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 Jan 17 2015, 07:55 PM
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 BuzzJack Legend
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6th January 1970
A new year a new decade, and the futuristic-sounding 1970 heralded the best year of my life by far, to date. Two Little Boys had a 2nd week at 1, The Archies go top 5, and the only new entry was the goodbye single from Diana Ross and The Supremes. Someday We’ll Be Together, sings Ms. Ross. She lies, no way no how not ever ever have she and Mary Wilson patched things up enough to arrange that (barring one-off performances), to my disappointment. I saw Mary Wilson in concert a few years back and she was great fun. Fun and Diana Ross, aren’t necessarily concepts that sound right, I guess, which is a shame as she had a fantastic honey-sweet vocal ability that set off an epic ballad a treat, not to mention the odd powerful uptempo stomper, dance or otherwise, and I would have loved to see them (and Cindy Birdsong) do a proper 60’s-inspired album together. Sadly, it was increasingly mundane post-1986 for our Diane, till she just gave it all up. 1 ( 1 ) TWO LITTLE BOYS Rolf Harris 2 ( 3 ) (ALL I HAVE TO DO IS) DREAM Glen Campbell and Bobbie Gentry 3 ( 2 ) SUGAR SUGAR The Archies 4 ( 4 ) REFLECTIONS OF MY LIFE Marmalade 5 ( 6 ) JINGLE JANGLE The Archies 6 ( 7 ) SOMETHING The Beatles 7 ( 8 ) RUBY DON’T TAKE YOUR LOVE TO TOWN Kenny Rogers & The First Edition 8 ( 5 ) SUSPICIOUS MINDS Elvis Presley 9 ( 9 ) YESTER-ME, YESTER-YOU, YESTERDAY Stevie Wonder 10 ( NEW ) SOMEDAY WE’LL BE TOGETHER Diana Ross And The Supremes In Singapore, I could mention we still lived in our 4-bedroom rented house in Bedokville, but the cost was becoming an issue and we had our name on the waiting list for a cheaper place nearer RAF Changi. Which was a great pity, I enjoyed the suburban feel of the estate, the neighbours - we went to a wedding of a tall RAF lad and his much-shorter pretty young Chinese girlfriend, and they moved in diagonally opposite out place. Big RAF do’s involved lots of booze, mini-skirted other-halves, and kids running around everywhere, and with few above 35 in attendance. I also loved Bedok Junction, there was a furniture-maker where we eventually bought some hand-carved ornate Chinese-styled designs on coffee tables of various sizes and shapes, lamp stands, newspaper racks and a linen chest, all made of teak, which looked gorgeous. I love them all still 40 years later, though of course we now know that teak is very much a no no, being rainforest and old timber, and devastating to the environment to chop down. In those days information on such things was few and far between, or else I would have nagged my parents not to buy them, being increasingly anti-war, social-equality and environmentally-friendly as I had now hit the advanced age of 12, virtually grown-up, and had opinions on a world that seemed all unfair. In the world, The Beatles last studio recording (while all were still alive) was the day after my birthday, though as yet we all thought they would go on forever, so much were they part of 60’s life. Back in the UK we had a new Doctor Who, Jon Pertwee, though it meant nothing to me as Patrick Troughton’s run was still being run in Singapore hooray! |
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Jan 18 2015, 02:57 PM
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BuzzJack Legend
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13th January 1970 3 weeks for Rolf presiding over a still-short and inactive chart, but at least Marmalade’s fab Reflections goes up to 2, equalling their cover of Paul McCartney’s Beatles Ob La Di Ob La Da. Talking of Paul McCartney covers, he wrote a jolly poprock track for The Iveys, now known as Badfinger and signed to The Beatles Apple Records. Come And Get It was a great pop track, and introduced the very good (and ill-fated) Badfinger to the chart-world. They ended up getting more great hits (self-written), writing Without You for Nilsson, and recently had the closing song on Breaking Bad’s TV series. Sadly by then, following the legal mess of Apple Records, they had struggled commercially and the two main songwriters/singers had both killed themselves at ages 27 and 36 respectively. More happily, a reggae track pops in at 8, instrumental The Liquidator, which is not actually a Singapore track I recall hearing or liking but when I heard it on returning to the UK it sounded so familiar I included it in my charts of the time, so Harry J & The All Stars get their only hit (barring re-issues). Harry was a Jamaican record producer who went on to hit with the classic Bob & Marcia hit Young Gifted And Black, but was one of the key tracks for skinheads, a youth movement that had started up. By the time I got back UK-bound in late 1971, skinhead’s were fairly obvious in those longer-haired times and had based their movement around reggae music, which in the 80’s had morphed into a racist-fringed aggressive cult. Irony? 1 ( 1 ) TWO LITTLE BOYS Rolf Harris 2 ( 4 ) REFLECTIONS OF MY LIFE Marmalade 3 ( 3 ) SUGAR SUGAR The Archies 4 ( 2 ) (ALL I HAVE TO DO IS) DREAM Glen Campbell and Bobbie Gentry 5 ( NEW ) COME AND GET IT Badfinger 6 ( 6 ) SOMETHING The Beatles 7 ( 8 ) SUSPICIOUS MINDS Elvis Presley 8 ( NEW ) THE LIQUIDATOR The Harry J All Stars 9 ( 7 ) RUBY DON’T TAKE YOUR LOVE TO TOWN Kenny Rogers & The First Edition 10 ( 5 ) JINGLE JANGLE The Archies My DC comics hobby was getting pretty exciting as I got random 1969 (and older) issues of Legion of Super-Heroes, Superman, Supergirl, Teen Titans, Justice League Of America, Batman, Lois Lane, Jimmy Olsen, Superboy and World’s Finest in particular. To be honest, though, if I had the cash available I’d take anything labelled DC. Marvel Comics? I don’t recall them even being about, never mind being an attraction. I look back at the cover issues and get massive pangs of nostalgia transporting me back to the happy tropics. Singapore got it’s constitution this week, and the Biafran War ended after several bloody and famine-stricken years in Nigeria, around a million dead, and after watching the awful images on television as I was growing up. Biafra was a wannabe breakaway state, and Nigeria (independent in 1960 from the UK) wasn’t keen. It’s worth repeating that a MILLION people died and then despair over human nature. For all of the current terrible problems in the world, there is at least an awareness these days of foreign events unfolding which can put pressure on them ending before they escalate to ever-more terrible conclusions and atrocities. The roots of the conflict? Religious, oil and historical (the British Empire boundary-defining). No change there then in basic causes of conflicts that continue elsewhere in the world... |
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Jan 19 2015, 06:57 PM
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20th January 1970
Things finally start to happen in my charts, as Marmalade grab their first well-deserved chart-topper with the touching Reflections Of My Life. Badfinger go up to 4 and there are 4 new entries, the highest from Edison Lighthouse, the fantastic (or “Ace” as we tended to say then) Love Grows, a huge pop UK chart-topper that was pretty popular on Singapore radio and Forces network shows. Showcasing (of course) the great pop vocals of Tony Burrows who famously appeared on Top of the Pops around this time as lead singer for Edison Lighthouse, White Plains and Brotherhood Of Man. Pretty successful! Written by Tony Macauley and Geoff Stephens who each had a massive string of hit songs in the 60’s and 70’s (loads of them are still well known), it couldn’t really go wrong, and didn’t. In at 7 it’s a John Denver debut - as songwriter. Peter Paul and Mary were pretty well-known in the 60’s, with folk-hits like Blowin’ In The Wind and Puff The Magic Dragon, the latter a kiddie tearjerker loved by all, and here they were with a last hurrah with the lovely Leaving On A Jet Plane. Sweet. As I’d been on a jet plane recently, it spoke to me. At 9, one that has grown with the years for me, these days I absolutely love the Temptations in their funk heyday from 1969 through to 1973, and especially the brilliant I Can’t Get Next To You, a record I love more and more the older I get. I liked it, then by the 80’s I liked it a lot, in the 90’s I loved it, and now I’ve REALLY gone big on it. The psychedelic youtube live performance video is great but the recorded record on loud? Awesome! At 10, a pleasant-enough ballad from group Arrival, Friends, unless you’re typing too fast, in which case Fiends. 1 ( 2 ) REFLECTIONS OF MY LIFE Marmalade 2 ( 1 ) TWO LITTLE BOYS Rolf Harris 3 ( 3 ) SUGAR SUGAR The Archies 4 ( 5 ) COME AND GET IT Badfinger 5 ( NEW ) LOVE GROWS (WHERE MY ROSEMARY GOES) Edison Lighthouse 6 ( 4 ) (ALL I HAVE TO DO IS) DREAM Glen Campbell and Bobbie Gentry 7 ( NEW ) LEAVING ON A JET PLANE Peter, Paul And Mary 8 ( 7 ) SUSPICIOUS MINDS Elvis Presley 9 ( NEW ) I CAN’T GET NEXT TO YOU The Temptations 10 ( NEW ) FRIENDS Arrival One of the first purchases to reflect our Forces-overseas affluence (relative to being at home, only, of course) was a proper actual record-player/FM radio with 2 actual speakers for actual stereo, which was a revelation in sound for me. The old blue portable record-player dad bought in Aden was functional, but it was tinny in sound to say the least. This was black plastic, wooden framed class in comparison, and music suddenly was wide-screen. Dad started buying appropriately wide-screen albums and EP’s, like Barbra Streisand’s Funny Girl EP, which had the big Don’t Rain On My Parade for me to singalong to. Radio also benefitted though, it just sounded so much better! Hooray! |
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Jan 19 2015, 07:59 PM
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27th January 1970
Edison Lighthouse get that number one, one-hit wonders in actual fact here, but singer Tony Burrows would eventually get another under the name First Class. Peter Paul And Mary also go up, to 4. At 8, Vanity Fayre return with another catchy pop ditty, Hitchin’ A Ride, I loved the tune, though the version I was more familiar with (off the radio) was a version by Frank Ifield of all people, early 60’s yodelling favourite. I suppose in truth I should replace Vanity Fayre with Frank in my chart - I did get a tape copy of it off the local radio in Singapore, but it’s been utterly unavailable on vinyl, CD, download, streaming youtube or anyplace in the whole wide world for 45 years or so: till I just googled it and found it on a vinyl album in Brighton for £25. Hmmm, how much do I want it....? The big news is the belated 3rd hit for big fave singer Mary Hopkin, who was still trying for her hat-trick of number ones, though very much not in a hurry, Those Were The Days in 1968 and Goodbye in 1969, averaging one single a year! Temma Harbour was gorgeously tropical and evocative, sort of calypso-flavoured in a honey-sweet folk coating with lush strings taking me to an aural tropical paradise. Actually, I heavily associate the record with Singapore, the lyrics make references to sunshine, sea, waves, catching fish and coconut trees and that pretty much summed up my way of life at the time. So, not very Asian, more Caribbean, but still tropical images for me. 1 ( 5 ) LOVE GROWS (WHERE MY ROSEMARY GOES) Edison Lighthouse 2 ( 1 ) REFLECTIONS OF MY LIFE Marmalade 3 ( 3 ) SUGAR SUGAR The Archies 4 ( 7 ) LEAVING ON A JET PLANE Peter, Paul And Mary 5 ( 2 ) TWO LITTLE BOYS Rolf Harris 6 ( 4 ) COME AND GET IT Badfinger 7 ( NEW ) TEMMA HARBOUR Mary Hopkin 8 ( NEW ) HITCHIN’ A RIDE Vanity Fayre 9 ( 10 ) FRIENDS Arrival 10 ( 6 ) (ALL I HAVE TO DO IS) DREAM Glen Campbell and Bobbie Gentry Talking of catching fish... it wasn’t to kill, though, it was for my tropical fish tank, which we got at Bedok Junction fish shop, whole tanks of multi-coloured fish of all shapes and sizes just waiting to be put together in one tank - on the one hand I have brilliant vivid memories of shiny green neon tetra, exotic angel face, nippy tiger barb’s, cleaning sucker fish loach, grey catfish, zebra fish, black mollies and especially guppies to devote hours of watching on, on the other hand I also have traumatic memories of the fast-growing angel fish bullying other fish and on one horrendous occasion watch one chop a guppy in half, the poor thing had a horrible slow death because I couldn’t bear having to put it out of it’s torment. Angel fish are not cute, trust me. Guppies are. I used to go fishing for guppies in monsoon drains some months later - the wild males weren’t as multi-coloured as the shop ones, and had smaller tails, but I liked to think I was giving them a good home. Plus it reminded me of days by the river in Chesham, when I was 6 years old and used to catch sticklebacks to keep as pets. At least till they died overnight in the bucket, the inconsiderate little things just didn’t return my love by staying alive and eating bread! Happily the guppies all survived, by and large. Hooray! |
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Feb 22 2015, 01:45 PM
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4th February 1970
Love Grows gets 2 weeks on top of my last ever top 10, from here-on it’s Top 20’s as in Singapore we move house to a bungalow with very high ceilings located next door to the rear of the infamous wartime Changi Prison. 122F Tanah Merah Besar was opposite barbed wire fencing, and our house was overlooked from that fence by a tall guard tower, manned by armed prison officers. Burglary didn’t really go on much round here! We were also pretty much a short walk from the end of RAF Changi’s forces airfield runway, so we had regular drowning-out of the TV and radio from loud aircraft taking off, especially the VC10’s. On the plus side I got to see plenty of airplanes for nearly 2 years. Speaking of jet planes, in the chart, Peter Paul & Mary take John Denver’s song to 2, as Mary Hopkin takes the tropical Temma Harbour to 4, and yes we could see banana plants and coconut trees from our house, hooray! Keeping on with the singer-songwriter cover version theme, in at 7, the pure-voiced folk-ish Judy Collins enters with a gorgeous harpsichord-flavoured cover of Joni Mitchell’s Both Sides Now, a song I randomly found already recorded on a reel-to-reel tape accompanying our first ever second-hand 4-track tape recorder, which revolutionised my pop music experiences cos I could now repeat-listen to songs as often as I wanted to hear them. Paradise! Buying blank reel-to-reel tapes became important to me, immediately! Both Sides Now is a flawless song, much-covered, but probably only bettered in this version by a male act who charts soon with it. The great white soul songwriter Laura Nyro never achieved any chart success herself, but she provided songs for many others to cover successfully, especially The Fifth Dimension, who had been having hits for 3 years already, including my top 3 Hair track, Aquarius/Let The Sun Shine from 1969. I love their versions of her songs, starting with Wedding Bell Blues, harmony soul delight in at 10. Which leaves only one other new entry, a kiddie/teen Motown family pop-soul all-male band called The Jackson 5, jointly-fronted by a precociously talented kid who was only 6 months or so younger than 12-year-old me, and his name was Michael. They were sometimes on variety shows imported from the States on TV, so I got to see them sing, and they looked so cool. I Want You Back is brilliant, of course, so good it’s been a hit on several occasions over the decades, a great song, production and passionate vocals from a boy. I wonder what happened to The Jackson 5... 1 ( 1 ) LOVE GROWS (WHERE MY ROSEMARY GOES) Edison Lighthouse 2 ( 4 ) LEAVING ON A JET PLANE Peter, Paul And Mary 3 ( 2 ) REFLECTIONS OF MY LIFE Marmalade 4 ( 7 ) TEMMA HARBOUR Mary Hopkin 5 ( 3 ) SUGAR SUGAR The Archies 6 ( 8 ) HITCHIN’ A RIDE Vanity Fayre 7 ( NEW ) BOTH SIDES NOW Judy Collins 8 ( 5 ) TWO LITTLE BOYS Rolf Harris 9 ( NEW ) I WANT YOU BACK The Jackson 5 10 ( NEW ) WEDDING BELL BLUES The Fifth Dimension |
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Feb 22 2015, 10:55 PM
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Not gonna lie, I prefer Riverdance!
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Feb 23 2015, 07:57 AM
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QUOTE(🈶🈲🈳 @ Feb 22 2015, 10:55 PM)  Not gonna lie, I prefer Riverdance! well it IS great for dancing to 
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Feb 23 2015, 08:44 PM
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11th February 1970
At 1, and completing her hat-trick of consecutive chart-toppers, it’s Mary Hopkin and the lovely Temma Harbour. Notable for being the longest-span to get a hat-trick (3 calendar years), for being the first act to do it, and for doing it with her first 3 releases. It would another 14 years before the next act did that (Frankie Goes To Hollywood). Vanity Fayre go top 5 for the second time, and a load of re-entries peppered about the expanded top 20, but it’s the new entries that count: Actor Lee Marvin growls his way in at 13 with the fab Wanderin’ Star from the movie Paint Your Wagon, a future UK chart-topper, a film loved so much by my family that dad bought the soundtrack album which we played to death. Most famous these days for the brilliant song They Call The Wind Mariah, from which Ms Carey was named. True fact. Also infamous for an even worse vocal performance than Lee Marvin’s endearing growl, yes it’s Clint Eastwood in at 18 with the B Side, I Talk To The Trees. It’s kinda sweet, but Clint never repeated the experience, though to be honest I’ve heard much worse on X Factor’s final shows. At 15, Glen Campbell was on a roll, and his muse Jimmy Webb was behind him, but ti mattered not as he was hot on country-pop hit gems like Try A Little Kindness, a romping great song, which was a discovery on the afore-mentioned reel-to-reel tape we acquired. I loved it, I played it. A lot. Glen Campbell was pretty much my most favourite pop star in the world in 1970, hot off seeing him True Grit and singing the fab movie theme (not eligible for my chart but it would have been a number 1). At 16, the now-obscure follow-up to huge hit Saved By The Bell, Robin Gibb was still mad at his 2 brothers and on a wistful waltzing-ish ballad groove, another song I loved. It’s pleasant, sweet, nice. Not bad words to me! At 20, Jonathan King starts his long run of whimsical multiple alter-ego hits using his own name, the fun Let It All Hang Out. 1 ( 4 ) TEMMA HARBOUR Mary Hopkin 2 ( 1 ) LOVE GROWS (WHERE MY ROSEMARY GOES) Edison Lighthouse 3 ( 2 ) LEAVING ON A JET PLANE Peter, Paul And Mary 4 ( 6 ) HITCHIN’ A RIDE Vanity Fayre 5 ( 3 ) REFLECTIONS OF MY LIFE Marmalade 6 ( 7 ) BOTH SIDES NOW Judy Collins 7 ( 9 ) I WANT YOU BACK The Jackson 5 8 ( 5 ) SUGAR SUGAR The Archies 9 ( 10 ) WEDDING BELL BLUES The Fifth Dimension 10 ( RE ) COME AND GET IT Badfinger 11 ( 8 ) TWO LITTLE BOYS Rolf Harris 12 ( RE ) FRIENDS Arrival 13 ( NEW ) WANDERIN’ STAR Lee Marvin 14 ( RE ) (ALL I HAVE TO DO IS) DREAM Glen Campbell and Bobbie Gentry 15 ( NEW ) TRY A LITTLE KINDNESS Glen Campbell 16 ( NEW ) AUGUST OCTOBER Robin Gibb 17 ( RE ) SUSPICIOUS MINDS Elvis Presley 18 ( NEW ) I TALK TO THE TREES Clint Eastwood 19 ( RE ) I CAN’T GET NEXT TO YOU The Temptations 20 ( NEW ) LET IT ALL HANG OUT Jonathan King Back in sunny Singapore, I was on a new ghari (white RAF bus) to RAF Seletar, on a new route up Tampines Road, which was a bit more rural than the Bedokville route, though on Singapore island (17 miles wide) all things are relative. Next to our hilly road adjacent Changi Prison we had Lloyd Leas Estate, which had a great monsoon river running through it, a great place to re-stock my tropical fish tank with plainly-coloured guppies (multi-colours and frilly fins not being that helpful for survival in monsoon streams). I loved them anyway, been fascinated by fish in rivers since my 6-year-old stickleback-catching days. And lollipop sticks floating down monsoon drains, around obstacles, the shapes the mud flats made. Ah we had to make our entertainment then, no computer games to waste a life away on.... |
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Feb 24 2015, 10:05 PM
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18th February 1970
2 weeks for Mary on top, giving her the most weeks on top in total for any artist in the whole 18 months of pre-teen charting. Judy Collins goes top 3, and Lee Marvin is Wandrin’ up the top 10, and there are 4 new entries: Sacha Distel gets yet another movie Western song into the top 20 (the third) as he covers Burt Bacharach/Hal David’s song from Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid and enters at 16. From this distance the very French crooning isn’t a patch on the much-superior film version by B.J.Thomas, a big American pop star of the period who had a long string of great pop hits, one of them later covered by Jonathan King (at 17 this week) Hooked On A Feeling, which in turn was covered by Blue Swede and as featured in Guardians Of The Galaxy in 2014. At 19, The Brotherhood Of Man debut, though not the Eurovision line-up of singers, it was instead Tony Burrows (at 2 with Edison Lighthouse) leading the way in the early days. This is a great Tony Hiller ballad (creator of the group and co-writer of their later biggest hits), very Eurovision, but in a good way. Lastly, veteran soul group The Tams debut at 20 with the sweet Be Young Be Foolish Be Happy, as the Northern Soul circuit was about to rescue the seeming has-beens from obscurity in a big way in 1971, long after their career had more-or-less faded away and they were looking quite elderly to teenagers like me who were buying their records suddenly. At 18, it’s John and Yoko, with their second solo hit, and it’s terrific, Instant Karma, complete with Yoko knitting while on Top Of The Pops (not that I saw it at the time, of course, being out of the country and all). The hook We All Shine On is fab, John is in great voice, and we had no idea that The Beatles were actually over, just over 7 years of chart hits from start to finish. Or to put it into perspective, that would be like a musical act dropping out of the blue with new innovative, creative, timeless, and influential material in late 2008, releasing 3 or 4 singles a year, all chart-toppers and usually not on albums, while also releasing a record-breaking 1 or 2 albums a year, giving songs away, making 3 movies, TV specials and touring before calling it a day around now. No wonder they burnt out quickly, that sort of intense career is unthinkable in the modern era. Rihanna comes closest, co-incidentally now working with Paul McCartney. I love a nice link. 1 ( 1 ) TEMMA HARBOUR Mary Hopkin 2 ( 2 ) LOVE GROWS (WHERE MY ROSEMARY GOES) Edison Lighthouse 3 ( 6 ) BOTH SIDES NOW Judy Collins 4 ( 7 ) I WANT YOU BACK The Jackson 5 5 ( 3 ) LEAVING ON A JET PLANE Peter, Paul And Mary 6 ( 4 ) HITCHIN’ A RIDE Vanity Fare 7 ( 5 ) REFLECTIONS OF MY LIFE Marmalade 8 ( 13 ) WAND’RIN’ STAR Lee Marvin 9 ( 16 ) AUGUST OCTOBER Robin Gibb 10 ( 15 ) TRY A LITTLE KINDNESS Glen Campbell 11 ( 10 ) COME AND GET IT Badfinger 12 ( 11 ) TWO LITTLE BOYS Rolf Harris 13 ( 9 ) WEDDING BELL BLUES The Fifth Dimension 14 ( 18 ) I TALK TO THE TREES Clint Eastwood 15 ( 14 ) (ALL I HAVE TO DO IS) DREAM Glen Campbell and Bobbie Gentry 16 ( NEW ) RAINDROPS KEEP FALLIN’ ON MY HEAD Sacha Distel 17 ( 20 ) LET IT ALL HANG OUT Jonathan King 18 ( NEW ) INSTANT KARMA The Plastic Ono Band 19 ( NEW ) UNITED WE STAND Brotherhood Of Man 20 ( NEW ) BE YOUNG BE FOOLISH BE HAPPY The Tams In Singapore, my swimming badges were coming along nicely, and we getting them sewn onto our swimming gowns - actually that sounds a bit gay now I say it, but they were really just towels you could wear, and it was early evening so the temperatures sometimes dropped as low as ooh the upper 70’s (25C) and it felt a bit chilly after the heat of the day. Perhaps that’s why I still prefer those sort of temperatures, and loathe the cold to this day. Hey, ho, anyway, distance badges were nearly done, and we were by now moving on to learning how to blow up our pyjamas (for life-belt purposes) and diving for bricks - which as we all know is a very useful skill to develop. Who hasn’t accidentally dropped a brick into a river or pond or pool that they just had to retrieve?! Anyways, considering I couldn’t swim 5 months earlier, I did OK. |
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Feb 25 2015, 07:13 PM
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25th February 1970
3 weeks for Temma Harbour anchored on top, Judy Collins is still looking at both sides now, while Robin Gibb looks at his calendar and gets a second solo top 3 hit. There are only two new entries, but my word they are great: At 15, Bridge Over Troubled Water is the title track to one of the greatest albums of all time, and pure genius in it’s own right, talk about going out on top! Yes, The Beatles weren’t the only ones splitting at the top of their game, Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel were also going it alone, admittedly because Paul Simon felt as the songwriter he could do whatever he wanted, and did. Paul Simon is a poet, and he’s a gifted folkpop songwriter, but in this case Bridge Over Troubled Water was basically Paul’s gospel tour-de-force sung as a solo by Art, and what a combination that made. The word Epic is over-used, but it’s totally deserved for Bridge Over Troubled Water, future UK chart-topper singles and albums charts, and in the case of the album for 2 years or so on and off. For me, Simon and Garfunkel were big with the young married RAF crowd, we borrowed the album from our next-door neighbours, and recorded it onto reel-to-reel, plus Bridge was regularly on 2-Way Family Favourites, so it remains a huge record for me - without ever being my single-fave record of the moment until I bought the album myself in 1976, played it to death, and would say it’s comfortably one of my top 10 of all-time. Venus, by Dutch band Shocking Blue and in at 20, was fantastic too, a sort of hippie rock pop anthem, so good it got covered kitschtastically by Bananarama 16 years later. 1 ( 1 ) TEMMA HARBOUR Mary Hopkin 2 ( 3 ) BOTH SIDES NOW Judy Collins 3 ( 9 ) AUGUST OCTOBER Robin Gibb 4 ( 4 ) I WANT YOU BACK The Jackson 5 5 ( 2 ) LOVE GROWS (WHERE MY ROSEMARY GOES) Edison Lighthouse 6 ( 8 ) WAND’RIN’ STAR Lee Marvin 7 ( 5 ) LEAVING ON A JET PLANE Peter, Paul And Mary 8 ( 10 ) TRY A LITTLE KINDNESS Glen Campbell 9 ( 7 ) REFLECTIONS OF MY LIFE Marmalade 10 ( 14 ) I TALK TO THE TREES Clint Eastwood 11 ( 6 ) HITCHIN’ A RIDE Vanity Fare 12 ( 11 ) COME AND GET IT Badfinger 13 ( 16 ) RAINDROPS KEEP FALLIN’ ON MY HEAD Sacha Distel 14 ( 12 ) TWO LITTLE BOYS Rolf Harris 15 ( NEW ) BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER Simon And Garfunkel 16 ( 17 ) LET IT ALL HANG OUT Jonathan King 17 ( 18 ) INSTANT KARMA The Plastic Ono Band 18 ( 19 ) UNITED WE STAND Brotherhood Of Man 19 ( 13 ) WEDDING BELL BLUES The Fifth Dimension 20 ( NEW ) VENUS Shocking Blue |
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Mar 31 2015, 09:16 PM
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3rd March 1970
4 weeks for Mary Hopkin’s Harbour on top, still holding off another folk-stylee singer Judy Collins at 2. Lee Marvin wanders his way to 3, Painting his Wagon along with Clint’s tree-talking at 8, while Simon & Garfunkel keep that folk theme going with a gospel detour for the perfect Bridge Over Troubled Water. B.J. Thomas is the third movie record in the chart entering just behind the Sacha Distel cover, and it’s WAY better, taken straight from the bicycling sequence in Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid, a great film for those sunshine-themed days, cool cowboy outlaws and a great Bacharach/David song, what’s not to like! B.J. is also an under-rated singer in the UK, he had some great US hits, many of them covered by others in the UK and US (see Elvis, JK, Blue Swede). Shame! At 17, future Bananarama hit Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye enters for Steam, actually a 1969 US hit, regarded as bubblegum (and therefore not worthy) but it’s bloody fantastic, and still the definitive version, great tune, great vocal, great production. Kenny Rogers is back, and Something’s Burning at 19. Smoldering for the first half of the country track, mostly, but it packs a wallop later on, and is a cut above some of his more famous later country story songs. Finally, it’s Polly Brown at 20, 4 years ahead of 2 later versions of her pop toons, but this time it’s Pickettywich, who have a sweet enough ditty getting that same old feeling. 1 ( 1 ) TEMMA HARBOUR Mary Hopkin 2 ( 2 ) BOTH SIDES NOW Judy Collins 3 ( 6 ) WAND’RIN’ STAR Lee Marvin 4 ( 3 ) AUGUST OCTOBER Robin Gibb 5 ( 5 ) LOVE GROWS (WHERE MY ROSEMARY GOES) Edison Lighthouse 6 ( 4 ) I WANT YOU BACK The Jackson 5 7 ( 8 ) TRY A LITTLE KINDNESS Glen Campbell 8 ( 10 ) I TALK TO THE TREES Clint Eastwood 9 ( 15 ) BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER Simon And Garfunkel 10 ( 7 ) LEAVING ON A JET PLANE Peter, Paul And Mary 11 ( 13 ) RAINDROPS KEEP FALLIN’ ON MY HEAD Sacha Distel 12 ( NEW ) RAINDROPS KEEP FALLIN’ ON MY HEAD B.J. Thomas 13 ( 12 ) COME AND GET IT Badfinger 14 ( 17 ) INSTANT KARMA The Plastic Ono Band 15 ( 18 ) UNITED WE STAND Brotherhood Of Man 16 ( 14 ) TWO LITTLE BOYS Rolf Harris 17 ( NEW ) NA NA HEY HEY KISS HIM GOODBYE Steam 18 ( 20 ) VENUS Shocking Blue 19 ( NEW ) SOMETHING’S BURNING Kenny Rogers & The First Edition 20 ( NEW ) THAT SAME OLD FEELING Pickettywich This week in the news, it was the funeral of Lee Kuan Yew (March 2015) and it’s impossible to mention 1970 Singapore without reference to the giant of Far east politics. Singapore was well under-way on the route to modernisation and prosperity, largely thanks to his way of doing business, politics and social planning. I have very mixed feelings about this (and him) - on the one hand he created a genuine melting pot of cultures, dominated by a sort of Chinese Britishness with generous dashes of Malay and Indian culture, all really dating back to the British Empire in the Far East and trading links between them. I loved the historic styles that old Singapore still had, but the bulldozers were busy levelling much and rebuilding new high rise megacity Singapore. That said, some of the more poverty-stricken areas had their own odours hitting you as soon as you got in range! On the other hand, Lee kept Singapore relatively stable despite the chaos politically in the immediate region. I never agreed with the death penalty, the anti-gay laws, and the banning of much western youth culture, even as a kid, but it has to be said even Singapore had terrorism problems. That’s not something you got to hear about back in the UK, and it was mostly imported in from neighbouring countries, and directed against the British - even though they were leaving, winding down in 1970 through 1972. The worst moment was when 2 kids from my brothers infants school were blown up by booby-trapped flag-bombs at Suicide Village, one of them dying. This was deliberate targeting of children, the red flags left in scrubland adjacent the largely British housing estate where we had friends we visited. After that, all kids were told not to go away from Changi Village/RAF Changi on their own. Not that I took notice, but that’s another story... |
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Apr 3 2015, 08:48 AM
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QUOTE(popchartfreak @ Apr 1 2015, 12:16 AM) 3rd March 1970 4 weeks for Mary Hopkin’s Harbour on top, still holding off another folk-stylee singer Judy Collins at 2. 1 ( 1 ) TEMMA HARBOUR Mary Hopkin 2 ( 2 ) BOTH SIDES NOW Judy Collins John, it's the one from my favourite top 2 in all history of your Buzzjack charts. 
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Apr 3 2015, 01:28 PM
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QUOTE(Sword of Justice @ Apr 3 2015, 09:48 AM) John, it's the one from my favourite top 2 in all history of your Buzzjack charts. Thanks Alex, I still love them to bits too
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Apr 3 2015, 09:03 PM
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10th March 1970
5 weeks for Mary Hopkin on top, now beating Goodbye’s 4 weeks, but still lagging behind Those Were The Days 7 weeks, but the total of 16 weeks is way ahead of any other act in the 18 months of charting so far. Glen Campbell meanwhile gets yet another record peaking at 2, something of a habit by now, his 4th Top 5. Try A Little Kindness is terrific, and like Galveston and Wichita Lineman should have hit number one too. Raindrops is in the top 10, too, twice! The best version at 5, t’other at 10. New at 11, it’s...The Beatles and a gospel ballad classic you may have heard? Let It Be. 5th top 20 since Hey Jude debuted on top of my first chart, a Paul McCartney gem, and yes, I loved the Phil Spector-produced strings n all version. No apologies, it’s brilliant any way the Fabs want to do it, but this is the version I heard, and loved. Of course, on April 10th Paul announced that the boys had already in fact Let It Be, and he left what had already disbanded, and the greatest popular music act of the 20th century moved into history after a mere 7 years or so. They crammed more into 7 years than any act has managed in a lifetime, creatively, inspirationally, popularly, culturally and critically. True fact. Lots of people don’t like them (mad!) but no-one can offer up a credible alternative argument. When dad told me the news, in far off Singapore, it seemed just so unlikely! I literally (in the true meaning of the word) could not recall a time when there was no Beatles, and it didn’t seem as if it would stay that way, that one day they would realise the error of their ways and get back together. Eep! At 15, Andy Williams returns with an Elvis cover, all sweeping strings. Andy was huge in our house in 1970/1, his TV show was the bees knees and I loved The Cookie Bear and frequent guests The Osmond Brothers, not to mention his missus Claudine Longet. Have I mentioned I’ve seen Andy, and Paul, and Glen in concert? Fab, Awesome and awesome, respectively. At 18 and 20, 2 records that came back bigger in my charts in 1974, as technically they didn’t get played much in Singapore (Bob and Marcia was a reggae classic, but not one that made even 2-way family favourites that I heard) - Young Gifted And Black, and Farewell Is A Lonely Sound. Love ‘em, love ‘em. Which leaves childhood faves The Dave Clark 5 returning after a year away with their final good record, the sweet Everybody Get Together, a love and peace pop song with a fab toon. Dave & co would have likely have grabbed at least 3 chart-toppers if I’d started earlier: Bits And Pieces, Glad All Over and Everybody Knows. 1 ( 1 ) TEMMA HARBOUR Mary Hopkin 2 ( 7 ) TRY A LITTLE KINDNESS Glen Campbell 3 ( 3 ) WAND’RIN’ STAR Lee Marvin 4 ( 2 ) BOTH SIDES NOW Judy Collins 5 ( 12 ) RAINDROPS KEEP FALLIN’ ON MY HEAD B.J. Thomas 6 ( 5 ) LOVE GROWS (WHERE MY ROSEMARY GOES) Edison Lighthouse 7 ( 9 ) BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER Simon And Garfunkel 8 ( 6 ) I WANT YOU BACK The Jackson 5 9 ( 4 ) AUGUST OCTOBER Robin Gibb 10 ( 11 ) RAINDROPS KEEP FALLIN’ ON MY HEAD Sacha Distel 11 ( NEW ) LET IT BE The Beatles 12 ( 8 ) I TALK TO THE TREES Clint Eastwood 13 ( 17 ) NA NA HEY HEY KISS HIM GOODBYE Steam 14 ( 10 ) LEAVING ON A JET PLANE Peter, Paul And Mary 15 ( NEW ) CAN’T HELP FALLING IN LOVE Andy Williams 16 ( 19 ) SOMETHING’S BURNING Kenny Rogers & The First Edition 17 ( 16 ) TWO LITTLE BOYS Rolf Harris 18 ( NEW ) (TO BE) YOUNG GIFTED AND BLACK Bob And Marcia 19 ( NEW ) EVERYBODY GET TOGETHER The Dave Clark 5 20 ( NEW ) FAREWELL IS A LONELY SOUND Jimmy Ruffin So, life at Tanah Merah Besar, by Changi prison. It meant a longer bus ride to school at RAF Seletar, and at school I’d been moved up a grade into a higher Maths class, while still in English class 2. The other subjects were mixed ability with the rest of my classmates in 1H2 - I was doing pretty well, actually, I enjoyed being at school, I had friends, a best friend in Stephen Game, and was actually not that rubbish at athletics, a first for me being good at any sort of sports. The roasting sun and humidity obviously affected me less than everyone else, hooray! For some reason, oddly, when we all sat down for 12 Plus exams I tried to do well. 12 Plus? Actually 11 Plus exams, where kids were streamed according to passing (Grammar Schools) or failing (Secondary Modern Schools). Obviously I, along with all kids at my previous British Primary School bar 1, was a failure, as was the norm for oiks in those days. trouble was the Secondary School in Seletar was over-subscribed, and the Grammar School in Changi was under-subscribed, so each term a couple kids from each year were upgraded to Grammar, usually the swots that had slipped through the net unexpectedly. A bit like me then. Not sure, in retrospect, that I should have tried, cos I only went and bloody passed (it turned out a few weeks later) which really made my heart sink. I loved it at Seletar and didn’t want to leave. Damn! |
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Apr 4 2015, 04:23 PM
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17th March 1970
6th and final week on top for Mary Hopkin - she would have had longer, but sadly I gave records a chart run that matched the UK singles chart, and once they dropped out of that one they were ejected (and non-chart runs were limited to 10 weeks). Judy Collins also gets the boot this week for the same reason, giving Canned Heat a brief chance of a 3rd hit, Let’s Work Together, an old blues track that was to become definitive for Bryan Ferry in 1976, under it’s new title Let’s Stick Together. 1 ( 1 ) TEMMA HARBOUR Mary Hopkin 2 ( 3 ) WAND’RIN’ STAR Lee Marvin 3 ( 2 ) TRY A LITTLE KINDNESS Glen Campbell 4 ( 5 ) RAINDROPS KEEP FALLIN’ ON MY HEAD B.J. Thomas 5 ( 7 ) BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER Simon And Garfunkel 6 ( 10 ) RAINDROPS KEEP FALLIN’ ON MY HEAD Sacha Distel 7 ( 11 ) LET IT BE The Beatles 8 ( 6 ) LOVE GROWS (WHERE MY ROSEMARY GOES) Edison Lighthouse 9 ( 13 ) NA NA HEY HEY KISS HIM GOODBYE Steam 10 ( 8 ) I WANT YOU BACK The Jackson 5 11 ( 14 ) LEAVING ON A JET PLANE Peter, Paul And Mary 12 ( 9 ) AUGUST OCTOBER Robin Gibb 13 ( 18 ) (TO BE) YOUNG GIFTED AND BLACK Bob And Marcia 14 ( 15 ) CAN’T HELP FALLING IN LOVE Andy Williams 15 ( 19 ) EVERYBODY GET TOGETHER The Dave Clark 5 16 ( 12 ) I TALK TO THE TREES Clint Eastwood 17 ( 20 ) FAREWELL IS A LONELY SOUND Jimmy Ruffin 18 ( 17 ) TWO LITTLE BOYS Rolf Harris 19 ( 16 ) SOMETHING’S BURNING Kenny Rogers & The First Edition 20 ( NEW ) LET’S WORK TOGETHER Canned Heat The Beatles Steam into the 10, Lee Marvin peaks at 2, the rest shuffle about a bit. At RAF Changi we were having quite the social whirl, as neighbours the Wainwrights spent a lot of time with us, Dale and Gary being slightly younger than me and my brother, and baby Jamie being adored by mum, so we often did stuff together, such as ten pin bowling on camp. I still love 10-pin bowling, one of the games I’m actually good at, and no-nonsense attitudes to it, fits perfectly for anyone capable of holding a heavy ball and chucking it at some pins. Fab. We attended a lot of stamp auctions, too, as I now specialised in getting mint and first day cover 1960’s UK stamps, and recent and current Singapore stamps. Singapore had some gorgeous designs on theirs - the various traditional dresses of ethnic female Singaporeans featured heavily, and became the template for copper beatings, a big artistic pastime of the mums, framed for wall display and all. This truly was a lifestyle of leisure and creativity completely alien to 1960’s UK. Mum’s works still hang on the wall. We also bought paintings on silk cloth from a deaf Chinese lady, madame Teo, who came round the house one day, Chinese ships in traditional harbours, the sort of views very-much disappearing in the modern Singapore. Fab. |
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Apr 4 2015, 06:43 PM
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24th March 1970
Mary Hopkin gets evicted for her protege, the one that signed her to Apple Records, wrote her a follow-up hit, and produced her huge number one - that’ll be Paul McCartney then, as The Beatles get their second number one, and Paul McCartney becomes the first songwriter to write 3 number ones (credited also to John Lennon, but Paul wrote them - John and Paul credited each other on songs after their teenage agreement, even if the other had nothing to do with it). The Beatles become the first band to get 2 number ones. Mary Hopkin, in the meantime, is the UK’s Eurovision singer and here she is at 13 - Knock Knock Who’s There? Mary. Mary who? I just told you, use your ears! It’s not as good as her first three singles, but she was on a roll! BJ hits 2, Raindrops tended to fall on our heads too - well monsoon raindrops in Singapore, deluges of warm exciting floods of rain, filling the monsoon drains, and running down into our new house patio, giving us temporary paddling pools to play in. Hooray! I digress. Bob and Marcia hit the 10, and Joe Dolan gets a second hit, following his 1969 biggie Make Me An Island which I adored. You’re Such A Good Looking Woman is a nice slice of upbeat Irish pop balladry, so yay! 1 ( 7 ) LET IT BE The Beatles 2 ( 4 ) RAINDROPS KEEP FALLIN’ ON MY HEAD B.J. Thomas 3 ( 2 ) WAND’RIN’ STAR Lee Marvin 4 ( 5 ) BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER Simon And Garfunkel 5 ( 3 ) TRY A LITTLE KINDNESS Glen Campbell 6 ( 9 ) NA NA HEY HEY KISS HIM GOODBYE Steam 7 ( 6 ) RAINDROPS KEEP FALLIN’ ON MY HEAD Sacha Distel 8 ( 8 ) LOVE GROWS (WHERE MY ROSEMARY GOES) Edison Lighthouse 9 ( 13 ) (TO BE) YOUNG GIFTED AND BLACK Bob And Marcia 10 ( 10 ) I WANT YOU BACK The Jackson 5 11 ( 15 ) EVERYBODY GET TOGETHER The Dave Clark 5 12 ( 12 ) AUGUST OCTOBER Robin Gibb 13 ( NEW ) KNOCK KNOCK WHO’S THERE Mary Hopkin 14 ( 11 ) LEAVING ON A JET PLANE Peter, Paul And Mary 15 ( 17 ) FAREWELL IS A LONELY SOUND Jimmy Ruffin 16 ( 14 ) CAN’T HELP FALLING IN LOVE Andy Williams 17 ( 19 ) SOMETHING’S BURNING Kenny Rogers & The First Edition 18 ( 16 ) I TALK TO THE TREES Clint Eastwood 19 ( 20 ) LET’S WORK TOGETHER Canned Heat 20 ( NEW ) YOU’RE SUCH A GOOD LOOKING WOMAN Joe Dolan Talking of rain, the monsoon drains all ran to bigger drains, which ran downhill from Changi Prison onto the Lloyd Leas Estate huge drain, mostly a stream or river, dependent on volume - where I used to fish for guppies. On the way downhill, there was this overhanging tree on the footpath just by the junction to the main road, and it had giant ants living on it, Clingers we called them, cos they sowed up the elongated leaves of the tree into oval-ish hollow balls where they lived. The downside was you had to not hang around cos they had a tendency to drop on you from above, and had a hurty nip. Just behind the tree was a Kampong, Malay this time I think, with a shop fronting the road selling bits and bobs. The worst visit I had to make to the shop was when mum was poorly in bed and needed some lady products, and I had to ask for some hoping they spoke English well enough. Very embarrassing for a 12-year-old! |
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Apr 4 2015, 07:30 PM
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31st March 1970
2 weeks for Let It Be on top, as the Eurovision winner for Ireland, teenage sweet-faced sweet-voiced Dana enters at 2 with her sweet ditty All Kinds Of Everything. This is bad news for Mary Hopkin up to 9 with her UK entry! Not that I got to see the contest, the first I’d missed since I first watched Sandie Shaw win in 1967, being as Singapore and Malaya TV didn’t broadcast it. In at 16, it’s a future 3 times UK chart-topping song, the awesome Spirit In The Sky, but the best version by far is the original from Norman Greenbaum, the fab riffy guitars, the singalong gospel-tinged chorus, the tune...fantastic! I finally bought the single in 1974, which is when I fell in love with it, but I was sort of aware of it at the time, which is why it was allowed in these charts. Gimme Dat Ding at 17 - yes, it’s him again, Tony Burrows singing (unrecognisably) assisted by David & Jonathan man Roger Greenaway, and written by Albert Hammond & Mike Hazelwood. It’s falsetto fun, almost 20’s jazz in style. At 20, The Four Tops are back (even though their substantial classic period predated my charts, with the awesome Levi Stubbs vocals, they were still having reissued Holland Dozier Holland hits - this time with early single I Can’t Help Myself. 1 ( 1 ) LET IT BE The Beatles 2 ( NEW ) ALL KINDS OF EVERYTHING Dana 3 ( 2 ) RAINDROPS KEEP FALLIN’ ON MY HEAD B.J. Thomas 4 ( 4 ) BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER Simon And Garfunkel 5 ( 3 ) WAND’RIN’ STAR Lee Marvin 6 ( 6 ) NA NA HEY HEY KISS HIM GOODBYE Steam 7 ( 5 ) TRY A LITTLE KINDNESS Glen Campbell 8 ( 9 ) (TO BE) YOUNG GIFTED AND BLACK Bob And Marcia 9 ( 13 ) KNOCK KNOCK WHO’S THERE Mary Hopkin 10 ( 8 ) LOVE GROWS (WHERE MY ROSEMARY GOES) Edison Lighthouse 11 ( 7 ) RAINDROPS KEEP FALLIN’ ON MY HEAD Sacha Distel 12 ( 10 ) I WANT YOU BACK The Jackson 5 13 ( 15 ) FAREWELL IS A LONELY SOUND Jimmy Ruffin 14 ( 11 ) EVERYBODY GET TOGETHER The Dave Clark 5 15 ( 12 ) AUGUST OCTOBER Robin Gibb 16 ( NEW ) SPIRIT IN THE SKY Norman Greenbaum 17 ( NEW ) GIMME DAT DING The Pipkins 18 ( 18 ) I TALK TO THE TREES Clint Eastwood 19 ( 16 ) CAN’T HELP FALLING IN LOVE Andy Williams 20 ( NEW ) I CAN’T HELP MYSELF The Four Tops |
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Apr 4 2015, 07:42 PM
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Dana vs Mary Hopkin. Looks very familiar. The one from two epic Eurovision battles for win (another is France Gall vs Kathy Kirby in 1965).
Dana won my ESC ranking for 1970, had more weeks at # 1 and it's my second favourite all-time UK # 1 (behind "The Land of Make Believe"), but both songs are WONDERFUL and were included in my all-time top 5 Eurovision songs. My favourite Mary Hopkin singles : 1. Mary Had A Baby (Best Christmas song ever !!!) 2. Knock Knock Who's There 3. Temma Harbour All 8 Mary Hopkin's singles were # 1 in my retro charts. Mighty pop beauty. It's a record : Shampoo had 5 # 1s from 5 singles, H & Claire and allSTARS* had 4 # 1s from 4 singles. This post has been edited by Sword of Justice: Apr 5 2015, 07:54 AM |
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Apr 4 2015, 08:46 PM
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Some classic stuff here. Bob & Marcia, BJ Thomas and Four Tops are my particular faves in the last chart. I do like Bridge Over Troubled Water but it's one of those songs (like Bo Rhap) that has suffered due to overkill in my view.
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Apr 6 2015, 07:08 AM
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QUOTE(AH Gold @ Apr 4 2015, 09:46 PM) Some classic stuff here. Bob & Marcia, BJ Thomas and Four Tops are my particular faves in the last chart. I do like Bridge Over Troubled Water but it's one of those songs (like Bo Rhap) that has suffered due to overkill in my view. Thanks AH, I guess S&G is a regular radio fave, though I've never overdosed on it like I have BoRap. Glad you like some of the oldies though, I'm always fascinated to see which oldies appeal to folk who werent around at the time (so dont have the bias of nostalgia like I do ) Those are 3 good choices!
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