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Post by Deleted on Nov 12, 2015 6:52:03 GMT 1
So the my top two UK #1s of the 1970s come in at #166 & #168. Kate Bush is my all-time third least favourite British singer after Amy Winehouse and FKA Twigs. For me her voice in "Wuthering Heights" sounds as a very bad parody on the one # 1 song from my personal retro chart, released some years after.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 12, 2015 7:01:19 GMT 1
My 6 worst #1s of the 1970s are: - If by Telly Savalas - No Charge by JJ Barrie I had a huge problem with ranking of these two (because it's mostly-spoken tracks) and instrumental # 1s. But I don't hate them, so both are not in the bottom of my list.
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Post by Earl Purple on Nov 12, 2015 10:27:17 GMT 1
Whispering Grass is also pretty awful, probably next after the 6 I listed.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 12, 2015 10:31:50 GMT 1
Whispering Grass is also pretty awful, probably next after the 6 I listed. Shame really because Don Estelle (who I met once) had a tremendous voice.
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Post by rubcale on Nov 12, 2015 11:02:31 GMT 1
This looks interesting - can't agree on Donna Summer, that's an iconic Pop/Soul Classic but good on you with Kate Bush.
Never understood all the love for it - all that caterwauling and wailing does my head in.
If the CIA didn't use the Irish boy band to torture prsioners then this would make a very good substitute.
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Post by o on Nov 12, 2015 11:29:33 GMT 1
Controversial will get posters posting
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Post by vastar iner on Nov 12, 2015 13:18:33 GMT 1
Whispering Grass is also pretty awful, probably next after the 6 I listed. I'd disagree with that. Looking past the novelty aspect, it's a very well-sung rendition of an interesting lyric. And Windsor Davies was (presumably still is) a great character actor. Compared to some of the total imagination-free drek of the 1970s, most of it American (Manhattan Transfer? Who in the name of every possible god in every possible pantheon bought THAT?), it is a masterpiece.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 12, 2015 13:44:44 GMT 1
I do get annoyed when novelty songs are dismissed simply because, well, because they're novelties.
Those which are unpretentious ("Star Trekkin'" and "Ernie") are harmless fun and at least show that the creators are thinking outside of the box, they bring a smile to the face.
Then there are those which are about as funny as treading in a cow pat ("The Streak").
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Post by Earl Purple on Nov 12, 2015 13:59:21 GMT 1
I like some of the novelty #1s of the 1970s. Ernie, for example. Even "The Streak" isn't that bad as a novelty song.
Chanson D'Amour is a bit dated for its time but is rather harmless. Possibly even better than that drony #1 it replaced, and the "classic" before that one that was slow and went on far too long for my liking at the time.
Perhaps a reason why I started doing my charts around that time. Even though I was only 11 I could see that the best songs weren't getting to #1.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 12, 2015 14:46:25 GMT 1
Many novelty records (from 1960s to 2010s) were # 1s in my chart, the one from them is my all-time # 2.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 12, 2015 15:47:30 GMT 1
# 161. Dave & Ansell Collins - Double Barrel (1971 - 2 weeks)
# 162. Althia and Donna - Uptown Top Ranking (1978 - 1 week)
# 163. Freda Payne - Band Of Gold (1970 - 6 weeks)
# 164. Anita Ward - Ring My Bell (1979 - 2 weeks)
# 165. Gloria Gaynor - I Will Survive (1979 - 4 weeks)
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Post by vastar iner on Nov 12, 2015 17:26:37 GMT 1
I always think of "Band Of Gold" as the last great Motown record of the sixties. Even though it wasn't on Motown and wasn't from the sixties. Hey ho. But it is far more redolent of the 60s output than the starker, harsher, more socially activist early 70s output. (As usual Michael Jackson ruined all that as well.)
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Post by raliverpool on Nov 12, 2015 19:04:17 GMT 1
I always think of "Band Of Gold" as the last great Motown record of the sixties. Even though it wasn't on Motown and wasn't from the sixties. Hey ho. But it is far more redolent of the 60s output than the starker, harsher, more socially activist early 70s output. (As usual Michael Jackson ruined all that as well.) And as you probably very well known it was written and produced by Holland-Dozier-Holland after they left Motown under the moniker Edythe Wayne. Because due to their contract with Motown which they went into litigation with late in 1968 and did not win until late 1971, they had signed the way the name Holland-Dozier-Holland when they signed their songwriting/publishing contract with Berry Gordy's label. PS. I completely agree with you on Whispering Grass, as novelty records go it had a quality and sincerity which many novelty singles don't have. For the record whilst I've never gone to rank the entire run of 1970s UK #1 hits, I reckon The Streak; If; Wand'ring Star; & No Charge would be battling it out for my bottom spot.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 13, 2015 14:05:25 GMT 1
# 156. Deniece Williams - Free (1977 - 2 weeks)
# 157. Carl Douglas - Kung Fu Fighting (1974 - 3 weeks)
# 158. Tubeway Army - Are Friends Electric ? (1979 - 4 weeks)
# 159. Village People - YMCA (1979 - 3 weeks)
# 160. Boney M - Rivers Of Babylon (1978 - 5 weeks)
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Post by Deleted on Nov 13, 2015 14:45:18 GMT 1
I can guarantee #158 will get a few people shouting abuse at their laptop..... :>)
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Post by Deleted on Nov 14, 2015 15:25:45 GMT 1
# 151. Diana Ross - I'm Still Waiting (1971 - 4 weeks)
# 152. Sweet - Blockbuster (1973 - 5 weeks)
# 153. Alice Cooper - School's Out (1972 - 3 weeks)
# 154. Three Degrees - When Will I See You Again (1974 - 2 weeks)
# 155. Mungo Jerry - Baby Jump (1971 - 2 weeks)
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Post by Deleted on Nov 17, 2015 7:51:16 GMT 1
# 146. Hot Chocolate - So You Win Again (1977 - 3 weeks)
# 147. Bee Gees - Night Fever (1978 - 2 weeks)
# 148. Gary Numan - Cars (1979 - 1 week)
# 149. Slade - Skweeze Me Pleeze Me (1973 - 3 weeks)
# 150. George McCrae - Rock Your Baby (1974 - 3 weeks)
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Post by Earl Purple on Nov 17, 2015 11:58:31 GMT 1
So the Donny Osmond number ones, If, No Charge and One Day At A Time are all considered "better" than these songs?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 17, 2015 12:41:23 GMT 1
So the Donny Osmond number ones, If, No Charge and One Day At A Time are all considered "better" than these songs? I don't want to use word "better", it's only my personal ranking and nothing more. Many eternal classics are lower in my chart, than these 6 songs.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 17, 2015 13:01:50 GMT 1
Are we allowed to predict your top 5?
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