Note that I previously made a collection of BBC studio sessions by this band. Now that I've found this, I've renamed that album to "BBC Sessions, Volume 1." You can find the updated version with new cover art and so forth at this link:
https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2025/05/hot-chocolate-bbc-sessions-1970-1976.html
When I was putting that album together back in May 2025, I was annoyed to find the band did many TV appearances in the 1970s and 80s, but the vast majority were lip-synced. They even did an entire concert for German TV that was lip-synced. Furthermore, the band never released a live album. I couldn't find any bootlegs from them either. This particular concert was so obscure that in all my digging to find any live recordings of the band, I never even found a hint of its existence.
Happily, recently, I've been in contact with a musical associate who goes by the nickname Progsprog. He has a very large music collection, and we've been trading dozens of albums. Look for a lot more great stuff sourced by him in the coming days and weeks. I was very pleasantly surprised to see he had this, and I'm posting it straight away. Now, a concert from this band can start to circulate.
This concert shows the band was very capable of performing live, so there was no need for them to lip-sync so much. That was probably just a reflection of the kinds of TV shows they were going on, where lip-syncing was often standard procedure. The sound quality is excellent. The only disappointment is it's quite short.
At the time, 1982, the band had two hits in Britain, "It Started with a Kiss" and "Girl Crazy." So it's not surprising that both of them were performed here.
This album is 29 minutes long.
01 You Sexy Thing (Hot Chocolate)
02 Are You Getting Enough (Hot Chocolate)
03 Emma (Hot Chocolate)
04 It Started with a Kiss (Hot Chocolate)
04 So You Win Again (Hot Chocolate)
05 Heaven Is in the Backseat of My Cadillac (Hot Chocolate)
06 Girl Crazy (Hot Chocolate)
https://pixeldrain.com/u/SHr8CfXd
alternate:
https://bestfile.io/en/EjWyEYD6PsiUNLw/file
The cover image is from a 1982 concert. It's a screenshot I took of the band's lead singer Errol Brown, taken from a YouTube video of a 1982 TV show. The video suggests it was a BBC TV show, but it doesn't seem to be this concert, since I checked versions of the song being performed, and they're different.
Wow. Thanks. I haven't seen enough of the funk soul bands out there. Although I do have a bunch myself of these kind of bands I've gotten over the years. If you ever need anything ask me and I'll see if I have anything or not. I've never seen anything by Cameo. I'd love to get something from around 1986 or even the early 80's. Thanks again
ReplyDeleteIf you have any BBC concerts from funk or soul bands, please let me know. The BBC isn't exactly known for their love of that kind of music, so there's not a lot out there.
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