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Top 400 Of The 1970s
Number 66: I don't think so! jdTg9n0_Rsc Number One in November 1974 & 660,000 sold.
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Top 400 Of The 1970s
Number 67: No sign of the Bee Gees! WJvdy00LcPI Number One in July 1977 & 656,200 sold.
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Top 400 Of The 1970s
Number 68: No Sir, I can't! nVIJKKxE1_U So, pigeon English from Spain. In 1978, they represented Luxembourg at the Eurovision Song Contest. They didn't win, because they weren't Greek! Confused? I certainly was! Anyway, they boogied themselves up to Number One in October 1977 & sold 654,900 copies.
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Top 400 Of The 1970s
Number 69: Another double A side from Rod TEoc13bwCw0 Number One in September 1971 & 653,000 sold. It started out on it's own as this: MfuOS8-cWwE
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Top 400 Of The 1970s
Number 70: Terry of the Poppy Family...We had joy we had fun, we had United on the run! rhQ13geD2OA Number One in April 1974 & 649,000 sold.
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Top 400 Of The 1970s
Number 71: Noddy & the boys from Wolverhampton RabCRjOL7nw Number One in March 1973 & straight in at Number One & selling a total of 646,800 copies.
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Top 400 Of The 1970s
Number 72: It's the same old song, with Roy & Co! GoJXYgVnQIQ Number One in June 1973 & 640,000 sold.
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Top 400 Of The 1970s
Number 73: Come on, come on XxfSlIS55mk Backwardly thick & a school runaway? I think so. But anyway he was Number One in August 1973 & sold 640,000 copies.
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Top 400 Of The 1970s
Number 74: Help for heroes? Not for this one. It was too late. 6cdFuMgMkBM Beaten by Mud in the best sellers of 1974, unfortunately. Paper Lace won Opportunity Knocks & were Number One in March 1974 & sold 638,000 copies.
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Top 400 Of The 1970s
Number 75: Middle Of THe Road cover Mac & Katie Kissoon with great results HSNSTerj2Kc Mainstream pop then! It was Number One in June 1971 & sold 635,000.
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Top 400 Of The 1970s
Number 76: Spot another contender for worst Number One RRLQs0w4ExY Another better given the Barron Knights treatment. That greasy rocker called Joe, that landed in the Thames with his girlfriend Anne...Hand in hand! Brotherhood Of Man were unfortunately Number One in August 1977 & sold 633,250.
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Top 400 Of The 1970s
Number 77: Spot the bad dancer & bad mimer! uWktoG5DU_4 Ever stealing other people's songs. This one by Gale Storm took Mr Edmunds to Number One in December 1970 & sold 630,000 copies.
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Top 400 Of The 1970s
Number 78: Time to put your coat on. It's the return of Prince Charles favourite! T6fVDAjs9f0 Number One in August 1974 & 626,500 sold.
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Top 400 Of The 1970s
Number 79: Man Tran sing Art & Dotty Todd in Germany, but mime! klEYHN0O3xU Number One in March 1977 & 624,750 sold.
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Top 400 Of The 1970s
Number 80: Elvis covers Ray Peterson NgUbqTSObvM Number One in August 1970 & 624,000 sold. Not forgetting the 1977 re-issue.
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Top 400 Of The 1970s
Number 81: Roderick's back! Hphwfq1wLJs Number One in November 1978 & 621,000 sold.
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Top 400 Of The 1970s
Number 82: The horses went crazy CS8ZfVTE4SM Number 2 in November 1972 & 620,000 sold.
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Top 400 Of The 1970s
Number 83: I don't wanna talk about it, alright?! nyrf4raknAo The single that did keep the Sex Pistols off the #1 slot...Thank Goodness. Even though the British Market Research Bureau, got his figures mixed up for the year end chart & he subsequently lost 200,000 sales in a gaff! Rod was Number One in May 1977 & sold 619,900 copies & obviously the BPI weren't too clever at spotting Rod's sales either! If you turned it over you got this: A cover of the Cat Stevens song E9pnRjLfVWc
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Top 400 Of The 1970s
Number 84: Hold everything...It's the cops! MbXWrmQW-OE Number One in September 1979 & 616,280 sold.
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Top 400 Of The 1970s
Number 85: Time for more overplayed Gold Radio stuff arxhW1RgDDo Number One in July 1974 & 616,000 sold.
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Top 400 Of The 1970s
Number 86: Where are you all coming from? "We're from Dartmoor on the run" I9SDEKlCCqE That's more like it. The kings of parody & having a go at some of the worse songs of 1978. It was Number 3 in December 1978....where the whole Christmas top 10, sold over a million combined & in any other year, the Knights would of sold enough weekly sales to be Christmas Number One! It sold 613,000 copies.
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Top 400 Of The 1970s
Number 87: Them Swedes again -crgQGdpZR0 Number One in February 1978 & 609,000 sold.
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Top 400 Of The 1970s
Number 88: Alley alley O R0SMNZhYm2A Not the original Brian (he was a comedian). This one was a dead ringer for Columbo. Did he have a glass eye? Looked like it. Either way it was caught up in Easter sales with Blondie & Gerry Rafferty. They lost out, Brian & Michael didn't unfortunately & they sold 604,880 copies.
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Top 400 Of The 1970s
Number 89: Robin Scott's M...looking like they'd come off "Wonder Woman" on TV, with there identification discs! Avvh5H-EPWU Number 2 in May 1979 & 602,490 sold.
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Top 400 Of The 1970s
Number 90: Elvis. No not that one! Ow1S4DJtLOk Number 2 in March 1979 & 590,000 sold.