Top Of The Pops 7th July 1977 Part 1

[SuperSimonuk]

made me think of strict machine, goldfrapp

[6DoKtoR3]

Olivia Newton John was, and still is, the most beautiful woman on the planet.

[wilferine]

Why would anyone admit they fucked Tony Blackburn!?!? Even anonymously!!

[jarama77]

Gosh, I remember remarking in my school diary the date of 7/7/77 and I would have gotten home later that day had my dinner and then watched this edition of top of the pops. What lovely times. Ahhh...

[jarama77]

This group (Rah Band) only had two top ten hits, this one in '77 and another 8eight years later in '85 (Clouds across the moon)

[TheNaomiengland]

I fucked Tony Blackburn back in 76.

[chellebelle686]

i was half way through year 7 or first form in high school i was 12yrs old and luvd chris.....

[Bigbearbeau]

what a mix in the top 20!!!

[SizeTenBiscuit]

Change the lyrics from "It's your life" to "My sweet Lord" and before you know it The George Harrison estate has got a plagiarism case. Smokie were bloody awful. ONJ was tasty as fuck though.

[lostthe80s]

ohhh Olivia Neutron Bomb !! jees I was 8 but by F**K I wanted her !

[theredjediknight]

My mum was in labour with my brother when this was on :D (And I was 1 year 9 months and 6 days old)!

[34cartha1]

fantastic was having the best time of my life in those days wish i could bring them back had just got my first flat things were so much simpler.

[diskochimp]

Blackburn = cunt.

[BillboardClassic]

i love Livvy

[gallafey]

the guy playing the keybourd in the Rah Band wouldn't look tooo out of place in Doctor Who

[shaftsbury94]

smokie were shite...just saying.

[bvivers]

What a brilliant chart. What the hell has happened to music these days?

[Jamiecfc1]

That is a spectacularly shite version of The Crunch. Great song though.

[SGidlow1]

THANK YOU! The Crunch is one of my all time fave songs, so hearing a live version was cool and ONJ never looked better.

[Feisty1967]

The charts were complete crap in 1977!!!

[MoreForPeter]

@Feisty1967 Better than today by a long shot!

[Jamaiceltable]

Music at it's most foul.

[lordofbore]

thanks for posting,brings back so many happy memories,I was seven when this was filmed :)

[soklapptdasnie]

Olivia, WOW!

[pinkanglia]

I used to wank in a Balaclava

[chickitakoowan]

@pinkanglia I currently toss off into a sainsburys carrier bag - you cannot beat it,man...

[shaftsbury94]

@pinkanglia i saw you rioting in london, well in mate,

[hectorlupino]

I think I remember this one and I was only 4!

[TheNaomiengland]

the sex pistols!!

[ewaf88]

Goodness Kenny Rodgers looked old even then - was the guy ever young? Great clips

[RichXbox360]

This is when Pop was good, none of this mass produced X Factor shite.l

[Springamatul]

Olivia how romantic you are. I also love the hairstyle honest and the style has come back.

[Springamatul]

Olivia how romantic you are.

[RichardHell1959]

Smokie : always depressed ......

[Springamatul]

@RichardHell1959  What do you mean depressed I thought it was jolly?

[NCW250]

Oh God it's Tony Blackburn, he looks so young! Wonder what happened to his former wife Tessa Wyatt? Saw (Diddy) David Hamilton, about 1992 in his Mini on the Westway (A40). He is so small, wonder how many him could you fit in a proper Mini? Any ideas?

[SuperTruth77]

That Rah Band thing gets a little monotonous after a while... didn't they do 'Clouds Across the Moon' a few years later?

[thegreatmuta]

@SuperTruth77 : This isn't the proper backing track at all, infact you might as well just call it a cover version. The REAL crunch is on youtube and it's a billion times better.

[ruzphi]

@spottydog4477 got to agree there. I had just joined the Army for a laugh, didnt laugh much longer. Donna Summers was always on the Juke box . Happy days only 19.

[spottydog4477]

the summer of '77 - I thought it would last forever........... bought a red adidas T -shirts, rode my my suzi Gt 250 everywhere, watched 'thats life' on sunday nights, got a perm, space invaders was a hot game, starwars was awsome, happy days was on, chinese takaway for a treat, fish n chips was still affordable, girls had real tits and real personalities, discotheques were safe place to go,

[crazydavedisco]

@spottydog4477 Hey, a Man after my own heart. In the summer of 77 I had a Yam RD250 and I can relate to everything you said, except that I didn't watch "Thats Life" cause my parents watched it. As I remember the latest thing was the table top space invaders machines which had coloured strips on the screen to make them change colour as they moved down the screen. And as for the tits, I seen alot more than I actually got to hold, even in the safe disco's !

[Noodles37UK]

0:18 Who the fuck suggested Donna Summer was actually a man in drag?

[MetalHippiePunk]

Elvis is still alive.

Our cat is his reincarnation. XD

[englishman1960]

I got my first ever wage packet age 16 on 7/7/77

[1981howling]

Sam was her dog!

She was singing about her dog

[wrightjar]

love the fringe tony blackburn had at the side of his barnet...does he wear a weve nowadays?

[drpoxy]

@wrightjar - Tony Blackburn's hair is one of the great mysteries of our time.

[semaj543021]

@drpoxy -there's no mystery it must be a rug,he's got hair like a teenager

[caxfingers]

Blue peter and the old grey whistle test used to introduce some great talented bands in the day. Much better than Xfactor lol.

[JFBridge]

Just 5 weeks later,The King (Elvis) left us.

[blueboy680]

I remember Thursday 7/7/77 so well. Day trip to France. Met my first girlfriend. Lovely innocent days.

[GBPaddling]

"Sam, Sam you know were I am" crackin lyrics though.

[smegma101054]

putting your head down the toilet whilst theres a jobby in it and flushing could possibly win britains got talent

[raychandler123]

longing for company

[urchin76]

forgot to say my mate called me sam after this song,,,,,,,, been known as sam ever since,,,,,, was it 32 years ago?????????? noooooooooooooooooo arghhhhhhhhhhh

[urchin76]

remember my french teacher saying it will soon be 8/8/88...what did she know????

quite a lot lol......... god bless her

[englishman1960]

ah yes! I remember on the 7.7.77 I got my first ever wage packet age 16.

[gusgorilla76]

Englishman1960, would you believe I got my first ever wage packet on 8.7.77? I still remember counting out £9.20 for two days' work and thinking what a fortune compared to pocket money. The next week it shot up to £22.30 for a full week.

[eyebawl1]

this is better than the dreadful x factor

[matsui2001]

Putting my head down the toilet and flushing the toilet is better than the X factor.

[docherty518]

Putting my head in the toilet and waiting for someone to come along and use the toilet ...is better than X Factor

[aliwant2do]

@matsui2001 then why do you watch it? I never have, and never will ..i must be from the future 

[matsui2001]

@aliwant2do I watch the X factor once... NEVER AGAIN That is all I can say! LOL

[hotspur1964]

Remember this TOTP as a new teenager. Watched this and rushed off to Woolies to spend my birthday money on ONJ-Sam.......where have all those years gone?

[Steerpikey]

well hey 2009 isn't that bad after all is it....

[RobinCarmody]

I doubt the Rah Band could ever have been described as household names - though this is a stunning performance here (much better and more raw than the single version).

ONJ's "Sam" isn't as good as Keith West's doomed "Sam" of 10 years earlier. Not a patch on it, really.

[bernieplop]

they had their 15 minutes of fame though!!-and a few hits to boot

[KitCurranRadioShow]

I reckon Bob Marley and the Wailers were backstage laughing at Smokie's attempt at reggae!

Smokie really wanted to be Sweet - the middle part of that song is very 'Fox on the Run' or 'Oxygen', and the singer got ready looking at posters of Brian Connolly ha ha.

[RobinCarmody]

Well, most of Smokie's hits were written by Chinn & Chapman as were the earlier Sweet hits (though not the two you mention) - they gave a lot of their songs to Smokie once Sweet decided to do their own thing.

[Chotabear]

1977 was the best year of all time for pop music.

[domski26]

nowt to say about this version except that nobody should ever have heard it never mind release it.

forced clapping

[KitCurranRadioShow]

U mean Rah Band? For some reason, I reckoned Robin Gibb was under that mask... it looks like him anyways!

[eduardoisland]

Twenty seven of the top 30 are still household names.

[toosb]

Which ones are not?

[KitCurranRadioShow]

I reckon Tony Etoria, T-Connection and Alessi.

[bernieplop]

alessi was big hit at the time though loads of radio play.

[big1370]

I wish I was Sam.... I love you olivia. the voice and the face, omg she was perfect

[TheEctomorph]

@big1370

You have excellent taste in 'birds', sir. Back in 1977, Olivia Newton-John was sooooooooo beautiful.