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Post by blagult on Oct 3, 2020 17:54:01 GMT
Just been watching that BBC 1 programme where you have to guess the songs. One of the categories was record appearances on TOTP. Quo were credited with only 86 appearances. 20 short of Cliff Richard according to the programme. Is that the BBC not wanting to admit Quo holding the record or Quo’s stats being exaggerated ? I always thought Quo held the record. May not seem important but holding such a record seemed quite prestigious to me anyway !
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Post by jcb on Oct 3, 2020 18:35:44 GMT
Is it the “Band” not solo artist thing?
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Post by paradiseflats on Oct 3, 2020 19:38:13 GMT
Just been watching that BBC 1 programme where you have to guess the songs. One of the categories was record appearances on TOTP. Quo were credited with only 86 appearances. 20 short of Cliff Richard according to the programme. Is that the BBC not wanting to admit Quo holding the record or Quo’s stats being exaggerated ? I always thought Quo held the record. May not seem important but holding such a record seemed quite prestigious to me anyway ! According to the BBC they trail Cliff by 73 appearances. But he may count twice as Cliff and Cliff and the shadows.
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Post by blagult on Oct 3, 2020 20:00:48 GMT
Yeah I reckon they safely own the band record but I was of the opinion Quo held the record overall with 106. Obviously not according to BBC who credit Quo with 86. Still an outstanding amount but not the record I thought they held.
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Post by jcb on Oct 4, 2020 8:12:16 GMT
Does this include clips. Being an old git I can remember “break the rules” being played over the end credits. Would this count as an appearance. There’s been more than few times where just a little segment of a video or a previous performance has been used and there’s also been a couple of Quo specials. So, would they count as one performance or each song?
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Post by hershie on Oct 5, 2020 23:12:39 GMT
statusquo.boards.net/thread/13459/quo-top-pops-archive-wip?page=1During lockdown I started this thread of every TOTP appearance. The numbers are just about correct if you count every single appearance, including clips in rundowns, playbacks over titles or the crowd dancing etc. I can't remember the exact number but the maths is somewhere in there. The number of actual separate studio appearances is around 40.
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Post by mortified on Oct 6, 2020 7:46:22 GMT
It's a wonder the BBC have ANY accurate records for this bearing in mind they binned/recorded over huge swathes of TOTP broadcasts. I dare say they may still have dusty old lists somewhere in the vaults showing proposed line ups. Maybe we should make a Freedom of Information request asking for the line up from every show since it first began in whenever it was (1964?). I wonder if they'd have it. Having said that, Quo's management/media have, for years, exploited the number of appearances in their marketing blurb. Maybe we should leave well alone
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Post by hershie on Oct 6, 2020 13:28:45 GMT
From my understanding they did have a lot of records of this, but with expected gaps and errors.
The Popscene forum has over the years compiled a nearly complete list of appearance and a tracklist for every show, including presenters.
A lot of this does come from other sources, and some is incomplete or based on guesswork (especially with regards to the running orders) but it's still mightily impressive that we know of nearly every tracklist.
There are only 5-6 surviving intact episodes from the 1960s so it's miraculous how complete the records are for that time.
With regards to Quo, the numbers are essentially correct if you simply count any feature on the show at all as an appearance. A 10 second clip of What You're Proposing in a chart rundown wouldn't count to me, but it does when you're simply counting any mention of Quo.
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