Forgotten Fifty: The Festive Fifty (actually 61) of 1977 revealed

[ken garner]

john just loved Dancing The Night Away as a pop single and so did 
Sheila; he was also very pally for a time with Bram Tchaikovsky, I 
seem to remember. What I like and admire about the Forgotten Fifty is 
precisely that records now or even then deemed essential are here 
accorded a different place in the hierarchy, according to Peel's 
taste, and (partly no doubt) desire to build 4 mixed radio 
programmes. In this respect I feel it suggests more about the feel of 
the Peel shows that year than, say, do some later Festive 50s. I'm 
really glad Adrian, John, Stu and Jimmy pushed me to look into it, 
because I would never have done so otherwise, given all the other 
stuff that was more pressing for the book. - k

--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, Paul Bryant <pbryant98@...> wrote:
>
> Both Motors tunes are very excellent - astonished to
> see White Riot at a mere 27 though
> 
> pb
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --- Stuart McHugh <stuart@...> wrote:
> 
> > good to see the 'Forgotten 50' actually in print,
> > there's a lot of  
> > memories coming back to me, doubtless originally
> > from listening on a  
> > Zephyr tranny under the covers on a school night -
> > the first time I  
> > heard June Tabor, and King Short Shirt (I remember
> > the name better  
> > than the tune), rare plays for 'banned' X Ray Spex
> > and Clash singles,  
> > vague surprise at Frankie Miller, possibly total
> > astonishment at John  
> > Cooper Clarke, and mental notes taken for post-Xmas
> > record token  
> > shoping for The Saints, The Boys and Devo.
> > Still don't recall the Quo though (mental block via
> > too many school  
> > bands doing covers) and was anyone else as surprised
> > at the time at  
> > the tunes at 1 and #3?
> > 
> > Happy days...
> > 
> > Stuart
> > 
> > > 1 `Dancing The Night Away' The Motors
> > > 2 `Uptown Top Ranking' Althia & Donna
> > > 3 `You Beat The Hell Out of Me' The Motors
> > > 4 `I Can't Stand My Baby' The Rezillos
> > > 5 `Suspended Sentence' John Cooper Clarke
> > > 6 `Smokescreen' Desperate Bicycles
> > > 7 `Right Track' Merlyn Webber
> > > 8 `Like a Hurricane' Neil Young
> > > 9 `Complete Control' The Clash
> > > 10 `Be Good To Yourself' Frankie Miller
> > > 11 `Holidays In The Sun' The Sex Pistols
> > > 12 `Shadow' The Lurkers
> > > 13 `Truly' J. Ayes and Ranking Trevor
> > > 14 `Pigs' Pink Floyd
> > > 15 `Incendiary Device' Johnny Moped
> > > 16 `New Religion' Some Chicken
> > > 17 `See Them Come' Culture
> > > 18 `Emergency' The Motors
> > > 19 `The Worm Song' The Yobs
> > > 20 `Box Number' The Boys
> > > 21 `London Lady' The Stranglers
> > > 22 `I Don't Wanna' Sham 69
> > > 23 `Pinhead' The Ramones
> > > 24 `Freedom Connection' Jah Woosh
> > > 25 `Can't Give You More' Status Quo
> > > 26 `Blue Wind' Jeff Beck with Jan Hammer
> > > 27 `White Riot' The Clash
> > > 28 `Success' Iggy Pop
> > > 29 `Your Generation' Generation X
> > > 30 `Nobody Go Run Me' King Short Shirt
> > > 31 `Love Story' The Lurkers
> > > 32 `Waiting in Vain' Bob Marley & The Wailers
> > > 33 `Paradise' Dr Feelgood
> > > 34 `Cruel Brother' Five Hand Reel
> > > 35 `I'm Stranded' The Saints
> > > 36 `Heroes' David Bowie
> > > 37 `Sick On You' The Users
> > > 38 `Oh Bondage Up Yours!' X Ray Spex
> > > 39 `Lookin' After Number 1' The Boomtown Rats
> > > 40 `No Man's Land' June Tabor
> > > 41 `Neat Neat Neat' The Damned
> > > 42 `The Dark End Of The Street' Ry Cooder
> > > 43 `Questions' Suburban Studs
> > > 44 `Feel Like Making Love' Elizabeth Archer & The
> > Equators
> > > 45 `I Knew The Bride' Dave Edmunds
> > > 46 `Away From The Numbers' The Jam
> > > 47 `Whole Wide World' Wreckless Eric
> > > 48 `Green Onions' Roy Buchanan
> > > 49 `Wild Dub' Generation X
> > > 50 `I.R.T.' Snatch
> > > 51 `Pretty Vacant' The Sex Pistols
> > > 52 `John Willie's Ferret' The Oldham Tinkers
> > > 53 'Stepping Razor' Peter Tosh
> > > 54 `Capital Radio' The Clash
> > > 55 `Watching The Detectives' Elvis Costello and
> > The Attractions
> > > 56 `Bringing In The Morning Light' The Motors
> > > 57 `Beginning of The End' Eddie & The Hot Rods
> > > 58 `Jocko Homo' Devo
> > > 59 `Whatever Happened To' The Buzzcocks
> > > 60 `Rocket In My Pocket' Little Feat
> > > ...& 61`God Save The Queen' The Sex Pistols
> > 
> > 
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