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16/12/2025

On this day in 1972, the Carly Simon single “You’re So Vain” debuted on the UK Singles Chart at #39 (December 16)

The track which became one of her signature songs went all the way to #1 in the US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, #3 in the UK, #4 in Ireland and South Africa, #5 in Belgium, #7 in the Netherlands, #8 in Germany, #11 in Japan,

It’s ranked at #92 on Billboard's Greatest Songs of All Time.

“You're So Vain" was voted #216 in RIAA's Songs of the Century, and in August 2014, the UK's Official Charts Company crowned it the ultimate song of the 1970s.

In 2021, the song was ranked #495 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

In November 2015, Simon, promoting her about-to-be-published memoirs, said, "I have confirmed that the second verse is Warren (Beatty)" and added that while "Warren thinks the whole thing is about him", he is the subject of that verse only, with the remainder of the song referring to two other, still unnamed men.

Mick Jagger contributed uncredited backing vocals for the song.
Carly Simon recalled:
“He happened to call at the studio. … I said ‘We're doing some backup vocals on a song of mine, why don't you come down and sing with us?’”

Click on the link below to watch a stunning live version:

https://youtu.be/mQZmCJUSC6g

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16/12/2025

On this day in 1964, the Marvin Gaye single “How Sweet It Is (to Be Loved by You)” debuted on the UK Singles Chart at #49 (December 16)

The song was written earlier in 1964 by the crack Motown songwriting team of Holland–Dozier–Holland, produced by Brian Holland and Lamont Dozier, and later appeared as the title track of Gaye's fifth studio album in January 1965.

According to Songfacts, Lamont Dozier said the lyric was "wishful thinking."

He was "sitting at the piano, fantasizing about how good it would be if the woman I had eyes for was madly in love with me. But the truth is she never gave me a second look.

So I created this fantasy world where I was the object of all her affections, a bit of fiction that eventually came true due to my persistence and showering her with affection."

When Marvin recorded it, he had to read from lyric sheets because he had not had time to memorize them.

The Andantes provided backing vocals, while The Funk Brothers played the instrumental backing.

On the charts it went to #6 in the US, and didn’t progress past its debut position of #49 in the UK.

Fun fact: Marvin Gaye also released a German-language version of the song entitled "Wie Schön Das Ist".

Click on the link below to watch:

https://youtu.be/IL7I7mXh_Vs?si=kqPAJ3IUvIPyCUqv

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16/12/2025

On this day in 1964, the Beatles single “I Feel Fine” went to #1 on the UK Singles Chart (December 16)

The song that was written by John Lennon and credited to the Lennon–McCartney partnership includes one of the earliest uses of guitar feedback in popular music.

It went all the way to #1 in the US, the UK, Australia, Canada, Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway and Sweden, and #3 in Germany, Austria and Belgium.

Lennon wrote the song's guitar riff while the Beatles were in the studio recording "Eight Days a Week" in October 1964, and kept playing it between takes.

He later recalled: "I told them I'd write a song specially for the riff. So they said, 'Yes. You go away and do that', knowing that we'd almost finished the album Beatles for Sale.

Anyway, going into the studio one morning, I said to Ringo, 'I've written this song but it's lousy'. But we tried it, complete with riff, and it sounded like an A-side, so we decided to release it just like that."

Artists such as the Kinks and the Who had already used feedback live, but Lennon remained proud of the fact that the Beatles were perhaps the first group to deliberately put it on vinyl, on this song.

In one of his last interviews, he said: "I defy anybody to find a record – unless it's some old blues record in 1922 – that uses feedback that way."

Click on the link below to watch:

https://youtu.be/WrAV5EVI4tU?si=eJV25htl5mkZh8xy

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16/12/2025

This week in 1974, the Ozark Mountain Daredevils LP “It'll Shine When It Shines” debuted on the US Billboard 200 Albums Chart at #132 (December 14)

The band recorded the tracks for their second album in the pre-Civil War farmhouse that was their rehearsal space, with producers Glyn Johns and David Anderle working from a mobile recording truck parked outside.

The homey makeshift setup yielded a loose, organic vibe that invigorated material like Steve Cash's tongue-in-cheek swamp-rocker "E.E. Lawson".

This album features the band's biggest single, "Jackie Blue", which reached #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1975.

The song was brought in by multi-instrumentalist Larry Lee late in the session, and recorded at the insistence of Johns, who convinced Lee to alter his original lyrics about a drug-dealing friend into what became an ode to a free-spirited female loner.

It was to be the Ozarks’ highest charting album, peaking at #19 in the US, and #73 in Australia.

Click on the link below to watch a live rendition of “Jackie Blue”:

https://youtu.be/2nf5VyHEB6k

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16/12/2025

On this day in 1979, The Spinners single “Working My Way Back to You” debuted on the US Billboard Hot 100 at #82 (December 15)

Written by Sandy Linzer and Denny Randell, the song was originally recorded by The Four Seasons in 1966.

This Spinners version released in 1979 was a medley of "Working My Way Back to You" and Michael Zager's "Forgive Me Girl," and was a worldwide hit for the US soul and R&B group, who were were nominated for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2015.

It went all the way to #1 in the UK and Ireland, #2 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and the Netherlands, #3 in New Zealand, #5 in Canada, #8 in Switzerland, and #12 in Australia and Germany.

The Spinners version of this classic song also featured in the movie Donnie Brasco (1997).

Click on the link below to watch:

https://youtu.be/4hbwGk0D3a8

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16/12/2025

On this day in 1980, the John Lennon single “(Just Like) Starting Over” went to #1 on the UK Singles Chart (December 14)

It was Lennon's final single released in his lifetime.

Following his five-year absence from the recording industry, we referred to this song during production as the "Elvis/Orbison" track, as he "tongue in cheek" impersonated their vocal styles.

Lennon explained, "All through the taping of "Starting Over," I was calling what I was doing "Elvis Orbison": "I want you I need only the lonely." I'm a born-again rocker, I feel that refreshed, and I'm going right back to my roots."

In the UK, the song from the “Double Fantasy” LP had peaked at #8 in the charts and had fallen to #21 before Lennon's death on December 8 propelled it all the way to #1.

The song is Lennon's biggest solo hit in the United States, staying at #1 for five weeks.

It also went to #1 in Australia, Canada, Ireland and Switzerland, #2 in New Zealand and Norway, #3 in Sweden, #4 in Germany and South Africa, #6 in Belgium, and #14 in the Netherlands.

Click on the link below to watch:

https://youtu.be/YtW9k85sYwE?si=tEPth67xtu5Xs2tB

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16/12/2025

On this day in 1968, the Tommy James and the Shondells single “Crimson and Clover” debuted on the US Billboard Hot 100 at #85 (December 14)

The classic song written by Tommy James and drummer Peter Lucia Jr., eventually went all the way to to #1 in the US, and also Canada, New Zealand, Singapore, South Africa, and Switzerland, #2 in Germany, and #3 in the Netherlands, Belgium and Austria.

The album, also titled “Crimson and Clover”, was released in January 1969 and reached a peak of #8 on the US Billboard 200.

Joan Jett and the Blackhearts had a Top 10 hit decades later in 1982 with a cover of “Crimson and Clover”.

Click on the link below to watch the original:

https://youtu.be/XS0niyiKlcw?si=dM_myDRqGh87w8aE

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16/12/2025

This week in 1969, the Shocking Blue single “Venus” debuted on the US Billboard Hot 100 at #77 (December 13)

The song by the Dutch band eventually made it all the way to #1, and also reached the #1 spot in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, France, Spain, Belgium and Switzerland, and was #2 in the Netherlands, Mexico, Norway, Austria and Germany.

“Venus” was also a Top 10 hit in the UK and Ireland.
It peaked at #8 in the UK, just like the Bananarama re-make more than a decade later.

Check out the video on the link below…

Fun fact: if you think you heard Mariska Veres sing "A GODDNESS on the mountain top," (instead of “goddess”), at the start of the song, then you’d be right!

When the Dutch singer had to sing the lyrics in English, the word was translated inaccurately, so Mariska actually sang “goddness” instead of “goodness” on the track!

Mariska Veres passed away from gallbladder cancer in December 2006, aged 59.

Click on the link below to watch “Venus”:

https://youtu.be/8LhkyyCvUHk

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16/12/2025

On this day in 1979, The Clash released the LP London Calling (December 14)

This is one of my favourite ever albums…

The double album was a branching out by The Clash from their previous albums, reflecting the band's growing interest in styles beyond their punk roots, including reggae, rockabilly, ska, New Orleans R&B, pop, lounge jazz, and hard rock.

It peaked at #2 in Sweden, #4 in Norway, #9 in the UK, #12 in Canada and New Zealand, #16 in Australia, and #27 in the US.

But like many classic albums, the charts at the time don’t reflect the importance, influence and legacy of the album, which was recognized later.

In 2020, Rolling Stone ranked it #16 on their list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, and in 2007 it was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame, a collection of recordings of lasting qualitative or historical significance.

In 2009, the album was profiled in the BBC Radio 1 Masterpieces series, denoting it as one of the most influential albums of all time.

The cover photo of Paul Simonon also went on to become one of the most iconic photos in rock.

On the original version of the album, "Train in Vain" was not listed on the sleeve, nor on the label on the record itself, but a was on a sticker attached to the wrapper.
It was also scratched into the vinyl in the run-off area on the fourth side of the album.

Click on the link below to watch “Train in Vain” from the LP:

https://youtu.be/eNot47WRBFk?si=04zR_RfyHf_atXlZ

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16/12/2025

On this day in 1974, the Bachman-Turner Overdrive single “You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet” peaked on the UK Singles Chart at #2 (December 15)

Randy Bachman originally wrote the song when recording the LP “Not Fragile” as a bit of a muck-around instrumental, and then put some words to it with a stutter to poke a bit of fun at his brother Gary, who stuttered.

When the record company heard it, they asked them to include it on the album. When Bachman re-did the vocals without the stutter, it didn’t sound as good, so they left it in.

With no singles yet released from the “Not Fragile” album, the record company would regularly call Bachman with airplay reports, asking for permission to release "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet".
Bachman said, "And I refused for three weeks. I was producer, so I had final say on what went out.
I woke up one day and asked myself, 'Why am I stopping this?'
Some of my favorite records are really dumb things like 'Louie, Louie'...so I said to Charlie, 'O.K., release it. I bet it does nothing.'"

"You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet" debuted at #65 in the US on September 21, 1974 and shot to the top of the US Billboard Hot 100 seven weeks later.
It was the only US #1 single in BTO's history.

"You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet" also holds the record for falling farthest on the chart before returning to the Top 10. After falling to #34 two weeks after being in the #1 spot, it then jumped back up to #8 for two weeks.

It also topped the charts in Canada, Denmark, Germany and South Africa, went to #3 in the Netherlands and Austria, #4 in Australia and Ireland, #5 in Switzerland, #6 in Belgium, and #7 in Norway.

Click on the link to see and hear this classic rock song:

https://youtu.be/4cia_v4vxfE

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16/12/2025

On this day in 1979, the Pink Floyd single “Another Brick In The Wall, Part 2” went to #1 on the UK Singles Chart (December 15)

"Part 2" of the three-part composition "Another Brick in the Wall", from Pink Floyd's 1979 rock opera “The Wall”, written by bass player Roger Waters was released as a single, Pink Floyd's first in the UK since "Point Me at the Sky" (1968).

It sold over four million copies worldwide, was nominated for a Grammy Award and was #384 on Rolling Stone's list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time".

Bass player Roger Waters wrote "Part 2" as a protest against rigid schooling, particularly boarding schools, and engineer Nick Griffiths recorded children singing the verse at Islington Green School, close to Pink Floyd's studio, which was a big part of the charm of the song.

In exchange for performing vocals, the children of Islington School received tickets to a Pink Floyd concert, an album, and a single.

Though the school received a payment of £1,000, there was no contractual arrangement for royalties for the children, but following a change to UK copyright law in 1996, they became eligible for royalties from broadcasts.

After royalties agent Peter Rowan traced the choir members, they successfully lodged a claim for royalties with the Performing Artists' Media Rights Association in 2004.

The single was a worldwide hit, going to #1 in the US, the UK and 13 other countries.

Click the link below for the film clip:

https://youtu.be/HrxX9TBj2zY

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16/12/2025

This week in 1967, the Aretha Franklin single “Chain of Fools” debuted on the US Charts at #66 (December 9)

This classic track was written by American R&B, rock and roll, and soul singer-songwriter Don Covay.

Asked by Jerry Wexler, producer with Atlantic Records, to create songs for Otis Redding, Covay recorded a demo of "Chain of Fools", a song he had written in his youth while singing gospel with his brothers and sisters.

After listening to the demo, Wexler decided to place the song with Aretha Franklin rather than Redding.

The song from Aretha’s “Lady Soul” LP went all the way to #1 on the Billboard Hot Rhythm & Blues chart and #2 on Billboard's Hot 100 chart.

It won the Grammy Award for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance, and later a Grammy Hall of Fame Award.

In 2004, the much-covered standard was ranked #249 on Rolling Stone's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

Click on the link below to watch Aretha do it live in 1968:

https://youtu.be/xroRNBvvF9M

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Eclectic selection of tunes from across the decades and genres .... Observations of the Week from a Vulcan perspective. From Bacarach to B.T.O. ..... Angels to Zeppelins ..... Faithful to Franklin ....... Monday nights 1800 - 2100 Tune in to 97.5FM or on the web ........ http://sapphirefm.org/