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 25th March 2020, 07:45 PM
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The One Week Wonders - Episode 150
Our first single today is Cabaret Voltaire's uk chart debut, Just Fascination, which was at #94 on 23rd July 1983. It's the first of ten charting singles for them, all relatively small hits, and several one week wonders, so we shall be seeing more of them. We then skip over the Chi-Lites double A-side Have You Seen Her/Oh Girl, which was at #100 on w/e 30th July 1983, as it is a reissue of two chart hits from 1972, and instead our second song today is Try Your Lovin' by Cashmere, which was at #99 on w/e 20th August 1983. We end this episode with the only week of UK chart action for Project Future, whose Ray-Gun-Omics was at #99 on w/e 27th August 1983. |
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26th March 2020, 08:45 PM
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The One Week Wonders - Episode 151
We start today with the only week of UK chart action for Patrick Gammon, with Do My Ditty, which was at #97 on w/e 3rd September 1983. Next up is The Shadow Of Your Smile by D Train, which was at #88 on w/e 10th September 1983. It was D Train's 5th charting single, but although they made the chart on three occasions after this, those were all reissues of previous charting singles. I'm then going to skip over Ryuichi's Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence, from the film of the same name, which was charting at #93 on w/e 24th September 1983, as earlier in the same year a vocal version, Forbidden Colours, featuring David Sylvian had reached #15. The vocal version uses pretty much the same track as the instrumental, and both would have been made pretty much at the same time for the film, so I don't see them as different enough to allow the instrumental to be a true one week wonder. We instead end this episode with the first charting single for Queensryche. Queen Of The Reich was at #94 on w/e 24th September 1983. This post has been edited by DanChartFan: 26th March 2020, 09:47 PM |
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26th March 2020, 11:47 PM
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Two ex-Buzzcocks in the recent bunch there.
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27th March 2020, 06:46 PM
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The One Week Wonders - Episode 152
We start today with the only week of UK chart action for the Natural Ites, with Picture On The Wall, which was at #97 on w/e 1st October 1983. Next up is Get Out Of London by Intaferon, which was at #93 on w/e 8th October 1983. Intaferon followed this up with one other charting single, Steamhammer Sam, which reached #77. The final one today would have been Give Me Your Life by Active Force, which was at #98 on w/e 8th October 1983, however it managed to notch up one more week on w/e 6th September 1986 at #99. Instead we have This Mortal Coil, a collection of musicians from the 4AD label, with 16 days, which is actual a medley of two songs, 16 Days and Gathering Dust. The single was at #100 on w/e 15th October 1983. |
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30th March 2020, 12:39 AM
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The One Week Wonders - Episode 153
We start this episode with the third charting single by New Edition, who had topped the charts with Candy Girl. Is This The End was at #83 on w/e 22nd October 1983. Next at #87 in the same is the Gap Band, most well know for the #6 hit Oops Up Side Your Head. This is I'm Ready (If You're Ready). And sticking with the same week also for the last one, we move down to #99 where we find Dionne Warwick and Luther Vandross with How Many Times Can We Say Goodbye. Dionne had had a lot of hits already by this point, but this was only Luther's second charting single in the UK, after Never Too Much had reached #44 earlier in 1983. |
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30th March 2020, 01:31 AM
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The One Week Wonders - Episode 154
We start by skipping over My Perfect Cousin by the Undertones, which was at #88 on w/e 29th October 1983, because this was a reissue of a 1980 hit. Instead, at #94 in the same week was So Tired, the sixth and final charting single by Haircut 100. And sticking with the same week we move down to #99 where we find the only week of uk chart action for the Flirtations with Earthquake. We would have ended with Electric Boogie and Break Dancin', which was at #81 on w/e 5th November 1983, but the OCC incorrectly has Electric Boogie as the artist. The correct artist is West Street Mob and the single is called Electric Boogie - Breakdance or Breakdance - Electric Boogie or even Breakdancin' - Electric Boogie, I'm not entirely sure which is right, but knowing the correct artist has meant I have found another 4 weeks on chart credited entirely differently to the one week I had first identified. Instead we end tonight with the #91 from that week, Heavy Metal Love by Helix, which was their only week of Uk chart action. |
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30th March 2020, 06:15 AM
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Electric Boogie could stem from a very interesting error....
Long years ago (about 2009) the OCC ended up with a copy of my database as was at that time. I stripped out loads of data before letting them have it but it was still all the UK Singles and Album charts that are official. Of course if gathered from hundreds of different sources and not got anywhere near Verifying it all indeed I’m still only in 1983 in terms of doing that! They have added this to their website as it saves them re-typing everything themselves. And how do I know it’s mine? Well errors like that as well as the other errors involving the missing label and numbers. Most entries from 1983-1991 that peaked between 76 and 100 don’t have a label and number. Go check out what is shown. So a lot of the errors in 76-100 on the OCC website stem from my own data. Sorry about that. |
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30th March 2020, 04:28 PM
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QUOTE(kingofskiffle @ Mar 30 2020, 07:15 AM)  Electric Boogie could stem from a very interesting error.... Long years ago (about 2009) the OCC ended up with a copy of my database as was at that time. I stripped out loads of data before letting them have it but it was still all the UK Singles and Album charts that are official. Of course if gathered from hundreds of different sources and not got anywhere near Verifying it all indeed I’m still only in 1983 in terms of doing that! They have added this to their website as it saves them re-typing everything themselves. And how do I know it’s mine? Well errors like that as well as the other errors involving the missing label and numbers. Most entries from 1983-1991 that peaked between 76 and 100 don’t have a label and number. Go check out what is shown. So a lot of the errors in 76-100 on the OCC website stem from my own data. Sorry about that. No need to apologise Lonnie, it's not your fault they have taken unverified data from so long ago. I know that you work very hard to ensure the accuracy of your current database. I think there are only really 3 sources online for the 76-100 positions in 83-91, the original charts scans, the OCC and a thread on UKmix that I think you provided most/all of that data for. It's possible that the OCC used someone else's database, and that they had entered in those 76-100 positions from the UKmix thread. |
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30th March 2020, 05:00 PM
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The One Week Wonders - Episode 155
All three singles today are from w/e 12th November 1983. Today's first song is I Just Can't Walk Away by the Four Tops, which was at #95. It was on the Tamla Motown, which they appear to have stopped releasing singles on in 1972, moving to Probe for about a year then dropping away from the charts, so I assume this is Tamla Motown issuing old material years later, in the same way they had been doing with Michael Jackson, Smokey Robinson and others in the early 80s. This was the last chart entry of the Four Tops 1981-83 chart revival, but they would be in the charts with four more release in another chart revival in 1988-89, with the biggest being the #7 hit Loco In Acapulco. Next up at #97 was the only week of chart action for the Haines Gang, with So Hot. And finally for today is the return to the chart, after three years, of Ian Dury, who was at #98 with Really Glad You Came. |
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30th March 2020, 09:44 PM
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Although the OCC database shows an entry for '16 Days' for This Mortal Coil at number 100 on the chart dated 15 October 1983 this is the same single as 'Song To The Siren' which is then listed as the title for subsequent weeks. Record Mirror lists the entry for 15/10/83 as '16 Days', Music Week lists the entry as 'Song To The Siren'. Both RM and MW list the same catalogue number of 4AD AD310. Record Mirror may have taken the title credit from the 12" version (4AD BAD310) which has '16 Days - Gathering Dust' as the A side with 'Song To The Siren' and '16 Days (Reprise)' on the B side. On the 7" only the last two tracks are on the single, as A and B side respectively.
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30th March 2020, 11:09 PM
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The Four Tops track was a new track - they returned to Motown for a couple of albums in the 80s (this one was called Back Where I Belong).
I actually bought that Haircut 100 single on 12" recently, it's from the post Nick Heyward era but it's not a bad song. |
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30th March 2020, 11:15 PM
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I didn't know that Haircut 100 carried on with a different singer after Nick Heyward left. Looking at wiki,I see he was already part of the group. The same thing happened with Kajagoogoo at around the same time but unlike Haircut 100,they managed a couple of top 40 hits with Nick Beggs singing.
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1st April 2020, 07:47 PM
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QUOTE(Robbie @ Mar 30 2020, 10:44 PM) Although the OCC database shows an entry for '16 Days' for This Mortal Coil at number 100 on the chart dated 15 October 1983 this is the same single as 'Song To The Siren' which is then listed as the title for subsequent weeks. Record Mirror lists the entry for 15/10/83 as '16 Days', Music Week lists the entry as 'Song To The Siren'. Both RM and MW list the same catalogue number of 4AD AD310. Record Mirror may have taken the title credit from the 12" version (4AD BAD310) which has '16 Days - Gathering Dust' as the A side with 'Song To The Siren' and '16 Days (Reprise)' on the B side. On the 7" only the last two tracks are on the single, as A and B side respectively. Oops didn't pick up on that one. Thanks for letting me know. Four songs in the next episode, to compensate, then... |
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1st April 2020, 08:40 PM
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The One Week Wonders - Episode 156
Thank you Robbie for pointing out that one of the songs from episode 152 wasn't eligble as it had further weeks on chart that the OCC credits differently to the week I had found. There will now be four songs in this episode to compensate. We start on w/e 19th November 1983. First up at #92 are The Walkers with Whatever Happened To The Party Groove, although the OCC site has taken 'Groove' from the end of the title and stuck it on the beginning of the act instead. The Walkers had one more charting single, Don't Waste My Time, which reached #76 in 1986. Next, at #97, is the 9th of Modern Romance's 10 charting singles, Good Friday. Their final charting, in 1985, was The Best Mixe Of Our Lives, which I would presume was a remix of their #4 hit The Best Years Of Our Lives. We then skip over the #99, The Same Old Song by KC and the Sunshine Band, as it is a re-release of a #47 hit from 1978, and instead we have the #100 song, Roman Candle, which is the only week of Uk chart action for Flesh For Lulu. Finally we go forward a week, to w/e 26th November 1983, for the #99, Time For Some Fun, which is the 8th and final charting single by Central Line. |
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1st April 2020, 08:58 PM
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The One Week Wonders - Episode 157
First up, at #90 on w/e 3rd December 1983 was Torment, the second and last charting single by Marc And The Mambas, Marc Almond's post-Soft Cell project. The first charting single, Black Heart, had reached #49 earlier in the year. Moving down one place to #91 we have Midnight In Tokyo, the second of three charting singles for Y&T. We then skip over Uncertain Smile by The The, which was at #100, as this was a re-issue of a #68 hit from the previous. We instead move forward to the w/e 17th December 1983, and to #90 where we find Michael Barrymore singing Kenny The Kangaroo. He had two other charting singles besides this, Do The Crab, which peaked at #81 in 1987, and Too Much For One Heart, which hit #25 in 1995. |
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5th April 2020, 09:37 PM
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The One Week Wonders - Episode 158
Continuing where we left of, in w/e 17th December 1983, we move down to #100 and find Renee and Renato with their third and final charting single, Jesus Loves Us All. The w/e 31st December 1983 was the last weekly chart that went uncompiled, so the previous chart was the last one to be repeated by chartologists to fill the gap. This means the last chance for two week wonders, and we have five of them: #77 Joe Fagin - Breaking Away #78 Brendan Shine - Thank God For Kids #97 The Damned - There Ain't No Sanity Clause #99 Men Without Hats - I Get The Message #100 Hooray And The Henrys - All Stuck Up Carrying on into 1984, w/e 21st January to be exact, we have Watusi Brothers with Bodwork at #95, their only charting single. And at #97 the same week were the Three Degrees with Liar. |
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5th April 2020, 09:52 PM
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The One Week Wonders - Episode 159
Continuing with w/e 21st January 1984 we find Luther Vandross at #100 with I'll Let You Slide. A week later Jimmy Cliff was at #93 with We All Our One. Finally, in w/e 4th February 1984, at #91 was Stewart Copeland and Stan Ridgway with Don't Box Me In. Stewart would have one more charting single in his own name, The Equalizer Busy Equalizing, which reached #96, whilst Stan had two more charting singles, including the #4 hit Camouflage. |
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5th April 2020, 10:23 PM
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The One Week Wonders - Episode 160
First up for this episode is Shooting Shark by the Blue Oyster Cult which was at #97 on w/e 18th February 1984. Their only other charting singles was the #16 hit (Don't Fear) The Reaper. Shooting Shark was the first of six singles to reach the charts with Shark in the title, and I probably don't have to tell you which of those six was the most successful... Next up, at #99 in the same week with their only UK chart action are Indians In Moscow with Naughty Miranda. Also having their only week of UK chart action, despite having many number ones in the US and Canada, were Alabama, who were at #91 on w/e 25th February 1984 with Feels So Right. |
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5th April 2020, 10:38 PM
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The One Week Wonders - Episode 161
We start this episode with the only week of chart action for Trans Lux, who were at #97 on w/e 3rd March 1984 with Big Apple Noise. Next is Quiet Riot, with their second and last charting single, Bad Boy, which was at #91 on w/e 17th March 1984. Finally for tonight, at 92 in the same week were Cutting Edge, enjoying their only week of chart action with Dancing With The Rebels. |
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5th April 2020, 10:59 PM
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I know it's off-topic but that Hooray And The Henrys record is quite something, a medley of parodies of popular songs with the lyrics rewritten to be about posh people.
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