20th October 1975

It's yet another oldie on top as the 3rd single I ever bought remains a fave and keeps UK chart-topping oldie Space Oddity from the top spot, so Bowie still not getting a first number one. Something In The Air returns to the top spot for a second Thunderclap Newman run. High Fly is my top fave new track of the time, John Miles up to 3, love that guitar work and song. Ditto Hello's New York Groove at 5 and Esther Phillips cover uo to 10.

The Bee Gees are the highest new entry at 14 with Nights On Broadway, a UK flop unbelievably until Candi Staton covers it in 1977. Roxy Music are back with a slightly funky groove, too, Love Is The Drug new in at 20, and their biggest UK hit to date. A record dad bought in 1966 as an oldie pops in, sounding quite old by 1975 standards, but revolutionary at the time - Telstar and the Joe Meek sound of The Tornadoes, new at 44 though it would have been a number one in the 60's had I been compiling charts then.

Jim Capaldi gets his second solo hit, covering Roy Orbisons Love Hurts, and does a more commercial version than Nazareth managed in the previous year - though that too would be back in 1977, and end up better remembered than Jim's engaging bigger hit. George McCrae has another gift from KC in I Ain't Lyin' for a 5th chart entry, Morris Albert's South American ballad smash finally finds it's way to the UK, but Feelings remains a tad dull to me. That leaves only The Trammps and their disco classic Hold Back The Night giving them a proper UK hit after the better Zing Went The Strings Of My Heart struggled into the 30 in 1974.


1 ( 2 ) SOMETHING IN THE AIR Thunderclap Newman
2 ( 5 ) SPACE ODDITY David Bowie
3 ( 11 ) HIGH FLY John Miles
4 ( 1 ) TWEEDLE DEE TWEEDLE DUM Middle Of The Road
5 ( 13 ) NEW YORK GROOVE Hello
6 ( 6 ) I ONLY HAVE EYES FOR YOU Art Garfunkel
7 ( 8 ) DREAMY LADY T.Rex
8 ( 3 ) SOLEY SOLEY Middle Of The Road
9 ( 4 ) CHIRPY CHIRPY CHEEP CHEEP Middle Of The Road
10 ( 18 ) WHAT A DIFFERENCE A DAY MADE Esther Phillips

11 ( 7 ) RHINESTONE COWBOY Glen Campbell
12 ( 14 ) RIDE A WILD HORSE Dee Clark
13 ( 28 ) SKY HIGH Jigsaw
14 ( NEW ) NIGHTS ON BROADWAY The Bee Gees
15 ( 9 ) JUST A SMILE Pilot
16 ( 19 ) LOOKS LOOKS LOOKS Sparks
17 ( 10 ) NO WOMAN NO CRY Bob Marley & The Wailers
18 ( 12 ) LOVE GROWS (WHERE MY ROSEMARY GOES) Edison Lighthouse
19 ( 30 ) THIS WILL BE Natalie Cole
20 ( NEW ) LOVE IS THE DRUG Roxy Music

21 ( 16 ) (ALL I HAVE TO DO IS) DREAM The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
22 ( 42 ) DARLIN’ David Cassidy
23 ( 17 ) CHANGES David Bowie
24 ( 31 ) YOUNG YOUNG LOVE John Myatt
25 ( 20 ) GONNA MAKE YOU AN OFFER YOU CAN’T REFUSE Jimmy Helms
26 ( 15 ) L’L’LUCY Mud
27 ( 33 ) DRIVE MY CAR Gary Tom’s Empire
28 ( 35 ) RIVER DEEP MOUNTAIN HIGH Lois Lane
29 ( 23 ) I’M ON FIRE 5,000 Volts featuring Tina Charles
30 ( 27 ) FUNKY MOPED Jasper Carrott

31 ( 21 ) MOVIE STAR Harpo featuring Frida
32 ( 22 ) IMMORTALITY Lesley Gore
33 ( 48 ) IF YOU WANT IT DO IT YOURSELF Gloria Gaynor
34 ( 25 ) THE SINGLE GIRL Sandy Posey
35 ( 26 ) SUMMERTIME CITY Mike Batt
36 ( 38 ) DO YOU WANNA DANCE T.Rex
37 ( 40 ) ISLAND GIRL Elton John
38 ( 41 ) YOU George Harrison
39 ( 32 ) SOS Abba
40 ( 46 ) IT’S IMPOSSIBLE Perry Como

41 ( 45 ) LA BALANGA Bimbo Jet
42 ( 24 ) MONY MONY Tommy James & The Shondells
43 ( RE ) SHOES Reparata
44 ( NEW ) TELSTAR The Tornadoes
45 ( 39 ) LONG COOL WOMAN IN A BLACK DRESS The Hollies
46 ( 29 ) DO IT ANYWAY YOU WANNA People’s Choice
47 ( NEW ) LOVE HURTS Jim Capaldi
48 ( NEW ) I AIN’T LYIN’ George McRae
49 ( NEW ) HOLD BACK THE NIGHT The Trammps
50 ( NEW ) FEELINGS Morris Albert

Googled the lyrics of Island Girl John and see why it won't be played now.

Cher also did Love Hurts of course.

Edited October 26Oct 26 by CRAZY CHRIS

The two New York themed songs are the two that stand out for me there - New York Groove and Nights on Broadway

Space Oddity is good too though. And of course Telstar very ahead of its time in 1962.

Edited October 26Oct 26 by TheSnake

Ooh why did 'Telstar' enter for you in 1975? Was this a reissue? I'm a huge fan of it too so nice to know that it would've been a '60s #1 for you

15 hours ago, CRAZY CHRIS said:

Googled the lyrics of Island Girl John and see why it won't be played now.

Cher also did Love Hurts of course.

Yes Cher also did Love Hurts - so many had a hit with it - except Roy Orbison!

15 hours ago, TheSnake said:

The two New York themed songs are the two that stand out for me there - New York Groove and Nights on Broadway

Space Oddity is good too though. And of course Telstar very ahead of its time in 1962.

4 great picks there I think, they all still sound fresh and exciting! 🤩

15 hours ago, Jade said:

Ooh why did 'Telstar' enter for you in 1975? Was this a reissue? I'm a huge fan of it too so nice to know that it would've been a '60s #1 for you

Yes, it was a re-issue - Record Mirror used to review oldies back out as well as new releases, and the temptation for me to dig out my old records and chart them again was one I couldnt resist! 😄As so many oldies did make the charts, or Breakers, record labels were quite happy to feed pent-up demand non-stop until around 1978, at which point album compilation sales started to erode that market a bit. KTel and Arcade already did that but the sound quality wasnt great at this stage. Telstar, my dad came back from Aden in 1966 after a year away (we lived in Liverpool then) with a new portable record player, and bought a load of second hand singles including The Tornadoes classic - so I played them all to death, but my two big faves were Telstar/Jungle Fever and Be My Baby, plus I Want To Hold Your Hand and Cant Buy Me Love. Oh, and Winnie The Pooh covers album, and songs from Oliver! Hah! 😄

I'll never forgive K-tel for cutting a whole verse from Seasons In The Sun on a compilation John. Sounds was very thin too due to 20 tracks per side. Bought quite a few though.

18 hours ago, CRAZY CHRIS said:

I'll never forgive K-tel for cutting a whole verse from Seasons In The Sun on a compilation John. Sounds was very thin too due to 20 tracks per side. Bought quite a few though.

Yes me too, when I started comparing tracks I had on single to the versions they bunged on the albums I was frequently pissed off, chopping out whole sections, tinny sound, speeding them up a bit to shorten running times and sometimes putting on completely different recordings (Danyel Gerard's Butterfly was not the Australian English-language hit version in the UK). I guess thats why they arent collectible like the NOW albums are even though some contain hard-to-get tracks. Believe In Music even had 2 editions, same tracks in a different order and a new back sleeve - I never got why they did that!

27th October 1975

It's yet another classic oldie entering on top as my lack of enthusiasm for a lot of what Radio One was playing allowed nostalgia to rule - this time Tommy Roe's 1969 Number One Dizzy is back for another run on top. Dizzy was the first record I ever bought, with money my great grandparents had given me: on Changi Village Evening Street Market record stall, 2 dollars, September 1969 Singapore. I was looking for In The Year 2525, but they didn't have it so opted for my Spring obsession Dizzy. Without the oldies, High Fly would be ruling the roost for John Miles with Hello at 2, both great records.

The Bee Gees make it two 1975 top 10's, their first double since 1969, Nights On Broadway up to 7, while I got hold of a bargain bin copy of Neil Sedaka's Bad Blood, out in late 1974 to no airplay whatsoever, despite Elton John being on it - but now a big US smash, so it finally charts for me too at 16, just ahead of John Lennon's classic Imagine, finally out as a single in the UK to plug his Greatest Hits album, and in at 20. Neil had already charted The Immigrant - a song about John Lennon's bid to get a Green Card, among other things.

Another oldie at 22 gets a re-issue, as Rod Stewart is massive with Sailing - the already hit re-issue of Python Lee Jackson's In A Broken Dream from 1972 - Rod on vocals recorded in 1970. We actually have a genuine classic entering at 23: Bruce Springsteen was being heralded by some as the saviour of rock'n'roll music, and his exciting Phil Spector-ish Born To Run is as fresh as a daisy in 2025 - criminally not a UK chart hit though an inferior live version eventually charted in the 80's. Blue Guitar brings some Moody Blues gentle tuneful guitar into the charts for Justin Hayward and the late John Lodge, the song is still lovely and new at 26.

As if one cover of a classic oldie in the charts wasn't enough, Al Matthews follows up Fool with his discofunk version of All I Have To Do Is Dream at 30, and just behind the Nitty Gritty superior cover. That leaves Gary Glitter also desperate for a hit and resorting to an already hit cover for The Sharonettes - Papa Ooh Mow Mow. His version was a bit more gutsy but for him a relative flop, and a sign that his hitmaking days were over for 9 years. Cartoon ego can take you only so far. Which leaves You've Got Me Running, a new entry for Smiley & Co and charting in my charts and nowhere else, as all concerned are long forgotten by everyone but me. I expect they were on the new kids TV Mike Mansfield show (Lift Off Pop TV replacement), Supersonic.


1 ( NEW ) DIZZY Tommy Roe
2 ( 1 ) SOMETHING IN THE AIR Thunderclap Newman
3 ( 3 ) HIGH FLY John Miles
4 ( 5 ) NEW YORK GROOVE Hello
5 ( 2 ) SPACE ODDITY David Bowie
6 ( 4 ) TWEEDLE DEE TWEEDLE DUM Middle Of The Road
7 ( 14 ) NIGHTS ON BROADWAY The Bee Gees
8 ( 6 ) I ONLY HAVE EYES FOR YOU Art Garfunkel
9 ( 10 ) WHAT A DIFFERENCE A DAY MADE Esther Phillips
10 ( 7 ) DREAMY LADY T.Rex

11 ( 12 ) RIDE A WILD HORSE Dee Clark
12 ( 13 ) SKY HIGH Jigsaw
13 ( 9 ) CHIRPY CHIRPY CHEEP CHEEP Middle Of The Road
14 ( 8 ) SOLEY SOLEY Middle Of The Road
15 ( 20 ) LOVE IS THE DRUG Roxy Music
16 ( NEW ) BAD BLOOD Neil Sedaka
17 ( 19 ) THIS WILL BE Natalie Cole
18 ( 28 ) RIVER DEEP MOUNTAIN HIGH Lois Lane
19 ( 22 ) DARLIN’ David Cassidy
20 ( NEW ) IMAGINE John Lennon

21 ( 11 ) RHINESTONE COWBOY Glen Campbell
22 ( NEW ) IN A BROKEN DREAM Python Lee Jackson
23 ( NEW ) BORN TO RUN Bruce Springsteen
24 ( 18 ) LOVE GROWS (WHERE MY ROSEMARY GOES) Edison Lighthouse
25 ( 15 ) JUST A SMILE Pilot
26 ( NEW ) BLUE GUITAR Justin Hayward & John Lodge
27 ( 37 ) ISLAND GIRL Elton John
28 ( 33 ) IF YOU WANT IT DO IT YOURSELF Gloria Gaynor
29 ( 21 ) (ALL I HAVE TO DO IS) DREAM The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
30 ( NEW ) (ALL I HAVE TO DO IS) DREAM Al Matthews

31 ( 49 ) HOLD BACK THE NIGHT The Trammps
32 ( 27 ) DRIVE MY CAR Gary Tom’s Empire
33 ( 47 ) LOVE HURTS Jim Capaldi
34 ( 39 ) SOS Abba
35 ( 17 ) NO WOMAN NO CRY Bob Marley & The Wailers
36 ( 24 ) YOUNG YOUNG LOVE John Myatt
37 ( 30 ) FUNKY MOPED Jasper Carrott
38 ( 48 ) I AIN’T LYIN’ George McRae
39 ( 43 ) SHOES Reparata
40 ( 44 ) TELSTAR The Tornadoes

41 ( 23 ) CHANGES David Bowie
42 ( 29 ) I’M ON FIRE 5,000 Volts featuring Tina Charles
43 ( 16 ) LOOKS LOOKS LOOKS Sparks
44 ( NEW ) PAPA OOH MOW MOW Gary Glitter
45 ( 34 ) THE SINGLE GIRL Sandy Posey
46 ( 35 ) SUMMERTIME CITY Mike Batt
47 ( 40 ) IT’S IMPOSSIBLE Perry Como
48 ( 31 ) MOVIE STAR Harpo featuring Frida
49 ( 32 ) IMMORTALITY Lesley Gore
50 ( NEW ) YOU’VE GOT ME RUNNING Smiley & Co

3rd November 1975

It's 2 weeks on top for Dizzy as the music scene suddenly gets a jolt to start edging out all the oldies like Tommy Roe on top. High Fly is unlucky to peak at 2 for John Miles, and Hello at 3 with New York Groove, both would have been great number ones, and the Bee Gees make it two top 5's in a row. Imagine gives John Lennon his 3rd top 10 of 1975 at 7, something he's never done before outside The Beatles, and the fab Sky High takes Jigsaw to 8, but a second top 10 run for Python Lee Jackson inside 3 years at 9.

House Of The Clown is the highest new track on the chart at 16 for Mike Batt, following up his number one Summertime City with a much cooler, darker song, that really should have been a hit. Van Mccoy also has a cracker flop follow-up with Change With The Times, a pumping disco tune that still sounds great, new at 27. Queen grab their 4th chart entry at 29 with the extended, ambitious, operatic Bohemian Rhapsody, and drop an equally ambitious video to go along with the 6-minute song. The day we moved house from RAF Innsworth in Gloucester to RAF Swinderby in Lincolnshire (for the 3rd time) the video came on Top Of The Pops as we plugged in the telly and were unpacking the furniture.

Making one of the most unlikely posthumous hits of all-time, Laurel & Hardy drop in at 30 with The Trail Of The Lonsome Pine, from the the 1937 movie Way Out West. 28 years ago seemed ancient at the time, but from 2025's point of view it's seems very recent compared the age of songs that are in the UK chart week-in week-out. It should also credit Chill Wills and Rosina Lawrence for singing on the track. In at 32, the UK produces a classic Motown-ish soul track in Right Back Where We Started From for Maxine Nightingale, and one that became a US hit. Talking of US hits with British acts, Hot Chocolate's B side gets flipped to the A side, and Blue Night is now the B side, and the classic disco-funk track destined to keep charting in subsequent decades debuts at 33. Everybody knows that song these days it seems, though not as much as Bo Rap!

And then we get to the lesser entries, Jasper Carrott's unbroadcastable stand-up routine about the Magic Roundabout kids show debuts at 35. I would clear a dancefloor in 1978 at Uni when we wanted everyone to go home after a House disco. Worked a treat. In at 35 just ahead of The Chequers disco instrumental Rock On Brother, which is quite decent. Simon & Garfunkel's final single together is in at 37, My Little Town is basically Paul Simon gifting a song to Art, and put out under his name at the time. Mike has yet another new entry with Steeleye Span's All Around My Hat, a jolly folk romp he also produced and arranged, but unlike his own track this was a UK hit for the Gaudete band.

Behind them at 39 and The Eagles get their second hit of 1975, Lyin' Eyes, and fourth in total to date. Brit funkrock act Stretch drop the great funk single Why Did You Do It new at 46, Frankie Valli does a great cover of the early 60's song from Ruby & The Romantics, Our Day Will Come at 47, his 5th hit of the year including Four Seasons songs, and The Osmonds get their final hit with I'm Still Gonna Need You. A year ago that seemed highly unlikely! In at 48, just ahead of Fleetwood Mac's 1969 oldie Man Of The World getting a second run in response to the new version of Mac starting to get traction in the US charts. Finally Black Blood pop back in again at 50.

1 ( 1 ) DIZZY Tommy Roe

2 ( 3 ) HIGH FLY John Miles

3 ( 4 ) NEW YORK GROOVE Hello

4 ( 5 ) SPACE ODDITY David Bowie

5 ( 7 ) NIGHTS ON BROADWAY The Bee Gees

6 ( 2 ) SOMETHING IN THE AIR Thunderclap Newman

7 ( 20 ) IMAGINE John Lennon

8 ( 12 ) SKY HIGH Jigsaw

9 ( 22 ) IN A BROKEN DREAM Python Lee Jackson featuring Rod Stewart

10 ( 10 ) DREAMY LADY T.Rex

11 ( 26 ) BLUE GUITAR Justin Hayward & John Lodge

12 ( 16 ) BAD BLOOD Neil Sedaka

13 ( 15 ) LOVE IS THE DRUG Roxy Music

14 ( 8 ) I ONLY HAVE EYES FOR YOU Art Garfunkel

15 ( 9 ) WHAT A DIFFERENCE A DAY MADE Esther Phillips

16 ( NEW ) HOUSE OF THE CLOWN Mike Batt

17 ( 18 ) RIVER DEEP MOUNTAIN HIGH Lois Lane

18 ( 6 ) TWEEDLE DEE TWEEDLE DUM Middle Of The Road

19 ( 30 ) (ALL I HAVE TO DO IS) DREAM Al Matthews

20 ( 21 ) RHINESTONE COWBOY Glen Campbell

21 ( 13 ) CHIRPY CHIRPY CHEEP CHEEP Middle Of The Road

22 ( 14 ) SOLEY SOLEY Middle Of The Road

23 ( 23 ) BORN TO RUN Bruce Springsteen

24 ( 19 ) DARLIN' David Cassidy

25 ( 27 ) ISLAND GIRL Elton John

26 ( 33 ) LOVE HURTS Jim Capaldi

27 ( NEW ) CHANGE WITH THE TIMES Van McCoy & The Soul City Symphony

28 ( 11 ) RIDE A WILD HORSE Dee Clark

29 ( NEW ) BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY Queen

30 ( NEW ) TRAIL OF THE LONESOME PINE Laurel & Hardy

31 ( 50 ) YOU'VE GOT ME RUNNING Smiley

32 ( NEW ) RIGHT BACK WHERE WE STARTED FROM Maxine Nightingale

33 ( NEW ) YOU SEXY THING Hot Chocolate

34 ( 38 ) I AIN'T LYIN' George McRae

35 ( NEW ) MAGIC ROUNDABOUT Jasper Carrott

36 ( NEW ) ROCK ON BROTHER The Chequers

37 ( NEW ) MY LITTLE TOWN Simon & Garfunkel

38 ( NEW ) ALL AROUND MY HAT Steeleye Span

39 ( NEW ) LYIN' EYES The Eagles

40 ( 17 ) THIS WILL BE Natalie Cole

41 ( 44 ) PAPA OOH MOW MOW Gary Glitter

42 ( 24 ) LOVE GROWS (WHERE MY ROSEMARY GOES) Edison Lighthouse

43 ( 25 ) JUST A SMILE Pilot

44 ( 29 ) (ALL I HAVE TO DO IS) DREAM The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

45 ( 34 ) SOS Abba

46 ( NEW ) WHY DID YOU DO IT Stretch

47 ( NEW ) OUR DAY WILL COME Frankie Valli

48 ( NEW ) I'M STILL GONNA NEED YOU The Osmonds

49 ( NEW ) MAN OF THE WORLD Fleetwood Mac

50 ( RE ) A.I.E. (A MWANA) Black Blood

Lyin' Eyes only reached 22 on the BBC chart. Criminal. Should have been a Top 5 hit. I love it and my favourite Eagles song closely followed by Hotel California and New Kid In Town.

Edited November 11Nov 11 by CRAZY CHRIS

14 hours ago, CRAZY CHRIS said:

Lyin' Eyes only reached 22 on the BBC chart. Criminal. Should have been a Top 5 hit. I love it and my favourite Eagles song closely followed by Hotel California and New Kid In Town.

The Eagles couldnt get a hit in the UK to save their lives until Hotel California really, they got radio plays but were out of step with Glam Rock, disco and punk! I liked Witchy Woman early on, then One Of These Nights is still my fave Eagles record, even over Hotel California. They made a lot more sense cruising West Coast USA highways in a car, the lazy sunny vibes just fit the lifestyle. Wet, cold UK not so much (though we did have a great early summer in '75 when they finally broke into the charts) 😄Lyin' Eyes is a great ballad too, though it never got high in my charts of the time compared to Nights' peak of 2.

9 hours ago, Popchartfreak said:

The Eagles couldnt get a hit in the UK to save their lives until Hotel California really, they got radio plays but were out of step with Glam Rock, disco and punk! I liked Witchy Woman early on, then One Of These Nights is still my fave Eagles record, even over Hotel California. They made a lot more sense cruising West Coast USA highways in a car, the lazy sunny vibes just fit the lifestyle. Wet, cold UK not so much (though we did have a great early summer in '75 when they finally broke into the charts) 😄Lyin' Eyes is a great ballad too, though it never got high in my charts of the time compared to Nights' peak of 2.

I have the CD of Their GH -1971-1975 which doesn't goes as far as Hotel California but is a great album and the US best selling album of all time, 29 million sold now. Very close in sales there to Thriller though, take turns yearly it seems at top spot.

One Of These Nights is good. Take It Easy gets a lot of airplay here now, so I was reading recently but not a UK single. They were far more successful in the US than Europe.

Didn't notice 'Love Is The Drug' in your chart until now! Sounds like it influenced early-80s music a lot especially ABC and early Duran Duran.

Edited November 12Nov 12 by TheSnake

15 hours ago, CRAZY CHRIS said:

I have the CD of Their GH -1971-1975 which doesn't goes as far as Hotel California but is a great album and the US best selling album of all time, 29 million sold now. Very close in sales there to Thriller though, take turns yearly it seems at top spot.

One Of These Nights is good. Take It Easy gets a lot of airplay here now, so I was reading recently but not a UK single. They were far more successful in the US than Europe.

Yes, it's a perennial monster seller, bizarre considering Hotel California and beyond arent on it! You'd think everyone would go for the hits collection I have - which covers everything - The Complete Greatest Hits does what is says on the tin!

12 hours ago, TheSnake said:

Didn't notice 'Love Is The Drug' in your chart until now! Sounds like it influenced early-80s music a lot especially ABC and early Duran Duran.

Yes I think that's true - Roxy were a big influence on 80's acts, and the funkier parts of Love Is The Drug (and Bryan's Let's Stick Together) very much echoed in ABC, Spandau on top of the synth/art rock early days 👍

10th November 1975

It's a weird chart this week as for the first time ever I couldnt split Space Oddity and Rhinestone Cowboy and gave them a joint number one and then continued with 2, 3 etc down to 50. For the purposes of this though, in the event of a tie there is no number 2 - so every track drops one place and it's a top 51. This will happen again into 1976 due to oldies invading the charts still, at which point I created another oldies chart as it was getting ridiculous once The Beatles re-pushed all of their singles with new sleeve designs. Going forward I will probably give priority to new tracks where oldies share the top spot, but as Bowie never topped Space Oddity again and was a track I missed in 1969 (living abroad) I'm making an exception and Bowie finally gets his first number one - just like in the UK singles chart! Glen Campbell meanwhile grabs his 3rd and first for 5 years.

Mike Batt gets his second top 10, and Justin & John a 2nd too, after Nights In White Satin. Queen, Van McCoy, Stretch and Maxine Nightingale all leap into the 20 and The Trammps pop back in at 30. Biddu follows up his Summer Of '42 movie disco cover with another Movie cover - I Could Have Danced All Night was always a great tune, often on telly in movie musical clipshows - and the My Fair Lady song duly arrives at 36. Joe Dassin's world music track, Indian Summer (Africa) is one I'd forgotten all about, but it's rather good actually, new at 43, just ahead of The Rubettes dropping their glam hits in favour of a 60's-flavoured doo-wop-ish Little Darling. That leaves Rod Stewart at 50, blanding out the classic This Old Heart Of MIne from an exciting dance track to a dreary ballad, but the Isley Brothers love was enough to push it into my chart - the original already having had two re-issued top 10 runs in 1968 and early 1975.

1 ( 4 ) SPACE ODDITY David Bowie

1 ( 20 ) RHINESTONE COWBOY Glen Campbell

3 ( 1 ) DIZZY Tommy Roe

4 ( 7 ) IMAGINE John Lennon

5 ( 2 ) HIGH FLY John Miles

6 ( 3 ) NEW YORK GROOVE Hello

7 ( 6 ) SOMETHING IN THE AIR Thunderclap Newman

8 ( 16 ) HOUSE OF THE CLOWN Mike Batt

9 ( 11 ) BLUE GUITAR Justin Hayward & John Lodge

10 ( 5 ) NIGHTS ON BROADWAY The Bee Gees

11 ( 12 ) BAD BLOOD Neil Sedaka

12 ( 8 ) SKY HIGH Jigsaw

13 ( 29 ) BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY Queen

14 ( 27 ) CHANGE WITH THE TIMES Van McCoy & The Soul City Symphony

15 ( 9 ) IN A BROKEN DREAM Python Lee Jackson featuring Rod Stewart

16 ( 23 ) BORN TO RUN Bruce Springsteen

17 ( 26 ) LOVE HURTS Jim Capaldi

18 ( 46 ) WHY DID YOU DO IT Stretch

19 ( 32 ) RIGHT BACK WHERE WE STARTED FROM Maxine Nightingale

20 ( 13 ) LOVE IS THE DRUG Roxy Music

21 ( 14 ) I ONLY HAVE EYES FOR YOU Art Garfunkel

22 ( 10 ) DREAMY LADY T.Rex

23 ( 19 ) (ALL I HAVE TO DO IS) DREAM Al Matthews

24 ( 30 ) TRAIL OF THE LONESOME PINE Laurel & Hardy

25 ( 33 ) YOU SEXY THING Hot Chocolate

26 ( 15 ) WHAT A DIFFERENCE A DAY MADE Esther Phillips

27 ( 38 ) ALL AROUND MY HAT Steeleye Span

28 ( 31 ) YOU’VE GOT ME RUNNING Smiley

29 ( 49 ) MAN OF THE WORLD Fleetwood Mac

30 ( RE ) HOLD BACK THE NIGHT The Trammps

31 ( 36 ) ROCK ON BROTHER The Chequers

32 ( 18 ) TWEEDLE DEE TWEEDLE DUM Middle Of The Road

33 ( 21 ) CHIRPY CHIRPY CHEEP CHEEP Middle Of The Road

34 ( 22 ) SOLEY SOLEY Middle Of The Road

35 ( 47 ) OUR DAY WILL COME Frankie Valli

36 ( NEW ) I COULD HAVE DANCED ALL NIGHT Biddu

37 ( 39 ) LYIN’ EYES The Eagles

38 ( 37 ) MY LITTLE TOWN Simon & Garfunkel

39 ( 35 ) MAGIC ROUNDABOUT Jasper Carrott

40 ( 17 ) RIVER DEEP MOUNTAIN HIGH Lois Lane

41 ( 25 ) ISLAND GIRL Elton John

42 ( 28 ) RIDE A WILD HORSE Dee Clark

43 ( NEW ) INDIAN SUMMER (AFRICA) Joe Dassin

44 ( NEW ) LITTLE DARLIN’ The Rubettes

45 ( 48 ) I’M STILL GONNA NEED YOU The Osmonds

46 ( 24 ) DARLIN’ David Cassidy

47 ( 42 ) LOVE GROWS (WHERE MY ROSEMARY GOES) Edison Lighthouse

48 ( 44 ) (ALL I HAVE TO DO IS) DREAM The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

49 ( 43 ) JUST A SMILE Pilot

50 ( NEW ) THIS OLD HEART OF MINE Rod Stewart

51 ( 34 ) I AIN’T LYIN’ George McRae

In the end of 1975 year I had three Christmas # 1 songs.

30.11 : Lynsey De Paul and Barry Blue - Happy Christmas To You From Me (3 weeks)

21.12 : Dana - It's Gonna Be A Cold Cold Christmas (1 week)

28.12 : Linda Bennett - An Old Fashioned Christmas (Daddy's Home) (3 weeks)

23 hours ago, Last Dreamer said:

In the end of 1975 year I had three Christmas # 1 songs.

30.11 : Lynsey De Paul and Barry Blue - Happy Christmas To You From Me (3 weeks)

21.12 : Dana - It's Gonna Be A Cold Cold Christmas (1 week)

28.12 : Linda Bennett - An Old Fashioned Christmas (Daddy's Home) (3 weeks)

There will be one christmas number one from me, and dana will chart too along with 2 or 3 other christmas songs :) I cant remember what chart position Dana got to but I think it went top 20...! I dont know the Lynsey/Barry duet (I think) but it may make my Retro 1975 charts when i get the chance to start them again later in 2026 maybe if things have got less busy - I'm bound to like it.