24. ELTON JOHN - "STEP INTO CHRISTMAS"

 

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Entered chart w/e 8/12/73

 

Reached No.24 w/e 5/1/74

 

Weeks on chart : 7

 

We saw the Wedding Present's version yesterday, but here's the far superior original, the B-side of which was called "Ho! Ho! Ho! (Who'd Be A Turkey At Christmas?)"!

 

Surprised this wasn't a bigger hit, but I suppose it did have the mighty Slade and Wizzard to compete with.

 

one elton john song that i can tollerate, surprised it charted so low tbh, it should have made top ten.

one elton john song that i can tollerate, surprised it charted so low tbh, it should have made top ten.

 

agreed. You would have thought how often it's flogged to death each Christmas that it would have made the Top 10 originally :unsure:

Yeah, it's strange. Most people say it was played a lot at the time and Elton had just had a successful year so can't understand why it only made 24.

 

Hopefully more people will contribute to these threads once the songs start to get more familiar :D

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Hopefully more people will contribute to these threads once the songs start to get more familiar :D

 

like ive said, traffic in here is very irregular, sometimes its dead other times theres more active topics then the lounge! but mostly its somewhere in between.

one elton john song that i can tollerate, surprised it charted so low tbh, it should have made top ten.

Strangely in the Melody Maker chart in 1973, it did actually make the top 10!

Strangely in the Melody Maker chart in 1973, it did actually make the top 10!

I have a feeling it may have done better in the official chart were it not for the fact that the official charts in mid to late December 1973 and up to mid January 1974 seemed to go into complete stagnation. I think the official chart compilers started their Christmas breaks early and just got someone to shuffle the chart about a bit each week! The chart for week ending 22/12/73, based on sales from 09/12/73 to 15/12/73 was reduced to a top 30 (from a top 50) with most singles moving one or two places (though a small handful did take big leaps). The following week, sales which would have been to 22/12/73 and chart dated 29/12/73 there was no chart compiled and the one after that had the same 30 songs inside the top 30 shuffling about a place or two again - as did much of the chart for the following week. Something was amiss in the compilation of the chart for that entire month... I guess Elton John's true chart placing was affected by this.

Edited December 5, 200816 yr by Robbie