Somewhere In My Heart :wub: I can't remember that at all from the time but it was one of my favourites when I first started listening to some 80s songs.

 

Roddy Frame & Aztec camera were fab, always quality from Oblivious onwards, Somewhere In My Heart was fab but they deserved bigger hits generally and to be remembered a bit more than they are these days :heart:

never had a chart myself, but my favourites from early 88 were a mix of indie (All About Eve-Wild Hearted Woman, Sinead O'Connor - Mandinka)

and pure pop (Debbie Gibson - Shake your love, Pebbles. Girlfriend, Taja Sevelle - Love is contagious, Belinda Carlisle - I get weak, Taylor Dayne - Tell it to my Heart)... probably all of these would have been #1 for me

 

I've always loved pop, pure or otherwise, and often had to defend loving it from male mates who had more "street cred" tastes in music. There's an inbuilt chauvinism towards pop that has always bubbled under, as if men or boys admitting they like a good pop record beloved of women or girls is in some way reducing their testosterone levels and ability to show their face in public! I recognise no musical boundaries, I just think there are some good examples and some less good examples of any sort of music :lol:

15th May 1988

 

It's a first week on top for Alphabet Street, as Prince gets his first chart-topper after numerous big hits and some runners-up, belatedly deserved despite the annoying Lovesexy album CD version being one long track with no individual track skipping ability. Talk about annoying! Blue Monday goes top 10 again, albeit remixed, and Fairground Attraction grab a Perfect top 10 debut, and Belinda Carlisle makes it a hat-trick of the same, and Gloria Estefan adds to hers too.

 

Heart shoot into the 20 with What About Love, Prefab Sprout get another top 20 4 years on from When Love Breaks Down, and The Clash second-time round also peak higher than 1979's peak of 29, at 19. Highest new entry is Debbie Gibson at 26 with Out Of The Blue, while in at 29 it's another track I don't recall, hot on the heels of Cry Before Dawn last week, it's Won Ton Ton and I Lie And I Cheat. Playing it now and I'd swear I've never heard it in my life, oops! It's not aged that well.....

 

Aerosmith pop back in at 33 with Angel, a much more realistic chart position for a track I do remember, and ditto Icehouse at 35 with Electric Blue - a big week for that colour - while Aswad follow-up with Give A Little Love at 39. Kylie is back with another production-line track off her album, Got To Be Certain, and Derek B is a Bad Young Brother at 58. Quo turn up with a track I dont recall either, Who Gets The Love marking a move towards a more AOR sound, Climie Fisher get a 3rd entry, Richard Marx gets another ballad sneaking in - his current single is pretty good as I've started following him on Twitter as he's not one to mince his words :D Voice Of The Beehive are back with Don't Call Me Baby, and sneaking in as a bonus 76 it's my airplay album track Dirty Diana, soon to be the next single off Bad from Michael Jackson. safe to say it would have charted much higher had I permitted album tracks in my chart.

 

1 ( 8 ) ALPHABET STREET Prince

2 ( 1 ) ONE MORE TRY George Michael

3 ( 2 ) I'M NIN ALU Ofra Haza

4 ( 4 ) BROKEN LAND The Adventures

5 ( 10 ) DIVINE EMOTIONS Narada

6 ( 13 ) BLUE MONDAY (REMIX) New Order

7 ( 3 ) THEME FROM S-EXPRESS S-Express

8 ( 14 ) PERFECT Fairground Attraction

9 ( 15 ) CIRCLE IN THE SAND Belinda Carlisle

10 ( 16 ) I CAN'T STAY AWAY FROM YOU Gloria Estefan/ Miami Sound Machine

 

11 ( 5 ) WHO’S LEAVING WHO Hazell Dean

12 ( 7 ) HEART Pet Shop Boys

13 ( 32 ) WHAT ABOUT LOVE Heart

14 ( 6 ) I WANT YOU BACK/ I WANT YOU BACK ('88 remix) The Jackson 5

15 ( 9 ) I WANT YOU BACK Bananarama

16 ( 25 ) KING OF ROCK 'N' ROLL Prefab Sprout

17 ( 19 ) SOMEWHERE IN MY HEART Aztec Camera

18 ( 23 ) A LOVE SUPREME Will Downing

19 ( 29 ) LONDON CALLING The Clash

20 ( 11 ) EVERYWHERE Fleetwood Mac

 

21 ( 12 ) MARY’S PRAYER Danny Wilson

22 ( 18 ) LET'S ALL CHANT Pat and Mick

23 ( 21 ) WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD Louis Armstrong

24 ( 20 ) BORN AGAIN The Christians

25 ( 35 ) DON'T GO Hothouse Flowers

26 ( NEW ) OUT OF THE BLUE Debbie Gibson

27 ( 26 ) PIANO IN THE DARK Brenda Russell

28 ( 17 ) DON'T LOOK ANY FURTHER The Kane Gang

29 ( NEW ) I LIE AND I CHEAT Won Ton Ton

30 ( 39 ) OH PATTI (DON'T FEEL SORRY FOR LOVERBOY) Scritti Politti

 

31 ( 28 ) PINK CADILLAC Natalie Cole

32 ( 27 ) CARELESS LOVE Swimming With Sharks

33 ( RE ) ANGEL Aerosmith

34 ( 41 ) CALYPSO CRAZY Billy Ocean

35 ( RE ) ELECTRIC BLUE Icehouse

36 ( 22 ) GIRLFRIEND Pebbles

37 ( 37 ) GONE FOREVER Cry Before Dawn

38 ( 38 ) SUGAR SUGAR (CANDYFLOSS MIX)/(ORIGINAL VERSION) The Archies

39 ( NEW ) GIVE A LITTLE LOVE Aswad

40 ( 47 ) OUT COME THE FREAKS (REMIX) Was (Not Was)

 

41 ( 24 ) NITE AND DAY Al B. Sure

42 ( 34 ) JOE LE TAXI Vanessa Paradis

43 ( 56 ) EVERYTHING YOUR HEART DESIRES Daryl Hall & John Oates

44 ( 43 ) HELLO GOODBYE The Beatles

45 ( 45 ) WE ALL SLEEP ALONE Cher

46 ( 46 ) YOU WIN AGAIN The Bee Gees

47 ( NEW ) GOT TO BE CERTAIN Kylie Minogue

48 ( 44 ) BEDS ARE BURNING Midnight Oil

49 ( 57 ) OUT OF REACH The Primitives

50 ( 50 ) MAN IN THE MIRROR MIchael Jackson

 

51 ( 51 ) LITTLE LIES Fleetwood Mac

52 ( 40 ) LOVE CHANGES (EVERYTHING) Climie Fisher

53 ( 53 ) WHAT HAVE I DONE (TO DESERVE THIS) Pet Shop Boys & Dusty Springfield

54 ( 48 ) LADY MADONNA The Beatles

55 ( 59 ) WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM MY FRIENDS/SHE'S LEAVING HOME Wet Wet Wet/ Billy Bragg

56 ( 49 ) THESE DREAMS/NEVER Heart

57 ( 30 ) GET LUCKY Jermaine Stewart

58 ( NEW ) BAD YOUNG BROTHER Derek B

59 ( 31 ) FROM THE HIP Lloyd Cole & The Commotions

60 ( 70 ) HEY MR HEARTACHE Kim Wilde

 

61 ( 36 ) WALK AWAY Joyce Sims

62 ( 60 ) THE WAY YOU MAKE ME FEEL Michael Jackson

63 ( 33 ) WHEN THE LOVE IS GOOD Big Trouble

64 ( 68 ) START TALKING LOVE Magnum

65 ( 73 ) LOADSAMONEY Harry Enfield

66 ( 66 ) FAMILY AFFAIR/RUNNIN’ AWAY Sly & The Family Stone

67 ( 64 ) YOU'VE LOST THAT LOVIN' FEELIN' The Righteous Brothers

68 ( 67 ) BAD Michael Jackson

69 ( NEW ) WHO GETS THE LOVE Status Quo

70 ( 52 ) I'M NOT SCARED Eighth Wonder

 

71 ( 71 ) ALWAYS ON MY MIND Pet Shop Boys

72 ( NEW ) THIS IS ME Climie Fisher

73 ( 54 ) DREAMING Glen Goldsmith

74 ( NEW ) ENDLESS SUMMER NIGHTS Richard Marx

75 ( NEW ) DON'T CALL ME BABY Voice Of The Beehive

76 ( NEW ) DIRTY DIANA Michael Jackson

 

 

Playlist oldies of the week

1 DEVIL’S BALL Double

2 WHY DID YOU DO IT Stretch

3 DIRTY DIANA Michael Jackson

never herd of this Won Ton Ton, did they chart in the UK?

 

Surprising #1, for me Alphabet St is ok but not #1-deserving, it's kinda 2nd-class Prince compared to past singles like Kiss or When doves cry or Purple rain.

Nice climbs for Fairground Attraction, Belinda Carlisle, Heart and Prefab Sprout. Was never a big fan of Gloria Estefan, found her very cheesy.

Good debut for Debbie Gibson - Out of the Blue. Another decent pop song from her. Much better than Kylie's Got to be certain. I still remember being hugely disappointed at the time and perplexed at how SAW could give her such a weak song. If given to Sinitta it would have charted at 200 :)

I've always loved pop, pure or otherwise, and often had to defend loving it from male mates who had more "street cred" tastes in music. There's an inbuilt chauvinism towards pop that has always bubbled under, as if men or boys admitting they like a good pop record beloved of women or girls is in some way reducing their testosterone levels and ability to show their face in public! I recognise no musical boundaries, I just think there are some good examples and some less good examples of any sort of music :lol:

 

Absolutely right I'm in my 30s and still my friends have that adolescent view that certain songs or artists are better than an other, it's tiresome!

Ofra Haza was of course sampled in Pump Up The Volume which must have helped make her more popular in the UK. Im Nin' Alu is very good and different to anything else in the charts at the time. Theme From S'Express and its bassline are brilliant, Somewhere In My Heart and Love Changes Everything are both good pop songs. What A Wonderful World is nice. For Hazell Dean, I prefer her follow up single Maybe (We Should Call It A Day), sounds rather less cheesy than Who's Leaving Who. For Aerosmith Angel is OK but Cryin' is easily my favourite of their singles, and for Fleetwood Mac Little Lies I much prefer to the overplayed Everywhere. For Aswad that song I haven't heard much before but it sounds good, but of course I prefer Don't Turn Around. Ah Magnum, my dad has a few CDs of their's. The vocalist is good. Magnum's Start Talking Love is a bit cheesy (and the lyrics before the chorus are a bit Rick Astley :lol:) but also has the late 80s nostalgia value (rather like Jane Weidin - Rush Hour in that regard). Dirty Diana is one of Michael Jackson's best songs, I like how dramatic it is.

 

Lovesexy album CD version being one long track with no individual track skipping ability

 

A bit like a progressive rock album then? :lol:

Edited May 18, 20205 yr by The Snake

Don’t Call Me Baby! :wub: I hope that goes on to smash!

never herd of this Won Ton Ton, did they chart in the UK?

 

Surprising #1, for me Alphabet St is ok but not #1-deserving, it's kinda 2nd-class Prince compared to past singles like Kiss or When doves cry or Purple rain.

Nice climbs for Fairground Attraction, Belinda Carlisle, Heart and Prefab Sprout. Was never a big fan of Gloria Estefan, found her very cheesy.

Good debut for Debbie Gibson - Out of the Blue. Another decent pop song from her. Much better than Kylie's Got to be certain. I still remember being hugely disappointed at the time and perplexed at how SAW could give her such a weak song. If given to Sinitta it would have charted at 200 :)

 

Hi Bjork, Won Ton Ton never did chart oops! Re Prince, When Doves Cry was brilliant, Kiss I liked a lot but it never made my top 10, and Purple Rain I still find ploddingly dull I'm afraid. I'll still take Alphabet Street over the last two any day (the video's fab, that helps a lot :D ). He almost topped my chart with When Doves Cry, 1999/Little Red Corvette and Sign O The Times and in any case Doves, Sign and 1999 eventually topped my charts in later runs.

 

Gloria Estefan, I loved her ballads, not so fussed about the dance stuff, but I think her core audience was mature women on the whole :) Yes, I also thought Got To Be Certain was sub-par.

Absolutely right I'm in my 30s and still my friends have that adolescent view that certain songs or artists are better than an other, it's tiresome!

 

They'll grow out it! :lol: My brother hated George Michael back in the day, now he appreciates just how fab he was.

Don’t Call Me Baby! :wub: I hope that goes on to smash!

 

(checks) :o :( It's a great record, and it goes on to smash - if you consider top 30 "smash"! I could have sworn it went top 10! Ah well, some of their later singles definitely smash more than that did :lol:

22nd May 1988

 

It's 2 weeks on top for Prince as Belinda Carlisle starts to threaten with her first top 3, Circling In The Sand you might say, as Heart grab a 3rd top 10 and Aztec Camera a 2nd. Kylie shoots up to 12, her 3rd top 20, and Cher makes it two in a row too - or her 5th in total over 17 years - Rod Stewart has had many more than that over the same period, and his latest try enters at 60. Highest new entry is LA Mix at 18 with Check This Out, another cut 'n' paste dance track, as I vaguely recall.

 

Kim Wilde bolts up to 22 with Hey Mr Heartache, 7 years-worth of top 40's and the biggest still to come, Hall & Oates are back in the 40 12 years since She's Gone, and 6 years since they topped my charts, while new into the 40 goes Maxi Priest's lover's rock version of Jimmy Cliff's reggae version of Cat Stevens Wild World, Mica Paris debuts with My One Temptation, smooth, and Merry Clayton says Yes at 38. I liked that track much more than record buyers did.

 

Sam Brown debuts at 53 with the fabulous Stop, a full year of it becoming a hit, outrageously not hitting first-time round, all diva soul from Joe Brown's little girl. I've seen Joe Brown in concert a few times, sometimes Sam supports him, which is lovely to see and hear, as her career never really took off properly after Stop, unlike Joe who was around through the 60's, and beyond in light entertainment, until he re-invented himself a musicians musician and a live draw.

 

Quietly in at 65, a terrific French dance track, Voyage Voyage from Desireless, while Stevie returns with Michael on tow, Get Up being a tit for tat for appearing on the weakest track on Bad with Michael. I mean, I'm always going to have time for Stevie Wonder and Michael Jackson, bot childhood and teen faves when one was not much older than, and the other younger than, moi. It's not the best track either appeared on though.

 

Alexander O'Neal is back with another Jam & Lewis dance gem, The Lovers, Basia has left her Matt Bianco days behind her and gone solo - though she was more notable for noticeably being amongst the first EU-era movement of Polish folk to the UK than her solo career - and finally Samantha Fox pops in yet again, somehow managing to get a mention with another bit of tat.

 

1 ( 1 ) ALPHABET STREET Prince

2 ( 2 ) ONE MORE TRY George Michael

3 ( 9 ) CIRCLE IN THE SAND Belinda Carlisle

4 ( 5 ) DIVINE EMOTIONS Narada

5 ( 13 ) WHAT ABOUT LOVE Heart

6 ( 6 ) BLUE MONDAY (REMIX) New Order

7 ( 3 ) I'M NIN ALU Ofra Haza

8 ( 4 ) BROKEN LAND The Adventures

9 ( 17 ) SOMEWHERE IN MY HEART Aztec Camera

10 ( 10 ) I CAN'T STAY AWAY FROM YOU Gloria Estefan/ Miami Sound Machine

11 ( 7 ) THEME FROM S-EXPRESS S-Express

12 ( 47 ) GOT TO BE CERTAIN Kylie Minogue

13 ( 16 ) KING OF ROCK 'N' ROLL Prefab Sprout

14 ( 45 ) WE ALL SLEEP ALONE Cher

15 ( 12 ) HEART Pet Shop Boys

16 ( 26 ) OUT OF THE BLUE Debbie Gibson

17 ( 14 ) I WANT YOU BACK/ I WANT YOU BACK ('88 remix) The Jackson 5

18 ( NEW ) CHECK THIS OUT LA Mix

19 ( 11 ) WHO’S LEAVING WHO Hazell Dean

20 ( 30 ) OH PATTI (DON'T FEEL SORRY FOR LOVERBOY) Scritti Politti

 

21 ( 8 ) PERFECT Fairground Attraction

22 ( 60 ) HEY MR HEARTACHE Kim Wilde

23 ( 25 ) DON'T GO Hothouse Flowers

24 ( 18 ) A LOVE SUPREME Will Downing

25 ( 20 ) EVERYWHERE Fleetwood Mac

26 ( 15 ) I WANT YOU BACK Bananarama

27 ( 39 ) GIVE A LITTLE LOVE Aswad

28 ( 35 ) ELECTRIC BLUE Icehouse

29 ( 29 ) I LIE AND I CHEAT Won Ton Ton

30 ( 24 ) BORN AGAIN The Christians

 

31 ( 21 ) MARY’S PRAYER Danny Wilson

32 ( 23 ) WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD Louis Armstrong

33 ( 43 ) EVERYTHING YOUR HEART DESIRES Daryl Hall & John Oates

34 ( 34 ) CALYPSO CRAZY Billy Ocean

35 ( NEW ) WILD WORLD Maxi Priest

36 ( 19 ) LONDON CALLING The Clash

37 ( NEW ) MY ONE TEMPTATION Mica Paris

38 ( NEW ) YES Merry Clayton

39 ( 38 ) SUGAR SUGAR (CANDYFLOSS MIX)/(ORIGINAL VERSION) The Archies

40 ( 55 ) WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM MY FRIENDS/SHE'S LEAVING HOME Wet Wet Wet/ Billy Bragg

 

41 ( 27 ) PIANO IN THE DARK Brenda Russell

42 ( 42 ) JOE LE TAXI Vanessa Paradis

43 ( 22 ) LET'S ALL CHANT Pat and Mick

44 ( 31 ) PINK CADILLAC Natalie Cole

45 ( 44 ) HELLO GOODBYE The Beatles

46 ( 32 ) CARELESS LOVE Swimming With Sharks

47 ( 53 ) WHAT HAVE I DONE (TO DESERVE THIS) Pet Shop Boys & Dusty Springfield

48 ( 46 ) YOU WIN AGAIN The Bee Gees

49 ( 75 ) DON'T CALL ME BABY Voice Of The Beehive

50 ( 72 ) THIS IS ME Climie Fisher

 

51 ( 51 ) LITTLE LIES Fleetwood Mac

52 ( 50 ) MAN IN THE MIRROR MIchael Jackson

53 ( NEW ) STOP Sam Brown

54 ( 28 ) DON'T LOOK ANY FURTHER The Kane Gang

55 ( 58 ) BAD YOUNG BROTHER Derek B

56 ( 36 ) GIRLFRIEND Pebbles

57 ( 54 ) LADY MADONNA The Beatles

58 ( 69 ) WHO GETS THE LOVE Status Quo

59 ( 37 ) GONE FOREVER Cry Before Dawn

60 ( NEW ) LOST IN YOU Rod Stewart

 

61 ( 52 ) LOVE CHANGES (EVERYTHING) Climie Fisher

62 ( 33 ) ANGEL Aerosmith

63 ( 62 ) THE WAY YOU MAKE ME FEEL Michael Jackson

64 ( 56 ) THESE DREAMS/NEVER Heart

65 ( NEW ) VOYAGE VOYAGE Desireless

66 ( NEW ) GET IT Stevie Wonder/ Michael Jackson

67 ( 66 ) FAMILY AFFAIR/RUNNIN’ AWAY Sly & The Family Stone

68 ( 68 ) BAD Michael Jackson

69 ( 67 ) YOU'VE LOST THAT LOVIN' FEELIN' The Righteous Brothers

70 ( NEW ) THE LOVERS Alexander O'Neal

 

71 ( 71 ) ALWAYS ON MY MIND Pet Shop Boys

72 ( 74 ) ENDLESS SUMMER NIGHTS Richard Marx

73 ( NEW ) TIME AND TIDE Basia

74 ( NEW ) NAUGHTY GIRLS (NEED LOVE TOO) Samantha Fox

75 ( 63 ) WHEN THE LOVE IS GOOD Big Trouble

76 ( 76 ) DIRTY DIANA Michael Jackson

 

 

Playlist faves of that week

1 DIRTY DIANA Michael Jackson

2 THE ANGELS CRY Agnetha Flatskog

3 I FOUND SOMEONE Cher

love Stop, one of the best songs of the 80s. It's a pity she never managed another big hit and kinda disappeared after album 2. But that's kinda the pattern for many uk female singers sadly. Same goes with Mica Paris, My One Temptation was a great single too.

 

and Voyage Voyage was so huge. And 2 hits from France crossing over to the Uk in a matter of months is kinda unique I guess.

Stop was indeed fantastic as were many of Mica Paris tracks that I've heard on totp!

29th May 1988

 

It's back on top for a 2nd week for George Michael's One More Try, while at the other end of the chart it's a mention for my top album track of the week (also from Faith, the fab Hand To Mouth which should also have been a single) by virtue of topping my list of other non-single criminally-ignored tracks of the 80's. LA Mix Check this Out at 4, Scritti Politti make it a 3rd top 10 with Oh Patti, and Cher makes it two in a row at 10, her 4th solo, 6th including duets.

 

Alexander O'Neal bounds into the 20 with The Lovers, and highest new entry is KLF's Doctorin' The Tardis - under the pseudonym The Timelords - their debut, though Jimmy Cauty had charted as part of Brilliant several times already, in at 20. Essentially a mash-up of the Doctor Who theme (one of the greatest TV themes ever), Sweet's Blockbuster sirens and Gary Glitter's Rock And Roll Part 2 as the hook. What's not to like! Glam Rock and House Music! Ish.

 

Other newies: Eurythmics second-best best track off their latest album, You have Placed A Chill In My Heart at 26, one of Erasure's very best singles in at 29 with Chains Of Love, and an old Brass Construction funk groove Housed-up, Movin' in at 30. At 38, Elton returns with a great track, I Don't Want To Go On With You Like That, not the hit it deserved to be as he was well out of fashion by 1988, Sade is in Paradise at 44, one of her/their best tracks. Yes, confusing plurals were a thing back then too, albeit limited to bands named after the lead singer, or bands with a name that became acquired by the lead singer. Yes, I'm looking at you Alice Cooper.

 

The Sytle Council are nearing the end of their time in the chart sun, albeit with a healthy track, Whitney's looking for something to save the day, not that she'd have listened if she'd found it, and musically at least not for another decade. Fleetwood Mac pop back in with a lesser Tango In The Night track, Big Audio Dynamite keep plugging away, and Nick Kamen has a last fling at chart action.

 

1 ( 2 ) ONE MORE TRY George Michael

2 ( 1 ) ALPHABET STREET Prince

3 ( 3 ) CIRCLE IN THE SAND Belinda Carlisle

4 ( 18 ) CHECK THIS OUT LA Mix

5 ( 4 ) DIVINE EMOTIONS Narada

6 ( 5 ) WHAT ABOUT LOVE Heart

7 ( 9 ) SOMEWHERE IN MY HEART Aztec Camera

8 ( 6 ) BLUE MONDAY (REMIX) New Order

9 ( 20 ) OH PATTI (DON'T FEEL SORRY FOR LOVERBOY) Scritti Politti

10 ( 14 ) WE ALL SLEEP ALONE Cher

 

11 ( 16 ) OUT OF THE BLUE Debbie Gibson

12 ( 12 ) GOT TO BE CERTAIN Kylie Minogue

13 ( 10 ) I CAN'T STAY AWAY FROM YOU Gloria Estefan/ Miami Sound Machine

14 ( 7 ) I'M NIN ALU Ofra Haza

15 ( 11 ) THEME FROM S-EXPRESS S-Express

16 ( 8 ) BROKEN LAND The Adventures

17 ( 13 ) KING OF ROCK 'N' ROLL Prefab Sprout

18 ( 70 ) THE LOVERS Alexander O'Neal

19 ( 22 ) HEY MR HEARTACHE Kim Wilde

20 ( NEW ) DOCTORIN' THE TARDIS The Timelords (KLF)

 

21 ( 35 ) WILD WORLD Maxi Priest

22 ( 15 ) HEART Pet Shop Boys

23 ( 23 ) DON'T GO Hothouse Flowers

24 ( 17 ) I WANT YOU BACK/ I WANT YOU BACK ('88 remix) The Jackson 5

25 ( 33 ) EVERYTHING YOUR HEART DESIRES Daryl Hall & John Oates

26 ( NEW ) YOU HAVE PLACED A CHILL IN MY HEART Eurythmics

27 ( 27 ) GIVE A LITTLE LOVE Aswad

28 ( 37 ) MY ONE TEMPTATION Mica Paris

29 ( NEW ) CHAINS OF LOVE Erasure

30 ( NEW ) MOVIN' 1988 Brass Construction

 

31 ( 19 ) WHO’S LEAVING WHO Hazell Dean

32 ( 60 ) LOST IN YOU Rod Stewart

33 ( 25 ) EVERYWHERE Fleetwood Mac

34 ( 38 ) YES Merry Clayton

35 ( 50 ) THIS IS ME Climie Fisher

36 ( 49 ) DON'T CALL ME BABY Voice Of The Beehive

37 ( 40 ) WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM MY FRIENDS/SHE'S LEAVING HOME Wet Wet Wet/ Billy Bragg

38 ( NEW ) I DON'T WANT TO GO ON WITH YOU LIKE THAT Elton John

39 ( 26 ) I WANT YOU BACK Bananarama

40 ( 39 ) SUGAR SUGAR (CANDYFLOSS MIX)/(ORIGINAL VERSION) The Archies

 

41 ( 28 ) ELECTRIC BLUE Icehouse

42 ( 32 ) WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD Louis Armstrong

43 ( NEW ) I STILL LOVE YOU Judy Cheeks

44 ( NEW ) PARADISE Sade

45 ( 21 ) PERFECT Fairground Attraction

46 ( NEW ) LIFE ON A TOP PEOPLE'S HEALTH FARM The Style Council

47 ( 45 ) HELLO GOODBYE The Beatles

48 ( 47 ) WHAT HAVE I DONE (TO DESERVE THIS) Pet Shop Boys & Dusty Springfield

49 ( 42 ) JOE LE TAXI Vanessa Paradis

50 ( 48 ) YOU WIN AGAIN The Bee Gees

 

51 ( 65 ) VOYAGE VOYAGE Desireless

52 ( 31 ) MARY’S PRAYER Danny Wilson

53 ( 51 ) LITTLE LIES Fleetwood Mac

54 ( 53 ) STOP Sam Brown

55 ( 52 ) MAN IN THE MIRROR MIchael Jackson

56 ( 24 ) A LOVE SUPREME Will Downing

57 ( 29 ) I LIE AND I CHEAT Won Ton Ton

58 ( 74 ) NAUGHTY GIRLS (NEED LOVE TOO) Samantha Fox

59 ( 58 ) WHO GETS THE LOVE Status Quo

60 ( 36 ) LONDON CALLING The Clash

 

61 ( 66 ) GET IT Stevie Wonder/ Michael Jackson

62 ( 57 ) LADY MADONNA The Beatles

63 ( 63 ) THE WAY YOU MAKE ME FEEL Michael Jackson

64 ( 30 ) BORN AGAIN The Christians

65 ( 41 ) PIANO IN THE DARK Brenda Russell

66 ( NEW ) LOVE WILL SAVE THE DAY Whitney Houston

67 ( 68 ) BAD Michael Jackson

68 ( 61 ) LOVE CHANGES (EVERYTHING) Climie Fisher

69 ( 67 ) FAMILY AFFAIR/RUNNIN’ AWAY Sly & The Family Stone

70 ( 73 ) TIME AND TIDE Basia

 

71 ( 71 ) ALWAYS ON MY MIND Pet Shop Boys

72 ( NEW ) ISN'T IT MIDNIGHT Fleetwood Mac

73 ( 64 ) THESE DREAMS/NEVER Heart

74 ( NEW ) JUST PLAY MUSIC Big Audio Dynamite

75 ( NEW ) TELL ME Nick Kamen

76 ( NEW ) HAND TO MOUTH George Michael

 

FAVE OLDIES/ALBUM TRACKS OF THE WEEK

1 HAND TO MOUTH George Michael

2 MISS ME BLIND Culture Club

3 PANINARO Pet Shop Boys

 

Thanks to all for the comments!

oh Out of the Blue almost top 10!! the Script Politti song was very good too

 

Maxi Priests version of 'Wild World' really is fantastic. Also really love the number one!

Thanks Steve n Bjork for the comments, here's the latest...

5th June 1988

 

It's a first week on top for Circle In The Sand, Belinda Carlisle's first chart-topper, holding off a big climb from KLF aka The Timelords "How To get A Number One Record" as the subsequent book claimed. Half of them had been there before in the top 10 with Brilliant. Eurythmics get another top 10, for the 6th year in succession, Sam Brown has a massive climb into the 20 for Stop, Brass Construction outperform the original's chart position by 13 places, Desireless get a nice climb into the 40, and the highest new entry is another duet between Chrissie Hynde & UB40, a cover of Dusty Springfield's Dusty In Memphis track, Breakfast In Bed, which should have been a single in 1969, and the cover version being much better than their version of I Got You Babe.

 

Julian Clary treats Leader Of The Pack with affectionate humour, under his then stage-pseudonym, and on his way to stand-up top-billing, always good with his quick-wit and innuendo, give or take the odd political fist-up to interrupt his ascendence. Bros owe me nothing, apparently, new in at 59 - though I'd argue they owe me thanks for buying one of their later better singles once the fanclub evaporated. At 65, Chubby Checker is back with the rapping Fat Boys, with a souped-up The Twist, which had always been less popular than Let's Twist Again in the UK. It did chart as the other side of Let's twist Again, though, for me in 1975 on reissue, while a cover version of Let's Twist Again topped my chart thanks to a DJ. A childhood fave song, that one.

 

Tiffany's back with another 60's cover - this time The Beatles I Saw Her Standing There, which was never a UK single but which charted in 1981 in the wake of John Lennon's murder as a live version with Elton John, for John Lennon's last public concert while guesting with Elton after losing a bet that Whatever Gets You Thru The Night wouldn't top the US charts. Sabrina brings some Eurocheese action, Matt Bianco pop in as Basia taunts her ex-band a little bit higher, Five Star have another weekend, and Jacko returns with two more mentions for future singles off Bad.

 

1 ( 3 ) CIRCLE IN THE SAND Belinda Carlisle

2 ( 1 ) ONE MORE TRY George Michael

3 ( 20 ) DOCTORIN' THE TARDIS The Timelords (KLF)

4 ( 4 ) CHECK THIS OUT LA Mix

5 ( 7 ) SOMEWHERE IN MY HEART Aztec Camera

6 ( 2 ) ALPHABET STREET Prince

7 ( 5 ) DIVINE EMOTIONS Narada

8 ( 6 ) WHAT ABOUT LOVE Heart

9 ( 9 ) OH PATTI (DON'T FEEL SORRY FOR LOVERBOY) Scritti Politti

10 ( 26 ) YOU HAVE PLACED A CHILL IN MY HEART Eurythmics

 

11 ( 18 ) THE LOVERS Alexander O'Neal

12 ( 21 ) WILD WORLD Maxi Priest

13 ( 10 ) WE ALL SLEEP ALONE Cher

14 ( 28 ) MY ONE TEMPTATION Mica Paris

15 ( 11 ) OUT OF THE BLUE Debbie Gibson

16 ( 8 ) BLUE MONDAY (REMIX) New Order

17 ( 30 ) MOVIN' 1988 Brass Construction

18 ( 32 ) LOST IN YOU Rod Stewart

19 ( 53 ) STOP Sam Brown

20 ( 29 ) CHAINS OF LOVE Erasure

 

21 ( 13 ) I CAN'T STAY AWAY FROM YOU Gloria Estefan/ Miami Sound Machine

22 ( 15 ) THEME FROM S-EXPRESS S-Express

23 ( 14 ) I'M NIN ALU Ofra Haza

24 ( 12 ) GOT TO BE CERTAIN Kylie Minogue

25 ( 27 ) GIVE A LITTLE LOVE Aswad

26 ( 16 ) BROKEN LAND The Adventures

27 ( 19 ) HEY MR HEARTACHE Kim Wilde

28 ( 35 ) THIS IS ME Climie Fisher

29 ( 22 ) HEART Pet Shop Boys

30 ( 38 ) I DON'T WANT TO GO ON WITH YOU LIKE THAT Elton John

 

31 ( 17 ) KING OF ROCK 'N' ROLL Prefab Sprout

32 ( 25 ) EVERYTHING YOUR HEART DESIRES Daryl Hall & John Oates

33 ( 36 ) DON'T CALL ME BABY Voice Of The Beehive

34 ( 50 ) VOYAGE VOYAGE Desireless

35 ( 43 ) PARADISE Sade

36 ( 24 ) I WANT YOU BACK/ I WANT YOU BACK ('88 remix) The Jackson 5

37 ( 45 ) LIFE ON A TOP PEOPLE'S HEALTH FARM The Style Council

38 ( NEW ) BREAKFAST IN BED UB40/ Chrissie Hynde

39 ( 75 ) TELL ME Nick Kamen

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

 

41 ( 33 ) EVERYWHERE Fleetwood Mac

42 ( 23 ) DON'T GO Hothouse Flowers

43 ( 42 ) WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD Louis Armstrong

44 ( 57 ) NAUGHTY GIRLS (NEED LOVE TOO) Samantha Fox

45 ( 58 ) WHO GETS THE LOVE Status Quo

46 ( 31 ) WHO’S LEAVING WHO Hazell Dean

47 ( 46 ) HELLO GOODBYE The Beatles

48 ( NEW ) LEADER OF THE PACK Joan Collins Fan Club (Julian Clary)

49 ( 47 ) WHAT HAVE I DONE (TO DESERVE THIS) Pet Shop Boys & Dusty Springfield

50 ( 49 ) YOU WIN AGAIN The Bee Gees

 

51 ( 48 ) JOE LE TAXI Vanessa Paradis

52 ( 60 ) GET IT Stevie Wonder/ Michael Jackson

53 ( 52 ) LITTLE LIES Fleetwood Mac

54 ( 54 ) MAN IN THE MIRROR MIchael Jackson

55 ( 34 ) YES Merry Clayton

56 ( 66 ) LOVE WILL SAVE THE DAY Whitney Houston

57 ( 62 ) I STILL LOVE YOU Judy Cheeks

58 ( 44 ) PERFECT Fairground Attraction

59 ( NEW ) I OWE YOU NOTHING Bros

60 ( 72 ) ISN'T IT MIDNIGHT Fleetwood Mac

 

61 ( 39 ) I WANT YOU BACK Bananarama

62 ( 61 ) LADY MADONNA The Beatles

63 ( 63 ) THE WAY YOU MAKE ME FEEL Michael Jackson

64 ( 41 ) ELECTRIC BLUE Icehouse

65 ( NEW ) THE TWIST The Fat Boys/ Chubby Checker

66 ( 70 ) TIME AND TIDE Basia

67 ( 67 ) BAD Michael Jackson

68 ( NEW ) I SAW HIM STANDING THERE Tiffany

69 ( 51 ) MARY’S PRAYER Danny Wilson

70 ( NEW ) BOYS (SUMMERTIME LOVE) Sabrina

 

71 ( NEW ) I'M REAL James Brown

72 ( 69 ) FAMILY AFFAIR/RUNNIN’ AWAY Sly & The Family Stone

73 ( 71 ) ALWAYS ON MY MIND Pet Shop Boys

74 ( NEW ) ANOTHER WEEKEND Five Star

75 ( NEW ) DON'T BLAME IT ON THAT GIRL Matt Bianco

76 ( RE ) DIRTY DIANA Michael Jackson

77 ( RE ) ANOTHER PART OF ME Michael Jackson

 

5th June

PLAYIST OLDIES

 

1 DIRTY DIANA Michael Jackson

2 HONALOOCHIE BOOGIE Mott The Hoople

3 ANOTHER PART OF ME Michael Jackson

nice for Circle in the sand, great track, very Rick Nowels, also great climb for Stop.

 

was not crazy about Tifanny's covering The Beatles, didn't work as well as I Think we're Alone Now

They'll grow out it! :lol: My brother hated George Michael back in the day, now he appreciates just how fab he was.

 

 

Same here. Never really liked him in the 80's and 90's but appreciate him more now really.

Best move of the week in the chart was 'Somewhere In My Heart' easing into the top 5 for the first time, wonderful pop song!