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Most of us could name a handful of one-hit-wonders, but can you name a five-one-hit-wonder? No, that is not a spelling...
This week's song was a big chart-topper towards the end of the sixties, but to another generation it'll be best...
There are many songs with normal sounding titles but have nonsense lyrics and equally there is a stack of songs with...
In 1984, Bob Geldof was watching Michael Buerk on the BBC news talking about and showing images of the famine in...
This week's suggestion is a protest song for a little-known event in the southern hemisphere. The lady who has asked...
A few weeks ago, I wrote the story behind When You Say Nothing At All, which clearly speaks volumes. That analogy...
This week's choice is an odd one with no real story. When I was asked for this I didn't actually remember it being a...
One song, or particularly its chorus, is more memorable than most if you were a teenager in the late seventies. Who...
For anyone who has ever yearned for someone in their life, which is probably the majority of us, but never got it...
Question: what do Ai No Corrida by Quincy Jones, Killer by Adamski, My Coo Ca Choo by Alvin Stardust, The All-American...
Serge Ramaekers did it successfully in 1993 with Freddie Mercury and Antonius Tom Holkenborg also made it work in 2002...
This week's choice is a number one instrumental named after a bird, the albatross, which is mentioned in the classic...
Like so many acts, their first hit is not always necessarily where their career began. That is certainly the case for...
There is an old saying which is actions speak louder than words and invariably someone's body language will give more...
Back in the 1970s, the daytime DJs on Radio One used to pick a record of the week, this was purely the DJ choice, not...