Top Of The Pops

ABBA sang "So Long" live on Top Of The Pops (introduced by Tony Blackburn) but according to the (now defunct) BBC's Top Of The Pops web-site, the clip no longer exists in the BBC Archive.

Programme running order:

Alvin Stardust - "Tell Me Why"
KC & The Sunshine Band - "Sound Your Funky Horn"
Bachman-Turner Overdrive - "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet" (VIDEO)
ABBA - "So Long"
George McCrae - "You Can Have It All"
Hello - "Tell Him"
Mud - "Lonely This Christmas"
Rupie Edwards - "Ire Feelings" (Skanga)
The Rubettes - "Juke Box Jive"
The Tymes - "Ms Grace"
The Wombles - "Wombling Merry Christmas"
Barry White - "You're the First, The Last, My Everything" (danced to by Pans People)
Rod Stewart & The Faces - "You Can Make Me Dance, Sing Or Anything" (crowd dancing) (end credits)

Thanks to contributions from ABBA on TV regulars, the mystery of which programme the two photos below came from has now been resolved.  The irony of this is that it took a performance of ABBA's own "Honey Honey" by Sweet Dreams to seal the deal!   The set you can see in the background is the exact same as in the ABBA pictures below.  Whilst the YouTube clip of Sweet Dreams says it was filmed in August 1974 that doesn't matter to me.  What matters is that the set is from Top of The Pops and it's the programme itself we needed to identify. We already had the information about "So Long".  It's quite possible the same background was used four months earlier for Sweet Dreams after all.

Click here to see the various theories that got us to this point with huge thanks to Petri Kaasalainen for pointing out the Sweet Dreams performance.

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