Wendy Richard - credited on 'Come Outside' with Mike Sarne (#1 1962) and appeared in a couple of Carry Ons, having earlier had a scene in Help! that was cut.
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Hi-de-Hi stalwart Su Pollard made a cameo appearance in national embarrassment megaflop Run For Your Wife in 2012 alongside Danny Dyer and many many other "stars". This was the film which grossed ?602 on its opening weekend, and currently has a coveted 0% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
But happily (or otherwise) it qualifies her for this thread. You might be thinking she had a #39 novelty record, in character as Peggy, called "Oh, Miss Cathcart!" or similar, but her hit "Starting Together" got to #2 in 1986, and it was played straight. It was the theme tune to "The Marriage", a Desmond Wilcox documentary following a young couple preparing for their wedding.
Her other chart entry only made it to #71, entitled "Come To Me (I am a Woman)". Yikes.
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- R. + R. McReynold's Travelling Circus, The Jurgen Klopp Farewell Tour XI, Page's Boys
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Richard Burton on The Eve Of The War? Does the 1989 remix count separately? That was a much bigger hit (#3 compared to #36 for the original).
Did Geoffrey Bayldon only appear on The Wizard? I can't find any trace of a Catweazle tie-in record, for example... although there is a label of that name, which confused me for a minute on Discogs.
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If voice samples (rather than spoken word performances) count, Burton's 1984 co-star John Hurt appears on the Manics' Faster.
There's a sample of Albert Finney's voice on the flipside, PCP, finally securing him the chart placing that had eluded him as a Motown recording artist.
Originally posted by jwdd27 View PostPhil Daniels on Blur's Parklife is his only chart action.
He was/is a musician and his band (Phil Daniels and The Cross) had a contract with RCA but no success, unlike his mate Gary Kemp's group. I also had to check that he didn't contribute to Breaking Glass (the album) and he didn't, he was only in the film. And Gary Tibbs played Hazel O'Connor's bassist, but then didn't play bass on her album.Last edited by Benjm; 01-07-2020, 07:52.
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jwdd's mention of Su Pollard reminds me (for some reason) of Kate Robbins, the Crossroads 'star' who scored a 1981 #2 smash with More Than in Love. Although I was well aware of this song becoming a big hit back then, I don't believe that I've ever heard it. (Which might possibly qualify it for that long-defunct 'biggest hits you never heard'-thread of yore.)
She appeared in a few films, but may be disqualified here for having contributed backing vocals to one of the versions of Wah's Story of the Blues - a fact-ette of which I was completely unaware until reading it on Wikipedia just now.
Originally posted by 3 Colours Red View PostDid Geoffrey Bayldon only appear on The Wizard? I can't find any trace of a Catweazle tie-in record, for example... although there is a label of that name, which confused me for a minute on Discogs.
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I had no idea how many films Matt Frewer had been in until I just looked on Wikipedia, but his only chart appearance was in character as Max Headroom on the Art of Noise's Paranoimia
John Hurt also pops up very briefly with Art of Noise on Metaforce (he appears throughout the album it is taken from as a narrator), but this only reached No 53, so as you were.
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Originally posted by Jah Womble View PostKate Robbins....She appeared in a few films, but may be disqualified here for having contributed backing vocals to one of the versions of Wah's Story of the Blues - a fact-ette of which I was completely unaware until reading it on Wikipedia just now.
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- Jan 2015
- 9700
- Wrexham... ish
- R. + R. McReynold's Travelling Circus, The Jurgen Klopp Farewell Tour XI, Page's Boys
- Ginger Nut
Kate Robbins would most likely have been on the Spitting Image records, so she's probably got a #1 to her name. If she also was on backing vocals for Santa Claus Is On The Dole/First Atheist Tabernacle Choir, that's a second hit.
Leslie Ash (and Caroline Quentin) got to #25 in 1996 with a cover of Tell Him, so anything else would disqualify her.
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Yes, I was thinking that La Robbins had featured prominently on Spitting Image and then didn't make the obvious leap to the spin-off 1986 chart successes. (Still needs confirming, mind...)
A fairly obvious omission thus far might be Vincent Price: has he appeared on any hits other than Jacko's Thriller (1983, UK #10; 1984 US #4)?
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Originally posted by Benjm View PostI thought that Pat Roach was a good bet here as a 70s/80s domestic TV figure who also appeared in films, but it seems not.
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Originally posted by Jah Womble View PostA fairly obvious omission thus far might be Vincent Price: has he appeared on any hits other than Jacko's Thriller (1983, UK #10; 1984 US #4)?
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Originally posted by Jah Womble View Post
A fairly obvious omission thus far might be Vincent Price: has he appeared on any hits other than Jacko's Thriller (1983, UK #10; 1984 US #4)?
He calls himself Vince, but, like all the Dave Nivens and Pete Lorres of this world, he's fooling nobody.
I usually dislike name-based piss-takes, but he beat the shit out of me as a child (he's five years older than I am), so he can go do one, even now.
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Alison Thomas from London's Burning was a back-up vocalist on Tracey Ullman's Breakaway.
I've got a something nagging away at the back of my mind, maybe an actor who gets a credit on one of Adam's, Elvis Costello's, or the Pogues' hits. Someone like John Cusack but it's not him.
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I erred in calling "I Talk To The Trees" the b-side. It was credited as a Double-A on the chart. 'Paint Your Wagon' got to #2 on the LP chart and stuck around for 99 weeks (25 in the Top 10). Only denied #1 by the top-selling album of the decade, 'Bridge Over Troubled Water' ('Easy Rider' also got to #2 behind that album).
Reggae act Clint Eastwood & General Saint fell short of the Top 40, which is a shame because I liked them when I saw them at a CND benefit at Brockwell Park in May 1983 (covered in the NME). Lee Perry released an Upsetters album called 'Clint Eastwood.'Last edited by Satchmo Distel; 01-07-2020, 23:54.
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Patrick Allen deserves a nod for 'Two Tribes' because he re-recorded his 'Protect and Survive' lines for the single. Chris Barrie is also on it as Reagan (whom he did on Spitting Image).Last edited by Satchmo Distel; 02-07-2020, 00:01.
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^Paul Rutherford, perhaps?
Can barely bring myself to post this one, but Sid Owen (ie, 'Rick-ayyy' out of off of EastEnders) appeared in a couple of films and scored one Top 20 hit in 2000 with a decidedly dubious cover of Sugar Minott's Good Thing Going. So, 'him'.
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Originally posted by treibeis View PostI'd just like to mention, if I may, that I've got a cousin called Vincent Price, who was born far too late for his parents not to know what they were letting him in for.
He calls himself Vince, but, like all the Dave Nivens and Pete Lorres of this world, he's fooling nobody.
I usually dislike name-based piss-takes, but he beat the shit out of me as a child (he's five years older than I am), so he can go do one, even now.
Anyway, Mos Def - one UK top 40 with "Oh No" (Ms Fat Booty and the reworked Miss Fat Booty didn't break top 50).
Like a lot of rap and hip hop artists, he's a decent enough actor. It's all performing arts/showing off at the end of the day.
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Rutherford had a similar role to Bez? OTOH he had a brief very minor chart career as a solo act:
https://www.officialcharts.com/artis...ul-rutherford/
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