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Subject: UK Top 40 Rundown...charted out!
#1. I've got to have my way now, baby
Lanie - You Spin Me Round (Like A Record) - Dead Or Alive
#2. And a small cloud passes overhead
jaytee - Honey - Bobby Goldsboro
#3. When I met you, you were seventeen - not just another teenage queen
Lesley - Lay Your Love On Me - Racey
#4. I wanna spend each moment of the day with you
Bobo - I Ony Wanna (Want To) Be With You
The three artists...
Bobo - Dusty Springfield/Bay City Rollers
karen - The Tourists
#5. We'll lie in wait, and one of us will be the bait
maddog (with a little help from karen!) - Captain Beaky - Keith Michell
#6. I've turned a girl into a heaving, senseless wreck
maddog - I Am The Beat - The Look
#7. Come on down to Fifty-Four
MNIK/CF - Le Freak - Chic
#8. Despite the heat it'll be alright
Gaylon - Summer In The City - Lovin' Spoonful
#9. Because you're the permanent one
Gaylon - Tracks Of My Tears - Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
#10. I can't help it, I'm a romantic fool
maddog - Echo Beach - Martha & The Muffins
#11. Man, living at home is such a drag
Ethan Mawyer - (You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party) - Beastie Boys
#12. 'Cause she's got her own obligations
Indy Gent - Me & Mrs Jones - Billy Paul
#13. I never meant that much to you
MNIK - Every Rose Has Its Thorn - Poison
#14. Blood-red nails on your fingertips
annie - You Give Love A Bad Name - Bon Jovi
#15. Newlywed a year ago
CF - Family Affair - Sly & The Family Stone
#16. I could leave but I won't go
Lanie - That's All - Genesis
#17. Not much you can do when the feeling is gone
CF - Love On The Rocks - Neil Diamond
#18. And so I just decided to myself
Meriadoc - I Think I Love You - Partridge Family
#19. Like jazz on a summer's day
Lesley - Valerie - Steve Winwood
#20. I can't help but have my suspicions
CF - How Long - Ace
#21. Ghosts appear and fade away
Lanie - Overkill - Men At Work
#22. Their faces fade as the years go by
Indy Gent - More Than A Feeling - Boston
#23. Another night, it's gonna be a long one
jaytee - Lyin' Eyes - Eagles
#24. Listen carefully to the sound of your loneliness
MNIK - Dreams - Fleetwood Mac
#25. I had second thoughts at the start
Lesley - The Longest Time - Billy Joel
#26. You can't control an independent heart
maddog - If You Love Somebody Set Them Free - Sting
#27. In the morning I just lay in bed
Gaylon - Help Me Rhonda - Beach Boys
#28. So many roads to choose
Sioux Denim - We've Only Just Begun - Carpenters
#29. Meet me in the country for a day
Gaylon - Listen To The Music - Doobie Brothers
#30. Fire all of your guns at once
CF - Born To Be Wild - Steppenwolf
#31. Like a watercolour in the rain
CF - Year Of The Cat - Al Stewart
#32. I'm crying icicles instead of tears
Indy Gent - Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad - Meatloaf
#33. I don't feel the need to give such secrets away
Lanie - Kiss On My List - Hall & Oates
#34. Romeo and Juliet, Samson and Delilah
Joelle/maddog - Fire - Pointer Sisters
#35. Rainbows and waterfalls run through my mind
Indy Gent - Strawberry Letter 23 - Brothers Johnson
#36. He kissed his boy as he lay sleeping
Indy Gent - Slip Slidin' Away - Paul Simon
#37. But they're weird and they're wonderful
MNIK - Bennie & The Jets - Elton John
#38. We were young, wild and free
Lanie - Heaven - Bryan Adams
#39. You'll be on your knees tomorrow
Gaylon - Do It Again - Steely Dan
#40. Does anyone know where the love of God goes
Ethan Mawyer - The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald - Gordon Lightfoot
Subject: Re: UK Top 40 Rundown...
14. You give love a Bad Name-Bon Jovi.
The others are killing me....
Subject: Re: UK Top 40 Rundown...
11. fight for your right - beastie boys
40. wreck of the edmund fitzgerald - gordon lightfoot (thought it would be higher)
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Wow, Paul...I know a bunch of these! But I must stick to the limit! :)
#7 is "Good Times" by Chic.
#15 is "Family Affair" by Sly & The Family Stone.
#20 is "How Long" by Ace.
#30 is "Born To Be Wild" by Steppenwolf.
#31 is "Year Of The Cat" by Al Stewart.
All great songs from the 70's (with one thrown in from the 60's!) 8)
Subject: Re: UK Top 40 Rundown...
Hi Paul UK! ;D :D
1.You Spin Me Round-Dead Or Alive
16.That's All-Genesis
21.Overkill-Men At Work
33.Kiss is On My List-Hall and Oates
38.Heaven-Bryan Adams
Subject: Re: UK Top 40 Rundown...
34. Fire- Babyface
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Hiya Paul :D
#2 Honey - Bobby Goldsborough
#23 Lyin' Eyes - The Eagles :P
#27 Maggie May - Rod Stewart
A couple of the others are bugging the life out of me :-/
Subject: Re: UK Top 40 Rundown...
8. SUMMER IN THE CITY - LOVIN' SPOONFUL
9. TRACKS OF MY TEARS - JOHNNY RIVERS/?
29. LISTEN TO THE MUSIC - DOOBIE BROS
39. DO IT AGAIN - STEELY DAN
Subject: Re: UK Top 40 Rundown...
12. Me and Mrs. Jones-Billy Paul
22. More Than A Feeling-Boston
32. Two Out of Three Ain't Bad-Meat Loaf
35. Strawberry Letter 23-Brothers Johnson
36. Slip Slinin' Away-Paul Simon
Subject: Re: UK Top 40 Rundown...
7. Chic - Le Freak
13. Poison - Every Rose Has Its Thorn
24. Fleetwood Mac - Dreams
37. Elton John - Bennie and the Jets
Subject: Re: UK Top 40 Rundown...
18. I Think I Love You - Partridge Family
Drat! I thought for sure 15 was mine for the asking Karen! :P ;)
Subject: Re: UK Top 40 Rundown...
Hi Paul - well it's been a long time coming but worth the wait :)
#3 Reeling In the Years - Steely Dan
#10 Echo Beach - Martha & The Muffins
#26 If You Love Somebody - Sting
The others I knew are already gotten....
Subject: Re: UK Top 40 Rundown...
Quoting:
14. You give love a Bad Name-Bon Jovi.
The others are killing me....
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...hopefully not literally, annie!
Correct with that - the song that shot 'em into the big league...
Subject: Re: UK Top 40 Rundown...
Quoting:
11. fight for your right - beastie boys
40. wreck of the edmund fitzgerald - gordon lightfoot (thought it would be higher)
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Correct for two, Ethan...
Y'see, that's the beauty of it all...for such a fantastic song, Gordie's 'Edmund Fitzgerald' was all but ignored here - shame on us!
Subject: Re: UK Top 40 Rundown...
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Wow, Paul...I know a bunch of these! But I must stick to the limit! :)
#7 is "Good Times" by Chic.
#15 is "Family Affair" by Sly & The Family Stone.
#20 is "How Long" by Ace.
#30 is "Born To Be Wild" by Steppenwolf.
#31 is "Year Of The Cat" by Al Stewart.
All great songs from the 70's (with one thrown in from the 60's!) 8)
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Know a bunch of 'em CF? I wouldn't expect anything less!
Amazingly, all classics which should have done better...(in case anyone's interested, 'Fifty-Four' in the Chic song refers to the legendary Studio 54 disco in New York - closed 1980...)
And, of course, all correct...!
(Ahem! Not quite! Find out why a little later on, when Kenny puts us both to shame!)
Subject: Re: UK Top 40 Rundown...
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Hi Paul UK! ;D :D
1.You Spin Me Round-Dead Or Alive
16.That's All-Genesis
21.Overkill-Men At Work
33.Kiss is On My List-Hall and Oates
38.Heaven-Bryan Adams
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And here comes Lanie in shocking pink! Where's them dark glasses of mine?!!
Dead Or Alive's 'Spin' was one of the earliest collaborations of Messrs Stock, Aitken & Waterman - who became the scourge of the British record industry later in the 80's...mostly with Australian soap stars!
You're spot on with all five, Lanie...!
Subject: Re: UK Top 40 Rundown...
Quoting:
34. Fire- Babyface
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Almost, Joelle - you've got the song title, but I've got a different artist in mind...they were relatively big almost everywhere in the 70's/80's...does that help?
Subject: Re: UK Top 40 Rundown...
Quoting:
Hiya Paul :D
#2 Honey - Bobby Goldsborough
#23 Lyin' Eyes - The Eagles :P
#27 Maggie May - Rod Stewart
A couple of the others are bugging the life out of me :-/
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Hi jaytee - two thirds correct (#2 & #23), #27 is incorrect - it's a tad older than Rod's song, but just as well known...
Not only did 'Honey' make #2 in 1968, but almost seven years later when re-issued, it made #2 again! Proving that if we British aren't sentimental, we certainly are mad...!
Subject: Re: UK Top 40 Rundown...
Quoting:
8. SUMMER IN THE CITY - LOVIN' SPOONFUL
9. TRACKS OF MY TEARS - JOHNNY RIVERS/?
29. LISTEN TO THE MUSIC - DOOBIE BROS
39. DO IT AGAIN - STEELY DAN
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Hi Gaylon - a new name - welcome!
Three-and-a-half out of four, Gaylon...you have the song of #9 correct, and although Johnny Rivers did hit with it, he didn't hit with it here...I'm looking for the original artist...
Subject: Re: UK Top 40 Rundown...
Quoting:
12. Me and Mrs. Jones-Billy Paul
22. More Than A Feeling-Boston
32. Two Out of Three Ain't Bad-Meat Loaf
35. Strawberry Letter 23-Brothers Johnson
36. Slip Slinin' Away-Paul Simon
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What can I say? Indy steams in with five...!
Meatloaf's 'Bat Out Of Hell' has had an LP chart run here for almost ten years solid! Yet for all that, the singles didn't sell...
Subject: Re: UK Top 40 Rundown...
Quoting:
7. Chic - Le Freak
13. Poison - Every Rose Has Its Thorn
24. Fleetwood Mac - Dreams
37. Elton John - Bennie and the Jets
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Just beaten to #7 by CF, Kenny - but spot on with all the others...
...Fleetwood Mac's 'Rumours' performed the same trick as Meatloaf - 'Dreams' was the highest charting single from it here...
Subject: Re: UK Top 40 Rundown...
Quoting:
18. I Think I Love You - Partridge Family
Drat! I thought for sure 15 was mine for the asking Karen! :P ;)
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Hi Meriadoc - correct with them Partridges...which would've been a much bigger hit here had the TV show been on at the time...
Subject: Re: UK Top 40 Rundown...
Quoting:
Just beaten to #7 by CF, Kenny - but spot on with all the others...
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Uh uh! She got it wrong. :D
Subject: Re: UK Top 40 Rundown...
Quoting:
Hi Paul - well it's been a long time coming but worth the wait :)
#3 Reeling In the Years - Steely Dan
#10 Echo Beach - Martha & The Muffins
#26 If You Love Somebody - Sting
The others I knew are already gotten....
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Two-thirds there, maddog - #3 is not right (although there is a reference to 'seventeen' in SD's lyric) - to be fair, it's a bit of a vague-ish line, so I'll include the following line...it shouldn't be too difficult to work out from there...
And 'Echo Beach' - what a fine song that was!
Subject: Re: UK Top 40 Rundown...
Quoting:
Uh uh! She got it wrong. :D
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You know something? I'm glad one of us is awake!
Well done for that...I think Karen & I need to get back to the coffee...!
Subject: Re: UK Top 40 Rundown...Limits off...
#34 - the song was written by Bruce Springsteen and The Pointer Sisters had a big UK chart hit with it.
#3 is bugging me to bits now...curse you...
Subject: Re: UK Top 40 Rundown...Limits off...
Quoting:
#34 - the song was written by Bruce Springsteen and The Pointer Sisters had a big UK chart hit with it.End Quote
Splendid!
Quoting:#3 is bugging me to bits now...curse you...
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Splendid!
Subject: Re: UK Top 40 Rundown...Limits off...
27. Help me Rhonda by the Beach Boys.
also Smoky Robinson and the Miracles did "Tracks of My Tears"
first, were they the ones you were looking for? I know its been done by others as well.
Subject: Re: UK Top 40 Rundown...Limits off...
4. I Only Wanna Be With You - Sam Fox, Dusty Springfield, and The Bay City Rollers?
Subject: Re: UK Top 40 Rundown...
Quoting:
(in case anyone's interested, 'Fifty-Four' in the Chic song refers to the legendary Studio 54 disco in New York - closed 1980...)End Quote
I was aware of that. And interestingly, I just saw a show on VH-1 last night called When Disco Ruled The World. What a crazy time it was back then! ;D
Quoting:And, of course, all correct...!
(Ahem! Not quite! Find out why a little later on, when Kenny puts us both to shame!)End Quote
Oh goodness, I sure messed that one up! What was I thinking? :-[
Subject: Re: UK Top 40 Rundown...Limits off...
Got one more...
#17 is "Love On The Rocks" by the marvelous Neil Diamond. :D
(I had known lots when I first saw this quiz, but since then everybody has snatched up all the others that I knew.)
Subject: Re: UK Top 40 Rundown...Limits off...
#28 - "We've Only Just Begun" - the Carpenters
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Now, that Chic record - what was it called again?!!
Quoting:
Oh goodness, I sure messed that one up! What was I thinking? :-I thinking?!!
I'll just double and triple check #17...yep! Looks alright to me!
Subject: Re: UK Top 40 Rundown...Limits off...
Quoting:
27. Help me Rhonda by the Beach Boys.
also Smoky Robinson and the Miracles did "Tracks of My Tears"
first, were they the ones you were looking for? I know its been done by others as well.
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Correct on both, Gaylon - yep, Smokey & Co was what I was after...missed out completely when first released, but hit big four years later in '69 when Motown UK discovered how to re-issue past product!
Subject: Re: UK Top 40 Rundown...Limits off...
Quoting:
4. I Only Wanna Be With You - Sam Fox, Dusty Springfield, and The Bay City Rollers?
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Oh so close, Bobo...oh so close! Young Sammy spoiled the #4 sequence by halting outside the Top 10...there's a clue up top now, should you want one...
Subject: Re: UK Top 40 Rundown...Limits off...
Quoting:
#28 - "We've Only Just Begun" - the Carpenters
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Correct, SD!
Subject: Re: UK Top 40 Rundown...5 and a bit left!
Quoting:
#4. I wanna spend each moment of the day with you
Bobo - I Ony Wanna (Want To) Be With You
Bobo also has two of the artists I'm looking for - Dusty Springfield & The Bay City Rollers...still looking for a third who hit UK#4 with this...
CLUE: Not a tremendously successful band, but two-fifths of them did go on to become the Eurythmics
#5. We'll lie in wait, and one of us will be the bait
CLUE: Aussie actor who incredibly hit with this tale of 'Woodland Folk' and a snake...!
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#4 Was it The Tourists?
#5 Sounds like Hissing Sid but can't remember the real title
Subject: Re: UK Top 40 Rundown...5 and a bit left!
#19 Steve Winwood - Valerie.
#25 Billy Joel - Longest Time.
Subject: Re: UK Top 40 Rundown...5 and a bit left!
Quoting:
#4 Was it The Tourists?End Quote
'Twas indeed, karen...
Quoting:#5 Sounds like Hissing Sid but can't remember the real title
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Extr-eeee-mely close, karen...go on! I know you can do it!
(Unless, of course, you're too sensible to admit it!)
Subject: Re: UK Top 40 Rundown...5 and a bit left!
Quoting:
#19 Steve Winwood - Valerie.
#25 Billy Joel - Longest Time.
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Correct on both, Lesley...
Subject: Re: UK Top 40 Rundown...5 and a bit left!
Quoting:
#5 Sounds like Hissing Sid but can't remember the real title
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Well, with those heavy clues I am reminded of Keith Michell(e?) as the artist...was the song just called "Captain Beaky" or something more covoluted like "The Tale of Captain Beaky And His Band"?
And that #3 is still bugging me...
Subject: Re: UK Top 40 Rundown...3 left & clued!
#3 Lay Your Love On Me - Racey !
Subject: Re: UK Top 40 Rundown...3 left & clued!
Quoting:
#3 Lay Your Love On Me - Racey !
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aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
Still, they're all easy if you know the answer, as Chris Tarrant says.
P.S. I can still do the gimpy dance that the guitarists from Racey did when performing this song....
Subject: Re: UK Top 40 Rundown...5 and a bit left!
Quoting:
Well, with those heavy clues I am reminded of Keith Michell(e?) as the artist...was the song just called "Captain Beaky" or something more covoluted like "The Tale of Captain Beaky And His Band"?
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That's the one maddog. And everyones favourite quote of the time? "Hissing Sid has swallowed Toad!"
Subject: Re: UK Top 40 Rundown...3 left & clued!
Quoting:
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
Still, they're all easy if you know the answer, as Chris Tarrant says.
P.S. I can still do the gimpy dance that the guitarists from Racey did when performing this song....
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Now there's an image I'm trying very hard to get rid of...!
Correct for owning up to 'Captan Beaky', maddog...I'll give karen all due credit for the 'inspiration'...
Correct again, Lesley with 'Racey'...(Okay, it was a terrible clue!) - a band who I know next to nothing about apart from they were the originators of a song called 'Kitty', which was re-hashed a couple of years later with a gender change (became 'Mickey'), and got thrown at Toni Basil who done rather well with it...
I'll let #6 fester for a while (i.e., can't think of any more clues!) - you never know, someone may resurrect it several years from now...!
Subject: Re: UK Top 40 Rundown...1 left & clued!
OK, down to #6...the only thing that your clue brings to mind, Paul, is Secret Affair with "Time For Action". However I can't remember any of the lyrics apart from "This is the time, the time for action (yeah)" so whether the stuff about turning women into heaving wrecks is in there I've no idea!
Subject: Re: UK Top 40 Rundown...1 left & clued!
But wait....a divine flash of inspiration has hit me from who knows where ;)!
#6 - is it "I Am The Beat" by (The?) Look!?
Subject: Re: UK Top 40 Rundown...1 left & clued!
Just as an aside, your clue refers to the UK Mod revival of the late 70s / early 80s, which brings to mind my experiences of the Wigan Scooter Club descending on Southport (my home town) during August Bank Holiday, I guess it must have been 1980.
I was a heavy rock fan in my teens, or at least I had long greasy hair and an embroidered denim jacket. I used to frequent a nightclub / underage drinking den called the Midnight Lounge where AC/DC, The Scorpions, Rush, UFO, Led Zeppelin etc. was the playlist of choice. However I stood out a bit 'cos the embroidered band names on my jacket included The Clash and Talking Heads. Plus, I didn't have a motorbike!
When the mods came to town over that Bank Holiday weekend it was like a PG rated version of Quadrophenia. Lots of posturing and chasing around town between the invading Mods and local "rockers" with no actual violence, at least not that I saw. I remember being chased down the promenade by a group of large mods who desisted only when my mate put on his parka which had "The Who" embroidered on the back....ahh, happy days!
Subject: Re: UK Top 40 Rundown...1 left & clued!
Memories indeed! It was a crazy ol' time, the start of that decade, with a myriad of 'styles' all jostling for acceptance - for example (and I'm going back to secondary school here!) we had kids who were either Mod revivalists, Ska freaks, the 'heavy rock' crowd and the most reviled of the lot...the Soul Boy!
I vividly remember one kid painting a whole slew of 'Two Tone' logos on his pristine leather jacket with Tipp-Ex...!
Once again, all posturing...I don't think any 'gang' warfare broke out...we still had the threat of the cane in them days!
And this divine inspiration's a wonderful thing...absolutely correct on #6!
Which brings it to a close...thanks everyone!