I'd rank FOTS 4th behind 'Neighbourhood', 'Me & You Vs The World' and 'The Ballad Of Tom Jones' :)

'Bingo' was a great little song!!

Ah yes, I'd forgotten about Tom Jones.

 

It seemed unfashionable to love Bingo at the time, but I always thought it was a really good song.

 

For anyone who doesn't know it, here it is...

 

 

I wonder what the members are doing now :lol:

LFO - the original bleep-techno act and the "Lyte Funkie Ones" who were some awful American boy band around the turn of the century.

I don't think Lyte Funkie Ones were ever credited as LFO though, it was more of an abbreviation similar to 1D for One Direction.

The OCC archive denotes what can be three different artists under the moniker Michelle

 

- Michel'le (No More Lies, #78 in 1990 and featuring in The Dogg Pound's Let Play House, #82 in 1996)

 

- Michelle (Standing Here Alone, #69 in 1996)

 

- Pop Idol Season 2 winner Michelle McManus, whose two singles All This Time and The Meaning Of Love were released under just her first name.

I've read once this story that in the USA, people were buying British band Suede's records, mistakenly thinking they were by an American jazz singer named Suede. She sued the band who thus released their material in the US as The London Suede.

Edited November 6, 20159 yr by N-S

I wonder what the members are doing now :lol:

According to wikipedia:

 

"More recently, Slater has written, recorded and released music with a band, initially under the name Kunta Kinte and subsequently as Tough Love. He is also involved in the White Mischief series of Steampunk entertainment events based predominantly in London.[5]

 

Wayne Murray is currently the touring guitarist for the Manic Street Preachers and fronts a music project named Boy Cried Wolf.[6] Ben Etchells is a sound engineer at Live Sound Training."

I've read once this story that in the USA, people were buying British band Suede's records, mistakenly thinking they were by an American jazz singer named Suede. She sued the band who thus released their material in the US as The London Suede.

It was a ridiculous claim, but, yes, they did have to call themselves The London Suede. Similarly, the Charlatans had to call themselves Charlatans UK, a bit of an irony given their name.

Another band called Nirvana had a #34 hit with Rainbow Chaser in 1968

 

 

Ever so slightly different to the much more famous one :P

I think Lyte Funkie Ones were credited as LFO on some of their releases in the US, but couldn't do so in the UK because of the existing techno act.

Kenny (Irish singer who had 2 hits in 1973; UK group signed to the same label who had 4 hits in 1974-75).

 

Stargazers (first UK act to top the chart in 1953; group who had 1 minor hit in 1982).

 

Clint Eastwood (actor/film director whose I Talk To The Trees was initially a double A-side with Lee Marvin's Wand'rin' Star but was de-listed before the track reached #1; Jamaican musician who teamed up with General Saint for 1 hit in 1984).

 

The Jets (UK act who had several hits in the early 1980s; US family group who charted with Crush On You in 1987).

 

Divine (US drag queen who had a few hits in the mid 1980s; US girl group who topped the US chart in 1998).

Kenny (Irish singer who had 2 hits in 1973; UK group signed to the same label who had 4 hits in 1974-75).

 

Stargazers (first UK act to top the chart in 1953; group who had 1 minor hit in 1982).

 

Clint Eastwood (actor/film director whose I Talk To The Trees was initially a double A-side with Lee Marvin's Wand'rin' Star but was de-listed before the track reached #1; Jamaican musician who teamed up with General Saint for 1 hit in 1984).

 

The Jets (UK act who had several hits in the early 1980s; US family group who charted with Crush On You in 1987).

 

Divine (US drag queen who had a few hits in the mid 1980s; US girl group who topped the US chart in 1998).

 

I inadvertently bought a single by the US Divine group, thinking I'd found a rarity by the Hi-NRG Divine (who I loved).

Imagine my disappointment when I played it... :no:

so it seems that the John Lewis song will be done by Aurora. Obviously not the same artist as the British dance group that had a #5 hit with the lush trance 'Ordinary World', a cover of Duran Duran.

 

 

Everyone remembers that Aurora for that cover, which was good but for me their debut top 20 hit was even better.

 

 

Sylvia (US singer who charted with Pillow Talk in 1973; Swedish singer who charted with Y Viva Espana in 1974).

 

Mr Big (UK group who reached #4 in 1977 with Romeo; US group who reached #3 in 1992 with To Be With You).

 

Shaft (dance act who reached #7 in 1991 with Roobarb And Custard; dance act who reached #2 in 1999 with (Mucho Mambo) Sway).

 

Free (UK group of the 1970s fronted by Paul Rodgers who would later team up with Queen; US rap group who featured on Wyclef Jean's re-mix of Queen's Another One Bites The Dust).

 

Bad Company (UK group of the 1970s fronted by the aforementioned Paul Rodgers; UK drum-and-bass group that included DJ Fresh who had 2 minor hits in 2002 before changing their name to Bad Company UK and reaching #24 in 2003).

Singer Grace of "Not Over Yet" fame will no longer be the only singer under the mononym Grace to have a UK top 10 hit.

Edited December 4, 20159 yr by N-S

A few more:

 

Stardust (act who reached #42 in 1977 with Ariana; act who reached #2 with Music Sounds Better With You in 1998)

 

Lobo (US singer who had 2 top 5 hits in the early 1970s; Dutch singer who reached #8 with The Caribbean Disco Show in 1981)

 

Karen Young (UK singer who charted with Nobody's Child in 1969; US disco singer who charted with Hot Shot in 1978)

 

Jagged Edge (UK act who had a minor hit in 1990 with You Don't Love Me; US rap act who twice hit the top 25 before featuring on Notorious BIG's #1 Nasty Girl)

It was a ridiculous claim, but, yes, they did have to call themselves The London Suede. Similarly, the Charlatans had to call themselves Charlatans UK, a bit of an irony given their name.

 

The Detroit Spinners had to go under that name in the UK because there was already a folk band from Liverpool called The Spinners.

Yes, it's definitely not the same artist. :P The 2006 Naughty Boy is a German trio.

 

I've always wondered about this! It made no sense that he'd apparently randomly had a top 40 hit several years previous which bore no relation to anything else he'd released. I've removed it from the Wikipedia page.

 

Another example is Naughty Boy, currently in the charts with 'Runnin (Lose It All)' but another Naughty Boy went to #36 in 2006 with 'Phat Beach (I'll Be Ready)' which sampled the Baywatch theme. The following week Sunblock debuted at #4 with a very similar sounding song more simply titled 'I'll Be Ready'. Not that I was there at the time but I presume the Naughty Boy version acted as a 'fake'.

 

It might have been the other way around. Several remixes of the theme from 'Baywatch' began circulating around clubs back in 2005, the Naughty Boy mix (basically just the vocals over Leftfield's 'Phat Planet' hence the name 'Phat Beach') got a lot of early airplay, then Sunblock appeared with a much more commercially friendly mix - and video - and hit the top 3. I don't think either of them actually originated the idea though and the vocals sound re-recorded on both, it was basically that year's equivalent of the multiple "Waiting for a Star To Fall" remixes back in 2004-5.

 

There were a ton of remixes around though, this is back when your average uni crowd were born in the early-mid 1980s so Baywatch would mark a key memory of their childhood. I'm surprised no one's done a deep house remix of the theme from 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air' yet...

The Detroit Spinners had to go under that name in the UK because there was already a folk band from Liverpool called The Spinners.

At least The Spinners had some success in the UK. AFAIK, the American singer Suede had no significant success at all.

JLS were originally caleld UFO but had to change their name becuase of the much earlier heavy metal group

 

There was another singer called Rhianna (similar spelling) who had a hit in 2002

 

 

There was also One Direction (US) but they never had any hits (not yet at least)

 

Also Shapeshifters, the ones behind Lola's Theme and Shapeshifter, a New Zealand drum and bass act who have had a few hits in New Zealand

 

There was a short lived ambient house band in the late 90s from Australia called Pendulum who has a number 1 dance chart hit in Australia

 

And of course David Bowie and David Zowie, who could forget. And also Architects the metal group and Architechs the UK Garage group.

Edited June 3, 20169 yr by TheSnake

Alibi the boyband duo and Alibi the dance act.

 

Confusingly, they both also released a cover of Sexual Healing - though only one of them charted.

 

 

Also Kris Kross and Kris Kross Amsterdam

 

And Imany from Don't be So Shy and Imani from Say You Do.

 

There were two other groups called The Eagles too.

 

There is another DJ Fresh too from America

 

Blond was a Swedish boy band who represented Sweden in Eurovision in 1997 and Blonde on Blonde was a band in the late 60s and Blonde is the ones who worked with Craig David of course

Edited June 3, 20169 yr by TheSnake