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Songs that you thought were big hits but on fact never reached UK top 40? |
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So it actually did reach the top 40.
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Roxy Music - Do The Strand. Didn't even dent the charts. And yet they had a top 10 hit with Pyjamarama, which few now have ever heard of.
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Roxy Music - Do The Strand. Didn't even dent the charts. And yet they had a top 10 hit with Pyjamarama, which few now have ever heard of.
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Elton John - Step Into Christmas
Being a Christmas song you're likely to hear this at some point in December but when released it peaked at #24. I thought it had been a top 10 hit at least in the 70s. Also interesting to note that the original Are You Ready For Love? peaked at #42 in 1979 whilst Norman Cook's remix got to #1 in 2003. |
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Janis Ian - At 17
Gilbert O'Sullivan - Matrimony Arrow - Hot Hot Hot (original '84 version) |
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That's the thing, in 1971 the Top 40 wasn't a thing. The chart be it Radio 1 or Melody Maker was the Top 30. It's not to say there wasn't a top 40, it was a top 50 or 75 but Radio and Tv only reported a top 30. Anyway the point to me was I always thought Diamonds did much better. 38 isn't even that great nowadays or do you think that is a big hit?
Was that back in the days the charts were still known as the hit parade? |
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there were a lot of 'radio' hits in the 70s like
Dean Friedman 'Ariel' which got loads of airplay but didnt chart strangely. Its really catchy. A spaceman came travelling - Chris de burgh |
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there were a lot of 'radio' hits in the 70s like
Dean Friedman 'Ariel' which got loads of airplay but didnt chart strangely. Its really catchy. A spaceman came travelling - Chris de burgh plenty of radio hits though from the 70's exuma - damn fool - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vtuxw2KGukQ john dummer - 9 by 9 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZtSgiBX3bQ todd rundgren - i saw the light - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxB4weCzqGE alex hammond - it never rains in california - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqMEEvmfyQU olivia newton john - have you never been mellow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2S1nmxYmUg vicky leandros - when bouzoukis played - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0zUnQX-0Ms maria muldaur - gringo en mexico - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o83x_VzBtjI |
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Bob Segar's Shakedown went to number 1 in the US but failed to reach top 40 here.
I think the likes of Segar, Petty, Allman Brothers etc fitted in with the American market a lot more than the UK. |
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