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Post by Whitneyfan on Nov 12, 2020 13:58:36 GMT 1
The Proclaimers - Sunshine On Leith
UK Chart Position: #41
USA Chart Position:
Release Year: 1988
This is an absolutely amazing song, which should have followed 'I'm Gonna Be (500 miles)' into the top ten. That song and 'Letter From America' are the 2 songs the Proclaimers are most known for, but they have written so many other great songs which get overlooked.
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Post by raliverpool on Nov 12, 2020 20:57:22 GMT 1
OMD - If You Leave
UK Chart Position: #48
USA Chart Position: #4
Release Year: 1986
This was recorded for the soundtrack to the blockbusting teen film Pretty in Pink (1986), in which it is played prominently during the final scene. Along with 1980's "Enola Gay", this track is regarded as the band's top two signature songs. The band had 17 top 40 hits in the UK, and this shockingly failed to be one of them. However, it is their most successful single ever in the USA, Canada #5, Australia #15, & New Zealand #5.
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Post by Razzle Dazzle on Nov 14, 2020 20:02:05 GMT 1
Dr Hook. - Sharing the Night Together
UK Chart Position: #43
USA Chart Position: #6
Release Year: 1978
"Sharing the Night Together" is a popular song written by Ava Aldridge and Eddie Struzick. Originally recorded by Lenny LeBlanc and then Arthur Alexander in 1976, the song was later a single produced by Ron Haffkine and performed by Dr. Hook from their album Pleasure and Pain. "Sharing the Night Together" also appeared on most of Dr. Hook's following albums including Greatest Hits and Greatest Hits (and More). It reached No. 6 in the U.S. and No. 3 in Canada in 1978, and No. 43 in the UK in 1980. Dr. Hook had three top 10 singles before this release "Sylvia's Mother" #2, "A Little Bit More" #2 and "If Not You" #5 and three top 10 singles after "Sharing the Night Together" #8 with "When You're in Love with a Beautiful Woman" #1, "Better Love Next Time", "Sexy Eyes" #4 so I'm surprised their second most popular song on Spotify and second biggest hit hit in the USA stalled at #43 in the UK
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Post by Razzle Dazzle on Nov 15, 2020 14:02:41 GMT 1
Vixen - Edge of a Broken Heart
UK Chart Position: #51
USA Chart Position: #26
Release Year: 1988
Vixen are an all female American rock band, during their most commercially successful period from 1987 to 1992, the band consisted of Jan Kuehnemund (lead guitar), Janet Gardner (lead vocals, rhythm guitar), Share Ross (bass guitar), and Roxy Petrucci (drums). Part of the Los Angeles, California glam metal scene, the band has been described as "the female Bon Jovi." Several singles released by the band from 1988 to 1990 reached the Billboard Hot 100, including the Top 40 singles "Edge of a Broken Heart" at No. 26, and "Cryin'" at No. 22. They weren't quite as successful in the UK but this song is classic 80s rock chick.
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Post by Whitneyfan on Nov 15, 2020 14:23:26 GMT 1
Wilson Phillips - Impulsive
UK Chart Position: #42
USA Chart Position: #4
Release Year: 1990
The girls' debut album remains one of my absolute all-time favourites, and every single from it under-performed in the UK (even the masterpiece that is 'Hold On' only reached #6). At least the others reached the top 40 though, or I would have put 'Release Me' if it hadn't sneaked in at #36 (which again is top 3 worthy at least!)
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Post by Razzle Dazzle on Nov 18, 2020 13:51:38 GMT 1
Alphaville - Forever Young
UK Chart Position: #98
USA Chart Position: #65
Release Year: 1984
"Forever Young" is a song from German synthpop recording act Alphaville's 1984 debut album of the same name. The single was a strong hit in Scandinavia and in the European German-speaking countries in the same year.
The single achieved more success in the United States than in the United Kingdom, but it failed to reach the American top 40 despite three separate US single releases. Though not the group's highest-charting European hit, "Forever Young" became one of the band's signature songs and has subsequently been covered by numerous artists. 341m streams on youtube and 260m on Spotify shows how poplar the song is
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Post by TheThorne on Nov 18, 2020 14:13:35 GMT 1
As another terrible version pollutes the Xmas ads
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Post by rubcale on Nov 18, 2020 19:13:11 GMT 1
Alphaville - Forever YoungUK Chart Position: #98
USA Chart Position: #65
Release Year: 1984
"Forever Young" is a song from German synthpop recording act Alphaville's 1984 debut album of the same name. The single was a strong hit in Scandinavia and in the European German-speaking countries in the same year. The single achieved more success in the United States than in the United Kingdom, but it failed to reach the American top 40 despite three separate US single releases. Though not the group's highest-charting European hit, "Forever Young" became one of the band's signature songs and has subsequently been covered by numerous artists. 341m streams on youtube and 260m on Spotify shows how poplar the song is Is there more of a story behind this?
I'm surprised they weren't sued for plagiarism - this is almost the same tune as the Bob Dylan written Forever Young - on first listen I was convinced it was the same song - although I'm more familiar with Diana Ross's version from the Swept Away album but the lyrics are certainly different.
I see it got a UK Silver Disc earlier this year.
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Post by Whitneyfan on Nov 18, 2020 19:46:26 GMT 1
I like Tiffany's version of 'Forever Young' as well as the original. I can't believe the song has never been a hit, it's so well known!
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Post by Whitneyfan on Nov 18, 2020 19:50:36 GMT 1
Alison Moyet - Ordinary Girl
UK Chart Position: #43
USA Chart Position: n/a
Release Year: 1987
I've actually always found it quite shocking that this masterpiece didn't make the top 40 when every Alison Moyet single up to that point had been a hit. This song is easily in my top 5 songs the legend has ever done, and some days it's my all-time favourite!
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Post by Razzle Dazzle on Nov 19, 2020 17:07:32 GMT 1
Alphaville - Forever YoungUK Chart Position: #98
USA Chart Position: #65
Release Year: 1984
"Forever Young" is a song from German synthpop recording act Alphaville's 1984 debut album of the same name. The single was a strong hit in Scandinavia and in the European German-speaking countries in the same year. The single achieved more success in the United States than in the United Kingdom, but it failed to reach the American top 40 despite three separate US single releases. Though not the group's highest-charting European hit, "Forever Young" became one of the band's signature songs and has subsequently been covered by numerous artists. 341m streams on youtube and 260m on Spotify shows how poplar the song is Is there more of a story behind this? Not that I know of, they released their debut single to great success in the UK, "Big in Japan" peaked at #8 in the UK and went top 5 all over hte world but the record company insisted they release "Sounds Like a Melody" between "Big in Japan" and "Forever Young", it was another big hit across Europe but it didn't chart in the UK and by the time they got around to releasing "Forever Young" being a German synthpop band it seems people just had lost interest "Originally, Alphaville had planned to release "Forever Young" as their second single, to follow the success of "Big in Japan". However, record studio executives requested that Alphaville release an additional song between the two singles, and as a result "Sounds Like a Melody" was written and arranged in just two days" In terms of chart success they only had that one #8 debut hit and the #98 "Forever Young" so they were never a chart act in the UK really |
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Post by Razzle Dazzle on Nov 19, 2020 17:31:13 GMT 1
KC and the Sunshine Band - I'm Your Boogie Man
UK Chart Position: #41
USA Chart Position:#1
Release Year: 1976
We haven't had any disco yet and this one was a huge #1 hit in America and the band did have 3 top 5 hits in the UK with "That's the Way (I Like It)"#4, "Please Don't Go" #3 and "Give It Up" #1 so a bit of a surprise this one charted so low. "I'm Your Boogie Man" is a song written and produced by Harry Wayne Casey and Richard Finch, and performed by Casey's band KC and the Sunshine Band from the band's fourth album Part 3 (1976). Richard Finch said that the song was written about a DJ at a Miami, Florida radio station named Robert W. Walker, who was the first to give their hit single "Get Down Tonight" airplay
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Post by Razzle Dazzle on Nov 20, 2020 15:12:24 GMT 1
Trivia: the most successful band never to reach the top 40 is Welsh folk rock band Gorky's Zygotic Mynci. They had eight singles charting between numbers 41 and 65!
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Post by Razzle Dazzle on Nov 20, 2020 15:26:19 GMT 1
Hall & Oates - You Make My Dreams
UK Chart Position: -
USA Chart Position: #5
Release Year: 1981
"You Make My Dreams", sometimes incorrectly referred to as "You Make My Dreams Come True", is a song by the American duo Hall & Oates, taken from their ninth studio album, Voices (1980). The song reached number five on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1981 but failed to chart in the UK. The song is hugely popular these days featuring in the films The Wedding Singer (1998), Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd (2003), Step Brothers (2008) (500) Days of Summer (2009), Despicable Me 2 (2013), Eddie the Eagle (2016), and Ready Player One (2018). In 2012, it appeared in an eHarmony commercial. It appears in a 2017 commercial for Applebee's. The song also appears in The Office, Modern Family and Young Sheldon and has to be in the "all time classic" category.
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Post by TheThorne on Nov 21, 2020 14:40:01 GMT 1
Luscious Jackson - Here
UK Chart Position: #58
USA Chart Position:
Release Year: 1995
Taken from the brilliant debut album 'Natural Ingredients' which I have just been listening to, it also famously features in the movie Clueless
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Post by Razzle Dazzle on Nov 23, 2020 12:59:45 GMT 1
Traveling Wilburys - End of the Line
UK Chart Position: #52
USA Chart Position: #63
Release Year: 1989
"End of the Line" is a song by the British-American supergroup the Traveling Wilburys. Released in October 1988, it was the final track on their debut album, Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1. It was also issued as the band's second single, in January 1989. The recording features all the Wilburys except Bob Dylan as lead singers: George Harrison, Jeff Lynne and Roy Orbison sing the choruses in turn, while Tom Petty sings the verses. The song was mainly written by Harrison and was assigned to his publishing company, Umlaut Corporation. In keeping with the collaborative concept behind the Wilburys project, however, all five members received a songwriting credit.
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Post by Whitneyfan on Nov 23, 2020 13:34:25 GMT 1
I was thinking of that Traveling Wilburys one the other day, it's just as good as 'Handle With Care' and probably more well-known, yet inexpicably wasn't a hit. Actually the whole album is brilliant.
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Post by Razzle Dazzle on Nov 23, 2020 14:44:29 GMT 1
Considering the band was a Beatles, ELO, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, Roy Orbison supergroup they didn't have much chart success, they must have close to 100 #1 singles/albums between them.
I agree this one is a classic and the whole album is brilliant, the Roy Orbison led Not Alone Anymore is a personal favourite.
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Post by smokeyb on Nov 23, 2020 17:41:41 GMT 1
Probably their time (apart from Tom Petty) was in the past, and the younger record buying public were not into "dad's music". So their previous success didn't help them.
The albums did better, but the younger generation tended to buy singles not albums. I liked them all and bought the album, but it never occurred tome at the time to buy the singles.
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Post by Razzle Dazzle on Dec 2, 2020 15:37:28 GMT 1
The Velvet Underground & Nico - Sunday Morning
UK Chart Position: -
USA Chart Position: -
Release Year: 1966
In late 1966, "Sunday Morning" was the final song to be recorded for The Velvet Underground & Nico. It was requested by Tom Wilson, who thought the album needed another song with lead vocals by Nico with the potential to be a successful single. The final master tape of side one of the album shows "Sunday Morning" only penciled in before "I'm Waiting for the Man". In November 1966, Wilson brought the band into Mayfair Recording Studios in Manhattan. The song was written with Nico's voice in mind by Lou Reed and John Cale on a Sunday morning. The band previously performed it live with Nico singing lead, but when it came time to record it, Lou Reed sang the lead vocal. Nico would instead sing backing vocals on the song.
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