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Post by vya on Jan 24, 2018 19:04:12 GMT 1
Am I Right? is up there with Erasure's best.
As for the Remix EP, it was a quirk of the chart rules at the time: the maximum number of single formats that allowed a single to be eligible for the charts had just been reduced (to four, I think). So there were several other singles around that time which had separate, and usually belated, chart runs for sets of remixes, which prior to the introduction of the new rules would have counted towards the sales and chart position of the original release. (I think 'DJ Culture' by the Pet Shop Boys and 'Black and White' by Michael Jackson were treated similarly, for example)
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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2018 18:13:15 GMT 1
This was never a hit but was released in September 2012 and got nowhere
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Post by SheriffFatman on Jan 30, 2018 17:11:35 GMT 1
This one was a top 10 hit in early 1990. I bought the 7" but I have no idea who JT and the Big Family actually were and have rarely heard it since...
I'm looking forward to seeing if Gezza's 1990 sales thread in the Chart Music forum will hold any answers.
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Post by vastar iner on Feb 4, 2018 1:03:10 GMT 1
Thomas Dolby's biggest UK hit was one he wrote for Michael Jackson, but, given that mentions of Dolby tend to generate reactions of "Science!", it did not leave much of a lasting memory.
Was doing well in Billboard but then fell foul of Capitol Records having a spat with MTV which saw all of its releases pulled from the network. Killed airplay overnight.
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Post by Laurence on Feb 5, 2018 0:31:59 GMT 1
This one was a top 10 hit in early 1990. I bought the 7" but I have no idea who JT and the Big Family actually were and have rarely heard it since... I'm looking forward to seeing if Gezza's 1990 sales thread in the Chart Music forum will hold any answers. Liked it too as I just loved anything Soul II Soul back then although it was a bit “too easy” and using the voiceover from a Milli Vanilli track was a bit tacky. Still a pleasant three minutes. They were Italian - one of several Italian house music hit makers but nothing else.
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Post by vastar iner on Feb 8, 2018 21:00:51 GMT 1
On 4 April 1964 The Beatles occupied numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 in the Billboard Hot 100. The poor sod who was at number 6 was Terry Stafford, a tall Oklahoman with an Elvis soundalike voice that was well suited to covering an Elvis album track. It got worse for him the following week as he got up to number 3 - entirely surrounded by The Beatles. A surefire number 1 denied by extremely unfortunate timing.
The "organ" in the background is an Ondioline, a sort of proto-synthesizer invented in France. Became a minor hit in the UK but a bigger one for Elvis, albeit a decade later. Stafford moved into country music and died in 1996, aged just 54.
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Post by raliverpool on Feb 8, 2018 21:42:23 GMT 1
This singer's career was effectively stuffed once he knackered and impairably strained his vocal chords late in 1985. Whilst the hits continued with largely decreasing returns because his vox had gone from Paul McCartney circa 1975 to Paul McCartney circa 2005 virtually overnight, he did managed one Indian summer UK #14 hit in 1993 with this Otis Redding inspired gem (if penned by Charles & Eddie).
Sadly his longtime wife & mother of his three children Stacey Young died of brain cancer, aged 52 less than a month ago.
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Post by vastar iner on Feb 13, 2018 22:20:19 GMT 1
Flintlock got their break because their drummer was in The Tomorrow People, and they had a resident spot on kids' TV show Pauline's Quirkes (yes, it was).
Their vocalist is the father of a comedienne - can you spot the family resemblance?
This was actually a bloody good single. Deserved better than no. 30.
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Post by Mic1812 on Feb 18, 2018 20:37:40 GMT 1
Flintlock got their break because their drummer was in The Tomorrow People, and they had a resident spot on kids' TV show Pauline's Quirkes (yes, it was). Their vocalist is the father of a comedienne - can you spot the family resemblance? This was actually a bloody good single. Deserved better than no. 30. I do remember this. The drummer was in The Tomorrow People. He was quite handsome looking. The name Michael is in my head for some reason. Not sure if that was the character or his actual name.
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Post by Wanderlust on Feb 20, 2018 10:48:54 GMT 1
Happy Clappers 'I Can't Help It'. Lots of mentioning of releasing the pressure...
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Post by Wanderlust on Feb 20, 2018 10:51:12 GMT 1
Presidents of the United States 'Dune Buggy'.
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Post by raliverpool on Feb 20, 2018 19:07:58 GMT 1
The Cat - Tongue Tied
Danny John-Jules Red Dwarf auto ego reached UK #17 in 1993 with this pretty decent 1990s UK R&B pop record which quite frankly was better musically than a lot of contemporary hit singles that were not "novelty" records. But then again the Maid Marian and Her Merry Men, & Death in Paradise actor was formerly a dancer in the 1980s appearing in videos by the likes of David Grant; Imagination & Wham!
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Post by vastar iner on Feb 20, 2018 19:48:44 GMT 1
It's one of those odd things that Grant & Naylor never released the Red Dwarf theme. Could have had it performed by the original Kochanski, after all. Would surely have been a hit. As it is, it only ever turned up on the b-side of Cat's single.
Grant & Naylor have of course topped the chart before...
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Post by vya on Feb 20, 2018 21:46:54 GMT 1
The reference to the Tomorrow People immediately brought this to mind.
Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers - Tomorrow People
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Post by vastar iner on Feb 24, 2018 9:42:53 GMT 1
The Ruts had a surprise top 10 with "Babylon's Burning". Surprise, as it leapt from 21 to 7, having only gone up from 22 the week before. And then dropped out again. Weird run. Then again, The Beach Boys' "Lady Lynda" had gone 27-28-8, The Dooleys had gone 31-27-13, Slick had gone 30-31-16, and Thin Lizzy had also gone 29-26-14, so it seems something weird happened for the week ending 1 July 1979.
But I preferred their less successful follow-up.
Complete with quintessential 1970s blackout hall video clip that was pretty popular at the time.
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Post by raliverpool on Feb 24, 2018 17:04:56 GMT 1
Everyone remembers that the Californian female band The Bangles imploded early in 1990 due to their record company Sony's increased focus on the photogenic Susanna Hoffs at the expense of the other three musicians. But few remember their early 2000s return with a 2003 UK #38 co-written by the Go-Go's Charlotte Caffey with Susanna Hoffs and Vicki Peterson, and inspired by their love of Neil Finn's Crowded House (& the fact they were the fab five Duran Duran's support act on their US tour):
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Post by vastar iner on Feb 28, 2018 0:52:11 GMT 1
It's not so long ago that a campaign to get AC/DC a top ten hit succeeded when "Highway To Hell" topped out at no. 4. But of course the vocalist on that one was Bon Scott, which meant Brian Johnston had not had a single digit hit with Accadacca.
But. That doesn't matter so much, as he had already had one.
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Post by raliverpool on Feb 28, 2018 19:44:14 GMT 1
The 1960s British rock power trio consisting of drummer Ginger Baker, guitarist/singer Eric Clapton and bassist/singer Jack Bruce had 7 UK top 40 hits between 1966 & 1969. I reckon this is Eric Clapton song is by far their least remembered, not least because musically it sounds nothing like Cream:
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Post by vastar iner on Mar 2, 2018 17:07:57 GMT 1
Rare footage of when Roy Wood was in ELO...
...this is absolutely bloody fantastic and deserves more attention. Wood's take on Spector was one of the most exciting things in British music and he just kept overdubbing cello on cello until it became a sort of hard rock orchestra. Coupled with the sparse and enigmatic lyrics you've got a bona fide masterpiece.
Why 10538? Jeff Lynne wanted not to give the chap a name, but a number, and the mixing console had the serial number 1053. Roy Wood suggested the 8 at the end to fit the scan and give a partial rhyme.
It was top 20 the day I was born. Along with Alice Cooper, Hawkwind, Mott The Hoople, Jona Lewie, Eric Clapton, Little Eva, Bowie, and The Supremes. No wonder I'm such a hoopy frood.
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Post by raliverpool on Mar 2, 2018 20:12:38 GMT 1
^ I don't know. I think Paul Weller gave it plenty of attention. Speaking of which let's remember the Charity single he wrote & assembled in aid of the 1980s Miners Strike: The Council Collective – Soul Deep
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