The 100 greatest UK No 1s

[kernelbogey]

Yes, but can you do 'I owe my soo- o - ow -o - owooell - - - to the company store'?

Da da da da da-deda day.

[cloughie]

No 52 and fully deserving of being a hit, though I think that Acceleration might have been an even bigger hit.

But songs that should have been a hit, and songs that would be have made no 1 in a better world are different things.

The biggest chart travesty ever was March 1967 - The dreadful Humperdinck with ‘Release Me‘ keeping ‘Penny Lane / Strawberry Fields‘ off the No1 spot.

[johncorrigan]

Yes, but can you do 'I owe my soo- o - ow -o - owooell - - - to the company store'?

Da da da da da-deda day.

'If the right one don't a-get you, then the left one will'

[johncorrigan]

No 52 and fully deserving of being a hit, though I think that Acceleration might have been an even bigger hit.

But songs that should have been a hit, and songs that would be have made no 1 in a better world are different things.

I can't stand that song, ts; any of the versions that I've heard. It wouldn't even make my bottom 100...no accounting for taste, I suppose!

[teamsaint]

I can't stand that song, ts; any of the versions that I've heard. It wouldn't even make my bottom 100...no accounting for taste, I suppose!

Which song, JC?

[LMcD]

I agree with that trio and Albatross too, and I think that either my memory plays tricks or the charts you followed - I think NME was my guide - but I am sure that Yardbirds ‘For your love’ made No1! A couple of other omissions are Joe Cocker’s ‘With a little help’ Chris Farlowe ‘Out of time’, Everly Brothers ‘Cathy’s Clown’ and Eddie Cochran ‘Summertime Blues’. But with this chosen list half of the panel probably wouldn’t register with anything before about 1980 unlike most of the forum’s pop radar which has probably disappeared about that time. Not much punk there ts!

'Albatross' was No. 1 for 1 week in 1969.
'For your Love' peaked at No. 3
(According to the Official Charts Company)

[johncorrigan]

Which song, JC?

'Tainted Love' - it's no 52 in the list, sainty.

[LMcD]

I agree with that trio and Albatross too, and I think that either my memory plays tricks or the charts you followed - I think NME was my guide - but I am sure that Yardbirds ‘For your love’ made No1! A couple of other omissions are Joe Cocker’s ‘With a little help’ Chris Farlowe ‘Out of time’, Everly Brothers ‘Cathy’s Clown’ and Eddie Cochran ‘Summertime Blues’. But with this chosen list half of the panel probably wouldn’t register with anything before about 1980 unlike most of the forum’s pop radar which has probably disappeared about that time. Not much punk there ts!

One of the many items of trivia that I've remembered over the years is that 'Cathy's Clown' was issued as WB.1, being the first song released on the new Warner Brothers label.

[teamsaint]

'Tainted Love' - it's no 52 in the list, sainty.

Ah, crossed wires. I was referring to the Bill Nelson song that Markg mentioned , which reached #52 in the charts.

[gurnemanz]

One of the many items of trivia that I've remembered over the years is that 'Cathy's Clown' was issued as WB.1, being the first song released on the new Warner Brothers label.

I did not know that trivia. When you mentioned it the image of a pinkish label with the WB logo came to mind across the decades. My sister bought it. In 1960 I was 11 and she was six years older. It was played a lot.

[cloughie]

I can't stand that song, ts; any of the versions that I've heard. It wouldn't even make my bottom 100...no accounting for taste, I suppose!

Now there's an idea - a bottom 100 - on second thoughts nah - there are too many candidates!

[Edgy 2]

Mouldy Old Dough - for no real reason I’ve always liked it - great tune and one which features on one of my car compilation CDs.

I bought the single when it was released and I’ve just listened to the song for the first time in many years,it’s a proper ear worm.

[johncorrigan]

Now there's an idea - a bottom 100 - on second thoughts nah - there are too many candidates!

Actually, my personal piece of info is that I was born the day of the first chart - Al Martino, number 1!

[Edgy 2]

I’m surprised Imagine isn’t on the list

[MrGongGong]

I’m surprised Imagine isn’t on the list

That's one thing they got right then