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Post by Mark on May 6, 2023 23:00:48 GMT 1
Tony Blackburn shared this
Peel and Blackburn together on You Don't Bring Me Flowers Never knew this happened!
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Post by SheriffFatman on May 12, 2023 10:26:21 GMT 1
Just heard Big Panty Woman by Barefoot Man on Retro Charts Radio - where on earth did this come from?
It reached no. 21 in December 1998, spent 5 weeks on the top 40 too, sounds really old but other than the charts stats there doesn't seem to be much online to explain it.
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Post by Panda on May 13, 2023 10:51:09 GMT 1
I have a feeling it may have had a bit of airplay on Radio 2 at the time. One of those tracks a DJ plays for a laugh then it starts gaining a bit of traction. I listened to Radio 1 a lot at the time and I don't remember hearing it on there other than on the Top 40 show.
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Post by Mark on May 13, 2023 10:54:39 GMT 1
Just heard Big Panty Woman by Barefoot Man on Retro Charts Radio - where on earth did this come from? It reached no. 21 in December 1998, spent 5 weeks on the top 40 too, sounds really old but other than the charts stats there doesn't seem to be much online to explain it. I believe Sarah Kennedy played it a lot on Radio 2.
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Post by Good Old Days on May 19, 2023 12:51:59 GMT 1
Pulsallama - The Devil Lives In My Husband's Body (1982)
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Post by vastar iner on Jun 9, 2023 9:14:26 GMT 1
^ I put that in a Halloweenvision context, bloody love it.
Not quite sure what is going on here, there's an early Stones vibe about the instro but a Chinnichap approach to the vocals. Was Andy Park The Randy Milkman a thing at some point? It's actually...rather good.
The fun thing about this is a) Gold Top is actually Blue Hat Records in disguise and b) Blue Hat records gave the band that would become Tears For Fears their first single - see further up the thread.
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Post by Good Old Days on Jul 6, 2023 21:03:54 GMT 1
Betty Johnson - I Want Eddie Fisher For Christmas (1954)
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Post by vastar iner on Jul 15, 2023 0:22:57 GMT 1
RIP Tony Butler. A genuine legend. Basically invented the post-match phone-in on BRMB (sic) in the early seventies.
A cash-in single was...not quite so legendary.
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Post by vastar iner on Jul 29, 2023 19:11:27 GMT 1
What do you get if you get an ITN newsreader to go all Shatner on the whitest interpretation of funk possible?
This could indeed be the greatest atrocity humans have ever inflicted on humanity.
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Post by vastar iner on Jul 31, 2023 21:43:51 GMT 1
RIP Adrian Street - glam rock wrestler on the old World of Sport, and who made it big in the States...
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Post by vastar iner on Aug 30, 2023 12:04:28 GMT 1
Art duo Komar & Melamid created a single based on opinion polls as to the most popular elements to a song. They came up with some sub-Disney Flack/Bryson shlock.
Of course, the real joy is when they did the exact opposite for the b-side...
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Post by Good Old Days on Sept 2, 2023 19:58:33 GMT 1
Tonje Langeteig - I Don't Wanna Be A Crappy Housewife (2011)
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Post by vastar iner on Oct 31, 2023 16:25:03 GMT 1
Gary & Gary were Gary Klyvert, from the Bronx, and Gary Klyvert, from the Bronx.
A heck of a coincidence? Not quite, it's one singer double-tracking his voice and pretending to be a duo.
It's actually not bad. 1962 and quite Walker Brothers-ish.
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Post by tommie on Nov 5, 2023 19:24:49 GMT 1
Not sure what I like more - the Eurotechno beat, how the vocals are slightly off from the beat, random dude appearing out of nowhere shouting "Boys don't say that" or nonsensical lyrics.
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Post by tommie on Jan 3, 2024 18:35:40 GMT 1
I can't believe I've never heard this before - but Tamara Jaber was a member of the Australian Pop Stars group Scandal'Us that lasted one album. After that she, being the truly talented one, decided to embark on a solo career and released a banger of a debut single called " Ooh Aah (I Lost My Bra)": There were some horrible accusations by jealous haters that her boyfriend at the time radio personality Kyle Sandilands influenced radio programmers to playlist it, but still, Australians couldn't get Jabbed enough and it rose all the way to #13 on the ARIA charts
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Post by vastar iner on Jan 20, 2024 21:13:37 GMT 1
Plenty of cash-in football songs, so it's not that bizarre, even given that this is to celebrate Hull City being top of Division 4 in 1983 so not exactly a towering achievement.
It's more that Harry Amber would have a number 1 by the end of the decade...
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Post by vastar iner on Feb 3, 2024 12:34:21 GMT 1
I wonder if this would count on Pointless if the category were 10cc Hits?
This is Hotlegs - basically 10cc without Gouldman - who are considered one hit wonders in that particular guise. They were put together with comedian John Paul Joans (who had adopted that name BEFORE Led Zep was a thing) by Joans' manager with a view to writing a Christmas single. Something of a misjudgment given that Joans' stand-up was apparently scabrous and political, and the common comment about him is "10 years ahead of his time".
But they got a hit single out of it. Interrupted by missing a chart week after Peter Green "persuaded" RAK Records to change the label...
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Post by raliverpool on Feb 3, 2024 15:14:13 GMT 1
This recording is just over 3 years old, a reminder of a time when this country was going through a pandemic, and we fell for 55 Tufton Street en.wikipedia.org/wiki/55_Tufton_Street greatest "Look Squirrel" achievement distracting the Great British Public whilst we were in Covid lockdown; all whilst those in power were partying like it was 1999... And to cap it all his daughters were just as grubby as those shadowy forces who made this a national story...
Captain Tom Moore, Michael Ball & The NHS Voices of Care Choir - You'll Never Walk Alone
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Post by tommie on Feb 28, 2024 19:21:52 GMT 1
I was going down a trashy eurodance YouTube hole and for some reason E-Rotic covering The Winner Takes It All came up:
I mean, it's not the worst version I've heard of the song, just possibly the most random one.
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Post by vastar iner on Mar 22, 2024 10:13:53 GMT 1
When did the first McCartney song get to no. 1?
Answer: 1947.
Topped the Billboard Airplay listings - and was named in honour of the one-year-old daughter of the attorney of songwriter Jack Lawrence. The attorney was one Lee Eastman...
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