In
many places of the world, it's still Friday
the 13th. to celebrate the day, and since Lou
Reed part 2 is not yet ready, here is a selection of songs that peaked at #13
in the UK charts, one for each year, from 1960 till today.
From
1960, here are The Everly Brothers with Let It Be Me:
From
1961, here's Bobby Vee with More Than I Can Say:
From
1962, here's The John Barry Orchestra with the James Bond Theme:
From
1963, here's Frankie Vallie and The Four Seasons with Big Girls Don't Cry:
From
1964, here's Dusty Springfield with Stay Awhile:
From
1965, here are The Searchers with What Have They Done To The Rain:
From
1966, here's Georgie Fame with Sunny:
From
1967, here are Gladys Knight and The Pips with Take Me In Your Arms And Love Me:
From
1968, here are Reparata & The Delrons with Captain Of Your Ship:
From
1969, here's Junior Walker and the Allstars with What Does It Take" (To
Win Your Love):
From
1970, here's Aretha Franklin with Don't Play That Song (You Lied):
From
1971, here's Tom Jones with She's a Lady:
From
1972, here are The Moody Blues with Isn't Life Strange:
From
1973, here's Cat Stevens with Can't Keep It In:
From
1974, here's Bryan Ferry with The 'In' Crowd:
From
1975, here are Supertramp with Dreamer:
From
1976, here's Neil Diamond with Beautiful Noise:
From
1977, here's Peter Gabriel with Solsbury Hill:
From
1978, here are The Motors with Forget About You:
From
1979, here's Joe Jackson with Is She Really Going Out with Him:
From
1980, here are the Joy Division with Love Will Tear Us Apart:
From
1981, here's George Harrison with All those Years Ago:
From
1982, here are the Simple Minds with Promised You A Miracle:
From
1983, here's Indeep with Last Night A DJ Saved My Life:
From
1984, here's Gloria Gaynor with I Am What I Am:
From
1985, here are Simply Red with Money's Too Tight (To Mention):
From
1986, here are The Jesus and Mary Chain with Some Candy Talking:
From
1987, here's Boy George with To Be Reborn:
From
1988, here are Eric B. & Rakim with I Know You Got Soul:
From
1989, here are Depeche Mode with Personal Jesus:
From
1990, here are The La's with There She Goes:
From
1991, here are Massive Attack with Unfinished Sympathy:
From
1992, here are Roy Orbison and k d lang with Crying:
From
1993, here are Duran Duran with Come Undone:
From
1994, here are the Red Hot Chili Peppers with Under The Bridge:
From
1995, here are the Cast with Alright:
From
1996, here's Björk with Possibly Maybe:
From
1997, here are Metallica feat. Marianne Faithfull with The Memory Remains:
From
1998, here are the The Dandy Warhols with Not If You Were The Last Junkie On
Earth:
From
1999, here are Suede with She's In Fashion:
From
2000, here are 'N Sync with I'll Never Stop:
From
2001, here are Janet Jackson with Carly Simon featuring Missy Elliott with Son
Of A Gun (I Betcha Think This Song Is About You):
As
an extra, here's the album version, which I prefer:
From
2002, here is Britney Spears with I Love Rock 'N' Roll:
From
2003, here are The White Stripes with I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself:
From
2004, here is Paul Weller with The Bottle:
From
2005, here is KT Tunstall with Other Side Of The World:
From
2006, here is George Michael with An Easier Affair:
From
2007, here are The Killers ft. Lou Reed with Tranquilize:
From
2008, here are The Wombats with Moving To New York:
From
2009, here are The Freemasons feat. Sophie Ellis-Bextor with Heartbreak (Make
Me A Dancer):
From
2010, here are Coldplay with Christmas Lights:
From
2011, here is Lady Gaga with Hair:
From
2012, here is Beyoncé with Love On Top:
From
2013, here is Ed Sheeran with I See Fire:
From
2014, here are Imagine Dragons with Demons:
From
2015, here is Jessie J with Flashlight:
Finally,
from 2016, here are Bastille with Good Grief:
Another one of our Oscar predictions. Today we'll deal with Best Sound Editing: probably among the five nominees we'll have La La Land, Hacksaw Ridge, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Sully, and Doctor Strange. Other contenders are Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Deepwater Horizon, Arrival, The Jungle Book, and Silence.
ReplyDeleteThat's quite an interesting collection of songs John. Many from 2000 on are unfamiliar to me though I do recognize all the artists or at least most of them. There's some great stuff here so thanks for the intro. Imagine Dragon's Demons reminded me of another song with that title I was obsessed with several years ago:
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You know RM, I had the complete list of every song that ever peaked at #13 in the UK, and with my one-song-per-year rule, I had to leave many big acts out. Songs by Elvis, Cliff, Diana w/wo the Supremes, Jacko, Whitney, the Stones, Dylan... I think there were songs by all the big acts except for the Beatles and Madonna. For guys in our age bracket, it was a tough decision of who to leave out from the 20th Century, and who to put in for the 21st. It would probably be the other way round for a young person.
DeleteI had never heard Fenech-Soler's Demons before. It's good.
Good morning John! Came across these on YT and thought you'd appreciate them. More Scott Walker stuff:
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Good evening RM, and thanks for the Scott Walker documentary / interview / duet with Kiki Dee. They all very interesting, I wish I had them before I wrote the story. :)
DeleteNow that you had the time to listen to this presentation's songs, I'd love to hear your remarks on them. Later!
What a fabulous list idea! I came up with a Billboard list from the 80's. These are all the songs that peaked at unlucky #13.
ReplyDelete1980: Pilot Of The Airwaves - Charlie Dore
1980: You're The Only Woman - Ambrosia
1980: All Over The World - ELO
1981: Somebody's Knocking - Terri Gibbs
1981: Cool Love - Pablo Cruise
1982: Waiting On A Friend - Rolling Stones
1982: Through The years - Kenny Rogers
1982: Should I Do It - Pointer Sisters
1982: Empty garden - Elton John
1982: Making Love - Roberta Flack
1982: Do I Do - Stevie Wonder
1982: Love Will Turn You Around - Kenny Rogers
1982: Shadows of The Night - Pat Benatar
1983: Your Love Is Driving Me Crazy - Sammy Hagar
1983: I Know There's Something Going On - Frida
1983: Lawyers In love - Jackson Browne
1983: Why Me - Irene cara
1984: Language of Love - Dan Fogelberg
1984: Tonight - Kool And The Gang
1984: I'll Wait - Van Halen
1984: It's A Miracle - Culture Club
1984: I can't Hold Back - Survivor
1985: Do What You Do - Jermaine jackson
1985: Do They Know It's Christmas - Band Aid
1985: Don't Come Around Here No More - Tom Petty
1985: People Are People - Depeche Mode
1985: I'm Gonna tear Your Playhouse Down - Paul Young
1985: One Night Love Affair - Bryan Adams
1986: Tarzan Boy - Baltimora
1986: American Storm - Bob Seger
1986: You Should Be Mine - Jeffrey Osbourne
1987: Nobody's Fool - Cinderella
1987: What You Get is What You See - Tina Turner
1987: Jump Start - Natalie Cole
1987: Where The Streets Have No Name - U2
1987: I Won't Forget You - Poison
1988: I Live For Your Love - Natalie Cole
1988: Pump Up The Volume - MARRS
1988: Love Overboard - Gladys Knight And The Pips
1988: One Step Up - Bruce Springsteen
1988: I Still Believe - Brenda K. Starr
1988: True Love - Glenn Frey
1988: Another Lover - Giant Steps
1988: Finish What ya Started - Van Halen
1989: Silhouette - Kenny G
1989: Dial My Heart - The Boys
1989: Cult Of Personality - Living Color
1989: Sacred Emotion - Donny Osmond
1989: Keep On Movin - Soul II Soul
1989: Healing hands - Elton John
Wow, that's a great list Snicks! Many favorite songs in there: Empty garden, Making Love, Do They Know It's Christmas, Where The Streets Have No Name, Don't Come Around Here No More, People Are People, I'm Gonna tear Your Playhouse Down, It's A Miracle, Tarzan Boy, Jump Start, Pump Up The Volume, Love Overboard, Keep On Movin, I Know There's Something Going On, Waiting On A Friend... Not that the others were bad, it was a great decade after all. Have a great week!
DeleteAmazing! Many of those songs are my favorites of the decade. Along side most of the tunes you singled out I would add Do I Do, Love Will Turn You Around, I Live For Your Love and Sacred Emotion. I loves me a little grown-up Donnie.
ReplyDeleteOh, yes. Do I Do should have been in my list too. I was planning to and then forgot.
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