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Post by Deleted on Jan 30, 2021 23:51:14 GMT 1
Not a single but a whole album of songs by actor Peter Wyngarde from the 70s When Sex Rears Its Inquisitve Head This track quite controversial
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Post by Good Old Days on Feb 1, 2021 9:40:51 GMT 1
Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip - Thou Shalt Always Kill (UK # 34 in 2007 year)
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Post by vastar iner on Feb 12, 2021 1:05:42 GMT 1
You think chiptune is a new(ish) retro thing? Nuh-uh. It is a genuine retro thing. First hit single using computer game noises was this one from Yellow Magic Orchestra. Also the first hit single for YMO's keyboardist Ryuichi Sakamoto.
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Post by ManicKangaroo on Feb 14, 2021 20:19:30 GMT 1
Dance version of the Ferrero Rocher ad music
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Post by Sm1ffj on Feb 14, 2021 20:29:12 GMT 1
Anything jedward have done. Agreed
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Post by vastar iner on Feb 15, 2021 10:10:21 GMT 1
Not a single, other than in the technical term that it's a disc with a recording on it, but what an unusual format. Basically a mash-up of two of the Beatles fan club Christmas flexis on a self-contained unit.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2021 0:29:50 GMT 1
Swedish vocal version from 1981 of the theme to "Hem Till Garden" (Home to the Farm) the swedish name for Emmerdale Farm
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Post by Good Old Days on Feb 23, 2021 15:40:13 GMT 1
# 21 from Dutch Singles chart in 1970. It's a little piece of radio comments about football match between Feyenoord (Netherlands) - Celtic (Scotland)
Wim Hogendoorn and Theo Koomen - Finale Europa Cup
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Post by Good Old Days on Mar 12, 2021 8:34:45 GMT 1
Matterhorn Project - Moo!
MUH! by Matterhorn Project is unique in pop history. There are cows singing and bells tingling, yodelling and alpine horns, all supported by an infectious eigthies disco-beat and a slightly spaced-out sense of humour. The track stormed Swiss and international charts in 1985 year and got known and loved for its sense of comedy and tongue-in-cheek citing of Swiss cliches.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 14, 2021 20:58:14 GMT 1
This reached No. 100 (29th January 1983)
Bernard Hill under the guise of Yosser Hughes his character from Boys From The Blackstuff
Yosser's Gang - Gis' A Job
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Post by Deleted on Mar 14, 2021 20:59:28 GMT 1
Matterhorn Project - Moo! MUH! by Matterhorn Project is unique in pop history. There are cows singing and bells tingling, yodelling and alpine horns, all supported by an infectious eigthies disco-beat and a slightly spaced-out sense of humour. The track stormed Swiss and international charts in 1985 year and got known and loved for its sense of comedy and tongue-in-cheek citing of Swiss cliches. I actually own this single (bought second hand from a market stall) My copy has a different cover It was played a lot on a local black country pirate Powerhouse Radio in the late 80s
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Post by vastar iner on Mar 18, 2021 1:03:45 GMT 1
The British Legion was not the first to sell silence. Donham Records - a one*-off project between CBS engineers Don Foster and Ham(ilton) O'Hara - released a disc of 3 minutes of nothing, credited to actress Dorothy Harrington, who was also Mrs O'Hara. It was popular in jukeboxes. If someone were fed up with the incessant noise coming from them, they could pop in a nickel and choose this record for a bit of peace.
* there is a second single under the Donham name, "A Soldier's Wife" by Carol Lemon, but that looks to be a different entity; blue label, different typography, different catalogue number style, and the "ham" seems to have been from a USAF pilot-turned-singer James T Durham.
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Post by Good Old Days on Mar 18, 2021 12:19:39 GMT 1
Liars - There's Always Room On The Broom (UK # 74 in 2004 year)
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Post by onehitwonder on Mar 24, 2021 17:57:37 GMT 1
I would say this was a pretty bizarre single. It would be number 1 if it was released now (WAP, anybody?).
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Post by vastar iner on Apr 6, 2021 9:44:54 GMT 1
In 1959, singer Bea Ford divorced her husband Joe Tex, and she ended up with James Brown. A couple of years later, Brown and Ford parted, and Brown wrote to Tex to say that he could have her back.
Tex thereupon recorded what might have been the first ever diss disc...
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Post by vastar iner on Apr 16, 2021 21:04:18 GMT 1
The first medley on the charts was also the first comedy record on the charts, the first song by a British male vocalist on the charts, the first George Martin single on the charts, and on the first chart.
For years, Max Bygraves had the number plate MB1 on his cars - a succession of Rolls Royces. Mercedes Benz offered him a fortune for it. He declined. "Given that they're German and I'm Jewish..."
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Post by Good Old Days on Apr 21, 2021 9:50:37 GMT 1
Wurzels - Don't Look Back In Anger (2002) (# 59 in UK)
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Post by vastar iner on Apr 25, 2021 20:21:40 GMT 1
Once upon a time there was a little boy who wanted to grow up And be a soldier and serve his country in whatever way he could He would parade around the house with a sauce pan on his head For a helmet, a wooden sword in one hand and the American flag in the other As he grew up, he put away the things of a child but he never let go of the flag
Terry Nelson was a DJ. C-Company were session musicians given a suitably military name. To the tune of "Battle Hymn Of The Republic", this was a song in honour of American military veteran Lt William Calley, and Nelson took it to the US top 40.
Lt Calley was the prime mover behind the My Lai massacre, where American troops of Charlie Company murdered all the men, women, and children of a Vietnamese village, under Calley's command. At least 347 died. Calley was the only one prosecuted. Found guilty of 22 murders, he served a 3 year house arrest sentence. Meanwhile senators, including the chairman of the armed forces committee, called those troops who disobeyed orders and hid villagers traitors.
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Post by vastar iner on Apr 28, 2021 14:30:04 GMT 1
What's the biggest-ever advance order for a single?
Beatles? Stones?
"Candle In The Wind"?
Bieber?
Nope.
In 1979, there was an advance order for 10.5m copies of a recording. That's 10,500,000 copies.
It would instantly make the track the biggest-ever hit single on release.
But not one person bought it.
It was a free gift. Or, more accurately, an insert. A flexidisc - or, as the Americans call it, a soundsheet - to go with an issue of National Geographic magazine. And, for many people, it was their first introduction to whale song.
NatGeo have to have as many copies of the single as they produced of the magazine for subscribers. I.e. ten and a half mil. The discs were all produced by Eva-Tone Soundsheets, newly moved to Florida, who had started in the 1920s as a manufacturer of equipment of rubber stamps. In 1962 they developed the flexidisc and set up the Lyntone subsidiary for manufacture of flexis in the UK. They produced flexis up to 2001.
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Post by vastar iner on May 2, 2021 10:07:49 GMT 1
Schlager-ish Christmas ditty released for charity. What makes it remarkable is that the Albrecht paterfamilias is Ernst, former Prime Minister of Lower Saxony, and one of the daughters is Ursula, who later married into the aristocratic von der Leyen family...
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