July 10, 20205 yr Author great for Dirty Diana, one of the many album jewels and a deserved #1 lots of great newies my fav being Foolish Beat, which was Debbie's first US #1, beautiful ballad, sounds very adult and grown up, quite Elton John-esque loved Kim Wilde's You Came, great single, I remember at first I thought it was a SAW single :o also liked the new Adventures, the new Eighth Wonder was less classy but good too The Flame did nothing in the UK, right? maybe it was too American-sounding Yes The Flame peaked at 77 in the UK, it was huge across North America and Australia. I think it was just unlucky to come out as the UK music scene abruptly changed and it didn't fit in with radio programming... :o
July 10, 20205 yr Author 10th July 1988 It's 2 weeks on top for Dirty Diana, as Monkey takes George Michael into the top 5, and is joined by T'Pau getting a 3rd biggie at 5, and US chart-topper The Flame shooting up to 6 for Cheap Trick, their first and last 9 years after debuting in my charts. Tracy Chapman goes top 10 with future Jonas Blue cover Fast Car, and INXS take Never Tear Us Apart up 22 to 12. New at 14 is the wonderful No Conversation from View From A Hill, never the hit it deserved to be, and Debbie Gibson grabs another top 20 in one fell swoop with Careless Whisper, I mean Foolish Beat! Up from 66 to 17, and Elton John also goes top 20 for the 18th consecutive year, bar 1979 - though Are You Ready For Love would eventually top my charts (and the UK charts) so that's good enough for me! Transvision Vamp grab a 2nd top 20, Kim Wilde rockets up from 63 to 24 with You Came, and Ziggy Marley 69 to 30 in a big week for big chart climbers. Also moving fast, Eighth Wonder's 2nd top 40, while Sydney Youngblood is back with a Bill Withers classic cover that had already topped my chart in 1972 for Michael Jackson, and would do so for Bill too. Talking of classic early 70's songs, Dennis Greaves & The Truth cover the brilliant Argent song God Gave Rock 'n' Roll To You before Kiss mugged it in the 90's, The Four Tops Motown anthem Reach Out I'll Be There is assaulted by a 1988 remix but is still strong enough to survive the indignity, Fairground Attraction follow-up a biggie with an even better song, Find My Love, and Will Downing pops back in too. 1 ( 1 ) DIRTY DIANA Michael Jackson 2 ( 2 ) IN THE AIR TONIGHT (1988) Phil Collins 3 ( 3 ) WILD WORLD Maxi Priest 4 ( 7 ) MONKEY (REMIX) George Michael 5 ( 12 ) I WILL BE WITH YOU T'Pau 6 ( 23 ) THE FLAME Cheap Trick 7 ( 8 ) BREAKFAST IN BED UB40/ Chrissie Hynde 8 ( 4 ) CIRCLE IN THE SAND Belinda Carlisle 9 ( 5 ) PARADISE Sade 10 ( 15 ) FAST CAR Tracey Chapman 11 ( 6 ) YOU HAVE PLACED A CHILL IN MY HEART Eurythmics 12 ( 34 ) NEVER TEAR US APART INXS 13 ( 13 ) THERE'S MORE TO LOVE The Communards 14 ( NEW ) NO CONVERSATION View From A Hill 15 ( 17 ) I OWE YOU NOTHING Bros 16 ( 9 ) CHAINS OF LOVE Erasure 17 ( 66 ) FOOLISH BEAT Debbie Gibson 18 ( 10 ) VOYAGE VOYAGE Desireless 19 ( 25 ) I DON'T WANT TO GO ON WITH YOU LIKE THAT Elton John 20 ( 41 ) I WANT YOUR LOVE Transvision Vamp 21 ( 16 ) ONE MORE TRY George Michael 22 ( 11 ) TRIBUTE (RIGHT ON) The Pasadenas 23 ( 20 ) TOUGHER THAN THE REST Bruce Springsteen 24 ( 63 ) YOU CAME Kim Wilde 25 ( 28 ) DON'T BLAME IT ON THAT GIRL Matt Bianco 26 ( 31 ) MAYBE (WE SHOULD CALL IT A DAY) Hazell Dean 27 ( 18 ) EVERY DAY IS LIKE SUNDAY Morrissey 28 ( 14 ) THE TWIST The Fat Boys/ Chubby Checker 29 ( 21 ) SOMEWHERE IN MY HEART Aztec Camera 30 ( 69 ) TOMORROW PEOPLE Ziggy Marley & The Melody Makers 31 ( 26 ) PAINTED MOON The Silencers 32 ( 19 ) THIS IS LOVE George Harrison 33 ( 74 ) CROSS MY HEART Eighth Wonder 34 ( 27 ) ALPHABET STREET Prince 35 ( 40 ) DON'T SAY IT'S LOVE Johnny Hates Jazz 36 ( 22 ) IS IT LOVE YOU'RE AFTER/ CAR WASH Rose Royce 37 ( 52 ) NOTHING'S GONNA CHANGE MY LOVE FOR YOU Glen Medeiros 38 ( 45 ) FOLLOW THE LEADER Eric B & Rakim 39 ( 38 ) SUGAR SUGAR (CANDYFLOSS MIX)/(ORIGINAL VERSION) The Archies 40 ( 24 ) DOCTORIN' THE TARDIS The Timelords (KLF) 41 ( 37 ) HEART Pet Shop Boys 42 ( 30 ) MY ONE TEMPTATION Mica Paris 43 ( 43 ) I'M SORRY Hothouse Flowers 44 ( 29 ) ANYTHING FOR YOU Gloria Estefan 45 ( 33 ) PUSH IT Salt 'n' Pepa 46 ( 55 ) DROWNING IN A SEA OF LOVE The Adventures 47 ( 71 ) I DON'T WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT Everything But The Girl 48 ( 32 ) CHECK THIS OUT LA Mix 49 ( 49 ) WHAT HAVE I DONE (TO DESERVE THIS) Pet Shop Boys & Dusty Springfield 50 ( 48 ) LITTLE LIES Fleetwood Mac 51 ( 39 ) DREAMING OMD 52 ( 51 ) HELLO GOODBYE The Beatles 53 ( 50 ) I WANT YOU BACK/ I WANT YOU BACK ('88 remix) The Jackson 5 54 ( 57 ) ROLL WITH IT Steve Winwood 55 ( 36 ) THE DEAD HEART Midnight Oil 56 ( 73 ) EVERLASTING Natalie Cole 57 ( 59 ) YOU WIN AGAIN The Bee Gees 58 ( 58 ) MAN IN THE MIRROR MIchael Jackson 59 ( 46 ) DIVINE EMOTIONS Narada 60 ( 53 ) THEME FROM S-EXPRESS S-Express 61 ( 35 ) WON'T GET FOOLED AGAIN The Who 62 ( 60 ) JOE LE TAXI Vanessa Paradis 63 ( 44 ) WHAT ABOUT LOVE Heart 64 ( 42 ) THE LOVERS Alexander O'Neal 65 ( 65 ) BEATIN' THE HEAT Jack 'n' Chill 66 ( NEW ) AIN'T NO SUNSHINE Sydney Youngblood 67 ( 64 ) EVERYWHERE Fleetwood Mac 68 ( NEW ) GOD GAVE ROCK 'N' ROLL TO YOU Dennis Greaves & The Truth 69 ( 68 ) BAD Michael Jackson 70 ( NEW ) ROSES ARE RED The Mac Band/ McCampbell Brothers 71 ( NEW ) REACH OUT I'LL BE THERE (REMIX) The Four Tops 72 ( 72 ) ALWAYS ON MY MIND Pet Shop Boys 73 ( NEW ) FIND MY LOVE Fairground Attraction 74 ( NEW ) IN MY DREAMS Will Downing 75 ( 75 ) THE WAY YOU MAKE ME FEEL Michael Jackson Playlist oldies and album tracks of that week 1 VOULEZ-VOUS Abba 2 KISSES OF FIRE Abba 3 TUNNEL OF LOVE Bruce Springsteen
July 11, 20205 yr Just checked and don't think I've ever heard that View From A Hill song, doesn't ring a bell lots of great climbers that I love, Fast Car, T'Pau, T. Vamp, INXS, nice to see Is Foolish Beat really so similar to Careless Whisper? never occurred to me but maybe my love for Debbie Gibson was blinding me :D
July 11, 20205 yr but I would have never thought to compare Tracy Chapman and Joan Armatrading, pretty different for me
July 12, 20205 yr Author Just checked and don't think I've ever heard that View From A Hill song, doesn't ring a bell lots of great climbers that I love, Fast Car, T'Pau, T. Vamp, INXS, nice to see Is Foolish Beat really so similar to Careless Whisper? never occurred to me but maybe my love for Debbie Gibson was blinding me :D View from A Hill was originally out in 1986, this must hve been a second try at a hit that also failed, sadly :( Foolish beat isn;t really much like Careless Whisper melodically except for a teeny bit at the chorus and then it's the I could never love again bit that echoes in the start of Debs' chorus, but yes they are basically just both lush broken-heart ballads with sax riffs and no other similarity:D
July 12, 20205 yr Author but I would have never thought to compare Tracy Chapman and Joan Armatrading, pretty different for me There weren't many black female solo acts who were basically folkish-singer-songwriters before Tracy Chapman - I can only think of two off the top of my head, both British acts: Linda Lewis circa 1973, and the more influential Joan Armatrading from 1976 onwards. There must have been others though! Joan was quite varied in sound and production over her career, but some of her earlier stuff bread n butter was a bit to my ears as a template for Tracy Chapman, though Joan's vocals are much lower generally. Like this one :) 7147pAjGbpU
July 17, 20205 yr Author 17th July 1988 It's a first week on top for George Michael's 2nd chart-topper from Faith, his dancetastic Jam & Lewis Monkey remix, giving George a 4th solo, and 7th in total including duos & duets. Debbie Gibson leaps into the top 10 with her career-biggest single Foolish Beat at 6, Transvision Vamp get a second top 10 with I want Your Love, View From A Hill peak bigger second-time around at 9, and INXS get a second top 10 with Never Tear Us Apart. Highest new entry is Al B Sure!'s Nite and Day, banging in at 8 with an actual exclamation mark and a smooth soul goodie. In at 12, Copenhagen band Gangway with a not un-Smiths-ish vocal-sound My Girl And Me - apparently MTV were playing it a lot, which might explain it's high new entry as I'll be honest I don't recall much, at best a slight vague familiarity for a track I prob heard a few times and liked - and then never heard again until today 32 years later. It's not bad. Sam Brown dropped out last week, and pops back big at 17 as I bought the single in the bargain bins and realised how fab it is - setting her up for 1989 when I didn't have to pay full price for a current hit I bought cheap on vinyl. Gloria Estefan gets a big climb to 18 for Anything For You, her 5th top 20, which I'd also buy cheap in a couple of weeks - on CD single with cardboard sleeve, a much better format than tacky cheap plastic that broke at the drop of a hat. Salt 'n' Pepa push it into the 40, and Wee Papa Girl Rappers enter at 30 with Heat It Up, featuring 2 Men & a Future Fine Young Cannibals ex-Beat david & Andy on their second top 40 hit of the year, giving them 9 years of chart action with more to come. Martha & The Vandellas classic Nowhere To Run is 20-odd years late and still fab, in at 35, with Tracie Spencer returning with UK undeserved flop Symptom Of True Love after peaking at 56 a few weeks back, now at 36. The Adventures get yet another top 40 that flopped in the charts everywhere else, while UK band Breathe pop in with their US smash Hands To Heaven, ballad-emoting with strings on it, while 1971 classic Move On Up brings Curtis Mayfield back into my charts 17 years on, though his career predates that with lots of US success for the classy Impressions. Another oldie is back after dropping out a few weeks ago - The Contours Do You Love Me - The Pogues return with the joyous Fiesta, their best record after a certain Christmas single, in at 60, Prince mines his album with Glam Slam, thank you ma'am (Slade reference), Def Leppard have a problem with Love Bites (my own personal problem has always been mosquito bites, I'm irresistible, but at least I dont sing ballads about it), S'Express have a great follow-up to their fab single, Superfly Guy, and Donny Osmond is back and proper having a comeback UK hit with the very George Michael-ish Soldier Of Love. Let's be honest, it worked for David Cassidy with actual George on board, and it worked for Donny with the new mature pop sound. I stood next to him in HMV Bournemouth while he was on local radio promoting it. He's a few days older than me, though my teeth aren't in the same league. Finally Huey Lewis is back 6 years on from Heart And Soul with another minor entry - it's taken Huey 38 years to get another top 10 in my charts since his debut, the fab current When We're Young which you won't hear anywhere on radio. He's suffering hearing loss these days which is sad. 1 ( 4 ) MONKEY (REMIX) George Michael 2 ( 1 ) DIRTY DIANA Michael Jackson 3 ( 2 ) IN THE AIR TONIGHT (1988) Phil Collins 4 ( 6 ) THE FLAME Cheap Trick 5 ( 5 ) I WILL BE WITH YOU T'Pau 6 ( 17 ) FOOLISH BEAT Debbie Gibson 7 ( 20 ) I WANT YOUR LOVE Transvision Vamp 8 ( NEW ) NITE AND DAY Al B. Sure! 9 ( 14 ) NO CONVERSATION View From A Hill 10 ( 12 ) NEVER TEAR US APART INXS 11 ( 3 ) WILD WORLD Maxi Priest 12 ( NEW ) MY GIRL AND ME Gangway 13 ( 7 ) BREAKFAST IN BED UB40/ Chrissie Hynde 14 ( 24 ) YOU CAME Kim Wilde 15 ( 8 ) CIRCLE IN THE SAND Belinda Carlisle 16 ( 9 ) PARADISE Sade 17 ( RE ) STOP Sam Brown 18 ( 44 ) ANYTHING FOR YOU Gloria Estefan 19 ( 11 ) YOU HAVE PLACED A CHILL IN MY HEART Eurythmics 20 ( 30 ) TOMORROW PEOPLE Ziggy Marley & The Melody Makers 21 ( 13 ) THERE'S MORE TO LOVE The Communards 22 ( 10 ) FAST CAR Tracey Chapman 23 ( 33 ) CROSS MY HEART Eighth Wonder 24 ( 45 ) PUSH IT Salt 'n' Pepa 25 ( 21 ) ONE MORE TRY George Michael 26 ( 15 ) I OWE YOU NOTHING Bros 27 ( 16 ) CHAINS OF LOVE Erasure 28 ( 26 ) MAYBE (WE SHOULD CALL IT A DAY) Hazell Dean 29 ( 19 ) I DON'T WANT TO GO ON WITH YOU LIKE THAT Elton John 30 ( NEW ) HEAT IT UP Wee Papa Girl Rappers featuring 2 Men & A Drum Machine 31 ( 18 ) VOYAGE VOYAGE Desireless 32 ( 27 ) EVERY DAY IS LIKE SUNDAY Morrissey 33 ( 22 ) TRIBUTE (RIGHT ON) The Pasadenas 34 ( 23 ) TOUGHER THAN THE REST Bruce Springsteen 35 ( NEW ) NOWHERE TO RUN Martha & The Vandellas 36 ( RE ) SYMPTOM OF TRUE LOVE Tracie Spencer 37 ( 46 ) DROWNING IN A SEA OF LOVE The Adventures 38 ( 29 ) SOMEWHERE IN MY HEART Aztec Camera 39 ( 47 ) I DON'T WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT Everything But The Girl 40 ( 39 ) SUGAR SUGAR (CANDYFLOSS MIX)/(ORIGINAL VERSION) The Archies 41 ( 41 ) HEART Pet Shop Boys 42 ( 25 ) DON'T BLAME IT ON THAT GIRL Matt Bianco 43 ( 34 ) ALPHABET STREET Prince 44 ( 73 ) FIND MY LOVE Fairground Attraction 45 ( 36 ) IS IT LOVE YOU'RE AFTER/ CAR WASH Rose Royce 46 ( 31 ) PAINTED MOON The Silencers 47 ( 32 ) THIS IS LOVE George Harrison 48 ( 35 ) DON'T SAY IT'S LOVE Johnny Hates Jazz 49 ( 68 ) GOD GAVE ROCK 'N' ROLL TO YOU Dennis Greaves & The Truth 50 ( 49 ) WHAT HAVE I DONE (TO DESERVE THIS) Pet Shop Boys & Dusty Springfield 51 ( 50 ) LITTLE LIES Fleetwood Mac 52 ( 37 ) NOTHING'S GONNA CHANGE MY LOVE FOR YOU Glen Medeiros 53 ( NEW ) HAND TO HEAVEN Breathe 54 ( 52 ) HELLO GOODBYE The Beatles 55 ( NEW ) MOVE ON UP Curtis Mayfield 56 ( RE ) DO YOU LOVE ME The Contours 57 ( 57 ) YOU WIN AGAIN The Bee Gees 58 ( 53 ) I WANT YOU BACK/ I WANT YOU BACK ('88 remix) The Jackson 5 59 ( 38 ) FOLLOW THE LEADER Eric B & Rakim 60 ( NEW ) FIESTA The Pogues 61 ( 59 ) DIVINE EMOTIONS Narada 62 ( 58 ) MAN IN THE MIRROR MIchael Jackson 63 ( 70 ) ROSES ARE RED The Mac Band/ McCampbell Brothers 64 ( NEW ) GLAM SLAM Prince 65 ( NEW ) SOLDIER OF LOVE Donny Osmond 66 ( NEW ) LOVE BITES Def Leppard 67 ( 62 ) JOE LE TAXI Vanessa Paradis 68 ( 28 ) THE TWIST The Fat Boys/ Chubby Checker 69 ( 42 ) MY ONE TEMPTATION Mica Paris 70 ( 69 ) BAD Michael Jackson 71 ( 67 ) EVERYWHERE Fleetwood Mac 72 ( 40 ) DOCTORIN' THE TARDIS The Timelords (KLF) 73 ( NEW ) PERFECT WORLD Huey Lewis & The News 74 ( 72 ) ALWAYS ON MY MIND Pet Shop Boys 75 ( NEW ) SUPERFLY GUY S'Express Playlist oldies of the week 1 HAVE YOU SEEN HER The Chi-Lites 2 IT MUST BE LOVE Labi Siffre 3 SAD SWEET DREAMER Sweet Sensation
July 18, 20205 yr nice climbs for Debbie Gibson and Transvision Vamp, they were probably my favourite artists in summer 1988 :) also nice climbs for Stop and Push It
July 23, 20204 yr Hi John! Never heard the Monkey remix yet, only heard the radio edit version of this. Also great to see "The Flame" in the top 5 and "Foolish Beat" gaining huge! Other gains that I like are: "Anything For You" and "Push It"! From the debuts and returns I like: "Hands To Heaven", "Love Bites" and "Perfect World" from the debuts and the return for "Stop"! Great chart!
July 24, 20204 yr Author nice climbs for Debbie Gibson and Transvision Vamp, they were probably my favourite artists in summer 1988 :) also nice climbs for Stop and Push It :)
July 24, 20204 yr Author One song is all that matters 'Fiesta' by The Pogues ❤️ By the end of the year one fiesta is Love Is All That Matters (which I played yesterday) :D
July 24, 20204 yr Author Hi John! Never heard the Monkey remix yet, only heard the radio edit version of this. Also great to see "The Flame" in the top 5 and "Foolish Beat" gaining huge! Other gains that I like are: "Anything For You" and "Push It"! From the debuts and returns I like: "Hands To Heaven", "Love Bites" and "Perfect World" from the debuts and the return for "Stop"! Great chart! Hi Sergej ! :) The Monkey remix is the radio edit I think (at least in the UK) which was a Jam & Lewis remix - the album version is quite a bit different. Thanks for liking a bunch :)
July 24, 20204 yr Author 24th July 1988 It's 2 weeks on top for that Monkey as Kim Wilde comes galloping into the top 10 for the first time in 2 years, You Came. But will she Veni Vidi Vici? Gangway go top 10 too, with a track I'd forgotten till I played it last week, and Martha & The Vandellas get a first top 10 since earlier Motown reissue Dancing In The Street went top 10 19 years earlier. Appropriately enough fellow Motown act The Four Tops bring Reach Out I'll Be There (remixed) back into the charts, the second version to make my top 10 - the first was Gloria Gaynor's chart-topping stint in disco-mad 1975. Voice Of The Beehive return with I Say Nothing - it went top 40 in 1987 - and is back at 23, as God Gave Rock n Roll To You brings the year 1973 back into the top 40 along with 1973 UK chart-topper Donny Osmond's new track, Soldier Of Love. Alexander O'Neal's run of Jamtastic singles continues with the fab What Can I Say To make You Love Me at 29, Fairground Attraction climb up to 30, while The Pogues and Prince leap into the 40. There's a significant entry at 60 for Yazz & The Plastic Population, I suspect the only way is up, as a Belinda carlisle oldie sneaks back in with Mad About You joining the new stuff, and Groove Train debut with the funky cover of Stretch's 1975 funk gem Why Did You Do It pops in at 66. Shaky's also in the mood for 1973 covers - this time The Detroit Emeralds Feel The Need In Me top 5 track which was so good it charted again in a re-recorded version in 1977. Shaky hits were generally inversely-liked by me - the bigger they were the more meh! The smaller, the more interesting to me. Pat Benatar also returns all fired up. Don't blame her. 1 ( 1 ) MONKEY (REMIX) George Michael 2 ( 2 ) DIRTY DIANA Michael Jackson 3 ( 3 ) IN THE AIR TONIGHT (1988) Phil Collins 4 ( 6 ) FOOLISH BEAT Debbie Gibson 5 ( 14 ) YOU CAME Kim Wilde 6 ( 12 ) MY GIRL AND ME Gangway 7 ( 7 ) I WANT YOUR LOVE Transvision Vamp 8 ( 4 ) THE FLAME Cheap Trick 9 ( 10 ) NEVER TEAR US APART INXS 10 ( 35 ) NOWHERE TO RUN Martha & The Vandellas 11 ( 5 ) I WILL BE WITH YOU T'Pau 12 ( 30 ) HEAT IT UP Wee Papa Girl Rappers featuring 2 Men & A Drum Machine 13 ( 20 ) TOMORROW PEOPLE Ziggy Marley & The Melody Makers 14 ( 8 ) NITE AND DAY Al B. Sure! 15 ( 18 ) ANYTHING FOR YOU Gloria Estefan 16 ( 23 ) CROSS MY HEART Eighth Wonder 17 ( 11 ) WILD WORLD Maxi Priest 18 ( RE ) REACH OUT I'LL BE THERE (REMIX) The Four Tops 19 ( 36 ) SYMPTOM OF TRUE LOVE Tracie Spencer 20 ( 24 ) PUSH IT Salt 'n' Pepa 21 ( 9 ) NO CONVERSATION View From The Hill 22 ( 13 ) BREAKFAST IN BED UB40/ Chrissie Hynde 23 ( NEW ) I SAY NOTHING Voice Of The Beehive 24 ( 15 ) CIRCLE IN THE SAND Belinda Carlisle 25 ( 16 ) PARADISE Sade 26 ( 49 ) GOD GAVE ROCK 'N' ROLL TO YOU Dennis Greaves & The Truth 27 ( 17 ) STOP Sam Brown 28 ( 65 ) SOLDIER OF LOVE Donny Osmond 29 ( NEW ) WHAT CAN I SAY TO MAKE YOU LOVE ME Alexander O'Neal 30 ( 44 ) FIND MY LOVE Fairground Attraction 31 ( 25 ) ONE MORE TRY George Michael 32 ( 19 ) YOU HAVE PLACED A CHILL IN MY HEART Eurythmics 33 ( 60 ) FIESTA The Pogues 34 ( 64 ) GLAM SLAM Prince 35 ( 39 ) I DON'T WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT Everything But The Girl 36 ( 21 ) THERE'S MORE TO LOVE The Communards 37 ( 63 ) ROSES ARE RED The Mac Band/ McCampbell Brothers 38 ( 55 ) MOVE ON UP Curtis Mayfield 39 ( 40 ) SUGAR SUGAR (CANDYFLOSS MIX)/(ORIGINAL VERSION) The Archies 40 ( 53 ) HAND TO HEAVEN Breathe 41 ( 22 ) FAST CAR Tracey Chapman 42 ( 41 ) HEART Pet Shop Boys 43 ( 56 ) DO YOU LOVE ME The Contours 44 ( 32 ) EVERY DAY IS LIKE SUNDAY Morrissey 45 ( 27 ) CHAINS OF LOVE Erasure 46 ( 33 ) TRIBUTE (RIGHT ON) The Pasadenas 47 ( 38 ) SOMEWHERE IN MY HEART Aztec Camera 48 ( 75 ) SUPERFLY GUY S'Express 49 ( 43 ) ALPHABET STREET Prince 50 ( 50 ) WHAT HAVE I DONE (TO DESERVE THIS) Pet Shop Boys & Dusty Springfield 51 ( 51 ) LITTLE LIES Fleetwood Mac 52 ( 29 ) I DON'T WANT TO GO ON WITH YOU LIKE THAT Elton John 53 ( 37 ) DROWNING IN A SEA OF LOVE The Adventures 54 ( 28 ) MAYBE (WE SHOULD CALL IT A DAY) Hazell Dean 55 ( 54 ) HELLO GOODBYE The Beatles 56 ( 26 ) I OWE YOU NOTHING Bros 57 ( 31 ) VOYAGE VOYAGE Desireless 58 ( 57 ) YOU WIN AGAIN The Bee Gees 59 ( 52 ) NOTHING'S GONNA CHANGE MY LOVE FOR YOU Glen Medeiros 60 ( NEW ) THE ONLY WAY IS UP Yazz & The Plastic Population 61 ( 58 ) I WANT YOU BACK/ I WANT YOU BACK ('88 remix) The Jackson 5 62 ( NEW ) MAD ABOUT YOU Belinda Carlisle 63 ( 45 ) IS IT LOVE YOU'RE AFTER/ CAR WASH Rose Royce 64 ( 62 ) MAN IN THE MIRROR MIchael Jackson 65 ( 66 ) LOVE BITES Def Leppard 66 ( NEW ) WHY DID YOU DO IT Groove Train 67 ( 73 ) PERFECT WORLD Huey Lewis & The News 68 ( 61 ) DIVINE EMOTIONS Narada 69 ( RE ) I'M SORRY Hothouse Flowers 70 ( 70 ) BAD Michael Jackson 71 ( 67 ) JOE LE TAXI Vanessa Paradis 72 ( NEW ) I'M TOO SCARED Steven Dante 73 ( NEW ) FEEL THE NEED IN ME Shakin' Stevens 74 ( 74 ) ALWAYS ON MY MIND Pet Shop Boys 75 ( NEW ) ALL FIRED UP Pat Benatar 76 ( RE ) WHEN THE LOVE IS GOOD Big Trouble Playlist faves of that week 1 CRAZY Patsy Cline 2 WHEN THE LOVE IS GOOD Big Trouble 3 HOLIDAY The Other Ones
July 25, 20204 yr great to see Foolish beat nearly top 3 and Kim Wilde top 5, sure my favourites in that top 10 together with I Want your Love I loved that Voice of the Beehive song, one of the best bands of the late 80s for me also really liked that Alexander Oneal song
July 31, 20204 yr Author 30th July 1988 It's a first week on top for Kim Wilde - ever! Not even Kids In America had managed to top my chart, but she finally got one in the bag 7 years on with the fab You Came, a big comeback for her. This week I went to Wembley Stadium where Kim was supporting Michael Jackson. I should specify I went with 2 mates, with the idea of parking near Wembley Stadium, because we couldn't get tickets to the bloody concert, so we had a day going round record megastores looking for rarities, and then headed back to catch the gig listening outside, where Kim duly did You Came. Does that sound sad? Whatever! Paul Young walked by us sat on a wall with a beautiful leggy model attached to him. I got to see Jacko (still at 2 in my chart) a few years later but Kim took a lot longer - an 80's tour after she'd been away from music gardening and bringing up kids. She was fab and have since seen her about 4 times, including literally 5 minutes walk away at Upton Country Park, and in rural Dorset for an acoustic-ish Xmas album and song singalong. The Four Tops shoot into the top 5 for the first time since 1981, Donny Osmond into the top 10 for the first time since Puppy Love in 1972 (or 1973 if you include Osmonds records, and the rockin' Going Home), and B.V.S.M.P. enter at 8 with I Need You, which I don't recall hearing since I obviously went big on it rather quickly. Playing it now - rap/dance, very 1988, teenage boys. Err, not that great, presumably why it never went higher than it's entry position. In at 20, though, a genuine classic. Mory Kante's timeless dance banger with Guinea rhythms and lyrics, Ye Ke Ye Ke, which may well be the best track in this top 40 from the lofty viewpoint of 32 years. Julia Fordham enters with the lovely Happy Ever After, one I bought as an early budget CD designed to get it to chart, at 23, and Yazz' monster roars up to 31 the only way truly is up. S'Express get a second top 40, and Gogo's Jane Wiedlin gets a big solo hit with the fab Rush Hour 5 years after getting her co-write Fun Boy 3 song Our Lips Are Sealed on top of my chart. Rod Stewart is Forever Young at 38. Chart position, not age. He was older than 38. All About Eve return with their infamously silent-mimed on TOTP Martha's Harbour, their best track, but catastrophically the sound in the studio went off on a live show and they sat their like goldfish unable to hear a thing. Dollar bounce back, It's Nature's Way (No Problem) - I caught them on the aforementioned 80's tour with Kim Wilde, and later David Van Day escaped to star in a disastrously bad stage comedy farce. When I say "bad" I don't mean in the Michael Jackson sense, I mean in the "ohmygod this is torturously bad" sense. I think it both opened and closed in Bournemouth. I hope so anyway. Still love Dollar records though. Hey ho. The Band's Robbie Robertson gets a solo debut 20 years after their heyday, and 17 years since Joan Baez went top 10 with his song The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down. Somewhere Down The Lazy River is pure sultry Delta Blues and fab. 1 ( 5 ) YOU CAME Kim Wilde 2 ( 2 ) DIRTY DIANA Michael Jackson 3 ( 1 ) MONKEY (REMIX) George Michael 4 ( 3 ) IN THE AIR TONIGHT (1988) Phil Collins 5 ( 18 ) REACH OUT I'LL BE THERE (REMIX) The Four Tops 6 ( 9 ) NEVER TEAR US APART INXS 7 ( 4 ) FOOLISH BEAT Debbie Gibson 8 ( NEW ) I NEED YOU B.V.S.M.P. 9 ( 28 ) SOLDIER OF LOVE Donny Osmond 10 ( 10 ) NOWHERE TO RUN Martha & The Vandellas 11 ( 7 ) I WANT YOUR LOVE Transvision Vamp 12 ( 8 ) THE FLAME Cheap Trick 13 ( 6 ) MY GIRL AND ME Gangway 14 ( 23 ) I SAY NOTHING Voice Of The Beehive 15 ( 20 ) PUSH IT Salt 'n' Pepa 16 ( 12 ) HEAT IT UP Wee Papa Girl Rappers featuring 2 Men & A Drum Machine 17 ( 29 ) WHAT CAN I SAY TO MAKE YOU LOVE ME Alexander O'Neal 18 ( 19 ) SYMPTOM OF TRUE LOVE Tracie Spencer 19 ( 11 ) I WILL BE WITH YOU T'Pau 20 ( NEW ) YE KE YE KE Mory Kante 21 ( 30 ) FIND MY LOVE Fairground Attraction 22 ( 37 ) ROSES ARE RED The Mac Band/ McCampbell Brothers 23 ( NEW ) HAPPY EVER AFTER Julia Fordham 24 ( 13 ) TOMORROW PEOPLE Ziggy Marley & The Melody Makers 25 ( 17 ) WILD WORLD Maxi Priest 26 ( 26 ) GOD GAVE ROCK 'N' ROLL TO YOU Dennis Greaves & The Truth 27 ( 40 ) HAND TO HEAVEN Breathe 28 ( 33 ) FIESTA The Pogues 29 ( 14 ) NITE AND DAY Al B. Sure! 30 ( 24 ) CIRCLE IN THE SAND Belinda Carlisle 31 ( 60 ) THE ONLY WAY IS UP Yazz & The Plastic Population 32 ( 48 ) SUPERFLY GUY S'Express 33 ( 15 ) ANYTHING FOR YOU Gloria Estefan 34 ( 34 ) GLAM SLAM Prince 35 ( 16 ) CROSS MY HEART Eighth Wonder 36 ( 31 ) ONE MORE TRY George Michael 37 ( NEW ) RUSH HOUR Jane Wiedlin 38 ( NEW ) FOREVER YOUNG Rod Stewart 39 ( 39 ) SUGAR SUGAR (CANDYFLOSS MIX)/(ORIGINAL VERSION) The Archies 40 ( 22 ) BREAKFAST IN BED UB40/ Chrissie Hynde 41 ( 25 ) PARADISE Sade 42 ( 42 ) HEART Pet Shop Boys 43 ( NEW ) MARTHA'S HARBOUR All About Eve 44 ( 35 ) I DON'T WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT Everything But The Girl 45 ( 21 ) NO CONVERSATION View From The Hill 46 ( 32 ) YOU HAVE PLACED A CHILL IN MY HEART Eurythmics 47 ( RE ) BEATIN' THE HEAT Jack 'n' Chill 48 ( NEW ) IT'S NATURE'S WAY (NO PROBLEM) Dollar 49 ( 62 ) MAD ABOUT YOU Belinda Carlisle 50 ( 27 ) STOP Sam Brown 51 ( 50 ) WHAT HAVE I DONE (TO DESERVE THIS) Pet Shop Boys & Dusty Springfield 52 ( 51 ) LITTLE LIES Fleetwood Mac 53 ( NEW ) SOMEWHERE DOWN THE LAZY RIVER Robbie Robertson 54 ( 55 ) HELLO GOODBYE The Beatles 55 ( 36 ) THERE'S MORE TO LOVE The Communards 56 ( 49 ) ALPHABET STREET Prince 57 ( NEW ) HUSTLE (TO THE MUSIC) Funky Worm 58 ( 44 ) EVERY DAY IS LIKE SUNDAY Morrissey 59 ( 58 ) YOU WIN AGAIN The Bee Gees 60 ( 67 ) PERFECT WORLD Huey Lewis & The News 61 ( 47 ) SOMEWHERE IN MY HEART Aztec Camera 62 ( 65 ) LOVE BITES Def Leppard 63 ( 61 ) I WANT YOU BACK/ I WANT YOU BACK ('88 remix) The Jackson 5 64 ( 64 ) MAN IN THE MIRROR MIchael Jackson 65 ( 66 ) WHY DID YOU DO IT Groove Train 66 ( 46 ) TRIBUTE (RIGHT ON) The Pasadenas 67 ( 45 ) CHAINS OF LOVE Erasure 68 ( 73 ) FEEL THE NEED IN ME Shakin' Stevens 69 ( 70 ) BAD Michael Jackson 70 ( 75 ) ALL FIRED UP Pat Benatar 71 ( 63 ) IS IT LOVE YOU'RE AFTER/ CAR WASH Rose Royce 72 ( 71 ) JOE LE TAXI Vanessa Paradis 73 ( 41 ) FAST CAR Tracey Chapman 74 ( NEW ) WORKING IN A GOLDMINE Aztec Camera 75 ( 74 ) ALWAYS ON MY MIND Pet Shop Boys FAVE OLDIES/ALBUM TRACKS OF THE WEEK 1 ROCK AND ROLL MUSIC The Archies 2 WAY OF LIFE Family Dogg 3 YOU CAME (Live at Wembley Stadium) Kim Wilde 4 ANOTHER PART OF ME (Live at Wembley Stadium) Michael Jackson
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