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Post by johnr on Oct 12, 2022 23:22:19 GMT
i got given a load of old vinyl, most of it dros, but amongst that are a stack of the old 'top of the pops' lp's that were effectively albums of cover versions, amongst these are a few that have covers of various 1970s elo tracks, any interest in them at all?
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Post by Horacewimp on Oct 13, 2022 7:17:42 GMT
Some of those albums are interesting to listen to, when I was very young I would often pick up a copy from Woolworths as they were so much cheaper than buying the singles. Some good attempts at cover version on many of them, I have the Wild West Hero album which is a full album of ELO covers not sure if they were lifted from the TOTP ones or are different.
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Post by Timeblue on Oct 13, 2022 11:45:04 GMT
The only reason people bought those were the sleeves....
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Post by BSJ on Oct 13, 2022 16:19:53 GMT
Had to go in search of what they are. Seems they were worth the buy. Any one famous performed on these?
During the early 1970s, the Top of the Pops series enjoyed considerable success and buoyant sales. Budget albums were accepted into the main UK album charts for a few months in 1971, during which four Top of the Pops LPs charted, and two made No. 1. However, they were disqualified in early 1972 since their budget selling price was perceived as giving them an unfair advantage in the market.
Top of the Pops: Best of 1970 Review by Dave Thompson [-] For connoisseurs of the Top of the Pops albums, 1970 -- volumes nine through 14 -- represents one of the series' most triumphant years, with six albums pushing producers Alan Crawford and Bruce Baxter toward some quite phenomenal highs. The memorable, effects-laden guitars of Norman Greenbaum's "Spirit in the Sky" and Jimi Hendrix's "Voodoo Chile" were both expertly re-crafted by Miller Anderson/Kenny Young sideman Bob Falloon; the England World Cup soccer squad's mawkish "Back Home" and the jug band buffoonery of Mungo Jerry's "In the Summertime" stretched the session singers' resources to quite sublime distances; and, of course, the year wrapped up with the emergence of Marc Bolan's T. Rex, the first of the glam rock crew whose own success would drive Top of the Pops into ever-greater heights of ambition and audacity. There was no room for Bolan on Top of the Pops: Best of 1970, just as there was no room on the cover for more than four of the dolly-bird cover models who had decorated the series throughout the preceding year. What you do get, however, are the aforementioned "Spirit in the Sky" and "Voodoo Chile" workouts, with the latter -- miraculously produced on a Fender Telecaster with standard gauge strings and zero sustain -- a seething mass that puts most recognized Hendrix impersonators to shame. Indeed, it is rivaled for sheer dynamics only by an absolutely impassioned take on "Band of Gold," a performance that more than compensates for the handful of clunkers (a yowling stab at Eurovision Song Contest victor "All Kinds of Everything" and a laryngitic "Wand'rin' Star") that also crept in. Elsewhere, "Lola" is executed with a knowing feyness that makes Ray Davies sound positively butch, while the unnamed Elvis impersonator who did such great things to "In the Ghetto" on Top of the Pops: Best of 1969 is reprised with a stunning warble through "The Wonder of You." It's hard, however, not to simply keep returning to "Voodoo Chile," and a performance that -- alongside such future Top of the Pops masterpieces as "Autobahn," "Bohemian Rhapsody," and "Death Disco" -- utterly demolishes any accusations that these albums were somehow contemptible pap. At their best, they were sometimes better than the originals.
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Post by Horacewimp on Oct 13, 2022 18:52:47 GMT
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Post by unomusette on Oct 13, 2022 21:51:32 GMT
I'm sure I remember reading somewhere that Elton John used to play on these before he was famous.
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Post by BSJ on Oct 13, 2022 22:40:54 GMT
unomusette , you are correct! This is from Sir's autobiography with his POV. Excellent is the word "shonky".
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Post by unomusette on Oct 14, 2022 20:01:24 GMT
Awww, it sounds like so much fun! Nice find, me Snooks
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Post by BSJ on Oct 14, 2022 22:30:36 GMT
Thanks, me Toots! Isn't it neat to know your brain is still functioning in a high gear?
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Post by unomusette on Oct 15, 2022 20:13:01 GMT
Too right, we are totally both in the Smug Zone
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Post by Timeblue on Oct 15, 2022 22:01:04 GMT
Nothing worse than 2 women in the 'smug zone'.....
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Post by BSJ on Oct 15, 2022 22:41:46 GMT
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Post by Timeblue on Oct 15, 2022 23:53:21 GMT
Still waiting for my 'cake'....
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Post by BSJ on Oct 16, 2022 17:36:03 GMT
Like THAT is going to happen!
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Post by unomusette on Oct 16, 2022 18:46:52 GMT
Here it is
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