Volume 42 (SHM 885) - December 1974

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Tracks:

Side 1 
  • Juke Box Jive Originally a hit for The Rubettes (3)
  • Tell Me Why Originally a hit for Alvin Stardust (16)
  • You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet Originally a hit for Bachman-Turner Overdrive (2)
  • You're The First, The Last, My Everything Originally a hit for Barry White (1)
  • Oh Yes! You're Beautiful Originally a hit for Gary Glitter (2)
  • Wombling Merry Christmas Originally a hit for The Wombles (2)

Side 2 
  • Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds Originally a hit for Elton John (10)
  • The Wild One Originally a hit for Suzi Quatro (7)
  • Dance The Kung Fu Originally a hit for Carl Douglas (35)
  • Stardust Originally a hit for David Essex (7)
  • Please Mr Postman Originally a hit for The Carpenters (2)
  • Tell Him Originally a hit for Hello (6)
Sleeve notes:

Here we are, bouncing up for the forty-second time with our Top of the Pops album, bright, breezy, best-selling. On this album we’ve given you the best we’ve got. There are great sounds for all sections of the Pop World, for most of these tunes are currently hitting the high spots.

So, Pop People, let’s make this one a really smash-hit issue to top all the previous forty-one numbers.  

We’ve given you Britain’s best session musicians playing the best current tunes. We’ve given you fabulous Hi-Fi sound and top quality records pressed by one of the world’s major companies. We’ve given you the greatest ever value in the history of recorded sound. Now it’s up to you to have a ball when you listen to our fantastic rhythms, our vocals and our sounds. 

Have fun - get popping with TOP OF THE POPS.

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BSR were a manufacturer of record decks, including the types which ended up housed in wooden "suitcase" record players sold by companies such as Dansette, Philips, Marconi, HMV and others. BSR decks were extremely common in the 60s and 70s, and it is likely that the majority of Top of the Pops LPs encountered a BSR deck at some point in their useful lives.

This book - BSR Just For The Record by Alan R Cox (1998) - tells the story of the company. And what records were selected to illustrate the decks in use? A couple of Elvis LPs and this volume of Top of the Pops! Too rarely considered worth recognition, it is a measure of the cultural impact Top of the Pops had that this album was placed on the cover shot.


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