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Post by Good Old Days on Jun 8, 2020 21:32:27 GMT 1
Why ABBA didn't release "Honey Honey" single in UK ?
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Post by Earl Purple on Jun 8, 2020 22:15:11 GMT 1
In the current #1 "Honey Honey" is mentioned, just after "Sugar Sugar".
If only Abba would get to #1 it would be the equivalent of "Mamma Mia" replacing a song that had those words in the lyrics in the UK, except this would be different as I assume the "Honey Honey" in "Life Is A Rock" actually refers to this song.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jun 9, 2020 22:32:10 GMT 1
19 October 1974:
1 ( 2 ) You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet - Bachman Turner Overdrive < 1st #1 > 2 ( 1 ) Life Is A Rock (But The Radio Rolled Me) - Reunion (#1[3]) 3 ( 7 ) Whatever Gets You Thru The Night - John Lennon 4 ( 13 ) Gonna Make You A Star - David Essex 5 ( 5 ) Samba Pa Ti - Santana 6 ( 3 ) The Bitch Is Back - Elton John (#2[1]) 7 ( 4 ) Long Tall Glasses - Leo Sayer (#3) 8 ( -- ) Far Far Away - Slade 9 ( 18 ) Honey Honey - Abba 10 ( 12 ) Kings Of The Party - Brownsville Station
11 ( 6 ) Silly Love - 10cc (#5) 12 ( 14 ) I Get A Kick Out Of You - Gary Shearston 13 ( 9 ) Spinnin' And Spinnin' - Syreeta (#9) 14 ( 22 ) All I Want Is You - Roxy Music 15 ( 10 ) Everything I Own - Ken Boothe (#10) 16 ( 8 ) Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd (#1[3]) 17 ( 19 ) Give It To The People - Righteous Brothers 18 ( -- ) Let's Get Together Again - Glitter Band 19 ( 15 ) Tin Man - America (#15) 20 ( 27 ) My Melody Of Love - Bobby Vinton 21 ( 21 ) Back Home Again - John Denver 22 ( 11 ) Earache My Eye - Cheech & Chong ft Alice Bowie (#2[2]) 23 ( 29 ) All Of Me Loves All Of You - Bay City Rollers 24 ( 30 ) Minuetto Allegretto - Wombles 25 ( -- ) Never Turn Your Back On Mother Earth - Sparks 26 ( 20 ) Love Me - Diana Ross (#20) 27 ( 16 ) Gee Baby - Peter Shelley (#10) 28 ( 26 ) Straight Shootin' Woman - Steppenwolf (#26) 29 ( 34 ) Down On The Beach Tonight - Drifters 30 ( 17 ) I've Got The Music In Me - Kiki Dee (#6)
31 ( 24 ) Reggae Tune - Andy Fairweather-Low (#20) 32 ( -- ) Longfellow Serenade - Neil Diamond 33 ( 25 ) Jazzman - Carole King (#18) 34 ( 35 ) Do It (Til You're Satisfied) - B.T. Express 35 ( 23 ) Sad Sweet Dreamer - Sweet Sensation (#9) 36 ( 37 ) I Can't Leave You Alone - George McCrae 37 ( 38 ) Leave It - Mike McGear 38 ( -- ) Rockin' Soul - Hues Corporation 39 ( 28 ) Up In A Puff Of Smoke - Polly Brown (#14) 40 ( 33 ) Fallin' In Love - Souther-Hillman-Furay Band (#25)
-- ( 31 ) You You You - Alvin Stardust (#4) -- ( 32 ) Steppin' Out - Tony Orlando & Dawn (#20) -- ( 36 ) You Little Trustmaker - Tymes (#11) -- ( 39 ) Somethin' 'Bout You Baby I Like - Tom Jones (#15) -- ( 40 ) Stop And Smell The Roses - Mac Davis (#28)
-- ( -- ) Second Avenue - Art Garfunkel
As Bachman Turner Overdrive get their classic rock song to #1, we have a high new entry from Slade who are back on form, and the second entry is by the Glitter Band who are now independent of Gary Glitter.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jun 10, 2020 21:10:02 GMT 1
26 October 1974:
1 ( 1 ) You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet - Bachman Turner Overdrive < 2nd week at #1 > 2 ( 8 ) Far Far Away - Slade 3 ( 4 ) Gonna Make You A Star - David Essex 4 ( 3 ) Whatever Gets You Thru The Night - John Lennon (#3) 5 ( -- ) Killer Queen - Queen 6 ( 2 ) Life Is A Rock (But The Radio Rolled Me) - Reunion (#1[3]) 7 ( 9 ) Honey Honey - Abba 8 ( 5 ) Samba Pa Ti - Santana (#5) 9 ( 18 ) Let's Get Together Again - Glitter Band 10 ( 10 ) Kings Of The Party - Brownsville Station
11 ( 14 ) All I Want Is You - Roxy Music 12 ( 6 ) The Bitch Is Back - Elton John (#2[1]) 13 ( -- ) I Can Help - Billy Swan 14 ( 7 ) Long Tall Glasses - Leo Sayer (#3) 15 ( 12 ) I Get A Kick Out Of You - Gary Shearston (#12) 16 ( 25 ) Never Turn Your Back On Mother Earth - Sparks 17 ( 20 ) My Melody Of Love - Bobby Vinton 18 ( 17 ) Give It To The People - Righteous Brothers (#17) 19 ( 11 ) Silly Love - 10cc (#5) 20 ( 13 ) Spinnin' And Spinnin' - Syreeta (#9)
21 ( 23 ) All Of Me Loves All Of You - Bay City Rollers 22 ( 24 ) Minuetto Allegretto - Wombles 23 ( 32 ) Longfellow Serenade - Neil Diamond 24 ( 15 ) Everything I Own - Ken Boothe (#10) 25 ( 21 ) Back Home Again - John Denver (#21) 26 ( 19 ) Tin Man - America (#15) 27 ( 16 ) Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd (#1[3]) 28 ( 29 ) Down On The Beach Tonight - Drifters 29 ( 38 ) Rockin' Soul - Hues Corporation 30 ( 28 ) Straight Shootin' Woman - Steppenwolf (#26)
31 ( -- ) Pepper Box - Peppers 32 ( 26 ) Love Me - Diana Ross (#20) 33 ( 22 ) Earache My Eye - Cheech & Chong ft Alice Bowie (#2[2]) 34 ( 34 ) Do It (Til You're Satisfied) - B.T. Express 35 ( -- ) Hot Shot - Barry Blue 36 ( 36 ) I Can't Leave You Alone - George McCrae 37 ( 37 ) Leave It - Mike McGear 38 ( 31 ) Reggae Tune - Andy Fairweather-Low (#20) 39 ( 27 ) Gee Baby - Peter Shelley (#10) 40 ( -- ) So You Are A Star - Hudson Brothers
-- ( 30 ) I've Got The Music In Me - Kiki Dee (#6) -- ( 33 ) Jazzman - Carole King (#18) -- ( 35 ) Sad Sweet Dreamer - Sweet Sensation (#9) -- ( 39 ) Up In A Puff Of Smoke - Polly Brown (#14) -- ( 40 ) Fallin' In Love - Souther-Hillman-Furay Band (#25)
-- ( -- ) People Gotta Move - Gina Vennelli
Queen fly in at #5 with "Killer Queen" whilst Slade climb to #2 so both are a threat to Bachman Turner Overdrive to take over. Billy Swan's classic "I Can Help" also gets a high entry at #13.
In the UK chart, Slade was kept off #1 by Ken Boothe having entered at #3 behind that song and "Sad Sweet Dreamer" and David Essex kept Queen off #1.
abba climb just 2 places to #7 so are set to not start their chart career with 3 number ones. We now know that the Everly Brothers did achieve that in 1957-1958 with "Bye Bye Love", "Wake Up Little Susie" and "All I Have To Do Is Dream".
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Post by Earl Purple on Jun 11, 2020 21:52:22 GMT 1
2 November 1974:
1 ( 5 ) Killer Queen - Queen < 1st #1 > 2 ( 2 ) Far Far Away - Slade 3 ( 1 ) You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet - Bachman Turner Overdrive (#1[2]) 4 ( 3 ) Gonna Make You A Star - David Essex (#3) 5 ( -- ) Cats In The Cradle - Harry Chapin 6 ( 13 ) I Can Help - Billy Swan 7 ( -- ) You're My First My Last My Everything - Barry White 8 ( 9 ) Let's Get Together Again - Glitter Band 9 ( 4 ) Whatever Gets You Thru The Night - John Lennon (#3) 10 ( 7 ) Honey Honey - Abba (#7)
11 ( -- ) Too Good To Be Forgotten - Chi-Lites 12 ( -- ) Angie Baby - Helen Reddy 13 ( 11 ) All I Want Is You - Roxy Music (#11) 14 ( 10 ) Kings Of The Party - Brownsville Station (#10) 15 ( 6 ) Life Is A Rock (But The Radio Rolled Me) - Reunion (#1[3]) 16 ( 16 ) Never Turn Your Back On Mother Earth - Sparks 17 ( 8 ) Samba Pa Ti - Santana (#5) 18 ( -- ) Magic - Pilot 19 ( 17 ) My Melody Of Love - Bobby Vinton (#17) 20 ( 23 ) Longfellow Serenade - Neil Diamond
21 ( 15 ) I Get A Kick Out Of You - Gary Shearston (#12) 22 ( 12 ) The Bitch Is Back - Elton John (#2[1]) 23 ( 31 ) Pepper Box - Peppers 24 ( 18 ) Give It To The People - Righteous Brothers (#17) 25 ( 21 ) All Of Me Loves All Of You - Bay City Rollers (#21) 26 ( 22 ) Minuetto Allegretto - Wombles (#22) 27 ( 14 ) Long Tall Glasses - Leo Sayer (#3) 28 ( 29 ) Rockin' Soul - Hues Corporation 29 ( 35 ) Hot Shot - Barry Blue 30 ( -- ) Play Something Sweet - Three Dog Night
31 ( -- ) Saturday Gig - Mott The Hoople 32 ( 20 ) Spinnin' And Spinnin' - Syreeta (#9) 33 ( 19 ) Silly Love - 10cc (#5) 34 ( 28 ) Down On The Beach Tonight - Drifters (#28) 35 ( -- ) Get Your Love Back - Three Degrees 36 ( 40 ) So You Are A Star - Hudson Brothers 37 ( 25 ) Back Home Again - John Denver (#21) 38 ( -- ) Costafine Town - Splinter 39 ( 30 ) Straight Shootin' Woman - Steppenwolf (#26) 40 ( -- ) Blue Angel - Gene Pitney
-- ( 24 ) Everything I Own - Ken Boothe (#10) -- ( 26 ) Tin Man - America (#15) -- ( 27 ) Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd (#1[3]) -- ( 32 ) Love Me - Diana Ross (#20) -- ( 33 ) Earache My Eye - Cheech & Chong ft Alice Bowie (#2[2]) -- ( 34 ) Do It (Til You're Satisfied) - B.T. Express -- ( 36 ) I Can't Leave You Alone - George McCrae -- ( 37 ) Leave It - Mike McGear -- ( 38 ) Reggae Tune - Andy Fairweather-Low (#20) -- ( 39 ) Gee Baby - Peter Shelley (#10)
-- ( -- ) You Got The Love - Rufus & Chaka Khan -- ( -- ) No Honestly - Lynsey De Paul -- ( -- ) Sha-La-La (Make Me Happy) - Al Green
Another week full of great songs, in which Queen get to #1 ahead of Slade and Harry Chapin enters at #5 having reached #1 earlier in the year with W.O.L.D. Barry White's UK #1 enters at #7 this week and the Chi-Lites and Helen Reddy just outside the top 10. Pilot also get an entry inside the top 20, and all 5 of those are classics. There are far more great songs from 1974 than I remember there being.
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Post by Good Old Days on Jun 11, 2020 22:19:46 GMT 1
Lynsey de Paul deserved to be in this chart.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jun 11, 2020 22:56:09 GMT 1
Lynsey de Paul deserved to be in this chart. Not really, she did ok in my chart with "Sugar Me". Why are so many of her songs not on Spotify? Was that her parting wish just before she died? The Gene Pitney song also isn't, whilst most of his music is, and he's also dead. Helen Reddy has a great song though.
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Post by Razzle Dazzle on Jun 12, 2020 0:14:09 GMT 1
Have to say if I'm doing a retro chart I use Spotify and if the song isn't on Spotify or in my own collection they usually miss out unless its a glaring omission like when Prince - The Most Beautiful Girl In The World wasn't on Spotify
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Post by Earl Purple on Jun 12, 2020 5:17:27 GMT 1
When I started doing this the Beatles were not on Spotify but just around the time I got to them their music was added. Most of the Dave Clark Five songs were not on Spotify when I encountered and Slade also got added just around the time I got to them. The biggest hit of this year, "Jarrow Song" by Alan Price, is not on Spotify (it used to be because I have a link to it but it was removed). A lot of Alan Price songs were not but they seemed to be adding them as he was about to engage on a tour and I guess wanted to attract a following from a new generation, but they hadn't got round to "Between Today And Yesterday" and I always find it strange when an artist has loads of music on Spotify but not one of their biggest hits (or sometimes their only hit). Olivia Newton John's songs around this time seem to be there only in inferior live version. "Sugar Me" by Lynsey De Paul was there but most of her songs since then have not been, but unlike Good Old Days I'm not a huge fan of her music anyway (though Sugar Me was a good song).
So far in the 50s only 4 songs have been missing, two from 1956, one from 1957 and one from 1958. I have no idea why "Girl With the Golden Braids" by Perry Como is missing when he's had loads of songs and all the rest have been there.
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Post by Good Old Days on Jun 12, 2020 6:58:54 GMT 1
"Central Park Arrest" was a B-side on "No Honestly".
P.S : Yes, I'm a big fan of Lynsey and she is my second favourite female singer from 70s decade.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jun 12, 2020 11:33:45 GMT 1
Central Park Arrest reached my chart for a different artist. Also wasn't on Spotify. She did write the song.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jun 12, 2020 13:04:48 GMT 1
The chart above is the week when Mohammed Ali won the "rumble in the jungle" in Zaire (30 October was the actual date). I added that also to the "sporting winners" post.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jun 15, 2020 20:07:26 GMT 1
9 November 1974:
1 ( 1 ) Killer Queen - Queen < 2nd week at #1 > 2 ( 5 ) Cats In The Cradle - Harry Chapin 3 ( 2 ) Far Far Away - Slade (#2[2]) 4 ( 7 ) You're My First My Last My Everything - Barry White 5 ( 11 ) Too Good To Be Forgotten - Chi-Lites 6 ( 6 ) I Can Help - Billy Swan 7 ( 12 ) Angie Baby - Helen Reddy 8 ( 4 ) Gonna Make You A Star - David Essex (#3) 9 ( 3 ) You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet - Bachman Turner Overdrive (#1[2]) 10 ( 18 ) Magic - Pilot
11 ( 8 ) Let's Get Together Again - Glitter Band (#8) 12 ( -- ) How Long - Ace 13 ( 10 ) Honey Honey - Abba (#7) 14 ( -- ) The Wild One - Suzi Quatro 15 ( 9 ) Whatever Gets You Thru The Night - John Lennon (#3) 16 ( 13 ) All I Want Is You - Roxy Music (#11) 17 ( 16 ) Never Turn Your Back On Mother Earth - Sparks (#16) 18 ( 23 ) Pepper Box - Peppers 19 ( 30 ) Play Something Sweet - Three Dog Night 20 ( -- ) Goodbye Nothing To Say - Javells And Nosmo King
21 ( 20 ) Longfellow Serenade - Neil Diamond (#20) 22 ( 14 ) Kings Of The Party - Brownsville Station (#10) 23 ( 31 ) Saturday Gig - Mott The Hoople 24 ( -- ) Turn It Down - Sweet 25 ( 19 ) My Melody Of Love - Bobby Vinton (#17) 26 ( 35 ) Get Your Love Back - Three Degrees 27 ( 15 ) Life Is A Rock (But The Radio Rolled Me) - Reunion (#1[3]) 28 ( 29 ) Hot Shot - Barry Blue 29 ( 38 ) Costafine Town - Splinter 30 ( 17 ) Samba Pa Ti - Santana (#5)
31 ( -- ) Fairytale - Pointer Sisters 32 ( 21 ) I Get A Kick Out Of You - Gary Shearston (#12) 33 ( 28 ) Rockin' Soul - Hues Corporation (#28) 34 ( -- ) Junior's Farm - Wings 35 ( 40 ) Blue Angel - Gene Pitney 36 ( 25 ) All Of Me Loves All Of You - Bay City Rollers (#21) 37 ( 24 ) Give It To The People - Righteous Brothers (#17) 38 ( 26 ) Minuetto Allegretto - Wombles (#22) 39 ( 22 ) The Bitch Is Back - Elton John (#2[1]) 40 ( 36 ) So You Are A Star - Hudson Brothers (#36)
-- ( 27 ) Long Tall Glasses - Leo Sayer (#3) -- ( 32 ) Spinnin' And Spinnin' - Syreeta (#9) -- ( 33 ) Silly Love - 10cc (#5) -- ( 34 ) Down On The Beach Tonight - Drifters (#28) -- ( 37 ) Back Home Again - John Denver (#21) -- ( 39 ) Straight Shootin' Woman - Steppenwolf (#26)
-- ( -- ) Doraville - Atlanta Rhythm Section -- ( -- ) La La Peace Song - Al Wilson -- ( -- ) Where Did All The Good Times Go - Donny Osmond -- ( -- ) You Can Have Her - Sam Neely
Queen get a second week at #1 with Harry Chapin moving up to #2 behind it. The highest new entry by Ace has Paul Carrack as lead singer.
You may not have heard of the song that enters at #20 but you'll know it when you listen to it... actually this one came out first, but "Right Back Where We Started From" clearly steals its tune.
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Post by Good Old Days on Jun 15, 2020 21:27:15 GMT 1
The chart above is the week when Mohammed Ali won the "rumble in the jungle" in Zaire (30 October was the actual date). I added that also to the "sporting winners" post. Possibly we will see Johnny Wakelin's song about him very soon in this chart.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jun 17, 2020 8:49:01 GMT 1
16 November 1974:
1 ( 1 ) Killer Queen - Queen < 3rd week at #1 > 2 ( 2 ) Cats In The Cradle - Harry Chapin 3 ( 4 ) You're My First My Last My Everything - Barry White 4 ( 5 ) Too Good To Be Forgotten - Chi-Lites 5 ( 3 ) Far Far Away - Slade (#2[2]) 6 ( 7 ) Angie Baby - Helen Reddy 7 ( 10 ) Magic - Pilot 8 ( 12 ) How Long - Ace 9 ( 6 ) I Can Help - Billy Swan 10 ( -- ) Juke Box Jive - Rubettes
11 ( 14 ) The Wild One - Suzi Quatro 12 ( 20 ) Goodbye Nothing To Say - Javells And Nosmo King 13 ( 24 ) Turn It Down - Sweet 14 ( 8 ) Gonna Make You A Star - David Essex (#3) 15 ( 19 ) Play Something Sweet - Three Dog Night 16 ( 11 ) Let's Get Together Again - Glitter Band (#8) 17 ( 18 ) Pepper Box - Peppers 18 ( -- ) Zip Gun Boogie - T. Rex 19 ( 9 ) You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet - Bachman Turner Overdrive (#1[2]) 20 ( 13 ) Honey Honey - Abba (#7)
21 ( 23 ) Saturday Gig - Mott The Hoople 22 ( 17 ) Never Turn Your Back On Mother Earth - Sparks (#16) 23 ( 31 ) Fairytale - Pointer Sisters 24 ( 16 ) All I Want Is You - Roxy Music (#11) 25 ( 26 ) Get Your Love Back - Three Degrees 26 ( 15 ) Whatever Gets You Thru The Night - John Lennon (#3) 27 ( 34 ) Junior's Farm - Wings 28 ( 21 ) Longfellow Serenade - Neil Diamond (#20) 29 ( 29 ) Costafine Town - Splinter 30 ( -- ) Touch Me - Fancy
31 ( -- ) I Feel A Song - Gladys Knight & The Pips 32 ( 28 ) Hot Shot - Barry Blue 33 ( 22 ) Kings Of The Party - Brownsville Station (#10) 34 ( 35 ) Blue Angel - Gene Pitney 35 ( 25 ) My Melody Of Love - Bobby Vinton (#17) 36 ( 33 ) Rockin' Soul - Hues Corporation (#28) 37 ( 27 ) Life Is A Rock (But The Radio Rolled Me) - Reunion (#1[3]) 38 ( -- ) Tell Me What You Want - Jimmy Ruffin 39 ( 32 ) I Get A Kick Out Of You - Gary Shearston (#12) 40 ( 30 ) Samba Pa Ti - Santana (#5)
-- ( 36 ) All Of Me Loves All Of You - Bay City Rollers (#21) -- ( 37 ) Give It To The People - Righteous Brothers (#17) -- ( 38 ) Minuetto Allegretto - Wombles (#22) -- ( 39 ) The Bitch Is Back - Elton John (#2[1]) -- ( 40 ) So You Are A Star - Hudson Brothers (#36)
-- ( -- ) My Boy - Elvis Presley
"Sugar Baby Love" was a hit for Paul DaVinci's Rubettes and was a UK #1 but in my chart peaked at #9. "Tonight" which was a poor clone of that song failed to chart. "Juke Box Jive" though gets the highest entry this week at #10. It had a strange UK chart run where it climbed to #3, then fell back to #8 then climbed back to #3 again where it peaked. (Love Action by the Human League did something similar in 1981 but fell only to #6). Around the same time, a song that hasn't reached my chart yet flew up to #3 then fell to #4 then climbed to #2 and then dropped a lot of places. Also around at the time was Barry White at #1, Bachman Turner Overdrive which eventually climbed to #2 and a song that hasn't entered yet that would reach #1 in the UK.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jun 18, 2020 22:21:12 GMT 1
23 November 1974:
1 ( 1 ) Killer Queen - Queen < 4th week at #1 > 2 ( 2 ) Cats In The Cradle - Harry Chapin 3 ( 3 ) You're My First My Last My Everything - Barry White 4 ( 10 ) Juke Box Jive - Rubettes 5 ( 4 ) Too Good To Be Forgotten - Chi-Lites (#4) 6 ( 7 ) Magic - Pilot 7 ( 6 ) Angie Baby - Helen Reddy (#6) 8 ( 8 ) How Long - Ace 9 ( -- ) Oh Yes You're Beautiful - Gary Glitter 10 ( 18 ) Zip Gun Boogie - T. Rex
11 ( 5 ) Far Far Away - Slade (#2[2]) 12 ( 13 ) Turn It Down - Sweet 13 ( 12 ) Goodbye Nothing To Say - Javells And Nosmo King (#12) 14 ( 11 ) The Wild One - Suzi Quatro (#11) 15 ( -- ) Get Dancin' - Disco Tex & Sex-O-Lettes 16 ( 15 ) Play Something Sweet - Three Dog Night (#15) 17 ( 9 ) I Can Help - Billy Swan (#9) 18 ( 17 ) Pepper Box - Peppers (#17) 19 ( 23 ) Fairytale - Pointer Sisters 20 ( -- ) Zing Went The Strings Of My Heart - Trammps
21 ( 30 ) Touch Me - Fancy 22 ( 31 ) I Feel A Song - Gladys Knight & The Pips 23 ( 21 ) Saturday Gig - Mott The Hoople (#21) 24 ( 14 ) Gonna Make You A Star - David Essex (#3) 25 ( 16 ) Let's Get Together Again - Glitter Band (#8) 26 ( -- ) Fire Baby I'm On Fire - Andy Kim 27 ( 27 ) Junior's Farm - Wings 28 ( -- ) Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds - Elton John 29 ( 25 ) Get Your Love Back - Three Degrees (#25) 30 ( 38 ) Tell Me What You Want - Jimmy Ruffin
31 ( 22 ) Never Turn Your Back On Mother Earth - Sparks (#16) 32 ( 20 ) Honey Honey - Abba (#7) 33 ( 29 ) Costafine Town - Splinter (#29) 34 ( 19 ) You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet - Bachman Turner Overdrive (#1[2]) 35 ( -- ) Willie And the Hand Jive - Eric Clapton 36 ( -- ) Must Of Got Lost - J Geils Band 37 ( 24 ) All I Want Is You - Roxy Music (#11) 38 ( 34 ) Blue Angel - Gene Pitney (#34) 39 ( -- ) Three Ring Circus - Blue Magic 40 ( 28 ) Longfellow Serenade - Neil Diamond (#20)
-- ( 26 ) Whatever Gets You Thru The Night - John Lennon (#3) -- ( 32 ) Hot Shot - Barry Blue -- ( 33 ) Kings Of The Party - Brownsville Station (#10) -- ( 35 ) My Melody Of Love - Bobby Vinton (#17) -- ( 36 ) Rockin' Soul - Hues Corporation (#28) -- ( 37 ) Life Is A Rock (But The Radio Rolled Me) - Reunion (#1[3]) -- ( 39 ) I Get A Kick Out Of You - Gary Shearston (#12) -- ( 40 ) Samba Pa Ti - Santana (#5)
-- ( -- ) Sound Your Funky Horn - KC & The Sunshine Band -- ( -- ) The Zoo (The Human Zoo) - Commodores
Queen remain at #1 with the Rubettes climbing but failing to breach the top 3 this week whilst Gary Glitter has what is probably his last good song for 10 years enter at #9.
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Post by Good Old Days on Jun 19, 2020 5:43:50 GMT 1
My favourite singles from UK chart (1974) 1. ABBA - Ring Ring (UK # 32) 2. ABBA - Waterloo (UK # 1) 3. Stephanie De Sykes - Born With A Smile On My Face (UK # 2) 4. Lynsey De Paul - No Honestly (UK # 7) 5. New Seekers - I Get A Little Sentimental Over You (UK # 5) 6. Cilla Black - Baby We Can't Go Wrong (UK # 36) 7. Polly Brown - Up In A Puff Of Smoke (UK # 43) 8. Peters and Lee - Don't Stay Away Too Long (UK # 3) 9. Olivia Newton-John - Long Live Love (UK # 11) 10. Lynsey De Paul - Ooh I Do (UK # 25) 11. Olivia Newton-John - I Honestly Love You (UK # 22) 12. Prelude - After The Gold Rush (UK # 21) 13. Pearls - Guilty (UK # 10) 14. Peters and Lee - Rainbow (UK # 17) 15. Donny and Marie Osmond - I'm Leaving It All Up To You (UK # 2) 16. Donny and Marie Osmond - Morning Side Of The Mountain (UK # 5) 17. Mouth and MacNeal - I See A Star (UK # 8) 18. Barbra Streisand - The Way We Were (UK # 31) 19. Sunny - Doctor's Orders (UK # 7)
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Post by Earl Purple on Jun 19, 2020 14:05:29 GMT 1
30 November 1974
1 ( 1 ) Killer Queen - Queen < 5th week at #1 > 2 ( 4 ) Juke Box Jive - Rubettes 3 ( 9 ) Oh Yes You're Beautiful - Gary Glitter 4 ( 2 ) Cats In The Cradle - Harry Chapin (#2[3]) 5 ( 3 ) You're My First My Last My Everything - Barry White (#3) 6 ( -- ) Lonely This Christmas - Mud 7 ( 15 ) Get Dancin' - Disco Tex & Sex-O-Lettes 8 ( 6 ) Magic - Pilot (#6) 9 ( 10 ) Zip Gun Boogie - T. Rex 10 ( 5 ) Too Good To Be Forgotten - Chi-Lites (#4)
11 ( 8 ) How Long - Ace (#8) 12 ( 7 ) Angie Baby - Helen Reddy (#6) 13 ( 20 ) Zing Went The Strings Of My Heart - Trammps 14 ( 12 ) Turn It Down - Sweet (#12) 15 ( -- ) One Man Woman - One Woman Man - Paul Anka & Odia Coates 16 ( 26 ) Fire Baby I'm On Fire - Andy Kim 17 ( 13 ) Goodbye Nothing To Say - Javells And Nosmo King (#12) 18 ( 21 ) Touch Me - Fancy 19 ( 28 ) Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds - Elton John 20 ( 22 ) I Feel A Song - Gladys Knight & The Pips
21 ( 19 ) Fairytale - Pointer Sisters (#19) 22 ( -- ) Bungle In The Jungle - Jethro Tull 23 ( 14 ) The Wild One - Suzi Quatro (#11) 24 ( 11 ) Far Far Away - Slade (#2[2]) 25 ( 16 ) Play Something Sweet - Three Dog Night (#15) 26 ( -- ) Hey Mister Christmas - Showaddywaddy 27 ( 18 ) Pepper Box - Peppers (#17) 28 ( 35 ) Willie And the Hand Jive - Eric Clapton 29 ( 36 ) Must Of Got Lost - J Geils Band 30 ( 30 ) Tell Me What You Want - Jimmy Ruffin
31 ( 17 ) I Can Help - Billy Swan (#9) 32 ( 23 ) Saturday Gig - Mott The Hoople (#21) 33 ( 27 ) Junior's Farm - Wings (#27) 34 ( 39 ) Three Ring Circus - Blue Magic 35 ( -- ) Cheri Babe - Hot Chocolate 36 ( 29 ) Get Your Love Back - Three Degrees (#25) 37 ( 25 ) Let's Get Together Again - Glitter Band (#8) 38 ( 24 ) Gonna Make You A Star - David Essex (#3) 39 ( -- ) Boogie On Reggae Woman - Stevie Wonder 40 ( -- ) Whatever You Got I Want - Jackson Five
-- ( 31 ) Never Turn Your Back On Mother Earth - Sparks (#16) -- ( 32 ) Honey Honey - Abba (#7) -- ( 33 ) Costafine Town - Splinter (#29) -- ( 34 ) You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet - Bachman Turner Overdrive (#1[2]) -- ( 37 ) All I Want Is You - Roxy Music (#11) -- ( 38 ) Blue Angel - Gene Pitney (#34) -- ( 40 ) Longfellow Serenade - Neil Diamond (#20)
-- ( -- ) Tell Me Why - Alvin Stardust -- ( -- ) Dance The Kung Fu - Carl Douglas
Released just about the right time - the last chart in November when we open up for Christmas so Mud could grab the top spot for much of the month of December. In the UK they did just that, keeping Bachman Turner Overdrive and then the Wombles off the top. (That one is due in next chart).
Paul Anka's "One Man Woman" is somewhat better than "You're Having My Baby" - well rather less corny.
Jethro Tull's release seems well timed but doesn't appear lyrically to have much to do with boxing.
Showaddywaddy get their Christmas song into the chart too. Two of their classic hits appear in my 1958 playlist, but the one they're charting with here I assume is one of their originals, which is what they released mostly earlier on in their career.
Big artists lower down but I can't even remember those songs that well: Hot Chocolate, the Jackson Five and Stevie Wonder all scraping in near the bottom, whilst Alvin Stardust fails to make the cut (I can't remember why as I can't remember the song). Carl Douglas guilty of a poor clone of his big hit.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jun 19, 2020 14:11:02 GMT 1
My favourite singles from UK chart (1974) 1. ABBA - Ring Ring (UK # 32) 2. ABBA - Waterloo (UK # 1) 3. Stephanie De Sykes - Born With A Smile On My Face (UK # 2) 4. Lynsey De Paul - No Honestly (UK # 7) 5. New Seekers - I Get A Little Sentimental Over You (UK # 5) 6. Cilla Black - Baby We Can't Go Wrong (UK # 36) 7. Polly Brown - Up In A Puff Of Smoke (UK # 43) 8. Peters and Lee - Don't Stay Away Too Long (UK # 3) 9. Olivia Newton-John - Long Live Love (UK # 11) 10. Lynsey De Paul - Ooh I Do (UK # 25) 11. Olivia Newton-John - I Honestly Love You (UK # 22) 12. Prelude - After The Gold Rush (UK # 21) 13. Pearls - Guilty (UK # 10) 14. Thunderthighs - Central Park Arrest (UK # 30) 15. Peters and Lee - Rainbow (UK # 17) 16. Donny and Marie Osmond - I'm Leaving It All Up To You (UK # 2) 17. Donny and Marie Osmond - Morning Side Of The Mountain (UK # 5) 18. Mouth and MacNeal - I See A Star (UK # 8) 19. Barbra Streisand - The Way We Were (UK # 31) 20. Sunny - Doctor's Orders (UK # 7) Apart from the two Abba songs that got to #1 in my chart it's been a poor year for female vocalists. Solo female vocalists have managed just two #3 peaks: Suzi Quatro with Devil Gate Drive and Gigliola Cinquetti with Go (Before You Break My Heart). The first I'd expect you not to like, the second you might have but it isn't on yhour list. Helen Reddy had a #4 and a #6 in my chart. Not that keen on Olivia Newton John at this point in her career where she does mostly country music. I'm Leaving It Up To You I charted for Dale & Grace in 1963, peaking at #5. "Morning Side Of The Mountain" was a US top 30 hit for Tommy Edwards in 1959, but didn't make it to the top 25 so not sure if I'll add that version to my playlist, but it's better than Donny & Marie.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jun 22, 2020 22:03:56 GMT 1
7 December 1974:
1 ( 6 ) Lonely This Christmas - Mud < 2nd #1 > 2 ( 3 ) Oh Yes You're Beautiful - Gary Glitter 3 ( 2 ) Juke Box Jive - Rubettes (#2[1]) 4 ( 1 ) Killer Queen - Queen (#1[5]) 5 ( 7 ) Get Dancin' - Disco Tex & Sex-O-Lettes 6 ( -- ) Streets Of London - Ralph McTell 7 ( 15 ) One Man Woman - One Woman Man - Paul Anka & Odia Coates 8 ( 4 ) Cats In The Cradle - Harry Chapin (#2[3]) 9 ( -- ) Wombling Merry Christmas - Wombles 10 ( 5 ) You're My First My Last My Everything - Barry White (#3)
11 ( 9 ) Zip Gun Boogie - T. Rex (#9) 12 ( 13 ) Zing Went The Strings Of My Heart - Trammps 13 ( 22 ) Bungle In The Jungle - Jethro Tull 14 ( 16 ) Fire Baby I'm On Fire - Andy Kim 15 ( 8 ) Magic - Pilot (#6) 16 ( -- ) The Inbetweenies - Goodies 17 ( -- ) Down Down - Status Quo 18 ( 19 ) Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds - Elton John 19 ( 26 ) Hey Mister Christmas - Showaddywaddy 20 ( 11 ) How Long - Ace (#8)
21 ( 10 ) Too Good To Be Forgotten - Chi-Lites (#4) 22 ( 18 ) Touch Me - Fancy (#18) 23 ( -- ) The Bump - Kenny 24 ( 14 ) Turn It Down - Sweet (#12) 25 ( 12 ) Angie Baby - Helen Reddy (#6) 26 ( 20 ) I Feel A Song - Gladys Knight & The Pips (#20) 27 ( -- ) You Can Make Me Dance Sing Or Anything - Rod Stewart 28 ( 17 ) Goodbye Nothing To Say - Javells And Nosmo King (#12) 29 ( -- ) Never Can Say Goodbye - Gloria Gaynor 30 ( 28 ) Willie And the Hand Jive - Eric Clapton (#28)
31 ( 35 ) Cheri Babe - Hot Chocolate 32 ( 21 ) Fairytale - Pointer Sisters (#19) 33 ( 29 ) Must Of Got Lost - J Geils Band (#29) 34 ( 39 ) Boogie On Reggae Woman - Stevie Wonder 35 ( 40 ) Whatever You Got I Want - Jackson Five 36 ( -- ) Dream On - Righteous Brothers 37 ( 34 ) Three Ring Circus - Blue Magic (#34) 38 ( 30 ) Tell Me What You Want - Jimmy Ruffin (#30) 39 ( 23 ) The Wild One - Suzi Quatro (#11) 40 ( 25 ) Play Something Sweet - Three Dog Night (#15)
-- ( 24 ) Far Far Away - Slade (#2[2]) -- ( 27 ) Pepper Box - Peppers (#17) -- ( 31 ) I Can Help - Billy Swan (#9) -- ( 32 ) Saturday Gig - Mott The Hoople (#21) -- ( 33 ) Junior's Farm - Wings (#27) -- ( 36 ) Get Your Love Back - Three Degrees (#25) -- ( 37 ) Let's Get Together Again - Glitter Band (#8) -- ( 38 ) Gonna Make You A Star - David Essex (#3)
-- ( -- ) Ride 'Em Cowboy - Paul Davis
A big turn-around at the top which sees Mud beat Gary Glitter to the top and it will probably remain on top for 3 or 4 weeks dependent on whether I decide 28th December is the week for Christmas songs to fall or the week after is. Ralph McTell gets a high entry at #6 suggesting that after patiently waiting until after the festive season he may be the favourite to take over and that's even if the Wombles surpass him in the meantime.
The Goodies also have a Christmas song out and perhaps I should have done the "flip" after Christmas but I went for just The Inbetweenies from the outset, with "Father Christmas Do Not Touch Me" being the alternative.
In the UK it was Status Quo who replaced Mud after Christmas, and their song Down Down enters this week. The only UK #1 on which they were actually credited but they did also have a second #1 with Manchester United.
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