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Post by Tom on Jul 22, 2006 10:52:51 GMT 1
Robbie made a good point there, if it wasnt for that Poptastic site I wouldnt even be doing this. It was that site that got me into the old charts again in the first place. People that know me can't understand how I cant print so much stuff from various chart sites lol. The fact that Poptastic and dotmusic don't exist anymore, and last year I lost everything I had on the computer is a good enough reason for me!
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Post by Tom on Jul 22, 2006 11:02:53 GMT 1
6.30 and time for a newsflash. Within the last few minutes Nato warplanes have carried out an air attack on Serb positions around the Muslim englave of Garaja in eastern Bosnia Back to the chart Real 2 Reel - I Like To Move It climbing 1 at 7. This track has been in the Top 12 for 10 weeks now and has sold more than 210k more than tracks that have reached No 1!. This song's appeal rather passed me by during its time in the Top 12, I neither liked or disliked it. For years I thought that #7 was its peak position until I found that it had already reached #5, spending 20 weeks in the Top 75 in total, which I still find amazing! Thats a discussion in itself!
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Post by Tom on Jul 22, 2006 11:10:34 GMT 1
Excellent on TOTP on Thursday Toni Di Bart - The Real Thing climbing 7 at #6
Interestingly I read in the #1 hits book I've got that after climbing to #3 next week stocks of this song were held back to save it from peaking too early. The tactic worked though as after holding at 3 for another week it did climb to #1 in a quiet week. Something I still find surprising really.
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Post by Tom on Jul 22, 2006 11:13:09 GMT 1
Here's the UK's favourite 5 and Ace Of Base with a non-mover at #5
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Post by Tom on Jul 22, 2006 11:16:33 GMT 1
The bets are on, will there be a new No 1 this week!
And Doop fall 2 at #4
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Post by Tom on Jul 22, 2006 11:26:47 GMT 1
And theres a non-mover for Bruce Springsteen, Streets of Philadelphia still at #3
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Post by Tom on Jul 22, 2006 11:28:04 GMT 1
There are just 2 songs to go! So who is it at this week's #2
Its Prince (I always thought less suspense meant it was pretty obvious which song was #1)
Btw the girl I mentioned this was her favourite song at the time, if I hadnt got so bored of it I probably would have bought it for her
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Post by Tom on Jul 22, 2006 11:35:33 GMT 1
Which means its still there for a 2nd week, Take That and Everything Changes.
This was my favourite song by far this week, and considering how sick of Take That I was by this stage thats something of an achievement! The lyrics just seemed to sum up everything so perfectly at this particular time.
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Post by Tom on Jul 22, 2006 11:38:49 GMT 1
I'll round this off wioth some other bits of info in a few days, hope it wasnt too long lol!
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Post by Doctor Blind on Jul 22, 2006 12:31:55 GMT 1
Ah, a great read. THanks. I've got the 21st May '94 chart on tape- I did have others but they've been wiped by my parents since. They used to tape it for me at the time when I went to youth club (being 8 at the time), and I taped the songs I liked the most from about 1991 onwards- so I have clips of Mark Goodier and songs that I liked from that time on random tapes. May have to dig them out some time.
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Post by S1m on Jul 22, 2006 12:40:46 GMT 1
Good stuff Trodster, gives you a real sense of the times!
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Post by Robbie on Jul 22, 2006 13:05:22 GMT 1
I enjoyed reading this! 1994 was a good year for me, and I can look back at this chart with some happy nostalgia!
And also some puzzlement... I did ocassionally record the top 40 in this period, usually if I was going somewhere which involved travel, so I would have something to listen to. I have random top 40's from 1993, 1994 and 1995 on tape, sometimes just the top 20, sometimes just the top 10. However, I know I definately have on tape the bit Bruno mentions about Reel 2 Real being in the top 12 for 10 weeks and selling 210k, more than some number ones etc, and the Toni Di Bart record being introduced, but I can't recall hearing any more of the chart. All I can assume is I recorded the Reel 2 Real song and left the tape to run for a while...
I must do something with these old tapes of mine, they're all in boxes and haven't been played for years. What is the best way of transferring tapes to my computer, so I can burn them to disk?
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Post by Robbie on Jul 22, 2006 13:12:21 GMT 1
the funniest thing to come out of the chart around this time was a comment made by a presenter on TOTP when introducing Reel 2 Real. The comment was something like "9, 10, 12, 12, 10, 9... no not goals against Swindon but rather the chart run so far of this next song, here's Reel 2 Real"! That made me chuckle - Swindon were bottom of the Premiership at the time and losing games very heavily, including a wonderful 7-1 Newcastle victory a fortnight or so earlier
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Post by Tom on Jul 22, 2006 15:03:57 GMT 1
Ah, a great read. THanks. I've got the 21st May '94 chart on tape- I did have others but they've been wiped by my parents since. They used to tape it for me at the time when I went to youth club (being 8 at the time), and I taped the songs I liked the most from about 1991 onwards- so I have clips of Mark Goodier and songs that I liked from that time on random tapes. May have to dig them out some time. If you mean week ending 21st May 1994 (Sunday 15th May) I think I've actually got highlights of that one on tape myself somewhere as well, never got rid of it for pure nostalgia Think I taped Gloworm, Seal and Maxx that week off the top of my head. The tape itself is slightly jumbled up though where i recorded some of the chart from 19th June at the start to tape over songs I didnt like anymore lol!
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Post by Tom on Jul 22, 2006 15:09:04 GMT 1
the funniest thing to come out of the chart around this time was a comment made by a presenter on TOTP when introducing Reel 2 Real. The comment was something like "9, 10, 12, 12, 10, 9... no not goals against Swindon but rather the chart run so far of this next song, here's Reel 2 Real"! That made me chuckle - Swindon were bottom of the Premiership at the time and losing games very heavily, including a wonderful 7-1 Newcastle victory a fortnight or so earlier Lol, that probably would have passed me by at the time as I knew nothing about football then, how times change! That song did have a bizarre chart run though! And about tapes to computer, I'd like to know how to do that as well, I've got literally loads of tapes lying around which really I could do without. I think the guy who sent me the tapes originally was in the process of putting them on CD for better storage. So its probably best to record them to CD first and then put them on the computer later. On another note, thanks for the comments guys. As I said I'll put other bits of info that I've found on here in a few days, itll give everyone time to draw breath, well me anyway lol.
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Post by Doctor Blind on Jul 22, 2006 23:24:16 GMT 1
If you mean week ending 21st May 1994 (Sunday 15th May) I think I've actually got highlights of that one on tape myself somewhere as well, never got rid of it for pure nostalgia Think I taped Gloworm, Seal and Maxx that week off the top of my head. The tape itself is slightly jumbled up though where i recorded some of the chart from 19th June at the start to tape over songs I didnt like anymore lol! Yeah it was the week that Man U went to #1, my Dad supports them so that's probably why it's the only tape with the full chart that remains intact. It has Gloworm, Maxx, Eternal and many other 90s classics on it.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2006 23:49:17 GMT 1
Great thread, Trodster.
Bruno is my all-time fav chart show presenter, the year he started doing it (1986) was the year i first started following the charts.
I always copied them down in a book ever since, still log them now. I have tapes, and i think i've shared one or two shows via yousendit in the past. I think the earliest one i have is an odd one from 1987 (first 90 minutes). Most of my charts are 40 to mid-20s, only a few complete ones.
I must get some more on my pc sometime.
Thanks again
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Post by Robbie on Jul 23, 2006 0:40:07 GMT 1
The first complete top 40 I have on tape is from Sunday January 8, 1984. Until then I used to just record the songs and miss out the talking. As I used to buy Record Mirror, and the Sunday chart wasn't a new chart as it is now, I always knew where the new entries would be (and most were below #20 back then). I do have the top part of the Top 40 from May 27, 1979 (the top 9 if I remember!), and that is the earliest of any chart recording I have that features the presenter as well as the music. Strangely, both the 1979 and 1984 charts were presented by the same person - Simon Bates.
Between those two dates I do have random recordings of the presenters as well as the records but it tends to just be for the odd 2 or 3 records that were back to back and I must have been doing something else and let the tape run. However I do have a small handful of recordings which were of the top part of the chart which features the presenter - a Tony Blackburn chart from 1981 (the top 10 I think), a Tommy Vance show from 1982 (top 20 perhaps), another Tommy Vance show from 1983 (a top 8!) and a Bruno Brookes show from 1983, which must be one of his first ever shows (he was sitting in for TV at the time). I think that one might just be snippets from his countdown and is of something like #s 18 to #12.
I must get them on CD...
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Post by Tom on Jul 23, 2006 11:05:22 GMT 1
Very interesting when we all first listened to the chart. I think my first one was in May 1990 when Adamski reached No 1 with Killer in the car coming back from relatives. It was one of the first ones I managed to get on CD too . Having said that I have a vague memory of listening to a few (again coming back from relatives) in 1988/89.
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Post by Tom on Jul 23, 2006 11:20:40 GMT 1
Ah, a great read. THanks. I've got the 21st May '94 chart on tape- I did have others but they've been wiped by my parents since. They used to tape it for me at the time when I went to youth club (being 8 at the time), and I taped the songs I liked the most from about 1991 onwards- so I have clips of Mark Goodier and songs that I liked from that time on random tapes. May have to dig them out some time. Forgot to add, I know how you feel about no longer having tapes of the shows. The first ones I taped were a few from March-May 91, every time I recorded the new chart I taped over the new one which later on I regretted. The oldest chart that I recorded that I've still got was the chart of the year in 1991 which the late Tommy Vance presented. The reception is terrible in places, but I'm amazed how its lastest so long, I've played it so much down the years! Needless to say I received a show from the first week of May 1991 on CD completely by accident. It didnt really mean much originally as I was more disappointed that I hadnt got the one I wanted. Then some of the songs (which I've never heard since) seemed vaguely familiar, and it suddenly dawned on me that it was the chart I had taped all those years back. I'd forgotten I even recorded it until I remembered my mum's writing on the tape box I used, (which I can still see very faintly). Having received this chart from April 1994, the only shows that I taped myself that I havent got now are a couple from August/Sep 1992. Again these were lost when I recorded over them for the chart of the year for 1992. I taped over it badly though leaving parts of the old chart including 2 complete songs from Sinead O'Connor and the Smiths, which makes me wish I still had it! I would never have known about it otherwise. The recording of the Top 40 of 92 is dreadful though, I missed a large chunk of it and its virtualy unlistenable at the very end. Finally going slightly off topic I went to youth club when I was 10 too. The TOTP from that year (1993) are some of the most memorable I can remember.
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