Treasure trove of 70's Soul clips from Holland

**jillfoster** · 02-08-2014, 11:43 PM

These have been being uploaded for a while, from AVRO in Holland, clips from TopPop, all in great quality!

**jillfoster** · 02-08-2014, 11:44 PM

**jillfoster** · 02-08-2014, 11:45 PM

**jillfoster** · 02-08-2014, 11:46 PM

**jillfoster** · 02-08-2014, 11:48 PM

**jillfoster** · 02-08-2014, 11:49 PM

**jillfoster** · 02-08-2014, 11:51 PM

**jillfoster** · 02-09-2014, 12:02 AM

**marv2** · 02-09-2014, 12:03 AM

I was reading up on this show, "TopPop" early last year. It seems they had hundreds of popular artists appear on it over the years lip synching to their current releases. Some I don't recall appearing on American television. This is quite a find Jill and thank you!

**jillfoster** · 02-09-2014, 12:03 AM

**jillfoster** · 02-09-2014, 12:04 AM

Yeah Marv... the quality of these clips is astounding! Like a kid in a candy store!

**jillfoster** · 02-09-2014, 12:06 AM

**jillfoster** · 02-09-2014, 12:07 AM

**jillfoster** · 02-09-2014, 12:08 AM

**jillfoster** · 02-09-2014, 12:09 AM

**jillfoster** · 02-09-2014, 12:10 AM

**jillfoster** · 02-09-2014, 12:12 AM

**jillfoster** · 02-09-2014, 12:13 AM

**jillfoster** · 02-09-2014, 12:16 AM

**marv2** · 02-09-2014, 12:24 AM

What also made this show special is that it presented many popular European acts that we never got the chance to see or hear in the U.S. Some of them were quite good.

**jillfoster** · 02-09-2014, 12:25 AM

**jillfoster** · 02-09-2014, 12:27 AM

Originally Posted by marv2

What also made this show special is that it presented many popular European acts that we never got the chance to see or hear in the U.S. Some of them were quite good.

I know! I would have thought the Real Thing, especially, would have hit it big over here.

**marv2** · 02-09-2014, 12:50 AM

Originally Posted by jillfoster

I know! I would have thought the Real Thing, especially, would have hit it big over here.

That is a nice song, but I can promise you I had never heard it until Youtube! LOL!

**jillfoster** · 02-09-2014, 01:36 AM

Originally Posted by marv2

That is a nice song, but I can promise you I had never heard it until Youtube! LOL!

I know... and the reason you didn't hear it? It never got hardly any airplay... only went to number 64 here. In the UK, it was NUMBER ONE! How ridiculous is that?

**roger** · 02-09-2014, 09:27 AM

Originally Posted by jillfoster

I know... and the reason you didn't hear it? It never got hardly any airplay... only went to number 64 here. In the UK, it was NUMBER ONE! How ridiculous is that?

Yes it was indeed Jill .. for three weeks in the summer of 1976, and here in London it is still a very popular oldie.

In Holland it seems it peaked at #4 ...

http://www.top40.nl/the-real-thing/t...erything_10292

Roger

**marv2** · 02-09-2014, 10:09 AM

Originally Posted by roger

Yes it was indeed Jill .. for three weeks in the summer of 1976, and here in London it is still a very popular oldie.

In Holland it seems it peaked at #4 ...

http://www.top40.nl/the-real-thing/t...erything_10292

Roger

It never got on the radio in the Detroit area back then.

**blueskies** · 02-09-2014, 11:11 AM

http://soulfuldetroit.com/showthread...-the-Sapphires

I like them.....are they British? Are they still around?

**jillfoster** · 02-09-2014, 12:16 PM

Originally Posted by blueskies

http://soulfuldetroit.com/showthread...-the-Sapphires

I like them.....are they British? Are they still around?

I'm not sure, I know Jay, the writer and producer.. I'll ask him about them and get back to you.

**marv2** · 02-09-2014, 12:20 PM

Here is a unique version of First Choice with Rochelle out front and two backing singers I am unfamiliar with. One is even a guy! LOL!

**jillfoster** · 02-09-2014, 12:32 PM

blueskies... I got the scoop, yes, they are indeed british, the lead singer, Sylvia Mason-James was in a disco group called Voyage in the late 70's, and Sylvia and the Sapphires consisted of her and her two sisters. She's done alot of studio and backing work since, and her latest jaunt was the featured vocalist on the Freemason's dance cover of Nothing But A Heartache in 2007. It didn't chart anywhere but Bulgaria, where it made the top 20!

**jillfoster** · 02-09-2014, 02:47 PM

oh, hot damn!!

**blueskies** · 02-09-2014, 03:02 PM

Originally Posted by jillfoster

blueskies... I got the scoop, yes, they are indeed british, the lead singer, Sylvia Mason-James was in a disco group called Voyage in the late 70's, and Sylvia and the Sapphires consisted of her and her two sisters. She's done alot of studio and backing work since, and her latest jaunt was the featured vocalist on the Freemason's dance cover of Nothing But A Heartache in 2007. It didn't chart anywhere but Bulgaria, where it made the top 20!

Thanks Jill......interesting. Wish the group [[with her sisters) would have recorded enough for an album. I really liked their sound.

**R. Mark Desjardins** · 02-09-2014, 03:32 PM

Tank you jill foster for sharing these wonderful musical clips!

**roger** · 02-09-2014, 03:52 PM

Originally Posted by marv2

It never got on the radio in the Detroit area back then.

Marv2 ..

You might be interested to know that THE REAL THING were from Liverpool. The roots of the band were in a group called THE CHANTS who were very popular in the city at the time that that whole "Merseybeat" sound took off in the early 1960s .. [[this is the sound that got to be called "British Invasion" music in the U.S. some 2 or 3 years later).

It seems that members of THE BEATLES on occasion backed up THE CHANTS, as gets mentioned in this link ..

http://www.peoples-stories.com/story.php?i=VQGN4QEPMC

Perhaps the best known record by THE CHANTS in Britain is this one, from around 1970 [[not sure of the exact year) ..

Roger

**marv2** · 02-09-2014, 06:30 PM

Roger thank you so much for that background information on The Chants aka The Real Thing. Much appreciated.

**jillfoster** · 02-11-2014, 11:48 PM

**roger** · 02-12-2014, 06:55 AM

I always thought that this one owed a lot to GEORGE McCRAE ...

Seems it reached #1 in Holland ...
http://www.top40.nl/jesse-green/jess...and-slow_10742
It was also a big record in Britain reaching #17 in the late summer of '76 and spending 12 weeks on the U.K. chart.
In the US there was no Pop or R&B chart action, but it did peak at #3 on Billboard's "Disco" listing.

Roger

**soulwally** · 02-26-2014, 04:00 PM

Jill: Thanks for all these. I've scoured youtube for clips of the Trammps, and there are some. but nothing brilliant. But Hold Back The Night from TopPop? Simply amazing.

Roger: I first heard of the Chants in 64 or 65 when they had a brilliant single out called I Don't Care. They also did an intricate vocal job on Sweet Was The Wine, done earlier by Jerry Butler and others.

**soulwally** · 02-26-2014, 04:36 PM

Now would you believe, I was looking for Boby Franklin's The Ladies Choice on youtube when the 'side panel' showed another TopPop clip by the fabulous Trammps, one of their minor disco classics. More mega close-ups of Jimmy Ellis...

**stephanie** · 02-26-2014, 05:47 PM

Oh gosh I have not heard this since it came out!!! Thanks so much I am going to have to watch all of these tonite!!!! Much love for posting Freedom for the Stallion I LOVE that song!

**jillfoster** · 02-27-2014, 02:31 AM

**jillfoster** · 02-27-2014, 02:33 AM

**jillfoster** · 02-27-2014, 02:37 AM

**jillfoster** · 02-27-2014, 02:38 AM

**jillfoster** · 02-27-2014, 02:40 AM

**jillfoster** · 02-27-2014, 02:43 AM

**jillfoster** · 02-27-2014, 02:44 AM

**jillfoster** · 02-27-2014, 02:46 AM

**jack020** · 02-27-2014, 02:47 AM

In Holland Top Pop released several dvd compilations of their clips: sadly they are mostly pop songs.

http://www.bol.com/nl/p/toppop-1-2/1002004005651478/