William Pitt - Funny Girl • TopPop

William Pitt, whose real name is William Frederick Pate or Will Pate is a British a singer-songwriter who lived in Paris during the 1980s. He got discovered by music producer Pascal Wüthrich who offered him a record deal. Pitt’s debut single ’City Lights’ became a hit in France in 1987. Following, the song became a hit in many European countries, including Germany, Belgium and The Netherlands where the song reached #15 in the Dutch Top 40 on 26 september 1987. It reached #16 in Austria, #14 in Belgium, #15 in Germany and #13 in Switzerland. It was first broadcast on 5 October 1987. ’Funny Girl’ did not reach the charts. It was recorded at the same session as ’City Lights’. Watch our great music videos ❯ More TopPop? Subscribe here ❯ More info on Wikipedia ❯ Broadcast date: 1987-10-19 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, Chic, Donna Summer, Rod Stewart, and many many more.