Johnny and the Hurricanes' first hit, and one of their biggest, is one of my all-time favourite instrumentals. If I had been alive as far back as 1959 it would have been a hot contender for my favo...
This one-hit wonder was a hit in the summer of 1972. It was one of the first synthesiser-based records to become a hit and it was regarded as something of a novelty tune at the time. I was 10 when ...
Marmalade were one of those bands who were successful with singles but got nowhere with albums. Their run of 11 Top 40 singles spanned the 1960s and 70s. This wonderfully catchy, jaunty little ditt...
Some of you may have heard Def Leppard's version of this song as the flipside of their 1992 hit single "Let's Get Rocked". Mick Ronson recorded his original version for his 1974 solo album "Slaught...
This Dutch band had two hit singles in the UK in 1973, this one and "Sylvia". The latter was a new release at the time while this one was an older recording that suddenly caught on, possibly after ...
This was a monster hit in the USA in 1959, staying at number one for 6 weeks there. It also reached the Top 20 in the UK, where Lonnie Donegan's cover version outsold it. It was Horton's highest-ch...
One of the most underrated Four Seasons songs, this one was released as a single in 1977 but it struggled into the Top 40 despite their great success the previous year. Just one week at number 37 f...
