The Real Thing - love's such a wonderful thing
I'm not sure which artists have been on these TOTP repeats the most since BBC4 started reshowing programmes from 1976 but The Real Thing surely must be a contender and here they are again. A pleasing pop number with a little bit of funk. Pleasing but not much more.
Rita Coolidge - we're all alone
Music video time, or rather wandering around a forest looking thoughtful and reflective while singing a romantic song. The romantic solitude effect ruined by the camera crew following her around of course.
The Saints - this perfect day
An Australian band from "just outside the charts", and they are rather punky or at the least you'd describe them as driving power pop if you are allergic to the p-word. Pretty decent they are too though they don't seem to think much of having to mime. The singer kind of ruins the miming effect by accidentally dismantling his microphone stand and almost dropping the microphone. Or maybe that just adds to the PUNK ROCK!!! effect?
The Commodores' sublime "easy" up next but no Lionel Richie alas instead Legs & Co swaying vaguely in time, though not so much with each other.
Dave Edmunds - i knew the bride
Kind of retro (even for then) rockabilly fun, though done with style and a bit of feel not a Showaddywaddy horror.
Jigsaw - if i had to go away
Jigsaw's latest hit requires the singer to wear very tight trousers, its all falsetto and very feminine and rather disturbing. The Bee Gees had a lot to answer for in the late 70s.
Supertramp - give a little bit
Music video, or filmed performance time anyway.
Cilla Black - if i wanted to call it off
In between her 60s heyday and 80s TV hogdom. Cilla seems curiously out of time, probably a song that would be great on a 70s Eurovision but this is Top Of The Pops 1977 baby and its time for...
The Sex Pistols - pretty vacant
The highest new entry and the BBC couldn't ignore this song like they did the other one, though no one could guess that by 2012 "God save the Queen" gets into the Olympic opening ceremony and the Queen herself jumps out of a helicopter. Such futuristic thrills are beyond even the most acid damaged/enhanced imagination, back in 1977 instead we get this studio rampage and brilliant it is too. Better than Cilla Black anyway.
From Sid Vicious to Kenny Rogers who is here to talk to Kid, Kenny has been working in Saudi Arabia, on an oil rig or a camel farm something. Kenny introduces the number one...
Hot Chocolate - so you win again
For the third week, Hot Chocolate are still on top of the chart, and they deserve it.
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