
Love them
Rod, Scotland's hero, we love you ❤️
He’s a total wank stain of a ‘man’.
30:49 Headlock. And I'm not sure either is comfortable with that monster
I know, horrible to see.
This was Rods breakout moment, start of his solo career and superstardom
Huh? This was four years after “Maggie May” and the “Every Picture Tells A Story” album. Both were huge hits. He was so well-established by the time that this and “Atlantic Crossing” (his SIXTH solo album) came out that he was already a tax exile, and was already being dismissed as a sell-out and an old fart.
@@markofsaltburn Agree. It was time to make Atlantic Crossing just for the money and get a foot in US of A as all British did. Their music wasn t getting any better ( in fact worse) but they it was all for the money. Rod also wrote great songs btw.
Rod never wrote this one , gavin Sutherland of Sutherland brothers and quiver did .
@@markofsaltburn did my homework and your quite right, musically Maggie may gave him the leg-up in his career but it appears Atlantic crossing was rod working on his image a lot more, the Lycra and make-up seems to have gone up a level !
@@edwardcooper5479 And the tiger striped "Bum on Legs" look was still some time away yet .
whats vile mr woke
Please just play the songs......
How gay all these artist were😮
Great music, but TOTP…..Top Of The Perverts!
Stopped watching at 1 second.
Absolute dross ..thank god for the punk revolution a year later in 76 ..the Jam , the Damned , the Clash , Stranglers etc
the jam were never ever a punk rock group, pitols, slf, stranglers, clash, damned to name but a few but never the jam
'Punk' bands now in the dust bin of history.
No one remembers that rubbish
None of them had hits in 1976. Of the groups you mention, only the Stranglers made the top 10 in 1977. Punk was really not that popular, its media celebrity was in inverse proportion to public taste.
@@craiggerrard5117It wasn't meant to be popular.It was so OUT THERE in comparison to the mainstream.. that's probably why it was so shocking at the time.(I was only 8)😁.
This is a pretty lame top of the pops full of bland songs. 🙁
My God, two of them on the same show. Those poor kids!
The first and last song were the ones only worth listening to.
Thank god Punk came along and swept all this crap away.
Rubbish
Awful year for music...Glam was long dead...Thank goodness punk would come along in a couple of years..
Rubbish. One of the best years ever
jonathon king and saville on the same show, you couldn't make it up!
Great tunes, pity it's that monster hosting
Sting at 15:50? :O
Surely not?!
@@oldmanc2 I'd put money on it.. Maybe. He's right age at right time
Doppelgänger
And he seems to have a geordie accent...
SaVILE says the guy is a DJ from Gloucester. But he looks like Sting and speaks like him…
Simply terrible, thank god for punk rock
But then wasn't the Sex Pistols a manufactured band by Malcolm maclaren ?
@@andrewparnell6656 Just like the monkees
@@stephenhowell5611 just like the Spice Girls.
Rubbish
No wonder punk took off with such flying colours. As for Jimmy totally Vile, the less said the better......
I used to love to reminisce about the past,my youth but turn off the instant that sic fxxx savile opens his mouth
Awful episode
Superb
no wonder rod was 1 res t were crap
Rubbish
Rod Stewarts song was the only decent one
What? Al Matthews was far better then Rod the Mod
Procol Harum.
Rod was about the worst
@@rolandpratt403 It’s all about opinions I guess,.
Savile and king. Umm wonder what went down after the show. who cares still a great show and songs