Chip Taylor - Same Ol' Story • TopPop

Chip Taylor was born James Wesley Voight on March 21, 1940, in Yonkers, New York. He was the younger brother of actor Jon Voight and uncle of actress Angelina Jolie. Taylor died on March 23, 2026, at the age of 86 after battling cancer. Although he enjoyed success as a recording artist, he became internationally famous mainly as the songwriter behind classics such as “Wild Thing” a No. 1 international rock classic for The Troggs in 1966 and million-selling global hit “Angel of the Morning” for Merrilee Rush and Juice Newton. One of Taylor’s best-known solo recordings was “Same Ol’ Story” released in 1975. The song combined country, folk and Americana influences. In the Netherlands, the single became a major hit, reaching No. 4 in the Dutch Top 40 and spending seven weeks on the chart. It also reached No. 8 in the Nationale Hitparade, making it his only major European chart success as a solo artist. During the 1970s he also scored country chart hits with singles like “Early Sunday Morning”, “Big River” and “Me As I Am”. Taylor’s biggest albums included “This Side of the Big River” (1975), which reached No. 36 on the US Country Albums chart, “Chip Taylor’s Last Chance” (1973) and later acclaimed Americana releases such as “Red Dog Tracks” (2005). This recording is from the Dutch tv program “Martine” and broadcast on December 13, 1975. Watch our great music videos ❯ https://goo.gl/feVLNN More TopPop? Subscribe here ❯ https://goo.gl/X9FOAU More info on Wikipedia ❯ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TopPop Broadcast date: December 13, 1975. 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 with Michael Jackson, David Bowie, Earth & Fire, Queen, Golden Earring, Boney M, KC & The Sunshine Band, Chic, Donna Summer and many many more.