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Post by Gaz on Dec 10, 2015 3:22:10 GMT
Just heard Down Down blasting all the way over here from BBC radio 2 on Tony Blackburns 'Pick of the pops' this afternoon at 2pm (3am your time)....and it sounded great. I haven't heard it on radio for many years and it took me back. No wonder it went to no.1. The host said DD was a climber and will hit the No.1 spot in 6 weeks on his show.
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Post by americanquo on Dec 10, 2015 4:53:28 GMT
I had it blasting down the highway just this afternoon.
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Post by Gaz on Dec 10, 2015 6:21:05 GMT
I had it blasting down the highway just this afternoon. Down Down all over the world today...and all while our Pommie mates were snoozing away. Good stuff. |
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Post by Whoppa Choppa on Dec 10, 2015 16:26:58 GMT
In the words of a missing message board person (MMBP for you, Gates..  ) GLOBAL |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2015 17:51:51 GMT
Just heard Down Down blasting all the way over here from BBC radio 2 on Tony Blackburns 'Pick of the pops' this afternoon at 2pm (3am your time)....and it sounded great. I haven't heard it on radio for many years and it took me back. No wonder it went to no.1. The host said DD was a climber and will hit the No.1 spot in 6 weeks on his show. Tony Blackburn used to be one of the early BBC radio 1 DJ's, and right back at the start of the 70's made the sneery comment 'Down the dustbin for this one' when being 'forced' to introduce Quo's Down the Dustpipe single at the time. It almost made the Top 10 singles despite that.
This is bearing in mind that having started from scratch again after the fiskadelic successes of POMM and IITS, they were very much a word of mouth band as they started their trail blazing boogie era days.
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Post by kursaal75 on Dec 10, 2015 18:01:25 GMT
I remember a lot of dj's spoke all over the intro to Down Down except for Johnny Walker, but Blackburn was the worse, as he used to spend the intro telling embarrassing jokes. I remember him saying a couple of times before playing one of their hits, that it was the music for road diggers!!
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Post by kursaal75 on Dec 10, 2015 18:14:08 GMT
DOWN DOWN: UK CHART HISTORY:
11 Weeks in UK Top 50:
07/12/74 - 15/02/75:
34, 20, 15, 15, 10, 3, 1, 5, 6, 26, 44.
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Post by Gaz on Dec 10, 2015 19:05:02 GMT
I remember a lot of dj's spoke all over the intro to Down Down except for Johnny Walker, but Blackburn was the worse, as he used to spend the intro telling embarrassing jokes. I remember him saying a couple of times before playing one of their hits, that it was the music for road diggers!! That's exactly what he did yesterday when introducing DD. I had just put on BBC2 (as they play 70s music in that time slot) and continued working when I thought I heard the DD intro, very quiet in the background, while this DJ just was yapping on about something. Then just as the song comes in proper, he says '...and here's Status Quo.......' |
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Post by Gaz on Dec 10, 2015 19:56:25 GMT
I remember a lot of dj's spoke all over the intro to Down Down except for Johnny Walker, but Blackburn was the worse, as he used to spend the intro telling embarrassing jokes. I remember him saying a couple of times before playing one of their hits, that it was the music for road diggers!! Obviously I had never heard of Tony Blackburn back in the 70s but I do remember one of Benny Hills characters... Tony Blackbum. |
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