Climie Fisher - Love Changes Everything originally didn't do much but was re-released and got to #2 after a remix of Rise To The Occasion went Top Ten.
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Another chart-topping example: Fairground Attraction, with Perfect (1988, UK #1) and Find My Love (1988, UK #7). All other chart attempts stiffed, although Eddi Reader MBE (apparently) managed a couple of Top 40 entries solo, so she also fits the criterion.
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The Bellamy Brothers were number 1 in the US for twelve weeks with Let Your Love Flow. Their only other charting single was If I said You Had a Beautiful Body Would You Hold It Against Me. Which is a relegation title if ever there was one.
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Chris Isaak: Wicked Game and Blue Hotel (re-release) made the UK Top 20 but his 3rd highest only made 36, and I would hazard a guess that most of us only recognize those two songs.
By different criteria (two UK Top 40 hits of any size): Marc Cohn, #22 and #37, although I only recognize "Walking In Memphis" (an American Idol audition regular) and his hits were after I stopped paying attention to the charts (1991-92).
Laura Branigan's latter hit is in the latest Chart Music podcast, which notes that a) she was a Europhile (rare for the time); b) video is quite raunchy for a female soloist the time (just prior to Madonna changing that metric).Last edited by Satchmo Distel; 18-06-2018, 00:52.
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Originally posted by Amor de Cosmos View PostThe Bellamy Brothers were number 1 in the US for twelve weeks with Let Your Love Flow.
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Originally posted by wittoner View PostJulian Lennon is another one. Two No. 6 hits seven years apart with "Too Late for Goodbyes" (1984) and "Saltwater" (1991) . Several other very minor
chart entries but nothing in the Top 40 bar those two.
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Originally posted by Giggler View PostThat's what I love/hate about this forum. You see the thread title, have a thought and within five posts someone else has got there before you.
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Martha and The Vandellas. Dancing in the Streets made #4 in the UK as a re-issue, and a #11 in 1971 with Forget Me Not, which the UK singles-buying public defiantly went on to do. No other Top 20 action.
The Pogues. They couldn't even break the Top 20 without the help of others. A #8 with The Dubliners, and a #2 with Kirsty MaColl.
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In 1979 The Knack had My Sharona hit #1, Good Girls Don't was #11, but to my recollection never charted anything else.
That would be USA, not sure about UK.
EDIT - looking around, their next three singles reached 38, 62 and 67.Last edited by Cal Alamein; 18-06-2018, 17:07.
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Originally posted by WOM View PostBesides some early '70s stuff in the US, I don't think they charted with much more than that here, either. Maybe 'I Do', but that was a minor hit off "It's Showtime".
Originally posted by adams house cat View PostWithout looking it up I think Carl Douglas only had two hits - "Kung Fu Fighting" and "Dance The Kung Fu". Still touring on the strength of them I believe.
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- Jan 2015
- 9590
- Wrexham... ish
- R. + R. McReynold's Travelling Circus, The Jurgen Klopp Farewell Tour XI, Page's Boys
- Ginger Nut
Yeah... reminds me I need to do mine.
Let's see - Red Box: 3, 10, 71 (Heart Of The Sun). Passes muster.
Climie Fisher: 67, 10, 2, 22, 35, 22, 50. Thankfully no-one remembers This Is Me, I Won't Bleed For You or Love Like A River, otherwise Jah would have been on me like a pack of wolves.
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