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Post by Earl Purple on Mar 28, 2024 21:52:44 GMT 1
These are the fixtures. The first 3 are from the Premier League and are playing on Saturday 30 March, the last 7 in the lower leagues are playing on 2 April.
So they cross over 2 months and I'm not sure how that has worked for monthly tables before, but as most of them are in April I'd say it should count for April.
Bournemouth vs Everton Chelsea vs Burnley Sheff Utd vs Fulham Plymouth vs Bristol City Sunderland vs Blackburn West Brom vs Watford Blackpool vs Wycombe Carlisle vs Lincoln Crewe vs Forest Green Walsall vs Salford
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Post by Earl Purple on Mar 28, 2024 21:43:05 GMT 1
The results: A | Burton vs Port Vale | D | Carlisle vs Stevenage | H | Northampton vs Derby | H | Barrow vs Newport | A | Grimsby vs Wrexham | H | Sutton vs Accrington | A | Tranmere vs Crawley | D | Aldershot vs Solihull Moors | H | Barnet vs Dorking | D | Southend vs Woking |
Weekly scores: Monthly scores, which we'll call the full March table: Year to date:
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Post by Earl Purple on Mar 28, 2024 18:19:09 GMT 1
Premier League has games on Saturday, other leagues Friday and Monday.
So I will probably combine 3 PL from Saturday with 7 from lower leagues playing Monday and have the fixtures up later
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Post by Earl Purple on Mar 26, 2024 18:53:51 GMT 1
When many people heard Rhythm Of The Rain and End Of The World they had probably never heard the Cascades of Skeeter Davis versions and unlike now you caouldn't just grab the old version from online to hear how the original sounded.
Maybe that's why there were so many hit cover versions back then?
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Post by Earl Purple on Mar 24, 2024 22:36:22 GMT 1
I bought their "First In A Million Kisses" album at the time, and they have 2 songs from it on my "moon" playlist (Moon On The Rain and The Moon Is Mine).
The bass guitarist is called Mark E Nevin and co-wrote most of the Kill Uncle album for Morrissey and also a few other songs. Morrissey says the album was rushed and I can sort of feel it because "Pregnant For The Last Time" isn't on it, and that's one of my other favourite songs that he wrote.
Eddi Reader did some solo material also in the 1990s.
This song is just ok though on first hearing.
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Post by Earl Purple on Mar 22, 2024 10:31:26 GMT 1
41. Jason Donovan - Hang On To Your Love... 47 Rhythm Of The Rain
I wondered at this point if S/A/W had had enough of working with Jason Donovan and were giving him inferior songs and covers to do. Pete Waterman said in interviews that he wasn't a great singer. That he got "Too Many Broken Hearts" was probably the luck that they'd written it for Rick Astley who wanted to move on to writing his own songs so he was around to sing it instead, as they didn't have a suitable male vocalist to sing it at the time.
Similarly Sonia was given "End Of The World" at the time and she also had other hits with cover versions. Appears they were saving their best for Kylie whose output got better this year.
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Post by Earl Purple on Mar 21, 2024 20:45:44 GMT 1
1 ( 1 ) W.O.L.D - Harry Chapin < 2nd week at #1 > 2 ( 2 ) Jet - Wings (#1[2]) 3 ( 8 ) Emma - Hot Chocolate 4 ( 4 ) Seven Seas Of Rhye - Queen 5 ( 3 ) Candle In The Wind - Elton John (#2[1]) 6 ( 6 ) Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me - Gladys Knight & The Pips 7 ( 10 ) I'll Have To Say I Love You In A Song - Jim Croce 8 ( 7 ) Ma-Ma-Belle - Electric Light Orchestra (#7) 9 ( 5 ) Bennie And The Jets - Elton John (#3) 10 ( 14 ) Just Don't Want To Be Lonely - Main Ingredient
11 ( -- ) Keep On Singing - Helen Reddy 12 ( 22 ) Oh My My - Ringo Starr 13 ( 17 ) Long Live Love - Olivia Newton John 14 ( 9 ) Rebel Rebel - David Bowie (#6) 15 ( 15 ) I Get A Little Sentimental Over You - New Seekers 16 ( 13 ) Rock & Roll Hoochie Koo - Rick Derringer (#13) 17 ( 24 ) Let It Ride - Bachman-Turner Overdrive 18 ( 12 ) School Love - Barry Blue (#11) 19 ( 28 ) Homely Girl - Chi-Lites 20 ( 11 ) The Air That I Breathe - Hollies (#1[2])
21 ( -- ) The Entertainer - Marvin Hamlisch 22 ( -- ) Doctor's Orders - Sunny 23 ( 23 ) A Very Special Love Song - Charlie Rich 24 ( -- ) The Golden Age Of Rock And Roll - Mott The Hoople 25 ( 27 ) T.S.O.P (The Sound Of Philadelphia) - MFSB & Three Degrees 26 ( 34 ) Angel Face - Glitter Band 27 ( 18 ) Who Do You Think You Are - Candlewick Green (#13) 28 ( 20 ) Mighty Love - Spinners (#18) 29 ( 16 ) Devil Gate Drive - Suzi Quatro (#3) 30 ( 31 ) I've Got A Thing About You Baby - Elvis Presley
31 ( 37 ) Shanghai'd In Shanghai - Nazareth 32 ( 38 ) Touch A Hand Make A Friend - Staple Singers 33 ( 19 ) Billy Don't Be A Hero - Paper Lace (#7) 34 ( 21 ) Seasons In The Sun - Terry Jacks (#4) 35 ( 26 ) Teenage Dream - Marc Bolan & T.Rex (#23) 36 ( 32 ) Trying To Hold On To My Woman - Lamont Dozier (#31) 37 ( 25 ) Jealous Mind - Alvin Stardust (#11) 38 ( -- ) My Mistake (Was To Love You) - Diana Ross & Marvin Gaye 39 ( 33 ) Come And Get Your Love (Hail) - Redbone (#20) 40 ( -- ) Dancing Machine - Jackson Five
-- ( 29 ) Remember (Sha-La-La-La) - Bay City Rollers (#5) -- ( 30 ) Burn Baby Burn - Hudson Ford (#18) -- ( 35 ) Tiger Feet - Mud (#1[4]) -- ( 36 ) Teenage Rampage - Sweet (#2[2]) -- ( 39 ) Dark Lady - Cher (#9) -- ( 40 ) How Come - Ronnie Lane (#2[2])
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Post by Earl Purple on Mar 21, 2024 18:16:41 GMT 1
H4 Burton vs Port Vale A8 Carlisle vs Stevenage A9 Northampton vs Derby H7 Barrow vs Newport A5 Grimsby vs Wrexham A2 Sutton vs Accrington H3 Tranmere vs Crawley D1 Aldershot vs Solihull Moors H10 Barnet vs Dorking H6 Southend vs Woking
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Post by Earl Purple on Mar 21, 2024 16:28:40 GMT 1
1 ( 1 ) One - U2 < 3rd week at #1 > 2 ( 3 ) Under The Bridge - Red Hot Chili Peppers 3 ( 4 ) Hazard - Richard Marx 4 ( 5 ) The Life Of Riley - Lightning Seeds 5 ( 2 ) Weather With You - Crowded House (#2[2]) 6 ( 12 ) Deeply Dippy - Right Said Fred 7 ( 14 ) You - Ten Sharp 8 ( 6 ) November Rain - Guns N Roses (#6) 9 ( 10 ) Come As You Are - Nirvana 10 ( 18 ) Human Touch - Bruce Springsteen
11 ( -- ) Why - Annie Lennox 12 ( 19 ) Do Not Pass Me By - Hammer 13 ( -- ) Let's Get Rocked - Def Leppard 14 ( 13 ) We Are Each Other - Beautiful South (#13) 15 ( 8 ) Accident Waiting To Happen - Billy Bragg (#6) 16 ( 7 ) Dragging Me Down - Inspiral Carpets (#4) 17 ( 26 ) Boy On Top Of The News - Diesel Park West 18 ( 16 ) Three - Wedding Present (#16) 19 ( -- ) Money Don't Matter 2 Night - Prince & The New Power Generation 20 ( -- ) Slash 'N' Burn - Manic Street Preachers
21 ( 30 ) Happy Busman - Frank And Walters 22 ( -- ) You're All That Matters To Me - Curtis Stigers 23 ( 9 ) For Your Babies - Simply Red (#1[3]) 24 ( -- ) Church Of Your Heart - Roxette 25 ( 32 ) Winter - Tori Amos 26 ( 11 ) Cold Day In Hell - Gary Moore (#3) 27 ( 15 ) Right Now - Airhead (#13) 28 ( 23 ) Far Gone And Out - Jesus & Mary Chain (#23) 29 ( 34 ) Too Much Passion - Smithereens 30 ( -- ) Breath Of Life - Erasure
31 ( 25 ) Everything Changes - Kathy Troccoli (#25) 32 ( 37 ) Caledonia - Frankie Miller 33 ( -- ) Ain't 2 Proud 2 Beg - TLC 34 ( 27 ) Time To Make You Mine - Lisa Stansfield (#27) 35 ( 28 ) Steal Your Fire - Gun (#28) 36 ( 20 ) Roll The Bones - Rush (#17) 37 ( 17 ) Make It On My Own - Alison Limerick (#10) 38 ( -- ) High - Cure 39 ( 41 ) More Than Love - Wet Wet Wet 40 ( 22 ) America What Time Is Love - KLF (#19)
41 ( 42 ) Mind Adventures - Des'Ree 42 ( 43 ) Rocks On The Road - Jethro Tull 43 ( 24 ) Again Tonight - John Mellencamp (#21) 44 ( -- ) b**** School - Spinal Tap 45 ( -- ) Through The Roof - Cud 46 ( 45 ) Halfway To Heaven - Europe (#45) 47 ( 21 ) Laid So Low (Tears Roll Down) - Tears For Fears (#11) 48 ( 46 ) Don't Lose The Music - Shawn Christopher (#46) 49 ( 35 ) A Juicy Red Apple - Skin Up (#35) 50 ( -- ) One True Woman - Yazz
-- ( 29 ) Thought I'd Died And Gone To Heaven - Bryan Adams (#9) -- ( 31 ) Colour My Love - M People (#28) -- ( 33 ) Where's Me Jumper - Sultans Of Ping FC (#4) -- ( 36 ) Stay - Shakespears Sister (#1[2]) -- ( 38 ) On Every Street - Dire Straits (#19) -- ( 39 ) Don't Let It Show On Your Face - Adeva (#22) -- ( 40 ) Romeo & Juliet - Stacy Earl -- ( 44 ) Feels Like Forever - Joe Cocker (#38) -- ( 47 ) Save The Best For Last - Vanessa Williams (#16) -- ( 48 ) Tears In Heaven - Eric Clapton (#4) -- ( 49 ) Lost In Your Love - Tony Hadley (#41) -- ( 50 ) Go-Go Dancer - Wedding Present (#8)
-- ( -- ) I Still Think About You - Danger Danger -- ( -- ) Take My Advice - Kym Sims -- ( -- ) Baby Hold On To Me - Gerald Levert -- ( -- ) Love You All My Lifetime - Chaka Khan -- ( -- ) Easy - Loud -- ( -- ) I'm The One You Need - Jody Watley -- ( -- ) Pink Flower - Daisy Chainsaw
This makes me think of 2 people, Fiona who I was seeing at the time and Julieta because this and the previous week of entries were my playlist when I went to Venice.
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Post by Earl Purple on Mar 21, 2024 13:36:48 GMT 1
Due to international break, the fixtures for 23 March come from lower-league including 3 National League fixtures
Burton vs Port Vale Carlisle vs Stevenage Northampton vs Derby Barrow vs Newport Grimsby vs Wrexham Sutton vs Accrington Tranmere vs Crawley Aldershot vs Solihull Moors Barnet vs Dorking Southend vs Woking
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Post by Earl Purple on Mar 21, 2024 10:32:32 GMT 1
H | Burnley vs Brentford | D | Luton vs Nottm Forest | D | Middlesbrough vs Blackburn | A | Stoke vs Norwich | D | Sunderland vs QPR | D | Barnsley vs Cheltenham | H | Derby vs Bolton | H | Lincoln vs Bristol Rovers | D | Gillingham vs Grimsby | H | MK Dons vs Crewe |
Monthly totals: Season totals:
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Post by Earl Purple on Mar 21, 2024 10:08:18 GMT 1
I'm about to do them.
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Post by Earl Purple on Mar 21, 2024 9:17:49 GMT 1
I like "Are You Dreaming", even more than "I Can't Stand It" and a bit of rap thrown in was so common at the time.
I hated Ice Ice Baby at first for daring to do it over that riff, but apart from the sample, he does do something completely different and original over it and it isn't just an endless repetition in a loop of a sampled bit of a song like happened years later.
I'm expecting turtles to show up at some point...
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Post by Earl Purple on Mar 20, 2024 19:39:36 GMT 1
Reveal in a new topic, which will contain round 1
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Post by Earl Purple on Mar 19, 2024 12:51:40 GMT 1
greendemon is right, she is the only one not to have sent songs in yet.
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Post by Earl Purple on Mar 17, 2024 22:18:32 GMT 1
I prefer not to vote in this contest when I'm running it. In the other contests I ran last year I was also participating so had to vote too, and they were also not elimination contests.
I'd rather remain totally impartial in this edition.
It will be a fair amount of work getting the votes in and adding them up each round and preparing the playlists for the subsequent rounds. I'd like to listen to all the songs because that adds to my interest, but it will be far less pressure if I'm not voting.
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Post by Earl Purple on Mar 17, 2024 19:40:37 GMT 1
I now have 13 of the 15 entries Although I am not voting in this, I will be listening to the songs each round.
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Post by Earl Purple on Mar 17, 2024 19:11:17 GMT 1
you could do a round-by-round predicta.
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Post by Earl Purple on Mar 17, 2024 12:45:27 GMT 1
There is no planned formal predicta this year but once I've posted the artist list with the first round, I'd invite everyone (including non-participants) to predict (in PM to me)
1. who they think is behind each act 2. The rank of where they think everyone will finish.
These are always interesting as we go along in the contest to reveal actual position vs predicted position. As some mentor acts with a very low chance of winning, it will show a big achievement if they vastly out-perform their predicted position (although that is often achieved by playing their few big ones early on).
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Post by Earl Purple on Mar 17, 2024 11:48:53 GMT 1
1 ( 5 ) W.O.L.D - Harry Chapin < 1st #1 > 2 ( 1 ) Jet - Wings (#1[2]) 3 ( 2 ) Candle In The Wind - Elton John (#2[1]) 4 ( 4 ) Seven Seas Of Rhye - Queen 5 ( 3 ) Bennie And The Jets - Elton John (#3) 6 ( 8 ) Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me - Gladys Knight & The Pips 7 ( 10 ) Ma-Ma-Belle - Electric Light Orchestra 8 ( 19 ) Emma - Hot Chocolate 9 ( 7 ) Rebel Rebel - David Bowie (#6) 10 ( 21 ) I'll Have To Say I Love You In A Song - Jim Croce
11 ( 6 ) The Air That I Breathe - Hollies (#1[2]) 12 ( 11 ) School Love - Barry Blue (#11) 13 ( 15 ) Rock & Roll Hoochie Koo - Rick Derringer 14 ( 25 ) Just Don't Want To Be Lonely - Main Ingredient 15 ( 20 ) I Get A Little Sentimental Over You - New Seekers 16 ( 9 ) Devil Gate Drive - Suzi Quatro (#3) 17 ( 27 ) Long Live Love - Olivia Newton John 18 ( 14 ) Who Do You Think You Are - Candlewick Green (#13) 19 ( 12 ) Billy Don't Be A Hero - Paper Lace (#7) 20 ( 18 ) Mighty Love - Spinners (#18)
21 ( 13 ) Seasons In The Sun - Terry Jacks (#4) 22 ( -- ) Oh My My - Ringo Starr 23 ( 28 ) A Very Special Love Song - Charlie Rich 24 ( -- ) Let It Ride - Bachman-Turner Overdrive 25 ( 17 ) Jealous Mind - Alvin Stardust (#11) 26 ( 23 ) Teenage Dream - Marc Bolan & T.Rex (#23) 27 ( 35 ) T.S.O.P (The Sound Of Philadelphia) - MFSB & Three Degrees 28 ( -- ) Homely Girl - Chi-Lites 29 ( 16 ) Remember (Sha-La-La-La) - Bay City Rollers (#5) 30 ( 22 ) Burn Baby Burn - Hudson Ford (#18)
31 ( 40 ) I've Got A Thing About You Baby - Elvis Presley 32 ( 32 ) Trying To Hold On To My Woman - Lamont Dozier (#31) 33 ( 29 ) Come And Get Your Love (Hail) - Redbone (#20) 34 ( -- ) Angel Face - Glitter Band 35 ( 24 ) Tiger Feet - Mud (#1[4]) 36 ( 26 ) Teenage Rampage - Sweet (#2[2]) 37 ( -- ) Shanghai'd In Shanghai - Nazareth 38 ( -- ) Touch A Hand Make A Friend - Staple Singers 39 ( 30 ) Dark Lady - Cher (#9) 40 ( 31 ) How Come - Ronnie Lane (#2[2])
-- ( 33 ) Wombling Song - Wombles (#4) -- ( 34 ) Star - Stealers Wheel (#15) -- ( 36 ) I Shall Sing - Art Garfunkel (#23) -- ( 37 ) Scullery - Clifford T Ward (#11) -- ( 38 ) A Little Lovin' - Neil Sedaka (#28) -- ( 39 ) Jim Dandy - Black Oak Arkansas (#6)
-- ( -- ) Tell Me A Lie - Sami Jo -- ( -- ) I'll Be The Other Woman - Soul Children
My new #1, which reached #36 in the US Billboard Chart this month and #34 in the UK chart 2 months from now, being his only UK charting single. A cover of his subsequent US #1 would be a UK top 10 hit as a cover version by Ugly Kid Joe. That will be along later in the year, and his first hit "Taxi" reached #5 on the NM chart in 1972. Note there is no 'l' in his name.
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