Peter Shelley - Love Me Love My Dog (HQ) |TOTP 10-4-1975|

TOP OF THE POPS (10-4-1975) -- part 2 of 11.
Introduced by Emperor Rosko

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Music

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• Peter
• Shelley
• TOTP
• 1975

[anglosaxons100]

I like this, but always thought it sounded more of a 60s hit. I am am suprised it was a 70s song.

[turksmikey]

nice easy pleasant ! lovely days unlike the scum nigger shit out today

[MsRuth02]

the reason there were girls that looked 14 years old is top of the pops was for mostly teenagers i was also 14 years old in 1975  and watched the pops every week

[TheEctomorph]

@vicsmith5000 [Continuing on from my previous 'post' about mid-1970's chart music] around - musically speaking - as there is nowadays.

'Teenybopper' groups of the mid-70's - such as The Osmonds and The Bay City Rollers - were heavily criticised by certain sections of the media back in those days ...... but one only has to listen to some of the fashionable "music" produced by 21st century 'teenybopper' groups to realize just how good groups like The Osmonds and The Rollers were.

[TheEctomorph]

@vicsmith5000 Sir: You may well be correct about the similarity between Peter Shelley's "Love Me Love My Dog" and Harry Nilsson's "Everybody's Talking", which was in the charts about 5 years previously. I will make a point of listening to the two tracks back to back, as it were, in the near future.

As regards the ages of the birds who were in the 'Top Of The Pops audience back in April '75, some of them may have been only 14 years of age. Kids in the 1970's grew up pretty quick

[vicsmith5000]

@TheEctomorph Must the vague expressions they all seem to sport then. The girl leaning on the chair in the green rollneck is sucking a Kojak lolly for chrissake. Looks no older than 14 to me. The melody of this song is very similar to Nilsson's Everybody's Talkin'.

[TheEctomorph]

@vicsmith5000 I don't think that, that is necessarily the case, actually. What's to understand? (as they say in modern parlance). It is not as if the lyrics of Peter Shelley's hit from 1975 are as cryptic as those of "A Whiter Shade Of Pale" - the classic #1 hit by Procul Harum from 8 years earlier.

[celticdollface]

@TheEctomorph

...and your memory does serve you correctly. :-)

[TheEctomorph]

@celticdollface Oh course! I should have recognised him ...... he was indeed a household name back in the 1970's. Emperor Rosko compered a famous gig by Bolan and T. Rex at the Empire Pool Stadium in Wembley, back in March 1972.

After leaving Radio One, Rosko went to work for Radio Luxembourg ("The Fab 208") for a few years, if my memory serves me correctly.

[celticdollface]

@TheEctomorph

Oooh Emperor Rosco was as well known if not better known, in the 70's as Tony Blackburn , noel edmonds et al.