Your favourite 1 song - from each decade DYR covers

[victorbrunswick]

Re: Your favourite 1 song - from each decade DYR covers

1980s

Crazy Little Thing Called Love -- Queen (1980)
9 To 5 -- Dolly Parton (1981)
Shake It Up -- The Cars (1982)
Beat It -- Michael Jackson (1983)
Karma Chameleon -- Culture Club (1984)
The Power Of Love -- Huey Lewis and the News (1985)
La Bamba -- The Lobos (1987)
Good Thing -- Fine Young Cannibals (1989)

Note: I had no favourite #1 song in 1986 and 1988

[branny]

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60s Where do you go to my lovely - Peter Sarstedt

70s One step beyond - Madness

80s Blind - Talking Heads

90s Wild horses - The Sundays

00s Stan - Eminem

10s Princess of China - Coldplay

[Clare]

Re: Your favourite 1 song - from each decade DYR covers

"I'm as serious as cancer when I say Rhythm is a Dancer!"

They don't write them like that now!

[escorteclipse1990]

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1990s - Snap! - "Rhythm Is A Dancer" 1992 i remember the video she wore a black PVC Catsuit

[RetroTechRules]

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1970s - Pink Floyd - "Run Like Hell"

1980s - Kate Bush - "Cloudbusting"

1990s - Snap! - "Rhythm Is A Dancer"

[Homewood]

Re: Your favourite 1 song - from each decade DYR covers

I rate both Vincent and American Pie highly, I have to say. They're great songs 80sChav. I'm not too familiar with the work of Don McLean but I'd be interested to hear more based on those two songs. I've checked out his discography and it's quite extensive. He's released 21 studio albums and 4 live albums so I have a lot of catching up to do!

[80sChav]

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I always thought American Pie got to number one too. Apparently Vincent was a bigger international hit.

This is a strange one (let alone the great song of Vincent in itself) I think Homewood, as I have read in my qaurters that Don was an extremley talented writer who has never got the credit he truly deserves and is worthy of. this is more so given how fragmented together certain versuses/coruses and lines of American Pie refer to!!

back to what i was also going to say though - look at elton john's Candle I The wind (1997 English Rose Princes Diana Tribute version), as emotional as it was just as it was re; the late and great Marilyn Monroe Tribute one and added that it was one of (if not one of the fastest selling "Singles" of all time - though it was not in the charts too long at Number 1 a lot of people may argue "Something About The Way You Look Tonight" (the "B" Single) did better just like Vincent v American Pie - though of course it could never do that given the imoprtance of such a Tribute Song, but it was certainly an amazing choice on Elton's part as a a Song in general and a "B" Song as I can attestan to by the amount of playing and wearing my Tape got on the Car Radio (yeah I was still on Tapes then - even in 97!!!) until I bought CDs for myself and my Mum of it a few years later

80sChav

[80sChav]

Re: Your favourite 1 song - from each decade DYR covers

1970s
Some of these are songs that I remember and liked back then and others are ones I recently discovered and like now.

Back Home -- England World Cup Squad (1970)
Ernie (The Fastest Milkman In The West) -- Benny Hill (1971)
I Can See Clearly Now -- Johnny Nash (1972)
Top Of The World -- The Carpenters (1973)
You Won't Find Another Fool Like Me -- The New Seekers (1974)
Rhinestone Cowboy -- Glen Campbell (1975)
Fernando -- Abba (1976)
Southern Nights -- Glen Campbell (1977)
You're The One That I Want -- John Travolta & Olivia Newton John (1978)
Heart Of Glass -- Blondie (1979)

Heart Of Glass by the great Blondie/Debroah Harry definitley deserves a nomination of one of the greatest 70s songs I think, as does Video Killed The Radio Star by The Buggles

I remember the first time I properly heard Heart Of Glass in full in the mid 90s on Sat/Sun Morning Kids Telly and thought wow "how on earth can someone sing like that as if singing through gritted Teeth", but of course Debbbie/Blondie held that one to her advantage in my opinion, just like Bonnie Tyler's extremeties of going from Low-Pitched voice to High Pitched with Total Eclipse Of The
Heart

This for/to me as like with Kim Wilde's Kids In America dersves a honourable mention for the 1980s 9Aand again Kids In America stood the test of time 10/15 years later like Heart Of Glass did) from hearing it again - for the first time in full accomponied by an American Video on Grange Hll a full 10 years later when Mike and Georgina was breaking up and Mike was off to Uni in California!

80sChav

[victorbrunswick]

Re: Your favourite 1 song - from each decade DYR covers

1970s
Some of these are songs that I remember and liked back then and others are ones I recently discovered and like now.

Back Home -- England World Cup Squad (1970)
Ernie (The Fastest Milkman In The West) -- Benny Hill (1971)
I Can See Clearly Now -- Johnny Nash (1972)
Top Of The World -- The Carpenters (1973)
You Won't Find Another Fool Like Me -- The New Seekers (1974)
Rhinestone Cowboy -- Glen Campbell (1975)
Fernando -- Abba (1976)
Southern Nights -- Glen Campbell (1977)
You're The One That I Want -- John Travolta & Olivia Newton John (1978)
Heart Of Glass -- Blondie (1979)

[Homewood]

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If we're just going for number one singles though...

1960s - Mr Tambourine Man - The Byrds

1970s - Metal Guru - T.Rex

1980s - Under Pressure - Queen and David Bowie

1990s - Fastlove - George Michael

[George 1978]

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Here's my list:

1960s - This Old Heart of Mine - The Isley Brothers

1970s - Metal Guru - T.Rex

1980s - Just Like Heaven - The Cure

1990s - Ode To My Family - The Cranberries

Number 3, 1, 29, and 38 respectively.

Wasn't It's History one of Madonna's albums?

[80sChav]

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The irony in the first post was that I always thought American Pie was a number one hit, and as it was mentioned above, I had in mind that it was, but of course it only got to number two. I always confuse it with Vincent which did get to number one around the same time.

Though Maddonna total re-wrote it's History, did'nt she steer it to Number 1 in 1999/2000 though George?

On a sub-note I hope if it was possible with Don not being as present as he was in the Music Industry that one day he and Maddonna can make a duet of his original version - that would be amazing!

80sChav

[Homewood]

Re: Your favourite 1 song - from each decade DYR covers

Here's my list:

1960s - This Old Heart of Mine - The Isley Brothers

1970s - Metal Guru - T.Rex

1980s - Just Like Heaven - The Cure

1990s - Ode To My Family - The Cranberries

[Homewood]

Re: Your favourite 1 song - from each decade DYR covers

The irony in the first post was that I always thought American Pie was a number one hit, and as it was mentioned above, I had in mind that it was, but of course it only got to number two. I always confuse it with Vincent which did get to number one around the same time.

I always thought American Pie got to number one too. Apparently Vincent was a bigger international hit.

[George 1978]

Re: Your favourite 1 song - from each decade DYR covers

The irony in the first post was that I always thought American Pie was a number one hit, and as it was mentioned above, I had in mind that it was, but of course it only got to number two. I always confuse it with Vincent which did get to number one around the same time.