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It was a baron period for both Dusty & LuLu in terms of hits. Neither would reach the Uk top 40 until 1987 and 1986 respectively. I think the song that Dusty sang was a cover version - A Love Like Yours? I think it was Martha Reeves who had the original not sure. Pet Shop Boys also worked with another act in the early 90's, I dont know if anyone remembers Cicero, he was a bit of a one hit wonder.

My Love Is Your Love is my personal fave, however Step By Step is also a good song (written by Annie Lennox) surprised its at the bottom of this list!

The RnB one last night was good, informative about the roots of RnB and Soul music. More relevant for the youngsters if any were watching with them all being in to hip hop RnB music today. I will probably check out the Bill Withers album they mentioned. I'm already familiar with some of his stuff like Use Me, Lovely Day, Lean On Me etc.

Is anyone watching the programmes discussing albums from the 70's on BBC4, 9pm with Danny Baker. It was Rock last night, pop tonight and Soul and Thurs. night with a documentary on Fri. Last night they had Jeremy Clarkson on discussing rock music in the 70's :o

Every Number One between 1952 and 1963 :P

I Know the answer to that one, but I'll see if anyone can get it. Love Is Like Oxygen was one of their own composition, by the late seventies they were doing all their own stuff. Which is when they seemed to enjoy more success across the pond.

Go Your Own Way was the best singlre from Rumours IMO, probably done so well in downloads because of the Lissie cover version

Yellow Dog was Kenny Young's band, he also formed Foxx (Only You Can , S S Ingle Bed etc) and he wrote Under The Boardwalk for the Drifters. I Watched 70's Gold A compilation of performances from Old Grey Whistle Test on BBC4 last night. Lots of good and some rare bands on their performing. David Bowie, Elton John, Argent, Patti Smith, Vinegar Joe etc

There are lots of good acts making there chart debut in the next couple of months like Blondie, Kate Bush and Billy Joel to name a few, so Things will improve. The Baby's lead singer John Waite had a hit in 1984 with the excellent Missing You.

Its very sad news :( However on a brighter note i cant wait till they start slashing their prices to sell off stock and I can grab loads of bargains! :yahoo:

Their biggest hit It Must've Been Love sold 430,000 in the 90's. Dont have any download sales for it though I'm afraid

Funny enough I found it by accident too. I think I was looking for the Weather report or something at the time :lol: . I remember hearing TPau China In Your Hand and Always On My Mind by the Pet Shop Boys (which was the very first single I bought :D ). Then in the new year I started listening to the chart every week and writing down the top 40. :)

The very first chart I Listened to was the Year End chart for 1987 on Radio 1

Why did they miss out 2003? One of the best Xmas battles for no.1 IMO Gary Jules vs The Darkness. The Darkness led all week and thought they had it in the bag then Gary Jules pipped them to the post with Saturday sales. I remember being shocked on the Sunday chart show that they had made no.1!

Christmas TOTP 2 is on BBC2 tomorrow 9pm and repeated again on midnight on Christmas Day after Christmas no.1 story

Elton John is sopposed to be hosting one edition before the end of the year.. should be interesting if they show it!

Well I'm sure it goes without saying your talking about the Terry Wogan version, and not the terrible original.. ;)

Shouldnt Take A Chance On Me by Abba and These Are The Days Of Our Lives by Queen be included on the list?. The former was included Erasure's Abba Esque EP (no.1, 1992) and the latter on was by Queen & Lisa Stansfield and was included on the Five Live EP (no.1, 1993) Or do EP's not count..

At a guess, Shakin Stevens, maybe?

Here are the songs with the most charted versions. Thanks to hanboo at UKMix for this info. UK SINGLES: SONGS WITH MOST CHARTED VERSIONS Here are the songs with four or more different versions on the UK chart. Re-entries do not count, re-recordings and remixes do. Legend: First line: number of versions, top 10 entries, chart peak, song title (debut year - last year) 2nd line: names of the song writers 3nd line: names of the acts in chronological order (between brackets: chart peak) * indicates title was part of a double side or a medley ** indicates title was (slightly) changed 9 6 1 UNCHAINED MELODY (1955-2002) Written by: Alex North/Hy Zaret Acts: Al Hibbler (2) Liberace (20) Les Baxter (10) Jimmy Young (1 & 43) The Righteous Brothers (1) Leo Sayer (54) Robson Green & Jerome Flynn* (1) Gareth Gates (1) 8 2 1 EVERLASTING LOVE (1968-2004) Written by: Buzz Cason/Mac Gayden Acts: Robert Knight (19) Love Affair (1) Rex Smith & Rachel Sweet (35) Sandra** (45) Worlds Apart (20) Gloria Estefan (19) The Cast From Casualty (5) Jamie Cullum (20) 8 2 5 WHITE CHRISTMAS (1952-1989) Written by: Irving Berlin Acts: Mantovani & His Orchestra (6) Pat Boone (29) Freddie Starr (41) Bing Crosby (5) Darts* (48) Jim Davidson* (52) Keith Harris & Orville (40) Max Bygraves (71) 7 3 1 WISHING ON A STAR (1978-2011) Written by: Billie Rae Calvin Acts: Rose Royce (3) Fresh 4 (10) The Cover Girls (38) 88.3 Feat Lisa May (61) Jay-Z Feat. Gwen Dickey (13) Paul Weller (11) X Factor Finalists 2011 (1) 7 2 1 BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY (1975-2010) Written by: Freddie Mercury Acts: Queen (1) Bad News (44) Braids (21) Rolf Harris (50) G4 (9) Queen & The Muppets (32) Glee Cast Feat. Jonathan Groff (67) 6 5 1 LIGHT MY FIRE (1967-2002) Written by: John Densmore/Robby Krieger/Ray Manzarek/Jim Morrison Acts: The Doors (7) Jose Feliciano (6) Amii Stewart* (5) Amii Stewart* (7) UB40 (63) Will Young (1) 6 3 6 WALK ON BY (1964-1997) Written by: Burt Bacharach/Hal David Acts: Dionne Warwick (9) The Stranglers (21) Average White Band (46) D Train (44) Sybil (6) Gabr ielle (7) 6 3 1 AIN'T NOBODY (1984-1997) Written by: David Wolinski Acts: Rufus & Chaka Khan (8) Jaki Graham (44) KWS & Gwen Dickey** (21) Diana King (13) LL Cool J (1) The Course (8) 6 3 1 DON'T CRY FOR ME ARGENTINA (1976-2011) Written by: Andrew Lloyd Webber/Astor Piazolla/Tim Rice Acts: Julie Covington (1) The Shadows (5) Sinead O'Connor (53) Madonna (3) Mike Flowers Pops (30) Glee Cast** (67) 6 3 1 STRANGER IN PARADISE (1955-1955) Written by: George Forrest/Robert Wright Acts: The Four Aces (6) Tony Bennett (1) Tony Martin (6) Eddie Calvert (14) Don Cornell (19) Bing Crosby (17) 6 2 1 I WILL SURVIVE (1979-1997) Written by: Dino Fekaris/Freddie Perren Acts: Gloria Gaynor (1) Billie Jo Spears (47) Gloria Gaynor** (5) Chantay Savage (12) Diana Ross (14) Cake (29) 6 2 3 THE LITTLE DRUMMER BOY (1959-1994) Written by: Harry Simeone/Henry Onorati/Katherine Davis Acts: The Harry Simeone Chorale (13) The Beverley Sisters (6) Michael Flanders & Donald Swan (20) Royal Scots Dragoon Guard (13) David Bowie & Bing Crosby* (3) RuPaul* (61) 6 2 3 LEAN ON ME (1972-2010) Written by: Bill Withers/Melvin Dunlop Acts: Bill Withers (18) Mud (7) Club Nouveau (3) Michael Bolton (14) 2-4 Family** (69) Glee Cast Feat. Kevin McHale & Amber Riley (43) 6 1 2 LOVIN' YOU (1975-2003) Written by: Minnie Riperton/Richard Rudolph Acts: Minnie Riperton (2) Massivo Featuring Tracy (25) Shanice (54) U.B.M. (46) Sparkle (65) Marc Et Claude** (37) 6 1 1 (I CAN'T GET NO) SATISFACTION (1965-1991) Written by: Keith Richards/Mick Jagger Acts: Rolling Stones (1) Otis Redding(33) Bubble Rock (29) Devo (41) Aretha Franklin** (37) Vanilla Ice** (22) 6 0 24 FEELING GOOD (1994-2011) Written by: Anthony Newley/Leslie Bricusse Acts: Nina Simone (40) Huff & Herb Feat. Nina Simone (31) Huff & Herb** (69) Muse* (24) Michael Buble (69) Muse (54)

Roxy Music hits - More Than This, Pyjamarama, avalon. Can't think of any others, other than the three already mentioned.

MGMT Kids - 360,000

I think the video to TPOL has a Xmas theme IIRC.

Excellent TOTP this week, lots of my fave songs, Modern World, Heroes, We are The Champs, etc. Kenny Everett is hosting next week. Song with space theme in its title. The excellent Drops of Jupiter by Train. Not sure weather you could include Telstar by Tornadoes it was sopposed to have a sci fi feel to it.

You are correct Popchartfreak. Oh Carolina is still his best imo