When you were younger (or even now) who did you think the best chart show presenters were? have you ever written down the chart for yourself?

 

Did you ever tape the chart so you could listen to it again (and pause when the presenter was on??) What is your favourite #1 from the time you have listened to the chart?

First one I ever listed to was when Spice Girls were #1 with wannabe :o

 

My favourite was when Shakira was #1 with HDL :lol:

Mark Goodier was my fave presenter

 

I started listening to it in October 1998 and wrote it down from June 1999 to November 2004 when being at work on sunday got in the way...

 

The first chart I listened to had in it Corrs-What Can I Do and Cher's Believe...I can't remember anything else from it

 

My fave No.1 is also Shakira's Hips Don't Lie!

I remember listening to the chart when Shakira became no.1 ^_^ that was a good show

 

I also liked the one where Jamelia Something About You climbed upto #9 :D

have you ever written down teh chart fopr yourself? Did you ever tape the chart so you could listen to it again (and pause when the presenter was on??)

 

Yes to both questions, I started writing the chart in 1978, I've got 3 Lever Arch files, covering nearly 3 decades, this time next year marks my 30th Anniversary my first chart was when The Police - Message in A Bottle was #1 :lol: I used to tape the chart every Tuesday evening at 6pm when Peter Powell used to do the chart rundown and I remember Tuesday's lunchtime with Dave Lee Travis, I remember running home lunchtime to listen to the chart :lol: What a nutter :lol: From the year 2000, I started to type the charts in a database on my computer.

 

And I used to pretend to be a DJ with my twin decks :lol:

 

My fave DJ has to be Bruno Brooks, and the late great Alan 'Fluff' Freeman, "Yo Chart Pickers"

I started to listen to the Top 40 back in the late 80s. I think Bruno Brooks was the presenter. I used to tape them every week, and then listen to my favourites in the week after - it was a regular occurence for me to pause the tape player when the DJ spoke. I think Yazz, Kylie Minogue, Jason Donovan, The Stone Roses (I remember hating them, as I loved Pop) were in my first charts which I wrote down on a pad (wish I still had it). In about 92/93 I stopped listening to the charts for a couple of years, until mid-95 when Pulp, Oasis and Blur were riding high.

 

I started to write down the singles and albums #1s from 1997-2004, when I discovered Coolclarity. I still have these lists somewhere!

 

I think my favourite #1 since the late 80s has to be The Verve - The Drugs Don't Work from 1997 (most of my favourite songs peaked at number 2!)

My favourite presenters were:

Alan Freeman - Take a Listen HERE This was before R1 when it was the Light Programme

Tommy Vance

Bruno Brooks

Mark Goodier

Edited September 23, 200717 yr by Mark.

I remember Tom Browne in the early 70's just counting down the top 20 from 6 to 7 pm. Showing my age now.

I remember Tom Browne in the early 70's just counting down the top 20 from 6 to 7 pm. Showing my age now.

 

Tom Browne did the show when I started listening to it. My sister and I insisted on having it on while we were eating our evening meal :o

 

I went through a phase of writing the chart down. I also used to compile a ytd chart using a points system.

 

 

My first memories of the charts were around 1973 when Tom Browne presented solid gold sixty . I used to write down them week after week. On Tuesday lunchtimes I would listen to the new chart & decide which songs I would be taping on the Sunday night.

I've got 100s of tapes in the loft of old chart shows , most of them complete with the presenters talking .

The chart show was the only show on Radio 1 that was in stereo at the time so the quality was great on a Sunday evening.

Simon Bates did the chart show after Tom Browne from April 1978 to August 1979.

Tony Blackburn presented from Aug 1979 to Jan 1982.

Tommy Vance took over from Jan 1982 to Jan 1984.

Simon Bates came back from Jan - Sept 1984

Richard Skinner did Sept 1984 to 1986

Bruno Brookes stepped in from 1986 to Sept 1990

Mark Goodier took over from Sept 1990 to March 1992

Bruno Brookes came back from March 1992 to Feb 1995

Mark Goodier returned from Mar 1995 to Nov 2002

Wes Butters took over from Feb 2003 to Feb 2005

JK & Joel have been presenting the charts since March 2005

 

 

 

I started listening to the chart show in 1986 when Bruno Brookes was the presenter, definately my fav presenter

closely followed by Mark Goodier. Having listened to some earlier charts, thanks to the internet, i count the late

Tommy Vance as one of the best too.

 

I didn't start logging the chart from the beginning but i listened every week, and recorded shows.

started logging the chart from 1988onwards and never looked back.

 

I still have a fairly good selection of recordings, the earliest being from 1987, one from 1988 and a few from 1989.

Quite a few 90s charts exist in my collection...and some 2000s, 2002 is very well-represented!!

Thanks to the internet i've added a few more 80s charts to my collection.

 

I have every Top 40 logged from 1988 onwards, and also a book of Top 40 charts which features every Top 40 chart

from 1960 to the end of 1991 which is good. A further volume came out a few years later listing up to 1995 but i didn't

get that one. My book is old and tatty now, they really need to update it!!

 

I remember listening to the charts on a Sunday when Bruno Brookes did it and I even remember Mark Goodier announcing Bryan Adams getting his 16th week at No.1 with "Everything I Do (I Do It For You)".

 

I started writing down the charts in Sep 1997 when Elton John went straight to the top with "Candle In The Wind 1997". I was listening to it for the first time in years but I wanted to listen to this one because the single was only released the previous day so I just wanted to see if it got to the top. For some reason, I just grabbed a pen and a piece of paper, wrote 1 to 40 down the page and wrote down the songs as quick as I could.

 

I wrote them all down until 2004 when I started putting them on my PC.

 

First post and I waffle on!! lol

I remember listening to the charts on a Sunday when Bruno Brookes did it and I even remember Mark Goodier announcing Bryan Adams getting his 16th week at No.1 with "Everything I Do (I Do It For You)".

 

I started writing down the charts in Sep 1997 when Elton John went straight to the top with "Candle In The Wind 1997". I was listening to it for the first time in years but I wanted to listen to this one because the single was only released the previous day so I just wanted to see if it got to the top. For some reason, I just grabbed a pen and a piece of paper, wrote 1 to 40 down the page and wrote down the songs as quick as I could.

 

I wrote them all down until 2004 when I started putting them on my PC.

 

First post and I waffle on!! lol

 

Newbies are just as entitled to waffle on as anyone else.

Wes Butters :wub: I really liked him :( :lol:

 

And my fave Number 1's were "Say You'll Be There" and "Maneater" :heart:

There's some clips from the chart in October 1987 here.

The very first time the chart was revealed on a sunday afternoon for the first time.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6922276.stm

Ah nice topic!

 

My first ever memory was when Shakespeare's Sister knocked off Wet Wet Wet's 'Goodnight Girl' with 'Stay' - this was towards the start of 1992!... The following week my Mum gave me a couple of week to buy the single on Tape from Asda! From then on to about 2001 I was very, very clued up with the charts... but my interest has dwindled rapidly over the last couple of years and these days I'm lucky to know a fraction of whats in them

 

Is it old age? Or are the charts full of c**p? Well OK thats purely subjective, but nothing in it interests me what with all this Shakira, Fergie, Enrique, Avril Lavigne rubbish... Maybe if I was 13 I would feel a lot differently!

 

For the record, I'll opt for Mark Goodier as my favourite presenter. He seemed genuinley interested in the charts and was well into his dance music (always a bonus for me...). Wes Butters was absolutely atrocious, however. Him trying to build suspense for the number one spot was the equivalent of watching your Granny trying to squat a fly with a wet dish-cloth!

 

Fave ever number one is Livin' Joy's 'Dreamer' (which I adored to death at the time) knocking off Oasis 'Some Might Say' from number one (which I hated to buggery). The summer of 1995!

Edited September 24, 200717 yr by ScottyEm

I started listening religiously at the end of 1989 and, yeah, I used to write them down for a while too from the end of 1990 until the summer of 1992. Bruno Brookes is understandably my favourite presenter, although I liked Mark Goodier too. I reckon Mark though would have realised Rage Against the Machine had very radio unfriendly content and wouldn't have played the full unedited version of 'Killing in the Name' at tea time on a Sunday. My favourite moment ever...the 'whoops' tone in Bruno's voice when it finished was fantastic and it has since been known as the Bruno Brookes Mix.

 

Favourite number one...not sure...probably The KLF, but I always remember being amazed and really happy that Shut Up and Dance's 'Raving I'm Raving' went in at number 2 in 1992 as I assumed it had missed altogether when it didn't get read out earlier on.

I remember listening to the charts on a Sunday when Bruno Brookes did it and I even remember Mark Goodier announcing Bryan Adams getting his 16th week at No.1 with "Everything I Do (I Do It For You)".

 

I started writing down the charts in Sep 1997 when Elton John went straight to the top with "Candle In The Wind 1997". I was listening to it for the first time in years but I wanted to listen to this one because the single was only released the previous day so I just wanted to see if it got to the top. For some reason, I just grabbed a pen and a piece of paper, wrote 1 to 40 down the page and wrote down the songs as quick as I could.

 

I wrote them all down until 2004 when I started putting them on my PC.

 

First post and I waffle on!! lol

We all tend to waffle now and then :D

 

Welcome to Buzzjack :P

Remember when WES hosted the Countdown? I sent an e-mail in saying where I thought certain songs would chart and he read it out :wub: :wub:

I wrote the charts down religiously for YEARS when I was a kid, so it woulda been when Mark G was presenting the countdown...ahhh, the days

 

Fave #1? OUCH. This is a hard one...I remember I was DELIGHTED when Eric Prydz climbed BACK to #1 with 'Call On Me' :wub: