We sail on the stormy waters
UK Singles Chart for w/c 12 May 1991
Number One
| The shoop shoop song (it's in his kiss) - Cher - 3rd week (Number 664 in seq.) |
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| Highest new entry | Gypsy woman (la da dee) - Crystal Waters - number 3
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Fastest climber
(within top 40) | Fading like a flower - Roxette - up 12 to 14
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Fastest climber
(within top 75) | Highway 5 - Blessing - up 16 to 47
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| Lemming-like fall | Word of mouth - Mike + The Mechanics - down 30 to 72
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| Top 40 debuts | Colour Me Badd, Flowered Up, Paul Weller Movement, Crystal Waters
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| Top 40 exits | Lonnie Gordon, Samantha Janus
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| Top 75 debuts | Colour Me Badd, Divinyls, Bob Marley, Paul Weller Movement, Shabba Ranks, Saint Etienne, Crystal Waters, Wendell Williams
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| Top 75 exits | KC And The Sunshine Band, Secchi, Carly Simon, Simpsons, That Petrol Emotion
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| Simon Mayo's Record of the Week | Kiss them for me - Siouxsie and the Banshees
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(More: Yugoslavia, World Party, why Paul Weller is like Margaret Thatcher, Flowered Up, Wilson Phillips, and Tainted Love
. With songs by OMD and Crystal Waters.)
Down a place to 4 came Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, with Sailing on the seven seas
. Cor, remember when they had hits? From the sublime to the earwig: the highest new entry, straight in at number 3, is Crystal Waters's Gypsy woman (la da dee)
, so named for people who only knew the track from its very large hook. Those who remembered the song from its stabbing keyboard section were less lucky. All of which leaves no change at 2 for the KLF's Last train to trancentral
, and a third week leading the way for Cher's Shoop shoop song
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This week in the arts
Goth Morris Dancing is discussed in Fame or Famine referencing the Indytab. The point, in part, is that no-one actually recalls what Morris dancing is all about, so why not claim it for the men in black, or the feminists, or the pagans.
UK Singles Chart for w/c 18 May 2008
Number One
| Four minutes - Mad Nod / Justin Numberwang - 5th week (Number 1061 in seq.) |
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| Highest new entry | - - number 8
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Fastest climber
(within top 40) | - - up 22 to 14
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Fastest climber
(within top 75) | - - up 36 to 10
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| Lemming-like fall | - - down 41 to 78
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Shows of the week
This week, we've been watching and hearing...
More or Less
(Open University for Radio 4) A long piece on how good opinion polls can be, comparing the telephone polls of MORI with the interweb polls on Youguv. MORI moaned that Youguv got the right result to the London mayoral election by applying the correct weighting to the results, which strikes us as thoroughly mean. Discussion also of the BNP's ludicrous claim that 400,000 votes were discarded in the election; these were the non-effective non-transferable votes we mentioned at the time. Plus why the WRAP project believes that people should eat bones, and does CCTV actually help to cut crime, and seeing as how it doesn't, why is so much money wasted on the schemes? ShowpageHave I Got News For You
(Hat Trick for BBC-2)
ShowpageFeedback
(City Broadcasting for Radio 4)
Showpage
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News of the week
A massive earthquake struck Sichuan in China; it's believed that many thousands were killed.
Voters in Serbia backed pro-Western parties, giving the Democratic Socialist party of President Tadic a narrow majority. The pro-Russian Radical Party refused to go down without a fight, muttering about a coalition without the most popular party. The pro-Russians took 48% of the vote, compared to 42% for the pro-Europeans. (Mark Mardell)
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Weather
12 Mo /
13 Tu
14 We
15 Th
16 Fr
17 Sa
18 Su
Rainfall in May: 15.5mm; monthly average: 64mm
Degree heating days: 804
2006-7: 492/499
2005-6: 684/684
2004-5: 556/556
2003-4: 753/754
Degree cooling days: 19
2007: 5/ 91
2006: 13/360
2005: 1/238
2004: 2/198
2003: 11/328
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