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“Needles and Pins“ is a cover of a song written by Jack Nitzsche and Sonny Bono, the later one started out as a helping hand of famous recordproducer Phil Spector and married Cher. Jackie DeShannon reached to no. 84 in 1963 with the song. Smokie’s (or Smokey) version was a bigger succes. The Biritish group was formed in 1963 and started out as The Yen. After Chris Norman joined as frontman they changed the bandname many times but succes stayed out. When they teamed up with Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman, famous of their songs for The Sweet, Mud and Suzi Quatro, they started naming themselves Smokey. The release of their second album catapulted their succesful carreer. “If I Think You Know How To Love Me“ was a big hit and others follwed including “Lving Next Door To Alice“, “Lay Back In The Arms Of Someone“, “It’s Your Life“ and ’Needles and Pins“. This is a second performance in Toppop, this time before a chroma key. This Toppop recording was first broadcast on October 22, 1977. Watch our great music videos ❯ More TopPop? Subscribe here ❯ More info on Wikipedia ❯ This is to let you know that the video recording of the video clip was originally recorded by AVROTROS Broadcasting. AVROTROS Broadcasting hereby warrants and represents that it is the sole and exclusive owner of the physical film and/or videotape footage in this video clip. The performance of the artist(s) in the clip was filmed and recorded with the written consent of the artist(s) and their representatives. AVROTROS is a Dutch radio and television broadcaster, founded in 2014 from a merger of AVRO and TROS. From January 1st, 2014 the name of the merged broadcaster was used in joint programmes. AVRO was founded in 1923 as the Netherlands first public broadcaster. TROS started broadcasting in 1964. Toppop was a weekly AVRO pop program that was aired between 1970 and 1988. AVROTROS Broadcasting PO Box 2 1200 JA Hilversum The Netherlands TopPop was the first regular dedicated pop music TV show in the Dutch language area. Dutch broadcaster AVRO aired the programme weekly, from 1970 to 1988. Presenter Ad Visser hosted the show for its first fifteen years. World famous music artists performed on TopPop: ABBA, 10CC, Bee Gees, The Jacksons, David Bowie, Earth & Fire, Boney M, Smokie, KC & The Sunshine Band, Chick, Donna Summer, Rod Stewart, and many many more.
