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Post by johnt on Jul 28, 2020 22:00:13 GMT
Did anyone here in the UK watch today's edition of Pointless, the tea-time quiz show? The idea of the show is for the contestants to pick the answer that has the lowest score to win. The second round was 'Bands in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame' and two pictures were shown. This was the first picture. I've had to trim it for it to fit. 100 people had been given 100 seconds to identify the bands. Surprisingly, no-one had identified The Hollies and the contestants in the studio didn't know them either! Beatles scored 95, Ramones 5, AC/DC 21, Jimi Hendrix Experience 11, Hollies 0, Supremes 30, U2 8, Kiss 38. The second board included Green Day 21, Jackson Five 48, Public Enemy 3, Fleetwood Mac 36, Deep Purple 0, Rolling Stones 42, Cure 9, Queen 38. I would have expected at least someone to have recognised our favourite band!
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Post by dirtyfaz on Jul 28, 2020 22:56:21 GMT
Says it all doesn't it.
What age demographic were the contestants?
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Post by Mevrouw Bee on Jul 29, 2020 0:28:06 GMT
Says it all doesn't it. What age demographic were the contestants? The Dude and I usually ace the music questions because Pointless contestants aren't usually music fans...or if they are, it's always about the 80s. Bleh. Somebody had mentioned this on Twitter and said that the photo they used was too late in the 70s. Probably would have gotten at least one point if they had used a photo from the 60s/early 70s, I'm thinking.
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Post by JamesT on Jul 29, 2020 6:41:23 GMT
Yeah, too far away from their peak to be recognisable, I'd think. I'd love to know how they select the folk for the '100'. Certainly, sometimes it is incredible what is known. Richard Osman clearly knows his stuff. Sitting in front of a laptop might help with that, of course...😉
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Post by Mevrouw Bee on Jul 29, 2020 14:20:35 GMT
Yeah, too far away from their peak to be recognisable, I'd think. I'd love to know how they select the folk for the '100'. Certainly, sometimes it is incredible what is known. Richard Osman clearly knows his stuff. Sitting in front of a laptop might help with that, of course...😉 Merely a prop apparently. They surely couldn't be giving the survey to the studio audience considering most of them have white hair!
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Post by johnt on Jul 29, 2020 18:26:24 GMT
Apparently the panel of 100 people are found by an online polling company who ask questions for Pointless amongst other things. The 100 people don't even know they are answering questions for Pointless.
So we'll never know who or what age they are.
The only thing we do know is that no-one from this forum were asked!!
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Post by stuball on Jul 31, 2020 21:39:20 GMT
Did anyone here in the UK watch today's edition of Pointless, the tea-time quiz show? 100 people had been given 100 seconds to identify the bands. Surprisingly, no-one had identified The Hollies and the contestants in the studio didn't know them either! Beatles scored 95, Ramones 5, AC/DC 21, Jimi Hendrix Experience 11, Hollies 0, Supremes 30, U2 8, Kiss 38. Not a single soul could identify The Hollies! One more confirmation that the group were a 'faceless' outfit to the general public, even in their heyday. And after all those international hits spanning more than a decade!
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Post by anthony on Aug 1, 2020 23:37:51 GMT
Maybe a photo with Nash in the band would have made it easier
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Post by johnt on Sept 10, 2020 21:36:54 GMT
The Hollies featured again on today's edition of Pointless. The category was about hit song titles with repetitive words. The initials of the song title was given, together with the artist and the year of the hit. You can guess which Hollies song was included, and surprisingly only 6 people out of the 100 surveyed knew it. One of the contestants in the studio (a man probably in his sixties) got it right. It was the lowest answer on the board. I suppose one way of looking at it is that 6 more people knew about the Hollies than the earlier question above when no-one knew it!
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Post by Mevrouw Bee on Sept 10, 2020 22:36:12 GMT
The Hollies featured again on today's edition of Pointless. The category was about hit song titles with repetitive words. The initials of the song title was given, together with the artist and the year of the hit. You can guess which Hollies song was included, and surprisingly only 6 people out of the 100 surveyed knew it. One of the contestants in the studio (a man probably in his sixties) got it right. It was the lowest answer on the board. I suppose one way of looking at it is that 6 more people knew about the Hollies than the earlier question above when no-one knew it! Arrrrrrrgggg. Ironically, after He Ain't Heavy and Long Cool Woman, the song mentioned most often on Twitter. This is just sad.
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Post by stuball on Sept 12, 2020 15:15:49 GMT
Yes, very sad. But no one ever said it was easy being 'a Hollies fan'.
I was perusing my old Hollies albums yesterday, and by chance pulled out my old copy of 'Moving Finger', which had I purchased back in March '71, when it finally showed up at my local Sam The Record Man. I knew it had been coming out since before Christmas '70, so it was a long, long wait, with at least a dozen fruitless trips to the record store up til then. But the thing was, I finally had it! The only copy the store ordered. Which was standard record shop practice for artists with no, or poor, track record for sales. About a month later, another copy arrived to replace the copy I had purchased.
But what really struck me yesterday, was reading the 'liner notes' on the back sleeve, as the writer of such does his level best to convince you, that this is a album worth owning.
Sad that Epic Records in 1971 still thought it necessary to push Hollies product this way, when for most artists, liner notes had lost their thrill by about '65-66. It's telling with regard to The Hollies standing with the general record-buying public. To say nothing of Epic's confidence in the group!
So I'm not surprised today, that so few people recognize the group through photos. I'd wager not too many would have identified them back in their heyday either.
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Post by Mevrouw Bee on Sept 12, 2020 20:59:08 GMT
Yes, very sad. But no one ever said it was easy being 'a Hollies fan'. I was perusing my old Hollies albums yesterday, and by chance pulled out my old copy of 'Moving Finger', which had I purchased back in March '71, when it finally showed up at my local Sam The Record Man. I knew it had been coming out since before Christmas '70, so it was a long, long wait, with at least a dozen fruitless trips to the record store up til then. But the thing was, I finally had it! The only copy the store ordered. Which was standard record shop practice for artists with no, or poor, track record for sales. About a month later, another copy arrived to replace the copy I had purchased. But what really struck me yesterday, was reading the 'liner notes' on the back sleeve, as the writer of such does his level best to convince you, that this is a album worth owning. Sad that Epic Records in 1971 still thought it necessary to push Hollies product this way, when for most artists, liner notes had lost their thrill by about '65-66. It's telling with regard to The Hollies standing with the general record-buying public. To say nothing of Epic's confidence in the group! So I'm not surprised today, that so few people recognize the group through photos. I'd wager not too many would have identified them back in their heyday either. As I've said before, I had no idea who was who until 2003. I had that TeeVee records compilation that I bought at the age of 16 when it first came out, heard the live versions of Sandy and Air That I Breathe, loved them, then stared at the photo on the cover and asked myself, "Who the HELL is the singer?" I guessed right in the end, as if my subconscious just knew! But it took me 26 years and the internet to get a definitive answer!
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Post by johnt on Jan 4, 2021 19:14:04 GMT
The Hollies were featured on one of the rounds on tonight's Pointless. The question was about songs which reached Number One the second time around and this was the first board: How many people, out of 100, guessed The Hollies? over 50?, over 60? Answer: A measly 9. Unbelievable! Highest scorer - PJ & Duncan (Ant & Dec). Even more unbelievable!!
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Post by JamesT on Jan 4, 2021 20:33:31 GMT
The Hollies were featured on one of the rounds on tonight's Pointless. The question was about songs which reached Number One the second time around and this was the first board: View Attachment How many people, out of 100, guessed The Hollies? over 50?, over 60? Answer: A measly 9. Unbelievable! Highest scorer - PJ & Duncan (Ant & Dec). Even more unbelievable!! View Attachment My wife has the Ant and Dec album from the 90s on cassette. She's been laughing at this result on 'Pointless'. Dear God, this is what I'm up against...
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Post by johnt on Oct 11, 2021 21:13:25 GMT
The Hollies got another mention on Friday's edition of Pointless. The question in the final round was about UK Top 40 singles that included the words Stop, Look or Listen in the song titles. You had to name the artists. We all know that The Hollies had song titles in all 3 categories but it appeared that no-one who was surveyed could remember Listen To Me. Here is the board showing the list of pointless answers:
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Post by Mevrouw Bee on Oct 12, 2021 14:10:33 GMT
The Hollies got another mention on Friday's edition of Pointless. The question in the final round was about UK Top 40 singles that included the words Stop, Look or Listen in the song titles. You had to name the artists. We all know that The Hollies had song titles in all 3 categories but it appeared that no-one who was surveyed could remember Listen To Me. Here is the board showing the list of pointless answers: View AttachmentSo many jackpots the Dude and I could've won on that show...if they allowed non-Brits to play! Sigh...
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Post by dirtyfaz on Oct 13, 2021 0:28:10 GMT
The show is well named
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Post by johnt on Jan 4, 2022 22:26:55 GMT
Another mention in the final round of today's Pointless. The topic was 'Manchester Groups of the 1960s and 1970s' and the question was to name any Top 40 hits by 10cc, The Hollies and Herman's Hermits. These were the Hollies songs which no-one could remember: In addition to these 4, there were I Can't Let Go, I Can't Tell The Bottom From The Top, Listen To Me, We're Through and Yes I Will. I'm very surprised that Long Cool Woman and I Can't Let Go were on the pointless list. The contestants in the studio thought How Do You Do It and Bits & Pieces were recorded by Herman's Hermits!
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Post by Mevrouw Bee on Jan 5, 2022 14:50:11 GMT
Another mention in the final round of today's Pointless. The topic was 'Manchester Groups of the 1960s and 1970s' and the question was to name any Top 40 hits by 10cc, The Hollies and Herman's Hermits. These were the Hollies songs which no-one could remember: <button disabled="" class="c-attachment-insert--linked o-btn--sm">Attachment Deleted</button> In addition to these 4, there were I Can't Let Go, I Can't Tell The Bottom From The Top, Listen To Me, We're Through and Yes I Will. I'm very surprised that Long Cool Woman and I Can't Let Go were on the pointless list. The contestants in the studio thought How Do You Do It and Bits & Pieces were recorded by Herman's Hermits! To be fair, Long Cool Woman was more a North American hit. But if you do a search through Twitter on "Hollies"...it's mostly "Bus Stop", "Air That I Breathe," "Jennifer Eccles," "Carrie-Anne" and "He Ain't Heavy." The rest? Nope.
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Post by The Dude on Jan 24, 2022 23:09:02 GMT
The Hollies got another mention on Friday's edition of Pointless. The question in the final round was about UK Top 40 singles that included the words Stop, Look or Listen in the song titles. You had to name the artists. We all know that The Hollies had song titles in all 3 categories but it appeared that no-one who was surveyed could remember Listen To Me. Here is the board showing the list of pointless answers: <button disabled="" class="c-attachment-insert--linked o-btn--sm">Attachment Deleted</button> So many jackpots the Dude and I could've won on that show...if they allowed non-Brits to play! Sigh... TBF... you'll have to live in the UK to be able to participate... I have seen the odd Dutchman taking part... but yeah... so many ignorants... we could have easily won the jackpot... even if the subject in the final round wasn't The Hollies...
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