I hated There's No-One Quite Like Grandma - my own boost to that genre was The Ramblers and the Sparrow song - but I do miss these kinds of novelty, amusing, kitsch, crappy hits. We need all kinds of music for all kinds of people.

Songs like that made "the charts" relevant to all.

The new "Now" album advert was on recently and my wife said she didn't know 1 song. She has the radio on all day, Radio 2 at work, Heart FM at home.

Radio 1 is niche and NOT relevant to all any more and that IS the charts.

Shot in the foot? See my Adele post.

Where is the equivalent of AC/DC (deliciously featured on the same show - now that is variety programming)? These days people are presumed not to want to see or hear a mixed range of music or entertainment. It's called Narrowcasting. And there is a legitimate argument that, in this increasingly superficial era, the general public do not want to be bothered with the odd taste of something they don't like. Even JK in the 80s decided that 90 seconds was the maximum length for each sound/video - people will accept that, knowing something they may love is coming up - as we did in Entertainment USA - later series (when we started videos were a novelty).

BBC to cut a third of Top of the Pops episodes to remove Jimmy Savile and Dave Lee Travis
At least 17 instalments of the 1981 series of the chart show will be dispensed with when it airs on BBC4 next year
www.radiotimes.com/news/2015-11-27/bbc-t...-and-dave-lee-travis

And then what will the BBC do when every month JK reports from America on the US chart? It really is time someone stood up and said "we have to stop this madness". All those memories destroyed. All those great songs erased from history - why? Because the show they were featured on was hosted by someone presumed innocent unless or until (and sometimes after) they were found guilty in a court of law.

With this kind of social censorship accepted, taken to the logical extreme anything featuring anyone ever accused of any crime should be removed from the archives. Not even convicted. Which would be mad itself.

A delighted Liz Dux retweeted this
twitter.com/LizDuxLawyer/status/670614623066943490

And what about One for You , One for Me? All those flags being waved and the crazy-multi coloured wig.

Sadly that was 1978

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jk was shown on totp recently demonstrating the rubik's cube with Simon Bates. I'm not sure what the difference is between DLT and JK. DLT was convicted of a minor offence, JK was convicted of more serious offences. It could be the fact that JK has served his time and is of a lower profile than DLT (Sorry JK, face facts). Personally I think that both should be shown as it is part of television music history and should not be censored or re-written.

Lower profile than DLT? Perleese! Might be something to do with my fighting for, and getting, an apology from the Director General and a promise not to do it again.