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Post by popchartfreak on Dec 20, 2017 21:56:34 GMT 1
16th December 1967
Yet another new number one as the pace of classics stays strong - this time The Four Tops definitive cover of Walk Away Renee gives them a second chart-topper of 1967, and holds off The Beatles - ALL the four Beatles absolute fave classics resting in the top 10. Highest new entry is Harry Nilsson's brilliant cover of One, giving him 2 top 10's, and ahead of the first actual single off the new album (from which this is taken, a 1968 singles flop everywhere, and yet a track that is quite well known these days). That overshadows another non-UK single - from the Rolling Stones, the best track off their new album, She's A Rainbow. That's 7 non-singles in the top 20, and another 2 that were US hits only. The UK charts could have been even better than they actually were.
Paul Mauriat's 1968 instrumental cover of Love Is Blue was a huge kiddie fave of mine on the Isle Of Anglesey, Caergiliog junior school, where we learned to play it on the melodica. Melodica's were everywhere, these days obscure or what!? In at 28, almost equalling Vicky Leandros is one week. Another Beach Boys goodie pops in, though the version I knew best was the late David Cassidy's 1975 hit UK cover - not as good as the original though. Peter Frampton & co are back for a second bite of the Miltonic cherry, Cat Stevens purrs in with another chart entry of the year, and Frankie Valli does Italian torch ballad, somewhat pioneered by fanboy Morrissey. Nancy Sinatra makes it 3 on the chart, as movie theme Tony Rome creeps in - just.
1 ( 6 ) WALK AWAY RENEE The Four Tops 2 ( 2 ) HELLO GOODBYE The Beatles 3 ( 1 ) JACKIE Scott Walker 4 ( 3 ) KITES Simon Dupree & The Big Sound 5 ( 7 ) FOOL ON THE HILL The Beatles 6 ( 4 ) I AM THE WALRUS The Beatles 7 ( 5 ) WORLD The Bee Gees 8 ( 9 ) MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR The Beatles 9 ( 8 ) DAYDREAM BELIEVER The Monkees 10 ( NEW ) ONE Harry Nilsson
11 ( 12 ) GREEN TAMBOURINE The Lemon Pipers 12 ( NEW ) SHE’S A RAINBOW The Rolling Stones 13 ( 11 ) DIFFERENT DRUM The Stone Poneys featuring Linda Ronstadt 14 ( 20 ) WEAR YOUR LOVE LIKE HEAVEN Donovan 15 ( 13 ) BY THE TIME I GET TO PHOENIX Glen Campbell 16 ( 10 ) JUDY IN DISGUISE (WITH GLASSES) John Fred & His Playboy Band 17 ( 14 ) THE OTHER MAN’S GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER Petula Clark 18 ( 18 ) I’M COMING HOME Tom Jones 19 ( 15 ) EVERYBODY KNOWS The Dave Clark Five 20 ( 16 ) WHAT AM I DOING HANGIN’ ROUND? The Monkees
21 ( 19 ) MASSACHUSSETS (THE LIGHTS GO OUT IN) The Bee Gees 22 ( 24 ) YOUR MOTHER SHOULD KNOW The Beatles 23 ( 30 ) SPOOKY Classics IV 24 ( 21 ) LET THE HEARTACHES BEGIN Long John Baldry 25 ( 17 ) WOMAN, WOMAN Gary Puckett & The Union Gap 26 ( 33 ) BACK UP TRAIN Al Green & The Soul Mates 27 ( 27 ) MR. BUS DRIVER Bruce Channel 28 ( NEW ) LOVE IS BLUE Paul Mauriat & His Orchestra 29 ( 35 ) THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE Julie Andrews 30 ( 37 ) I ONLY LIVE TO LOVE YOU Cilla Black
31 ( 22 ) STAR COLLECTOR The Monkees 32 ( NEW ) DARLIN’ The Beach Boys 33 ( 26 ) ZABADAK! Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich 34 ( 39 ) THE BALLAD OF BONNIE AND CLYDE Georgie Fame 35 ( 29 ) THE DAYS OF PEARLY SPENCER David McWilliams 36 ( 28 ) WHEN YOU’RE GONE Brenda & The Tabulations 37 ( 23 ) I FEEL FREE Cream 38 ( 44 ) DO UNTO OTHERS Paul Revere & The Raiders featuring Mark LIndsey 39 ( 32 ) SAND Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazelwood 40 ( 43 ) THANK U VERY MUCH The Scaffold
41 ( 31 ) MY RAINBOW VALLEY Robert Knight 42 ( 38 ) I CAN SEE FOR MILES The Who 43 ( 25 ) WHAT’S IT GONNA BE Dusty Springfield 44 ( 46 ) I WONDER WHAT SHE’S DOING TONIGHT Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart 45 ( 36 ) LADY BIRD Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazelwood 46 ( 40 ) FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE Hugo Montenegro & His Orchestra 47 ( 42 ) BABY NOW THAT I’VE FOUND YOU The Foundations 48 ( 48 ) TIN SOLDIER The Small Faces 49 ( 34 ) IN AND OUT OF LOVE Diana Ross & The Supremes 50 ( 50 ) I’LL BE SWEETER TOMORROW (THAN I AM TODAY) The O’Jays
51 ( 41 ) WITHOUT HER Harry Nilsson 52 ( 53 ) HONEY CHILE Martha Reeves & The Vandellas 53 ( 73 ) BEND ME SHAPE ME The American Breed 54 ( 49 ) ALL MY LOVE Cliff Richard 55 ( 52 ) REFLECTIONS Diana Ross & The Supremes 56 ( 45 ) (THEME FROM) VALLEY OF THE DOLLS Dionne Warwick 57 ( NEW ) PARADISE LOST The Herd 58 ( 66 ) LA DERNIERE VALSE Mireille Mathieu 59 ( 59 ) CARE OF CELL 44 The Zombies 60 ( RE ) STORYBOOK CHILDREN Billy Vera & Judy Clay
61 ( 51 ) SOMETHING’S GOTTEN HOLD OF MY HEART Gene Pitney 62 ( 55 ) EXCERPT FROM 'A TEENAGE OPERA' Keith West 63 ( 64 ) SAM Keith West 64 ( 75 ) BEST OF BOTH WORLDS Lulu 65 ( 60 ) ODE TO BILLIE JOE Bobbie Gentry 66 ( 54 ) (YOU MAKE ME FEEL LIKE) A NATURAL WOMAN Aretha Franklin 67 ( 57 ) THE RAIN, THE PARK AND OTHER THINGS The Cowsills 68 ( NEW ) KITTY Cat Stevens 69 ( 47 ) SUMMER RAIN Johnny Rivers 70 ( NEW ) UPTIGHT, GOOD MAN Laura Lee
71 ( 56 ) CAN’T HELP BUT LOVE YOU The Standells 72 ( NEW ) TO GIVE (THE REASON I LIVE) Frankie Valli 73 ( NEW ) GOOD, GOOD LOVIN’ The Blossoms featuring Darlene Love 74 ( NEW ) MY BABY MUST BE A MAGICIAN The Marvelettes 75 ( NEW ) TONY ROME Nancy Sinatra
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Post by popchartfreak on Dec 20, 2017 10:08:25 GMT 1
17th December 2017
How Can I Be Sure is back on top for a second week for the late David Cassidy, just holding off the strings-laden soul classic Stevie Wonder song as done by Aretha Franklin, finally getting the chart peak it deserved first time round when it was battling Glam Rock classics, Cher, Wings & Barry White. I just turned sweet 16.
Tame Impala get a 3rd top 5, Roy Orbison gets his biggest of the year, and the RPO get 2 in the top 10. Steely Dan return to the top 10 42 years later, and Chris Rea gets a top 20 xmas classic return for the umpteenth time without ever topping my chart. Yes there's a bit of a dearth of new material as Christmas takes over - though Kim Wilde gets a second christmas song in the chart some 38 years since the last one.
The Fizz enter the chart as the highest new entry, with assist from prog legend Rick Wakeman who was tinkling the ivories for Bowie and others over 45 years ago, and anyone who could have forseen a 2017 link-up with Bucks Fizz would be truly living in a world of alternate universes. It works though!
1 2 1 4 HOW CAN I BE SURE David Cassidy 570000 2 6 2 2 UNTIL YOU COME BACK TO ME (THAT’S WHAT I’M GONNA DO) Aretha Franklin with The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra 170000 3 1 1 7 MYSTERY OF LOVE Sufjan Stevens 697000 4 9 4 4 LIST OF PEOPLE (TO TRY AND FORGET) Tame Impala 128200 5 5 5 5 PHASES Alma & French Montana 212400 6 3 2 7 AMEN The Fizz 680000 7 7 7 5 HOLD ME TIGHT OR DON’T Fall Out Boy 148400 8 4 4 7 TIMEBOMBS HURRICANES Written By Wolves 329900 9 12 9 15 DO IT AGAIN Steely Dan 317500 10 18 10 5 BLUE ANGEL Roy Orbison & The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra 119450
11 15 10 5 COLA CamelPhat & Elderbrook 134400 12 8 8 5 GOLDEN SLUMBERS The Beatles 151000 13 11 5 4 I’M A CLOWN David Cassidy 171000 14 10 8 6 THE CALLING TheFatRat featuring Laura Brehm 222500 15 13 1 10 I LOVE YOU BUT I’M LOST Tears For Fears 642500 16 37 16 3 DRIVING HOME FOR CHRISTMAS Chris Rea 47300 17 14 1 16 CRYBABY Paloma Faith 1007000 18 22 18 4 I KNOW YOU Craig David featuring Bastille 67150 19 17 3 10 BETWEEN TWO ISLANDS Pet Shop Boys 438000 20 28 20 5 GUILTY Paloma Faith 78600
21 19 17 7 ANYWHERE Rita Ora 133650 22 25 22 4 I CAN FEEL YOUR HEARTBEAT The Partridge Family featuring David Cassidy & Shirley Jones 73950 23 34 23 2 YOU MAKE IT FEEL LIKE CHRISTMAS Gwen Stefani featuring Blake Shelton 36850 24 35 24 6 GO BANG PNAU 96600 25 21 4 19 BOTH SIDES NOW Glen Campbell 429500 26 44 26 3 FIND YOU Nick Jonas 41750 27 16 16 5 ONLY YOU (2017 VERSION) Yazoo 102400 28 20 3 12 READY TO GO Hurts 569300 29 36 29 6 (DON’T FEAR) THE REAPER Blue Oyster Cult 91400 30 46 30 6 SILENCE Marshmello featuring Khalid 75950
31 23 1 12 WAIT UP Hurts 749150 32 32 1 12 MAGNIFICENT Hurts 870100 33 33 17 7 YOU WERE RIGHT RUFUS 133750 34 24 1 5 MAID OF ORLEANS (THE WALTZ JOAN OF ARC) Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark 298600 35 NEW 35 1 HOME FOR MY HEART The Fizz featuring Rick Wakeman 17500 36 26 15 6 COMIN’ UP Tungevaag & Raaban featuring Victor Crone 125900 37 48 37 4 COULD IT BE FOREVER David Cassidy 62600 38 31 7 8 IMMIGRANT SONG Led Zeppelin 250000 39 58 39 2 LAST CHRISTMAS Wham! 27300 40 59 40 4 DAYDREAMER David Cassidy 39100
41 30 1 15 MY KINGDOM (WILLIAM BLACK REMIX) Evangeline 892650 42 27 18 8 ULTRA LOVE Marlon Roudette 157900 43 42 1 15 FOOTSTEPS Pet Shop Boys 914650 44 41 10 10 SEXY NORTHERNER Pet Shop Boys 228000 45 49 6 18 GET LOW Zedd & Liam Payne 454500 46 29 29 3 FUGITIVE (RICHARD X EXTENDED MIX) Pet Shop Boys 48950 47 40 40 6 I MISS YOU Clean Bandit featuring Julia Michaels 64700 48 53 48 6 GALAXY Dannii Minogue 56900 49 39 34 9 ROBOT MAN Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark 126550 50 62 50 4 BANDALA The Partridge Family featuring David Cassidy & Shirley Jones 31200
51 43 4 11 GO 2.0 Burak Yeter & Ryan Rybak 339350 52 38 34 5 GOLDEN SLUMBERS Elbow 70100 53 52 8 13 BEST FRIEND Sofi Tukker featuring NERVO, The Knocks & Alisa Ueno 319950 54 50 12 15 LIFE WITH THE MACBETHS Sparks 255350 55 55 1 24 DREAMS Grace Slick 699100 56 63 56 3 SANTA CLAUS IS COMING TO TOWN The Crystals 23000 57 45 35 5 WAY TO GO (GOMEZ & TRITTER REMIX) Empire Of The Sun 70400 58 RE 19 11 BEAUTIFUL TRAUMA P!nk 159200 59 47 47 4 GET OUT OF YOUR OWN WAY U2 46150 60 NEW 60 1 F U KRISTMAS Kim Wilde & Lawnmower Deth 10000
61 54 22 8 COMIC LIFE Matt Maltese 117600 62 56 30 10 EVERYTHING IS NEVER ENOUGH (VIDEO MIX) Goldfrapp 128300 63 61 3 15 CLOSER TO HEAVEN Pet Shop Boys 461650 64 57 31 7 DRIVEWAY culpriit 94000 65 65 29 9 A DIFFERENT CORNER George Michael 110550 66 71 66 2 MISS CLARKE AND THE COMPUTER Roy Wood 12600 67 67 1 40 ALONE AGAIN OR Love 1011150 68 66 1 25 TWO FUX Adam Lambert 1098300 69 69 14 16 ALL STARS Martin Solveig featuring Alma 246750 70 NEW 70 1 SMOKE CLEARS Andy Grammar 6000
71 68 1 23 TRUE FEELING Galantis 993350 72 NEW 72 1 ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS YOU Mariah Carey 5600 73 70 10 18 WHAT ABOUT US P!nk 313800 74 NEW 74 1 WOLVES Selena Gomez & Marshmello 5200 75 NEW 75 1 RUT The Killers 5000
DROP OUTS 51 25 9 OH, PRETTY WOMAN Roy Orbison & The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra 141750 60 49 7 HOW LONG Charlie Puth 66400 64 16 7 HOLY MOUNTAIN Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds 113500 72 72 4 XANADU (LIVE AT WEMBLEY) Jeff Lynne’s ELO 22200 73 39 4 RISING COST OF LOVE Elkie Brooks 47000 74 74 1 MIAMI (PARROT AND COCKER TOO MIX) Baxter Dury 5200 75 75 1 I WISH IT COULD BE CHRISTMAS EVERYDAY Wizzard 5000
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Post by popchartfreak on Dec 15, 2017 15:38:33 GMT 1
16th December 1967
Scott Walker grabs a first solo number one with the epic Jackie holding off the epic highest new entry Renee, The Four Tops cover that outdoes the original in drama. Not to mention the Magical Mystery Tour EP invasion. With more than enough material for an album, from All You Need Is Love through to this, including b sides, the fabs missed a trick. 4 in the top 10 and 6 in the 75. A Cream classic is edged down to 23 as a new entry. Its worth pointing out that Tom Jones and other tracks were all considered top 3 certs by me before i started doing the charts and found that they actually were overwhelmed by so many even better tracks!
1 (5) JACKIE Scott Walker 2 (1) HELLO GOODBYE The Beatles 3 (2) KITES Simon Dupree & The Big Sound 4 (4) I AM THE WALRUS The Beatles 5 (3) WORLD The Bee Gees 6 (NEW) WALK AWAY RENEE The Four Tops 7 (NEW) FOOL ON THE HILL The Beatles 8 (6) DAYDREAM BELIEVER The Monkees 9 (NEW) MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR The Beatles 10 (11) JUDY IN DISGUISE (WITH GLASSES) John Fred & His Playboy Band
11 (7) DIFFERENT DRUM The Stone Poneys featuring Linda Ronstadt 12 (14) GREEN TAMBOURINE The Lemon Pipers 13 (8) BY THE TIME I GET TO PHOENIX Glen Campbell 14 (16) THE OTHER MAN’S GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER Petula Clark 15 (13) EVERYBODY KNOWS The Dave Clark Five 16 (10) WHAT AM I DOING HANGIN’ ROUND? The Monkees 17 (9) WOMAN, WOMAN Gary Puckett & The Union Gap 18 (18) I’M COMING HOME Tom Jones 19 (15) MASSACHUSSETS (THE LIGHTS GO OUT IN) The Bee Gees 20 (20) WEAR YOUR LOVE LIKE HEAVEN Donovan
21 (12) LET THE HEARTACHES BEGIN Long John Baldry 22 (17) STAR COLLECTOR The Monkees 23 (NEW) I FEEL FREE Cream 24 (NEW) YOUR MOTHER SHOULD KNOW The Beatles 25 (25) WHAT’S IT GONNA BE Dusty Springfield 26 (19) ZABADAK! Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich 27 (27) MR. BUS DRIVER Bruce Channel 28 (24) WHEN YOU’RE GONE Brenda & The Tabulations 29 (26) THE DAYS OF PEARLY SPENCER David McWilliams 30 (38) SPOOKY Classics IV
31 (21) MY RAINBOW VALLEY Robert Knight 32 (22) SAND Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazelwood 33 (36) BACK UP TRAIN Al Green & The Soul Mates 34 (37) IN AND OUT OF LOVE Diana Ross & The Supremes 35 (40) THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE Julie Andrews 36 (23) LADY BIRD Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazelwood 37 (45) I ONLY LIVE TO LOVE YOU Cilla Black 38 (30) I CAN SEE FOR MILES The Who 39 (NEW) THE BALLAD OF BONNIE AND CLYDE Georgie Fame 40 (31) FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE Hugo Montenegro & His Orchestra
41 (32) WITHOUT HER Harry Nilsson 42 (35) BABY NOW THAT I’VE FOUND YOU The Foundations 43 (48) THANK U VERY MUCH The Scaffold 44 (49) DO UNTO OTHERS Paul Revere & The Raiders featuring Mark LIndsey 45 (34) (THEME FROM) VALLEY OF THE DOLLS Dionne Warwick 46 (52) I WONDER WHAT SHE’S DOING TONIGHT Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart 47 (28) SUMMER RAIN Johnny Rivers 48 (53) TIN SOLDIER The Small Faces 49 (29) ALL MY LOVE Cliff Richard 50 (57) I’LL BE SWEETER TOMORROW (THAN I AM TODAY) The O’Jays
51 (42) SOMETHING’S GOTTEN HOLD OF MY HEART Gene Pitney 52 (50) REFLECTIONS Diana Ross & The Supremes 53 (55) HONEY CHILE Martha Reeves & The Vandellas 54 (41) (YOU MAKE ME FEEL LIKE) A NATURAL WOMAN Aretha Franklin 55 (51) EXCERPT FROM 'A TEENAGE OPERA' Keith West 56 (59) CAN’T HELP BUT LOVE YOU The Standells 57 (43) THE RAIN, THE PARK AND OTHER THINGS The Cowsills 58 (60) SOMETHING’S MISSING The Five Stairsteps 59 (62) CARE OF CELL 44 The Zombies 60 (54) ODE TO BILLIE JOE Bobbie Gentry
61 (33)FOGGY MOUNTAIN BREAKDOWN Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs 62 (39) THESE DAYS Nico 63 (46) WHAT’S SO GOOD ABOUT GOOD-BYE Giant Sunflower 64 (64) SAM Keith West 65 (44) SARAH (LA FEMME QUI EST DANS MON LIT) Serge Reggiani 66 (NEW) LA DERNIERE VALSE Mireille Mathieu 67 (NEW) BLUE JAY WAY The Beatles 68 (71) LITTLE BIT OF LOVIN’ The Outsiders 69 (72) CHAIN OF FOOLS Aretha Franklin 70 (61) GET THE MESSAGE Brian Hyland
71 (73) SUSANNAH’S STILL ALIVE Dave Davies 72 (74) IF I COULD BUILD MY WHOLE WORLD AROUND YOU Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell 73 (NEW) BEND ME SHAPE ME The American Breed 74 (NEW) GOOD COMBINATION Sonny & Cher 75 (NEW) BEST OF BOTH WORLDS Lulu
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Post by popchartfreak on Dec 12, 2017 21:40:12 GMT 1
10th December 1985
On top for the first time, and the first of dozens, it's Chris & Neil - dum dum dum dum-de-dum-dum. Holding off a reissued 1984 Band Aid chart-topper, still fresh and undimmed by 30-odd years of never-ending Christmas overkill. Sting shoots up Russians to 4, a sort of dark christmassy mood and his biggest solo hit to date. Julian Lennon gets a second top 10 and knocks out his dad.
Cameo enter at 19 with strange, but fab, song, ahead of the codpiece - it would eventually chart in the UK. A Mick Jagger album track joins the Yoko album track - veterans were now starting to opt out of singles off new albums, something which became huge business in the States in the 90's as physical singles died out to push album sales to new heights. Money money money! Mick's missus, of course, used to go out with Bryan Ferry - and he is also in looking Windswept. Fortunately Rupert Murdoch doesn't feature in the chart, though I did tweet him this week when he commented unbelievingly on global warming while flying over ice-swept northern hemispheres - IN MID-WINTER. What a dick. At least I can only assume that's why Jerry married the ageing multibillionaire.
No memory whatsoever of the Spacelings - one to youtube! However another overplayed christmas classic debuts at 60 - it's Shaky, with one of his occasional chart entries (in my charts, that is, 5 years non-stop in the UK charts). You all know it. Sheena Easton also has 5 years of occasional chart entries continued but her best Prince-days were still ahead. Another Christmas UK number one enters at 71 - well the song at any rate, for the Isley Brothers (sort of) 16 years into a chart career, and one year pre-Housemartins. That leaves comebacks for Mike Oldfield (topped my chart two times in 1974 with two albums - allowed because they were one track, essentially), and Joni Mitchell (1974 was also her best chart year for me) 15 years on from Big Yellow Taxi.
1 ( 2 ) WEST END GIRLS Pet Shop Boys 2 ( NEW ) DO THEY KNOW IT’S CHRISTMAS? Band Aid 3 ( 1 ) I’M YOUR MAN Wham! 4 ( 27 ) RUSSIANS Sting 5 ( 6 ) SUN CITY Artists Against Apartheid 6 ( 7 ) DRESS YOU UP Madonna 7 ( 9 ) SAVING ALL MY LOVE FOR YOU Whitney Houston 8 ( 5 ) HELL IN PARADISE Yoko Ono 9 ( 23 ) BECAUSE Julian Lennon 10 ( 4 ) DON’T BREAK MY HEART UB40
11 ( 11 ) MATED David Grant & Jaki Graham 12 ( 10 ) ROAD TO NOWHERE Talking Heads 13 ( 8 ) JEALOUS GUY John Lennon 14 ( 16 ) THAT’S WHAT FRIENDS ARE FOR Dionne Warwick & Friends 15 ( 3 ) A GOOD HEART Feargal Sharkey 16 ( 12 ) SISTERS ARE DOING IT FOR THEMSELVES Eurythmics and Aretha Franklin 17 ( 19 ) DO YOU BELIEVE IN MIRACLES Slade 18 ( 20 ) SEE THE DAY Dee C. Lee 19 ( NEW ) SHE’S STRANGE Cameo 20 ( 15 ) THE WHOLE OF THE MOON The Waterboys
21 ( 17 ) WHEN LOVE BREAKS DOWN Prefab Sprout 22 ( 13 ) HEART AND SOUL Huey Lewis & The News 23 ( 28 ) REVOLUTION The Cult 24 ( 40 ) TONIGHT SHE COMES The Cars 25 ( 30 ) WE BUILT THIS CITY Starship 26 ( 26 ) SPIES LIKE US Paul McCartney 27 ( 35 ) THE SHOW Doug E. Fresh 28 ( 14 ) STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN Far Corporation 29 ( 38 ) AFTER THE LOVE HAS GONE Princess 30 ( 18 ) LOST WEEKEND Lloyd Cole & The Commotions
31 ( 37 ) DON’T LOOK DOWN Go West 32 ( 32 ) SANTA CLAUS IS COMING TO TOWN Bruce Springsteen 33 ( 21 ) CITIES IN DUST Siouxsie & The Banshees 34 ( 24 ) TAKE ON ME A-Ha 35 ( 45 ) DON’T YOU JUST KNOW IT Amazulu 36 ( NEW ) HARD WOMAN Mick Jagger 37 ( 47 ) SAY YOU SAY ME Lionel Richie 38 ( 42 ) REVOLUTION The Thompson Twins 39 ( 67 ) HIT THAT PERFECT BEAT Bronski Beat 40 ( 48 ) WRAP HER UP Elton John
41 ( 33 ) BROTHERS IN ARMS Dire Straits 42 ( 25 ) P-MACHINERY (REMIX) Propaganda 43 ( 36 ) NIKITA Elton John 44 ( 44 ) WHEN A HEART BEATS Nik Kershaw 45 ( NEW ) WINDSWEPT Bryan Ferry 46 ( 50 ) SEPARATE LIVES Phil Collins & Marilyn Martin 47 ( 71 ) OH LOUISE Junior 48 ( 34 ) THE POWER OF LOVE Jennifer Rush 49 ( NEW ) LAST NIGHT I HAD THE STRANGEST DREAM The Spacelings 50 ( 22 ) BLUE Fine Young Cannibals
51 ( 60 ) YOU’RE A FRIEND OF MINE Clarence Clemons & Jackson Browne 52 ( 56 ) PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE LET ME GET WHAT I WANT Dream Academy 53 ( 39 ) SLAVE TO THE RHYTHM Grace Jones 54 ( 43 ) IF I WAS Midge Ure 55 ( 66 ) LOVING YOU’S A DIRTY JOB (BUT SOMEBODY'S GOT TO DO IT) Bonnie Tyler & Todd Rundgren 56 ( 54 ) THE LAST KISS David Cassidy 57 ( 51 ) DRIVE The Cars 58 ( 31 ) SOMETHING ABOUT YOU Level 42 59 ( 41 ) ONE VISION Queen 60 ( NEW ) MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE Shakin’ Stevens
61 ( 29 ) THAT CERTAIN SMILE Midge Ure 62 ( 75 ) BROKEN WINGS Mr. Mister 63 ( 46 ) IT’S A MANS MANS MANS MANS WORLD Brilliant 64 ( NEW ) HEART OF LOTHIAN Marillion 65 ( 69 ) WHO’S ZOOMING WHO Aretha Franklin 66 ( NEW ) LEAVING ME NOW Level 42 67 ( 57 ) RUNNING UP THAT HILL Kate Bush 68 ( 64 ) MEGAREX T.Rex 69 ( NEW ) DO IT FOR LOVE Sheena Easton 70 ( NEW ) FOREVER BE Sal Solo
71 ( NEW ) CARAVAN OF LOVE Isley Jasper isley 72 ( NEW ) PICTURES IN THE DARK Mike Oldfield 73 ( 55 ) CLOUDBUSTING Kate Bush 74 ( 62 ) THE LODGERS The Style Council 75 ( NEW ) GOOD FRIENDS Joni Mitchell
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Post by popchartfreak on Dec 10, 2017 21:27:42 GMT 1
10th December 2017
It's Sufjan Stevens at 1, getting his first chart-topper at long last over a decade since debuting (and me buying his Illinois album). I was listening to this gorgeous low-key classy ballad as I drove in London traffic heading home with snow gently falling. How very Christmassy! Almost Driving Home For Christmas (Hi Chris Rea yet again in my top 40), except for I'm flying to the Canaries tomorrow morning. An actual new Christmas song pops in for Gwen Stefani, helped by Blake Shelton, and a good jolly effort it is, giving Gwen 20 years of chart entries, no doubt about it!
Another Xmas classic returns 44 years on - Wizzard's annual festive hit doesn't usually chart due to over-familiarity. I was insanely mad on it in 1973, had the picture sleeve vinyl and Roy Wood was coming off 4 consecutive number ones in my chart, plus some pre-fating Wizzard, as was my teen hero aged 15/16. I got to see him in Basingstoke on Tuesday, probably 20 years on since I last saw. He can still put on a good show, even if he needs a hand with the song order these days. I've used that as an excuse to allow a quirky track that played as I walked into The Anvil venue, one off Boulders his first album that I played rather a lot.
Highest new entry, though, is another RPO classic combo, this time Aretha Franklin gets the treatment with her brilliant Stevie Wonder cover from 1974 - it very much underperformed in my charts in the January/February as Wizzard dropped down my charts from the top. Roy Wood knocked himself off the top, with solo hit song Forever, that never gets played these days - not even by Roy in concert.
Big climbs for Tame Impala, back in the top 10, and ditto Fall Out Boy. Finally, a debut for Ian Dury's boy, so, Reasons To Be Cheerful there.
1 3 1 6 MYSTERY OF LOVE Sufjan Stevens 612000 2 2 1 3 HOW CAN I BE SURE David Cassidy 400000 3 1 2 6 AMEN The Fizz 625000 4 7 4 6 TIMEBOMBS HURRICANES Written By Wolves 281900 5 6 5 4 PHASES Alma & French Montana 152400 6 NEW 6 1 UNTIL YOU COME BACK TO ME (THAT’S WHAT I’M GONNA DO) Aretha Franklin with The Royal Philaharmonic Orchestra 55000 7 20 7 4 HOLD ME TIGHT OR DON’T Fall Out Boy 98400 8 15 8 4 GOLDEN SLUMBERS The Beatles 116000 9 45 9 3 LIST OF PEOPLE (TO TRY AND FORGET) Tame Impala 63200 10 8 8 5 THE CALLING TheFatRat featuring Laura Brehm 193500
11 5 5 3 I’M A CLOWN David Cassidy 139000 12 12 12 14 DO IT AGAIN Steely Dan 272500 13 9 1 9 I LOVE YOU BUT I’M LOST Tears For Fears 615500 14 11 1 15 CRYBABY Paloma Faith 984000 15 10 10 4 COLA CamelPhat & Elderbrook 97400 16 19 16 4 ONLY YOU (2017 VERSION) Yazoo 84000 17 16 3 9 BETWEEN TWO ISLANDS Pet Shop Boys 417000 18 21 18 4 BLUE ANGEL Roy Orbison & The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra 77450 19 27 17 6 ANYWHERE Rita Ora 113900 20 17 3 11 READY TO GO Hurts 551000
21 4 4 18 BOTH SIDES NOW Glen Campbell 410750 22 23 22 3 I KNOW YOU Craig David featuring Bastille 45150 23 14 1 11 WAIT UP Hurts 731250 24 13 1 4 MAID OF ORLEANS (THE WALTZ JOAN OF ARC) Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark 281000 25 28 25 3 I CAN FEEL YOUR HEARTBEAT The Partridge Family featuring David Cassidy & Shirley Jones 54450 26 26 15 5 COMIN’ UP Tungevaag & Raaban featuring Victor Crone 108500 27 25 18 7 ULTRA LOVE Marlon Roudette 144150 28 29 28 4 GUILTY Paloma Faith 58600 29 30 29 2 FUGITIVE (RICHARD X EXTENDED MIX) Pet Shop Boys 36200 30 18 1 14 MY KINGDOM (WILLIAM BLACK REMIX) Evangeline 878650
31 31 7 7 IMMIGRANT SONG Led Zeppelin 232800 32 22 1 11 MAGNIFICENT Hurts 852300 33 33 17 6 YOU WERE RIGHT RUFUS 116050 34 NEW 34 1 YOU MAKE IT FEEL LIKE CHRISTMAS Gwen Stefani featuring Blake Shelton 17600 35 24 24 5 GO BANG PNAU 77600 36 37 36 5 (DON’T FEAR) THE REAPER Blue Oyster Cult 73200 37 75 37 2 DRIVING HOME FOR CHRISTMAS Chris Rea 22300 38 34 34 4 GOLDEN SLUMBERS Elbow 58600 39 42 34 8 ROBOT MAN Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark 114450 40 40 40 5 I MISS YOU Clean Bandit featuring Julia Michaels 52200
41 41 10 9 SEXY NORTHERNER Pet Shop Boys 214750 42 38 1 14 FOOTSTEPS Pet Shop Boys 901150 43 36 4 10 GO 2.0 Burak Yeter & Ryan Rybak 327600 44 60 44 2 FIND YOU Nick Jonas 23250 45 35 35 4 WAY TO GO (GOMEZ & TRITTER REMIX) Empire Of The Sun 60000 46 39 39 5 SILENCE Marshmello featuring Khalid 57950 47 48 47 3 GET OUT OF YOUR OWN WAY U2 36050 48 50 48 3 COULD IT BE FOREVER David Cassidy 45300 49 44 6 17 GET LOW Zedd & Liam Payne 441500 50 43 12 14 LIFE WITH THE MACBETHS Sparks 244350
51 32 25 9 OH, PRETTY WOMAN Roy Orbison & The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra 141750 52 46 8 12 BEST FRIEND Sofi Tukker featuring NERVO, The Knocks & Alisa Ueno 308700 53 53 53 5 GALAXY Dannii Minogue 44600 54 51 22 7 COMIC LIFE Matt Maltese 110100 55 55 1 23 DREAMS Grace Slick 688300 56 56 30 9 EVERYTHING IS NEVER ENOUGH (VIDEO MIX) Goldfrapp 120900 57 54 31 6 DRIVEWAY culpriit 86900 58 NEW 58 1 LAST CHRISTMAS Wham! 10200 59 65 59 3 DAYDREAMER David Cassidy 22100 60 49 49 7 HOW LONG Charlie Puth 66400
61 57 3 14 CLOSER TO HEAVEN Pet Shop Boys 454450 62 70 62 3 BANDALA The Partridge Family featuring David Cassidy & Shirley Jones 19200 63 74 63 2 SANTA CLAUS IS COMING TO TOWN The Crystals 12400 64 59 16 7 HOLY MOUNTAIN Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds 113500 65 62 29 8 A DIFFERENT CORNER George Michael 103550 66 66 1 24 TWO FUX Adam Lambert 1091900 67 67 1 39 ALONE AGAIN OR Love 1004550 68 63 1 22 TRUE FEELING Galantis 987550 69 69 14 15 ALL STARS Martin Solveig featuring Alma 240550 70 64 10 17 WHAT ABOUT US P!nk 308400
71 NEW 71 1 MISS CLARKE AND THE COMPUTER Roy Wood 5800 72 72 72 4 XANADU (LIVE AT WEMBLEY) Jeff Lynne’s ELO 22200 73 RE 39 4 RISING COST OF LOVE Elkie Brooks 47000 74 NEW 74 1 MIAMI (PARROT AND COCKER TOO MIX) Baxter Dury 5200 75 NEW 75 1 I WISH IT COULD BE CHRISTMAS EVERYDAY Wizzard 5000
DROP OUTS 47 20 8 LOVE HURTS Roy Orbison & The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra 142900 52 52 4 LET YOU DOWN NF 32700 58 50 3 FIELDS OF GOLD Katie Melua 33000 61 29 4 ELECTRICITY Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark 57000 68 19 10 BEAUTIFUL TRAUMA P!nk 149000 71 10 13 THE PUNISHMENT OF LUXURY Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark 202950 73 3 17 DRINK UP Train 648900
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Post by popchartfreak on Dec 7, 2017 21:19:54 GMT 1
3rd December 1985
2 weeks on top for Wham! just holding off another top British duo, and Pet Shop Boys hit 2 with the classic West End Girls. Yoko Ono gets her first top solo hit in 5 years, since Walking On Thin Ice topped my chart, the final record she & John were working on the night of his murder, and John goes up one to 8. Sun City protest song hits 6, Madonna ends the year with a 6th top 10, and Whitney Houston gets a debut top 10.
Grant n Graham just miss out on a 2nd top 10 together, 5 years since David first had his Lynx, and Dionne Warwick is back in the top 20 3 years on from the last time, Dee C. Lee finally scrapes into the 20 with a great ballad that took me time to warm to, and Slade make their run of top 20's 14 years. Julian Lennon follows his dad into the 40, The Cult make it a hat-trick, and highest new entry is a christmas classic, as done by Broooooce, at 32, Santa Clause Is Coming To Town. Brucie's sax player gets his own debut at 60, Clarence Clemons bringing along Jackson Browne who first made my charts 13 years earlier with Doctor My Eyes.
The Cars return for a 3rd hit of the year, at 40, while at 66 it's another pop duet, as Bonnie Tyler extends her run of chart entries to 9 years, in hand with the fab Todd Rundgren who first made my charts with the fab I Saw The Light in 1972. The song and production is a Jim Steinman epic, as they all are in his style, but only hit big in Portugal, though Meatloaf finally got around to doing his version with Jim in 2016.
Bronski Beat have a new lead singer, Junior keeps popping in, Evelyn King hasn't dropped the Champagne, 7 years on from her first Shame, and Mr. Mister debut with a great song Broken Wings.
1 ( 1 ) I’M YOUR MAN Wham! 2 ( 6 ) WEST END GIRLS Pet Shop Boys 3 ( 2 ) A GOOD HEART Feargal Sharkey 4 ( 3 ) DON’T BREAK MY HEART UB40 5 ( 7 ) HELL IN PARADISE Yoko Ono 6 ( 15 ) SUN CITY Artists Against Apartheid 7 ( 14 ) DRESS YOU UP Madonna 8 ( 9 ) JEALOUS GUY John Lennon 9 ( 18 ) SAVING ALL MY LOVE FOR YOU Whitney Houston 10 ( 10 ) ROAD TO NOWHERE Talking Heads
11 ( 26 ) MATED David Grant & Jaki Graham 12 ( 8 ) SISTERS ARE DOING IT FOR THEMSELVES Eurythmics and Aretha Franklin 13 ( 4 ) HEART AND SOUL Huey Lewis & The News 14 ( 5 ) STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN Far Corporation 15 ( 11 ) THE WHOLE OF THE MOON The Waterboys 16 ( 30 ) THAT’S WHAT FRIENDS ARE FOR Dionne Warwick & Friends 17 ( 21 ) WHEN LOVE BREAKS DOWN Prefab Sprout 18 ( 12 ) LOST WEEKEND Lloyd Cole & The Commotions 19 ( 25 ) DO YOU BELIEVE IN MIRACLES Slade 20 ( 33 ) SEE THE DAY Dee C. Lee
21 ( 13 ) CITIES IN DUST Siouxsie & The Banshees 22 ( 24 ) BLUE Fine Young Cannibals 23 ( 58 ) BECAUSE Julian Lennon 24 ( 17 ) TAKE ON ME A-Ha 25 ( 37 ) P-MACHINERY (REMIX) Propaganda 26 ( 36 ) SPIES LIKE US Paul McCartney 27 ( 29 ) RUSSIANS Sting 28 ( 44 ) REVOLUTION The Cult 29 ( 32 ) THAT CERTAIN SMILE Midge Ure 30 ( 39 ) WE BUILT THIS CITY Starship
31 ( 16 ) SOMETHING ABOUT YOU Level 42 32 ( NEW ) SANTA CLAUS IS COMING TO TOWN Bruce Springsteen 33 ( 19 ) BROTHERS IN ARMS Dire Straits 34 ( 23 ) THE POWER OF LOVE Jennifer Rush 35 ( 43 ) THE SHOW Doug E. Fresh 36 ( 22 ) NIKITA Elton John 37 ( 54 ) DON’T LOOK DOWN Go West 38 ( 48 ) AFTER THE LOVE HAS GONE Princess 39 ( 28 ) SLAVE TO THE RHYTHM Grace Jones 40 ( NEW ) TONIGHT SHE COMES The Cars
41 ( 20 ) ONE VISION Queen 42 ( 45 ) REVOLUTION The Thompson Twins 43 ( 34 ) IF I WAS Midge Ure 44 ( 60 ) WHEN A HEART BEATS Nik Kershaw 45 ( 69 ) DON’T YOU JUST KNOW IT Amazulu 46 ( 38 ) IT’S A MANS MANS MANS MANS WORLD Brilliant 47 ( 57 ) SAY YOU SAY ME Lionel Richie 48 ( 71 ) WRAP HER UP Elton John 49 ( 35 ) ALIVE AND KICKING Simple Minds 50 ( 66 ) SEPARATE LIVES Phil Collins & Marilyn Martin
51 ( 47 ) DRIVE The Cars 52 ( 31 ) YOU ARE MY WORLD The Communards 53 ( 27 ) JUST FOR MONEY Paul Hardcastle 54 ( 55 ) THE LAST KISS David Cassidy 55 ( 42 ) CLOUDBUSTING Kate Bush 56 ( 68 ) PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE LET ME GET WHAT I WANT Dream Academy 57 ( 52 ) RUNNING UP THAT HILL Kate Bush 58 ( 53 ) LEAN ON ME (AH-LI-AYO) Red Box 59 ( 51 ) UNCLE SAM Madness 60 ( NEW ) YOU’RE A FRIEND OF MINE Clarence Clemons & Jackson Browne
61 ( 41 ) (I’LL NEVER BE) MARIA MAGDALENA Sandra 62 ( 46 ) THE LODGERS The Style Council 63 ( 40 ) LOSE YOUR LOVE Blancmange 64 ( 64 ) MEGAREX T.Rex 65 ( 59 ) YOU AND YOUR HEART SO BLUE Bucks Fizz 66 ( NEW ) LOVING YOU’S A DIRTY JOB (BUT SOMEBODY'S GOTTA DO IT) Bonnie Tyler & Todd Rundgren 67 ( NEW ) HIT THAT PERFECT BEAT Bronski Beat 68 ( 74 ) THE HIGHEST HIGH China Crisis 69 ( 75 ) WHO’S ZOOMING WHO Aretha Franklin 70 ( 70 ) LET THE BELLS RING OUT FOREVER The New Seekers
71 ( NEW ) OH LOUISE Junior 72 ( 61 ) THIS IS ENGLAND The Clash 73 ( NEW ) YOUR PERSONAL TOUCH Evelyn ‘Champagne’ King 74 ( NEW ) WHAT’S GONE WRONG The Untouchables 75 ( NEW ) BROKEN WINGS Mr. Mister
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Post by popchartfreak on Dec 6, 2017 21:32:51 GMT 1
2nd December 1967
In the revolving turntable of classics, it's another week another fantastic new number one, Hello Goodbye being probably my fave Beatles record to date at the time, give or take Eleanor Rigby, and the Fabs 4th chart-topper of 1967, as I am The Walrus elbows out fellow classics clawing itself up to 4. Highest new entry is Scott Walker's greatest, and most epic solo record, the wondrous Jackie. It would be fair to say I didn't know it at the time, being a child and all, what with it being banned, but I came across it on a 1968 budget compilation LP I bought in 1976 - and became obsessed with it then (but didn't allow it in my charts as it wasn't a single reissue). Eventually it topped my charts in the noughties - a decade after Marc Almond took it to number as well.
Bruce Channel gets a big climb, very Northern Soul Gotta-See-Jane-ish, which is all I need. Al Green vaults into the 40 with a track I'd never heard in my life two weeks ago, and Classics IV enter high too with the fab Spooky, later covered beautifully by Dusty Springfield and also Atlanta Rhythm Section in the late 70's (who included two members of Classics IV, rather co-incidentally). Julie Andrews goes top 40 with the fab Thoroughly Modern Millie, terrific lyrics and great fun, just like the movie.
Boyce & Hart enter at 52, no longer needing the Monkees to get a hit song, and vice versa, while The Small Faces bring a Tin Soldier just below them. The bottom 5 see 1967 returnees, and one debut - Fleetwood Mac cover an old blues song, and start a 50-year recording and hitmaking career. OK, in 2017 it's been backing Buckingham & McVie who weren't members then, but hey, it's Mrs Mac, Mac & Fleetwood involved so that's good enough for me.
1 ( 3 ) HELLO GOODBYE The Beatles 2 ( 1 ) KITES Simon Dupree & The Big Sound 3 ( 2 ) WORLD The Bee Gees 4 ( 6 ) I AM THE WALRUS The Beatles 5 ( NEW ) JACKIE Scott Walker 6 ( 4 ) DAYDREAM BELIEVER The Monkees 7 ( 5 ) DIFFERENT DRUM The Stone Poneys featuring Linda Ronstadt 8 ( 7 ) BY THE TIME I GET TO PHOENIX Glen Campbell 9 ( 10 ) WOMAN, WOMAN Gary Puckett & The Union Gap 10 ( 8 ) WHAT AM I DOING HANGIN’ ROUND? The Monkees
11 ( 12 ) JUDY IN DISGUISE (WITH GLASSES) John Fred & His Playboy Band 12 ( 9 ) LET THE HEARTACHES BEGIN Long John Baldry 13 ( 16 ) EVERYBODY KNOWS The Dave Clark Five 14 ( 17 ) GREEN TAMBOURINE The Lemon Pipers 15 ( 11 ) MASSACHUSSETS (THE LIGHTS GO OUT IN) The Bee Gees 16 ( 22 ) THE OTHER MAN’S GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER Petula Clark 17 ( 19 ) STAR COLLECTOR The Monkees 18 ( 21 ) I’M COMING HOME Tom Jones 19 ( 13 ) ZABADAK! Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich 20 ( 28 ) WEAR YOUR LOVE LIKE HEAVEN Donovan
21 ( 14 ) MY RAINBOW VALLEY Robert Knight 22 ( 15 ) SAND Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazelwood 23 ( 18 ) LADY BIRD Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazelwood 24 ( 20 ) WHEN YOU’RE GONE Brenda & The Tabulations 25 ( 30 ) WHAT’S IT GONNA BE Dusty Springfield 26 ( 23 ) THE DAYS OF PEARLY SPENCER David McWilliams 27 ( 50 ) MR. BUS DRIVER Bruce Channel 28 ( 34 ) SUMMER RAIN Johnny Rivers 29 ( 24 ) ALL MY LOVE Cliff Richard 30 ( 25 ) I CAN SEE FOR MILES The Who
31 ( 26 ) FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE Hugo Montenegro & His Orchestra 32 ( 29 ) WITHOUT HER Harry Nilsson 33 ( 33 ) FOGGY MOUNTAIN BREAKDOWN Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs 34 ( 27 ) (THEME FROM) VALLEY OF THE DOLLS Dionne Warwick 35 ( 32 ) BABY NOW THAT I’VE FOUND YOU The Foundations 36 ( 58 ) BACK UP TRAIN Al Green & The Soul Mates 37 ( 39 ) IN AND OUT OF LOVE Diana Ross & The Supremes 38 ( NEW ) SPOOKY Classics IV 39 ( 31 ) THESE DAYS Nico 40 ( 54 ) THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE Julie Andrews
41 ( 35 ) (YOU MAKE ME FEEL LIKE) A NATURAL WOMAN Aretha Franklin 42 ( 38 ) SOMETHING’S GOTTEN HOLD OF MY HEART Gene Pitney 43 ( 36 ) THE RAIN, THE PARK AND OTHER THINGS The Cowsills 44 ( 48 ) SARAH (LA FEMME QUI EST DANS MON LIT) Serge Reggiani 45 ( 65 ) I ONLY LIVE TO LOVE YOU Cilla Black 46 ( 37 ) WHAT’S SO GOOD ABOUT GOOD-BYE Giant Sunflower 47 ( 41 ) LOVE IS ALL AROUND The Troggs 48 ( 53 ) THANK U VERY MUCH The Scaffold 49 ( 74 ) DO UNTO OTHERS Paul Revere & The Raiders featuring Mark LIndsey 50 ( 46 ) REFLECTIONS Diana Ross & The Supremes
51 ( 47 ) EXCERPT FROM 'A TEENAGE OPERA' Keith West 52 ( NEW ) I WONDER WHAT SHE’S DOING TONIGHT Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart 53 ( NEW ) TIN SOLDIER The Small Faces 54 ( 51 ) ODE TO BILLIE JOE Bobbie Gentry 55 ( 59 ) HONEY CHILE Martha Reeves & The Vandellas 56 ( 42 ) AUTUMN ALMANAC The Kinks 57 ( 73 ) I’LL BE SWEETER TOMORROW (THAN I AM TODAY) The O’Jays 58 ( 43 ) I FEEL LOVE COMIN’ ON Felice Taylor 59 ( 66 ) CAN’T HELP BUT LOVE YOU The Standells 60 ( 67 ) SOMETHING’S MISSING The Five Stairsteps
61 ( 52 ) GET THE MESSAGE Brian Hyland 62 ( 75 ) CARE OF CELL 44 The Zombies 63 ( 44 ) NOBODY BUT ME The Human Beinz 64 ( 71 ) SAM Keith West 65 ( 40 ) I WAN’NA BE LIKE YOU Louis Prima, Phil Harris & Bruce Reitherman 66 ( 49 ) FROM THE UNDERWORLD The Herd 67 ( 68 ) STORYBOOK CHILDREN Billy Vera & Judy Clay 68 ( 72 ) HERE WE GO ROUND THE MULBERRY BUSH Traffic 69 ( 56 ) TO SIR WITH LOVE Lulu 70 ( 45 ) THE BARE NECESSITIES Phil Harris & Bruce Reitherman
71 ( NEW ) LITTLE BIT OF LOVIN’ The Outsiders 72 ( NEW ) CHAIN OF FOOLS Aretha Franklin 73 ( NEW ) SUSANNAH’S STILL ALIVE Dave Davies 74 ( NEW ) IF I COULD BUILD MY WHOLE WORLD AROUND YOU Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell 75 ( NEW ) I BELIEVE MY TIME AIN’T LONG Fleetwood Mac
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Post by popchartfreak on Dec 4, 2017 20:37:28 GMT 1
2nd December 2017
It's a first week on top for the fab Amen, (Bucks) Fizz' best record since Heart Of Stone or New Beginnings, possibly since My Camera Never Lies! It's either their first number one (for the new bloke and the band under that name) or their 6th (for Cheryl and Mike) or a 5th (for Jay). Whatever, it's been a gap of 31 years between chart-toppers with new material, so that's pretty much up there with the longest gaps.
David Cassidy drops to 2 with his classic 1972 UK chart-topper, but climbs to 5 with his 1973 gorgeous I'm A Clown, which peaked at 3 originally for me. Another late fave, Glen Campbell hits 4 with his version of Joni Mitchell's Both Sides Now. Glen's version is my fave version, though I love others too. I was 13 when I first loved it. I was 14 when I first loved Steely Dan's Do It Again, and 13 when I loved The Partridge Family's I Think I Love You. All my teen faves dying is so sad.
Cola is top 10, better late than never, Craig David & Bastille jointly outdo their recent solo stuff for me, on a track that I shouldn't have liked on paper, but actually do! Best thing either has done in quite a while. Pet Shop Boys are in yet again, this time with a track I didn't know off their recharting Fundamental unreleased or obscure tracks, Fugitive at 30. Clean Bandit and Tame Impala have big climbs, Nick Jonas is back, one of the few new entries that is actually new, and 2 Xmas oldies sneak in as the tinsel appears everywhere!
1 3 2 5 AMEN The Fizz 540000 2 1 1 2 HOW CAN I BE SURE David Cassidy 285000 3 2 2 5 MYSTERY OF LOVE Sufjan Stevens 442000 4 13 4 17 BOTH SIDES NOW Glen Campbell 391000 5 10 5 2 I’M A CLOWN David Cassidy 102000 6 20 6 3 PHASES Alma & French Montana 92400 7 4 4 5 TIMEBOMBS HURRICANES Written By Wolves 216900 8 8 8 4 THE CALLING TheFatRat featuring Laura Brehm 151500 9 6 1 8 I LOVE YOU BUT I’M LOST Tears For Fears 583500 10 19 10 3 COLA CamelPhat & Elderbrook 70400
11 7 1 14 CRYBABY Paloma Faith 955000 12 16 12 13 DO IT AGAIN Steely Dan 237500 13 5 1 3 MAID OF ORLEANS (THE WALTZ JOAN OF ARC) Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark 262000 14 9 1 10 WAIT UP Hurts 712000 15 18 15 3 GOLDEN SLUMBERS The Beatles 68000 16 11 3 8 BETWEEN TWO ISLANDS Pet Shop Boys 394000 17 12 3 10 READY TO GO Hurts 531000 18 14 1 13 MY KINGDOM (WILLIAM BLACK REMIX) Evangeline 860650 19 23 19 3 ONLY YOU (2017 VERSION) Yazoo 59000 20 28 20 3 HOLD ME TIGHT OR DON’T Fall Out Boy 48400
21 29 21 3 BLUE ANGEL Roy Orbison & The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra 55450 22 17 1 10 MAGNIFICENT Hurts 834500 23 68 23 2 I KNOW YOU Craig David featuring Bastille 25650 24 33 24 4 GO BANG PNAU 60100 25 24 18 6 ULTRA LOVE Marlon Roudette 125750 26 22 15 4 COMIN’ UP Tungevaag & Raaban featuring Victor Crone 90000 27 26 17 5 ANYWHERE Rita Ora 92900 28 36 28 2 I CAN FEEL YOUR HEARTBEAT The Partridge Family featuring David Cassidy & Shirley Jones 35700 29 39 29 3 GUILTY Paloma Faith 40300 30 NEW 30 1 FUGITIVE (RICHARD X EXTENDED MIX) Pet Shop Boys 18000
31 15 7 6 IMMIGRANT SONG Led Zeppelin 214900 32 25 25 8 OH, PRETTY WOMAN Roy Orbison & The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra 130000 33 31 17 5 YOU WERE RIGHT RUFUS 98350 34 38 34 3 GOLDEN SLUMBERS Elbow 41400 35 40 35 3 WAY TO GO (GOMEZ & TRITTER REMIX) Empire Of The Sun 47000 36 27 4 9 GO 2.0 Burak Yeter & Ryan Rybak 314100 37 41 37 4 (DON’T FEAR) THE REAPER Blue Oyster Cult 55800 38 32 1 13 FOOTSTEPS Pet Shop Boys 887400 39 RE 39 4 SILENCE Marshmello featuring Khalid 45200 40 65 40 4 I MISS YOU Clean Bandit featuring Julia Michaels 35200
41 30 10 8 SEXY NORTHERNER Pet Shop Boys 200750 42 34 34 7 ROBOT MAN Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark 97350 43 35 12 13 LIFE WITH THE MACBETHS Sparks 232350 44 44 6 16 GET LOW Zedd & Liam Payne 429400 45 74 45 2 LIST OF PEOPLE (TO TRY AND FORGET) Tame Impala 18200 46 37 8 11 BEST FRIEND Sofi Tukker featuring NERVO, The Knocks & Alisa Ueno 297200 47 21 20 8 LOVE HURTS Roy Orbison & The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra 142900 48 53 48 2 GET OUT OF YOUR OWN WAY U2 23550 49 49 49 6 HOW LONG Charlie Puth 56400 50 54 50 2 COULD IT BE FOREVER David Cassidy 33000
51 46 22 6 COMIC LIFE Matt Maltese 99100 52 58 52 4 LET YOU DOWN NF 32700 53 59 53 4 GALAXY Dannii Minogue 33350 54 47 31 5 DRIVEWAY culpriit 76500 55 55 1 22 DREAMS Grace Slick 677500 56 45 30 8 EVERYTHING IS NEVER ENOUGH (VIDEO MIX) Goldfrapp 110300 57 48 3 13 CLOSER TO HEAVEN Pet Shop Boys 446950 58 50 50 3 FIELDS OF GOLD Katie Melua 33000 59 42 16 6 HOLY MOUNTAIN Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds 106400 60 NEW 60 1 FIND YOU Nick Jonas 10000
61 43 29 4 ELECTRICITY Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark 57000 62 57 29 7 A DIFFERENT CORNER George Michael 96550 63 61 1 21 TRUE FEELING Galantis 981150 64 RE 10 16 WHAT ABOUT US P!nk 302400 65 75 65 2 DAYDREAMER David Cassidy 12000 66 66 1 23 TWO FUX Adam Lambert 1085100 67 67 1 38 ALONE AGAIN OR Love 997950 68 64 19 10 BEAUTIFUL TRAUMA P!nk 149000 69 69 14 14 ALL STARS Martin Solveig featuring Alma 234350 70 71 70 2 BANDALA The Partridge Family featuring David Cassidy & Shirley Jones 11800
71 51 10 13 THE PUNISHMENT OF LUXURY Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark 202950 72 72 72 3 XANADU (LIVE AT WEMBLEY) Jeff Lynne’s ELO 16600 73 56 3 17 DRINK UP Train 648900 74 NEW 74 1 SANTA CLAUS IS COMING TO TOWN The Crystals 5200 75 NEW 75 1 DRIVING HOME FOR CHRISTMAS Chris Rea 5000
DROP OUTS 52 35 4 JEALOUS (I AIN’T WITH IT) Chromeo 63500 60 9 11 EDITH PIAF (SAID IT BETTER THAN ME) Sparks 249300 62 44 4 DEADLY VALENTINE Charlotte Gainsbourg 44150 63 13 12 DUSK TILL DAWN ZAYN featuring Sia 230100 70 46 5 LOVING IS EASY Rex Orange County featuring Benny Sings 52800 73 73 2 JIG OF LIFE Kate Bush 10600
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Post by popchartfreak on Dec 2, 2017 17:50:51 GMT 1
just a quick query re Aretha Franklin - I Say A Little Prayer hadn't been recorded until later in 1968? If it's available on any format fair enough, doesn't need to be a single, but if it doesn't exist at the time I'd suggest excluding it from the combined chart until it does (PS I'd also suggest the same for My Rainbow Valley in my personal chart as I can't find an actual release date, just vague references to 1967 and that may also not exist until early 1968)
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Post by popchartfreak on Nov 30, 2017 20:37:52 GMT 1
26th November 1985
It's Wham! grabbing a first week on top for the second time (three for George Michael) on a change of chart-day-of-the-week compilation for me, and with the then-traditional 3rd-week-in-November deluge of record releases - 20 new entries! Huey Lewis hits his chart-peak of 4, Pet Shop Boys break into the 10 for the first time, and John & Yoko get the highest new entries. Not actually their Christmas classic, though, it's a track off Yoko's fab new album with a fab new video, Hell In Paradise, outdoing her late husband's single release of his original 14-year-old album track as taken to 1 by Roxy Music 4 years earlier. In fact it's a real family affair, as John's son Julian enters with Because - not the Beatles classic album track, though, it's another offcut from Dave Clark's Time musical. Talking of The Beatles, The Thompson Twins enter at 45 with a cover of Revolution, B side to Hey Jude. Talking of the Beatles, Paul McC, John's co-writer in the Fabs (as if anyone didn't know) enters the 40 with his movie theme.
Talking of movie themes, Phil Collins duets with Marilyn Mansun. I mean McCoo. No, I mean Martin. Talking of Revolution, The Cult are one place higher than the different song of the same name. It's 1985, so Madonna must be due another monthly hit - and here it is, dressing us up at 14 with her best effort since Into The Groove. Slade are back! 14 years of singles chart entries, and in at 25. A mere 6 years since Roxanne, Sting has another solo single, but for once this one is worthy of having a The Police moniker. The sentiments of Russians were quite worthy of the time, and the moody sweeping classical Russian backdrop was also worthy of entering at 29.
Another Propaganda goodie into the 40, and a host of lesser entries, from Doug E. Fresh, Nik Kershaw, Five Star, Amazulu and China Crisis. Dream Academy cover The Smiths, Aretha Franklin keeps the revival zoomin' hot, Elton John is also on the 14-year-bandwagon, dragging along an uncredited modest George Michael I think, though these days it would guarantee a "featuring" credit on Wrap Her Up, hot on the heels of his uncredited vocal backing to the late David Cassidy. Simon May returns 9 years on from his excruciating Top Of The Pops live vocal experience, wisely sticking with his Orchestral TV Theme, and The New Seekers are back - guess what, 14-years-on. Spirit of '71! Sadly, there was no Lyn Paul, Eve Graham or Peter Doyle in the line-up, leaving only Paul Layton & Marty Kristian from the original hit-making band.
1 ( 6 ) I’M YOUR MAN Wham! 2 ( 1 ) A GOOD HEART Feargal Sharkey 3 ( 3 ) DON’T BREAK MY HEART UB40 4 ( 7 ) HEART AND SOUL Huey Lewis & The News 5 ( 2 ) STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN Far Corporation 6 ( 14 ) WEST END GIRLS Pet Shop Boys 7 ( NEW ) HELL IN PARADISE Yoko Ono 8 ( 9 ) SISTERS ARE DOING IT FOR THEMSELVES Eurythmics and Aretha Franklin 9 ( NEW ) JEALOUS GUY John Lennon 10 ( 4 ) ROAD TO NOWHERE Talking Heads
11 ( 8 ) THE WHOLE OF THE MOON The Waterboys 12 ( 10 ) LOST WEEKEND Lloyd Cole & The Commotions 13 ( 5 ) CITIES IN DUST Siouxsie & The Banshees 14 ( NEW ) DRESS YOU UP Madonna 15 ( 18 ) SUN CITY Artists Against Apartheid 16 ( 11 ) SOMETHING ABOUT YOU Level 42 17 ( 12 ) TAKE ON ME A-Ha 18 ( 25 ) SAVING ALL MY LOVE FOR YOU Whitney Houston 19 ( 21 ) BROTHERS IN ARMS Dire Straits 20 ( 20 ) ONE VISION Queen
21 ( 31 ) WHEN LOVE BREAKS DOWN Prefab Sprout 22 ( 13 ) NIKITA Elton John 23 ( 15 ) THE POWER OF LOVE Jennifer Rush 24 ( 30 ) BLUE Fine Young Cannibals 25 ( NEW ) DO YOU BELIEVE IN MIRACLES Slade 26 ( 29 ) MATED David Grant & Jaki Graham 27 ( 27 ) JUST FOR MONEY Paul Hardcastle 28 ( 17 ) SLAVE TO THE RHYTHM Grace Jones 29 ( NEW ) RUSSIANS Sting 30 ( 64 ) THAT’S WHAT FRIENDS ARE FOR Dionne Warwick & Friends
31 ( 16 ) YOU ARE MY WORLD The Communards 32 ( 40 ) THAT CERTAIN SMILE Midge Ure 33 ( 38 ) SEE THE DAY Dee C. Lee 34 ( 22 ) IF I WAS Midge Ure 35 ( 19 ) ALIVE AND KICKING Simple Minds 36 ( 60 ) SPIES LIKE US Paul McCartney 37 ( NEW ) P-MACHINERY (REMIX) Propaganda 38 ( 28 ) IT’S A MANS MANS MANS MANS WORLD Brilliant 39 ( 39 ) WE BUILT THIS CITY Starship 40 ( 57 ) LOSE YOUR LOVE Blancmange
41 ( 26 ) (I’LL NEVER BE) MARIA MAGDALENA Sandra 42 ( 23 ) CLOUDBUSTING Kate Bush 43 ( NEW ) THE SHOW Doug E. Fresh 44 ( 51 ) REVOLUTION The Cult 45 ( NEW ) REVOLUTION The Thompson Twins 46 ( 37 ) THE LODGERS The Style Council 47 ( 45 ) DRIVE The Cars 48 ( 48 ) AFTER THE LOVE HAS GONE Princess 49 ( 24 ) KING FOR A DAY The Thompson Twins 50 ( 50 ) YOU BELONG TO THE CITY Glenn Frey
51 ( 42 ) UNCLE SAM Madness 52 ( 47 ) RUNNING UP THAT HILL Kate Bush 53 ( 46 ) LEAN ON ME (AH-LI-AYO) Red Box 54 ( 69 ) DON’T LOOK DOWN Go West 55 ( 55 ) THE LAST KISS David Cassidy 56 ( 34 ) BIG DEAL Bobby G 57 ( 66 ) SAY YOU SAY ME Lionel Richie 58 ( NEW ) BECAUSE Julian Lennon 59 ( 56 ) YOU AND YOUR HEART SO BLUE Bucks Fizz 60 ( NEW ) WHEN A HEART BEATS Nik Kershaw
61 ( 41 ) THIS IS ENGLAND The Clash 62 ( NEW ) R.S.V.P. Five Star 63 ( 36 ) IT’S ONLY LOVE Tina Turner & Bryan Adams 64 ( 62 ) MEGAREX T.Rex 65 ( 67 ) SUBCULTURE New Order 66 ( NEW ) SEPARATE LIVES Phil Collins & Marilyn Martin 67 ( NEW ) HOWARD’S WAY THEME The Simon May Orchestra 68 ( NEW ) PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE LET ME GET WHAT I WANT Dream Academy 69 ( NEW ) DON’T YOU JUST KNOW IT Amazulu 70 ( NEW ) LET THE BELLS RING OUT FOREVER The New Seekers
71 ( NEW ) WRAP HER UP Elton John 72 ( 32 ) ELECTION DAY Arcadia 73 ( NEW ) TIME AIN’T ENOUGH Green On Red 74 ( NEW ) THE HIGHEST HIGH China Crisis 75 ( NEW ) WHO’S ZOOMING WHO Aretha Franklin
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Post by popchartfreak on Nov 29, 2017 19:11:58 GMT 1
26th November 1967
It's up one place for Simon Dupree and the haunting Kites, swapping places with the epic Bee Gees World after only one week on top. Such is the competition that a classic Beatles track, one of my faves of theirs in the 60's and since, and the B side, also their greatest B side and EP track from the forthcoming TV special Magical Mystery Tour, I Am The Walrus, can only enter at 3 and 6. I adore the entire top 17 pretty much. Long John Baldry and Gary Puckett both get a first top 10, while The Lemon Pipers so-called bubblegum classic, Green Tambourine, enters at 17. Bubblegum was supposed to be disposable, manufactured hook-filled music that serious artists could look down on as for kiddies. Being a kiddie, that didn't bother me at all, and I still maintain it's all pop music, most tracks in the list have studio musicians (several had careers started that way), or professional songwriters involved (see 2017 when it's impossible to find a hit record that HASN'T a professional songwriter-for-hire involved) or record producers twiddling the knobs. No difference.
Talking of manufactured (earlier in the year, and now in control of their musical output), The Monkees take a moog into my 20 for the first time, for a hat-trick nestling amongst the Beatles. Pet Clark returns with one of her best Tony Hatch/Jackie Trent tunes, The Other Man's Grass, at 22, one I loved at the time, and more in Singapore 3 years later when it was one I captured on my reel-to-reel tapes. Dusty goes top 30 again, leapfrogged by Donovan's hippie-trippie ode to 2 Summer Of Love's. At 58, the great Al Green debuts some 4 years ahead of his UK chart breakthrough, with his back-up-train, outdoing a Cilla fave of early 68, I seem to recall it being on TV a lot - her show most probably, said "Cilla" variety show marking the climax of the fab Musical "Cilla" based on the award-winning fab "Cilla" TV series, which was pure mid-60's Liverpool nostalgia for me when I saw the musical the other week. Traffic get a 3rd 1967 entry, and I vaguely recall the movie it came from, Paul Revere & co are back with the "Wild Thing" intro and a totally different tune, while The Zombies pop in with a track from the album on sale of the foyer of the Wimborne Tivoli when I caught Colin Blunstone and Rod Argent doing a greatest hits tour 2 years back, Zombies, Argent & solo Blunstone - three-fer-one!
1 ( 2 ) KITES Simon Dupree & The Big Sound 2 ( 1 ) WORLD The Bee Gees 3 ( NEW ) HELLO GOODBYE The Beatles 4 ( 3 ) DAYDREAM BELIEVER The Monkees 5 ( 4 ) DIFFERENT DRUM The Stone Poneys featuring Linda Ronstadt 6 ( NEW ) I AM THE WALRUS The Beatles 7 ( 5 ) BY THE TIME I GET TO PHOENIX Glen Campbell 8 ( 6 ) WHAT AM I DOING HANGIN’ ROUND? The Monkees 9 ( 12 ) LET THE HEARTACHES BEGIN Long John Baldry 10 ( 17 ) WOMAN, WOMAN Gary Puckett & The Union Gap
11 ( 7 ) MASSACHUSSETS (THE LIGHTS GO OUT IN) The Bee Gees 12 ( 14 ) JUDY IN DISGUISE (WITH GLASSES) John Fred & His Playboy Band 13 ( 9 ) ZABADAK! Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich 14 ( 16 ) MY RAINBOW VALLEY Robert Knight 15 ( 8 ) SAND Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazelwood 16 ( 10 ) EVERYBODY KNOWS The Dave Clark Five 17 ( NEW ) GREEN TAMBOURINE The Lemon Pipers 18 ( 13 ) LADY BIRD Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazelwood 19 ( 30 ) STAR COLLECTOR The Monkees 20 ( 11 ) WHEN YOU’RE GONE Brenda & The Tabulations
21 ( 29 ) I’M COMING HOME Tom Jones 22 ( NEW ) THE OTHER MAN’S GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER Petula Clark 23 ( 15 ) THE DAYS OF PEARLY SPENCER David McWilliams 24 ( 25 ) ALL MY LOVE Cliff Richard 25 ( 20 ) I CAN SEE FOR MILES The Who 26 ( 18 ) FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE Hugo Montenegro & His Orchestra 27 ( 19 ) (THEME FROM) VALLEY OF THE DOLLS Dionne Warwick 28 ( 50 ) WEAR YOUR LOVE LIKE HEAVEN Donovan 29 ( 23 ) WITHOUT HER Harry Nilsson 30 ( 47 ) WHAT’S IT GONNA BE Dusty Springfield
31 ( 21 ) THESE DAYS Nico 32 ( 27 ) BABY NOW THAT I’VE FOUND YOU The Foundations 33 ( 43 ) FOGGY MOUNTAIN BREAKDOWN Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs 34 ( 40 ) SUMMER RAIN Johnny Rivers 35 ( 26 ) (YOU MAKE ME FEEL LIKE) A NATURAL WOMAN Aretha Franklin 36 ( 28 ) THE RAIN, THE PARK AND OTHER THINGS The Cowsills 37 ( 24 ) WHAT’S SO GOOD ABOUT GOOD-BYE Giant Sunflower 38 ( 33 ) SOMETHING’S GOTTEN HOLD OF MY HEART Gene Pitney 39 ( 48 ) IN AND OUT OF LOVE Diana Ross & The Supremes 40 ( 22 ) I WAN’NA BE LIKE YOU Louis Prima, Phil Harris & Bruce Reitherman
41 ( 32 ) LOVE IS ALL AROUND The Troggs 42 ( 31 ) AUTUMN ALMANAC The Kinks 43 ( 34 ) I FEEL LOVE COMIN’ ON Felice Taylor 44 ( 35 ) NOBODY BUT ME The Human Beinz 45 ( 37 ) THE BARE NECESSITIES Phil Harris & Bruce Reitherman 46 ( 38 ) REFLECTIONS Diana Ross & The Supremes 47 ( 39 ) EXCERPT FROM 'A TEENAGE OPERA' Keith West 48 ( 52 ) SARAH (LA FEMME QUI EST DANS MON LIT) Serge Reggiani 49 ( 41 ) FROM THE UNDERWORLD The Herd 50 ( 62 ) MR. BUS DRIVER Bruce Channel
51 ( 45 ) ODE TO BILLIE JOE Bobbie Gentry 52 ( 44 ) GET THE MESSAGE Brian Hyland 53 ( 63 ) THANK U VERY MUCH The Scaffold 54 ( 55 ) THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE Julie Andrews 55 ( 36 ) I SAY A LITTLE PRAYER Dionne Warwick 56 ( 46 ) TO SIR WITH LOVE Lulu 57 ( 42 ) OOH I LOVE YOU The Dells 58 ( NEW ) BACK UP TRAIN Al Green & The Soul Mates 59 ( 64 ) HONEY CHILE Martha Reeves & The Vandellas 60 ( 53 ) JILL Gary Lewis & The Playboys
61 ( 49 ) SHE’S MY GIRL The Turtles 62 ( 58 ) ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE The Beatles 63 ( 57 ) MATHILDE Scott Walker 64 ( 54 ) LET’S GO TO SAN FRANCISCO The Flowerpot Men 65 ( NEW ) I ONLY LIVE TO LOVE YOU Cilla Black 66 ( 66 ) CAN’T HELP BUT LOVE YOU The Standells 67 ( 68 ) SOMETHING’S MISSING The Five Stairsteps 68 ( 70 ) STORYBOOK CHILDREN Billy Vera & Judy Clay 69 ( 56 ) I SECOND THAT EMOTION Smokey Robinson & The Miracles 70 ( 59 ) TAKE A LOOK Aretha Franklin
71 ( 71 ) SAM Keith West 72 ( NEW ) HERE WE GO ROUND THE MULBERRY BUSH Traffic 73 ( 74 ) I’LL BE SWEETER TOMORROW (THAN I AM TODAY) The O’Jays 74 ( NEW ) DO UNTO OTHERS Paul Revere & The Raiders featuring Mark LIndsey 75 ( NEW ) CARE OF CELL 44 The Zombies
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Post by popchartfreak on Nov 29, 2017 15:07:59 GMT 1
yes I'm chartin them as soon as they enter the US 100 as I know from memory the December 1967 charts were awesome full of pop classics which all deserve a chart-topper status - plus I knew The beatles mini invasion was on the way...
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Post by popchartfreak on Nov 28, 2017 21:41:43 GMT 1
26th November 2017
It's the sadly late David Cassidy belatedly topping my chart 45 years on with his best record, the fab version of The Young Rascals How Can I Be Sure topped the UK chart but was more modestly appreciated by me at the time. By 1987 I had loved it enough to top it in a live version, but the original remains the best and it was one of my "broken-heart turn to" tracks in the noughties, guaranteed to cry bucketloads to it. I loved The Partridge Family records as 13-year-old, and this track sums up his teen appeal to the girls: sensitive boy-next-door just looking for the right one. Teens couldn't resist. In at 10, I'm A Clown is his other best solo record, with a sprinkling of others lower down the chart, though not I Think I Love You and his other 4 chart-toppers in my charts as they have had great chart runs already.
That's bad news for Sufjan Stevens stuck at 2 again behind an oldie, but there are big climbs into the 20 for Cola and Phases. Fall Out Boy also bound into the 30, and Paloma Faith the 40, while U2 out-peak the previous single in one week on the chart already. Craig David's chart revival has left me feeling unmoved until this joint Bastille record. Neither of them have been what you call chart fave regulars for me (though Craig has topped my chart), but I was persuaded by the Friday TV spot when his response to a nasty prank involving a fake mean-spirited granny was just so admirable. A man you can trust your granny with!
1 NEW 1 1 HOW CAN I BE SURE David Cassidy 170000 2 2 2 4 MYSTERY OF LOVE Sufjan Stevens 357000 3 6 2 4 AMEN The Fizz 370000 4 4 4 4 TIMEBOMBS HURRICANES Written By Wolves 166900 5 1 1 2 MAID OF ORLEANS (THE WALTZ JOAN OF ARC) Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark 230000 6 3 1 7 I LOVE YOU BUT I’M LOST Tears For Fears 538500 7 8 1 13 CRYBABY Paloma Faith 918000 8 10 8 3 THE CALLING TheFatRat featuring Laura Brehm 103500 9 9 1 9 WAIT UP Hurts 683000 10 NEW 10 1 I’M A CLOWN David Cassidy 42000
11 5 3 7 BETWEEN TWO ISLANDS Pet Shop Boys 369000 12 12 3 9 READY TO GO Hurts 508000 13 13 13 16 BOTH SIDES NOW Glen Campbell 326000 14 14 1 12 MY KINGDOM (WILLIAM BLACK REMIX) Evangeline 838650 15 7 7 5 IMMIGRANT SONG Led Zeppelin 197000 16 23 16 12 DO IT AGAIN Steely Dan 202500 17 11 1 9 MAGNIFICENT Hurts 815000 18 24 18 2 GOLDEN SLUMBERS The Beatles 41000 19 62 19 2 COLA CamelPhat & Elderbrook 28400 20 36 23 2 PHASES Alma & French Montana 37400
21 22 20 7 LOVE HURTS Roy Orbison & The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra 130400 22 15 15 3 COMIN’ UP Tungevaag & Raaban featuring Victor Crone 71500 23 25 23 2 ONLY YOU (2017 VERSION) Yazoo 38000 24 18 18 5 ULTRA LOVE Marlon Roudette 107000 25 26 25 7 OH, PRETTY WOMAN Roy Orbison & The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra 112200 26 17 17 4 ANYWHERE Rita Ora 74500 27 16 4 8 GO 2.0 Burak Yeter & Ryan Rybak 296700 28 59 28 2 HOLD ME TIGHT OR DON’T Fall Out Boy 28400 29 35 29 2 BLUE ANGEL Roy Orbison & The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra 35700 30 19 10 7 SEXY NORTHERNER Pet Shop Boys 186750
31 20 17 4 YOU WERE RIGHT RUFUS 80650 32 27 1 12 FOOTSTEPS Pet Shop Boys 870200 33 40 33 3 GO BANG PNAU 41100 34 34 34 6 ROBOT MAN Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark 83600 35 21 12 12 LIFE WITH THE MACBETHS Sparks 218850 36 NEW 36 1 I CAN FEEL YOUR HEARTBEAT The Partridge Family featuring David Cassidy & Shirley Jones 17400 37 30 8 10 BEST FRIEND Sofi Tukker featuring NERVO, The Knocks & Alisa Ueno 284450 38 67 38 2 GOLDEN SLUMBERS Elbow 23800 39 75 39 2 GUILTY Paloma Faith 22100 40 47 40 2 WAY TO GO (GOMEZ & TRITTER REMIX) Empire Of The Sun 29500
41 45 41 3 (DON’T FEAR) THE REAPER Blue Oyster Cult 38500 42 28 16 5 HOLY MOUNTAIN Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds 96300 43 29 29 3 ELECTRICITY Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark 49500 44 33 6 15 GET LOW Zedd & Liam Payne 416150 45 39 30 7 EVERYTHING IS NEVER ENOUGH (VIDEO MIX) Goldfrapp 99700 46 32 22 5 COMIC LIFE Matt Maltese 87350 47 38 31 4 DRIVEWAY culpriit 65500 48 41 3 12 CLOSER TO HEAVEN Pet Shop Boys 436550 49 50 49 5 HOW LONG Charlie Puth 44300 50 55 50 2 FIELDS OF GOLD Katie Melua 22800
51 31 10 12 THE PUNISHMENT OF LUXURY Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark 197150 52 37 35 4 JEALOUS (I AIN’T WITH IT) Chromeo 63500 53 NEW 53 1 GET OUT OF YOUR OWN WAY U2 11250 54 NEW 54 1 COULD IT BE FOREVER David Cassidy 11000 55 54 1 21 DREAMS Grace Slick 666700 56 48 3 16 DRINK UP Train 643500 57 53 29 6 A DIFFERENT CORNER George Michael 89150 58 71 58 3 LET YOU DOWN NF 21200 59 69 59 3 GALAXY Dannii Minogue 22100 60 42 9 11 EDITH PIAF (SAID IT BETTER THAN ME) Sparks 249300
61 52 1 20 TRUE FEELING Galantis 973950 62 44 44 4 DEADLY VALENTINE Charlotte Gainsbourg 44150 63 43 13 12 DUSK TILL DAWN ZAYN featuring Sia 230100 64 56 19 9 BEAUTIFUL TRAUMA P!nk 142600 65 72 65 3 I MISS YOU Clean Bandit featuring Julia Michaels 18200 66 61 1 22 TWO FUX Adam Lambert 1078300 67 66 1 37 ALONE AGAIN OR Love 991350 68 NEW 68 1 I KNOW YOU Craig David featuring Bastille 6400 69 46 14 13 ALL STARS Martin Solveig featuring Alma 228150 70 51 46 5 LOVING IS EASY Rex Orange County featuring Benny Sings 52800
71 NEW 71 1 BANDALA The Partridge Family featuring David Cassidy & Shirley Jones 5800 72 73 72 2 XANADU (LIVE AT WEMBLEY) Jeff Lynne’s ELO 11000 73 74 73 2 JIG OF LIFE Kate Bush 10600 74 NEW 74 1 LIST OF PEOPLE (TO TRY AND FORGET) Tame Impala 5200 75 NEW 75 1 DAYDREAMER David Cassidy 5000
DROP OUTS 49 27 10 ISOTYPE Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark 125300 57 1 18 STILL FEELS LIKE THE FIRST TIME Zoot Woman featuring Kylie Minogue 874000 58 19 7 WORD UP The BossHoss 119850 60 34 5 PRAYING FOR TIME George Michael 69950 63 63 3 WHEN WE WERE HIGH LP 19900 64 10 8 CLOSE TO YOU ARLE 187000 65 10 15 WHAT ABOUT US P!nk 295300 68 6 13 LIKE AN ANGEL PASSING THROUGH MY ROOM Madonna 320350 70 59 4 SAVOIR FAIRE Beth Ditto 29700
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Post by popchartfreak on Nov 24, 2017 21:49:14 GMT 1
17th November 1985
2 weeks on top for Feargal Sharkey, as Stairway To Heaven climbs to 2, and Wham! shoot up 30 to 6 with I'm Your Man. The Waterboys & Eurythmics both go top 10, giving Aretha Franklin a 2nd top 10 of the year after a 14 year gap since her previous - Spanish Harlem. My boys climb into the 20 for the first time, and never long absnet from it ever since, Neil & Chris and West End Girls. Sun City climbs fast, as do ones they protest, Queen , hot off Live Aid's show-stopping set.
Highest new entry is a debut, a promising (largely unfulfilled, if hugely successful) classy start from Whitney Houston, cousin of Dionne Warwick, who brings her pop friends along (such as Elton, Stevie & Gladys) a charity record for the rapidly-spreading new deadly disease AIDS. Written by Burt Bacharach and Carole Bayer Sager, it was the first time Burt & Dionne had hit together since the 60's, and That's What Friends Are For enters lower at 64.
Tina Turner is beside herself with Mad Max joy, literally, along with Bryan Adams. David Grant & Jaki Graham are mated (not really, cos I saw David Grant on TV this morning on a serious news item with his actual wife on behalf of children with learning difficulties) at 29, while Fine Young Cannibals, Midge Ure and Dee C. Lee (no longer backing Wham! she's backing her own man, Paul Weller, who's one place above her at 37).
Princess joins King and Queen, though not Prince sadly, with her 2nd hit, Glenn Frey flies solo from The Eagles with his best single, You belong To The City, The Cult make it a quick trio of hits, though not the Beatles' Revolution, B side to my first chart Number One Hey Jude - despite Paul McCartney also entering with a comedy movie theme: Spies Like Us was as good as the film. Spirited effort but not that great.
Lionel Richie somehow breaks into the bottom end with another dull ballad, Say Who? Say Me! New Order find themselves a bit subcultured, and Go West return with another goodie.
1 ( 1 ) A GOOD HEART Feargal Sharkey 2 ( 3 ) STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN Far Corporation 3 ( 4 ) DON’T BREAK MY HEART UB40 4 ( 5 ) ROAD TO NOWHERE Talking Heads 5 ( 2 ) CITIES IN DUST Siouxsie & The Banshees 6 ( 36 ) I’M YOUR MAN Wham! 7 ( 10 ) HEART AND SOUL Huey Lewis & The News 8 ( 18 ) THE WHOLE OF THE MOON The Waterboys 9 ( 20 ) SISTERS ARE DOING IT FOR THEMSELVES Eurythmics and Aretha Franklin 10 ( 11 ) LOST WEEKEND Lloyd Cole & The Commotions
11 ( 8 ) SOMETHING ABOUT YOU Level 42 12 ( 7 ) TAKE ON ME A-Ha 13 ( 6 ) NIKITA Elton John 14 ( 27 ) WEST END GIRLS Pet Shop Boys 15 ( 13 ) THE POWER OF LOVE Jennifer Rush 16 ( 19 ) YOU ARE MY WORLD The Communards 17 ( 12 ) SLAVE TO THE RHYTHM Grace Jones 18 ( 37 ) SUN CITY Artists Against Apartheid 19 ( 9 ) ALIVE AND KICKING Simple Minds 20 ( 49 ) ONE VISION Queen
21 ( 38 ) BROTHERS IN ARMS Dire Straits 22 ( 17 ) IF I WAS Midge Ure 23 ( 15 ) CLOUDBUSTING Kate Bush 24 ( 14 ) KING FOR A DAY The Thompson Twins 25 ( NEW ) SAVING ALL MY LOVE FOR YOU Whitney Houston 26 ( 16 ) (I’LL NEVER BE) MARIA MAGDALENA Sandra 27 ( 33 ) JUST FOR MONEY Paul Hardcastle 28 ( 24 ) IT’S A MANS MANS MANS MANS WORLD Brilliant 29 ( 73 ) MATED David Grant & Jaki Graham 30 ( 46 ) BLUE Fine Young Cannibals
31 ( 34 ) WHEN LOVE BREAKS DOWN Prefab Sprout 32 ( 23 ) ELECTION DAY Arcadia 33 ( 22 ) BRING ON THE DANCING HORSES Echo & The Bunnymen 34 ( 21 ) BIG DEAL Bobby G 35 ( 51 ) ONE OF THE LIVING Tina Turner 36 ( 42 ) IT’S ONLY LOVE Tina Turner & Bryan Adams 37 ( 28 ) THE LODGERS The Style Council 38 ( 69 ) SEE THE DAY Dee C. Lee 39 ( 58 ) WE BUILT THIS CITY Starship 40 ( 63 ) THAT CERTAIN SMILE Midge Ure
41 ( 26 ) THIS IS ENGLAND The Clash 42 ( 56 ) UNCLE SAM Madness 43 ( 30 ) ST. ELMO’S FIRE (MAN IN MOTION) John Parr 44 ( 25 ) RAIN The Cult 45 ( 45 ) DRIVE The Cars 46 ( 39 ) LEAN ON ME (AH-LI-AYO) Red Box 47 ( 43 ) RUNNING UP THAT HILL Kate Bush 48 ( NEW ) AFTER THE LOVE HAS GONE Princess 49 ( 31 ) TRAPPED Colonel Abrams 50 ( NEW ) YOU BELONG TO THE CITY Glenn Frey
51 ( NEW ) REVOLUTION The Cult 52 ( 32 ) MIAMI VICE THEME Jan Hammer 53 ( 29 ) THE TASTE OF MY TEARS King 54 ( 44 ) PART TIME LOVER Stevie Wonder 55 ( 55 ) THE LAST KISS David Cassidy 56 ( 53 ) YOU AND YOUR HEART SO BLUE Bucks Fizz 57 ( 67 ) LOSE YOUR LOVE Blancmange 58 ( 41 ) THE GAMBLER Madonna 59 ( 35 ) LA FEMME ACCIDENT OMD 60 ( NEW ) SPIES LIKE US Paul McCartney
61 ( 40 ) AFTER THE FIRE Roger Daltrey 62 ( 61 ) MEGAREX T.Rex 63 ( 60 ) HOLIDAY Madonna 64 ( NEW ) THAT’S WHAT FRIENDS ARE FOR Dionne Warwick & Friends 65 ( 62 ) THERE MUST BE AN ANGEL (PLAYING WITH MY HEART) Eurythmics 66 ( NEW ) SAY YOU SAY ME Lionel Richie 67 ( NEW ) SUBCULTURE New Order 68 ( 66 ) “19” Paul Hardcastle 69 ( NEW ) DON’T LOOK DOWN Go West 70 ( 57 ) ANGEL Madonna
71 ( 68 ) OH SHEILA Take On The World 72 ( 47 ) REBEL YELL Billy Idol 73 ( 54 ) CLOSE TO ME The Cure 74 ( 52 ) LOVE LETTERS Marc Almond 75 ( 65 ) WHAT’S YOUR PROBLEM? Blancmange
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Post by popchartfreak on Nov 22, 2017 21:50:38 GMT 1
19th November 1967
OMG the classics are coming in thick and fast, 2 tracks that I adored at the time and for ever more since enter at 1 and 2 with nothing much to separate them: The Bee Gees grab a second chart-topper with the awesome World - what it lacks in lyrical depth it more than makes up for in melody, raw dramatic emotion and that soaring guitar breaking in. At 2 it's Simon Dupree's oriental-flavoured brilliant Kites, all hushed atmospheric and breathy spoken vocals. That rather stunningly pushes tracks that should (and since have) topped my charts for many many weeks down to 3, 4 and 5 and keeps The Monkees fab album track out of the top 5 - though the fresh-sounding Star Collector (with quite risque lyrics for a kiddie-appeal band, not to mention moog synths) bounds into the 30.
The late Robert Knight grabs a second Love Affair future-hit top 20, as Tom Jones enters at 29 with one of his best ballads - leaping over a song that is aching to be covered by him in his 60's style (Chuck Jackson's Shame On Me). It's a big climb for the 25-year-old Foggy Mountain Breakdown, and in at 50 Donovan's US hit Wear Your Love Like Heaven and future inspiration for De La Soul, better than a lot of his UK singles so it's a mystery why the UK didn't a shot at it. Early 60's hitmaker Bruce Channel is back with a good pop setting up of a 1968 comeback in the UK, but not with Mr Bus Driver, just ahead of The Aintree Iron (where I had been a living the previous year, ish) and Thank U Very Much The Scaffold, the record was absolutely everywhere in the 60's and Junior Choice years beyond. Brother of Macca, Mike McGear was in the group of course as was a future poet and also a future Tiswas foil.
The Five Stairsteps get a 3rd entry of the year, not to bad to say I had never heard of them a year ago, as Billy Vera & Judy Clay (back in a year with Private Number) release Storybook Children, a song that never really hit, but was covered by Nancy & Lee to great effect, and a hit for Sandra & Andres in the Netherlands. Who? Why the 1972 Eurovision couple of course who entered my 3rd fave song that year. Keith West has another Teenage Opera release - maybe one day it will get finished - and The Pyramids bring a reggae goodie in. Judge Dread gets a namecheck. Finally two 70's veteran acts debut, The O'Jays 4 years ahead of topping my charts with Backstabbers, and 8 years ahead of The Piano Man, Billy Joel sings lead on a Sam & Dave cover. Quite the back-catalogue the man has, frequently showing his love of 50's & 60's genres, starting here I guess.
1 ( NEW ) WORLD The Bee Gees 2 ( NEW ) KITES Simon Dupree & The Big Sound 3 ( 1 ) DAYDREAM BELIEVER The Monkees 4 ( 2 ) DIFFERENT DRUM The Stone Poneys featuring Linda Ronstadt 5 ( 3 ) BY THE TIME I GET TO PHOENIX Glen Campbell 6 ( 9 ) WHAT AM I DOING HANGIN’ ROUND? The Monkees 7 ( 5 ) MASSACHUSSETS (THE LIGHTS GO OUT IN) The Bee Gees 8 ( 4 ) SAND Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazelwood 9 ( 8 ) ZABADAK! Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich 10 ( 10 ) EVERYBODY KNOWS The Dave Clark Five
11 ( 6 ) WHEN YOU’RE GONE Brenda & The Tabulations 12 ( 19 ) LET THE HEARTACHES BEGIN Long John Baldry 13 ( 13 ) LADY BIRD Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazelwood 14 ( 16 ) JUDY IN DISGUISE (WITH GLASSES) John Fred & His Playboy Band 15 ( 7 ) THE DAYS OF PEARLY SPENCER David McWilliams 16 ( 27 ) MY RAINBOW VALLEY Robert Knight 17 ( 22 ) WOMAN, WOMAN Gary Puckett & The Union Gap 18 ( 18 ) FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE Hugo Montenegro & His Orchestra 19 ( 12 ) (THEME FROM) VALLEY OF THE DOLLS Dionne Warwick 20 ( 14 ) I CAN SEE FOR MILES The Who
21 ( 11 ) THESE DAYS Nico 22 ( 25 ) I WAN’NA BE LIKE YOU Louis Prima, Phil Harris & Bruce Reitherman 23 ( 15 ) WITHOUT HER Harry Nilsson 24 ( 17 ) WHAT’S SO GOOD ABOUT GOOD-BYE Giant Sunflower 25 ( 30 ) ALL MY LOVE Cliff Richard 26 ( 20 ) (YOU MAKE ME FEEL LIKE) A NATURAL WOMAN Aretha Franklin 27 ( 24 ) BABY NOW THAT I’VE FOUND YOU The Foundations 28 ( 23 ) THE RAIN, THE PARK AND OTHER THINGS The Cowsills 29 ( NEW ) I’M COMING HOME Tom Jones 30 ( 57 ) STAR COLLECTOR The Monkees
31 ( 21 ) AUTUMN ALMANAC The Kinks 32 ( 32 ) LOVE IS ALL AROUND The Troggs 33 ( 26 ) SOMETHING’S GOTTEN HOLD OF MY HEART Gene Pitney 34 ( 28 ) I FEEL LOVE COMIN’ ON Felice Taylor 35 ( 39 ) NOBODY BUT ME The Human Beinz 36 ( 29 ) I SAY A LITTLE PRAYER Dionne Warwick 37 ( 42 ) THE BARE NECESSITIES Phil Harris & Bruce Reitherman 38 ( 34 ) REFLECTIONS Diana Ross & The Supremes 39 ( 35 ) EXCERPT FROM 'A TEENAGE OPERA' Keith West 40 ( 49 ) SUMMER RAIN Johnny Rivers
41 ( 33 ) FROM THE UNDERWORLD The Herd 42 ( 31 ) OOH I LOVE YOU The Dells 43 ( 61 ) FOGGY MOUNTAIN BREAKDOWN Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs 44 ( 37 ) GET THE MESSAGE Brian Hyland 45 ( 40 ) ODE TO BILLIE JOE Bobbie Gentry 46 ( 36 ) TO SIR WITH LOVE Lulu 47 ( 54 ) WHAT’S IT GONNA BE Dusty Springfield 48 ( 50 ) IN AND OUT OF LOVE Diana Ross & The Supremes 49 ( 60 ) SHE’S MY GIRL The Turtles 50 ( NEW ) WEAR YOUR LOVE LIKE HEAVEN Donovan
51 ( 41 ) PAPER CUP The 5th Dimension 52 ( 59 ) SARAH (LA FEMME QUI EST DANS MON LIT) Serge Reggiani 53 ( 47 ) JILL Gary Lewis & The Playboys 54 ( 48 ) LET’S GO TO SAN FRANCISCO The Flowerpot Men 55 ( 62 ) THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE Julie Andrews 56 ( 56 ) I SECOND THAT EMOTION Smokey Robinson & The Miracles 57 ( 46 ) MATHILDE Scott Walker 58 ( 52 ) ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE The Beatles 59 ( 44 ) TAKE A LOOK Aretha Franklin 60 ( 43 ) SHAME ON ME Chuck Jackson
61 ( 51 ) THE DAY I MET MARIE Cliff Richard 62 ( NEW ) MR. BUS DRIVER Bruce Channel 63 ( NEW ) THANK U VERY MUCH The Scaffold 64 ( 75 ) HONEY CHILE Martha Reeves & The Vandellas 65 ( 38 ) I HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE Gladys Knight & The Pips 66 ( 74 ) CAN’T HELP BUT LOVE YOU The Standells 67 ( 70 ) BE MINE The Tremeloes 68 ( NEW ) SOMETHING’S MISSING The Five Stairsteps 69 ( 69 ) LOVE LOVES TO LOVE LOVE Lulu 70 ( NEW ) STORYBOOK CHILDREN Billy Vera & Judy Clay
71 ( NEW ) SAM Keith West 72 ( 53 ) HOW CAN I BE SURE The Young Rascals 73 ( NEW ) TRAIN TOUR TO RAINBOW CITY The Pyramids 74 ( NEW ) I’LL BE SWEETER TOMORROW (THAN I AM TODAY) The O’Jays 75 ( NEW ) YOU GOT ME HUMMIN’ The Hassles featuring Billy Joel
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Post by popchartfreak on Nov 19, 2017 18:09:49 GMT 1
19th November 2017
It's straight in at 1 for OMD's best record, Maid Of Orleans peaked at 2 in my charts in 1982, but was still the star moment at the concert last week, so following a sort-of request to include it (Hi Simon!) it's overdue getting to number one, as Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark make it an 8th time on top. It's about Joan Of Arc, that old pop song cliche subject matter that everyone writes about all the time...
That means Sufjan Stevens gorgeous and touching gentle movie song is at 2 for now, as by contrast the exciting Written By Wolves packs it up to 4 and Led Zep's hard rocking Immigrant Song is up to 7 - just behind The Fizz. I do enjoy being perverse in my music tastes laugh.gif Golden Slumbers is in twice - Elbow's new cover, and advert song, pops in, but the short and very sweet original Abbey Road track is in at 24 - The final short track of the trilogy (really they are a medley) The End, entered my chart earlier in the year, so that only leaves Carry that Weight to go. As itunes doesn't sell them together though, they don't qualify, but The Beatles Golden Slumbers does as it has also made the UK sales chart.
Alma's back, going through Phases as she pushes herself out the 40, Pnau shoot up into the 40 for the second time this year, followed closely by a subtle remix of the new Empire Of The Sun - Pnau's partner-act, really - which I prefer to the single mix. Speaking of new mixes, or new versions, Yazoo are back again with a delicious 2017 version of Only You which should push it over a "million" in my sales soon - 1982 rules this week! - which slows it down and removes the blippety-blop synths which detract from the quality of the song.
Another Roy O track enters from his new album. Most of the classic oldies have already had good chart runs, but Blue Angel is a doo-wop 50's styled delight that I've never really noticed before, but sounds quite lush with the LSO on hand. Katie Melua is back, well over a decade into her chart career, with Sting's golden fields oldie, Fall Out Boy and Paloma Faith pop back fairly quickly with new ones, and an old Kate Bush album track, and Jeff Lynne's live version of his 1980 chart-topper (minus luvverly Livvie) sneaks in.
1 NEW 1 1 MAID OF ORLEANS (THE WALTZ JOAN OF ARC) Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark 170000 2 3 2 3 MYSTERY OF LOVE Sufjan Stevens 242000 3 1 1 6 I LOVE YOU BUT I’M LOST Tears For Fears 483500 4 26 4 3 TIMEBOMBS HURRICANES Written By Wolves 101900 5 4 3 6 BETWEEN TWO ISLANDS Pet Shop Boys 332000 6 2 2 3 AMEN The Fizz 285000 7 11 7 4 IMMIGRANT SONG Led Zeppelin 170000 8 7 1 12 CRYBABY Paloma Faith 868000 9 5 1 8 WAIT UP Hurts 638000 10 43 10 2 THE CALLING TheFatRat featuring Laura Brehm 55500
11 6 1 8 MAGNIFICENT Hurts 792000 12 8 3 8 READY TO GO Hurts 473000 13 15 13 15 BOTH SIDES NOW Glen Campbell 294000 14 9 1 11 MY KINGDOM (WILLIAM BLACK REMIX) Evangeline 809650 15 16 15 2 COMIN’ UP Tungevaag & Raaban featuring Victor Crone 52000 16 14 4 7 GO 2.0 Burak Yeter & Ryan Rybak 278300 17 21 17 3 ANYWHERE Rita Ora 56000 18 18 18 4 ULTRA LOVE Marlon Roudette 88000 19 13 10 6 SEXY NORTHERNER Pet Shop Boys 168750 20 17 17 3 YOU WERE RIGHT RUFUS 62750
21 12 12 11 LIFE WITH THE MACBETHS Sparks 201350 22 23 20 6 LOVE HURTS Roy Orbison & The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra 110650 23 25 23 11 DO IT AGAIN Steely Dan 177500 24 NEW 24 1 GOLDEN SLUMBERS The Beatles 19000 25 NEW 25 1 ONLY YOU (2017 VERSION) Yazoo 18750 26 36 26 6 OH, PRETTY WOMAN Roy Orbison & The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra 93450 27 24 1 11 FOOTSTEPS Pet Shop Boys 852400 28 20 16 4 HOLY MOUNTAIN Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds 82550 29 32 29 2 ELECTRICITY Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark 36000 30 19 8 9 BEST FRIEND Sofi Tukker featuring NERVO, The Knocks & Alisa Ueno 267150
31 10 10 11 THE PUNISHMENT OF LUXURY Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark 185400 32 22 22 4 COMIC LIFE Matt Maltese 74600 33 33 6 14 GET LOW Zedd & Liam Payne 402900 34 34 34 5 ROBOT MAN Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark 66000 35 NEW 35 1 BLUE ANGEL Roy Orbison & The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra 17500 36 NEW 36 1 PHASES Alma & French Montana 17400 37 35 35 3 JEALOUS (I AIN’T WITH IT) Chromeo 52000 38 31 31 3 DRIVEWAY culpriit 53000 39 30 30 6 EVERYTHING IS NEVER ENOUGH (VIDEO MIX) Goldfrapp 86700 40 68 40 2 GO BANG PNAU 23400
41 28 3 11 CLOSER TO HEAVEN Pet Shop Boys 424250 42 29 9 10 EDITH PIAF (SAID IT BETTER THAN ME) Sparks 239300 43 38 13 11 DUSK TILL DAWN ZAYN featuring Sia 222900 44 47 44 3 DEADLY VALENTINE Charlotte Gainsbourg 36750 45 52 45 2 (DON’T FEAR) THE REAPER Blue Oyster Cult 24500 46 37 14 12 ALL STARS Martin Solveig featuring Alma 221950 47 NEW 47 1 WAY TO GO (GOMEZ & TRITTER REMIX) Empire Of The Sun 12500 48 39 3 15 DRINK UP Train 632900 49 27 27 10 ISOTYPE Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark 125300 50 62 50 4 HOW LONG Charlie Puth 32200
51 46 46 4 LOVING IS EASY Rex Orange County featuring Benny Sings 46800 52 49 1 19 TRUE FEELING Galantis 966450 53 41 29 5 A DIFFERENT CORNER George Michael 78750 54 55 1 20 DREAMS Grace Slick 655900 55 NEW 55 1 FIELDS OF GOLD Katie Melua 10800 56 40 19 8 BEAUTIFUL TRAUMA P!nk 135500 57 50 1 18 STILL FEELS LIKE THE FIRST TIME Zoot Woman featuring Kylie Minogue 874000 58 44 19 7 WORD UP The BossHoss 119850 59 NEW 59 1 HOLD ME TIGHT OR DON’T Fall Out Boy 10100 60 42 34 5 PRAYING FOR TIME George Michael 69950
61 57 1 21 TWO FUX Adam Lambert 1071500 62 NEW 62 1 COLA CamelPhat & Elderbrook 7400 63 64 63 3 WHEN WE WERE HIGH LP 19900 64 45 10 8 CLOSE TO YOU ARLE 187000 65 58 10 15 WHAT ABOUT US P!nk 295300 66 65 1 36 ALONE AGAIN OR Love 984750 67 NEW 67 1 GOLDEN SLUMBERS Elbow 6600 68 61 6 13 LIKE AN ANGEL PASSING THROUGH MY ROOM Madonna 320350 69 71 69 2 GALAXY Dannii Minogue 12000 70 59 59 4 SAVOIR FAIRE Beth Ditto 29700
71 74 71 2 LET YOU DOWN NF 11000 72 72 72 2 I MISS YOU Clean Bandit featuring Julia Michaels 11200 73 NEW 73 1 XANADU (LIVE AT WEMBLEY) Jeff Lynne’s ELO 5400 74 NEW 74 1 JIG OF LIFE Kate Bush 5200 75 NEW 75 1 GUILTY Paloma Faith 5000
DROP OUTS 48 30 6 SPENT THE DAY IN BED Morrissey 90300 51 39 3 RISING COST OF LOVE Elkie Brooks 41600 53 37 5 SAY A PRAYER TIEKS featuring Chaka Khan & Popcaan 55750 54 8 14 I HEAR YOU CALLING DJ Licious 315350 56 33 8 ILL RAY (THE KING) Kasabian 86300 60 60 2 PART X1V Prequell featuring Rae Morris 20000 63 10 13 RUN FOR COVER The Killers 261600 66 44 8 HAVANA Camila Cabello featuring Young Thug 66050 67 67 2 SPACE AGE LOVE SONG A Flock Of Seagulls 11600 69 12 11 TALL THIN MEN Pet Shop Boys 248200 70 1 22 SUMMER WINE Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazelwood 829900 73 7 14 NEW RULES Dua Lipa 311250 75 75 1 TAKE ME HOME Delta Goodrem 5000
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Post by popchartfreak on Nov 17, 2017 21:21:23 GMT 1
10th NOVEMBER 1985
Feargal Sharkey does what the Undertones never managed - he tops my chart, with the fab A Good Heart. Meanwhile Huey Lewis is back with a bang with his 1982 non-hit in the UK, the terrific Heart & Soul, outdoing his most-famous song Power Of Love in my charts. Lloyd Cole rockets up to 11, and The Waterboys go into orbit seeing the Whole Of The Moon up 48 places to 18. Classic! The Communards hit the 20 for the first time, and in at 27 it's a significant chart debut for them and for me: West End Girls is still their most famous song, and kick-started a glorious career for the Pet Shop Boys which continues to this day. Far and away easily my top fave act of the last 32 years, on record and in concert, and one of my Big Three along with The Beatles and Abba.
Wham! crack back with the great I'm Your Man, while a bunch of pop stars do an anti-Apartheid track (Ringo Starr, Bob Dylan, Lou Reed, Bob Geldof, Jackson Browne, Bono, some Temptations, Afrika Bambaata, Hall & Oates, Bobby Womack and many many more) and it's pretty good. In at 36 and 37 respectively as at 38 Dire Straits make it 6 years of top 40 hits with the atmospheric Brothers In Arms title track, as the new-format CD took off big-time spearheaded by this album.
Fine Young Cannibals are a bit blue, Queen notably didn't play on Sun City as they had recently actually played Sun City and sparked the protest, having just the one vision, and Starship drop the Jefferson and the Airplane and the quality, coming back 5 years on from Jane to build a city. An annoying one by the time it dropped out of the charts. A bunch of follow-up's enter lower, the most notable being David & Jaki's 70's-soul-styled Mated, a bit Philly and a bit fab.
1 ( 9 ) A GOOD HEART Feargal Sharkey 2 ( 1 ) CITIES IN DUST Siouxsie & The Banshees 3 ( 3 ) STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN Far Corporation 4 ( 4 ) DON’T BREAK MY HEART UB40 5 ( 8 ) ROAD TO NOWHERE Talking Heads 6 ( 5 ) NIKITA Elton John 7 ( 2 ) TAKE ON ME A-Ha 8 ( 11 ) SOMETHING ABOUT YOU Level 42 9 ( 16 ) ALIVE AND KICKING Simple Minds 10 ( NEW ) HEART AND SOUL Huey Lewis & The News
11 ( 32 ) LOST WEEKEND Lloyd Cole & The Commotions 12 ( 7 ) SLAVE TO THE RHYTHM Grace Jones 13 ( 18 ) THE POWER OF LOVE Jennifer Rush 14 ( 17 ) KING FOR A DAY The Thompson Twins 15 ( 10 ) CLOUDBUSTING Kate Bush 16 ( 6 ) (I’LL NEVER BE) MARIA MAGDALENA Sandra 17 ( 13 ) IF I WAS Midge Ure 18 ( 66 ) THE WHOLE OF THE MOON The Waterboys 19 ( 30 ) YOU ARE MY WORLD The Communards 20 ( 24 ) SISTERS ARE DOING IT FOR THEMSELVES Eurythmics and Aretha Franklin
21 ( 21 ) BIG DEAL Bobby G 22 ( 12 ) BRING ON THE DANCING HORSES Echo & The Bunnymen 23 ( 27 ) ELECTION DAY Arcadia 24 ( 22 ) IT’S A MANS MANS MANS MANS WORLD Brilliant 25 ( 14 ) RAIN The Cult 26 ( 15 ) THIS IS ENGLAND The Clash 27 ( NEW ) WEST END GIRLS Pet Shop Boys 28 ( 20 ) THE LODGERS The Style Council 29 ( 33 ) THE TASTE OF MY TEARS King 30 ( 19 ) ST. ELMO’S FIRE (MAN IN MOTION) John Parr
31 ( 31 ) TRAPPED Colonel Abrams 32 ( 23 ) MIAMI VICE THEME Jan Hammer 33 ( 53 ) JUST FOR THE MONEY Paul Hardcastle 34 ( 51 ) WHEN LOVE BREAKS DOWN Prefab Sprout 35 ( 28 ) LA FEMME ACCIDENT OMD 36 ( NEW ) I’M YOUR MAN Wham! 37 ( NEW ) SUN CITY Artists United Against Apartheid 38 ( NEW ) BROTHERS IN ARMS Dire Straits 39 ( 26 ) LEAN ON ME (AH-LI-AYO) Red Box 40 ( 45 ) AFTER THE FIRE Roger Daltrey
41 ( 25 ) THE GAMBLER Madonna 42 ( 58 ) IT’S ONLY LOVE Tina Turner & Bryan Adams 43 ( 37 ) RUNNING UP THAT HILL Kate Bush 44 ( 36 ) PART TIME LOVER Stevie Wonder 45 ( 43 ) DRIVE The Cars 46 ( NEW ) BLUE Fine Young Cannibals 47 ( 29 ) REBEL YELL Billy Idol 48 ( 34 ) FORTRESS AROUND MY HEART Sting 49 ( NEW ) ONE VISION Queen 50 ( 35 ) YEH YEH Matt Bianco
51 ( 39 ) ONE OF THE LIVING Tina Turner 52 ( 38 ) LOVE LETTERS Marc Almond 53 ( 50 ) YOU AND YOUR HEART SO BLUE Bucks Fizz 54 ( 41 ) CLOSE TO ME The Cure 55 ( 55 ) THE LAST KISS David Cassidy 56 ( 64 ) UNCLE SAM Madness 57 ( 42 ) ANGEL Madonna 58 ( NEW ) WE BUILT THIS CITY Starship 59 ( 40 ) SLEEPING BAG ZZ Top 60 ( 57 ) HOLIDAY Madonna
61 ( 59 ) MEGAREX T.Rex 62 ( 61 ) THERE MUST BE AN ANGEL (PLAYING WITH MY HEART) Eurythmics 63 ( NEW ) THAT CERTAIN SMILE Midge Ure 64 ( 48 ) KNOCK ON WOOD/ LIGHT MY FIRE Amii Stewart 65 ( 56 ) WHAT’S YOUR PROBLEM? Blancmange 66 ( 65 ) “19” Paul Hardcastle 67 ( NEW ) LOSE YOUR LOVE Blancmange 68 ( 44 ) OH SHEILA Take On The World 69 ( 74 ) SEE THE DAY Dee C. Lee 70 ( 62 ) DON’T STOP THE DANCE Bryan Ferry
71 ( NEW ) GET OUTTA TOWN Dan Hartman 72 ( 68 ) I WONDER IF I TAKE YOU HOME Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam with Full Force 73 ( NEW ) MATED David Grant & Jaki Graham 74 ( 60 ) MY HEART GOES BANG Dead Or Alive 75 ( NEW ) EMERGENCY Kool & The Gang CLASSIC OLDIES FAVES OF THE WEEK 1 HIGH FLY John Miles 2 THE SUN AIN’T GONNA SHINE ANYMORE The Walker Brothers 3 NO. 9 DREAM John Lennon
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Post by popchartfreak on Nov 15, 2017 21:24:12 GMT 1
12th November 1967
2 weeks on top for a Monkees classic holding off Linda Ronstadt's Mike Nesmith song - who also has the highest new entry (Mike that is) singing lead on his popular TV show cut, and new album track, What Am I Doing Hangin' Round? In at 9 for The Monkees, while another track is in at 57 - Star Collector also featured in the TV show, but is more notable for finishing on a lot of moog synth sounds, a candidate for the first pop group use of synths, certainly the first fairly-well-known instance 5 years ahead of the first huge hit featuring them (Chicory Tip) and the first arguable EDM track (Hot Butter's Popcorn), both of which I was very big on myself!
Brenda & The Tabs get a second top 10 of 1967, Dave Clark Five a first in 2 or 3 years (had I done any charts for the early 60's), while the late Robert Knight enters at 27 with his original version of yet another big hit for The Love Affair - My Rainbow Valley. I can't find a release date for the uncharted album or the single (it was a B side, it seems), though they are both dated 1967 so his passing seems as good a reason to choose this week to chart it. Another Cliff fave of the time is in at 30, while doo wop is up to 31 for The Dells (soulstylee) - I have been consistently surprised by how many 50's styled tracked were hits by this time in the USA, and how many of them I like.
Johnny Rivers is unknown in the UK, but he had a good run of singles in the USA, and Summer Rain is the best one of 1967 and in at 49, while the oldest track (by far) to chart in 1967 is in for Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs, pure banjo bluegrass delight, the original country & western music, and there are few older records to have ever made my charts - I can think of Bing Crosby, Laurel & Hardy, Judy Garland and that song from Gold-diggers Of 1930-something, The Lullaby Of Broadway - Winifred Shaw I think. Talking of musicals, Throughly Modern Millie was charting (the film soundtrack), and the film is one of my 60's faves, a great cast, whimsical, set in the 20's and the title track is worth charting for Julie Andrews. She would, of course, have charted loads from Sound Of Music and Mary Poppins if I were charting as a kiddie. That leaves Martha & The Vandellas popping in with a later UK hit, and The Standells funking it up and ending their 60's chart career in the States. Pity, cos it's good.
1 ( 1 ) DAYDREAM BELIEVER The Monkees 2 ( 2 ) DIFFERENT DRUM The Stone Poneys featuring Linda Ronstadt 3 ( 3 ) BY THE TIME I GET TO PHOENIX Glen Campbell 4 ( 4 ) SAND Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazelwood 5 ( 5 ) MASSACHUSSETS (THE LIGHTS GO OUT IN) The Bee Gees 6 ( 11 ) WHEN YOU’RE GONE Brenda & The Tabulations 7 ( 7 ) THE DAYS OF PEARLY SPENCER David McWilliams 8 ( 6 ) ZABADAK! Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich 9 ( NEW ) WHAT AM I DOING HANGIN’ ROUND? The Monkees 10 ( 13 ) EVERYBODY KNOWS The Dave Clark Five
11 ( 8 ) THESE DAYS Nico 12 ( 9 ) (THEME FROM) VALLEY OF THE DOLLS Dionne Warwick 13 ( 15 ) LADY BIRD Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazelwood 14 ( 10 ) I CAN SEE FOR MILES The Who 15 ( 12 ) WITHOUT HER Harry Nilsson 16 ( 21 ) JUDY IN DISGUISE (WITH GLASSES) John Fred & His Playboy Band 17 ( 14 ) WHAT’S SO GOOD ABOUT GOOD-BYE Giant Sunflower 18 ( 22 ) FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE Hugo Montenegro & His Orchestra 19 ( 25 ) LET THE HEARTACHES BEGIN Long John Baldry 20 ( 16 ) (YOU MAKE ME FEEL LIKE) A NATURAL WOMAN Aretha Franklin
21 ( 17 ) AUTUMN ALMANAC The Kinks 22 ( 27 ) WOMAN, WOMAN Gary Puckett & The Union Gap 23 ( 23 ) THE RAIN, THE PARK AND OTHER THINGS The Cowsills 24 ( 19 ) BABY NOW THAT I’VE FOUND YOU The Foundations 25 ( 34 ) I WAN’NA BE LIKE YOU Louis Prima, Phil Harris & Bruce Reitherman 26 ( 18 ) SOMETHING’S GOTTEN HOLD OF MY HEART Gene Pitney 27 ( NEW ) MY RAINBOW VALLEY Robert Knight 28 ( 20 ) I FEEL LOVE COMIN’ ON Felice Taylor 29 ( 30 ) I SAY A LITTLE PRAYER Dionne Warwick 30 ( NEW ) ALL MY LOVE Cliff Richard
31 ( 45 ) OOH I LOVE YOU The Dells 32 ( 38 ) LOVE IS ALL AROUND The Troggs 33 ( 24 ) FROM THE UNDERWORLD The Herd 34 ( 31 ) REFLECTIONS Diana Ross & The Supremes 35 ( 32 ) EXCERPT FROM 'A TEENAGE OPERA' Keith West 36 ( 29 ) TO SIR WITH LOVE Lulu 37 ( 33 ) GET THE MESSAGE Brian Hyland 38 ( 40 ) I HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE Gladys Knight & The Pips 39 ( 54 ) NOBODY BUT ME The Human Beinz 40 ( 35 ) ODE TO BILLIE JOE Bobbie Gentry
41 ( 50 ) PAPER CUP The 5th Dimension 42 ( 44 ) THE BARE NECESSITIES Phil Harris & Bruce Reitherman 43 ( 26 ) SHAME ON ME Chuck Jackson 44 ( 37 ) TAKE A LOOK Aretha Franklin 45 ( 28 ) HOLIDAY The Bee Gees 46 ( 39 ) MATHILDE Scott Walker 47 ( 43 ) JILL Gary Lewis & The Playboys 48 ( 42 ) LET’S GO TO SAN FRANCISCO The Flowerpot Men 49 ( NEW) SUMMER RAIN Johnny Rivers 50 ( 63 ) IN AND OUT OF LOVE Diana Ross & The Supremes
51 ( 46 ) THE DAY I MET MARIE Cliff Richard 52 ( 49 ) ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE The Beatles 53 ( 41 ) HOW CAN I BE SURE The Young Rascals 54 ( 61 ) WHAT’S IT GONNA BE Dusty Springfield 55 ( 48 ) ARE YOU NEVER COMING HOME Sandy Posey 56 ( 59 ) I SECOND THAT EMOTION Smokey Robinson & The Miracles 57 ( NEW ) STAR COLLECTOR The Monkees 58 ( 36 ) KING MIDAS IN REVERSE The Hollies 59 ( 73 ) SARAH (LA FEMME QUI EST DANS MON LIT) Serge Reggiani 60 ( 71 ) SHE’S MY GIRL The Turtles
61 ( NEW ) FOGGY MOUNTAIN BREAKDOWN Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs 62 ( NEW ) THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE Julie Andrews 63 ( 47 ) PIECE OF MY HEART Erma Franklin 64 ( 66 ) WATCH THE FLOWERS GROW The Four Seasons 65 ( 53 ) LOVE OF THE COMMON PEOPLE Wayne Newton 66 ( 58 ) I FEEL GOOD (I FEEL BAD) The Lewis And Clarke Expedition featuring Mike Nesmith 67 ( 57 ) ANYTHING GOES Harpers Bizarre 68 ( 60 ) STRAIGHT SHOOTER The Mamas & The Papas 69 ( 72 ) LOVE LOVES TO LOVE LOVE Lulu 70 ( 75 ) BE MINE The Tremeloes
71 ( 55 ) FLOWERS IN THE RAIN The Move 72 ( NEW ) GOIN’ DOWN The Monkees 73 ( 68 ) TO LOVE SOMEBODY The Bee Gees 74 ( NEW ) CAN’T HELP BUT LOVE YOU The Standells 75 ( NEW ) HONEY CHILE Martha Reeves & The Vandellas
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Post by popchartfreak on Nov 14, 2017 20:45:39 GMT 1
12th November 2017
2 weeks on top for Tears For Fears holding off (Bucks) Fizz and a strong drive from the fab Sufjan Stevens gentle ballad. The theme is very much duos this week, multiple entries for Pet Shop Boys, Hurts, Tears For Fears, Sparks, Sofi Tukker, not to mention duets, and in with that (sort of) come OMD - a band in the early days, but largely a duo or solo for most of their career. Anyway I saw a fab gig at Southampton Guildhall, the first time Ive seen both Andy McLusky and Paul Humphries together. Highlight was the awesome Maid Of Orleans, and Messages, but they have had good runs. They played several tracks off the new album, and the first 2 tracks off it sounded just as good as the oldies - so they re-enter as they under-performed in my chart a couple of months ago. The highest re-entry the title track, The Punishment Of Luxury, while their first single and set closer, the terrific Electricity never made my chart in 1980 so here at long last it is in at 32, only 37 years late.
Highest actual new act is at 16 - Tungevaag & Rabaak, a name that trips off the tongue. Well twists it at any rate. Very Europop 2015. Rita Ora bounds up to 21 and into the 40, despite the electronic version of Little Jimmy Osmond's Tweedledee noises interrupting the song. I'm tempted to do a mix with Jim's oldie... if I actually knew how.
The FatRat have a second chart entry. From 1978, because it's in the itunes chart and no other reason, the fab Blue Oyster Cult classic is back for a second run almost 40 years on, PNAU grab a second entry of the year, Clean Bandit a 3rd, Dannii Minogue a second of the year, and Delta Goodrem returns to my chart after a gap of 14 years - and her previous entry peaked at 74, Born To Try. 2 places higher and it's her biggest hit. She currently holds the least-succesful-act in my chart record for any non-one-hit-wonder. Oops!
1 1 1 5 I LOVE YOU BUT I’M LOST Tears For Fears 398500 2 2 2 2 AMEN The Fizz 230000 3 10 3 2 MYSTERY OF LOVE Sufjan Stevens 127000 4 6 3 5 BETWEEN TWO ISLANDS Pet Shop Boys 272000 5 3 1 7 WAIT UP Hurts 593000 6 4 1 7 MAGNIFICENT Hurts 755000 7 9 1 11 CRYBABY Paloma Faith 820000 8 7 3 7 READY TO GO Hurts 438000 9 5 1 10 MY KINGDOM (WILLIAM BLACK REMIX) Evangeline 780650 10 RE 10 10 THE PUNISHMENT OF LUXURY Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark 167500
11 8 8 3 IMMIGRANT SONG Led Zeppelin 120000 12 14 12 10 LIFE WITH THE MACBETHS Sparks 181600 13 13 10 5 SEXY NORTHERNER Pet Shop Boys 147750 14 11 4 6 GO 2.0 Burak Yeter & Ryan Rybak 253300 15 15 15 14 BOTH SIDES NOW Glen Campbell 262000 16 NEW 16 1 COMIN’ UP Tungevaag & Raaban featuring Victor Crone 25000 17 21 17 2 YOU WERE RIGHT RUFUS 42750 18 18 18 3 ULTRA LOVE Marlon Roudette 66000 19 12 8 8 BEST FRIEND Sofi Tukker featuring NERVO, The Knocks & Alisa Ueno 249150 20 16 16 3 HOLY MOUNTAIN Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds 64250
21 44 21 2 ANYWHERE Rita Ora 33000 22 22 22 3 COMIC LIFE Matt Maltese 56800 23 20 20 5 LOVE HURTS Roy Orbison & The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra 91150 24 17 1 10 FOOTSTEPS Pet Shop Boys 834000 25 25 25 10 DO IT AGAIN Steely Dan 158250 26 27 26 2 TIMEBOMBS HURRICANES Written By Wolves 36900 27 RE 27 9 ISOTYPE Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark 113200 28 23 3 10 CLOSER TO HEAVEN Pet Shop Boys 410250 29 19 9 9 EDITH PIAF (SAID IT BETTER THAN ME) Sparks 225550 30 33 30 5 EVERYTHING IS NEVER ENOUGH (VIDEO MIX) Goldfrapp 69600
31 31 31 2 DRIVEWAY culpriit 35800 32 NEW 32 1 ELECTRICITY Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark 17800 33 24 6 13 GET LOW Zedd & Liam Payne 385200 34 45 34 4 ROBOT MAN Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark 48400 35 38 35 2 JEALOUS (I AIN’T WITH IT) Chromeo 34700 36 36 36 5 OH, PRETTY WOMAN Roy Orbison & The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra 74950 37 30 14 11 ALL STARS Martin Solveig featuring Alma 209200 38 32 13 10 DUSK TILL DAWN ZAYN featuring Sia 209400 39 26 3 14 DRINK UP Train 620600 40 28 19 7 BEAUTIFUL TRAUMA P!nk 124900
41 29 29 4 A DIFFERENT CORNER George Michael 67500 42 34 34 4 PRAYING FOR TIME George Michael 59950 43 NEW 43 1 THE CALLING TheFatRat featuring Laura Brehm 13500 44 40 19 6 WORD UP The BossHoss 109650 45 35 10 7 CLOSE TO YOU ARLE 179900 46 49 46 3 LOVING IS EASY Rex Orange County featuring Benny Sings 35050 47 54 47 2 DEADLY VALENTINE Charlotte Gainsbourg 23500 48 41 30 6 SPENT THE DAY IN BED Morrissey 90300 49 48 1 18 TRUE FEELING Galantis 954950 50 47 1 17 STILL FEELS LIKE THE FIRST TIME Zoot Woman featuring Kylie Minogue 863600
51 39 39 3 RISING COST OF LOVE Elkie Brooks 41600 52 NEW 52 1 (DON’T FEAR) THE REAPER Blue Oyster Cult 11500 53 37 37 5 SAY A PRAYER TIEKS featuring Chaka Khan & Popcaan 55750 54 42 8 14 I HEAR YOU CALLING DJ Licious 315350 55 53 1 19 DREAMS Grace Slick 644900 56 43 33 8 ILL RAY (THE KING) Kasabian 86300 57 55 1 20 TWO FUX Adam Lambert 1064000 58 61 10 14 WHAT ABOUT US P!nk 288300 59 65 59 3 SAVOIR FAIRE Beth Ditto 23700 60 60 60 2 PART X1V Prequell featuring Rae Morris 20000
61 52 6 12 LIKE AN ANGEL PASSING THROUGH MY ROOM Madonna 313950 62 66 62 3 HOW LONG Charlie Puth 20200 63 46 10 13 RUN FOR COVER The Killers 261600 64 72 64 2 WHEN WE WERE HIGH LP 12700 65 64 1 35 ALONE AGAIN OR Love 978950 66 50 44 8 HAVANA Camila Cabello featuring Young Thug 66050 67 75 67 2 SPACE AGE LOVE SONG A Flock Of Seagulls 11600 68 NEW 68 1 GO BANG PNAU 6400 69 51 12 11 TALL THIN MEN Pet Shop Boys 248200 70 69 1 22 SUMMER WINE Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazelwood 829900
71 NEW 71 1 GALAXY Dannii Minogue 5800 72 NEW 72 1 I MISS YOU Clean Bandit featuring Julia Michaels 5600 73 59 7 14 NEW RULES Dua Lipa 311250 74 NEW 74 1 LET YOU DOWN NF 5200 75 NEW 75 1 TAKE ME HOME Delta Goodrem 5000
DROP OUTS 56 4 14 MORE MESS Kungs featuring Olly Murs & Coely 532050 57 36 5 KAAMOS Tom Fall 66750 58 48 3 FREEDOM ’90 George Michael 28900 62 56 3 SILENCE Marshmello featuring Khalid 28100 63 58 5 FATHER FIGURE George Michael 37800 67 60 6 HEROES David Bowie 44800 68 18 9 FANTASY George Michael featuring Nile Rodgers 163650 70 14 8 WALK ON WATER Thirty Seconds To Mars 149100 71 19 15 POWER Little Mix featuring Stormzy 226300 73 27 10 SWINGIN’ WITH MY EYES CLOSED Shania Twain 148200 74 9 13 HOLDING ON Dannii Minogue featuring Jason Heerah 259600
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Post by popchartfreak on Nov 8, 2017 21:15:36 GMT 1
3rd November 1985
It's a first week on top for Cities In Dust, Siouxsie's 2nd chart-topper, and a relatively unknown corker. UB40 climb to 4 - their 2nd highest charting single to date, after debut Food For Thought peaked at 2. Talking Heads get a 2nd top 10, Feargal Sharkey leaps to 9, and his first solo top 10 and goes where 3 Undertones singles have been. Kate Bush completes a fabulous top 10 - as usual in her case, it's more remarkable if she doesn't go top 10.
Lloyd Cole has a mighty quantum leap into the 40, as he searches for a Lost Weekend and his best track that isn't called Perfect Skin. Marc Almond keeps the long run of top 40's going and ZZ Top make it 4 in a row. After the previous week invasion of new entries, it's a bit calmer this time, but still room for some classics: The Waterboys enter at 66 with future 1991 Number 1 in my chart (on reissue) The Whole Of The Moon, a track I heard in a record store in 1989 in a College town in Vermont, and it still sounded fab. Music is memories....
Prefab Sprout have a good return single as the highest new entry, Paul Hardcastle disappoints following up a unique huge single, Tina Turner & Bryan Adams cap of a good year for them both with a rocky duet, Patsy Kensit debuts with Eighth Wonder, better times lie ahead chartwise (cough, Pet Shop Boys, cough), Dee C. Lee ex-of Wham! backing singers, and Paul Weller's better-half of the time brings a lush fab ballad into the lower reaches and on it's way up - though one I grew to love more in later years. There's also Shaky.
1 ( 2 ) CITIES IN DUST Siouxsie & The Banshees 2 ( 1 ) TAKE ON ME A-Ha 3 ( 3 ) STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN Far Corporation 4 ( 14 ) DON’T BREAK MY HEART UB40 5 ( 5 ) NIKITA Elton John 6 ( 6 ) (I’LL NEVER BE) MARIA MAGDALENA Sandra 7 ( 4 ) SLAVE TO THE RHYTHM Grace Jones 8 ( 12 ) ROAD TO NOWHERE Talking Heads 9 ( 21 ) A GOOD HEART Feargal Sharkey 10 ( 20 ) CLOUDBUSTING Kate Bush
11 ( 18 ) SOMETHING ABOUT YOU Level 42 12 ( 16 ) BRING ON THE DANCING HORSES Echo & The Bunnymen 13 ( 7 ) IF I WAS Midge Ure 14 ( 9 ) RAIN The Cult 15 ( 8 ) THIS IS ENGLAND The Clash 16 ( 22 ) ALIVE AND KICKING Simple Minds 17 ( 29 ) KING FOR A DAY The Thompson Twins 18 ( 15 ) THE POWER OF LOVE Jennifer Rush 19 ( 10 ) ST. ELMO’S FIRE (MAN IN MOTION) John Parr 20 ( 11 ) THE LODGERS The Style Council
21 ( 24 ) BIG DEAL Bobby G 22 ( 17 ) IT’S A MANS MANS MANS MANS WORLD Brilliant 23 ( 26 ) MIAMI VICE THEME Jan Hammer 24 ( 40 ) SISTERS ARE DOING IT FOR THEMSELVES Eurythmics and Aretha Franklin 25 ( 13 ) THE GAMBLER Madonna 26 ( 19 ) LEAN ON ME (AH-LI-AYO) Red Box 27 ( 46 ) ELECTION DAY Arcadia 28 ( 31 ) LA FEMME ACCIDENT OMD 29 ( 23 ) REBEL YELL Billy Idol 30 ( 36 ) YOU ARE MY WORLD The Communards
31 ( 25 ) TRAPPED Colonel Abrams 32 ( 67 ) LOST WEEKEND Lloyd Cole & The Commotions 33 ( 37 ) THE TASTE OF MY TEARS King 34 ( 38 ) FORTRESS AROUND MY HEART Sting 35 ( 35 ) YEH YEH Matt Bianco 36 ( 28 ) PART TIME LOVER Stevie Wonder 37 ( 32 ) RUNNING UP THAT HILL Kate Bush 38 ( 59 ) LOVE LETTER Marc Almond 39 ( 62 ) ONE OF THE LIVING Tina Turner 40 ( 49 ) SLEEPING BAG ZZ Top
41 ( 27 ) CLOSE TO ME The Cure 42 ( 33 ) ANGEL Madonna 43 ( 41 ) DRIVE The Cars 44 ( 58 ) OH SHEILA Take On The World 45 ( 52 ) AFTER THE FIRE Roger Daltrey 46 ( 30 ) THE SWEETEST TABOO Sade 47 ( 34 ) POP LIFE Prince 48 ( 39 ) KNOCK ON WOOD/ LIGHT MY FIRE Amii Stewart 49 ( 42 ) SINGLE LIFE Cameo 50 ( 45 ) YOU AND YOUR HEART SO BLUE Bucks Fizz
51 ( NEW ) WHEN LOVE BREAKS DOWN Prefab Sprout 52 ( 43 ) FEEL EMOTION Twiggy 53 ( NEW ) JUST FOR THE MONEY Paul Hardcastle 54 ( 44 ) THE BOY WITH THE THORN IN HIS SIDE The Smiths 55 ( 55 ) THE LAST KISS David Cassidy 56 ( 48 ) WHAT’S YOUR PROBLEM? Blancmange 57 ( 56 ) HOLIDAY Madonna 58 ( NEW ) IT’S ONLY LOVE Tina Turner & Bryan Adams 59 ( 61 ) MEGAREX T.Rex 60 ( 50 ) MY HEART GOES BANG Dead Or Alive
61 ( 60 ) THERE MUST BE AN ANGEL (PLAYING WITH MY HEART) Eurythmics 62 ( 57 ) DON’T STOP THE DANCE Bryan Ferry 63 ( 73 ) THE WIND OF CHANGE Robert Wyatt & The Swapo Singers 64 ( 74 ) UNCLE SAM Madness 65 ( 64 ) “19” Paul Hardcastle 66 ( NEW ) THE WHOLE OF THE MOON The Waterboys 67 ( 47 ) THE HEAVEN I NEED The Three Degrees 68 ( 65 ) I WONDER IF I TAKE YOU HOME Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam with Full Force 69 ( NEW ) HIT AND RUN Total Contrast 70 ( 70 ) ROCK ME BABY Johnny Nash
71 ( 51 ) I’LL BE GOOD Rene And Angela 72 ( 63 ) DON’T MESS WITH DR. DREAM The Thompson Twins 73 ( NEW ) STAY WITH ME Eighth Wonder 74 ( NEW ) SEE THE DAY Dee C. Lee 75 ( NEW ) LIPSTICK POWDER AND PAINT Shakin’ Stevens
OLDIES PLAYLIST OF THE WEEK: 1 IT’S FOR YOU Cilla Black 2 LIVERPOOL LULLABY Cilla Black 3 ELENORE The Turtles
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