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Post by Del Boy on Dec 30, 2015 17:09:51 GMT
Tomorrow is the last day of voting for best single of 1980 poll. Better get your skates on if you haven't voted. I can tell you that things are very close amongst the top 3 songs in this years poll. One or two more voters could change the outcome dramatically
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Post by Virgil Tracy on Dec 31, 2015 13:32:49 GMT
Thanks for the reminder Del, I've added my faves.
F.A.B.
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Post by Del Boy on Dec 31, 2015 15:39:38 GMT
Thank you Virgil, it's shaping up to be a FAB chart
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Post by Dirty Epic on Jan 1, 2016 0:51:55 GMT
Nice work on this Del!
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Post by Del Boy on Jan 1, 2016 2:05:18 GMT
Thanks Dirty . I enjoy doing this every year and using the poll system on this forum definitely helps lighten the load.
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Post by Del Boy on Jan 1, 2016 2:10:13 GMT
As you can see from the poll above there were many tracks that tied with the same amount of votes. Highest Uk chart positions (UKC_) and in one or two cases weeks on the chart (WOC) were used to order those with the same amount of votes. This effectively gives a tied track a higher position in our chart in respect of the amount of records it sold.
Thanks for all your votes everyone and now
here is the rundown of 4:3tv's best single of 1980.
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At number 20 is Peter Gabriel - Games Without Frontiers
This track makes our number 20 with 5 votes (UKC-4)
Games Without Frontiers charted on the 9th February 1980 and is from his second self titled album Peter Gabriel.
The song became Peter Gabriel's first UK Top 10 as a solo artist, peaking at number 4. The track features Kate Bush on backing vocals.
#The video includes film clips of Olympic events and scenes from the 1951 educational film Duck and Cover, which used a cartoon turtle to instruct U.S. school children on what to do in case of nuclear attack. Such forlorn imagery tends to reinforce the song's antiwar theme.
# Referenced from the wiki page Games Without Frontiers
Click above link for further reading.
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Post by Del Boy on Jan 1, 2016 16:42:26 GMT
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At number 19 is Diana Ross - Upside Down This track makes our number 19 with 5 votes (UKC-2)
Upside Down charted on 19th of July 1980 peaking at number 2.
It is from the album Diana. Del Boy Writes: Upside Down was written by Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards of Chic who were drafted in to produce Diana Ross's self titled album Diana. A number 1 across the pond it peaked here at number 2.
The video for Upside Down follows the path of many of its contemporaries at the time by using bits of old footage and stills in order to make the video. Its evident that the pop video was very much an art form in its infancy.
# In a 2011 interview, Nile Rodgers said "Diana Ross was the first big star we ever worked with and we took it very seriously." Rodgers and Edwards interviewed her for several days. "This was the first time in her life somebody cared about who she was; what she was — everyone previously had treated her the way we had treated Sister Sledge — they got her in and said 'Sing this'. We took a more personal approach.
# Referenced from the wiki page Upside Down Click above link for further reading.
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