Classic Chart Show repeats on The Vault!

Mr-Know-It-All-Mode

Sorry but you've stepped right in my insanely tedious knowledge field (90's popular music)

Right the story is, Professional Widow was a Tori Amos album track, Armand Van Helden then made a rather cheesy re-mix of it (if you can call it that) he just took an existing instrumental he'd made and dumped small vocal snippets of the Tori track over his track and it was a massive club then chart hit.

Whilst it was still big in the club, the Dirty Rotten Scoundrels took the acapella vocal line of Coldcut's 'People Hold On' (vocals by Lisa Stansfield) and played that directly over the top of the same Armand Instrumental and that became a club hit too.

Both tracks were released into the 'pop' charts at almost the same time, so that is what has forever confused the issue.

I look forward to seeing earlier Chart Show graphics, but was pleasantly surprised how much I liked the music and sound on the later edition a few of hours ago despite the 10-year-odd gap since original transmission; nicely done I'd say as it was something I'd never really considered before...

As I watched the thing through I clearly remembered seeing it when it was originally aired, without question. But then following the singles chart as I did at that time, I did oft tune in on those Saturday afternoons, 'twas followed by Movies, Games and Videos , and that'd be it for the afternoon viewing on what was then HTV.

Across what years did the show have those various 'bouncing ball' sequences which differed for each specialist chart? I know the Indie Chart was represented by a black ball, and the Rock Chart ended on a metallic background, and that's about all I can confidently remember! I'm sure it'll all return once the memory is jogged a bit.

The ball sequences for the specialist charts were used from December 1991 until the May 1996 relaunch with indeed a red stone ball for the Rock Chart, a black ball for Indie, and a multicouloured one for Dance. The music for the Dance Chart stings over the years always used to have wobbling noises for some reason!

In some eras of "The Chart Show" the then-sponsor (at various different times: Pepe Jeans, Twix, Tizer) were an integral part of the title sequence etc. Bet they won't be able to show any of those eras' episodes as originally transmitted on ITV1!

EDIT: Actually, by the time Tizer was the sponsor, the sponsorship promos were merely tacked-on, and the title sequence was stand-alone (like most sponsored programmes are nowadays). It was mainly in the Twix-sponsored era that the sponsor was a REALLY REALLY integral part of the title sequence.

Well I tell a lie, I say as transmitted but they cut off all the battle of bands on-screen info, share of the vote so far, phone numbers etc. Those were a live element of the show.

All the nuggets of info that appeared on the screen during songs, aah that was the way of getting info on things in the days before the internet.*



*Yes it existed but it was a super super luxury that only the richest kids in school had back then.

Answer: They 'blur' out the original show's sponor

*bump again

Lol someone has done their own mock-up contemporary version, of it. The format does still hold up, you just gotta love the attention to detail in this.

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"Someone"? I think you'll find that someone is a former contributor to this forum.

Did anyone catch this weeks classic chart show episode

Really?

That's a bit lame. I thought they'd either avoid showing episodes from that era, or find a more cunning way of editing down the titles, or something.

EDIT I remember that for most of the Twix-sponsored era, the title sequence featured a fleet of spaceships departing a space-station docking bay via four "T W I X" letter-shaped doorways, then flying over a red planet. It ended with this sort of logo (except I'm sure that the "ITV" had been replaced by "The" by the time that Twix was the sponsor). As I recall, the main thrust of the Chart Show theme tune didn't really kick in until after the Twix-centric portion of that title sequence is over. Therefore, they could probably miss off the beginning of the titles for these repeats, surely?

When this logo was first introduced, the programme was still sponsored by Twix. At one point in those titles, the headphones you see in that pic have a Twix logo in them, then they revolve to the Chart Show logo shown here.

As I stated before, when the sponsor changed to Tizer, the sponsor was no longer integral to the titles, so the above titles were amended to a "sponsor-less" version. If these current repeats ever show any episodes from the Twix-sponsored part of this era, they could easily replace the titles with the virtually identical sponsor-less version thereof.

Not showing repeats from the Twix era at present as the channel are unable to play the format media the episodes are stored on or something.

Only showing episodes from the 91-92 and 96-97 periods at present. They might open up the show's entire catalouge in the future but the repeats have to prove popular enough first.



Yes, a 1991 episode.

Right, the light shows up now as this morning they show the exact same episode they showed about 3 weeks ago

They only really have about 10-12 episodes they keep just showing over & over c'mon I've clocked you now.