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@hodders.bsky.social presents 2 hours of classic UK chart goodness from the 1960s to the 1990s alternate Sundays from 5pm GMT on @madwaspradiomwr.bsky.social. Repeated 2am GMT Tuesday and 3pm GMT Thursday #GoldRushMWR
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You know it makes sense! #GRMWR
Ey up from the top deck of a No. 11 bus. #GRMWR
Ey up. On the slow bus back to Sunny SK1 so no live NP lists today, them's the breaks. Tuned in and interacting all the same! #GRMWR
It's 4 hours of 70s goodness this Sunday evening on @madwaspradiomwr.bsky.social, as the show counts down from this week's UK Top 50 from 1976. As Sam is at the microphone for some women's football commentary this afternoon, posts may well vary. #GRMWR #MadWaspRadio
That's yer lot! Back on Sunday 7 September, extending the 70s goodness that evening with a look back at 1976. Meanwhile, the 70s goodness for this week begins now with @ssuburbs.bsky.social! #GRMWR #MadWaspRadio
Zager and Evans are up 2 to spend the first of 3 weeks at #1 with In the Year 2525 (Exordium and Terminus), 6 weeks in the US. They never graced the UK charts again, while their follow-up peaked at #100 Stateside. #GRMWR #MadWaspRadio
The Rolling Stones are down to #2 after 5 weeks atop the chart with Honky Tonk Women, they'd also top the Hot 100 for 4 weeks. #GRMWR #MadWaspRadio
Robin Gibb is down from #2 to #3 with Saved By the Bell after 2 weeks, and yes, that IS a 1969 drum machine. #GRMWR #MadWaspRadio
Stevie Wonder is a non-mover at #4 with the title track of his album My Cherie Amour, the second week of three at that peak position. #GRMWR #MadWaspRadio
Irish singer Joe Dolan is a non-mover at #5 with Make Me an Island, having been as high as #3 in the UK and #2 in the Emerald Isle. #GRMWR #MadWaspRadio
The Equals are up 8 to #6 with Viva Bobby Joe, and that's where it'll stop up. #GRMWR #MadWaspRadio
Marvin Gaye is Too Busy Thinking ABout My Baby at #7, up a place and heading to a summit of #4. #GRMWR #MadWaspRadio
Creedence Clearwater Revival are up 12 to #8 with Bad Moon Rising. Rise it shall, ascending to #1 for 3 weeks. #GRMWR #MadWaspRadio
The Bee Gees kick off the look at the Top 10 at #9. Don't Forget to Remember, the first single with just Barry and Maurice, is up 9 places and heading to #2. #GRMWR #MadWaspRadio
Always a pleasure to give @choosethechoons.bsky.social a plug, it's dead good! #GRMWR #MadWaspRadio
Perhaps one of the first UK supergroups of sorts, Humble Pie are up 12 places to #11 with the jaunty Natural Born Bugie, heading to #4. #GRMWR #MadWaspRadio
Love Affair are down a place to #12 with Bringing On Back the Good Times, down a place and having been as high as #9. #GRMWR #MadWaspRadio
The Move are down 2 places to #14 having peaked at #12 last week with Curly. It was the last single for Carl Wayne before he left the band. #GRMWR #MadWaspRadio
The Plastic Ono Band are down 9 places to #15 with Give Peace a Chance, after having been as high as #2 for 3 weeks. It would be a Top 40 posthumously for John Lennon in 1981. #GRMWR #MadWaspRadio
I know! And to think I balked at playing Judge Dread in the past (though they were even more explicit..) #GRMWR
The "original" release of Je T'aime...moi non plus is a non mover at #17 and heading to #2. It was withdrawn prior to an "official" release on another label, that release got to #1 for a week in spire of the Beeb banning it, a first. #GRMWR #MadWaspRadio
And now, the show goes a little more..base. Max Romeo is down 5 places to #18 with Wet Dream, a song played on the BBC twice before being banned, and as subtle as a barbed wire bog roll! #GRMWR #MadWaspRadio
The monomymous Oliver is up 7 places to #19 with Good Morning Starshine. It'll be a #6 peak for one of the better known songs from the Broadway musical Hair. #GRMWR #MadWaspRadio
The Temptations are on Cloud Nine, up 18 to #24 and the beginning of the group's psychedelic soul phase. It'd get to #15 in the UK and #6 in the US. #GRMWR #MadWaspRadio
Back to one hit wonders! The Dells are down 10 places to #25 with I Can Sing a Rainbow - Love is Blue. #15 was where it sat for 3 weeks in the UK, also making the US Top 40 where they were far more successful. #GRMWR #MadWaspRadio
Ken Dodd is up a place to #26 with Tears Wont Wash Away These Heartaches, peaking at #22 as one of many ballads the Knotty Ash comedian had over the years. #GRMWR #MadWaspRadio
The Box Tops are up 11 places to #29 with the Soul Deep. It'll reach #22 in the UK and #18 Stateside. #GRMWR #MadWaspRadio
It's hard to believe that Crosby, Stills & Nash were one hot wonders as a trio in the UK, but there you go. They're up 15 to #30 with Marrakesh Express and heading to 2 split weeks at #17, their only UK Top 40. #GRMWR #MadWaspRadio
Georgie Fame is down 7 places to #31 with Peaceful, having been as high as #16. #GRMWR #MadWaspRadio
For his Selection, @snathe.bsky.social has picked the sublime single at #34. Mama Cass is up 13 to that position with It's Getting Better, heading to a summit of #8. #GRMWR #MadWaspRadio
Booker T. and the M.G's are a New Entry and peaking at #35 with Soul Clap 69. Elsewhere, it had been released as the B-side to their cover of Simon and Garfunkel's Mrs Robinson. #GRMWR #MadWaspRadio
Family Dogg are down 5 places to #36 in their final week in the chart with A Way of Life. It had been as high as #6. #GRMWR #MadWaspRadio
Speaking of #1s.. Bobbie Gentry is a New Entry at #37 with I'll Never Fall in Love Again. That'll go on to top the chart for a single week. #GRMWR #MadWaspRadio
Thunderclap Newman are descending from #1 and about to fall out the chart, down 14 to #39 with Something in the Air. #GRMWR #MadWaspRadio
Short and sweet, the Sunrise movement from Also Sprach Zarathustra is down 1 for the Philharmonia Orchestra at #42, It had been as high as #33 for the piece best known from the opening titles of 2001: A Space Odyssey. #GRMWR #MadWaspRadio
A favourite of your host since discovering it for another entirely different show many years ago, The Peddlers are up 4 to 44 with Birth. It'll reach #17 in the UK and #20 in Ireland, with future singles finding more success in New Zealand. #GRMWR #MadWaspRadio
Jimmy Ruffin (Older brother of Temptation David) is up 1 to #45 with the 1969 re-release of his 1967 single I've Passed This Way Before. It got to #29 then and will reach #33 this time around. #GRMWR #MadWaspRadio
Billy Preston is down 11 to #48 with That's the Way God Planned It, the title track of the first album he released on Apple Records - it reached #11 for 2 weeks. #GRMWR #MadWaspRadio
Ey up Prospectors! The countdown from this Week's Top 50 in 1969 kicks off with the Isley Brothers new at 50 with Put Yourself in My Place, heading to a peak of #13. #GRMWR #MadWaspRadio
Show day once more! It's the UK Top 50 from this week in 1969 that gets a rundown from 5pm today, flying the 60s flag that @litsie.bsky.social raised so well, only on @madwaspradiomwr.bsky.social and with as many live posts as Sam can muster (Other things permitting!) #GRMWR
Only a modest vinyl collection here, but should any come up in a future chart I may well have to use the vinyl version! #TVLMWR
As always, you lovely people tuning in every other Sunday evening is always appreciated. Next time on August 24th it's back to the first Summer of Love, 1969. Meanwhile, stay tuned for 2 hours of 70s goodness with @ssuburbs.bsky.social. #GRMWR #MadWaspRadio
Advance apologies if the end of the show is a bit messy with crashed vocals, but I didn't intend on running long/having no outro. Easily done when recording as live! #GRMWR #MadWaspRadio
It's Summer 1994, so surprise surprise at #1... The Wets are into their 11th week of 15 at the top with THAT song from THAT film. It didn't quite make the US Top 40. #GRMWR #MadWaspRadio
Just dawned on me that in the Top 5, all are covers or re-releases. Wasn't exactly a slow music month either looking at the rest of the chart, oy.. #GRMWR
All-4-One are spending a SEVENTH and final week at #2 with I Swear, spending 11 weeks atop the chart in the US. FWIW, the longest period at #2 in the UK stands at 8 weeks, unbroken since 1953. #GRMWR #MadWaspRadio
Let Loose are up a place to #3 with Crazy for You. Having stalled at #44 first time around in 1993, they'll eventually be stuck at #2 for a fortnight for reasons that will shortly become clear. #GRMWR #MadWaspRadio
Very droll! #GRMWR
China Black are up a place and stopping at #4 for 2 weeks with Searching, while also topping the Airplay Chart and becoming the 25th best selling single of the year. #GRMWR #MadWaspRadio
The BC-52's are down 2 places to #5, having spent 3 weeks at #3 with Meet the Flintstones, taken from the film that was released that year. #GRMWR #MadWaspRadio
Continuing the 1994 trend of radio-friendly reggae making the charts, Jamaican deejay Red Dragon along with Brian and Tony Gold are up 4 to #7, reaching #2 with Compliments on Your Kiss and produced by Sly and Robbie! #GRMWR #MadWaspRadio
Headlong into the Top 10, where PJ & Duncan are non-movers at #9 with Let's Get Ready to Rhumble. It'd get to #1 for a week after featuring in Saturday Night Takeaway's show closer in 2013. Psyche.. #GRMWR #MadWaspRadio
Youssou N'Dour and Neneh Cherry are up 7 places to #11 with 7 Seconds, heading up to a peak of #3 while topping the Airplay chart. In France, it'll get to #1 for SIXTEEN weeks. #GRMWR #MadWaspRadio
The Brand New Heavies are a New Entry and peaking at #13 with a cover of Maria Muldaur's 1974 single Midnight at the Oasis, doing better than the original in the process. #GRMWR #MadWaspRadio
Future Sound of London are a New Entry with Lifeforms at #14, and that's as good as it gets. Liz Fraser of Cocteau Twins is on vocal duties. #GRMWR #MadWaspRadio
Public Enemy are a New Entry at #18, peaking no higher with Give It Up. Stateside it would reach #33 on the Hot 100 and #5 on the Rap chart. #GRMWR #MadWaspRadio
Manic Street Preachers are a New Entry at #22 with Revol. Taken from their album The Holy Bible, it'll stay no higher than that. #GRMWR #MadWaspRadio
Into Hour 2 we go! Carleen Anderson is a New Entry at #24 with True Spirit, peaking there. #GRMWR #MadWaspRadio
A fine lineup of backing vocalists on this gem. Kiki Dee, Gary Barlow and no joke, Rick Astley! #GRMWR
A fine dose of Disney at #26, where Elton John is down 9 places to #26 with Can You Feel the Love Tonight. It peaked at #14 in the UK and #4 in the US (Where the song spent 8 weeks at #1 on the A/C Chart.) #GRMWR #MadWaspRadio
DJ Jazzy Jeff and The Fresh Prince are up a place to #29 with the 1994 re-release of Summertime, peaking at that position. It got to #8 first time around. #GRMWR #MadWaspRadio
Sophie B. Hawkins (The B standing for Ballantyne) is a New Entry at #31 with Right Beside You, heading to a peak of #13. This was the single that missed the US Top 40, stopping up at #56 there. #GRMWR #MadWaspRadio
Rozalla is up 2 and peaking at #33 with This Time I Found Love. Charting nowhere else your host could find, it was a rare occasion where one of her singles didn't make the US Dance chart. #GRMWR
Could be argued that he peaked at the age of 15 when he wrote A Million Love Songs (which I have a real soft spot). #GRMWR
Worth noting that the Spanish version got to #2 in Spain! #GRMWR
Yes, it's Take That and yes, it's the Gary Barlow show, but it's not a bad ballad as a whole. Me Mam was and remains a fan, so it's doing her a service playing it too. #GRMWR
Take That are down 12 places to #35 with Love Ain't Here Anymore. Despite predictions it would be their 5th straight #1, it stopped short at #3. #GRMWR #MadWaspRadio
Was going to be in the selections from the off, but knew you'd approve! #GRMWR
Ambulance for @msspydasam.bsky.social! Richard Marx is a New Entry at #39 with The Way She Loves Me, peaking a place higher at #38. Stateside, he did better as was often the case; #20 on the Hot 100 and #3 on the Adult Contemporary Chart. #GRMWR #MadWaspRadio
Welcome! Life comes first after all. #GRMWR
Continuing the possible obscurities, Dr Alban is a New Entry at #42 with Away from Home, stopping at that position while doing reasonably well on the Continent. #GRMWR #MadWaspRadio
We aim to serve! Ditto the esteemed @deeper80s.bsky.social et al #GRMWR
Level 42 are down 16 places to #47 with Love in a Peaceful World, having peaked at #31 the previous week and their last Top 40 single to date. #GRMWR #MadWaspRadio
Eddi Reader is a New Entry at #58 with Joke (I'm Laughing). In an example of "Airplay does not necessarily a hit single make", this got to #28 on the Music Week Airplay chart, but stalled at #42! #GRMWR #MadWaspRadio
@snathe.bsky.social 's Selection is at #66, where Crash Test Dummies are down 22 places and about to exit the chart with Afternoons and Coffeespoons, having peaked at #23. #GRMWR #MadWaspRadio
Welcome! #GRMWR
The group Headswim are a 2-week wonder, entering at #81 with Gone to Pot, Top 40 success would come in a few years time for them. #GRMWR #MadWaspRadio
Ey up! Francis Dunnery, he formerly of It Bites, kicks off the 1994 countdown at #91, a 1-week cameo with American Life in the Summertime, which did better Down Under by breaking their Top 20. #GRMWR #MadWaspRadio
This is your 30-minute heads up for today's show, counting down from this week's UK Singles Chart from 1994 on @madwaspradiomwr.bsky.social. You KNOW it makes sense, with live posts here exclusively. #GRMWR #MadWaspRadio
Recording for Sunday's show on @madwaspradiomwr.bsky.social is well underway, nice to be able to do it during the luxury of a week off work! #GRMWR #MadWaspRadio
And possibly a little more consistent! #GRMWR
From 5pm it's a countdown from this week's UK singles Chart in 1987 on @madwaspradiomwr.bsky.social. Posts may be limited due to a certain Euros final. #GMRWR #MadWaspRadio
Mindful that this Sunday's show on @madwaspradiomwr.bsky.social will be on at the same time as a certain football final. Nevertheless, recording is still taking place this evening and hopefully provides either a good soundtrack or distraction! #GRMWR #MadWaspRadio
Happens to all of us, in days of yore at another station it was rare for me NOT to have some sort of flub. #ChooseDay
Hark, it's Lita! The hot seat is yours m'colleague! #sts70s
Thanks for tuning in, always a pleasure to put these shows together. On 27th July it'll be 1987 that the countdown hails from. Meantime, stay tuned for MORE 70s goodness with @ssuburbs.bsky.social. #GRMWR #MadWaspRadio #sts70s
Tubeway Army (with Gary Numan at the helm) are spending a 3rd of 4 weeks at #1 with Are "Friends" Electric? It was the last release before the band split, and wouldn't even make the Hot 100 in the States, philistines.. #GRMWR #MadWaspRadio
Just reading from Friday's Toppertpops discussions that Janet was *16* when she recorded Silly Games, insane range! #GRMWR
Janet Kay is up a place to #2, beginning a 2-week stay there and kicking off the chart success of the lover's rock genre. #GRMWR #MadWaspRadio
The Sex Pistols are up 6 to peak at #3 for 2 weeks with their cover of C'Mon Everybody. #GRMWR #MadWaspRadio
Squeeze are down 2 places to #4 with Up the Junction, having spent the previous week peaking at #2. #GRMWR #MadWaspRadio
Amii Stewart is up a place and peaking at #5 with the double A-side Light My Fire/137 Disco Heaven. While Knock on Wood is perhaps better remembered, that comparatively got to #6. #GRMWR #MadWaspRadio
Always helps when the composer's been deceased for over 2 centuries! #GRMWR
The Ruts are up 14 places to #7, peaking there with Babylon's Burning and aided by a Top of the Pops appearance. #GRMWR #MadWaspRadio
Right then, into the Top 10. The Beach Boys are up 20 places to #8 with Lady Lynda, heading for a peak of #6. Sampling Bach's Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring, it scraped into the Top 40 of the US Easy Listening chart. #GRMWR #MadWaspRadio
Chic are up 10 places to #12 with Good Times. Reaching #5 in the UK, it would top the Hot 100 for a single week while reigning for 6 weeks atop the Soul Chart. #GRMWR #MadWaspRadio
Thin Lizzy are up 12 places and peaking at #14 with Do Anything You Want To (which was new to your host's ears). It would also get to #25 in Ireland. #GRMWR #MadWaspRadio
Your host, perhaps a hot take, prefers Go West by a long way over YMCA (overplayed) and In the Navy by a lesser distance. #GRMWR
The Village People are up 3 to a peak of #15 with Go West. Later to be taken to #1/2 across the continent by the Pet Shop Boys, this missed the US Top 40. #GRMWR #MadWaspRadio
Edwin Starr is down 3 places to #19 with H.A.P.P.Y Radio (of which an original version was hard to find), having been as high as #9. #GRMWR #MadWaspRadio
