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Thanks Jade and well done Rollo! 🤩 round 1: 36 U2 proving Staring At The Sun isn't good for you, tch. round 2: 39 tie break: yes, bar Embrace Yah Mo B There. 3 in 10: we are family, thinking of you, lost in music

great outfit too. 🤩

It does underline just how much they dominated the UK (and global) music scene for just over 7 years - the only top-end challengers were when the mums, dads and grandparents were motivated to add extra sales to crooners by buying the odd single. The Fabs so-called rivals, in contrast, could only manage 4 (the Stones) on the list, while Elvis in family-friendly vibe could bung out 5.

true enough theres always oldies in the current chart every single week!

She Loves You Beatles Sept)Dec 1963 I Want to Hold Your Hand Beatles Nov/Jan 1963-64 Tears Ken Dodd Oct 1965 Can’t Buy Me Love Beatles March 1964 I Feel Fine Beatles Dec/Jan 1964-65 We Can Work It Out/Day Tripper Beatles Dec/Jan 1965-66 Release Me Engelbert Humperdinck Mar/Apr 1967. Green Green Grass of Home Tom Jones Dec/Jan 1966-67 The Last Waltz Engelbert Humperdinck Sept/Oct 1967 The Carnival is Over Seekers Nov/Dec 1965 I Remember You Frank Ifeld July/Sept 1962 Stranger on the Shore Acker Bilk Jan 1962 The Young Ones Cliff Richard Jan/March 1962 Sugar Sugar Archies Oct/Dec 1969 Cinderella Rockefella Esther and Abi Ofarim Feb/Mar 1968 Needles and Pins Searchers Feb 1964 Bachelor Boy/The Next Time Cliff Richard Jan 1963 I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing New Seekers Jan 1972 Two Little Boys Rolf Harris Dec/Jan 1969-70 Telstar Tornadoes Oct/Nov 1962 Glad All Over Dave Clark Five Jan 1964 Help Beatles July/Aug 1965 Anyone Who Had a Heart Cilia Black Feb/March 1964 Lovesick Blues Frank Ifeld Nov/Dec 1962 My Sweet Lord George Harrison Jan/March 1971 You’ll Never Walk Alone Gerry & the Pacemakers Oct/Nov 1963 Hey Jude Beatles Sept/Oct 1968 Hello Goodbye Beatles Dec/Jan 1967-68 Hard Day’s Night Beatles July/Aug 1964 I’ll Never Find Another You Seekers Feb 1965 The Last Time Rolling Stones March/Apr 1965 Distant Drums Jim Reeves Sept/Oct 1966 Those Were The Days Mary Hopkin Sept/Oct 1968 I’m a Believer Monkees Jan/Feb 1967 Return to Sender Elvis Presley Dec 1962 Ernie Benny Hill Dec/Jan 1971-72 From Me to You Beatles May/June 1963 Rock-a-Hula Baby Elvis Presley Feb 1962 Grandad Clive Dunn Jan 1971 I Got You Babe Sonny & Cher Aug/Sept 1965 Lily the Pink Scaffold Dec/Jan 1968-69 Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep Middle of the Road June/July 1971 Little Children Billy J. Kramer March 1964 The Wonder of You Elvis Presley July/Sept 1970 Satisfaction Rolling Stones Sept 1965 Whiter Shade of Pale Procol Harum June/July 1967 You’re My World Cilla Black May/June 1964 Puppet on a String Sandie Shaw April/May 1967 Ticket to Ride Beatles April/May 1965 In the Summertime Mungo Jerry June/July 1970 Have I the Right Honeycombs Aug/Sept 1964 What a Wonderful World Louis Armstrong April/May 1968 All You Need is Love Beatles July/Aug 1967 Strangers in the Night Frank Sinatra June 1966 Wonderful Land Shadows March/May 1962 Get Back Beatles April/June 1969 World Without Love Peter & Gordon April 1964 Wanderin’ Star Lee Marvin March 1970 Yellow Submarine/Eleanor Rigby Beatles Aug/Sept 1966 It’s Not Unusual Tom Jones March 1965 I Hear You Knocking Dave Edmunds Nov/Jan 1970-71 It’s Over Roy Orbison June 1964 Oh Pretty Woman Roy Orbison Oct 1964 House of the Rising Sun Animals July 1964 Maggie May/Reason to Believe Rod Stewart Oct/Nov 1971 Go Now Moody Blues Jan 1965 Thls Is My Song Paula Clark Feb 1967 These Boots Are Made for Walking Nancy Sinatra Feb 1966 Honky Tonk Woman Rolling Stones July/Aug 1969 I’m Into Something Good Herman’s Hermits Sept/Oct 1964 Band of Gold Freda Payne Sept/Oct 1970 Hot Love T. Rex March/April 1971 Bridge Over Troubled Water Simon & Garfunkel March/April 1970 I Can’t Stop Loving You Ray Charles July 1962 Love Grows Edison Lighthouse Jan/March 1970 Something Stupid Frank & Nancy Sinatra April 1967 Juliet Four Pennies May 1964 March of the Siamese Children Kenny Ball March 1962 Knock Three Times I, Dawn May/June 1971 Mr Tambourine Man Byrds July 1965 Good Luck Charm Elvis Presley May/June 1962 Silence is Golden Tremeloes May/June 1967 Spirit in the Sky Norman Greenbaum April/May 1970 Massachusetts Bee Gees Oct/Nov 1967 Yellow River Christie June 1970 Yeah Yeah Georgie Fame Jan 1965 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Hugo Montenegro Nov/Dec 1968 The Israelites Desmond Dekker April 1969 Young Girl Union Gap May/June 1968 Ballad of Bonnie & Clyde Georgie Fame Jan 1968 19th Nervous Breakdown Rolling Stones Feb/March 1966 Keep On Running Spencer Davis Jan 1966 Coz I Luv You Slade Nov/Dec 1971 Son of My Father Chicory Tip Feb/March 1972 How Do You Do It Gerry & The Pacemakers April 1963 Albatross – Fleetwood Mac Jan/Feb 1969 Let the Heartaches Begin Long John Baldry NovlDec 1967 San Francisco Scott McKenzie Aug 1967 Paperback Writer Beatles June/July 1966 Crying in the Chapel Elvis Presley June 1965 cos it's not on the internet that I can find and I've done a text grab from a scan I did. I think it was to do with the 20th anniversary of the singles chart, but I might be wrong, and I def did cut it out and keep it. There is a later version including 50's records and non-number-ones which I can't find at the mo and thats also not on the internet that I can find via AI/google searches - so no surprise there then!

19th October 1976 The chart here says Diana Ross' 1971 I'm Still Waiting knocks off ABBA from the top spot to finally hit number one 5 years late, but that's not quite correct as I tied Dancing Queen on top for a 10th week - but as Diana was listed first she gets the nod here, as well as on the oldies chart, giving her a third chart-topper after 1971's Surrender hit the top spot. Elvis meanwhile gets his 1960 oldie to 3, his highest chart position since I'm Leaving in 1971. The highest new entry is straight in at 7 as Tavares drop another classic disco romp in Don't Take Away The Music, their second top 10 in a row, as Tears Of A Clown goes top 10 for the second time. There's another disco (and rock) classic at 21 as Wild Cherry chart Play That Funky Music, as indeed it was, and Chicago change tack from jazz-rock-funk to gentle ballad, and chart at 26 with their best record by some distance - If You Leave Me Now, sadly, gave them an excuse to milk that template for another 15 years. Sneaking in at 29, Disco Music (I Like It) giving the J.A.L.N. Band an unexpected 5 minutes of minor fame - it sounded good for a few weeks and then disappeared without trace everywhere, though it's OK. Liverpool Express follow-up their hit with a Pilot-vibing Hold Tight, not quite ho ho ho it's magic, but it's good at 35 and should have been a hit. Neil Diamond follows-up his almost-hit with proper top 30 UK hit, his first in 4 years, Beautiful Noise is a reasonable pop ditty but it's not in the same league as his 60's and early 70's stuff. New at 38. David Essex does another slight genre-shift with Coming Home, harking back to more poppier attempts and it's catchy enough but not up to usual standards like relative chart flop the epic City Lights. More follow-ups with John Miles trying with Remember Yesterday also not quite up there with Music and High Fly, in at 48, leaving a chart debut for US hitster Gary Wright - Dream Weaver is semi-surreal with its swirling strings and lyrics, and one I came to love more in later years when I got hold a copy - much as I did with Hall & Oates classic She's Gone, peaking at a mere 16 this week. Should have been a number one. 1 ( 6 ) I’M STILL WAITING Diana Ross 2 ( 1 ) DANCING QUEEN ABBA 3 ( 10 ) GIRL OF MY BEST FRIEND Elvis Presley 4 ( 4 ) MISSISSIPPI Pussycat 5 ( 5 ) BEST DISCO IN TOWN The Ritchie Family 6 ( 2 ) DISCO DUCK Rick Dees & His Cast Of Idiots 7 ( NEW ) DON’T TAKE AWAY THE MUSIC Tavares 8 ( 3 ) BLINDED BY THE LIGHT Manfred Mann’s Earthband 9 ( 6 ) WITHOUT YOU Nilsson 10 ( 12 ) TEARS OF A CLOWN Smokey Robinson & The Miracles 11 ( 14 ) HOWZAT Sherbet 12 ( 7 ) I’LL MEET YOU AT MIDNIGHT Smokie 13 ( 21 ) DANCING WITH THE CAPTAIN Paul Nicholas 14 ( 15 ) RUBBERBAND MAN The Detroit Spinners 15 ( 11 ) I WANT MORE Can 16 ( 29 ) SHE’S GONE Daryl Hall & John Oates 17 ( 23 ) I’D REALLY LOVE TO SEE YOU TONIGHT England Dan & John Ford Coley 18 ( 13 ) DANCE LITTLE LADY DANCE Tina Charles 19 ( 19 ) LOVING AND FREE Kiki Dee 20 ( 24 ) TOUCH ME IN THE MORNING Diana Ross 21 ( NEW ) PLAY THAT FUNKY MUSIC Wild Cherry 22 ( 16 ) BENNIE AND THE JETS Elton John 23 ( 17 ) YOU DON’T HAVE TO GO The Chi-Lites 24 ( NEW ) IF YOU LEAVE ME NOW Chicago 25 ( 46 ) SUMMER OF MY HEART Simon May 26 ( 37 ) UPTOWN UPTEMPO WOMAN Randy Edelman 27 ( 18 ) CAN’T GET BY WITHOUT YOU The Real Thing 28 ( 45 ) LASER LOVE T.Rex 29 ( NEW ) DISCO MUSIC (I LIKE IT) J.A.L.N. Band 30 ( 43 ) HURT The Manhattans 31 ( 20 ) AMOUREUSE Kiki Dee 32 ( 27 ) SAILING Rod Stewart 33 ( 30 ) AFTERNOON DELIGHT Starland Vocal Band 34 ( 44 ) LOWDOWN Boz Scaggs 35 ( NEW ) HOLD TIGHT Liverpool Express 36 ( 28 ) YOU’LL NEVER FIND ANOTHER LOVE LIKE MINE Lou Rawls 37 ( 26 ) I CAN’T ASK FOR ANYMORE THAN YOU Cliff Richard 38 ( NEW ) BEAUTIFUL NOISE Neil Diamond 39 ( 50 ) MR. MELODY Natalie Cole 40 ( 48 ) UNDER ONE ROOF The Rubettes 41 ( 25 ) IT’S O.K. the Beach Boys 42 ( 32 ) BABY WE’D BETTER TRY TO GET TOGETHER Barry White 43 ( 22 ) I ONLY WANT TO BE WITH YOU Bay City Rollers 44 ( NEW ) COMING HOME David Essex 45 ( 35 ) YOU SHOULD BE DANCING The Bee Gees 46 ( 34 ) THE PRICE OF LOVE Bryan Ferry 47 ( 31 ) TRACKS OF MY TEARS Smokey Robinson & The Miracles 48 ( NEW ) REMEMBER YESTERDAY John Miles 49 ( 39 ) LET ‘EM IN Wings 50 ( NEW ) DREAM WEAVER Gary Wright 19th Oct 1976 THE MOTOWN PLUS OLDIES CHART It's a third Supremes oldie on top in a row, but this one with added Diana Ross and Temptations, going one place higher than it did in early 1969, I'm Gonna Make You Love Me having already charted in the UK for future Blue Mink singer Madeline Bell, who was sounding as great as ever 2 years ago in 2024 when I saw her in London. I also got to see Mary Wilson in the 2000's, hooray. Amongst the new re-issues this week was Glen Campbell's classic timeless Wichita Lineman, back in at 13 7 years on, Benny Hill's Ernie back in at 21 5 years later, a double A side for Harry Chapin still looking for a proper UK hit in vain, though W.O.L.D. enters at 28 and a new chart peak 2 years on, with Cats In The Cradle back at 24. Judy Collins is also back with Send In The Clowns, the other side of Both Sides Now at 3. That leaves only Billy J. Kramer returning with childhood fave Little Children 12 years late - it would have topped any personal charts in 1964 I might have compiled as a 6-year-old, but sounded quite old in the music scene of 1976, hence the low position of 27. 1 ( 2 ) I’M GONNA MAKE YOU LOVE ME Diana Ross & The Supremes & The Temptations 2 ( 1 ) NATHAN JONES The Supremes 3 ( 4 ) BOTH SIDES NOW Judy Collins 4 ( 5 ) YESTER-ME, YESTER-YOU, YESTERDAY Stevie Wonder 5 ( 9 ) BEHIND THE PAINTED SMILE The Isley Brothers 6 ( 8 ) THIS OLD HEART OF MINE The Isley Brothers 7 ( 3 ) STONED LOVE The Supremes 8 ( 12 ) BLACK AND WHITE Greyhound 9 ( 13 ) I HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE Marvin Gaye 10 ( 14 ) RUN RUN RUN Jo-Jo Gunne 11 ( 7 ) STOP IN THE NAME OF LOVE The Supremes 12 ( 8 ) BABY LOVE The Supremes 13 ( NEW ) WICHITA LINEMAN Glen Campbell 14 ( 16 ) LET YOUR YEAH BE YEAH The Pioneers 15 ( 9 ) YOU’RE SO VAIN Carly Simon 16 ( 10 ) YOU ARE EVERYTHING Diana Ross & Marvin Gaye 17 ( 11 ) MAKE IT WITH YOU Bread 18 ( 18 ) ROCK AND ROLL PART 2 Gary Glitter & The Glitter Band 19 ( 22 ) DO YOU WANT TO TOUCH ME (OH YEAH) Gary Glitter & The Glitter Band 20 ( 21 ) HELLO HELLO I’M BACK AGAIN Gary Glitter & The Glitter Band 21 ( NEW ) ERNIE (THE FASTEST MILKMAN IN THE WEST) Benny Hill 22 ( 26 ) IT DOESN’T MATTER ANYMORE Buddy Holly 23 ( 15 ) MONDAY MONDAY The Mamas & The Papas 24 ( NEW ) CATS IN THE CRADLE Harry Chapin 25 ( 17 ) MOCKINGBIRD Carly Simon & James Taylor 26 ( 20 ) WHAT BECOMES OF THE BROKEN-HEARTED Jimmy Ruffin 27 ( NEW ) LITTLE CHILDREN Billy J. Kramer & The Dakotas 28 ( NEW ) W.O.L.D. Harry Chapin 29 ( 19 ) GET READY The Temptations 30 ( NEW ) SEND IN THE CLOWNS Judy Collins In My Life, badminton and table tennis at school again, some of my budgie chicks dying - parenting skills of the younger budgies not always there, grandma, grandad and my aunty & uncle popped round - the latter being just a bit older than me, more like cousins. ON TV I note "The Benny Hill Show" was surprisingly good. Maybe that explains Ernie back at 21 above, and 50 years later it came up in a pub quiz last week - what was Ernie's surname? I went through all the lyrics in my head and concluded it must have been in the video, Which it was. Didn't ever notice it. At school The Ancient Mariner poem and The Cocktail Party for English Lit, the 3 students having to read the latter out loud set me off creasing up with laughter oops, I'm sure T.S. Eliot would have been livid as I even set off Mr Dodd laughing when he took over; started looking up polytechnics for potential further education. In town I bought Space Oddity, Rhinestone Cowboy, December '63, Man Who Sold The World second-hand and Disco 45. Monday at school, card games, Geog teacher Mr Pickering bought in his Lake District photos, and I developed some of mine in the photo lab.

I had forgotten this Take That track, even though it topped my own charts! Bizarre! It's a good pop track that has been ignored by radio since, unfairly. Not as classic as The Flood of course, that's their best 20th century track, but it's upbeat fun and probably slots in behind Avicii/Guetta and maybe just ahead of Sing.

Eurythmics - There Must Be An Angel (Playing With My Heart) Tears For Fears - Head Over Heels Tina Turner - We Don't Need Another Hero (Thunderdome) Billy Idol - White Wedding Dire Straits - Money For Nothing

Ah, Sing, my first new fave Ed Sheeran song at the time and it holds up well I think. I can see the Pharell and Justin vibes too, and all the better for it. Best track so far along with the spaghetti cowboy dance.

I think Grammar is just a bonus aspiration these days, AI makes those sort of decisions these days 😄

Thanks Rollo and Jade! Just one off both is fab too. round 1: 33 Iron Maiden round 2: 30 sonia; one year out; Taylor Dayne brain freeze 3 in 10: Evergreen - started off with the wrong Will, doh!

Question marks in song titles are often dropped for some reason. I assume it's where it can be taken as more of a statement but not having the guts to commit😄"Am I wrong!" It's quite a pleasant track this one, still sounds nice without being outstanding or anything, but well-produced and the laid-back vibes still appeal. I rated it top 40 at the time but it's better than that, probably more top 20 for me and upper-mid-field here.

Everybody Want To Rule The World is a candidate for the Best Record Of The 80's for me, perfect in every way for every second. As we saw with the re-recording for Sport Aid only the original will do. What's amazing is Roland deliberately tried to write a "commercial" song, and oh my word he certainly did, where most songs have one terrific hook if they are lucky, this masterpiece has several and they never let up, keep the interest throughout, and never get boring on repeat plays. 10/10. Pleasuredome is still peak Frankie, and I reckon they could have grabbed another big hit with Born To Run if inclined to mine the album for one more hit. The epic sound is still there 9/10. Pie Jesu is OK, a little too downbeat for my tastes - but then again I havent heard it in 40 years. 6/10. The Heat Is On is a catchy middling rockpop ditty 7/10. The Alarm single I don't remember at all, and by this stage they were getting on my nerves a bit so I can't really rate it. Alison Moyet going all 1940's-stylee certainly worked for her, her voice can carry it. That said I prefer Billie Holiday's original, I preferred her Jolly & Swain singles at the time and she will do a better cover in a couple of years 6/10. Billy Bragg has always the vocal subtlety of a foghorn being played through a farting trumpet, but can knock off a decent record once in a blue moon, most notably in the early 90's. This EP fell into his Let's Support The Miners era (males in my family all went down the pits, apart from black sheep me) but I still didn't like the radio played title track much 3/10. Wide Boy is a good track, Nik better than he might have seemed at the time 8/10. Move Closer is a nice radio staple that never quite goes away long enough for me to welcome it back as an old friend but is still a pleasant 8/10. I bought Starvation for the cause at the time, and I've barely played it (if at all) since 1985, but it was well meaning 5/10. King's was a fairly forgettable song but worth a 6/10. Some Like It Hot was never quite as good as I thought it should have been given those behind it, but I don't mind it 6/10. Spend The Night is yet another nice Brit Soul track, UK bands seemed to have a bit more freshness about them compared to the American ones and I liked the tune 8/10. I had a lot of time for David and Linx stuff, and I loved seeing the Detroit Spinners getting some love, it's a great song, a good version and nice as a duet with Jaki on it boosting her chart profile ahead of some good pop tracks. Not as good as the original, of course, but still a 9/10 for me. Big Daddy spearheading a still-going minor tradition of taking current pop songs and doing them in a sometimes tongue-in-cheek novel(ty) way. Seem amusing at the time, less so down the line somewhat I suspect 5/10. Not heard it in 40 years though...! Wonderwall Mike Flowers did it right...

I was too busy quipping to agree with you about the new album not being a studio album 😄 it's a 12-year-old one-off project getting a late release and is very much not a proper studio album anymore than muical Closer To Heaven, multi artist remix albums, or the score for Battleship Potemkin are proper studio albums, so contrary to any quoted stats in certain quarters it's not a flop failed-to-go-top-10 album spoiling their run, it's just a bonus. I havent heard it yet but may buy it, and totally approve of the subject matter, what the legal profession did to a ground-breaking hero is unforgiveable so it's great seeing history recognise Turing as a genius. 👍

Stop The Weeding is advice i took about 8 weeks back you should see my patio! 😄

banger. love the cowboy vibes via Spaghetti Western music whistles and it still holds up well. My top to drop out so far I think.

that'll split up a lot of them then in the rating!😄

Easy Lover is decent enough and nice to see Philip Bailey get hits after Earth Wind & Fire have chart finished more or less 8/10. We Close Our Eyes also decent but much prefer later Go West singles, though the sweaty video got them noticed 7/10. Material Girl is a nice Marilyn Monroe pastiche but not among my top Madonna faves 8/10. Paul Young is always good, just by virtue of his vocals, but not one of my faves of his either, bit of a theme here. Hall & Oates song with that famous mis-heard lyric "Every time you go away you take a piece of meat with you" 7/10. Kiss Me a pleasant pop ditty from the future Robbie Williams collaborator 8/10. Considering the much better Hall & Oates flops that hit big in the USA it was always odd that this minor effort got them a hit in the UK. That said it's still among the best of the bunch so far 8/10. David Essex singles always unpredictable in sound, which I always liked about him, Fallen Angels Riding is middling in his catalogue 7/10. The Belle Of St Mark is a bit of Prince fun 7/10 Who Comes To Boogie I dont remember well at all but I think I liked it 6/10. Legs is typically ZZ of the time and nice riffs as always 7/10. Breaking Up My Heart one of Shaky's forgotten pop tracks that I enjoyed more than most of his stuff 7/10. The Last Kiss was David Cassidy's comeback with bundles of vocal assistance from George Michael, like me a bit of a fan of Cassidy's breathy/strident vocal hits of the 70's, allowing Michael Bolton to also come out as a fan. The album wasnt even released in the US! Best record of the batch for me, though I'm not as huge on it as I was at the time, all nostalgic to have him back. I love the way it builds slowly to a crescendo. 9/10 Produced by Alan Tarney (see Cliff's 80's goodies among many others). Loose Ends also a great single, the production is good and the vibes of the melody are quite more-ish in a subtle way. Came back as minor hit remixes and generally well-regarded amongst the Brit-soul of the time 9/10. New Edition still essentially teeny soulpop in a Jackson 5 groove, but starting to morph into grown-up r'n'b future acts and this one is OK 6/10. Jermaine had never been cutting edge popsoul like his brother & shortly his sister, so it was a more of surprise that this one hit big in the UK where most of his previous laid-back ballads had bombed. It's nice enough but not that special 6/10.

Thanks Jade and well done Rollo! 🤩 round 1: 36 the year round 2: 39 3 in 10: Power Of Love, If This Is It, Heart & Soul

12th October 1976 It's a 9th week on top of my chart as Dancing Queen drops from the top spot on the singles chart, with Yakky Doodle soundalike (Hannah Barbera Huckleberry Hound cartoon duck based on Tom & Jerry duck) is at number 2! Put it down to childhood nostalgia. Meanwhile, despite the oldies chart 50% of the top 10 is still oldies or covers, two Isley Brothers classics just ahead of Elvis' B side at 10. That's 3rd time round for This Old Heart Of Mine, 2nd time for Behind The Painted Smile, and first time for Girl Of My Best Friend - Elvis' first 60's track to go top 10 since Suspicious Minds, his 12th top 10 in total and his first since Always On My Mind 4 years ago. Highest new entry is The Detroit Spinners, Rubberband Man being their 4th charting track, in at 15, and The Manhattans get a 2nd charter with their cover of Hurt at 43, not one I am that bovvered about these days. T.Rex keep that 100% record going as Laser Love sneaks in at 45 but it wasn't up to the Imperial Era stuff, and Simon May gets a hit with his TV series theme tune. It's a bit twee and tuneful, number 46 and ahead of The Rubettes at 48, debuting Under One Roof - another groundbreaking gay-themed track following on from Rod Stewart's Killing Of Georgie - which got little airplay as expectations on 50's Glam pastiches are severely confounded with this sombre country-ish ballad. Good though. That leaves Natalie Cole getting a 3rd chart entry with Mr Melody, not one I recall at all. 50's years later, hearing it for the first time, and it's a nice pleasant upbeat jazzy soul shuffle harking back to her dad's era a bit. 1 ( 1 ) DANCING QUEEN ABBA 2 ( 4 ) DISCO DUCK Rick Dees & His Cast Of Idiots 3 ( 3 ) BLINDED BY THE LIGHT Manfred Mann's Earthband 4 ( 2 ) MISSISSIPPI Pussycat 5 ( 7 ) BEST DISCO IN TOWN The Ritchie Family 6 ( 6 ) I'M STILL WAITING Diana Ross 7 ( 9 ) I'LL MEET YOU AT MIDNIGHT Smokie 8 ( 17 ) THIS OLD HEART OF MINE The Isley Brothers 9 ( 22 ) BEHIND THE PAINTED SMILE The Isley Brothers 10 ( 34 ) GIRL OF MY BEST FRIEND Elvis Presley 11 ( 11 ) I WANT MORE Can 12 ( 12 ) TEARS OF A CLOWN Smokey Robinson & The Miracles 13 ( 5 ) DANCE LITTLE LADY DANCE Tina Charles 14 ( 18 ) HOWZAT Sherbet 15 ( NEW ) RUBBERBAND MAN The Detroit Spinners 16 ( 16 ) BENNIE AND THE JETS Elton John 17 ( 10 ) YOU DON'T HAVE TO GO The Chi-Lites 18 ( 8 ) CAN'T GET BY WITHOUT YOU The Real Thing 19 ( 33 ) LOVING AND FREE Kiki Dee 20 ( 15 ) AMOUREUSE Kiki Dee 21 ( 43 ) DANCING WITH THE CAPTAIN Paul Nicholas 22 ( 13 ) I ONLY WANT TO BE WITH YOU Bay City Rollers 23 ( 46 ) I'D REALLY LOVE TO SEE YOU TONIGHT England Dan & John Ford Coley 24 ( 28 ) TOUCH ME IN THE MORNING Diana Ross 25 ( 14 ) IT'S O.K. the Beach Boys 26 ( 20 ) I CAN'T ASK FOR ANYMORE THAN YOU Cliff Richard 27 ( 27 ) SAILING Rod Stewart 28 ( 21 ) YOU'LL NEVER FIND ANOTHER LOVE LIKE MINE Lou Rawls 29 ( 38 ) SHE'S GONE Daryl Hall & John Oates 30 ( 24 ) AFTERNOON DELIGHT Starland Vocal Band 31 ( 48 ) TRACKS OF MY TEARS Smokey Robinson & The Miracles 32 ( 19 ) BABY WE'D BETTER TRY TO GET TOGETHER Barry White 33 ( 23 ) HEAVEN IS IN THE BACK SEAT OF MY CADILLAC Hot Chocolate 34 ( 29 ) THE PRICE OF LOVE Bryan Ferry 35 ( 30 ) YOU SHOULD BE DANCING The Bee Gees 36 ( 26 ) RAINMAKER Wellington Womble aka Mike Batt 37 ( 47 ) UPTOWN UPTEMPO WOMAN Randy Edelman 38 ( 36 ) HERE I GO AGAIN Twiggy 39 ( 35 ) LET 'EM IN Wings 40 ( 25 ) BABY I LOVE YOUR WAY Peter Frampton 41 ( 32 ) STILL THE ONE Orleans 42 ( 40 ) DOINA DE JALE Gheorghe Zamfir 43 ( NEW ) HURT The Manhattans 44 ( 49 ) LOWDOWN Boz Scaggs 45 ( NEW ) LASER LOVE T.Rex 46 ( NEW ) SUMMER OF MY HEART Simon May 47 ( 42 ) THAT'LL BE THE DAY Linda Ronstadt 48 ( NEW ) UNDER ONE ROOF The Rubettes 49 ( 31 ) WHAM BAM Silver 50 ( NEW ) MR. MELODY Natalie Cole 12th October 1976 Reissued Oldies Charts It's 3 weeks on top for Nathan Jones as 60% of the top 10 is Supremes-based while another 2 are in the main chart. Motown dominate or what! There's an early 60's oldie new entry for Bob Luman's Let's Think About Living, which is pretty good seeing as I didnt have a copy of the record, I hadnt got a recording of it, and it wasnt getting airplay on the radio. 1 ( 1 ) NATHAN JONES The Supremes 2 ( 3 ) I'M GONNA MAKE YOU LOVE ME Diana Ross & The Supremes & The Temptations 3 ( 2 ) STONED LOVE The Supremes 4 ( 4 ) BOTH SIDES NOW Judy Collins 5 ( 5 ) YESTER-ME, YESTER-YOU, YESTERDAY Stevie Wonder 6 ( 6 ) WITHOUT YOU Nilsson 7 ( 10 ) STOP IN THE NAME OF LOVE The Supremes 8 ( 9 ) BABY LOVE The Supremes 9 ( 7 ) YOU'RE SO VAIN Carly Simon 10 ( 12 ) YOU ARE EVERYTHING Diana Ross & Marvin Gaye 11 ( 8 ) MAKE IT WITH YOU Bread 12 ( 15 ) BLACK AND WHITE Greyhound 13 ( 13 ) I HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE Marvin Gaye 14 ( 14 ) RUN RUN RUN Jo-Jo Gunne 15 ( 11 ) MONDAY MONDAY The Mamas & The Papas 16 ( 19 ) LET YOUR YEAH BE YEAH The Pioneers 17 ( 17 ) MOCKINGBIRD Carly Simon & James Taylor 18 ( 18 ) ROCK AND ROLL PART 2 Gary Glitter & The Glitter Band 19 ( 16 ) GET READY The Temptations 20 ( 21 ) WHAT BECOMES OF THE BROKEN-HEARTED Jimmy Ruffin 21 ( 23 ) HELLO HELLO I'M BACK AGAIN Gary Glitter & The Glitter Band 22 ( 24 ) DO YOU WANT TO TOUCH ME (OH YEAH) Gary Glitter & The Glitter Band 23 ( 20 ) REACH OUT I'LL BE THERE The Four Tops 24 ( 22 ) DANCING IN THE STREET Martha & The Vandellas 25 ( 25 ) I'LL PICK A ROSE Marv Johnson 26 ( 28 ) IT DOESN'T MATTER ANYMORE Buddy Holly 27 ( 27 ) DAYDREAM BELIEVER The Monkees 28 ( 30 ) I'M THE LEADER OF THE GANG (I AM) Gary Glitter & The Glitter Band 29 ( 26 ) CREQUE ALLEY The Mamas & The Papas 30 ( NEW ) LET'S THINK ABOUT LIVING Bob Luman At home, the budgies kept right on breeding babies, at school I played badminton with mate Ian, playing against some Lower 6th girls, we won, then played with Sean vs the L6th girls again and lost, though we had better luck at table tennis. What a great way to do A levels! Not study, apart from doing Belgium in Geography! That must have been a short lesson. Apparently we had a thing called Prefect Duty - as oldest year at school - but I don't recall ever having to do it! I did though. I bought Record Mirror, always a pleasure on a Thursday, with all the new charts and releases. My old history teacher Miss Goodrich apparently talked to me about careers, she always did mean well for pupils. Spoiler: I had no idea what career to aim for so ended up going to Uni. I bought the Isley Brothers Motown double A single on Saturday in town, and on Monday a school trip to see Othello in Nottingham in the evening. It starred Prunella Scales' hubby Timothy West, and had pop star Paul Jones as Iago, to a few screams from some of the ladies when he walked on stage, obviously Manfred Mann fans!

Rita Ora's track I don't mind actually, one of her better records, but I wouldnt call it a fave as such, and I agree about Anywhere being her best song. Bang Bang got on my nerves so much I didnt even bother charting it. So that would be lower end of this list for me. I'd forgotten that Aloe Blacc track - it's no I Need A Dollar. As an Elton re-write-ish-nick it's OK though, if not quite up there with the original Your Song. 5 Seconds is another one I've forgotten! And again it's OK, I didn't mind it in a sort of "peaking at 65 in my charts" way, but it's a bit better than that now I play it again in a McFly sort of way. Ed Sheeran's sloppy ballads all make me react the same way. Overly-gooey for my tastes, but I can see he appeals to more romantically-inclined folk. Not really my thing and it got one week at 71 in my charts, which is why I always forget the title in pub quizzes. He's got so many forgettable big hits in the same way Westlife do. That said the greedy Gaye estate went on one trip too many to the copyright well on this, it bears very little resemblance to Let's Get It On, whereas the Got To Give It Up rip-off was obvious instantly.

❤️I can relate to social anxiety, too, Jade, I didn't really stop being self-conscious and uncomfortable in group situations (except with people I know) or on public show until I got way older! I wouldnt say I stopped being self-conscious, but I did stop caring so much about it and forced myself out of the house after 40 years in my bedroom, pretty much! It gets easier. I still race to the toilets though if it looks like I'm about to be grabbed to go on stage and join the throng to dance and chant along with Maori singers and dancers (for example), I was like a greyhound chasing a toy rabbit out of a trap in February in New Zealand!

The Hollies unlucky to clash with an epic timeless classic this week, Stop Stop Stop is great, not quite Bus Stop but almost as good and one I vaguely recall hearing enough for it to sound familiar when I started Hollies back catalogue looking. Beauty's Only Skin Deep I heard in the 80's I think and have never rated that much, it's OK at best by Temptations standards. High Time is fun, I like it but it's Paul Jones later solo singles that live in my childhood, not this one. The Elvis and Cliff songs ring no bell so time to play them! Cliff sounds a bit like he's trying for a bit of Dylanesque barbershop singalong, I like that it's a change of style. I have never heard of Spinout and the plot was later used for the one I am very fond of - Speedway, with Nancy Sinatra and Bill Bixby, an actual duet and a Nancy song. In the UK Spinout was called California Holiday, so that might be why I dont remember it - mum loved Elvis and given the chance we would see Elvis films at the RAF cinema's. The song is pretty forgettable though and sounding old-fashioned by 1966. Reach Out is a monster 60's moment - even if one of the soundalike follow-ups is my own epic Four Tops fave - 1967 means way more to me than 1966 when I missed a load of new music until dad came back from Aden with a record player and radio.

Thanks Jade and just the one offs Rollo! round 1: 39 round 2: 33 Mike + The Mechanics 3 in 10: missed this one oops! Distracted...

Hi Chris, sorry I missed these comments - I was in the Baltics at the time and didnt spot them! I will always love Dancing Queen, even though it is a tad overplayed, though TBH it's been hard to avoid most ABBA songs for the last 20-odd years with the Musical, films and ABBA Voyage. Gimme Gimme Gimme is prob the next most-popular these days! I wish some of their album tracks could get to be well known, If It wasn't For The Nights, Eagle, When All Is said And Done and many more. 2 of those were in Abba Voyage though! One is gone now, replaced by Super Trouper so that should please you and many others! :) I never realised Twiggy's was a cover, but it was very nice. Pussycat was huge and very singalong, a big fave at the time but I wouldnt say I'm as fond of it these days, at least in comparison to number 2 peaking songs Blinded By The Light and You Should Be Dancing!