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Post by Earl Purple on Jun 18, 2022 23:51:29 GMT 1
On 21 January 1961 Brenda Lee had 3 songs in my chart: "Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree" was on its way down from #1 and fell to #19 that week in an obvious post-Christmas drop, "Let's Jump The Broomstick" entered at #10 and "Emotions" at #22. Eventually "Let's Jump The Broomstick" reached #6 and Emotions #14.
Following that it was a bad year in my chart for Brenda Lee, You Can Depend On Me, Dum Dum and Fool #1 all failing to chart.
In 1962 she started having hits again, 5 of them with 4 of them going top 5.
The yodel at the start of Brenda Lee's "Let's Jump The Broomstick" is very similar to that by Lulu on "Shout". If it came up on Heardle and both were options I might guess wrong.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jun 19, 2022 0:09:43 GMT 1
30 May 1981
1 ( 2 ) Will You - Hazel O'Connor < 1st #1 > 2 ( 1 ) Stand And Deliver - Adam & The Ants (#1[2]) 3 ( 3 ) I Want To Be Free - Toyah 4 ( 11 ) The One That You Love - Air Supply 5 ( 4 ) Chequered Love - Kim Wilde (#4) 6 ( 6 ) Ossie's Dream (Spurs Are On Their Way To Wembley) - Tottenham Hotspur FA Cup Final Squad 7 ( 8 ) Is That Love - Squeeze 8 ( 5 ) Swords Of A Thousand Men - Tenpole Tudor (#3) 9 ( 12 ) Body Talk - Imagination 10 ( 13 ) You Make My Dreams - Daryl Hall & John Oates
11 ( 19 ) All Those Years Ago - George Harrison 12 ( 21 ) One Day In Your Life - Michael Jackson 13 ( -- ) You Might Need Somebody - Randy Crawford 14 ( -- ) Going Back To My Roots - Odyssey 15 ( 15 ) Marvin - Marvin The Paranoid Android 16 ( 9 ) The Sound Of The Crowd - Human League (#6) 17 ( 7 ) Watching The Wheels - John Lennon (#1[3]) 18 ( 18 ) Rockabilly Guy - Polecats 19 ( 28 ) Norman Bates - Landscape 20 ( 20 ) The Waiting - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
21 ( -- ) Take It To The Top - Kool & The Gang 22 ( 31 ) The American - Simple Minds 23 ( 10 ) Chi Mai - Ennio Morricone (#2[2]) 24 ( 34 ) Don't Let It Pass You By - UB40 25 ( 17 ) Jessie's Girl - Rick Springfield (#16) 26 ( 24 ) Bedside Radio - Krokus (#24) 27 ( 35 ) Just So Lonely - Get Wet 28 ( 14 ) It's Going To Happen - Undertones (#9) 29 ( 36 ) Is It You - Lee Ritenour 30 ( 39 ) Perfect Timing - Kiki Dee
31 ( 22 ) Chariots Of Fire - Vangelis (#20) 32 ( 30 ) Obsessed - 999 (#30) 33 ( 16 ) Ai No Corrida - Quincy Jones (#4) 34 ( -- ) Silver Lining - Stiff Little Fingers 35 ( 25 ) Sing Me A Song - T Rex (#23) 36 ( -- ) If Leaving Me Is Easy - Phil Collins 37 ( 23 ) You Drive Me Crazy - Shakin' Stevens (#15) 38 ( -- ) Spellbound - Siouxsie & The Banshees 39 ( 47 ) Nobody Wins - Elton John 40 ( 37 ) Tokyo - Classix Nouveaux (#37)
41 ( 48 ) History Never Repeats - Split Enz 42 ( -- ) Fool In Love With You - Jim Photoglo 43 ( -- ) You Like Me Don't You - Jermaine Jackson 44 ( 26 ) Grey Day - Madness (#9) 45 ( 43 ) Careless Memories - Duran Duran (#43) 46 ( 38 ) Houses In Motion - Talking Heads (#35) 47 ( -- ) More Than In Love - Kate Robbins & Beyond 48 ( 45 ) Winning - Santana (#45) 49 ( 32 ) Treason (It's Just A Story) - Teardrop Explodes (#20) 50 ( 27 ) Too Much Time On My Hands - Styx (#1[2])
-- ( 29 ) Stars On 45 - Starsound (#5) -- ( 33 ) Stray Cat Strut - Stray Cats (#13) -- ( 40 ) This Little Girl - Gary U.S. Bonds (#25) -- ( 41 ) Say You'll Be Mine - Christopher Cross (#19) -- ( 42 ) Don't Let Go The Coat - Who (#37) -- ( 44 ) Small Ads - Small Ads (#9) -- ( 46 ) Find Your Way Back - Jefferson Starship (#26) -- ( 49 ) When He Shines - Sheena Easton (#28) -- ( 50 ) Pocket Calculator - Kraftwerk (#42)
-- ( -- ) You'll Never Be So Wrong - Hot Chocolate -- ( -- ) Love Trial - Kelly Marie -- ( -- ) Say What - Jesse Winchester -- ( -- ) Too Drunk To f*** - Dead Kennedys
We are now coming up to the time I was taking my O-Levels.
For the 3rd week in a row the highest entry is by a female singer, this time Randy Crawford, whose hit was later covered by Shola Ama.
Odyssey's song was written by Lamont Dozier and he also had previously recorded it.
In spite of me thinking it was really drawn out and dull at the time, Phil Collins does manage an entry albeit at #36, and Kate Robbins also does manage to chart, albeit at the low down #47.
The Dead Kennedys song I never heard at the time as obviously radio stations didn't play it. I didn't really miss out on much.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jun 22, 2022 9:36:49 GMT 1
6 June 1981
1 ( 1 ) Will You - Hazel O'Connor < 2nd week at #1 > 2 ( 2 ) Stand And Deliver - Adam & The Ants (#1[2]) 3 ( 3 ) I Want To Be Free - Toyah 4 ( 4 ) The One That You Love - Air Supply 5 ( 7 ) Is That Love - Squeeze 6 ( 13 ) You Might Need Somebody - Randy Crawford 7 ( 14 ) Going Back To My Roots - Odyssey 8 ( 5 ) Chequered Love - Kim Wilde (#4) 9 ( 11 ) All Those Years Ago - George Harrison 10 ( 9 ) Body Talk - Imagination (#9)
11 ( 12 ) One Day In Your Life - Michael Jackson 12 ( 6 ) Ossie's Dream (Spurs Are On Their Way To Wembley) - Tottenham Hotspur FA Cup Final Squad (#6) 13 ( 21 ) Take It To The Top - Kool & The Gang 14 ( -- ) Piece Of The Action - Bucks Fizz 15 ( 10 ) You Make My Dreams - Daryl Hall & John Oates (#10) 16 ( 8 ) Swords Of A Thousand Men - Tenpole Tudor (#3) 17 ( -- ) All Stood Still - Ultravox 18 ( 19 ) Norman Bates - Landscape 19 ( 15 ) Marvin - Marvin The Paranoid Android (#15) 20 ( 22 ) The American - Simple Minds
21 ( -- ) Dancing On The Floor - Third World 22 ( 24 ) Don't Let It Pass You By - UB40 23 ( 18 ) Rockabilly Guy - Polecats (#18) 24 ( 34 ) Silver Lining - Stiff Little Fingers 25 ( 36 ) If Leaving Me Is Easy - Phil Collins 26 ( 20 ) The Waiting - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers (#20) 27 ( 27 ) Just So Lonely - Get Wet 28 ( 38 ) Spellbound - Siouxsie & The Banshees 29 ( -- ) Memory - Elaine Paige 30 ( 16 ) The Sound Of The Crowd - Human League (#6)
31 ( 30 ) Perfect Timing - Kiki Dee (#30) 32 ( 29 ) Is It You - Lee Ritenour (#29) 33 ( -- ) Funeral Pyre - Jam 34 ( 42 ) Fool In Love With You - Jim Photoglo 35 ( 17 ) Watching The Wheels - John Lennon (#1[3]) 36 ( 43 ) You Like Me Don't You - Jermaine Jackson 37 ( -- ) I Can Take Care Of Myself - Billy (Vera) & The Beaters 38 ( 26 ) Bedside Radio - Krokus (#24) 39 ( -- ) Time - Alan Parsons Project 40 ( 47 ) More Than In Love - Kate Robbins & Beyond
41 ( 39 ) Nobody Wins - Elton John (#39) 42 ( -- ) Would I Lie To You - Whitesnake 43 ( 25 ) Jessie's Girl - Rick Springfield (#16) 44 ( 32 ) Obsessed - 999 (#30) 45 ( -- ) Elvira - Oak Ridge Boys 46 ( 41 ) History Never Repeats - Split Enz (#41) 47 ( 23 ) Chi Mai - Ennio Morricone (#2[2]) 48 ( 31 ) Chariots Of Fire - Vangelis (#20) 49 ( 28 ) It's Going To Happen - Undertones (#9) 50 ( 40 ) Tokyo - Classix Nouveaux (#37)
-- ( 33 ) Ai No Corrida - Quincy Jones (#4) -- ( 35 ) Sing Me A Song - T Rex (#23) -- ( 37 ) You Drive Me Crazy - Shakin' Stevens (#15) -- ( 44 ) Grey Day - Madness (#9) -- ( 45 ) Careless Memories - Duran Duran (#43) -- ( 46 ) Houses In Motion - Talking Heads (#35) -- ( 48 ) Winning - Santana (#45) -- ( 49 ) Treason (It's Just A Story) - Teardrop Explodes (#20) -- ( 50 ) Too Much Time On My Hands - Styx (#1[2])
-- ( -- ) Body Music - Strikers
On this week in the UK chart, Adam & The Ants spent their 5th and final week at number one, then fell to #5 the following week. In this chart it spent only 2 weeks on top with a run so far of 7-1-1-2-2. Smokey Robinson leapt up to #3 in the UK chart but the Jam flew straight in at #4 and back then if a single entered that high it usually climbed to number one. Not so though, it stalled at #4 for a second week before dropping out of the top 10. Almost a sign of things to come.
Meanwhile Hazel O'Connor climbed 21-10 and Michael Jackson and Kate Robbins made similar climbs to 12 and 13 respectively, but whilst those latter two both leapt into the top 3 the next week, Hazel O'Connor could only climb one place, followed by another one place climb to its peak of #8. How shocking for such a classic?
AFter winning Eurovision, Bucks Fizz were around to stay, but whilst "Piece Of The Action" is a great pop song, it failed to reach the UK top 10 managing only #12. I guess though had they got 5 votes fewer or Germany 5 votes more, it would have been all over for them.
Ultravox are back again and this one reached the UK top 10 for them.
More uptempo calypso/reggae style dance music by Third World, a ballad by Elaine Paige for the musical Cats written by Andrew Lloyd Webber on top of TS Eliot's lyrics (adapted by Richard Stilgoe and Trevor Nunn), and then a few others.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jun 23, 2022 21:07:45 GMT 1
13 June 1981
1 ( 1 ) Will You - Hazel O'Connor < 3rd week at #1 > 2 ( 4 ) The One That You Love - Air Supply 3 ( 3 ) I Want To Be Free - Toyah 4 ( 2 ) Stand And Deliver - Adam & The Ants (#1[2]) 5 ( 6 ) You Might Need Somebody - Randy Crawford 6 ( 7 ) Going Back To My Roots - Odyssey 7 ( 14 ) Piece Of The Action - Bucks Fizz 8 ( 5 ) Is That Love - Squeeze (#5) 9 ( -- ) There's A Guy Works Down The Chip Shop Swears He's Elvis - Kirsty MacColl 10 ( 17 ) All Stood Still - Ultravox
11 ( 9 ) All Those Years Ago - George Harrison (#9) 12 ( 21 ) Dancing On The Floor - Third World 13 ( 13 ) Take It To The Top - Kool & The Gang 14 ( -- ) New Life - Depeche Mode 15 ( 11 ) One Day In Your Life - Michael Jackson (#11) 16 ( -- ) Believe It Or Not - Joey Scarbury 17 ( 8 ) Chequered Love - Kim Wilde (#4) 18 ( 10 ) Body Talk - Imagination (#9) 19 ( 29 ) Memory - Elaine Paige 20 ( 24 ) Silver Lining - Stiff Little Fingers
21 ( -- ) The River - Bruce Springsteen 22 ( 18 ) Norman Bates - Landscape (#18) 23 ( 33 ) Funeral Pyre - Jam 24 ( 25 ) If Leaving Me Is Easy - Phil Collins 25 ( 12 ) Ossie's Dream (Spurs Are On Their Way To Wembley) - Tottenham Hotspur FA Cup Final Squad (#6) 26 ( 20 ) The American - Simple Minds (#20) 27 ( -- ) Me No Pop I - Kid Creole & The Coconuts 28 ( 15 ) You Make My Dreams - Daryl Hall & John Oates (#10) 29 ( 22 ) Don't Let It Pass You By - UB40 (#22) 30 ( 28 ) Spellbound - Siouxsie & The Banshees (#28)
31 ( 37 ) I Can Take Care Of Myself - Billy & The Beaters 32 ( 39 ) Time - Alan Parsons Project 33 ( 19 ) Marvin - Marvin The Paranoid Android (#15) 34 ( 16 ) Swords Of A Thousand Men - Tenpole Tudor (#3) 35 ( 42 ) Would I Lie To You - Whitesnake 36 ( 27 ) Just So Lonely - Get Wet (#27) 37 ( 34 ) Fool In Love With You - Jim Photoglo (#34) 38 ( 23 ) Rockabilly Guy - Polecats (#18) 39 ( -- ) Throw Away The Key - Linx 40 ( 45 ) Elvira - Oak Ridge Boys
41 ( 36 ) You Like Me Don't You - Jermaine Jackson (#36) 42 ( -- ) Wikka Wrap - Evasions 43 ( 26 ) The Waiting - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers (#20) 44 ( 31 ) Perfect Timing - Kiki Dee (#30) 45 ( 40 ) More Than In Love - Kate Robbins & Beyond (#40) 46 ( 32 ) Is It You - Lee Ritenour (#29) 47 ( -- ) Gemini Dream - Moody Blues 48 ( -- ) Multiplication - Showaddywaddy 49 ( -- ) Stronger Than Before - Carole Bayer Sager 50 ( -- ) Youth Of Nation On Fire - Bill Nelson
-- ( 30 ) The Sound Of The Crowd - Human League (#6) -- ( 35 ) Watching The Wheels - John Lennon (#1[3]) -- ( 38 ) Bedside Radio - Krokus (#24) -- ( 41 ) Nobody Wins - Elton John (#39) -- ( 43 ) Jessie's Girl - Rick Springfield (#16) -- ( 44 ) Obsessed - 999 (#30) -- ( 46 ) History Never Repeats - Split Enz (#41) -- ( 47 ) Chi Mai - Ennio Morricone (#2[2]) -- ( 48 ) Chariots Of Fire - Vangelis (#20) -- ( 49 ) It's Going To Happen - Undertones (#9) -- ( 50 ) Tokyo - Classix Nouveaux (#37)
-- ( -- ) Sweet Baby - Stanley Clarke -- ( -- ) Seven Year Ache - Rosanne Cash -- ( -- ) I Can Make It Better - Whispers -- ( -- ) Cowpunk Medium - Splodgenessabounds -- ( -- ) Liar - Graham Bonnet -- ( -- ) Hearts - Marty Balin -- ( -- ) I Don't Need You - Kenny Rogers -- ( -- ) Cryin My Heart Out For You - Diana Ross -- ( -- ) Teddy Bear - Red Sovine
20 new ones all in one week. 11 of them do make the chart and that includes the classic by Kirsty MacColl.
Depeche Mode's "Dreaming Of Me" passed me by somewhat, but this one did not.
Of the others, the Wikka Wrap was a bit of a novelty, sampling "Funkin' For Jamaica" in its chorus and bits of a few other songs too. The southern freeze is not a cold day in Bournemouth. Or maybe it is, just not the southern freeez.
Multiplication: oh I forgot about Showaddywaddy's cover of this, but strangely it sounds a bit like the Beautiful South are performing it. Bobby Darin wrote it and his original reached #3 in 1962.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jun 26, 2022 10:27:33 GMT 1
20 June 1981
1 ( 1 ) Will You - Hazel O'Connor < 4th week at #1 > 2 ( 2 ) The One That You Love - Air Supply 3 ( 9 ) There's A Guy Works Down The Chip Shop Swears He's Elvis - Kirsty MacColl 4 ( 3 ) I Want To Be Free - Toyah (#3) 5 ( 7 ) Piece Of The Action - Bucks Fizz 6 ( 14 ) New Life - Depeche Mode 7 ( 5 ) You Might Need Somebody - Randy Crawford (#5) 8 ( 10 ) All Stood Still - Ultravox 9 ( 6 ) Going Back To My Roots - Odyssey (#6) 10 ( 16 ) Believe It Or Not - Joey Scarbury
11 ( 4 ) Stand And Deliver - Adam & The Ants (#1[2]) 12 ( -- ) Ghost Town - Specials 13 ( 12 ) Dancing On The Floor - Third World (#12) 14 ( 21 ) The River - Bruce Springsteen 15 ( 8 ) Is That Love - Squeeze (#5) 16 ( 27 ) Me No Pop I - Kid Creole & The Coconuts 17 ( 19 ) Memory - Elaine Paige 18 ( -- ) Pull Up To The Bumper - Grace Jones 19 ( 13 ) Take It To The Top - Kool & The Gang (#13) 20 ( 11 ) All Those Years Ago - George Harrison (#9)
21 ( -- ) Wordy Rappinghood - Tom Tom Club 22 ( 23 ) Funeral Pyre - Jam 23 ( 20 ) Silver Lining - Stiff Little Fingers (#20) 24 ( 15 ) One Day In Your Life - Michael Jackson (#11) 25 ( -- ) No Laughing In Heaven - Gillan 26 ( -- ) Can't Happen Here - Rainbow 27 ( 39 ) Throw Away The Key - Linx 28 ( 24 ) If Leaving Me Is Easy - Phil Collins (#24) 29 ( -- ) The Race Is On - Dave Edmunds & The Stray Cats 30 ( 31 ) I Can Take Care Of Myself - Billy & The Beaters
31 ( 22 ) Norman Bates - Landscape (#18) 32 ( 18 ) Body Talk - Imagination (#9) 33 ( 17 ) Chequered Love - Kim Wilde (#4) 34 ( 42 ) Wikka Wrap - Evasions 35 ( 32 ) Time - Alan Parsons Project (#32) 36 ( -- ) Razzamatazz - Quincy Jones 37 ( 35 ) Would I Lie To You - Whitesnake (#35) 38 ( 47 ) Gemini Dream - Moody Blues 39 ( 26 ) The American - Simple Minds (#20) 40 ( 30 ) Spellbound - Siouxsie & The Banshees (#28)
41 ( 48 ) Multiplication - Showaddywaddy 42 ( 49 ) Stronger Than Before - Carole Bayer Sager 43 ( 50 ) Youth Of Nation On Fire - Bill Nelson 44 ( 40 ) Elvira - Oak Ridge Boys (#40) 45 ( -- ) The Stroke - Billy Squier 46 ( 29 ) Don't Let It Pass You By - UB40 (#22) 47 ( 25 ) Ossie's Dream (Spurs Are On Their Way To Wembley) - Tottenham Hotspur FA Cup Final Squad (#6) 48 ( -- ) Doors Of Your Heart - Beat 49 ( 37 ) Fool In Love With You - Jim Photoglo (#34) 50 ( 28 ) You Make My Dreams - Daryl Hall & John Oates (#10)
-- ( 33 ) Marvin - Marvin The Paranoid Android (#15) -- ( 34 ) Swords Of A Thousand Men - Tenpole Tudor (#3) -- ( 36 ) Just So Lonely - Get Wet (#27) -- ( 38 ) Rockabilly Guy - Polecats (#18) -- ( 41 ) You Like Me Don't You - Jermaine Jackson (#36) -- ( 43 ) The Waiting - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers (#20) -- ( 44 ) Perfect Timing - Kiki Dee (#30) -- ( 45 ) More Than In Love - Kate Robbins & Beyond (#40) -- ( 46 ) Is It You - Lee Ritenour (#29)
-- ( -- ) Wide Awake In A Dream - Barry Biggs -- ( -- ) Queen Of Hearts - Juice Newton
Hazel O'Connor gets a 4th week at #1 with Kirsty MacColl's climb posing an obvious challenge, and the Specials' classic enters at #12, maybe lower than expected but maybe I'm deliberately "sandbagging" it (holding it back so it can challenge for the top a bit later). In any case Hazel O'Connor has no more than 3 more weeks on top, so by 18 July it will have been removed. There's a definite #1 that's going to enter on 25 July but it won't be the one that replaces "Will You".
Apart from the Specials, the other entries are Grace Jones - now surely this is her most classic song so rather shocked to see it didn't reach the UK top 40 until 1986 when it did indeed become her highest charting single, peaking at #12. There's another song like that on my next playlist (missed the UK top 40 then reached the top 20 in 1986).
Yeah, after Wikka Wrap we knew Wordy Rappinghood was on its way, again songs I associate being out at the same time. Tom Tom Club was a side project by Tina Weymouth from Talking Heads.
The battle of the former members of Deep Purple - and generally it's been Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow who have had the upper hand but this time Ian Gillan's act gets the slightly higher entry. "Can't Happen Here" was written by Blackmore together with Roger Glover and after 3 top 6 hits only peaked at #19 but that's still higher than they'd ever reach again. Gillan's album reached #2 in the chart, but the single only #31, but it was written by the band.
"The Race Is On" by Dave Edmunds featuring the Stray Cats is a cover of Jack Jones's NM #4 hit from 1965 (one of the songs in my chart the week I was born). Suzi Quatro also had a hit of that title in 1978 but that was a different song.
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Post by Good Old Days on Jun 26, 2022 10:37:05 GMT 1
Which Bucks Fizz song is your favourite ?
Jay Aston or Cheryl Baker ?
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Post by Earl Purple on Jun 26, 2022 18:39:03 GMT 1
Which Bucks Fizz song is your favourite ? Jay Aston or Cheryl Baker ? they are female members of the group, not Bucks Fizz songs.. but my favourite of their songs is "Now Those Days Are Gone". And "Piece Of The Action"'s #5 this week equals the peak of "Making Your Mind Up". None of their next 3 singles are likely to get into the top 5 even though two of them were UK #1s. That's assuming that the standard at the time of "My Camera Never Lies" is anywhere near what it is now. Not sure it will be though, I recall 1982 going through a bit of a "bumpy" stage at that point after another huge start. To put into perspective how 1981 is looking, it is exactly halfway in time between the two retro charts and is a distance ahead of 1990 but a few major classics have just come out in 1972 giving this year a run for its money.
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Post by Good Old Days on Jun 26, 2022 19:47:43 GMT 1
they are female members of the group, not Bucks Fizz songs.. It were two different questions. First - about songs, the second - about favourite female member of Bucks Fizz. My favourite songs :- The Land Of Make Believe - Keep Each Other Warm - My Camera Never Lies - If You Can't Stand The Heat - Rules Of The Game
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Post by Earl Purple on Jun 26, 2022 21:14:07 GMT 1
I hope to get the next chart up tomorrowv because that would be posting a chart for 27 June on 27 June. And then I'll probably compile a playlist for the chart itself and listen to it.
In general at the time I didn't find any of the female singers whose music I liked particularly attractive, - some were plain ugly (sorry Annie Lennox and Alison Moyet but yes I'm referring to you, and Alannah from the Thompson Twins but I did love your music), others were ok-looking but never made themselves look particularly attractive to me (Kim Wilde maybe in that list?). Toyah on this song in particular is trying not to fit into the "pretty woman" image, but what a song that one was!
The one who came along eventually that I found attractive and loved her music would be Debbie Gibson, but that's a while off.
In the meantime let's celebrate that Hazel O'Connor is on top with such a definitive song. You seem to have ignored this one or maybe you didn't like it much. The whole album is good although I didn't buy it until much later. Not my favourite album by a solo female vocalist though as that is "Electric Youth".
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Post by Good Old Days on Jun 26, 2022 21:48:43 GMT 1
I know at least one attractive female singer, which you like. She is on your avatar. Toyah's music became less weird and more pop somewhere from 1985 year (Soul Passing Through Soul). Her cover version of "Echo Beach" spent 3 weeks on the top of "Gražios Dainos". From female singers you are mostly like songwriters. I mostly prefer just pop singers with some exclusions (most well-known - Kirsty MacColl, Lynsey De Paul, Shania Twain and Taylor Swift).
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Post by Earl Purple on Jun 27, 2022 16:26:23 GMT 1
27 June 1981
1 ( 1 ) Will You - Hazel O'Connor < 5th week at #1 > 2 ( 3 ) There's A Guy Works Down The Chip Shop Swears He's Elvis - Kirsty MacColl 3 ( 2 ) The One That You Love - Air Supply (#2[2]) 4 ( 6 ) New Life - Depeche Mode 5 ( 12 ) Ghost Town - Specials 6 ( 5 ) Piece Of The Action - Bucks Fizz (#5) 7 ( 4 ) I Want To Be Free - Toyah (#3) 8 ( 10 ) Believe It Or Not - Joey Scarbury 9 ( 18 ) Pull Up To The Bumper - Grace Jones 10 ( -- ) Slow Hand - Pointer Sisters
11 ( 8 ) All Stood Still - Ultravox (#8) 12 ( 21 ) Wordy Rappinghood - Tom Tom Club 13 ( -- ) For Your Eyes Only - Sheena Easton 14 ( 7 ) You Might Need Somebody - Randy Crawford (#5) 15 ( 14 ) The River - Bruce Springsteen (#14) 16 ( 16 ) Me No Pop I - Kid Creole & The Coconuts 17 ( -- ) Can Can - Bad Manners 18 ( 25 ) No Laughing In Heaven - Gillan 19 ( 26 ) Can't Happen Here - Rainbow 20 ( 9 ) Going Back To My Roots - Odyssey (#6)
21 ( 29 ) The Race Is On - Dave Edmunds & The Stray Cats 22 ( 13 ) Dancing On The Floor - Third World (#12) 23 ( -- ) Pretty In Pink - Psychedelic Furs 24 ( 17 ) Memory - Elaine Paige (#17) 25 ( 11 ) Stand And Deliver - Adam & The Ants (#1[2]) 26 ( 27 ) Throw Away The Key - Linx 27 ( 36 ) Razzamatazz - Quincy Jones 28 ( 22 ) Funeral Pyre - Jam (#22) 29 ( 15 ) Is That Love - Squeeze (#5) 30 ( 19 ) Take It To The Top - Kool & The Gang (#13)
31 ( 23 ) Silver Lining - Stiff Little Fingers (#20) 32 ( 34 ) Wikka Wrap - Evasions 33 ( 20 ) All Those Years Ago - George Harrison (#9) 34 ( 30 ) I Can Take Care Of Myself - Billy & The Beaters (#30) 35 ( -- ) Better Things - Kinks 36 ( 45 ) The Stroke - Billy Squier 37 ( 38 ) Gemini Dream - Moody Blues 38 ( -- ) A Life Of Illusion - Joe Walsh 39 ( 28 ) If Leaving Me Is Easy - Phil Collins (#24) 40 ( 48 ) Doors Of Your Heart - Beat
41 ( 24 ) One Day In Your Life - Michael Jackson (#11) 42 ( -- ) I'm In Love - Evelyn King 43 ( 41 ) Multiplication - Showaddywaddy (#41) 44 ( 42 ) Stronger Than Before - Carole Bayer Sager (#42) 45 ( 43 ) Youth Of Nation On Fire - Bill Nelson (#43) 46 ( 35 ) Time - Alan Parsons Project (#32) 47 ( 37 ) Would I Lie To You - Whitesnake (#35) 48 ( 31 ) Norman Bates - Landscape (#18) 49 ( -- ) Purgatory - Iron Maiden 50 ( 32 ) Body Talk - Imagination (#9)
-- ( 33 ) Chequered Love - Kim Wilde (#4) -- ( 39 ) The American - Simple Minds (#20) -- ( 40 ) Spellbound - Siouxsie & The Banshees (#28) -- ( 44 ) Elvira - Oak Ridge Boys (#40) -- ( 46 ) Don't Let It Pass You By - UB40 (#22) -- ( 47 ) Ossie's Dream (Spurs Are On Their Way To Wembley) - Tottenham Hotspur FA Cup Final Squad (#6) -- ( 49 ) Fool In Love With You - Jim Photoglo (#34) -- ( 50 ) You Make My Dreams - Daryl Hall & John Oates (#10)
-- ( -- ) If You Feel It - Thelma Houston -- ( -- ) Yearning For Your Love - Gap Band -- ( -- ) Let Somebody Love You - Keni Burke -- ( -- ) It's Now Or Never - John Schneider
Hazel O'Connor keeps Kirsty MacColl off the top in an all-female top 2 with the Specials moving up to #5 and the highest entry by the Pointer Sisters at #10.
Another female singer to enter is Sheena Easton with the theme to the latest James Bond movie - in the UK her first two hits went top 10 (Modern Girl doing so 2nd time around) after which she had a few singles that didn't go top 10 and then this one did, but was the last time she'd ever achieve that. In the USA she went on having top 10 hits for the whole 1980s. It was Debbie Gibson who prevented her getting another #1 there.
Bad Manners had another UK #3 hit, this time a cover of Offenbach's Can Can dance, which became popular when they performed it live a number of times.
Like the Grace Jones single, Pretty In Pink by the Psychedelic Furs failed to reach the top 40 in 1981 but then reached the top 20 when re-issued in 1986.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jun 27, 2022 18:09:01 GMT 1
The top 20 of 41 years ago today
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Post by Earl Purple on Jun 28, 2022 16:37:34 GMT 1
Time for those lovely sporting winners. One household name will appear in here for the first time.
Football
We always start with football. The usual suspects for the league were not quite at the races, and it ended up being a two-horse race between Aston Villa and Ipswich, with the latter leading early on but a long fixture list for them meant a number of defeats around April, albeit they beat their title rivals in the head-to-head. The title race was open until what was the last day of the season for Aston Villa who lost at Arsenal whilst Ipswich were ahead at Middlesbrough but then Bosco Jankovic scored two goals so sink Ipswich who then also lost their final league game at home against Southampton. Ron Saunders was Aston Villa's manager with Peter Withe being their top score.
We heard the song, and now for the team - well as is my custom now I show the final, but it was between Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester City. Maybe why I hate penalties so much, we'd have missed out on the replay altogether. The first game finished 1-1 with Tommy Hutchison scoring after about 30 minutes for Manchester City and then again with about 9 minutes to go, only in the wrong net deflecting Glenn Hoddle's free kick past his own keeper Joe Corrigan. No goals in extra time set up a replay.
Liverpool did not finish the season empty handed though. They won the league cup final, also with a replay, 2-1 beating West Ham, after a 1-1 draw in the first game. For West Ham that was their second season in a row they'd reached a cup final whilst being in the 2nd division, but they did win that division this year.
1980-81 was the last season where it was 2 points for a win, and from the new season it is 3 points for a win, something that would be universally adopted.
In addition to winning the league cup, Liverpool also won the European Cup, beating Real Madrid 1-0 with a late goal.
After missing out on the title, Ipswich did at least win the UEFA cup beating AZ 67 Alkmaar.
The cup-winners cup went to Dinamo Tblisi though beating Carl Zeiss Jega in the final, not an English team. West Ham got to the semi-final. In fact Newport County also got to the quarter final, having qualified as 1980's Welsh Cup winners.
In Scotland, Celtic won the league title and Rangers the Scottish Cup beating Dundee United 4-1 in a replayed final and Rangers also beat Dundee United 2-1 in the Scottish league cup final.
Tennis
John McEnroe ended Bjorn Borg's run as Wimbledon champion, beating him in 4 sets 4-6, 7-6, 7-6, 6-4. In the US open, McEnroe had won it the previous year but repeated it again also in 4 sets after dropping the first, 4-6, 6-2, 6-4, 6-3.
Chris Evert-Lloyd (known at the time as Chris Lloyd) won the Wimbledon singles against Hana Mandlikova 6-2, 6-2 Tracy Austin won the US open 1-6, 7-6, 7-6 against Martina Navratilova
Snooker
Steve Davis - that's a name you'll become familiar with... He won the world title 18-12 against Doug Mountjoy
American Football
The Oakland Raiders were victorious against the Philadelphia Eagles 27-10
Baseball
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Post by Earl Purple on Jun 29, 2022 22:56:24 GMT 1
4 July 1981
1 ( 1 ) Will You - Hazel O'Connor < 6th week at #1 > 2 ( 2 ) There's A Guy Works Down The Chip Shop Swears He's Elvis - Kirsty MacColl 3 ( 5 ) Ghost Town - Specials 4 ( 10 ) Slow Hand - Pointer Sisters 5 ( 4 ) New Life - Depeche Mode (#4) 6 ( 13 ) For Your Eyes Only - Sheena Easton 7 ( 3 ) The One That You Love - Air Supply (#2[2]) 8 ( 9 ) Pull Up To The Bumper - Grace Jones 9 ( 17 ) Can Can - Bad Manners 10 ( 8 ) Believe It Or Not - Joey Scarbury (#8)
11 ( 12 ) Wordy Rappinghood - Tom Tom Club 12 ( 6 ) Piece Of The Action - Bucks Fizz (#5) 13 ( 23 ) Pretty In Pink - Psychedelic Furs 14 ( 7 ) I Want To Be Free - Toyah (#3) 15 ( -- ) Walk Right Now - Jacksons 16 ( 18 ) No Laughing In Heaven - Gillan 17 ( -- ) Rock And Roll Dreams Come Through - Jim Steinman 18 ( 19 ) Can't Happen Here - Rainbow 19 ( 11 ) All Stood Still - Ultravox (#8) 20 ( 21 ) The Race Is On - Dave Edmunds & The Stray Cats
21 ( 16 ) Me No Pop I - Kid Creole & The Coconuts (#16) 22 ( 15 ) The River - Bruce Springsteen (#14) 23 ( 35 ) Better Things - Kinks 24 ( 27 ) Razzamatazz - Quincy Jones 25 ( 14 ) You Might Need Somebody - Randy Crawford (#5) 26 ( -- ) Jumpin' Jive - Joe Jackson 27 ( 38 ) A Life Of Illusion - Joe Walsh 28 ( -- ) Abba Medley - Stars On 45 29 ( -- ) Beach Boy Gold - Gidea Park 30 ( 26 ) Throw Away The Key - Linx (#26)
31 ( 42 ) I'm In Love - Evelyn King 32 ( -- ) Never Gonna Cry Again - Eurythmics 33 ( 36 ) The Stroke - Billy Squier 34 ( 32 ) Wikka Wrap - Evasions (#32) 35 ( 24 ) Memory - Elaine Paige (#17) 36 ( 22 ) Dancing On The Floor - Third World (#12) 37 ( 20 ) Going Back To My Roots - Odyssey (#6) 38 ( 40 ) Doors Of Your Heart - Beat 39 ( 28 ) Funeral Pyre - Jam (#22) 40 ( 49 ) Purgatory - Iron Maiden
41 ( 37 ) Gemini Dream - Moody Blues (#37) 42 ( 34 ) I Can Take Care Of Myself - Billy & The Beaters (#30) 43 ( 31 ) Silver Lining - Stiff Little Fingers (#20) 44 ( 25 ) Stand And Deliver - Adam & The Ants (#1[2]) 45 ( -- ) Don't Let Him Go - REO Speedwagon 46 ( 30 ) Take It To The Top - Kool & The Gang (#13) 47 ( 29 ) Is That Love - Squeeze (#5) 48 ( 43 ) Multiplication - Showaddywaddy (#41) 49 ( -- ) Touch Me When We're Dancing - Carpenters 50 ( 33 ) All Those Years Ago - George Harrison (#9)
-- ( 39 ) If Leaving Me Is Easy - Phil Collins (#24) -- ( 41 ) One Day In Your Life - Michael Jackson (#11) -- ( 44 ) Stronger Than Before - Carole Bayer Sager (#42) -- ( 45 ) Youth Of Nation On Fire - Bill Nelson (#43) -- ( 46 ) Time - Alan Parsons Project (#32) -- ( 47 ) Would I Lie To You - Whitesnake (#35) -- ( 48 ) Norman Bates - Landscape (#18) -- ( 50 ) Body Talk - Imagination (#9)
-- ( -- ) Riding With The Angels - Samson -- ( -- ) Give It To Me Baby - Rick James -- ( -- ) The Passion Of Lovers - Bauhaus
The second UK top 10 hit of 1981 for the Jacksons gets the highest new entry here.
Behind that, Jim Steinman's original version of the song that was later a hit for Meat Loaf in 1981. It was written for him, as was the whole "Bad For Good" album but after Meat Loaf had throat problems, Jim recorded it under his own name. 4 songs from it would also appear on "Bat Out Of Hell II", including "Love And Death And An American Guitar" which was the spoken narrative although it underwent a name-change, and one of the tracks on "Bad For Good" became the basis for "Holding Out For A Hero". Jim is not the lead vocalist on Rock & Roll Dreams Come Through - that is Rory Dodd.
After a Joe Jackson song, a couple more medleys. Strangely the Abba medley I find with most of the "stars on 45" section itself cut out, in particular the intro which was different to that of the first one. I find that on the 12" (which isn't on Spotify) but that has a second round of Abba songs on it (including revisiting Super Trouper which is in the first half but gets a longer rendition). The Beach Boy medley is performed by Adrian Baker, who just prior to this was writing and producing for Liquid Gold.
And now this is the point the Eurythmics actually made their debut although it totally passed me by at the time, and I had never heard of them (as a duo) until "Love Is A Stranger" near the end of 1982.
I don't recall those REO Speedwagon or Carpenters songs either. For the latter, Karen has about 18 months left to live.
Looking at that Rick James title makes me think of a particular song from early 1999, but that song didn't sample this one. Albeit a different Rick James song was sampled in a song currently in the 1990 retro chart.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jun 30, 2022 23:39:11 GMT 1
11 July 1981
1 ( 1 ) Will You - Hazel O'Connor < 7th week at #1 > 2 ( 3 ) Ghost Town - Specials 3 ( 2 ) There's A Guy Works Down The Chip Shop Swears He's Elvis - Kirsty MacColl (#2[2]) 4 ( 4 ) Slow Hand - Pointer Sisters 5 ( 6 ) For Your Eyes Only - Sheena Easton 6 ( 15 ) Walk Right Now - Jacksons 7 ( 9 ) Can Can - Bad Manners 8 ( 5 ) New Life - Depeche Mode (#4) 9 ( 8 ) Pull Up To The Bumper - Grace Jones (#8) 10 ( 13 ) Pretty In Pink - Psychedelic Furs
11 ( 17 ) Rock And Roll Dreams Come Through - Jim Steinman 12 ( 11 ) Wordy Rappinghood - Tom Tom Club (#11) 13 ( -- ) Sat In Your Lap - Kate Bush 14 ( 7 ) The One That You Love - Air Supply (#2[2]) 15 ( 26 ) Jumpin' Jive - Joe Jackson 16 ( 10 ) Believe It Or Not - Joey Scarbury (#8) 17 ( 28 ) Abba Medley - Stars On 45 18 ( 29 ) Beach Boy Gold - Gidea Park 19 ( 16 ) No Laughing In Heaven - Gillan (#16) 20 ( 23 ) Better Things - Kinks
21 ( 32 ) Never Gonna Cry Again - Eurythmics 22 ( -- ) Computer Love - Kraftwerk 23 ( 18 ) Can't Happen Here - Rainbow (#18) 24 ( -- ) Jimmie Jones - Vapors 25 ( 12 ) Piece Of The Action - Bucks Fizz (#5) 26 ( 20 ) The Race Is On - Dave Edmunds & The Stray Cats (#20) 27 ( 27 ) A Life Of Illusion - Joe Walsh 28 ( -- ) Show Me - Dexy's Midnight Runners 29 ( 14 ) I Want To Be Free - Toyah (#3) 30 ( 24 ) Razzamatazz - Quincy Jones (#24)
31 ( -- ) Urgent - Foreigner 32 ( 31 ) I'm In Love - Evelyn King (#31) 33 ( -- ) Visage - Visage 34 ( 21 ) Me No Pop I - Kid Creole & The Coconuts (#16) 35 ( 19 ) All Stood Still - Ultravox (#8) 36 ( 22 ) The River - Bruce Springsteen (#14) 37 ( 45 ) Don't Let Him Go - REO Speedwagon 38 ( 33 ) The Stroke - Billy Squier (#33) 39 ( -- ) Thunderbirds - Barry Gray 40 ( 40 ) Purgatory - Iron Maiden
41 ( 49 ) Touch Me When We're Dancing - Carpenters 42 ( 30 ) Throw Away The Key - Linx (#26) 43 ( -- ) The Breakup Song - Greg Kihn Band 44 ( -- ) Rock 'N' Roll Outlaw - Rose Tattoo 45 ( 25 ) You Might Need Somebody - Randy Crawford (#5) 46 ( 38 ) Doors Of Your Heart - Beat (#38) 47 ( 34 ) Wikka Wrap - Evasions (#32) 48 ( -- ) Going Left Right - Department S 49 ( -- ) Theme From Cosmos - Vangelis 50 ( -- ) C'Mon Let's Go - Girlschool
-- ( 35 ) Memory - Elaine Paige (#17) -- ( 36 ) Dancing On The Floor - Third World (#12) -- ( 37 ) Going Back To My Roots - Odyssey (#6) -- ( 39 ) Funeral Pyre - Jam (#22) -- ( 41 ) Gemini Dream - Moody Blues (#37) -- ( 42 ) I Can Take Care Of Myself - Billy & The Beaters (#30) -- ( 43 ) Silver Lining - Stiff Little Fingers (#20) -- ( 44 ) Stand And Deliver - Adam & The Ants (#1[2]) -- ( 46 ) Take It To The Top - Kool & The Gang (#13) -- ( 47 ) Is That Love - Squeeze (#5) -- ( 48 ) Multiplication - Showaddywaddy (#41) -- ( 50 ) All Those Years Ago - George Harrison (#9)
-- ( -- ) (There's No Gettin' Over Me - Ronnie Milsap -- ( -- ) Lady (You Bring Me Up) - Commodores -- ( -- ) Motorhead (Live) - Motorhead -- ( -- ) Double Dutch Bus - Frankie Smith -- ( -- ) Motorhead (Live) - Motorhead
"Will You" by Hazel O'Connor remains on top for a 7th week and is the first single to stay that long at the top since "Paradise By The Dashboard Light" in 1978, thus the first single of the 80s to do so, and the first ever by a solo female vocalist. Although she is the only vocalist on the track, a large part of the song is the saxophone outro by Wesley Magoogan.
Kate Bush has also spent 7 weeks at number one but with 3 different singles, and gets this week's highest entry.
"Computer Love" by Kraftwerk is the track I'm charting now and when it returns it will be "The Model". The Thunderbirds theme is among the other entries. 9 years on from this, F.A.B featuring M.C. Parker will get their interpretation in the chart.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jul 1, 2022 17:29:04 GMT 1
18 July 1981
1 ( 2 ) Ghost Town - Specials < 1st #1 > 2 ( 1 ) Will You - Hazel O'Connor (#1[7]) 3 ( 4 ) Slow Hand - Pointer Sisters 4 ( 3 ) There's A Guy Works Down The Chip Shop Swears He's Elvis - Kirsty MacColl (#2[2]) 5 ( 6 ) Walk Right Now - Jacksons 6 ( 13 ) Sat In Your Lap - Kate Bush 7 ( 5 ) For Your Eyes Only - Sheena Easton (#5) 8 ( 7 ) Can Can - Bad Manners (#7) 9 ( 11 ) Rock And Roll Dreams Come Through - Jim Steinman 10 ( 10 ) Pretty In Pink - Psychedelic Furs
11 ( 22 ) Computer Love - Kraftwerk 12 ( -- ) Chant No 1 (I Don't Need This Pressure On) - Spandau Ballet 13 ( 15 ) Jumpin' Jive - Joe Jackson 14 ( 24 ) Jimmie Jones - Vapors 15 ( 9 ) Pull Up To The Bumper - Grace Jones (#8) 16 ( 17 ) Abba Medley - Stars On 45 17 ( 8 ) New Life - Depeche Mode (#4) 18 ( 18 ) Beach Boy Gold - Gidea Park 19 ( -- ) Lay All Your Love On Me - Abba 20 ( 28 ) Show Me - Dexy's Midnight Runners
21 ( 31 ) Urgent - Foreigner 22 ( 12 ) Wordy Rappinghood - Tom Tom Club (#11) 23 ( 21 ) Never Gonna Cry Again - Eurythmics (#21) 24 ( 33 ) Visage - Visage 25 ( 20 ) Better Things - Kinks (#20) 26 ( -- ) Endless Love - Diana Ross & Lionel Richie 27 ( 14 ) The One That You Love - Air Supply (#2[2]) 28 ( 16 ) Believe It Or Not - Joey Scarbury (#8) 29 ( 19 ) No Laughing In Heaven - Gillan (#16) 30 ( 39 ) Thunderbirds - Barry Gray
31 ( -- ) Back To The Sixties - Tight Fit 32 ( 27 ) A Life Of Illusion - Joe Walsh (#27) 33 ( 43 ) The Breakup Song - Greg Kihn Band 34 ( -- ) Jingo - Candido 35 ( 23 ) Can't Happen Here - Rainbow (#18) 36 ( 44 ) Rock 'N' Roll Outlaw - Rose Tattoo 37 ( 37 ) Don't Let Him Go - REO Speedwagon 38 ( -- ) Lil Red Riding Hood - 999 39 ( 26 ) The Race Is On - Dave Edmunds & The Stray Cats (#20) 40 ( -- ) Tonight - Mo-Dettes
41 ( 48 ) Going Left Right - Department S 42 ( 32 ) I'm In Love - Evelyn King (#31) 43 ( 49 ) Theme From Cosmos - Vangelis 44 ( -- ) Never Surrender - Saxon 45 ( 41 ) Touch Me When We're Dancing - Carpenters (#41) 46 ( 50 ) C'Mon Let's Go - Girlschool 47 ( 30 ) Razzamatazz - Quincy Jones (#24) 48 ( 25 ) Piece Of The Action - Bucks Fizz (#5) 49 ( 40 ) Purgatory - Iron Maiden (#40) 50 ( -- ) Dancin' The Night Away - Voggue
-- ( 29 ) I Want To Be Free - Toyah (#3) -- ( 34 ) Me No Pop I - Kid Creole & The Coconuts (#16) -- ( 35 ) All Stood Still - Ultravox (#8) -- ( 36 ) The River - Bruce Springsteen (#14) -- ( 38 ) The Stroke - Billy Squier (#33) -- ( 42 ) Throw Away The Key - Linx (#26) -- ( 45 ) You Might Need Somebody - Randy Crawford (#5) -- ( 46 ) Doors Of Your Heart - Beat (#38) -- ( 47 ) Wikka Wrap - Evasions (#32)
-- ( -- ) A Promise - Echo & The Bunnymen -- ( -- ) On The Beat - BB&Q -- ( -- ) She's A Bad Mama Jama - Carl Carlton
The new chart has the Specials at number one, and it's only taken one week longer here than it did in the UK. Although the EP that contained "Too Much Too Young" rocketed to UK #1 on its second week, this one didn't top the UK chart until its 4th week with a run 21-6-2-1. It becomes the 2nd single to top both the UK and NM chart this year following Adam & The Ants, which was #1 just before Hazel O'Connor. (That is only counting singles that topped both charts in 1981. Imagine was a UK #1 and an NM #1 but in 1971).
Spandau Ballet's single was their biggest hit until "True" reached #1 in the Spring of 1983, and featured bongo drums and other instrumentation that would re-occur in a few other hits within 1981, and they worked together with members of Beggar & Co on this song.
With the Abba medley in the chart, Abba themselves enter with a song that peaked lower than the medley, although it was eventually a UK #1 song as part of Erasure's EP.
Endless Love was #1 for 9 weeks in the USA, and we'll be hearing a lot more of Lionel Richie as a solo artist. Back To The Sixties is yet another medley, this one of 60s classics, introducing a new generation to them. Of course later "Tight Fit" would do regular songs, and would be the front people rather than the producers. "Jingo" would also be later covered by Jellybean, and at one point Candido was the oldest living artist to have had a chart hit (after Vera Lynn died, before he did). Without looking it up he was born sometime around 1921 and was therefore about 60 at the time of this hit.
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Post by Good Old Days on Jul 1, 2022 17:56:50 GMT 1
Can you remind me a rule about including the songs in this chart? Is it enough to be in UK top 75 or only top 40 hits ?
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Post by Earl Purple on Jul 1, 2022 18:05:58 GMT 1
It's UK top 75 or US top 40. From 1983 I will allow occasional songs from 76-100. 11 April 1998 is when no chart position at all is required but it will have had to have been on my playlists for that week at the time (or entered the chart), and at some point I drop the US chart completely (possibly even then).
At present I am also going to be compiling ahead for 1990 but that will be in making playlists and ranking them, and eventually my chart will merge into the one that's being published in the 1990 retro chart list.
The rate is about 3 per week in 1981 and 2 per week in 1990, so in 3 years' time 1981 will catch up and 1990 will be in 1996. That would mean having to expand what I produce in 1990 from a top 40 to a top 50.
The plan is when that one reaches 2001 the chart will merge in to what was made at the time, when it was a top 50.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jul 3, 2022 11:14:36 GMT 1
25 July 1981
1 ( 1 ) Ghost Town - Specials < 1st #1 > 2 ( 3 ) Slow Hand - Pointer Sisters 3 ( 2 ) Will You - Hazel O'Connor (#1[7]) 4 ( -- ) Happy Birthday - Stevie Wonder 5 ( 12 ) Chant No 1 (I Don't Need This Pressure On) - Spandau Ballet 6 ( 6 ) Sat In Your Lap - Kate Bush 7 ( 5 ) Walk Right Now - Jacksons (#5) 8 ( 4 ) There's A Guy Works Down The Chip Shop Swears He's Elvis - Kirsty MacColl (#2[2]) 9 ( 11 ) Computer Love - Kraftwerk 10 ( 19 ) Lay All Your Love On Me - Abba
11 ( 9 ) Rock And Roll Dreams Come Through - Jim Steinman (#9) 12 ( 14 ) Jimmie Jones - Vapors 13 ( 7 ) For Your Eyes Only - Sheena Easton (#5) 14 ( 8 ) Can Can - Bad Manners (#7) 15 ( 10 ) Pretty In Pink - Psychedelic Furs (#10) 16 ( -- ) Girls On Film - Duran Duran 17 ( 26 ) Endless Love - Diana Ross & Lionel Richie 18 ( 13 ) Jumpin' Jive - Joe Jackson (#13) 19 ( -- ) Hooked On Classics - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra 20 ( 21 ) Urgent - Foreigner
21 ( -- ) Tempted - Squeeze 22 ( 20 ) Show Me - Dexy's Midnight Runners (#20) 23 ( 16 ) Abba Medley - Stars On 45 (#16) 24 ( 31 ) Back To The Sixties - Tight Fit 25 ( 24 ) Visage - Visage (#24) 26 ( 18 ) Beach Boy Gold - Gidea Park (#18) 27 ( 34 ) Jingo - Candido 28 ( -- ) Green Door - Shakin' Stevens 29 ( -- ) (Si Si) Je Suis Un Rock Star - Bill Wyman 30 ( 15 ) Pull Up To The Bumper - Grace Jones (#8)
31 ( 38 ) Lil Red Riding Hood - 999 32 ( 30 ) Thunderbirds - Barry Gray (#30) 33 ( 40 ) Tonight - Mo-Dettes 34 ( 23 ) Never Gonna Cry Again - Eurythmics (#21) 35 ( 33 ) The Breakup Song - Greg Kihn Band (#33) 36 ( 17 ) New Life - Depeche Mode (#4) 37 ( -- ) Brazilian Dawn - Shakatak 38 ( 44 ) Never Surrender - Saxon 39 ( 36 ) Rock 'N' Roll Outlaw - Rose Tattoo (#36) 40 ( 25 ) Better Things - Kinks (#20)
41 ( 22 ) Wordy Rappinghood - Tom Tom Club (#11) 42 ( 41 ) Going Left Right - Department S (#41) 43 ( 50 ) Dancin' The Night Away - Voggue 44 ( -- ) Julie Ocean - Undertones 45 ( 37 ) Don't Let Him Go - REO Speedwagon (#37) 46 ( 43 ) Theme From Cosmos - Vangelis (#43) 47 ( 32 ) A Life Of Illusion - Joe Walsh (#27) 48 ( 29 ) No Laughing In Heaven - Gillan (#16) 49 ( 28 ) Believe It Or Not - Joey Scarbury (#8) 50 ( 27 ) The One That You Love - Air Supply (#2[2])
-- ( 35 ) Can't Happen Here - Rainbow (#18) -- ( 39 ) The Race Is On - Dave Edmunds & The Stray Cats (#20) -- ( 42 ) I'm In Love - Evelyn King (#31) -- ( 45 ) Touch Me When We're Dancing - Carpenters (#41) -- ( 46 ) C'Mon Let's Go - Girlschool -- ( 47 ) Razzamatazz - Quincy Jones (#24) -- ( 48 ) Piece Of The Action - Bucks Fizz (#5) -- ( 49 ) Purgatory - Iron Maiden (#40)
-- ( -- ) Cool Love - Pablo Cruise -- ( -- ) The Caribbean Disco Show - Lobo -- ( -- ) Stormtrooper In Drag - Paul Gardiner & Gary Numan -- ( -- ) I Love You Yes I Love You - Eddy Grant -- ( -- ) The Real Thing - Brothers Johnson -- ( -- ) Feels So Right - Alabama
The Specials remain at #1, this is the week the song spent its 3rd and final week at #1 in the UK, with "Green Door" entering at #22 but that song leapt all the way to #1 next week. I'll come to that soon, but I didn't mention on the last chart that the Specials and Hazel O'Connor who were #1 for 7 weeks before them both come from Coventry. I don't think in the 25½ year history of this chart up to now there has been a single #1 by an act from Coventry, and now we have 2 in a row.
Stevie Wonder has reached #1 just once so far, with "Sir Duke" in 1977. His song "Happy Birthday" smashes in at #4, the 4th single from Hotter Than July, although as Martin Luther King's birthday was 15 January it seems strange this is released right in the middle of July, essentially about as far away from Martin Luther King's birthday as you can get. Still it was popular in the UK too giving him another #2 his 4th to date without yet having got that one place higher.
Duran Duran had a lot of promise as the "next big thing" but after they got to UK #11 with Planet Earth, their next single "Careless Memories" didn't do too well. Finally "Girls On Film" gave them at least a decent-sized hit, #5, and they went on to greatness. And did I mention I should be seeing them live next Sunday? (I posted that somewhere else). I wonder if they'll perform "Girls On Film".
We've had all kinds of medleys but who was expecting this? The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Louis Clark, going through bits of classical music from the past, with the same hand-clap back-beat. How many of these classical tunes did you already know and how many did you hear for the first time? The 12" version includes more tunes, of course, including Beethoven's 5th.
Yet another Squeeze classic - so many, might make a good Haven Factor contestant, and if they're not my act I'd definitely vote well for most of them.
Not sure how well Shakin' Stevens would do in Haven Factor - it's one of those you might play to see how he gets along. When this came out of course my mum pointed out quickly that it was a cover but named Frankie Vaughan as the original artist, which of course he wasn't, but songs back then were recorded by many different singers and Frankie Vaughan often picked them up in the UK as a local singer. But in my chart I had a policy of only one act getting to chart with the song and that fell to Jim Lowe, who took it to #1 for 2 weeks on the last week of September and first week of October 1956. The song that replaced it on top was "Blueberry Hill" by Fats Domino, a song I didn't know until later that it was a cover. He wrote most of his hits but not that one.
Most Rolling Stones songs were written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards - I'm not sure if Bill Wyman (or Charlie Watts) got to write any of them, but Bill Wyman has been making his own music outside of the band for a while and with this one got a hit single. It's a bit of a novelty song with the chorus in "Franglais" and also contains the line "They'll think I'm your dad, and you're my daughter" suggesting that the subject was a much younger female. We didn't know at the time he had an attraction for much younger females until several years later he got involved with Mandy Smith, which makes this song feel a bit creepier but he hadn't done that yet (they met around 1984) and I have to chart it on its merits. Charlie Watts did have his own band in the 1980s too, and Mick Jagger also had solo hits. I don't know if Keith Richards has had any side projects.
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Post by Whitneyfan on Jul 3, 2022 12:29:03 GMT 1
We must be due one of the biggest covers ever released soon.
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