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Post by Whitneyfan on Feb 5, 2023 12:54:55 GMT 1
#34. Mel & Kim - F.L.M. (1987 UK #7)
Short for Fun, Love, Money, 'F.L.M.' was the girls' third top ten hit in a row, but due to Mel's cancer diagnosis they couldn't record a proper video for the song so it was made up using clips of the girls and a couple of puppets of them!
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Post by Whitneyfan on Feb 5, 2023 13:01:42 GMT 1
#33. Kylie Minogue - Finer Feelings (1992 UK #11)
This is easily the best song on Kylie's fourth album, Let's Get To It (well, in my opinion anyway!), but it was actually the final single to be released from it, in the way of a Brothers In Rhythm remix. It marks a definite change in direction for Kylie, and even though it failed to make the top ten I think it's one of her more highly rated songs.
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Post by Whitneyfan on Feb 5, 2023 13:12:31 GMT 1
#32. Princess - I'll Keep On Loving You (1986 UK #16)
I always thought this one did better than it did in the charts, but there you go. Desiree Heslop (as is her real name) only recorded the one album with Stock, Aitken and Waterman, but she was one a few of their more R&B type acts. I have to admit to never checking out any subsequent releases by her, but maybe I should.
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Post by Whitneyfan on Feb 5, 2023 13:19:00 GMT 1
#31. Sinitta - Toy Boy (1987 UK #4)
This would be much higher if I was back in my school days! It was Sinitta's first big hit after the previous year's #2 smash 'So Macho', and probably equally as infectious. I think I played the 7" single of this until it was scratched so badly that it just used to jump all over the place - which is one thing streaming has over vinyl!
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Post by Smurfie on Feb 5, 2023 14:13:19 GMT 1
Brand New Lover should’ve been a way bigger hit!
Never really got on with Finer Feelings - I thought it was her weakest of SAW/SW era singles.
Love the Princess single, After The Love Has Gone was my favourite - the album is really good too. After SAW I don’t remember a single thing she released other than Red Hot - but then I only heard like a 15 second clip of it on The Chart Show.
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Post by Whitneyfan on Feb 5, 2023 15:35:29 GMT 1
#30. Lonnie Gordon - Beyond Your Wildest Dreams (1990 UK #48)
Heaven only knows why this little beauty wasn't a hit! Lonnie's previous single, 'Happenin' All Over Again', had done really well and one could be forgiven for assuming that this would take off too. It didn't though, and neither did Lonnie's pop career really. Sybil's equally good 1993 cover did slightly better but it still missed the top 40 by one place, stalling at #41.
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Post by Whitneyfan on Feb 5, 2023 15:42:03 GMT 1
#29. Kylie Minogue - Step Back In Time (1990 UK #4)
Kylie was releasing an album a year in those days, and this was the second single off her third long player, 'Rhythm Of Love', which was much more dance orientated than the pure bubblegum pop of the first two. She was still having nothing but top four hits in those days, with this being her 11th in a row.
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Post by Whitneyfan on Feb 5, 2023 15:49:19 GMT 1
#28. Kylie Minogue - The Loco-motion (1988 UK #2)
The Neighbours princess had had the biggest selling single of 1987 in her home country Australia with her version of Little Eva's 'The Loco-motion'. It became a hit in the UK in the summer of '88 after being given a makeover by S/A/W, complete with re-recorded vocals, and was expected to be her second #1 there - and would have been had it not been for another cover, Yazz's club version of Otis Clay's Northern Soul song 'The Only Way Is Up'. You can't argue with that though as Yazz did have the better record! I can't help but love the Loco-motion too though.
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Post by Whitneyfan on Feb 5, 2023 15:56:32 GMT 1
#27. Mel & Kim - Showing Out (Get Fresh At The Weekend) (1986 UK #3)
Sorry if this feels a little low but I love so many songs! This debut single by the girls had more in common with some of the House records around at the time than it did with the usual Stock, Aitken and Waterman sound. It was quite new and fresh at the time, and I still think of it as a club record.
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Post by Smurfie on Feb 5, 2023 16:21:19 GMT 1
They waited for too long after Happening All Over Again to release Beyond Your Wildest Dreams. The misfire was going for How Could He Do This To Me as the second single from the album, getting R1 to play it, then binning the song at the last minute.
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Post by Whitneyfan on Feb 5, 2023 21:00:46 GMT 1
#26. Phil Fearon - I Can Prove It (1986 UK #8)
Phil Fearon had had hits with Galaxy in 1983/'84 with 'Dancing Tight', 'What Do I Do' and the amazing 'Everybody's Laughing', but this was his only big hit that was produced by the S/A/W team. Well the original version had nothing to do with them, but they worked their magic and it became a hit. Despite those four great songs, he never really achieved long lasting success as an artist.
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Post by Whitneyfan on Feb 5, 2023 21:05:53 GMT 1
#25. Kylie Minogue - I Should Be So Lucky (1988 UK #1)
The song that started it all off for the Neighbours mechanic, this was one of the hardest songs to place here as I unashamedly love it - but, like Kylie herself, there was a long period where you felt like it was an embarrassing song to like. I've come full circle too now as I think of it as just a great pop song - even though it's more bubblegum than Hubba Bubba!
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Post by Whitneyfan on Feb 5, 2023 21:09:51 GMT 1
#24. Princess - Say I'm Your Number One (1985 UK #7)
Ms. Heslop's debut single, the soulful 'Say I'm Your Number One', was also her biggest hit - and only top tenner. It's a silky smooth number that doesn't even sound dated now when I'm listening to it.
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Post by Whitneyfan on Feb 5, 2023 21:14:48 GMT 1
#23. Dead Or Alive - Something In My House (1986 UK #12)
Dead or alive's last major hit was actually released a couple of days before the start of 1987, but it still seemed like it was destined to go top ten at the time and then stalled at the last hurdle. It helps that it's one of theirs I'm more familiar with, as it appears every year on my Halloween playlist, but I still think it's one of their best.
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Post by Smurfie on Feb 5, 2023 21:18:11 GMT 1
Something In My House is brilliant! Especially the album version.
Lucky too low.
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Post by Whitneyfan on Feb 5, 2023 21:20:20 GMT 1
Something In My House is brilliant! Especially the album version. Lucky too low. I know - there are a few that I think are too low, the more I think about it!
There are 22 brilliant classics to come though!
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Post by Good Old Days on Feb 5, 2023 21:52:10 GMT 1
"Locomotion" is very annoying.
Chartrun : Kylie Minogue - I Should Be So Lucky (2-1-1-1-1-3-5-7-10-12-13-16-16-17-20) (15 weeks)
It was her first # 1 single in my retro chart.
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Post by Whitneyfan on Feb 6, 2023 18:52:57 GMT 1
#22. Divine - You Think You're A Man (1984 UK #16)
I wasn't sure where to place this, or what others think of it, but I can't help but have really fond memories of the song. Drag Queen Divine (real name Harris Glenn Milstead) released his first single in 1981, but it was only with this S/A/W produced single that he really achieved chart success. The song was also the production team's first big hit, although his only other top 40 hit was with a cover of the Four Seasons' 'Walk Like A Man' in 1985 and this wasn't produced by the trio so doesn't qualify for this chart. Sadly he died in 1988, aged just 42, of heart failure.
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Post by Whitneyfan on Feb 6, 2023 19:01:33 GMT 1
#21. Bananarama/Lananeeneenoonoo - Help! (1989 UK #3)
Crikey it's bad enough typing Bananarama, without trying to spell the other one too! Anyway, this cover of the Beatles classic was the Comic Relief single for Red Nose Day 1989 and featured the Banana's (now Keren, Sarah and short-lived Jacqui) along with French & Saunders and Kathy Burke - who are all comedy legends now. A lot of covers were dismissed from my top 60, in order to make room for more songs, but a handful made it in and this one has always been a guilty pleasure of mine so there was no way it wasn't staying!
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Post by Smurfie on Feb 6, 2023 19:06:02 GMT 1
I personally love You Think You’re A Man - especially the extended remix. I’m So Beautiful not so much.
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