Good God what beautiful girls ( and boys) we all were back then! Would give anything for a time machine to go back and stay forever in those days. All of us 70 somethings were lucky to have lived in those times, life was simpler, less complicated and more fun. How clean and fresh we all looked, no tattoos, piercings or flab. God how I hate 2021!
@jimmyraythomason13 жыл бұрын
I remember those days. I was 18 in 1971. Driving a hot car and dating a cheerleader. Good times, great music!
@ianbentley72763 жыл бұрын
great post, i concur, aged 72.
@Daisy-tl2lh22 күн бұрын
2024 believe me its even worse!
@roops293912 күн бұрын
Wait till you get to 2024! Especially 4th July onwards, fun, fun, fun...
@michaeligoe393512 күн бұрын
And a mostly heterogenous happy dancers.
@alisonwunderland99004 жыл бұрын
Fab! I loved 1971 and wish I could go back to there and then...
@annecohen89273 жыл бұрын
Nothing is ever good in the year 2000. We should have been warned in 1990’s.
@cathygiuliana90895 ай бұрын
It was the beginning of the end of my life! If only I knew back then what I know now! Oh life, give me one more chance! I promise not to mess this one up! Oh life!🙏🏻😔💔
@uyauabing5 жыл бұрын
A time when acts as diverse as Deep Purple, Perry Como, Elvis Presley, Waldo de Los Rios, The Stones, The Jackson 5, & Diana Ross shared the charts.
@thetessellater91633 жыл бұрын
And Dave and Ansell (not as spelled here as Ansil) Collins, 'Double Barrel' They were two-hit wonders; 'Monkey Spanner', their only other offering, making only number 7 in the 'charts', or was it still generally called 'The Hit Parade'.
@kimgrant38792 жыл бұрын
@@thetessellater9163 still brilliant songs though
@colinglass13422 жыл бұрын
Wasn't sacarin Jonathan king
@Seeker71004 жыл бұрын
Everything stopped for Top of the Pops on a Thursday night! What wonderful memories!
@nicholaswiltshire63564 жыл бұрын
And the whole family watched.
@mostynf4 жыл бұрын
I love seeing the audiences on old TOTP episodes, I think it reveals more about what those times were like than seeing the actual musicians.
@debbieharry3874 жыл бұрын
I agree. And people in general were more simple and unworldy, they didn t have amillion and one different agendas to cope with and the rules thatPolitical correctness has brought.
@zeddeka4 жыл бұрын
@@debbieharry387 no, they had the world where the likes of Jimmy Saville could run riot. Where sleazy men could be as sexist as they wanted and treat women like rubbish. Where racism and homophobia were rife. Where pubs closed early and people drank themselves into early graves and the world was grey and derelict. You can keep that era. I thank God it's half a century into the past and is never coming back.
@debbieharry3874 жыл бұрын
Yes, actually youre quite right.I m probably seeing it all through rose tinted spectacles as i was only a child in the 70s.@@zeddeka
@nazaholicable3 жыл бұрын
The fashions were all so welcomlng and colourful esp for the new age of colour TV.
@mikeoglen68483 жыл бұрын
@@zeddeka Makes me glad to be living in this beautiful and utopian world of 2021...
@paulblatchfordplymouth4 жыл бұрын
The best and happiest decade of my life the 70’s 😀👍🏻
@redflag89704 жыл бұрын
Ye same grew up in the 70s was always happy
@redflag89704 жыл бұрын
@Pamela Beggs ace
@darrenplumpton89004 жыл бұрын
The 1970's(70-78) had.... The BEST music. The BEST television programmes The BEST radio(Radio One was at it's very best and ILR Independent Local Radio/Commercial Radio) launched with the second ILR station Capital Radio.) The BEST Christmas programmes.
@GGG-sd9ei3 жыл бұрын
Paul B : Me too and it went too fast......
@martm2163 жыл бұрын
Me too.
@smokeycat69545 жыл бұрын
Nice to see everyone having a great time, no judging each other or posing, saying look at meeeee! Best of times, and I had the privilege of living through it!
@michaelholmes43742 жыл бұрын
So did I great days when we was young
@johnsurrey7426 Жыл бұрын
Me too! Mind you, we didn’t know about certain DJs or pop stars then…
@mick63704 жыл бұрын
Birds🐦 without tattoos much more attractive 😉
@debbieharry3874 жыл бұрын
Hhaha showing your age. I doubt if anybody unedr 50 would refer to a girl as "a bird" now!!!!!
@mick63704 жыл бұрын
@@debbieharry387 OK sweetheart I'll give you that 💋
@simonright15074 жыл бұрын
@@debbieharry387 who cares they still looked better, .
@generalyellor81882 жыл бұрын
The most cliched Sour Old Goat comment you'll find after every single vintage song or dance video on KZbin.
@ysgol34 жыл бұрын
1971 pop was fantastic, like 72 and 73, still my favourite years.
@stephendines19364 жыл бұрын
Most of those dancing would be 70+ years old now.
@jimsimpson10064 жыл бұрын
Stephen Dines Can you imagine if they all somehow got together for a TOTP 1971 reunion! Would it be funny or sad?
@mikeoglen68483 жыл бұрын
The good news is Tony Blackburn is still going strong...
@peterpandaluki66633 жыл бұрын
Mid 60s 🙂
@thetessellater91633 жыл бұрын
@@jimsimpson1006 - it would probably be quite empty, actually. Bloody youngsters; have some respect !
@thetessellater91633 жыл бұрын
@@mikeoglen6848 - a lot of his mates went to prison....
@Forlogson5 жыл бұрын
I have just fallen head-over-heels in love with the girl at 2:02 - the problem is she's probably now in her late 60s and somebody's Gran! Oh the relentless march of time . . .
@fodsaks5 жыл бұрын
Yes, she's a beaut isn't she. To be honest, there's a fantastic choice of lovely looking girls.
@paulmanly36944 жыл бұрын
She's now a man.
@smitbar114 жыл бұрын
👍👍
@flagwanker63464 жыл бұрын
She would be a proper GILF though
@alisonwunderland99004 жыл бұрын
@Joris Bohnson You couldn't get on TOTP if you were that young...
@AnnetteRead-m4k12 күн бұрын
Yay!! Hot pants, loved wearing mine. Lovely innocent days with everything to look forward to, where have they gone? I know one shouldn’t but I spend my days remembering these times and I want to go back “if only”. 😢
@grahamd54186 жыл бұрын
Sad to think that all those hot girls are today's grannies and some are probably now getting around in mobility scooters. Enjoy yourselves whilst you are young and beautiful. It doesn't last forever.
@stewartmackay5396 жыл бұрын
I wonder if any of them see this. I wonder where they are now.
@kdp81336 жыл бұрын
And the hot men of course! Oh wait....there aren't any lol ; )
@sanchoodell67895 жыл бұрын
@@bluegrass5752 Well, it was the Cold Cold Cold Packed Faced BBC that made this show but it WAS *THE* PLACE to be seen at that time as there were no suitable night clubs to be 'cool' in!
@johnpenny56385 жыл бұрын
That girl at 3:07 ! Cor... I was coming up to 18 and hideously shy, seeing her I think she would be about the same age so about mid-60's now. Where are you I wonder?
@greasy4655 жыл бұрын
the girl in the red and white print dress at 2:04 is probably the cutest girl I have ever seen...and now about 70....sigh
@AJames-mh2dp3 жыл бұрын
The first ten seconds of the intro is awesome. Very MTV-like, which is remarkable considering MTV's creation was still a full decade in the future.
@Cool2BCeltic5 жыл бұрын
Tony Blackburn, a good presenter of TOTP without a dark side.
@melgrant74045 жыл бұрын
Well I don't know about that.wasnt there a girl who committed suicide over him.
@SluttChops5 жыл бұрын
Apart from all of those dead hookers buried in his back garden.
@vordman5 жыл бұрын
He's a terrible presenter. Nervous and unsure of himself. Shy around girls. And how many times did he say "lovely" in that opening. Distinct lack of vocabulary.
@micktranter77225 жыл бұрын
nice guy i went to his wedding 44 yr ago my gf was his wifes pal
@youngsteph15 жыл бұрын
The girl who committed suicide was to do with Saville. BBC cover up.
@hugebartlett18845 жыл бұрын
Tony still has his radio programme on Fridays at 7pm,Radio 2. Well worth listening to,great records,funny quips,and fond memories.
@ladytron91885 жыл бұрын
Not a fatty in sight and no hideous tattoos either.Good old Thursday nights the highlight of the week as a teenager.
@philipbonner64865 жыл бұрын
So true women then looked beautiful, now nope
@rg2027x5 жыл бұрын
Yup..That was long before HFC + Aspartame were placed in the food supply (toxic addictive fattening agents) & people were dumbed down & mind control-programmed by Hollywood & the TV set to embrace superficial mediocre bullshit trends so they can appear "edgier" than the next person. "Political correctness" didn't exist either..killing art, free expression, uniqueness, individuality and creativity. But humanoids have been expertly conditioned over generation to embrace that BS like everything else. This world has far gone to _garbage_ since then...People, music, culture, most everything... Except cats 😺
@markofsaltburn5 жыл бұрын
シ This isn’t “art”! 😀
@joedredd99794 жыл бұрын
@@markofsaltburn yes it is
@Eleventhearlofmars4 жыл бұрын
シ those agents in the food supply are responsible for new stomach diseases appearing on the scene like helicobacter pylori, A & E centres are full of people being admitted with this disease throwing up in agony, I have been one of these unfortunates. All down to processed foods.
@hunga2246 жыл бұрын
They're students and it was rag week at their college that week, which is what the t-shirts were for. The 'SC' stands for Slough College, so 'SCRAG 71' means Slough College RAG week 1971. They also took part in a beauty contest, which Tony mentions, with the girl on the right being the apparent winner.
@shawnrsd5 жыл бұрын
Ahh slough college no longer there
@margies7354 жыл бұрын
An unfortunate letter combination, lm sure they were all well brought up young ladies!😁
@johntudorhallelujah29762 жыл бұрын
Thank you for the information.
@1800astra6 жыл бұрын
The sense of excitement simply about being young, on telly, dancing to fab tracks with your mates is palpable in his clip.. and even 40 odd years on, we can still look and say, yeah, she's lovely, and she's lovely too. What happened to our youth? The likes of Jimmy Savile and others ruined everything.
@misterteaification5 жыл бұрын
Jonathan King as well - who was the person behind the version of 'Sugar Sugar' heard here, for which he used a one-off fake group name as he always did, here 'Sakkarin'.
@MATTYHOUGH1005 жыл бұрын
i was a new born baby tomorrow, im 48 on monday!
@zeddeka5 жыл бұрын
It's also called "getting old". It has happened to every human generation who ever lived, and yet still we seem bewildered by it.
@leeenglandland29783 жыл бұрын
Who's watching this today (29/4/21) exactly 50 year's later to the day?
@Candolad9 ай бұрын
Sugar Sugar" by Saccharin was actually Jonathan King. He covered quite a few songs in the 1970s including "Una Paloma Blanca" as White Dove, originally by George Baker Selection.
@steveoshow48323 жыл бұрын
Without realising it then the audience were as much part of that show as the artists themselves reflecting the styles, trends, fashion and dancing. 1971 was a great year for music although this particular chart didn’t quite reflect that.
@nickboyukАй бұрын
memories 18 and travelling the Far East in the Royal Navy. 71 great year.
@TheBudgie295 жыл бұрын
2:32 This Guys like WOW! I got In Yeh!. 2:01 Every Girl I went with Looked like this. Beautiful not a Tramp Stamp, Phone, In sight. I would like to Thank Every Single One for the Good Times and Hope they got what They Wanted In life.
@smitbar114 жыл бұрын
👍👍
@mr-wx3lv4 жыл бұрын
Proper gorgeous ladies in those days...
@jamsheadaziz39993 жыл бұрын
And not plastered in bloody tattoo's 😬😬😬
@tallandhandsome294 жыл бұрын
Hot pants and knee high boots....my favourite! Don’t see it nowadays, mores the pity.
@janicebarthram67594 жыл бұрын
tallandhandsome29 hot pants and boots don't look good on fat people......it's bad enough seeing them in leggings. Not many fat people in 1970s
@GGG-sd9ei3 жыл бұрын
I loved my hot pants and white lace up boots. I thought I was groovy!!
@johndean47652 жыл бұрын
White knee high boots that were popular then were very sexy.
@glendagobstoppa30335 күн бұрын
So many pretty girls and no tattoos, pure heaven. I was lucky enough to marry one in '71.
@SheilaNeedham10 ай бұрын
you should see them go once the bar has been open for a couple of hours !!! bless em all , much better times to be young than nowadays.
@stewartbrown48025 жыл бұрын
TOTP brilliant every Thursday night loved it and the proper charts good times 🎵🎵🎼🎼🎤🎩
@Deedee-ee1sg4 жыл бұрын
Fascinating clip of audience! What's so great about TOTP is the diversity and varied artists and music! Compare that to today's chart,which has little variety and same production!! Thanks for the video
@kdp81333 жыл бұрын
Most of the 'dolly dancers' were underage and plied with booze. No wonder Saville was able to operate as he did. Plus Blackburn was linked to the suicide of one of them, aged just 15. Died just a month before this was filmed.
@Shell64245 жыл бұрын
I loved the fashion back then - I wore hot pants and mini skirts - both with long boots.
@nicholaswiltshire63564 жыл бұрын
And I bet you were "wow"!
@jaggass4 жыл бұрын
Back when Tony Balckburn's hair was alive.
@stuartwebster49554 жыл бұрын
The halcyon days of the seventies! Gorgeous girls, no mobile phones or Internet,no political correctness, just great days
@colbangers63364 жыл бұрын
Stuart Webster Overflowing bins, dog shit everywhere, power cuts and miner strikes. Great times.
@stuartwebster49554 жыл бұрын
@@colbangers6336 thats right speaking personally great times for myself, fast forward to 2020 erm covid 19, economy In meltdown, this little island is over run with every asylum seeker on the planet, every sad bastard is glued to a mobile phone, still dog shit still around, bin men never had it so bleeding easy, we could do with a few fucking power cuts, the stress it would cause, no Internet fucking bliss
@zeddeka4 жыл бұрын
@@stuartwebster4955 everybody who ever lived thinks the time they were young was best. There's nothing special about that. The difference with you though now is that you sound like a grumpy, nasty old dinosaur who hates the modern world. It makes you wonder what went wrong for you, because not everyone your age is so bitter and tetchy.
@stuartwebster49554 жыл бұрын
@@zeddekaobviously hit a raw nerve with you! Your Arrogance is amusing and i had great pleasure discussing your reply with a number of my work colleagues, you no nothing about me yet have the nerve to call me a bastard, I shall reiterate again the halcyon days of the seventies you cannot beat them, take away your fuckin mobile phones etc and you go into meltdown, so GO FUCK YOURSELF. 😂😂😂
@redflag89704 жыл бұрын
@@stuartwebster4955 well said
@sidewaysid5 жыл бұрын
All those lovely girls will now be in their mid 60's like me...wow freaky isn't it.
@philiphalpenny97615 жыл бұрын
Saville, prowling around the corridors of the beeb , at that time is much more freaky, to be fair...
@unmea69l8er5 жыл бұрын
@@philiphalpenny9761 Not really, Savile is dead whereas Phil Clark isn't.
@25ghr5 жыл бұрын
Hot pants boots and tights 70s heaven,,
@mjc44624 жыл бұрын
And what were the women wearing!?..🤣
@vespadavidson23154 жыл бұрын
Sweaty.
@ronwhitfield88724 сағат бұрын
Man I loved being a teenager in the 70’s. What a time it was!
@larry930legend5 жыл бұрын
What an amazing incredible array of legendary performers. Olivia Newton John,Andy Williams,T Rex, Sweet, not to mention Elvis, John,Paul and Ringo. Super psychedelic of Sugar Sugar.
@polecat1194 жыл бұрын
No fatty's or inked up girls them days ...... just down to earth natural looking girls .....beautiful , I remember them days well
@sawleyram74054 жыл бұрын
All the best ones picked for prime TV viewing of course!
@zeddeka4 жыл бұрын
That sounds like something Jimmy Saville would say
@sawleyram74054 жыл бұрын
@@zeddeka Meh, best just to stop going on about him to be honest -- he died ten years ago now let's just let his memory die too and enjoy the music!
@rg2027x4 жыл бұрын
@@sawleyram7405 condescending chump certainly has an odd obsessive fascination with 'Jimmy Saville' for some weird reason! evoking his name every other post.. Maybe he ran off with his boyfriend or something 🤣
@memyselfandi2863 жыл бұрын
Polecat 119 . How sad are you stereo typing !!
@gwangi649 жыл бұрын
3:46 Geoffrey from Rainbow seems to be enjoying himself.
@dannylewington26058 жыл бұрын
thats just made me LOL
@steviebrora68617 жыл бұрын
Great spot! No sign of Rod Jane or Freddie though.
@juliephillipsithanks27707 жыл бұрын
Danny Lewington km
@meerkatandpug7 жыл бұрын
That wasn't him.
@IThinkYouLookLarvely6 жыл бұрын
Yes, obviously not him :P He would have been late twenties at this time, so I'm guessing it's his kid brother.
@TomorrowKnocks4 жыл бұрын
The 2:28 girl is as beautiful as an ancient melody lost forever!
@Beatlefan672 жыл бұрын
@Torero Both, but 3:08 deffo wins!
@1970groupie2 жыл бұрын
@@Beatlefan67 Yep!
@garrywood88366 жыл бұрын
What a great chart. Great variations of music and stars
@blastfromthepast83445 жыл бұрын
"Lovely... lovely ti.......tee shirts!" Good recovery there, Tony!
@Marlondurran5 жыл бұрын
Well spotted LoL 👍
@alexanderheath27655 жыл бұрын
Good variety of music in the charts back then!
@MrAlwaysBlue5 жыл бұрын
My Mum was a similar age to those girls then. She is still going strong at 71 now.
@foleyartist626 жыл бұрын
Wow everything looks so cool with brilliant music tracks compared to the cheesy fake cabaret atmos of TOTP in the early and mid 80s. Some of the girls here look hip and natural unlike the professional show off dancers employed by producers in 82.
@roflized5 жыл бұрын
Well said .
@ChadElk884 жыл бұрын
Beautiful, clean, white British youth. What a beautiful time in history.
@jimsimpson10064 жыл бұрын
Chad Elkins careful what you say, friend. The Ministry Of Truth have ears.
@maxowl95503 жыл бұрын
F@#k the Ministry of Truth!
@lovexlove-bh4xq4 жыл бұрын
Woow this was like 100s years ago Great footage so clear
@jimsimpson10064 жыл бұрын
lovexlove 1998 you're not far wrong, it WAS half a hundred years ago!
@fntime3 жыл бұрын
Things have gotten better since then, NOT!
@thereunionparty3 жыл бұрын
Interesting to see that one year after the Beatles' break up Ringo, John and Paul have entries in the Top 30. I wonder if all four ever appeared together in the charts as solo artists?
@simonmason85823 жыл бұрын
Yes they did in 1971.
@garrywood5345 Жыл бұрын
A fabulous top 30....Such diversity, sadly a lot of the artists have now departed
@mikesaunders47754 жыл бұрын
Modest young girls not trying to look cool,and a sprinkling of self-conscious technicians padding it out for the cameras.Not a narcissist in sight.Golden years.
@whi5tler_13375 жыл бұрын
5:36 Girl in T-shirt and knickers, and frig all else... Such great days 👍👍👍
@smitbar114 жыл бұрын
👍👍
@jjhiggs66137 жыл бұрын
Girl in the middle at 2:00 to 2:09 if I could go back in time I would be right next to you. Love that sweet and shy look. Damn! What the hell happened to American women? No trashy twerking slutty behavior during this time. I long for women like this and a time like this!
@normanscenic7 жыл бұрын
Agree...the girls back then... wow
@catman44716 жыл бұрын
Err...these are British women.
@lennylaa16866 жыл бұрын
Hi! JJ! hahaha! hands off our lovely, sweet, pretty Englsh girls! hahaha! See her at 3.07; she spots the camera monitor and smiles..wow..really gorgeous! Hands off, JJ, she's mine! hahaha! Wonder what she looks like now in 2018?
@smithy28825 жыл бұрын
Yeah ! Fella she's hot . Can't believe we are still eyeing up the talent forty eight years on.
@stevecowdry5 жыл бұрын
So damn sexy in a girl-next-door way!
@MrMjp583 жыл бұрын
Great to be able to see [even fragments of] TOTP from the early 70's. The BBC seem to revel in trawling through the punk and post-punk years of this great programme.... Not my scene man..
@jayzee66173 жыл бұрын
I think the problem tends to be the naughty BBC decided to erase tapes for re-use which meant that an awful lot of the 1964-1974 period has been lost forever...There are limited full episodes which often had to be reclaimed from foreign countries who had transmitted then actually saved the tapes. The most obvious efforts today to try to find all this lost treasure seem to be from the Doctor Who fan-base though there are collectors who jealously guard their 1971 episodes of TOTP which they recorded on their very expensive VCRs in those days. The BBC has had a lot of episodes returned too but a lot are hidden in archives and never shown..The stated reason being copyright concerns..Imagine the audience for a run of 1970-71 TOTP shows with the likes of Bowie et al....
@bazlh6 жыл бұрын
Tony Blackburn was so smooth and professional and no doubt still is! :)
@Phoenix_cataclysm_in_20407 жыл бұрын
To think that all these [pretty] chicks are in their 60s now... So odd. I wonder if any of them look back at these videos asking how come this beauty disappeared this fast. :/
@dannylewington26057 жыл бұрын
Kristian beauty? are u smoking some shit?
@walterweddle76445 жыл бұрын
@morbeus Morbeus I have owned my 72 Chevelle since 8/12/72. I work out at the gym three times a week. I wear the same size clothes as in 1972. Guess I am lucky but that could change in a second. The older one becomes the easier one realizes how fast life passes us by so fast!
@Agnethatheredhairkid5 жыл бұрын
@@walterweddle7644 Too bloody right, our Walter. As me Da used to say 'The oulder you get, the quicker time goes'.
@SluttChops5 жыл бұрын
Yeah, aging is so "odd" and "shocking".
@andyj6395 жыл бұрын
The 70s totp theme music was class
@paulkavanaghk4 жыл бұрын
The CCS version as intro and was a very good cover of original.
@WOODR525 жыл бұрын
I graduated in 71, Girls were simply beautiful then, I married my sweetheart in 71, Thin, athletic demure, sweet, Looked liked Karen Carpenters twin. We both watch these old videos, .. Thanks bro--
@Multi16287 жыл бұрын
Fantastic history, great Archies cover featured & fascinating top 30 - thank you for posting - Cheers, DAVEDJ
@alonenjersey16 күн бұрын
Perry Como made it up to #24? Oh my beloved Mom (R.I.P.) would have been so happy.
@grahamandrew90714 күн бұрын
Same here, my mum also absolutely loved him.
@ellenr.34097 жыл бұрын
Yeahhhhh! Deep Purple No. 30, The Sweet No. 14, The Rolling Stones No. 04, T-Rex No. 02
@CIMAmotor6 жыл бұрын
Cliff at 25!
@misterteaification5 жыл бұрын
Never mind that shit, listen to Sakkarin ;)
@SuperNevile5 жыл бұрын
Yes, the days when there was one main chart and you knew where they (and you) were.... so much has been lost......
@spakoerz5 жыл бұрын
Remember your culture, I remember mine, because now there is none... Sad for today's sheeple
@smithy28825 жыл бұрын
Great post mendez
@zeddeka4 жыл бұрын
"your culture"? That's hilarious. You sound like a nasty bitter old man who can't get his head round the fact that the world changes for everyone and we all get old. Your youth is gone and is never coming back. Stop blaming others for it.
@spakoerz4 жыл бұрын
@@zeddeka Nice........ 😉
@redflag89704 жыл бұрын
@@zeddeka your the sad bitter one your all over this dishing out stick to people who are reminiscing a time gone by with fondness.
@ravilockyer65734 жыл бұрын
incredible line up of musical talent
@billuk14132 жыл бұрын
Funny to think all these happy young folk are now pensioners.
@flashtheoriginal4 жыл бұрын
I like Tony's intro "heres a song were going to DANCE to right now". Nice and a sign of more innocent and fun times. When England was allowed to be English
@theoretickle20842 жыл бұрын
Back, when girls looked like girls, and music and lyrics actually had a meaning and didn't involve declarations of intending to have sex with the police, or bitch slapping girlfriends! When I die, I wanna go back to the 70s, and do it all again! Music died around 25 years ago, and it's not coming back.
@kezadrone4 жыл бұрын
Loved this, fascinating to watch I was born in 1977 so this is pretty alien to me, but the folk there, no bad attitudes and I expect well behaved, rare thing these days for sure, something really nice about this clip.
@zeddeka4 жыл бұрын
How do you know they didn't have a bad attitude? For all you know know, they may have had a punch up afterwards. This clip is no different from any other top of the pops clip in that it just shows people dancing and smiling. You can't take anything whatsoever about the society of the time from that. If anything, the Britain of the 70s was a pretty unpleasant place. We'd be pretty shocked at the casual aggression, whether it be racism, sexism, homophobia, football hooliganism, the level of drunkenness, and acceptance of sleaziness and casual violence that there was. In many ways it was a grey unpleasant time. This was part of the period that Jimmy Saville was running riot.
@jayzee66173 жыл бұрын
@@zeddeka Some good points..Nostalgia has a habit of erasing the bad and enhancing the good...
@regionalmoderator81255 жыл бұрын
Back when I was my own social media
@lenkapenka69763 жыл бұрын
Beauty contest.... oh dear... that wouldn't be on the agenda today!
@jasonwhitehurst45084 жыл бұрын
The girl at 3:06 is absolutely stunning.
@tallandhandsome294 жыл бұрын
jason whitehurst Agree. A real beauty. Lovely smile too.
@michaeljenkins244 жыл бұрын
Oh definitely a looker she's gorgeous .
@regantoomer60744 жыл бұрын
@@michaeljenkins24 My gran.
@michaeljenkins244 жыл бұрын
@@regantoomer6074 Its hard to imagine that one day she would be a Grandmother , like myself im a Grandfather .
@regantoomer60744 жыл бұрын
@@michaeljenkins24 We're luck to get there!
@michaelbrandt54165 жыл бұрын
Would be cool to get that fuzzy pedal guitar version of "sugar sugar". Thanks to youtube, older geezers like me can enjoy past greatness just as this.
@NathanChisholm0414 жыл бұрын
You know which Fuzz pedal was used?
@sambda7 жыл бұрын
The girl at 5:38 doesn't even have any hotpants on - just a t-shirt and knickers!
@BenjaminNavillus7 жыл бұрын
I'm surprised more people haven't commented on that - yeah, she basically turned up in her pants. The older generation must have been horrified. Well, the mums would have been. The dads would have dropped the pipe from their gawping mouths.
@repo1367 жыл бұрын
A certain _Mr Savile_ must've been cursing that week's scheduling!
@normanscenic7 жыл бұрын
YEA..missed that one at 5,38
@southlondon867 жыл бұрын
Why the living hell are you complaining mate?!
@badmattam6 жыл бұрын
A gorgeous hippie chick dancing in T-shirt and knickers...what's not to like!?!
@michaellomax8435 жыл бұрын
Liking how some go nuts when the camera is on them ie. the guy waving his arms about. Mind you, the precursor to rave lol I love this though...
@jimcameron46725 жыл бұрын
Saville & Glitter have been airbrushed from the early 70s Top of the Pops , for anyone too young to remember they were hardly ever off it in reality, especially Glitter.
@papapabs1755 жыл бұрын
Well too be fair both of them were bloody awful.
@DizzyKizzy645 жыл бұрын
Both gave me creepy vibes as a kid boy was I right.
@happychappy124 жыл бұрын
Hang on...……….Perry Como..?...........The Rolling Stones...?......…….In the same Charts...…..where did it all go wrong..? The 70's were good times, don't let anybody else tell you otherwise......xx
@ivorscrotumic35564 жыл бұрын
There's nothing quite like young, white Brits dancing in their 70's gear, to make you smile. :-)
@JFBridge13 жыл бұрын
East of Eden's 'Jig a Jig' played on the outro here.
@roflized5 жыл бұрын
I use to dig that one. I'd just turned 12 and discovered pop music.
@roderickscott74294 жыл бұрын
@@roflized always sounded if it was played at the wrong speed !
@honestopinion2537 жыл бұрын
No mobile phones,heaven
@Eleventhearlofmars6 жыл бұрын
allan jarvis when women had natural beauty unlike today’s females who are buried in tattoos and piercings.
@carl559536 жыл бұрын
or tattoos on the ladies
@youngsteph15 жыл бұрын
Mostly the lower classes.
@melgrant74044 жыл бұрын
@@youngsteph1 ooo snob!
@shirleywilliams38314 жыл бұрын
@@Eleventhearlofmars men have them so what's the difference in women having them.
@jennytalia2264 жыл бұрын
My wardrobe flashed by before my very eyes ! The 70's were way better than the 60's.
@robertcook25724 жыл бұрын
The '60s were just knocking at the door of fashion. In the '70s, the floodgates were opened...
@britbyname36203 жыл бұрын
@@robertcook2572 Dont agree , there was more class in the 60.s
@stevelarge3 жыл бұрын
most of these lovely girls are 70plus and will have had their first Covid jab - how times change
@KPGRUND4 жыл бұрын
Saville lurking around in the background somewhere I bet
@videogold7085 жыл бұрын
Fantastic picture quality! Oh and I still dance like that......
@stevealexR14 жыл бұрын
Video Gold 625 line PAL CRT TV was always able to produce fantastic natural looking pictures without anywhere near as much processing as current “LCD (LED backlit)” and, to a lesser extent OLED flat panel TVs. The lack of resolution only became noticeable once screen size went larger than approximately 30”.
@philipswain41224 жыл бұрын
All that gorgeous crumpet.
@CIMAmotor3 жыл бұрын
Phwoooaaaaar!
@gazriley6244 жыл бұрын
can't stop laughing at this it looks like a spoof something off "Look around you" but it was real i miss 1971 that was my heyday
@josephinerimmer68885 жыл бұрын
Ah the days of hot pants, loved strutting my stuff in those.
@andrewdock72884 жыл бұрын
Awesomeness!
@vespadavidson23154 жыл бұрын
Brilliant name!
@mikeymc30944 жыл бұрын
Josephine Rimmer Now your grandkids buy you cardigans and thermal vest for Christmas. I don’t care Josie I reckon you’d still look cool in your hot pants an knee length boots
@josephinerimmer68884 жыл бұрын
Michael Mc Flattery will get you everywhere Michael. No cardigans or thermals for me, not in this life. Never! X
@mikeymc30944 жыл бұрын
Josephine Rimmer Haha go ‘head girl. Old age is for boring people. I know OAPs in their twenties an I know younguns in their eighties. Never get boring Jose X
@Problembeing5 жыл бұрын
And at number one... EXTREME AWKWARDNESS!
@shanef87284 жыл бұрын
one of my favourite totp scenes this, though I used really love watching the early 1980s programmes from 1982 onwards when they had a dazzling array of studio lighting which was well before its time!
@travismaxwell9805Ай бұрын
The early 70’s are a weird time in music. Raw Stevens to all the post brocken up Beatles.
@MrAlwaysBlue5 жыл бұрын
Glad you didn’t show one introduced by Jimmy Saville
@racketman2u4 жыл бұрын
why mention him then? are you his fan club?
@melgrant74044 жыл бұрын
@@racketman2u doesn't sound like it
@josypereira56827 жыл бұрын
Imagem perfeita essa gravação desse programa de época da pra ter uma ideia.
@albertsmith10485 жыл бұрын
Hard to imagine all these gorgeous ladies in 2019, all grandma's now.
@repo1367 жыл бұрын
Such great quality. Really sharp!
@colinwilkes89576 жыл бұрын
Jig a jig by east of Eden appropriate looking at some of the scantily dressed females ,good times.
@mjones40834 жыл бұрын
Not a nasty , trashy tat in sight ! Good old days !!
@jareddicarlo78164 жыл бұрын
Thank goodness this is an episode they can still air on TV!
@conscienceaginBlackadder5 жыл бұрын
The nostalgic hippie happy days. America and Australia were fighting a conscriptory war. Spain was still under a dictator installed by Hitler. Greece was under military junta rule. None of Europe had yet started free movement Over half of Europe was communist. Berlin was divided by a wall. Switzerland was just then giving women the vote. Britain was getting put under states of emergency every few months by its Tory govt. The police had the power to arrest for "loitering with suspicious intent" with the offence consisting only of the cop's suspicion. Northern Ireland's inner cities were effectively at civil war, and parts of them outside govt control. There and in Scotland it was still illegal to be gay, in Englandandwales their consent age was 21.
@herringfly5 жыл бұрын
Britain was still better than it is today.
@roflized5 жыл бұрын
Wish it still was ..
@w1lf1ewoo4 жыл бұрын
Theres a Girl in the outro segment just in her knickers !
@lucluc95418 жыл бұрын
T.REX N -2 ! Glam is coming !
@IThinkYouLookLarvely5 жыл бұрын
@Philip Robinson Yes, I've also noticed there were often slightly out-of-date photos on single record sleeves at the time.
@russellgroves42486 жыл бұрын
Not a tattoo in sight
@fooman655 жыл бұрын
Russell Groves yes no tattooed thighs or foot long ears
@johnbailey56165 жыл бұрын
Good old day when britain was run by british people and not do-gooders
@Kate1Chopin5 жыл бұрын
Tattoos were a sign of being low life...ex con or dodgy types who worked on fair grounds! Very low status.
@whi5tler_13375 жыл бұрын
@@johnbailey5616 my god that is so true John, top post 👍👍👍👍👍
@whi5tler_13375 жыл бұрын
Probably 1 person in there with one & he was a sailor or worked on a fair ground (Ex con) 😂😂😂
@johnsurrey7426 Жыл бұрын
Those t-shirts didn’t cover much, did they 😍😍😉😉😋😋😋
@MrMusicbyMartin2 жыл бұрын
I’d like to see this clip with Pulp’s ‘Common People’ on the soundtrack, with great respect to the everyday people enjoying themselves 50 years ago!