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Also uses the same sample as the 2005 track Waterman by Olav Basovski and Michie One which was a #45 hit.

Alessi Rose is probably more upbeat and much less vocal vibrato than Alyssa Grace.

Alma Cogan does have a giggle in her voice, as do a few recent singers in certain songs this decade like Mae Stephens and Anne Marie. The one I know most from Alma Cogan is 'Tango with an Eskimo'.

Claire Maguire Last Dance has aged well quite 2020's sounding with the 80s revival synth/chillwave sound!

The crooners/traditional pop-pers still making a lot of nice songs in 1954. Mambo Italiano great fun too.

'Someone Like You' is emotive but yeah I prefer the joyous 'We Found Love' even if it did kind rip off the riff from Whigfield's Saturday Night.

Spain 1 France 2 England 1 Argentina 2

Voted for Elvis, wrong decade and not one of his best. Klaxons, Shakedown, Angel City all very good.

Olivia Dean and to a lesser extent Sienna Spiro if you are looking for someone newer.

'Rock Around The Clock' is good and we are now we're heading into the rock and roll era here! Pre-rock and roll early 50s was not as grim as it sounds, plenty of upbeat stuff still made the chart. A lot of the ballad stuff would still sound quite early 50s crooner eg. Elvis' ballads.

I don't think rock and roll made the UK chart until 1955. Not sure about when doo wop first made the UK chart though as it's more similar to traditional pop and more difficult to tell apart.

'(I'll Never Be) Maria Magdalena' is fab. 'Hounds of Love' I prefer to 'Running Up That Hill".

For Nicola Roberts - Lucky Day is very good, but 'Beat Of My Drum' is annoying and awful imo. Nicole - Wet is good with a 2002 style eurotrance production courtesy of StarGate.

Good top 3 and yes that a-ha song is epic (but has a bit of sadness to it too) and better than Take On Me.

David Whitfield's voice is an aquired taste but yeah his stuff is quite emotive. And Renee and Renato copied his style of music lol.

I wish you bad weather wherever you are for putting the Weather Girls as one of your worst!

Didn't know it was as early as 1952 wow good and influential song!

Prefer 'Rachel' by him lol!

'Welcome to the Dance...' indeed very good tune would be a great year of dance! I don't like 'Pitchin...' as much though and Scanty Sandwich is worse - annoying.

'On the Floor' I quite liked at the time. Certainly for Pitbull much preferable to his other pop star #1 collab 'Timber'.

"When it comes to 'Ouse every Weekend"

Paper Planes

It's been overplayed in media. The synth riff is good though, 80s synth rock is great, with Van Halen - Jump recently in the 1984 thread on here and I also like Marillion Incommunicado from 1987.

Van Halen 'Jump' and its riff are great. Love a 80s synth rock track Marillion Incommunicado is another one that's great. 'My Everchanging Moods' is good too, a topic that is easily relatable. 'The Politics of Dancing' is good too.

It's sad, RIP. 'Total Eclipse...' and 'Holding Out For A Hero' were very good songs.