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The Show That Time Forgot ~ Sunday 26/09/2021

FIRST HOUR

Show Me (Dexy's Midnight Runners)
(1981) ... Top 20 single just a little over a year after Geno, their first # 1 ...and exactly 12 months before they hit the top spot again with C'mon Eileen

Me and Julio Down By The Schoolyard (Paul Simon) 
(1972) ...  single from his self-titled solo album - the first since the break-up with Art Garfunkel, although he had released The Paul Simon Songbook in 1965, before the duo hit the big time with The Sound of Silence which went to # 1 in the US.  The percussion sound in Me and Julio, unusual for American pop, was created with a cuica, a Brazilian friction drum instrument often used in samba music (W)

California Dreamin' (River City People)
...  bringing The Mamas and Papas' '60s classic to a new generation, in the first of today's featured years. The single also featured one of their own songs, which is on the playlist later in the hour

Male duets on first name terms

Nobody I Know (Peter & Gordon)
(1964) ... hot on the heels of their chart-topper A World Without Love,  the duo enjoyed another Top 3 success courtesy of Lennon & McCartney. Nobody I Know was  one of many songs which became hits for other artists over and above their ever-growing volume of work with The Beatles

Lovers Of The World Unite (David & Jonathan) 
(1966) ... they were really Roger & Roger - Cook and Greenaway, who penned many a smash hit for the likes of The Fortunes and Blue Mink, to mention but two, well on into the '70s

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Tantalise (Wo Wo Ee Yeh Yeh) (Jimmy The Hoover)
(1983)...  one hit wonder group  managed by the charismatic Malcolm McLaren who got them a support slot on a Bow Wow Wow tour. Tantalise was produced by Steve Levine -  his other projects around the same time included Culture Club's multi-million selling album Colour by Numbers (W)

Newsround Tameside: 31 years ago ~ 1990                                                                                                                                                                 

Made Of Stone (The Stone Roses) 
… early trail-blazers of the Madchester music scene breaking through into the mainstream in 1990

Step Back In Time (Kylie Minogue) 
... one of  Kylie's final outings with the Stock Aitken Waterman 'Hit Factory, suitably nostalgic for this show ~ 'remember The O'Jays, remember the old days?...

Tom's Diner (DNA featuring Suzanne Vega)
... re-mix by Steve Addabbo and Lenny Kaye (aka DNA), who grafted Suzanne's vocal onto a dance beat from Soul II Soul (Keep On Movin'). The resulting single reached # 2 on the chart, four years on from the stripped down a cappella version on her album Solitude Standing (W)

The Joker (Steve Miller Band) 
... topped the UK chart after featuring in a TV  ad ~ 17 years after its original release in 1973 when it had been a much played turntable hit

Right Here Right Now (Jesus Jones)
...  worldwide hit for the band from Wiltshire although their highest chart placing on home soil was still to come ~ International Bright Young Thing (UK, # 7) later the same year

Carry The Blame (River City People)
....    one of their own songs sharing 'A' side status with their cover of California Dreamin' played earlier

Don't Worry (Kim Appleby) 
... ...a first solo outing for Kim after losing her younger sister Mel to cancer at  the tragically young age of  23.  As Mel and Kim they had  four Top 10 hits in the late '80s, including a # 1 with Respectable


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SECOND HOUR

Hit The Road Jack (Ray Charles)
(1961)... topped the US Billboard Hot 100 and made our Top 10. The female vocalist who features in a significant portion of the song was Margie Hendrix, one of his regular backing singers The Raelettes (W)

Is This Love (Alison Moyet) 
(1986)... Top 3 single which was one of her biggest ever ~ co-written and produced by Dave Stewart using the pseudonym Jean Guiot (W)

Walk In Love  (Manhattan Transfer)
...  teaser track for our second featured year, which reached the Top 20 a year after their # 1, Chanson D'Amour

Absolutely Lyricless ~ the instrumental break
... TV connections planned and unplanned

Thunderbirds (Barry Gray Orchestra) 
(1965)... one of TV's greatest ever theme tunes, a rousing march written specially for the iconic si-fi adventure series created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson. They used a form of electronic marionette puppetry - "supermarionation' - combined with scale model special effects sequences  (W)

Yakety Sax (Boots Randolph) 
(1963)... US hit which became much more famous here as the music accompanying the infamous  'chasing madly around the park' routine at the end of each episode of the Benny Hill Show, a regular midweek fixture on ITV during the '70s and '80s

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Opus 17 (Don't You Worry 'Bout Me) (The Four Seasons) 
(1966)...  deserved to be a much bigger hit than a # 20 and probably would have been if the sub title in brackets had been the main title. Opus 17 does not appear anywhere in the lyrics and sounds the kind of description you would usually find in classical music.  Perhaps it was chosen to tie in with the classically influenced group name borrowed from Vivaldi's famous work?

Sleeping With The Enemy (Daniel Takes A Train) 
(2020) ...  in the week the long delayed latest Bond film has its premiere, the band keeping alive the spirit of the '80s with a tongue-in-cheek, ska-inspired track from their Last Ticket To Tango album.  See the video here: 

Newsround Tameside: 43 years ago ~ 1978 

Making Up Again (Goldie)   
...  only chart success for the band formed by guitarist Dave Black, one-time member of David Bowie's  Spiders from Mars backing band (W)

A Little Bit of Soap (Showaddywaddy) 
...  continuing the long run of chart success for eight-man Showaddywaddy who had two of everything ~ 2 x vocalists, 2 x drummers, 2 x guitarists, and 2 x bass players. A Little Bit of Soap was originally sung in a bluesy soul style by The Jarmels (1961, US # 12)  (W)

Top Of The Pops (The Rezillos)
...  Edinburgh based new wave beat group, who couldn't fail to be invited on to the BBC's  prime time chart show. With that catchy chorus 'everybody's on Top of the Pops', fair to say, they  were on to a winner  (W)

(I'm Always Touched By Your) Presence Dear (Blondie) 
.... hot on the heels of their debut Denis, the band's second UK hit was written by (former) bass player Gary Valentine for his then-girlfriend, about a telepathic connection they appeared to have. By the time Blondie hit big here, he had already left to form his own band and was replaced by Nigel Harrison, just as Blondie were starting to gain recognition. The song  was subsequently recorded by Tracey Ullman and Annie Lennox  (W)

Lovin' You Has Made Me Bananas (Guy Marks)
... ultra camp, tongue-firmly-in-cheek novelty hit, harking back to the '40s swing era. First released in 1968,  it was a modest  success in the US and finally made it on to our chart 10 years later. Unknown over here, Guy Marks was a familiar face to viewers Stateside, with numerous appearances in sitcoms and variety shows throughout the '60s and '70s

Come Back And Finish What You Started (Gladys Knight & The Pips)
....  for GK and co, no way could you go off leaving a job half done. A radio friendly single with an instant hook, it made the UK Top 20 but flopped in the US

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[W]: Source: Wikipedia

SHOW THEME:
Rhapsody In Blue (Rick Wakeman)
written by George Gershwin, arranged by Tony Visconti
from the album Rhapsodies (A&M Records, 1979

Please bear in mind: it's a live show and so, occasionally I might need to change the running order, leave a song out, or
play an unplanned extra song which will not be shown in this weekly music blog.

- MW

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