I'm a believer
14/12/89 (Nicky Campbell)
Rob ‘N’ Raz featuring Leila K – “Got To Get” (13)
Getting tonight's show underway and the tune peaked at number 8.
Madonna – “Dear Jessie” (9) (video)
Peaked at number 5.
Van Morrison & Cliff Richard – “Whenever God Shines His Light” (25)
The duo are singing live in the studio and incredibly this was Van's first solo hit and his first of three top 40 hits when it peaked at number 20.
Latino Rave – “Deep Heat ‘89” (18) (video)
Peaked at number 12.
Wet Wet Wet – “Broke Away” (24)
Looking very serious and moody in the studio and the song went up five more places.
Tina Turner – “I Don’t Wanna Lose You” (8) (video)
At its peak.
Electronic – “Getting Away With It” (23)
The supergroup are here to perform their debut hit which peaked at number 12.
Jive Bunny & The Mastermixers – “Let’s Party” (1) (video)
Just the one week at number one for this one.
Alexander O’Neal – “Hit Mix (Official Bootleg Mega Mix)” (20) (video/credits)
Went up one more place.
December 21st is next.
Campbell is in his worst shirt yet, and is far too pleased with himself once more, as he admitted himself on Twitter tonight. Still, I did raise a slight smile over the “praise” he lavished on Jive Bunny. Another outing first up for our Swedish rapping friends, putting plenty of energy into it, before Madge makes a blatant play for the Christmas market with this rather twee ditty, which feels a bit too calculated for my tastes, but did just manage to fulfil Campbell's prediction and make the Top 5. Some nice animation in the video though – I’m guessing all the pink elephants stuff was inspired by those tripped out sequences in Dumbo.
ReplyDeleteOh no, I really cannot stand Van the Man – pretentious, full of himself, wildly overrated and by all accounts not a very pleasant human being. He had been on the show nearly 25 years before as part of Them, but this unlikely duet marks his first appearance since those days. It’s not the worst thing he’s ever done, and he and Cliff do seem to have some level of rapport in their performance, but I am not going to rush to listen to it again. Cliff would of course find himself at number 1 that Christmas, but in very different company. The Latino Rave record is a classic example of why I grew so tired of the charts at this time and stopped watching TOTP soon after – a totally mindless mish-mash of samples accompanied by a boring video, and yet the record-buying public lapped it up.
A lesser-heard Wets hit up next, so gentle that no drums are required and Tommy is obliged to strum an acoustic guitar. I quite like this one, and my feelings of well-being are increased towards it by an uncharacteristically restrained performance from Marti, though the cowboy hat is irritating. After Tina mimes from a balcony as various lovebirds bond around her, we reach easily the best song of the night, courtesy of a very 80s supergroup getting together just as the decade came to a close. This mellow tune still stands up very well, though inevitably, given the identity of the vocalists, it sounds like an amalgam of New Order and PSB. Johnny doesn’t really get much to do, lurking around at the back of the stage until he finally gets to do some token plucking near the end. The drummer, incidentally, was ex-ABC man David Palmer.
Jive Bunny spend their final week at the top, though there were still another couple of Top 10 hits to go. This is easily their worst record to this point, marred by tinny production and an all-too-predictable choice of festive tunes. The animated video wasn’t a patch on Madge’s either, though I let out a small cheer when the highly annoying Bunny, with his stupid repetitive dance, eventually fell through the ice. For some inexplicable reason Xander plays us out for the second week running, though we get a bit more of it this time – was there really nothing else they could have used?
If it's any consolation John G, Deep Heat is on somewhat of a good run present-day. No, not the Latino Rave tune, but the pain relief heat patch that you can buy in chemists and supermarkets for aches and pains. I tried it a couple of months ago for some lower back pain, and it worked brilliantly, and best of all, not needing to take tablets or messy creams and ointments. £5.99 at Boots for a pack of four patches, and Deep Heat is well on top of things!
Deletejohn, i feel totally likewise regarding mr morrison - i really cannot understand what all the fuss is about?
DeleteMy impression is that music critics fawn over him because his music is supposed to have some kind of spiritual, transcendent quality, but most of it sounds like terminally tedious, self-indulgent guff to me!
DeleteDory - I have heard good things about Deep Heat pain relief, but luckily have not so far needed to use it myself...
I take it you are a lot younger than a middle-aged 52 year-old like me where these sorts of niggles like back pain start to creep in when doing exercise that I am not accustomed to. Long live Deep Heat!
DeleteI'm 40, Dory, so it may not be too much longer before it becomes a necessity for me, especially as I have now been working from home for months and have had less opportunity for exercise in consequence!
DeleteFull Episode With Gary Glitter Sample In Let's Party
ReplyDeletehttps://wetransfer.com/downloads/f6ab60a35e354657e4b1634b18c6535020200717200835/62ed6c?fbclid=IwAR3LRA6Sgs5Etf67tsmRQ3XIKBPuMQspg0Maco-s_HAmP_0TLJMYgc4G1WU
Thanks for this - not quite full, though, as the Madonna video has been cut!
DeleteAnd also the Tina Turner video has been left out!
DeleteIncidentally, three minutes of the Jive Bunny video was on the above full episode link from Unknown, so does that mean that TOTP really showed that much of the video including the Gary Glitter bit? I'm surprised, as this was 1989, and the days of showing three minutes of a video on TOTP seemed to be long gone since at least 1988!
Why does Leila K says she's back at the beginning of her debut hit? Obviously she was back from a previous episode, but she said it there too. And why was she wearing her silver bum bag at the front? So many questions, Leila...
ReplyDeleteYou can call me a big Jessie, but I really like Dear Jessie, in fact it's one of my favourite Madonna singles. It should be cloying, but it's inventively put together and for a song aimed at little kids, it can be appreciated by adults for the craft that went into it. She didn't do many Christmas tunes (there is a dreadful version of Santa Baby) but this is non-season specific to be enjoyable in Summer.
Van and Cliff may sound like an odd combination, but they just about get away with it. One of these men, when asked by John McEnroe to introduce himself, told him "I'm Bozo the Fucking Clown" - can you guess who? Anyway, Christian music is usually more acceptable when it's gospel, but this simple ditty must have warmed the cockles of many a vicar's heart. Apparently Van wanted them to do a Shadows-style dance in step, but they, er, didn't.
Next up, Stars on 45, or it might as well have been, they patently spent more money on the video than they did sticking the records together. Seems a bit unnecessary.
Wet Wet Wet turn bloody miserable on us for a minor hit I have no recollection of, and no wonder when they've forgotten the tune. Marti auditioning to play a murderer on Taggart at the end, there.
Nicky makes a spectacular gaffe introducing Tina Turner, I think he meant to say she was performing in front of a thousand people for each of her fifty years on Earth, not one person for each of her fifty thousand years on Earth. That would make her forty-eight thousand years older than Jesus Christ. She looks good on it, if Nicky did mean that.
Electronic with what they said was a snarky song about Morrissey at the time, but it transcends the bitterness to produce a rather fine slice of electropop with lush strings and a needling melody that stands out as one of the best of the eighties, just as the decade was ending.
Then in contrast, a bag o' shite at Number 1, they've ditched the serious accident footage for a fully animated video (well, half-animated). This consists of all those Christmas records you're sick to the back teeth of edited together with March of the Mods, and is as dreadful as that sounds. The only blessing hearing this again is that we don't get Gary Glitter.
Alexander's remix/vandalism to end on, but we've heard this before, and there's nothing more to say.
Again, the highlight reel of this episode from 14/12/89 as follows:
ReplyDeleteRob'n'Raz, Leila K. - They steal the Aldi NKOTB spot from previous week, as Swedish rap again dominates with Leila K. and as with 'Open Sesame' being one of her other hits in 1993. The track was already on its way to the top ten in the first chart of 1990.
Madonna - The fourth track from her Like a Prayer album, sadly Oh Father (again!) wouldn't chart in the U.K. until 1996, would be the fifth track. Back to the video as where an animated Madge looks a bit like Tinkerbell is Jessie waiting in the love parade. Despite Rollergirl covered this in 2000 to coincide with a German dance music festival called The Love Parade.
Van Morrison/Cliff Richard - His 103rd hit and his last one of the 80s and he's in the studio for the second time since October, despite he didn't perform his 100th hit in June and this was also Van Morrison's first time on TOTP as a solo artist since he was in a band with Them in 1965.
Latino Rave - The dance compilation rip-off medley is taking us the best house tracks of 1989 with 'Pump Up the Jam', 'Numero Uno', 'Break 4 Luv', and 'Don't Scandalize Mine' (had a Talking Heads sample), despite this had a full length version if you want to check it through YouTube, as its already counting in 9 minutes.
Wet Wet Wet - Marti Pellow and his band appear again in the studio, this time to do a ballad just in time for the Festive season, as it's nothing 'Xmas' about it, it's a okay song I guess.
Tina Turner - Finally the Italy-set video makes its appearance on TOTP and her second track taken from the Foreign Affair album and officially Tina's final hit of the 80s, but her next single 'Steamy Windows' took us into the 90s.
Electronic - The New Order-inspired track in where Bernard Summers was on vocals, as the supergroup make their TOTP debut in the studio, their dominance would follow into the 90s up until 1999.
Jive Bunny - Yet again, the cartoon bunny is back with a Xmas single, a medley of tracks this time they've cut the GG sample on the BBC Four broadcast, but we do have Slade and Wizzard althoughly and Joe Loss's March of the Mods was also at the start, the GG sample in the 2004 version was replaced by Mariah Carey's 'All I Want for Xmas Is You'. In the video, the cartoon bunny is dancing with his "silver-bunnied" girlfriend in an animated winter wonderland, it makes a usual change from the stock 50s footage clips.
Alexander O'Neal - The Bootleg Hitmix video makes an second appearance was already at its highest charting peak and there is already a 9 minute 12" version of this on YouTube than the 4 minute single version, despite this medley has some of Alex's best hits ranging from 1985-88.
In other news apart from music, Doctor Who had officially ended until it returned in 2005, also Coronation Street was the most-watched programme of the week on ITV, and golfer Nick Faldo had just won Sports Personality of the Year. In the album chart, Phil Collins was at number one with ...But Seriously.
Were Rollergirl named after Heather "Never Ages" Graham's character from porn drama Boogie Nights?
DeleteLeila K was a surefire bet for a solo career after this performance as a 'feature' on Rob 'n' Raz, and still a teenager here on Got To Get, but when she got to the brilliant 'Open Sesame' three years later in Dec 1992 on her own record deal, she was just brilliant.
DeleteAnyway, back to here in 1989, I loved her white summer costume, despite it being well and truly winter in December 1989!
you've got the wrong surname for barney of new order - it's actually sumner, as in sting's real name - not as in his police colleague's andy summers!
DeleteMadonna - I have absolutely no memory of this whatsoever. Did it not hang around long? Pleasant enough.
ReplyDeleteVan morrison and Cliff - whenever god - FF. Cliff hits in 5 decades - paul weller has just equalled that, though I suspect that Cliff has since moved on...
Latino Rave - yet another medley compilation, although this is slightly less tedious than most
Wet wet wet - don’t remember it, but just as wet as their previous stuff. Scary stare at the end...
Electronic - what is there not to like about this, a true collection of stars. Best thing in weeks. The drummer on the single was from ABC - I was wonderIng if he was the drummer on here, so thank you to John G for the confurmation.
Jive bunny - ok I admit it, I love Christmas songs so I found this tolerable. Great auiz question about first 3 singles going to number ones
Just listened to the full Jive Bunny on youtube, and the bit they played was definitely the best bit!
DeleteThank goodness for that, as it went straight in at No.1 this week, and then down the following week, so we only get one view of the video!
DeleteI'm no fan of Van Morrison and, apparently, I got very lucky.
ReplyDeleteA client of my two departmental work colleagues, who's American but a huge Anglophile and also a lovely chap, comes over on a business trip annually for beer and steak along with business meetings and, if he can, he takes us on an unknown and previously unannounced gig on his tab, which is very nice of him.
About five years ago he took me and my wife to see Van Morrison at The Royal Albert Hall, where Van was jokey and happy enough to do a long Robert De Niro impersonation mid-song. I asked Van fans after the gig and they said they'd never seen him do anything like that and be as humorous before.
PS - Electronic... what a song!
Back later in the weekend, I guess Sunday. Going to a pub tomorrow night for the first weekend since I started growing this lockdwon beard in March!!!
Electronic was the highlight of the show for me Arthur. The great thing here, is that both New order and Pet shop Boys lead members were able to exert equally, or 50/50 their own style on the single. I remember when the Pet Shop Boys collaborated with David Bowie a few years later in 1995/96 with Hallo Spaceboy, Bowie was totally influenced by PSB and sang like them as somewhat of a PSB single.
DeleteCompare that to here in 1989 with Electronic, and Neill Tenant of PSB did no more than his own PSB style on his own part and lyrics in the song, and the rest was New Order in style, so Electronic was the perfect name for them. Absolutely brilliant end to the decade, and still love the tune 30 years later!
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ReplyDeleteChuffed to find out tonight from "News At Ten" that the third best grossing single ever was from my home town of Ashford, Middlesex. Mungo Jerry, get in!
ReplyDeleteDoes that make them or Procul Harum the most successful band named after a cat?
DeleteMungo Jerry's big 1970 No.1 called In The Summertime, has two videos - one in a quiet studio, and the other superimposed on what looks like Park Lane in London which is the video shown on Now 70s music video channel on satellite TV.
Deleteray dorset has perhaps somewhat appropriately given his surname lived in bournemouth for many years now. i once went to someone's yard sale there when i was back for a visit having previously resided there myself, and by chance happened to know the owner. so we had a brief catch-up, and as i was leaving her companion ran out after me and shouted "mungo jerry lives across the road!"
DeleteAs Lenny Henry said in his parody of The Rock 'n' Roll Years, "Imagine going to a job interview with a name like Mungo".
DeleteDoes anyone remember Mary Mungo & Midge, a cartoon on BBC1 shown in the early 70s?
Delete"Do you live in a town?" Of course I remember Mary, Mungo and Midge, a cartoon aimed at urban-dwelling toddlers. Midge sitting on Mungo's nose to push the lift button is a memory seared into my mind.
DeleteIt could be that Mungo Jerry got the name from the characters of this cartoon as Wikipedia says that Mary Mungo & Midge was one series produced by the BBC in 1969, and lo and behold, Mungo Jerry first appears in 1970. Funny that! Since then, the name has totally disappeared.
Deletethe only other mungo that comes to mind is the scottish explorer mungo park. which presumably means the name is a celtic/gaelic one?
DeleteThere's a Mungo Park Road not far from where I live in Hornchurch.
DeleteI'll settle for Mary Mungo & Midge, and will somehow find the time this summer to watch all 13 episodes ever made. Thank goodness colour was up and running just in time for production of this one-and-only series in late 1969, and an iconic kids cartoon throughout the early 70s for young kids like me at the time.
Delete@Dory: Mungo Jerry were named after one of the cats in the TS Elliot book about them, which became the basis for Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Cats.
DeleteOh, and Saint Mungo is the patron saint of Glasgow.
DeleteThe name of Mungo Jerry may not be as cute as you think. Rumour had it back in the day that Ray Dorset used the "Jerry" part of the name because people kept mixing his surname up with Jerry Dorsey, i.e. Englebert Humperdinck. Also, Ray is of mixed parentage and, unfortunately, when I was growing up 'Mungo' was a term used in these parts for a half-caste.
Delete3rd biggest selling single ever? That doesn't sound remotely plausible given the competition, but I know that artists sometimes hear so called facts and trot them out regardless of any basis in truth!
DeleteIsn't the third best selling single ever Mull of Kintyre, behind Band Aid and Elton's Diana tribute?
DeleteOK - looked this up on Wiki, and I was almost right, Mull of Kintyre is the 4th best seller, third is Bohemian bloody Rhapsody. Mungo Jerry do not feature in the top 50.
DeleteI found this cool interview by Toyah Wilcox interviewing the people behind Jive Bunny on the set of Let's Party, where Roy Wood is with them, basically saying how pleased he and Noddy Holder were at being sampled for the Jive Bunny Xmas single:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBWPzJeQ81U
is there anything that talentless media whore won't stoop to in order to keep herself in the public eye?
DeleteCampbell is simply awful in this edition. OTT and not funny.
ReplyDeleteRob n Raz – Got to get – to the FF. Poor start to the show.
Madonna – Dear Jessie – I absolutely love this track and the whimsical video that accompanies it. We’re cut short just before the wonderful instrumental section with that piccolo trumpet which reminds me so much of ‘Penny Lane’. Not many hits feature this distinctive instrument although Richard Carpenter controversially added it to the end instrumental section of ‘Goodbye to love’ on the recent philharmonic orchestra album of their hits. It didn’t work for me.
Van and Cliff – When God shines his light – Anyone else think ‘Astral Week’s is awful? This is OK but a bit shouty.
Latino Rave – Deep Heat 89 – FF
Wet wet wet – Broke away – Pleasant but insubstantial. Lacks a real punch.
Tina Turner – I don’t wanna lose you – Anther rapid FF. Watched ‘Goldeneye’ the other day and have to say her theme song to that wasn’t bad.
Electronic – Getting away with it – Supergroup? Damp squib more like!
Jive Bunny and the MasterMixers – Let’s Party – The one that everyone forgets and it’s easy to see why. Might as well play the classic Christmas hits on their own. Not even the usual black and white video. Not a deserved third no1 in my book.
Alexander O’Neal – Hit mix- Fourth FF. Rotten show really apart from Madonna.
Cathy Dennis has just slipped out of the top40. I put on Rachel Stevens ‘Funky Dory’ in the car today for the first time in years and looking at the sleeve notes (not whilst I was driving I hasten to add) I see that the excellent opening track ‘Sweet dreams my LA Ex’ (which is why I bought the album) was co-written by Cathy. Great stuff.
Funky Dory? Nothing to do with me, honest!
DeleteJive Bunny had only three hits on Let's Party, i.e. the two obvious perennial Xmas tunes, plus a Rock 'n' Roll Christmas by Gary Glitter. The video was the first one of Jive Bunny's without the black & white film footage like their first two hits, and relying solely on the animated bunny and the orange turkey getting under his skin throughout the video. It was very much in the realms of The Road Runner running rings round Sylvester. Nice No.1 though!
Being a Jive Bunny video, I'm surprised the Bunny didn't die in a serious vehicular accident during it.
DeleteOh, and The Road Runner never met Sylvester, it was Wile E. Coyote who was his arch enemy.
It cos it's been so long since the BBC showed The Road Runner cartoons, a staple for kids like me in the 1970s.
DeleteWile E Coyote also appeared as the antagonist in a few Bugs Bunny cartoons, which always puzzled me a bit as a kid, because he talked in those ones!
Delete"Allow me to introduce myself. My name is mud."
DeleteAt this juncture in December 1989 over the other side of the Atlantic, Phil Collins makes it to No.1 in America with Another Day In Paradise, and would stay there for four weeks until mid-January, and at the same time taking the Christmas No.1 spot for good measure, and so going one position better than he did in Britain where he got stuck at no.2 the previous month behind New Kids On The Block.
ReplyDeleteThe American market seemed to be a good one for Collins, knowing how the Americans have a soft spot for Brits, so why not?
Campbell was a bit annoying but I’ve seen him worse. He ballsed up his first link, though, by calling the song “Got To Give It”.
ReplyDeleteLeila looked much nicer here. Catchy tune but I hate the “get to got” bit in the chorus.
Blimey! I’d forgotten this quite sweet Madonna song which is unusual as nothing about it, lyrically or visually, is overtly sexual or religious. The reference to pink elephants brought back memories of the long-gone Pink Elephant, a strawberry choc ice from Wall’s. The video reminded me of “Love Is All”, a 1974 single by Deep Purple member Roger Glover (vocals by Ronnie James Dio) which apparently got shown regularly during unexpected three-minute breaks between programmes in The Netherlands...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BR6pYICqZT0
Early mugshots: Bros only in at 32. The screaming’s starting to stop.
Cliff doing a song about God? Fancy! There’s moody and overrated Transit Van Morrison, so it is, with a bald top and long hair elsewhere. Nice piano riff but that’s about it.
Latino Rave next with a Jive Bunny style botch-up of rave tunes. “Talk is cheap” - so’s this crap. As said before, anticipating the follow-up “Voltarol”.
Great, Wenk Wenk Wenk with a soporific waltz-time ballad. Is that supposed to be your hard look, Pellow, you pussy?
The good news is we miss the 17 minutes of verses in Tina Turner’s song. The bad news is we suffer the run-off bit with 12 minutes of the chorus repeated over and over.
Ah, now. Peak of the week, with a sumptuous song by Electronic, complete with toy piano in the chorus, but no bassist, keyboardist or string section in sight. Surprised Campbell didn’t mention Johnny Marr’s old band as well in the intro. Bernie looked very nervous before miming early doors. Loved his downward look for the word “worthless”. That extra touch of class.
From the sublime to this shit at the top, which also crowbars into the mix Joe Loss’s number 31 smash “March Of The Mods”.
No outro link for the last track, and it didn’t deserve one. The third corned beef hash of tracks in one show.
I remember Love Is All sometimes shown on TV as filler between programmes when I was a kid, sort of the prog Tom and Jerry (I didn't live in The Netherlands).
DeleteYes it was unusual to see a Cliff Richard & Van Morrison duet, as Cliff was more accustomed to having more commercial pop stars duetting with him.
DeleteIf we go back 9 years to October 1980, Cliff duetted with Olivia Newton John on one of the songs from the Xanadu movie soundtrack, and was exploring her romantic side in front of a cosy fireplace in the cold winter, and having a snog for good measure:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-mDnqsx2f4
Back in 1971 Cliff and Olivia recorded this endearing duet 'Don't Move Away' which was cruelly tucked away on the B Side of the no19 hit 'Sunny Honey Girl' in 1971. Nice video (or film) too...
Deletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnex6kLkar0
Nice one, I never knew about this 1971 video, or rather 'film' as it was called then. Look at Olivia in that white bikini on the paddle boat.
DeletePity that those two didn't get it together as a firm couple, as even in 1980 on the Suddenly video they looked so in love. They were certainly associated closely in pop music through the entire 70s period. Rather Olivia than Sue Barker for Cliff!
I have a soft spot for 'Got to Get' and don't mind 'Getting Away With It' but this was one of the weakest episodes of the year. I will admit to holding my breath a bit during Jive Bunny to see if they had remembered to cut the Glitter sample. The Cliff/Van duet was even worse than I remembered (and I hated it at the time), and the megamix genre plumbs even lower depths with the Alexander O'Neal one. Sadly that trend has a good few years left...
ReplyDeleteSome of us shudder to remember the Grease Megamix.
DeleteAnother perennial at the wedding disco...
DeleteTalking of which, I'm attending a wedding in Detroit next year, and I've been asked to perform two songs at the reception! One will be "Copacabana" as I can do a good club singer croon to that, but any ideas of a good happy Detroit song to sing as well? My first thought would be "Could It Be I'm Falling In Love" by the Detroit Spinners, but open to better offers.
DeletePanic in Detroit by Dame Dave Bowie?
DeleteIt's nearly Xmas so Let's Party..and it's clear Nicky has stared early on the sauce judging by that god (more of him later) awful opening link (and that awful t-shirt)... Jesus (more of him later)
ReplyDeleteDecember 89 produced some great tunes so get those rockin' bells ringing for Rob ‘N’ Raz and Leila K. “Got To Get” excited about this as it's a brilliant start to the show and an amazing record.
Madonna enters the land of make believe (copyright Bucks Fizz Xmas 1981) with her lullaby to “Dear Jessie”. Come back The Frog Chorus all is forgiven. At least Dick Tracy was a good film....oh. Look - there's a frog!
Bros new at 32! - How the mighty have fallen.
God's up next but not sure he'd Shine A Light on this dirge. Van Morrison does his best Danny Devito impression and Cliff has turned up as your local evangelist in shiny suit and trainers. Absolutely terrible.
Pump up the starlight it's the Numero Uno dance records of the year all mashed into one. Deep Heat (other rubs are available) will be needed for our aching muscles after this Latino Rave.
Wet Wet Wet brake away from their Wembley date to play TOTP and they only just turned up in time by the looks of it as they haven't had time to take their coats off. Penny whistles at the ready. Not a bad song actually...
Tina Turner holding on to her true love, although I doubt it's NC after that dig at her age. This is a VERY 80's video,
80's compilation makers have been "Getting Away With It” for years. All thanks to Electronic hitting the charts 2 weeks before the end of the 80s. It's (original) Sinner Neil Tennant, along with Mr Charisma Bernard Sumner signing a rather fine electro-pop song that has probably been overplayed on the radio nowadays. Johnny Marr and PSB will team up of course for the "Release" album and again on PSB latest offering "Hotspot".
Jive Bunny & The Mastermixers. 3 releases. 3 Number Ones. Just like Gerry and Frankie (what do you mean they were at number 53 last week with Bruno and Liz...sssh). “Let’s Party” all the way up to the GG bit shall we. The video for this is terrible. A Xmas turkey indeed. Nice to hear a bit of "March of the Mods" as well - one of my Mums 60's records that I used to "borrow" as a kid. Joe Loss and his Orchestra at their best!
Alex Baby with his “(S)Hit Mix", not at Number 38 but at Number 20. Second week in a row for this on playout. Released to plug his remix album Hearsay (All Mixed Up)
Electronic's Getting Away With It is pure genius. Have been listening to a lot this week, and contrary to my earlier point when I said that it has equal PSB and New Order input, I would retract and say it is all PSB influenced, especially when Sumner sings "I've been walking in the rain, just to get wet on purpose......"
DeleteMadonna - Like many other very good songs she released, this has been completely wiped from her history ever since, appearing on none of her hits compilations. Presumably too frothy for her serious image now or some such guff.
ReplyDeleteVan & Cliff - Despite neither being hits, I had to play the tedious 'Moondance' and the extremely average 'Bright Side Of The Road' an awful lot on the radio, so I don't have much time for Van. And this song is dreary crap anyhow.
Latino Rave - Alright for what it is, given that it started out life as an advert for the dance compilation album of the same name!
Wet Wet Wet - A rather understated song that nonetheless I like and which sounds much less dated than their previous single.
Electronic - A simply beautiful song, how on earth did this only get to No.12? The fact that Barney is happy to mime indicates (as I've always suspected) that it was probably Hooky rather tediously insisting that New Order sang live.
Jive Bunny - A convincing edit of the offending artist here at last, and it matters not a jot as this really is a thrown together mess.
The fact the Alexander O'Neal gets the playout 2 weeks running and that they haven't even changed the caption (plus I don't think Nicky introduces it, does he?) seems to me a hint that something else was originally intended to be there. Possibly one of the dance tracks in the chart as they didn't always initially have videos.