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If I'd stuck rigidly to one episode a day since I began then we would have been on Episode 118 today, which means that yet again I have finally caught up with myself... The One Week Wonders - Episode 118 You can tell that in the 1970s that Cup Final day was a very important day of the year for a lot of people, given the impressive viewing figures for the F.A. Cup final most years (albeit split between the BBC and ITV, so usually mentioned in a footnote below that week's Network Top 20 from TAM rather than officially making the Top 20 from either side's broadcast). You can also tell due to the fact that one or both teams involved often recorded some sort of single, either leading up to the day, or immediately after the day if they were celebrating winning it. Said single could feature the 'vocals' of the actual players, or of the team's fans, and could also sure the recording up with the musical talent of an act or artist who happened to support the club. In 1970 the cup final was between Chelsea and Leeds United, and was held on Saturday 11th April, but ended 2-2, having been watched by about 15 million people via the BBC, and a further 8 million or so on ITV, although neither side's coverage was enough by itself to put it in the Top 20 as far as TAM was concerned, thought the figure they quoted for the BBC audience ought to have put that within the week's Top 10. The replay was played on the evening of Wednesday 29th April, with about 12.76 million watching ITV and 15.73 million watching on the BBC. The BBC coverage alone was the third most watched programme of the week (beaten only by the two episodes of Coronation Street that week), with the ITV coverage also at #14. Combined the audience figure was roughly 28.5 million people, so one of the biggest events of the entire decade. Chelsea won the replay 2-1. I don't know if fan group Stamford Bridge had already put their single, imaginatively entitled Chelsea, into shops prior to the replay, or even prior to the original final earlier in the month, or whether it was recorded or released as a reaction to Chelsea winning the replay, but between 4th and 9th May 1970 there were enough sales of it for it to enter the chart of w/e 16th May 1970 at #47. In the same week's chart the England World Cup Squad reached number one with Back Home, as they prepared for the Mexico 1970 World Cup. This upload of the Stamford Bridge also includes the b-side, as both are rather short recordings. 0jBR9PUEhiw Next up are Thunderclap Newman, who a year after their chartopper Something In The Air had one other UK charting single. Accidents was at #46 on w/e 27th June 1970. VfpvUAxfU7s Finally for today we have the fourth and final charting single for Canned Heat, who had just had the #2 hit Let's Work Together. Sugar Bee was at #49 on w/e 11th July 1970. gFjEl2f2ZYo

The One Week Wonders - Episode 117 This episode starts with Barry Ryan, who we saw back in 1966, when he was part of a duo with his brother Paul. Now he's a soloist, and this is the 4th of his 6 UK charting singles whilst solo. Magical Spiel was at #49 on w/e 21st February 1970, and here is a Top Of The Pops performance of it. 8XQOgoKQ4ZU Then we have the Bee Gees, who were at #49 on w/e 28th March 1970 with I.O.I.O. E1z1JLEfP-E And we end with the second and last UK charting single for Marsha Hunt. She was at #41 on w/e 2nd May 1970 with Keep The Customer Satisfied. ThyVxb9AVCM

The One Week Wonders - Episode 116 We begin with Vince Hill and Little Bluebird, which was at #42 on w/e 25th October 1969, and was the 11th of his 12 UK charting singles. His last, Look Around, was a #12 hit in 1971. BLy-xvxx_VE Next we have a bonus mention of a two week wonder, caused by a repeated chart. Moira Anderson entered the chart at #43 on w/e 27th December 1969, and the chart books give it two weeks at that position as the chart is repeated to cover the fact that w/e 3rd January 1970 was not compiled. Tony Jasper's Top Twenty Book actually repeats the w/e 20th December 1969 chart and then states that the chart that Moira appeared in was only w/e 3rd January 1970 (albeit it obviously doesn't show Moira in the book, being as it only covers Top 20 hits). I think Tony was mistaken in this instance though. The w/e 20th December 1969 chart would have been announced on Radio 1 at lunchtime on Tuesday 16th December, and then published in Record Retailer and Record Mirror that week, with Saturday chart date. The next chart week would have been announced on Radio 1 on Tuesday 23rd December, and either published in the magazines later that week, or if the publication had a week off for Xmas, it would have been published the following week (when there was no new chart compiled, so no need to publish two charts in one edition). I guess that most books, which 'take' from Record Retailer, found the chart in an edition of the magazine dated the same week (whether that was rush published on 23rd/24th, or published after Xmas but dated in Xmas week), whereas Tony, who 'takes' from Record Mirror for his books, saw the chart published, after a week's delay, in an edition of that magazine dated 3rd January 1970 and dated it that way instead. This confusion with a chart compiled and announced prior to Xmas, but sometimes published on a week's delay due to the Xmas holiday, seems to affect some years of the 70s too. I found, for example, that genome and other listings, show there to have been a new chart announcement on Radio 1 on Tuesday 24th December 1974, so a chart dated w/e 28th December logically ought to exist, but the chart books shows repetition of the w/e 21st December 1974 chart, then a new chart dated w/e 4th January 1975 (which would probably mean a chart announcement on Radio 1 on 31st Dec or 1st Jan, but genome does not show one then). Anyway my conclusion is that Moira is a bonus, not a true one week wonder, as the first of her two weeks was the genuine one, and we can't be sure if she would have dropped out, or stayed on chart, had the chart for her second week been compiled. eC6p5L_WUZc And now the Seventies are finally upon us... The second true one week wonder of this episode is the Jamaican group The Melodians, who had their only week of UK chart action with Sweet Sensation, which was at #41 on w/e 10th January 1970. a0j63hrc2oQ And we end this episode with another Jamaican, Derrick Morgan, who had is only week on the UK chart at #49 on w/e 17th January 1970, with Moon Hop. VU2M25clzuU

My chart advisor for the Sixties, KingOfSkiffle has Wednesday chart dates up until 6th August, then a Saturday date from 16th August. My theory is the OCC dates 60's charts as beginning on the date that I'm referring to as a week-ending date. So the last Wednesday date, that I would call w/e 6th August, would ordinarily be shown on the OCC site as 6th-12th August, except for the fact that when the chart date does move to w/e Saturdays with w/e 16th August, that week has to be considered to start on the Sunday before, so runs 10th-16th, meaning that either the three days from 10th to 12th would be covered by two consecutive charts, creating an overlap, or else the last Wednesday chart has to be truncated to only cover up to Saturday 9th, hence a 4 day period of currency for that chart on the OCC site. So I think the last Wednesday chart was published and dated 6th August. I'm fairly sure that regardless of the publication date the sales period had been Mon-Sat (Sunday trading being years away), if not throughout the Record Retailer era, then for at least the later part of it. Actually, now I come to re-read your reply, I think we're basically saying the same thing as each other, just explained differently. I think?

The One Week Wonders - Episode 115 We start this episode with Pentangle and Once I Had A Sweetheart, which was at #46 on w/e 28th May 1969. s521EhPfiMk Next up are The Monkees, for the second consecutive episode, with their final charting single of their original run, Someday Man, which was at #47 on w/e 25th June 1969. They wouldn't reach the singles chart again until an EP of some their old singles charted in 1980 (and another similar EP also did so in 1989). There was also one more genuinely new single which charted in 1986. PlrHh8avwYo And finally you know the seventies can't be very far away now when the last song in this episode is by Tyrannosaurus Rex, who would shorten their name to T.Rex after this single and then have their next 11 singles all reach the top 7 (or next 10 all reach the top 4 if you don't count the double-A reissue of their first two singles, which was on a different label to any of their new releases in this period, and also different from the label that the original releases of those first two singles were on). This is King Of The Rumbling Spires, which was at #44 on w/e 6th August 1969, which happens to be the last chart whose week-ending date was a Wednesday, as far as I can work out. Chart dates had gradually snuck backwards, from Friday to Thursday to Wednesday of the week after the sales week, during the first 17 years of charts (one of those changes admittedly being at the switch from NME to RR). In Summer 1969 BMRB were able to start releasing the new chart on Tuesday, instead of Wednesday, and at this point they started dating the chart as week-ending the Saturday after the sales week, pushing it back down the week rather than using Tuesday dates and letting it continue to sneek up the week. Thus the w/e 6th August 1969 is followed by the w/e 16th August 1969, according to my chart advisor for the sixties, KingOfSkiffle. However the OCC website has an entirely different transition from one system to the other, including a four day chart 'week' from July 30th to August 2nd. Anyway here's some Tyrannosaurus Rex... 7DXdVN02rL4

The One Week Wonders - Episode 114 We start with The Monkees and Teardrop City, which was at #45 on w/e 26th March 1969 (though some books claim #44 or #46). DvOIkZpEF-U Next we have Birmingham group Second City Sound, with their second and last charting single, just over three years after their first one, Tchaikovsky One, had reached #22. This one is Dream Of Olwen, which was at #43 on w/e 2nd April 1969. m-oipo1cdYg Finally it's gentle rocker Val Doonican, with Ring Of Bright Water, from the otter-based film of the same name, which was at #48 on w/e 23rd April 1969. Iu12UBsOE20

The One Week Wonders - Episode 113 First Up is Tiny Tim, with his cover version of Great Balls Of Fire, which was at #45 on w/e 5th February 1969. Despite the audience laughter in the linked video this apparently wasn't supposed to be comedic or a parody. I happened to listen to the audio from the actual single first and just thought it was a decent cover of the original, and then I saw this TV performance and became aware that a lot of people apparently viewed it as comedy. Even the comments under the video are split between the two camps of thought. What do you guys reckon? awj_kv6pb7o Next is Vince Hill with Doesn't Anbody Know My Name, which was at #50 in w/e 12th February 1969, the first week of the new BMRB-compiled official chart. dmTz9RBkVHY And we end with the Small Faces and Afterglow Of Your Love, which was at #36 on w/e 19th March 1969, and thus it's the first one week wonder inside of the Top 40 since The Brook Brothers had one at #37 in January 1962. One other record in 1967, by Ray Charles, nearly managed to also get a one week wonder inside the Top 40, at #38, but after then dropping out for a week it returned to the charts for two more weeks and therefore avoided being on this thread. But as I've moved through the sixties chart data I've noticed a growing trend towards this particular chart behaviour, of debuting in the chart in the lower reaches (typically in the 35-50 portion) in what I'm gonna term their week one, then dropping out of the chart entirely in week two, only to return in week three. I've come to think of it as a blip-start for the single in question. Some records only ever chart in weeks 1 and 3, some continue into week 4 and beyond, and some even end up being long running in the charts, but this blip-start seems to happen quite a lot across various singles, and appears to increase with the advent of the BMRB charts in 1969, to the point that by the seventies it gets rather rare for any single to genuinely only have one solitary week on the chart, since so many of the singles that drop out in their respective week 2 dutifully return in week 3. I suppose it could be caused by different reasons for different releases, but there are enough instances of it that there could be one general cause for most or all of them, though I'm blowed if I know what it is/was. Anyway I digress.. here's the Small Faces. 6X-j-U44c8c

The One Week Wonder - Episode 112 We start with the third charting single from Gary Puckett and Union Gap, Woman Woman, which was at #48 on w/e 28th August 1968. There other two were Young Girl which hit #1, and Lady Willpower which got to #5. Following this there only other visit to the UK charts was a reissue of Young Girl in 1974 also hit #6. 1hyJDLyUAoc Next is Ride My See Saw by the Moody Blues, which was at #42 on w/e 4th December 1968. mIavaAdzNK0 And lastly for this episode we have Hugo Montenegro's second and last charting single, Hang 'Em High, which was at #50 on w/e 8th January 1969. The single was a cover of Dominic Frontiere's theme for the Clint Eastwood's film of the same name. Hugo's only other charting single had been the charttopping cover of the Ennio Morricone theme to another Clint Eastwood film, The Good The Bad and The Ugly. 9eYWXwaX3TU

The One Week Wonders - Episode 111 We start with Procol Harum and Quite Rightly So, which was at #50 on w/e 24th April 1968. It was their third charting single after Whiter Shade Of Pale (#1) and Homburg (#6). mGBvb4WOxJw Next up is Joe Cocker with his UK chart debut, Marjorine, which was at #48 on w/e 22nd May 1968. His next single would be the charttopping With A Little Help From My Friends. ZPEwOupGe_I Finally we have The Temptations who were at #47 on w/e 12th June 1968 with I Could Never Love Another. kqsdVdbbG9A

And of course the Andre Rieu version of that tune will eventually be in an episode of this thread (if I keep going far enough to reach 2020 anyway).

That's interesting, I hadn't realised there was a connection between the two bands. Looking it up it seems the Atlanta Rhythm Section consisted of three Candymen and two from Classics IV, but I think one of those Classics IV members was a later one who wouldn't have been on the original recording of Spooky, so I think the only person present on both recordings is guitarist J.R.Cobb, who co-wrote the lyrics.

The One Week Wonders - Episode 110 We start with If You Can Want by Smokey Robinson and The Miracles, which was at #50 on w/e 3rd April 1968, and was their 4th Uk charting single. mTFktK3mY3o Next is Arthur Conley with his second and last UK charting single, Funky Street, which was at #46 on w/e 10th April 1968. His other charting single was Sweet Soul Music, which had reached #7 in 1967. BOkIeppeY9M And we end this episode with the first of two Uk charting singles for guitarist Willie Mitchell. Soul Serenade was at #43 on w/e 24th April 1968. gSuunaEIUHY

The One Week Wonders - Episode 109 We start with I Wish It Would Rain by The Temptations, which was at #45 on w/e 6th March 1968. A version by The Faces reached #8 in 1973. BrjJeP1GGxY And staying with the same week, but moving down to #50, we find Petula Clark with Kiss Me Goodbye. This was her 25th Uk charting single, and after this the only other charting singles she had were a couple of minor singles in January 1971 and January 1972, and a remix of Downtown in 1988 which reached #10. DrMTJZSNu0o Finally for this episode it's Aretha Franklin with Since You've Been Gone (Sweet Sweet Baby), which was at #47 on w/e 13th March 1968. -C1ql9y-mgo

The One Week Wonders - Episode 108 First up are Gladys Knight and The Pips with I Heard It Through The Grapevine, which had one week at #47 on w/e 27th December 1967 and was their second UK charting single. As well as the charttopping version by Marvin Gaye, there was also a version by The Slits which reached #60 in 1979. WWvwP72FuVg Next is Green Tambourine, which was the only UK charting single for Sun Dragon, and was at #50 on w/e 21st February 1968. There was another version of Green Tambourine at about the same time, by The Lemon Pipers, which got to #7 in the UK and was a US #1. TfohgYAlTPE And finally the only week of UK chart action for Classics IV with Spooky, which was at #47 on w/e 28th February 1968. Another version of Spooky charted in 1979 by Atlanta Rhythm Section, which reached #48. Qpo9KZYJ4sA

The One Week Wonders - Episode 107 First up are Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood, who were at #47 on w/e 8th November 1967 with Ladybird. 3s6tbi72JRw Next is the 9th and final charting single for the Seekers, the Wizard Of Oz themed Emerald City, which was at #50 on w/e 13th December 1967. cwjq7JEZUeI And finally for this episode is Cat Stevens' Kitty, which was at #47 on w/e 20th December 1967. rXXn1LSv_z8

The One Week Wonders - Episode 106 First up is Andy Williams with More And More, which was at #45 on w/e 2nd August 1967. vvUMOS3sEgw Next we could have been hearing Light My Fire by The Doors, which originally had just the one week on the UK chart at #49 on w/e 16th August 1967, despite being a US number 1. We aren't hearing it as the second song of this episode because it was reissued in 1991 and reached #7 on that occasion. I'll link to the song anyway as a bonus. qoX6AKuYWL8 Instead of The Doors our second single for this episode is Vicki Carr's There I Go, which was the second of three UK charting singles for her, the first of which was the #2 hit It Must Be Him. Vicki's real name was Florencia Bisenta de Casillas Martinez Cardona. There I Go was at #50 on w/e 30th August 1967. Swf2nSBaxl4 Finally we move into the Radio 1 era with The Voice Of Scott McKenzie and Like An Old Time Movie, which was at #50 on w/e 1st November 1967. This was Scott's only other UK charting single besides his charttopper, San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Some Flowers In Your Hair). b8etnFwce7c

The One Week Wonders - Episode 105 We carry on where we left off last episode, w/e 16th February 1967, but move down to #48, where we find Chris Farlowe with My Way Of Giving In. fzEn37GC_QU Last episode I mentioned that there was a second version of 98.6 by a guy called Keith, and that he had one other UK hit. Well here is that hit, at #50 on w/e 16th March 1967, it's Tell Me To My Face. ihlqmpNpedM Finally, at #50 on w/e 4th May 1967 was Otis Redding, with Let Me Come On Home. GeJEP7n5YeE

Sorry, didn't mean to take another week off from this, just how things turned out. And I was already behind by a couple of episodes before that... The One Week Wonders - Episode 104 We start with the only week of Uk chart action for The Bystanders, with 98.6, which was at #45 on w/e 9th February 1967. There was another version of 98.6 in the charts around this time, by Keith (real name James Keefer), which reached #24 and was the first of 2 Uk hits for him). ciNauioDGaM Moving down to #49 in the same week we find Electric Prunes with I Had Too Much To Dream (Last Night), the first of two two singles to make the Uk charts. 4FcAXFycPis And finally for this epiosde we have Guess Who with His Girl, which was at #45 on w/e 16th February 1967. They had to wait for just over 3 years, until May 1970, for their only other Uk charting single, American Woman, which reached #19 here, but was a US #1. yzSyWV4DMD0

The One Week Wonders - Episode 103 We start this episode with Sandie Shaw, with I Don't Need Anything, which was at #50 on w/e 19th January 1967. Sandie was chosen by the BBC to represent Britain in the Eurovision Song Contest, and every Saturday from 21st Janaury to 18th February she performed a different possible song on primetime BBC1. On 25th February there was a re-cap of all fives songs to be voted on, and on 4th March the winner was announced as Puppet On A String. The song would go on to both win the contest, and top the chart as Sandie's next single. kiyXr3SIWkQ Next up as a cider-drinking westcountry lad myself I'm happy to be mentioning Drink Up Thy Cider by Adge Cutler and The Wurzels, which was at #45 on 2nd February 1967. This was their only charting single for nearly a decade, and there would be a sad change to the band before the next one. Following a live performance in Hereford on 5th May 1974 the band's lead singer and main songwriter Adge (real name Alan) was driving in his MGB sports car when he is thought to have fallen asleep at the wheel. His car overturned on a roundabout in Chepstow and he was killed. Deprived of their main songwriter, and the original westcountry themed songs he wrote, the band would go on to instead write alternative lyrics to contemporary pop sings as a way of creating new songs, which would lead to a resurgeance in their fortunes in 1976, including the charttopper Combine Harvester, and a #3 hit with I Am A Cider Drinker. bp9yK_k6wCk Finally for this episode are The Drifters with Baby What I Mean, which was at #49 on w/e 2nd February 1967. At this stage in their career The Drifters had only had two hits that got inside the top 20 in the UK, both in 1960, with the biggest being Save The Last Dance For Me, which reached #2. After this one week wonder they would be absent from the chart for five years, only to return to the UK charts with a run of big hits between 1972 and 1976. _Z3j6s0Qstw

The One Week Wonders - Episode 102 First up, at #50 on w/e 29th September 1966, is Marvin Gaye with Little Darlin' (I Need You). This is his 3rd UK charting single, and his 3rd one week wonder. His next single, a duet with Kim Weston called It Takes Two, would reach #16 and spend 11 weeks on the chart in 1967, thus ending his run of one week wonders. XHeQUUhUJsQ Next is one we already saw in the Xmas special, Donald Peers with Games That Lovers Play, which was at #46 on w/e 29th December 1966. It was the first of three UK charting singles for him. lcVf-byv6DQ Finally for this episode is the only week of UK chart action for Tim Hardin, with Hang On To A Dream, which was at #50 on w/e 5th January 1967. ZFSOoAFm9o4

The One Week Wonders - Episode 101 First up we have 9th UK charting single for Wayne Fontana, and the 3rd without the Mindbenders, Goodbye Bluebird, which was at #49 on w/e 25th August 1966. KW-3YW7uo4c Next is the only week of UK chart action for Tommy McClain, with Sweet Dreams, which was at #49 on w/e 8th September 1966. A version by Roy Buchanan reached #40 in 1973, and was Roy's only Uk charting single. Elvis Costello also reached #42 with it in 1981. Em--T6vhjrY Finally for this episode are brothers Paul and Barry Ryan, with their 5th of 8 uk charting singles, Have You Ever Loved Somebody, which was at #49 on w/e 29th September 1966. Barry then had a solo career of 6 more uk charting singles, starting with the #2 hit Eloise. 12ZDg0R7fyE

The One Week Wonders - Episode 100 First up are Ike and Tina Turner, who were at #48 on w/e 28th July 1966 with Tell Her I'm Not Home. A couple of weeks previously their chart debut River Deep Mountain High had reached as high as #3 and was still fairly high in the chart, though that was on the London label and this one week wonder was on Warner Bros. The rest of the charting singles they released together would also be on London, so this one-off may have been a previous record label looking to cash in on their recent success. uAXZrEhO584 Next, in the same chart week, is the third and final single from Eddy Arnold, If You Were Mine Mary, which was at #49. His first, Make The World Go Away, was a #8 hit earlier in 1966. qSKgvmWj_Ok And staying in the same week for the final one of this episode too, Joan Baez was at #50 with Pack Up Your Sorrows, her 5th charting single. She had to wait just over 5 years until October 1971 to have one last hit, They Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, but it turned out to be her biggest, reaching #6. NAMe1bRW8Ao

The One Week Wonders - Episode 99 First up is Tony Merrick with a version of the Rolling Stones song Lady Jane, which was at #49 on 2nd June 1966, and was his only week of UK chart action. Another version of Lady Jane, by David Garrick, got to #28 in the same year. 5nBGMfvHXj0 Next is Making Time by Creation, which was at #49 on w/e 7th July 1966. They followed this up with their only other charting single, Painter Man, which hit #36 later in the year. 3xpONvYyFvQ Finally for this episode the Ivy League with Willow Tree, which was at #50 on w/e 14th July 1966. This was their fourth and final UK charting single. Their biggest had been their third, the #3 hit Tossing And Turning. hHa8EZFUjTw

The One Week Wonders - Episode 98 First up are the Dave Clark Five with Look Before You Leap, which was at #50 on w/e 19th May 1966. There previous charting single was Over And Over, which reached #44 here at the end of last year, but was a US #1. RZS9SAs7Cbc Next is Bob Lind with Remember The Rain, which was at #46 on w/e 26th May 1966. It was the follow up to the #5 hit Elusive Butterfly, and was his only other charting single. 2wckTFTLd9Y Finally for this episode we stay with the same chart week and move down to #50 where we find Mr Zero by Keith Relf. This was Keith's only week of chart action as a soloist, but he experience more as lead singer of the Yardbirds. GNtIPH_nW4o

The One Week Wonders - Episode 97 We start this episode with Pinkerton's Assorted Colours and Don't Stop Loving Me Baby, which was at #50 on w/e 21st April 1966. It was the follow up to their #9 hit Mirror Mirror, and was their only other charting single. cbwfC6KjwNg Next we could have been hearing The Isley Brothers with This Old Heart Of Mine, as it initially had one week at #47 on w/e 28th April 1966, however it then reentered the charts in October 1968 and reached #3 during that run. Instead our next song is Once by Genevieve, which was at #43 on w/e 5th May 1966. The 9th edition of Guinness says she was a French vocalist, but the 17th edition says she was a British vocalist with the decidely unfrench name of Susan Hunt. Whoever she is, this was her only week of UK chart action. oY6Nb8rm86s Finally for this episode we have Kenny Damon with While I Live, which gave Kenny his only week of UK chart action on w/e 19th May 1966. According to my chart advisor for the sixties, KingOfSkiffle, it was at #45, though Guinness says #48, and another book Record Hits says it had two weeks and peaked at #45. I know how much time and effort KingOfSkiffle has spent researching accurate charts, so one week at #45 is likely to be right (certainly I don't believe Record Hits which is full of inaccuracies). hZmoMtMvhAE