Too low for JLS :puke:

 

I do admit to liking Frankee's version but I still wouldn't go out of my way to hear it really (although I did once a few years ago but that's a rare occasion and it was with the video as well).

 

The Pat Boone song is alright I guess but again meh.

Edited November 6, 20222 yr by Roba!

I'm attributing JLS not making the top 20 to Rio not voting (see page 1) :D The Club Is Alive was my +39 and their X Factor cameo was on my +31. They had a lot of potential as a group but I just think they had poor quality control from whoever was choosing their songs, especially after their debut

I'm attributing JLS not making the top 20 to Rio not voting (see page 1) :D

Haha even an extra 40 points with nothing else scoring anything would only get it to 22nd!

agree JLS should be much higher

 

The Frankee song is hilarious if you consider it was all a fabrication and they didnt know each other

“Did you know I had a big-a hit-a song in-a Italy with-a dis?”

 

22nd Joe Dolce Music Theatre - Shaddup You Face

 

 

4th, 1980-1995 heat

 

Average score: 19.47

Highest score:

40 King Rollo

Lowest score:

3 Smint

 

Number One for 3 weeks in February / March 1981, this famously held off “Vienna” by Ultravox for all 3 of those weeks. Joe Dolce Music Theatre was a one man cabaret show. He used some of his Italian grandparents’ favourite phrases in the song, which he wrote about Italians living in Australia. More recently he has written some acclaimed poetry.

 

I don’t know if this is so maligned primarily for blocking “Vienna”, but to me it’s quite a fun little piece of novelty. It’s-a not so bad.

Again not one of the worst here but the fact that it blocked 'Vienna' from #1.... 👎

21st - My Ding-A-Ling - Chuck Berry

 

 

10th, 1952-1979 heat

 

Average score: 20.17

Highest score:

38 Alex!

Lowest score:

1 chartjack2

 

Number One for 4 weeks in November /December 1972, this held off “Crazy Horses” by The Osmonds and “Gudbuy T’Jane” by Slade. The Osmond family had its revenge immediately as Chuck was knocked off in time for Christmas by a certain song still to come in this countdown.

 

Inevitably the song was banned by many radio stations. Mary Whitehouse wrote to the BBC about how “One teacher told us of how she found a class of small boys with their trousers undone, singing the song and giving it the indecent interpretation”. Shocking. Chuck said of his only chart topper “I LOVED that song because that little, weenie song made my wallet so far and happy”. Fair enough. I find the song itself fairly unlistenable myself but I know others find it fun.

Recap:

 

40 Walk This Way - Sugababes / Girls Aloud 13.20

39 We Will Rock You - Five / Queen 13.93

38 We Are The World - USA For Africa 14.07

37 Teletubbies Say “Eh-Oh” - Teletubbies 14.63

36 Turn Up The Music - Chris Brown 15.17

35 Let’s Party - Jive Bunny & The Mastermixers 15.40

34 With A Little Help From My Friends - Sam & Mark 15.90

33 The Chicken Song - Spitting Image 15.93

32 Against All Odds - Mariah Carey / Westlife 16.60

31 Save Your Love - Renée & Renato 16.67

30 The Long And Winding Road - Will Young / Gareth Gates 16.93

29 Axel F - Crazy Frog 17.13

28 Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny - Bombalurina 17.40

27 Wishing On A Star - X Factor Finalists 17.60

26 It’s Chico Time - Chico 17.90

25 The Club Is Alive - JLS 18.40

24 F.U.R.B. (F*** You Right Back) - Frankee 18.80

23 I’ll Be Home - Pat Boone 19.20

22 Shaddup You Face - Joe Dolce Music Theatre 19.47

21 My Ding-A-Ling - Chuck Berry 20.17

Remaining:

 

1950s - 1

I See The Moon - Stargazers (1954)

 

1960s - 0 :)

 

1970s - 7 :o

Grandad - Clive Dunn (1971)

Long Haired Lover From Liverpool - Little Jimmy Osmond (1972)

The Streak - Ray Stevens (1974)

If - Telly Savalas (1975)

D.I.V.O.R.C.E. - Billy Connolly (1975)

No Charge - JJ Barrie (1976)

One Day At A Time - Lena Martell (1979)

 

1980s - 1

There’s No One Quite Like Grandma - St Winifred’s School Choir (1980)

 

1990s - 5

The Stonk - Hale & Pace / The Stonkers (1991)

Come On You Reds - Manchester United Football Club (1994)

Unchained Melody - Robson & Jerome (1995)

I Feel You - Peter Andre (1996)

The Millennium Prayer - Cliff Richard (1999)

 

2000s - 0 B-)

 

2010s - 4

Shout - Shout For England / Dizzee Rascal / James Corden (2010)

Wake Me Up - Gareth Malone’s All Star Choir (2014)

A Bridge Over You - Lewisham And Greenwich NHS Choir (2015)

Freaky Friday - Lil Dicky / Chris Brown (2018)

 

2020s - 2

You’ll Never Walk Alone - Michael Ball / Tom Moore / NHS Voices Of Care Choir (2020)

Sausage Rolls For Everyone - Ladbaby / Ed Sheeran (2021)

 

Remaining by heat:

1952-1979 1st-8th

1980-1995 1st-3rd & 5th

1996-2006 1st & 3rd

2007-2022 1st-5th & 7th

Edited November 6, 20222 yr by JulianT

Hope Lena (I listened to this and didn't quite get why this is disliked very much looking at the heat 1 votes. I don't think it's that bad at all really but then again country and Christian isn't a buzzjack fave lol) and Grandma slip out soon. 'Come On You Reds' was pretty inoffensive for me but everything else remaining is to be expected I think.

 

Edit :Shout is ok as well but it's not a patch on the original.

Edited November 6, 20222 yr by Roba!

Only two of my bottom 10 left now. At the other end of the scale, Shaddup You Face was my +32, the Vienna blocking notwithstanding I just find all the off-music talking irritating. Although on another day I might have ranked my +30 and +29 above it, and they're still to come.

It was a combination of stopping Vienna from getting to no.1 and being such an annoying song that made me give my 40 points to Joe Dolce.

It's a shame that both 'Vienna' and 'Crazy Horses' were blocked from #1 by two pretty naff songs (the latter is an actually good Osmonds song unlike the Jimmy one still standing here)

The only thing that Chuck Berry song is good for is the Simpsons gag based on it. It's otherwise garbage and pretty creepy. That's the second one of my top 10 to drop out.

 

Joe Dolce I have always had a soft spot for though, much as 'Vienna' obviously deserved #1.

Vienna was also blocked for a week by John Lennon's Woman. Therefore, Mark Chapman played a part in denying Ultravox a number one.

Remaining:

 

 

1970s - 7 :o

 

Long Haired Lover From Liverpool - Little Jimmy Osmond (1972)

Seeing the title of this track, it could be a big hit in someone else's personal chart if it was a new song. ;) :lol:

Im actually quite happy joe dolce blocked vienna - its topped modt polls as the greatest number 2 ever since when its not aha and is gondly remembered for it. And speaking as a huge Marx Brothers fan - the original comedy anarchists - Shaddap ya Face is basically a sweet chico marx impression.

 

Anything that upset Mary Whitehouse also totally deserved getting to number one. She went for doctor who as well a bit of innuendo about masturbation which i was led to believe was disgusting and unnatural by the likes of her and society at large. So chuck berry was doing everyone a favour laughing at it. Unlike his actual creepy and seedy moment sticking a hidden camera in the ladies loo of his bar.

 

 

Fifty thousand voices sing our song

Keep us at the top where we belong

 

20th - Come On You Reds - Manchester United Football Club

 

 

5th, 1980-1995 heat

 

Average score: 20.23

Highest score:

40 DJ Cheeky Magpie

Lowest score:

2 Mack, Mangø

 

Number One for 2 weeks in May 1994 before being knocked off by some non #1 called “Love Is All Around”, this is the only chart topper but among 6 Top 20 hits for the team under some slightly different artist names. It is the only chart topper by a club side. Status Quo produced the song and it was based on their 1988 #5 hit “Burning Bridges” and released in advance of the 1994 FA Cup final. Opponents Chelsea also released a single which reached #23.

 

Football songs often include obnoxious raucous singing and are devoid of originality. Sure enough this ticks both of those boxes, but as a neutral non football fan I don’t consider it to be one of the worst offenders of its kind. Clearly for many of you it is up there, but it has escaped the title of worst ever football related chart topper.

Edited November 6, 20222 yr by JulianT

Yeah I didn't mind that as alluded to in my post earlier today (8 points I think I gave it).

 

EDIT: 9 i mean.

Edited November 6, 20222 yr by Roba!

Come on You Reds was the second lowest I had left (the lowest I have a soft spot for, but I kinda get why it's this high x), for a football song, it's not horrible. It at least has quite a catchy melody and doesn't murder a classic unlike a certain other football song here...