The Brothers - sing me
The Brothers are real brothers, all from Mauritius Tony tells us. They also wear matching shiny orange shirts and produce a reasonable pop reggae sound. This was their only hit though.
A great song with plenty of high notes which David reaches sometimes. A rather karaoke air to this cover which he only sung on as he was producing the song for someone else who couldn't do the vocals so he did it itself and amazingly it went top 5. Tony asks us isn't that fabulous? No, i prefer Stevie Wonder's but David did a decent job.
Legs & Co are dressed in interwar posh ladies gear complete with hats and furs and are prancing around glass shop fronts to The Eagles' "new kid in town".
Barry Biggs - sideshow
It was an amazing chart in early 1977 with both David Parton and Barry Biggs this week in the top 5. Barry looks like the hoodlum in a 70s kung-fu film with his pink suit, frilly shirt and afro.
Status Quo - wild side of life
Ah these chords sound familiar. The Quo are here with a rather old fashioned but pleasing rock and roll romp.
Tony seems to have assembled all of the pretty young girls from the audience and is having them accompany him between every song, the hard life of a TOTP presenter.
Mr Big - romeo
This is their debut Tony tells us but its the kind of average late 70s rock-lite you've heard many times before. Very commercial sound with high pitched vocals, lots of hair and guitars. We do get a bit of harmonica though but it doesn't really make much difference to the blandness.
Andy Fairweather Low - be bop 'n' holla
This is a lot better, a slinkier and funkier rock number though with slightly weird lyrics. Its the best song of the night from the former 60s pop group member and future blues rock mainstay.
The Moments - jack in the box
The Moments have the same stylist as Barry Biggs, amazingly we have two acts this week in pink suits and afros. The song bops along fairly unmemorably.
Its not really a vintage week of TOTP if we are to be honest and interestingly no female vocals at all this week until...
The New Seekers - i wanna go back
Reasonable folk-pop but like the last time they were on TOTP they seem rather dated both visually and sonically. This was their penultimate hit and only went top 30.
David Soul - don't give up on us
The video again, we've given up on him appearing live on TOTP for now anyway.
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