Popchartfreak

Hi AH! :) Happy New Year!! Hope work isnt too bad so far! That must be the biggest post-christmas exodus of tracks to date!! :o :o Fabulous chart with lots of classic oldies and newies, and quite a bunch I need to check out when things calm down a bit. If you get a chance to play one from my chart you may not know, maybe Almost Monday's Can't Slow Down, cos it sounds like a non-synth Empire Of The Sun. Have a great weeknd! B-)

Hi AH! :) Happy New Year too! Hope you have picked up from being poorly, and at least it was a break of sorts! I had a good holiday thanks, mostly sunny, lots of pub quizzes and frolics and things didnt go tits up till I got back after Boxing Day. New Years was fun, party games and quizzes with friends, but I came down with whatever has been going round and still havent shaken it off, annoyingly! Since I got back: boiler broke down, no hot water, central heating, chasing solicitors for money they still owe 3 years since mum died, British Gas chasing me as their electric Smart Meter failed years ago and they still havent replaced it, Car wouldnt start and it's wet inside, need a new one. I hate Christmas and New Year! :lol: At least there's music, though new releases are thin on the ground still! Fantasy still sounds great, I hope it resurges, should have been a big hit, very 70's funky. Dark End Of The STreet still growing, Ive never heard the original version before! Sam Fender still heavily played on Radio 2 and growing for me. Thanks as always for the picks and compliments! Hope work eases off! B-)

thanks Jade and yay on both still in the 30's too :dance: Round 1: 36 (and I went to see last year too! I dont recall them doing that song so I blame them :o :lol: ) Round 2: 39 3 in 10: 3 ( )

Three Bells I surprisingly know the song well, without knowing I know it :o :lol: I'm not sure if it's this version I first got to know, but it seems like only years since I last heard the song! It must be decades though. That's a nice trip to the past! The Jim Reeves tribute I dont recall though, and Them is of course a classic - but it's not one I recall from the time, prob a bit too rock to get much TV/radio exposure in those days. I was def watching Thank Your Lucky Stars on a saturday, and I doubt they would have been invited on. My main obsession though was Doctor Who and the giant ants and butterflies, and writing it down in my school book, and drawing pictures of a Tardis. The BBC kindly instructed to take down my artwork and review from a site I had it for sale on (for the extortionate profit of 15p, which no-one had ever bought). I couldnt be bothered to argue over a potential 15p so complied, but I'm sure it's the oldest existing fan artwork/review from a 7-year-old and I'm here if the arses ever decide to do a piece on fans of the 60s that actually made the show the phenomenon that it is.

I was a fan of Tommy James records, so it was great he was getting some 80's love as he had just the one hit in the UK, but had loads in the US. Tiffany's cover I'd charted in September 87 as it was getting radio play while I was driving round California/Nevada then. As was Mony Mony - but not the live version that charted here, it was a dance track, so I had to buy the 12" to get hold of that version. I spotted Tiffany on The Masked Singer last year, I'd just bought her recent new single and it was a bit obvious it was her to me, I kept shouting at the judges on the TV "It's Tiffany!" but they didnt listen.... :lol:

Clodagh Rodgers I'm fond of Jack In A Box, though I have never seen the 1971 contest, out of the country at the time but Singapore UK Forces radio played that song a lot. Brotherhood Of Man's I always liked but never loved, I was full-on ABBA at that time, though I rated Angelo and Oh Boy. I think there were other entries I liked that year a bit more. Bad Old Days was a good Cheryl Baker intro and I always preferred it to Making Your Mind Up, but Bucks Fizz unexpectedly became top quality pop throughout. Nicole was a worthy winner, I def wanted her to win that year. Prima Donna was never a fave, but it was OK, Maggie MacNeal I'd been a fan of as part of Mouth & MacNeal, they had at least 3 good pop singles. Stephanie De Sykes as writer of 2 entries, she really should have been the UK entrant as well, she might have done well with the name recognition after her 2 mid 70's hits. The others I dont remember!

Thanks Jade :) in the 30's yesterday is pretty good, both! :cheer: Round 1: 39 - almost missed the last one but as I've just finished reviewing 1992 it came to me just in time.... Round 2: 24 - (he said before I could think about getting 'em) One Year out :o 3 in 10: 2 ( ) :lol:

Thanks Jade! Round 1: 30 ( ) should have got those, that I find them forgettable tracks is no excuse :lol: Round 2: 39 3 in 10: 3 ( )

think they dont want to look bad.... :)

Bit of a Belinda anthem, but my personal chart-topper for Belinda is to come later in the year. Climie Fisher's single wasn't nearly as good as their previous flop, which I bought, but that'll be back soon too for another personal chart-topper. Probably the best Terence single, Sign Your Name. Cher belting 'em out rock-chick phase, but she too will top my charts again when she changes style a bit in 2 years time. The Stranglers' was a decent cover of The Kinks great, though not as good as the original, and Joyce Sims' was a good classy soul ballad. Shame about Morris Minor, from the otherwise funny comedian Tony Hawks, always enjoyed his TV spots on shows like Would I Lie To You.

238. (1) NUT ROCKER - B. Bumble & The Stingers Op2U-qGUDkg Well, here it is, my top track of 1972, a ten-year-old classical beat-era update that I hadn't heard before as a 14-year old. I bought the single, I took it into End-Of-Term music lesson (and indeed the last classroom lesson in Music I ever had) where we could just play our fave records. The syllabus quirks meant I had to drop my 2 best subjects: Art and Music in favour stuff I would never use, like Physics and History. Great fun, catchy, and against the odds it became iconic to a new generation in the 2000's on the radio. Who knew!? Still enjoy it, still fun, but it just doesn't move me, and as one gets on a bit having a laugh doesnt hit as deeply as something that emotionally resonates. 237 places dropping, though, was unexpected!

247. (11) MOULDY OLD DOUGH - Lt. Pigeon aO5GWJJP3FM Staveley Makepiece plus mum on piano for this very retro Ragtime piano-novelty track that was HUGE in 1972, older audiences with memories of Mrs Mills and Russ Conway liked it, the growling Mouldy Old Dough appealed to kids and it was flute-ily catchy as hell. My 11th favourite track of the year, yet it never topped my chart, unlike the clone follow-up Desperate Dan. I see it went down pretty well on Buzzjack with those too young to have heard it before, but I file it under "fond of it" these days - unique, fun, but I wouldnt want to hear it more than once in a while, I know it backwards....

248. (58) BALL PARK INCIDENT - Wizzard Tp0PrMBkh_w Roy Wood was my undisputed musical hero in 1973, posters up on my bedroom wall, full-on multi-instrumentalist solo (The Boulders album, it was all him, which impressed me immensely), Glam Rock retro-Wall-Of-Sound chart-toppers, founder of the fabulous ELO with Jeff Lynne, and mainman of 60's hitsters The Move, Blackberry Way being an early fave. After his split with Jeff Lynne over the direction of the classical-prog experimental ELO, Roy decided to go full on Glam rock'n'roller, painted his face, wore colourful costumes and outdid ELO commercially for a couple of years, what with his knack for writing hit pop songs. Ball Park Incident started the ball rolling and was very 50's rock'n'roll, looked great on Top Of The Pops, but was more or less a re-tread of The Move's final hit California Man, and like most things Roy Wood, I over-rated it a bit at the time.

278. (47) POPPA JOE - The Sweet gV0ujTVD9kI Bubblegum-calypso was The Sweet's breakthrough sound, prior to Glam Rock kicking it, and this was the third, and least, of their upbeat, jolly tracks - not as good as Funny Funny and Co Co, but still very catchy, Chinn-Chapman knew how to push a hook that appealed to Teens! The lowest-placed track that made my top 50 of the time. Note the single that changed their direction ends at 269 (my 112th of the year) - Little Willy, sounds good but it's a bit silly lyrically. Little Willy won't go home, indeed... :teresa:

284. (54) ROCKIN' ROBIN - Michael Jackson vFWEaaoYgHk Michael was the same age as me in 1972, more or less (same school year) and he could do no wrong in 1972 as Motown went into overdrive to make hay before his voice broke. I maintain he is one of the greatest male pre-hormones-kicking-in vocalists, pure, soaring and emotional. This rock 'n' roll-era cover was very catchy - but the years haven't been kind, I think I was getting fed up with it by year-end when The Jackson 5 popped onto Top Of The Pops with their latest fabulous single and did a slot with this, rather than Ben, the then-current single. I think it was probably filmed in the summer.

New rating: 350. (Previous position: 67): OPEN UP - Mungo Jerry 2J9isgP18BM I'd been big on Mungo aka Ray Dorset over 1970/71 and this low-key Blues minor hit carried that on. I still quite like it, but I'm guessing the now-non-existing Top Of The Pops performances boosted it a bit for me at the time. The riffs are great though.

I started doing personal charts in 1968, aged 10, but the first complete year I did (I filled in missing weeks later in the 70's for 1968-71, based on fairly recent memory) was 1972. It was largely based around the UK top 30, so it still wasn't absolutely accurate - that would be 1974 when I opened up my charts to anything new or re-issued. I found a music biz book which had sales figure ratios for the top 50 one week in the summer of 1976, and retrospectively used those as the basis for my ongoing "sales" system. That means I have a compiled Top 100 for 1972, what I liked and loved then, and I also have one for my recent Retro revisits based on the same "sales" chart. I thought it might be a self-indulgent example of how music tastes change over the years, at least for me. I can be very fond of some old records, while not loving them like I once did, and the reverse is true too - stuff I didn't rate at 14 years old, or didn't know, I can really love nowadays. So this is more a comment on how things have changed rather than a study of how great I think the records are: the chart position will show much I think of them: one proviso, it's for records Released or Peaking in 1972 in my Retro charts, and they may not match UK chart years, which were often delayed for years back in the day - but my Original Year-End Chart Position will take the information from whichever year they peaked originally, so there will be missing or duplicate numbers. So, starting off: The Top 100 1972 favourites that didn't make the Top 100 50 years later:

OK< tuned the radio back in to the right channel and Ken is there after all. Apart from pop quizzes Im def losing it as I get older, its very annoying! Round 1: 36 (one year out) Round 2: 39 3 in 1: 3 ( )

28th December 1974 It's 3 weeks on top for John Lennon in the retro run for the final chart of the year, as in my actual chart of that week I bought Je T'aime, naughty 1969 record I missed, I watched The Apartment as New Years Eve 1974 moved into 1975, a classic Billy Wilder drama-comedy with Shirley MacLaine and Jack Lemmon, brilliant film, and then I turned 17. As there's not a single new entry, it's a quiet week, Quo get a third retro top 10 from their first, Pictures Of Matchstick Men in 1968, Roger Glover with vocal assist from Ronnie James Dio goes top 20, and The Chi-Lites are the biggest climber with Toby. 1 ( 1 ) #9 DREAM - John Lennon # 1 2 ( 2 ) CHILD OF LOVE - Caston & Majors # 1 3 ( 3 ) LOVIN' YOU - Minnie Ripperton # 3 4 ( 5 ) CHRISTMAS (BABY PLEASE COME HOME) - Darlene Love # 4 5 ( 4 ) I’VE BEEN WAITING FOR YOU - ABBA # 1 6 ( 6 ) CAN’T GET IT OUT OF MY HEAD - Electric Light Orchestra # 1 7 ( 17 ) DOWN DOWN - Status Quo # 7 8 ( 8 ) WHERE DID OUR LOVE GO? - Diana Ross & The Supremes # 3 9 ( 9 ) WALKING IN RHYTHM - The Blackbyrds # 4 10 ( 11 ) BE MY BABY - The Ronettes # 1 11 ( 13 ) SO LONG - ABBA # 10 12 ( 7 ) THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN - Lulu # 7 13 ( 10 ) SLEIGH RIDE - The Ronettes # 10 14 ( 14 ) SHA LA LA (MAKE ME HAPPY) - Al Green # 4 15 ( 16 ) BAD BLOOD - Neil Sedaka featuring Elton John # 15 16 ( 33 ) LOVE IS ALL - Roger Glover & Friends # 16 17 ( 12 ) YOU’RE THE FIRST THE LAST MY EVERYTHING - Barry White # 2 18 ( 20 ) YOU CAN MAKE ME DANCE, SING OR ANYTHING - The Faces featuring Rod Stewart # 18 19 ( 19 ) MS GRACE - The Tymes # 15 20 ( 23 ) WOMBLING MERRY CHRISTMAS - The Wombles # 20 21 ( 22 ) DREAMER - Supertramp # 15 22 ( 35 ) MIDNIGHT SHOW - Ron Dante # 22 23 ( 18 ) HOW DOES IT FEEL - Slade # 16 24 ( 21 ) ANGIE BABY - Helen Reddy # 1 25 ( 15 ) LONELY THIS CHRISTMAS - Mud # 1 26 ( 24 ) LADY MARMALADE - LaBelle # 8 27 ( 26 ) YOU AIN’T SEEN NOTHIN’ YET - Bachman-Turner Overdrive # 1 28 ( 30 ) ALL I WANT IS YOU - Roxy Music # 1 29 ( 27 ) MORNING SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN - Donny & Marie Osmond # 3 30 ( 25 ) NEVER CAN SAY GOODBYE - Gloria Gaynor # 1 31 ( 29 ) I GET A KICK OUT OF YOU - Gary Shearston # 1 32 ( 34 ) THEN HE KISSED ME - The Crystals # 1 33 ( 31 ) HEY MR CHRISTMAS - Showaddywaddy # 20 34 ( 28 ) STARDUST - David Essex # 9 35 ( 36 ) YOU CAN HAVE IT ALL - George McCrae # 35 36 ( 40 ) GET DANCIN’ - Disco Tex & The Sex-o-lettes # 2 37 ( 39 ) DRACULA’S DAUGHTER - Thunderthighs # 12 38 ( 42 ) I CAN HELP - Billy Swan # 9 39 ( 41 ) GOODBYE NOTHIN’ TO SAY - The Javells featuring Nosmo King # 12 40 ( 32 ) IRE FEELINGS (SKANGA) - Rupie Edwards # 10 41 ( 43 ) MAGIC - Pilot # 20 42 ( 55 ) THE ORINOCO KID - The Wombles # 42 43 ( 59 ) SHAME SHAME SHAME - Shirley & Company # 43 44 ( 48 ) PICK UP THE PIECES - Average White Band # 41 45 ( 45 ) CRYING OVER YOU - Ken Boothe # 45 46 ( 38 ) HOW LONG - Ace featuring Paul Carrack # 1 47 ( 67 ) TOBY - The Chi-Lites # 47 48 ( 37 ) CHRISTMAS SONG - Gilbert O’Sullivan # 37 49 ( 44 ) LUCY IN THE SKY WITH DIAMONDS - Elton John featuring John Lennon # 20 50 ( 46 ) BEACH BABY - The First Class # 1 51 ( 53 ) SHBOOM (LIFE COULD BE A DREAM) - Sha Na Na # 50 52 ( 57 ) DO IT, DO IT - The Peppers # 52 53 ( 49 ) KILLER QUEEN - Queen # 1 54 ( 54 ) SINCE I FOUND MY BABY - Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose # 54 55 ( 51 ) JUKEBOX JIVE - The Rubettes # 18 56 ( 52 ) GONNA MAKE YOU A STAR - David Essex # 13 57 ( 47 ) PLEASE MR. POSTMAN - Carpenters # 29 58 ( 58 ) ARE YOU READY TO ROCK - Wizzard # 58 59 ( 65 ) HURT SO GOOD - Susan Cadogan # 59 60 ( 61 ) MY MAIN MAN - The Staple Singers # 60 61 ( 62 ) I'M A WOMAN - Maria Muldaur # 61 62 ( 50 ) HOT SHOT - Barry Blue # 11 63 ( 63 ) YOU’RE AS RIGHT AS RAIN - Nancy Wilson # 63 64 ( 64 ) LONELY PEOPLE - America # 64 65 ( 66 ) THE LIFE OF THE PARTY - The Jackson 5 # 65 66 ( 68 ) FIRE - Ohio Players # 66 67 ( 56 ) STREETS OF LONDON - Ralph McTell # 28 68 ( 60 ) WHEN A CHILD IS BORN - Michael Holm # 49 69 ( 69 ) DING DONG, DING DONG - George Harrison # 69 70 ( 75 ) NIGHTINGALE - Carole King # 70 71 ( 71 ) DON'T CHA LOVE IT - The Miracles # 71 72 ( 74 ) PLEASE TELL HIM THAT I SAID HELLO - Dana # 72 73 ( 73 ) BLACK SUPERMAN (MUHAMMAD ALI) - Johnny Wakelin # 73 74 ( 70 ) HAVING A PARTY - The Osmonds # 66 75 ( 72 ) BABY BLUES - The Love Unlimited Orchestra featuring Barry White # 72

gone for Green day but Franz should have won :o

Pussycat Dolls is the weakest for me...

I had Greatest Hits on and still managed to miss it somehow, tch! Round 1: 36 ( ) Round 2: 30 ( ) 3 in 10: 2 (she was fast!! I didnt have enough time: )

I recall Anna B, Social network tracks, and I actually charted the English-language version of Geraldine in 1975. I'm looking forward to hearing it this year in the spring for retro 1975 charts as it has been 50 years since I last heard it!! :o

Best: might have been easier to nominate albums: Faith most obviously here.... :) Michael Jackson - Man In The Mirror INXS - Need You Tonight George Michael - Father Figure George Michael - Monkey George Michael - One More Try worst: spoilt for choice.... Chicago - Look Away Whitney Houston - Where Do Broken Hearts Go Poison - Every Rose Has Its Thorn

misogynistic lyrics, the B word, the N word, the Ho word, the obsession with shagging as many as possible and the love of money even more than sex, yes 50 Cent's influence has been far-reaching and influential in modern rap. So for that alone, he should have gone out first :teresa: