there were not so many great songs around Xmas 88 compared to the previous year when we had Always on my Mind, China in your hand,

Fairytale f New York etc

 

certainly true about new xmas songs, though there are always classic oldies for Xmas - just to blow my own trumpet I started recharting xmas oldies in 1974 in my personal charts of the time, so by the time the world caught on to that as a regular thing with downloads and streaming I was at the stage where I had to say "Enough!" and rarely chart the oldies at Xmas any more. Same oldies, same order year after year is just too tedious. Though Driving Home For Xmas remains heart-warming and is my most-regular oldie. And that is getting it's first comeback in 1988! A 70's classic is hitting the top spot, a remixed 70's xmas classic is going top 10, a new Xmas song is going top 10, a 60's medley of xmas classics is charting, and also a cover by an 80's act is charting for the first and last time. :D

Nooooooooooooooooooooo :cry:

 

You took the word right out of my mouth, most disappointing! :lol:

I love reading this chart each week, love your loyalty to your favourite acts like Bucks Fizz, Midge and even Slade getting a later hit. Did ‘Radio Wall Of Sound’ not chart in 1991/92?

 

I see ‘You Win Again’ still in there a year later!

I love reading this chart each week, love your loyalty to your favourite acts like Bucks Fizz, Midge and even Slade getting a later hit. Did ‘Radio Wall Of Sound’ not chart in 1991/92?

 

I see ‘You Win Again’ still in there a year later!

 

Thanks Steve! :) I've always been loyal to old acts I love, I want them to succeed so much I sometimes over-rate what they do cos I'm biased :lol: Yes, you're right about Radio Wall Of Sound charting, I'd forgotten they had a Hits package new recording comeback if I recall correctly. So still a couple of 90's singles, a remix and a reissue to go. Plus every bloody Xmas to the End Of Time :lol:

4th December 1988

 

It's criminally just the one-week on top for the classic Left To My Own Devices as a 1974 ballad classic follows where He Ain't Heavy trod topping my charts belatedly for The Hollies. Albert Hammond's fab The Air That I Breathe is reissued and is an instant chart-topper after peaking top 5 first time round. It's also known as Creep in Radiohead circles, and now give the proper songwriting credit after a court-case. Michael Jackson is trying for another Bad chart-topper, at 3 with Smooth Criminal, and the oldies go mad as Buddy Holly gets his biggest posthumous hit in my charts to date with True Love Ways entering at 5. Buddy died when I was a baby, but that never stopped him having a massive career from then on for over a decade, and occasionally beyond that.

 

Bill Withers also follows in his 1988 remix footsteps as Ain't No Sunshine gets remixed and is back at 6, the song having already topped my chart in 1972 for Michael Jackson's definitive take. Bill is fab, but pre-puberty Michael Jackson is unbeatable vocally. My jaw drops now as I see Mistletoe And Wine shooting up to 9, Cliff's top 10's spanning 19 years in my charts, and this once must have sounded delightful and fresh. These days the mistletoe has turned to mush and the wine has gone right off. Plus side Phil Collins fab Two Hearst is at 10, and his Four Tops production for the Buster movie is in for The Four Tops - Loco In Acapulco at 71.

 

Yet more oldies at 14, as Phil Spector's Xmas classics get a megamix treatment, 14 years before they started making my charts for The Ronettes with Sleigh Ride. Loads of them have charted since, but this was the highest-charting to that date. It's Bros' Festive-sounding effort (not) as they throw The Cat Amongst The Pigeons. Cruelty on 3 counts: to the cat; to the pigeons; to the listener. Gloria Estefan's 1-2-3 drops out as Rhythm Is Gonna get You sways in at 36. Mike + The Mechanics opine Nobody's Perfect: Billy Wilder would have been overjoyed to hear the Some Like It Hot classic line in a great song. This one will have to do though.

 

Quo are back, never burning their bridges behind them, with one of the better hits they did in the 80's, and in my album tracks of the week - thus grabbing bonus slots where in reality Hand To Mouth would have been competing for top spot - George Michael returns for a 4th time, and Pet Shop Boys drop Introspective allowing me to list my two early fave album tracks, previous B side, I Want A Dog, in remixed form, and It's Alright (future single in remixed form).

 

 

1 ( NEW ) THE AIR THAT I BREATHE The Hollies

2 ( 1 ) LEFT TO MY OWN DEVICES Pet Shop Boys

3 ( 6 ) SMOOTH CRIMINAL Michael Jackson

4 ( 5 ) DOWNTOWN '88 Petula Clark

5 ( NEW ) TRUE LOVE WAYS Buddy Holly

6 ( NEW ) AIN'T NO SUNSHINE '88 Bill Withers

7 ( 4 ) KISSING A FOOL George Michael

8 ( 2 ) I WISH U HEAVEN Prince

9 ( 30 ) MISTLETOE AND WINE Cliff Richard

10 ( 17 ) TWO HEARTS Phil Collins

 

11 ( 3 ) HEART OF STONE Bucks Fizz

12 ( 12 ) SAY A LITTLE PRAYER Bomb The Bass featuring Maureen

13 ( 7 ) ORINOCO FLOW Enya

14 ( NEW ) PHIL SPECTOR'S CHRISTMAS MIX The Ronettes, The Crystals and Darlene Love

15 ( 9 ) LOVE IS ALL THAT MATTERS Human League

16 ( 11 ) BREATHE LIFE INTO ME Mica Paris

17 ( 14 ) DENIS (DENEE) '88 Blondie

18 ( 8 ) TWIST IN MY SOBRIETY Tanita Tikarim

19 ( 10 ) NEED YOU TONIGHT (MENDOHLSON MIX) INXS

20 ( 20 ) FOUR LETTER WORD Kim Wilde

 

21 ( 13 ) REAL GONE KID Deacon Blue

22 ( 49 ) ENCHANTED LADY The Pasadenas

23 ( 31 ) KOKOMO The Beach Boys

24 ( 18 ) PUT A LITTLE LOVE IN YOUR HEART Annie Lennox/ Al Green

25 ( 19 ) JE NE SAIS PAS POURQUOI Kylie Minogue

26 ( 22 ) HEY JUDE The Beatles

27 ( 27 ) BABY I LOVE YOUR WAY/ FREEBIRD Will To Power

28 ( 21 ) WHAT'S ON YOUR MIND (PURE ENERGY) Information Society

29 ( 37 ) RADIO ROMANCE Tiffany

30 ( 15 ) WILD WILD WEST The Escape Club

 

31 ( 16 ) SUNSHINE ON LEITH The Proclaimers

32 ( 39 ) JACK TO THE SOUND OF THE UNDERGROUND Hithouse

33 ( 28 ) HE AIN'T HEAVY...HE'S MY BROTHER The Hollies

34 ( 23 ) LET'S STICK TOGETHER '88 Bryan Ferry

35 ( NEW ) CAT AMONGST THE PIGEONS Bros

36 ( NEW ) RHYTHM IS GONNA GET YOU Gloria Estefan & Miami Sound Machine

37 ( 29 ) DOMINO DANCING Pet Shop Boys

38 ( 42 ) NOTHING LESS THAN BRILLIANT Sandie Shaw

39 ( 51 ) HE AIN'T NO COMPETITION Brother Beyond

40 ( 53 ) TILL I LOVED YOU Barbra Streisand & Don Johnson

 

41 ( 36 ) DOWNTOWN One 2 Many

42 ( 62 ) A WORD IN SPANISH Elton John

43 ( 43 ) LITTLE LIES Fleetwood Mac

44 ( 44 ) SUGAR SUGAR (CANDYFLOSS MIX)/(ORIGINAL VERSION) The Archies

45 ( 38 ) LOVELY DAY (SUNSHINE MIX) Bill Withers

46 ( 40 ) ONE BAD APPLE The Osmonds

47 ( 48 ) DEAR GOD Midge Ure

48 ( 24 ) GIRL YOU KNOW IT'S TRUE Milli Vanilli

49 ( 45 ) YOU CAME Kim Wilde

50 ( 67 ) LET THERE BE DRUMS Boss Beat

 

51 ( 32 ) NEVER TRUST A STRANGER Kim Wilde

52 ( 33 ) NATHAN JONES Bananarama

53 ( 35 ) LOVE NEVER DIES Belinda Carlisle

54 ( 26 ) SHE MAKES MY DAY Robert Palmer

55 ( 25 ) HANDLE WITH CARE Traveling Wilbury's

56 ( 52 ) WHAT HAVE I DONE (TO DESERVE THIS) Pet Shop Boys & Dusty Springfield

57 ( 63 ) IN YOUR ROOM The Bangles

58 ( NEW ) NOBODY’S PERFECT Mike + The Mechanics

59 ( 58 ) HELLO GOODBYE The Beatles

60 ( 55 ) MONKEY (REMIX) George Michael

 

61 ( 47 ) DECEMBER '63 (OH WHAT A NIGHT) '88 The Four Seasons

62 ( 60 ) YOU WIN AGAIN The Bee Gees

63 ( 59 ) HEART Pet Shop Boys

64 ( 73 ) YOU ARE THE ONE a-ha

65 ( NEW ) DRIVING HOME FOR CHRISTMAS Chris Rea

66 ( 57 ) YOU'RE MY WORLD Nick Heyward

67 ( 34 ) BIG GIRLS DON'T CRY The Four Seasons

68 ( 69 ) ANGEL OF HARLEM U2

69 ( NEW ) HUMANOID Stakker

70 ( 65 ) MAN IN THE MIRROR MIchael Jackson

 

71 ( NEW ) LOCO IN ACAPULCO The Four Tops

72 ( NEW ) BURNING BRIDGES (ON AND OFF AND ON AGAIN) Status Quo

73 ( 54 ) TEARDROPS Womack & Womack

74 ( 61 ) DON'T WORRY BE HAPPY Bobby McFerrin

75 ( NEW ) ALWAYS LOOK ON THE BRIGHT SIDE OF LIFE Monty Python

76 ( RE ) HAND TO MOUTH George Michael

77 ( NEW ) I WANT A DOG Pet Shop Boys

78 ( NEW ) IT’S ALRIGHT Pet Shop Boys

never seen the similarity between Creep and the Hollies song to be honest

 

so many oldies!!

I didn't like Left to My Own Devices much when it came out. I don't know why - it's got everything I loved about them. In my opinion, it was foolish of them not to release that as the lead single instead Domino Dancing, which failed to keep up the momentum they had built up at that stage - certainly the leading contender for the best pop band of 87/88.

This is your worst chart crime since Human spent 26 years on your chart.

never seen the similarity between Creep and the Hollies song to be honest

 

so many oldies!!

 

You ain't seen Nothin Yet! Even when I was 16 years old my charts were chockablock full of oldies... :lol:

I didn't like Left to My Own Devices much when it came out. I don't know why - it's got everything I loved about them. In my opinion, it was foolish of them not to release that as the lead single instead Domino Dancing, which failed to keep up the momentum they had built up at that stage - certainly the leading contender for the best pop band of 87/88.

 

I think you're right about the momentum of LTMOD - it hit 4 anyway, but prob would have gone top 3 at the very least as first single, so that's a shame. I loved them both, and DD def ended their US chart career, too "gay" for mainstream USA.

This is your worst chart crime since Human spent 26 years on your chart.

 

I know, I needed to repent, you might even say It's A Sin and What have I Done To Deserve This? :lol: :teresa: So it eventually got another 3 weeks on top, as Left To My Own Devices I can never resist a Classic oldie reappearance. :D

11th December 1988

 

It's up to top spot for Petula's remix of classic 60's song Downtown. In terms of sheer imagery and powerful memories of being a child, Downtown has it in spades. We lived in Chesham, we went Downtown on the Tube to 60's Swinging London, where it was at, and just before we moved to Liverpool, where it was also musically at. I was there! Music that evokes that period is a bit like a misplaced joy at a world long-gone. So anyway, 24 years late she finally gets her number one. Guess what? It's Christmas, and it's not Xmas without a deluge of oldies. 60% of the top 10 in fact, I was SO ahead of my time in personal charts terms!

 

So, back again at 5, it's my late hero John Lennon with a Xmas-pack of CD tracks, Imagine topped my chart in 1981 and is on its 3rd run, Jealous Guy topped for Roxy and hit 7 in 1985, and Happy Xmas War Is Over topped my charts in Christmas 1972, 1974, 1975, 1980, and is attempting to become the first Xmas song or oldie to top my charts for a 5th occasion. Place your bets now. Boney M hit 2 in 1978 and have a 10th anniversary remix of Mary's Boy Child entering at 6.

 

Kim Wilde is the only new track grabbing a top 10 spot with Four Letter Word, while Sandie Shaw is Nothing Less Than Brilliant at 16 - she so is, too. Gloria's also top 20 bound, while a forgotten Xmas movie track from Annie Lennox & Al Green also hits 19. Boy Meets Girl debut at 22 with Waiting For A Star To Fall, a decent track, Fleetwood Mac get the fab flop As Long As You Follow in at 24, a typically tuneful Christine McVie song, Bananarama shoot up where The Supremes first went, with Nathan Jones into the 30, and it's here: Kylie & Jason's fab Xmas loveyfest is here Especially For You at 32.

 

The even-fabber Keeping The Dream Alive is also debuting for Freiheit - if ever a Xmas record sounded like, but wasn't, a Paul McCartney song it's this one. It's back in my charts again this week - but at least I waited 32 years rather than an annual bloody event like the UK charts! Mory Kante's back with Tama, Rick Astley's still popping in, Alexander O'Neal has a christmas non-classic version with The Christmas Song (it's still Nat King Cole for me), and Erasure say Stop! Too much Festivity no doubt. In at 67. God knows how, but Sam Fox & Angry Anderson manage to enter my chart. I must have been feeling charitable as in those days I still loved Christmas. Down the bottom-end Inner City and New Order have a rather modest debut for rather good tracks.

 

1 ( 4 ) DOWNTOWN '88 Petula Clark

2 ( 1 ) THE AIR THAT I BREATHE The Hollies

3 ( 2 ) LEFT TO MY OWN DEVICES Pet Shop Boys

4 ( 5 ) TRUE LOVE WAYS Buddy Holly

5 ( NEW ) IMAGINE/ JEALOUS GUY/ HAPPY CHRISTMAS (WAR IS OVER) John Lennon / John & Yoko

6 ( NEW ) MARY'S BOY CHILD '88 Boney M

7 ( 6 ) AIN'T NO SUNSHINE '88 Bill Withers

8 ( 20 ) FOUR LETTER WORD Kim Wilde

9 ( 10 ) TWO HEARTS Phil Collins

10 ( 3 ) SMOOTH CRIMINAL Michael Jackson

 

11 ( 7 ) KISSING A FOOL George Michael

12 ( 9 ) MISTLETOE AND WINE Cliff Richard

13 ( 8 ) I WISH U HEAVEN Prince

14 ( 14 ) PHIL SPECTOR'S CHRISTMAS MIX The Ronettes, The Crystals and Darlene Love

15 ( 12 ) SAY A LITTLE PRAYER Bomb The Bass featuring Maureen

16 ( 38 ) NOTHING LESS THAN BRILLIANT Sandie Shaw

17 ( 11 ) HEART OF STONE Bucks Fizz

18 ( 36 ) RHYTHM IS GONNA GET YOU Gloria Estefan & Miami Sound Machine

19 ( 24 ) PUT A LITTLE LOVE IN YOUR HEART Annie Lennox/ Al Green

20 ( 23 ) KOKOMO The Beach Boys

 

21 ( 15 ) LOVE IS ALL THAT MATTERS Human League

22 ( NEW ) WAITING FOR A STAR TO FALL Boy Meets Girl

23 ( 13 ) ORINOCO FLOW Enya

24 ( NEW ) AS LONG AS YOU FOLLOW Fleetwood Mac

25 ( 18 ) TWIST IN MY SOBRIETY Tanita Tikarim

26 ( 16 ) BREATHE LIFE INTO ME Mica Paris

27 ( 52 ) NATHAN JONES Bananarama

28 ( 21 ) REAL GONE KID Deacon Blue

29 ( 19 ) NEED YOU TONIGHT (MENDOHLSON MIX) INXS

30 ( 26 ) HEY JUDE The Beatles

 

31 ( 22 ) ENCHANTED LADY The Pasadenas

32 ( NEW ) ESPECIALLY FOR YOU Kylie Minogue & Jason Donovan

33 ( 25 ) JE NE SAIS PAS POURQUOI Kylie Minogue

34 ( 35 ) CAT AMONGST THE PIGEONS Bros

35 ( NEW ) KEEPING THE DREAM ALIVE Freiheit

36 ( 28 ) WHAT'S ON YOUR MIND (PURE ENERGY) Information Society

37 ( 30 ) WILD WILD WEST The Escape Club

38 ( 29 ) RADIO ROMANCE Tiffany

39 ( 33 ) HE AIN'T HEAVY...HE'S MY BROTHER The Hollies

40 ( 17 ) DENIS (DENEE) '88 Blondie

 

41 ( 37 ) DOMINO DANCING Pet Shop Boys

42 ( 63 ) YOU ARE THE ONE a-ha

43 ( 65 ) DRIVING HOME FOR CHRISTMAS Chris Rea

44 ( 34 ) LET'S STICK TOGETHER '88 Bryan Ferry

45 ( 43 ) LITTLE LIES Fleetwood Mac

46 ( 44 ) SUGAR SUGAR (CANDYFLOSS MIX)/(ORIGINAL VERSION) The Archies

47 ( NEW ) TAMA Mory Kante

48 ( 72 ) BURNING BRIDGES (ON AND OFF AND ON AGAIN) Status Quo

49 ( 45 ) LOVELY DAY (SUNSHINE MIX) Bill Withers

50 ( 46 ) ONE BAD APPLE The Osmonds

 

51 ( 49 ) YOU CAME Kim Wilde

52 ( 71 ) LOCO IN ACAPULCO The Four Tops

53 ( 53 ) LOVE NEVER DIES Belinda Carlisle

54 ( 27 ) BABY I LOVE YOUR WAY/ FREEBIRD Will To Power

55 ( 55 ) HANDLE WITH CARE Traveling Wilbury's

56 ( 55 ) WHAT HAVE I DONE (TO DESERVE THIS) Pet Shop Boys & Dusty Springfield

57 ( 39 ) HE AIN'T NO COMPETITION Brother Beyond

58 ( 68 ) ANGEL OF HARLEM U2

59 ( 58 ) HELLO GOODBYE The Beatles

60 ( 32 ) JACK TO THE SOUND OF THE UNDERGROUND Hithouse

 

61 ( 61 ) YOU WIN AGAIN The Bee Gees

62 ( 59 ) MONKEY (REMIX) George Michael

63 ( NEW ) TAKE ME TO YOUR HEART Rick Astley

64 ( 62 ) HEART Pet Shop Boys

65 ( NEW ) THE CHRISTMAS SONG Alexander O'Neal

66 ( 42 ) A WORD IN SPANISH Elton John

67 ( NEW ) STOP Erasure

68 ( 51 ) NEVER TRUST A STRANGER Kim Wilde

69 ( NEW ) LOVE HOUSE Samantha Fox

70 ( NEW ) SUDDENLY Angry Anderson

 

71 ( NEW ) I LIVE FOR YOUR LOVE Natalie Cole

72 ( 70 ) MAN IN THE MIRROR MIchael Jackson

73 ( NEW ) IF LOVE WAS A TRAIN Michelle-Shocked

74 ( NEW ) FINE TIME New Order

75 ( NEW ) GOOD LIFE Inner City

76 ( 76 ) HAND TO MOUTH George Michael

77 ( 78 ) IT’S ALRIGHT Pet Shop Boys

 

Playlist oldies and album tracks of that week

1 HAND TO MOUTH George Michael

2 IT’S ALRIGHT Pet Shop Boys

3 FATHER FIGURE George Michael

haha was also very surprised seeing you add Sam Fox-Love House, it's not even one of her "classics" :o

 

I really liked the Boy Meets Girl song as a kid, bit cheesy but great

Just reading the 4th Dec chart and seeing the Four Tops in there - they were the last act to perform on the old main stage with the Tv screen at the side on TOTP before the 1989 revamp! Great song!!

 

Also good to see you acknowledging ‘Driving Home For Christmas’ in its first year of release! I see Belinda Carlisle on that chart, am I getting my years mixed up or did she break through in 1988 or was it 1989?

Belinda is 88

Didn’t think she was that old 😜

haha was also very surprised seeing you add Sam Fox-Love House, it's not even one of her "classics" :o

 

I really liked the Boy Meets Girl song as a kid, bit cheesy but great

 

Yes cheesy but great is about the right expression :D

Just reading the 4th Dec chart and seeing the Four Tops in there - they were the last act to perform on the old main stage with the Tv screen at the side on TOTP before the 1989 revamp! Great song!!

 

Also good to see you acknowledging ‘Driving Home For Christmas’ in its first year of release! I see Belinda Carlisle on that chart, am I getting my years mixed up or did she break through in 1988 or was it 1989?

 

Hi Steve, didnt know that bit about the Four Tops! I went to see the original line-up in concert around March 1989, still fab they were.

 

Apparently Driving Home For Christmas came out in 1986, but I totally missed that at the time! 88 was when I noticed it first, and it's been one that's grown in stature with time. Just brilliant, and it's back again this xmas too... :)

Didn’t think she was that old 😜

 

arf!

18th December 1988

 

it's a huge climb to the top for the fabulous Keeping The Dream Alive, a christmassy-McCartney-sounding perennial that is back big-time this christmas (2020) in a cover and the original version as Christmas songs do a Lockdown take-over of the whole world (or at least singles charts) as everyone goes stir-crazy desperate for something to take their mind off Covid-19. Another Xmas classic at 2, and Sandie Shaw gets her 4th top 10 in almost 20 years of sporadic charting - the bulk of her classics predate my charts but would have featured a guaranteed 3 chart-toppers in 1964/5 and 1967.

 

The Escape Club literally shoot up to 16 with the Wild Wild West, Kylie & Jason close-behind, and Inner City find 49 places climbing is the Good Life! Highest new entry is a debut for Neneh Cherry, and the rap-tastic Buffalo Stance at 28. She'll be big in the 90's, and so will her brother, briefly, and then her daughter Mabel in the 2010's. Diana Ross joins in the oldies remixes at 40 with a not-nearly-so-good version of the hot, brilliant Love Hangover from 1976, in at 40. Erasure leap into the 40, Stop! U2 and The Four Tops also go where both, and Erasure, have gone many times before.

 

David Grant uses his Intuition to remix his 1981 goodie, from when he was in Linx, Bon Jovi were Born To Be My Baby, with another 32 years ahead of 'em and still featuring in my charts. Yes, Bobby McFerrin did have another decent single, it's in at 70, Londonbeat debut with 9 a.m., notably for me going "Hey that's Jimmy Helms!" when they did Top Of The Pops - apart from being backing vocalists to various popstars, Jimmy had a 70's solo career including the fab Gonna Make You An Offer You Can't Refuse in 1973, which was a hit in the UK for the American with the great voice. Finally Shaky has another Xmas effort, his version of Bing Crosby & Grace Kelly's 50's crooner classic True Love, inspiring Elton & Kiki to do the same in a few years.

 

 

 

1 ( 35 ) KEEPING THE DREAM ALIVE Freiheit

2 ( 5 ) IMAGINE/ JEALOUS GUY/ HAPPY CHRISTMAS (WAR IS OVER) John Lennon / John & Yoko

3 ( 1 ) DOWNTOWN '88 Petula Clark

4 ( 16 ) NOTHING LESS THAN BRILLIANT Sandie Shaw

5 ( 8 ) FOUR LETTER WORD Kim Wilde

6 ( 2 ) THE AIR THAT I BREATHE The Hollies

7 ( 3 ) LEFT TO MY OWN DEVICES Pet Shop Boys

8 ( 4 ) TRUE LOVE WAYS Buddy Holly

9 ( 6 ) MARY'S BOY CHILD '88 Boney M

10 ( 17 ) HEART OF STONE Bucks Fizz

 

11 ( 14 ) PHIL SPECTOR'S CHRISTMAS MIX The Ronettes, The Crystals and Darlene Love

12 ( 7 ) AIN'T NO SUNSHINE '88 Bill Withers

13 ( 9 ) TWO HEARTS Phil Collins

14 ( 24 ) AS LONG AS YOU FOLLOW Fleetwood Mac

15 ( 10 ) SMOOTH CRIMINAL Michael Jackson

16 ( 37 ) WILD WILD WEST The Escape Club

17 ( 32 ) ESPECIALLY FOR YOU Kylie Minogue & Jason Donovan

18 ( 18 ) RHYTHM IS GONNA GET YOU Gloria Estefan & Miami Sound Machine

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

20 ( 12 ) MISTLETOE AND WINE Cliff Richard

 

21 ( 11 ) KISSING A FOOL George Michael

22 ( 13 ) I WISH U HEAVEN Prince

23 ( 21 ) LOVE IS ALL THAT MATTERS Human League

24 ( 22 ) WAITING FOR A STAR TO FALL Boy Meets Girl

25 ( 34 ) CAT AMONGST THE PIGEONS Bros

26 ( 75 ) GOOD LIFE Inner City

27 ( 15 ) SAY A LITTLE PRAYER Bomb The Bass featuring Maureen

28 ( NEW ) BUFFALO STANCE Neneh Cherry

29 ( 48 ) BURNING BRIDGES (ON AND OFF AND ON AGAIN) Status Quo

30 ( NEW ) LOVE HANGOVER '88 Diana Ross

 

31 ( 20 ) KOKOMO The Beach Boys

32 ( 30 ) HEY JUDE The Beatles

33 ( 47 ) TAMA Mory Kante

34 ( 67 ) STOP Erasure

35 ( 23 ) ORINOCO FLOW Enya

36 ( 27 ) NATHAN JONES Bananarama

37 ( 42 ) YOU ARE THE ONE a-ha

38 ( 58 ) ANGEL OF HARLEM U2

39 ( 28 ) REAL GONE KID Deacon Blue

40 ( 52 ) LOCO IN ACAPULCO The Four Tops

 

41 ( 43 ) DRIVING HOME FOR CHRISTMAS Chris Rea

42 ( 36 ) WHAT'S ON YOUR MIND (PURE ENERGY) Information Society

43 ( 39 ) HE AIN'T HEAVY...HE'S MY BROTHER The Hollies

44 ( 33 ) JE NE SAIS PAS POURQUOI Kylie Minogue

45 ( 41 ) DOMINO DANCING Pet Shop Boys

46 ( 29 ) NEED YOU TONIGHT (MENDOHLSON MIX) INXS

47 ( 45 ) LITTLE LIES Fleetwood Mac

48 ( 46 ) SUGAR SUGAR (CANDYFLOSS MIX)/(ORIGINAL VERSION) The Archies

49 ( 25 ) TWIST IN MY SOBRIETY Tanita Tikarim

50 ( RE ) DECEMBER '63 (OH WHAT A NIGHT) '88 The Four Seasons

 

51 ( 26 ) BREATHE LIFE INTO ME Mica Paris

52 ( 74 ) FINE TIME New Order

53 ( 51 ) YOU CAME Kim Wilde

54 ( 49 ) LOVELY DAY (SUNSHINE MIX) Bill Withers

55 ( 50 ) ONE BAD APPLE The Osmonds

56 ( 56 ) WHAT HAVE I DONE (TO DESERVE THIS) Pet Shop Boys & Dusty Springfield

57 ( 44 ) LET'S STICK TOGETHER '88 Bryan Ferry

58 ( NEW ) INTUITION '88 David Grant

59 ( 55 ) HANDLE WITH CARE Traveling Wilbury's

60 ( 63 ) TAKE ME TO YOUR HEART Rick Astley

 

61 ( 59 ) HELLO GOODBYE The Beatles

62 ( 65 ) THE CHRISTMAS SONG Alexander O'Neal

63 ( 61 ) YOU WIN AGAIN The Bee Gees

64 ( 64 ) HEART Pet Shop Boys

65 ( 62 ) MONKEY (REMIX) George Michael

66 ( 38 ) RADIO ROMANCE Tiffany

67 ( 31 ) ENCHANTED LADY The Pasadenas

68 ( 40 ) DENIS (DENEE) '88 Blondie

69 ( NEW ) BORN TO BE MY BABY Bon Jovi

70 ( NEW ) THINKING ABOUT YOUR BODY Bobby McFerrin

 

71 ( RE ) MINNIE THE MOOCHER Reggae Philharmonic Orchestra

72 ( 53 ) LOVE NEVER DIES Belinda Carlisle

73 ( NEW ) 9 A.M. Londonbeat

74 ( 72 ) MAN IN THE MIRROR MIchael Jackson

75 ( NEW ) TRUE LOVE Shakin' Stevens

 

 

 

Playlist oldies of the week

1 PRETTY WOMAN Roy Orbison

2 ONLY THE LONELY Roy Orbison

3 IT’S OVER Roy Orbison