Top of the Pops

[Prudie]

If you've nothing better to do and are at an age to wallow in nostalgia have a look at BBC4 at the moment.

[Postdog]

Ta

[dotty.]

flippin eck! and the next one is 1976, the long hot summer I spent that driving around in a white Xj6

[ummmm]

The long hot summer....the year I was born :-)

[dotty.]

I remember the reaction to Sonny and Cher, they were so different and quirky

[Prudie]

Oh Ummm, it was the year of my disastrous marriage to my 6th form boyfriend!!

[jackthehat]

^Isn't it coming up for your bedtime, in that case.............?!?

Bah ! You young whipper-snappers............:o(

[dotty.]

It was so hot the grass was brown everywhere, and we spent every sunday at a public pool at what is now Alton Towers

[lozzer50]

oh wow ta for that just seen seekers carnival is over i was at grammar school when that was out !!

[dotty.]

Stevie Wonder was only akid when he did this, and again he was so different to the Motown groups.

[dotty.]

Look at the blokes danicng in the audience, they still have short back and sides lol

[dotty.]

lol Robin Gibb was my second big crush, after Peter Tork and before Lou Christie and Andy Fairweather Low

[grasscarp]

I used to go regularly to the Top of the Pops recordings between 1968 and 1973. I was sometimes filmed dancing! Soooo long ago.

[dotty.]

oooo you'll have seen the Herd and Amen Corner AND Low Christie! Lucky you! Did they really tell you not to look at the cameras?

[Prudie]

The audience is almost as entertaining. I only had eyes for Chip Hawkes of the Tremeloes when I was little,

[dotty.]

Lol really Prudie? He';s in my Family Tree, my brother-in-law was close to him at one point, they were named for the same common ancestor (Leonard)

[grasscarp]

No Dotty. They didnt tell the audience anything really. You just had to mind out because they cameras swung in and out all over the place. I was going out with one of the people working on the show, so he sometimes made sure that I was featured! My claim to fame was that my face was used on top of some waves while they played Bridge Over Troubled Water, because they didnt have Simon and Garfunkel there!

[dotty.]

When Flick Colby did the solo dance in the theatre?

[grasscarp]

Pans People were of course there every week. I spoke to Marc Bolan once, but that was at the Paris (radio) Studios as I was working for the BBC. I have lots of stories but I dont want to bore you.

[dotty.]

Bet Jimi Hendrix is on in a minute

[Prudie]

NO really dotty? i was so in love with him. Who's the lead singer now with Procul Harem -he looks very attractive