at the hight of glamrock, lets see what was around the year i left school!

 

Top 40 Hits of Late March 1973

 

1 Donny Osmond - The Twelfth Of Never

2 Slade - Cum On Feel The Noize

3 T Rex - 20th Century Boy

4 Cliff Richard - Power To All Our Friends

5 Gilbert O'Sullivan - Get Down

6 The Detroit Emeralds - Feel The Need In Me

7 Roberta Flack - Killing Me Softly With His Song

8 Dawn featuring Tony Orlando - Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Old Oak Tree

9 Shirley Bassey - Never Never Never

10 Alice Cooper - Hello Hurray

11 Kenny - Heart Of Stone

12 Jimmy Helms - Gonna Make You An Offer You Can't Refuse

13 Timmy Thomas - Why Can't We Live Together

14 The Faces - Cindy Incidentally

15 Cockerel Chorus - Nice One Cyril

16 David Cassidy - I'm A Clown / Some Kind Of Summer

17 The O'Jays - Love Train

18 The New Seekers - Pinball Wizard / See Me Feel Me (Medley)

19 The Jackson Five - Doctor My Eyes

20 Roxy Music - Pyjamarama

21 Neil Sedaka - That's When The Music Takes Me

22 Dave Edmunds - Baby I Love You

23 Gladys Knight & The Pips - Look Of Love

24 The Strawbs - Part Of The Union

25 The Sweet - Blockbuster

26 Little Jimmy Osmond - Long Haired Lover From Liverpool

27 The Partridge Family - Looking Through The Eyes Of Love

28 Mud - Crazy

29 Focus - Sylvia

30 Thin Lizzy - Whisky In The Jar

31 White Plains - Step Into A Dream

32 Blue Mink - By The Devil

33 Geordie - All Because Of You

34 Gary Glitter - Do You Wanna Touch Me (Oh Yeah)

35 Olivia Newton-John - Take Me Home Country Roads

36 Stevie Wonder - Superstition

37 The Stylistics - Break Up To Make Up

38 Val Doonican - Heaven Is My Woman's Love

39 The Beach Boys - California Saga

40 Judge Dread - Big Seven

 

my take....

 

1 Donny Osmond - The Twelfth Of Never :puke2: awful cover, prefered cliffs version!

2 Slade - Cum On Feel The Noize ........ a stonking great track

3 T Rex - 20th Century Boy ................ the only trex track i like!!!

4 Cliff Richard - Power To All Our Friends ... euro flop

5 Gilbert O'Sullivan - Get Down

6 The Detroit Emeralds - Feel The Need In Me ..... surprisingly my fav 'philly' track.

7 Roberta Flack - Killing Me Softly With His Song .... CLASS unlike the fugees ruination.

8 Dawn featuring Tony Orlando - Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Old Oak Tree :puke2:

9 Shirley Bassey - Never Never Never

10 Alice Cooper - Hello Hurray ............ :) a forgotten ac track.

11 Kenny - Heart Of Stone

12 Jimmy Helms - Gonna Make You An Offer You Can't Refuse ... HATE THIS WITH A PASSION

13 Timmy Thomas - Why Can't We Live Together

14 The Faces - Cindy Incidentally ... class pop :)

15 Cockerel Chorus - Nice One Cyril

16 David Cassidy - I'm A Clown / Some Kind Of Summer ... oh lord, i really like 'i am a clown' :)

17 The O'Jays - Love Train ..... yep, this was good!

18 The New Seekers - Pinball Wizard / See Me Feel Me (Medley) ... awful.

19 The Jackson Five - Doctor My Eyes

20 Roxy Music - Pyjamarama ........... my fav roxy track..

21 Neil Sedaka - That's When The Music Takes Me

22 Dave Edmunds - Baby I Love You .............. a weak cover.

23 Gladys Knight & The Pips - Look Of Love

24 The Strawbs - Part Of The Union .... oh per-leez

25 The Sweet - Blockbuster ........ glamrock standard :)

26 Little Jimmy Osmond - Long Haired Lover From Liverpool .... :puke2:

27 The Partridge Family - Looking Through The Eyes Of Love ... gene pitneys version was far better

28 Mud - Crazy ................ probably my fav mud track! :)

29 Focus - Sylvia ...................:)

30 Thin Lizzy - Whisky In The Jar ...........:)

31 White Plains - Step Into A Dream

32 Blue Mink - By The Devil

33 Geordie - All Because Of You

34 Gary Glitter - Do You Wanna Touch Me (Oh Yeah) ... we know what he means now :angry:

35 Olivia Newton-John - Take Me Home Country Roads ... yeah sod off!

36 Stevie Wonder - Superstition ...... not my flavour, but ill not knock it.

37 The Stylistics - Break Up To Make Up ... oh god, here we go :puke2:

38 Val Doonican - Heaven Is My Woman's Love ....?

39 The Beach Boys - California Saga ................?

40 Judge Dread - Big Seven ... crude and vulgar, appealed to kids and idiots

 

 

Lets see...

 

I know & like:

 

2 Slade - Cum On Feel The Noize

3 T Rex - 20th Century Boy

5 Gilbert O'Sullivan - Get Down - He might be a bit naff but this is a great guilty pleasure song.

7 Roberta Flack - Killing Me Softly With His Song

10 Alice Cooper - Hello Hurray - Probably my favourite Alice Cooper song.

13 Timmy Thomas - Why Can't We Live Together

14 The Faces - Cindy Incidentally

17 The O'Jays - Love Train

20 Roxy Music - Pyjamarama

22 Dave Edmunds - Baby I Love You

24 The Strawbs - Part Of The Union

25 The Sweet - Blockbuster

29 Focus - Sylvia

30 Thin Lizzy - Whisky In The Jar

36 Stevie Wonder - Superstition - At the height of his powers, to think barely a decade later he had declined to making mawkish rubbish like Lately, Ebony & Ivory and I Just Called .....

 

Ones I remember

 

1 Donny Osmond - The Twelfth Of Never.................. :puke2: never liked any of them full stop

2 Slade - Cum On Feel The Noize brilliant song of the time

3 T Rex - 20th Century Boy :dance: one of the best by Marc Bolan

6 The Detroit Emeralds - Feel The Need In Me

7 Roberta Flack - Killing Me Softly With His Song

8 Dawn featuring Tony Orlando - Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Old Oak Tree.....hated this song then, and still hate it now :puke2:

10 Alice Cooper - Hello Hurray

14 The Faces - Cindy Incidentally...............liked this

15 Cockerel Chorus - Nice One Cyril................not a spurs supporter so :puke2:

20 Roxy Music - Pyjamarama :dance:

22 Dave Edmunds - Baby I Love You

24 The Strawbs - Part Of The Union

25 The Sweet - Blockbuster :cheer:

26 Little Jimmy Osmond - Long Haired Lover From Liverpool :puke2:

28 Mud - Crazy :dance:

29 Focus - Sylvia :dance:

30 Thin Lizzy - Whisky In The Jar :yahoo:

36 Stevie Wonder - Superstition

40 Judge Dread - Big Seven.............if you like that sort of thing, preferred big six :lol:

 

Ones I know

 

1 Donny Osmond - The Twelfth Of Never

2 Slade - Cum On Feel The Noize

3 T Rex - 20th Century Boy :dance:

4 Cliff Richard - Power To All Our Friends

5 Gilbert O'Sullivan - Get Down

6 The Detroit Emeralds - Feel The Need In Me

7 Roberta Flack - Killing Me Softly With His Song :wub:

8 Dawn featuring Tony Orlando - Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Old Oak Tree :rolleyes:

12 Jimmy Helms - Gonna Make You An Offer You Can't Refuse :D

14 The Faces - Cindy Incidentally

15 Cockerel Chorus - Nice One Cyril

16 David Cassidy - I'm A Clown / Some Kind Of Summer :wub: Confession, I like this song

17 The O'Jays - Love Train

20 Roxy Music - Pyjamarama

21 Neil Sedaka - That's When The Music Takes Me

24 The Strawbs - Part Of The Union

25 The Sweet - Blockbuster :dance:

26 Little Jimmy Osmond - Long Haired Lover From Liverpool

27 The Partridge Family - Looking Through The Eyes Of Love

28 Mud - Crazy

29 Focus - Sylvia :D

30 Thin Lizzy - Whisky In The Jar

34 Gary Glitter - Do You Wanna Touch Me (Oh Yeah)

35 Olivia Newton-John - Take Me Home Country Roads

36 Stevie Wonder - Superstition :yahoo:

 

I began to get into the charts and chart music in 1974 so this chart is just a bit early for me, but close enough to 1974 that I would have heard quite a few of the songs on the radio at the time.

 

It isn't a classic chart though and to be honest there are few songs on there that I like. The songs that stick out in my mind, from the time are:

 

Cum On Feel The Noize - Slade

Blockbuster - Sweet

 

I always bracket these two songs, and groups, together. I was in Junior school at the time and they were the two groups that were most popular, but it seemed to be one or the other that people liked, never both. I actually cared for neither (at the time!). In fact, I don't think I had a favourite group until 1974 (Mud).

 

Power To All Our Friends - Cliff

Part Of The Union - Strawbs

Tie A Yellow Ribbon... - Dawn

 

3 songs that seemed to be playing on the radio all the time. For some reason the Strawbs song sticks out the most, maybe it's because I live in a former mining town that seemed to be eternally on strike in the early to mid 70s! Perhaps the local radio station played it more than the others...

 

The other songs in the chart, well I know quite a few of them but I don't associate them with March 1973. Probably because I wasn't really following the charts at the time so I have little to tie them to March 1973.

I was only 4 so remember very little! More likely the songs I heard regularly during the rest of the 70s and after. Very little of interest here apart from mainly the Glam stuff. Superstition is a classic and 20th Century Boy is my fav T. Rex song.

 

2 Slade - Cum On Feel The Noize

3 T Rex - 20th Century Boy

7 Roberta Flack - Killing Me Softly With His Song

10 Alice Cooper - Hello Hurray

14 The Faces - Cindy Incidentally

20 Roxy Music - Pyjamarama

25 The Sweet - Blockbuster

30 Thin Lizzy - Whisky In The Jar

33 Geordie - All Because Of You (featuring Brian Johnson later of AC/DC)

36 Stevie Wonder - Superstition

 

I remember recording songs onto my reel to reel tape recorder from "dial a disc" .

The number was 160.

My mum and dad used to go mad at me if they realised I had been listening because of the phone bill!!

Part of the Union was one of the songs I kept listening to so that I could get the following lyrics:

 

Now I'm a union man

Amazed at what I am

I say what I think

That the company stinks

Yes I'm a union man.

 

When we meet in the local hall

I'll be voting with them all

With a hell of a shout

It's out brothers out

And the rise of the factory's fall.

 

Oh you don't get me I'm part of the union

You don't get me I'm part of the union

You don't get me I'm part of the union

Till the day I die, till the day I die.

 

As a union man I'm wise

To the lies of the company spies

And I don't get fooled

By the factory rules

'Cause I always read between the lines.

 

And I always get my way

If I strike for higher pay

When I show my card

To the Scotland Yard

This what I say.

 

Oh you don't get me I'm part of the union

You don't get me I'm part of the union

You don't get me I'm part of the union

Till the day I die, till the day I die.

 

Before the union did appear

My life was half as clear

Now I've got the power

To the working hour

And every other day of the year.

 

So though I'm a working man

I can ruin the government's plan

Though I'm not too hard

The sight of my card

Makes me some kind of superman.

 

Oh you don't get me I'm part of the union

You don't get me I'm part of the union

You don't get me I'm part of the union

Till the day I die, till the day I die.

 

1 Donny Osmond - The Twelfth Of Never (not a bad cover , he didn't deserve the stick he got)

2 Slade - Cum On Feel The Noize (Black Country's finest,had same line up from 1966 to 1991,great song & entered at #1)

3 T Rex - 20th Century Boy (loved the start)

4 Cliff Richard - Power To All Our Friends (sing a long a Cliff)

5 Gilbert O'Sullivan - Get Down (Reminds me of Pans People dancing around dogs on TOTP,underated happy song)

6 The Detroit Emeralds - Feel The Need In Me (classic catchy philly sound,rerecorded in 1977)

7 Roberta Flack - Killing Me Softly With His Song (much better than Fugees version,need to turn volume up though to hear it)

8 Dawn featuring Tony Orlando - Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Old Oak Tree (pure cheese happy sing a long pop)

9 Shirley Bassey - Never Never Never (one of her best)

10 Alice Cooper - Hello Hurray (good but not heard much since 1973)

11 Kenny - Heart Of Stone (singer must have had tight trousers on this one,Ramoner was a loner apparently)

12 Jimmy Helms - Gonna Make You An Offer You Can't Refuse (another singer with tight trousers later with London Beat)

13 Timmy Thomas - Why Can't We Live Together (pure soul)

14 The Faces - Cindy Incidentally (perfect rock pop tune that ends properly)

15 Cockerel Chorus - Nice One Cyril (lets not have another one)

16 David Cassidy - I'm A Clown / Some Kind Of Summer (liked both songs )

17 The O'Jays - Love Train (another great philly classic , still sounds good at discos)

18 The New Seekers - Pinball Wizard / See Me Feel Me (Medley) -(ok at the time but Who much better)

19 The Jackson Five - Doctor My Eyes (J5 at their best , love it)

20 Roxy Music - Pyjamarama (boring)

21 Neil Sedaka - That's When The Music Takes Me (guilty pleasure , nice piano playing happy tune)

22 Dave Edmunds - Baby I Love You (used Phil Spectors wall of sound , big production ,like it)

23 Gladys Knight & The Pips - Look Of Love (great love song)

24 The Strawbs - Part Of The Union (umpah umpah sing along with an ending)

25 The Sweet - Blockbuster (my favourite from this chart , most underated rock band ever)

26 Little Jimmy Osmond - Long Haired Lover From Liverpool (another sing a long , always on Junior's choice)

27 The Partridge Family - Looking Through The Eyes Of Love (prefered this to original version )

28 Mud - Crazy (great fun band,loved all their hits ,Les Gray RIP)

29 Focus - Sylvia (fantastic instrumental , also liked hocus pocus from this Dutch band)

30 Thin Lizzy - Whisky In The Jar (great guitar breaks but goes on a bit)

31 White Plains - Step Into A Dream (Butlins theme tune ?)

32 Blue Mink - By The Devil (preferred Randy)

33 Geordie - All Because Of You (great start to this one ,also liked Electric Lady)

34 Gary Glitter - Do You Wanna Touch Me (Oh Yeah) - (was cool to like him at the time,shame you are not allowed to like the song because it was actually good)

35 Olivia Newton-John - Take Me Home Country Roads (nice sing along ,yeeehaaa)

36 Stevie Wonder - Superstition (still sounds great at discos , unique keyboard sound & voice,great drum start)

37 The Stylistics - Break Up To Make Up (sloppy c**p)

38 Val Doonican - Heaven Is My Woman's Love (never heard this from wooly jumper/cardigan man)

39 The Beach Boys - California Saga (never heard this either)

40 Judge Dread - Big Seven (funny at the time but no more)

 

 

1 Donny Osmond - The Twelfth Of Never :yahoo:

2 Slade - Cum On Feel The Noize :wub: :yahoo:

3 T Rex - 20th Century Boy

4 Cliff Richard - Power To All Our Friends :wacko:

5 Gilbert O'Sullivan - Get Down :yahoo:

6 The Detroit Emeralds - Feel The Need In Me :wub:

7 Roberta Flack - Killing Me Softly With His Song .... :wub: :cheer:

8 Dawn featuring Tony Orlando - Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Old Oak Tree :yahoo: :dance: :wub:

9 Shirley Bassey - Never Never Never

10 Alice Cooper - Hello Hurray

11 Kenny - Heart Of Stone

12 Jimmy Helms - Gonna Make You An Offer You Can't Refuse

13 Timmy Thomas - Why Can't We Live Together

14 The Faces - Cindy Incidentally

15 Cockerel Chorus - Nice One Cyril

16 David Cassidy - I'm A Clown / Some Kind Of Summer :rolleyes:

17 The O'Jays - Love Train

18 The New Seekers - Pinball Wizard / See Me Feel Me (Medley)

19 The Jackson Five - Doctor My Eyes

20 Roxy Music - Pyjamarama

21 Neil Sedaka - That's When The Music Takes Me

22 Dave Edmunds - Baby I Love You

23 Gladys Knight & The Pips - Look Of Love :wub:

24 The Strawbs - Part Of The Union :lol:

25 The Sweet - Blockbuster :yahoo: :funky: :music:

26 Little Jimmy Osmond - Long Haired Lover From Liverpool :dance:

27 The Partridge Family - Looking Through The Eyes Of Love

28 Mud - Crazy

29 Focus - Sylvia

30 Thin Lizzy - Whisky In The Jar

31 White Plains - Step Into A Dream

32 Blue Mink - By The Devil

33 Geordie - All Because Of You :cheer:

34 Gary Glitter - Do You Wanna Touch Me (Oh Yeah) :puke2:

35 Olivia Newton-John - Take Me Home Country Roads :yahoo:

36 Stevie Wonder - Superstition

37 The Stylistics - Break Up To Make Up :)

38 Val Doonican - Heaven Is My Woman's Love :blink:

39 The Beach Boys - California Saga

40 Judge Dread - Big Seven . :puke2: