It's always a number 1 day!

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Today in 1966, Lee Dorsey is down 2 to 10 with Working In The Coalmine, while Cliff Bennett and the Rebel Rousers tumble three to 9 with Got To Get You Into My Life. The Beach Boys slip the same amount to 8 with God Only Knows, and The Supremes soar six to 7 with You Can't Hurry Love. Sonny and Chef climb the same amount to 6 with Little Man, and the Beatles descend two to 5 with Yellow Submarine/Eleanor Rigby. The Who are up a whopping ten places to 4 with I'm A Boy, and Roy Orbison is up the minimum to 3 with Too Soon To Know. The Small Faces slip from the top to 2 with All Or Nothing, replaced at 1 by Jim Reeves, with Distant Drums.

[Sporting]

Today in 1966, Lee Dorsey is down 2 to 10 with Working In The Coalmine, while Cliff Bennett and the Rebel Rousers tumble three to 9 with Got To Get You Into My Life. The Beach Boys slip the same amount to 8 with God Only Knows, and The Supremes soar six to 7 with You Can't Hurry Love. Sonny and Chef climb the same amount to 6 with Little Man, and the Beatles descend two to 5 with Yellow Submarine/Eleanor Rigby. The Who are up a whopping ten places to 4 with I'm A Boy, and Roy Orbison is up the minimum to 3 with Too Soon To Know. The Small Faces slip from the top to 2 with All Or Nothing, replaced at 1 by Jim Reeves, with Distant Drums.

What a magnificent top ten, mostly.

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Something unique planned for tomorrow's chart, of which more anon.

[irony towers]

DR has unwittingly teed up the answer to this: Which two performers, both born in the US in the 1940s, had UK Number One singles within months of each other in the late Nineties, under performing names that differ by one letter?

[delicatemoth]

Cher and Isaac Hayes (as 'Chef').

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An intriguing alternative question would concern Cher and Usher, who both had UK No 1s in the late Nineties, but differ only by an additional syllable, which must surely be unique? (Sash topped the singles charts, but Ash never did.)

[3 Colours Red]

(Sash topped the singles charts)

If you're referring to the German DJ, he didn't (at least not in the UK) - although you could argue he is the unluckiest chart act ever, for he managed no less than FIVE No. 2 singles, more than anyone else who never scored a chart-topper.

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Speaking of Usher

https://twitter.com/yahoosportsnfl/status/1705961779312853153?s=12&t=xvOireV8JOIS_CpbTtDBow

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To honour DR Senior's birthday tomorrow, I have delved into the archives of Your Hit Parade for the US Top Ten on that day in 1936. Unchanged at 10 is Bing Crosby with I Can't Escape From You, while up one to 9 are Johnny Green and Marjory Nolan with A Rendezvous With A Dream. Bing also climbs five places to 8 with Empty Saddles, and Ruby Herman jumps the minimum to 7 with Sing, Baby, Sing. Hal Kemp and Skinnay (sic) Ennis tumble two spots to 6 with When I'm With You, but Guy Lombardo's unchanged at 5, asking When Did You Leave Heaven? Fats Waller jumps three places to 4 with Bye, Bye Baby, while Hal Kemp remains at 3 with A Star Fell Out Of Heaven. There's no movement at 2 for Andy Kirk & His Twelve Clouds of Joy with Until The Real Thing Comes Along, while Shep Fields and Charlie Chester are still at 1 with Did I Remember?

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And here's that top three:

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It was acceptable in 1981 for the Pointer Sisters to climb 1 to 10 with Slow Hand, while The Police are new at 9 with Invisible Sun. The Tweets fly up a startling 17 spots to 8 with The Birdie Song, while Diana Ross and Lionel Richie soar six to 7 with Endless Love. Cliff is Wired For Sound, but drops one to 6, while Alvin Stardust climbs three to 5 with Pretend. OMD tumble 1 to 4 with Souvenir, while Ottawan ascend one to 3 with Hands Up. Soft Cell remain at 2 with Tainted Love, but Adam and the Ants are still at 1 with Prince Charming.

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[Benjm]

I could listen to any of those without too much protest apart from The Tweets.

I've always been impressed that Alvin Stardust's son did the full John Major and rebelled against his showbusiness background by becoming the headmaster of a private school.

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In 1958, Marty Wilde's Endless Sleep is unchanged at 10, while Charlie Drake slips one place to 9 with Splish Splash. The Everly Brothers soar 8 to 8 with Bird Dog, while Bernard Bresslaw also climbs four to 7 with his Mad Passionate Love. Ricky Nelson's Poor Little Fool remains at 6, while Peggy Lee ascends two to 5 with Fever. Dean Martin is still at 4 with Return To Me, while The Kalin Twins tumble from the top to 3 with When. Dean Martin climbs one to 2 with Volare, as does Connie Francis to 1 with Stupid Cupid.

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[Jah Womble]

I've always been impressed that Alvin Stardust's son did the full John Major and rebelled against his showbusiness background by becoming the headmaster of a private school.

Not sure how many sons Alvin Stardust had, but at least one of them (DJ/producer Adam F) was very much in the music business, last I heard.

Has he given it up? Or is this another offspring?

[Benjm]

Another son is headmaster of Reigate Grammar School.

[Jah Womble]

Every day's a school day. (Literally, in this case.)

[Benjm]

...while Charlie Drake slips one place to 9 with Splish Splash.

Charlie Drake was a complete entertainment vacuum, when he wasn't being actively repulsive. This is mostly based on his turning up as a blast from the past on 1970s entertainment shows rather than catching him in his prime, if that is the right word for it.

I bailed on Bernard Bresslaw at the 53 second mark.

The depressed looking Smurf in the bottom right corner presumably isn't a Connie Francis fan, unless it is just her backing troupe spoiling it for him.

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In 1974, Leo Sayer's Long Tall Glasses climb a stonking 13 places to 10, as does Andy Kim to 9 with Rock Me Gently. Barry White stays at 8 with Can't Get Enough Of You, while KC and the Sunshine Band rise two to 7 with Queen Of Clubs. Alvin Stardust inches up one to 6 with You You You, as does Sylvia to 5 with Y Viva España. The Osmonds tumble two to 4 with Love Me For A Reason, while Johnny Bristol ascends one to 3 with Hang On In There Baby. John Denver is up the same to 2 with Annie's Song, but Carl "Buster" Douglas remains at 1 with Kung Fu Fighting.

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[Benjm]

My mum had a Best Of John Denver tape that, like the other four or five in the car, got some heavy rotation on the drives to and from Pembrokeshire for childhood holidays. I still have a soft spot for most of his biggies, while drawing the line at Grandma's Feather Bed.

The first clip offered by Youtube for Andy Kim rather unfortunately started with Jimmy Savile dancing with a young audience member in the foreground.

[Jah Womble]

My mum had a Best Of John Denver tape that, like the other four or five in the car, got some heavy rotation on the drives to and from Pembrokeshire for childhood holidays. I still have a soft spot for most of his biggies, while drawing the line at Grandma's Feather Bed.

Strange to think that Denver - despite countless US hits, including four number ones - only ever had the one charting song in the UK, albeit a platinum-seller.

[ursus arctos]

Looking at the Wiki, it seems anomalous that Country Roads was double platinum in the UK without charting