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Post by Earl Purple on Jul 11, 2019 12:10:10 GMT 1
One of the best tracks on 'Tango On The Night' never understood why it flopped. It will reach the US top 20 in a few weeks and I will chart it then.
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Post by popchartfreak on Jul 12, 2019 10:08:36 GMT 1
7th July 1987
2 weeks on top for It's A Sin, still epic 32 years later, Herb Alpert gets 2 top 3's in a row, Madonna shoots up into the 10 with Who's That Girl, and Cliff gets another top 10 to add to his 19-year-long-run (or, more accurately, 25 years as Bachelor Boy would have topped my hypothetical charts had I been doing them as a 4/5 year-old). Highest new entry is Black, in at 13 with Sweetest Smile, hot on the heels of Wonderful Life.
Bananarama get a big top 40 climb with one of their very best singles, a-ha keep up the run of top 40 hits with the Bond theme climbing 33 places, and Simple Minds keep the live version trend going with a big climb for Promised You A Miracle, 5 years on from the original. Elton is also doing the same, Your Song entering at 46 16 years after the original, behind David Grant in at 38 with Change, a good single that flopped a bit at the time as his 7-year run of success ran out of steam.
Mel & Kim enter with FLM, their penultimate hit as their career was about to abruptly end due to the impending tragic illness and death of young Mel, very sad. Red Box keep the native sounds coming on Chenko, and Boy George is back with a bit of oomph in his great single Sold. Art Of Noise do another 50's TV/movie theme, this time for the new Dragnet movie. I was old enough to remember the TV show which was still running in the late 60's, starring future Colonel Potter Harry Morgan of M*A*S*H fame.
In at 72, Wax are back, having flopped with the fab Right Between The Eyes, they hit with Bridge To Your Heart, giving Andrew Gold a decade of hits, and Graham Gouldman 15 years since 10CC started - or 21 years as a songwriter of Hollies hits and Herman's Hermits chart success which would have charted for me as a boy. 10CC/Graham did this track in tribute to Andrew last year when I saw them and they were fab. Finally Kenny G enters with his Songbird, notorious for introducing a new style of coffee-table instrumental jazz music used in elevators and holding-patterns on phones and the like. So "nice" it became a marmite thing....
1 ( 1 ) IT’S A SIN Pet Shop Boys 2 ( 2 ) HIGHER AND HIGHER (YOUR LOVE KEEPS LIFTING ME) Jackie Wilson 3 ( 4 ) DIAMONDS Herb Alpert featuring Janet Jackson 4 ( 5 ) TIME WILL CRAWL David Bowie 5 ( 6 ) MISFIT Curiosity Killed The Cat 6 ( 3 ) I STILL HAVEN’T FOUND WHAT I’M LOOKING FOR U2 7 ( 35 ) WHO’S THAT GIRL Madonna 8 ( 10 ) THE PLEASURE PRINCIPLE Janet Jackson 9 ( 11 ) IF I WAS YOUR GIRLFRIEND Prince 10 ( 12 ) MY PRETTY ONE Cliff Richard
11 ( 16 ) MOTORTOWN The Kane Gang 12 ( 9 ) IT’S NOT UNUSUAL Tom Jones 13 ( NEW ) SWEETEST SMILE Black 14 ( 20 ) SWEET SIXTEEN Billy Idol 15 ( 8 ) COMIN’ ON STRONG Broken English 16 ( 7 ) WHEN SMOKEY SINGS ABC 17 ( 22 ) WISHING WELL Terence Trent D’Arby 18 ( 25 ) LET’S DANCE Chris Rea 19 ( 26 ) ALONE Heart 20 ( 23 ) FLAMES OF PARADISE Elton John & Jennifer Rush
21 ( 13 ) JIVE TALKING Boogie Box High 22 ( 34 ) HEARTS ON FIRE Roger Daltrey 23 ( 15 ) DON’T DREAM IT’S OVER Crowded House 24 ( 44 ) I HEARD A RUMOUR Bananarama 25 ( 37 ) ALWAYS Atlantic Starr 26 ( 33 ) PERSONAL TOUCH Errol Brown 27 ( 24 ) WISHING I WAS LUCKY Wet Wet Wet 28 ( 61 ) THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS a-ha 29 ( 14 ) UNDER THE BOARDWALK Bruce Willis with The Temptations 30 ( 50 ) PROMISED YOU A MIRACLE (LIVE) Simple Minds
31 ( 32 ) RIGHT ON TRACK The Breakfast Club 32 ( 40 ) DON’T LOOK ANY FURTHER Dennis Edwards featuring Siedah Garrett 33 ( 41 ) WOT’S IT TO YA Robbie Nevil 34 ( 18 ) DEAR GOD XTC 35 ( 28 ) GET IT ON (’87 REMIX) T.Rex 36 ( 36 ) NOTHING’S GONNA STOP US NOW Starship 37 ( 60 ) SEVEN WONDERS Fleetwood Mac 38 ( NEW ) CHANGE David Grant 39 ( 17 ) GOODBYE STRANGER Pepsi & Shirley 40 ( 47 ) HOOVERVILLE (THEY PROMISED US THE WORLD) The Christians
41 ( 19 ) NO SLEEP TIL BROOKLYN The Beastie Boys 42 ( 21 ) I WANNA DANCE WITH SOMEBODY (WHO LOVES ME) Whitney Houston 43 ( 48 ) HEY LOVE King Sun D Moet 44 ( 27 ) SHATTERED DREAMS Johnny Hates Jazz 45 ( 29 ) LOOKING FOR A NEW LOVE Jody Watley 46 ( NEW ) YOUR SONG (LIVE) Elton John 47 ( 30 ) FAKE Alexander O’Neal 48 ( 71 ) CATCH The Cure 49 ( 56 ) LABOUR OF LOVE Hue And Cry 50 ( NEW ) FLM Mel & Kim
51 ( 38 ) SHELTER Lone Justice 52 ( 45 ) LA ISLA BONITA Madonna 53 ( 73 ) IS THIS LOVE Whiresnake 54 ( 64 ) JUST DON’T WANNA BE LONELY Freddie MacGregor 55 ( NEW ) CHENKO Red Box 56 ( 31 ) LUKA Suzanne Vega 57 ( 52 ) I GET THE SWEETEST FEELING Jackie Wilson 58 ( NEW ) SOLD Boy George 59 ( 58 ) A DIFFERENT CORNER George Michael 60 ( 42 ) PRIME MOVER Zodiac Mindwarp & The Love Reaction
61 ( 55 ) BREAK EVERY RULE Tina Turner 62 ( 69 ) HEAD TO TOE Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam 63 ( 63 ) PENNY LANE/STRAWBERRY FIELDS FOREVER The Beatles 64 ( NEW ) DRAGNET Art Of Noise 65 ( 39 ) I WANT YOUR SEX George Michael 66 ( 43 ) SCALES OF JUSTICE Living In A Box 67 ( 67 ) THROWING IT ALL AWAY Genesis 68 ( 68 ) HUMAN Human League 69 ( 49 ) COVER ME Percy Sledge 70 ( 59 ) MOVE OVER DARLING Doris Day
71 ( 46 ) IN DREAMS Roy Orbison 72 ( NEW ) BRIDGE TO YOUR HEART Wax 73 ( 57 ) SHAME OMD 74 ( 54 ) LIVING IN A BOX Living In A Box 75 ( NEW ) SONGBIRD Kenny G
7th July PLAYIST OLDIES
1 TOMORROW NEVER KNOWS The Beatles 2 I WANT TO STAY HERE Steve & Eydie 3 PANINARO Pet Shop Boys
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