Tease for Monday 23 March 2008
Tonight, a UK#1(3) from 16 March 1974, and NZ#3 from April that year. Like other UK artists (Mary Hopkin and Peters & Lee) who appeared on the TV talent show 'Opportunity Knocks', our group got to the top of the charts with their very first hit. The quintet formed in 1969, based in the lace making city of Nottingham. This song was out charted in the US by a cover version but the group got their revenge with their next hit, making to the top of the US, and NZ but only UK#3 in May.
Tease for Tuesday 24 March 2008
Tonight a US#1, 18 March 1972, UK#10 and NZ#10 in 1972. A Canadian born singer/songwriter who travelled around Canada and the border as a solo folksinger. He formed this group in 1966 and when that dissolved in 1968, he resumed performing as a solo singer/guitarist at small US clubs. He was invited to join this trio, joining an ex band colleague, and their combined efforts generated tremendous success with one of the major albums of 1970. Our feature artist continued his solo career and this single from his album also sold a million.
Tease for Wednesday 25 March 2008
US#1(2) from 20 March & UK#1(4) from 1 June 1961 and 15th Top No 1 of 1961 in the US and had a reputed global sale of 5 million. This was another successful adaption of an old Italian song "Torna A Sorrento" - 'Return To Sorrento' from 1911 and this song was #1 in its first week in Britain MONSTER HIT in N.Z.
Tease for Thursday 26 March 2008
Tonight’s group spent 141 weeks on the UK charts between 1965 and 1969 but this song was their only UK#1(1), 20 March and Monster Hit in NZ#1(4) from 25 April 1968. The Leader died 9 January 2009. He had been a police cadet with the Wiltshire Constabulary and as such was one of the first on the scene of the car crash that resulted in the death of Eddie Cochran and serious injury of Gene Vincent.
He became a professional musician in 1962. His first group toured the UK and Germany and were a support act to The Honeycombs. They then changed their name to what we know with their hits from the mid to late sixties.
Tease for Friday 27 March 2008
NZ#1(2) from 21 March 1968 for a guy born to Polish parents on April 22 1945, in a Nazi concentration camp just outside Dusseldorf. He and his mother survived and emigrated to New Zealand in 1949, settling in Palmerston North.
From weekend gigs in Palmerston North and Hawkes Bay, to Auckland to promote his first record, to a regular spot on National TV, he became an overnight megastar. In terms of audience hysteria, our artist's popularity remains second only to Johnny Devlin. Unlike Devlin, however, he was strictly middle of the road, and his success was somewhat manufactured. He was New Zealand's first television pop idol. His ensuing female adoration was due almost entirely to the invaluable exposure he received on "C'Mon".
Tonight’s song was his 3rd and final #1 hit in N.Z.
And the songs;
Monday, Paper Lace – Billy Don’t Be A Hero
Tuesday, Neil Young – Heart Of Gold
Wednesday, Elvis Presley – Surrender
Thursday, Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich – Legend Of Xanadu
Friday, Mr. Lee Grant – Why Or Where Or When
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