The Greatest Novelty Songs

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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) Roberts, David (2005). Guinness World Records: British Hit Singles and Albums (18th edition). Guinness World Records Limited. p.14. ISBN 1-904994-00-8.

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French song "Je T'Aime...Moin Non Plus" by Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin reaches No.1 but gets censored by BBC". Popexpresso.com . Retrieved 28 May 2022.The Wurzels are best known for their number one hit "The Combine Harvester" but they also had a number three hit in 1976 with which song? 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 The history of the UK singles chart is, for me, one of the most interesting things basically ever. More than merely a record of consumerist activity, it's an extremely vivid, albeit messy depiction of pop history in Britain, marking countless changes in their many respects. And in our delightful singles chart, part of that fun is that we've had plenty of unlikely people achieve unlikely hits. Hoping to keep this tale of the UK charts to just one short paragraph, I'll tell you how - from bedroom pop musicians to expensive, prolific producers - there have been some decisively strange underdog records reaching the Top 40. Nothing you'd necessarily expect to be such a big hit. Now resident in Australia, the Ohio-born Dolce was inspired to write this by childhood memories of his Italian mother. Two years later, Dolce returned with the slightly less inclusive 'You Toucha My Car, Breaka You Face'. Strangely, it didn't do as well. Electronic band which included Aaron Audio, the son of noted producer Trevor Horn. Subsequent singles failed to chart and the band have yet to release a full-length album. [76]

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Why All Together Now should be Christmas No.1, by The Peace Collective: "We are the underdogs" ". Officialcharts.com. The introduction to Strauss' 1896 orchestral piece Also Sprach Zarathustra was used as both the theme to 2001: A Space Odyssey and some of telly's Apollo coverage, meaning Columbia EMI saw quids in and released a single of it, using a Philharmonic Orchestra recording from 1963 conducted by Lorin Maazel. Yes its one of the most famous snatches of Western classical music to us, having been used to no end in pop culture since, but as a single, remember that a) it is only about a minute and a half long and b) not much happens in it - its mostly just a series of drones before the big crescendo, certainly nothing recognisable or really workable as 'pop'. (Although add other music over it and it's a different story, as funk band Deodato found out with their 1973 No. 7 hit rendition).French duo whose single became popular when it was remixed by Robin Schulz. Although the original charted at number 90 on the Official Sales Chart upon the release of the remixed version, it failed to make it onto the singles chart. None of the duo's other songs have ever charted outside of Francophone countries.