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Post by Wanderlust on Sept 23, 2018 11:08:33 GMT 1
I believe somewhere earlier in this thread I posted Zoe's follow-up 'Lightning'.
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Post by Wanderlust on Sept 23, 2018 11:11:28 GMT 1
MC Lyte 'Cold Rock A Party' is a surprisingly effective rap track.
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Post by vastar iner on Sept 27, 2018 23:43:58 GMT 1
This was pretty much forgotten at the time, because Billy Idol's version was top tenning while Amazulu were struggling to get their last top 40. I don't quite work out what was going on. Was this a cash-in release? On the basis that Sir Billiam was rising the US charts with a live version of a former miss? Or was it one of those coincidences? Or even an attempt to ape Tiffany, who was having a hit with another Tommy James cut? Whatever, I always thought Amazulu were forever on the cusp of really making it big, but - "To Good To Be Forgotten" aside - it never happened for them.
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Post by vastar iner on Sept 29, 2018 21:23:58 GMT 1
China Black seem to have been totally forgotten. Which is somewhat startling given the lack of artists of Chinese origin to have made the charts. Simon Fung was the production brains and musician behind China Black, Errol Reid the singer, and I think he did all the backing vocals as well - the girls were window dressing. I really had the hots for the Chinese one though. This is a remix; the original missed the charts 2 years before.
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Post by vastar iner on Oct 4, 2018 23:13:57 GMT 1
Typically clever BA Robertson lyrics, sort of musical version of Upstart Crow.
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Post by vastar iner on Oct 7, 2018 20:46:31 GMT 1
There was always a lot of critical acclaim for Jon Of The Pleased Wimmin, although it sounded basically like bleepy sh*te to me. Then again I like there to be a tune somewhere. Stupid name as well. So forgotten he doesn't even have a wikipedia page.
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Post by Robbie on Oct 7, 2018 22:16:53 GMT 1
I'm not sure if I posted this one somewhere in the distant past but as I've just been reminded of it I'm playing it on YouTube. A lovely song by a long forgotten and one hit wonder singer who had fleeting chart success.
Jo Breezer - Venus And Mars (#27, October 2001)
Surprisingly her website is still online and she's still making music. She must have a source of income from somewhere as her Instagram and Twitter accounts are full of her holiday snaps! Fellow Havenite and former Dotmusic chart analyst James Masterton must like her as he's following her Twitter account!
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Post by Wanderlust on Oct 14, 2018 8:25:27 GMT 1
T-Empo 'Saturday Night, Sunday Morning' - pleasing house track
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Post by Wanderlust on Oct 14, 2018 8:28:20 GMT 1
Wendy Moten 'So Close To Love' - she seems to be gradually morphing into Whitney here both looks and vocal-wise. Not as convincing as 'Come In Out Of The Rain' but pleasant enough.
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Post by Wanderlust on Oct 14, 2018 8:33:29 GMT 1
Blast featuring VDC 'Crazy Man'. Great vocal on this dance track.
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Post by Wanderlust on Oct 14, 2018 8:37:11 GMT 1
Chicken Shed 'I Am In Love With The World.' This graced the charts for but a few weeks.
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Post by Wanderlust on Oct 14, 2018 8:44:30 GMT 1
One of the best dance tracks of all time, a sultry vocal from Saffron...N-Joi's 'Anthem'.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 22, 2018 0:22:26 GMT 1
Cascada's 2005 version is anything but forgotten but this is the original by Maggie Reilly of Moonlight Shadow fame from 1992.
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Post by vastar iner on Oct 27, 2018 8:04:02 GMT 1
Here's some weird stuff...
These two cuts spent six weeks in the charts in early 1976. The same six weeks. The first week they were ten positions apart; thenceforth they were never more than four. Indeed, for two weeks, they were next to each other. On Leap Year Day, Eddie Drennon & The BBS Unlimited were at 25, whereas the M&O Band were at 26; the next week they were at 20 and 21 respectively. The following week both dropped, and then, at a time when BMRB were obviously all at sea, both went up again. Both peaking. M&O this time higher at 16, Drennon at 20 - matching his earlier peak.
Drennon's is the original version; the New Jersey native wrote and produced the track. M&O is John "Muff" Murfin and Colin Owen. Murfin basically did cheapo covers and jingles from the back of a department store in Worcester. Still owns a studio, but, as he is coming to retirement, is planning to demolish it and build houses there as a pension.
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Post by vastar iner on Nov 2, 2018 18:46:05 GMT 1
Rather funky and raw minor hit for The Ides Of March in 1970. A much bigger hit in the US, where the Illinois band saw it top out at 2 in Billboard, behind The Guess Who. Founder member Jim Peterik though did top the charts, and on both sides of the Atlantic to boot; after TIoM broke up, he formed Survivor.
But I recall it best as the theme for the briefly-popular slithering and spooky comedian Roy Jay...
Basically a bog-standard northern comic who had a singing career on the side, and found a unique form of delivery.
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Post by vastar iner on Nov 6, 2018 22:49:59 GMT 1
One Dove were originally called Dove, but The Doves, formerly The Thrashing Doves, complained, so they added the One. Their album was named after Elvis' grandmother, their lead singer was the beautiful Dot Allison, and they included Altered Images' Jim McKinven. This song had a (mostly) monochrome, grainy video which I cannot find anywhere.
And this might just be the greatest single of the 1990s. Just...heart-destroying.
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Post by vastar iner on Nov 10, 2018 0:45:45 GMT 1
This seemed to be everywhere for a while in 1986, and having gone from 24 to 8 it looked a genuine no. 1 candidate. And it juddered to a halt. Basically a product of singer-songwriter Mark Rogers, who got the name Hollywood Beyond from the play Hollywood Babylon by Kenneth Anger. Although being a Brummie perhaps he was influenced by Birmingham's own Hollywood.
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Post by vastar iner on Nov 13, 2018 21:17:45 GMT 1
SmokeyB had it in his top 70s singles but it deserves another mention. A gloriously OTT Spectoresque production from Mike "Wombles" Batt that makes it almost a parody - lyrics like "her escape was so urgent, she forgot her detergent" are quite magnificent.
Kursaal is German for "cure room", and was the name of one of the first amusement parks in the world, in the band's hometown of Southend. It had recently closed, and the Kursaal Flyer was the train that used to stop there. The single wasn't typical of the Flyers' sound; they were basically pub rockers that headed towards punk.
But SOMEBODY remembered it a decade or so later...
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Post by Wanderlust on Dec 22, 2018 13:40:24 GMT 1
Slade vs Flush...sort of works, if you like the Sash! sound mixed with Slade.
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Post by Smurfie on Jan 9, 2019 20:40:39 GMT 1
Oh, here’s one I had forgotten about until today! Bargain bucket land, but a top 20 in Australia.
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