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Post by Earl Purple on Jun 29, 2020 19:11:20 GMT 1
4 January 1975
1 ( 2 ) Streets Of London - Ralph McTell < 1st #1 > 2 ( 5 ) Pick Up The Pieces - Average White Band 3 ( 11 ) The Entertainer - Billy Joel 4 ( 4 ) The Inbetweenies - Goodies 5 ( 1 ) Lonely This Christmas - Mud (#1[4]) 6 ( -- ) Free Bird - Lynyrd Skynyrd 7 ( 9 ) Ding Dong Ding Dong - George Harrison 8 ( 3 ) Wombling Merry Christmas - Wombles (#3) 9 ( 6 ) Down Down - Status Quo (#6) 10 ( 7 ) The Bump - Kenny (#7)
11 ( 15 ) Ms Grace - Tymes 12 ( 12 ) Stardust - David Essex 13 ( 14 ) The Heartbreak Kid - Bo Donaldson & The Heywoods 14 ( 8 ) Oh Yes You're Beautiful - Gary Glitter (#2[2]) 15 ( 20 ) Are You Ready To Rock - Wizzard 16 ( 23 ) Some Kind Of Wonderful - Grand Funk Railroad 17 ( 29 ) Best Of My Love - Eagles 18 ( 16 ) You Can Make Me Dance Sing Or Anything - Rod Stewart (#15) 19 ( 13 ) One Man Woman - One Woman Man - Paul Anka & Odia Coates (#7) 20 ( 10 ) Christmas Song - Gilbert O'Sullivan (#10)
21 ( 33 ) Fire - Ohio Players 22 ( 22 ) You Can Have It All - George McCrae 23 ( 24 ) Dark Horse - George Harrison 24 ( 21 ) Never Can Say Goodbye - Gloria Gaynor (#19) 25 ( 27 ) Dancin' Fool - Guess Who 26 ( 19 ) Bungle In The Jungle - Jethro Tull (#11) 27 ( 17 ) Juke Box Jive - Rubettes (#2[1]) 28 ( 18 ) Get Dancin' - Disco Tex & Sex-O-Lettes (#5) 29 ( 31 ) Crying Over You - Ken Boothe 30 ( 28 ) Dream On - Righteous Brothers (#25)
31 ( 25 ) Zing Went The Strings Of My Heart - Trammps (#12) 32 ( -- ) Struttin' - Billy Preston 33 ( 34 ) Cheri Babe - Hot Chocolate (#28) 34 ( 30 ) Fire Baby I'm On Fire - Andy Kim (#14) 35 ( 32 ) Killer Queen - Queen (#1[5]) 36 ( -- ) I Belong To You - Love Unlimited 37 ( 35 ) Cats In The Cradle - Harry Chapin (#2[3]) 38 ( 26 ) Hey Mister Christmas - Showaddywaddy (#17) 39 ( 36 ) Boogie On Reggae Woman - Stevie Wonder (#31) 40 ( 37 ) Zip Gun Boogie - T. Rex (#9)
-- ( 38 ) Whatever You Got I Want - Jackson Five (#32) -- ( 39 ) Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds - Elton John (#18) -- ( 40 ) Touch Me - Fancy (#18)
Into the new year with just 3 new entries, but look at what one of them is.. an epic track with a guitar outro that extends for ages and takes the song to 9 minutes long. As Lynyrd Skynyrd already topped the chart with "Sweet Home Alabama" they are looking at making it 2 in a row.
In the UK chart this week Mud actually remained at #1. Because the UK didn't have a new chart for last week, the chart for week ending 4 January covered 2 weeks of sales, including the days leading up to Christmas so people were buying "Lonely This Christmas" which remained at #1 but "Wombling Merry Christmas" did fall to #4 with Ralph McTell at #2 and Status Quo at #3. The following week Mud fell to #8 in the UK chart. The chart showed a fair amount of turbulence at the start of the year as Status Quo promptly fell to #5 after climbing to #1, whilst the Tymes who replaced them moved 5-1-2-4-28 and Gloria Gaynor who was #2 behind the Tymes fell from 5 to 27 the same week the Tymes fell to 28.
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Post by Good Old Days on Jun 29, 2020 20:07:02 GMT 1
I can't wait to know your chart position for my all-time favourite, which I rated as very rare 10 / 10 points. There are only near 15-20 songs from all music history with a maximal score from me.
Hint : some different names were mentioned in a lyrics of that song, including two main characters of the celebration.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jun 30, 2020 15:05:06 GMT 1
11 January 1975:
1 ( 1 ) Streets Of London - Ralph McTell < 2nd week at #1 > 2 ( 2 ) Pick Up The Pieces - Average White Band 3 ( 3 ) The Entertainer - Billy Joel 4 ( 6 ) Free Bird - Lynyrd Skynyrd 5 ( -- ) #9 Dream - John Lennon 6 ( 4 ) The Inbetweenies - Goodies (#4) 7 ( 7 ) Ding Dong Ding Dong - George Harrison 8 ( -- ) Rock & Roll (I Gave You The Best Years Of My Life) - Kevin Johnson 9 ( 11 ) Ms Grace - Tymes 10 ( 17 ) Best Of My Love - Eagles
11 ( 16 ) Some Kind Of Wonderful - Grand Funk Railroad 12 ( 15 ) Are You Ready To Rock - Wizzard 13 ( 12 ) Stardust - David Essex (#12) 14 ( 9 ) Down Down - Status Quo (#6) 15 ( 5 ) Lonely This Christmas - Mud (#1[4]) 16 ( 13 ) The Heartbreak Kid - Bo Donaldson & The Heywoods (#13) 17 ( 10 ) The Bump - Kenny (#7) 18 ( 21 ) Fire - Ohio Players 19 ( 8 ) Wombling Merry Christmas - Wombles (#3) 20 ( 32 ) Struttin' - Billy Preston
21 ( 14 ) Oh Yes You're Beautiful - Gary Glitter (#2[2]) 22 ( 18 ) You Can Make Me Dance Sing Or Anything - Rod Stewart (#15) 23 ( 22 ) You Can Have It All - George McCrae (#22) 24 ( 23 ) Dark Horse - George Harrison (#23) 25 ( 25 ) Dancin' Fool - Guess Who 26 ( 36 ) I Belong To You - Love Unlimited 27 ( 19 ) One Man Woman - One Woman Man - Paul Anka & Odia Coates (#7) 28 ( -- ) Sweet Surrender - John Denver 29 ( 29 ) Crying Over You - Ken Boothe 30 ( 24 ) Never Can Say Goodbye - Gloria Gaynor (#19)
31 ( 33 ) Cheri Babe - Hot Chocolate (#28) 32 ( 30 ) Dream On - Righteous Brothers (#25) 33 ( 26 ) Bungle In The Jungle - Jethro Tull (#11) 34 ( -- ) Look In My Eyes Pretty Woman - Dawn 35 ( 20 ) Christmas Song - Gilbert O'Sullivan (#10) 36 ( 31 ) Zing Went The Strings Of My Heart - Trammps (#12) 37 ( 27 ) Juke Box Jive - Rubettes (#2[1]) 38 ( 28 ) Get Dancin' - Disco Tex & Sex-O-Lettes (#5) 39 ( -- ) Ready - Cat Stevens 40 ( -- ) Black Water - Doobie Brothers
-- ( 34 ) Fire Baby I'm On Fire - Andy Kim (#14) -- ( 35 ) Killer Queen - Queen (#1[5]) -- ( 37 ) Cats In The Cradle - Harry Chapin (#2[3]) -- ( 38 ) Hey Mister Christmas - Showaddywaddy (#17) -- ( 39 ) Boogie On Reggae Woman - Stevie Wonder (#31) -- ( 40 ) Zip Gun Boogie - T. Rex (#9)
Ralph McTell holds on, the rest behind it are quite static with Lynyrd Skynyrd only climbing to #4 and John Lennon flying in at #5 (not #9).
The other entry in the top 10 by Kevin Johnson was picked up by Jonathan King for release in the UK after Mac Davis covered it in the US. Originally the song reached #4 in Australia in 1973, and a lot of other artists covered this song around this time. Kevin Johnson is the actual songwriter though. It isn't totally biographical as he did get a record deal in Australia but did find difficulty getting his music released in the UK and US and he didn't have any subsequent hits here. (The Mac Davis version actually reached my playlist first but I decided to just hold out for the original and not chart both).
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Post by Earl Purple on Jul 1, 2020 21:14:31 GMT 1
18 January 1975:
1 ( 5 ) #9 Dream - John Lennon < 3rd #1 > 2 ( 1 ) Streets Of London - Ralph McTell (#1[2]) 3 ( 8 ) Rock & Roll (I Gave You The Best Years Of My Life) - Kevin Johnson 4 ( 2 ) Pick Up The Pieces - Average White Band (#2[2]) 5 ( 4 ) Free Bird - Lynyrd Skynyrd (#4) 6 ( 3 ) The Entertainer - Billy Joel (#3) 7 ( 10 ) Best Of My Love - Eagles 8 ( 7 ) Ding Dong Ding Dong - George Harrison (#7) 9 ( 9 ) Ms Grace - Tymes 10 ( 11 ) Some Kind Of Wonderful - Grand Funk Railroad
11 ( 6 ) The Inbetweenies - Goodies (#4) 12 ( -- ) January - Pilot 13 ( 12 ) Are You Ready To Rock - Wizzard (#12) 14 ( -- ) Lady - Styx 15 ( 20 ) Struttin' - Billy Preston 16 ( 13 ) Stardust - David Essex (#12) 17 ( -- ) Something For The Girl With Everything - Sparks 18 ( 28 ) Sweet Surrender - John Denver 19 ( 18 ) Fire - Ohio Players (#18) 20 ( -- ) Black Superman (Muhammad Ali) - Johnny Wakelin
21 ( -- ) My Eyes Adored You - Frankie Valli 22 ( 26 ) I Belong To You - Love Unlimited 23 ( 16 ) The Heartbreak Kid - Bo Donaldson & The Heywoods (#13) 24 ( 14 ) Down Down - Status Quo (#6) 25 ( -- ) Goodbye My Love - Glitter Band 26 ( 34 ) Look In My Eyes Pretty Woman - Dawn 27 ( -- ) Sugar Candy Kisses - Mac & Katie Kissoon 28 ( 17 ) The Bump - Kenny (#7) 29 ( 23 ) You Can Have It All - George McCrae (#22) 30 ( -- ) Footsee - Wigan's Chosen Few
31 ( 25 ) Dancin' Fool - Guess Who (#25) 32 ( 24 ) Dark Horse - George Harrison (#23) 33 ( 22 ) You Can Make Me Dance Sing Or Anything - Rod Stewart (#15) 34 ( 15 ) Lonely This Christmas - Mud (#1[4]) 35 ( 39 ) Ready - Cat Stevens 36 ( 21 ) Oh Yes You're Beautiful - Gary Glitter (#2[2]) 37 ( 40 ) Black Water - Doobie Brothers 38 ( 29 ) Crying Over You - Ken Boothe (#29) 39 ( 31 ) Cheri Babe - Hot Chocolate (#28) 40 ( -- ) Purely By Coincidence - Sweet Sensation
-- ( 19 ) Wombling Merry Christmas - Wombles (#3) -- ( 27 ) One Man Woman - One Woman Man - Paul Anka & Odia Coates (#7) -- ( 30 ) Never Can Say Goodbye - Gloria Gaynor (#19) -- ( 32 ) Dream On - Righteous Brothers (#25) -- ( 33 ) Bungle In The Jungle - Jethro Tull (#11) -- ( 35 ) Christmas Song - Gilbert O'Sullivan (#10) -- ( 36 ) Zing Went The Strings Of My Heart - Trammps (#12) -- ( 37 ) Juke Box Jive - Rubettes (#2[1]) -- ( 38 ) Get Dancin' - Disco Tex & Sex-O-Lettes (#5)
-- ( -- ) Lonely People - America -- ( -- ) Nightingale - Carole King -- ( -- ) Your Bulldog Drinks Champagne - Jim Stafford
John Lennon goes up to #1, his 3rd chart-topper outside the Beatles, with "Imagine" and "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)". That is one fewer than Paul McCartney's 4 (1 solo and 3 with Wings). Both have now had 9 weeks at #1 outside the Beatles so if John Lennon is still there next week he will be ahead.
Pilot had a UK #1 with "January" and it is the highest new entry here too. A debut for Styx who will be huge in my chart in the early 80s. Another hit for Sparks, the real tribute song to Muhammad Ali and a song that is in the current round of Haven Factor. (And they may or may not be my act).
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Post by Earl Purple on Jul 2, 2020 21:24:20 GMT 1
25 January 1975
1 ( 1 ) #9 Dream - John Lennon < 2nd week at #1 >2 ( 3 ) Rock & Roll (I Gave You The Best Years Of My Life) - Kevin Johnson 3 ( 5 ) Free Bird - Lynyrd Skynyrd 4 ( 12 ) January - Pilot 5 ( 14 ) Lady - Styx 6 ( 7 ) Best Of My Love - Eagles 7 ( 4 ) Pick Up The Pieces - Average White Band (#2[2]) 8 ( 6 ) The Entertainer - Billy Joel (#3) 9 ( 2 ) Streets Of London - Ralph McTell (#1[2]) 10 ( 17 ) Something For The Girl With Everything - Sparks 11 ( 20 ) Black Superman (Muhammad Ali) - Johnny Wakelin 12 ( 9 ) Ms Grace - Tymes (#9) 13 ( 21 ) My Eyes Adored You - Frankie Valli 14 ( 10 ) Some Kind Of Wonderful - Grand Funk Railroad (#10) 15 ( 8 ) Ding Dong Ding Dong - George Harrison (#7) 16 ( 15 ) Struttin' - Billy Preston (#15) 17 ( -- ) Can't Get It Out Of My Head - Electric Light Orchestra 18 ( 18 ) Sweet Surrender - John Denver 19 ( 25 ) Goodbye My Love - Glitter Band 20 ( -- ) Now I'm Here - Queen 21 ( 13 ) Are You Ready To Rock - Wizzard (#12) 22 ( 27 ) Sugar Candy Kisses - Mac & Katie Kissoon 23 ( 11 ) The Inbetweenies - Goodies (#4) 24 ( 30 ) Footsee - Wigan's Chosen Few 25 ( 22 ) I Belong To You - Love Unlimited (#22) 26 ( 16 ) Stardust - David Essex (#12) 27 ( -- ) It May Be Winter Outside (But In My Heart It's Spring) - Love Unlimited 28 ( 26 ) Look In My Eyes Pretty Woman - Dawn (#26) 29 ( 19 ) Fire - Ohio Players (#18) 30 ( -- ) I'm A Woman - Maria Muldaur 31 ( 40 ) Purely By Coincidence - Sweet Sensation 32 ( -- ) Please Tell Him That I Said Hello - Dana 33 ( 23 ) The Heartbreak Kid - Bo Donaldson & The Heywoods (#13) 34 ( 35 ) Ready - Cat Stevens 35 ( -- ) Star On A TV Show - Stylistics 36 ( 24 ) Down Down - Status Quo (#6) 37 ( 37 ) Black Water - Doobie Brothers 38 ( 29 ) You Can Have It All - George McCrae (#22) 39 ( 31 ) Dancin' Fool - Guess Who (#25) 40 ( 28 ) The Bump - Kenny (#7)
-- ( 32 ) Dark Horse - George Harrison (#23) -- ( 33 ) You Can Make Me Dance Sing Or Anything - Rod Stewart (#15) -- ( 34 ) Lonely This Christmas - Mud (#1[4]) -- ( 36 ) Oh Yes You're Beautiful - Gary Glitter (#2[2]) -- ( 38 ) Crying Over You - Ken Boothe (#29) -- ( 39 ) Cheri Babe - Hot Chocolate (#28)
-- ( -- ) Shoorah Shoorah - Betty Wright
John Lennon maintains his place at #1 for a second week. Lynyrd Skynyrd reverse their downward movement last week to climb back up to #3 so its run so far has been 6-4-5-3 ELO beat Queen to the highest new entry this week. A better song by Love Unlimited enters at #27 whilst their other one falls from a peak of #22 to #25, and two female singers, Maria Muldaur and the moment Good Old Days has been waiting for as Dana enters at #32 hoping to beat her #27 peak of "All Kinds Of Everything" in 1970.
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Post by Good Old Days on Jul 2, 2020 21:32:46 GMT 1
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Post by Earl Purple on Jul 2, 2020 22:10:24 GMT 1
But lots of people also bought Simon & Garfunkel's album. Dana's only charting album "Everything Is Beautiful" reached #43 in 1980.
Ultravox's album "Vienna" was in the top 5 around the time of the singles battle. Rather unsurprisingly Joe Dolce never had a charting album.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jul 7, 2020 9:01:30 GMT 1
1 February 1975:
1 ( 1 ) #9 Dream - John Lennon < 3rd week at #1 > 2 ( 4 ) January - Pilot 3 ( 2 ) Rock & Roll (I Gave You The Best Years Of My Life) - Kevin Johnson (#2[1]) 4 ( 5 ) Lady - Styx 5 ( 3 ) Free Bird - Lynyrd Skynyrd (#3) 6 ( 6 ) Best Of My Love - Eagles 7 ( 10 ) Something For The Girl With Everything - Sparks 8 ( 11 ) Black Superman (Muhammad Ali) - Johnny Wakelin 9 ( 17 ) Can't Get It Out Of My Head - Electric Light Orchestra 10 ( -- ) Your Kiss Is Sweet - Syreeta
11 ( 13 ) My Eyes Adored You - Frankie Valli 12 ( 20 ) Now I'm Here - Queen 13 ( 8 ) The Entertainer - Billy Joel (#3) 14 ( 7 ) Pick Up The Pieces - Average White Band (#2[2]) 15 ( -- ) Lady Marmalade - LaBelle 16 ( 27 ) It May Be Winter Outside (But In My Heart It's Spring) - Love Unlimited 17 ( 19 ) Goodbye My Love - Glitter Band 18 ( 12 ) Ms Grace - Tymes (#9) 19 ( 9 ) Streets Of London - Ralph McTell (#1[2]) 20 ( 16 ) Struttin' - Billy Preston (#15)
21 ( 30 ) I'm A Woman - Maria Muldaur 22 ( -- ) Sixty Minute Man - Trammps 23 ( 22 ) Sugar Candy Kisses - Mac & Katie Kissoon (#22) 24 ( 18 ) Sweet Surrender - John Denver (#18) 25 ( 14 ) Some Kind Of Wonderful - Grand Funk Railroad (#10) 26 ( 24 ) Footsee - Wigan's Chosen Few (#24) 27 ( 32 ) Please Tell Him That I Said Hello - Dana 28 ( -- ) Good Love Can Never Die - Alvin Stardust 29 ( 15 ) Ding Dong Ding Dong - George Harrison (#7) 30 ( 35 ) Star On A TV Show - Stylistics
31 ( 31 ) Purely By Coincidence - Sweet Sensation 32 ( -- ) My Last Night With You - Arrows 33 ( 25 ) I Belong To You - Love Unlimited (#22) 34 ( 21 ) Are You Ready To Rock - Wizzard (#12) 35 ( -- ) Happy People - Temptations 36 ( 28 ) Look In My Eyes Pretty Woman - Dawn (#26) 37 ( -- ) Roll On Down The Highway - Bachman-Turner Overdrive 38 ( 34 ) Ready - Cat Stevens (#34) 39 ( -- ) Don't Call Us We'll Call You - Sugarloaf 40 ( 23 ) The Inbetweenies - Goodies (#4)
-- ( 26 ) Stardust - David Essex (#12) -- ( 29 ) Fire - Ohio Players (#18) -- ( 33 ) The Heartbreak Kid - Bo Donaldson & The Heywoods (#13) -- ( 36 ) Down Down - Status Quo (#6) -- ( 37 ) Black Water - Doobie Brothers -- ( 38 ) You Can Have It All - George McCrae (#22) -- ( 39 ) Dancin' Fool - Guess Who (#25) -- ( 40 ) The Bump - Kenny (#7)
-- ( -- ) We Love Each Other - Charlie Rich
We are now in February 1975, I have 4 charts to post for this month before we take the regular "Three Weeks" break. 1975 was an "early" year - there is a 19 year cycle and this is the earliest year in the cycle, so 1994 and 2013 were also such years. Next year (2021) will be the second earliest year in the cycle, as were 1983 and 2002. The latest years in the cycle included the year Gamliel was born (2005) as well as 1986 (and 1967). This does not correspond exactly to the position of Easter, in our 3 latest years they are the early years in the Easter cycle (so Easter is a month before Pesach).
Onto the music - Syreeta gets the highest entry at #10, this is actually reggae-style. It's noticed that Billy Preston is also in the top 20 with a funky instrumental, and you'll recall he played piano on the Beatles' "Get Back". Rather a shame that 5 years later they got their big UK hit with a rather dull ballad.
Not such a big hit in the UK in its original form, "Lady Marmalade" was twice covered to get to #1, whilst Patti Labelle also would achieve her biggest UK hit in a ballad duo peaking at #2, although I like "On My Own" a lot more than "With You I'm Born Again". You probably thought it got higher but the original Lady Marmalade only reached #17 in the UK chart. It's already 2 places higher than that on my chart.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jul 8, 2020 19:18:17 GMT 1
8 February 1975
1 ( 1 ) #9 Dream - John Lennon < 4th week at #1 > 2 ( 2 ) January - Pilot 3 ( 10 ) Your Kiss Is Sweet - Syreeta 4 ( 4 ) Lady - Styx 5 ( -- ) Make Me Smile (Come Up And See Me) - Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel 6 ( 3 ) Rock & Roll (I Gave You The Best Years Of My Life) - Kevin Johnson (#2[1]) 7 ( 9 ) Can't Get It Out Of My Head - Electric Light Orchestra 8 ( 15 ) Lady Marmalade - LaBelle 9 ( 7 ) Something For The Girl With Everything - Sparks (#7) 10 ( 8 ) Black Superman (Muhammad Ali) - Johnny Wakelin (#8)
11 ( 6 ) Best Of My Love - Eagles (#6) 12 ( -- ) Shame Shame Shame - Shirley & Company 13 ( 5 ) Free Bird - Lynyrd Skynyrd (#3) 14 ( 12 ) Now I'm Here - Queen (#12) 15 ( 11 ) My Eyes Adored You - Frankie Valli (#11) 16 ( 16 ) It May Be Winter Outside (But In My Heart It's Spring) - Love Unlimited 17 ( 22 ) Sixty Minute Man - Trammps 18 ( 21 ) I'm A Woman - Maria Muldaur 19 ( 28 ) Good Love Can Never Die - Alvin Stardust 20 ( 17 ) Goodbye My Love - Glitter Band (#17)
21 ( 13 ) The Entertainer - Billy Joel (#3) 22 ( 32 ) My Last Night With You - Arrows 23 ( 14 ) Pick Up The Pieces - Average White Band (#2[2]) 24 ( -- ) To The Door Of The Sun - Al Martino 25 ( 35 ) Happy People - Temptations 26 ( 27 ) Please Tell Him That I Said Hello - Dana 27 ( -- ) Love Games - Drifters 28 ( 20 ) Struttin' - Billy Preston (#15) 29 ( 18 ) Ms Grace - Tymes (#9) 30 ( 23 ) Sugar Candy Kisses - Mac & Katie Kissoon (#22)
31 ( 37 ) Roll On Down The Highway - Bachman-Turner Overdrive 32 ( 30 ) Star On A TV Show - Stylistics (#30) 33 ( -- ) Your Mama Won't Like Me - Suzi Quatro 34 ( 39 ) Don't Call Us We'll Call You - Sugarloaf 35 ( 26 ) Footsee - Wigan's Chosen Few (#24) 36 ( 19 ) Streets Of London - Ralph McTell (#1[2]) 37 ( 24 ) Sweet Surrender - John Denver (#18) 38 ( 31 ) Purely By Coincidence - Sweet Sensation (#31) 39 ( -- ) This Monday Morning Feeling - Tito Simon 40 ( -- ) I'm On My Way - Dean Parrish
-- ( 25 ) Some Kind Of Wonderful - Grand Funk Railroad (#10) -- ( 29 ) Ding Dong Ding Dong - George Harrison (#7) -- ( 33 ) I Belong To You - Love Unlimited (#22) -- ( 34 ) Are You Ready To Rock - Wizzard (#12) -- ( 36 ) Look In My Eyes Pretty Woman - Dawn (#26) -- ( 38 ) Ready - Cat Stevens (#34) -- ( 40 ) The Inbetweenies - Goodies (#4)
-- ( -- ) Have You Never Been Mellow - Olivia Newton John -- ( -- ) Express - B.T. Express -- ( -- ) Leggo Skanga - Rupie Edwards -- ( -- ) Movin' On - Bad Company -- ( -- ) Poetry Man - Phoebe Snow
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Post by Earl Purple on Jul 9, 2020 19:23:34 GMT 1
15 February 1975:
1 ( 5 ) Make Me Smile (Come Up And See Me) - Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel < 1st #1 > 2 ( 3 ) Your Kiss Is Sweet - Syreeta 3 ( 1 ) #9 Dream - John Lennon (#1[4]) 4 ( 2 ) January - Pilot (#2) 5 ( 12 ) Shame Shame Shame - Shirley & Company 6 ( 4 ) Lady - Styx (#4) 7 ( 8 ) Lady Marmalade - LaBelle 8 ( -- ) Dreamer - Supertramp 9 ( 7 ) Can't Get It Out Of My Head - Electric Light Orchestra (#7) 10 ( 6 ) Rock & Roll (I Gave You The Best Years Of My Life) - Kevin Johnson (#2[1])
11 ( -- ) You Are So Beautiful - Joe Cocker 12 ( 9 ) Something For The Girl With Everything - Sparks (#7) 13 ( 24 ) To The Door Of The Sun - Al Martino 14 ( 10 ) Black Superman (Muhammad Ali) - Johnny Wakelin (#8) 15 ( -- ) Lovin' You - Minnie Riperton 16 ( 19 ) Good Love Can Never Die - Alvin Stardust 17 ( 17 ) Sixty Minute Man - Trammps 18 ( -- ) Only You Can - Fox 19 ( 27 ) Love Games - Drifters 20 ( -- ) How Does It Feel - Slade
21 ( 22 ) My Last Night With You - Arrows 22 ( 18 ) I'm A Woman - Maria Muldaur (#18) 23 ( 16 ) It May Be Winter Outside (But In My Heart It's Spring) - Love Unlimited (#16) 24 ( 11 ) Best Of My Love - Eagles (#6) 25 ( 14 ) Now I'm Here - Queen (#12) 26 ( 25 ) Happy People - Temptations (#25) 27 ( 15 ) My Eyes Adored You - Frankie Valli (#11) 28 ( 33 ) Your Mama Won't Like Me - Suzi Quatro 29 ( -- ) The Secrets That You Keep - Mud 30 ( 13 ) Free Bird - Lynyrd Skynyrd (#3)
31 ( 20 ) Goodbye My Love - Glitter Band (#17) 32 ( 26 ) Please Tell Him That I Said Hello - Dana (#26) 33 ( 31 ) Roll On Down The Highway - Bachman-Turner Overdrive (#31) 34 ( 39 ) This Monday Morning Feeling - Tito Simon 35 ( 40 ) I'm On My Way - Dean Parrish 36 ( 21 ) The Entertainer - Billy Joel (#3) 37 ( 34 ) Don't Call Us We'll Call You - Sugarloaf (#34) 38 ( 23 ) Pick Up The Pieces - Average White Band (#2[2]) 39 ( 32 ) Star On A TV Show - Stylistics (#30) 40 ( 28 ) Struttin' - Billy Preston (#15)
-- ( 29 ) Ms Grace - Tymes (#9) -- ( 30 ) Sugar Candy Kisses - Mac & Katie Kissoon (#22) -- ( 35 ) Footsee - Wigan's Chosen Few (#24) -- ( 36 ) Streets Of London - Ralph McTell (#1[2]) -- ( 37 ) Sweet Surrender - John Denver (#18) -- ( 38 ) Purely By Coincidence - Sweet Sensation (#31)
-- ( -- ) Never Let Her Go - David Gates -- ( -- ) Don't Take Your Love - Manhattans
As the classic "Make Me Smile" climbs to #1 a bunch of other classics enter the chart, with the highest being a debut by Supertramp which is still played much today.
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Post by Good Old Days on Jul 9, 2020 21:21:29 GMT 1
I don't know or can't remember this Olivia Newton-John's single, probably it wasn't in UK chart.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jul 9, 2020 21:24:46 GMT 1
I don't know or can't remember this Olivia Newton-John's single, probably it wasn't in UK chart. No, she won't have another UK hit until "Sam" in 1977, which is her golden period, i.e. when she starts being good.
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Post by Good Old Days on Jul 11, 2020 7:53:01 GMT 1
Can you post a full list of songs, which were # 1 in your charts ?
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Post by Earl Purple on Jul 12, 2020 11:11:24 GMT 1
22 February 1975
1 ( 1 ) Make Me Smile (Come Up And See Me) - Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel < 2nd week at #1 > 2 ( 8 ) Dreamer - Supertramp 3 ( 2 ) Your Kiss Is Sweet - Syreeta (#2[1]) 4 ( 5 ) Shame Shame Shame - Shirley & Company 5 ( 11 ) You Are So Beautiful - Joe Cocker 6 ( 15 ) Lovin' You - Minnie Riperton 7 ( 3 ) #9 Dream - John Lennon (#1[4]) 8 ( 4 ) January - Pilot (#2) 9 ( 7 ) Lady Marmalade - LaBelle (#7) 10 ( 18 ) Only You Can - Fox
11 ( 13 ) To The Door Of The Sun - Al Martino 12 ( 6 ) Lady - Styx (#4) 13 ( 20 ) How Does It Feel - Slade 14 ( -- ) No No Song - Ringo Starr 15 ( 9 ) Can't Get It Out Of My Head - Electric Light Orchestra (#7) 16 ( 19 ) Love Games - Drifters 17 ( 16 ) Good Love Can Never Die - Alvin Stardust (#16) 18 ( 10 ) Rock & Roll (I Gave You The Best Years Of My Life) - Kevin Johnson (#2[1]) 19 ( 12 ) Something For The Girl With Everything - Sparks (#7) 20 ( 29 ) The Secrets That You Keep - Mud
21 ( 17 ) Sixty Minute Man - Trammps (#17) 22 ( 14 ) Black Superman (Muhammad Ali) - Johnny Wakelin (#8) 23 ( 21 ) My Last Night With You - Arrows (#21) 24 ( 28 ) Your Mama Won't Like Me - Suzi Quatro 25 ( 22 ) I'm A Woman - Maria Muldaur (#18) 26 ( 26 ) Happy People - Temptations (#25) 27 ( -- ) Sweet Music - Showaddywaddy 28 ( 34 ) This Monday Morning Feeling - Tito Simon 29 ( 23 ) It May Be Winter Outside (But In My Heart It's Spring) - Love Unlimited (#16) 30 ( 35 ) I'm On My Way - Dean Parrish
31 ( 33 ) Roll On Down The Highway - Bachman-Turner Overdrive (#31) 32 ( 25 ) Now I'm Here - Queen (#12) 33 ( -- ) Have You Never Been Mellow - Olivia Newton John 34 ( 24 ) Best Of My Love - Eagles (#6) 35 ( -- ) Express - B.T. Express 36 ( 32 ) Please Tell Him That I Said Hello - Dana (#26) 37 ( 27 ) My Eyes Adored You - Frankie Valli (#11) 38 ( -- ) Leggo Skanga - Rupie Edwards 39 ( 37 ) Don't Call Us We'll Call You - Sugarloaf (#34) 40 ( -- ) Movin' On - Bad Company
-- ( 30 ) Free Bird - Lynyrd Skynyrd (#3) -- ( 31 ) Goodbye My Love - Glitter Band (#17) -- ( 36 ) The Entertainer - Billy Joel (#3) -- ( 38 ) Pick Up The Pieces - Average White Band (#2[2]) -- ( 39 ) Star On A TV Show - Stylistics (#30) -- ( 40 ) Struttin' - Billy Preston (#15)
-- ( -- ) Poetry Man - Phoebe Snow -- ( -- ) Never Let Her Go - David Gates
This week had so few songs on the list I added in the ones that missed from last week and the week before and we see 4 from 2 weeks ago enter between #33 and #40.
This is the final chart before the break, there is a playlist of 3 weeks of 1975 singles that I was listening to but will score it up after the break. There is a classic in each of the 3 weeks of it.
For next week it's going to be a battle for Steve Harley to remain at the top with Supertramp's classic threatening to take over. They are both great songs and you often feel songs deserve longer at the top but there are too many good songs at the time.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jul 12, 2020 11:32:19 GMT 1
Can you post a full list of songs, which were # 1 in your charts ? I made a topic somewhere about my charts in the 1960s in general, and I could put in there all my #1s of the 1960s, although the first few charts are going to be redone. That's because 1959 will properly run into it. Perhaps you'd rather just see a list of all the #1s in my chart that featured a female vocalist. And maybe the #2s too as Alma Cogan and Patti Page have both peaked at that position 3 times without ever reaching the top.
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Post by Good Old Days on Jul 12, 2020 18:22:39 GMT 1
I made a topic somewhere about my charts in the 1960s in general, and I could put in there all my #1s of the 1960s, although the first few charts are going to be redone. That's because 1959 will properly run into it. Perhaps you'd rather just see a list of all the #1s in my chart that featured a female vocalist. And maybe the #2s too as Alma Cogan and Patti Page have both peaked at that position 3 times without ever reaching the top. Not sure about 60s, but I don't think that many female singers will have even top 10 hits in your 70s chart, especially if don't count disco (possibly it's my least favourite genre in retro music). I have the interest in all your number ones from the first retro years to modern times (late 90s or maybe even 2000s), before your chart became very far from UK hitlist, because I obviously don't know almost every track from it. I'm a big fan of female singers, but prefer to see something good from Elvis, Beatles, any other male singer at # 1 in your chart than Kate Bush or Joni Mitchell.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jul 12, 2020 21:03:47 GMT 1
My chart started drifting away from the UK hit-list in April 1998 when I stopped relying on the charts and simply bought new releases then charted based on that.
In January 2007 it started drifting further away when I moved to downloads. Even then I sort-of followed the UK chart until around 2009.
Tich was of course big in my chart in 2013, and there were a lot of male-female duos successful around 2014. Had Dollar been around then instead of when they were, they'd probably have been massive in my chart.
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Post by Good Old Days on Jul 12, 2020 21:09:23 GMT 1
My chart started drifting away from the UK hit-list in April 1998 when I stopped relying on the charts and simply bought new releases then charted based on that. That's interesting, because 1999-2003 is my favourite period in a history of UK charts.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jul 12, 2020 21:18:31 GMT 1
It would be, manufactured pop was at a peak at that time.
I don't know why you care so much if the song reached the UK chart. My post-1998 charts are full of great songs that didn't reach the chart.
In any case, this is a topic about my 1975 charts, and the artists that are in it. So Syreeta is the highest placed female vocalist in my chart on the week above.
I note on the first chart of the year, only Odia Coates duetting with Paul Anka, Gloria Gaynor with her Jackson Five cover, the Sex-O-Lettes performing with the male Disco-Tex, and Love Unlimited are the only female vocalists in the entire top 40.
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Post by Earl Purple on Aug 3, 2020 23:33:26 GMT 1
1 March 1975
1 ( 2 ) Dreamer - Supertramp < 1st #1 > 2 ( 1 ) Make Me Smile (Come Up And See Me) - Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel (#1[2]) 3 ( 5 ) You Are So Beautiful - Joe Cocker 4 ( 6 ) Lovin' You - Minnie Riperton 5 ( 4 ) Shame Shame Shame - Shirley & Company (#4) 6 ( 3 ) Your Kiss Is Sweet - Syreeta (#2[1]) 7 ( 14 ) No No Song - Ringo Starr 8 ( 10 ) Only You Can - Fox 9 ( -- ) Young Americans - David Bowie 10 ( 13 ) How Does It Feel - Slade
11 ( 11 ) To The Door Of The Sun - Al Martino 12 ( 9 ) Lady Marmalade - LaBelle (#7) 13 ( 7 ) #9 Dream - John Lennon (#1[4]) 14 ( 8 ) January - Pilot (#2) 15 ( -- ) Emotion - Helen Reddy 16 ( 16 ) Love Games - Drifters 17 ( 20 ) The Secrets That You Keep - Mud 18 ( 27 ) Sweet Music - Showaddywaddy 19 ( -- ) I've Been This Way Before - Neil Diamond 20 ( 12 ) Lady - Styx (#4)
21 ( 17 ) Good Love Can Never Die - Alvin Stardust (#16) 22 ( -- ) There's A Whole Lot Of Loving - Guys And Dolls 23 ( 33 ) Have You Never Been Mellow - Olivia Newton John 24 ( 24 ) Your Mama Won't Like Me - Suzi Quatro 25 ( 15 ) Can't Get It Out Of My Head - Electric Light Orchestra (#7) 26 ( 35 ) Express - B.T. Express 27 ( 28 ) This Monday Morning Feeling - Tito Simon 28 ( 21 ) Sixty Minute Man - Trammps (#17) 29 ( 23 ) My Last Night With You - Arrows (#21) 30 ( 30 ) I'm On My Way - Dean Parrish
31 ( 38 ) Leggo Skanga - Rupie Edwards 32 ( 26 ) Happy People - Temptations (#25) 33 ( 19 ) Something For The Girl With Everything - Sparks (#7) 34 ( 18 ) Rock & Roll (I Gave You The Best Years Of My Life) - Kevin Johnson (#2[1]) 35 ( -- ) Part Of The Plan - Dan Fogelberg 36 ( 25 ) I'm A Woman - Maria Muldaur (#18) 37 ( -- ) (Hey Won't You Play) Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song - B.J. Thomas 38 ( 31 ) Roll On Down The Highway - Bachman-Turner Overdrive (#31) 39 ( 22 ) Black Superman (Muhammad Ali) - Johnny Wakelin (#8) 40 ( -- ) Having A Party - Osmonds
-- ( 29 ) It May Be Winter Outside (But In My Heart It's Spring) - Love Unlimited (#16) -- ( 32 ) Now I'm Here - Queen (#12) -- ( 34 ) Best Of My Love - Eagles (#6) -- ( 36 ) Please Tell Him That I Said Hello - Dana (#26) -- ( 37 ) My Eyes Adored You - Frankie Valli (#11) -- ( 39 ) Don't Call Us We'll Call You - Sugarloaf (#34) -- ( 40 ) Movin' On - Bad Company (#40)
-- ( -- ) Chevy Van - Sammy Johns -- ( -- ) I Get Lifted George McCrae
My playlist going into the 3 weeks had just 3 weeks of entries on it but it is totally full of classic pop songs. David Bowie's "Young Americans" gets him a new entry inside the top 10.
Guys And Dolls get an entry which would peak at #2 in the UK. Actually I think this would have made a good Eurovision entry for the UK instead of The Shadows. And among the members were David Van Day and Theresa Bazaar.
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