F50 of 1977

[ken_garner]

it's all adding up: yes, I can find in the scripts of the programmes 
leading up to the Motors at number 1 all those records you check, 
and, yes, New Religion is 16 records before Dancing the Night away. 
Here comes the tricky bit: do the records Capital Radio by The Clash, 
Jocko Homo by Devo, Stepping Razor by Peter Tosh, and Rocket in My 
Pocket by Little Feat (from live LP Time Loves a Hero) ring any bells 
with you? Or the number 61, perhaps? Green Onions by Roy Buchanan?

KG


--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "dunelm61" <dunelm@...> wrote:
>
> More pointers on the road to the 1977 Festive Fifty . . .
> 
> 1. The source for the top 13 is Andy Smith's posting on the 
Rocklist 
> website (hang your heads in shame, Messrs Wall and Heatley). Here 
he 
> says "I had trouble tracking down that tape I told you about of 
John 
> Peel's festive 50 from 1977. Well I have found it but it only has 
the 
> top thirteen! Beter than nothing so here they are . . . Bit 
> disappointing, I know but I thought there was another tape amongst 
the 
> boxes, but there wasn't." Here, then, is someone who not only 
remembers 
> there being a Festive Fifty in 1977, but actually taped it.
> 
> 2. It is claimed (probably by the band themselves) that Some 
Chicken's 
> New Religion held down the number 16 position in the chart.
> 
> 3. A fiver says the Ramones' Pin Head, the Stranglers' London Lady 
(it 
> mentions Liverpool!) and X-Ray Spex' Oh Bondage are all in there as 
> well.
>