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28/01/2026

On this day in 1979, the Ian Dury & The Blockheads single “Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick” went to #1 on the UK Singles Chart (January 27)

Written by master wordsmith Ian Dury and the Blockheads' brilliant multi-instrumentalist Chaz Jankel, it’s the talented band’s most successful single, also reaching the top three in Ireland, Australia and New Zealand.

"Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick" was named the 12th best single of 1978 by the writers of British music magazine NME, and by September 2017 it had sold over 1.29 million copies in the UK, making it the 114th biggest selling single of all time in the UK.

The song features a brilliant 16-notes-to-the-bar bassline played by the legendary Norman Watt-Roy, and the saxophone solo in the instrumental break has Davey Payne playing two saxophones.

Click the link below to watch a live version of this classic hit:

https://youtu.be/CBIRj3JW3h0

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27/01/2026

This week in 1964, the Dusty Springfield single “I Only Want To Be With You” debuted on the US Billboard Hot 100 at #77 (January 25)

The song written by Mike Hawker and Ivor Raymonde, was Dusty Springfield’s debut solo single.

According to Jean Ryder, the ex-wife of songwriter Mike Hawker, "I Only Want to Be With You" was written soon after she and Hawker married on 1 December 1961, being inspired by Hawker's intense romantic feelings for his new bride.

Reportedly, she and Hawker had intended that she herself would record "I Only Want to Be With You".
However Hawker received a phone call from Philips A&R director Johnny Franz, saying "Look we need something which is going to put this girl into the charts, because everybody is knocking her, everybody is saying she'll never make it [solo] – have you got a song that's a guaranteed hit?"

With Ryder's permission, Hawker submitted "I Only Want to Be With You".

It certainly proved to be a hit, peaking at #4 in the UK, #6 in Australia, #7 in New Zealand and Ireland, #12 in the UK, and #21 in Canada.

"I Only Want to Be with You" has since gone on to be recorded by a wide range of artists, and three remakes of the song were UK chart hits.

The first two by the Bay City Rollers (1976) and The Tourists (1979) coincidentally matched the #4 peak of the Dusty Springfield original, while the 1989 remake by Samantha Fox peaked at #16.

The song has been a Top 40 hit in the US on the Billboard Hot 100 chart three times, with both the Dusty Springfield original and the Bay City Rollers' remake coincidentally peaking at #12 while the Sam Fox remake peaked at #31.

Click on the link below to watch the original:

https://youtu.be/CL7t22rypew?si=YzHsGgcbCbFZOlky

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27/01/2026

On this day in 1974, the Golden Earring single “Radar Love” was at its peak on the UK Singles Chart at #7 (January 26)

The rock masterpiece from the Dutch combo is a quintessential driving song favourite.

Like many of Golden Earring's songs, "Radar Love" began with the title and grew from there…

Their guitarist, George Kooymans, who founded the band back in 1961, wrote the music and lead singer Barry Hay added the lyric, about a guy speeding home to see his girl, only to die in an accident just before he gets home to see her.

Songfacts tells us that Hay confirmed the death interpretation of the lyrics, and explained that he was very interested in extrasensory perception (ESP) at the time, which inspired this story of a guy who has a psychic bond with his lover, even in death.

Originally intended only as an album track, it turned out to be the only cut on their US debut album, “Moontan”, that they could whittle down to a single for radio.

“Radar Love” went all the way to #1 in the Netherlands, #5 in Germany, #6 in Belgium, #7 in the UK, # 10 in Australia, Canada and Austria, and #13 in the US.

And it’s still a radio favourite around the world to this day…

Click on the link below to watch:

https://youtu.be/aRlSHG5hRY4

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27/01/2026

This week in 1981, the Robert Palmer single “Looking For Clues” debuted on the Australian charts at #95 (January 26)

The second single from the LP “Clues” was popular in Europe, making it to #3 in Germany, #6 in France and Switzerland, #7 in Canada, #9 in Belgium, #14 in Sweden, #17 in the Netherlands, #23 in Australia, and #33 in the UK (where it stalled for five consecutive weeks).

The creative clip for the new wave track was one of the videos to be aired on MTV's first day of broadcasting, on 1 August 1981…

Click on the link below to watch it:

https://youtu.be/92wCPfqyVbg

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27/01/2026

This week in 1964, The Beatles single “She Loves You” debuted on the US Billboard Hot 100 at #69 (January 25)

It went all the way to #1 in the US, the UK, Canada, Sweden, New Zealand, Denmark and Norway, #2 in Ireland, #3 in Australia, #4 in Italy, and #7 in Germany.

It remains the band's best-selling single in the United Kingdom and the top-selling single of the 1960s in the UK by any artist.

Paul McCartney recalls them playing the finished song on acoustic guitars to his father Jim at home immediately after the song was completed: "We went into the living room and said 'Dad, listen to this. What do you think?

And he said 'That's very nice son, but there's enough of these Americanisms around.
Couldn't you sing 'She loves you, yes, yes, yes!'
At which point we collapsed in a heap and said 'No, Dad, you don't quite get it!'"

In November 2004, Rolling Stone ranked "She Loves You" #64 on their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time…

Click on the link below to watch:

https://youtu.be/S302kF8MJ-I

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27/01/2026

On this day in 1981, the Police single “De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da” debuted on the Australian charts at #58 (January 26)

It sounds like baby talk, but as Sting says,

“I was trying to make an intellectual point about how the simple can be so powerful.
Why are our favourite songs 'Da Doo Ron Ron' and 'Do Wah Diddy Diddy'?

In the song, I tried to address that issue. But everyone said, 'This is bu****it, child's play.' No one listened to the lyrics.
Listen to the lyrics.”

The song from their album “Zenyatta Mondatta” went to #2 in Spain and Ireland, #4 in South Africa, #5 in the UK and Canada, #6 in Australia, #8 in New Zealand, and #10 on the US Billboard Hot 100.

Click on the link below to watch:

https://youtu.be/7v2GDbEmjGE

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27/01/2026

On this day in 1981 the Flowers single “Walls” debuted on the Australian charts at #86 (January 26)

In early 1977, Davies was working as a part-time cleaner at a squash court in Lindfield, New South Wales managed by bass player Keith Welsh's mother.

Davies and Welsh got together to form the band Flowers, rehearsing in a house next door to the squash court.

In 1977, Davies re-established an old acquaintance with Cameron Allan, the director of Sydney-based independent label Regular Records; Flowers signed with the label in early 1977.

In 1980, after building up a strong following as a live act around the pub circuit, the band released their debut album “Icehouse”, which included “Walls”.

Flowers third single (after “Can’t Help Myself” and “We Can Get Together”) wasn’t as successful as the first two, only getting to #20 on the Australian charts, but is still an Aussie favourite of the era decades later.

Songwriter Iva Davies has said that the song from their debut LP “Icehouse” was autobiographical for a period of his life…

“Walls” also appears on the live “Icehouse plays Flowers” LP recorded live at the St. Kilda Festival 9th Feb 2020.

Click on the link below to watch the original clip:

https://youtu.be/WiqZciMfZIg

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27/01/2026

On this day in 1986, the Divinyls single “Pleasure and Pain” debuted on the US Billboard Hot 100 at #89 (January 25)

The song was co-written by Mike Chapman, who with Nicky Chinn also co-wrote “Ballroom Blitz” for the Sweet, “48 Crash” and “Devil Gate Drive” for Suzi Quatro, “Mickey” for Toni Basil, “Heart and Soul” for Huey Lewis, “Living Next Door to Alice” for Smokie, “Stumblin’ In” for Suzi and Chris Norman, and Exile’s “Kiss You All Over” among many more.

His co-writer on this one was Songwriters Hall of Famer Holly Knight, who also co-wrote Patty Smyth & Scandal’s “The Warrior”.

Together, Chapman and Knight also wrote the Grammy Award-winning songs “Love is a Battlefield” for Pat Benatar, and “The Best” for Tina Turner.

“Pleasure and Pain” didn’t progress very far in the US for Chrissy and Divinyls, only making it to #76, but was a hit in New Zealand ( #8), and Australia ( #11)

Click on the link below to watch:

https://youtu.be/5boYiMktOvs

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27/01/2026

On this day in 1969, the Creedence Clearwater Revival single “Proud Mary” debuted on the US Billboard Hot 100 at #62 (January 25)

The single from the band's second studio album, “Bayou Country” became the first of five singles to peak at #2 on the Billboard chart for Creedence.

In a 1969 interview, Fogerty said that he wrote it in the two days after he was discharged from the National Guard.

The song did hit #1 in South Africa and Austria, #2 in Canada, #3 in New Zealand, #4 in Switzerland and Germany, #5 in Australia, #6 in Norway, #7 in Belgium, #8 in the UK, and #11 in the Netherlands.

The cover version by Ike and Tina Turner, released two years later in 1971, did nearly as well, reaching #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 and winning a Grammy Award.

Click on the link below to watch:

https://youtu.be/wP56EcXm9R0

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27/01/2026

This week in 1986, the Billy Ocean single “When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going” debuted on the UK Singles Chart at #28 (January 25)

Written by Wayne Brathwaite, Barry Eastmond, Mutt Lange and Ocean, the song was used as the theme song for the Michael Douglas film “The Jewel of the Nile”, and the classic 80s video features Douglas and co-stars Kathleen Turner and Danny DeVito as lip-synching backup singers.

DeVito also mimes the saxophone solo, which is actually played by Vernon Jeffrey Smith.

The song was a smash hit for Ocean, going to #1 in the UK, Australia, South Africa, Canada, Norway, Denmark, Ireland, the Netherlands, and Belgium, #2 in the US, Spain, Greece, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland and Finland, and #3 in New Zealand.

Click on the link below to watch the classic 80s clip:

https://youtu.be/-n3sUWR4FV4

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