Aplauso = Applause

Aplauso was a weekly music series on RTVE, which ran from 9 July 1978 to 1 January 1983 on Saturday evenings of 2 hours duration and included 210 Episodes. 

The programme intended to fill a gap in the TVE schedules, highlighing current popular trends for the majority of the public and especially the young.

The hosts for this episode were J L Fradejas, Silvia Tortosa, Elena Gutierrez, Mercedes Rodriguez and Bigote Arrocet.

Episode 125.

Running order of the show:

1. Orchestera Mondragón – Viaje Con Nosotros, Mis Gafas and Bon voyage
2. Duo Dinamico – Lolita
3. Teresa Rabal – El Cochecito and Mañana llega el circo
4. Rocky Sharpe & The Replays – Happy New Year
5. Soundtrack: Olivia Newton-John – Long Live Love from Eurovision Song Contest 1974 and Suddenly from Xanadu.
6. Marfil (a Costa Rican music group) – a Medley
7. Rod Stewart – She Won't Dance With Me
8. Youth dance competition (Gerona, Córdoba)
9. Zombies – Extraños juegos, Contacto en Zurich
10. Camilo Sesto – Perdoname
11. ABBA: Björn spoke fluent Spanish with the interviewer (José Luis Uribarri) about the new album Super Trouper and talked about the ABBA Live video from the Wembley concert. Then there was a  23:50 segment where part of ABBA in Concert was shown.
12. Eddie Murphy – All the Lonely People

It would appear Björn also recorded an introduction in Spanish for the show for a later broadcast where he introduced the PROMO for The Winner Takes It All.

Björn wore the lilac silk suit he wore for the Felicidad and Happy New Year PROMOs, as well as Stars, Show Express and Sur Son 31.

Click here for a newspaper article from ABC (Madrid) - 27 December 1980, p.93.
Click here for a TV listing from ABC (Madrid) - 27 December 1980, p.94.

Broadcast information:
Saturday 27 December 1980, 17:20-19:35, RTVE, Spain
Re-broadcast, Canal Nostalgia in 2006 during the channel's 50 year celebration and it was available on RTVE’s open archive, Spain.

Aplauso (Does Your Mother Know, Chiquitita (Spanish) and Voulez Vous), 1979;
Aplauso #100 (Dame! Dame! Dame!), 1980; 
Aplauso (Björn), 1980; 
Aplauso, 1982, 
Aplauso #200 (Frida), 1982;

Thanks to Jose Luis Juarez, Carl Magnus Palm, Alexandre Carvalho, Jozsef, Jose Antonio and Jan Bach.
YouTube clip c/o Steve Layton