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Post by Perfect Pseudonym on Oct 17, 2022 21:31:40 GMT
Cheers Gerry
Looks like 1990 was the annus horribilis for anyone who loved the original Oops Upside Your Head and wished it would stay that way!
Although Sheena did seemingly disappear, it was really only from us limeys, as the 'mericans lapped her up and gave her the keys to Las Vegas. Not quite sure how that happened, but presumably getting the James Bond gig in '81 probably helped a bit. And from then it was meeting Prince and going all risqué and getting an American accent. We did get her back briefly in 1987 when she was prominently on the Prince single U Got The Look. The 'look' in question being as far from a Lanarkshire primary school teacher as you could possibly get. And nowadays is properly minted having got into property in a big way over in LA.
I did quite like her last UK-sourced single before she got on the plane, Machinery, which didn't do much but did get on TOTP in 1982.
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Post by Nightfly on Oct 17, 2022 22:17:05 GMT
She had another hit later in 1980, One man Woman, which I liked I'd forgotten about that one. Cracking song. For accuracy, it was Ooo, What A Life from the Gibson Bros that a brown leather jacketed dancing Danny Baker made his TV debut with, not Cuba as I stated earlier. Don't want my ranking in the insufferable 70s music anorak reputation to go down. Stuart Maconie won't be happy with me.
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Post by Perfect Pseudonym on Oct 18, 2022 8:31:12 GMT
No problem. Just show Maconie the clip of him dancing to the Nolans.
(Anyone got any CGI software?)
I've had a look at the Ooh What A Life performance (which only appeared once, but was repeated) but it does seem you have to be looking for him in order to spot him. He's about one row away from the stage and near the lead singer isn't he? Even so, it doesn't necessarily have to be him and could just be a bloke who's a bit similar. Did he confess to it being him or something?
The Chart Music podcast covered the episode with the original appearance and they certainly didn't make mention of it, despite the panel being very much familiar with Baker's work.
They did mention Jimmy Pursey's very brief spell as co-presenter by mucking up the title of the song during his impromptu intro!
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Post by Windy Miller on Oct 18, 2022 8:56:13 GMT
If we're Danny Baker spotting, the best view of him is in the Legs & Co dance sequence to "Off The Wall"
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Post by Perfect Pseudonym on Oct 18, 2022 9:13:10 GMT
If we're Danny Baker spotting, the best view of him is in the Legs & Co dance sequence to "Off The Wall" The restoration on the video file I’ve got is a little suspect and a lot of the onleering audience look like they’re wearing grotesque masks (which they might have been anyway), but I think I spotted him eventually. He’s very near that idiot with the pink socks who seems to be sprawled out in front of the seating isn’t he? The trouble is, searching for Baker and even appreciating the L&Co display was constantly overshadowed by that bloke in the red jumper and beige slacks who was well into the performance! All that was missing was Stickley eating an orange.
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Post by Windy Miller on Oct 18, 2022 11:15:01 GMT
If we're Danny Baker spotting, the best view of him is in the Legs & Co dance sequence to "Off The Wall" The restoration on the video file I’ve got is a little suspect and a lot of the onleering audience look like they’re wearing grotesque masks (which they might have been anyway), but I think I spotted him eventually. He’s very near that idiot with the pink socks who seems to be sprawled out in front of the seating isn’t he? The trouble is, searching for Baker and even appreciating the L&Co display was constantly overshadowed by that bloke in the red jumper and beige slacks who was well into the performance! All that was missing was Stickley eating an orange. There's a lot going on in this dance routine. Simon Bates get the name of the song wrong at the start. The camera then catches the back of Baker's head. He's there with two of his mates, the guy with the pink socks and the guy with the pork pie hat. The guy with the the pink socks falls off his seat at one point, and gets a gentle hand slap from Rosie. And then there's the over exuberant hand clapping from the Legs & Co fan in the red sweater. He's totally into it, whilst a random guy, who's not clapping, is standing in what looks like a doorway and appears totally bored with the whole thing. And finally in the outro, Simon Bates gets the name of the next song wrong. It's a classic.
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Post by Dirty Epic on Oct 18, 2022 12:31:15 GMT
Probably Tom Browne's my pick of the bunch here too. Although don't mind Bad Manners either. Stuart Maconie in Legs and Co I'd pay good money for that to be CGI'd in. Another good review PP keep them coming.
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Post by Perfect Pseudonym on Oct 18, 2022 14:22:53 GMT
Thanks Dirts I'll keep slogging along. By heck Windy, that clip just keeps on giving doesn't it? I didn't notice that Bates had got the title wrong. Up The Wall indeed. I think his jumper was drowning him out so I couldn't hear it originally. And just for good measure, he cocks up the Sugarhill Gang intro as well. By referring to it as "The Rapper" and obviously not sure if that was right. He probably thought it was The Wrapper in any case. A bit of a shame we've gone past 1979 now! So, it would appear Daniel Baker was a returnee audience member at TOTP. Which surprises me because wouldn't he have already been doing the Sniffin' Glue fanzine and hanging round with the Clash flicking V's and cocking many a snook towards 'The Pops'? Sell out.
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Post by Nightfly on Oct 18, 2022 19:55:19 GMT
Did he confess to it being him or something? Yep. A bit like Jean Jacques Burnell from The Stranglers admitting he liked listening to Abba during his punk days :-
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Post by Del Boy on Oct 19, 2022 9:38:08 GMT
Great stuff PP, very enjoyable. 1980 really had some great tracks! perhaps a tail off from 78 79 and certainly in the New Wave genre but plenty of other styles performing strongly.
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