The Virgin Book of British Hit Albums by Martin Roach (Virgin Books/Ebury Publishing/Random House/Official Charts Company ISBN 9780753517000) Most of the novelty songs listed below dating from the 1950s made the British charts. All links are to You Tube We await the day with relish that somebody dares to make a dance record that consists of nothing more than an electronically programmed bass drum beat that continues playing the fours monotonously for eight minutes. Then, when somebody else brings one out using exactly the same bass drum sound and at the same beats per minute (B.P.M.), we will all be able to tell which is the best, which inspires the dance floor to fill the fastest, which has the most sex and the most soul. There is no doubt, one will be better than the other. What we are basically saying is, if you have anything in you, anything unique, what others might term as originality, it will come through whatever the component parts used in your future Number One are made up from." I feel I'm at a point where there's just too many multi-part prog-pop kinda songs to count. Fresh in the wake of Bo Rhap (and Music), there were many more hitting the charts in 1976-77 as noted by others (The Four Seasons''Silver Star', Simon May's 'Summer of My Life', 10cc's 'I'm Mandy Fly Me', Rod Stewart's 'The Killing of Georgie', David Essex's 'City Lights'), so I'm going to focus on the most "out-there" of them all, me thinks. The verses are deathly and solemn with gothic, almost Red Army-like choir/monk harmonies, which he

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Fifty-two artists achieved their first top 10 single in 1979, either as a lead or featured artist. Of these, eight went on to record another hit single that year: Amii Stewart, B. A. Robertson, Gary Numan, Gibson Brothers, Sister Sledge, The Specials, Squeeze and Supertramp. Earth, Wind and Fire and The Police both had two other entries in their breakthrough year. Two years after Milos Forman's Amadeus, Falco brought his genius to bear on the life of Mozart. That he managed to compress into four breathtakingly over-the-top minutes what Forman took three hours to achieve is not to be sniffed at. Following up such arrant pop absurdity proved difficult, although his duet with Brigitte Nielsen, 'Body Next To Body', was a creditable attempt. One-hundred and forty-one singles charted in the top 10 in 1979, with one-hundred and thirty-one singles reaching their peak this year.Sadly, this double A-side was the first Beatles single since the first couple to miss the top spot. But the focus here is on "Strawberry Fields Forever". We all know what it sounds like, and it sounds amazing, but not even that accounts for the true innovations of the production. Editing together two different versions of the song (one of them in a different tempo, mood and key to the other) and then adding tape loops, reversed instrumentation and the like, it's no wonder it was christened the "most unusual and way-out single" Beatles single by the NME, and "a weird record" by Brian Wilson himself, even if, like "Good Vibrations", it's not the strangest sounding song on the list in today's ears.

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Gareth Hale and Norman Pace were a comedy double-act known at the time for starring in their own sketch comedy series on ITV. "The Stonk", a charity single for Comic Relief, was produced by Queen guitarist Brian May, who also performed on the song. Hale and Pace never issued another recording. [61] LEE MARVIN AND CLINT EASTWOOD | full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company". Official Charts.

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One hit wonder? Sort of. The show had another bash at the charts with the Christmassy B-side release Santa Claus Is On The Dole/ First Atheist Tabernacle Choir, which just about scraped into the top 20. One hit wonder? So far, yes. The Teletubbies have yet to release any more material, although we hear unconfirmed reports that Po is going solo and has “some deep experimental shit” lined up for the New Year. Just say no’ was a phrase coined by the First Lady of the United States Nancy Reagan as part of the US war on drugs and it was catchy enough that someone was bound to make a song with that title eventually. So, it might as well have been the cast of CBBC’s then groundbreaking school drama Grange Hill, who sang the song in conjunction with a controversial storyline about Zammo Maguire’s Heroin Addiction, (which has been exhaustively recapped on the GH wiki.) The song was a top 5 hit – our favourite part is Kevin’s rap break. Its not every week you get a charting recording of Indian devotional music repeating the mantra of Hare Krishna, recorded by the UK branch of the Radha Krishna Temple and produced by George Harrison for Apple Records. It's catchy though, I'll give it that. As it was difficult to market, its success was an "astonishing feat" according to author Peter Lavezzoli, who said the song proved how huge the Beatles' cultural influence was. The more conventional (to Western pop ears) follow-up single "Govinda" reached #23 the following March.