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1 4 1 8 NEVER CAN SAY GOODBYE - The Jackson 5 348600 2 29 2 3 READY TO BEGIN - Appleton 140200 3 5 3 4 THE WAVE - Jungle 171650 4 3 1 9 LOVE CONTROLLER - Demi Lovato 588300 5 2 1 6 CRYING OVER YOU - Reverend and The Makers 605000 6 27 6 7 I'LL BE THERE - The Jackson 5 125050 7 7 7 8 RUMOURS - Hot Chocolate 255250 8 10 8 6 FOREVER - Reverend and The Makers 147650 9 1 1 9 EMMA - Hot Chocolate 602000 10 16 10 7 STRUCK - Charlotte MacInnes 134800 11 6 1 6 YA YA YA - JONAS LOVV 547000 12 11 4 10 CHUCK THE MONEY - Stephen Sanchez 332100 13 9 5 7 MASTER JACK - Four Jacks And A Jill 257000 14 15 14 8 CAN'T SIT STILL - Lainey Wilson 137500 15 19 15 9 MR KNOW IT ALL - Teddy Swims 158300 16 14 1 12 CLICK CLACK SYMPHONY - RAYE featuring Hans Zimmer 866100 17 8 6 12 SUGAR - Simien & Akon 388150 18 18 5 19 DRIVE SAFE - Myles Smith & Niall Horan 563000 19 13 10 9 FREE TO LOVE - Duran Duran featuring Nile Rodgers 166950 20 26 20 9 JOKE ABOUT DIVORCE - Blossoms 123650 21 17 17 6 GO - The Chemical Brothers featuring Q-Tip 90950 22 23 22 9 IN MY ROOM - Linda Ronstadt 135600 23 12 12 8 YOU COULD'VE BEEN A LADY - Hot Chocolate 139950 24 22 1 8 BROTHER LOUIE - Hot Chocolate featuring Alexis Korner 565500 25 34 25 6 AIN'T NO SUNSHINE - Shaggy featuring Sting 85350 26 30 26 8 BRING YOUR LOVE - Madonna & Sabrina Carpenter 90350 27 24 16 11 BEAUTY PAGEANT - Holly Humberstone 188000 28 25 3 7 LIFE'S TOO SHORT - The Lightning Seeds 342050 29 36 29 7 OH NO! NOT THE BEAST DAY - Marsha Hunt 71950 30 21 1 7 LOVE IS LIFE - Hot Chocolate 356500 31 28 2 9 ONE BAD APPLE - The Osmonds 346850 32 43 32 5 PATCHES - Clarence Carter 53000 33 47 33 5 BETTER TIMES - Robin Schulz featuring BARBZ 48100 34 50 34 4 RIPPLES IN A POND - Paul McCartney 41800 35 42 35 5 LIGHT UP - Kylie Minogue 55450 36 38 36 8 FLOWERS - Blue 82700 37 39 37 8 COME BACK TO ME - Haircut 100 85550 38 32 1 19 LUCKY AGAIN - Lykke Li 863750 39 35 3 13 PHOENIX - Marshmello x Portugal. The Man 396550 40 49 40 6 UPSIDE DOWN - Natalie Imbruglia 53500

21st June 2026 It's a mercifully cooler Saturday, after the equatorial temperatures sent me retreating into the cinema everyday for AC, and made me late with my charts, and feeling lazy and tired! It's also another oldie on top as The Jackson 5's 1971 number 2 finally gets on to my top spot, Never can Say Goodbye thus matches I'll Be There in becoming their 7th number one as an act, and allowing Michael Jackson a total of 22 to move ahead of Madonna at 4th in my all-time list of most number ones. It's a long gap to the next 3 though, so he won't be getting any higher than 4th. ABBA, Pet Shop Boys and The Beatles are well clear of the field. I'll Be There also goes top 10, for a third time, at 6. Appleton have had a chart-topper with All Saints (Pure Shores) but have only peaked at 2 previously as an act, Don't Worry in 2003 - and Ready To Begin leaps 27 places with those fab Verve-ish swirling strings Bittersweet Symphony stylee. They leap past Jungle who climb to 3, while Charlotte MacINnes gets a first top 10 with Struck. Paul McCartney gets his first top 40 in a while with new material, a mere record-breaking chart run of 58 years since The Beatles' Hey Jude topped my very first chart. Ronald LaPread, The bassist and co-founder of The Commodores passed away this week, so in at 53 is their first UK hit, the funky instrumental Machine Gun back 52 years on, and Sail On, one of the songs of my first USA holiday in California/Nevada/Arizona in 1979, is back at 79. The former song is pre-Lionel The Balladeer, the second part of a run of ballad hits before Mr Richie went solo. The country-soul laid back vibes just fit scorching LA and Death Valley radio stations, and our scorching UK week of heat this week. It was literally like being in Furnace Creek mid-summer, upper 30's.... Best new track debuting is Adam Lambert's Under The Rhythm at 67, it borrows liberally from ATC's Around The World, but is an improvement, and his first chart entry since 2020's Roses with Nile Rodgers, 16 years since his debut, and 9 years since Two Fux topped my chart. Holly Humberstone gets a second on the list at 73, White Noise, and 3rd of the year. It's 5 years since her debut The Walls Are Way Too Thin. Francesco Gabbani meanwhile gets his first entry since his Eurovision track, Summer Funk at 74, 9 years on from Occidentali's Karma. Chake Khan knocks herself out of my chart, with added Snoop Dogg replacing added Sia, Boogie's In My Soul at 77 sounding good, and Chaka's run still being 52 years on from Tell Me Something Good. Snoop is a more modest 30-odd years in contrast, but has never really gone out of fashion chart-wise for me. Olivia Rodrigo grabs a 2nd charting single from her album, The Cure, and may well be chartin with Robert Smith of The Cure, having already referenced him and them in hit 1, holding at 57 vs The Cure's 84. Boys Don't Cry charted earlier in the year (original version) for The Cure, to boot. Another one with 2 on the chart, Myles Smith enters Hold Me In The Dark at 92, The Dead South at long last get a fellow-up to In Hell I'll Be In Good Company as they cover Rox In The Box at 95, a Decemberists song, and their second chart hit 9 years on. Quite the week for 2017 acts this week. There's a chart debut with the gospel-sounding Let's Get Together by newbie-to-me Brother Wallace at 96, and also Temper City at 98 who enter Self Aware, and a double Sparks following their fab live performance in Bournemouth last week: 2000's track Baby Baby Can I Invade Your Country went down well with it's Country twang in at 99, and I-405 Rules from their recent Mad! album pops in at 100. That'll be 52 years of charting then, just ahead of Chaka Khan. 1 4 1 8 NEVER CAN SAY GOODBYE - The Jackson 5 348600 2 29 2 3 READY TO BEGIN - Appleton 140200 3 5 3 4 THE WAVE - Jungle 171650 4 3 1 9 LOVE CONTROLLER - Demi Lovato 588300 5 2 1 6 CRYING OVER YOU - Reverend and The Makers 605000 6 27 6 7 I'LL BE THERE - The Jackson 5 125050 7 7 7 8 RUMOURS - Hot Chocolate 255250 8 10 8 6 FOREVER - Reverend and The Makers 147650 9 1 1 9 EMMA - Hot Chocolate 602000 10 16 10 7 STRUCK - Charlotte MacInnes 134800 11 6 1 6 YA YA YA - JONAS LOVV 547000 12 11 4 10 CHUCK THE MONEY - Stephen Sanchez 332100 13 9 5 7 MASTER JACK - Four Jacks And A Jill 257000 14 15 14 8 CAN'T SIT STILL - Lainey Wilson 137500 15 19 15 9 MR KNOW IT ALL - Teddy Swims 158300 16 14 1 12 CLICK CLACK SYMPHONY - RAYE featuring Hans Zimmer 866100 17 8 6 12 SUGAR - Simien & Akon 388150 18 18 5 19 DRIVE SAFE - Myles Smith & Niall Horan 563000 19 13 10 9 FREE TO LOVE - Duran Duran featuring Nile Rodgers 166950 20 26 20 9 JOKE ABOUT DIVORCE - Blossoms 123650 21 17 17 6 GO - The Chemical Brothers featuring Q-Tip 90950 22 23 22 9 IN MY ROOM - Linda Ronstadt 135600 23 12 12 8 YOU COULD'VE BEEN A LADY - Hot Chocolate 139950 24 22 1 8 BROTHER LOUIE - Hot Chocolate featuring Alexis Korner 565500 25 34 25 6 AIN'T NO SUNSHINE - Shaggy featuring Sting 85350 26 30 26 8 BRING YOUR LOVE - Madonna & Sabrina Carpenter 90350 27 24 16 11 BEAUTY PAGEANT - Holly Humberstone 188000 28 25 3 7 LIFE'S TOO SHORT - The Lightning Seeds 342050 29 36 29 7 OH NO! NOT THE BEAST DAY - Marsha Hunt 71950 30 21 1 7 LOVE IS LIFE - Hot Chocolate 356500 31 28 2 9 ONE BAD APPLE - The Osmonds 346850 32 43 32 5 PATCHES - Clarence Carter 53000 33 47 33 5 BETTER TIMES - Robin Schulz featuring BARBZ 48100 34 50 34 4 RIPPLES IN A POND - Paul McCartney 41800 35 42 35 5 LIGHT UP - Kylie Minogue 55450 36 38 36 8 FLOWERS - Blue 82700 37 39 37 8 COME BACK TO ME - Haircut 100 85550 38 32 1 19 LUCKY AGAIN - Lykke Li 863750 39 35 3 13 PHOENIX - Marshmello x Portugal. The Man 396550 40 49 40 6 UPSIDE DOWN - Natalie Imbruglia 53500 41 69 41 4 MOVIN' TO THE SUN - HUGEL, Imael Angel & Ultra Nate 23900 42 48 42 9 LITTLE MORE TIME - Niall Horan 73150 43 20 13 12 CARRY ON - Jungle 222250 44 31 19 10 I FEEL SO FREE - Madonna 149850 45 55 45 8 ELECTRIC CIRCUS - Nelly Furtado, Boi 1da & Canada Soccer 58900 46 59 46 5 TALK TO YOU - ANOTR featuring 54 Ultra 35250 47 41 1 8 I BELIEVE (IN LOVE) - Hot Chocolate 321600 48 33 5 8 YOU'LL ALWAYS BE A FRIEND - Hot Chocolate 270000 49 40 40 6 BE LIKE A WOMAN - Chris Rainbow 67000 50 54 50 4 MORE! MORE! MORE! - Becky Hill 38600 51 52 51 4 DRAG THE BAG - Inspiral Carpets 33450 52 64 52 3 ON THE FLOOR - Jennifer Lopez featuring Pitbull 23600 53 NEW 53 1 MACHINE GUN - The Commodores 11250 54 78 54 2 HOWL - Carly Simon 15400 55 37 28 11 THERE WAS SUN - Nothing But Thieves 142750 56 56 4 16 AMERICAN GIRLS - Harry Styles 427200 57 57 57 9 DROP DEAD - Olivia Rodrigo 56900 58 46 46 9 DO I LOVE YOU? - The Ronettes 76900 59 61 59 6 POTENTIAL - sombr 39200 60 65 60 8 WE GO BACK - Keith Urban featuring Michael McDonald 41400 61 66 61 6 ECLIPSE - Delta Goodrem 30800 62 68 62 3 LET THE GOOD TIMES ROLL - Electric Callboy featuring The Offspring 15500 63 45 25 10 FIRST LIGHT - Lana Del Ray 139650 64 67 64 5 THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY - Katy Perry 22300 65 58 1 22 APERTURE - Harry Styles 1067000 66 62 1 28 RELIQUIA - ROSALIA 1312000 67 NEW 67 1 UNDER THE RHYTHM - Adam Lambert 6600 68 71 68 4 FAVOURITE KIND OF IDIOT - Paul Heaton featuring Rianne Downey & Ian Broudie 17600 69 70 69 6 BANGARANGA - Dara 28400 70 77 70 6 I LOVE LIFE - Bakermat featuring RANI 21400 71 74 71 5 MAN IN THE ARENA - The Script 16600 72 80 72 4 BOSTON - STELLA LEFTY 13000 73 NEW 73 1 WHITE NOISE - Holly Humberstone 5400 74 NEW 74 1 SUMMER FUNK - Francesco Gabbani 5200 75 79 75 4 SALESMAN SAINT - Paul McCartney 12700 76 60 24 11 HOT DAMN - Dadi Freyr 149150 77 NEW 77 1 BOOGIE'S IN MY SOUL - Chaka Khan & Snoop Dogg 4600 78 86 78 5 HEADLIGHTS - In Color 10600 79 NEW 79 1 SAIL ON - The Commodores 4200 80 92 80 2 LOVE SENSATION - Madonna 5800 81 81 80 6 MY SYSTEM - FELICIA 18900 82 82 82 6 IN THE STARS - The Rolling Stones 16700 83 83 83 6 C U DANCE - Dizzee Rascal 14800 84 NEW 84 1 THE CURE - Olivia Rodrigo 3200 85 84 84 4 RETURN TO BHIBO - Barry Can't Swim 11200 86 85 85 6 JIGSAW HEART - The Hoosiers 12300 87 76 76 6 HOME TO US - Paul McCartney & Ringo Starr 17300 88 44 14 9 FOCU 'RANNI - ROSALIA 152450 89 89 89 4 MOMMA GETS BY - Paul McCartney 7300 90 90 90 3 ROLLING STONES - The Kolors 5400 91 91 91 4 SAD GIRLS - Bebe Rexha & David Guetta 6300 92 NEW 92 1 HOLD ME IN THE DARK - Myles Smith 1800 93 93 93 2 A CRAZY SHOT IN THE DARK - The Fizz 3400 94 95 94 2 BOTTLE UP - The Backstreet Boys 3100 95 NEW 95 1 ROX IN THE BOX - The Dead South 1500 96 NEW 96 1 LET'S GET TOGETHER - Brother Wallace 1400 97 94 94 3 NIGHTSHIFT SUPERSTAR - Muse 4100 98 NEW 98 1 SELF AWARE - Temper City 1200 99 NEW 99 1 (BABY BABY) CAN I INVADE YOUR COUNTRY - Sparks 1100 100 NEW 100 1 I-405 RULES - Sparks 1000 51 35 10 UP OUT & GONE - Ne-Yo 114400 53 38 8 YOU CAME YOU SAW YOU CONQUERED - The Ronettes 78650 63 2 13 YOU'RE A SUPERSTAR - Take That 527300 72 72 7 (THE BEST PART OF) BREAKIN' UP - The Ronettes 25900 73 51 5 NEW HIGHS - Cerrone & Adi Oasis 36800 75 71 6 BUZZING - Tom Speight 27900 87 18 6 THEME FROM THE ONEDIN LINE (SPARTACUS: ADAGIO OF SPARTACUS AND PHRYGIA) - Vienna Philharmonic & Aram Khachaturian 79600 88 79 6 CHAKZILLA - Chaka Khan featuring Sia 17900

Hi SSP! My faves of the climbers and newies this week! 01 02 Little To You - Spencer Crandall 11 1(1) 04 05 Bring Your Love - Madonna / Sabrina Carpenter 6 4 07 08 Walked Away - David Guetta / Hypaton 11 7 10 11 Drop Dead - Olivia Rodrigo 5 10 20 21 Club Bizarre - Alok / Sam Harper / Alex Christensen 11 20 23 26 Somewhere Over Laredo - Lainey Wilson 7 23 27 55 Dai Dai - Shakira / Burna Boy 4 27 34 40 Ya Ya Ya - Jonas Lovv 4 34 ❤️ 36 45 Dance No More - Harry Styles 4 36 45 48 Sleepless In A Hotel Room - Luke Combs 7 45 46 53 Man In The Arena - The Script 3 46 50 --- Passenger - Alex Warren 1 50 52 59 The Cure - Olivia Rodrigo 3 52 55 64 Sad Girls - Bebe Rexha / David Guetta 2 55 57 63 Superman - Federica Abbate 2 57 58 --- Tangerine - Damiano David 1 58 ooh I like the 50's vibes on this! 59 66 Bangaranga - Dara 3 59 73 80 Dirty Rosie - Shania Twain 5 73 74 79 Better Times - Robin Schulz 3 74 76 --- Bones - Winona Oak 1 76 82 --- I Believe In Ghosts - Kacey Musgraves 1 82 83 --- Love Sensation - Madonna 1 83 85 --- On My Soul - Bruno Mars 1 85 88 --- Nightshift Superstar - Muse 1 88 89 91 Shimmer - Meghan Trainor 2 89 90 92 Love Controller - Demi Lovato 2 90❤️ 96 --- Click Clack Symphony - Raye 1 96❤️ 98 --- Let The Good Times Roll - Electric Callboy / The Offspring 1 98 100 --- Liekinheitin - Linda Lampenius / Pete Parkkonen 1 100 fab chart! 😎

Hi SSP! Thanks as always for the picks of the climbers, and the new entries! cheers! 😎

Hi AH! 🙂 Hope the hideous weather wasnt too awful at work, I hid in the cinema everyday for the AC. Great top 3, all fresh new tracks for me to enjoy for a few weeks. Fabulous charts, old and new! 🥰😎

Hi AH!🙂 Glad you had fun going out, always worth the effort, even if it means cleaning up a toilet. At the very least it makes for a great anecdote at future family occasions when you bring it up. Much like your sister did! 😄I have several tucked away I can trawl out as a reminder when others start to complain about the younger folk behaviour 😇Your workplace has no AC? EEK! About time they had a maximum temp for workplaces! Sitting and freezing is a no-no but passing out from heat is fine...?! Thanks for all the picks and comments! Back up to bloody 100 again this week, tch, it takes ages to get through 100 songs. I can't help myself, it's like an addiction! 😄Glad you rate Emma and Jungle. That Madonna does sound like Get Together now you mention it, but if she's going to repeat herself might as well pick a great era! I'd noticed The Fizz in the sales chart, I thought it was down to the vinyl release of the single, but not heard that remix. Hang on a mo while I check it out...and now I notice that "daaaark" key change (?) sounds like the bit on My Camera Never Lies on "Liiiieeees". Nice remix, yes, though I will stick with the original single version, as I tend to 😄 Thanks again, and cheers! 😎

Hey James! 🙂 Hope all is fab! Great chart, my faves this week: The Cure, More! More! More! (this reads like poetry! 😄) I just saw Toy Story so taylor might be growing on me, ditto Ariana,good to see Aperture back in the top 10, drop dead, To Love Somebody holding, Dracula up and ooh new entries from Anne Hathaway and The Fizz 🤩and I havent heard that Carly Ray track, playing it, like it, buying it, thanks! Cheers! 😎

Hey James! 🙂 Thanks for the picks and comments! More More More I need to be in the right mood for, and the weather has been pushing 100 in old temperatures (we have no AC) so big bangers need cooler weather to have more impact! 😄It's getting cooler now that'll help 😃Glad you liked The Fizz track, old Eurovision faithfuls there! 🤩 Hope all is fab! Cheers! 😎

Hello Jordan! Hope all is great with you as the 250th approaches. I can still recall the 200th and the weather here was freakishly hot then too. Hotter than equatorial Singapore last few days, we have no AC so the cinema is the only refuge! 😄 great charts! 😎

Hello Jordan! Hope all is fab with you! 👍Thanks for the picks and comments! Go sounds great, I dont know why I didnt buy it first time round TBH, though the film spot helps make it more powerful and noticeable! 😮 Teddy Swims is class, still knocking out great songs and performances 🤩On The Floor sounding great, ah those were the days when fun dance music was a thing! Headlights is more of a grower, I think, so no chance of getting radio plays in the UK, booooo! Backstreet Boys I had the same reaction 😄Paw Patrol? The 7-year-old in the house loves the TV show, so I thought "bound to be child-appealing" 🙄It's more nostalgia-90's appealing I think so there for the mums and dads 😄 Cheers! 😎

Hey Sven! 🙂 Hope all is good, and these are my upwardly-mobile tracks in the top 50, breakers and oldies chart! - ARIANA GRANDE - HATE THAT I MADE YOU LOVE ME -PP❤️ / - (1x@🥇) 02 01 13 - Bebe Rexha & Faithless - New Religion / - (2x@🥇) 03 17 03 - Shakira & Burna Boy - Dai Dai ⚽is there football on! 😄 07 07 09 - Teddy Swims - Mr. Know It All 08 10 05 - Sienna Spiro - material Lover 09 16 02 - Olivia Rodrigo - The Cure 19 22 05 - The Rolling Stones - In The Stars -PP❤️ 20 NE 01 - Taylor Swift - I Knew It, I Knew It / - (tip19) 26 29 03 - Harry Styles - Dance No More -PP❤️ 34 39 02 - Madonna - I Feel So Free 35 38 03 - Duran Duran & Nile Rodgers - Free To Love bubblers: -PP❤️ = PowerPlay : --------------> BEBE REXHA & DAVID GUETTA - SAD GIRLS -PP❤️ 12 15 - Paul McCartney & Ringo Starr - Home Of Us 13 14 - Milky & David Guetta - Just The Way You Are (remix´26) 14 20 - Madonna - Love Sensation 18 NE - Slayyyter - Dance 1983 chart: 02 02 06 - Agnetha Fältskog - The Heat is On 03 03 05 - New Order - Blue Monday / The Beach 06 08 04 - The Police - Every Breath You Take -AS🔔 -PP❤️UK 09 21 02 - David Bowie - China Girl 13 17 03 - Rod Stewart - Baby Jane 14 19 03 - Eurythmics - Love Is A Stranger 29 NE 01 - The Beat - Can´t Get Used To Losing You -AS🔔 32 NE 01 - Heaven 17 - Temptation 34 20 08 - Leo Sayer - Orchard Road 38 26 09 - Tracey Ullman - Breakaway 40 36 07 - Robin Gibb - Juliet -PP = Power Play : -----------------------> Michael Jackson - Wanna Be Startin´Something -PP❤️ / - (Radio Luxemburg - UK) -RT = Radio & TV Tip : ------------------> Kim Wilde - Love Blonde / - (State Radio Hilversum 3 - AVRO - NL) -SP = SteunPlaat : -----------------------> Bucks Fizz - When We Were Young -PP❤️UK / - (State Radio Hilversum 3 - NOS - NL) classics galore there in the oldies! Great charts! 😎

Hey Sven! 🙂 Thanks for the picks hope all is good with you! 🤩Glad you like the oldie Jackson 5 track! 🥰 cheers! 😎

Hey DaTilt! 🙂 Hope all is well! These are my faves this week: 1. Federica Abbate – Superman (1) 4w 9. Shakira; Burna Boy – Dai Dai (15) 6w 10. Rose Gray – Club To Your Arms (21) 2w sounding good this one, think I will buy it! 30. Jungle – The Wave (29) 4w 31. Winona Oak – Bones (33) 3w 33. Anotr; 54 Ultra – Talk to You (25) 11w 35. Olivia Rodrigo – Stupid Song (41) 2w 36. Ariana Grande – Hate That I Made You Love Me (40) 4w 48. Sienna Spiro – Material Lover (26) 8w 51. Holly Humberstone – White Noise (39) 11w 55. Ella Langley; Morgan Wallen – I Can't Love You Anymore (28) 9w 66. Olivia Rodrigo – Drop Dead (57) 10w great chart! 😎

Hi DaTilt! 🙂 Thanks for the picks and comments, glad you like Hot Choc, and yes more new entries this week 😄 cheers! 😎

Hey Seltin! 🙂 Good top 5 and climber faves lower down from Bebe/David, Olivia R, Ella, Madonna and Shakira, and Becky, Teddy, madonna, Alex and The Script outside the3 30. great charts! 😎

Hey Seltin! 🙂 Thanks for the picks! None of them dropping yet in the new chart! cheers! 😎

Hi Sergej!🙂 Hope all is fab! These are my faves of the climbers and new entries: 1 14 1(x1) 6 Irama – Cabana reminds me of La Isla Bonita intro, but not the rest of the song 12 13 12 10 sombr – Potential 15 59 15 2 Olivia Rodrigo – stupid song 18 26 18 4 Shakira & Burna Boy – Dai Dai 25 RE 25 9 Teddy Swims – Mr. Know It All 42 NE 42 1 Olivia Rodrigo, Robert Smith – what's wrong with me 53 77 53 2 Mark Medlock – Back Into The Sun 54 54 54 4 Harry Styles – Dance No More 67 NE 67 1 Shaboozey – Cowgirl 85 100 85 2 Slayyyter – DANCE... 93 RE 73 4 Holly Humberstone – Make It All Better 94 NE 94 1 Rose Gray – Club To Your Arms so much new stuff I havent room for in my charts yet! So far at any rate, maybe next week some will sneak in...! great charts! 😎

Hi Sergej! 🙂 Ooh glad to hear Emma is still popular in Germany, it rarely gets played in the UK as it's "too depressing" and radio prefers upbeat songs! 😮Thanks as always for the climber picks! cheers! 😎

Get Away is a fun enough Georgie Fame track, but never one of my faves of his. I lost a point in the music round of a quiz Thursday by not listing The Blue Flames on Yeh Yeh. Outrageous 😄Dont know that Fran Ifield track, but it sounds a bit like a Roy Orbison impressionist having a go at a song a bit like Nobody's Child, and quite nice. The More I See You has always been a laid-back fave song of mine as done by Chris Montez, Joy's voice has none of that summery vibe, and the recording's not really a sound I go for much. I have Herman's Hermits Greatest Hits CD and this track isn't on it (they had so many bigger hits, no room!) and it's not one I remember from the time. Pleasant and way better than their awful huge US hits I'm Henery The 8th I Am and Mrs Brown You've Got A Luvverly Daughter Vaudeville oldies that Mickie Most had the good taste not to release as singles in the UK. So in the battle for the top, it's not Out Of Time, much as I like Chris farlowe's vocal on it. I first noticed it in the summer of 75 when The Rolling Stones, Dan McCafferty and Chris all charted with it after Dan's cover was released outside of Nazereth. At which time Dan's was my fave version - but Chris should get the kudos really. Bus Stop, though, is a brilliant song and given it was written by a teenager is amazingly mature. One of the great records of the 60's for me. Oddly I never got to see The Hollies in concert, but I am seeing Graham Gouldman at the end of July in a church in Poole doing his career overview as opposed to 10CC stuff, so should get a version then hopefully. One of the best things about living in Poole is we are spoilt for music venues, not just large venues in Poole & Bournemouth, but loads of outlying ones in Ringwood, Pavilions in Bournemouth and Weymouth, historical charity run Wimborne Tivoli, The Firestation for bands in small settings, Boscombe O2 for bands not quite big enough for a large venue. The comedy circuit is well-werved as is the tribute band/shows and musicals. And there's still venues out in the sticks or nearby Southampton. The only gap is the megastar - Southampton St Mary's in the summer or London for those.

Swagger Jagger, only half recall that one, playing it now. Never a fan of Cher lloyd though, and it's a bit of a mess, that annoying back drop vuvu-thing sound and the nicking of O My darling Clementine for the chorus hook do nothing to endear me now. Peaked at 64 for me, I feel that was generous enough for the overall fun vibe. Pixie Lott I also have no real memory of, other than I generally liked her. Ah yes, coming back to me now, very much a Taio Cruz vibe to it, and for some reason I must have been getting fed up with the sound about then as it only peaked at 73 in my chart, where she'd had top 10's before. It sounds much better than Cher Lloyd and some others on the list so I think I have done her a wrong there!

well done again both on the 39's and thanks both too! The weather has broken in Dorset hooray, fresher today, after cooking for days where temps were literally higher than Singapore, and Singapore is always hot year-round, being on the equator, more or less. round 1: 36 Bryan adams, doh! round 2: 36 one year out 3 in 10: 1: Flying Without Wings and then brain freeze even for the awful covers

None of those three essential acts of the decade, though two of them are pleasnt enough. Sorry about the laptop Gezza! Been there, I obsessively back up on a memory stick now! Hope it gets sorted!

Norman Greenbaum's version is a classic, this is a sort of amusing pastiche bringing back hippie fashions through an 80's Goth vibe, and looking great on Top Of The Pops. I still enjoy it, but it's not as powerful as the original, though even that one has a sort of dark twinkle in its' eye. Burn is much better, though I may be in a minority there....