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Post by vastar iner on Nov 8, 2018 1:18:41 GMT 1
Pretty big hit for Shirley "Clapping Song" Ellis in the States, though it missed out here. She co-wrote this (her surname being Elliston, after her marriage) and her other hits, which were usually quirky and rather clever. She was also sampled by The Go! Team on "Bottle Rocket".
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Post by vastar iner on Nov 13, 2018 19:40:15 GMT 1
To commemorate Dad's Army's 50th anniversary, here's a b-side. Because I can't find the a-side, which was by Bill Pertwee and Norman MacLeod ("Get Out And Get Under The Moon", a 1928 hit for Helen Kane, the inspiration for Betty Boop), with a song from the DA stage show. MacLeod played a new character (Private Maple) in the 1975 show.
The weird thing about this is that it almost sounds Oi! at times, as interpreted by the Top Of The Pops orchestra.
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Post by raliverpool on Nov 13, 2018 20:12:18 GMT 1
With the James Guthrie remastered Kate Bush albums coming out from next week, time to revisit her first flop (UK #93) single from Nov 1982:
There Goes A Tenners song's lyrics are about a bungled bank robbery as told by the fearful and paranoid perpetrator in a mockney accent over an experimental art rock track that sounds like a cross between Lorde & St Vincent, which confused the hell out of her record company EMI; radio airplay committees; & the public.
Of course, the fact it came out a few years before "glamourising" the Great Train Robbery, etc in numerous means; and BBC1's soap opera Eastenders starting; shows how far ahead of the curve she was. Of course had it come out during the BritPop 1990s era it would surely have been a top ten hit!
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Post by vastar iner on Nov 15, 2018 0:04:41 GMT 1
If you're going to cash in on Dad's Army, either go full comedy, or go full nostalgia. I'm not sure what the hell this was meant to be doing.
But this isn't the only odd cut with which Arthur Lowe was involved...
...a flexidisc for British Gas salesmen...
...and a handful of Mr Men episodes came out as 7 inch singles; this was the first a-side.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 8, 2018 19:19:39 GMT 1
Just seen this video on NOW 80s
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Post by Deleted on Dec 21, 2018 8:40:21 GMT 1
On the wave of "Grease" popularity this version was top 20 hit in UK.
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Post by vastar iner on Dec 21, 2018 21:09:19 GMT 1
^ Produced by Kenny Lynch. Apparently it was selling like hotcakes - until people saw the TOTP performance...
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Post by Smurfie on Dec 28, 2018 21:02:53 GMT 1
Just passing by for answers who really thought this was a good idea. Luckily I couldn’t find the migraine inducing promo video.
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Post by Smurfie on Dec 28, 2018 21:04:00 GMT 1
The YouTube still! The miming!
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Post by ManicKangaroo on Dec 28, 2018 21:08:27 GMT 1
I liked it even though it wasn't a patch on the original
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Post by vastar iner on Dec 28, 2018 22:02:04 GMT 1
Just passing by for answers who really thought this was a good idea. Simon Cowell. He was behind it. He really is a ****, isn't he?
I quite liked though that Sophie Lawrence wasn't the standard drop-dead-gorgeous modelesque figure like Holly Valance, recruited for no other reason than a smouldering sexuality. She had a girl next door innocence charm that made her even more cute.
As for the single, the most notable thing about it was that it peaked at 21 equal. Gallup had changed the chart rules after the farce of Deee Lite, and Oceanic's "Insanity" entered the charts with identical sales. So, no longer applying the "biggest increase" rules, they shared the no. 21 slot.
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Post by Smurfie on Dec 28, 2018 22:28:29 GMT 1
Anyway, onto Das Boot.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 29, 2018 7:47:44 GMT 1
In my chart Sophie Lawrence spent 5 weeks on the top with "Love's Unkind". Also it's my second favourite single of 1991.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2019 14:25:40 GMT 1
Just passing by for answers who really thought this was a good idea. Luckily I couldn’t find the migraine inducing promo video. And this was the 2nd single a cover of a track that was on Kylie's 3rd album Rhythm Of Love
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2019 15:05:01 GMT 1
And this was the 2nd single a cover of a track that was on Kylie's 3rd album Rhythm Of Love Follow-up single was my Christmas # 1, dethroned by Lita Ford "Shot Of Poison" after 3 weeks on the top.
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Post by vastar iner on Jan 9, 2019 1:11:08 GMT 1
One of those you have to listen to the end. Jim Stafford is a comedian/comedy songwriter, in the Ray Stevens mould. Has his own club in Branson, Missouri, described accurately by Bart Simpson as Las Vegas if Ned Flanders was in charge.
His biggest US hit was "Spiders & Snakes", which got to no. 3, but he did have a no. 1. Sort of. He was married to Bobbie Gentry.
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Post by Mic1812 on Jan 12, 2019 16:54:42 GMT 1
Pretty big hit for Shirley "Clapping Song" Ellis in the States, though it missed out here. She co-wrote this (her surname being Elliston, after her marriage) and her other hits, which were usually quirky and rather clever. She was also sampled by The Go! Team on "Bottle Rocket".
Drag artists Divine did a good version of this and the only f word he knew in f was you guessed it f***
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Post by raliverpool on Jan 12, 2019 20:32:00 GMT 1
Inspired by the rubbishness that was Sophie Lawrence's tepid singing Vox ....... It's 1989 and the biggest female popstar in America is Debbie Gibson..... queue Stock Aitken & Waterman trying to get a lookalike ITV kids TV presenter to become a success in that slipstream with a cover of this Edwin Starr disco soul classic: Michaela Strachan - H.A.P.P.Y. Radio
(Postscript: in 2016 Debbie Gibson was over in the UK for a short promo tour and a handful of Here & Now 80s revival gigs, and returned the favour by doing a link on BBC2's Autumnwatch with Chris Packham, ..... alas it is not on youtube)
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Post by Smurfie on Jan 12, 2019 20:50:20 GMT 1
I raise you The Twins. Even I drew the line at this one.
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Post by raliverpool on Jan 12, 2019 20:56:03 GMT 1
I raise you The Twins. Even I drew the line at this one. At least they were not let loose on a Prince song (which no doubt certain posters will claim is better than the original...)
Oh bugger:
Gayle and Gillian - Wanna Be Your Lover (1994)
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