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Rich
Now Bob Harris has taken over Sounds of the 70s from the late Johnnie Walker there has not been one edition of that show so far where he has not mentioned the Old Grey Whistle Test and bands that were on it. I detect he has a 1971-73 bias when it comes to that decade.
I only started briefly watching when the Old Grey bit had been dropped and it was just Whistle Test in about 1984 when it was presented by Andy Kershaw and Mark Ellen.
Green Man
Rich wrote: Doesn't everyone who was watching TOTP in the 1970s and 1980s have a memory of a parent giving them a hard time over something they watched and liked on there?
Do you GM, or anyone else for that matter?
Barclay James Harvest look really dated even way back in this March 1977 appearance, like something out of 1970-72, not for the exact moment punk was exploding into excitement and selling. Look at all that hair! Quite a pleasant track, but the look kills it. No wonder it flopped, like their other releases. Nailing the myth that an appearance on TOTP in the 70's saw your records fly off the shelves. It took two weeks for this one to scrape to No49 and be gone instantly.
My parents did embrace the pop world; I have 4 sisters; they had no choice. My parents found some difficulty getting records for me, but my uncle would go to America and get them for me, or he had a few contacts who would get me stuff. I couldn't go into Woolworths unless it was a reissue or a compilation. My parents liked some of the melodic rock I was listening to and some of the teenybopper stuff my sisters were into.
I didn't like the punk, pub rock scene; it killed prog-rock for me, and I lost my identity, despite only still being a kid, and my place in society - I was embracing Old Grey Whistle Test rather than TOTP.
BJH, was a band we had booked to see but lockdown ruined it for me and neither outfit is touring.
When I watched the famous edition/episode of OGWT with John Lennon in 1975, I was more hyped seeing A Band called "O". My uncle got me their Oasis LP, as soon as the record dealer got it in. I was over the moon.
I even liked a bit of Highway, a German band with Americana vibes.
Rich
Doesn't everyone who was watching TOTP in the 1970s and 1980s have a memory of a parent giving them a hard time over something they watched and liked on there?
Do you GM, or anyone else for that matter?
Barclay James Harvest look really dated even way back in this March 1977 appearance, like something out of 1970-72, not for the exact moment punk was exploding into excitement and selling. Look at all that hair! Quite a pleasant track, but the look kills it. No wonder it flopped, like their other releases. Nailing the myth that an appearance on TOTP in the 70's saw your records fly off the shelves. It took two weeks for this one to scrape to No49 and be gone instantly.
I suppose it would be very weird if anyone in their fifties was acting all keen and eager to listen to all the music a 16 year old loves, and we hold our own youthful music dear to our hearts and memories of course we do, but having said that, as JK has mentioned before when talking about the lack of mass appeal music, many of those hits singles and albums from the 80s, and 70s (not so much the 60s I think) transcended the generations and were liked by a wide age spectrum, as I said previously, some of the then current music I bought could be liked by a 14 year old boy and an 80 year old man.
When I was in HMV in Winchester, having a browse, and I did buy the Kinks - The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society. The reissue is much better.
Over the sound system in HMV they were playing Barclay James Harvest - Octoberon. I got a few looks when I knew the lyrics.
BJH do have a new album out soon.
How can your parents be mad at you for like Buffalo Gals?
JK2006
I adored Buffalo and told Malcolm whose whole Sex Pistols idea was inspired by my U K Records - as he told me in detail.
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