Posted April 13, 200817 yr UK Top 40 Singles weekending 15th April 1989 1 (5) Eternal Flame – The Bangles 2 (19) If You Don’t Know Me By Now – Simply Red 3 (1) Like A Prayer - Madonna 4 (3) Straight Up – Paula Abdul 5 (8) I Beg Your Pardon – Kon Kan 6 (2) Too Many Broken Hearts – Jason Donovan 7 (16) Baby I Don’t Care – Transvision Vamp 8 (4) This Time I Know It’s For Real – Donna Summer 9 (14) Americanos – Holly Johnson 10 (6) Keep On Movin’ – Soul II Soul ft Caron Wheeler 11 (12) People Hold On – Cold Cut ft Lisa Stansfield 12 (New) When Love Comes To Town – U2 & BB King 13 (7) Paradise City – Guns N’ Roses 14 (9) I Haven’t Stopped Dancing Yet – Pat & Mick 15 (13) Don’t Be Cruel – Bobby Brown 16 (21) Mystify - INXS 17 (10) I’d Rather Jack – Reynolds Girls 18 (11) International Rescue - Fuzzbox 19 (New) Good Thing – Fine Young Cannibals 20 (15) Fire Woman – The Cult 21 (37) Got To Keep On – Cookie Crew 22 (25) Musical Freedom (Moving On Up) – Paul Simpson ft Adeva 23 (32) Of Course I’m Lying - Yello 24 (22) Can You Keep A Secret – Brother Beyond 25 (18) The Beaten Generation – The The 26 (17) Can’t Stay Away From You – Gloria Estefan & Miami Sound Machine 27 (27) She’s A Mystery – Roy Orbison 28 (34) Only The Lonely – T’Pau 29 (39) Devotion – Ten City 30 (20) Sleep Talk – Alyson Williams 31 (40) Beauty’s Only Skin Deep - Aswad 32 (23) One Man – Chanelle 33 (New) Beds Are Burning – Midnight Oil 34 (38) What Does It Take – Then Jericho 35 (New) Me, Myself and I – De La Soul 36 (New) Real Love – Jody Watley 37 (24) Help - Bananarama 38 (New) Requiem – London Boys 39 (New) This Is Your Land – Blow Monkeys 40 (New) Please Don’t Be Scared – Barry Manilow Chart Commentary The Bangles started a run-of 4 weeks at the top of the chart with Eternal Flame. Simply Red made a 17 place climb from 19 to 2 with If You Don’t Know Me By Now taken from their A New Flame album. The song didn’t climb any higher and made it three weeks in the runner-up slot. Coldcut peaked at No.11 with People Hold On which was their become their last Top 40 hit, but they did kick Lisa Stansfield’s career off, she would hit the No.1 position later this year with All Around The World. Then Jericho’s hit at 34 ‘What Does It Take’ also featured the vocals of Belinda Carlisle. The song would peak a week later at no.33. Barry Manilow entered at No.40 with Please Don’t Be Scared, the song would peak At No.35 the following week. The next time he charted was in 1993 with remixes of Copacabana (No.22), and Could It Be Magic (No.36).
April 13, 200817 yr there's some decent songs in there: Eternal Flame Like A Prayer This Time I Know It's For Real Keep On Movin' People Hold On International Rescue Fire Woman Musical Freedom Beds Are Burning but there's also some pure dross... If You Don't Know Me By Now Too Many Broken Hearts Americanos (one of the most irritating songs of the 80s) I Haven't Stopped Dancing Yet Please Don't Be Scared (to which Alan Jones, in his then weekly column for Record Mirror stated that Barry Manilow was making a wholly unreasonable request!) the other songs in the chart were various shades of average...
April 13, 200817 yr Too Many Broken Hearts Americanos (one of the most irritating songs of the 80s) ^ Noooo! I loved those when I was a kid :lol:
April 13, 200817 yr Dale counted down this chart on Pick Of The Pops today on Radio 2. You can hear it for the next 7 days on the Listen Again facility on the Raio 2 website. The week ending date of this chart - 15th April 1989 - was also the day of the Hillsborough disaster. A great chart, but those songs also remind of me that too. (EDITS: As Robbie also mentions in the MRIB thread too) Edited April 13, 200817 yr by eightiespopkid
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