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Post by Wanderlust on Aug 12, 2018 10:01:57 GMT 1
Barndance Boys 'Yippie I Oh' is best described as B*Witched meeting Rednex and Woolpackers.
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Post by Wanderlust on Aug 12, 2018 10:03:17 GMT 1
Shamrock 'Tell Me Ma'...see above for similar description.
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Post by Wanderlust on Aug 15, 2018 10:06:41 GMT 1
Mishka 'Give You All The Love'...summery ish
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Post by Wanderlust on Aug 15, 2018 10:12:12 GMT 1
Wilson Phillips 'You Won't See Me Cry'
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Post by vastar iner on Aug 17, 2018 17:48:17 GMT 1
Clap Clap Clap clap clap Clap clap clap clap [any two syllable combination]
A maddeningly familiar sporting chant...but who knows the single from which it came?
The Routers were basically a session group around producer/guitarist Michael Z. Gordon, who simultaneously founded The Marketts and had some success Stateside with them. This made the charts here (just) in 1963 - and was soon adopted as a terrace prompt.
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Post by vastar iner on Aug 19, 2018 22:16:34 GMT 1
This could be the ultimate Nearly Forgotten Hit. It was no. 1 in Billboard charts for a mammoth 17 consecutive weeks, still a record. Yet it is not generally acknowledged because, a bit like the Premier League, the chart stats seem to reboot with the Hot 100, as if the old days were an embarrassment.
Even worse, back when the Guinness Book of Records listed Longest Running Number Ones in the US, and included the pre-Billboard charts, they managed to miss this one out, instead giving the honour to "I'll Never Smile Again" by the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra. Which wasn't even second.
The vocals on this were from the blind singer Bob Lamm. And, in a curiosity, the single actually went down the Best Seller lists before getting to no. 1; a "new entry" at no. 4 on 6 September 1947 - in inverteds as the chart was only a top ten (incidentally, the previous week, 40% of the charts was made up of versions of "Peg O' My Heart") - and then dropped to 5, before hitting the top spot.
Vaughn Monroe was parked up behind Craig for eight weeks, with two songs, before the second ("Ballerina") took over no. 1.
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Post by vastar iner on Aug 21, 2018 22:51:50 GMT 1
There are some backing groups whose success hugely overshadowed that of the singer that enabled their careers. The Shadows were not far off Cliff's success, Eagles easily out-did Linda Ronstadt, even The Tornados managed a number 1 that eluded Billy Fury.
It usually goes the other way though. The Hooters never came close to Cyndi Lauper's sales. But this was one hell of a record and one hell of a video. Inspired by the telepreachers like Jimmy Swaggart who went on about God's love and poverty and so on while cheating taxes or sleeping with anything that breathed.
A few years later Genesis would basically copy the idea behind the song and video, but, unlike this stonkingly upbeat shoutalong pop classic, would do so via the medium of a coiling steaming rancid suppurating carcinogenic turd of an atrocity.
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Post by Wanderlust on Aug 23, 2018 20:05:52 GMT 1
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Post by vastar iner on Aug 29, 2018 20:56:52 GMT 1
The first song to make the top 10 in four different versions was, I think, this one, and this was the last version to do so - and then only just, peaking at 10. Child's only top 10 hit. Probably because they were a bit like an older Bay City Rollers soundalike just as punk broke and the girls started swooning after Rotten rather than McKeown.
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Post by Wanderlust on Sept 2, 2018 10:19:08 GMT 1
Grace 'Down To Earth' was nowhere near as popular as 'Not Over Yet' but is a pleasant enough vocal trance/pop track.
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Post by Wanderlust on Sept 2, 2018 10:20:51 GMT 1
Aurora 'The Day It Rained Forever' - more pleasant vocal trance.
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Post by vastar iner on Sept 3, 2018 19:46:21 GMT 1
Can anyone hazard a guess why Jim Davidson's reggae version of "White Christmas", delivered in the voice of his Afro-Caribbean "character" Chalky, is not one of the Yuletide standards?
It is astounding to say that this actually made the charts...and if you can listen to the end without gagging you're a better poster than I am...
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Post by SheriffFatman on Sept 3, 2018 21:53:11 GMT 1
Oh dear God. The past was a horrible, horrible place.
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Post by Wanderlust on Sept 9, 2018 11:45:03 GMT 1
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Post by Wanderlust on Sept 9, 2018 11:47:33 GMT 1
Zucchero and Paul Young duet for 'Senza Una Donna'
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Post by Wanderlust on Sept 9, 2018 11:50:46 GMT 1
Marillion 'Sugar Mice', sounding a bit Phil Collins/Genesis esque vocally.
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Post by Wanderlust on Sept 9, 2018 11:54:02 GMT 1
Nearly a Christmas number one, Gordon Haskell's charming 'How Wonderful You Are'
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Post by Wanderlust on Sept 9, 2018 11:57:21 GMT 1
Bellfire 'All I Want Is You' benefits from a very expensive video.
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Post by Wanderlust on Sept 17, 2018 10:30:31 GMT 1
Bananarama 'Move In My Direction', not entirely unmemorable.
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Post by vastar iner on Sept 19, 2018 23:35:29 GMT 1
Forgotten because her then-boyfriend Youth remixed this with a harder edge, with the result that Zoe moved from a peak of 54 to precisely 50 places higher.
But I still like this version, more naked vocals and a trippy vibe. Surely it would have been a bigger hit had it not been released for the Christmas market, for which it was entirely unsuited.
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