BRIAN MATTHEW/ TOP OF THE POPS RADIO SHOW.1965 VINYL 1

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PLEASE READ BELOW TO FIND OUT THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS VINYL. A LIST OF ARTISTS WILL FOLLOW.

Top of the Pops radio show was introduced by Brian Matthew from its inception in late 1964 and featured most of the top acts of the day. The Beatles, Stones, Who, Deep Purple, Jethro Tull, Spencer Davis Group, Small Faces, Searchers, Zombies, Jimi Hendix etc played along side acts not too familiar now like Don Charles, Sharon Tandy, Tammy St John. The usual format was that each act had at least 2 songs plus a short interview conducted by Brian Matthew.

 Top of the Pops, a 1-hour new music program hosted weekly by Brian Matthew, featured selections from recording sessions at BBC studios assembled for syndication/export outside the UK. Top of the Pops was also the name of a well-known BBC TV series, but there is no connection between the radio show and the TV show. Over the years this has caused much confusion to collectors of audio tapes who have assumed tapes credited to Top of the Pops were performances from the TV program.
The syndicated radio series began late in 1964 and billed itself as “featuring live London performances of Britain’s top sounds.” The standardized format of the show was to feature 4-5 different artists doing 3 songs each, occasionally with a brief interview segment included. Since artists generally recorded 4-5 titles at a session which were generally all broadcast on BBC’s pop programs in the UK, it meant that in syndication a song or two was generally dropped, so some of these recordings don’t exist on any syndicated export.

There was a time, very long ago, when your only access to the BBC if you were outside the UK, was via their Transcription Service. The BBC would offer discs (and tapes) of programs they thought would be of interest to an audience aside from the UK. And one of the shows they offered was a weekly dose of Top Of The Pops (among others). Pressed on vinyl in somewhat limited quantities and shipped over to U.S. and other overseas radio stations who subscribed to the service.

Now, the deal with those shows was, as it was with everything in their Transcription Service, they could only be run for a certain period of time and then had to be returned to The BBC to be destroyed (oh, that contractual thing again). A lot of stations complied and the discs were sent back to meet their doom and be replaced by brand new ones to repeat the process. But most of those stations never got around to sending them back and whole series of programs sat in Radio Station libraries, or in boxes or in storage. And that's where it gets interesting.

The BBC back home, not only had a habit of destroying Transcriptions sent back to them, they also had a habit of destroying the original shows they were pressed from. Hence, full years were gone, vanished. Tapes wiped clean - history evaporated. This makes any remaining vinyl very rare indeed.

FURTHER INFORMATION WITH REGARD TO THE BBC TOTP RADIO PROGRAMME INCLUDING ALL SHOWS LISTINGS CAN BE FOUND ON totp.torbenskott.dk/

Wayne Fontana

Interview 12fpm/114164

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13

Wayne Fontana & The Mindbenders

The Game of Love

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14

Sandie Shaw

You Can't Blame Him

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15

Zombies

Interview

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16

Zombies

Tell Her No

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17

Kenny Ball & his Jazzmen

Stevedore Stomp

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18

Brian Poole and the Tremeloes

Time is On My Side

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19

Wayne Fontana & The Mindbenders

Too Much Monkey Business

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20

Sandie Shaw

I'll Stop At Nothing

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21

Zombies

Soulville

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22

Outro

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NUMEROUS ENQUIRIES ABOUT POSTAGE ABROAD. MAINLAND EUROPE IT WOULD BE £5.55, USA £7.80, JAPAN £7.80

I HAVE HAD A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS ABOUT THE INTERVIEWS.THE SHOW WAS BROADCAST OVER TWO DISCS AND BRIAN TOOK THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK TO EACH OF THE LISTED ARTISTS ABOUT THEIR MUSIC/ TOURING ETC. IT IS QUITE FASCINATING AND GIVES AN INSIGHT TO THE MUSIC SCENE IN 1965.