Arrows, My Last Night With You, 1975, TOTPs

[Springamatul]

I heard one of them passed away a few yrs ago ws it the drummer?

[KeithTheKing]

@Springamatul Yes, Paul Varley the drummer passed away in the summer of 2008 of pneumonia.

[Springamatul]

@KeithTheKing sorry to hear that thanks for reply. This was the drummer so sad.

[cuttypeguins]

I just fell in love ._.

[andicatz]

Alan at his peak, a dreamboat! He's still a pretty cool cat! I remember him singing this live in concert at the Rainbow Theatre, London on Rak Rocks Britain Tour. A fabulous song.

[Straker1923]

Great band...God it makes me feel my age though, watching this, I remember seeing them on TOTPs in Feb '75 with Pilot too. Good times!

[londonboy59]

What a great little singer Alan Merrill was, and I presume, still is..and one of the best looking men of his era.

[KeithTheKing]

@londonboy59 Arrows singer Alan Merrill is still performing, mainly in the New York City area, but he also toured Japan three times last year and did one trip to Europe. He still looks in good shape on stage and there many very recent pictures (from a show last week in fact) of him on his website, which is easy to find on any search engine. .

[MattTheSaiyan]

Interesting rare footage, thanks for uploading,

[Greatstuff365]

Superb,....where on earth did this come from........any more "lost" TOTPs??????

BBC ...Pillocks!

[KeithTheKing]

@Greatstuff365 Still waiting for the first "Touch Too Much" TOTPs from 1974 to surface. Someone has it, somewhere. It's just a matter of time.

[andicatz]

Alan at his sweetest..like cookies and cream.

[TR5T]

I know Alan would have insisted on live vocals. They all hated taped TOPops lip sincs.

All of them could sing but clearly Alan was exceptional.

Poor Paul. My best freind

[fabnekko]

Cool rare clip. Thanks for putting it up on you tube.

[vivicola]

Great! Thank you for putting this rarity up on youtube.

[jojoranter]

Thanks for posting this clip!

[waynebic]

This clip is one of 5 timecoded performances that were believed to have survived from the 27/2/75 broadcast of TOTP - purely because they were all previous appearances 'inserted' into the show. (Fox and Frankie Valli and Supertramp were 3 of the others.)

However, it has emerged a clean, entire edition exists in the BBC archive.

[KeithTheKing]

This was not a promotional film. It was an actual TOTPs appearance before a live BBC TOTPs audience. The band had at least three appearances with this song on the show.

[tsunamisasumi]

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[billdadd50]

Amazed you could find this from TOTP

[Izzymoggington]

all i can say is thankyou thankyou thankyou!!!!

[jennyarrow]

I love this band! Check out the Arrows UK fan site! It's lots of fun. Biography, comics, photos, videos and more!

[bustershobby]

Cool song, cool band!

[Primalonna]

Wow, thanks for this vid post! Brilliant.

[thefistoftruth]

This is a live vocal sung with a pre-recorded track.

[KeithTheKing]

Seen for a sec or two, Top Of The Pops presenter and DJ Dave Lee Travis at 0.02 of this clip introducing the band

[bootcords]

@KeithTheKing excellent post. Thanks!

[jojoranter]

Terrific 70s archive stuff. Thank you for adding this to youtube.

[randynready]

This is just great to see! I've heard about this performance for years. Thanks for putting it up on you tube.

[Sawyerbabe1968]

What a wonderful gem to find!, thanks for posting!

[Kobenagoya]

Great Great--check out 2:32 ---

[fabnekko]

So cool! Wonderful post!!