Good Old Days
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Post by Good Old Days on Feb 9, 2022 17:27:31 GMT 1
Pernilla Wiberg - Privilege (1991) (# 39 in Sweden)
Pernilla Wiberg is a Swedish former alpine ski racer. She competed on the World Cup circuit between 1990 and 2002, where she became one of the few all-event winners. Having won two Olympic gold medals, four World Championships and one World Cup overall title, she is one of the most successful alpine ski racers of the 1990s.
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Good Old Days
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Post by Good Old Days on Feb 9, 2022 17:34:19 GMT 1
Helene Olafsen - Ludvig Daae (# 1 in Norway)
Helene Olafsen is a Norwegian snowboarder, who was Snowboard Cross world champion in 2009 year. In 2021, she participated on the Norwegian TV series "Norges Nye Megahit", on which various celebrities competed to create a hit song. Olafsen sung "Ludvig Daae", named after a real man who owned a slalom centre and had "strong opinions about behavior on the slalom slope.
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Good Old Days
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Post by Good Old Days on Jun 11, 2022 14:11:11 GMT 1
Caroline Wozniacki - Oxygen (2012)
Caroline Wozniacki was Danish professional tennis player, former world number 1 on WTA Tour, having held this position for 67 weeks.
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Good Old Days
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Post by Good Old Days on Jul 20, 2022 11:05:16 GMT 1
Sydney All Stars - Den Rod (2000)
Vocalists are Danish handball players and rowers, who participated at Sydney Olympics.
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Post by Sm1ffj on Jul 20, 2022 11:15:16 GMT 1
This Cheesy one.
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Post by Earl Purple on Sept 29, 2022 22:02:40 GMT 1
Fog On The Tyne has just hit my 1990 playlist. Gazza mentioned sausage rolls in the chart long before Ladbaby. Got one place lower though. However Ladbaby never played in the World Cup.
It's actually not as bad as I remembered it being at the time, and it survived the first round 'cut' that hit a number of songs on that playlist.
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rewardman
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*rock n roll juvenile*
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Post by rewardman on Sept 30, 2022 1:46:36 GMT 1
Who could forget Kevin Keegan’s classic Head Over Heels In Love?
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Good Old Days
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Post by Good Old Days on May 30, 2023 10:51:14 GMT 1
Johan Cruyff - Oei Oei Oei (Dat Was Me Weer Een Loei) (1969)
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Post by Panda on May 30, 2023 23:05:13 GMT 1
Chris Waddle's music career didn't end with his songs with Glenn Hoddle. Whilst at Marseille, in 1991, he did this with team-mate Basile Boli:
Maybe that's why Graham Taylor stopped picking him for England...
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Post by Earl Purple on Jun 5, 2023 15:12:34 GMT 1
John McEnroe and Pat Cash did a cover of Led Zeppelin's "Rock And Roll" with some other musicians (billed as Full Metal Rackets), but John McEnroe and Pat Cash didn't sing on it - they played guitars on it. The singer on that hit with Roger Daltrey so actually it sound rather good.
It was done for charity as part of the Rock Aid Armenia project.
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Post by raliverpool on Jun 5, 2023 21:56:23 GMT 1
Ian Wright - Do The Right Thing (UK #43 1993)
The Arsenal (don't mention Crystal Palace, I'm still traumatised by that Semi Final) & England centre-forward legend with this Haddaway like club banger Co-written & Produced by the Pet Shop Boys' Chris Lowe
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TheThorne
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Post by TheThorne on Jun 6, 2023 8:01:41 GMT 1
Vinnie Jones - Big Bad Leroy Brown
This is from 2002 not sure how he blagged onto TOTP when it didn't chart as far as I can see. 
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Post by Earl Purple on Jun 6, 2023 9:19:03 GMT 1
Never heard of that Vinnie Jones cover. The original reached NM #18 in 1973. Did he rename the title because the original is "Bad Bad Leroy Brown" and that's what he's singing too.
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Post by Panda on Jun 6, 2023 13:55:43 GMT 1
It's possible it may have been recorded for TOTP in advance before it was released but not used until it was pulled out of the archive for TOTP2. I wasn't aware of that track - I do remember seeing him do a version of Wooly Bully a few years before that.
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Dave
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Post by Dave on Jun 6, 2023 20:30:35 GMT 1
The most successful sports star to cross over is probably French Open tennis winner Yannick Noah. He's released around 12 studio albums, most of which are on Spotify.
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vastar iner
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Post by vastar iner on Jun 9, 2023 9:04:31 GMT 1
Unless you count Julio Iglesias.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jun 9, 2023 13:54:59 GMT 1
A wannabe professional footballer who failed and became a rock star instead was Rod Stewart.
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Dave
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Post by Dave on Jun 11, 2023 16:18:38 GMT 1
Here's one you won't know ...
Former Zimbabwe fast bowler Henry Olonga has released an album plus a few singles. He tried to revive his music career recently by appearing on "The Voice" Australia, but wasn't successful. The clips on youtube are worth watching though.
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Good Old Days
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Post by Good Old Days on Feb 20, 2024 9:14:16 GMT 1
Svenska Damlandslaget (Swedish national female football team) - Gula & Bla (Tjejernas Ar I Ar) (2003) (# 8 in Sweden)
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