Capital Radio All Time Top 100

[dpgmel]

To be fair to Capital Radio, I remember listening to an interview that Tommy Vance did with Johnny Rotten in late 1976 at the height of the media backlash against the Sex Pistols ( following the Grundy programme debacle and their sacking by EMI ), the essence of Vance's programme was that there are two sides to every story, very true

[HUGHJAMPTON]

name='dpgmel']To be fair to Capital Radio, I remember listening to an interview that Tommy Vance did with Johnny Rotten in late 1976 at the height of the media backlash against the Sex Pistols ( following the Grundy programme debacle and their sacking by EMI ), the essence of Vance's programme was that there are two sides to every story, very true

Nicky Horne , also championed them It did seem to be after a nine o'clock watershed, though, IIRC.

[dpgmel]

name='HUGHJAMPTON']Nicky Horne , also championed them It did seem to be after a nine o'clock watershed, though, IIRC.

Yep you're right Hugh it was.

[HUGHJAMPTON]

name='dpgmel']Yep you're right Hugh it was.

Thanks, dpgmel.: I get a bit hazy, sometimes.



Capital radio was a breath of fresh air when it first started, and there were some good features on it. Roger Scott, used to play the occassional bootleg, albeit with a small interruption in the middle of it.



There were also, a good few decent interviews. I remember particularly the one with Alice Cooper, whose own version of Only Women Bleed, was banned at the Beeb, yet Julie Covington's version was allowed. Capital Played AC's version



I still have some tapes from that period of various interviews. Lennon's last interview before dropping out in '75 repeated in ' 76, a good 2 hrs , with musical interludes, and unfortunately ad breaks.

[dpgmel]

Yes remember Roger Scott fondly also late at night on weekdays they had Texan Randall Lee Rose



I also still have the cassette tape I made of Kenny Everett's World's Worst Records Show, The Bottom 30 from 1977, which featured three songs by Jess Conrad

[HUGHJAMPTON]

[quote]name='dpgmel']Yes remember Roger Scott fondly also late at night on weekdays they had Texan Randall Lee Rose



I also still have the cassette tape I made of Kenny Everett's World's Worst Records Show, The Bottom 30 from 1977, which featured three songs by Jess Conrad [/QUOTE



I've posted Jess's worlds worst at the 60's music clips. I think Steed and Cathy Gale's Kinky Boots was amongst the top ten , as was Eamomn Andrews' Shifting, Whispering Sands, beyond that I can't recall. I'd be interested to know, what the bottom 20 was? He did release an album of the top 10, on vomit green vinyl, which I had, but that ended up somewhere else.



Oh yeah, The Legendary Stardust , Paralyzed, was in the top half, too.



I think Lord Dickie must have been chairman of Capital at this time?

[dpgmel]

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Yes remember Roger Scott fondly also late at night on weekdays they had Texan Randall Lee Rose



I also still have the cassette tape I made of Kenny Everett's World's Worst Records Show, The Bottom 30 from 1977, which featured three songs by Jess Conrad [/QUOTE



I've posted Jess's worlds worst at the 60's music clips. I think Steed and Cathy Gale's Kinky Boots was amongst the top ten , as was Eamomn Andrews' Shifting, Whispering Sands, beyond that I can't recall. I'd be interested to know, what the bottom 20 was? He did release an album of the top 10, on vomit green vinyl, which I had, but that ended up somewhere else.



Oh yeah, The Legendary Stardust , Paralyzed, was in the top half, too.



I think Lord Dickie must have been chairman of Capital at this time?

In all it's glory :



Kenny Everett, Kenny Everett's World's Worst Wireless Show, World's Worst Records, Worlds Worst Records

[HUGHJAMPTON]

[quote]name='dpgmel;442478][quote=HUGHJAMPTON']



In all it's glory :



Kenny Everett, Kenny Everett's World's Worst Wireless Show, World's Worst Records, Worlds Worst Records[/QUOTE



Great, thanks



Now, all I have to do is Youtube 'em

[Torquemada]

name='Mark O']Cheers T...........out of interest would you happen to know what the two album tracks were that made it into the top 100?

Haven't a clue sorry, but Yesterday and Streets of London were the tracks which made the top 100 without ever being released as singles (at that time).

[Joe Fraguela]

I'm wondering whether one of the albums tracks could have been Stairway to Heaven by Led Zeppelin which I think was released in 1971.



As the list was compiled in 1973 perhaps a track from Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon which was released that year.

[Torquemada]

name='Joe Fraguela']I'm wondering whether one of the albums tracks could have been Stairway to Heaven by Led Zeppelin which I think was released in 1971.



As the list was compiled in 1973 perhaps a track from Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon which was released that year.

Neither of those made it onto the list.

[HUGHJAMPTON]

name='Torquemada']Neither of those made it onto the list.

Was A Day In The Life, one of them

[Torquemada]

name='HUGHJAMPTON']Was A Day In The Life, one of them

I don't believe it was, but The Beatles and Elvis had the most entries (I think it was about 17 each), followed by The Stones.

[Joe Fraguela]

name='Torquemada']Neither of those made it onto the list.

The albums must have been big sellers then for the 2 tracks to be included in the list? Do we know which musical period the top 100 covers?

[Torquemada]

name='Joe Fraguela']The albums must have been big sellers then for the 2 tracks to be included in the list? Do we know which musical period the top 100 covers?

Up to 1973 and Streets of London was virtually unknown outside the capital before this.

[billy bentley]

Does the actual list still exist ? If so can some one post it ?

[Torquemada]

name='billy bentley']Does the actual list still exist ? If so can some one post it ?

It would appear I'm the only one who recalls it and i can only remember parts of it. I know Get Back was 100.



I recall one of the things that impressed me at the time was the almost total lack of very recent hits, which is something that has made a mockery of more recent attempts to create a definitive and serious list (Radio1 in the 90s had an all time best poll and I think Wannabe was No1 lol).

[HUGHJAMPTON]

name='Torquemada']Up to 1973 and Streets of London was virtually unknown outside the capital before this.

I'm assuming then that this was only available as a L.P. track, then. The other one would be Yesterday, from the Help album, which wasn't released as a single over here until '76, when EMI, repackaged all the Beatle's singles.

[Torquemada]

name='HUGHJAMPTON']I'm assuming then that this was only available as a L.P. track, then. The other one would be Yesterday, from the Help album, which wasn't released as a single over here until '76, when EMI, repackaged all the Beatle's singles.

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