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Post by vastar iner on May 24, 2021 21:04:13 GMT 1
I think the sixties are cheating in this...
19 January 1967:
1. The Monkees - I'm A Believer
2. Tom Jones - Green Green Grass Of Home
3. The Who - Happy Jack
4. The Seekers - Morningtown Ride
5. Donovan - Sunshine Superman
6. Cliff & The Shads - In The Country
7. The Move - Night Of Fear
8. Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick & Tich - Save Me
9. The Troggs - Anyway That You Want Me
10. Four Tops - Standing In The Shadows Of Love
And then the following week:
1. Monkees
2. Move
3. Cat Stevens - Matthew & Son
4. Jones
5. Who
6. Four Tops
7. Rolling Stones - Let's Spend The Night Together
8. Seekers
9. Jimi Hendrix Experience - Hey Joe
10. Cliff
The next week Paul Jones breaks in with something rather forgettable, before the run is wrecked by Nancy Sinatra's toddleresque "Sugar Town".
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Post by Earl Purple on May 31, 2021 20:29:32 GMT 1
Oh, wait, how could I overlook 5 March 1978?
1(5) Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights
2(1) Abba - Take A Chance On Me
3(2) Darts - Come Back My Love
4(3) Rose Royce - Wishing On A Star
5(11) Blondie - Denis
6(4) Bee Gees - Stayin' Alive
7(15) Eruption - I Can't Stand The Rain
8(14) Gerry Rafferty - Baker Street
9(7) Electric Light Orchestra - Mr Blue Sky
10(8) Yellow Dog - Just One More Night
In fact 19 out of the top 20 are pretty good, even Brian & Michael at number 18 (although I will rank that below Yellow Dog thus including this week and not the following one). The only really bad song in the top 20 is "If I Had Words" by Scott Fitzgerland and Yvonne Keeley which was at #17 that week on the way down from a #3 peak.
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Post by vastar iner on Oct 15, 2021 15:31:41 GMT 1
Sometimes they're obvious. How about the biggest-ever Christmas week? 1984:
1. Band Aid - Do They Know It's Christmas
2. Wham! - Last Christmas
3. Paul McCartney & The Frog Chorus - We All Stand Together
4. Toy Dolls - Nellie The Elephant
5. Madonna - Like A Virgin
6. FGTH - The Power Of Love
7. Ray Parker Jr - I Need A New Drug
8. Gary Glitter - Another Rock & Roll Christmas
9. Paul Young - Everything Must Change
10. TFF - Shout
Even the two ropey ones (5, 7) are iconic and majorleague popular. It's also really funny to see a top 10 where nine of the names are absolutely massive (if only briefly in a couple of cases), and then there's The Toy Dolls.
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Post by raliverpool on Oct 16, 2021 12:27:21 GMT 1
Sometimes they're obvious. How about the biggest-ever Christmas week? 1984: 1. Band Aid - Do They Know It's Christmas 2. Wham! - Last Christmas 3. Paul McCartney & The Frog Chorus - We All Stand Together 4. Toy Dolls - Nellie The Elephant 5. Madonna - Like A Virgin 6. FGTH - The Power Of Love 7. Ray Parker Jr - I Need A New Drug 8. Gary Glitter - Another Rock & Roll Christmas 9. Paul Young - Everything Must Change 10. TFF - Shout Even the two ropey ones (5, 7) are iconic and majorleague popular. It's also really funny to see a top 10 where nine of the names are absolutely massive (if only briefly in a couple of cases), and then there's The Toy Dolls. I see what you did with the #7 "Who ya gonna call ... Your Lawyers.." "Busting makes me feel good"... 
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Post by Earl Purple on Oct 31, 2021 21:17:28 GMT 1
Two consecutive weeks in 1979, the second one 5 of the songs in the top 10 had changed, yet they are all good. 4 August 1979 1 Boomtown Rats - I Don't Like Mondays 2 Police - Can't Stand Losing You 3 Dooleys - Wanted 4 Dave Edmunds - Girls Talk 5 Abba - Voulez Vous / Angeleyes 6 Janet Kay - Silly Games 7 Tubeway Army - Are Friends Electric 8 The Knack - My Sharona 9 Supertramp - Breakfast In America 10 Sparks - Beat The Clock The next week the bottom 5 of those dropped out of the top 10 to be replaced by Cliff Richard - We Don't Talk Anymore Ian Dury & The Blockheads - Reasons To Be Cheerful (Part 3) Sham 69 - Hersham Boys Electric Light Orchestra - The Diary Of Horace Wimp Patrick Hernandez - Born To Be Alive so that's 15 pretty good songs (ok 16, Abba is two songs)
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Post by vastar iner on Oct 31, 2021 21:59:30 GMT 1
I'd give the second of those weeks the nod. But The Dooleys ruin it.
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Post by Robbie on Nov 1, 2021 0:43:30 GMT 1
I'd give the second of those weeks the nod. But The Dooleys ruin it.
I've always liked 'Wanted', all the way back to when it was in the charts. A bit of a guilty pleasure for me. The group were awful and released some dreadful singles (in fact everything but 'Wanted' was awful) but this one is great.
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Post by vastar iner on Nov 1, 2021 9:39:49 GMT 1
I remember as a kid it seemed to be everywhere. I was surprised when seeing the GBOHS for the first time that it had not been no. 1. I assume that's a sort of confirmation bias, in that most of the places I would have seen it would have been on the one telly we had, so therefore something parents would have been watching, and I doubt either had bought a single since 1964 so not the target audience for the charts.
I will give the song one thing - it was better than The Police...
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Post by Whitneyfan on Nov 1, 2021 10:37:15 GMT 1
I reckon you could pick any week in 1984 to be honest. Even 'Agadoo' puts you in a happy mood.
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Post by vastar iner on Feb 9, 2023 1:21:08 GMT 1
Surprisingly close to getting one as recently as 1989...5 Feb:
1 Almond/Pitney - Something's Gotten...
2 Mike + The Mechanics - Living Years
3 Orbison - You Got It 4 Holly Johnson - Love Train 5 Roachford - Cuddly Toy 6 Moz - International Playboys 7 Howard/Mazelle - Wait 8 Ten City - That's The Way Love Is 9 Bobby Brown - My Prerogative AND LETS THE ENTIRE SIDE DOWN 10 FYC - She Drives Me Crasy
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