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Jan 20 2015, 08:02 PM
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7th January 1975
It’s a return to the top for Gloria Gaynor for a 2nd week at 1 presiding over my new expanded top 50 chart, and who really never can say goodbye! Quite right too! Billy Swan can still help, and he rises to 6 in gratitude, as Stevie Wonder gets his 9th Top 10 in 6 years with Boogie On Reggae Woman, but still yet to top the chart. Booooo! Angie Baby also joins the top batch for Helen Reddy, no longer declaring I Am Woman - well not just at the moment anyway. Christmas records still hang around, let’s be honest it was a novelty for me (and unheard of for the UK charts in those years) to swamp my chart with seasonal pop classics new and old. I invented it, so I’m going to sing my own praises and hang onto them well into the new year, so there! With the lack of new releases there’s a lovely gap in the market for Fox to come back with a bang at 17, Only You Can having yo-yo’d around my charts wildly for months, and now starting to get BBC airplay and sales. Lulu also shoots back up to 16 with her James Bond theme, much under-rated in the real world, but that benefitted me as I got the vinyl single in a bargain bin for 15p or so and it got a big boost out of me actually being able to hear it whenever I wanted to, in all of it’s widescreen wonder. I almost certainly got in from my shopping mall indie fave record store, who kept me supplied with chart hits and non-charts in Gloucester for 2 years. Harry Chapin’s brilliant Cats In The Cradle also boosts up to 19, as John Holt pops up a few reggae places, ahead of the highest new entry for Pilot, and their oh-so appropriate January, 3rd chart hit for me for them, and the big one that went all the way to top the UK charts. I still loved Just A Smile more, at the time, though, and under-appreciated just how great the single (still) is. I love it. In at 42, also having his 3rd solo hit, it’s Terry Jacks, no longer having seasons in the sun, no now he’s covering Australian vocalist Kevin Johnson’s fantastic flop story song about failed ambition, lost dreams, and love. Not a bad version, as it happens, but not a hit - though it was the spur for Jonathan King to re-release it on his own UK Records, and he got the hit he deserved! yay! Sometimes there is justice. JK was actually good at making great oldies hits after flopping in the UK, one of the reasons I was a fan of his. At 43 Dana finally gets a 2nd hit, 5 years after All Kinds Of Everything winged it’s way around the world to near the top of my charts in Singapore in 1970. Please tell him that I said Hello. If you insist, though it’s lost a bit of it’s charm for me these days, as has Dana. At 44, following Alan Price’s comeback in 1974, his former singing partner Georgie Fame gets his first chart entry in 3 years, and his first solo hit for 6 years (Peaceful). Georgie was another 60’s fave though and would certainly have topped my chart with The Ballad Of Bonnie And Clyde, and come close with the absolutely gorgeous Sitting In The Park, not to mention a little bit of action from his cover of Sunny, Yeh Yeh and Get Away. Sadly his easy-pop-jazz style didn’t become popular again until 1984, so his Muhammed Ali shuffle song didn’t chart. 1 ( 2 ) NEVER CAN SAY GOODBYE Gloria Gaynor 2 ( 3 ) GET DANCIN’ Disco Tex and The Sex-o-lettes 3 ( 5 ) HAPPY XMAS (WAR IS OVER) John & Yoko and The Plastic Ono Band with The Harlem Community Choir 4 ( 4 ) YOU AIN'T SEEN NOTHIN' YET Bachman-Turner Overdrive 5 ( 1 ) JE T’AIME...MOI NON PLUS Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg 6 ( 10 ) I CAN HELP Billy Swan 7 ( 18 ) BOOGIE ON REGGAE WOMAN Stevie Wonder 8 ( 8 ) LOVE IS ALL Roger Glover and Guests (featuring Ronnie Dio) 9 ( 9 ) STARDUST David Essex 10 ( 16 ) ANGIE BABY Helen Reddy 11 ( 7 ) SO LONG Abba 12 ( 12 ) I WISH IT COULD BE CHRISTMAS EVERYDAY Wizzard 13 ( 14 ) ARE YOU READY TO ROCK Wizzard 14 ( 13 ) HEY MR CHRISTMAS Showaddywaddy 15 ( 11 ) WOMBLING MERRY CHRISTMAS The Wombles 16 ( 46 ) THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN Lulu 17 ( RE ) ONLY YOU CAN Fox 18 ( 17 ) SOUND YOUR FUNKY HORN KC And The Sunshine Band 19 ( 40 ) CATS IN THE CRADLE Harry Chapin 20 ( 6 ) DING DONG George Harrison 21 ( 22 ) DOWN DOWN Status Quo 22 ( 15 ) YOU CAN MAKE ME DANCE SING OR ANYTHING (EVEN TAKE THE DOG FOR A WALK MEND A FUSE FOLD AWAY THE IRONING BOARD OR ANY OTHER DOMESTIC SHORTCOMINGS) The Faces featuring Rod Stewart 23 ( 19 ) I HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE Marvin Gaye 24 ( 20 ) THE INBETWEENIES The Goodies 25 ( 29 ) LIFE OF THE PARTY The Jackson 5 26 ( 26 ) CANDY BABY Beano 27 ( 39 ) HELP ME MAKE IT THROUGH THE NIGHT John Holt 28 ( 31 ) LUCY IN THE SKY WITH DIAMONDS Elton John 29 ( 23 ) HOLD ME TIGHT Johnny Nash 30 ( 30 ) IRE FEELINGS (SKANGA) Rupie Edwards 31 ( 35 ) LONELY THIS CHRISTMAS Mud 32 ( 24 ) MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY Slade 33 ( 37 ) GET DANCIN’ PART 2 Disco Tex and The Sex-o-lettes 34 ( NEW ) JANUARY Pilot 35 ( 38 ) CRYING OVER YOU Ken Boothe 36 ( 25 ) SLEIGH RIDE The Ronettes 37 ( 21 ) FATHER CHRISTMAS DO NOT TOUCH ME The Goodies 38 ( 33 ) JUKEBOX JIVE The Rubettes 39 ( 34 ) OH YES YOU'RE BEAUTIFUL Gary Glitter 40 ( 27 ) CHRISTMAS SONG Gilbert O’Sullivan 41 ( 32 ) YOU CAN HAVE IT ALL George McRae 42 ( NEW ) ROCK ‘N’ ROLL (I GAVE YOU THE BEST YEARS OF MY LIFE) Terry Jacks 43 ( NEW ) PLEASE TELL HIM THAT I SAID HELLO Dana 44 ( NEW ) ALI SHUFFLE Georgie Fame 45 ( 42 ) THE BUMP Kenny 46 ( 36 ) EVERYBODY NEEDS A RAINBOW Ray Stevens 47 ( 28 ) CHRISTMAS (BABY PLEASE COME HOME) Darlene Love 48 ( 44 ) MY BOY Elvis Presley 49 ( 48 ) SHA LA LA LA (MAKES ME HAPPY) Al Green 50 ( 43 ) PLEASE MR POSTMAN The Carpenters Talking of Gloucester it was just named the city (urban area, actually) at the bottom of the job creation league over the last decade (minus 12%) which on the one hand is very sad, cos I really loved Gloucester back in 1975, but on the other hand it also brings nostalgic tears to me eyes because so little has changed in 40 years I can streetview my way round the virtual roads in the area and I’m back in time. I guess that’s the problem for Gloucester - most other towns and cities of that period have changed quite a lot to create new jobs. I think I’ll go back and have a tour soon for old times sake, I know Innsworth (home) and Churchdown (school) still look much the same, and for ol farts like me that’s somehow reassuring. Hooray! Maybe they need to market it as a period-piece untouched by the 21st century and push the Roman ruins and so on. In the world, Charlie Chaplin and Roger Bannister were knighted, I turned 17 and started to collect facial acne. Well, it’s a hobby. The flares on my “good morning judge” tight trousers (it was the fashion!) got so big they regularly got caught up in the platform shoes as I walked, and my hair got longer as teachers were much less inclined to wag the finger at 6th form students - they needed you to stay as opposed to shove off to technical college or the various local trainee programmes in local industry. Yes, it’s true, young people got training! Vocational!! You could opt for practical-based college courses!!! Media courses, HR courses, PR courses, Consultants, all these things were non-existent outside London. Yay! Actually media studies is very useful, I’m just jealous it didn’t exist for me when I left school.... On TV this week: Doctor Who (Robot), Lulu had her own show (with The Shadows singing one of their A Song For Europe candidates), Mission: Impossible with Peter Lupus fresh from his Playgirl centrefold, a first for a male (minor) celebrity actor pretty much, bar Burt Reynolds modest more-famous pose. For my birthday, still on holiday, the BBC kindly broadcast (just for me!) The Monkees, Star Trek: The Trouble With Tribbles, Crackerjack with Donny & Marie and The Rubettes, Cannon with a young David Soul, and a great old movie (now forgotten) Kiss Me Stupid, with Ray Walston, Dean Martin and Kim Novak starring in the great Billy Wilder comedy/ piss-take of the egotistical megastar. It needs to get another showing! |
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Jan 21 2015, 08:44 PM
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14th January 1975
The first new number one of 1975, and it’s Fox - Only You Can had taken months to get there, but get there it did. Australian Noosha Fox was quirkily unique, and engaging, I loved her singing style (as did a young clearly-influenced Kate Bush), and the band was largely the creation of producer/songwriter/leader Kenny Young. He wrote Under The Boardwalk, Ai No Corrida, Captain Of Your Ship, Clodagh Rodgers hit stuff, and in the future, was behind Yellow Dog. Lulu meanwhile gets her 4th Top 5 hit, since I’m A Tiger in 1968. Cats In The Cradle makes my top 10, almost 20 years ahead of the UK charts inferior Ugly Kid Joe version. Highest new entry is Dave Jordan. Street Corner Music was a great pop single, very catchy, pushed by Radio Luxembourg but not pushed enough as it headed for obscurity within weeks. I’ve no idea who Dave Jordan is, but I bought the single and have liked it ever since. My copy may well be the only decent one left in existence judging by the only online presence I’ve found! Quo finally get into the 20 Down Down still going up up, Sparks album-track 1974 top 20 hit in my charts is finally released and returns at 17, Something For The Girl With Everything, and Sweet Sensation follow-up the fab Sad Sweet Dreamer with the soundalike Purely By Coincidence at 21. It’s still very nice regardless. After Bryan Ferry started re-doing vintage old songs, it became a bit of a minor rage, and here’s another one, 1934 Jerome Kern song I Won’t Dance covered by many a famous name, and at least one osbcure one: John Henry did it Noel Coward stylee in much the same fashion as Gary Shearston did I Get A Kick Out Of You in 1974, and was rewarded with obscurity and a number 22 entry in my chart. I like it still anyway, and as there’s no online version I probably ought to make the effort one day myself (I bought it). There’s another by a duo, Philip and Vanessa cover Two Sleepy People, though as this one had Radio 2 and Top Of The Pops behind it, this cover of the 1938 Hoagy Carmichael song was slightly more successful. Again, covered by hordes of famous singers, recently by Seth MacFarlane (Family Guy and others) of all people (with Norah Jones who popped up in his great movie Ted)! This very MOR version was OK, I bought the album bargain bin for the single. Finally Fly Now, is the good follow-up to Pinball from Brian Protheroe at 46. I have yet to get a copy of this - let me check itunes...I’m back, no chance, of course. 1 ( 17 ) ONLY YOU CAN Fox 2 ( 1 ) NEVER CAN SAY GOODBYE Gloria Gaynor 3 ( 2 ) GET DANCIN’ Disco Tex and The Sex-o-lettes 4 ( 16 ) THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN Lulu 5 ( 4 ) YOU AIN'T SEEN NOTHIN' YET Bachman-Turner Overdrive 6 ( 3 ) HAPPY XMAS (WAR IS OVER) John & Yoko and The Plastic Ono Band with The Harlem Community Choir 7 ( 19 ) CATS IN THE CRADLE Harry Chapin 8 ( 10 ) ANGIE BABY Helen Reddy 9 ( 8 ) LOVE IS ALL Roger Glover and Guests (featuring Ronnie Dio) 10 ( 9 ) STARDUST David Essex 11 ( 5 ) JE T’AIME...MOI NON PLUS Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg 12 ( NEW ) STREET CORNER MUSIC Dave Jordan 13 ( 6 ) I CAN HELP Billy Swan 14 ( 7 ) BOOGIE ON REGGAE WOMAN Stevie Wonder 15 ( 11 ) SO LONG Abba 16 ( 21 ) DOWN DOWN Status Quo 17 ( RE ) SOMETHING FOR THE GIRL WITH EVERYTHING Sparks 18 ( 35 ) CRYING OVER YOU Ken Boothe 19 ( 27 ) HELP ME MAKE IT THROUGH THE NIGHT John Holt 20 ( 12 ) I WISH IT COULD BE CHRISTMAS EVERYDAY Wizzard 21 ( NEW ) PURELY BY COINCIDENCE Sweet Sensation 22 ( NEW ) I WON’T DANCE John Henry 23 ( 14 ) HEY MR CHRISTMAS Showaddywaddy 24 ( 13 ) ARE YOU READY TO ROCK Wizzard 25 ( 34 ) JANUARY Pilot 26 ( 22 ) YOU CAN MAKE ME DANCE SING OR ANYTHING (EVEN TAKE THE DOG FOR A WALK MEND A FUSE FOLD AWAY THE IRONING BOARD OR ANY OTHER DOMESTIC SHORTCOMINGS) The Faces featuring Rod Stewart 27 ( 20 ) DING DONG George Harrison 28 ( 31 ) LONELY THIS CHRISTMAS Mud 29 ( 33 ) GET DANCIN’ PART 2 Disco Tex and The Sex-o-lettes 30 ( 28 ) LUCY IN THE SKY WITH DIAMONDS Elton John 31 ( 18 ) SOUND YOUR FUNKY HORN KC And The Sunshine Band 32 ( 23 ) I HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE Marvin Gaye 33 ( 30 ) IRE FEELINGS (SKANGA) Rupie Edwards 34 ( 29 ) HOLD ME TIGHT Johnny Nash 35 ( NEW ) TWO SLEEPY PEOPLE Philip and Vanessa 36 ( 38 ) JUKEBOX JIVE The Rubettes 37 ( 39 ) OH YES YOU'RE BEAUTIFUL Gary Glitter 38 ( 42 ) ROCK ‘N’ ROLL (I GAVE YOU THE BEST YEARS OF MY LIFE) Terry Jacks 39 ( 25 ) LIFE OF THE PARTY The Jackson 5 40 ( 26 ) CANDY BABY Beano 41 ( 24 ) THE INBETWEENIES The Goodies 42 ( 15 ) WOMBLING MERRY CHRISTMAS The Wombles 43 ( 43 ) PLEASE TELL HIM THAT I SAID HELLO Dana 44 ( 44 ) ALI SHUFFLE Georgie Fame 45 ( NEW ) FLY NOW Brian Protheroe 46 ( 40 ) CHRISTMAS SONG Gilbert O’Sullivan 47 ( 46 ) EVERYBODY NEEDS A RAINBOW Ray Stevens 48 ( 37 ) FATHER CHRISTMAS DO NOT TOUCH ME The Goodies 49 ( 41 ) YOU CAN HAVE IT ALL George McRae 50 ( 32 ) MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY Slade |
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Jan 22 2015, 07:42 PM
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21st January 1975 Back up to number one, Gloria Gaynor’s Never Can Say Goodbye becomes the first record to go back up to 1 twice, for the 3rd week in 5, keeping ahead of the chasing pack, Cats In The Cradle and Angie Baby, both American chart-toppers and showing my tastes were getting more and more American-chart-influenced thanks to The American Forces chartshow rundown, and American (UK based) chart and pop and music encyclopedia Paul Gambaccini on Radio 1, who became the Music Industry Font of All Knowledge for decades, and someone I look up to still (I have an actual hand-written letter from him after I noted some errors in the first edition of the Guinness Book Of UK Hit Singles and wrote in with some US chart fact questions). Quo get their 5th hit, as Down Down hits 6, and Dave Jordan (who?!) gets to 8. Ringo’s back with Only You, shuffling along to a new chart re-entry peak of 17, and highest new entry is the terrific Goodbye My Love from the Glitter Band, one I under-rated a bit, but gives them their 3rd hit in at 20. I just listened to it again, and it’s a great song and record, unfairly forgotten, being as it hit UK chart peak of 2 as well. At 21, Sugar Candy Kisses finally gives brother and sister Mac And Katie Kissoon a big UK hit, 4 years after scoring in the States with their version of Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep. It’s sweet as it’s title. Claire Hamill seems to still be active releasing the occasional album or backing big names, but here she is with an actual chart entry of her own, here and nowhere else, with Geronimo’s Cadillac, very folk-styled in a Maria Muldaur fashion, in at 27, just ahead of a reggae-cover-version that I’ve not heard in 40 years. Jamaican Smokey 007 never made it big either, and as there’s no youtube or itunes link, it looks like I’m not going to get to hear his version of The New Seekers hit cover of Delaney & Bonnie’s Never Ending Song Of Love ever again. The New Seekers hit 1 with their version in my charts 4 years earlier, and I obviously liked this one, so it’s a huge shame I can’t hear it. Doh! Queen follow-up 2 Freddie Mercury song chart-toppers in a row with a Brian May song, Now I’m Here. It rocks along nicely, but the drop in song standard was very noticeable to me, even though I didn’t know who was writing the songs at the time. JImmy Ruffin’s 3rd oldie in 4 hits in 6 months is his 1967 and 1969 UK hit, I’ve Passed This Way Before - it didn’t chart in my charts in 1969, as it fell short of the top 30 just before we left for Singapore, and I really don’t recall hearing it, but it’s as fab as Jimmy Ruffin’s greatest records and his 7th chart hit here. A great singer, just like his younger brother, David Ruffin of the Temptations. Finally, Iron Cross’ glamrock bubblegum gem finally enter my charts 3 years on with a record that I loved from Alan Freeman’s show in 1972 (but wasn’t eligible to chart as it failed to make the UK top 30). This really should have been a hit, though the original US number 2 from 1967 (The Music Explosion) is also pretty good - a Kasenatz-Katt (bubblegum producers) creation, which makes absolute sense, as the riffs were nicked by The Archies, the ultimate bubblegum act. The Ramones and Bruce Springsteen have covered this song, and it’s pop-punktastic. 1 ( 2 ) NEVER CAN SAY GOODBYE Gloria Gaynor 2 ( 1 ) ONLY YOU CAN Fox 3 ( 3 ) GET DANCIN’ Disco Tex and The Sex-o-lettes 4 ( 7 ) CATS IN THE CRADLE Harry Chapin 5 ( 8 ) ANGIE BABY Helen Reddy 6 ( 16 ) DOWN DOWN Status Quo 7 ( 5 ) YOU AIN'T SEEN NOTHIN' YET Bachman-Turner Overdrive 8 ( 12 ) STREET CORNER MUSIC Dave Jordan 9 ( 4 ) THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN Lulu 10 ( 6 ) HAPPY XMAS (WAR IS OVER) John & Yoko and The Plastic Ono Band with The Harlem Community Choir 11 ( 9 ) LOVE IS ALL Roger Glover and Guests (featuring Ronnie Dio) 12 ( 14 ) BOOGIE ON REGGAE WOMAN Stevie Wonder 13 ( 10 ) STARDUST David Essex 14 ( 17 ) SOMETHING FOR THE GIRL WITH EVERYTHING Sparks 15 ( 11 ) JE T’AIME...MOI NON PLUS Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg 16 ( 19 ) HELP ME MAKE IT THROUGH THE NIGHT John Holt 17 ( RE ) ONLY YOU Ringo Starr 18 ( 21 ) PURELY BY COINCIDENCE Sweet Sensation 19 ( 22 ) I WON’T DANCE John Henry 20 ( NEW ) GOODBYE MY LOVE The Glitter Band 21 ( NEW ) SUGAR CANDY KISSES Mac And Katie Kissoon 22 ( 18 ) CRYING OVER YOU Ken Boothe 23 ( 24 ) ARE YOU READY TO ROCK Wizzard 24 ( 13 ) I CAN HELP Billy Swan 25 ( 25 ) JANUARY Pilot 26 ( NEW ) NEVER ENDING SONG OF LOVE Smokey 007 27 ( NEW ) GERONIMO’S CADILLAC Claire Hamill 28 ( 47 ) EVERYBODY NEEDS A RAINBOW Ray Stevens 29 ( 15 ) SO LONG Abba 30 ( 20 ) I WISH IT COULD BE CHRISTMAS EVERYDAY Wizzard 31 ( 29 ) GET DANCIN’ PART 2 Disco Tex and The Sex-o-lettes 32 ( 26 ) YOU CAN MAKE ME DANCE SING OR ANYTHING (EVEN TAKE THE DOG FOR A WALK MEND A FUSE FOLD AWAY THE IRONING BOARD OR ANY OTHER DOMESTIC SHORTCOMINGS) The Faces featuring Rod Stewart 33 ( 23 ) HEY MR CHRISTMAS Showaddywaddy 34 ( 32 ) I HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE Marvin Gaye 35 ( 34 ) HOLD ME TIGHT Johnny Nash 36 ( NEW ) NOW I’M HERE Queen 37 ( NEW ) I’VE PASSED THIS WAY BEFORE Jimmy Ruffin 38 ( 35 ) TWO SLEEPY PEOPLE Philip and Vanessa 39 ( 33 ) IRE FEELINGS (SKANGA) Rupie Edwards 40 ( 31 ) SOUND YOUR FUNKY HORN KC And The Sunshine Band 41 ( 36 ) JUKEBOX JIVE The Rubettes 42 ( 27 ) DING DONG George Harrison 43 ( 38 ) ROCK ‘N’ ROLL (I GAVE YOU THE BEST YEARS OF MY LIFE) Terry Jacks 44 ( 30 ) LUCY IN THE SKY WITH DIAMONDS Elton John 45 ( 37 ) OH YES YOU'RE BEAUTIFUL Gary Glitter 46 ( 45 ) FLY NOW Brian Protheroe 47 ( 28 ) LONELY THIS CHRISTMAS Mud 48 ( NEW ) LITTLE BIT O’ SOUL Iron Cross 49 ( 43 ) PLEASE TELL HIM THAT I SAID HELLO Dana 50 ( 44 ) ALI SHUFFLE Georgie Fame |
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Jan 23 2015, 08:09 PM
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28th January 1975
A new number one, and it’s Helen Reddy’s Angie Baby, a record where the lyrics are essential to the appeal, a sort of disturbing spooky story song in a vaguely MOR setting, wholesome with a twist. Fab. Re-entering at 4 it’s The Carpenters adding another dose of wholesomeness with the very catchy cover of Please Mr Postman. The Beatles also covered it, and the Carpenters covered Ticket To Ride for a lovely circular bit of cover-versioning. Syreeta also gets her follow-up hit to Spinnin’ And Spinnin, at 19, the delicious Your Kiss Is Sweet. At 30, Love Unlimited (aka Mrs Barry White and friends) get a second Barry-White written and produced hit 3 years after Walking In The Rain With The One I Love, the smooth strings-harmony-soul delight of It May Be Winter Outside...just weather-obsessed, them! Talking of oldies, I was finally getting to hear some of the missing UK hit records from my 1970 Singapore days, courtesy of Jimmy Now Then Now Then on his 5 Years Ago chartshow on Radio 1, so at least he was good for something. Don’t know what I’m ever gonna do with that Jim’ll Fix It T shirt though.... One chart entry at 49 links to that, Blue MInk’s debut hit Melting Pot finally charts at the tail end of their career instead of the much better Get Up, which would instead become a minor hit record in the summer for The Rimshots with a different title, 7654321 (Blow Your Whistle). Melting Pot is OK, well-meaning, but has some non-pc lyrics these days so it’s not likely to be covered anytime soon. Highest new entry though is 1971 top tenner, Brandy, from Scott English, a heartfelt emotional ballad with a touch of class. It was reissued no doubt to catch a few sales from a much bigger hit cover by Barry Manilow - Mandy. Change the name, slow it down, go over the top, bland it up, and hey presto everyone thinks you did the original. Scott English remains the definitive (unknown) version. In at 5. In at 15, the even older Footsie, by Wigan’s Chosen Few. The Northern Soul scene was huge in Wigan, and this 1968 b-side track by The Chosen Few was basically speeded up and overdubbed with crowds and sound effects to get a dancefloor vibe groovin’. I loved it at the time, less so these days, but it’s fun, and it really boosted Northern Soul dancing and fashions in the discos down south as well as northern England. The rest: Bachman-Turner Overdrive get a their lesser follow-up hit to a classic, Arrows also get a follow-up hit, the pleasant My Last Night With You - should’ve gone with I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll, really, they had two series of music shows on ITV, Joan Jett took a shine to it while touring with The Runaways, hey presto worldwide hit. This was Arrows last gasp in the charts, sadly. Back again a year on, it’s Otis’ son Dexter Redding and God Bless - I really did like that one, wish I could get hold of a copy! Sha Na Na get a second hit with a record I have no memory of at all, but as Hot Sox exists nowhere online, I can say nothing about it all. Doh! Finally, at a modest 50, it’s Number 9 Dream, John Lennon’s single from his Non-Yoko year and then-girlfriend May Pang adds backing-vocals. The single amusingly peaked at number 9 in the USA, but frustratingly only hit 23 in the UK charts, both vastly under-appreciating the genius of this record, quite possibly my favourite John Lennon solo track, give or take the Xmas song charting higher than it. It came to John in a dream, and it has a dreamy, otherworldly feel to it, and that melody is a killer, the nonsense chorus is just gorgeous. It remain’s John’s unknown classic, and high-time that was changed. 1 ( 5 ) ANGIE BABY Helen Reddy 2 ( 1 ) NEVER CAN SAY GOODBYE Gloria Gaynor 3 ( 4 ) CATS IN THE CRADLE Harry Chapin 4 ( RE ) PLEASE MR POSTMAN The Carpenters 5 ( NEW ) BRANDY Scott English 6 ( 3 ) GET DANCIN’ Disco Tex and The Sex-o-lettes 7 ( 8 ) STREET CORNER MUSIC Dave Jordan 8 ( 6 ) DOWN DOWN Status Quo 9 ( 2 ) ONLY YOU CAN Fox 10 ( 12 ) BOOGIE ON REGGAE WOMAN Stevie Wonder 11 ( 20 ) GOODBYE MY LOVE The Glitter Band 12 ( 21 ) SUGAR CANDY KISSES Mac And Katie Kissoon 13 ( 26 ) NEVER ENDING SONG OF LOVE Smokey 007 14 ( 14 ) SOMETHING FOR THE GIRL WITH EVERYTHING Sparks 15 ( NEW ) FOOTSIE Wigan’s Chosen Few 16 ( 7 ) YOU AIN'T SEEN NOTHIN' YET Bachman-Turner Overdrive 17 ( 10 ) HAPPY XMAS (WAR IS OVER) John & Yoko and The Plastic Ono Band with The Harlem Community Choir 18 ( 11 ) LOVE IS ALL Roger Glover and Guests (featuring Ronnie Dio) 19 ( NEW ) YOUR KISS IS SWEET Syreeta 20 ( 27 ) GERONIMO’S CADILLAC Claire Hamill 21 ( 13 ) STARDUST David Essex 22 ( 19 ) I WON’T DANCE John Henry 23 ( 16 ) HELP ME MAKE IT THROUGH THE NIGHT John Holt 24 ( 25 ) JANUARY Pilot 25 ( 17 ) ONLY YOU Ringo Starr 26 ( 15 ) JE T’AIME...MOI NON PLUS Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg 27 ( 9 ) THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN Lulu 28 ( 28 ) EVERYBODY NEEDS A RAINBOW Ray Stevens 29 ( 18 ) PURELY BY COINCIDENCE Sweet Sensation 30 ( NEW ) IT MAY BE WINTER OUTSIDE (BUT IN MY HEART IT’S SPRING) Love Unlimited 31 ( 36 ) NOW I’M HERE Queen 32 ( 23 ) ARE YOU READY TO ROCK Wizzard 33 ( 24 ) I CAN HELP Billy Swan 34 ( 34 ) I HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE Marvin Gaye 35 ( 35 ) HOLD ME TIGHT Johnny Nash 36 ( NEW ) ROLL ON DOWN THE HIGHWAY Bachman-Turner Overdrive 37 ( NEW ) MY LAST NIGHT WITH YOU Arrows 38 ( NEW ) GOD BLESS Dexter Redding 39 ( 22 ) CRYING OVER YOU Ken Boothe 40 ( 30 ) I WISH IT COULD BE CHRISTMAS EVERYDAY Wizzard 41 ( 31 ) GET DANCIN’ PART 2 Disco Tex and The Sex-o-lettes 42 ( 29 ) SO LONG Abba 43 ( 32 ) YOU CAN MAKE ME DANCE SING OR ANYTHING (EVEN TAKE THE DOG FOR A WALK MEND A FUSE FOLD AWAY THE IRONING BOARD OR ANY OTHER DOMESTIC SHORTCOMINGS) The Faces featuring Rod Stewart 44 ( 33 ) HEY MR CHRISTMAS Showaddywaddy 45 ( NEW ) HOT SOX Sha Na Na 46 ( 40 ) SOUND YOUR FUNKY HORN KC And The Sunshine Band 47 ( 37 ) I’VE PASSED THIS WAY BEFORE Jimmy Ruffin 48 ( 48 ) LITTLE BIT O’ SOUL Iron Cross 49 ( NEW ) MELTING POT Blue Mink 50 ( NEW ) #9 DREAM John Lennon On TV I have yet to mention TISWAS, which in these days was not a national show, just regional around the Midlands area on ITV, it was a new anarchic, slapstick, hectic, jokey Saturday morning marathon kids TV show hosted by Chris Tarrant, future DJ, TV star, and host of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, the original. Little kids loved the naughtiness and custard pies, bigger kids like me loved that Tarrant was taking the pee out of kids (without being nasty). It made a star of Lenny Henry, and Spit The Dog, had pop stars galore joining in the fun, and John Gorman ex-The Scaffold was on hand too. Eventually it spread to other regions and became a massive hit show (and even made the UK singles charts in 1980), but in 1975 I was there and a big fan ahead of the rest of the UK by quite a few years... |
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Feb 25 2015, 10:37 PM
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4th February 1975
2 weeks for Helen Reddy’s spooky Angie Baby presiding over an inrush of oldies at the top end, as The Tams 1971 UK number one (and my Top 10) reissued 1964 Hey Girl Don’t Bother Me enters at 2, outdoing it’s original chart slot, along with Brandy also from 1971 at 3. Leaving the 1968 UK hit version, my top 10, and also peaking higher second time round, the 1966 classic Motown Isley Brothers track This Old Heart Of Mine at 4. 3rd and 4th time round would be even bigger...! I think the oldies show that even though they weren’t actually THAT old (mostly less than 10 years), that’s really quite a long time ago when you’re a teenager - now of course, tracks less than 10 years old I consider recent! Northern Soul fun-time at 7 for Footsie (also an oldie), and a brilliant climb up from 50 for John Lennon’s brilliant Number 9 Dream at 9 - almost as if i planned it! John of course has only ever had one flop - Cold Turkey in 1969, because I never got to hear it (it was banned!), and it’s still a bit harrowing. Love Unlimited meanwhile get a second top 20 hit, the luvverley It May be Winter at 15, as BTO replace themselves in the top 20 rolling on down the highway. Highest proper new entry is soul woman Betty Wright, finally getting her UK debut hit 4 years after scoring big in the States with Clean-Up Woman at age 18. I liked her because she said in interviews at the time that she was a comics fan. Shoorah Shoorah at 39 for Betty! That leaves a 7th hit for Suzi Quatro at 41, who said quite correctly for the time, Your Mama Won’t Like Me - hard to believe loveable Suzi was remotely threatening, but wearing leather seemed to do the trick. At 47, another track I missed out on in 1970, but caught up with now, Joni Mitchell’s 4th hit Big Yellow Taxi. Bit of a famous one! Great too, great lyrics, I still agree with every word. Which just leaves The Trammps naughty Sixty Minute Man follow-up popping in (am I allowed to say that?) at 48. I mean, they talk about going on for 60 minutes as if it’s something impressive, I consider anything less than 2 hours a quickie. Hah! 1 ( 1 ) ANGIE BABY Helen Reddy 2 ( NEW ) HEY GIRL DON’T BOTHER ME The Tams 3 ( 5 ) BRANDY Scott English 4 ( NEW ) THIS OLD HEART OF MINE The Isley Brothers 5 ( 2 ) NEVER CAN SAY GOODBYE Gloria Gaynor 6 ( 4 ) PLEASE MR POSTMAN The Carpenters 7 ( 15 ) FOOTSIE Wigan’s Chosen Few 8 ( 19 ) YOUR KISS IS SWEET Syreeta 9 ( 50 ) #9 DREAM John Lennon 10 ( 6 ) GET DANCIN’ Disco Tex and The Sex-o-lettes 11 ( 3 ) CATS IN THE CRADLE Harry Chapin 12 ( 10 ) BOOGIE ON REGGAE WOMAN Stevie Wonder 13 ( 13 ) NEVER ENDING SONG OF LOVE Smokey 007 14 ( 7 ) STREET CORNER MUSIC Dave Jordan 15 ( 30 ) IT MAY BE WINTER OUTSIDE (BUT IN MY HEART IT’S SPRING) Love Unlimited 16 ( 9 ) ONLY YOU CAN Fox 17 ( 20 ) GERONIMO’S CADILLAC Claire Hamill 18 ( 18 ) LOVE IS ALL Roger Glover and Guests (featuring Ronnie Dio) 19 ( 8 ) DOWN DOWN Status Quo 20 ( 36 ) ROLL ON DOWN THE HIGHWAY Bachman-Turner Overdrive 21 ( 14 ) SOMETHING FOR THE GIRL WITH EVERYTHING Sparks 22 ( 31 ) NOW I’M HERE Queen 23 ( 12 ) SUGAR CANDY KISSES Mac And Katie Kissoon 24 ( 38 ) GOD BLESS Dexter Redding 25 ( 22 ) I WON’T DANCE John Henry 26 ( 37 ) MY LAST NIGHT WITH YOU Arrows 27 ( 23 ) HELP ME MAKE IT THROUGH THE NIGHT John Holt 28 ( 26 ) JE T’AIME...MOI NON PLUS Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg 29 ( 16 ) YOU AIN'T SEEN NOTHIN' YET Bachman-Turner Overdrive 30 ( 17 ) HAPPY XMAS (WAR IS OVER) John & Yoko and The Plastic Ono Band with The Harlem Community Choir 31 ( 11 ) GOODBYE MY LOVE The Glitter Band 32 ( 32 ) ARE YOU READY TO ROCK Wizzard 33 ( 33 ) I CAN HELP Billy Swan 34 ( 27 ) THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN Lulu 35 ( 24 ) JANUARY Pilot 36 ( 21 ) STARDUST David Essex 37 ( 34 ) I HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE Marvin Gaye 38 ( 35 ) HOLD ME TIGHT Johnny Nash 39 ( NEW ) SHOORAH SHOORAH Betty Wright 40 ( 28 ) EVERYBODY NEEDS A RAINBOW Ray Stevens 41 ( NEW ) YOUR MAMA WON’T LIKE ME Suzi Quatro 42 ( 49 ) MELTING POT Blue Mink 43 ( 25 ) ONLY YOU Ringo Starr 44 ( 29 ) PURELY BY COINCIDENCE Sweet Sensation 45 ( 45 ) HOT SOX Sha Na Na 46 ( 42 ) SO LONG Abba 47 ( NEW ) BIG YELLOW TAXI Joni Mitchell 48 ( NEW ) SIXTY MINUTE MAN The Trammps 49 ( 40 ) I WISH IT COULD BE CHRISTMAS EVERYDAY Wizzard 50 ( 41 ) GET DANCIN’ PART 2 Disco Tex and The Sex-o-lettes In the world, it was a sad day as a certain M. Thatcher wins the ballot on 4th feb 1975 to become leader of the UK Conservative party, proving that a woman can be just as disastrous as any man for the long-term good of a nation. I’m biased. Based on events since 2008 which can be traced back to her naive belief in the rich and powerful being able to self-govern with honesty, having a concern for the general well-being of the world, and a distinct lack-of-self-interest, I’m also right. They can’t be trusted to do the right thing and need to be accountable at all times to ensure they don’t wreck the world economy. That concludes the end of the party political broadcast on behalf of the Statin’ The Bleedin’ Obvious Party. I thank you. |
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Feb 26 2015, 08:01 PM
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11th February 1975
3 weeks for Helen and the rest of the top 5 are oldies, which is a shame as John Lennon’s classic 9 Dream would have peaked at 4 otherwise, or 2 if you discount cover versions - yes it was the second highest rated actual only new song in the top 10, just ahead of Syreeta’s Your Kiss Is Sweet, which ironically keeps her husband’s Boogie On Reggae Woman out of the top 10. In at 9, highest new entry is Nottingham’s finest getting a 4th hit, Paper Lace covering Vanity fare’s 1970 top 5 fave of mine, Hitchin’ A Ride. Frank Ifield’s unavailable and obscure version is better though, a fave of mine when I lived in Singapore. Nottingham, happily, now has 2 actual pop stars charting in 2014 and 2015, notably Indiana who’s been solo dancing recently. It’s a big top 20 climb for Suzi Quatro at 14, Your Mama Won’t Like Me giving Suzi one of her bigger chart peaks with one of her minor UK hits. Queen peak at 22 shockingly, after 2 number ones, but Brian May songs just didn’t connect with me like Freddie’s did. Ignoring Now I’m Here Queen would have had 3 consecutive number ones with Freddie songs, as the next one was an obscure little ditty called Bohemian Rhapsody which I rather loved. Betty Wright goes top 30, hoorah hoorah, just ahead of the highest actual new song at 27, Shame Shame Shame as Shirley & Co bring a bit of All Platinum fun soul disco into the charts: shame on you if you can’t dance too, indeed. At 28, it’s a bona fide classic, as Cockney Rebel frontman Steve Harley gets top billing and a third chart entry from me, the track that just made the UK sales Top 40 chart for the third time in January 2015, 40 years on (though only scraping into the combined non-sales Top 75 official chart, where apparently pushing 10,000 actual sales isn’t as important as people playing the same records month after month for free and paying nothing): Make Me Smile, as Mae West said, Come Up And See Me sometime. It was ground-breaking in it’s clever use of intermittent silence, melody, and of course Steve Harley’s unique vocal style, previously brilliantly demonstrated on Judy Teen summer of ’74, a top 3 peak from me. Now I just need an excuse to chart the marvellous Sebastian, one I didn’t know at the time. At 29, another 1968 track, bubblegum pop from Ohio Express that just pre-dated my charts, but which featured on our 16 Big Hits album that I played and played in Singapore in 1969/70. Yummy Yummy Yummy! At 42, bubblegum 1968 again, The Lemon Pipers fab Green Tambourine also debuting belatedly. Quo did as version of this one, so it’s a bit edgier than Ohio Express. At 41, The Hues Corporation get a third chart entry with more of a ballad this time, and hey, I’ll take a melody, too. Rupie Edwards is also back, with identikit follow-up Lego Skanga at 43, not nearly as good as Ire Feelings, but pleasant enough. 1 ( 1 ) ANGIE BABY Helen Reddy 2 ( 2 ) HEY GIRL DON’T BOTHER ME The Tams 3 ( 7 ) FOOTSIE Wigan’s Chosen Few 4 ( 4 ) THIS OLD HEART OF MINE The Isley Brothers 5 ( 3 ) BRANDY Scott English 6 ( 5 ) NEVER CAN SAY GOODBYE Gloria Gaynor 7 ( 6 ) PLEASE MR POSTMAN The Carpenters 8 ( 9 ) #9 DREAM John Lennon 9 ( NEW ) HITCHIN’ A RIDE ’75 Paper Lace 10 ( 8 ) YOUR KISS IS SWEET Syreeta 11 ( 12 ) BOOGIE ON REGGAE WOMAN Stevie Wonder 12 ( 15 ) IT MAY BE WINTER OUTSIDE (BUT IN MY HEART IT’S SPRING) Love Unlimited 13 ( 20 ) ROLL ON DOWN THE HIGHWAY Bachman-Turner Overdrive 14 ( 41 ) YOUR MAMA WON’T LIKE ME Suzi Quatro 15 ( 10 ) GET DANCIN’ Disco Tex and The Sex-o-lettes 16 ( 16 ) ONLY YOU CAN Fox 17 ( 13 ) NEVER ENDING SONG OF LOVE Smokey 007 18 ( 21 ) SOMETHING FOR THE GIRL WITH EVERYTHING Sparks 19 ( 17 ) GERONIMO’S CADILLAC Claire Hamill 20 ( 11 ) CATS IN THE CRADLE Harry Chapin 21 ( 19 ) DOWN DOWN Status Quo 22 ( 22 ) NOW I’M HERE Queen 23 ( 18 ) LOVE IS ALL Roger Glover and Guests (featuring Ronnie Dio) 24 ( 14 ) STREET CORNER MUSIC Dave Jordan 25 ( 39 ) SHOORAH SHOORAH Betty Wright 26 ( 24 ) GOD BLESS Dexter Redding 27 ( NEW ) SHAME SHAME SHAME Shirley & Company 28 ( NEW ) MAKE ME SMILE (COME UP AND SEE ME) Steve Harley And Cockney Rebel 29 ( NEW ) YUMMY YUMMY YUMMY Ohio Express 30 ( 26 ) MY LAST NIGHT WITH YOU Arrows 31 ( 23 ) SUGAR CANDY KISSES Mac And Katie Kissoon 32 ( 25 ) I WON’T DANCE John Henry 33 ( 27 ) HELP ME MAKE IT THROUGH THE NIGHT John Holt 34 ( 40 ) EVERYBODY NEEDS A RAINBOW Ray Stevens 35 ( 29 ) YOU AIN'T SEEN NOTHIN' YET Bachman-Turner Overdrive 36 ( 30 ) HAPPY XMAS (WAR IS OVER) John & Yoko and The Plastic Ono Band with The Harlem Community Choir 37 ( 28 ) JE T’AIME...MOI NON PLUS Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg 38 ( 47 ) BIG YELLOW TAXI Joni Mitchell 39 ( 42 ) MELTING POT Blue Mink 40 ( 48 ) SIXTY MINUTE MAN The Trammps 41 ( NEW ) I’LL TAKE A MELODY The Hues Corporation 42 ( NEW ) GREEN TAMBOURINE The Lemon Pipers 43 ( NEW ) LEGO SKANGA Rupie Edwards 44 ( 33 ) I CAN HELP Billy Swan 45 ( 32 ) ARE YOU READY TO ROCK Wizzard 46 ( 37 ) I HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE Marvin Gaye 47 ( 38 ) HOLD ME TIGHT Johnny Nash 48 ( 34 ) THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN Lulu 49 ( 31 ) GOODBYE MY LOVE The Glitter Band 50 ( 35 ) JANUARY Pilot Drawing to a close on TV any week now it was Frankie Howard’s Up Pompeii special, ooh, no missus, don’t mock, no, ooh, no titter ye not...and so on. I loved Frankie, but it had actually ended in 1970 and just been repeated so much it seemed to have lasted longer. I’m probably the only one to remember his less-good follow-up series from 19730-ish Whoops Baghdad. Not likely to be repeated that one...! Also in it’s last throws The Golden Shot, Bernie The Bolt, and a show that had outstayed it’s welcome pretty much from the moment it started. At the cinema The Towering Inferno was still topping box office charts week after week, it was a blockbuster and a half relative to the overall market. Saturday was my cinema day, in Gloucester, which also gave me opportunities to continue to scour newsagents and second hand book shops like Toby’s for back DC Comics issues and hot new comics, which were back on form and normal sized after DC’s disastrous flirtation with thicker, more expensive comics, stuffed with reissued old stories as fillers to new stories. I know I felt short-changed cos I wasn’t interested (much) in old stories, they didn’t have the pizzaz of 70’s stories. Legion Of Super-Heroes of course was still in revival, looking sexy, but with a new artist in Mike Grell, who was no Dave Cockrum, though not bad. Dave Cockrum’s artwork could inspire the proposed new Warners movie of the Legion as well as it set up the X-Men (essentially the comic he took over at this point). |
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Feb 28 2015, 10:26 PM
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18th February 1975
4 weeks for Angie Baby, and 3 weeks at 2 for The Tams, leaving highest new entry being a Valentines Day record from Mud - even the picture sleeve was done as if it were a gift from me to you stylee. Lonely This Christmas was the first Mud record to fall short of the top 10 (though it would eventually go all the way), so The Secrets That You Keep puts them back in the top 5 with a gentle ballad bang, I did after all love the lads dearly. It’s also the very final Chinn-Chapman record with Mud, as like The Sweet they abandoned their writer-producers leaving them free to all go their new chart ways. Shirley & Co go up to 6, as Fox go back up for the umpteenth time in 5 months, to 10, one of the most chaotic chart runs ever for me! Magpie’s Mick Robertson manages a second chart entry to follow-up his number one The Tango’s Over, at 11 with Then I Changed Hands, a reggae-prog-rock fusion and one I haven’t heard for 40 years, quite literally. Youtube comes to my rescue, and it’s rather damn fine. It’s written and produced by Richard Hewson, he of The Rah Band, and arranger of ooh, Beatles, Mary Hopkin, Cliff Richard and all some of their finest moments too. It’s safe to assume I was more Magpie than Blue Peter still, they just addressed you more as teens where Blue Peter talked as if you were about 10. Steve Harley goes up to 12, shockingly it’s chart peak first time round - I think over-saturation may have had something to do with it, and it seemed a bit novelty-ish - though like Mud’s Xmas it would be back to top the charts at a later date, hooray! New at 19, it’s a 60’s veteran, Mike Berry, who gets a chart debut with a slowed-down moody version of Elvis Presley’s Don’t Be Cruel, a song which had already been top 10 for me in 1972 as covered novelty-style by The Berries (formerly The Rocking Berries 60’s hitmakers). It was also a cover version of Billy Swan’s version from his I Can Help album which would also chart after Mike Berry’s version - I didn’t realise Mike had copied Billy! Mike had to wait another 5 years to make the UK charts again, after serving time on the Are You Being Served sitcom after it was past it’s sell-by date. That was still big on UK TV in 1975, of course, as innuendo still seemed much more racy and daring than it does these in-yer-face days. Who could forget Mrs Slocombe’s poor bedraggled pussy, or Mr Humphrey’s parade of friends, including the busty attractive one who was much happier since the operation? Big climbs for Hues Corporation and Rupie Edwards, and a new entry for Neil Sedaka at 29, his final ever UK hit single (stunningly considering what was to come after The Queen Of 1964, a clever amusing song about an overage groupie who once had Mick Jagger - she claimed), but in my (and the US) charts it was one of a string of hits going back 3 years chronologically, although 16 years if you count the original release date of 1972 number one Oh Carol, released in 1959 when I was 1 year old. Neil does this one in concert, and it’s great fun. As is the latest Rubettes hit at 30, making it 4 in a row with I Can Do It, a great glam pop romp, which was later murdered brutally by a football team who changed it to We Can Do It.... yes stand up and own up Liverpool FC 1977 - still one of the least-bad ever football records as sung by the squads, there’s so little good competition! More debuts though: Rupert Holmes, 5 years ahead of his Pina Colada song hit debut in the UK, enters at 34 with the American National Anthem - with a difference! It’s the tune, with amusing classy lyric changes about how American guys try to get a girl to err fall for their charms, Our National Pastime. It’s gentle, witty, clever. At 41, it’s the record that shocked Bowie fans: he enters his plastic soul period backed by Luther Vandross, Young Americans was such an abrupt change from Ziggy and Aladdin many couldn’t cope, and sales dropped, but I thought it was funktastic and way better than any of his 1974 singles - though I now love Rebel Rebel. At 42 it’s another brilliant debut, Supertramp and Dreamer, a seriously unusual single, but SO damn catchy despite not really having a hook you can sing as such, as it belts along at a hectic pace. Fantastic, and still their best single. At 43, another 60’s goodie, the minor fabulousness that has the same name as a DC superhero that I loved - till she was killed off in Crisis On Infinite Earths 10 or more years later, damn that DC Comics! Supergirl, that’ll be then, who just happened to be one of the Legion Of Super-Heroes as well as Superman’s cousin. I digress, it’s a great 1966 pop charmer and deserved to chart. Meanwhile at 44, The Pearls are back with their 6th chart entry, though they only really had one big UK hit (Guilty), and this non-hit was actually ahead of it’s time. 2 years ahead, give or take, as Tina Charles went on to have a big (slightly shrill) hit with it - Doctor Love. 1 ( 1 ) ANGIE BABY Helen Reddy 2 ( 2 ) HEY GIRL DON’T BOTHER ME The Tams 3 ( 3 ) FOOTSIE Wigan’s Chosen Few 4 ( 9 ) HITCHIN’ A RIDE ’75 Paper Lace 5 ( NEW ) THE SECRETS THAT YOU KEEP Mud 6 ( 27 ) SHAME SHAME SHAME Shirley & Company 7 ( 4 ) THIS OLD HEART OF MINE The Isley Brothers 8 ( 5 ) BRANDY Scott English 9 ( 6 ) NEVER CAN SAY GOODBYE Gloria Gaynor 10 ( 16 ) ONLY YOU CAN Fox 11 ( NEW ) THEN I CHANGED HANDS Mick Robertson 12 ( 28 ) MAKE ME SMILE (COME UP AND SEE ME) Steve Harley And Cockney Rebel 13 ( 13 ) ROLL ON DOWN THE HIGHWAY Bachman-Turner Overdrive 14 ( 8 ) #9 DREAM John Lennon 15 ( 12 ) IT MAY BE WINTER OUTSIDE (BUT IN MY HEART IT’S SPRING) Love Unlimited 16 ( 7 ) PLEASE MR POSTMAN The Carpenters 17 ( 29 ) YUMMY YUMMY YUMMY Ohio Express 18 ( 14 ) YOUR MAMA WON’T LIKE ME Suzi Quatro 19 ( NEW ) DON’T BE CRUEL Mike Berry 20 ( 15 ) GET DANCIN’ Disco Tex and The Sex-o-lettes 21 ( 10 ) YOUR KISS IS SWEET Syreeta 22 ( 11 ) BOOGIE ON REGGAE WOMAN Stevie Wonder 23 ( 41 ) I’LL TAKE A MELODY The Hues Corporation 24 ( 43 ) LEGO SKANGA Rupie Edwards 25 ( 25 ) SHOORAH SHOORAH Betty Wright 26 ( 38 ) BIG YELLOW TAXI Joni Mitchell 27 ( 17 ) NEVER ENDING SONG OF LOVE Smokey 007 28 ( 30 ) MY LAST NIGHT WITH YOU Arrows 29 ( NEW ) THE QUEEN OF 1964 Neil Sedaka 30 ( NEW ) I CAN DO IT The Rubettes 31 ( 21 ) DOWN DOWN Status Quo 32 ( 18 ) SOMETHING FOR THE GIRL WITH EVERYTHING Sparks 33 ( 23 ) LOVE IS ALL Roger Glover and Guests (featuring Ronnie Dio) 34 ( NEW ) OUR NATIONAL PASTIME Rupert Holmes 35 ( 42 ) GREEN TAMBOURINE The Lemon Pipers 36 ( 26 ) GOD BLESS Dexter Redding 37 ( 19 ) GERONIMO’S CADILLAC Claire Hamill 38 ( 24 ) STREET CORNER MUSIC Dave Jordan 39 ( 22 ) NOW I’M HERE Queen 40 ( 20 ) CATS IN THE CRADLE Harry Chapin 41 ( NEW ) YOUNG AMERICANS David Bowie 42 ( NEW ) DREAMER Supertramp 43 ( NEW ) SUPERGIRL Graham Bonney 44 ( NEW ) DOCTOR LOVE The Pearls 45 ( 34 ) EVERYBODY NEEDS A RAINBOW Ray Stevens 46 ( 35 ) YOU AIN'T SEEN NOTHIN' YET Bachman-Turner Overdrive 47 ( 36 ) HAPPY XMAS (WAR IS OVER) John & Yoko and The Plastic Ono Band with The Harlem Community Choir 48 ( 37 ) JE T’AIME...MOI NON PLUS Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg 49 ( 46 ) I HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE Marvin Gaye 50 ( 47 ) HOLD ME TIGHT Johnny Nash |
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Mar 1 2015, 01:59 PM
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25th February 1975
5 weeks on top for Helen Reddy, the longest run since Paul McCartney & Wings’ Jet, and the first to do 5 weeks in a row since Mud had Hypnosis on top summer of 73. Paper Lace go 2 places higher than the original Hitchin’ A Ride, at 2, and Shirley and Company take the greta Sylvia Robinson’s song and production into the top 5 2 years after her own sexy Pillow Talk did the same, and 5 years ahead of her Sugar Hill Records bringing rap to the world. Mike Berry just misses out on the 10, as the man who’s version he borrowed Don’t Be Cruel from, enters at 22 with the more novelty track off the album, I’m Her Fool and Billy Swan. The Rubettes and Rupert Holmes get good jumps into the 20, and Neil Sedaka’s Queen of 1964 stays ahead of highest new entry Remember The Days Of The Old School Yard as Linda Lewis gets her 3rd chart entry at 20. It’s a Cat Stevens song, but I prefer Linda’s vocals. Two soul groups for the price of one at 23, as another Sylvia Robinson sweet soul act enters: Moments and Whatnauts sing about Girls - they like ‘em fat, they like ‘em pretty, they like ‘em any which way, apparently, which is a rather admirably inclusive attitude for the 70’s. Unless they are more Quagmire than is called for. Giggity. At 27, a Northern Soul classic, Dean Parrish’ I’m On My Way, and the last record ever to be played at the then-famous Wigan Casino all-nighters. Dean never really made it in the States, but his minor celebrity in the UK was good enough for Paul Weller and Steve Craddock to want to do more recent stuff with him after decades away from the music biz. Yay! Meanwhile Bowie and Supertramp go top 30, hooray! At 33 Hello get a follow-up to Tell Him, Games Up, which is reasonable glam rock, and at 36 Ringo Starr’s solo career starts to wind down, rather surprisingly, given it was written for him by Elton John: Snookeroo, it must be said, isn’t either of them at their best though! No No Song, as the odd “I given up drugs” double A side, was even less commercial! In at 43, Average White Band debut sounding very American and funky, with the fab US instrumental number one Pick Up The Pieces, so influential were they in their Arif Mardin-produced “coals to Newcastle” story they ended up being the 15th most-sampled act of all-time: and they are Scottish and white! Showing it’s what’s in the grooves that counts, as they used to say. Finally Hamilton Bohannon debuts, with his very funky South African Man. 1 ( 1 ) ANGIE BABY Helen Reddy 2 ( 4 ) HITCHIN’ A RIDE ’75 Paper Lace 3 ( 3 ) FOOTSIE Wigan’s Chosen Few 4 ( 6 ) SHAME SHAME SHAME Shirley & Company 5 ( 5 ) THE SECRETS THAT YOU KEEP Mud 6 ( 10 ) ONLY YOU CAN Fox 7 ( 2 ) HEY GIRL DON’T BOTHER ME The Tams 8 ( 7 ) THIS OLD HEART OF MINE The Isley Brothers 9 ( 8 ) BRANDY Scott English 10 ( 11 ) THEN I CHANGE HANDS Mick Robertson 11 ( 19 ) DON’T BE CRUEL Mike Berry 12 ( 12 ) MAKE ME SMILE (COME UP AND SEE ME) Steve Harley And Cockney Rebel 13 ( 30 ) I CAN DO IT The Rubettes 14 ( 34 ) OUR NATIONAL PASTIME Rupert Holmes 15 ( 9 ) NEVER CAN SAY GOODBYE Gloria Gaynor 16 ( 17 ) YUMMY YUMMY YUMMY Ohio Express 17 ( 16 ) PLEASE MR POSTMAN The Carpenters 18 ( 14 ) #9 DREAM John Lennon 19 ( 29 ) THE QUEEN OF 1964 Neil Sedaka 20 ( NEW ) REMEMBER THE DAYS OF THE OLD SCHOOL YARD Linda Lewis 21 ( 23 ) I’LL TAKE A MELODY The Hues Corporation 22 ( NEW ) I’M HER FOOL Billy Swan 23 ( NEW ) GIRLS Moments and Whatnauts 24 ( 41 ) YOUNG AMERICANS David Bowie 25 ( 15 ) IT MAY BE WINTER OUTSIDE (BUT IN MY HEART IT’S SPRING) Love Unlimited 26 ( 42 ) DREAMER Supertramp 27 ( NEW ) I’M ON MY WAY Dean Parrish 28 ( 21 ) YOUR KISS IS SWEET Syreeta 29 ( 20 ) GET DANCIN’ Disco Tex and The Sex-o-lettes 30 ( 22 ) BOOGIE ON REGGAE WOMAN Stevie Wonder 31 ( 25 ) SHOORAH SHOORAH Betty Wright 32 ( 13 ) ROLL ON DOWN THE HIGHWAY Bachman-Turner Overdrive 33 ( NEW ) GAMES UP Hello 34 ( 18 ) YOUR MAMA WON’T LIKE ME Suzi Quatro 35 ( 35 ) GREEN TAMBOURINE The Lemon Pipers 36 ( NEW ) SNOOKEROO Ringo Starr 37 ( 26 ) BIG YELLOW TAXI Joni Mitchell 38 ( 43 ) SUPERGIRL Graham Bonney 39 ( 27 ) NEVER ENDING SONG OF LOVE Smokey 007 40 ( 24 ) LEGO SKANGA Rupie Edwards 41 ( 28 ) MY LAST NIGHT WITH YOU Arrows 42 ( 44 ) DOCTOR LOVE The Pearls 43 ( NEW ) PICK UP THE PIECES The Average White Band 44 ( NEW ) SOUTH AFRICAN MAN Hamilton Bohannon 45 ( 33 ) LOVE IS ALL Roger Glover and Guests (featuring Ronnie Dio) 46 ( 31 ) DOWN DOWN Status Quo 47 ( 36 ) GOD BLESS Dexter Redding 48 ( 46 ) YOU AIN'T SEEN NOTHIN' YET Bachman-Turner Overdrive 49 ( 47 ) HAPPY XMAS (WAR IS OVER) John & Yoko and The Plastic Ono Band with The Harlem Community Choir 50 ( 48 ) JE T’AIME...MOI NON PLUS Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg |
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Apr 6 2015, 05:08 PM
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4th March 1975
6th and final week for Helen Reddy’s Angie Baby on top, but who will topple her - Wigan’s Chosen Few play footsie at 2, Shirley says Shame Shame Shame at only going up to 3, and there are 2 big new entries: Gloria Gaynor follows up her big number one with a cover of a Motown classic in at 4, the Four Tops Reach Out I’ll Be There, and it’s a thumping frantic disco anthem, for me the best version apart from the original. At 5, it’s a long-missing 50’s guitar instrumental legend, Duane Eddy, who gets some help from a chorus of girl Rebelettes to twang along in the 70’s: Play Me Like Your Guitar is great, though not as great as his old classics like Peter Gunn, Rebel Rouser and Because They’re Young. Close thing, though. Bowie goes top 20 with his funky Young Americans, ditto Supertramp and Moments and Whatnauts, while in at 26 it’s a 60’s Northern Soul-inspired hit for Gary Lewis And The Playboys, My Heart’s Symphony. They had a whole run of big US hits, and were notable for Gary being the son of comedian Jerry Lewis, and being pretty good pop, especially the fab This Diamond Ring, which was never a UK hit (like almost their entire career). The strings on this one add a bit of 60’s pop interest and I still love it, should have been bigger. Meanwhile Hamilton Bohannon smoothly funks his way to 28, the Average White Band do the same at 29, and Sweet return with their first self-written hit Fox On The Run, and it’s pretty good, in at 30! Giving them 4 years of hits, non-stop. In at 43, it’s Barry Manilow debuting with the OTT Mandy, a cover of the much-better original sitting at 10 for Scott English - Brandy. It just came over as a bland, if mildly pleasant version of a great song, to me at the time. At 44, the Bay City Rollers ditch their songwriters and go it alone - by covering a Four Seasons non-UK-hit, Bye Bye Baby - they do it effectively, and the song wasn’t that well known in the UK, but it was the start of a loooooong list of acts getting much bigger hits than the brilliant Four Seasons originals in the UK - in the USA it was the other way round, for the most part. Which leaves Helen Reddy getting a follow-up entry as she drops off the top, Free And Easy, and Nosmo King and The Javells getting another chart entry (albeit unlikely) at 46. Finally Jim Stafford has a 3rd entry, with Your Bulldog Drinks Champagne - he certainly never was predictable! 1 ( 1 ) ANGIE BABY Helen Reddy 2 ( 3 ) FOOTSIE Wigan’s Chosen Few 3 ( 4 ) SHAME SHAME SHAME Shirley & Company 4 ( NEW ) REACH OUT I’LL BE THERE Gloria Gaynor 5 ( NEW ) PLAY ME LIKE YOU PLAY YOUR GUITAR Duane Eddy and The Rebelettes 6 ( 2 ) HITCHIN’ A RIDE ’75 Paper Lace 7 ( 6 ) ONLY YOU CAN Fox 8 ( 7 ) HEY GIRL DON’T BOTHER ME The Tams 9 ( 8 ) THIS OLD HEART OF MINE The Isley Brothers 10 ( 9 ) BRANDY Scott English 11 ( 11 ) DON’T BE CRUEL Mike Berry 12 ( 5 ) THE SECRETS THAT YOU KEEP Mud 13 ( 13 ) I CAN DO IT The Rubettes 14 ( 14 ) OUR NATIONAL PASTIME Rupert Holmes 15 ( 24 ) YOUNG AMERICANS David Bowie 16 ( 10 ) THEN I CHANGE HANDS Mick Robertson 17 ( 12 ) MAKE ME SMILE (COME UP AND SEE ME) Steve Harley And Cockney Rebel 18 ( 26 ) DREAMER Supertramp 19 ( 23 ) GIRLS Moments and Whatnauts 20 ( 18 ) #9 DREAM John Lennon 21 ( 20 ) REMEMBER THE DAYS OF THE OLD SCHOOL YARD Linda Lewis 22 ( 36 ) SNOOKEROO Ringo Starr 23 ( 17 ) PLEASE MR POSTMAN The Carpenters 24 ( 16 ) YUMMY YUMMY YUMMY Ohio Express 25 ( 15 ) NEVER CAN SAY GOODBYE Gloria Gaynor 26 ( NEW ) MY HEART’S SYMPHONY Gary Lewis And The Playboys 27 ( 27 ) I’M ON MY WAY Dean Parrish 28 ( 44 ) SOUTH AFRICAN MAN Hamilton Bohannon 29 ( 43 ) PICK UP THE PIECES The Average White Band 30 ( NEW ) FOX ON THE RUN Sweet 31 ( 19 ) THE QUEEN OF 1964 Neil Sedaka 32 ( 33 ) GAMES UP Hello 33 ( 21 ) I’LL TAKE A MELODY The Hues Corporation 34 ( 22 ) I’M HER FOOL Billy Swan 35 ( 25 ) IT MAY BE WINTER OUTSIDE (BUT IN MY HEART IT’S SPRING) Love Unlimited 36 ( 30 ) BOOGIE ON REGGAE WOMAN Stevie Wonder 37 ( 28 ) YOUR KISS IS SWEET Syreeta 38 ( 29 ) GET DANCIN’ Disco Tex and The Sex-o-lettes 39 ( 46 ) DOWN DOWN Status Quo 40 ( 45 ) LOVE IS ALL Roger Glover and Guests (featuring Ronnie Dio) 41 ( 31 ) SHOORAH SHOORAH Betty Wright 42 ( 32 ) ROLL ON DOWN THE HIGHWAY Bachman-Turner Overdrive 43 ( NEW ) MANDY Barry Manilow 44 ( NEW ) BYE BYE BABY The Bay City Rollers 45 ( NEW ) FREE AND EASY Helen Reddy 46 ( NEW ) LOVIN’ YOU IS EASY Nosmo King and The Javells 47 ( 40 ) LEGO SKANGA Rupie Edwards 48 ( 41 ) MY LAST NIGHT WITH YOU Arrows 49 ( 42 ) DOCTOR LOVE The Pearls 50 ( NEW ) YOUR BULLDOG DRINKS CHAMPAGNE Jim Stafford |
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Apr 6 2015, 09:01 PM
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11th March 1975 Gloria Gaynor gets her 2nd chart-topper in a row, Reach Out I’ll Be There getting there in 2 weeks flat, and a new disco queen arrives. Not me, no. It’s all about Gloria’s vocal, the fab percussion, the backing singers and especially the heavy drumbeat on the chorus. Excited me no end at the time, and still does. Shooting up to 2, Supertramp’s best record Dreamer, it still sounds fresh, urgent and original, well beyond the normal single format. Duane Eddy has a veteran top 3 hit when few from the 50’s were still going, bar the odd Cliff and Elvis. Bowie gets his first top 10 since Sorrow, and his 7th to date, while The Rubettes get a 3rd, cos they can do it. The Rollers rocket up to 12, rather unexpectedly, as my early love for the Rollers in 1971-73 was well on the turn to annoyance what with all the screaming pre-teen girls all over the place, and Gary Lewis gets a 9-years-late top 20 hit. It’s all about the 19 new entries though, as the music scene hits overdrive and my chart has an almost 40% clearout. 19 is a new record, and is headed by an old-fashioned Eurovision-styled boy-girl singalong, and it’s fab - There’s A Whole Lot Of Loving is schmaltzy, overdoses on the backing singers and strings, and has a killer chorus...yes it’s a real guilty pleasure! The group had TV host Bruce Forsyth’s daughter in it, not to mention Thereza Bazar and David Van Day, future hit duo Dollar. Talking of Eurovision, Radio Luxembourg was busy plugging Geraldine’s English-language version (You) of her French-language entry, Toi, and here it is at 28, making it 4 years in a row that Luxembourg had charted. It’s also one place higher than the UK’s entry, the last one under the system where an established act is chosen to sing 6 songs, then the public vote - and this time Cliff’s backing band, and UK instrumental heroes The Shadows join Duane Eddy on the comeback trail and also get a debut rare vocal hit, Let Me Be The One. It’s not bad at all. At 30, a dance cover of The Beatles’ George Harrison song Something, from The Miracle Workers, gives it 3 hit versions in 6 years, while a Dutch duo cover of the 60’s childhood fave of mine Swinging On A Star (by Big Dee Irwin and Little Eva, itself a 40’s Bing Crosby cover) enters at 41 for the badly-named Spooky And Sue. An actual 60’s song I liked enters at 47 for The McCoys, Hang On Sloopy, while a 40’s styled gorgeous gentle ballad (and tribute to Fred Astaire) enters at 35 for Don McLean, his first hit in 3 years - Wonderful Baby. At 32 and 33, two big US hits for two big UK-based stars, and two big UK-flops as they moved to the States and got ignored by UK record-buyers. Idiots. ELO’s Can’t Get It Out Of My Head is a touching emotive ballad, and a singles departure for the band that eventually charted 3 years later on an EP in the UK, while Olivia Newton-John was moving out of country into melodic pop ballads, and one of her best: Have You Never Been Mellow, lovely. At 34 a late glam rock entrant from Shabby Tiger (too late for the UK to chart it, but not in Europe), Slow Down is decent enough, and at 36 The Goodies get a thrid hit with a Funky Gibbon. Yes, well, hmmm, it was catchy for a couple of weeks! David Bowie’s guitarist, the legendary Mick Ronson gets a quirky solo entry at 45, Billy Porter, Alice Cooper gets 3 years of chart entries at 48, Department Of Youth. Also 3 years on, Peter Skellern gets a follow-up entry at 50, the laid-back Hold On To Love, and 2 years on ex-teacher Clifford T. Ward keeps the gentle folk ballads coming, gets a 4th entry with the delightful Jigsaw Girl at 49. Phew! That leaves just the great new ones, from K.C. And The Sunshine Band, and a third hit (and a 6th song) with Get Down Tonight, as the fabulous funky dance grooves get notched a peg or two, even over chart-topper Queen Of Clubs. The basis of more than one future sampled hit, and still brilliant, and in at 37. Then there’s Elton John, with a Band attached, a new sound of Philadelphia, strings, soul, fabulousness, and a song dedicated to gay tennis player Billie-Jean King, Philadelphia Freedom. In at 42, 4 years of chartdom, and Elton had yet to miss the chart since Rocket Man hit 2, and was followed up by 2 number one’s in Crocodile Rock and Bennie And The Jets in 1972 and 1974. Elton, it should be stressed, was the biggest star in the world at this point and could do no wrong, especially in the USA, and was mightily prolific, 2 albums a year, and singles not necessarily on albums, and album tracks that should have been singles but weren’t. 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And The Sunshine Band 38 ( 17 ) MAKE ME SMILE (COME UP AND SEE ME) Steve Harley And Cockney Rebel 39 ( 25 ) NEVER CAN SAY GOODBYE Gloria Gaynor 40 ( 23 ) PLEASE MR POSTMAN The Carpenters 41 ( NEW ) SWINGING ON A STAR Spooky And Sue 42 ( NEW ) PHILADELPHIA FREEDOM The Elton John Band 43 ( 43 ) MANDY Barry Manilow 44 ( 41 ) SHOORAH SHOORAH Betty Wright 45 ( NEW ) BILLY PORTER Mick Ronson 46 ( NEW ) SWEET MUSIC Showaddywaddy 47 ( NEW ) HANG ON SLOOPY The McCoys 48 ( NEW ) DEPARTMENT OF YOUTH Alice Cooper 49 ( NEW ) JIGSAW GIRL Clifford T. Ward 50 ( NEW ) HOLD ON TO LOVE Peter Skellern |
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18th March 1975 After the deluge of last week, only 2 new entries and Gloria Gaynor gets 2 weeks reaching out on top. The rest of the chart is busy though, Elton up 40 places to 2 outdoing all his previous singles bar 3, just lovin’ that Philadelphia Freedom. Bowie also does better here than any other chart, hitting 5 with Young Americans - Bowie fans struggled with the new “plastic soul” sound, but not me, loved it. The Sweet get an 11th Top 10 hit, Neil Sedaka stops yo-yo-ing and hits 8 for his annual top 10 hit, now allied with Elton John on his label, and ELO get a 4th top 10. The 2 Eurovision songs keep pace with each other at 14 and 15, Geraldine still having the edge, while Livvy goes top 20, and Shabby Tiger slow down at 19. New at 44 it’s Polly Brown getting a second solo hit, dialling L for Love, though it’s now 5 years since she debuted with Pickettywich. Finally, at 48, The Hues Corporation have a 4th chart entry with the Love Corporation, diminishing returns but they still sound good. 1 ( 1 ) REACH OUT I’LL BE THERE Gloria Gaynor 2 ( 42 ) PHILADELPHIA FREEDOM The Elton John Band 3 ( 3 ) PLAY ME LIKE YOU PLAY YOUR GUITAR Duane Eddy and The Rebelettes 4 ( 2 ) DREAMER Supertramp 5 ( 7 ) YOUNG AMERICANS David Bowie 6 ( 9 ) THERE’S A WHOLE LOT OF LOVING Guys and Dolls 7 ( 21 ) FOX ON THE RUN Sweet 8 ( 25 ) THE QUEEN OF 1964 Neil Sedaka 9 ( 32 ) CAN’T GET IT OUT OF MY HEAD The Electric Light Orchestra 10 ( 4 ) ANGIE BABY Helen Reddy 11 ( 5 ) FOOTSIE Wigan’s Chosen Few 12 ( 6 ) SHAME SHAME SHAME Shirley & Company 13 ( 8 ) I CAN DO IT The Rubettes 14 ( 28 ) YOU Geraldine 15 ( 29 ) LET ME BE THE ONE The Shadows 16 ( 13 ) MY HEART’S SYMPHONY Gary Lewis And The Playboys 17 ( 15 ) GIRLS Moments and Whatnauts 18 ( 33 ) HAVE YOU NEVER BEEN MELLOW Olivia Newton-John 19 ( 34 ) SLOW DOWN Shabby Tiger 20 ( 10 ) DON’T BE CRUEL Mike Berry 21 ( 11 ) HITCHIN’ A RIDE ’75 Paper Lace 22 ( 19 ) #9 DREAM John Lennon 23 ( 37 ) GET DOWN TONIGHT K.C. And The Sunshine Band 24 ( 36 ) FUNKY GIBBON The Goodies 25 ( 12 ) BYE BYE BABY The Bay City Rollers 26 ( 22 ) PICK UP THE PIECES The Average White Band 27 ( 27 ) FANCY PANTS Kenny 28 ( 30 ) SOMETHING The Miracle Workers 29 ( 20 ) ONLY YOU CAN Fox 30 ( 31 ) GAMES UP Hello 31 ( 16 ) HEY GIRL DON’T BOTHER ME The Tams 32 ( 17 ) THIS OLD HEART OF MINE The Isley Brothers 33 ( 18 ) BRANDY Scott English 34 ( 23 ) SOUTH AFRICAN MAN Hamilton Bohannon 35 ( 35 ) WONDERFUL BABY Don McLean 36 ( 26 ) THE SECRETS THAT YOU KEEP Mud 37 ( 14 ) OUR NATIONAL PASTIME Rupert Holmes 38 ( 46 ) SWEET MUSIC Showaddywaddy 39 ( 39 ) NEVER CAN SAY GOODBYE Gloria Gaynor 40 ( 40 ) PLEASE MR POSTMAN The Carpenters 41 ( 41 ) SWINGING ON A STAR Spooky And Sue 42 ( 45 ) BILLY PORTER Mick Ronson 43 ( 50 ) HOLD ON TO LOVE Peter Skellern 44 ( NEW ) DIAL ‘L’ FOR LOVE Polly Brown 45 ( 49 ) JIGSAW GIRL Clifford T. Ward 46 ( 47 ) HANG ON SLOOPY The McCoys 47 ( 24 ) SNOOKEROO Ringo Starr 48 ( NEW ) LOVE CORPORATION The Hues Corporation 49 ( 43 ) MANDY Barry Manilow 50 ( 38 ) MAKE ME SMILE (COME UP AND SEE ME) Steve Harley And Cockney Rebel In Gloucester days, I was seriously buying every vinyl single I could get afford and find, and every old and new DC comic I could find. I scoured all the record shops (and there were plenty in those days) and newsagents that stocked American comics, and had a weekly Saturday bus ride, or walk of a few miles (to have extra money to spend on them) to do the rounds, especially the second-hand bookstore Toby’s which had stocks of recent DC comics printed with their name on the cover - much cheaper for me and I picked up loads I’d missed. Hooray! We also had a family ride, after some snowfall, to see our Singapore family friends the Wainwrights, after not seeing them for a year or so - I have the trip there fixed in my mind to some of the Radio 1 playlist tracks of the time, so I associate them with crisp snow and sunshine, for instance Fox On The Run and Young Americans, and especially Philadelphia Freedom. Odd the things that stick in the mind sometime. It was great seeing them all again. |
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25th March 1975 part 1 (Eurovision)
It’s a new number one, but dropping from 6 and completely out of the chart it’s Guys & Dolls with one of the shortest ever chart runs for a record that peaked at 6 - 2 weeks, peak, and out! It’s a guilty pleasure, but one that I got over quickly, until a decent amount of time had passed by (years), and then I loved it again. Anyway, new at 1 it’s Elton, yay! His 3rd number one in 4 years, a brilliant Philly soul record by a white British rock star, joining Bowie in crossing some genre boundaries, and also commenting at the time about his domination on USA radio where his singles just would not leave the chart - he wished they would stop playing them and let them leave the chart, even he was getting fed up of it! This, of course, is now how the whole music business works: overkill, monotony, and dominated by a huge few stars. Elton was also presiding over another chart invasion, though, chock full of good new singles, led by the Eurovision winner, Teach-In, at 10. Ding A Dong! Or Dinge Dong, take your pick. It was an immediate hit with me while I babysat, and my clear favourite, though the chart placing just ahead of the UK and Luxembourg might say otherwise. The Shadows did well, and Geraldine, Toi, so there’s a mini-1975 Eurovision section to enjoy. Or ‘enjoy’! The Netherlands deserved to win though, and they had clearly learnt the Abba lesson and gone uptempo pop. So here the three are... |
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Apr 8 2015, 03:10 PM
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25th March 1975 (part 2)
Back in March 1975, 25th, and K.C. is up to 3 for his 3rd successive top 3 hit, with one of the great instant instrumental funk intros, do a little dance make a little love, get down tonight! The Sweet hit 4, fox-chasing, and Olivia hits 6 with her biggest ever hit in 4 years, so she must have been feeling pretty mellow about that. The second highest new entry is the record that came 2nd in the Radio 1 All-Time Top 100 singles, as compiled in 1974 - Young Girl won it (and charted all over again) but runner-up was Bobby Goldsboro’s 1968 UK number 2, which was reissued in the UK and hit 2 again, having been 2 on the 100. A case of the 2’s if ever I heard it! The sickly-sweet sentimental tragedy song enters at 14 here. It’s both touching and OTT laughable, depending on mood. It fit in with tragic news of the death of a classmate in a motorbike accident, Martin Milliard, who’d been getting interviews with football clubs. His best mate Davvy was a mate at school, and I was shocked and sad all round for Davvy and Milli’s family. The song came up in group classroom conversation, and Davvy took it’s side, so did I. In at 16, Jim Gilstrap’s lovely gospel soul shuffler Swing Your Daddy, and in at 17 another Wigan band, Wigan’s Ovation with an actual NEW recording and northern soul cover hit, the Invitations’ Skiing In The Snow. Northern Soul was cool in the working class circles. Lulu’s back with another image change at 26, this time soul funk, one style she was to return to most frequently over the years. The record? Take You Mama For A Ride, and 7 years of hits. Missing for 2 years, and it’s a welcome return for Middle Of The Road, with the flop single Hitchin’ A Ride In The Moonlight, which managed to grab a couple of plays on Radio Luxembourg, and nothing in the UK, but it gives them an 8th bubblegum chart entry for me. I haven’t heard it for decades, and it’s not on itunes, boo! Ralph McTell’s back at 34 with a forgotten, non-itunes, follow-up El Progresso, not that folky, while Hot Chocolate return with new single Blue Night, in the style of Emma at 48. Pretty good, a flop, no airplay, but it had a B Side you may have heard of, a ditty called You Sexy Thing. Come back in 7 months when it gets flipped, and Blue Night is the B Side. 49, Caston And Majors, a Motown act, and a fantastic record in Child Of Love, fab song, should have been a hit. Finally, at 50, it’s another oldie reissue from the late Jim Croce, one which would have charted in 1972 had my charts allowed non-UK-chart records: Bad Bad Leroy Brown. Big US hit. 1 ( 2 ) PHILADELPHIA FREEDOM The Elton John Band 2 ( 1 ) REACH OUT I’LL BE THERE Gloria Gaynor 3 ( 23 ) GET DOWN TONIGHT K.C. And The Sunshine Band 4 ( 7 ) FOX ON THE RUN The Sweet 5 ( 3 ) PLAY ME LIKE YOU PLAY YOUR GUITAR Duane Eddy and The Rebelettes 6 ( 18 ) HAVE YOU NEVER BEEN MELLOW Olivia Newton-John 7 ( 9 ) CAN’T GET IT OUT OF MY HEAD The Electric Light Orchestra 8 ( 4 ) DREAMER Supertramp 9 ( 5 ) YOUNG AMERICANS David Bowie 10 ( NEW ) DING A DONG Teach-In 11 ( 15 ) LET ME BE THE ONE The Shadows 12 ( 14 ) YOU Geraldine 13 ( 16 ) MY HEART’S SYMPHONY Gary Lewis And The Playboys 14 ( NEW ) HONEY Bobby Goldsboro 15 ( 19 ) SLOW DOWN Shabby Tiger 16 ( NEW ) SWING YOUR DADDY Jim Gilstrap 17 ( NEW ) SKIING IN THE SNOW Wigan’s Ovation 18 ( 10 ) ANGIE BABY Helen Reddy 19 ( 11 ) FOOTSIE Wigan’s Chosen Few 20 ( 12 ) SHAME SHAME SHAME Shirley & Company 21 ( 28 ) SOMETHING The Miracle Workers 22 ( 8 ) THE QUEEN OF 1964 Neil Sedaka 23 ( 27 ) FANCY PANTS Kenny 24 ( 13 ) I CAN DO IT The Rubettes 25 ( 45 ) JIGSAW GIRL Clifford T. Ward 26 ( NEW ) TAKE YOUR MAMA FOR A RIDE Lulu 27 ( NEW ) HITCHIN’ A RIDE IN THE MOONLIGHT Middle Of The Road 28 ( 21 ) HITCHIN’ A RIDE ’75 Paper Lace 29 ( RE ) THEN I CHANGE HANDS Mick Robertson 30 ( 22 ) #9 DREAM John Lennon 31 ( 31 ) HEY GIRL DON’T BOTHER ME The Tams 32 ( 32 ) THIS OLD HEART OF MINE The Isley Brothers 33 ( 33 ) BRANDY Scott English 34 ( NEW ) EL PROGRESSO Ralph McTell 35 ( 43 ) HOLD ON TO LOVE Peter Skellern 36 ( 24 ) FUNKY GIBBON The Goodies 37 ( 35 ) WONDERFUL BABY Don McLean 38 ( 26 ) PICK UP THE PIECES The Average White Band 39 ( 34 ) SOUTH AFRICAN MAN Hamilton Bohannon 40 ( 29 ) ONLY YOU CAN Fox 41 ( 39 ) NEVER CAN SAY GOODBYE Gloria Gaynor 42 ( 40 ) PLEASE MR POSTMAN The Carpenters 43 ( 44 ) DIAL ‘L’ FOR LOVE Polly Brown 44 ( 20 ) DON’T BE CRUEL Mike Berry 45 ( 42 ) BILLY PORTER Mick Ronson 46 ( 41 ) SWINGING ON A STAR Spooky And Sue 47 ( 48 ) LOVE CORPORATION The Hues Corporation 48 ( NEW ) BLUE NIGHT Hot Chocolate 49 ( NEW ) CHILD OF LOVE Caston And Majors 50 ( NEW ) BAD BAD LEROY BROWN Jim Croce |
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John, I'm very happy to see "Toi" here. It's my favourite ESC song in 1975. One from the best French language entries in all history of the contest.
My top 3 : 1. Geraldine - Toi (Luxembourg) 2. Sophie - Une Chanson C'est Une Lettre (Monaco) 3. Ellen Nikolaysen - Touch My Life (Norway) Irish singer won for Luxembourg. It was third their win after France Gall (1965) and Vicky Leandros (1967). Geraldine was fourth Irish woman, who won in Eurovision (after Dana, Sandie Jones, Maxi). Monaco got the highest position (2nd place) for the first time in history. Norway had the most successful decade and got a medal again (after 2nd place in 1971, 1972) and will be unpredictable winner in 1976 (yes, higher than real winner Brotherhood Of Man). |
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Apr 8 2015, 03:57 PM
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John, I'm very happy to see "Toi" here. It's my favourite ESC song in 1975. One from the best French language entries in all history of the contest. My top 3 : 1. Geraldine - Toi (Luxembourg) 2. Sophie - Une Chanson C'est Une Lettre (Monaco) 3. Ellen Nikolaysen - Touch My Life (Norway) Irish singer won for Luxembourg. It was third their win after France Gall (1965) and Vicky Leandros (1967). Geraldine was fourth Irish woman, who won in Eurovision (after Dana, Sandie Jones, Maxi). Monaco got the highest position (2nd place) for the first time in history. Norway had the most successful decade and got a medal again (after 2nd place in 1971, 1972) and will be unpredictable winner in 1976 (yes, higher than real winner Brotherhood Of Man). thanks Alex, I really liked Geraldine at the time, though havent heard it properly since 1975 till I looked up the youtube video! The other 1975 entrants Ive yet to hear again, except Shadows and Teach-In which I bought at the time. I liked France Gall, Vicky leandros (both) and Dana, but there's lots of other french-language ones I love too |
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May 7 2015, 07:07 PM
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1st April 1975
Another US number one tops my chart, and it’s KC’s 2nd number one the frantic, urgent, funky brilliance that is Get Down Tonight, his 3rd song to top my charts after Rock Your Baby and Queen Of Clubs in 1974. Fantastic. Keeping the dance theme going, Wigans’ Ovation ski up to 5, and Jim Gilstrap swings slowly to 7, bookending the sweet Jigsaw Girl, Clifford T. Ward’s biggest hit to date. Peter Skellern leaps to 16, crooning Hold On To Love pleasantly, while Jonathan King is back in one of his alter ego’s Nemo, returning his 1972 chart entry cover of a 1932 very British song with a now dodgy line that got a radio presenter in trouble last year. Pity about that line, cos it’s an amusing cheerful bit of British Depression-era crooning. In at 24, though, it’s a properly new classic, the amazing gorgeous Lovin’ You from the stunning vocal range of Minnie Ripperton. It almost came over as a novelty song with it’s birdsong arrangement and sentimentality, certainly one I tired of quickly at the time, but which gained terrible pathos when poor Minnie died very young of Cancer a few years afterwards. I like to think of her as a precursor to Mariah Carey, only she knew how to use her range effectively for emotion rather than bluster. At 26, Swedish Sylvia’s back with a mistimed Spanish follow-up song. Ah well, hasta la vista, baby. In at 31 it’s another bonafide classic, the immortal Lady Marmalade from the futuristic silver-suited glam and sassy LaBelle belting out the soulfunk with passion, not least headed by Patti Labelle, who had already been around a while, including a joint album with the fabulous Laura Nyro. A number one record, of course, decades later for All Saints and again for a quartet of divas, neither of them a patch on the original. Not even close. It also had that naughty French line famous from sitcoms involving French characters... There’s a novelty cover of actor Telly Savalas’ spoken-word cover of Bread’s fab If, a UK number one as Kojak TV cop mania swept the UK. Yin And Yan’s version was much better, amusingly taking the Michael out of an imagined version of Telly’s recording session for the song. It’s a comedy song, essentially, that works as long as you don’t hear it a lot, and it was a UK hit. Syreeta’s 1974 hit returns, and finally up to 44, and in tribute to the late great Errol Brown who died this week, Blue Night is mentioned, an attempt to repeat the success of Emma that didn’t catch on but which sold bucketloads as the B Side to You Sexy Thing when they flipped the record over later in the year. Errol was a hero, a sweet-natured man, and a talent. He never released a bad record, which is how Hot Chocolate managed 15 consecutive years of hits, despite never being an albums band, bar Greatest Hits collections which were enormously popular jewels in the crown more than once. 1 ( 3 ) GET DOWN TONIGHT K.C. And The Sunshine Band 2 ( 1 ) PHILADELPHIA FREEDOM The Elton John Band 3 ( 2 ) REACH OUT I’LL BE THERE Gloria Gaynor 4 ( 10 ) DING DINGE DONG Teach-In 5 ( 17 ) SKIING IN THE SNOW Wigan’s Ovation 6 ( 25 ) JIGSAW GIRL Clifford T. Ward 7 ( 16 ) SWING YOUR DADDY Jim Gilstrap 8 ( 7 ) CAN’T GET IT OUT OF MY HEAD The Electric Light Orchestra 9 ( 4 ) FOX ON THE RUN The Sweet 10 ( 6 ) HAVE YOU NEVER BEEN MELLOW Olivia Newton-John 11 ( 11 ) LET ME BE THE ONE The Shadows 12 ( 14 ) HONEY Bobby Goldsboro 13 ( 8 ) DREAMER Supertramp 14 ( 5 ) PLAY ME LIKE YOU PLAY YOUR GUITAR Duane Eddy and The Rebelettes 15 ( 15 ) SLOW DOWN Shabby Tiger 16 ( 35 ) HOLD ON TO LOVE Peter Skellern 17 ( 21 ) SOMETHING The Miracle Workers 18 ( NEW ) THE SUN HAS GOT HIS HAT ON Nemo (aka Jonathan King) 19 ( 12 ) YOU Geraldine 20 ( 13 ) MY HEART’S SYMPHONY Gary Lewis And The Playboys 21 ( 26 ) TAKE YOUR MAMA FOR A RIDE Lulu 22 ( 27 ) HITCHIN’ A RIDE IN THE MOONLIGHT Middle Of The Road 23 ( 34 ) EL PROGRESSO Ralph McTell 24 ( NEW ) LOVIN’ YOU Minnie Ripperton 25 ( 29 ) THEN I CHANGE HANDS Mick Robertson 26 ( NEW ) HASTA LA VISTA Sylvia 27 ( 9 ) YOUNG AMERICANS David Bowie 28 ( 18 ) ANGIE BABY Helen Reddy 29 ( 19 ) FOOTSIE Wigan’s Chosen Few 30 ( 20 ) SHAME SHAME SHAME Shirley & Company 31 ( NEW ) LADY MARMALADE LaBelle 32 ( 22 ) THE QUEEN OF 1964 Neil Sedaka 33 ( 28 ) HITCHIN’ A RIDE ’75 Paper Lace 34 ( 30 ) #9 DREAM John Lennon 35 ( 31 ) HEY GIRL DON’T BOTHER ME The Tams 36 ( 32 ) THIS OLD HEART OF MINE The Isley Brothers 37 ( 33 ) BRANDY Scott English 38 ( NEW ) IF Yin and Yan 39 ( NEW ) SPINNIN’ AND SPINNIN’ Syreeta 40 ( 43 ) DIAL ‘L’ FOR LOVE Polly Brown 41 ( 23 ) FANCY PANTS Kenny 42 ( 39 ) SOUTH AFRICAN MAN Hamilton Bohannon 43 ( 38 ) PICK UP THE PIECES The Average White Band 44 ( 48 ) BLUE NIGHT Hot Chocolate 45 ( 49 ) CHILD OF LOVE Caston And Majors 46 ( NEW ) EXPRESS BT Express 47 ( RE ) LOVE IS ALL Roger Glover and Guests (featuring Ronnie Dio) 48 ( 40 ) ONLY YOU CAN Fox 49 ( 41 ) NEVER CAN SAY GOODBYE Gloria Gaynor 50 ( 42 ) PLEASE MR POSTMAN The Carpenters |
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John, which country have more # 1s in all history of your personal charts : UK or US ?
"Ding-A-Dong" is a correct title of Dutch song. |
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May 8 2015, 02:07 PM
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John, which country have more # 1s in all history of your personal charts : UK or US ? "Ding-A-Dong" is a correct title of Dutch song. Ta Alex yes will be the right title next time:) I don't actually know who has had most toppers! I'd guess UK then USA then Sweden due to large numbers of toppers from Beatles pet shop boys and Abba:) |
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I don't actually know who has had most toppers! I'd guess UK then USA then Sweden due to large numbers of toppers from Beatles pet shop boys and Abba:) John, just count them, it's not very hard. Not 100 % sure, but near 75-80 % my # 1s were from United Kingdom, maybe even more. US is possible on the second place, based on many # 1s from Madonna, Britney, Blondie. If don't count Eurovision songs these countries have # 1s in my chart : Netherlands (mostly Luv'), Lithuania, Canada (mostly Shania Twain), Australia (mostly Kylie), Belgium (K3, Betty, Mega Mindy), Ireland (mostly Dana), Sweden (mostly ABBA), Norway (M2M, Lene Marlin), Germany (No Angels), Russia (Julia Kova, Nataliya Vetlitzkaya), Denmark (Me & My, Aqua), France (France Gall, Mylene Farmer) This post has been edited by Sword of Justice: May 8 2015, 06:09 PM |
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John, just count them, it's not very hard. Not 100 % sure, but near 75-80 % my # 1s were from United Kingdom, maybe even more. US is possible on the second place, based on many # 1s from Madonna, Britney, Blondie. If don't count Eurovision songs these countries have # 1s in my chart : Netherlands (mostly Luv'), Lithuania, Canada (mostly Shania Twain), Australia (mostly Kylie), Belgium (K3, Betty), Ireland (mostly Dana), Sweden (mostly ABBA), Norway (M2M, Lene Marlin), Germany (No Angels), Russia (Julia Kova, Nataliya Vetlitzkaya), Denmark (Me & My, Aqua), France (France Gall, Mylene Farmer) I counted a few random years in the 90's and it's massively 2 to 1 UK over US and I think thats the way it was in the 70's and 80's too, so yes go for that one |
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