What is it with the no VU on this list? And no Bowie? Is it the people voting in 76? I guess this was fairly prime time Radio 1 - didn't Peel go out between 7 and 9 pm at this time?
I think his show was always from 10 to midnight? Re: Bowie/VU, I would imagine his audience at the time was mainly older 'serious music' fans and hippies, who had little time for glam rock or anything connected with glam - no Roxy on the list either. Their younger siblings, or even children, were probably Bowie fans, about to embrace punk rock.
― It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christ (Tom D.), Saturday, 15 December 2018 08:07 (five years ago) link
was the Jonathan Richman version of Roadrunner more popular than the Modern Lovers version in 1976? I'd've gone with the Modern Lovers myself
― Colonel Poo, Saturday, 15 December 2018 09:16 (five years ago) link
According to Wiki the Modern Lovers version was released in August 1976, don't know whether that means including the UK, the Jonathan Richman version was released in 1975.
― It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christ (Tom D.), Saturday, 15 December 2018 09:24 (five years ago) link
... on "Beserkley Chartbusters Vol. 1".
I think the Modern Lovers LP did come out in the UK then as well
I suppose when they released both versions as a single in 1977 they put the Jonathan Richman version on the A side, so maybe that was the better known version at the time, I get the sense people know the Modern Lovers better nowadays though
― Colonel Poo, Saturday, 15 December 2018 09:36 (five years ago) link
Modern Lovers version for the punk rockers, J. Richman version for Bob Harris clones.
― It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christ (Tom D.), Saturday, 15 December 2018 09:43 (five years ago) link