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Classic shows you remember, but the public might not (July 2017)

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A former member
Victor & Hugo Crossovers.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5gf6jh

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3orrgd

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JA
james-2001
Did Westlife ever actually not win it?
FA
fanoftv
I loved the regional voting system that was used for Record of the Year:
DE88, watchingtv and all new Phil gave kudos
JA
james-2001
"Do you reall like it"- looks like nobody did!

Suprised Westlife aren't in the top 10 at all actually, must be the only year they weren't (apart from the first one in 1998 before they'd released their first single). They had around 3 number 1s in 2001, so I'm suprised they weren't there!
SW
Steve Williams
I've got two shows I'll post here.

Record of the Year, it was the great idea for the award show for a song of the year but teen pop acts especially Westlife winning the the show year after year and in some cases the finalists let it down. It was the brainchild of the now discredited music mogul.


Record of the Year used to be a great marker on the way to Christmas for many years. What I especially used to like about it was that the regional voting system meant that the Channel Islands and the Scottish Borders became Britain's top rock powerbrokers, because all the regions awarded the same number of points. I wonder if record companies used to send pluggers to Carlisle and St Helier just so they could all vote for them.

I know it was mostly pointless when Westlife won all the time, but it was entertaining enough. I remember one year when they ran away with it, Mel Blatt from All Saints was sat behind them in the green room and every time they cut to them as the voting was going on, she was pulling a succession of ridiculous faces. She was such a great pop star.

Watch This Space, Channel 4's mid 1990s yoof interactive show that was supposed to allow viewers to decide what would be on the next show on the internet but system kept breaking down which is why the show failed.


I mentioned this on another thread, the interactivity was such that they did a "preview" before the series began introduced by Dominik Diamond, when we were invited to vote for the presenters, and after the show ended they had to apologise that they'd actually announced the wrong results because Dominik had read out the fake results they'd written on the same bit of paper for the rehearsal. I do remember Private Eye pointing out that, rather conveniently, the public had managed to vote for the most diverse presenter line-up possible - two men and two women, two black and two white. Almost as if they'd fixed it. Hem hem.

Anyway, as you say the whole point was that it was supposed to be as interactive as possible so they'd invite the audience to vote for what feature they'd do, and you could phone and fax and email in, and they'd do a link up to a cyber cafe every week for people to join in, but obviously the whole thing constantly fell apart and there were endless technical cock-ups, so by the end of the run it had more or less all been binned off and it was just the most bog-standard youth show you'd ever seen.
AN
Andrew Founding member
From Wikipedia

1998 "No Matter What" Boyzone
1999 "Flying Without Wings" Westlife
2000 "My Love" Westlife
2001 "Don't Stop Movin'" S Club 7
2002 "Unchained Melody" Gareth Gates
2003 "Mandy" Westlife
2004 "Thunderbirds Are Go" Busted
2005 "You Raise Me Up" Westlife

The presenters reflected the era of the time, initially hosted by Denise Van Outen, then by Ant & Dec, then Cat Deeley, and finally Vernon Kay
JC
JCB
From Wikipedia

1998 "No Matter What" Boyzone
1999 "Flying Without Wings" Westlife
2000 "My Love" Westlife
2001 "Don't Stop Movin'" S Club 7
2002 "Unchained Melody" Gareth Gates
2003 "Mandy" Westlife
2004 "Thunderbirds Are Go" Busted
2005 "You Raise Me Up" Westlife


I'm surprised to see it ran until 2005! I only remember it being around until the early 00's.

While we're on the topic of former end of the year shows I take it The British Comedy Awards are dead and buried?.
NJ
Neil Jones Founding member
Kill two birds with one stone here:

To add to the list of "shows that people forget", here's Microsoap from 1998, a co-production between the BBC and the Disney Channel. The show only ran for 26 episodes but in hindsight looks and feels similar to something they may have made today (except with more garish colours and characters who don't talk but shout at each other):


But more interestingly from a presentation point of view, we seem to have an unusual setup for this programme of two different endcaps one after the other. Or maybe I misremember and it was common...
JA
james-2001
From Wikipedia

1998 "No Matter What" Boyzone
1999 "Flying Without Wings" Westlife
2000 "My Love" Westlife
2001 "Don't Stop Movin'" S Club 7
2002 "Unchained Melody" Gareth Gates
2003 "Mandy" Westlife
2004 "Thunderbirds Are Go" Busted
2005 "You Raise Me Up" Westlife

The presenters reflected the era of the time, initially hosted by Denise Van Outen, then by Ant & Dec, then Cat Deeley, and finally Vernon Kay


As if anyone can believe "Thunderbirds are Go" is record of the year! But then it was decided by 13 year old girls constantly redialling to vote for who they fancied.
WH
Whataday Founding member
But to be fair, that type of pop music was regularly shunned by other music industry awards.
AN
Andrew Founding member
From Wikipedia

1998 "No Matter What" Boyzone
1999 "Flying Without Wings" Westlife
2000 "My Love" Westlife
2001 "Don't Stop Movin'" S Club 7
2002 "Unchained Melody" Gareth Gates
2003 "Mandy" Westlife
2004 "Thunderbirds Are Go" Busted
2005 "You Raise Me Up" Westlife

The presenters reflected the era of the time, initially hosted by Denise Van Outen, then by Ant & Dec, then Cat Deeley, and finally Vernon Kay


As if anyone can believe "Thunderbirds are Go" is record of the year! But then it was decided by 13 year old girls constantly redialling to vote for who they fancied.

I think Busted used to get pipped to the post a lot, and then the year they actually won was with probably their worst song.

That and then the fact Westlife then won again the year after is probably what killed it off.

I bet if they'd carried it on on ITV, One Direction would have done quite well.
JA
james-2001
But to be fair, that type of pop music was regularly shunned by other music industry awards.


There's probably a good reason for that!

I remember watching the 2003 one and Daniel Bedingfield himself being incredulous that Westlife were getting more votes than him. I seem to remember he was in the lead at one point, then Westlife pulled ahead at the last minute or something, and he looked very pissed off. Can't blame him, he wrote and produced those songs himself, Westlife just had a bland Barry Mailow cover. Though they could probably have just recorded 3 minutes of them blowing raspberries and it would still have gone straight to number 1 and won the "award".
Last edited by james-2001 on 19 November 2017 10:20am

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