Another week, another #TOTP performance from Sham 69. "Hersham boys" this time, filmed in a horrid brown-yellow filter.

David Hepworth was unimpressed for Smash Hits: "A tired, hollow effort struggling between weary attempts at rabble-rousing and blush-making pseudo-Springsteen 'street' songs that reek of desperation and contract fulfilling. As empty self-satisfied a record as anything they supposedly set out to replace."

Yeah, but why's the drummer got a dead animal on his head?
#Sham69

Olympic Runners perform a song called "The bitch". Title track to the Joan Collins film.

It's not the most liberated disco number. Begins with close-up of the female backing singer, who moves front stage later in the song.

The band was put together by Mike Vernon, who does the percussion here. Olympic Runners split up later that year.
#TOTP #OlympicRunners #NotThatSort

"If I had you" chimed The Korgis.

A weedy bloke in shirt and tie sings a weedy number, loosely based on a Rachmaninov interpretation of Paganini - but more classical work on BBC4 a little later this evening.

If this is the sound of summer, bring back spring.
#TOTP #TheKorgis

As promised, some classical work. On video, "Voulez-vous" from ABBA.

"Bang bang" from BA Robertson, which - inevitably - has lots of shots of BA's bandmate banging his massive drums.

The lyric mentions Johnny Fruin, an exec at BA's record label. File this alongside "Orinoco flow" as a big hit naming a label exec.
#TOTP #ABBA #BARobertson

A 40-minute #TOTP doesn't fit into a 30-minute slot without some editing. Snipped here: the video for "Girls talk" by Dave Edmunds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uEXJNS1llg

It's Legs o'clock: "After the love has gone" by Earth, Wind & Fire sees the gals lounging on a BBC beach boardwalk.
#DaveEdmunds #LegsAndCo