oh I really liked She Makes My Day, I much preferred his ballads than the more upbeat songs Palmer was famous for

I also really liked Twist in my Sobriety, Tanita's best song

 

crazy how slow the UK was catching up with INXS. Didn't know the late 88 re-entry was a remix, thought it was the same original version

So many great songs in late 88 looking back a year after re watching TOTP! Real Gone Kid, Need You Tonight, Twist in My Sobriety,

oh I really liked She Makes My Day, I much preferred his ballads than the more upbeat songs Palmer was famous for

I also really liked Twist in my Sobriety, Tanita's best song

 

crazy how slow the UK was catching up with INXS. Didn't know the late 88 re-entry was a remix, thought it was the same original version

 

yes I also liked She Makes My Day, and his best track ever was still to come (Mercy Mercy Me/I Want You). INXS had been happening elsewhere since 85/86 at least, so yes the UK was very late in the day. I'm not sure the remixed single was much different TBH :lol:

So many great songs in late 88 looking back a year after re watching TOTP! Real Gone Kid, Need You Tonight, Twist in My Sobriety,

 

I've still got them all on hard-drive waiting for the day I have time to watch them. Probably never (I've got loads of video tapes of pop videos, TOTP, MTV, live performances etc from the 80's and 90's but never had the time to convert them to DVD, though most should now be on youtube anyway hopefully....) :)

30th October 1988

 

It's a first week on top for Information Society and the Spock-tastic What's On Your Mind. Been sitting in my "contenders for BJSC" pile for years that one. Enya is up to 3 with Orinoco Flow, with Bryan Ferry's remix of a brilliant 1976 cover of a not-that-good series of versions of Let's Work Together in at 4, having peaked at 2 first-time round. Ferry's frantic, sax-dominated version pisses over them all from a great height. Kylie, meanwhile, makes it 2 top 10's of the year, something she'll make a habit of for the next 32 years. The Christians good cover of the great Isley Brothers makes it 3 1976 songs in the top 10.

 

In at 11, The Four Seasons join themselves with an original version of a 60's classic, Big Girls Don't Cry, in at 11 as I anticipate Jersey Boys a decade or 2 early, one of the great stage shows of a great back-catalogue - you know it's classic when zillions of pop stars have hits with your material, half of them way bigger hits than the originals (in the UK, that is, the US always loved them). Deacon Blue rocket up to 18 from 74, Real Gone Kids, Tanita twists her sobriety into the 30, and new in at 29, Annie Lennox goes solo a bit early (sort of) as she duets on the 60's Jackie De Shannon track Put A Little Love In Your Heart with the reverend Al Green, soulmaster Al returning minus the sexy sounds, but still with the voice, giving him 17 years of chart entries.

 

At 32, it's a new band. Well, a new superstar band, that is, as Roy, Bob, George, Jeff & Tom get together for an album romp as the Traveling Wilburys & Handle With Care. It was SO great to have Roy Orbison's vocals back in the charts, such a joy, I grew up on his stuff, and still think he's probably the greatest pop vocalist of all-time. Guns 'n' Roses bring Welcome To The Jungle in at 60, Robin Beck brings a plodding soft drinks advert song in, Eddy Grant is 20 years charting, albeit with one I don't recall - but I'm sure it's good. Scritti go Boom! Still doing it well. The Fat Boys cover the 60's garage classic, one might argue Louie Louie was the first punk record, and sneakin in at extra 76, Kissing A Fool is getting album plays from me just ahead of single release (which excluded it from my charts in those days, so it's getting an add-on belatedly)

 

1 ( 2 ) WHAT'S ON YOUR MIND (PURE ENERGY) Information Society

2 ( 1 ) LOVE IS ALL THAT MATTERS Human League

3 ( 7 ) ORINOCO FLOW Enya

4 ( NEW ) LET'S STICK TOGETHER '88 Bryan Ferry

5 ( 10 ) GIRL YOU KNOW IT'S TRUE Milli Vanilli

6 ( 4 ) DECEMBER '63 (OH WHAT A NIGHT) '88 The Four Seasons

7 ( 18 ) JE NE SAIS PAS POURQUOI Kylie Minogue

8 ( 3 ) ONE BAD APPLE The Osmonds

9 ( 5 ) NEVER TRUST A STRANGER Kim Wilde

10 ( 14 ) HARVEST FOR THE WORLD The Christians

 

11 ( NEW ) BIG GIRLS DON'T CRY The Four Seasons

12 ( 12 ) HEY JUDE The Beatles

13 ( 13 ) NEED YOU TONIGHT (MENDOHLSON MIX) INXS

14 ( 8 ) DESIRE U2

15 ( 6 ) A LITTLE RESPECT Erasure

16 ( 11 ) DOMINO DANCING Pet Shop Boys

17 ( 15 ) LOVELY DAY (SUNSHINE MIX) Bill Withers

18 ( 74 ) REAL GONE KID Deacon Blue

19 ( 16 ) HE AIN'T HEAVY...HE'S MY BROTHER The Hollies

20 ( 9 ) ANCHORAGE Michelle-Shocked

 

21 ( 17 ) TEARDROPS Womack & Womack

22 ( 51 ) TWIST IN MY SOBRIETY Tanita Tikarim

23 ( 19 ) DON'T WORRY BE HAPPY Bobby McFerrin

24 ( 28 ) SHE MAKES MY DAY Robert Palmer

25 ( 37 ) I WISH U HEAVEN Prince

26 ( 40 ) KISS Tom Jones & The Art Of Noise

27 ( 20 ) YOU'RE MY WORLD Nick Heyward

28 ( 25 ) DEEP AND WIDE AND TALL Aztec Camera

29 ( NEW ) PUT A LITTLE LOVE IN YOUR HEART Annie Lennox/ Al Green

30 ( 22 ) RIDING ON A TRAIN The Pasadenas

 

31 ( 23 ) FAKE ('88 REMIX) Alexander O' Neal

32 ( NEW ) HANDLE WITH CARE Traveling Wilbury's

33 ( 33 ) “1-2-3” Gloria Estefan & Miami Sound Machine

34 ( NEW ) CAN YOU PARTY Royal House

35 ( 27 ) BURN IT UP Beastmasters/ P.P. Arnold

36 ( 21 ) WEE RULE Wee Papa Girl Rappers

37 ( 39 ) SUGAR SUGAR (CANDYFLOSS MIX)/(ORIGINAL VERSION) The Archies

38 ( 38 ) NOTHING AT ALL Heart

39 ( 34 ) YOU CAME Kim Wilde

40 ( 32 ) ANOTHER PART OF ME Michael Jackson

 

41 ( 26 ) ANYTHING FOR YOU Gloria Estefan

42 ( 43 ) LITTLE LIES Fleetwood Mac

43 ( 30 ) YE KE YE KE Mory Kante

44 ( 41 ) ONE STEP FROM HEAVEN The Adventures

45 ( 31 ) THE HARDER I TRY Brother Beyond

46 ( 46 ) MONKEY (REMIX) George Michael

47 ( 47 ) WHAT HAVE I DONE (TO DESERVE THIS) Pet Shop Boys & Dusty Springfield

48 ( 55 ) INSIDE A DREAM Jane Wiedlin

49 ( 44 ) SOMEWHERE DOWN THE CRAZY RIVER Robbie Robertson

50 ( 35 ) GROOVY KIND OF LOVE Phil Collins

 

51 ( 36 ) FIRST BOY IN THIS TOWN (LOVESICK) Scritti Politti

52 ( RE ) LISTEN TO THE VOICES Labi Siffre

53 ( 53 ) HEART Pet Shop Boys

54 ( 54 ) MAN IN THE MIRROR MIchael Jackson

55 ( 58 ) STAND UP FOR YOUR LOVE RIGHTS Yazz & The Plastic Population

56 ( 56 ) HELLO GOODBYE The Beatles

57 ( 45 ) ANOTHER LOVER Giant Steps

58 ( 60 ) ONE MORE TRY George Michael

59 ( 59 ) YOU WIN AGAIN The Bee Gees

60 ( NEW ) WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE Guns 'N' Roses

 

61 ( 57 ) DIRTY DIANA Michael Jackson

62 ( 24 ) I DON'T WANT YOUR LOVE Duran Duran

63 ( 52 ) HAPPY EVER AFTER Julia Fordham

64 ( 69 ) ONE MOMENT IN TIME Whitney Houston

65 ( NEW ) FIRST TIME Robin Beck

66 ( 65 ) I WANT YOU BACK/ I WANT YOU BACK ('88 remix) The Jackson 5

67 ( 70 ) I CAN HEAR YOUR HEARTBEAT Chris Rea

68 ( 29 ) LOVE TRUTH AND HONESTY Bananarama

69 ( 50 ) WORLD WITHOUT YOU Belinda Carlisle

70 ( 73 ) LIFE IS JUST A BALLGAME Womack & Womack

 

71 ( 48 ) BIG FUN Inner City/ Kevin Saunderson

72 ( NEW ) PUT A HOLD ON IT Eddy Grant

73 ( 72 ) BAD Michael Jackson

74 ( NEW ) BOOM! THERE SHE WAS Scritti Politti

75 ( NEW ) LOUIE LOUIE The Fat Boys

76 ( NEW ) KISSING A FOOL George Michael

 

FAVE OLDIES/ALBUM TRACKS OF THE WEEK

1 KISSING A FOOL George Michael

2 LEGEND OF XANADU Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich

3 REFLECTIONS OF MY LIFE Marmalade

I've still got them all on hard-drive waiting for the day I have time to watch them. Probably never (I've got loads of video tapes of pop videos, TOTP, MTV, live performances etc from the 80's and 90's but never had the time to convert them to DVD, though most should now be on youtube anyway hopefully....) :)

 

I love watching them as I didn’t grow up through it. Don’t always get time to do my write ups each week!! Always wrecked on a Friday evening after a weeks work which is mentally draining!

 

Always find that from 1988 onwards the look of the show is quite modern or doesn’t look too old fashioned compared to before this, maybe it’s because I grew up in the 90s?!

I love watching them as I didn’t grow up through it. Don’t always get time to do my write ups each week!! Always wrecked on a Friday evening after a weeks work which is mentally draining!

 

Always find that from 1988 onwards the look of the show is quite modern or doesn’t look too old fashioned compared to before this, maybe it’s because I grew up in the 90s?!

 

Know the feeling about being worn out! The old TOTP's certainly look of their time, I guess it's about pacing and padding as much as anything - when it got cut to 30 mins and they had to fit more in with the charts going manic with new entries it started to fit in better with the 21st century internet, instant, short-attention span culture - though the decades of teen years especially are when things just look "right" I suppose. I still see the 70's as being "normal" and anything that's happened since has been a diversion from the norm, for better or worse :lol:

Glad to see Real Gone Kid making big gains this time, I've always had a real soft spot for that song.

Glad to see Real Gone Kid making big gains this time, I've always had a real soft spot for that song.

 

 

It is a great song.

The 1989 was a remix apparently, but it charted in 1987 and 1988 and hung around trickle selling, I guess from clubs until it broke out large. It's still a guaranteed anthem to get a party going, though I mis-spelled his name oops! Damian...

 

 

It's a strangely catchy song. I saw Rock Horror at Sheffield Crucible in 1985 and hated it. Didn't dress up though and that's what it's all about really, audience participation.

Glad to see Real Gone Kid making big gains this time, I've always had a real soft spot for that song.

 

Far and away their best track, I think... :cheer:

It's a strangely catchy song. I saw Rock Horror at Sheffield Crucible in 1985 and hated it. Didn't dress up though and that's what it's all about really, audience participation.

 

Never seen it live oddly, but if I did I'd go as Brad as I wouldn't need to change a single thing about me except wear Y fronts :lol: Have a few drinks in a Gran Canaria movie musicals clips bar (Centre Stage) and The Time Warp, and especially Tim Curry's amazing Sweet Transvestite, are terrific fun.

6th November 1988

 

It's 2 weeks on top for my American edition single of Information Society's What's On Your Mind, holding off Enya from the top spot - doh! Tanita Tikarim gets that top 10 with her society getting twisted in the process, as Prince shoots up to 8 with I Wish U Heaven, the 2nd from the album to do that. The Four Seasons replace themselves in the top 10 with another classic oldie as Big Girls Don't Cry gives Frankie & the lads a 4th or 5th, though loads more covers have done it. INXS's brilliant Need You Tonight finally goes top 10 too, a year on since peaking just short.

 

Straight in at 16 it's The Beach Boys last big worldwide hit, Kokomo, giving them 20 years of top 20's in my charts, as Al Green climbs to 20 with Annie Lennox, making it 16 years of top 20's for him, and 9 for her since debuting with The Tourists. Dire Straits are back with Sultans Of Swing 9 years on, which peaked at 2 in 1979 prior to their taking over the world with Brothers In Arms. Mica Paris is breathing life into me, new at 34, and Bucks Fizz debut with Heart Of Stone at 39, a great rock ballad that Cher covered a year later. Mysteriously flopping, it keeps up the quality pop regardless of sales dropping off since New Beginnings, which ironically wasn't. 30 years on and 3 of original line-up got a proper new beginning as The Fizz, still making great pop.

 

Voice Of The Beehive exclaim I Walk The Earth, at 49, a track that charts twice, and The Proclaimers bring Sunshine On Leith into the charts, at 61. It's a toss-up between this gorgeous one and Letter From America as their greatest record. 500 Miles is nowhere close, either time it was a hit. Brother Beyond follow-up with a similar, if lesser, He Ain't No Competition; Bananarama cover Nathan Jones - I mean full marks for good taste, I adore The Supremes original too, but it's not in the same class as even their own recent tracks. Randy Newman pops in with one of his "once in a blue moon" entries, but his songs venture where he usually doesn't, starting with his fab Simon Smith & His Amazing Dancing Bear, a kiddie fave of mine by Alan Price.

 

All About Eve ask What Kind Of Fool, presumably dedicated to how they felt after the miming incident, Steve Earle's Copperhead Road gets a little traffic at 75, and a bonus entry at 76 from George Michael who's Hand To Mouth should have been a single in 1988, a fantastic album track from Faith, topping my playlist that week, but not able to qualify for my chart, so I've retrospectively given George an extra "hit" at 76. It probably would have been at number one though, had I allowed album tracks.

 

 

1 ( 1 ) WHAT'S ON YOUR MIND (PURE ENERGY) Information Society

2 ( 3 ) ORINOCO FLOW Enya

3 ( 2 ) LOVE IS ALL THAT MATTERS Human League

4 ( 5 ) GIRL YOU KNOW IT'S TRUE Milli Vanilli

5 ( 4 ) LET'S STICK TOGETHER '88 Bryan Ferry

6 ( 22 ) TWIST IN MY SOBRIETY Tanita Tikarim

7 ( 7 ) JE NE SAIS PAS POURQUOI Kylie Minogue

8 ( 25 ) I WISH U HEAVEN Prince

9 ( 11 ) BIG GIRLS DON'T CRY The Four Seasons

10 ( 13 ) NEED YOU TONIGHT (MENDOHLSON MIX) INXS

 

11 ( 6 ) DECEMBER '63 (OH WHAT A NIGHT) '88 The Four Seasons

12 ( 12 ) HEY JUDE The Beatles

13 ( 18 ) REAL GONE KID Deacon Blue

14 ( 8 ) ONE BAD APPLE The Osmonds

15 ( 9 ) NEVER TRUST A STRANGER Kim Wilde

16 ( NEW ) KOKOMO The Beach Boys

17 ( 10 ) HARVEST FOR THE WORLD The Christians

18 ( 24 ) SHE MAKES MY DAY Robert Palmer

19 ( 16 ) DOMINO DANCING Pet Shop Boys

20 ( 29 ) PUT A LITTLE LOVE IN YOUR HEART Annie Lennox/ Al Green

 

21 ( 19 ) HE AIN'T HEAVY...HE'S MY BROTHER The Hollies

22 ( 26 ) KISS Tom Jones & The Art Of Noise

23 ( 14 ) DESIRE U2

24 ( 17 ) LOVELY DAY (SUNSHINE MIX) Bill Withers

25 ( 21 ) TEARDROPS Womack & Womack

26 ( 15 ) A LITTLE RESPECT Erasure

27 ( 34 ) CAN YOU PARTY Royal House

28 ( 20 ) ANCHORAGE Michelle-Shocked

29 ( 23 ) DON'T WORRY BE HAPPY Bobby McFerrin

30 ( 32 ) HANDLE WITH CARE Traveling Wilbury's

 

31 ( 60 ) WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE Guns 'N' Roses

32 ( 33 ) “1-2-3” Gloria Estefan & Miami Sound Machine

33 ( NEW ) SULTANS OF SWING Dire Straits

34 ( NEW ) BREATHE LIFE INTO ME Mica Paris

35 ( 27 ) YOU'RE MY WORLD Nick Heyward

36 ( 48 ) INSIDE A DREAM Jane Wiedlin

37 ( 28 ) DEEP AND WIDE AND TALL Aztec Camera

38 ( 30 ) RIDING ON A TRAIN The Pasadenas

39 ( NEW ) HEART OF STONE Bucks Fizz

40 ( 37 ) SUGAR SUGAR (CANDYFLOSS MIX)/(ORIGINAL VERSION) The Archies

 

41 ( 39 ) YOU CAME Kim Wilde

42 ( 42 ) LITTLE LIES Fleetwood Mac

43 ( 65 ) FIRST TIME Robin Beck

44 ( 31 ) FAKE ('88 REMIX) Alexander O' Neal

45 ( 40 ) ANOTHER PART OF ME Michael Jackson

46 ( 47 ) WHAT HAVE I DONE (TO DESERVE THIS) Pet Shop Boys & Dusty Springfield

47 ( 43 ) YE KE YE KE Mory Kante

48 ( 46 ) MONKEY (REMIX) George Michael

49 ( NEW ) I WALK THE EARTH Voice Of The Beehive

50 ( 35 ) BURN IT UP Beastmasters/ P.P. Arnold

 

51 ( 36 ) WEE RULE Wee Papa Girl Rappers

52 ( 41 ) ANYTHING FOR YOU Gloria Estefan

53 ( 53 ) HEART Pet Shop Boys

54 ( 49 ) SOMEWHERE DOWN THE CRAZY RIVER Robbie Robertson

55 ( 55 ) STAND UP FOR YOUR LOVE RIGHTS Yazz & The Plastic Population

56 ( 56 ) HELLO GOODBYE The Beatles

57 ( 54 ) MAN IN THE MIRROR MIchael Jackson

58 ( 59 ) YOU WIN AGAIN The Bee Gees

59 ( 50 ) GROOVY KIND OF LOVE Phil Collins

60 ( 58 ) ONE MORE TRY George Michael

 

61 ( NEW ) SUNSHINE ON LEITH The Proclaimers

62 ( 57 ) ANOTHER LOVER Giant Steps

63 ( 45 ) THE HARDER I TRY Brother Beyond

64 ( 61 ) DIRTY DIANA Michael Jackson

65 ( NEW ) HE AIN'T NO COMPETITION Brother Beyond

66 ( NEW ) NATHAN JONES Bananarama

67 ( 52 ) LISTEN TO THE VOICES Labi Siffre

68 ( 66 ) I WANT YOU BACK/ I WANT YOU BACK ('88 remix) The Jackson 5

69 ( 70 ) LIFE IS JUST A BALLGAME Womack & Womack

70 ( 63 ) HAPPY EVER AFTER Julia Fordham

 

71 ( NEW ) IT'S MONEY THAT MATTERS Randy Newman

72 ( NEW ) THE PARTY Kraze

73 ( NEW ) WHAT KIND OF FOOL All About Eve

74 ( 73 ) BAD Michael Jackson

75 ( NEW ) COPPERHEAD ROAD Steve Earle

76 ( NEW ) HAND TO MOUTH George Michael

 

6th Nov

PLAYIST OLDIES

 

1 HAND TO MOUTH George Michael

2 THE BELLS Laura Nyro

3 TOKOLOSHE MAN John Kongos

not that crazy about your #1 :o

good climbs by Enya, Tanita Tikaram and INXS

 

the best new is hands down I Walk the Earth by the under appreciated Voice of the Beehive

also nice to see little brave All About Eve at the very bottom

 

 

 

My favourite track is Voice of the Beehive and All About Eve always find late 80s indie quite in between in terms of eras not new wave but not quite modern Brit pop we would hear a few years later.

 

Brother Behond were also a strange band along with Bros, it’s like they are trying to find a popular new boy band but haven’t quite formula until Take That came along three years later as people the public could relate to.

 

 

not that crazy about your #1 :o

good climbs by Enya, Tanita Tikaram and INXS

 

the best new is hands down I Walk the Earth by the under appreciated Voice of the Beehive

also nice to see little brave All About Eve at the very bottom

 

Hi Bjork :)

 

Big US hit but not meaning much in the UK, Information Society, it's not as good as I thought it was at the time, but I loved the Leonard Nimoy bits (big Spock/Star Trek fan, me :lol: )

 

Voice Of The Beehive were better than almost everybody thought they were at the time, I think, shame they arent referenced much these days...

 

B-)

My favourite track is Voice of the Beehive and All About Eve always find late 80s indie quite in between in terms of eras not new wave but not quite modern Brit pop we would hear a few years later.

 

Brother Behond were also a strange band along with Bros, it’s like they are trying to find a popular new boy band but haven’t quite formula until Take That came along three years later as people the public could relate to.

 

Yes re VOTB and AAE, people tend to think Dance, Madchester, SAW for the late 80's, but there were little mini-movements going on too, like Goth, post-Smiths guitar-pop and the like...

 

Bros were pretty much pre-teenage hype material, and that's a reckless market to get into as young girls are notoriously fickle in their affections, but more mature girls and women are much more loyal over long periods of time :D

13th November 1988

 

It's a second number one for Prince off Lovesexy as the fab I Wish U Heaven follows Alphabet Street to the top spot, though I'm still pissed off I have to fast forward the album for 5 or 10 minutes to hear the track whenever I want to play it due to Prince's infuriating fan-pissing-off insistence of having no separate tracks on the CD, just one long one. And then he makes himself an artistic liar by releasing singles off the album and making his whole argument a falsehood. No wonder everyone stopped buying his stuff in the 90's after some more pissing-off-fans-incidents. I know I stopped forever around the time of Symbol.

 

New in at 2, it's dance remix of Downtown. I kid you not, the 60's pop classic gets Pet Clark a hit - it would have topped my theoretical charts when I was 7 years old anyway, as I loved it as a kid, and Pet had a deserved chart-topper in the 2010's with the fab Cut Copy. Deacon Blue get a top 10 at last. They'd get another one, like Petula, in the 2010's with The Hipsters. George Michael's latest single from Faith is in at 15, Kissing A Fool, and Michael Jackson's latest dive into Bad is in ay 18, and the rhythmic Smooth Criminal, the video being way better than the godawful film it came from, Moonwalker.

 

Best of all, it's a brand new Trevor-Horn-produced sprawling epic from Pet Shop Boys, the wonderful Left To My Own Devices getting a low-ish entry at 33, as it hasn't the advantage of being played for months or familiar oldie of the higher entries. Kim Wilde is a Four-Letter-Word in 1988 as she racks up another gem of a single off Close, at 39, as the biggest climber into the top 40 is The Proclaimers gorgeous Sunshine On Leith. Elton John has A Word In Spanish - Ola Guapo presumably - as 30's standard Minnie The Moocher gets the reggae treatment a bit lower down. Barbra Streisand stages a comeback 17 years on from Stoney End, dragging along Miami Vice's Don Johnson (not that he needs encouragement to rock, crooning maybe not so much), and Phil Collins terrific Motown-pastiche Two Hearts debuts at 75, the latest Buster offcut.

 

1 ( 8 ) I WISH U HEAVEN Prince

2 ( NEW ) DOWNTOWN '88 Petula Clark

3 ( 2 ) ORINOCO FLOW Enya

4 ( 1 ) WHAT'S ON YOUR MIND (PURE ENERGY) Information Society

5 ( 6 ) TWIST IN MY SOBRIETY Tanita Tikarim

6 ( 3 ) LOVE IS ALL THAT MATTERS Human League

7 ( 4 ) GIRL YOU KNOW IT'S TRUE Milli Vanilli

8 ( 10 ) NEED YOU TONIGHT (MENDOHLSON MIX) INXS

9 ( 13 ) REAL GONE KID Deacon Blue

10 ( 5 ) LET'S STICK TOGETHER '88 Bryan Ferry

 

11 ( 7 ) JE NE SAIS PAS POURQUOI Kylie Minogue

12 ( 18 ) SHE MAKES MY DAY Robert Palmer

13 ( 16 ) KOKOMO The Beach Boys

14 ( 12 ) HEY JUDE The Beatles

15 ( RE ) KISSING A FOOL George Michael

16 ( 9 ) BIG GIRLS DON'T CRY The Four Seasons

17 ( 39 ) HEART OF STONE Bucks Fizz

18 ( NEW ) SMOOTH CRIMINAL Michael Jackson

19 ( 20 ) PUT A LITTLE LOVE IN YOUR HEART Annie Lennox/ Al Green

20 ( 34 ) BREATHE LIFE INTO ME Mica Paris

 

21 ( 15 ) NEVER TRUST A STRANGER Kim Wilde

22 ( 30 ) HANDLE WITH CARE Traveling Wilbury's

23 ( 19 ) DOMINO DANCING Pet Shop Boys

24 ( 21 ) HE AIN'T HEAVY...HE'S MY BROTHER The Hollies

25 ( 14 ) ONE BAD APPLE The Osmonds

26 ( 27 ) CAN YOU PARTY Royal House

27 ( 11 ) DECEMBER '63 (OH WHAT A NIGHT) '88 The Four Seasons

28 ( 32 ) 1 Feb 0003 Gloria Estefan & Miami Sound Machine

29 ( 24 ) LOVELY DAY (SUNSHINE MIX) Bill Withers

30 ( 31 ) WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE Guns 'N' Roses

 

31 ( 25 ) TEARDROPS Womack & Womack

32 ( 22 ) KISS Tom Jones & The Art Of Noise

33 ( NEW ) LEFT TO MY OWN DEVICES Pet Shop Boys

34 ( 35 ) YOU'RE MY WORLD Nick Heyward

35 ( 43 ) FIRST TIME Robin Beck

36 ( 17 ) HARVEST FOR THE WORLD The Christians

37 ( 29 ) DON'T WORRY BE HAPPY Bobby McFerrin

38 ( 61 ) SUNSHINE ON LEITH The Proclaimers

39 ( NEW ) FOUR LETTER WORD Kim Wilde

40 ( 36 ) INSIDE A DREAM Jane Wiedlin

 

41 ( 40 ) SUGAR SUGAR The Archies

42 ( 42 ) LITTLE LIES Fleetwood Mac

43 ( 41 ) YOU CAME Kim Wilde

44 ( 23 ) DESIRE U2

45 ( 66 ) NATHAN JONES Bananarama

46 ( 26 ) A LITTLE RESPECT Erasure

47 ( 46 ) WHAT HAVE I DONE (TO DESERVE THIS) Pet Shop Boys/ Dusty Springfield

48 ( 28 ) ANCHORAGE Michelle-Shocked

49 ( 33 ) SULTANS OF SWING Dire Straits

50 ( 48 ) MONKEY (REMIX) George Michael

 

51 ( 37 ) DEEP AND WIDE AND TALL Aztec Camera

52 ( 55 ) STAND UP FOR YOUR LOVE RIGHTS Yazz & The Plastic Population

53 ( NEW ) A WORD IN SPANISH Elton John

54 ( 53 ) HEART Pet Shop Boys

55 ( 73 ) WHAT KIND OF FOOL All About Eve

56 ( 56 ) HELLO GOODBYE The Beatles

57 ( 47 ) YE KE YE KE Mory Kante

58 ( 58 ) YOU WIN AGAIN The Bee Gees

59 ( 38 ) RIDING ON A TRAIN The Pasadenas

60 ( 60 ) ONE MORE TRY George Michael

 

61 ( 57 ) MAN IN THE MIRROR MIchael Jackson

62 ( 45 ) ANOTHER PART OF ME Michael Jackson

63 ( 54 ) SOMEWHERE DOWN THE LAZY RIVER Robbie Robertson

64 ( 65 ) HE AIN'T NO COMPETITION Brother Beyond

65 ( 49 ) I WALK THE EARTH Voice Of The Beehive

66 ( RE ) LOUIE LOUIE The Fat Boys

67 ( 68 ) I WANT YOU BACK/ I WANT YOU BACK ('88 remix) The Jackson 5

68 ( 64 ) DIRTY DIANA Michael Jackson

69 ( 70 ) HAPPY EVER AFTER Julia Fordham

70 ( NEW ) MINNIE THE MOOCHER Reggae Philharmonic Orchestra

 

71 ( 52 ) ANYTHING FOR YOU Gloria Estefan / Miami Sound Machine

72 ( NEW ) IF IT'S LOVE THAT YOU WANT Donny Osmond

73 ( NEW ) TWIST AND SHOUT Salt 'n' Pepa

74 ( NEW ) TILL I LOVED YOU Barbra Streisand & Don Johnson

75 ( NEW ) TWO HEARTS Phil Collins

 

 

 

Playlist oldies and album tracks of that week

1 STONEY END Laura Nyro

2 ALL I EVER NEED IS YOU Sonny & Cher

3 WEDDING BELL BLUES Laura Nyro

Four Letter Word is probably my favourite of the newies, who'd thought Kim Wilde could have a hit with a ballad! Also liked the PSB one, Kissing a Fool and Smooth Criminal.

Great to see ‘Real Gone Kid’ rising into the top 10!

 

Also sad that Enya doesn’t look like hitting the top spot but love the remix of Petula as well!