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Re: Murray's Song Of The Day
Posted by **pycb** on Jun 13, 2013 at 6:47:47 PM:
In Reply to: Re: Murray's Song Of The Day posted by **murray** on Jun 13, 2013 at 6:27:49 PM:
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**********Depeche Mode-Enjoy The Silence
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*********Archie Bell and the Drells - Tighten Up
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*********I only heard this for the first time a couple of months ago (it wasn't a hit here).
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******** Guess we tend to believe songs which were so popular are also very familiar over there...
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********It would be kind of fun to investigate American hits which totally flopped in the UK..
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*******Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. I heard the Archie Bell song and thought it was an obscurity as I'd never heard of it before..but then found it had been a No.1 in the US.
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*******I once knew a guy who's dad had written a song that was a Top 20 hit in the US for Lulu (a British artist but the song was not a hit here). He made a lot of money just from that one song.
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******The only Lulu song I remember making any US chart noise besides the 'To Sir With Love' Number One was 'Oh Me Oh My'... Was that the tune?
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*****I looked it up recently, it was from a period a little later than I thought - 1981. The track was called "I Could Never Miss You More Than I Do". It got to no.18 in the USA. Still, that was quite a good earner in the days when you had to sell a lot of vinyl singles to get in the charts.
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**** That explains it...1983 was during a time when I was trying my very best to avoid what was on the charts so I wouldn't have been familiar with that one...
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* One of the things I remember listening to most that year was the Hitmen's 'Torn Together' album...I don't know if their song 'Bates Motel' did much on the charts but the video got a lot of MTV time... and college radio stations picked up on the lp... 'Bates' is good but it the best track on the album...
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*** Should have read 1981.... I was already in my Top 40 Avoidance mode then though..
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*** I wouldn't be very good on 80s music trivia...
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**The 80s isn't my favourite era either (possibly my least favourite overall) but I'm quite good on pop trivia from that time. I was growing up and following the charts, reading music magazines etc although I did get into 60s music too.
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this should have flopped everywhereFollowup Messages:
- Re: Murray's Song Of The Day - **murray** - Jun 13, 2013 at 7:16:38 PM
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