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Post by Smurfie on Oct 7, 2021 15:34:26 GMT 1
1) Sonia - CAN'T FORGET YOU 2) Belinda Carlisle - LEAVE A LIGHT ON 3) Erasure - DRAMA! 4) Technotronic Featuring Felly - PUMP UP THE JAM 5) London Boys - HARLEM DESIRE 6) Karyn White - SECRET RENDEZVOUS 7) Sydney Youngblood - IF ONLY I COULD 8) Tears For Fears - SOWING THE SEEDS OF LOVE 9) Living In A Box - ROOM IN YOUR HEART 10) Sinitta - LOVE ON A MOUNTAIN TOP 11) Cher - IF I COULD TURN BACK TIME 12) Madonna - CHERISH 13) Wedding Present - KENNEDY 14) Depeche Mode - PERSONAL JESUS 15) Curiosity Killed The Cat - NAME AND NUMBER 16) Jason Donovan - EVERY DAY (I LOVE YOU MORE) 17) Richard Marx - RIGHT HERE WAITING 18) Damian - THE TIME WARP 19) S-Express - MANTRA FOR A STATE OF MIND 20) Big Fun - BLAME IT ON THE BOOGIE 21) Cliff Richard - I JUST DON'T HAVE THE HEART 22) Beatmasters Featuring Betty Boo - HEY DJ I CAN'T DANCE TO THAT MUSIC YOU'RE PLAYING 23) Deborah Harry - I WANT THAT MAN 24) Beautiful South - YOU KEEP IT ALL IN 25) Black Box - RIDE ON TIME 26) Wet Wet Wet - SWEET SURRENDER 27) Kate Bush - THE SENSUAL WORLD 28) Milli Vanilli - GIRL I'M GONNA MISS YOU 29) Gloria Estefan - OYE MI CANTO (HEAR MY VOICE) 30) Liza Minnelli - DON'T DROP BOMBS
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Post by popchartfreak on Oct 8, 2021 15:27:21 GMT 1
8th October 1989
6 weeks for Tears For Fears, 2 for Sydney Youngblood at 2, and Cher gets het first Top 3 since Dark Lady hit 1 in 1974. In the charts that same week was Devil Gate Drive, and Suzi Quatro tops my playlist chart this week ahead of Pet Shop Boys I Get Excited, which wasn’t chart-eligible (B sides and album tracks had been excluded by 1989 till I saw the error of my ways). It would pretty much certainly have been a top 10 track, though.
Pump Up The Jam hits 6, and the sublime Personal Jesus gives Depeche Mode a top 10 hit for the first time in 5 years (Blasphemous Rumours being the last time) and for the 9th time in total. I, too, suffered from Milli Vanilli madness, along with the world, at 10, while the Pet Shop Boys are at 16, as sung by Liza Minelli. Cliff rockets 50 places to 13 with his best record in 2 years, and most likely his last great pop single, though he had 21 years of big hits in my charts by then, not to mention an extra 6 years had I been charting as a nipper, as it’s absolutely certain that tracks like Bachelor Boy, Summer Holiday, All My Love and The Day I Met Marie would have been chart-toppers being as I was mad on them age 5, 6, 7, 8, 9…
Highest new entry, soul great Al Green’s back again 18 years on, this time with hip-hop biggie Arthur Baker, and as suits his Reverend status, The Message Is Love. Oh Well. Yes, it’s Fleetwood Mac’s 60’s rock classic done 80’s club stylee, and in at 37. Oh Well. Oh dear! Shakespear’s Sister’s follow-up runs free at 42, Frankie’s Holly has a spot of heaven at 46, and Lisa Stansfield’s 3rd hit is THE big one, All Around The World, massive in all it’s sexy mid-Atlantic Barry White strings-tastic gorgeousness. I love it, but occasionally I enjoy singing along to it in Lisa’s natural Rochdale accent: Avv bin aroun’t worrld and ah cahn’t fahnd me barebih.
The Thompson Twins get Debbie Harry up to 40, and for good measure get themselves in a bit lower at 64 with a Sugar Daddy. The Jackson 5 also had a minor hit with Sugar Daddy in my 1972 charts, and they pop back (well minus the two most-important singers Michael and Jermaine) at 75.
1 ( 1 ) SOWING THE SEEDS OF LOVE Tears For Fears 2 ( 2 ) IF ONLY I COULD Sydney Youngblood 3 ( 5 ) IF I COULD TURN BACK TIME Cher 4 ( 3 ) THE SENSUAL WORLD Kate Bush 5 ( 6 ) LEAVE A LIGHT ON Belinda Carlisle 6 ( 18 ) PUMP UP THE JAM Technotronic featuring Felly (Ya Kid K) 7 ( 8 ) WE DIDN’T START THE FIRE Billy Joel 8 ( 13 ) PERSONAL JESUS Depeche Mode 9 ( 7 ) CHERISH Madonna 10 ( 24 ) GIRL I’M GONNA MISS YOU Milli Vanilli
11 ( 9 ) RIGHT HERE WAITING Richard Marx 12 ( 4 ) RIDE ON TIME Black Box 13 ( 63 ) LEAN ON YOU Cliff Richard 14 ( 14 ) THE BEST Tina Turner 15 ( 11 ) ONE The Bee Gees 16 ( 45 ) DON’T DROP BOMBS Liza Minelli 17 ( 19 ) O YE MI CANTO (HEAR MY VOICE) Gloria Estefan 18 ( 12 ) NAME AND NUMBER Curiosity Killed The Cat 19 ( 10 ) MANTRA FOR A STATE OF MIND S’Express 20 ( 25 ) HARLEM DESIRE The London Boys
21 ( 16 ) HEALING HANDS Elton John 22 ( 17 ) I DON’T WANNA LOSE YOU Gloria Estefan 23 ( 68 ) TALK IT OVER Grayson Hugh 24 ( 15 ) EVERYDAY (I LOVE YOU MORE) Jason Donovan 25 ( 26 ) WHEN I LOOKED AT HIM Expose 26 ( 20 ) THE TIME WARP Damian 27 ( 27 ) DIDN’T I BLOW YOUR MIND New Kids On The Block 28 ( 21 ) KYLIE SAID TO JASON The KLF 29 ( 22 ) I NEED YOUR LOVIN’ Alyson Williams 30 ( 43 ) SECRET RENDEZVOUS Karyn White
31 ( 38 ) DRAMA Erasure 32 ( 23 ) SOMETHING’S JUMPIN’ IN YOUR SHIRT Malcolm McLaren featuring The Bootzilla Orchestra and Lisa Marie 33 ( 47 ) YOU KEEP IT ALL IN The Beautiful South 34 ( NEW ) THE MESSAGE IS LOVE Arthur Baker and The Backbeat Disciples featuring Al Green 35 ( 53 ) SWEET SURRENDER Wet Wet Wet 36 ( 28 ) SUNSHINE SUPERMAN Donovan 37 ( NEW ) OH WELL Oh Well 38 ( 55 ) ROOM IN YOUR HEART Living In A Box 39 ( 66 ) CHOCOLATE BOX Bros 40 ( 73 ) I WANT THAT MAN Deborah Harry
41 ( 30 ) LOVE IN AN ELEVATOR Aerosmith 42 ( NEW ) RUN WILD RUN FREE Shakespear’s Sister 43 ( 31 ) LOOK WHO’S DANCING Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers 44 ( 32 ) LISTEN TO YOUR HEART Roxette 45 ( 35 ) LOSING MY MIND Liza Minelli 46 ( NEW ) HEAVEN’S HERE Holly Johnson 47 ( 39 ) KISSES ON THE WIND Neneh Cherry 48 ( 44 ) BACK TO LIFE Soul II Soul featuring Caron Wheeler 49 ( 34 ) HANGING TOUGH New Kids On The Block 50 ( 50 ) I FEEL THE EARTH MOVE Martika
51 ( 52 ) ROCK WITCHA Bobby Brown 52 ( 33 ) THIS IS THE RIGHT TIME Lisa Stansfield 53 ( 29 ) NUMERO UNO Starlight 54 ( 46 ) YOU’RE HISTORY Shakespear’s Sister 55 ( 58 ) GLAMOUR BOYS Living Colour 56 ( 56 ) LITTLE LIES Fleetwood Mac 57 ( NEW ) ALL AROUND THE WORLD Lisa Stansfield 58 ( 36 ) HARRY HOUDINI Kon Kan 59 ( 37 ) CRAZY ABOUT HER Rod Stewart 60 ( 57 ) LIBERIAN GIRL Michael Jackson
61 ( 62 ) HEY JUDE The Beatles 62 ( 60 ) THE BALLAD OF JOHN AND YOKO The Beatles 63 ( 49 ) COLD HEARTED Paula Abdul 64 ( NEW ) SUGAR DADDY The Thompson Twins 65 ( NEW ) FACTS OF LIFE Climie Fisher 66 ( 64 ) 101″ Sheena Easton 67 ( NEW ) THIS LOVE AFFAIR Stefan Dennis 68 ( NEW ) STREET TUFF Double Trouble featuring the Rebel MC 69 ( 69 ) WHAT HAVE I DONE (TO DESERVE THIS) Pet Shop Boys/ Dusty Springfield 70 ( NEW ) IT’S THE SAME OLD SONG Third World
71 ( 71 ) SUGAR SUGAR The Archies 72 ( 42 ) LOVE SONG The Cure 73 ( NEW ) CAN’T FORGET YOU Sonia 74 ( NEW ) I FEEL FOR YOU (REMIX) Chaka Khan 75 ( NEW ) 2300 JACKSON STREET The Jacksons
NON-CHART ELIGIBLE PLAYLIST 1 DEVIL GATE DRIVE Suzi Quatro 2 I GET EXCITED Pet Shop Boys 3 PINBALL Brian Protheroe
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