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Post by Del Boy on May 29, 2023 13:56:28 GMT
Talking of Wonderwall, this cover/novelty send up was clever and well delivered I like it. Also a number 2 hit
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Post by Dirty Epic on May 29, 2023 14:03:39 GMT
As Carty said above Robson and Jerome cheesed off the Gallagher brothers in the autumn holding Wonderwall to the number 2 spot. However the cheesy pair did a dirty double in 95 because they kept Pulp's- Common People off the top spot in the summer with their previous release ! IRRC Cowell had a big hand in those Robson and Jerome tosh covers, compared to what they kept off the top spot! The in' X-Factor alright!
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Post by D.C. Burtonshaw on May 29, 2023 15:51:18 GMT
Great topic! Perhaps annoyingly, the "proper" version of the record that stupid Crazy Frog ripped off - Axel F by Harold Faltermeyer got to number 2 on 23/03/1985 in the UK and I thought should have been number 1. It was kept off the no 1 spot by Phil Collins "Easy lover" - which although not horrendous, I can take or leave but others may think different.
Have to say I'm completely opposite with that one Gerry. I think Easy Lover is a brilliant track whereas Axel F always sounded to me like someone preprogrammed a synthesizer and let it play itself. Gene. No problem - I think with me, Axel F is what I liked at the time (before I developed a bit more taste in music later in my life, and while I was still at school!) being influenced by what my peers around me at the time liked so didn't appreciate some of the many of the 80's UK bands which I certainly do now. Personally I would still stick up for Axel F having some "kitsch" 80's electronic nostalgia as time has passed but I appreciate we don't always like the same thing otherwise we'd all be automotons! As for Phil Collins I enjoy a listen to "In the air tonight" or "Sussudio" and some of the earlier Genesis material.
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Post by Cartman on May 29, 2023 16:34:03 GMT
Phil Collins did one I liked, In the air tonight, otherwise not keen at all.
As for Robson and Jerome, they were DIRE!!! who bought that rubbish? Fortunately they disappeared as quickly as they emerged. Doubly strange really, as music in the mid/late 90s had started to pick up a bit after about 10 years of dreck, so why these were briefly big at that time I don't get.
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Post by Del Boy on May 29, 2023 19:57:14 GMT
It was off the back of the top rated show Soldier Soldier on ITV which the pair were in. In the show they sang together, Simon Cowell saw an opportunity to release it and voila a cash In.
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Post by Cartman on May 30, 2023 9:44:36 GMT
It was off the back of the top rated show Soldier Soldier on ITV which the pair were in. In the show they sang together. Simon Cowell saw an opportunity to release it and voila a cash In. Also 1995 was the 50th anniversary of VE day so there was a lot of army related stuff doing the rounds that year, so maybe it was on the back of that too.
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Post by Dirty Epic on Jun 1, 2023 11:11:09 GMT
As for Robson and Jerome, they were DIRE!!! who bought that rubbish? Fortunately they disappeared as quickly as they emerged. Doubly strange really, as music in the mid/late 90s had started to pick up a bit after about 10 years of dreck, so why these were briefly big at that time I don't get.Can't argue with you there Carty. BIB Could speculate the 'why' (hyping?) but the music 'industry' has ways of making the sludge float to the surface mate there were loads of other soap/TV star tosh around at that time which seemed to chart well I'm sure Cowell and his pals had hands in which you'd never believe why it was so popular... unless?!
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