June 20, 20187 yr then the album also has the now-classic You've got a Friend, that would be covered later didn't James Taylor record You've Got A Friend just before Carole King, or at least release it first, despite her having wrote the song? and I know of course there were other cover versions later like McFly's which went to #1.
June 20, 20187 yr she wrote You've got a friend herself but never released it as single herself, but actually the story of the track is super interesting, I saw a doc about it once, thats' why I know, it's not like Im a fan or anything so she wrote the song herself on her own, early 70s, but funnily she was inspired by a James Taylor song (Fire and Rain, I think), then James Taylor heard it in early 71 and liked it a lot, so actually what happened is that they both recorded it simultaneously even sharing the same musicians, carole for her album and James Taylor for his album. Carole released her album first in like March but this was not the single, which was It's too late/I feel the earth move. Then soon after Taylor released You've got a Friend as the lead single of his album (cannot recall the title) and that was a big hit, thats why she didn't released it, but sure helped her album sales too (she was like 14 or 15 weeks at #1 in US Albums) sorry for the long story :D
June 20, 20187 yr and there's also You Make Me Feel Like A Natural Woman which I'm sure has been covered on X-Factor tens of times. I had no idea that was by Carole King!
June 20, 20187 yr Author 95 - M People - Bizarre Fruit - 8,786 Points Peak Position - 3 Weeks on chart - 128 Singles Sight for sore eyes - Peak Position - 6 mZemLHAdM3Y Open your heart - Peak Position - 9 Tzaz48qh8bw Search for a hero - Peak Position - 9 ntuqTuc6HxM Itchycoo Park - Peak Position - 11 l8LOis_gIfc Love Rendezvous - Peak Position - 32 9cEQ62W370Q
June 20, 20187 yr Author 94 - The Verve - Urban Hymns - 8,812 Points Peak Position - 1 Weeks on chart - 162 Singles The drugs don’t work - Peak Position - 1 ToQ0n3itoII Bitter sweet symphony - Peak Position - 2 1lyu1KKwC74 Lucky Man - Peak Position - 7 MH6TJU0qWoY Sonnet - Peak Position - 74 r2vGa-yLiso
June 20, 20187 yr love urban hymns and the verve m people not so much always wondered why the album was called Bizarre fruit? weirdest album title ever
June 21, 20187 yr Author love urban hymns and the verve m people not so much always wondered why the album was called Bizarre fruit? weirdest album title ever M People totally remind me of my teen years, loved them
June 21, 20187 yr disagree, their singles were pretty massive usually dance music doesn't sell albums, so pretty surprising they did so well, but i think it's cos they included many big big hits Moving on up was massive
June 21, 20187 yr Author 93 - Paolo Nutini - Sunny side up - 8,833 Points Peak Position - 1 Weeks on chart - 141 Singles Pencil full of lead - Peak Position - 17 s-xd3NuWQI0 Candy - Peak Position - 19 x3xYXGMRRYk 10/10 - Peak Position - 51 p4gwOYwfcz4 Coming up easy - Peak Position - 62 FIQ2Rxh1k9Y Edited June 23, 20187 yr by Dannyboy
June 21, 20187 yr Author 92 - Taylor Swift - 1989 - 8,834 Points Peak Position - 1 Weeks on chart - 147 Singles Shake it off - Peak Position - 2 nfWlot6h_JM Blank Space - Peak Position - 4 e-ORhEE9VVg Bad Blood - Peak Position - 4 QcIy9NiNbmo Style - Peak Position - 21 -CmadmM5cOk Wildest Dreams - Peak Position - 40 IdneKLhsWOQ New Romantics - Peak Position - 132 wyK7YuwUWsU Out of the woods - Peak Position - 136 JLf9q36UsBk
June 22, 20187 yr Author 91 - Perry Como - And I love you so - 9,031 Points Peak Position - 1 Weeks on chart - 107 Singles And I love you so - Peak Position - 3 JxzBCknAYn4
June 22, 20187 yr Author 90 - Queen Greatest Hits 1,2,3 - 9,062 Points Peak Position - 2 Weeks on chart - 211
June 22, 20187 yr Author I think my mother probably owned a copy of that Perry Como album. Old covers were so basic haha
June 23, 20187 yr Author you're mixing albums with Nutini, those are the singles taken off These Streets Oh yeah, that was obviously a test to see who was taking notice 😂 I’ll correct this when I get in, thank you
June 23, 20187 yr Author I've corrected the Paolo Nutiini post but genuinely surprised the album was around for 141 with no real big hits on it.
June 23, 20187 yr Pencil Full Of Lead and Candy were both reasonably big and he was more of an album seller than a singles artist anyway. He got loads of Radio 2 airplay which would have really helped the album.
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