It's always a number 1 day!

[Jah Womble]

Fuck me the late 80s was just fucking appalling.

With the possible exceptions of Yello and Bomb The Bass - both of whom put out much better stuff anyway - that chart really is absolute dog's garbage. I (very briefly) flatshared with a girl who bought pretty much the entirety of that Top Ten. And played it a lot.

Mind you, I'd have been in my room listening to MBV, AR Kane, Pixies and PE at the time.

[Amor de Cosmos]

In 1954's Top 12, Anthony Steel and the Revellers begin the chart as a new entry, with West of Zanzibar, as is Max Bygraves at 11 with Gilly Gilly Ossenfeffer Katzenellen Bogen By The Sea. Doris Day falls from 5 to 10 with Secret Love, as does Perry Como from 7 to 9 with Idle Gossip. Jointly at 7 are Al Martino (falling from 6) with Wanted, and Doris Day (climbing from 8) with The Black Hills of Dakota. Nat King Cole is new at 6 with Smile, while Don Cornell jumps from 10 to 5 with Hold My Hand. Frankie Laine remains at 4 with My Friend, and David Whitfield finally tumbles from the top to 3 with Cara Mia. Frank Sinatra ascends from 3 to 2 with Three Coins In The Fountain, but Kitty Kallen moves to 1 with Little Things Mean A Lot.

Who are Anthony Steel and the Revellers? It's a little disconcerting that I know all the rest of that group but I was six-years-old at the time. I think maybe songs had a longer popular lifetime in the olden days?

[Discordant Resonance]

Apparently, he was an actor, and the song was the theme to an Ealing film of the same name:

[Amor de Cosmos]

Hmm. No great loss to society I reckon.

[Benjm]

Looking at the front of that sheet music, I always misremember Sheila Sim as Sims, because of her name's similarity to Sylvia Syms.

[Discordant Resonance]

In 1970, Hot Chocolate climb 5 to 10 with Love Is Life, but Marmalade tumble the same to 9 with Rainbow. Jimmy Cliff, remarkably, ascends the same gradient to 8 with Wild World, while Chicago inch up 1 to 7 with 25 or 6 to 4. Freda Payne soars an astonishing 30 places to 6 with Band of Gold, while Bread's Make It With You rises two spots to 5. Chairman of the Board implore Give Me Just A Little More Time, as they go from 5 to 4, and Three Dog Night remain at 3 with Mama Told Me (Not To Come). Elvis falls from the top to 2 with The Wonder of You, and is replaced at 1 by Smokey Robinson and the Miracles' Tears of a Clown.

[Sean of the Shed]

That Chicago entry makes for confusing reading.

[Discordant Resonance]

[Jah Womble]

Leave the firearms alone, Terry.

[Discordant Resonance]

In 1997, we just precede Elton's reign of terror, as Finlay Quaye's new at 10 with Even After All, while Tina Moore's Never Gonna Let You Go, as she climbs 2 to 9. Mariah Carey slides 5 places to 8 with Honey, while Cast Live The Dream, going straight in at 7. All Saints Know Where It's At, but fall two to 6, while Puff Daddy and Faith Evans climb 1 to 5 with I'll Be Missing You. Hanson go straight in to 4 with Where's The Love, while Chumbawamba fall one to 3 with Tubthumping. Will Smith is down from the top to 2 with Men In Black, being replaced at 1 by The Verve's The Drugs Don't Work.

[Discordant Resonance]

[Benjm]

That's a dull chart.

Honey had a very silly spy caper video with a lengthy preamble before the song got started. Do budgets still run to kind of self-indulgence?

[Discordant Resonance]

Presumably not since MTV ditched the actual music, however many aeons ago that was at this stage.

[Sean of the Shed]

Hanson had another hit. Who knew.

[Simon G]

In 1997, we just precede Elton's reign of terror, as Finlay Quaye's new at 10 with Even After All, while Tina Moore's Never Gonna Let You Go, as she climbs 2 to 9. Mariah Carey slides 5 places to 8 with Honey, while Cast Live The Dream, going straight in at 7. All Saints Know Where It's At, but fall two to 6, while Puff Daddy and Faith Evans climb 1 to 5 with I'll Be Missing You. Hanson go straight in to 4 with Where's The Love, while Chumbawamba fall one to 3 with Tubthumping. Will Smith is down from the top to 2 with Men In Black, being replaced at 1 by The Verve's The Drugs Don't Work.

I absolutely despised the summer top 10s in 1997. Men In Black and bloody Mmmbop as number 1s!! Not forgetting that bloody Puff Daddy song being at the top forever!

Never Gonna Let You Go by Tina Moore is an absolute banger though.

[Simon G]

Hanson had another hit. Who knew.

It's the standard follow up that sells really well in the first week, but is never played and they did nothing after (in the charts at least).

[Sean of the Shed]

Will Smith's write the theme tune, sing the theme tune schtik is very much in the Dennis Waterman mould.

[Jah Womble]

Hanson had another hit. Who knew.

It's the standard follow up that sells really well in the first week, but is never played and they did nothing after (in the charts at least).

Bzzzt! Hanson reached the UK Top 40 on eight occasions, Where's the Love going silver over here.

But, people hate Mmmbop? I thought it quite an enjoyable piece of positive pop meself...

[Simon G]

I can listen to it now - as a 12/13 year old, not so much.

[Greenlander]

All I can take from 1997 is I've still got a soft spot for Tubthumping, can't be doing with the Verve and cannot remember that Cast song at all. That Finlay Quaye tune is alright too.

I'll that 1970 line-up from yesterday over it anytime.

[Sean of the Shed]

Tubthumping was alright until it became the anthem of every beery lairy bellend that ever stepped into a pub.

[Jah Womble]

Quite. I remember being dragged to some (very) low-rent Oktoberfest-type event in 1997 and the supposed 'host' (who did little other than yell into his mic) kept switching between the 'you drink a lager drink' section of Tubthumping and the 'lager, lager, lager!' chant from Underworld's Born Slippy.

I think I lasted about half an hour.

[Discordant Resonance]

Mega, mega white thing, indeed.

[Patrick Thistle]

My dad always used to stay to watch the credits on a film. When he rejoined us in the lobby of the cinema he asked us if we knew that the young black actor in the film had also sung the song in the credits. He was very impressed at Will Smith's versatile skills.

[Discordant Resonance]

In the turbulent autumn of 1968, Canned Heat are still On The Road Again at 10, while Amen Corner ironically fall three to 9 with High In The Sky. Tom Jones drops the same to 8 with Help Yourself, but Welsh gamine Mary Hopkin soars a whopping 42 places to 7 with Those Were The Days. Herb Alpert drops 3 to 6 with This Guy's In Love With You, while Johnny Nash asks you to Hold Me Tight, as he climbs 2 to 5. Aretha Franklin stays at 4 with I Say A Little Prayer, but the Beach Boys tumble one to 3 with Do It Again. The Bee Gees slip from the top to 2 with I've Got To Get A Message To You, while the Beatles rise a stonking 20 places to 1 with a little-known track called Hey Jude.