Graham76man
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Location: Sheffield
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The "Band" were not originally called that when they started in 1968. Here's an extract from my blog on what was put on the first single The... -
Your both splitting hairs here. It wasn't common for the BMRB to get the numbers wrong. It was one occurrence and the dealers wouldn't have known if a...Leave a comment:
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It was a small world for the charts in 1970. The other chap on the record was Roger Greenaway. Famous for the Cook/Greenaway song writers. The song itself...Leave a comment:
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Nice to see that we are all not dirty minded
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The other side of the Creedance single was Fortunate Son, though not credited as a AA side.Leave a comment:
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Never really been into album dates. So you can blame the sales drop on the overproduction done for the album, which it would have come from, by Phil Spector....Leave a comment:
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The Madonna song from the Austin Power's movie is another that doesn't feature in the actual movie at all. I watched it the other day on one of the freeview...Leave a comment:
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There was no Woolies in the BMRB chart in 1973, so you can take the Sweet failure with a pinch of salt. -
The Real Chart has sales of 170K for Beatles and 165K for Lee and Clint. So it just shows you how having all the sales makes a difference. As for the...Leave a comment:
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Just look how low the 60's section has fallen today and yet still has two in the top ten combined, while the 70's doesn't have one in that!
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Friday Singles
Top Ten
1 (1) Ed Sheeran - Bad Habits
2 NEW Anne-Marie & Little Mix - Kiss My (Uh Oh)
3 Jonasu - Black Magic...Leave a comment:
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I don't believe they are charts at all. Just a collection of songs that would have been in the sheet music charts at the time. The BBC wasn't interested...Leave a comment:
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It's just amazing that My Way spent some much time in the charts of BMRB and is still selling and yet I don't believe is a million seller.
I have...Leave a comment:
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Clint song was just as good. I used to sing "I talk to the trees, but they don't listen to me. I'm not surprised they think I'm bloody daft"....Leave a comment:
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The Real Chart has the full sales and on the 1 March (week ending 7) Lee and Clint had dropped 1,000 sales at 159K and the Jackson's were only 155K only...Leave a comment:
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I got a book today about the history of the NME. It does give some more information about the charts, but doesn't answer many questions I have. However...Leave a comment:
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There's a bit of an interesting tale about the Edison track. It was written by Tony Macaulay, Barry Mason. However in 1983 Barry Mason's ex-wife Sylvan...Leave a comment:
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Dory could have had hits in 1973 and 1974 with King Kong and Cold Water Canyon, but it's unlike they got higher than 65 if they enter the chart. -
Edison Lighthouse by that point had become a million seller, the first of the year.Leave a comment:
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True but the sales would have continued after the two days of sales Friday and Saturday on the week commencing 1 Feb date (I hate the week ending system...Leave a comment:
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