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  • Опубликовано: 29 окт 2024

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  • @DavidSmith-cx8dg
    @DavidSmith-cx8dg 5 месяцев назад +16

    These are the best selling songs of each year , rather than the best , or even representative of the music at the time . Quite few were big selling 'one offs ' . For example Robson & Jerome were actors in a popular tv series ' Soldier Soldier' and teamed up to do some classic songs , other best sellers being for charity or an event such as Scotland qualifying for the World cup . Cliff Richard he has had no 1 songs spanning decades .
    ' Candle in the wind ' was first a bit for Elton in the 70s but the Princess Diana version caught the mood of the nation so well .

    • @lawrenceglaister4364
      @lawrenceglaister4364 5 месяцев назад +1

      Not to mention that a great song by Ultravox called Vienna was not at number one because people who went to Spain for vacation bought the " Chicken " song that was big at the time in Spain !!!!!!

    • @DavidSmith-cx8dg
      @DavidSmith-cx8dg 5 месяцев назад

      Probably one of the great songs that never made no 1 . Stuck behind Bohemian Rhapsody of I remember correctly then lost out to a novelty .

    • @OnlyGoodMusic_
      @OnlyGoodMusic_ Месяц назад

      @@lawrenceglaister4364 Vienna was #1, in Ireland, the Netherlands and Belgium. In the UK it spent 4 weeks at #2, one behind Lennon's Woman, three behind Joe Dolce. Anyway, Vienna outsold both in 1981 and was the sixth best-selling song of the year in the UK. By the way, in other lists of the time, such as those managed by NME and Melody Maker, Vienna was #1.

  • @jimreid4367
    @jimreid4367 5 месяцев назад +16

    CLIFF RICHARD popped up on this twice 30 years apart . He was Britain's version of Elvis . Both were releasing hit after hit , both were making their own movies . Cliff had more hits than Elvis and sold more albums . I believe if Cliff went to America he would have been bigger than Elvis in America .

    • @HumorAndHistory
      @HumorAndHistory  5 месяцев назад +1

      I didn’t know this!

    • @mattsmith5421
      @mattsmith5421 5 месяцев назад

      I think they would of deported him.

    • @lillired857
      @lillired857 5 месяцев назад +1

      only cause hes still alive!

    • @jimreid4367
      @jimreid4367 5 месяцев назад

      @@MillsyLM Yes i know , i saw an interview with him years ago . He quoted that he left it too late to try his luck in America by the time he got there , there was dozens of similar performers just like him . He wanted to go in 1959 but got got bad advice to wait .

    • @England91
      @England91 4 месяца назад

      @@jimreid4367 ouch

  • @wrorchestra1
    @wrorchestra1 5 месяцев назад +10

    Cliff Richard and the Drifters - the backing group had to change their name because of the American group so they renamed as The Shadows. The lead guitarist, Hank Marvin, would be an inspiration to the likes of David Gilmour, Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton.
    Ken Dodd was a stand up comic who was actually a trained singer. His stand up career lasted for decades and usually included singing.

  • @stever7732
    @stever7732 Месяц назад +1

    If there is one performance to change your mind about ‘Hallelujah’ it is the cover recorded by Lucy Thomas four years ago when she was just 16. It floors every reactor who hears it and the RUclips video already has 50 million views.

  • @leehallam9365
    @leehallam9365 5 месяцев назад +5

    Bright Eyes was huge because it featured in the film Watership Down.

    • @grapeman63
      @grapeman63 5 месяцев назад +1

      And was written by everyone's favourite Womble - Mike Batt.

  • @timholder6825
    @timholder6825 2 месяца назад +2

    Englebert Humperdinck is a real historical character. He was a German classical composer of the late 19th, early 20th century. Arnold Dorsey is the real name of the Englebert Humperdinck here.

  • @Tohereknowswhen
    @Tohereknowswhen 6 дней назад

    Robson & Jerome were stars in the tv show Soldier Solider, and well if there's anyone you can blame for them doing that release of Unchained Melody, it was Simon Cowell - who also seemed to have a stronghold on the UK Singles Charts in the mid-90s, before Pop Idol and X-Factor.

  • @germankitty
    @germankitty 5 месяцев назад +1

    Robson and Jerome were quite well-known TV actors in the UK; if memory serves, their cover of "Unchained Melody" was either part of a show where their characters sang the song, or they played musicians/singers and someone had the bright idea to actually have them sing "for real". The success was most likely a combination of the team-up, their previous fame and a great song choice.

  • @leehallam9365
    @leehallam9365 5 месяцев назад +1

    Ken Dodd was a a hugely popular standup comedian, with a career from the fifties up to his death not all that long ago. But along side that he sang distinctly none-comic ballads.

  • @ElunedLaine
    @ElunedLaine 5 месяцев назад +3

    Just a bit of info, Frank Ifield, the 1962 chart entry died this week. He was 86. Ken Dodd, 1965 entry died in March, 2018. He was 90. Of course, we've also lost George Harrison, Whitney Houston, Meatloaf and Les McKeown, the lead Bay City Roller singer. Paul McCartney has become the first billionaire musician. And have you seen this YT vid - 'Old Movie Stars Dance to Uptown Funk'?

  • @MrDaiseymay
    @MrDaiseymay 5 месяцев назад +3

    I CAN REMEMBER THE EARLY DISCS BETTER THAN THE LATER ONES, 'CAUSE THE MUSIC DIED IN THE 90'S. --MOSTLY.

  • @OnlyGoodMusic_
    @OnlyGoodMusic_ Месяц назад

    What happened in 1979 is sad. To think that that year "Are Friends Electric" by Tubeway Army was #1 for 4 weeks and that Art Midfunkel song was the best-selling song of the year.

  • @timholder6825
    @timholder6825 2 месяца назад +1

    It was, Cliff Richard and the Shadows, not Drifters. The Shadows were his usual backing band and had several hits in their own right, instrumentals though. They had one of the first 'Guitar Heroes' in Hank Marvin.

  • @OnlyGoodMusic_
    @OnlyGoodMusic_ Месяц назад

    15:53 ​​That, in fact, is the third most listened to song on Spotify.

  • @leehallam9365
    @leehallam9365 5 месяцев назад +1

    Robson and Jerome were actors in a very populat TV show, who used their popularity to launch a music career.

  • @gillianhollins3003
    @gillianhollins3003 5 месяцев назад +4

    Dolly parton is an icon the world over and miley is her goddaughter. Some I thought would be on this list Michael Jackson and Madonna

    • @HumorAndHistory
      @HumorAndHistory  5 месяцев назад +1

      was he as big in the UK as the US?

    • @gillianhollins3003
      @gillianhollins3003 5 месяцев назад +2

      He was ranked 5th best selling artist in the UK although I grew up in the 70s so I liked the Jackson 5 best he still had some really good songs though

  • @richardholmes4552
    @richardholmes4552 5 месяцев назад +3

    A lot of the songs post 84 were charity songs and were only best sellers for that reason, there are probably 100's of songs that are better than most in this in my opinion

  • @Galantus1964
    @Galantus1964 4 месяца назад +1

    it is true regarding soccer, but then we grew up and rightfully called it football

  • @coot1925
    @coot1925 5 месяцев назад +4

    The only song I think should have been on there was bohemian rhapsody

  • @angelabushby1891
    @angelabushby1891 3 месяца назад +1

    ART GARFUNCLE WAS A FABULOUS SINGER

  • @leehallam9365
    @leehallam9365 5 месяцев назад

    Will Young, Leona Lewis, Alexandra Burke were talent show winners, and these were the winner's songs. Peter Kay's was a charity song, he's a comedian miming to Tony Christie's classic with other celebrities. It's all about the video really, now it's a case of whose dead.

  • @julianaylor4351
    @julianaylor4351 2 месяца назад

    You really should look up Ken Dodd's main career. He was a stand-up comedian who I always found hilarious. There's also television footage of him with the Beatles. He lives into his nineties.

  • @daveangel2991
    @daveangel2991 5 месяцев назад

    From this list Mull of Kintyre is the first one I have a memory of experiencing at the time. I was four years old.

  • @timholder6825
    @timholder6825 2 месяца назад +1

    Grace Slick, of Jefferson Airplane (later, Jefferson Starship, then just, Starship, who are responsible for one of the most loathed songs in Rock and Roll history. We Built This City) hated The Beatles and was very outspoken about it. Elvis hated them too, but they idolosed him, initially. Elvis tried to get them banned from the US.

  • @coraliemoller3896
    @coraliemoller3896 4 месяца назад

    ‘Bright Eyes’ was the soundtrack to to the animated movie, ‘Watership Down’ and it was a big family movie.
    It was Art’s voice that stole the hearts of listeners, compared to Paul Simon, whose song lyrics were mostly drippy.

  • @philn8122
    @philn8122 5 месяцев назад +1

    Crocodile rock by Elton John was massive in the 70's.

    • @OnlyGoodMusic_
      @OnlyGoodMusic_ 5 месяцев назад

      Peak 5 in the UK

    • @philn8122
      @philn8122 5 месяцев назад

      @@OnlyGoodMusic_ Like Hotel California by The eagles, it was played to death on juke boxes for what seemed like a lifetime.

  • @fayesouthall6604
    @fayesouthall6604 5 месяцев назад +1

    Um Bop is a brilliant song. Catchy. Hey Jude was no1 when I was born.

  • @niallmcentee9400
    @niallmcentee9400 2 месяца назад

    The word SOCCER comes from the full name for the game asSOCiation football

  • @sharonbunn2363
    @sharonbunn2363 5 месяцев назад +3

    I was born in 1963 and when I was six years old I went to my first concert. It was Engelbert Humperdink cos I had a huge crush on him! As for the "novelty" songs in our charts well we are a nation that will name important vessels "Boaty McBoatFace" if given the chance so yeah we like our novelty songs. Check out the charity singles released by LadBaby xxx

  • @traceywatt3017
    @traceywatt3017 5 месяцев назад +1

    Love the Beatles and Oxigin. Cilla Black is my guilty pleasure 😂

  • @timholder6825
    @timholder6825 2 месяца назад +1

    No, Give Ireland Back To The Irish wasn't banned, it was just never released as a single. Banned songs in the UK? Je T'aime, by Serge Gainsborough and Jane Birkin. God Save The Queen, by, tHe SEx PiStoLs and, Ding Dong The Witch is Dead, by, The Munchkins (went straight to number 1 on the occasion of Margaret Thatchers death, despite being banned from airplay by the BBC and others.

  • @nickyverra2175
    @nickyverra2175 16 дней назад

    Interestingly these biggest selling songs of the year aren’t necessarily representative of the trends and songs in the uk charts. Usually over time we have about a 60/30/10 split between British songs, American songs and songs from other countries. I love music from all eras but my favourite decade is the 80s (before I was born).

  • @nickyfield137
    @nickyfield137 5 месяцев назад +1

    Hi John, nice to see you again

  • @timholder6825
    @timholder6825 2 месяца назад

    Music needs to get back to its roots, rock, reggae). "But it was, Temptations all night, with encores from stage right, charging from the bass line to the treble, but on stage they ain't got no roots, rock, rebel. Onstage they ain't got no ROOTS, ROCK, REBEL."

  • @timholder6825
    @timholder6825 2 месяца назад

    I was a punk rocker in the late 70's, it was forbidden to like, heavy rock or mainstream pop. That said, I liked, What's The Name Of The Game, by, ABBA. If my friends had found out I'd never have heard the end of it. BTW, I like Mbop as well.

  • @germankitty
    @germankitty 5 месяцев назад

    Hey, the theme tune to "Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers" made in into the charts back in the day! 🙂 Also, "Hallelujah" -- Leonard Cohen is still alive (I think), but the ultimate cover? Either by KD Lang, or (my personal favorite), the a capella version by Pentatonix. Simply awesome!

    • @visaman
      @visaman 5 месяцев назад +1

      Unfortunately he passed on November 7 2016. It was a day of mourning in Canada.

  • @ivalo03
    @ivalo03 5 месяцев назад +1

    No Queen like what!!

  • @rcagoon1969
    @rcagoon1969 5 месяцев назад +1

    Popular music was over in 1999 then.

    • @OnlyGoodMusic_
      @OnlyGoodMusic_ Месяц назад

      That doesn't make sense, the song from 2011 and 2012 are magnificent, the one from 2020 too. Unlike that, there are many gruesome songs in the 20th century.

  • @michaelmccann-5958
    @michaelmccann-5958 2 месяца назад

    In the sixties there was no such thing as bubblegum pop that came later

  • @sufoguets
    @sufoguets 4 месяца назад

    Was wondering have you theyard of October ends ? they's new song is fire! You should react to it

  • @shengboy
    @shengboy 2 месяца назад

    I am curious as to why British people do not seem to be particularly fond of Motown music.

  • @viviennerose6858
    @viviennerose6858 5 месяцев назад

    💯 % with you on Uptown Funk

  • @angelabushby1891
    @angelabushby1891 3 месяца назад

    It was from a drama about thr British Army

  • @timholder6825
    @timholder6825 2 месяца назад

    Robson and Jerome were not musicians, they were TV actors who had a hit on the back of their TV show (Soldier Soldier, where they played army buddies). Soap actors were doing the same sort of thing around that time, capitalising on the success of the programmes they appeared on. Robson and Jerome got on that bandwagon. Neither of them can sing. Listen to their bersion back to back with the original and realise what chancers they were as musicians.

  • @mattsmith5421
    @mattsmith5421 5 месяцев назад

    The last 20 years of this i haven't even heard most of them, thank god. 🐕💩 I pretty much stopped listening to new music when i was 21.

  • @jamesswindley9599
    @jamesswindley9599 Месяц назад

    The Irish have got Ireland 😂❤
    UK has Northern Ireland cause the Protestants there wanted to give the GB stress 😂😂

  • @almostyummymummy
    @almostyummymummy 5 месяцев назад

    Who doesn't love the Beatles?
    Me.
    I only like two John Lennon songs. Woman and Mind Games.

  • @Jee123123
    @Jee123123 5 месяцев назад

    Bronn doing singing in 1995. What would Tyrion Lannister say?

  • @Forestfalcon1
    @Forestfalcon1 5 месяцев назад +3

    To be honest I found it a pretty poor selection..

    • @HumorAndHistory
      @HumorAndHistory  5 месяцев назад +2

      I kind of agree, I thought it would be more of a representation of a year instead of a top seller.

  • @adrianionobrocea1963
    @adrianionobrocea1963 5 месяцев назад

    Music on a downslope beggining with the 90 ' s to downright crappy nowadays

  • @spruce381
    @spruce381 2 месяца назад

    It’s interesting how US the top sellers went late 80s on.
    Always has to be remembered that best sellers are bought for and by mums, dads and grandparents, and rarely reflect the zeitgeist.
    Great reaction and knowledge 👍🏽👍❤️

  • @samsprrr3548
    @samsprrr3548 2 месяца назад

    Please have a look at uk rock bands .

  • @dennisepeart5002
    @dennisepeart5002 5 месяцев назад

    You should take a listen to Lewis Capaldi, his songs are amazing

  • @davehoward22
    @davehoward22 2 месяца назад

    Hey jude year I was born

  • @stirlingmoss4621
    @stirlingmoss4621 5 месяцев назад

    Bruno Mars is a cousin of Rami Malek

  • @timholder6825
    @timholder6825 2 месяца назад

    I hate every version of Hallelujah except Leonard Cohen's original.

  • @moonramshaw1982
    @moonramshaw1982 5 месяцев назад +2

    Mmm bop by Hanson!!!. I'm unsubscribing. Only joking lol

    • @HumorAndHistory
      @HumorAndHistory  5 месяцев назад +1

      🤣

    • @mattsmith5421
      @mattsmith5421 5 месяцев назад +1

      My cousin bought the cd and I took the piss so much he tried claiming it was his mum's

  • @malcolmkirkwood-vn9sg
    @malcolmkirkwood-vn9sg 5 месяцев назад +1

    God you like interrupting,

  • @lillired857
    @lillired857 5 месяцев назад

    tf does football have to do with it?

  • @Jee123123
    @Jee123123 5 месяцев назад

    1996's song is wrong.

  • @lynnhamps7052
    @lynnhamps7052 5 месяцев назад

    Does this really count as a reaction video?

    • @visaman
      @visaman 5 месяцев назад

      Not really.

  • @michaelmccann-5958
    @michaelmccann-5958 2 месяца назад

    The Beatles are ducking shit,the rolling stones are better