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Post by rayshae3 on Jun 4, 2015 19:43:27 GMT -5
June 5 1982 #2-Soft Cell-Torch A one hit wonder duo in the states with Tainted Love, this was the follow up which hit #2 in the UK and still sounds awesome. Soft Cell-Torch Great pick! I used to have its 12" version. The female voice on this song belongs to Cindy Ecstasy, a New Yorker who mimicks the British accent. I think it was in NME or Sounds that I read her moniker "Ecstasy" was because of supplying the Soft Cell duo with the illicit drug. Perhaps it was because of this activity, you can find very little info about her today, since after her few collaborative works with Depeche Mode in the mid-80s, she "disappeared" for good with very little track about her whereabouts....(!)
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Post by rayshae3 on Jun 6, 2015 7:13:52 GMT -5
My pix for the 80s options this week, couple of UK classics: Step by step on its way down, from a peak of #2 couple of weeks earlier, the first chart entry for Yazoo (known in North America as Yaz). This single also got to #67 in the US. Only You-YazooThe highest entry this week in 1988 in the UK Top 100 belonged to Morrissey at #12 getting to a peak of #9 the following week. One of his most famous songs in Britain that missed the BB Hot 100 altogether. Everyday Is Like Sunday-Morrissey
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Post by 1finemrg on Jun 9, 2015 21:09:17 GMT -5
June 17, 1972: Written by Roy Wood, this UK hit was spending its first of 3 weeks at its peak #7 position. Famously covered by Cheap Trick in the late seventies on their "Heaven Tonight" album. Roy, along with members Jeff Lynne and Bev Bevan would go on to form the Electric Light Orchestra, though Roy would leave after their self-titled debut album. California Man - Move June 17, 1978: Their only US Hot 100 single would peak at #67, but was their largest UK hit peaking at #2. It hit #1 in several countries including Germany, The Netherlands, Australia, and their native country of South Africa. They were originally a 5 member all female band. Substitute - Clout June 16, 1984: Bernard Jewry hit the UK charts in the early 60s as Shane Fenton, lead singer of the Fentones. Their biggest hit titled "Cindy's Birthday" peaked at #19 in 1962. Eleven years later, he reappeared as a solo artist with the first of 7 Top 10 hits over an 11 year period. He would top the charts in 1974 with "Jealous Mind". He was on the charts with this one on June 16, 1984, a song that had peaked at #7 a few weeks earlier. I Feel Like Buddy Holly - Alvin Stardust
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Post by kchkwong on Jun 9, 2015 21:44:33 GMT -5
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Post by mga707 on Jun 9, 2015 23:13:07 GMT -5
After viewing that one I had to watch "Reap the Wild Wind"--one of my favorite videos from the early days of MTV. Spitfires, Hurricanes, and other British aviation classics!
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Post by rayshae3 on Jun 10, 2015 1:24:59 GMT -5
My picks for the 70s options: From this week in 1972, the #2 song that just dropped from the pole spot after 4 weeks. It was the fourth #1 for T. Rex; the group that had been consistently charting in the UK since 1968 shortly after it was formed by its frontman Marc Bolan. Metal Guru-T. RexThis week in 1978 at #14, on descent from the peak of #9 two weeks earlier, his brilliant first chart hit, but by no means the first single of Ian Dury in the UK, a largely unknown act in the US What a Waste-Ian Dury
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Post by rayshae3 on Jun 10, 2015 14:59:47 GMT -5
My 80s pick this week in 1984 belongs to an American husband and wife duo Cecil & Linda Womack. (#29 down from the peak of #14 a few weeks before). They had only a few hits on BB R&B chart, but missed the Hot 100 altogether. However their success was really in the UK. This was their first British singles chart entry: Love Wars-Womack & Womack
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Post by alann on Jun 10, 2015 15:19:52 GMT -5
Here are my picks June 17 1972 #11-New World-Sister JaneAn Australian Band who recorded Living next to Alice in 1972, a song Smokie had a hit with in 1976. Sister Jane is a song that gets into your head. New World-Sister Jane....................................................................................... June 17 1978 #6-Manfred Mann's Earth Band-Davy's on the road againThis was at it's peak of #6 this week in 1978 Manfred Manns Earth Band-Davy's on the road againlink#19-Marshall Hain-Dancing in the cityJulian Marshall & Kit Hain with a song that would hit #3 in a few weeks Marshall Hain-Dancing in the city........................................................................................... June 16 1984 #18-Nik Kershaw-I won't let the sun go down on meHe's a song writer these days & he wrote "The one & only" which Chesney Hawkes had a it with in 1991. In the Mid 80's he had several UK hits. This was his biggest whic was on it's way to #2 in a few weeks Nik Kershaw-I won't let the sun go down on me
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Post by trekkielo on Jun 10, 2015 20:02:21 GMT -5
June 17, 1972: Written by Roy Wood, this UK hit was spending its first of 3 weeks at its peak #7 position. Famously covered by Cheap Trick in the late seventies on their "Heaven Tonight" album. Roy, along with members Jeff Lynne and Bev Bevens would go on to form the Electric Light Orchestra, though Roy would leave after their self-titled debut album. California Man - Move
It's Bev Bevan, also, Roy Wood started working on Electric Light Orchestra II AKA The Lost Planet with Jeff Lynne in 1972, so Roy makes two guest appearances on "In Old England Town (Jeff's Boogie #2)" and "From the Sun to the World (Jeff's Boogie #1)"!
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Post by 1finemrg on Jun 10, 2015 20:43:39 GMT -5
June 17, 1972: Written by Roy Wood, this UK hit was spending its first of 3 weeks at its peak #7 position. Famously covered by Cheap Trick in the late seventies on their "Heaven Tonight" album. Roy, along with members Jeff Lynne and Bev Bevens would go on to form the Electric Light Orchestra, though Roy would leave after their self-titled debut album. California Man - Move
It's Bev Bevan, also, Roy Wood started working on Electric Light Orchestra II AKA The Lost Planet with Jeff Lynne in 1972, so Roy makes two guest appearances on "In Old England Town (Jeff's Boogie #2)" and "From the Sun to the World (Jeff's Boogie #1)"! Geez! I should know that! Thanks.
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Post by 1finemrg on Jun 14, 2015 10:49:55 GMT -5
June 22, 1974: He wrote this northern soul classic with Holland-Dozier-Holland. It was released in 1967 on the VIP label, but missed the charts. In 1974, it became a huge UK hit having peaked at #3 the previous week. Although he was from Toronto, we discovered in 1970 that Indiana wanted him. There's A Ghost In My House - R. Dean Taylor June 25, 1983: This synth-pop hit was at its peak #7 position on the UK charts. This Australian new wave studio project was the creation of former Easybeats (Friday On My Mind) members Harry Vanda and George Young. They enlisted Stevie Wright, who was also with the Easybeats to sing vocals on this one. In the meantime, George's younger brothers Angus and Malcolm had minor (sarcasm) success with this up and coming band (again sarcasm) known as AC/DC. Waiting For A Train - Flash And The Pan
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Post by alann on Jun 14, 2015 14:41:56 GMT -5
Here are my picks: June 22 1974#9-Sparks-This town ain't big enough for the both of usBrothers Ron & Russ Mael with their biggest UK hit which had got as high as #2 Sparks-This town ain't big enough for the both of us................................................................................................................. June 25 1983 #33-Heaven 17-Come live with meThis weeks highest new entry on it's way to #5 Heaven 17-Come live with me
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Post by rayshae3 on Jun 16, 2015 18:05:56 GMT -5
From this week in 1974: The girl trio who famously sang “…doo, doodoo, doodoo..” on Lou Reed’s “Walk on the Wildside” do the same here almost, written by one of my favorite British singer-songwriters of the first half of the 70s, Lynsey De Paul, & a great production with maneuvering orchestration that reminds one of Jigsaw’s “Sky High” . Rather a lost hit that eventually only got to #30. This week a new entry in the UK Top 50 singles @no. 44: [The music starts at 0:51 mark on the following clip] Central Park Arrest-Thunderthighs From this week in 1983: Best known hit of Mtume, the American R&B personality, “Juicy Fruit” might belong better to the 80s lost classics thread. This US R&B #1, got to #45 on the Hot 100; it did better in the UK but not much. At #40 down from a peak of #34 a couple of weeks earlier, nevertheless it is considered a funk classic of the early 80s. Juicy Fruit-Mtume
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Post by kchkwong on Jun 16, 2015 20:16:33 GMT -5
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Post by rayshae3 on Jun 17, 2015 14:23:35 GMT -5
Great choice. You planted the song in my head again. But I can’t help connecting Maggie Reilly’s echo on “Moonlight shadow…(shadow)” with Cat Stevens’ “Moonshadow”, as the Oldfield song uncontrollably brings back the Cat Stevens’ chorus. Maybe Mike Oldfield also had Cat Stevens’ song in his mind when writing the song.
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