This collaboration released two singles in 2014 and 2015 respectively; both of them failed to chart. LEE MARVIN AND CLINT EASTWOOD | full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company". Official Charts. Shout for England featuring Dizzee Rascal and James Corden (" Shout", 2010) (currently listed in the Official Chart Company's archive as "Shout" by Shout featuring Dizzee and James Corden) [176] Randy Brooks wrote a Christmas novelty song and it was originally recorded by then husband-wife recording duo Elmo Shropshire and his wife Patsy in 1979, called " Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer". It tells the tragic-comic story of a family grandmother who meets her end on Christmas Eve. After having drunk too much eggnog and forgetting to take her medicine, she staggers out of her family's house late Christmas Eve, is run over by Santa Claus' entourage, and found trampled at the scene the next morning. It has become a staple of Christmas music playlists on American radio since its original release.

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Sadly, this double A-side was the first Beatles single since the first couple to miss the top spot. But the focus here is on "Strawberry Fields Forever". We all know what it sounds like, and it sounds amazing, but not even that accounts for the true innovations of the production. Editing together two different versions of the song (one of them in a different tempo, mood and key to the other) and then adding tape loops, reversed instrumentation and the like, it's no wonder it was christened the "most unusual and way-out single" Beatles single by the NME, and "a weird record" by Brian Wilson himself, even if, like "Good Vibrations", it's not the strangest sounding song on the list in today's ears. Chris Tarrant, Sally James, John Gorman and Bob Carolgees (sometimes Lenny Henry contributed as well - so mark that answer as correct too) The first number one produced by Joe Meek, if not quite the first he'd worked on (his engineering work on several 50s chart-toppers included the odd inclusion of a theremin-like musical saw on Winifred Atwell's The Poor People of Paris). Yet despite hitting the top spot, the stunning Johnny Remember Me was one of many 'death discs' banned by the BBC, and the first such British-made example to really be a hit. But this is much more gothic in sound than the other examples from this trend of gloomy tragedy stories set to music, for Joe's foggy, heavily echoey production matches the ghost story in the lyrics. Tom Ewing called it "the weirdest and most gripping British record to hit the top yet."

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The 1990 version of "Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini" featured which star of Wacaday? I feel I'm at a point where there's just too many multi-part prog-pop kinda songs to count. Fresh in the wake of Bo Rhap (and Music), there were many more hitting the charts in 1976-77 as noted by others (The Four Seasons''Silver Star', Simon May's 'Summer of My Life', 10cc's 'I'm Mandy Fly Me', Rod Stewart's 'The Killing of Georgie', David Essex's 'City Lights'), so I'm going to focus on the most "out-there" of them all, me thinks. The verses are deathly and solemn with gothic, almost Red Army-like choir/monk harmonies, which helps make the upbeat pop parts seem even stranger in proximity. Robbie Williams and Russell Brand Sing on New Version of Three Lions For Football World Cup | Showbiz News | Sky News". News.sky.com . Retrieved 14 May 2010.

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Coronavirus: Capt Tom Moore and Michael Ball record You'll Never Walk Alone". BBC News. April 17, 2020. Among the more far out songs of this genre were the two released in 1956 by Nervous Norvus, "Transfusion" and "Ape Call". Martell charted four UK top 20 albums, but her recording of this Kris Kristofferson song was her only hit single. [46] Roberts, David. Guinness Book of British Hit Singles & Albums. Hit Entertainment/Guinness World Records Ltd. 18th edition (May 2005). ISBN 1-904994-00-8The single was Da Silva's only UK chart hit, although featured vocalist Cass Fox released her own version, which became a minor hit five years later. [68] [69] Napoleon XIV They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa! / !aaaH-aH, yawA eM ekaT ot gnimoC er'yehT (1966) [Single] under one X Factor Finalists entry, also giving the act an achievement of its first four records at number one. [181] [182] [183] [184] The Justice Collective A Little Less Conversation" was a number one in 2002 as RCA 74321943572 and then listed as a new number 3 hit in 2005 as RCA 82876666832 in The Virgin Book of British Hit Singles [158] in a period of the charts that classed re-issues like this as a 'new' hits, giving Elvis Presley a record breaking 21 number ones

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a b Keeling, Neal (February 17, 2007). "Search for the Matchstalk singers". Manchester Evening News. FIREBOY DML & ED SHEERAN | full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company". Official Charts.Confusion"/" Last Train to London", " Don't Bring Me Down", " Shine a Little Love", " The Diary of Horace Wimp"

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Lauren Bennett was a member of the American-British-Canadian pop group G.R.L. between 2012–2021, with the band charting two singles in the UK. [223] KID & GRACEY | full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company". Official Charts Company . Retrieved 10 February 2021. Nathan Evans, 220 Kid & Billen Ted | full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company". Official Charts Company . Retrieved 20 March 2021. Good_Knight". The Daily Telegraph. London. 28 January 2010. Archived from the original on 29 January 2010.

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Captain Sir Tom Moore was a 99-year-old war veteran who raised millions of pounds for the NHS during the COVID-19 pandemic by walking 100 laps of his garden before his 100th birthday. [203] Singer and BBC Radio 2 presenter [204] Michael Ball decided that he would try and make Captain Tom Moore the oldest artist to have a number one hit in the UK by recording a fundraising cover of the Rodgers and Hammerstein song " You'll Never Walk Alone" with the intention that the song would be at number one in the Official Singles Chart at the point Captain Moore turned 100. [205] The duo teamed up with the NHS Voices of Care Choir with the song, credited to Michael Ball, Captain Tom Moore and the Voices of Care Choir, reaching the top spot on the chart dated 30 April 2020. [206] Even though Ball has had hits in the singles and albums chart (including three number one albums with Alfie Boe), [207] Moore died on 2 February 2021, with one hit single and the record for the oldest artist to have a chart topper, [208] [209] while the Voices of Care Choir were the second NHS associated choir to get a number one hit, after the Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Choir. In addition to these records, a charity version of the Beatles' " With a Little Help from My Friends" was released in 2018 credited to NHS Voices. Even though the record only reached number 89 in the UK charts and stayed just 1 week in the UK Top 100, it is likely that many of the choir members appeared on Captain Tom Moore's record and on " A Bridge over You". [202] Featured artists [ edit ] The group's debut self-titled album reached number two on the album chart, but neither the band nor Arthur Brown in his own right managed to secure another placing on either the singles or album chart. [11] The British folk duo were in contention for 2005's Christmas number one single but were replaced at number one on Christmas Day by The X Factor winner Shayne Ward. Their follow-up single "Girls" failed to reach the top 75. The duo later split in 2020. Also a US No. 1 for Larry Verne, it's a song about and sung/spoken mostly from the perspective of a cowardly soldier in Mr Custer’s army wishing not to fight in the Battle of the Little Bighorn against the Sioux, asking to be excused to change his library book etc. Much of the record is him thinking aloud, talking flippantly to other soldiers about the unfurling action etc. Weirder yet, it opens with Native American whoops and war cries (with more later on) and has a tribal chant underneath the whole thing (white people doing Native American voices... less culturally sensitive times). But all those sounds, and the worried-sounding conversational Charlie, and the whooshing sounds of flying arrows sounding throughout, all add up to a outlandish-sounding record.