Lady Marmalade is one of the worst song ever. Why it keeps getting covered is beyond me.

 

What Took You So Long? is just lovely.

 

No, his musical ignorance and how he can't back up any of his points makes me want to hurt myself.

Oh relax, Alex just enjoys pure pop music which is just fine. We all have different taste and it's actually quite refreshing to see since his taste, it's unusual and covers a wide range in time.

 

PLEASED that the Queen B makes an appearance in this chart too even though it's just a small part. (and let me guess, Kim's part in Lady Marmelade is your [AlexRange] least favorite?)

Oh relax, Alex just enjoys pure pop music which is just fine. We all have different taste and it's actually quite refreshing to see since his taste, it's unusual and covers a wide range in time.

 

I don't care about his music taste at all. I'm just making a point that his music taste is slightly stranger than others and I am also annoyed by the fact that he can't BACK UP any of his opinions.

Edited February 11, 201312 yr by G R I E F

# 93. Steps - Stomp (1 week # 1 - 2000)

 

The video features group members Lisa and H looking after a penthouse apartment while the owner is away on business. They, and the other group members, then throw a party for all their friends, but struggle to tidy up before the owner returns. Andrea Corr makes a cameo appearance towards the end.

 

Pretty certain it's not her! Ever reliable Wikipedia :lol:

Pretty certain it's not her! Ever reliable Wikipedia :lol:

 

Thanks. This wrong information was deleted. :)

 

 

PLEASED that the Queen B makes an appearance in this chart too even though it's just a small part. (and let me guess, Kim's part in Lady Marmelade is your [AlexRange] least favorite?)

Better, than All Siants version :)

Edited February 12, 201312 yr by AlexRange

 

# 54. Cilla Black - You're My World (4 weeks # 1 - 1964)

 

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Although the original Italian version by composer Umberto Bindi was not a hit, even in Italy, the song came to the attention of UK record producer George Martin, who commissioned an English version to be recorded by his protegee Cilla Black.

 

Black cut the song - translated as "You're My World" - at Abbey Road Studios with Johnny Pearson conducting his orchestra and The Breakaways providing background vocals; Black has said that her manager and future husband Bobby Willis also sang on the track. Judd Proctor was the lead guitarist on the session.

 

"You're My World" reached No. 1 in Britain on the chart dated 30 May 1964 and remained there for a total of four weeks, one week more than Black's preceding single "Anyone Who Had a Heart". Although Black would return to the UK Top Ten eight times, "You're My World" would be her final No. 1 hit.

 

Black's "You're My World" was also No. 1 in Australia for two weeks that July when it also spent three weeks at No. 2 in New Zealand while in South Africa the disc was the second biggest hit for the year 1964. A Top Twenty hit in Denmark, the track also reached No. 12 in Canada, No. 2 in Ireland, No. 8 in Norway and No. 7 in Sweden.

 

"You're My World" was the first track by Black to be released in the US, where the singer was signed to Capitol Records. Peaking at No. 26 in August 1964, "You're My World" would become Black's only Top 40 hit in the United States.

 

An alternative take from the recording sessions which yielded the Cilla Black hit version of "You're My World" was later issued, with the opening notes being likened to be the sound of musicians tuning up. Both the 1964 versions, however, remain faithful to Bindi's strong vocal delivery and the instrumentation of his original recording in Italian.

 

Black remade "You're My World" in 1985 for her Surprisingly Cilla album and then again in 1993 for her Through the Years album; both tracks attempted to capture the original's orchestral quality via synthesizers.

 

 

 

# 53. Madonna - True Blue (1 week # 1 - 1986)

 

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"True Blue" is a song by American singer-songwriter Madonna. It was released as the third single from her third studio album, True Blue, on September 29, 1986 by Sire Records. Originally written by Steve Bray, the song deals with the feelings of Madonna for her then-husband Sean Penn. A dance-pop song, it features instrumentation from a rhythm guitar, a synthesizer, keyboards, and drums. The main chorus is backed by an alternate one incorporating a chord progression generally seen in doo-wop type of music.

 

Received by the critics as a light-hearted and cute retro song, "True Blue" topped the charts in UK, Ireland and Canada and became another consecutive top ten song in U.S. for Madonna by reaching number three on the Billboard Hot 100. The original music video portrayed her again with a new look, leaner and sporting platinum blond bushy hair. An alternate video was made through the "Make My Video" contest on MTV. The final selected videos had a similar theme of 50s inspired setting and the storyline following the lyrics of the song. "True Blue" was performed only once on the subsequent Who's That Girl World Tour.

 

 

# 52. Rosemary Clooney - This Ole House (1 week # 1 - 1954)

 

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"This Ole House" (sometimes written "This Old House") is a popular song written by Stuart Hamblen, and published in 1954.

 

Hamblen was supposedly out on a hunting expedition when he and his fellow hunter, actor John Wayne, came across a tumbledown hut in the mountains, many miles from civilization. They went into the hut and there, lying amongst the rubbish and rubble of a crumbling building, was the body of a dead man. The man's dog was still alive and, although starving, guarding his dead master's home. This inspired Hamblen to write "This Ole House," which Rosemary Clooney and later Shakin' Stevens, treated as a bouncy rock n roll number, rather than the epitaph for a mountain man that it was meant to be.

 

The recorded version of "This Ole House" by Rosemary Clooney, featuring bass vocals by Thurl Ravenscroft, reached #1 on the Billboard chart in 1954 as the flip side to her previous #1 song, "Hey There." Clooney's version also topped the UK Singles Chart, although there were other UK hit versions around by Billie Anthony and Alma Cogan, both recorded in 1954. The recording by Alma Cogan with Felix King, piano and orchestra was made in London on September 2, 1954. The song was released by EMI on the His Master's Voice label. The flip side was "Skokiaan."

 

In March 1981, Shakin' Stevens took the song back to #1 for three weeks in the United Kingdom. His version was re-released in 2005 after his appearance in the TV show Hit Me Baby One More Time and reached #20 in the UK chart.

Edited June 4, 201411 yr by AlexRange

 

# 51. Cilla Black - Anyone Who Had a Heart (3 weeks # 1 - 1964)

 

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A scout for UK record producer George Martin discovered "Anyone Who Had a Heart" when Warwick's version took off in the US, suggesting to Martin that the song would be a strong UK single for Shirley Bassey. However, Martin saw the song as a vehicle for Cilla Black, the Liverpool vocalist whose star potential had yet to be realized despite her association with the Beatles, her recording of the Lennon-McCartney original "Love of the Loved" having been only a modest hit (#35). Martin produced the session for Black's recording of "Anyone Who Had a Heart" at Abbey Road Studios; the arrangement was by Johnny Pearson and the session personnel included guitarists Vic Flick and Big Jim Sullivan and the Breakaways vocal group.

 

Black's single of "Anyone Who Had a Heart" debuted at #28 on the UK Top 50 dated 8 February 1964. The Dionne Warwick original, issued by Scepter's UK licensee Pye Records, debuted on the chart for the following week at #42; by then Black's version had reached #10, ascending in the subsequent two weeks to #2 and then #1 while Warwick's version concurrently ended its chart run with two weeks at #47. On the chart dated 29 February 1964, besides Black's "Anyone Who Had a Heart" at #1 for the first of three weeks and Warwick's version in its final chart week at #47, the UK Top 50 featured a third version of "Anyone Who Had a Heart" as the version by Mary May made its one week appearance at #49. On 25 April 1964, Billboard reported that the sales tally for Black's "Anyone Who Had a Heart" was nearing one million units.

 

"Anyone Who Had a Heart" was also a #1 hit for Cilla Black in Ireland, New Zealand and South Africa.

 

 

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Edited March 21, 201510 yr by Sword of Justice

I don't care about his music taste at all. I'm just making a point that his music taste is slightly stranger than others and I am also annoyed by the fact that he can't BACK UP any of his opinions.

 

Alex likes pop, about half of the records he's chosen so far are absolute pop classics (and I'm happy to back them up with facts and opinions, see my "John';s Personal Number Ones of the 60's", where you will find many of them). Most people dont analyse their music tastes, they just like something or they dont. Do you not love records from when you were a kid, even though you know they are cheesy? Does that stop you loving them? is it that you have passionate opinions about some records (which is great) but your love for them makes it difficult for you if others don't share them...

 

I'm with atonement, alex's take on pop is refreshing, it makes a change from the usual media muso party lines (which is largely male and rock/rap biased, and they don't always know what they are talking about witness the universal rock critics loathing of Abba in the early/mid 70's. They were wrong, I think it's fair to say now.....)

 

cheers

john

As much as I agree with you, popchartfreak, I can't understand how someone has such disparate opinions about two similar versions of Just Can't Get Enough.

As much as I agree with you, popchartfreak, I can't understand how someone has such disparate opinions about two similar versions of Just Can't Get Enough.

 

Anthony, Do you watch this video ? :)

 

 

 

Yep - it sounds like a modern version with female singers. How that can be amazing and the original is awful is beyond me.

 

I have no problem with anyone preferring the Saturdays version - but calling it amazing while calling the original is awful does not make sense to me as the two are not that much different.

Edited February 12, 201312 yr by AnthonyT

Yep - it sounds like a modern version with female singers. How that can be amazing and the original is awful is beyond me.

 

I have no problem with anyone preferring the Saturdays version - but calling it amazing while the original is awful does not make sense to me as the two are not that much different.

 

You wrote the answer on your question. :)

But that doesn't make something that is AWFUL amazing.

Edited February 12, 201312 yr by AnthonyT

Alex likes pop, about half of the records he's chosen so far are absolute pop classics (and I'm happy to back them up with facts and opinions, see my "John';s Personal Number Ones of the 60's", where you will find many of them). Most people dont analyse their music tastes, they just like something or they dont. Do you not love records from when you were a kid, even though you know they are cheesy? Does that stop you loving them? is it that you have passionate opinions about some records (which is great) but your love for them makes it difficult for you if others don't share them...

 

I'm with atonement, alex's take on pop is refreshing, it makes a change from the usual media muso party lines (which is largely male and rock/rap biased, and they don't always know what they are talking about witness the universal rock critics loathing of Abba in the early/mid 70's. They were wrong, I think it's fair to say now.....)

 

cheers

john

I think what really fuels my ire is his complete close mindedness about some genres of music. Rock? ALL terrible. Rap? ALL terrible. Dance? ALL terrible.

 

Yes I still like stuff from when I was a kid but my taste has changed and mutated and developed so I can like an extreme death metal record and the next minute play a real true pop song (if my mood takes me.)

 

Alex's taste is just as bad as someone who will only listen to 80s hair metal or detroit trance. It is so one dimensional. It is not refreshing.

 

And Alex has discovered most of these songs as an adult not harbouring songs that have been cherished for whatever reason despite the cheesiness of a track. God I still love both Neil's Hole in My Shoe and The Toy Dolls' Nellie The Elephant (and there are two tripe cover versions.) But I recognise these for what they are and not paragons of pop history.

Now "Maria" is excellent, I'll say that now so this isn't a completely negative post.

 

I don't really understand someone who doesn't have the good grace to accept that the terrible music they enjoy is still terrible. I enjoy some absolute shit - I listen to Limp Bizkit out of choice and love the first Transformers film - but I realise that it's just because there's a part of my brain that doesn't tolerate anything with any intelligence.

I don't really understand someone who doesn't have the good grace to accept that the terrible music they enjoy is still terrible. I enjoy some absolute shit - I listen to Limp Bizkit out of choice and love the first Transformers film - but I realise that it's just because there's a part of my brain that doesn't tolerate anything with any intelligence.

 

I understand your point, and I feel the same way about my guilty pleasure or some of the artists I enjoy (Shania Twain, early Kate Ryan, etc.) but barely anyone feels that way about his or her own music taste.

Edited February 12, 201312 yr by Atonement