The Greatest Novelty Songs

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Official Charts - Home of the Official UK Top 40 Charts". Officialcharts.com . Retrieved 28 May 2022. Instead, while music fans sobbed and remembered the former Beatle, the festive number one was taken by St Winifred’s School Choir and their trite celebration of the elderly, There’s No One Quite like Grandma. The theme song to the popular BBC children's television series sold over one million copies. [62] The Teletubbies also appear, along with a number of other fictional children's television characters, on the 2009 charity song " The Official BBC Children in Need Medley", credited to Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band. [63]

Actor Nigel Planner would feature on Living Doll with Cliff Richard and his fellow Young Ones in 1986 but two years earlier he took thisRegarded as a pastime by the two members, follow-up singles failed to chart and the duo split not long after. The song was later covered and reworded as We're Going To Ibiza! by The Vengaboys in 1999, which also reached number 1. [37] 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. [204] Singer and BBC Radio 2 presenter [205] 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. [206] 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. [207] Even though Ball has had hits in the singles and albums chart (including three number one albums with Alfie Boe), [208] Moore died on 2 February 2021, with one hit single and the record for the oldest artist to have a chart topper, [209] [210] 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". [203] Featured artists [ edit ]

One of the strangest Number Ones," writes UK No. 1s reviewer Tom Ewing, who describes The Temperance Seven on Popular as an art school band, and this song as "the first big meta-pop hit: deliberate, tongue-in-cheek commentary on pop via pop, the world of the dance orchestras pushed flippantly into the TV age." I have little to add to that except this pastiche of 1920s vocal jazz/dance band music is faithful, yes, but quite dull (follow-up 'Pasadena', #4 in June, is better). But it's in the line of 1920s parodies/tributes from the 60s that also saw the Vaudeville Band's 1966 hit Winchester Cathedral. YOLANDA BE COOL VS D CUP | full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company". Official Charts.

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Horsey, Horsey, Don’t You Stop (children’s song written in 1938 by Paddy Roberts, Elton Box, Desmond Cox and Ralph Butler) Barry) Islands in the Stream" was a version of a Bee Gees song originally recorded by Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton, and a single which topped the UK chart on 15 March 2009. [142] The singer-songwriter's follow-up " Stand by You" was a platinum-selling Top 40 hit in her native United States, but it and other singles did not chart in the United Kingdom after the success of "Fight Song". The Swap Shop follow up ‘Saturday Superstore’ got in on a sort of junior X Factor act in their ‘Search For A Superstar’ item, which produced this cute ditty from Claire Usher.