There are programs that, although they have long since disappeared from the air, still arouse great emotions and nostalgia. This group undoubtedly includes the cult , a music and information format broadcast in the years 1995-2006 on TVP2. Its creator and originator was Walter Chełstowski, modeled somewhat on the British “Top of The Pops”, and the host and narrator was Dariusz Odija. How did it all start?
Who hosted “30 tons – list list of hits”? This is how the iconic TVP music program was created
The idea of creating a television chart appeared in 1994. Chełstowski had one goal in mind – to inform about the chart results of the biggest hits, concerts, single premieres and present short interviews with the most popular music stars. However, the road to its implementation was long and bumpy. The first person involved in the project was Anna Hernik, then a second-year student of theatre studies, who was entrusted with the daunting task of collecting data from all radio stations in the country and statistics from album sales in music stores.
The scripts she prepared were read on air for 11 years by Dariusz Odija, who went down in history as the voice of “30 tons”. When he started working with the creator of the program, he didn’t really know what he was signing up for, because the vision was being shaped on an ongoing basis. – I didn’t know what it was all about yet. The first attempt and I asked Walter: “But what should I do, how should it look?” and it was lovely, I remember it to this day, he replied: “Darek, I don’t know. We’ll figure it out” – he recalled. The attempts were successful and since then Odija has been reading the previously prepared script, but he didn’t appear on screen, so viewers didn’t know what the famous host looked like for years. On February 7, 1995, the first episode of the format debuted on air and in the blink of an eye, it delighted the audience. Each subsequent one attracted crowds of viewers, and high viewership results made it a permanent element of the station’s schedule until April 8, 2006.
John Paul II on the charts? The Pope’s song competed for the podium even with Britney Spears
In the history of the Sunday program, there have been many combinations that are astonishing today, and the fight for the podium has often been between stars performing extremely different genres of music. One of the most specific and non-obvious hits was a song by… Yes, the Pope. How did that happen? Perhaps some of you remember that in the late 90s, as part of the celebrations of the 2000th anniversary of Christianity and the 20th anniversary of Karol Wojtyła’s pontificate, the album “Abba Pater” appeared on the record market.
It contained various songs, or rather official performances, reworked by Leonardo de Amicis and Stefano Mainetti. Although the album did not cause as much of a sensation as expected, selling “only” 52 thousand copies in Poland, thus becoming three times platinum, it still aroused considerable interest and had a wide resonance in the media. The most popular song was the single “Pater Noster”, or the prayer “Our Father”. It was this song that reached the 2nd place in the charts in the late 90s and was presented in the program “30 ton”, thus defeating the work of , the group Offspring or . If you’d like, please vote in our poll below.
Source: Gazeta
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