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Post by Deleted on Sept 22, 2017 15:22:06 GMT 1
The 3rd and final Top 40 hit by Kim Appleby was this summer soulful groovy number - Mama
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Post by Mic1812 on Sept 23, 2017 16:48:16 GMT 1
Some great medleys there. Check out The Portsmouth Sinfonia - Classical Muddley.
Youll be saying WTF!!
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Post by vastar iner on Oct 5, 2017 21:52:34 GMT 1
Had a soft spot for Oui 3. Seemed to me that US3's "Cantaloop" basically stole their name and sound but beat them to the Stateside success. Oui 3 featured Blair Booth of Terry, Blair & Anouchka.
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Post by Mic1812 on Oct 7, 2017 21:15:45 GMT 1
I liked that song vastar iner . Oui 3. I had forgot all about that one.
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Post by vastar iner on Oct 12, 2017 21:55:06 GMT 1
Normally losing a popular and charismatic lead singer leads to implosion, or at least derision. Blaze Bayley. Oh dear. So when Paul Jones left Manfred Mann, the choice of a replacement had to be astute. To be fair, Jones had long planned his departure into acting, and basically stayed with the band until they had someone to step up. But perhaps he did not realise just what a poisoned chalice he could be leaving, as his last bona fide single was "Pretty Flamingo"...
Mike d'Abo had been in Band Of Angels, who got some pub (and a hit single), and he took the lead. Perhaps to ease him in, MM they played it safe with a Dylan cover, and then scored a no. 2 single with this one penned by John "Carter-Lewis" Carter and Geoff "New Vaudeville Band" Stephens. Perhaps somewhat Freudianically, the US version called this "Semi-Detached Suburban Mr Jones"...
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Post by vastar iner on Oct 14, 2017 13:16:38 GMT 1
Tom Jones had a decade without a hit single from 1977, spending his time in Vegas cabaret. It perhaps looked like that would be how his career would end. However he re-invented himself with his storming version of "Kiss" and he's really been at the top of the tree since.
But just before that happened he tried his hand in musicals. Slight problem: nobody would pay for it. So he was left with just a single from it.
Albeit what a single.
Fittingly it came a bit out of nowhere. Not obvious hit single fodder, given its somewhat older sound, yet it came within a film advert of topping the charts. Now it seems to be overlooked; perhaps because Tom promptly became more contemporary, so this sort of seventies sound is somewhat overlooked.
This though is a tremendous performance. Listening back it's such a difficult song to nail, the notes go everywhere. Perhaps only a Welshman could do it justice.
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Post by thehitparade on Oct 15, 2017 12:11:13 GMT 1
I don't know how true it is, but I once read that the original lyric was indeed 'Semi-Detached Suburban Mr Jones' (a more obvious choice, especially for Dylan fans) and was changed to avoid the implication that it was about Paul Jones. I notice there's still the reference to "Mr Most" though.
Boy From Nowhere doesn't seem to be on any of the Tom Jones hits compilations and neither is it on Spotify. Perhaps there's some contractual issues around it but that might also be why it's so forgotten.
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Post by vastar iner on Oct 19, 2017 22:02:11 GMT 1
A rarity in its time - a song that took several weeks to reach its peak position. And, even rarer, that was after it fell - indeed out of the top ten before rising back into the top five. Maybe a more concentrated sale run would have seen it top the chart, as it did in France. The Mad Stuntman is a genius name.
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Post by raliverpool on Oct 19, 2017 22:40:57 GMT 1
I reckon this is already one of the most forgotten number one hits of all time .....
New York born Isaac Freeman III reached USA #112 in 1999 with this hip hop track with used the sample of Chic - Chic Cheer (the opening track from their second album C'est Chic). But it was remixed and edited down to under three minutes to become a major hit in Europe & Australia in 2003, and topped the charts in the UK & Ireland. It was produced by the anonymous Crooklyn Clan whom years later transpired to be Isaac Freeman II & the co-composer of the original, the musical genius that is Nile Rodgers.
Fatman Scoop has also collaborated with numerous pop artists, such as Lil Jon, Mariah Carey, Janet Jackson, Whitney Houston, Pitbull. Appeared in the 2015 series of Celebrity Big Brother; and under his real name spent a decade as the drummer (replacing the deceased Tony Thompson) of Nile Rodgers's Chic. (He left the group in 2015).
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Post by SheriffFatman on Oct 20, 2017 9:11:56 GMT 1
I Like To Move It had a fascinating chart run at the time, although it wouldn't seem so odd these days. It ended up the 15th best selling single of 1994 despite going no higher than 5 in the weekly chart.
Fatman Scoop deserves to be forgotten really, it's a bit shouty, no major loss from the public consciousness. The follow up was absolutely awful, and featured in Gezza's lowest selling top 10 hits of the 2000s thread on Haven a while back.
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Post by vastar iner on Oct 22, 2017 12:15:29 GMT 1
One of the first mash-ups to make the chart? Basically taking "Billie Jean" and sticking some Steely Dan vocals over the top. Club House was a name used by a group of Italian DJs who also had variously had hits under other names, including East Side Beat, 49ers, Cappella, and Anticappella. Club House sui generis became one of the few acts to have to wait a decade to get into the top 10, making it via the Italo-house non-Doors choon "Light My Fire".
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Post by vastar iner on Nov 2, 2017 21:50:08 GMT 1
This was all a bit weird. But a testament to the power of glam rock. Gary Glitter was so big in the mid seventies that his backing band was able to have hits on their own. I'm not sure of the logic though. Was it meant to be to create two acts out of one? To put some pressure on Glitter himself to show that it wasn't all about him? Just putting out any old material because it was there and the brand was selling?
Anyway, despite being totally innocent of anything, the chances of TGB ever being given some sort of retro treatment is surely gone. Which is a shame, this is a terrific little single, and definitely deserved the no. 1 spot over the drek that kept it off ("January" by Pilot - which is also perhaps a forgotten hit).
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Post by raliverpool on Nov 2, 2017 22:24:54 GMT 1
^ Well the BBC have not forgotten about it as it appeared on the 2017 BBC4 Glam Rock at the BBC 90 minute compilation ....
The Glitter Band released their own self composed material because their record company (Bell) thought it was commercially good enough, as "their leader" Gary Glitter would not record it.
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Post by thehitparade on Nov 4, 2017 14:39:29 GMT 1
But the Glitter Band didn't actually play on Gary Glitter records did they? I thought they were just the live backing band while Mike Leander did the work in the studio.
Presumably they did play on their own hits though. However, I don't remember hearing much of their music before 1997 either. I guess they could have been "rediscovered" by now if it wasn't for the name though.
Pop fact: Peter Phipps from the Glitter Band also drummed on two XTC albums, meaning he did the drums on 'Love On A Farmboy's Wages' which doesn't really sound much like glam rock.
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Post by vastar iner on Nov 5, 2017 23:10:40 GMT 1
I remember a docu that had on it a clip from some record exec circa 1973 talking about what was selling - "Slade, T Rex, both Glitters..."
I had wondered if it was just to avoid over-saturating the charts with Gary Glitter. A little going a long way.
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Post by vastar iner on Nov 7, 2017 0:03:31 GMT 1
I've mentioned this gorgeous, sumptuous, exquisite and magnificent song before, probably on this thread.
But I've never seen this video before. With a lot more Lisa Marie Smith.
Something's jumping in her shirt. Also in my...hm, better stop there.
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Post by thehitparade on Nov 8, 2017 1:03:02 GMT 1
I remember a docu that had on it a clip from some record exec circa 1973 talking about what was selling - "Slade, T Rex, both Glitters..." I had wondered if it was just to avoid over-saturating the charts with Gary Glitter. A little going a long way. Coincidentally I've just read this post about the G Band: www.toppermost.co.uk/the-glitter-band/
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Post by vya on Nov 11, 2017 21:01:40 GMT 1
The hazy summer of 1989, when new genres of house music were being born every weekend. Usually marked by a single being released by the people behind Black Box under yet another pseudonym. One that didn't really take off - or dare I say, even exist, beyond this one single, "Mental!" by the Manic MCs ? - was "mental house", It scraped into the top 40 for a couple of weeks, although it seems the featured singer, Sara Carlson - well at any rate warrants her own wikipedia page. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara_Carlson
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Post by Whitneyfan on Nov 12, 2017 10:18:50 GMT 1
I've mentioned this gorgeous, sumptuous, exquisite and magnificent song before, probably on this thread. But I've never seen this video before. With a lot more Lisa Marie Smith. Something's jumping in her shirt. Also in my...hm, better stop there. I've always loved that Malcolm McLaren track. In fact, the whole 'Waltz Darling' album is amazing. And I think 'Deep In Vogue' was the actual start of this dance craze which you-know-who made famous!
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Post by Whitneyfan on Nov 12, 2017 10:20:26 GMT 1
The hazy summer of 1989, when new genres of house music were being born every weekend. Usually marked by a single being released by the people behind Black Box under yet another pseudonym. One that didn't really take off - or dare I say, even exist, beyond this one single, "Mental!" by the Manic MCs ? - was "mental house", It scraped into the top 40 for a couple of weeks, although it seems the featured singer, Sara Carlson - well at any rate warrants her own wikipedia page. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara_CarlsonOh I used to have this on 7" vinyl. I'd forgotten it even existed.
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