09 Nov 2001
slade, from Aytac Azgin
Some UK Hits: Nov 1971
| 1 |
Coz I Luv You |
| Slade |
| 2 |
Maggie May |
| Rod Stewart |
| 3 |
Till |
| Tom Jones |
| 4 |
Tired of Being Alone |
| Al Green |
| 5 |
Witch Queen of New Orleans |
| Redbone |
| 6 |
Johnny Reggae |
| Piglets |
| 7 |
I Will Return |
| Springwater |
| 8 |
Simple Game |
| Four Tops |
| 9 |
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down |
| Joan Baez |
| 10 |
Banks Of the Ohio |
| Olivia Newton-John |
| 11 |
Gypsys Tramps And Thieves |
| Cher |
| 12 |
Look Around |
| Vince Hill |
| 13 |
Jeepster |
| T Rex |
| 14 |
Sultana |
| Titanic |
| 15 |
Brandy |
| Scott English |
| 16 |
Ernie (The Fastest Milkman in the West) |
| Benny Hill |
| 17 |
For All We Know |
| Shirley Bassey |
| 18 |
Tweedle Dee Tweedle Dum |
| Middle Of The Road |
| 19 |
Run Baby Run (Back Into My Arms) |
| Newbeats |
| 20 |
Surrender |
| Diana Ross |
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 We
have been refused permission to reproduce charts from this era,
so please note that the list of singles on this page does not
represent any one UK chart; compiled from many different
sources, the list is a general guide to the most popular singles of
the month, ordered loosely by sales and peak chart position.
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1971
saw the start of Slade's chart success. Second single Coz I Luv You
was the first of Slade's six No.1's from 1971-1973, and the second
of 22 Top 20 hits up to 1984. Slade split up in 1988. They
re-formed briefly as Slade II in 1993, but Noddy Holder and Jimmy
Lea moved on soon after, leaving drummer Don Powell and guitar Dave
Hill as the only original Slade members in the new band.
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At
No. 8, the longest-lasting Boy Band of all time. Levi Stubbs,
Renaldo Benson, Abdul Fakir and Lawrence Payton first got together
in 1953, became The Four Tops in 1956, and had chart success on both
sides of the Atlantic from the Sixties to the Eighties. Simple
Game had been a Moody Blues B-Side, which producer Tony
Clarke brought to the Four Tops' attention during a British
tour. The boys sang together until 1997, when Lawrence Payton
died. The band is still performing today, with Theo Peoples
(ex-Temptations) now making up the four.
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And
speaking of longevity, I spy at No. 11, Cherilyn Sarkasian La Pier.
Gypsys Tramps And Thieves peaked at No. 4 in Britain, and was
the third of 14 Top Twenty hits for her as a soloist, her first
being Dylan's All I Really Want to Do in 1965. An
all-round career in entertainment has included TV shows (including
comedy) and films as well as singing. She's fallen out of
favour a few times over the years, and has sometimes been the
target of jealous journalists in the Worst Dressed awards - but
she's still there, and in 1999 had her first U.S. No 1 since Dark
Lady in 1974.
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Ernie
was Benny Hill's fourth Top 30 entry, and reached No.
1. Benny was an unwordly man with little interest in money,
and after his death in 1992 it was found that his only legal will
was to his long-dead parents. An unwitnessed will was found
naming five close friends, but it had no legal standing - so in accordance
with the law his estate of £7.5m was divided among nieces and
nephews.
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Middle
Of The Road, with lead singer Sally Carr, had sales of 10m
worldwide with first hit Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep. In
the mid-70's they relocated to Italy and were big in Europe for
years after. Sally tours with a new band now, which retains the name Middle Of The Road.
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