Talk:TopPop

Based on Dutch Wikipedia. Gordo (talk) 19:08, 14 June 2013 (UTC)

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Dutch postcard by Boomerang, Amsterdam, 2002. Photo: NAA. AVRO's Toppop - in short: Toppop - was the first weekly pop program on Dutch television. The AVRO broadcasted the program from 22 September 1970 to 27 June 1988. Initiator and director of Toppop was Rien van Wijk. The idea for the program was copied from the British Top of the Pops. Ad Visser kept, until 1985, the presentation of AVRO's Toppop. Toppop was mainly filled with images of pop artists playbacking their latest hit in the Toppop studio. If artists were not available for a gig in the studio, a camera crew went to film them at their place. In this way many artists around the world were filmed. In the studio (Tom Browne - Funkin 'for Jamaica / NY), at the airport (David Cassidy / Schiphol), or at home (Barry White / LA). If that failed there was also the jazz ballet led by Penney de Jager ro replace the act's images. For many Belgians and Dutch AVRO's Toppop was the primary source of information in the field of pop music. Ad and Penney thus were for many the epitome of rock 'n' roll. With the advent of the video clip and the forerunners of MTV, the popularity of Toppop declined. However, in 2000, Toppop was chosen as TV program of the century in a Dutch poll. Source: Wikipedia. Gordo (talk) 19:07, 14 June 2013 (UTC)

I won't deny the importance of TopPop as a stage for many artists but for me and many others it was disappointing the program paid very little attention to a lot of the creative music styles of the seventies and eighties, like punk, that were booming in England and elswhere. Mentioning Iggy Pop in the TopPop article is remarkable because it's one of the rare exceptions (Blondie and David Bowie) to a much more mainstraim commercial field of artists that usually filled the program. There was also very little attention for Dutch bands or artists that did something different. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.86.90.39 (talk) 23:27, 24 December 2020 (UTC)

YouTube
Seems the YouTube channel has been closed down due to copyright infringement. I thought it was AVRO themselves that ran the channel, so I'm not too sure why that would be the case. John Firth (talk) 13:29, 19 October 2014 (UTC)
 * It's back up in 2020 and they seem to be adding to it. 70.73.90.119 (talk) 21:05, 30 September 2020 (UTC)

Music video recreations?
I don't know how relevant this might be, but I've seen a couple of clips from TopPops where the performer appears to be recreating their music video. One example that can be viewed on Youtube is Linda Ronstadt performing "Get Closer" and she is videotaped in similar fashion to her music video of the song (which I believe was her first music video). I don't know if that was a thing at all for this show. I'll let those more familiar with it make that determination. (I also added her name to the artist list; I know it's not meant to be a complete listing, but she's a pretty major performer.) 70.73.90.119 (talk) 21:08, 30 September 2020 (UTC)