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Hey Sergej! :) Hope all is fab, these are my top climbers and new entries: 9 9 9 2 Kygo & OneRepublic – “Chasing Paradise” :cheer: 10 NE 10 1 The Weeknd – “Cry For Me” 12 5 5 10 Kendrick Lamar & SZA – “luther” Ok it's dropping, but climbing for me :lol: 75 NE 75 1 The Weeknd ft. Lana Del Rey – “The Abyss” 83 79 74 5 Sam Barber ft. Avery Anna – “Indigo” 89 94 89 2 Fontaines D.C. – “Bug” There's loads of great tracks dropping though!! great chart! B-)

Hey Sergej! :) Thanks for the picks as always! Hope all is good with you! B-)

Hey Sven! :) Messy finally got there after that monster APT run!! :dance: Doh! Luther dropping just as I buy it :D Euphoria up, Deacon Blue climbing too and a few faves dropping. Bubbling under, Chappell Roan, Kygo/OneRepublic, The Weekend all good new entries. 2014 seems like a couple of years ago :o I almost entered Happy into the BJSC that's how long I've been doing it, I bought it about a year before it became a hit :lol: Hey Brother, Jubel, Strong, Rather Be, Roar were also among my top tracks of that time. fab charts! B-)

Hey Sven! :) Yes it's odd how Euphoria didnt sound quite so euphoric that quickly! :lol: Thanks for loving the oldies too! :cheer: Thanks for the picks and comments! B-)

Round 1: 36 one year out, doh! Round 2: 36 ( ) 3 in 10: 2 ( I forgot their 3rd hit :teresa:

I Quit was always a bit forgettable, but for me the rot started after When Will I Be famous and didnt stop till the top 10 hits dropped off and they got more interesting. Given the soon-to-jump-ship non-brother co-wrote his future missus' hit and ended up a music industry back-scenes manager, one guesses the screaming fan thing wasnt for him. Love Lovely Day, the original. The remix didnt ruin it, but I wouldnt say it added anything either, but it was nice to see Bill back in the charts, long a fave of mine and almost already retired from the music biz forever, pretty much, happy at home with the family in the small-town back-woods community and not a single new album released after 1986. I think he was saying goodbye with a final fling before letting the record companies creatively re-work the back catalogue on hits packages. Now Gloria/Miami Sound Machine I was a fan of throughout the lean UK years prior to Anything For You, which was one of my first CD single purchases, both for the latino dance numbers like Conga, and the ballads such as Fallin' In Love (Uh-Uh) which should have been the one to cross-over, or one which will eventually go top 10 as a follow-up out again. Oddly Bad Boy was a UK hit but isn't one of the better known early hits. Another Part Of Me missed a huge trick - I guess Disney weren't playing along though, as an early version of the song was co-centrepiece to the massive Disney Epcot Captain Eo sci-fi extravaganza musical exclusive that Jackson starred in. He is excruciating as an actor, but the SFX and the song & dance routines were great for the time. Had they let him crib part of it for a video it would have gone top 10, but that was never going to happen - you had to pay to see the 3D movie by going to Epcot/Disney! As I'd been in 1987 the record topped my chart!

Love Rik Mayall but it was never going to get any points from me, Sparks I have my ticket for June at the Apollo ahead of their new album and Amateur Hour deserved better - but Something For The Girl With Everything from that era is better, that has a new animated fan video which is brilliant. I Don't Care is too low too, and Cher way too low, vocally she was doing new things and the song is top notch. Stoned In Love is a goodie, and Madonna I didnt have enough room for but it's good.

I like Game Of Love, really like Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood - it might be my fave Animals track, House included - and I bought a coloured vinyl double A of the Ivy League biggest 2 songs in the late 70's, so I especially like Funny How Love Can Be, I do like vocal harmonies. So that gets the edge I think, for me. Or maybe not! Depends on mood. :) Dont know the other one: looks like it was a Northern Soul revival track in the early 70's. It's pretty good soul with that Bacharach class and it has his stamp written on the melody for the chorus.

I think they were bigger hits due to the advert/film thing than in the early 80's, but there were always loads of covers, medleys and EPs and the like - The Monkees EP, Black Night, MASH, Paranoid, ska revival, Elvis galore, Beatles, Hollies, John Lennon etc as actual oldies. I know in the 70's and 80's I was re-discovering 60's stuff (still am!) and in the 80's Glam/Punk was very much the inspiration for New Romantic/New Wave. By the mid-80's the disco remix revival was under way but I dont recall that many oldies breaking through other than that around 83-85 other than the minor hit ongoing Beatles reissues and the odd xmas song comeback.

Forgot to mention Stevie & Julio. Now I've mentioned it I will move on. :teresa: The Race was fun, and Yello were always interesting, but I prefer a lot of their lesser hits and flops (see BJSC a few years back). The Hollies' was one I missed at the time, being out the country and all, but heard as an oldie in the 70's. I thought it was a bit dull at first, but it grew on me over the years and this re-issue was a great reason to chart it properly and to top my chart, and also the follow-up re-issue the even more classic Air That I Breathe, the Albert Hammond song that was so good Radiohead borrowed it. Creep! :teresa:

late again had a lie in...missed the beginning oops. Thanks Rollo & Jade and you were just a whisker away yourselves! :dance: Round 1: 21 ( and I said it first in my head too then changed my mind) Round 2: 36 (being strict, I actually said ) 3 in 10: 2 ( ) oops.

Oops! I was rushing using someone else's votes as a template and missed that one! Just bung everything up one point below!

84 (NEW) EVERYTHING I OWN - Bread _21cZe2eO_I A famous song, this one, topping the UK charts in 1974 and 1987, for Ken Boothe and Boy George's reggae cover of the original reggae cover, yet this sweet ballad didn't click with UK radio and record buyers, becoming just a minor hit with two other David Gates masterpieces becoming just 2 of only 3 brilliant ballads to make the UK top 30 during their great Easy-listening hit-packed US career. That Bread havent remained in the same league as the Carpenters in terms of staying beloved by the general public is a shame. David Gates had a sweet vocal style, and once Bread finally gave up the ghost on trying for more rock-cred upbeat hits (and which may have been why they were never consistent hitmakers in the UK) and let David Gates keep the touching, low-key, sweetly-sad story or love songs coming, they built up quite the back catalogue ready for a chart-topping Hits album later in the 70's. In 1974 I preferred the Ken Boothe cover, and while I still rate that one, I think this one is more sincere and affecting. So, the second of four on the rundown, none of them getting into my top 100 of the time. It must be a maturing thing....

85 (4) IT'S ONE OF THOSE NIGHTS (YES LOVE) - The Partridge Family starring Shirley Jones and Featuring David Cassidy Gqk9u0M36YQ And so on to biggest of The Partridge Family singles for me in 1972. Fresh from going mad on the TV show and especially I Think I Love You, this was a sort of belated comeback as the show was being shown on UK TV and the Cassidy buzz was growing. The same songwriter of I Think I Love You returned for this fab tune, Tony Romeo, along with quite a few other good tracks in 1970/71 for them, before the bubble burst and he had to look further afield for hit songs (Brotherhood Of Man in 1977, for example), and I was a bit of a fan of his melodies. I bought this single full-price, loved it, and stayed loving it for a few decades, so it came as a bit of a surprise when these revisits saw most Partridge Family tracks haven't weathered as well as nostalgia might have suggested. The arrangements, especially the backing vocals, just sound so MOR 50 years on. That didn't bother me at the time, as obviously great acts like the Carpenters were not enticing the music critics of the time either, so I didn't much care if they weren't cool. Still don't. Still fond of the record....but it's dropped from 4th fave of the year to 85th, along with Breaking Up Is Hard To Do dropping from 6 to 95. So at least this one hasn't dropped as quite as much!

86 (NEW) THE RIGHT THING TO DO - Carly Simon Onhpc59Wtso The follow-up single in 1973 to Carly's breakthrough (more on that later), The Right Thing To Do is a bit early here as a track from her 1972 album smash, No Secrets, and it's almost as good as the big one, a lush romantic ballad with a melody to love. I rated this at the time, but it had a shorter chart run in the UK - around which I based my charts - so it never got the chart points to make the year-end 100 of 1973, but it would have if I'd just simply charted whatever new tracks I liked and allowed records that were smaller hits or flops to feature. So, Carly became iconic with t'other track and for the next 20 years, once the next single made the UK charts in 1974, there would be a new hit for Carly at 5-year intervals, and also a re-invention, from Bond in 1977 to Nile Rodgers in 1982, and back to ballads for 1987's return, before the original hit made a 90's comeback.

87 (NEW) WATCH ME - Labi Siffre MQfJDQxcjmg Labi had arrived with his classic It Must Be Love in 1971, and kept the ball rolling in 1972 with more hits, Watch Me scraping into the UK top 30 as his 3rd hit, the first two ballads being a lot to live up to, but it has a charm of it's own anyway. Labi's voice is always great, and though his brand of singer-songwriter dropped out of fashion as the 70's moved on he kept on plugging away until his 80's comeback, and is of late involved in getting some action on his back-catalogue, the other 1972 hit has just made the UK Sales chart (more on that higher up the list), and this one from a year or so ago did the same. Something of a pioneer in the folkish singer-songwriter movement of the 60's and 70's, Labi gave us 2 representations for the price of one: Black, and Gay, though the latter wasn't something one promoted at the time if you wanted to get airplay. More kudos needed.

sorry its late just spotted this +25 Abba - Lay All Your Love On Me +24 Pet Shop Boys - Domino Dancing +23 Al Green - Let's Stay Together +22 Cher - One By One +21 Bomb The Bass - Winter In July +20 The Bellamy Brothers - Let Your Love Flow +19 Grandmaster and Melle Mel – White Lines (Don't Don't Do It) +18 Kirsty MacColl - A New England +17 The Beach Boys - I Get Around +16 Chic - Le Freak +15 Toploader - Dancing In The Moonlight +14 The Verve - Lucky Man +13 Madonna - Get Together +12 Billy Joel - We Didn't Start The Fire +11 Chicane featuring Tom Jones - Stoned In Love +10 Pet Shop Boys - Domino Dancing +9 Dr. Dre featuring Eminem – Forgot About Dre +8 Wild Cherry - Play That Funky Music +7 Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton – Islands In The Stream +6 Tom Tom Club - Wordy Rappinghood +5 Sparks - Amateur Hour +4 The Rolling Stones - Start Me Up +3 Soul Asylum - Runaway Train +2 Shakespear's Sister - I Don't Care +1 Queen - Another One Bites The Dust

Missy Elliot is the weakest here. Nickelback, much as I generally dont rate them, Photograph may be their best track, and Electrical Storm is fgood U2.

Thanks, jade, sorry I missed friday's off to London! Well done, Rollo on the 39, and both of you 30's on thurs/fri, :) Round 1: 39 Round 2: 39 3 in 10: 3 ( ) I like to be chronological for fave acts....that's just showing off!! :lol:

Teardrops is a classic, Womack & Womack were always classy and Love Wars was equally fab. Some of their lesser hits and flops were also good, and yes, Brother of Bobby, daughter of Sam Cooke. The Harder I Try is decent SAW for me, I like the melody, most of their best records were referring back to 60's Motown/Soul. Breathe was typical US radio fodder of the time, I think I picked it up in the bargain bin before it became a hit in the UK, I quite liked it for a while. Bomb The Bass I don't recall ever hearing the Megablast side, but the other side I liked. A Groovy Kind Of Love was a sensitive cover of a very nostalgic beloved mid-60's hit for me, The Mindbenders still takes me back to the time and place of being 8 years old. I still rate Phil's version, the song is (my fave phrase) bullet-proof.

week 18: Best: TLC - Waterfalls Coolio - Gangsta's Paradise (feat. L.V.) Janet Jackson - Again Madonna - Take A Bow Seal - Kiss From A Rose Worst: The Heights - How Do You Talk To An Angel (dreadful uninspired plodding ballad) Boyz II Men - On Bended Knee (for turning into a self-parody with identikit plodding soul) Michael Jackson - You Are Not Alone (for accepting an R.Kelly plodding soul song with bad memories attached to it for me) Week 19: When the the US chart-toppers really went c-rap for me. 4 of the 5 best would all have lost to the 5 best on week 18, bar Britney. It's come to something when Mariah Carey made one of the 5 best tracks (2 if you count non-topper-yet All I Want For Xmas). There are a handful of great rap/r'n'b tracks here that just fall short for me. Best: Britney Spears - ...Baby One More Time Spice Girls - Wannabe Mariah Carey - Fantasy Hanson - MMMBop Brandy and Monica - The Boy Is Mine Worst: OMG how does one narrow down this load of cack to just 3!!? I think I have to ignore the more obscure of the multitude of dross and focus on monster crimes to music. Elton John - Candle In The Wind 1997( for taking one of Eltons most dreary songs and making it globally worse) Puff Daddy - I'll Be Missing You (feat. Faith Evans and 112) (for ruining a dark stalker classic by turning it into an opportunistic cash-in track, and for being Puff Daddy who I took an instant dislike to, not least for resurrecting an old British gay slur in his name, while sounding like a Sugar Daddy) Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men - One Sweet Day (for refusing to drop from the top spot for months and months)

1st February 1975 It's 2 weeks on top for Michael Jackson's 1981 number one as the late Steve Harley starts to challenge up at 3, and Syreeta gets a first top 10. I should probably include Stevie Wonder in that stat but I can't hear him on the record this time, though it has his print all over it. There are only 2 new entries this week, Billie-Jo Spears is 5 months early for the UK as she enters the Country Music chart in the USA with Blanket On The Ground, one I'm more fond of now than I was at the time, in at 38, while Earth, Wind & Fire start their golden period with Shining Star at 71 - not a UK hit though, that would be another 2 years off. 1 ( 1 ) ONE DAY IN YOUR LIFE - Michael Jackson # 1 2 ( 2 ) JANUARY - Pilot # 1 3 ( 11 ) MAKE ME SMILE (COME UP AND SEE ME) - Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel # 3 4 ( 3 ) HAVE YOU NEVER BEEN MELLOW - Olivia Newton-John # 2 5 ( 4 ) JACKIE BLUE - The Ozark Mountain Daredevils # 4 6 ( 5 ) LOVIN' YOU - Minnie Ripperton # 1 7 ( 8 ) THERE’S A WHOLE LOT OF LOVING - Guys & Dolls # 7 8 ( 6 ) #9 DREAM - John Lennon # 1 9 ( 7 ) CAN’T GET IT OUT OF MY HEAD - Electric Light Orchestra # 1 10 ( 12 ) YOUR KISS IS SWEET - Syreeta # 10 11 ( 18 ) ONLY YOU AND ROCK AND ROLL - Redbone # 11 12 ( 9 ) GOODBYE MY LOVE - The Glitter Band # 9 13 ( 14 ) CHILD OF LOVE - Caston & Majors # 1 14 ( 16 ) MY HEART’S SYMPHONY - Gary Lewis & The Playboys # 14 15 ( 19 ) SUPERGIRL - Graham Bonney # 15 16 ( 10 ) HOW DOES IT FEEL - Slade # 10 17 ( 25 ) I’M ON MY WAY - Dean Parrish # 17 18 ( 17 ) BE MY BABY - The Ronettes # 1 19 ( 13 ) SO LONG - ABBA # 4 20 ( 20 ) DOWN DOWN - Status Quo # 5 21 ( 24 ) WHERE DID OUR LOVE GO? - Diana Ross & The Supremes # 3 22 ( 21 ) BAD BLOOD - Neil Sedaka featuring Elton John # 10 23 ( 48 ) MY ELUSIVE DREAMS - Charlie Rich # 23 24 ( 36 ) DISCO-TEKIN - Reunion # 24 25 ( 27 ) THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN - Lulu # 7 26 ( 23 ) I’VE BEEN WAITING FOR YOU - ABBA # 1 27 ( 26 ) WALKING IN RHYTHM - The Blackbyrds # 4 28 ( 15 ) SINCE I FOUND MY BABY - Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose # 15 29 ( 39 ) WE’RE ALMOST THERE - Michael Jackson # 29 30 ( 29 ) ROLL ON DOWN THE HIGHWAY - Bachman-Turner Overdrive # 29 31 ( 31 ) SHA LA LA (MAKE ME HAPPY) - Al Green # 4 32 ( 38 ) L-O-V-E (LOVE) - Al Green # 32 33 ( 30 ) THE ORINOCO KID - The Wombles # 15 34 ( 37 ) STREET CORNER MUSIC - Dave Jordan # 34 35 ( 28 ) PURELY BY COINCIDENCE - Sweet Sensation # 28 36 ( 40 ) THEN I CHANGE HANDS - Mick Robertson # 36 37 ( 35 ) I GET A KICK OUT OF YOU - Gary Shearston # 1 38 ( NEW ) BLANKET ON THE GROUND - Billie Jo Spears # 38 39 ( 42 ) THE BARGAIN STORE - Dolly Parton # 39 40 ( 22 ) FOOTSEE - Wigans Chosen Few # 18 41 ( 34 ) NEVER CAN SAY GOODBYE - Gloria Gaynor # 1 42 ( 33 ) YOU AIN’T SEEN NOTHIN’ YET - Bachman-Turner Overdrive # 1 43 ( 43 ) YOU’RE THE FIRST THE LAST MY EVERYTHING - Barry White # 2 44 ( 47 ) DRACULA’S DAUGHTER - Thunderthighs # 12 45 ( 41 ) MS GRACE - The Tymes # 15 46 ( 46 ) LADY MARMALADE - LaBelle # 8 47 ( 52 ) IRE FEELINGS (SKANGA) - Rupie Edwards # 10 48 ( 55 ) I’LL TAKE A MELODY - The Hues Corporation # 48 49 ( 65 ) FLY NOW - Brian Protheroe # 49 50 ( 79 ) THIS MONDAY MORNING FEELING - Tito Simon # 50 51 ( 54 ) HOW LONG - Ace featuring Paul Carrack # 1 52 ( 56 ) BEACH BABY - The First Class # 1 53 ( 45 ) ALL I WANT IS YOU - Roxy Music # 1 54 ( 58 ) I CAN HELP - Billy Swan # 9 55 ( 49 ) DREAMER - Supertramp # 15 56 ( 66 ) WE LOVE EACH OTHER - Charlie Rich # 56 57 ( 51 ) GONNA MAKE YOU A STAR - David Essex # 13 58 ( 62 ) ANGIE BABY - Helen Reddy # 1 59 ( 57 ) MAGIC - Pilot # 20 60 ( 53 ) PICK UP THE PIECES - Average White Band # 28 61 ( 44 ) I'M A WOMAN - Maria Muldaur # 44 62 ( 32 ) TOBY - The Chi-Lites # 19 63 ( 61 ) CRYING OVER YOU - Ken Boothe # 29 64 ( 64 ) NOW I’M HERE - Queen # 60 65 ( 60 ) DO IT, DO IT - The Peppers # 27 66 ( 70 ) ONLY ONE WOMAN - Nigel Olsson # 64 67 ( 75 ) I JUST CAN’T SAY GOODBYE - The Philly Devotions # 67 68 ( 81 ) I WON’T MAKE THAT MISTAKE AGAIN - Gary Lewis & The Playboys # 68 69 ( 71 ) SUPERNATURAL THING - Ben E. King # 69 70 ( 50 ) MY MAIN MAN - The Staple Singers # 29 71 ( NEW ) SHINING STAR - Earth, Wind & Fire # 71 72 ( 59 ) SHAME SHAME SHAME - Shirley & Company # 23 73 ( 72 ) ONCE YOU GET STARTED - Rufus featuring Chaka Khan # 70 74 ( 82 ) LOVE GAMES - The Drifters # 74 75 ( 73 ) SATIN SOUL - The Love Unlimited Orchestra # 73 76 ( 78 ) I WON’T DANCE - John Henry # 76 77 ( 83 ) LEGO SKANGA - Rupie Edwards # 77 78 ( 76 ) MY LAST NIGHT WITH YOU - Arrows # 76 79 ( 85 ) GERONIMO’S CADILLAC - Claire Hamill # 79 80 ( 80 ) NEVER ENDING SONG OF LOVE - Smoking 007 # 80

Private Eye (who are invariably morally and factually right on almost everything) have a special online downloadable Letby link to evidence that suggests she should be allowed to appeal. The main thrust seems to be the part that statistics played in the conviction as opposed to actual provable medical evidence. Essentially Cluster numbers can happen naturally in statistics, even in suspicious-looking tragedies like this, where some of the ill babies had underlying conditions. Cross-referenced with who is on duty (and Letby wasn't on duty for the majority of the still-high numbers of deaths) at the very least throws a question over the validity of making assumptions based on "clusters" and a duty roster which may or may not mean anything. I have no view either way, but I do believe in truth and evidence and have seen enough wrongful convictions in my life to realise that both prosecutors or defence can sometimes be lacking in thoroughness at their job. People are fallible, that's a fact.

Find My Love still sounds bubbly and fun, one of the "better follow-up than big hit" acts (see Tight Fit and numerous others). Iron maiden. Have I mentioned how much I generally hate their cloned cartoon singles? Thought so.... :lol: Motorhead anyday, thanks.

36's all round, well done! I watched TV Popmaster s2 ep 9 last night, ooh I was very poor though I did at least get some 21st century questions right: Calvin Harris' Promises featured which singer in 2018, Leona Lewis' double A in 2008 had which track on the other side and a couple of others. I got every single lyric round wrong, as usual, not least bom, bom, bom, bom, bom, bom, bom bom bom and then some words - yes of course it was that dance track from Joel Corry with MNEK. :o Round 1: 36 ( ) Round 2: 39 3 in 10: 3 )