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 27th June 2021, 06:56 PM
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Middle of the Road had some low-known gems, for sample "Steal A Piece Of My Heart" (flopped single from 1980 year) :
Sounds a little bit like ABBA song 
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29th June 2021, 07:40 AM
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Not heard that one before Alex, yes it's clearly going for a bit of an Abba/Brotherhood Of Man/Dooleys vibe. It's def not got my beloved Sally Carr on vocals though! She had a very unusual voice, a lot of people didn't like it but I did, especially on ballads. I think Middle Of The Road ballads still sound good, especially the touching Union Silver and fab Soley Soley.
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2nd July 2021, 05:13 PM
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26th June 1971
It's 2 weeks on top for The Bee Gees and their broken hearts, with Rod trying to shift away the classic ballads from the top spots at 4. Middle Of The Road get a 2nd bubblegum top 10, with the tartan of the clan and claymores all intact, and Joan Baez debuts with her brilliant version of The Band's The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, which would be troubling the UK charts over Christmas/New Year, but which features on her new album for now. I bought the single in a Californian superstore in 1979 while on holiday - this store had racks and racks of classic 60's and early 70's songs I didn't have on vinyl, so I bought as many as I thought I could afford, including this one. US singles were dodgy sound-wise, compared to UK vinyl, and the label designs and sleeves were never as good, but hey beggars can't be choosers. In at 12 the second single owned by my RAF Swinderby friend Graham - I never did manage to get hold of a copy of this great Chinn-Chapman story-ballad song from New World, Aussies with UK-based success, at least not until the RAK record label (Best. single. label. design. ever - the boat and the colour blue is just so nostalgic for me) started putting out their back catalogue on budget compilation albums in the mid-70's. The next big entry at 46 is from Elvis, I'm Leavin' was on Top Of The Pops in September 1971 with a TOTP-made budget-video, and I took a shine to the record, but it was not a big hit, and as I didn't have my tape recorder at that time, it was another of the list of singles I requested for Xmas 1971, and it was one I duly got, along with Monkey Spanner. Mum & Dad had to say sorry the record shop (Redifusion in Lincoln) didn't have Tom Tom Turnaround or Nathan Jones though, doh! Down the bottom end, there's 5 newies with a batch all pending for a space next week - it was either delay a week or expand to 90! Atomic Rooster get a soundalike follow-up, The Devil's Answer after Tomorrow Night, but I like them both, Dr. Hook debut with the Shel Silverstein song, Last Mornin' - I really liked this era of Dr. Hook, they were quirky. That all changed a bit in 1976 as they became more MOR and more lead-singer Dennis Loccoriere-based. I saw him in concert about ten years ago, a good night out! Bread keep the alternating rock singles with new entry Mother Freedom, Gilbert opts for a ballad again, We Will, and future UB40 hit Maybe Tomorrow proves to be the first lesser Jackson 5 single, not including Christmas songs. 1 ( 1 ) HOW CAN YOU MEND A BROKEN HEART - The Bee Gees # 1 2 ( 2 ) AIN’T NO SUNSHINE - Bill Withers # 1 3 ( 3 ) MERCY MERCY ME (THE ECOLOGY) - Marvin Gaye # 1 4 ( 6 ) MAGGIE MAY - Rod Stewart # 4 5 ( 4 ) UNCLE ALBERT/ADMIRAL HALSEY - Paul & Linda McCartney # 1 6 ( 5 ) THE WITCH QUEEN OF NEW ORLEANS - Redbone # 5 7 ( 7 ) YAMASUKI - The Yamasukis # 5 8 ( 8 ) BLACK AND WHITE - Greyhound # 1 9 ( 21 ) TWEEDLE DEE TWEEDLE DUM - Middle Of The Road # 9 10 ( NEW ) THE NIGHT THEY DROVE OLD DIXIE DOWN - Joan Baez # 10 11 ( 9 ) NEVER ENDING SONG OF LOVE - The New Seekers # 8 12 ( NEW ) TOM TOM TURNAROUND - New World # 12 13 ( 11 ) SUPERSTAR - Carpenters # 1 14 ( 10 ) BIRDS OF A FEATHER - The Raiders # 10 15 ( 13 ) NATHAN JONES - The Supremes # 1 16 ( 12 ) I’M GONNA RUN AWAY FROM YOU - Tami Lynn # 1 17 ( 14 ) THE BANNER MAN - Blue Mink # 6 18 ( 24 ) MONKEY SPANNER - Dave & Ansel Collins # 18 19 ( 20 ) DID YOU EVER? - Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood # 19 20 ( 15 ) HE’S GONNA STEP ON YOU AGAIN - John Kongos # 4 21 ( 17 ) HERE COMES THAT RAINY DAY FEELING AGAIN - The Fortunes # 1 22 ( 23 ) CO-CO - The Sweet # 22 23 ( 16 ) THE BACK SEAT OF MY CAR - Paul & Linda McCartney # 16 24 ( 19 ) THE PIED PIPER - Bob & Marcia # 19 25 ( 27 ) BACK STREET LUV - Curved Air # 25 26 ( 18 ) BRING THE BOYS HOME - Freda Payne # 12 27 ( 25 ) DON’T LET IT DIE - Hurricane Smith # 10 28 ( 29 ) MELODY FAIR - The Bee Gees # 28 29 ( 33 ) MOONSHADOW - Cat Stevens # 29 30 ( 26 ) RIDERS OF THE STORM - The Doors # 4 31 ( 28 ) HOT LOVE - T.Rex # 1 32 ( 22 ) LOVE SONG - Olivia Newton-John # 22 33 ( 39 ) LADY ROSE - Mungo Jerry # 33 34 ( 40 ) RAININ’ N’ PAININ’ - Middle Of The Road # 34 35 ( 45 ) LOVE SONG - Lesley Duncan # 35 36 ( 30 ) TONIGHT - The Move # 30 37 ( 35 ) WHAT’S GOING ON? - Marvin Gaye # 1 38 ( 36 ) ANOTHER DAY - Paul McCartney # 1 39 ( 32 ) RAINY DAYS AND MONDAYS - Carpenters # 8 40 ( 54 ) YOU GOTTA HAVE LOVE IN YOUR HEART - The Supremes & The Four Tops # 40 41 ( 48 ) INNER CITY BLUES (MAKE ME WANNA HOLLER) - Marvin Gaye # 41 42 ( 31 ) OH YOU PRETTY THINGS - Peter Noone # 17 43 ( 55 ) SING CHILDREN SING - Lesley Duncan # 43 44 ( 37 ) STOP LOOK LISTEN (TO YOUR HEART) - The Stylistics # 16 45 ( 41 ) NEVER CAN SAY GOODBYE - The Jackson 5 # 1 46 ( NEW ) I’M LEAVIN’ - Elvis Presley # 46 47 ( 49 ) CAREY - Joni Mitchell # 47 48 ( 50 ) CALL ME ANYTIME YOU NEED SOME LOVIN’ - Lorraine Ellison # 48 49 ( 34 ) HARLEM - Bill Withers # 20 50 ( 38 ) THINK ABOUT YOUR TROUBLES - Harry Nilsson # 30 51 ( 44 ) DOUBLE BARREL - Dave & Ansel Collins # 7 52 ( 42 ) FLIM FLAM MAN - Barbra Streisand # 13 53 ( 53 ) HERE IT COMES - Peter Gordeno # 53 54 ( 57 ) WHEN YOU GET RIGHT DOWN TO IT - Ronnie Dyson # 54 55 ( 56 ) I DON’T WANT TO DO WRONG - Gladys Knight & The Pips # 55 56 ( 52 ) CASTLES IN THE AIR - Don McLean # 1 57 ( 51 ) IT’S TOO LATE - Carole King # 4 58 ( 46 ) YOU’VE GOT A FRIEND - James Taylor # 46 59 ( 64 ) REASON TO BELIEVE - Rod Stewart # 59 60 ( 63 ) COME BACK AND FINISH WHAT YOU STARTED - Faith, Hope & Charity # 60 61 ( 65 ) OVER AND OVER - The Delfonics # 61 62 ( 75 ) PURE IMAGINATION - Gene Wilder (from “Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory” Original Soundtrack) # 62 63 ( 68 ) SMILING FACE SOMETIMES - The Undisputed Truth # 63 64 ( 61 ) MY SWEET LORD - George Harrison # 1 65 ( 70 ) GIVE IT TIME - Middle Of The Road # 65 66 ( 67 ) THIS FLIGHT TONIGHT - Joni Mitchell # 66 67 ( 69 ) IN THESE CHANGING TIMES - The Four Tops # 67 68 ( 71 ) GET DOWN AND GET WITH IT - Slade # 68 69 ( 43 ) DRAGGIN’ THE LINE - Tommy James # 29 70 ( 73 ) I JUST WANT TO FALL IN LOVE - Archie Bell & The Drells # 70 71 ( 76 ) TUNE TO THE MUSIC - Status Quo # 71 72 ( 72 ) LIAR - Three Dog Night # 72 73 ( 59 ) CHIRPY CHIRPY CHEEP CHEEP - Middle Of The Road # 6 74 ( 77 ) K-JEE - Nite-Liters # 74 75 ( 60 ) MOZART 40 - Waldo De Los Rios # 7 76 ( NEW ) THE DEVIL’S ANSWER - Atomic Rooster # 76 77 ( NEW ) LAST MORNIN’ - Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show # 77 78 ( NEW ) MOTHER FREEDOM - Bread # 78 79 ( NEW ) WE WILL - Gilbert O’Sullivan # 79 80 ( NEW ) MAYBE TOMORROW - The Jackson 5 # 80 Wot I liked then 29th June 1971 It's 4 weeks on top for the Chirpy Cheeping, but not tweeting in those days, as Hurricane Smith becomes the latest track to peak at 2 as Middle Of The Road refuse to shift. He won't be the last one to peak at 2, either! Dave & Ansil Collins go top 10, and Tom Tom Turnaround, entering at 18 for New World, their second hit of the year, and a Chinn-Chapman production that signals later balladry from Smokie. Both singles were owned by my RAF Swinderby friend Graham, who had been there in 1969 when we left and was still there in 1971 when we got back, so I became hooked on them. I requested both singles as my big christmas present that year, including some other tracks not yet charted, and duly got Monkey Spanner, but the record shop didn't have Tom Tom Turnaround, so had to wait some years to get a copy of that one! Bob & Marcia go top 10, and Greyhound debut with the wonderful record and less-wonderful shambolic school assembly song (kids trying to sing reggae to a piano and teachers blissfully unaware of the hit version): Black & White had great well-meaning lyrics though, so reggae doing pretty well all in all. There's a live version of the band singing the song on German TV on youtube, and the lead singer literally gives a tight-trouser zip-busting energetic performance while the audience, politely looking on, clap along while seated. Finally, Lobo debuts with his dog, Boo, a nice ballad. 1 ( 1 ) CHIRPY CHIRPY CHEEP CHEEP - Middle Of The Road 2 ( 4 ) DON’T LET IT DIE - Hurricane Smith 3 ( 3 ) I AM...I SAID - Neil Diamond 4 ( 2 ) THE BANNER MAN - Blue Mink 5 ( 7 ) CO-CO - The Sweet 6 ( 16 ) MONKEY SPANNER - Dave & Ansel Collins 7 ( 6 ) MY LITTLE ONE - Marmalade 8 ( 5 ) LADY ROSE - Mungo Jerry 9 ( 15 ) THE PIED PIPER - Bob & Marcia 10 ( 9 ) KNOCK THREE TIMES - Dawn 11 ( 8 ) MAMA’S PEARL - The Jackson 5 12 ( 12 ) RAGS TO RICHES - Elvis Presley 13 ( 11 ) I’M GONNA RUN AWAY FROM YOU - Tami Lynn 14 ( 10 ) HE’S GONNA STEP ON YOU AGAIN - John Kongos 15 ( 20 ) WHEN YOU ARE A KING - White Plains 16 ( 19 ) RIVER DEEP MOUNTAIN HIGH - The Supremes & The Four Tops 17 ( NEW ) BLACK AND WHITE - Greyhound 18 ( NEW ) TOM TOM TURNAROUND - New World 19 ( 18 ) INDIANA WANTS ME - R. Dean Taylor 20 ( NEW ) ME AND YOU AND A DOG NAMED BOO - Lobo |
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9th July 2021, 05:29 PM
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3rd July 1971
It's a brand new entry on top for the third T.Rex chart-topper in a row, Get It On being so good it became a big hit in the Glam-free USA, influenced by Rolling Stones riffs here and there, the imagery was pure Bolan though. This week marks a bit of massive invasion of classics for me. From here-on it's pretty much majorly stuff I played to death in the UK, most of them I bought on singles (eventually) mixed with stuff I missed out on, or were album tracks and B sides. The combination means I can no longer fit them into a chart of 75 and I've had to expand to 90. I expect it'll stay that way for the next 3 years or so before things start to get less good in 1975, overall. The sheer competition means every track is doing much less well than it deserves in terms of chart positions, bar the very top. Middle Of The Road are at 9, for example, and topped my original charts for 7 weeks back in the day. Joan Baez is up to 2 with her fab Dixie cover, and new on their brand new album it's future classic single Have You Seen Her from The Chi-Lites, shamelessly sad, lush and sentimental, and still brilliant, despite MC Hammer's attempt to murder it. In at 7, and Eugene Record hits his stride from here onwards, main singer and songwriter of the band. Another soul classic, for me, is in at 19, 1973 UK hit Take Me Girl I'm Ready from the fab Junior Walker, out in the USA 2 years earlier. Motown was always looking for oldies to push in the UK when the hits started drying up, working that back catalogue. In at 28, I got it for Christmas 1971, the wonderful 1964 Northern Soul UK chart-topper from The Tams - Hey Girl Don't Bother was on top of the charts when I got to see my first Top Of The Pops shows after 2 years deprived. My memory is they weren't appearing until it had dropped off the top spot, or it's last week on top, as they struggled to find them, and get them over the Atlantic to the UK. They looked a bit "mature" and out of vocal practice, but it was lovely to see them. In at 57, 5 months early, the best track off Deep Purple's new album Fireball. The future single was one I rated, I liked the thrash/punk tempo some years before punk was even a germ of an idea. David Crosby follows Neil Young & Stephen Stills with a solo entry, and Graham Nash wouldn't be that far behind - I def charted stuff from him 1974 in my original charts of the time. Orleans is utterly not what I was expecting, it's rather lovely. The Trems keep the chart entries coming 5 years on, Cliff ditto, and so The Who with their rock classic Won't Get Fooled Again. I still don't love it. I like it, which is better than my view in the 70's, I actively disliked it, possibly due to buying a second-hand copy (without hearing the record before) which was shot to hell. Much prefer the follow-up. I know I'm in a minority there! The Moments get another entry 4 years before their UK breakthrough, slick soul with ear-shattering vocals, Valerie Simpson drops her partner for a solo hit attempt (Ashford and her give away their best songs though - so no hits!). The Doobies debut a year earlier than I expected, with Nobody - not one I know - while Twiggy goes all 1920's as she promotes her debut movie The Boy Friend, which was set in that period. A flop, obviously, but she'd get the hit in 5 years time, with a country folk cover. Phew! 1 ( NEW ) GET IT ON (BANG A GONG) - T.Rex # 1 2 ( 10 ) THE NIGHT THEY DROVE OLD DIXIE DOWN - Joan Baez # 2 3 ( 1 ) HOW CAN YOU MEND A BROKEN HEART - The Bee Gees # 1 4 ( 2 ) AIN’T NO SUNSHINE - Bill Withers # 1 5 ( 3 ) MERCY MERCY ME (THE ECOLOGY) - Marvin Gaye # 1 6 ( 6 ) THE WITCH QUEEN OF NEW ORLEANS - Redbone # 5 7 ( NEW ) HAVE YOU SEEN HER - The Chi-Lites # 7 8 ( 12 ) TOM TOM TURNAROUND - New World # 8 9 ( 9 ) TWEEDLE DEE TWEEDLE DUM - Middle Of The Road # 9 10 ( 14 ) BIRDS OF A FEATHER - The Raiders # 10 11 ( 5 ) UNCLE ALBERT/ADMIRAL HALSEY - Paul & Linda McCartney # 1 12 ( 4 ) MAGGIE MAY - Rod Stewart # 4 13 ( 7 ) YAMASUKI - The Yamasukis # 5 14 ( 8 ) BLACK AND WHITE - Greyhound # 1 15 ( 11 ) NEVER ENDING SONG OF LOVE - The New Seekers # 8 16 ( 18 ) MONKEY SPANNER - Dave & Ansel Collins # 16 17 ( 19 ) DID YOU EVER? - Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood # 17 18 ( 13 ) SUPERSTAR - Carpenters # 1 19 ( NEW ) TAKE ME GIRL I’M READY - Junior Walker & The All Stars # 19 20 ( 15 ) NATHAN JONES - The Supremes # 1 21 ( 16 ) I’M GONNA RUN AWAY FROM YOU - Tami Lynn # 1 22 ( 17 ) THE BANNER MAN - Blue Mink # 6 23 ( 25 ) BACK STREET LUV - Curved Air # 23 24 ( 33 ) LADY ROSE - Mungo Jerry # 24 25 ( 20 ) HE’S GONNA STEP ON YOU AGAIN - John Kongos # 4 26 ( 21 ) HERE COMES THAT RAINY DAY FEELING AGAIN - The Fortunes # 1 27 ( 29 ) MOONSHADOW - Cat Stevens # 27 28 ( NEW ) HEY GIRL DON’T BOTHER ME - The Tams # 28 29 ( 22 ) CO-CO - The Sweet # 22 30 ( 35 ) LOVE SONG - Lesley Duncan # 30 31 ( 23 ) THE BACK SEAT OF MY CAR - Paul & Linda McCartney # 16 32 ( 31 ) HOT LOVE - T.Rex # 1 33 ( 34 ) RAININ’ N’ PAININ’ - Middle Of The Road # 33 34 ( 27 ) DON’T LET IT DIE - Hurricane Smith # 10 35 ( 24 ) THE PIED PIPER - Bob & Marcia # 19 36 ( 30 ) RIDERS OF THE STORM - The Doors # 4 37 ( 41 ) INNER CITY BLUES (MAKE ME WANNA HOLLER) - Marvin Gaye # 37 38 ( 46 ) I’M LEAVIN’ - Elvis Presley # 38 39 ( 43 ) SING CHILDREN SING - Lesley Duncan # 39 40 ( 26 ) BRING THE BOYS HOME - Freda Payne # 12 41 ( 37 ) WHAT’S GOING ON? - Marvin Gaye # 1 42 ( 38 ) ANOTHER DAY - Paul McCartney # 1 43 ( 48 ) CALL ME ANYTIME YOU NEED SOME LOVIN’ - Lorraine Ellison # 43 44 ( 28 ) MELODY FAIR - The Bee Gees # 28 45 ( 39 ) RAINY DAYS AND MONDAYS - Carpenters # 8 46 ( 32 ) LOVE SONG - Olivia Newton-John # 22 47 ( 53 ) HERE IT COMES - Peter Gordeno # 47 48 ( 54 ) WHEN YOU GET RIGHT DOWN TO IT - Ronnie Dyson # 48 49 ( 45 ) NEVER CAN SAY GOODBYE - The Jackson 5 # 1 50 ( 55 ) I DON’T WANT TO DO WRONG - Gladys Knight & The Pips # 50 51 ( 42 ) OH YOU PRETTY THINGS - Peter Noone # 17 52 ( 62 ) PURE IMAGINATION - Gene Wilder (from “Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory” Original Soundtrack) # 52 53 ( 36 ) TONIGHT - The Move # 30 54 ( 59 ) REASON TO BELIEVE - Rod Stewart # 54 55 ( 44 ) STOP LOOK LISTEN (TO YOUR HEART) - The Stylistics # 16 56 ( 51 ) DOUBLE BARREL - Dave & Ansel Collins # 7 57 ( NEW ) FIREBALL - Deep Purple # 57 58 ( 65 ) GIVE IT TIME - Middle Of The Road # 58 59 ( 56 ) CASTLES IN THE AIR - Don McLean # 1 60 ( 63 ) SMILING FACE SOMETIMES - The Undisputed Truth # 60 61 ( 57 ) IT’S TOO LATE - Carole King # 4 62 ( 66 ) THIS FLIGHT TONIGHT - Joni Mitchell # 62 63 ( 76 ) THE DEVIL’S ANSWER - Atomic Rooster # 63 64 ( 47 ) CAREY - Joni Mitchell # 47 65 ( 40 ) YOU GOTTA HAVE LOVE IN YOUR HEART - The Supremes & The Four Tops # 40 66 ( 67 ) IN THESE CHANGING TIMES - The Four Tops # 66 67 ( 68 ) GET DOWN AND GET WITH IT - Slade # 67 68 ( 64 ) MY SWEET LORD - George Harrison # 1 69 ( 74 ) K-JEE - Nite-Liters # 69 70 ( 77 ) LAST MORNIN’ - Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show # 70 71 ( 60 ) COME BACK AND FINISH WHAT YOU STARTED - Faith, Hope & Charity # 60 72 ( 80 ) MAYBE TOMORROW - The Jackson 5 # 72 73 ( 79 ) WE WILL - Gilbert O’Sullivan # 73 74 ( 52 ) FLIM FLAM MAN - Barbra Streisand # 13 75 ( 70 ) I JUST WANT TO FALL IN LOVE - Archie Bell & The Drells # 70 76 ( NEW ) ORLEANS - David Crosby # 76 77 ( 78 ) MOTHER FREEDOM - Bread # 77 78 ( 71 ) TUNE TO THE MUSIC - Status Quo # 71 79 ( 72 ) LIAR - Three Dog Night # 72 80 ( NEW ) HELLO BUDDY - The Tremeloes # 80 81 ( NEW ) WON’T GET FOOLED AGAIN - The Who # 81 82 ( NEW ) LUCKY ME - The Moments # 82 83 ( NEW ) I JUST WANT TO BE THERE - Valerie Simpson # 83 84 ( 50 ) THINK ABOUT YOUR TROUBLES - Harry Nilsson # 30 85 ( NEW ) FLYING MACHINE - Cliff Richard # 85 86 ( NEW ) NOBODY - The Doobie Brothers # 86 87 ( NEW ) ZOO DE ZOO ZONG - Twiggy & Friends # 87 88 ( NEW ) GIRLS ARE OUT TO GET YOU - The Fascinations # 88 89 ( NEW ) RAW RAMP - T.Rex # 89 90 ( NEW ) TAKE AWAY - The Tams # 90 6th July 1971 Wot I Liked Then 50 years ago this week, Middle Of The Road were my faves for a 5th week, as one the final records I heard in Singapore to make my top 10 shoves up for The Supremes & The Four Tops, as River Deep goes where Ike & Tina Turner had gone before. New World get Tom Tom Turnaround into the 10 too. The highest new entry is the 3rd monster track from T.Rex - though I wouldn't get to hear it for another 2 months or so it entered the UK charts this week, and so I retro-added it. Oddly it was my least-fave T.Rex single for a few years, mostly because I didn't get to hear it much till I bought it. Sneaking in, my other big pop hero after Marc Bolan was on the wane: Roy Wood. he hadn't quite glammed up yet, though. 1 ( 1 ) CHIRPY CHIRPY CHEEP CHEEP - Middle Of The Road 2 ( 5 ) CO-CO - The Sweet 3 ( 3 ) I AM...I SAID - Neil Diamond 4 ( 2 ) DON’T LET IT DIE - Hurricane Smith 5 ( 6 ) MONKEY SPANNER - Dave & Ansel Collins 6 ( 4 ) THE BANNER MAN - Blue Mink 7 ( 18 ) TOM TOM TURNAROUND - New World 8 ( 16 ) RIVER DEEP MOUNTAIN HIGH - The Supremes & The Four Tops 9 ( 7 ) MY LITTLE ONE - Marmalade 10 ( 20 ) ME AND YOU AND A DOG NAMED BOO - Lobo 11 ( 8 ) LADY ROSE - Mungo Jerry 12 ( 10 ) KNOCK THREE TIMES - Dawn 13 ( 17 ) BLACK AND WHITE - Greyhound 14 ( 11 ) MAMA’S PEARL - The Jackson 5 15 ( 12 ) RAGS TO RICHES - Elvis Presley 16 ( 13 ) I’M GONNA RUN AWAY FROM YOU - Tami Lynn 17 ( NEW ) GET IT ON (BANG A GONG) - T.Rex 18 ( 9 ) THE PIED PIPER - Bob & Marcia 19 ( 14 ) HE’S GONNA STEP ON YOU AGAIN - John Kongos 20 ( NEW ) TONIGHT - The Move |
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16th July 2021, 04:30 PM
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10th July 1971
It's 2 weeks on top for the imperial T.Rex, banging that gong, and holding off The Chi-Lites brilliant Have You Seen Her at 2 - I love The Chi-Lites, and admire main singer/writer Eugene Record, but in all their years of hits they never appeared on UK TV, I've no idea why not but it means I had no idea what they looked like in their heyday - until I just caught them on Soul Train on Youtube singing this one. Fab! I saw the last remaining member on the final tour last decade, which wasn't quite the same, but it was great to hear the songs, even if Eugene passed away years before. This week 50 years ago Diana Ross and Aretha Franklin each had a new album out, so cherry-picking the next 2 Diana Ross singles means future UK number one, and US relative flop, I'm Still Waiting enters at 14 - one of my "I got it for Christmas" singles because I never got to tape it off the radio and it was fab, but I did catch it on Top Of The Pops at my grandma & grandad's house in September. The single follow-up which I did tape in the autumn (and so didn't buy) actually topped my charts of the time - Surrender has a glorious hook, and enters at 9. Aretha meanwhile, has an uptempo funk cover of Ben E. King's Spanish Harlem, a song I knew, but had no idea where from at the time. Aretha at her near-best, in at 31. There's no let-up in new entries vs departing tracks, so it's still a top 90, and a 4th entry for Dawn & Tony Orlando, as my 15-year-old Auntie had bought What Are You Doing Sunday? which I got to hear in September on afore-mentioned stereogram. I liked it, but not nearly as much as I loved Knock Three Times and Candida at the time. These days it's probably lasted the best of all their singles, maybe apart from Candida & Tie A Yellow Ribbon. Though everything is relative! Elvis gets 2 oldies joining his latest hit, 2 of his best 50's tracks as 50's nostalgia gets firmly underway to become a theme of 70's media. Betty Wright is back again with one I don't know, ditto The Moody Blues, both are pretty decent, and Peggy Lee is also returning with a song I do know - I just didn't know she'd done it! Where Did They Go popped up on Top Of The Pops in 1972-ish with Sandie Shaw singing it looking for an elusive hit post-Monsieur Dupont. She only had to wait for Morrissey to grow up and 12 years to get one. Lastly another Jim Reeves oldie pops in. He was still making the UK charts almost a decade after he'd died, following the Buddy Holly pattern, and future Elvis pattern. 1 ( 1 ) GET IT ON (BANG A GONG) - T.Rex # 1 2 ( 7 ) HAVE YOU SEEN HER - The Chi-Lites # 2 3 ( 2 ) THE NIGHT THEY DROVE OLD DIXIE DOWN - Joan Baez # 2 4 ( 3 ) HOW CAN YOU MEND A BROKEN HEART - The Bee Gees # 1 5 ( 5 ) MERCY MERCY ME (THE ECOLOGY) - Marvin Gaye # 1 6 ( 4 ) AIN’T NO SUNSHINE - Bill Withers # 1 7 ( 6 ) THE WITCH QUEEN OF NEW ORLEANS - Redbone # 5 8 ( 8 ) TOM TOM TURNAROUND - New World # 8 9 ( NEW ) SURRENDER - Diana Ross # 9 10 ( 19 ) TAKE ME GIRL I’M READY - Junior Walker & The All Stars # 10 11 ( 11 ) UNCLE ALBERT/ADMIRAL HALSEY - Paul & Linda McCartney # 1 12 ( 16 ) MONKEY SPANNER - Dave & Ansel Collins # 12 13 ( 9 ) TWEEDLE DEE TWEEDLE DUM - Middle Of The Road # 9 14 ( NEW ) I’M STILL WAITING - Diana Ross # 14 15 ( 10 ) BIRDS OF A FEATHER - The Raiders # 10 16 ( 14 ) BLACK AND WHITE - Greyhound # 1 17 ( 17 ) DID YOU EVER? - Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood # 17 18 ( 12 ) MAGGIE MAY - Rod Stewart # 4 19 ( 15 ) NEVER ENDING SONG OF LOVE - The New Seekers # 8 20 ( 13 ) YAMASUKI - The Yamasukis # 5 21 ( 18 ) SUPERSTAR - Carpenters # 1 22 ( 20 ) NATHAN JONES - The Supremes # 1 23 ( 23 ) BACK STREET LUV - Curved Air # 23 24 ( 28 ) HEY GIRL DON’T BOTHER ME - The Tams # 24 25 ( 21 ) I’M GONNA RUN AWAY FROM YOU - Tami Lynn # 1 26 ( 22 ) THE BANNER MAN - Blue Mink # 6 27 ( 25 ) HE’S GONNA STEP ON YOU AGAIN - John Kongos # 4 28 ( 26 ) HERE COMES THAT RAINY DAY FEELING AGAIN - The Fortunes # 1 29 ( 38 ) I’M LEAVIN’ - Elvis Presley # 29 30 ( 37 ) INNER CITY BLUES (MAKE ME WANNA HOLLER) - Marvin Gaye # 30 31 ( NEW ) SPANISH HARLEM - Aretha Franklin # 31 32 ( 27 ) MOONSHADOW - Cat Stevens # 27 33 ( 39 ) SING CHILDREN SING - Lesley Duncan # 33 34 ( 30 ) LOVE SONG - Lesley Duncan # 30 35 ( 32 ) HOT LOVE - T.Rex # 1 36 ( 31 ) THE BACK SEAT OF MY CAR - Paul & Linda McCartney # 16 37 ( 34 ) DON’T LET IT DIE - Hurricane Smith # 10 38 ( 36 ) RIDERS OF THE STORM - The Doors # 4 39 ( 43 ) CALL ME ANYTIME YOU NEED SOME LOVIN’ - Lorraine Ellison # 39 40 ( 48 ) WHEN YOU GET RIGHT DOWN TO IT - Ronnie Dyson # 40 41 ( 24 ) LADY ROSE - Mungo Jerry # 24 42 ( 29 ) CO-CO - The Sweet # 22 43 ( 41 ) WHAT’S GOING ON? - Marvin Gaye # 1 44 ( 42 ) ANOTHER DAY - Paul McCartney # 1 45 ( 35 ) THE PIED PIPER - Bob & Marcia # 19 46 ( 50 ) I DON’T WANT TO DO WRONG - Gladys Knight & The Pips # 46 47 ( 52 ) PURE IMAGINATION - Gene Wilder (from “Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory” Original Soundtrack) # 47 48 ( 54 ) REASON TO BELIEVE - Rod Stewart # 48 49 ( 40 ) BRING THE BOYS HOME - Freda Payne # 12 50 ( 45 ) RAINY DAYS AND MONDAYS - Carpenters # 8 51 ( 57 ) FIREBALL - Deep Purple # 51 52 ( 49 ) NEVER CAN SAY GOODBYE - The Jackson 5 # 1 53 ( 33 ) RAININ’ N’ PAININ’ - Middle Of The Road # 33 54 ( 58 ) GIVE IT TIME - Middle Of The Road # 54 55 ( 60 ) SMILING FACE SOMETIMES - The Undisputed Truth # 55 56 ( 44 ) MELODY FAIR - The Bee Gees # 28 57 ( 62 ) THIS FLIGHT TONIGHT - Joni Mitchell # 57 58 ( 63 ) THE DEVIL’S ANSWER - Atomic Rooster # 58 59 ( NEW ) WHAT ARE YOU DOING SUNDAY - Dawn featuring Tony Orlando # 59 60 ( 56 ) DOUBLE BARREL - Dave & Ansel Collins # 7 61 ( 46 ) LOVE SONG - Olivia Newton-John # 22 62 ( 59 ) CASTLES IN THE AIR - Don McLean # 1 63 ( 67 ) GET DOWN AND GET WITH IT - Slade # 63 64 ( 70 ) LAST MORNIN’ - Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show # 64 65 ( 61 ) IT’S TOO LATE - Carole King # 4 66 ( 66 ) IN THESE CHANGING TIMES - The Four Tops # 66 67 ( 69 ) K-JEE - Nite-Liters # 67 68 ( 72 ) MAYBE TOMORROW - The Jackson 5 # 68 69 ( 73 ) WE WILL - Gilbert O’Sullivan # 69 70 ( NEW ) HEARTBREAK HOTEL - Elvis Presley # 70 71 ( 51 ) OH YOU PRETTY THINGS - Peter Noone # 17 72 ( 76 ) ORLEANS - David Crosby # 72 73 ( NEW ) HOUND DOG - Elvis Presley # 73 74 ( 80 ) HELLO BUDDY - The Tremeloes # 74 75 ( 68 ) MY SWEET LORD - George Harrison # 1 76 ( 47 ) HERE IT COMES - Peter Gordeno # 47 77 ( 77 ) MOTHER FREEDOM - Bread # 77 78 ( 82 ) LUCKY ME - The Moments # 78 79 ( 85 ) FLYING MACHINE - Cliff Richard # 79 80 ( 53 ) TONIGHT - The Move # 30 81 ( 81 ) WON’T GET FOOLED AGAIN - The Who # 81 82 ( 83 ) I JUST WANT TO BE THERE - Valerie Simpson # 82 83 ( 86 ) NOBODY - The Doobie Brothers # 83 84 ( 87 ) ZOO DE ZOO ZONG - Twiggy & Friends # 84 85 ( NEW ) I LOVE THE WAY YOU LOVE - Betty Wright # 85 86 ( NEW ) WHERE DID THEY GO - Peggy Lee # 86 87 ( 89 ) RAW RAMP - T.Rex # 87 88 ( NEW ) THE STORY IN YOUR EYES - The Moody Blues # 88 89 ( 90 ) TAKE AWAY - The Tams # 89 90 ( NEW ) HE’LL HAVE TO GO - Jim Reeves # 90 13th July 1971 My Charts of the time It's 6 weeks chirping on top 50 years ago, as Dave, the original Dave not the recent pretender, and Ansel Collins are at 2 with a spot of cheerful Monkey Spanner in the reggae works. New World get their biggest hit as Tom Tom Turnaround hits 3, and Greyhound get a first top 10 (but not a last) as Black & White goes up. The Move also grab a 2nd top 10, following on from Blackberry Way topping my chart 3 years earlier. New in at 16, The New Seekers have a pending monster as I get to hear it on my grandma & grandad's stereogram, cos my Auntie Ann (15 years old) had bought it and I went mad on it immediately. It reminded me in the boop boop bits of some of the singing Sesame Street gang that had started on Singapore TV. I know I was MUCH too old to watch it (at 13) but hey it was still mildly entertaining anyway. Talking of Singapore, dad bought a Singapore act's cover (in Mandarin), The Travellers doing Knock Three Times, which tickled him after hearing it on a Changi Village market stall. Finally, Canadian folkie Gordon Lightfoot enters with the wonderful If You Could Read My Mind, one I grew to love more with the years passing. 1 ( 1 ) CHIRPY CHIRPY CHEEP CHEEP - Middle Of The Road 2 ( 5 ) MONKEY SPANNER - Dave & Ansel Collins 3 ( 7 ) TOM TOM TURNAROUND - New World 4 ( 2 ) CO-CO - The Sweet 5 ( 3 ) I AM...I SAID - Neil Diamond 6 ( 4 ) DON’T LET IT DIE - Hurricane Smith 7 ( 13 ) BLACK AND WHITE - Greyhound 8 ( 6 ) THE BANNER MAN - Blue Mink 9 ( 9 ) MY LITTLE ONE - Marmalade 10 ( 20 ) TONIGHT - The Move 11 ( 17 ) GET IT ON (BANG A GONG) - T.Rex 12 ( 8 ) RIVER DEEP MOUNTAIN HIGH - The Supremes & The Four Tops 13 ( 12 ) KNOCK THREE TIMES - Dawn 14 ( 11 ) LADY ROSE - Mungo Jerry 15 ( NEW ) NEVER ENDING SONG OF LOVE - The New Seekers 16 ( 10 ) ME AND YOU AND A DOG NAMED BOO - Lobo 17 ( 16 ) I’M GONNA RUN AWAY FROM YOU - Tami Lynn 18 ( NEW ) IF YOU COULD READ MY MIND - Gordon Lightfoot 19 ( NEW ) KNOCK THREE TIMES - The Travellers 20 ( 19 ) HE’S GONNA STEP ON YOU AGAIN - John Kongos |
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23rd July 2021, 03:35 PM
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BuzzJack Legend
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17th July 1971
It's a new chart-topper as The Chi-Lites bang a gong on T.Rex, grabbing a first number one with the wonderfully slushy Have You Seen Her, and Diana Ross gets a double top-tenner as Surrender climbs to 3 and I'm Still Waiting is at 9. Junior Walker gets a second top 5 with Take Me Girl I'm Ready, and Dave & Ansel Collins get 2 top 10's in a row as they throw a Monkey Spanner in the works. The Tams knock on the doors of the top 10, as the 7-year-old Hey Girl Don't Bother Me is up to 12, and Aretha is singing a Spanish Harlem at 19. Deep Purple go top 40 with the pumping Fireball, and highest new entry is technically the last record I got in Singapore - Shirley Bassey's gentle-semi-reggae-beat version of the Carpenters For All We Know - which I knew before I heard the original. Dad liked Shirl, bought her albums, and I wrote to him (he had to stay in Singapore for another 3 months while families left earlier) saying I quite liked the record, but please could I have Hot Chocolate's I Believe (In Love) as I'd just gone mad on it. Sadly he couldn't find a copy in Singapore so bought me La Bassey instead. Oh yes I was disappointed, but I got Hot Choc for Xmas instead. So I'm fond of this Shirley single. In at 55. Keeping up with the Classic Crooner theme, Frank Sinatra covers a song by the Four Seasons main songwriter, Lady Day, about Billie Holiday, so what with Peggy Lee, a bunch of classy balladeers are collecting. Throw in John Williams and his version of the classical piece Cavatina, too - a hit in 1979 after it was used as the theme to The Deer Hunter, I had no idea it was 8 years when it charted, though The Shadows got the bigger hit, and Iris Williams had a vocal version hit too with her cover of the original Cleo Laine "with-added-lyrics" out in 1972. That leaves French singer Michel Delpech popping with with the French-language version of a later English-lyrics cover hit called Flirt by Jonathan King which I was a fan of at the time (early 1972). 1 ( 2 ) HAVE YOU SEEN HER - The Chi-Lites # 1 2 ( 1 ) GET IT ON (BANG A GONG) - T.Rex # 1 3 ( 9 ) SURRENDER - Diana Ross # 3 4 ( 3 ) THE NIGHT THEY DROVE OLD DIXIE DOWN - Joan Baez # 2 5 ( 10 ) TAKE ME GIRL I’M READY - Junior Walker & The All Stars # 5 6 ( 4 ) HOW CAN YOU MEND A BROKEN HEART - The Bee Gees # 1 7 ( 5 ) MERCY MERCY ME (THE ECOLOGY) - Marvin Gaye # 1 8 ( 8 ) TOM TOM TURNAROUND - New World # 8 9 ( 14 ) I’M STILL WAITING - Diana Ross # 9 10 ( 12 ) MONKEY SPANNER - Dave & Ansel Collins # 10 11 ( 6 ) AIN’T NO SUNSHINE - Bill Withers # 1 12 ( 24 ) HEY GIRL DON’T BOTHER ME - The Tams # 12 13 ( 7 ) THE WITCH QUEEN OF NEW ORLEANS - Redbone # 5 14 ( 11 ) UNCLE ALBERT/ADMIRAL HALSEY - Paul & Linda McCartney # 1 15 ( 13 ) TWEEDLE DEE TWEEDLE DUM - Middle Of The Road # 9 16 ( 15 ) BIRDS OF A FEATHER - The Raiders # 10 17 ( 16 ) BLACK AND WHITE - Greyhound # 1 18 ( 31 ) SPANISH HARLEM - Aretha Franklin # 18 19 ( 19 ) NEVER ENDING SONG OF LOVE - The New Seekers # 8 20 ( 23 ) BACK STREET LUV - Curved Air # 20 21 ( 17 ) DID YOU EVER? - Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood # 17 22 ( 18 ) MAGGIE MAY - Rod Stewart # 4 23 ( 29 ) I’M LEAVIN’ - Elvis Presley # 23 24 ( 21 ) SUPERSTAR - Carpenters # 1 25 ( 22 ) NATHAN JONES - The Supremes # 1 26 ( 20 ) YAMASUKI - The Yamasukis # 5 27 ( 30 ) INNER CITY BLUES (MAKE ME WANNA HOLLER) - Marvin Gaye # 27 28 ( 25 ) I’M GONNA RUN AWAY FROM YOU - Tami Lynn # 1 29 ( 26 ) THE BANNER MAN - Blue Mink # 6 30 ( 27 ) HE’S GONNA STEP ON YOU AGAIN - John Kongos # 4 31 ( 28 ) HERE COMES THAT RAINY DAY FEELING AGAIN - The Fortunes # 1 32 ( 32 ) MOONSHADOW - Cat Stevens # 27 33 ( 51 ) FIREBALL - Deep Purple # 33 34 ( 40 ) WHEN YOU GET RIGHT DOWN TO IT - Ronnie Dyson # 34 35 ( 34 ) LOVE SONG - Lesley Duncan # 30 36 ( 33 ) SING CHILDREN SING - Lesley Duncan # 33 37 ( 35 ) HOT LOVE - T.Rex # 1 38 ( 39 ) CALL ME ANYTIME YOU NEED SOME LOVIN’ - Lorraine Ellison # 38 39 ( 47 ) PURE IMAGINATION - Gene Wilder (from “Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory” Original Soundtrack) # 39 40 ( 38 ) RIDERS OF THE STORM - The Doors # 4 41 ( 36 ) THE BACK SEAT OF MY CAR - Paul & Linda McCartney # 16 42 ( 37 ) DON’T LET IT DIE - Hurricane Smith # 10 43 ( 48 ) REASON TO BELIEVE - Rod Stewart # 43 44 ( 54 ) GIVE IT TIME - Middle Of The Road # 44 45 ( 43 ) WHAT’S GOING ON? - Marvin Gaye # 1 46 ( 44 ) ANOTHER DAY - Paul McCartney # 1 47 ( 55 ) SMILING FACE SOMETIMES - The Undisputed Truth # 47 48 ( 58 ) THE DEVIL’S ANSWER - Atomic Rooster # 48 49 ( 41 ) LADY ROSE - Mungo Jerry # 24 50 ( 42 ) CO-CO - The Sweet # 22 51 ( 45 ) THE PIED PIPER - Bob & Marcia # 19 52 ( 59 ) WHAT ARE YOU DOING SUNDAY - Dawn featuring Tony Orlando # 52 53 ( 50 ) RAINY DAYS AND MONDAYS - Carpenters # 8 54 ( 52 ) NEVER CAN SAY GOODBYE - The Jackson 5 # 1 55 ( NEW ) FOR ALL WE KNOW - Shirley Bassey # 55 56 ( 69 ) WE WILL - Gilbert O’Sullivan # 56 57 ( 57 ) THIS FLIGHT TONIGHT - Joni Mitchell # 57 58 ( 63 ) GET DOWN AND GET WITH IT - Slade # 58 59 ( 67 ) K-JEE - Nite-Liters # 59 60 ( 64 ) LAST MORNIN’ - Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show # 60 61 ( 49 ) BRING THE BOYS HOME - Freda Payne # 12 62 ( 68 ) MAYBE TOMORROW - The Jackson 5 # 62 63 ( 46 ) I DON’T WANT TO DO WRONG - Gladys Knight & The Pips # 46 64 ( 72 ) ORLEANS - David Crosby # 64 65 ( 62 ) CASTLES IN THE AIR - Don McLean # 1 66 ( 73 ) HOUND DOG - Elvis Presley # 66 67 ( 70 ) HEARTBREAK HOTEL - Elvis Presley # 67 68 ( 60 ) DOUBLE BARREL - Dave & Ansel Collins # 7 69 ( 74 ) HELLO BUDDY - The Tremeloes # 69 70 ( 65 ) IT’S TOO LATE - Carole King # 4 71 ( 78 ) LUCKY ME - The Moments # 71 72 ( 77 ) MOTHER FREEDOM - Bread # 72 73 ( 82 ) I JUST WANNA BE THERE - Valerie Simpson # 73 74 ( 88 ) THE STORY IN YOUR EYES - The Moody Blues # 74 75 ( 83 ) NOBODY - The Doobie Brothers # 75 76 ( 86 ) WHERE DID THEY GO - Peggy Lee # 76 77 ( 85 ) I LOVE THE WAY YOU LOVE - Betty Wright # 77 78 ( 81 ) WON’T GET FOOLED AGAIN - The Who # 78 79 ( 75 ) MY SWEET LORD - George Harrison # 1 80 ( NEW ) LADY DAY - Frank Sinatra # 80 81 ( 84 ) ZOO DE ZOO ZONG - Twiggy & Friends # 81 82 ( 87 ) RAW RAMP - T.Rex # 82 83 ( NEW ) POUR UN FLIRT - Michel Delpech # 83 84 ( 90 ) HE’LL HAVE TO GO - Jim Reeves # 84 85 ( NEW ) CAVATINA - John Williams # 85 20th July 1971 charts of the time It's 7 weeks on top for Middle Of The Road, and this week's challengers are New World, as Tom Tom Turnaround gives it a go at 2, with Greyhound up to 3, seeing things in black & white, and The New Seekers get another top 10 hit with their cover of Never Ending Song Of Love up to 5. T.Rex grab a 3rd top 10, as Get It On moves into the top tier, and Gordon Lightfoot's lovely folk ballad is at 9. The final Singapore-vintage track to enter my charts arrives at 12 for The Jackson 5, Never Can Say Goodbye would eventually top my charts in 1974 for Gloria Gaynor's belting disco romp version, but I loved the original ballad version almost as much from recording it off a US top 10 rundown I caught on the radio at random, having been unaware of it's existence until just before we were packing to return to the UK. That leaves Atomic Rooster and Cliff Richard as 2 tracks I heard over the next few weeks in September. So, as I say, the final glorious days in Singapore, no school, memories of my brother falling off a drainage pipe leading into the sea, and getting photographed with me sitting in our tree - the tree was a twig stuck in the ground 18 months earlier. Growfast! So, lazy days, and me hiding away as many of my DC superhero comics as I could manage in the crates, along with the text books I grabbed from the school library as they had an End-Of-School big giveaway of everything. Sadly someone had nicked the Hugo Walters boys adventure sci-fi books I wanted, and which go for hundreds of pounds these days. They got me into sci-fi books in a massive fashion: within the space of weeks I was buying from second-hand bookstalls Arthur C Clarke, Robert Heinlein, Ray Bradbury, Alan E. Nourse and any others that took my fancy. And I also got those into the crates. Still got 'em. 1 ( 1 ) CHIRPY CHIRPY CHEEP CHEEP - Middle Of The Road 2 ( 3 ) TOM TOM TURNAROUND - New World 3 ( 7 ) BLACK AND WHITE - Greyhound 4 ( 2 ) MONKEY SPANNER - Dave & Ansel Collins 5 ( 15 ) NEVER ENDING SONG OF LOVE - The New Seekers 6 ( 11 ) GET IT ON (BANG A GONG) - T.Rex 7 ( 4 ) CO-CO - The Sweet 8 ( 6 ) DON’T LET IT DIE - Hurricane Smith 9 ( 18 ) IF YOU COULD READ MY MIND - Gordon Lightfoot 10 ( 8 ) THE BANNER MAN - Blue Mink 11 ( 13 ) KNOCK THREE TIMES - Dawn 12 ( NEW ) NEVER CAN SAY GOODBYE - The Jackson 5 13 ( 10 ) TONIGHT - The Move 14 ( 14 ) LADY ROSE - Mungo Jerry 15 ( 12 ) RIVER DEEP MOUNTAIN HIGH - The Supremes & The Four Tops 16 ( NEW ) THE DEVIL’S ANSWER - Atomic Rooster 17 ( 17 ) I’M GONNA RUN AWAY FROM YOU - Tami Lynn 18 ( NEW ) FLYING MACHINE - Cliff Richard 19 ( 16 ) ME AND YOU AND A DOG NAMED BOO - Lobo 20 ( 20 ) HE’S GONNA STEP ON YOU AGAIN - John Kongos |
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30th July 2021, 09:45 AM
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I really would love TOTP episodes to go back through the 60/70s so I could follow the official charts then, I’m pretty clueless pre-1978 really except for the Christmas hits.
Did the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory song ‘Pure Imagination’ end up in the UK chart top 75? Can’t find it on Polyhex and it’s a great memory of watching the film as a kid(and last Xmas too 😁)! |
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7th August 2021, 11:57 AM
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BuzzJack Legend
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QUOTE(steve201 @ Jul 30 2021, 10:45 AM)  I really would love TOTP episodes to go back through the 60/70s so I could follow the official charts then, I’m pretty clueless pre-1978 really except for the Christmas hits. Did the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory song ‘Pure Imagination’ end up in the UK chart top 75? Can’t find it on Polyhex and it’s a great memory of watching the film as a kid(and last Xmas too 😁)! Hi Steve I wish TOTP episodes pre 1978 hadnt been scrubbed, it's my entire childhood and teen years they dumped, that goes for ITV kid-based pop shows too like Lift Off With Ayshea, though the odd episode still exists. Pure Imagination didn't chart, and I have to admit the Willie Wonka (strange name change!) film totally passed me by while I lived in Singapore and beyond till it popped up on TV, and I didn't notice the song till I was in one of the Florida theme parks in the 90's! It's really sweet
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7th August 2021, 12:03 PM
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BuzzJack Legend
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24th July 1971 It's Diana Ross and her 2nd solo chart-topper, 4th in retro total including the Supremes, with some fab reggae from The Pioneers debuting at 21, and Shirley Bassey leaping into the 20. My dad bought me that single when he got back from Singapore 3 months later than mum, me and my brother, so it's special to me. Dad liked Shirley Bassey and he knew I liked that one when he couldnt get hold of the Hot Chocolate single I asked for. 1 ( 3 ) SURRENDER - Diana Ross # 1 2 ( 1 ) HAVE YOU SEEN HER - The Chi-Lites # 1 3 ( 2 ) GET IT ON (BANG A GONG) - T.Rex # 1 4 ( 4 ) THE NIGHT THEY DROVE OLD DIXIE DOWN - Joan Baez # 2 5 ( 9 ) I’M STILL WAITING - Diana Ross # 5 6 ( 12 ) HEY GIRL DON’T BOTHER ME - The Tams # 6 7 ( 5 ) TAKE ME GIRL I’M READY - Junior Walker & The All Stars # 5 8 ( 6 ) HOW CAN YOU MEND A BROKEN HEART - The Bee Gees # 1 9 ( 7 ) MERCY MERCY ME (THE ECOLOGY) - Marvin Gaye # 1 10 ( 10 ) MONKEY SPANNER - Dave & Ansel Collins # 10 11 ( 8 ) TOM TOM TURNAROUND - New World # 8 12 ( 11 ) AIN’T NO SUNSHINE - Bill Withers # 1 13 ( 13 ) THE WITCH QUEEN OF NEW ORLEANS - Redbone # 5 14 ( 14 ) UNCLE ALBERT/ADMIRAL HALSEY - Paul & Linda McCartney # 1 15 ( 15 ) TWEEDLE DEE TWEEDLE DUM - Middle Of The Road # 9 16 ( 55 ) FOR ALL WE KNOW - Shirley Bassey # 16 17 ( 18 ) SPANISH HARLEM - Aretha Franklin # 17 18 ( 23 ) I’M LEAVIN’ - Elvis Presley # 18 19 ( 16 ) BIRDS OF A FEATHER - The Raiders # 10 20 ( 17 ) BLACK AND WHITE - Greyhound # 1 21 ( NEW ) LET YOUR YEAH BE YEAH - The Pioneers # 21 22 ( 19 ) NEVER ENDING SONG OF LOVE - The New Seekers # 8 23 ( 22 ) MAGGIE MAY - Rod Stewart # 4 24 ( 27 ) INNER CITY BLUES (MAKE ME WANNA HOLLER) - Marvin Gaye # 24 25 ( 24 ) SUPERSTAR - Carpenters # 1 26 ( 25 ) NATHAN JONES - The Supremes # 1 27 ( 21 ) DID YOU EVER? - Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood # 17 28 ( 33 ) FIREBALL - Deep Purple # 28 29 ( 26 ) YAMASUKI - The Yamasukis # 5 30 ( 28 ) I’M GONNA RUN AWAY FROM YOU - Tami Lynn # 1 31 ( 20 ) BACK STREET LUV - Curved Air # 20 32 ( 34 ) WHEN YOU GET RIGHT DOWN TO IT - Ronnie Dyson # 32 33 ( 31 ) HERE COMES THAT RAINY DAY FEELING AGAIN - The Fortunes # 1 34 ( 29 ) THE BANNER MAN - Blue Mink # 6 35 ( 30 ) HE’S GONNA STEP ON YOU AGAIN - John Kongos # 4 36 ( 39 ) PURE IMAGINATION - Gene Wilder (from “Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory” Original Soundtrack) # 36 37 ( 44 ) GIVE IT TIME - Middle Of The Road # 37 38 ( 48 ) THE DEVIL’S ANSWER - Atomic Rooster # 38 39 ( 37 ) HOT LOVE - T.Rex # 1 40 ( 32 ) MOONSHADOW - Cat Stevens # 27 41 ( 35 ) LOVE SONG - Lesley Duncan # 30 42 ( 52 ) WHAT ARE YOU DOING SUNDAY - Dawn featuring Tony Orlando # 42 43 ( 36 ) SING CHILDREN SING - Lesley Duncan # 33 44 ( 40 ) RIDERS OF THE STORM - The Doors # 4 45 ( 47 ) SMILING FACE SOMETIMES - The Undisputed Truth # 45 46 ( 42 ) DON’T LET IT DIE - Hurricane Smith # 10 47 ( 45 ) WHAT’S GOING ON? - Marvin Gaye # 1 48 ( 46 ) ANOTHER DAY - Paul McCartney # 1 49 ( 41 ) THE BACK SEAT OF MY CAR - Paul & Linda McCartney # 16 50 ( 56 ) WE WILL - Gilbert O’Sullivan # 50 51 ( 59 ) K-JEE - Nite-Liters # 51 52 ( 38 ) CALL ME ANYTIME YOU NEED SOME LOVIN’ - Lorraine Ellison # 38 53 ( NEW ) GO AWAY LITTLE GIRL - Donny Osmond # 53 54 ( 43 ) REASON TO BELIEVE - Rod Stewart # 43 55 ( 60 ) LAST MORNIN’ - Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show # 55 56 ( 53 ) RAINY DAYS AND MONDAYS - Carpenters # 8 57 ( 54 ) NEVER CAN SAY GOODBYE - The Jackson 5 # 1 58 ( 66 ) HOUND DOG - Elvis Presley # 58 59 ( 51 ) THE PIED PIPER - Bob & Marcia # 19 60 ( 62 ) MAYBE TOMORROW - The Jackson 5 # 60 61 ( 50 ) CO-CO - The Sweet # 22 62 ( 64 ) ORLEANS - David Crosby # 62 63 ( 69 ) HELLO BUDDY - The Tremeloes # 63 64 ( 67 ) HEARTBREAK HOTEL - Elvis Presley # 64 65 ( 71 ) LUCKY ME - The Moments # 65 66 ( 49 ) LADY ROSE - Mungo Jerry # 24 67 ( 65 ) CASTLES IN THE AIR - Don McLean # 1 68 ( 72 ) MOTHER FREEDOM - Bread # 68 69 ( 75 ) NOBODY - The Doobie Brothers # 69 70 ( 73 ) I JUST WANNA BE THERE - Valerie Simpson # 70 71 ( 74 ) THE STORY IN YOUR EYES - The Moody Blues # 71 72 ( 76 ) WHERE DID THEY GO - Peggy Lee # 72 73 ( 77 ) I LOVE THE WAY YOU LOVE - Betty Wright # 73 74 ( 80 ) LADY DAY - Frank Sinatra # 74 75 ( 83 ) POUR UN FLIRT - Michel Delpech # 75 76 ( NEW ) AT THE TOP OF THE STAIRS - The Formations # 76 77 ( 85 ) CAVATINA - John Williams # 77 78 ( NEW ) LET MY NAME BE SORROW - Mary Hopkin # 78 79 ( NEW ) ALL DAY MUSIC - War # 79 80 ( NEW ) THESE THINGS WILL KEEP ME LOVING YOU - The Velvelettes # 80 Wot I liked then 27th July 1971 1 ( 1 ) CHIRPY CHIRPY CHEEP CHEEP - Middle Of The Road 2 ( 5 ) NEVER ENDING SONG OF LOVE - The New Seekers 3 ( 6 ) GET IT ON (BANG A GONG) - T.Rex 4 ( 2 ) TOM TOM TURNAROUND - New World 5 ( 3 ) BLACK AND WHITE - Greyhound 6 ( 4 ) MONKEY SPANNER - Dave & Ansel Collins 7 ( 12 ) NEVER CAN SAY GOODBYE - The Jackson 5 8 ( 11 ) KNOCK THREE TIMES - The Travellers 9 ( 7 ) CO-CO - The Sweet 10 ( 8 ) DON’T LET IT DIE - Hurricane Smith 11 ( 9 ) IF YOU COULD READ MY MIND - Gordon Lightfoot 12 ( 10 ) THE BANNER MAN - Blue Mink 13 ( NEW ) I’M STILL WAITING - Diana Ross 14 ( 18 ) FLYING MACHINE - Cliff Richard 15 ( 16 ) THE DEVIL’S ANSWER - Atomic Rooster 16 ( 15 ) RIVER DEEP MOUNTAIN HIGH - The Supremes & The Four Tops 17 ( 13 ) TONIGHT - The Move 18 ( 17 ) I’M GONNA RUN AWAY FROM YOU - Tami Lynn 19 ( 19 ) ME AND YOU AND A DOG NAMED BOO - Lobo 20 ( NEW ) STREET FIGHTING MAN - The Rolling Stones |
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15th August 2021, 09:45 AM
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BuzzJack Legend
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31st July 1971
It's straight in at 1 for the lead track off the newly-charting Isaac Hayes soundtrack album to the blockbuster hit movie Shaft, the lead single theme song being a stroke of genius ahead of its time, as was the concept that a film with a largely black cast could be box office. Shirley Bassey goes where the Carpenters have already been, top ten with For All You Know, and Aretha gets another top 10 with her wonderful version of Spanish Harlem. New in at 20 is the very Santana-sounding instrumental Sultana by Titanic, it's fab and out in the UK. Out in the USA it's Holly Sherwood's medley version of Day By Day from Godspell, new at 25 6 months ahead of it's UK chart debut, while charting in Holland it's Focus with their mostly instrumental Hocus Pocus 18 months ahead of it's UK chart debut, in at 62. Also new, at 65, The Yamasukis return with a track off the new concept album as Yamasuki is charting in Belgium and France - this song is labelled Aieaoa, but the Daft Punk dad song is better known as A.I.E (A Mwana) which was a European hit for Black Blood in 1975, and was also Bananarama's debut single in 1981, and was the 2010 Fifa song in a version by Safri Duo. I've charted all the versions with the original popping in here. At 73, The Persuaders soul classic, and future Pretenders cover minor hit, the lovely Thin Line Between Love And Hate debuts, Ray Stevens has a self-written gospel-flavoured ballad with All My Trials, The Partridge Family keep the chart entries coming, Engelbert drops by with his new lush effort, Anne Murray jauntily pops in, and George Harrison seriously calls in with Bangladesh. 1 ( NEW ) THEME FROM SHAFT - Isaac Hayes # 1 2 ( 2 ) HAVE YOU SEEN HER - The Chi-Lites # 1 3 ( 1 ) SURRENDER - Diana Ross # 1 4 ( 3 ) GET IT ON (BANG A GONG) - T.Rex # 1 5 ( 5 ) I’M STILL WAITING - Diana Ross # 5 6 ( 6 ) HEY GIRL DON’T BOTHER ME - The Tams # 6 7 ( 4 ) THE NIGHT THEY DROVE OLD DIXIE DOWN - Joan Baez # 2 8 ( 7 ) TAKE ME GIRL I’M READY - Junior Walker & The All Stars # 5 9 ( 16 ) FOR ALL WE KNOW - Shirley Bassey # 9 10 ( 17 ) SPANISH HARLEM - Aretha Franklin # 10 11 ( 8 ) HOW CAN YOU MEND A BROKEN HEART - The Bee Gees # 1 12 ( 9 ) MERCY MERCY ME (THE ECOLOGY) - Marvin Gaye # 1 13 ( 21 ) LET YOUR YEAH BE YEAH - The Pioneers # 13 14 ( 18 ) I’M LEAVIN’ - Elvis Presley # 14 15 ( 12 ) AIN’T NO SUNSHINE - Bill Withers # 1 16 ( 11 ) TOM TOM TURNAROUND - New World # 8 17 ( 10 ) MONKEY SPANNER - Dave & Ansel Collins # 10 18 ( 14 ) UNCLE ALBERT/ADMIRAL HALSEY - Paul & Linda McCartney # 1 19 ( 13 ) THE WITCH QUEEN OF NEW ORLEANS - Redbone # 5 20 ( NEW ) SULTANA - Titanic # 20 21 ( 15 ) TWEEDLE DEE TWEEDLE DUM - Middle Of The Road # 9 22 ( 20 ) BLACK AND WHITE - Greyhound # 1 23 ( 19 ) BIRDS OF A FEATHER - The Raiders # 10 24 ( 22 ) NEVER ENDING SONG OF LOVE - The New Seekers # 8 25 ( NEW ) DAY BY DAY (GODSPELL MEDLEY) - Holly Sherwood # 25 26 ( 28 ) FIREBALL - Deep Purple # 26 27 ( 23 ) MAGGIE MAY - Rod Stewart # 4 28 ( 26 ) NATHAN JONES - The Supremes # 1 29 ( 25 ) SUPERSTAR - Carpenters # 1 30 ( 27 ) DID YOU EVER? - Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood # 17 31 ( 29 ) YAMASUKI - The Yamasukis # 5 32 ( 30 ) I’M GONNA RUN AWAY FROM YOU - Tami Lynn # 1 33 ( 38 ) THE DEVIL’S ANSWER - Atomic Rooster # 33 34 ( 24 ) INNER CITY BLUES (MAKE ME WANNA HOLLER) - Marvin Gaye # 24 35 ( 42 ) WHAT ARE YOU DOING SUNDAY - Dawn featuring Tony Orlando # 35 36 ( 33 ) HERE COMES THAT RAINY DAY FEELING AGAIN - The Fortunes # 1 37 ( 31 ) BACK STREET LUV - Curved Air # 20 38 ( 34 ) THE BANNER MAN - Blue Mink # 6 39 ( 35 ) HE’S GONNA STEP ON YOU AGAIN - John Kongos # 4 40 ( 53 ) GO AWAY LITTLE GIRL - Donny Osmond # 40 41 ( 37 ) GIVE IT TIME - Middle Of The Road # 37 42 ( 39 ) HOT LOVE - T.Rex # 1 43 ( 45 ) SMILING FACE SOMETIMES - The Undisputed Truth # 43 44 ( 36 ) PURE IMAGINATION - Gene Wilder (from “Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory” Original Soundtrack) # 36 45 ( 32 ) WHEN YOU GET RIGHT DOWN TO IT - Ronnie Dyson # 32 46 ( 50 ) WE WILL - Gilbert O’Sullivan # 46 47 ( 51 ) K-JEE - Nite-Liters # 47 48 ( 44 ) RIDERS OF THE STORM - The Doors # 4 49 ( 47 ) WHAT’S GOING ON? - Marvin Gaye # 1 50 ( 48 ) ANOTHER DAY - Paul McCartney # 1 51 ( 40 ) MOONSHADOW - Cat Stevens # 27 52 ( 46 ) DON’T LET IT DIE - Hurricane Smith # 10 53 ( 41 ) LOVE SONG - Lesley Duncan # 30 54 ( 43 ) SING CHILDREN SING - Lesley Duncan # 33 55 ( 58 ) HOUND DOG - Elvis Presley # 55 56 ( 49 ) THE BACK SEAT OF MY CAR - Paul & Linda McCartney # 16 57 ( 65 ) LUCKY ME - The Moments # 57 58 ( 63 ) HELLO BUDDY - The Tremeloes # 58 59 ( 60 ) MAYBE TOMORROW - The Jackson 5 # 59 60 ( 62 ) ORLEANS - David Crosby # 60 61 ( 64 ) HEARTBREAK HOTEL - Elvis Presley # 61 62 ( NEW ) HOCUS POCUS - Focus # 62 63 ( 57 ) NEVER CAN SAY GOODBYE - The Jackson 5 # 1 64 ( 56 ) RAINY DAYS AND MONDAYS - Carpenters # 8 65 ( NEW ) A-I-E-A-O-A - The Yamasukis # 65 66 ( 78 ) LET MY NAME BE SORROW - Mary Hopkin # 66 67 ( 69 ) NOBODY - The Doobie Brothers # 67 68 ( 76 ) AT THE TOP OF THE STAIRS - The Formations # 68 69 ( 73 ) I LOVE THE WAY YOU LOVE - Betty Wright # 69 70 ( 70 ) I JUST WANNA BE THERE - Valerie Simpson # 70 71 ( 71 ) THE STORY IN YOUR EYES - The Moody Blues # 71 72 ( 72 ) WHERE DID THEY GO - Peggy Lee # 72 73 ( NEW ) THIN LINE BETWEEN LOVE AND HATE - The Persuaders # 73 74 ( 74 ) LADY DAY - Frank Sinatra # 74 75 ( 75 ) POUR UN FLIRT - Michel Delpech # 75 76 ( 68 ) MOTHER FREEDOM - Bread # 68 77 ( 77 ) CAVATINA - John Williams # 77 78 ( NEW ) SWEET CITY WOMAN - The Stampeders # 78 79 ( 79 ) ALL DAY MUSIC - War # 79 80 ( NEW ) I WOKE UP IN LOVE THIS MORNING - The Partridge Family Starring Shirley Jones & featuring David Cassidy # 80 81 ( 54 ) REASON TO BELIEVE - Rod Stewart # 43 82 ( NEW ) ANOTHER TIME ANOTHER PLACE - Engelbert Humperdinck # 82 83 ( NEW ) TALK IT OVER IN THE MORNING - Anne Murray # 83 84 ( NEW ) BANGLADESH - George Harrison # 84 85 ( NEW ) ALL MY TRIALS - Ray Stevens # 85 Wot I Liked Then: 3rd August 1971 It's 9 weeks on top for Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep as The Jackson 5 get denied a 2nd chart-topper, but Diana Ross goes top 5 with her UK chart-topper, the sweet I'm Still Waiting. Buffy Sainte-Marie enters at 10 with her theme to the movie Soldier Blue, a Dustin Hoffman western pro-Native-American-Rights movie, something Buffy has spent her entire life promoting, and still works for Canadian First Nation projects. Dawn make it three out of three with the record my 15-year-old Aunty Ann had bought, which I played when we stopped with them in September - What Are You Doing Sunday I wasn't quite as keen on as the previous 2 though at the time. The Delfonics lovely La La Means I Love You belatedly charts in the UK and enters at 15, The Partridge Family keep on going as David Cassidy sings I'll meet You Halfway, a UK flop along with everything else they released bar I Think I Love You until 1972 when Cassidy-mania really got going. And oldie Elvis sneaks in as 50's nostalgia is very much going to be a 70's thing. In my life, packing everything into crates had pretty much been done, we spent more time with our family good friends Bud & Doreen and the boys Dale, Gary & baby Jamie as we made the most of the weeks left on beaches. Our next-door neighbours left for the UK as families across the island left prior to UK troops withdrawal from all the bases in Singapore. It was heartbreaking watching their dog and one of their cats get taken away to be destroyed - pets were not allowed to be taken back to the UK, and they really shouldn't have taken them on. One cat escaped from the catchers, and probably ended up dying slowly of starvation. I hated that everything was shutting down, it was so sad. 1 ( 1 ) CHIRPY CHIRPY CHEEP CHEEP - Middle Of The Road 2 ( 7 ) NEVER CAN SAY GOODBYE - The Jackson 5 3 ( 2 ) NEVER ENDING SONG OF LOVE - The New Seekers 4 ( 3 ) GET IT ON (BANG A GONG) - T.Rex 5 ( 13 ) I’M STILL WAITING - Diana Ross 6 ( 4 ) TOM TOM TURNAROUND - New World 7 ( 6 ) MONKEY SPANNER - Dave & Ansel Collins 8 ( 5 ) BLACK AND WHITE - Greyhound 9 ( 8 ) KNOCK THREE TIMES - The Travellers 10 ( NEW ) SOLDIER BLUE - Buffy Sainte-Marie 11 ( 10 ) DON’T LET IT DIE - Hurricane Smith 12 ( 9 ) CO-CO - The Sweet 13 ( 12 ) THE BANNER MAN - Blue Mink 14 ( NEW ) WHAT ARE YOU DOING SUNDAY? - Dawn 15 ( NEW ) LA LA MEANS I LOVE YOU - The Delfonics 16 ( 11 ) IF YOU COULD READ MY MIND - Gordon Lightfoot 17 ( NEW ) I’LL MEET YOU HALFWAY - The Partridge Family 18 ( 16 ) RIVER DEEP MOUNTAIN HIGH - The Supremes & The Four Tops 19 ( 14 ) FLYING MACHINE - Cliff Richard 20 ( NEW ) HEARTBREAK HOTEL - Elvis Presley |
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20th August 2021, 01:23 PM
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BuzzJack Legend
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7th August 1971
It's straight in at 1 as new-release classics keep on coming rapidly, this time it's Cher getting her first big solo hit in 5 years with the wonderful story-song Gypsies, Tramps & Thieves, still a highlight of her very long career. Isaac Hayes gets knocked off the top spot after debuting there last week, and Diana Ross is still with 2 top 5's as The Pioneers get a first top 10, as do Titanic. To give an idea how much I rate the music at this time I'll just note that 24 of the top 40 have topped my charts, either originally, on these retro charts, or as oldies over the years since. New entries include the return of The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band for a 3rd year, with a cover of Mike Nesmith's Monkees track, the fab Some Of Shelly's Blues, in at 65. Dusty Springfield also returns for a 5th retro year, with a Jeff Barry co-write (he of Sugar Sugar fame) the soulful Haunted at 75, and at 80 the retro charts now start on a no-doubt returning theme as a track I'd completely forgotten about, but liked at the time, enters for Lobo - California Kid & Reemo was one I caught on radio but never charted or managed to record, so I'd just forgotten the Me & You & A Dog Named Boo follow-up ever existed. I still like it! Finally, The Shadows return (well some of them, at any rate) with the single hitting in Malaysia, Lady Of The Morning. Nice guitar, unsurprisingly. The Whatnauts debut with some smooth soul, joining fellow soulsters The Moments 4 years ahead of them teaming up for hit smash Girls, and in bottom rung the original reggae version of UB40's Cherry Oh Cherry gives Eric Donaldson a chart mention. 1 ( NEW ) GYPSIES, TRAMPS & THIEVES - Cher # 1 2 ( 1 ) THEME FROM SHAFT - Isaac Hayes # 1 3 ( 2 ) HAVE YOU SEEN HER - The Chi-Lites # 1 4 ( 3 ) SURRENDER - Diana Ross # 1 5 ( 5 ) I’M STILL WAITING - Diana Ross # 5 6 ( 4 ) GET IT ON (BANG A GONG) - T.Rex # 1 7 ( 6 ) HEY GIRL DON’T BOTHER ME - The Tams # 6 8 ( 7 ) THE NIGHT THEY DROVE OLD DIXIE DOWN - Joan Baez # 2 9 ( 13 ) LET YOUR YEAH BE YEAH - The Pioneers # 9 10 ( 20 ) SULTANA - Titanic # 10 11 ( 8 ) TAKE ME GIRL I’M READY - Junior Walker & The All Stars # 5 12 ( 9 ) FOR ALL WE KNOW - Shirley Bassey # 9 13 ( 11 ) HOW CAN YOU MEND A BROKEN HEART - The Bee Gees # 1 14 ( 12 ) MERCY MERCY ME (THE ECOLOGY) - Marvin Gaye # 1 15 ( 25 ) DAY BY DAY (GODSPELL MEDLEY) - Holly Sherwood # 15 16 ( 10 ) SPANISH HARLEM - Aretha Franklin # 10 17 ( 15 ) AIN’T NO SUNSHINE - Bill Withers # 1 18 ( 18 ) UNCLE ALBERT/ADMIRAL HALSEY - Paul & Linda McCartney # 1 19 ( 16 ) TOM TOM TURNAROUND - New World # 8 20 ( 14 ) I’M LEAVIN’ - Elvis Presley # 14 21 ( 17 ) MONKEY SPANNER - Dave & Ansel Collins # 10 22 ( 19 ) THE WITCH QUEEN OF NEW ORLEANS - Redbone # 5 23 ( 21 ) TWEEDLE DEE TWEEDLE DUM - Middle Of The Road # 9 24 ( 26 ) FIREBALL - Deep Purple # 24 25 ( 22 ) BLACK AND WHITE - Greyhound # 1 26 ( 23 ) BIRDS OF A FEATHER - The Raiders # 10 27 ( 24 ) NEVER ENDING SONG OF LOVE - The New Seekers # 8 28 ( 33 ) THE DEVIL’S ANSWER - Atomic Rooster # 28 29 ( 35 ) WHAT ARE YOU DOING SUNDAY - Dawn featuring Tony Orlando # 29 30 ( 29 ) SUPERSTAR - Carpenters # 1 31 ( 28 ) NATHAN JONES - The Supremes # 1 32 ( 27 ) MAGGIE MAY - Rod Stewart # 4 33 ( 40 ) GO AWAY LITTLE GIRL - Donny Osmond # 33 34 ( 43 ) SMILING FACES SOMETIMES - The Undisputed Truth # 34 35 ( 32 ) I’M GONNA RUN AWAY FROM YOU - Tami Lynn # 1 36 ( 31 ) YAMASUKI - The Yamasukis # 5 37 ( 30 ) DID YOU EVER? - Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood # 17 38 ( 46 ) WE WILL - Gilbert O’Sullivan # 38 39 ( 36 ) HERE COMES THAT RAINY DAY FEELING AGAIN - The Fortunes # 1 40 ( 47 ) K-JEE - Nite-Liters # 40 41 ( 38 ) THE BANNER MAN - Blue Mink # 6 42 ( 39 ) HE’S GONNA STEP ON YOU AGAIN - John Kongos # 4 43 ( 37 ) BACK STREET LUV - Curved Air # 20 44 ( 42 ) HOT LOVE - T.Rex # 1 45 ( 62 ) HOCUS POCUS - Focus # 45 46 ( 55 ) HOUND DOG - Elvis Presley # 46 47 ( 58 ) HELLO BUDDY - The Tremeloes # 47 48 ( 34 ) INNER CITY BLUES (MAKE ME WANNA HOLLER) - Marvin Gaye # 24 49 ( 65 ) A-I-E-A-O-A - The Yamasukis # 49 50 ( 66 ) LET MY NAME BE SORROW - Mary Hopkin # 50 51 ( 49 ) WHAT’S GOING ON? - Marvin Gaye # 1 52 ( 50 ) ANOTHER DAY - Paul McCartney # 1 53 ( 48 ) RIDERS OF THE STORM - The Doors # 4 54 ( 68 ) AT THE TOP OF THE STAIRS - The Formations # 54 55 ( 57 ) LUCKY ME - The Moments # 55 56 ( 69 ) I LOVE THE WAY YOU LOVE - Betty Wright # 56 57 ( 41 ) GIVE IT TIME - Middle Of The Road # 37 58 ( 44 ) PURE IMAGINATION - Gene Wilder (from “Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory” Original Soundtrack) # 36 59 ( 45 ) WHEN YOU GET RIGHT DOWN TO IT - Ronnie Dyson # 32 60 ( 61 ) HEARTBREAK HOTEL - Elvis Presley # 60 61 ( 52 ) DON’T LET IT DIE - Hurricane Smith # 10 62 ( 73 ) THIN LINE BETWEEN LOVE AND HATE - The Persuaders # 62 63 ( 78 ) SWEET CITY WOMAN - The Stampeders # 63 64 ( 71 ) THE STORY IN YOUR EYES - The Moody Blues # 64 65 ( NEW ) SOME OF SHELLY’S BLUES - The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band # 65 66 ( 72 ) WHERE DID THEY GO - Peggy Lee # 66 67 ( 85 ) ALL MY TRIALS - Ray Stevens # 67 68 ( 63 ) NEVER CAN SAY GOODBYE - The Jackson 5 # 1 69 ( 82 ) ANOTHER TIME ANOTHER PLACE - Engelbert Humperdinck # 69 70 ( 74 ) LADY DAY - Frank Sinatra # 70 71 ( 79 ) ALL DAY MUSIC - War # 71 72 ( 64 ) RAINY DAYS AND MONDAYS - Carpenters # 8 73 ( 83 ) TALK IT OVER IN THE MORNING - Anne Murray # 73 74 ( 80 ) I WOKE UP IN LOVE THIS MORNING - The Partridge Family Starring Shirley Jones & featuring David Cassidy # 74 75 ( NEW ) HAUNTED - Dusty Springfield # 75 76 ( 51 ) MOONSHADOW - Cat Stevens # 27 77 ( 77 ) CAVATINA - John Williams # 77 78 ( 59 ) MAYBE TOMORROW - The Jackson 5 # 59 79 ( 84 ) BANGLADESH - George Harrison # 79 80 ( NEW ) CALIFORNIA KID AND REEMO - Lobo # 80 81 ( 75 ) POUR UN FLIRT - Michel Delpech # 75 82 ( 60 ) ORLEANS - David Crosby # 60 83 ( NEW ) LADY OF THE MORNING - Marvin, Welch & Farrar # 83 84 ( NEW ) FRIENDS BY DAY (LOVERS BY NIGHT) - The Whatnauts # 84 85 ( NEW ) CHERRY OH BABY - Eric Donaldson # 85 10th Aug 1971 Wot I Liked Then It's a first number one for The New Seekers on their version of Delaney & Bonnie's Never Ending Song Of Love. It was so catchy it was the first of 2 singles I bought soon as I got a chance to get to a record shop in Mansfield in September, but back in Singapore one of the last new tracks I heard on the radio was Dawn's new single Summer Sand - the UK was already onto a different track, What Are You Doing Sunday, giving them 2 on the list. The Tams enter with huge smash Hey Girl Don't Bother Me, a 7-year-old flop that had found a Northern Soul audience in the UK. In the USA, the fab Fortunes comeback hit, Here Comes That Rainy Day Feeling Again was charting, bizarrely it flopped in their home UK. Finally reggae still rules as The Pioneers debut with Let Your Yeah Be Yeah, which would pop up on a K-Tel hits compilation I bought a year later. It's great. 1 ( 3 ) NEVER ENDING SONG OF LOVE - The New Seekers 2 ( 2 ) NEVER CAN SAY GOODBYE - The Jackson 5 3 ( 1 ) CHIRPY CHIRPY CHEEP CHEEP - Middle Of The Road 4 ( 5 ) I’M STILL WAITING - Diana Ross 5 ( 10 ) SOLDIER BLUE - Buffy Sainte-Marie 6 ( 4 ) GET IT ON (BANG A GONG) - T.Rex 7 ( 6 ) TOM TOM TURNAROUND - New World 8 ( 7 ) MONKEY SPANNER - Dave & Ansel Collins 9 ( 17 ) I’LL MEET YOU HALFWAY - The Partridge Family 10 ( 14 ) WHAT ARE YOU DOING SUNDAY? - Dawn 11 ( 8 ) BLACK AND WHITE - Greyhound 12 ( NEW ) SUMMER SAND - Dawn 13 ( 9 ) KNOCK THREE TIMES - The Travellers 14 ( NEW ) HEY GIRL DON’T BOTHER ME - The Tams 15 ( 11 ) DON’T LET IT DIE - Hurricane Smith 16 ( NEW ) MOVE ON UP - Curtis Mayfield 17 ( 12 ) CO-CO - The Sweet 18 ( NEW ) HERE COMES THAT RAINY DAY FEELING AGAIN - The Fortunes 19 ( NEW ) LET YOUR YEAH BE YEAH - The Pioneers 20 ( 15 ) LA LA MEANS I LOVE YOU - The Delfonics |
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20th August 2021, 02:29 PM
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With Kristina in heart
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In my chart "Never Ending Song Of Love" was replaced on the top by Mary Hopkin "Let My Name Be Sorrow".
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20th August 2021, 04:00 PM
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BuzzJack Legend
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QUOTE(Last Dreamer @ Aug 20 2021, 03:29 PM) In my chart "Never Ending Song Of Love" was replaced on the top by Mary Hopkin "Let My Name Be Sorrow". Hi Alex, I did love that New seekers record so much when I was 13  Did you know I'd never heard that Mary Hopkin record until a few weeks ago, or not that I remember at any rate - and it's really rather lovely!
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27th August 2021, 07:28 PM
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14th August 1971
It's straight in on top for Hot Chocolate, their second number one, with the fabulous I Believe (In Love). I caught this record in late September '71 and fell madly in love with it, and with Hot Chocolate for the next 13 years. Sadly I'd already spent my pocket money for the rest of the year on singles for New Seekers and Middle Of The Road (that would be £1 exactly for 2 singles) or DC Comics, so I had to write to my dad to ask if he could bring me it back from Singapore when he came home to the UK. He tried hard, but it wasn't released, so I ended up with Shirley Bassey instead. I was a bit disappointed, but got it for Xmas, so all's well. In a very quiet week for new entries I chop the chart time to 80, and the only other new record is from Marmalade, Cousin Norman being a sweet country-style pop ditty, continuing their run of chart entries for a 4th year, and signalling a change of sound away from ballads. I have a sitcom based on using this song as a theme tune all planned. Haven't written it yet, but it's been planned for 25 years. It'll be a classic if I ever get round to it 1 ( NEW ) I BELIEVE (IN LOVE) - Hot Chocolate # 1 2 ( 1 ) GYPSIES, TRAMPS & THIEVES - Cher # 1 3 ( 2 ) THEME FROM SHAFT - Isaac Hayes # 1 4 ( 4 ) SURRENDER - Diana Ross # 1 5 ( 3 ) HAVE YOU SEEN HER - The Chi-Lites # 1 6 ( 9 ) LET YOUR YEAH BE YEAH - The Pioneers # 6 7 ( 10 ) SULTANA - Titanic # 7 8 ( 6 ) GET IT ON (BANG A GONG) - T.Rex # 1 9 ( 5 ) I’M STILL WAITING - Diana Ross # 5 10 ( 8 ) THE NIGHT THEY DROVE OLD DIXIE DOWN - Joan Baez # 2 11 ( 7 ) HEY GIRL DON’T BOTHER ME - The Tams # 6 12 ( 15 ) DAY BY DAY (GODSPELL MEDLEY) - Holly Sherwood # 12 13 ( 11 ) TAKE ME GIRL I’M READY - Junior Walker & The All Stars # 5 14 ( 13 ) HOW CAN YOU MEND A BROKEN HEART - The Bee Gees # 1 15 ( 14 ) MERCY MERCY ME (THE ECOLOGY) - Marvin Gaye # 1 16 ( 12 ) FOR ALL WE KNOW - Shirley Bassey # 9 17 ( 17 ) AIN’T NO SUNSHINE - Bill Withers # 1 18 ( 18 ) UNCLE ALBERT/ADMIRAL HALSEY - Paul & Linda McCartney # 1 19 ( 16 ) SPANISH HARLEM - Aretha Franklin # 10 20 ( 19 ) TOM TOM TURNAROUND - New World # 8 21 ( 21 ) MONKEY SPANNER - Dave & Ansel Collins # 10 22 ( 22 ) THE WITCH QUEEN OF NEW ORLEANS - Redbone # 5 23 ( 33 ) GO AWAY LITTLE GIRL - Donny Osmond # 23 24 ( 45 ) HOCUS POCUS - Focus # 24 25 ( 25 ) BLACK AND WHITE - Greyhound # 1 26 ( 29 ) WHAT ARE YOU DOING SUNDAY - Dawn featuring Tony Orlando # 26 27 ( 20 ) I’M LEAVIN’ - Elvis Presley # 14 28 ( 23 ) TWEEDLE DEE TWEEDLE DUM - Middle Of The Road # 9 29 ( 24 ) FIREBALL - Deep Purple # 24 30 ( 30 ) SUPERSTAR - Carpenters # 1 31 ( 27 ) NEVER ENDING SONG OF LOVE - The New Seekers # 8 32 ( 26 ) BIRDS OF A FEATHER - The Raiders # 10 33 ( 28 ) THE DEVIL’S ANSWER - Atomic Rooster # 28 34 ( 31 ) NATHAN JONES - The Supremes # 1 35 ( 32 ) MAGGIE MAY - Rod Stewart # 4 36 ( 46 ) HOUND DOG - Elvis Presley # 36 37 ( 47 ) HELLO BUDDY - The Tremeloes # 37 38 ( 50 ) LET MY NAME BE SORROW - Mary Hopkin # 38 39 ( 40 ) K-JEE - Nite-Liters # 39 40 ( 35 ) I’M GONNA RUN AWAY FROM YOU - Tami Lynn # 1 41 ( 36 ) YAMASUKI - The Yamasukis # 5 42 ( 49 ) A-I-E-A-O-A - The Yamasukis # 42 43 ( 39 ) HERE COMES THAT RAINY DAY FEELING AGAIN - The Fortunes # 1 44 ( 37 ) DID YOU EVER? - Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood # 17 45 ( 34 ) SMILING FACES SOMETIMES - The Undisputed Truth # 34 46 ( 44 ) HOT LOVE - T.Rex # 1 47 ( 41 ) THE BANNER MAN - Blue Mink # 6 48 ( 42 ) HE’S GONNA STEP ON YOU AGAIN - John Kongos # 4 49 ( NEW ) COUSIN NORMAN - Marmalade # 49 50 ( 54 ) AT THE TOP OF THE STAIRS - The Formations # 50 51 ( 38 ) WE WILL - Gilbert O’Sullivan # 38 52 ( 55 ) LUCKY ME - The Moments # 52 53 ( 51 ) WHAT’S GOING ON? - Marvin Gaye # 1 54 ( 52 ) ANOTHER DAY - Paul McCartney # 1 55 ( 65 ) SOME OF SHELLY’S BLUES - The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band # 55 56 ( 56 ) I LOVE THE WAY YOU LOVE - Betty Wright # 56 57 ( 43 ) BACK STREET LUV - Curved Air # 20 58 ( 60 ) HEARTBREAK HOTEL - Elvis Presley # 58 59 ( 63 ) SWEET CITY WOMAN - The Stampeders # 59 60 ( 64 ) THE STORY IN YOUR EYES - The Moody Blues # 60 61 ( 62 ) THIN LINE BETWEEN LOVE AND HATE - The Persuaders # 61 62 ( 53 ) RIDERS OF THE STORM - The Doors # 4 63 ( 66 ) WHERE DID THEY GO - Peggy Lee # 63 64 ( 67 ) ALL MY TRIALS - Ray Stevens # 64 65 ( 69 ) ANOTHER TIME ANOTHER PLACE - Engelbert Humperdinck # 65 66 ( 74 ) I WOKE UP IN LOVE THIS MORNING - The Partridge Family Starring Shirley Jones & featuring David Cassidy # 66 67 ( 75 ) HAUNTED - Dusty Springfield # 67 68 ( 61 ) DON’T LET IT DIE - Hurricane Smith # 10 69 ( 80 ) CALIFORNIA KID AND REEMO - Lobo # 69 70 ( 70 ) LADY DAY - Frank Sinatra # 70 71 ( 71 ) ALL DAY MUSIC - War # 71 72 ( 73 ) TALK IT OVER IN THE MORNING - Anne Murray # 72 73 ( 83 ) LADY OF THE MORNING - Marvin, Welch & Farrar # 73 74 ( 68 ) NEVER CAN SAY GOODBYE - The Jackson 5 # 1 75 ( 77 ) CAVATINA - John Williams # 75 76 ( 79 ) BANGLADESH - George Harrison # 76 77 ( 48 ) INNER CITY BLUES (MAKE ME WANNA HOLLER) - Marvin Gaye # 24 78 ( 84 ) FRIENDS BY DAY (LOVERS BY NIGHT) - The Whatnauts # 78 79 ( 59 ) WHEN YOU GET RIGHT DOWN TO IT - Ronnie Dyson # 32 80 ( 85 ) CHERRY OH BABY - Eric Donaldson # 80 17th August 1971 charts of the time It's 2 weeks on top for The New Seekers as Canadian First nation star Buffy Sainte-Marie has runners-up spot. Dawn make it 3 top 5's and The Tams get a top 10 7 years late. Carole King's singer-songwriter classic It's Too Late debuts at 13, and all 4 of those singles mentioned I bought or had for Xmas in 1971. Lower down, fresh from the USA charts, Carpenters and The Bee Gees debut with UK flop ballads, but fabulous anyway, I can only guess Radio 1 chose not to playlist them. In Singapore we were down to our last 2 weeks before flying home, and I was still buying the latest DC comics which featured Legion Of Super-Heroes to take back on the plane, and on TV Doctor Who repeats had reached The War Games and Patrick Troughton's final episodes with the wonderful Wendy Padbury and Frazier Hines. Frazier liked one of my tweets the other year, I was saying I'd had a long chat with the still-lovely Wendy at a Comicon. In a bizarre repeat of historu 2 years earlier, we'd left the UK before I could see the very last episode, and we would leave Singapore before I could see the very last episode. Doh! In those days, if you missed something it was forever, as video-recorders were not a thing outside schools and rich houses. Witness the number of 60's Doctor Who and Top Of The Pops episodes lost forever. Happily I have seen it since as that episode survived, hooray! 1 ( 1 ) NEVER ENDING SONG OF LOVE - The New Seekers 2 ( 5 ) SOLDIER BLUE - Buffy Sainte-Marie 3 ( 3 ) CHIRPY CHIRPY CHEEP CHEEP - Middle Of The Road 4 ( 4 ) I’M STILL WAITING - Diana Ross 5 ( 10 ) WHAT ARE YOU DOING SUNDAY? - Dawn 6 ( 2 ) NEVER CAN SAY GOODBYE - The Jackson 5 7 ( 14 ) HEY GIRL DON’T BOTHER ME - The Tams 8 ( 7 ) TOM TOM TURNAROUND - New World 9 ( 8 ) MONKEY SPANNER - Dave & Ansel Collins 10 ( 6 ) GET IT ON (BANG A GONG) - T.Rex 11 ( 19 ) LET YOUR YEAH BE YEAH - The Pioneers 12 ( 18 ) HERE COMES THAT RAINY DAY FEELING AGAIN - The Fortunes 13 ( NEW ) IT’S TOO LATE - Carole King 14 ( 9 ) I’LL MEET YOU HALFWAY - The Partridge Family 15 ( 11 ) BLACK AND WHITE - Greyhound 16 ( NEW ) HOW CAN YOU MEND A BROKEN HEART - The Bee Gees 17 ( NEW ) RAINY DAYS AND MONDAYS - Carpenters 18 ( 13 ) KNOCK THREE TIMES - The Travellers 19 ( 12 ) SUMMER SAND - Dawn 20 ( 17 ) CO-CO - The Sweet |
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2nd September 2021, 06:22 PM
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21st August 1971
It's 2 weeks on top for Hot Chocolate and the fab I Believe (In Love), I love the melody and the percussion-heavy shuffling soul sounds that were unique to Errol & the lads in their early days. Holly Sherwood takes Godspell into the top 10, and highest new entry is from Alexis Korner's band on their 3rd and best single, Tap Turns On The Water, which was delightfully naughty with a storming Horn section riffing throughout, and was one of the batch of singles I got for Xmas. In at 18. New at 36, Danyel Gerard's former French-Language European hit, dating back to 1969 in various ongoing versions for each territory/nation/language finally found it's best version, with new English-language lyrics following an Australian cover version hit, and re-recorded in the same style for the UK singles market after hitting in Aus. Avoid all the other versions, this one is the bees-knees - when an earlier version was bunged on on Arcade hits album I was mightily disappointed! Still am. Other new entries: The Beach Boys Surf's Up album is out and the song of the same name enters, it's lovely, classy and brim-filled with the harmonies you'd expect. I bought it a few years back, still sounds good. Dave Edmunds enters with a cover I've never heard, Blue Monday is I Hear You Knocking Part 2, stylistically, and rather good. England Dan & John Ford Coley will be charting over the next few years, so it's a bit of a bonus to hear an early rockier sound on New Jersey, which is also pretty good. I've never heard of The Searchers Desdemona, either, and it's pretty decent for the 60's faves, who's top tune for me was always Don't Throw Your Love Away when I was a kiddie 7 years earlier. Music loves stay with me! Always have. Finally, The Main Ingredient chuck out a social commentary track I'd never heard, quite powerful, and still relevant lyrics. 1 ( 1 ) I BELIEVE (IN LOVE) - Hot Chocolate # 1 2 ( 2 ) GYPSIES, TRAMPS & THIEVES - Cher # 1 3 ( 3 ) THEME FROM SHAFT - Isaac Hayes # 1 4 ( 6 ) LET YOUR YEAH BE YEAH - The Pioneers # 4 5 ( 7 ) SULTANA - Titanic # 5 6 ( 5 ) HAVE YOU SEEN HER - The Chi-Lites # 1 7 ( 4 ) SURRENDER - Diana Ross # 1 8 ( 12 ) DAY BY DAY (GODSPELL MEDLEY) - Holly Sherwood # 8 9 ( 8 ) GET IT ON (BANG A GONG) - T.Rex # 1 10 ( 10 ) THE NIGHT THEY DROVE OLD DIXIE DOWN - Joan Baez # 2 11 ( 9 ) I’M STILL WAITING - Diana Ross # 5 12 ( 24 ) HOCUS POCUS - Focus # 12 13 ( 23 ) GO AWAY LITTLE GIRL - Donny Osmond # 13 14 ( 11 ) HEY GIRL DON’T BOTHER ME - The Tams # 6 15 ( 13 ) TAKE ME GIRL I’M READY - Junior Walker & The All Stars # 5 16 ( 14 ) HOW CAN YOU MEND A BROKEN HEART - The Bee Gees # 1 17 ( 15 ) MERCY MERCY ME (THE ECOLOGY) - Marvin Gaye # 1 18 ( NEW ) TAP TURNS ON THE WATER - C.C.S # 18 19 ( 17 ) AIN’T NO SUNSHINE - Bill Withers # 1 20 ( 26 ) WHAT ARE YOU DOING SUNDAY - Dawn featuring Tony Orlando # 20 21 ( 16 ) FOR ALL WE KNOW - Shirley Bassey # 9 22 ( 18 ) UNCLE ALBERT/ADMIRAL HALSEY - Paul & Linda McCartney # 1 23 ( 19 ) SPANISH HARLEM - Aretha Franklin # 10 24 ( 20 ) TOM TOM TURNAROUND - New World # 8 25 ( 21 ) MONKEY SPANNER - Dave & Ansel Collins # 10 26 ( 22 ) THE WITCH QUEEN OF NEW ORLEANS - Redbone # 5 27 ( 38 ) LET MY NAME BE SORROW - Mary Hopkin # 27 28 ( 29 ) FIREBALL - Deep Purple # 24 29 ( 25 ) BLACK AND WHITE - Greyhound # 1 30 ( 28 ) TWEEDLE DEE TWEEDLE DUM - Middle Of The Road # 9 31 ( 27 ) I’M LEAVIN’ - Elvis Presley # 14 32 ( 36 ) HOUND DOG - Elvis Presley # 32 33 ( 37 ) HELLO BUDDY - The Tremeloes # 33 34 ( 31 ) NEVER ENDING SONG OF LOVE - The New Seekers # 8 35 ( 30 ) SUPERSTAR - Carpenters # 1 36 ( NEW ) BUTTERFLY (UK/AUSTRALIAN 7” VERSION) - Danyel Gerard # 36 37 ( 34 ) NATHAN JONES - The Supremes # 1 38 ( 32 ) BIRDS OF A FEATHER - The Raiders # 10 39 ( 35 ) MAGGIE MAY - Rod Stewart # 4 40 ( 39 ) K-JEE - Nite-Liters # 39 41 ( 33 ) THE DEVIL’S ANSWER - Atomic Rooster # 28 42 ( 42 ) A-I-E-A-O-A - The Yamasukis # 42 43 ( 49 ) COUSIN NORMAN - Marmalade # 43 44 ( 40 ) I’M GONNA RUN AWAY FROM YOU - Tami Lynn # 1 45 ( 41 ) YAMASUKI - The Yamasukis # 5 46 ( 50 ) AT THE TOP OF THE STAIRS - The Formations # 46 47 ( 43 ) HERE COMES THAT RAINY DAY FEELING AGAIN - The Fortunes # 1 48 ( 46 ) HOT LOVE - T.Rex # 1 49 ( 55 ) SOME OF SHELLY’S BLUES - The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band # 49 50 ( 47 ) THE BANNER MAN - Blue Mink # 6 51 ( 48 ) HE’S GONNA STEP ON YOU AGAIN - John Kongos # 4 52 ( 44 ) DID YOU EVER? - Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood # 17 53 ( 58 ) HEARTBREAK HOTEL - Elvis Presley # 53 54 ( 69 ) CALIFORNIA KID AND REEMO - Lobo # 54 55 ( 53 ) WHAT’S GOING ON? - Marvin Gaye # 1 56 ( 54 ) ANOTHER DAY - Paul McCartney # 1 57 ( 59 ) SWEET CITY WOMAN - The Stampeders # 57 58 ( 60 ) THE STORY IN YOUR EYES - The Moody Blues # 58 59 ( 61 ) THIN LINE BETWEEN LOVE AND HATE - The Persuaders # 59 60 ( 72 ) TALK IT OVER IN THE MORNING - Anne Murray # 60 61 ( 65 ) ANOTHER TIME ANOTHER PLACE - Engelbert Humperdinck # 61 62 ( 66 ) I WOKE UP IN LOVE THIS MORNING - The Partridge Family Starring Shirley Jones & featuring David Cassidy # 62 63 ( 64 ) ALL MY TRIALS - Ray Stevens # 63 64 ( 67 ) HAUNTED - Dusty Springfield # 64 65 ( 57 ) BACK STREET LUV - Curved Air # 20 66 ( 62 ) RIDERS OF THE STORM - The Doors # 4 67 ( NEW ) SURF’S UP - The Beach Boys # 67 68 ( 52 ) LUCKY ME - The Moments # 52 69 ( 73 ) LADY OF THE MORNING - Marvin, Welch & Farrar # 69 70 ( 80 ) CHERRY OH BABY - Eric Donaldson # 70 71 ( NEW ) BLUE MONDAY - Dave Edmunds # 71 72 ( NEW ) NEW JERSEY - England Dan & John Ford Coley # 72 73 ( 78 ) FRIENDS BY DAY (LOVERS BY NIGHT) - The Whatnauts # 73 74 ( NEW ) DESDEMONA - The Searchers # 74 75 ( NEW ) BLACK SEEDS KEEP ON GROWING - The Main Ingredient # 75 24th August 1971 My charts Then It's 3 New Seekers weeks on top as Diana Ross rises to 2, ready to be number one on the BBC UK charts on Top Of The Pops in just over a week or two when I see my first show in 2 years. The Fortunes get a first top 10 since You've Got Your Troubles would have topped my kiddie charts in 1965, if I'd been charting then, and Carole King ditto, except it would have been It Might As Well Rain Until September and 2 or 3 years earlier. I'm very loyal to pop stars I love! Carpenters make it a 3rd top 10 in 12 months, and Curved Air bring Prog Rock into my charts with Back Street Luv, and Family and George Harrison take advantage of a very quiet chart week to sneak in with tracks I was never that fond of actually - Family have failed to make my Retro revamp charts, and George peaked at 76, which is much more like it. In Singapore, our last week as a family in our bungalow with the high roof and chit-chats, so we made the most of RAF Changi Swimming Pool and beach, and said a very sad goodbye to our Amah, who's family came to pick up my fish tank (I hated saying goodbye to the tropical fish) and anything else we weren't taking home with us. I was sad to be leaving, and we said cheerio too this week to our great friends The Wainwrights, who we wouldn't see again for just over 2 years. I still hate goodbyes, I don't like things to end unless they are unpleasant things. In this case, it was worse, because the UK Forces were pulling out, and it was a literal end of an era, as well as a personal one. 1 ( 1 ) NEVER ENDING SONG OF LOVE - The New Seekers 2 ( 4 ) I’M STILL WAITING - Diana Ross 3 ( 5 ) WHAT ARE YOU DOING SUNDAY? - Dawn 4 ( 3 ) CHIRPY CHIRPY CHEEP CHEEP - Middle Of The Road 5 ( 2 ) SOLDIER BLUE - Buffy Sainte-Marie 6 ( 7 ) HEY GIRL DON’T BOTHER ME - The Tams 7 ( 12 ) HERE COMES THAT RAINY DAY FEELING AGAIN - The Fortunes 8 ( 13 ) IT’S TOO LATE - Carole King 9 ( 6 ) NEVER CAN SAY GOODBYE - The Jackson 5 10 ( 17 ) RAINY DAYS AND MONDAYS - Carpenters 11 ( 8 ) TOM TOM TURNAROUND - New World 12 ( 9 ) MONKEY SPANNER - Dave & Ansel Collins 13 ( 16 ) HOW CAN YOU MEND A BROKEN HEART - The Bee Gees 14 ( 10 ) GET IT ON (BANG A GONG) - T.Rex 15 ( 11 ) LET YOUR YEAH BE YEAH - The Pioneers 16 ( NEW ) BACK STREET LUV - Curved Air 17 ( 15 ) BLACK AND WHITE - Greyhound 18 ( 14 ) I’LL MEET YOU HALFWAY - The Partridge Family 19 ( NEW ) IN MY OWN TIME - Family 20 ( NEW ) BANGLA-DESH - George Harrison |
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2nd September 2021, 07:12 PM
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With Kristina in heart
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Curved Air's lead singer was beautiful.
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3rd September 2021, 10:37 AM
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BuzzJack Legend
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QUOTE(Last Dreamer @ Sep 2 2021, 08:12 PM) Curved Air's lead singer was beautiful. Sonja Kristina was quite the pin-up of teenage boys at my school 
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10th September 2021, 04:56 PM
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BuzzJack Legend
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28th August 1971
It's a 3rd week at 1 for Hot Chocolate and a static top 10, bar Focus getting a first top 10, with Hocus Pocus, mad but great fun and rifftastic. That leaves just 4 new entries, The Fortunes getting a 2nd of the year, the jolly Freedom Come, Freedom Go - I still prefer the US hit to the UK hit, the melody is way better, but the UK opted for this one, hey ho, in at 43. At 47, The Osmonds are back for a 4th chart hit, while lil brother Donny is up to 12. Yo-Yo is the riff from Day Tripper, adapted to a bunch of teens who were clearly inspired by The Temptations in the dance routine they did on the Flip Wilson Show (worth checking them out, it's great) and heading for a rockier sound away from the Jackson 5-lite One Bad Apple. New at 47. Down t'bottom end of the chart, Rock Candy (who?!) debut with song with a tune that's familiar, but a record that isn't - the label suggests Chip Hawke (Tremeloes) and Howard Blaikely (songwriter for Tremeloes/Dave Dee Dozy etc) had some input, I'd guess English lyrics over a European hit tune. This was going on a lot in 1971! Also new, Jimmy Ruffin with his usual Motown styled soul cuts of the time. That's a good thing. 1 ( 1 ) I BELIEVE (IN LOVE) - Hot Chocolate # 1 2 ( 2 ) GYPSIES, TRAMPS & THIEVES - Cher # 1 3 ( 4 ) LET YOUR YEAH BE YEAH - The Pioneers # 3 4 ( 3 ) THEME FROM SHAFT - Isaac Hayes # 1 5 ( 5 ) SULTANA - Titanic # 5 6 ( 6 ) HAVE YOU SEEN HER - The Chi-Lites # 1 7 ( 7 ) SURRENDER - Diana Ross # 1 8 ( 9 ) GET IT ON (BANG A GONG) - T.Rex # 1 9 ( 12 ) HOCUS POCUS - Focus # 9 10 ( 10 ) THE NIGHT THEY DROVE OLD DIXIE DOWN - Joan Baez # 2 11 ( 11 ) I’M STILL WAITING - Diana Ross # 5 12 ( 13 ) GO AWAY LITTLE GIRL - Donny Osmond # 12 13 ( 8 ) DAY BY DAY (GODSPELL MEDLEY) - Holly Sherwood # 8 14 ( 18 ) TAP TURNS ON THE WATER - C.C.S # 14 15 ( 15 ) TAKE ME GIRL I’M READY - Junior Walker & The All Stars # 5 16 ( 14 ) HEY GIRL DON’T BOTHER ME - The Tams # 6 17 ( 16 ) HOW CAN YOU MEND A BROKEN HEART - The Bee Gees # 1 18 ( 17 ) MERCY MERCY ME (THE ECOLOGY) - Marvin Gaye # 1 19 ( 20 ) WHAT ARE YOU DOING SUNDAY - Dawn featuring Tony Orlando # 19 20 ( 27 ) LET MY NAME BE SORROW - Mary Hopkin # 20 21 ( 19 ) AIN’T NO SUNSHINE - Bill Withers # 1 22 ( 22 ) UNCLE ALBERT/ADMIRAL HALSEY - Paul & Linda McCartney # 1 23 ( 21 ) FOR ALL WE KNOW - Shirley Bassey # 9 24 ( 24 ) TOM TOM TURNAROUND - New World # 8 25 ( 23 ) SPANISH HARLEM - Aretha Franklin # 10 26 ( 26 ) THE WITCH QUEEN OF NEW ORLEANS - Redbone # 5 27 ( 36 ) BUTTERFLY (UK/AUSTRALIAN 7” VERSION) - Danyel Gerard # 27 28 ( 33 ) HELLO BUDDY - The Tremeloes # 28 29 ( 32 ) HOUND DOG - Elvis Presley # 29 30 ( 25 ) MONKEY SPANNER - Dave & Ansel Collins # 10 31 ( 30 ) TWEEDLE DEE TWEEDLE DUM - Middle Of The Road # 9 32 ( 29 ) BLACK AND WHITE - Greyhound # 1 33 ( 28 ) FIREBALL - Deep Purple # 24 34 ( 43 ) COUSIN NORMAN - Marmalade # 34 35 ( 42 ) A-I-E-A-O-A - The Yamasukis # 35 36 ( 35 ) SUPERSTAR - Carpenters # 1 37 ( 34 ) NEVER ENDING SONG OF LOVE - The New Seekers # 8 38 ( 49 ) SOME OF SHELLY’S BLUES - The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band # 38 39 ( 46 ) AT THE TOP OF THE STAIRS - The Formations # 39 40 ( 31 ) I’M LEAVIN’ - Elvis Presley # 14 41 ( 37 ) NATHAN JONES - The Supremes # 1 42 ( 38 ) BIRDS OF A FEATHER - The Raiders # 10 43 ( NEW ) FREEDOM COME, FREEDOM GO - The Fortunes # 43 44 ( 39 ) MAGGIE MAY - Rod Stewart # 4 45 ( 40 ) K-JEE - Nite-Liters # 39 46 ( 54 ) CALIFORNIA KID AND REEMO - Lobo # 46 47 ( NEW ) YO-YO - The Osmonds # 47 48 ( 44 ) I’M GONNA RUN AWAY FROM YOU - Tami Lynn # 1 49 ( 45 ) YAMASUKI - The Yamasukis # 5 50 ( 57 ) SWEET CITY WOMAN - The Stampeders # 50 51 ( 48 ) HOT LOVE - T.Rex # 1 52 ( 47 ) HERE COMES THAT RAINY DAY FEELING AGAIN - The Fortunes # 1 53 ( 59 ) THIN LINE BETWEEN LOVE AND HATE - The Persuaders # 53 54 ( 58 ) THE STORY IN YOUR EYES - The Moody Blues # 54 55 ( 60 ) TALK IT OVER IN THE MORNING - Anne Murray # 55 56 ( 61 ) ANOTHER TIME ANOTHER PLACE - Engelbert Humperdinck # 56 57 ( 55 ) WHAT’S GOING ON? - Marvin Gaye # 1 58 ( 56 ) ANOTHER DAY - Paul McCartney # 1 59 ( 51 ) HE’S GONNA STEP ON YOU AGAIN - John Kongos # 4 60 ( 64 ) HAUNTED - Dusty Springfield # 60 61 ( 50 ) THE BANNER MAN - Blue Mink # 6 62 ( 62 ) I WOKE UP IN LOVE THIS MORNING - The Partridge Family Starring Shirley Jones & featuring David Cassidy # 62 63 ( 52 ) DID YOU EVER? - Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood # 17 64 ( 67 ) SURF’S UP - The Beach Boys # 64 65 ( 53 ) HEARTBREAK HOTEL - Elvis Presley # 53 66 ( 41 ) THE DEVIL’S ANSWER - Atomic Rooster # 28 67 ( 70 ) CHERRY OH BABY - Eric Donaldson # 67 68 ( 71 ) BLUE MONDAY - Dave Edmunds # 68 69 ( 69 ) LADY OF THE MORNING - Marvin, Welch & Farrar # 69 70 ( 75 ) BLACK SEEDS KEEP ON GROWING - The Main Ingredient # 70 71 ( 72 ) NEW JERSEY - England Dan & John Ford Coley # 71 72 ( 74 ) DESDEMONA - The Searchers # 72 73 ( 73 ) FRIENDS BY DAY (LOVERS BY NIGHT) - The Whatnauts # 73 74 ( NEW ) REMEMBER - Rock Candy # 74 75 ( NEW ) ON THE WAY OUT (ON THE WAY IN) - Jimmy Ruffin # 75 Wot I liked then 31st August 1971 It's straight in at number one for a record I would become instantly mad on in a couple of weeks, Hot Chocolate getting a 3rd chart entry and a first chart-topper. This day was our last day as a family in Singapore, and we moved out the house all our belongings given away, at least those that hadn't been packed and shipped, packed for dad to use as he moved onto RAF Changi's single quarters, and us to carry on the plane as hand luggage. All that was left was to be bussed to RAF Changi Airport for the flight home on the 1st September. I wasn't excited to be going home, I was sad to be leaving a place I thought I'd never see again, and I still wished we'd stayed until dad's posting ended in December. We had to get back for school, but really I would have missed nothing much....except seeing our families a bit later than we did, and me dropping into a fantastic music scene that I would mostly have missed out on. Hot Chocolate was the record I wrote to dad to buy me, Shirley Bassey, in at 20 with For All We Know, was the consolation record he bought me after he couldn't find a copy of I Believe (In Love). The Carpenters cover was very nice - but it wasn't Hot Chocolate - I got it for Xmas though, so all's well. I still love it to bits and it deserves to be known. I'd say "better known" but the only people who know are those who lied it at the time or who bought the Greatest Hits albums. Paul & Linda's wrong-choice single pops in briefly - the monster track was Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey, the US chart-topper. Mum's faves Nancy & Lee pop in with a naughty country cover, Did You Ever is great fun. The Supremes Nathan Jones is the record I asked for, but the record shop didn't have it in stock for my Xmas stocking, it's still fabulous. Gilbert gets a 2nd chart entry - just - We Will was quite nice but better was to come. 1 ( NEW ) I BELIEVE (IN LOVE) - Hot Chocolate 2 ( 1 ) NEVER ENDING SONG OF LOVE - The New Seekers 3 ( 6 ) HEY GIRL DON’T BOTHER ME - The Tams 4 ( 2 ) I’M STILL WAITING - Diana Ross 5 ( 4 ) CHIRPY CHIRPY CHEEP CHEEP - Middle Of The Road 6 ( 7 ) HERE COMES THAT RAINY DAY FEELING AGAIN - The Fortunes 7 ( 3 ) WHAT ARE YOU DOING SUNDAY? - Dawn 8 ( 8 ) IT’S TOO LATE - Carole King 9 ( 13 ) HOW CAN YOU MEND A BROKEN HEART - The Bee Gees 10 ( 5 ) SOLDIER BLUE - Buffy Sainte-Marie 11 ( 9 ) NEVER CAN SAY GOODBYE - The Jackson 5 12 ( 11 ) TOM TOM TURNAROUND - New World 13 ( 16 ) BACK STREET LUV - Curved Air 14 ( NEW ) BACK SEAT OF MY CAR - Paul & Linda McCartney 15 ( NEW ) DID YOU EVER - Nancy & Lee 16 ( 14 ) GET IT ON (BANG A GONG) - T.Rex 17 ( NEW ) NATHAN JONES - The Supremes 18 ( 10 ) RAINY DAYS AND MONDAYS - Carpenters 19 ( NEW ) WE WILL - Gilbert O’Sullivan 20 ( NEW ) FOR ALL WE KNOW - Shirley Bassey |
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10th September 2021, 06:52 PM
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Shakin Stevens
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Hot Chocolate are one of my favourite bands of this era - love how they had a top 10 hit for like 10 consecutive years during this era, hard to do back then!
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17th September 2021, 04:04 PM
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QUOTE(steve201 @ Sep 10 2021, 07:52 PM) Hot Chocolate are one of my favourite bands of this era - love how they had a top 10 hit for like 10 consecutive years during this era, hard to do back then! yes, I totally agree. loved everything they did, and they were so versatile in genres, so good at song writing they gave away quite a few in the early days (Errol Brown/ Tony Wilson were the main men) and I liked that they were British-based black led, but also multi-ethnic. Bizarrely, they never sold albums and each single lived or died on its merits, they had no loyal fanbase until You Sexy Thing created one for about 3 years, and THEN they became a Hits Album band and finally sold many Hits albums in bucketloads over the years, and not before time! |
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