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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:

with modern technology it ought to be very easy to edit out SaVile and just play the songs with a new intro from Tony Blackburn. My mum had him pegged as a gropey old git ("dirty old man" as they were called then) in the early 70's, not fooled at all, having had experience of being targeted herself by others of his ilk from a young age. Good ol' Tone could also do new links for DLT shows, off-camera if necessary as a voice-over a la clips shows.

Thanks for hosting and organizing ddy, and congrats to Severin, and thanks to everyone who voted for Eels - they are an under-rated quirky act, so 11th was pretty good (not to mention 11th overall pour moi), I was hoping for at least one full marks, so thanks Jester for that! :cheer: My fave before the contest was Prefab Sprout, always liked that one, and I was vaguely aware of Tin Tin Out, Depeche Mode, but the rest were pretty much new to me. Biggest surprise newie is Denki Groove and the also the exciting Supergrass track, though I would have expected that to be good as I always liked everything they did. North & South was a surprise catchy pop tune, borrowing inspiration from elsewhere but cool and amusing.

29th December 2024 It's a fashionably late New Year chart with Extreme Ways grabbing a second week on top for Armin van Buuren and Moby, in a mostly still quiet chart as the christmas songs exit and allow me to go back to a top 75, phew! The biggest influence on my chart this week was Jools Holland's Hootenanny, New Years Eve fireworks on the telly and some great acts playing live in the studio, notably Marc Almond ("He must be about 70" opined one friend, "No he's about my age" I said. "That's what I said" came the retort to much mirth and amusement :lol: ) doing his best song Say Hello Wave Goodbye, back for a 3rd run at 55, the fabulous Jungle, and the great The Dead South, both former BJSC entries of mine that subsequently went on to great success and acclaim. Just sayin'.....! Anyways 2 of Jungle's former hits pop back in. OneRepublic extend their chart run to, ooh, must be 16 years or so now, as they collab with big new Country act Jelly Roll at 71, Miley Cyrus drops a film ballad, and Franz Ferdinand grab a 20 year-span of hits since they topped my chart with the wonderful Take Me Out. 1 1 1 7 EXTREME WAYS - Armin van Buuren & Moby 654250 2 2 1 7 LATE NIGHT PHONE CALL - Reverend And The Makers 857800 3 3 3 7 DISCO AT THE STRIP CLUB - Reve 464500 4 4 4 10 LEFT TO MY OWN DEVICES - Pet Shop Boys 382800 5 6 5 4 HEAVEN MUST BE MISSING AN ANGEL - Tavares 169800 6 8 6 6 APT. - ROSE & Bruno Mars 204350 7 7 7 8 WITHOUT YA - Bakermat featuring Gladys Knight 281300 8 11 1 14 YOU AGAIN - The Lottery Winners featuring Reverend And The Makers 881400 9 5 5 4 I WANT TO HOLD YOUR HAND - The Beatles 170000 10 10 6 11 FANTASY - JADE 327400 11 9 1 8 SCREAMLAND - Father John Misty 490250 12 12 12 10 THE FEELING - Rudimental, 1991, PNAU & AR/CO 212100 13 13 13 7 NOW OR NEVER (IT’S MY LIFE) - Bon Jovi x Pitbull 142250 14 16 8 8 DISCO WITCH - LEXXE 238750 15 27 15 4 DON’T TAKE AWAY THE MUSIC - Tavares 81200 16 15 4 13 HIGHER - Tom Grennan 434700 17 14 14 11 TABOO - Kylie Minogue 163800 18 18 1 17 NEVER GOING HOME TONIGHT - David Guetta & Alesso featuring Madison Love 1003850 19 19 19 9 ALL THE YOUNG DUDES - Pet Shop Boys 133750 20 20 20 8 SOMEONE FOR ME - Kylie Minogue 120300 21 17 12 8 I BELIEVE IN MIRACLES - The Jackson Sisters 193750 22 22 1 7 WHAT HAVE I DONE (TO DESERVE THIS) - Pet Shop Boys and Dusty Springfield 469000 23 21 2 13 EVIL WOMAN - Duran Duran 485900 24 23 15 14 HEAVY IS THE CROWN - Linkin Park 211200 25 33 25 7 ALL YOUR FAULT - Gwen Stefani 78250 26 26 26 10 DISEASE - Lady Gaga 116700 27 29 15 8 BACK AT YOUR DOOR - Orville Peck & Debbii Dawson 137300 28 24 1 17 THE GIRL THAT I CALL HOME - Tears For Fears 918200 29 35 29 5 CAN’T SLOW DOWN - almost Monday 76250 30 36 30 4 NIGHTMARE - Geowulf 58500 31 32 31 4 SUPERSCAR - Adela 66950 32 37 32 11 SHOULDA LEFT YA - Kylie Minogue 141650 33 28 19 11 GET A HOLD OF YOURSELF - Chesney Hawkes 154200 34 38 34 8 YOUNG LION - Sade 100300 35 46 35 4 THE DARK END OF THE STREET - Pet Shop Boys 51850 36 40 36 5 RISK IT ALL - Shy FX featuring Maverick Sabre 656750 37 25 25 5 TRUCKS - Cars On The Road Cast 86150 38 39 38 7 PEOPLE WATCHING - Sam Fender 84200 39 31 31 6 SAY GOODBYE TO MUM AND DAD - Tears For Fears 87000 40 34 1 17 HEART LIKE MINE - Sam Feldt featuring Rosa Linn 1004100 41 41 30 10 LONELY HEART - Alesso & John Alto 132400 42 44 8 18 WALK AWAY RENEE - The Four Tops 382600 43 43 1 16 LOOKING THROUGH THE WINDOWS - The Jackson 5 808400 44 47 4 36 FEEL - Pet Shop Boys 1028550 45 48 4 30 BIRDS OF A FEATHER - Billie Eilish 716950 46 49 46 6 MIDNIGHT TRAIN - Kim Wilde 57550 47 63 47 4 TANGERINE RAYS - Zedd featuring Bea MIller & Flood 29700 48 55 48 4 ANOTHER NIGHT - Grace Davies 40000 49 54 49 4 MISERERE - Pet Shop Boys 40900 50 42 9 12 FREEDOM OF THE NIGHT - Sophie Ellis-Bextor 251800 51 30 30 10 HONEY - Lenny Kravitz 115550 52 45 12 15 ALL MY LIFE - Purple Disco Machine & The Magician 288500 53 57 53 3 YOU GET WHAT YOU GIVE - New Radicals 31850 54 62 10 20 DIE WITH A SMILE - Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars 392900 55 NEW 55 1 SAY HELLO WAVE GOODBYE - Soft Cell 10800 56 52 50 6 FORBIDDEN ROAD - Robbie Williams 67300 57 69 57 4 LIVE FOREVER - Chesney Hawkes 27600 58 67 58 4 BOUQUET - Gwen Stefani 29400 59 66 59 5 LATE ’88 - Deacon Blue 35700 60 65 60 4 HOT TO GO - Chappell Roan 30200 61 50 50 8 NEW SPORT - Rizzle Kicks 73050 62 64 62 4 YOUR NAME IN LIGHTS - Simple Minds 28700 63 NEW 63 1 NIGHT OR DAY - Franz Ferdinand 7200 64 59 59 7 SO SENSITIVE - Ice Cube 48000 65 68 65 4 NICE TO MEET YOU - Myles Smith 25400 66 60 60 4 RATATATA - BABYMETAL & Electric Callboy 36800 67 78 67 3 BARBARELLA (THE RE-WORK!) - Betty Boo 15400 68 NEW 68 1 BACK ON ’74 - Jungle 6400 69 73 69 4 WINTER SONG - Mike Batt featuring Paul Carrack 22400 70 70 70 4 YOU AIN’T THE ONLY ONE - Mary J. Blige 23600 71 NEW 71 1 HURT - OneRepublic featuring Jelly Roll 5800 72 74 72 3 VIVA L’OPERA - Armin van Buuren featuring Natalie Gioia 16000 73 NEW 73 1 BEAUTIFUL THAT WAY - Miley Cyrus 5400 74 NEW 74 1 BUSY EARNIN’ - Jungle 5200 75 76 1 36 NEW LONDON BOY - Pet Shop Boys 2559750 DROP OUTS 51 51 5 CHRISTMAS MAGIC - Perrie 48300 53 49 7 FREE - Rose Gray 64500 56 56 4 STEAL AWAY - Robbie Dupree 36400 58 58 2 FAIRYTALE OF NEW YORK - The Pogues featuring Kirsty MacColl 15000 61 9 18 BLOOM - Good Neighbours 377100 71 14 14 OUR WORLD - Blue Mink 191100 72 24 7 BUS STOP PLEASE - Fatboy Slim & Daniel Steinberg 81050 75 4 13 LIGHTS CAMERA ACTION - Kylie Minogue 493350 77 77 1 LITTLE THINGS - ABBA 4600 79 79 2 I BELIEVE IN FATHER CHRISTMAS - Greg Lake 8200 80 39 9 EMILY SAID - Tears For Fears 71000 December recap with videos attached: https://popchartfreak.wordpress.com/2025/01...er-2024-charts/

Hey Sven! :) APT not shifting even for 2 former chart-toppers at christmas for me! Brenda almost made the top 10, Chris Rea top 20, Robbie up, and in the Bubblers, Christmas songs too! 2005, I had changed jobs, and U2, Jay-Z/Linkin Park, and Kylie were my fave tracks of this chart. Happy New Year! B-)

Hey Sven! :) Thanks for the picks and Happy New Year! B-)