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The next act actually made three of these in different years for the christmas chart battle, always using the techique of taking samples from recent big hits and telling a story from the bits. 1976 – Chris Hill – Bionic Santa (^10) 2do7BOypXU8

1975 and a classic silent comedy duo got themselves into a fine mess in the christmas chart. 1975 – Laurel And Hardy – Trail Of The Lonesome Pine (!3 - #2 previous week) IyYZvO8S398

1973 is the one exception I mentioned in the opening to this, because that years christmas chart was only a top 30, and there were 27 fairly normal hits, and three christmas classics, so I'm at a loss as to what to include here and am open to your suggestions/opinions. Straight to 1974 then and some lovable furry children's characters 1974 – The Wombles – Wombling Merry Christmas (^5) _JhVkWNHaU4

1972 and with no disrespect intended to the artist of this it was really another novelty xmas #1 1972 – Little Jimmy Osmond – Long Haired Lover From Liverpool (Xmas #1) QHFJgbpETrI

1971 brought a novelty xmas #1, and one of my favourites 1971 – Benny Hill – Ernie The Fastest Milkman In The West (Xmas #1) 8e1xvyTdBZI

This is a little something I have prepared as a celebration of Christmas Chart Day 2013. Nowadays it's normally a given that the winning puppet from the high-trousered one's 'talent' show will be Xmas #1, but historically a whole host of weird and wonderful novelty hits entered the chart battle, and still do to this day. So here is one novelty chart hit from every Christmas Chart Battle, covering the years 1970-2013, with one exception. I'm going to fly through these quite quickly this afternoon but feel free to comment on any of these, add any relevant information about them, suggest other novelty hits you would have chosen over my choices etc. We start with 1970: 1970 – Clive Dunn – Grandad (^6 - later number 1) 6KJGJRd8pGE

Actually they are counting the 1998 Re-Issue of 'You're The One That I Want' as one of her top 5 hits, it even states that in the article at the start of this thread. The seven hits are : You're The One That I Want - 1978 - 1 Summer Nights - 1978 - 1 Hopelessly Devoted To You - 1978 - 2 A Little More Love - 1978 - 4 Xanadu - 1980 - 1 The Grease Megamix - 1990 - 3 You're The One That I Want - 1998 - 4

Singles/Tracks AC/DC - Highway To Hell (download album track) Big Reunion 2013 - I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday (2 track download single) Retrobot - Christmas Robot (1 track download single) Retrobot - Christmas Robot Remixes (3 track download single) Jose Feliciano - Feliz Navidad (download track) q-43GXLnjTo

In the case of Prodigy I think TOTP actually wouldn't have asked them to appear, because the one time they showed about 30 seconds of a video of theirs there were loads of complaints from parents that Keith looked too scary for the child viewers (I remember this being mentioned in the TOTP magazine at the time). I don't think the Sex Pistols ever appeared, but not sure if that was in effect a mutual decision by both parties.

I would say let Rufus Hound come back to it. He genuinely loved the show and has said so in interviews since, and his style sort of combined that of the Radio 1 DJs of old with that of the trendy new presenters of later years, so I think he would be popular with most people tuning in.

So happy to hear the shows are going ahead again this xmas, as this is the first I've read about them anywhere so I had been starting to think they weren't. On the other hand they did say somewhere that that stance was probably wrong in hindsight, and they did allow one of their tracks to go on a NOW album for the first time this year, so maybe they might've...

I've found this snippet of conversation online, that was written on the day of the Jo Whiley chart show in question, and it proves she presented the show with Colin Murray. Of course she could have had that exchange with Vernon Kay on a different show on Radio 1 perhaps or the following week on the chart show when Vernon presented it with Spoony (and Duran Duran dropped from 11 to 33). http://chrismoyles.net/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=9006

Interestingly in an article about the xmas number one race on the OCC website it is mentioned that the chart will be presented on Radio 1 by Scott Mills and Jameela Jamil. Perhaps Jameela doesn't yet feel up to presenting such an important edition of the show in her own right? Or perhaps they have Scott there either in recognition of his years of service to the charts show, or (and I hope I'm wrong) to mark his retirement from the chart show? Scott has now appeared on the chart show in as many calendar years as the previous record holder, Mark Goodier, and is now, I think, the same age as Mark was when Radio 1 'retired' him from the show, allegedly for being too old for a show geared towards teens. It won't be the first time that Scott has been on the christmas edition of the show in any case.

I have a theory they only renewed him after the first two years on the assumption that Fearne would also renew, and then were stuck with him for another 3 years when she didn't, but I could be wrong...

AcerBen was there 32 days in March this year then? I missed the memo if there was :-p I assume you meant 3rd March?

You're probably right actually. I've since found this article by James Masterton that explains what happened during Ride On Time's run in the charts. James Masterton article about Ride On Time It's still at least possible that they chose not to play it that week due to the scandal blowing up, and then later chose to start playing it again. It just seems too coincidental that it happened to be that specific track that Mark had no time to play...

It really is truly amazing what can be found out on the net if you know where to look isn't it? I have a feeling youtube will give us a few more answers for the earlier chart shows now. Could we maybe start highlighting those shows that are now certain, in say bold, so we can see what needs to still be confirmed? I realise that'll probably take even more time though. This video is extracts from Alan Freeman's penultimate show in September 1972. gDOc6UgtP44

I've just been searching on youtube for clips of old chart shows, and apparently McFly were 'co-hosts' one week in 2009. I'm thinking there could be more weeks like this where artists, acts and other celebs appeared during some of the show and were considered a co-prsenter. Also I've realised the list currently includes every single Sunday, including in every Xmas/New Year period, despite the fact some years in the 60s and 70s there was a week when no chart was even compiled, so we made need some more research into the specific weeks around xmas and new year I think. Here is a short extract from a 1974 Tom Browne show, illustrated with footage of Pans People. I was surprised at how 'receieved' his accent seems for a chart show presenter, particularly given how he took over from Alan 'Not 'arf' Freeman who was not 'received' despite presenting in the 60s when virtually all BBC radio presenters were. wcOj9aA0714

Just calculated the final totals for the chart of chart show host appearances, up to 10/11/2013, assuming our current list is accurate, and excluding the chart of the year shows and the pre-radio1 era. Of course Alan Freeman would have far more appearances if the Light Programme era was also included. 1. Mark Goodier 470 1988-2002 2. Bruno Brookes 358 1986-1990 & 1992-1995 3. Tom Browne 278 1972-1978 4. Alan Freeman 258 1967-1972 5. Reggie Yates 237 2007-2012 6. Simon Bates 130 1976-1977, 1982-1985, 1987 & 1992 7. Tony Blackburn 123 1979-1982 8. Joel 122 (121 with JK, 1 solo) 2005-2007 9. JK 121 (121 with Joel) 2005-2007 10. Tommy Vance 103 1982-1987 & 1991-1992 11. Wes Butters 102 2003-2005 12. Fearne Cotton (75 with Reggie Yates, 3 solo) 78 2007-2009 13. Richard Skinner 71 1984-1986 14. Scott Mills 65 (1 with Nemone, 1 with Edith Bowman, 63 solo) 1999-2013+ 15. Jameela Jamil 42 2013+ 16. Clive Warren 12 1995-1998 17. Greg James 5 2010-2012 18. Andy Peebles 4 1979 & 1983 19=. Pete Murray 2 1968 19=. Neale James 2 1994 19=. Dave Pearce 2 1995 19=. Jo Wiley 2 2002 & 2005 19=. Nemone 2 (1 with Scott Mills, 1 solo) 2002 & 2005 19=. Dev 2 2009-2010 25=. (14 other DJs with one guest presenting appearance)

Ah fair enough, I'm afraid I was a follower of the fizzy drink sponsored Doctor of Fox in those days, although only really the top10 which was the official chart anyway, and only occasionally flipped over to Radio 1 during boring interviews and stuff to see if they were ahead (which they nearly always were as I think they were required to stay behind Radio 1 slightly because of Radio1's right to announce the chart first).

Actually that may have been more deliberate than Mark made out on the show, as this was precisely the time the original version of Black Box's Ride On Time was probably temporarily banned due to having been found to contain an illegal sample. It was replaced by a re-recording containing a re-recorded copy of the original sample, but this wasn't available for at least another week based on the dates on the wikipedia article, and I assume the song nonetheless continued to chart on the leftover copies still selling in stores before they managed to pull them and replace them.

Lily Allen could manage two number 1s in two weeks this month, so she could easily end up doing it.

Looks like the updated information has now completed the 'Fearne and Reggie as a duo' era, and by my reckoning Fearne did 78 editions putting her 12th ahead of Richard Skinner but behind her co-host Reggie who is at 11th, and still got a fair climb to make when the rest of the data is completed.

And I meant to ask if anyone knows... the two weeks when Dave Pearce did the Chart Show, did he also do his Dance Anthems immediately after like he usually did? If so 6 or 7 continuous hours on the air is pretty impressive

Just worked out a chart of most appearances, now updated and going up to 20/09/2009, the week Fearne left. 1. Mark Goodier 471 1988-2002 2. Bruno Brookes 358 1986-1990 & 1992-1995 3. Tom Browne 278 1972-1978 4. Alan Freeman 261 1967-1972 5. Simon Bates 130 1976-1977, 1982-1985, 1987 & 1992 6. Tony Blackburn 123 1979-1982 7= .JK and Joel 122 2005-2007 9. Tommy Vance 103 1982-1987 & 1991-1992 10. Wes Butters 102 2003-2005 11. Reggie Yates 95 2007-2009 (+) 12. Fearne Cotton 78 2007-2009 13. Richard Skinner 71 1984-1986 14. Scott Mills 40 1999-2009 (+) 15. Clive Warren 11 1995-1998 16. Andy Peebles 4 1979 & 1983 17=. Neale James 2 1994 17=. Dave Pearce 2 1995 17=. Jo W(h)iley 2 2002 & 2005 17=. N(e/a)mone 2 2002 & 2005 21=. (13 other DJs with one guest presenting appearance) Of course Scott is now on well over 50 shows and could even have got ahead of Richard Skinner. No idea what Reggie's total will be, but it is a maximum of about 300 probably. Interestingly when Scott did a show in place of Jameela a couple of weeks ago he equalled a record, he has done at least one chart show in more consecutive calender years than anyone else (15 calendar years from 1999-2013), bar one, the original record holder being Mark Goodier (15 calendar years from 1988-2002). So if Scott does at least one show in 2014 he will break the record. The non-consecutive record remains to be seen, since Mark Goodier may possible have covered since 2007.