Wij willen WW van Henk en de Stainless Steelband is de hoogste nieuwe binnenkomer op 28, op korte afstand gevolgd door de Entertainer van Marvin Hamlish. De Fortunes doen een her-intrede in de nationale hitlijsten maar staan voor het eerst in de RNI Top 50 op 33 met You’ve got your troubles. Abba maakt deze week plaats voor Mud aan de Top van de Top 50, ze wisselen van plek waarmee The cat crept in op nummer 1 komt te staan en Waterloo op 4. Espana Manana van Ciska Peters is deze week de treiterschijf en de Buffoons hebben een oud nummer in hun eigen jasje gestoken en staan daarmee op nummer 15 als kanskaart van Tony Berk : To know you is to love you.

Deze Top 50 kun je hier beluisteren:

Uur 1 Uur 2 Uur 3

En als extraatje de

TROEF 20

Onder de TOP 50 kun je de herinneringen van Michael Downing lezen uit de tijd dat deze Top 50 werd uitgezonden en daaronder een paar scans uit de Pop-Telescoop van 25 Mei 1974.

The RNI memories of Michael Downing for this week in 1974

There was a change to the International service DJ line up in the last week of May 1974. Graham Gill left the Mebo 2 for the final time to rejoin Radio Caroline and in his place Jason Wolfe joined RNI. Jason was a former colleague of Don Allen on Radio Caroline North. He joined RNI right at the end of May 1974, but only lasted just over a month on the station.

By Friday 31 May 1974 the International service DJs on board were Don Allen, Robin Banks and Jason Wolfe. Don Allen was on board for the whole of the week commencing Saturday 25 May 1974 and had presented the Toppers 20 show on Friday 24 May 1974, which, as usual, played the Top 20, the Smash Play and the LP Top 10 for the coming week. No. 1 for the week was "I see a star" by Mouth and MacNeal and the highest new entry, at no. 11, was "Hey Rock'n'Roll", the first hit by Showaddywaddy. The Smash Play was "Rikki don't lose that number" by Steely Dan and the Top 10 LPs included new LPs by Sparks, Peter Frampton, the Meters, Jimmy Cliff, the Eagles and PFM.

On the Dutch service, the weekday programme schedule remained the same as it had been for some time:

6.00 Dick de Graaf

9.00 John de Mol Jr (Branding)

10.00 Ted Bouwens

12.00 Tony Berk

14.00 Ferry Maat

16.00 Leo van der Goot

18.00 Buitengaats (live from the Mebo 2).

By now the presenters of Buitengaats were Gerard Smit and Eric Post, with Marc van Amstel now a relief DJ based on land, filling in for DJs on holiday. Tony Berk was on holiday at the end of May 1974 and so Marc van Amstel was presenting Tony's 12.00 to 14.00 programme, although Tony had pre-recorded the Prijs Bewust sections at 13.00. Eric Post was on board on 25 May 1974 and therefore presented Buitengaats.

Ferry Maat had returned from holiday during the previous week and presented the Super Top 50 as usual on Saturday 25 May 1974. The Troef 20 was presented by Leo van der Goot on 25 May 1974. Leo had presented the most Troef 20s up to that point, but 25 May 1974 was to be his last one.

De voorpagina van de Pop-Telescoop van 25 Mei 1974

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