Very happy to read the implication that you like Pandora’s Box, that was one of my favourite 1991 singles at the time :wub:

Very happy to read the implication that you like Pandora’s Box, that was one of my favourite 1991 singles at the time :wub:

Well, I bought the album, saw the tour, secretly recorded a bit of it to cassette tape (rubbish sound quality, though OMD/Andy were fab - it was trying to record stuff on a cheap portable radio/recorder walkman under a coat that was the problem) and one of the tracks got them a 4th chart-topper in my personal charts - so you might be quite pleased over the next month or two :lol:

9th June 1991

 

It's finally up to the top spot for Madonna's Holiday, 7 years late, her 9th chart-topper with a bit of sexing up surprisingly high at 2 and the fab Kirsty up to career peak of 4 for Walking Down Madison. Massive Attack get a second top 10 with Safe From Harm and Lenny Kravitz rockets up to 13 with the wonderful It Ain't Over Till It's Over. In a quiet week for new entries the highest is veteran Alice Cooper at 39, with the rockin' Hey Stoopid giving ol' Vince almost 20 years of chart action.

 

Living Colour return, Kenny Thomas charts his most-well-known hit Thinking About Your Love keeping 70's soul alive at 67, just ahead of Deacon Blue swaying their arms slowly, and The Divinyls debuting with their naughty I Touch Myself, when they think about me apparently. Whatever works for you, I guess! Natalie Cole goes full classic croon as she does a duet with her late father Nat, courtesy of studio trickery, on Unforgettable. I saw her on the tour for the swing album, with a full orchestra and her dad on video. The original is still the best, but it was nice to see, and sad that Natalie has also now gone. Finally, sneaking in on bottom rung, the theme tune to a Kevin Costner Robin Hood movie from Bryan Adams, who was big in the mid 80's in the USA, starting with the classic Run To You in 1985 in my charts. I wonder if he'll get the success he had in the US......

 

 

1 ( 2 ) HOLIDAY Madonna

2 ( 7 ) I WANNA SEX YOU UP Color Me Badd

3 ( 1 ) WHEN HE’S GONE The Bee Gees

4 ( 12 ) WALKING DOWN MADISON Kirsty MacColl

5 ( 3 ) LIGHT MY FIRE The Doors

6 ( 6 ) TOUCH ME (ALL NIGHT LONG) Cathy Dennis

7 ( 8 ) BABY BABY Amy Grant

8 ( 15 ) SAFE FROM HARM Massive Attack featuring Shara Nelson

9 ( 10 ) JEALOUSY Pet Shop Boys

10 ( 4 ) FADING LIKE A FLOWER Roxette

 

11 ( 9 ) ONLY FOOLS (FALL IN LOVE) Sonia

12 ( 5 ) KISS THEM FOR ME Siouxsie & The Banshees

13 ( 54 ) IT AIN’T OVER TILL IT’S OVER Lenny Kravitz

14 ( 18 ) SHINY HAPPY PEOPLE REM

15 ( 11 ) LAST TRAIN TO TRANCENTRAL (LIVE FROM THE LOST CONTINENT) The KLF featuring Ricardo Da Force

16 ( 19 ) SUCCESS Dannii Minogue

17 ( 17 ) SHOCKED Kylie Minogue

18 ( 14 ) C’EST LE DERNIER QUI A PARLE QUI A RAISON Amina

19 ( 24 ) CROCKETT’S THEME Jan Hammer

20 ( 13 ) TAINTED LOVE Soft Cell

 

21 ( 16 ) RESCUE ME Madonna

22 ( 26 ) R.S.V.P. Jason Donovan

23 ( 22 ) FEEL LIKE CHANGE Black

24 ( 35 ) DO YOU WANT ME Salt ‘n’ Pepa

25 ( 37 ) REMEMBER ME WITH LOVE Gloria Estefan

26 ( 33 ) SHE SELLS Banderas

27 ( 23 ) GET THE MESSAGE Electronic

28 ( 28 ) HIGHWAY 5 The Blessing

29 ( 27 ) YOU’RE SO VAIN Carly Simon

30 ( 20 ) ONE LOVE Bob Marley & The Wailers

 

31 ( 25 ) SENZA UNA DONNA Zucchero & Paul Young

32 ( 53 ) LONDON CALLING The Clash

33 ( 40 ) HEADLONG Queen

34 ( 21 ) WISHING WELL (REMIX) Free

35 ( 41 ) YOU’VE LOST THAT LOVIN’ FEELIN’ The Righteous Brothers

36 ( 34 ) CHUNG KUO (REVISITED) Addams & Gee

37 ( 39 ) WHENEVER YOU NEED ME T’Pau

38 ( 30 ) FUTURE LOVE PARADISE Seal

39 ( NEW ) HEY STOOPID Alice Cooper

40 ( 60 ) GENERATIONS OF LOVE Jesus Loves You

 

41 ( 29 ) THANK YOU WORLD World Party

42 ( 31 ) GYPSY WOMAN Crystal Waters

43 ( 38 ) LONG TRAIN RUNNING Bananarama

44 ( 48 ) SEE THE LIGHT Simple Minds

45 ( 51 ) HEY JUDE The Beatles

46 ( 45 ) (THEY LONG TO BE) CLOSE TO YOU/ MERRY CHRISTMAS DARLING Carpenters

47 ( 32 ) SAILING ON THE SEVEN SEAS Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark

48 ( 72 ) 92 FAHRENEHEIT Pop Will Eat Itself

49 ( 52 ) MERCY MERCY ME/ I WANT YOU Robert Palmer

50 ( 49 ) SADENESS PART I Enigma

 

51 ( 47 ) DON’T LET THE SUN GO DOWN ON ME Elton John

52 ( 50 ) WHERE THE STREETS HAVE NO NAME - CAN’T TAKE MY EYES OFF YOU/HOW CAN YOU EXPECT TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY? Pet Shop Boys

53 ( 36 ) WHAT COMES NATURALLY Sheena Easton

54 ( 46 ) THE WHOLE OF THE MOON The Waterboys

55 ( 58 ) A WATCHER’S POINT OF VIEW PM Dawn

56 ( 42 ) HONEST MEN E.L.O. Part II

57 ( 59 ) WHY CAN’T WE LIVE TOGETHER (1990 TK REMIX) Timmy Thomas

58 ( 57 ) ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER The Jimi Hendrix Experience

59 ( NEW ) SOLACE OF YOU Living Colour

60 ( 44 ) SIT DOWN James

 

61 ( 74 ) MY SPECIAL CHILD Sinead O’Connor

62 ( 62 ) LET IT BE The Beatles

63 ( 61 ) GOLDEN BROWN The Stranglers

64 ( 63 ) BEING BORING Pet Shop Boys

65 ( 66 ) GIRLS Power Cut

66 ( 65 ) WICKED GAME Chris Isaak

67 ( NEW ) THINKING ABOUT YOUR LOVE Kenny Thomas

68 ( NEW ) YOUR SWAYING ARMS Deacon Blue

69 ( 68 ) HOW DEEP IS YOUR LOVE The Bee Gees

70 ( 70 ) ESCAPADE Janet Jackson

 

71 ( 55 ) PROMISE ME Beverley Craven

72 ( NEW ) I TOUCH MYSELF The Divinyls

73 ( NEW ) UNFORGETTABLE Natalie Cole & Nat ‘King’ Cole

74 ( 75 ) IT HAD TO BE YOU/ RECIPE FOR LOVE Harry Connick Jr

75 ( NEW ) EVERYTHING I DO (I DO IT FOR YOU) Bryan Adams

 

 

oldies playlist

1 SATELLITE OF LOVE Lou Reed

2 “Behaviour” Pet Shop Boys

3 SORRY SEEMS TO BE THE HARDEST WORD Elton John

Color Me Badd!!! :puke:

 

Aside from that, lots of good stuff in there… Jealousy is fab and very much underrated for PSBs, love Walking Down Madison, Safe From Harm and also love that Lenny Kravitz track - easily his best for me.

love the climbs for Walking down Madison and Safe from Harm, best 2 in the top 10

was never crazy about Holiday, bad early Madonna song for me

 

funny to see Bryan flopping at 75 :D

Color Me Badd!!! :puke:

 

Aside from that, lots of good stuff in there… Jealousy is fab and very much underrated for PSBs, love Walking Down Madison, Safe From Harm and also love that Lenny Kravitz track - easily his best for me.

 

I must say I was rather surprised to see Color Me Badd so high :lol: I remember liking it but not that much! It's quite pleasant, but I'm guessing the video must have influenced me in some way.... :teresa:

 

Yeah the others are all classic, my surprise is that Jealousy took some time to grow on me, and spoiler, it took the recent album package re-issues to give me the opportunity to rectify a horrific injustice and put Jealousy on top of my charts :lol:

love the climbs for Walking down Madison and Safe from Harm, best 2 in the top 10

was never crazy about Holiday, bad early Madonna song for me

 

funny to see Bryan flopping at 75 :D

 

They are great songs indeed!

 

Holiday is certainly overplayed (then and now), but I have fond memories of Madonna's then-hot brother dancing to it (with Madonna and 2 female dancers) on The Tube TV show in 1984 when she announced herself, full of attitude and cool, as a new star :)

 

Bryan flopping this week only, though :lol: Prepare yourself everybody and place your bets when/if and how long it will top my charts. It's not 16 weeks...... :cheer:

16th June 1991

 

It's up to the top spot for Kirsty MacColl and her fab Walking Down Madison, her first chart-topper in the ten years since she reported Elvis in a chip shop, but not the last time she'll be on the summit thanks to a perennial Xmas classic. Massive Attack make it 2 top 5's in a row, Sonia gets a second top 5, Lenny Kravitz a first top 10 and Jan Hammer returns to the top 10 4 years on from Crockett's Theme first doing the trick.

 

Big climbs for Bryan Adams, Natalie Cole & Kenny Thomas into the top 40, and a plethora of new entries headed up by a 1991 version of The Land Of Make Believe for a 10th anniversary Bucks Fizz round-up 10 years on from everyone expecting them not to last till Christmas 1981. In at 21, one place ahead of Tom Petty's Learning To Fly to give Tom 14 years of chart action. At 32, Dexy's are back with their million-selling monster Come On Eileen hitting the UK charts again 9 years on, and Chesney Hawkes proves he's not actually a one-hit wonder as I'm A Man Not A Boy debuts at 33.

 

Yello return with Rubberbandman (not The Detroit Spinners song), Bette Midler treads where Cliff has trodden before, taking From A Distance in at 60 14 years since she first troubled my charts with her version of You're Moving Out Today. The Scorpions celebrate the falling of the Berlin Wall with the anthem Wind Of Change at 62, Jason Donovan comes over all Andrew LLoyd-Webber & Tim Rice as they draft him in for a revival of Joseph's Technicolour signature song. I could probably have phrased that better. La Tour reckons people are still having sex at 70. Not old people, chart position, and I certainly was saying "speak for yourself dear!" at the time as the words "still" and "having" and "sex" were an alien concept to me.

 

Stevie Wonder pops in again with a forgotten release (that pretty much applies to everything he did from 1987 onwards) on Motown still, as Rod Stewart (not on Motown) does a Motown tribute pastiche with The Temptations. I'd seen The Tempts in concert by then, but without even checking my diary I know I had a day out in London this week - to see the Pet Shop Boys doing an extravagant gig at Wembley Arena. In those days each song had it's own theme, and they hadn't yet developed into a banging live act using a single set design without needing too many costume-changes, so oddly the tracks that came over best weren't necessarily the big hit singles. Witness the touching Your Funny Uncle turning out as highlight number 3 of the night. And the absence of West End Girls, It's A Sin, What Have I Done To Deserve This, Left To My Own Devices & Heart from the top-rated moments!

 

And as if that's not enough The Beach Boys were playing Bournemouth, the second time I'd caught them 11 years after headlining Knebworth Festival in 1980 with the original line-up all present and correct. By 1991, Dennis Wilson was dead, and Brian Wilson was absent again (I think), and the scale of the show was much more modest...but it was still a hits-packed nostalgia-fest delight. Pet Shop Boys set wasn't nostalgia-filled, being only 5 years or so of non-stop hits and album tracks, far too recent for that mood, but 30 years later the boys are in the same veteran league as t'other Boys were in 1991 - and have performed my fave-ever live gig (Barcelona July 2009) while Beach Boys were my first-ever Fave Gig Ever performance in 1980. I do enjoy a link...

 

 

 

1 ( 4 ) WALKING DOWN MADISON Kirsty MacColl

2 ( 2 ) I WANNA SEX YOU UP Color Me Badd

3 ( 1 ) HOLIDAY Madonna

4 ( 8 ) SAFE FROM HARM Massive Attack featuring Shara Nelson

5 ( 11 ) ONLY FOOLS (FALL IN LOVE) Sonia

6 ( 3 ) WHEN HE’S GONE The Bee Gees

7 ( 6 ) TOUCH ME (ALL NIGHT LONG) Cathy Dennis

8 ( 13 ) IT AIN’T OVER TILL IT’S OVER Lenny Kravitz

9 ( 7 ) BABY BABY Amy Grant

10 ( 19 ) CROCKETT’S THEME Jan Hammer

 

11 ( 5 ) LIGHT MY FIRE The Doors

12 ( 9 ) JEALOUSY Pet Shop Boys

13 ( 39 ) HEY STOOPID Alice Cooper

14 ( 14 ) SHINY HAPPY PEOPLE REM

15 ( 10 ) FADING LIKE A FLOWER Roxette

16 ( 12 ) KISS THEM FOR ME Siouxsie & The Banshees

17 ( 25 ) REMEMBER ME WITH LOVE Gloria Estefan

18 ( 15 ) LAST TRAIN TO TRANCENTRAL (LIVE FROM THE LOST CONTINENT) The KLF featuring Ricardo Da Force

19 ( 40 ) GENERATIONS OF LOVE Jesus Loves You

20 ( 24 ) DO YOU WANT ME Salt ‘n’ Pepa

 

21 ( NEW ) THE LAND OF MAKE BELIEVE ’91 Bucks Fizz

22 ( NEW ) LEARNING TO FLY Tom Petty

23 ( 21 ) RESCUE ME Madonna

24 ( 17 ) SHOCKED Kylie Minogue

25 ( 26 ) SHE SELLS Banderas

26 ( 16 ) SUCCESS Dannii Minogue

27 ( 55 ) A WATCHER’S POINT OF VIEW PM Dawn

28 ( RE ) IF YOU WANNA BE HAPPY Jimmy Soul

29 ( 27 ) GET THE MESSAGE Electronic

30 ( 20 ) TAINTED LOVE Soft Cell

 

31 ( 22 ) R.S.V.P. Jason Donovan

32 ( NEW ) COME ON EILEEN Dexy’s Midnight Runners

33 ( NEW ) I’M A MAN NOT A BOY Chesney Hawkes

34 ( 18 ) C’EST LE DERNIER QUI A PARLE QUI A RAISON Amina

35 ( 75 ) EVERYTHING I DO (I DO IT FOR YOU) Bryan Adams

36 ( 73 ) UNFORGETTABLE Natalie Cole & Nat ‘King’ Cole

37 ( 67 ) THINKING ABOUT YOUR LOVE Kenny Thomas

38 ( 35 ) YOU’VE LOST THAT LOVIN’ FEELIN’ The Righteous Brothers

39 ( 29 ) YOU’RE SO VAIN Carly Simon

40 ( RE ) JUST THE WAY IT IS BABY The Rembrandts

 

41 ( 23 ) FEEL LIKE CHANGE Black

42 ( 28 ) HIGHWAY 5 The Blessing

43 ( 30 ) ONE LOVE Bob Marley & The Wailers

44 ( NEW ) RUBBERBANDMAN Yello

45 ( 36 ) CHUNG KUO (REVISITED) Addams & Gee

46 ( 45 ) HEY JUDE The Beatles

47 ( 46 ) (THEY LONG TO BE) CLOSE TO YOU/ MERRY CHRISTMAS DARLING Carpenters

48 ( 31 ) SENZA UNA DONNA Zucchero & Paul Young

49 ( 43 ) LONG TRAIN RUNNING Bananarama

50 ( 49 ) MERCY MERCY ME/ I WANT YOU Robert Palmer

 

51 ( 50 ) SADENESS PART I Enigma

52 ( 52 ) WHERE THE STREETS HAVE NO NAME - CAN’T TAKE MY EYES OFF YOU/HOW CAN YOU EXPECT TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY? Pet Shop Boys

53 ( 51 ) DON’T LET THE SUN GO DOWN ON ME Elton John

54 ( 42 ) GYPSY WOMAN Crystal Waters

55 ( 32 ) LONDON CALLING The Clash

56 ( RE ) NOW IS TOMORROW Definition Of Sound

57 ( 38 ) FUTURE LOVE PARADISE Seal

58 ( 57 ) WHY CAN’T WE LIVE TOGETHER (1990 TK REMIX) Timmy Thomas

59 ( 58 ) ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER The Jimi Hendrix Experience

60 ( NEW ) FROM A DISTANCE Bette Midler

 

61 ( 34 ) WISHING WELL (REMIX) Free

62 ( NEW ) WIND OF CHANGE The Scorpions

63 ( 62 ) LET IT BE The Beatles

64 ( NEW ) ANY DREAM WILL DO Jason Donovan

65 ( NEW ) 25 YEARS Big Dish

66 ( 64 ) BEING BORING Pet Shop Boys

67 ( 54 ) THE WHOLE OF THE MOON The Waterboys

68 ( 72 ) I TOUCH MYSELF The Divinyls

69 ( 74 ) IT HAD TO BE YOU/ RECIPE FOR LOVE Harry Connick Jr

70 ( NEW ) PEOPLE ALL STILL HAVING SEX La Tour

 

71 ( 70 ) ESCAPADE Janet Jackson

72 ( 69 ) HOW DEEP IS YOUR LOVE The Bee Gees

73 ( NEW ) GOTTA HAVE YOU Stevie Wonder

74 ( NEW ) THE MOTOWN SONG Rod Stewart with The Temptations

75 ( 41 ) THANK YOU WORLD World Party

 

 

Pet Shop Boys Live At Wembley Arena

 

1 Where The Streets Have No Name - Can’t Take My Eyes Off You

2 This Must Be The Place/Always On My Mind

3 Your Funny Uncle

4 Suburbia

5 We All Feel Better In The Dark

 

 

The Beach Boys Live at Bournemouth International Centre

 

1 Good Vibrations

2 Wipeout

3 Don’t Worry Baby

4 Do It Again

5 God Only Knows

oh great for Kirsty! nice climb for Massive Attack too

can't recall that Sonia song but was never a fan :)

 

really loved Tom Petty's Learning to Fly, very unappreciated in the UK, I think this flopped in the UK, which is a travesty

same for Free Fallin' a couple years back

the album was great too

 

I also unapologetically liked Chesney's I'm a Man not a Boy, almost as much as The one and Only :D

Absolutely fantastic to see Kirsty at the number one spot(this year th Pogues rereleased ‘Fairytale’ wasn’t it?). And surprised at how high Colour Me Badd and Sonia are but Sonia went a different road by this stage. Also great newbies from Massive Attack, Lenny Kravitz, Yello and Tom Petty!

nooo Fairytale is from Xmas 87

oh great for Kirsty! nice climb for Massive Attack too

can't recall that Sonia song but was never a fan :)

 

really loved Tom Petty's Learning to Fly, very unappreciated in the UK, I think this flopped in the UK, which is a travesty

same for Free Fallin' a couple years back

the album was great too

 

I also unapologetically liked Chesney's I'm a Man not a Boy, almost as much as The one and Only :D

 

I'll be honest, I havent heard Sonia's track in 30 years but she usually had to work to convince me to like her stuff, and my memory is of this being quite 60's retro :D

 

Tom Petty never had UK success, which is indeed a travesty - to me he was in the same category as REM, only he started earlier during punk and never got the huge hit breakthrough eventually like REM did, possibly cos they were darker and he tended to be more chipper.

 

I still like Chesney's follow-up too, and I liked it more than One & Only at the time - prob on a par these days... :)

 

 

Absolutely fantastic to see Kirsty at the number one spot(this year th Pogues rereleased ‘Fairytale’ wasn’t it?). And surprised at how high Colour Me Badd and Sonia are but Sonia went a different road by this stage. Also great newbies from Massive Attack, Lenny Kravitz, Yello and Tom Petty!

 

Yep (sorry Bjork), Pogues & Kirsty had another go in the top 10 in 1991 (the first of millions) and - spoiler - it gets a lot higher than it did first time round in 1987 when Pet Shop Boys were out :lol:

 

I'm also surprised how much I liked Colour Me Badd - I'd forgotten it got that high, even though I still like it. I like smooth soul music, and despite the 90's beats and clothes in the video it's in the tradition of 70's bands like The Delfonics, Stylistics, Chi-Lites but updated for a new dance market rather than a ballad market.

Oh I thought he meant the first release from Fairytale was from 91

Yep (sorry Bjork), Pogues & Kirsty had another go in the top 10 in 1991 (the first of millions) and - spoiler - it gets a lot higher than it did first time round in 1987 when Pet Shop Boys were out :lol:

 

I'm also surprised how much I liked Colour Me Badd - I'd forgotten it got that high, even though I still like it. I like smooth soul music, and despite the 90's beats and clothes in the video it's in the tradition of 70's bands like The Delfonics, Stylistics, Chi-Lites but updated for a new dance market rather than a ballad market.

 

Yeh your right Colour Me Badd is just a 90s version of smooth soul pop with the modern additions.

 

Yeh The Pogues re-charted officially in December 1991 if I remember correctly at 31 or something as it was reissued, always a smart move for a Christmas classic!

I kinda hated Colour Me Bad, from their name to their music

Their lyrics were beyond bad, I wanna sex you up... come on...

I kinda hated Colour Me Bad, from their name to their music

Their lyrics were beyond bad, I wanna sex you up... come on...

 

Oh yeah the lyrics are the main problem - it was trying to be risque in pushing the boundary of what you can say in a pop song without radio banning it, and it didnt really mean anything much beyond that unless it's an attempt to do an Olivia Newton-John/Grease wardrobe change to "sex" her up, "cos everyone knows pretty girls have to dress to flaunt it if they want to get a boyfriend" :lol: These days it's not remotely risque given bleeped graphic sex references or every swearword under the sun, bar one, in half the tracks in the chart. If I had a home studio I'd be tempted to parody the lot of 'em just using expletives and do a radio friendly edit by bleeping the whole song :lol:

 

Prob just as well I don't I'm sure it wouldnt go down well.....! :teresa:

23rd June 1991

 

It's 2 weeks on top for Walking Down Madison as the Unforgettable Nat 'King' Cole gets his second posthumous top 10, duetting with his daughter Natalie, and the Miami Vice instrumental peaks at 3 second-time round, outdoing it's 1987 peak - it is rather a lovely tune though! Boy George takes his Generations Of Love into the top 10 for a second in a row. Highest new entry at 28 is OMD's fabulous Pandora's Box, second track from the new album Sugar Tax, their best single since 1985's So In Love.

 

Cher's back with her 1981 Meatloaf guest spot Deadringer For Love at 31, as her first proper new material non-cover in over a year quietly debuts at 47, the still-relevant Love And Understanding. Omar debuts with the wonderful soulful There's Nothing Like This, sultry still, at 36, while Quartz and Dina Carroll return to show It's not Too Late with Naked Love. Kim Appleby's Mama Said debuts, but it's diminishing returns sadly for Kim, Billy Bragg does his bit for gay rights and a spot of Sexuality at 50, while INXS, Technotronic, Chris Rea & Inspiral Carpets all sneak in with lesser singles behind The jam's 10-year-old album track That's Entertainment which charted due to Import vinyl singles being made available. And again in 1982/3 when they announced the band were splitting up.

 

1 ( 1 ) WALKING DOWN MADISON Kirsty MacColl

2 ( 36 ) UNFORGETTABLE Natalie Cole & Nat ‘King’ Cole

3 ( 10 ) CROCKETT’S THEME Jan Hammer

4 ( 8 ) IT AIN’T OVER TILL IT’S OVER Lenny Kravitz

5 ( 2 ) I WANNA SEX YOU UP Color Me Badd

6 ( 3 ) HOLIDAY Madonna

7 ( 4 ) SAFE FROM HARM Massive Attack featuring Shara Nelson

8 ( 5 ) ONLY FOOLS (FALL IN LOVE) Sonia

9 ( 12 ) JEALOUSY Pet Shop Boys

10 ( 19 ) GENERATIONS OF LOVE Jesus Loves You

 

11 ( 7 ) TOUCH ME (ALL NIGHT LONG) Cathy Dennis

12 ( 6 ) WHEN HE’S GONE The Bee Gees

13 ( 13 ) HEY STOOPID Alice Cooper

14 ( 9 ) BABY BABY Amy Grant

15 ( 22 ) LEARNING TO FLY Tom Petty

16 ( 20 ) DO YOU WANT ME Salt ‘n’ Pepa

17 ( 11 ) LIGHT MY FIRE The Doors

18 ( 27 ) A WATCHER’S POINT OF VIEW PM Dawn

19 ( 28 ) IF YOU WANNA BE HAPPY Jimmy Soul

20 ( 32 ) COME ON EILEEN Dexy’s Midnight Runners

 

21 ( 14 ) SHINY HAPPY PEOPLE REM

22 ( 18 ) LAST TRAIN TO TRANCENTRAL (LIVE FROM THE LOST CONTINENT) The KLF featuring Ricardo Da Force

23 ( 16 ) KISS THEM FOR ME Siouxsie & The Banshees

24 ( 37 ) THINKING ABOUT YOUR LOVE Kenny Thomas

25 ( 17 ) REMEMBER ME WITH LOVE Gloria Estefan

26 ( 15 ) FADING LIKE A FLOWER Roxette

27 ( 23 ) RESCUE ME Madonna

28 ( NEW ) PANDORA’S BOX Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark

29 ( 33 ) I’M A MAN NOT A BOY Chesney Hawkes

30 ( 35 ) EVERYTHING I DO (I DO IT FOR YOU) Bryan Adams

 

31 ( NEW ) DEADRINGER FOR LOVE Meatloaf & Cher

32 ( 25 ) SHE SELLS Banderas

33 ( 29 ) GET THE MESSAGE Electronic

34 ( 21 ) THE LAND OF MAKE BELIEVE ’91 Bucks Fizz

35 ( 44 ) RUBBERBANDMAN Yello

36 ( NEW ) THERE’S NOTHING LIKE THIS Omar

37 ( RE ) GIRLS Powercut

38 ( 24 ) SHOCKED Kylie Minogue

39 ( NEW ) NAKED LOVE Quartz featuring Dina Carroll

40 ( 38 ) YOU’VE LOST THAT LOVIN’ FEELIN’ The Righteous Brothers

 

41 ( NEW ) MAMA SAID Kim Appleby

42 ( NEW ) SHERIFF FATMAN Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine

43 ( 39 ) YOU’RE SO VAIN Carly Simon

44 ( 30 ) TAINTED LOVE Soft Cell

45 ( 40 ) JUST THE WAY IT IS BABY The Rembrandts

46 ( 46 ) HEY JUDE The Beatles

47 ( NEW ) LOVE AND UNDERSTANDING Cher

48 ( 47 ) (THEY LONG TO BE) CLOSE TO YOU/ MERRY CHRISTMAS DARLING Carpenters

49 ( 26 ) SUCCESS Dannii Minogue

50 ( NEW ) SEXUALITY Billy Bragg

 

51 ( 34 ) C’EST LE DERNIER QUI A PARLE QUI A RAISON Amina

52 ( 52 ) WHERE THE STREETS HAVE NO NAME - CAN’T TAKE MY EYES OFF YOU/HOW CAN YOU EXPECT TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY? Pet Shop Boys

53 ( 51 ) SADENESS PART I Enigma

54 ( 50 ) MERCY MERCY ME/ I WANT YOU Robert Palmer

55 ( 53 ) DON’T LET THE SUN GO DOWN ON ME Elton John

56 ( 49 ) LONG TRAIN RUNNING Bananarama

57 ( 60 ) FROM A DISTANCE Bette Midler

58 ( NEW ) THAT’S ENTERTAINMENT The Jam

59 ( 58 ) WHY CAN’T WE LIVE TOGETHER (1990 TK REMIX) Timmy Thomas

60 ( 59 ) ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER The Jimi Hendrix Experience

 

61 ( 45 ) CHUNG KUO (REVISITED) Addams & Gee

62 ( 63 ) LET IT BE The Beatles

63 ( 31 ) R.S.V.P. Jason Donovan

64 ( 64 ) ANY DREAM WILL DO Jason Donovan

65 ( 41 ) FEEL LIKE CHANGE Black

66 ( 74 ) THE MOTOWN SONG Rod Stewart with The Temptations

67 ( 48 ) SENZA UNA DONNA Zucchero & Paul Young

68 ( 70 ) PEOPLE ALL STILL HAVING SEX La Tour

69 ( 43 ) ONE LOVE Bob Marley & The Wailers

70 ( NEW ) BITTER TEARS INXS

 

71 ( NEW ) LOOKING FOR THE SUMMER Chris Rea

72 ( 72 ) HOW DEEP IS YOUR LOVE The Bee Gees

73 ( 71 ) ESCAPADE Janet Jackson

74 ( NEW ) MOVE THAT BODY Technotronic

75 ( NEW ) PLEASE BE CRUEL Inspiral Carpets

 

playlist records (1972)

1 I LIKE IT THAT WAY The Tremeloes

2 I SAW THE LIGHT Todd Rundgren

3 SMOKE GETS IN YOUR EYES Blue Haze

Aw, sad that Jinny didn't chart for you - “Keep Warm” is one of my fave 90s dance bangahs and it entered the chart exactly 30 years ago (at #71 unfortunately)! Of course it would eventually go on to make the Top 40 4 years later...

 

I'm assuming that “Crockett's Theme” was re-charting because of those NatWest adverts that were on at the time. : )

Aw, sad that Jinny didn't chart for you - “Keep Warm” is one of my fave 90s dance bangahs and it entered the chart exactly 30 years ago (at #71 unfortunately)! Of course it would eventually go on to make the Top 40 4 years later...

 

I'm assuming that “Crockett's Theme” was re-charting because of those NatWest adverts that were on at the time. : )

 

Yeah, sadly it'll be a wait for that one to chart - Jinny peaked at 32 in August 1995, oops! Pretty sure I've got it on a compilation CD somewhere though. I probably didn't get to hear it in 1991 unless Radio 1 daytime was pushing it.

 

Ah I wondered why Crockett's Theme was selling again in 1991! I'd just assumed Miami Vice was being repeated :lol: I didn't allow old songs in my charts in those days unless they were in the UK charts, or had been physically re-issued to buy in the shops if they fell short of the Top 75. I got rid of most chart rules with downloads when anything could make the UK charts, but I still restricted album tracks to 1 (until streaming started having entire albums in the singles charts, at which point I said "sod it, I'll do that too then") and oldies to having a reason to chart it (BJSC, new compilation albums in the UK album chart, adverts, film spots)