March 22, 20223 yr Blue Monday is surely a contender for the greatest song to never make the Top 5. :wub: (Of course it did with the 1988 edit but never in its full glory)
March 24, 20223 yr Author 41 - Stars On 45 - Stars On 45 7skQvj-aBV8 18th best seller of 1981 Chart Run 45-17-3-2-3-3-3-7-13-24-36-41-65-64 A sort of Jive Bunny before Jive Bunny. That's all you need to know. Adam and the Ants' Stand and Deliver deprived this of number 1 status. :sadface:
March 24, 20223 yr 'Blue Monday' is a masterpiece of course :wub: :wub: forgot it had peaked as low as #9 :o 'Stars On 45' is a bit of a guilty pleasure, probably because it mostly comprises of Beatles songs :P
March 24, 20223 yr Author 40 - Dionne Warwick - Heartbreaker 9xHQsMYosao 18th best seller of 1982 Chart Run 52-29-5-2-2-3-8-15-37-41-41-51-66 There was me listening to Heartbreaker, assuming that she wrote it and thinking "This sounds like a Beegees song". Guess who wrote it? :D Eddie Grant's I Don't Wanna Dance kept this at number 2.
March 24, 20223 yr Author Blue Monday is surely a contender for the greatest song to never make the Top 5. :wub: (Of course it did with the 1988 edit but never in its full glory) It's clearly Chasing Cars or Mr Brightside /sacrcasm
March 24, 20223 yr Author 39 - Five Star - Rain Or Shine cOXjoLf-bLw 18th best seller of 1986 Chart Run 31-13-4-2-2-3-7-13-27-37-58 Fairly inoffensive song from fairly inoffensive band. Their biggest hit. I really can't pass up the chance to say that I really like Slightest Touch. :wub: Communards' Don't Leave Me This Way and Madonna's True Blue kept this in second place.
March 24, 20223 yr Author 38 - Mike + The Mechanics - The Living Years 5hr64MxYpgk 18th best seller of 1989 Chart Run 17-4-2-2-2-4-7-22-29-51-73 The industry expected this to depose Kylie and Jason's Especially For You at the top of the chart but a Friday night airing of Something's Gotten Hold of My Heart by Marc Almond and Gene Pitney on Wogan boosted its sales way ahead of The Living Years on the Saturday which meant it had to settle for runner up spot which it held for a further 2 weeks. Edited March 24, 20223 yr by Colm
March 25, 20223 yr A fantastic song and would have been a worthy No.1. Lyrically poignant, melodically brilliant. I'm not a fan of kids choirs usually but it really adds to the atmosphere here.
March 25, 20223 yr Stars On 45 gave a nod to some lesser-known Beatles tracks, so fine by me but The Beatles Movie Medley was the actual Beatles as opposed to session singers, so that forgotten hit gets my preference as a purist - but Stars On 45 is fun, as was the Abba Medley follow-up. The 2 greatest pop bands of all-time, it was all downhill for Stars On after that...... :lol: I love The Bee Gees, I love Dionne Warwick, decent track from both. Five Star had some OK stuff, a couple of good singles and one great, sweet, record - Rain Or Shine. I can't listen to The Living Years to this day, always turn it off if it comes on the radio. Makes me sad due to a family loss at that time. Silent Running was their great record though.
April 2, 20223 yr Author 37 - Ottawan - Hands Up (Give Me Your Heart) NR2qjvsqNSk 16th best seller of 1981 Chart Run 48-28-11-4-3-3-5-7-13-20-23-36-45-65-72 Despite the huge success of this song and D.I.S.C.O they only managed two top 40 hits. Held at number 3 by a combination of Adam and the Ants' Prince Charming, Soft Cell's Tainted Love and The Police's Invisible Sun. Edited April 3, 20223 yr by Colm
April 2, 20223 yr Author 36 - Angry Anderson - Suddenly KeEppeK0F2I 16th best seller of 1988 Chart Run 51-33-16-3-3-4-4-3-5-15-25-35-54 Back to Kylie and Jason again,...Their on-screen partnership in Neighbours tied the knot in November 1988. It was a huge moment in late 80s television watched by 20 million UK viewers and the song chosen to soundtrack that moment was Angry Anderson's Suddenly. It was kept in 3rd place by Kylie and Jason's Especially for You, Cliff's Mistletoe and Wine and then by Erasure's Crackers International EP. Edited April 3, 20223 yr by Colm
April 2, 20223 yr Ottawan = singalong cheesy fun Angry Anderson = torturous ballad bought by soap fans weepy about a fictional wedding. So bad. I preferred Angry Of Mayfair, or Mr. Angry. 80's cultural references....
April 3, 20223 yr Author 35 - Madonna - Crazy For You DHutZXREZ0E 16th best seller of 1985 Chart Run 25-9-3-2-3-3-5-6-12-15-19-24-31-42-59 Released as the lead single from the soundtrack to the film Vision Quest, Crazy For You became Madonna's biggest hit. But not for long as she exceeded the its number 2 peak with her first number 1 five weeks later with Into the Groove. Unusually, for someone who was still alive - Madonna had 3 singles in the top 15 on the 4th August 1985. Crazy for You #15 Holiday (1985) #5 Into the Groove #1 Sister Sledge's Frankie kept Crazy for You from being a chart topper. Edited April 3, 20223 yr by Colm
April 3, 20223 yr Author 34 - Judy Boucher - Can't Be Wit You Tonight FZ1gDEnLp3A 16th best seller of 1987 Chart Run 37-14-4-2-2-2-2-3-8-14-24-35-43-62 A hit based on the exposure the song had while being used as the music during the fitness slot on TV Am. Madonna's La Isla Bonita kept it at number 2 for the first fortnight but Judy wasn't finished yet, and spent two more weeks in the runner up slot behind the second biggest seller of the year - Starship's Nothing's Gonna Stop Us.
April 3, 20223 yr Author 33 - Altered Images - Happy Birthday 6t1vaF50Ks0 15th best seller of 1981 Chart Run 63-48-28-16-5-2-2-2-11-16-40-55-72-75-75-58-68 Biggest hit from the Scottish post-punk band, and not a one hit wonder either. They had a further couple of top 10s and a few more Top 40 hits. It's My Party from Dave Stewart and Barbara Gaskin outsold it for all 4 weeks it was at number 2.
April 3, 20223 yr 'Hands Up' is another guilty pleasure that has popped up - I find it stuck in my head a lot out of nowhere! Love 'Happy Birthday' :wub: both that and Stevie Wonder's song of the same name charted within months of each other :lol: (both peaking at #2 at that!)
April 3, 20223 yr Author I don’t recall that Judy Boucher track at all I do. I remember it being championed by Lizzie Webb on TV Am. I was just 11 years old. It was also on Hits 6 which was my first ever tape.
April 6, 20223 yr Happy Birthday is fab, Claire Grogan is fab, Altered Images were fab! Don't Talk To Me About Love was the fabbest though. Madonna. Never got Crazy For You and I remain mystifed how it managed to do the same in the 90's as if one big run wasn't quite enough. Mildly pleasant, and not much more. Judy Boucher was also pleasant, but at least it had a Lovers Rock reggae vibe going for it to make it more interesting. :)
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