July 6, 20214 yr Author 30th June 1991 It's a brand new entry, yet another oldie, as the summer brings the usual Beach Boys oldie single re-issue to plug the hits albums, this year it's 1968 UK chart-topper Do It Again, which just managed to scrape into my first retro personal chart for my starting point: the week Hey Jude entered the UK charts. It only got one week but had been a big fave before I started charting, so justice is done 23 years late as the Boys get a 3rd chart-topper. OMD rocket up to 3 and keep Pet Shop Boys outside the top 3 - it'll be another 27 years or so before Jealousy tops my charts, belatedly appreciating it as one of their finest records. Alice Cooper gets a 5th top 10 19 years on from School's Out doing the trick. Billy Bragg bounds into the top 20 with some Sexuality, The Scorpions bound back into the chart with a proper chart position for the very good Wind Of Change at 26, and Voice Of The Beehive are back with the lovely Monsters And Angels at 45. Sydney Youngblood adds another track to his list of entries, Erasure extend their run to 5 years, Vince to 10 years, with Chorus being a pretty decent single, at 65, and Incognito bring Jocelyn Brown along for the great dance track Always There. In at 70, is quick-in quick-out track I had to youtube as I've forgotten Blueshouse from BB Queen - think BB King style done House female vocal style - which is better than one week at 70 suggests. Paula Abdul is in a Rush Rush with a slow ballad, and Siouxsie & The Banshees follow up Kiss The For Me with Shadowtime. On my oldies playlist it's 70's art-glam-pop, 80's power ballad, and 90's baggy madchester. Wouldnt want to be predictable.... 1 ( NEW ) DO IT AGAIN The Beach Boys 2 ( 2 ) UNFORGETTABLE Natalie Cole & Nat ‘King’ Cole 3 ( 28 ) PANDORA’S BOX Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark 4 ( 9 ) JEALOUSY Pet Shop Boys 5 ( 1 ) WALKING DOWN MADISON Kirsty MacColl 6 ( 4 ) IT AIN’T OVER TILL IT’S OVER Lenny Kravitz 7 ( 7 ) SAFE FROM HARM Massive Attack featuring Shara Nelson 8 ( 10 ) GENERATIONS OF LOVE Jesus Loves You 9 ( 13 ) HEY STOOPID Alice Cooper 10 ( 6 ) HOLIDAY Madonna 11 ( 3 ) CROCKETT’S THEME Jan Hammer 12 ( 12 ) WHEN HE’S GONE The Bee Gees 13 ( 5 ) I WANNA SEX YOU UP Color Me Badd 14 ( 16 ) DO YOU WANT ME Salt ‘n’ Pepa 15 ( 11 ) TOUCH ME (ALL NIGHT LONG) Cathy Dennis 16 ( 8 ) ONLY FOOLS (FALL IN LOVE) Sonia 17 ( 19 ) IF YOU WANNA BE HAPPY Jimmy Soul 18 ( 17 ) LIGHT MY FIRE The Doors 19 ( 14 ) BABY BABY Amy Grant 20 ( 50 ) SEXUALITY Billy Bragg 21 ( 18 ) A WATCHER’S POINT OF VIEW PM Dawn 22 ( 15 ) LEARNING TO FLY Tom Petty 23 ( 24 ) THINKING ABOUT YOUR LOVE Kenny Thomas 24 ( 30 ) EVERYTHING I DO (I DO IT FOR YOU) Bryan Adams 25 ( 22 ) LAST TRAIN TO TRANCENTRAL (LIVE FROM THE LOST CONTINENT) The KLF featuring Ricardo Da Force 26 ( RE ) WIND OF CHANGE The Scorpions 27 ( 27 ) RESCUE ME Madonna 28 ( 31 ) DEADRINGER FOR LOVE Meatloaf & Cher 29 ( 36 ) THERE’S NOTHING LIKE THIS Omar 30 ( 47 ) LOVE AND UNDERSTANDING Cher 31 ( 23 ) KISS THEM FOR ME Siouxsie & The Banshees 32 ( 42 ) SHERIFF FATMAN Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine 33 ( 33 ) GET THE MESSAGE Electronic 34 ( 26 ) FADING LIKE A FLOWER Roxette 35 ( 20 ) COME ON EILEEN Dexy’s Midnight Runners 36 ( 41 ) MAMA Kim Appleby 37 ( 37 ) GIRLS Powercut 38 ( 25 ) REMEMBER ME WITH LOVE Gloria Estefan 39 ( 29 ) I’M A MAN NOT A BOY Chesney Hawkes 40 ( 40 ) YOU’VE LOST THAT LOVIN’ FEELIN’ The Righteous Brothers 41 ( 21 ) SHINY HAPPY PEOPLE REM 42 ( 32 ) SHE SELLS Banderas 43 ( 46 ) HEY JUDE The Beatles 44 ( 55 ) DON’T LET THE SUN GO DOWN ON ME Elton John 45 ( NEW ) MONSTERS AND ANGELS Voice Of The Beehive 46 ( 39 ) NAKED LOVE Quartz featuring Dina Carroll 47 ( 57 ) FROM A DISTANCE Bette Midler 48 ( 48 ) (THEY LONG TO BE) CLOSE TO YOU/ MERRY CHRISTMAS DARLING Carpenters 49 ( 43 ) YOU’RE SO VAIN Carly Simon 50 ( 64 ) ANY DREAM WILL DO Jason Donovan 51 ( 38 ) SHOCKED Kylie Minogue 52 ( 59 ) WHY CAN’T WE LIVE TOGETHER (1990 TK REMIX) Timmy Thomas 53 ( 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 54 ( 54 ) MERCY MERCY ME/ I WANT YOU Robert Palmer 55 ( 44 ) TAINTED LOVE Soft Cell 56 ( 53 ) SADENESS PART I Enigma 57 ( 70 ) BITTER TEARS INXS 58 ( 58 ) THAT’S ENTERTAINMENT The Jam 59 ( 34 ) THE LAND OF MAKE BELIEVE ’91 Bucks Fizz 60 ( 35 ) RUBBERBANDMAN Yello 61 ( NEW ) HOOKED ON YOU Sydney Youngblood 62 ( 60 ) ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER The Jimi Hendrix Experience 63 ( 62 ) LET IT BE The Beatles 64 ( 71 ) LOOKING FOR THE SUMMER Chris Rea 65 ( NEW ) CHORUS Erasure 66 ( 56 ) LONG TRAIN RUNNING Bananarama 67 ( NEW ) ALWAYS THERE Incognito featuring Jocelyn Brown 68 ( 51 ) C’EST LE DERNIER QUI A PARLE QUI A RAISON Amina 69 ( 61 ) CHUNG KUO (REVISITED) Addams & Gee 70 ( NEW ) BLUESHOUSE BB Queen 71 ( NEW ) RUSH RUSH Paula Abdul 72 ( 73 ) ESCAPADE Janet Jackson 73 ( 66 ) THE MOTOWN SONG Rod Stewart with The Temptations 74 ( 72 ) HOW DEEP IS YOUR LOVE The Bee Gees 75 ( NEW ) SHADOWTIME Siouxsie & The Banshees playlist oldies 1 THE POWER OF LOVE Jennifer Rush 2 LOOSE FIT Happy Mondays 3 RUBBER BULLETS 10C.C.
July 10, 20214 yr Author 7th July 1991 It's a first week on top for Pandora's Box - best not open it! OMD have dared though and get their 4th chart-topper in 11 years with the highlight of a very good album. That leaves Unforgettable at 2 for 3 weeks in a row as Alice Cooper gets a first top 5 since 1972, back when Alice Cooper was the name of the band, not Vince Furnier. Boy George also goes top 5, and Salt 'n' Pepa get a top 10 (as does Spinderella, who never gets a namecheck). Highest new entry at 25 is 1975 UK chart-topping country classic Stand By Your Man, back 16 years later and a few months before she hooks up with The KLF. It's almost as if the record label knew! Seal gets yet another new entry for 1991, racking them up, with The Beginning at 31, Heavy D covers Third World who hit twice with their O'Jays cover, Now That We've Found Love going top 10 in 1978, and hit 2 in 1985. At 39, Cola Boy fizz with 7 Ways To Love. I'm not an expert, but I can count a lot more than that. Cathy Dennis brings her previous fab flop Just Another Dream back into my charts in the wake of her breakthrough biggie, in at 46, while Pale Saints have a spot of Kinky Love at 48 - presumably making it 8 Ways To Love, Cola Boy take note. Londonbeat are back with A Better Love, The Bee Gees get a 3rd of 1991, The Milltown Brothers a second, Driza Bone a first, and soul legend Aretha Franklin makes it 23 years on from I Say A Little Prayer and still hitting, this time with a Sly & The Family Stone cover, Everyday People. 1 ( 3 ) PANDORA’S BOX Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark 2 ( 2 ) UNFORGETTABLE Natalie Cole & Nat ‘King’ Cole 3 ( 1 ) DO IT AGAIN The Beach Boys 4 ( 8 ) GENERATIONS OF LOVE Jesus Loves You 5 ( 9 ) HEY STOOPID Alice Cooper 6 ( 6 ) IT AIN’T OVER TILL IT’S OVER Lenny Kravitz 7 ( 4 ) JEALOUSY Pet Shop Boys 8 ( 5 ) WALKING DOWN MADISON Kirsty MacColl 9 ( 7 ) SAFE FROM HARM Massive Attack featuring Shara Nelson 10 ( 14 ) DO YOU WANT ME Salt ‘n’ Pepa 11 ( 11 ) CROCKETT’S THEME Jan Hammer 12 ( 12 ) WHEN HE’S GONE The Bee Gees 13 ( 16 ) ONLY FOOLS (FALL IN LOVE) Sonia 14 ( 13 ) I WANNA SEX YOU UP Color Me Badd 15 ( 17 ) IF YOU WANNA BE HAPPY Jimmy Soul 16 ( 10 ) HOLIDAY Madonna 17 ( 23 ) THINKING ABOUT YOUR LOVE Kenny Thomas 18 ( 24 ) EVERYTHING I DO (I DO IT FOR YOU) Bryan Adams 19 ( 15 ) TOUCH ME (ALL NIGHT LONG) Cathy Dennis 20 ( 20 ) SEXUALITY Billy Bragg 21 ( 26 ) WIND OF CHANGE The Scorpions 22 ( 30 ) LOVE AND UNDERSTANDING Cher 23 ( 29 ) THERE’S NOTHING LIKE THIS Omar 24 ( 18 ) LIGHT MY FIRE The Doors 25 ( NEW ) STAND BY YOUR MAN Tammy Wynette 26 ( 45 ) MONSTERS AND ANGELS Voice Of The Beehive 27 ( 36 ) MAMA Kim Appleby 28 ( 19 ) BABY BABY Amy Grant 29 ( 32 ) SHERIFF FATMAN Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine 30 ( 27 ) RESCUE ME Madonna 31 ( NEW ) THE BEGINNING Seal 32 ( 65 ) CHORUS Erasure 33 ( 25 ) LAST TRAIN TO TRANCENTRAL (LIVE FROM THE LOST CONTINENT) The KLF featuring Ricardo Da Force 34 ( 22 ) LEARNING TO FLY Tom Petty 35 ( NEW ) NOW THAT WE’VE FOUND LOVE Heavy D & The Boyz 36 ( 37 ) GIRLS Powercut 37 ( 34 ) FADING LIKE A FLOWER Roxette 38 ( 31 ) KISS THEM FOR ME Siouxsie & The Banshees 39 ( NEW ) 7 WAYS TO LOVE Cola Boy 40 ( 75 ) SHADOWTIME Siouxsie & The Banshees 41 ( 40 ) YOU’VE LOST THAT LOVIN’ FEELIN’ The Righteous Brothers 42 ( 21 ) A WATCHER’S POINT OF VIEW PM Dawn 43 ( 33 ) GET THE MESSAGE Electronic 44 ( 43 ) HEY JUDE The Beatles 45 ( 57 ) BITTER TEARS INXS 46 ( NEW ) JUST ANOTHER DREAM Cathy Dennis 47 ( 44 ) DON’T LET THE SUN GO DOWN ON ME Elton John 48 ( NEW ) KINKY LOVE Pale Saints 49 ( 48 ) (THEY LONG TO BE) CLOSE TO YOU/ MERRY CHRISTMAS DARLING Carpenters 50 ( 35 ) COME ON EILEEN Dexy’s Midnight Runners 51 ( 67 ) ALWAYS THERE Incognito featuring Jocelyn Brown 52 ( 52 ) WHY CAN’T WE LIVE TOGETHER (1990 TK REMIX) Timmy Thomas 53 ( 49 ) YOU’RE SO VAIN Carly Simon 54 ( 53 ) WHERE THE STREETS HAVE NO NAME - CAN’T TAKE MY EYES OFF YOU/HOW CAN YOU EXPECT TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY? Pet Shop Boys 55 ( 54 ) MERCY MERCY ME/ I WANT YOU Robert Palmer 56 ( NEW ) A BETTER LOVE Londonbeat 57 ( 56 ) SADENESS PART I Enigma 58 ( 38 ) REMEMBER ME WITH LOVE Gloria Estefan 59 ( 61 ) HOOKED ON YOU Sydney Youngblood 60 ( 39 ) I’M A MAN NOT A BOY Chesney Hawkes 61 ( 64 ) LOOKING FOR THE SUMMER Chris Rea 62 ( 28 ) DEADRINGER FOR LOVE Meatloaf & Cher 63 ( 63 ) LET IT BE The Beatles 64 ( 62 ) ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER The Jimi Hendrix Experience 65 ( NEW ) THE ONLY LOVE The Bee Gees 66 ( 55 ) TAINTED LOVE Soft Cell 67 ( 71 ) RUSH RUSH Paula Abdul 68 ( 41 ) SHINY HAPPY PEOPLE REM 69 ( NEW ) APPLE GREEN The Milltown Brothers 70 ( 42 ) SHE SELLS Banderas 71 ( NEW ) EVERYDAY PEOPLE Aretha Franklin 72 ( 72 ) ESCAPADE Janet Jackson 73 ( NEW ) REAL LOVE Driza Bone 74 ( 47 ) FROM A DISTANCE Bette Midler 75 ( 74 ) HOW DEEP IS YOUR LOVE The Bee Gees Playlist Oldies 1 I LIKE IT THAT WAY The Tremeloes 2 IF THERE WAS LOVE Liza Minelli 3 UNFINISHED SYMPATHY Massive Attack featuring Shara Nelson
July 13, 20214 yr Great chart topper there, was a huge favourite for me. I pretty much wore the single out :D
July 17, 20214 yr Author Great chart topper there, was a huge favourite for me. I pretty much wore the single out :D Sounds like you and me were the only ones still buying vinyl singles in 1991 :lol: I still bought them cos they 3 or 4 times cheaper than CD singles, 99p or £1.99 I think, I tended to buy the 99p ones. CD's were either £2.99 or £3.99 or very nearly half the price of a CD album! :lol:
July 17, 20214 yr Author love that 7 Ways to Love single, it was St Etienne in disguise I think? I think there was some sort of link so I looked it up as I couldn't remember :lol: the bloke in the duo used to work with St Etienne before they were St. Etienne, apparently :)
July 17, 20214 yr Author 14th July 1991 It's 2 weeks on top for OMD, who I also saw this week on tour (see the rating of the songs on the night below). Massive Attack do an about-turn and go up to 2, making it two top 3's in a row. Kenny Thomas gets a top 10, Cathy Dennis shoots into the 40 at 15 with the fab Just Another Dream, the sound of things to come for her when she gave up the pop star life and moved into songwriting for a living. Also doing an about-turn is Bryan Adams, and his monster looks to have peaked at 18. For those about to go "phew!", errr, early days yet! I mentioned it grew on me slowly.... Highest new entry is Jesus Jones, Right Here Right Now, at 40. Oddly a minor UK top 40 hit, but a huge US number 2. Maybe the US success accounts for them getting slagged off by the usual trendy music critics chasing the latest thing at the time. Bros are nearing the end of their hits/career, with Are You Mine in at 43, Whitney Houston insists her name is not Susan at 61 - it's not Dolly either, but that didn't stop her ruining a great record in the near future. B.E.F. are back after almost a decade away, having resurrected Tina Turner's career in the early 80's - Heaven 17 alter-ego, more or less - and this time Lalah Hathaway didn't quite get the big success with the 2nd Sly & The Family Stone in the chart. C+C Music Factory go Mmmmm 3 years before Crash Test Dummies do it 4 times better, and Guns 'n' Roses get a modest new entry for a song from a classic movie, You Could Be Mine soundtracking the 2nd, big budget, James Cameron Terminator film. Still a classic. 1 ( 1 ) PANDORA’S BOX Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark 2 ( 9 ) SAFE FROM HARM Massive Attack featuring Shara Nelson 3 ( 4 ) GENERATIONS OF LOVE Jesus Loves You 4 ( 3 ) DO IT AGAIN The Beach Boys 5 ( 2 ) UNFORGETTABLE Natalie Cole & Nat ‘King’ Cole 6 ( 11 ) CROCKETT’S THEME Jan Hammer 7 ( 7 ) JEALOUSY Pet Shop Boys 8 ( 6 ) IT AIN’T OVER TILL IT’S OVER Lenny Kravitz 9 ( 5 ) HEY STOOPID Alice Cooper 10 ( 17 ) THINKING ABOUT YOUR LOVE Kenny Thomas 11 ( 26 ) MONSTERS AND ANGELS Voice Of The Beehive 12 ( 8 ) WALKING DOWN MADISON Kirsty MacColl 13 ( 31 ) THE BEGINNING Seal 14 ( 10 ) DO YOU WANT ME Salt ‘n’ Pepa 15 ( 46 ) JUST ANOTHER DREAM Cathy Dennis 16 ( 12 ) WHEN HE’S GONE The Bee Gees 17 ( 13 ) ONLY FOOLS (FALL IN LOVE) Sonia 18 ( 14 ) I WANNA SEX YOU UP Color Me Badd 19 ( 25 ) STAND BY YOUR MAN Tammy Wynette 20 ( 27 ) MAMA Kim Appleby 21 ( 22 ) LOVE AND UNDERSTANDING Cher 22 ( 40 ) SHADOWTIME Siouxsie & The Banshees 23 ( 23 ) THERE’S NOTHING LIKE THIS Omar 24 ( 18 ) EVERYTHING I DO (I DO IT FOR YOU) Bryan Adams 25 ( 16 ) HOLIDAY Madonna 26 ( 19 ) TOUCH ME (ALL NIGHT LONG) Cathy Dennis 27 ( 35 ) NOW THAT WE’VE FOUND LOVE Heavy D & The Boyz 28 ( 24 ) LIGHT MY FIRE The Doors 29 ( 15 ) IF YOU WANNA BE HAPPY Jimmy Soul 30 ( 20 ) SEXUALITY Billy Bragg 31 ( 28 ) BABY BABY Amy Grant 32 ( 32 ) CHORUS Erasure 33 ( 56 ) A BETTER LOVE Londonbeat 34 ( 37 ) FADING LIKE A FLOWER Roxette 35 ( 30 ) RESCUE ME Madonna 36 ( 21 ) WIND OF CHANGE The Scorpions 37 ( 45 ) BITTER TEARS INXS 38 ( 38 ) KISS THEM FOR ME Siouxsie & The Banshees 39 ( 33 ) LAST TRAIN TO TRANCENTRAL (LIVE FROM THE LOST CONTINENT) The KLF featuring Ricardo Da Force 40 ( NEW ) RIGHT HERE RIGHT NOW Jesus Jones 41 ( 41 ) YOU’VE LOST THAT LOVIN’ FEELIN’ The Righteous Brothers 42 ( 59 ) HOOKED ON YOU Sydney Youngblood 43 ( NEW ) ARE YOU MINE Bros 44 ( 48 ) KINKY LOVE Pale Saints 45 ( 44 ) HEY JUDE The Beatles 46 ( 73 ) REAL LOVE Driza Bone 47 ( 47 ) DON’T LET THE SUN GO DOWN ON ME Elton John 48 ( 51 ) ALWAYS THERE Incognito featuring Jocelyn Brown 49 ( 49 ) (THEY LONG TO BE) CLOSE TO YOU/ MERRY CHRISTMAS DARLING Carpenters 50 ( 43 ) GET THE MESSAGE Electronic 51 ( 34 ) LEARNING TO FLY Tom Petty 52 ( 36 ) GIRLS Powercut 53 ( 52 ) WHY CAN’T WE LIVE TOGETHER (1990 TK REMIX) Timmy Thomas 54 ( 61 ) LOOKING FOR THE SUMMER Chris Rea 55 ( 54 ) WHERE THE STREETS HAVE NO NAME - CAN’T TAKE MY EYES OFF YOU/HOW CAN YOU EXPECT TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY? Pet Shop Boys 56 ( 69 ) APPLE GREEN The Milltown Brothers 57 ( 55 ) MERCY MERCY ME/ I WANT YOU Robert Palmer 58 ( 57 ) SADENESS PART I Enigma 59 ( 53 ) YOU’RE SO VAIN Carly Simon 60 ( 65 ) THE ONLY LOVE The Bee Gees 61 ( NEW ) MY NAME IS NOT SUSAN Whitney Houston 62 ( 29 ) SHERIFF FATMAN Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine 63 ( 63 ) LET IT BE The Beatles 64 ( 39 ) 7 WAYS TO LOVE Cola Boy 65 ( 50 ) COME ON EILEEN Dexy’s Midnight Runners 66 ( 64 ) ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER The Jimi Hendrix Experience 67 ( NEW ) I LIKE IT DJH featuring Stefy 68 ( NEW ) FAMILY AFFAIR B.E.F. featuring Lalah Hathaway 69 ( 42 ) A WATCHER’S POINT OF VIEW PM Dawn 70 ( NEW ) THINGS THAT MAKE YOU GO MMMM C+C Music factory 71 ( 71 ) EVERYDAY PEOPLE Aretha Franklin 72 ( NEW ) YOU COULD BE MINE Guns ‘n’ Roses 73 ( 72 ) ESCAPADE Janet Jackson 74 ( 67 ) RUSH RUSH Paula Abdul 75 ( 75 ) HOW DEEP IS YOUR LOVE The Bee Gees OMD LIVE AT POOLE ARTS CENTRE Just Andy by this stage, so no Souvenir and a few others from their back catalogue, but Andy was as manic as he always is in a live arena, and giving it large (as they used to say in the 90's). I sneaked a cassette recorder into the gig in my coat pocket and recorded a bit of it. The downside to doing that is you end up thinking about and checking on the recording, so it spoils the gig a bit, the end result is pretty crappy and tinny, and speeded up as the batteries give out and it records slower, and you run the risk of getting searched (as I did at Wembley Stadium, which ended up with me having to check it in at coat-services and queue to get it back after the concert which means you end up delayed, and hitting all the traffic, which also spoils the concert). Given how everyone sticks their effing phones up getting pics and recordings these days, and how terrible cassette recordings were, I do wonder why artists like Prince made such a song and dance about it instead of seeing it like the bonus crappy souvenir for fans who'd paid a fortune to support them that it actually was. Anyway, I still have a unique badly-recorded memento of the evening, unless OMD recorded it and would like to flog me a better copy.... 1 Maid Of Orleans (Joan Of Arc Waltz) 2 Pandora’s Box 3 So In Love 4 Messages 5 Sailing On The 7 Seas 6 Electricty 7 Joan Of Arc 8 Enola Gay 9 Talking Loud And Clear 10 If You Leave
July 19, 20213 yr Author Just so you know, Chorus stalling at 32 will be totally unacceptable I agree and it's not the chart peak, but don't get your hopes too far up :lol: I have come to appreciate it more with time so if it ever makes the itunes chart or an advert/movie slot.....
July 19, 20213 yr love Right Here, Right Now, the UK got it totally wrong unlike the US pretty unusual that a UK song gets to #2 in the US but does poorly in the UK twice
July 19, 20213 yr Author love Right Here, Right Now, the UK got it totally wrong unlike the US pretty unusual that a UK song gets to #2 in the US but does poorly in the UK twice Yeah I agree, I rated Jesus Jones generally, but the UK music press didnt laud them the way they did the Madchester and Britpop acts. And Buzzjack Song Contest voters too, grumble Info Freako fab grumble :lol:
August 21, 20213 yr Author God I love ‘Shadowtime’ one of my favourites of theirs! Apparently I also rated it - but I havent heard it in 30 years! :o
August 21, 20213 yr Author 21st July 1991 It's Just Another Dream for Cathy Dennis as she climbs 14 places to the top spot - and she'll be back as a songwriter, though not as an artist, but this dancepop track is fab. Alice Cooper gets a first top 5 since 1972's Elected and Voice Of The Beehive take Monsters & Angels into the top 10 as Bryan Adams finally gets a sudden boost after climbing slowly for weeks, his Robin Hood theme giving him a first top 10 since 1985. Seal makes it 4 top 10's, and The Bee Gees follow-up a number one with a top 20, The Only Love up 40 places. Two classics of 1991 both enter straight into the top 40, The Shamen's wonderful Move Any Mountain, and Bomb The Bass' gorgeous Winter In July giving them a change of pace from previous House tracks. Scritti Politti also returns with Take Me In Your Arms, a cover of the classic 60's Gladys Knight Motown hit, in at 43. At 51 Yo Yo Honey debut with Get It On, while down the lower end of the chart ABC and Huey Lewis keep the 80's flag flying - as they will still be doing in the 2010's with much better records. 1 ( 15 ) JUST ANOTHER DREAM Cathy Dennis 2 ( 1 ) PANDORA’S BOX Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark 3 ( 3 ) GENERATIONS OF LOVE Jesus Loves You 4 ( 2 ) SAFE FROM HARM Massive Attack featuring Shara Nelson 5 ( 9 ) HEY STOOPID Alice Cooper 6 ( 11 ) MONSTERS AND ANGELS Voice Of The Beehive 7 ( 24 ) EVERYTHING I DO (I DO IT FOR YOU) Bryan Adams 8 ( 4 ) DO IT AGAIN The Beach Boys 9 ( 8 ) IT AIN’T OVER TILL IT’S OVER Lenny Kravitz 10 ( 13 ) THE BEGINNING Seal 11 ( 14 ) DO YOU WANT ME Salt ‘n’ Pepa 12 ( 5 ) UNFORGETTABLE Natalie Cole & Nat ‘King’ Cole 13 ( 6 ) CROCKETT’S THEME Jan Hammer 14 ( 7 ) JEALOUSY Pet Shop Boys 15 ( 21 ) LOVE AND UNDERSTANDING Cher 16 ( 22 ) SHADOWTIME Siouxsie & The Banshees 17 ( 23 ) THERE’S NOTHING LIKE THIS Omar 18 ( 18 ) I WANNA SEX YOU UP Color Me Badd 19 ( 27 ) NOW THAT WE’VE FOUND LOVE Heavy D & The Boyz 20 ( 60 ) THE ONLY LOVE The Bee Gees 21 ( 10 ) THINKING ABOUT YOUR LOVE Kenny Thomas 22 ( 12 ) WALKING DOWN MADISON Kirsty MacColl 23 ( 17 ) ONLY FOOLS (FALL IN LOVE) Sonia 24 ( 20 ) MAMA Kim Appleby 25 ( 16 ) WHEN HE’S GONE The Bee Gees 26 ( 32 ) CHORUS Erasure 27 ( 25 ) HOLIDAY Madonna 28 ( 74 ) RUSH RUSH Paula Abdul 29 ( 33 ) A BETTER LOVE Londonbeat 30 ( 26 ) TOUCH ME (ALL NIGHT LONG) Cathy Dennis 31 ( 31 ) BABY BABY Amy Grant 32 ( 19 ) STAND BY YOUR MAN Tammy Wynette 33 ( 40 ) RIGHT HERE RIGHT NOW Jesus Jones 34 ( 34 ) FADING LIKE A FLOWER Roxette 35 ( NEW ) MOVE ANY MOUNTAIN The Shamen 36 ( 36 ) WIND OF CHANGE The Scorpions 37 ( 28 ) LIGHT MY FIRE The Doors 38 ( 43 ) ARE YOU MINE Bros 39 ( NEW ) WINTER IN JULY Bomb The Bass 40 ( 46 ) REAL LOVE Driza Bone 41 ( 41 ) YOU’VE LOST THAT LOVIN’ FEELIN’ The Righteous Brothers 42 ( 35 ) RESCUE ME Madonna 43 ( NEW ) TAKE ME IN YOUR ARMS Scritti Politti featuring Sweetie Irie 44 ( 30 ) SEXUALITY Billy Bragg 45 ( 48 ) ALWAYS THERE Incognito featuring Jocelyn Brown 46 ( 39 ) LAST TRAIN TO TRANCENTRAL (LIVE FROM THE LOST CONTINENT) The KLF featuring Ricardo Da Force 47 ( 45 ) HEY JUDE The Beatles 48 ( 38 ) KISS THEM FOR ME Siouxsie & The Banshees 49 ( 56 ) APPLE GREEN The Milltown Brothers 50 ( 47 ) DON’T LET THE SUN GO DOWN ON ME Elton John 51 ( NEW ) GET IT ON Yo Yo Honey 52 ( 61 ) MY NAME IS NOT SUSAN Whitney Houston 53 ( 49 ) (THEY LONG TO BE) CLOSE TO YOU/ MERRY CHRISTMAS DARLING Carpenters 54 ( 53 ) WHY CAN’T WE LIVE TOGETHER (1990 TK REMIX) Timmy Thomas 55 ( 37 ) BITTER TEARS INXS 56 ( NEW ) LOVE’S BURN Karl Keaton 57 ( 55 ) WHERE THE STREETS HAVE NO NAME - CAN’T TAKE MY EYES OFF YOU/HOW CAN YOU EXPECT TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY? Pet Shop Boys 58 ( 67 ) I LIKE IT DJH featuring Stefy 59 ( 57 ) MERCY MERCY ME/ I WANT YOU Robert Palmer 60 ( 29 ) IF YOU WANNA BE HAPPY Jimmy Soul 61 ( 50 ) GET THE MESSAGE Electronic 62 ( 72 ) YOU COULD BE MINE Guns ‘n’ Roses 63 ( 58 ) SADENESS PART I Enigma 64 ( 63 ) LET IT BE The Beatles 65 ( 42 ) HOOKED ON YOU Sydney Youngblood 66 ( 70 ) THINGS THAT MAKE YOU GO MMMM C+C Music factory 67 ( 66 ) ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER The Jimi Hendrix Experience 68 ( 68 ) FAMILY AFFAIR B.E.F. featuring Lalah Hathaway 69 ( 59 ) YOU’RE SO VAIN Carly Simon 70 ( NEW ) LOVE CONQUERS ALL ABC 71 ( 51 ) LEARNING TO FLY Tom Petty 72 ( 73 ) ESCAPADE Janet Jackson 73 ( NEW ) IT HIT ME LIKE A HAMMER Huey Lewis & The News 74 ( 75 ) HOW DEEP IS YOUR LOVE The Bee Gees 75 ( 64 ) 7 WAYS TO LOVE Cola Boy PLAYLIST 1 THE WITCH The Rattles 2 WISHFUL THINKING China Crisis 3 A LITTLE RESPECT Erasure
August 22, 20213 yr Intrigued to go and listen to the 90s tracks by Heuy Lewis and ABC, didn’t realise they went on so long. ABC only had that one minor top 40 last in 1989 and of course the huge ‘When Smokey Sings’ 2 years earlier. Also love the Bomb Da Bass and Shamen songs. Have to check out the Cathy Dennis song at number one, I’m not familiar with it!
August 22, 20213 yr Author Intrigued to go and listen to the 90s tracks by Heuy Lewis and ABC, didn’t realise they went on so long. ABC only had that one minor top 40 last in 1989 and of course the huge ‘When Smokey Sings’ 2 years earlier. Also love the Bomb Da Bass and Shamen songs. Have to check out the Cathy Dennis song at number one, I’m not familiar with it! ABC's is very 90's-House-sounding and Huey's is exactly like anything he recorded in 1982, 1991 or 2019 - so Huey's is less-jarring than ABC's, though there's a good song underneath the dance grooves. The Cathy Dennis track is fab, as good as All Night Long, but bigger, faster beats... :)
August 23, 20213 yr loved Cathy Dennis! Just Another Dream was re-released a bunch of times, think it flopped twice but finally it was a hit the 3rd time they released it her first singles were all great, my fab was probably Too Many Walls at the time I was living in the US and she was quite popular she got like 4 top 10 hits in the US in a row, which is not easyfofr UK artists
August 23, 20213 yr Author loved Cathy Dennis! Just Another Dream was re-released a bunch of times, think it flopped twice but finally it was a hit the 3rd time they released it her first singles were all great, my fab was probably Too Many Walls at the time I was living in the US and she was quite popular she got like 4 top 10 hits in the US in a row, which is not easyfofr UK artists Yes it took a while to become a hit, better late than never :) Too many Walls was nice, showcased her songwriting versatility, but living in the USA - that sounds exciting! Whereabouts did you live? I've worked out I've spent about 9 or 10 months in total in the USA, but all of them on holidays - Hawaii, Florida, california, nevada, arizona, New York, massachussets, vermont, pennsylvania, rhode island - and stops in Texas and Maine. So my ambition to visit every State is well behind happening! :lol:
August 23, 20213 yr Author 28th July 1991 It's 2 weeks on top for Cathy Dennis as Bryan Adams becomes the new challenger for the top spot with his biggest chart hit to date at 2, but Yo Yo Honey rocket 44 places up to 7 with Get It On - a soul dance Paul Oakenfold remix shuffle that I'd completely forgotten about and forgotten about liking! Cher gets a 2nd top 10 of 1991 with the way better of the 2 singles, and Bomb The Bass almost make the top 10 with Winter In July. The Shamen and Karl Keaton meanwhile leap into the top 20. Highest new entry, errr, I'm Too Sexy at 39, Right Said Fred paying tribute to Bernard Cribbin's 60's kiddie fave and showing their tongues are firmly in their cheeks. And anyone else's cheeks who enjoys it. It's quite amusing even on repeat plays, which is pretty good going for a novelty track of the 90's. At 45, Dannii's back with a cover - of Stacy Lattisaw's Jump To The Beat - that isn't as good as the original, Extreme ballad-out with monster hit More Than Words at 47, and at 62 Kirsty MacColl begins her Cuban-influenced phase with My Affair. 1 ( 1 ) JUST ANOTHER DREAM Cathy Dennis 2 ( 7 ) EVERYTHING I DO (I DO IT FOR YOU) Bryan Adams 3 ( 2 ) PANDORA’S BOX Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark 4 ( 6 ) MONSTERS AND ANGELS Voice Of The Beehive 5 ( 3 ) GENERATIONS OF LOVE Jesus Loves You 6 ( 4 ) SAFE FROM HARM Massive Attack featuring Shara Nelson 7 ( 51 ) GET IT ON Yo Yo Honey 8 ( 15 ) LOVE AND UNDERSTANDING Cher 9 ( 5 ) HEY STOOPID Alice Cooper 10 ( 10 ) THE BEGINNING Seal 11 ( 39 ) WINTER IN JULY Bomb The Bass 12 ( 19 ) NOW THAT WE’VE FOUND LOVE Heavy D & The Boyz 13 ( 9 ) IT AIN’T OVER TILL IT’S OVER Lenny Kravitz 14 ( 11 ) DO YOU WANT ME Salt ‘n’ Pepa 15 ( 12 ) UNFORGETTABLE Natalie Cole & Nat ‘King’ Cole 16 ( 14 ) JEALOUSY Pet Shop Boys 17 ( 20 ) THE ONLY LOVE The Bee Gees 18 ( 8 ) DO IT AGAIN The Beach Boys 19 ( 35 ) MOVE ANY MOUNTAIN The Shamen 20 ( 56 ) LOVE’S BURN Karl Keaton 21 ( 13 ) CROCKETT’S THEME Jan Hammer 22 ( 18 ) I WANNA SEX YOU UP Color Me Badd 23 ( 29 ) A BETTER LOVE Londonbeat 24 ( 21 ) THINKING ABOUT YOUR LOVE Kenny Thomas 25 ( 16 ) SHADOWTIME Siouxsie & The Banshees 26 ( 22 ) WALKING DOWN MADISON Kirsty MacColl 27 ( 28 ) RUSH RUSH Paula Abdul 28 ( 43 ) TAKE ME IN YOUR ARMS Scritti Politti featuring Sweetie Irie 29 ( 23 ) ONLY FOOLS (FALL IN LOVE) Sonia 30 ( 25 ) WHEN HE’S GONE The Bee Gees 31 ( 24 ) MAMA Kim Appleby 32 ( 27 ) HOLIDAY Madonna 33 ( 17 ) THERE’S NOTHING LIKE THIS Omar 34 ( 38 ) ARE YOU MINE Bros 35 ( 58 ) I LIKE IT DJH featuring Stefy 36 ( 30 ) TOUCH ME (ALL NIGHT LONG) Cathy Dennis 37 ( 34 ) FADING LIKE A FLOWER Roxette 38 ( 31 ) BABY BABY Amy Grant 39 ( NEW ) I’M TOO SEXY Right Said Fred 40 ( 26 ) CHORUS Erasure 41 ( 41 ) YOU’VE LOST THAT LOVIN’ FEELIN’ The Righteous Brothers 42 ( 37 ) LIGHT MY FIRE The Doors 43 ( 52 ) MY NAME IS NOT SUSAN Whitney Houston 44 ( 42 ) RESCUE ME Madonna 45 ( NEW ) JUMP TO THE BEAT Dannii Minogue 46 ( 33 ) RIGHT HERE RIGHT NOW Jesus Jones 47 ( NEW ) MORE THAN WORDS Extreme 48 ( 47 ) HEY JUDE The Beatles 49 ( 36 ) WIND OF CHANGE The Scorpions 50 ( 66 ) THINGS THAT MAKE YOU GO MMMM C+C Music factory 51 ( 46 ) LAST TRAIN TO TRANCENTRAL (LIVE FROM THE LOST CONTINENT) The KLF featuring Ricardo Da Force 52 ( 50 ) DON’T LET THE SUN GO DOWN ON ME Elton John 53 ( 32 ) STAND BY YOUR MAN Tammy Wynette 54 ( 54 ) WHY CAN’T WE LIVE TOGETHER (1990 TK REMIX) Timmy Thomas 55 ( 53 ) (THEY LONG TO BE) CLOSE TO YOU/ MERRY CHRISTMAS DARLING Carpenters 56 ( 62 ) YOU COULD BE MINE Guns ‘n’ Roses 57 ( 48 ) KISS THEM FOR ME Siouxsie & The Banshees 58 ( 57 ) WHERE THE STREETS HAVE NO NAME - CAN’T TAKE MY EYES OFF YOU/HOW CAN YOU EXPECT TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY? Pet Shop Boys 59 ( 44 ) SEXUALITY Billy Bragg 60 ( 59 ) MERCY MERCY ME/ I WANT YOU Robert Palmer 61 ( 45 ) ALWAYS THERE Incognito featuring Jocelyn Brown 62 ( NEW ) MY AFFAIR Kirsty MacColl 63 ( NEW ) RUN FROM LOVE Jimmy Somerville 64 ( 73 ) IT HIT ME LIKE A HAMMER Huey Lewis & The News 65 ( 64 ) LET IT BE The Beatles 66 ( 63 ) SADENESS PART I Enigma 67 ( 67 ) ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER The Jimi Hendrix Experience 68 ( 68 ) FAMILY AFFAIR B.E.F. featuring Lalah Hathaway 69 ( 61 ) GET THE MESSAGE Electronic 70 ( NEW ) THE SOUND OF EDEN Shades Of Rhythm 71 ( RE ) EVERYDAY PEOPLE Aretha Franklin 72 ( NEW ) TIME LOVE AND TENDERNESS Michael Bolton 73 ( 72 ) ESCAPADE Janet Jackson 74 ( 40 ) REAL LOVE Driza Bone 75 ( NEW ) LET THE BEAT HIT ‘EM Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam playlist records 1 LIKE A PRAYER Madonna 2 THE ADDAMS FAMILY THEME Vic Mizzy 3 BY MY SIDE INXS
August 23, 20213 yr I used to live in a very small town in California but didn't manage to visit the 50 states either :D curious to see if Bryan Adams grabs the #1 spot next Edited August 24, 20213 yr by Bjork
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