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Richard Green hosts a countdown of the official chart for this very week in 1961 and 1979.

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Sun 21 Aug 201617:00
BBC Radio Devon, BBC Radio Jersey & BBC Radio Guernsey

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Music Played

  • Hour 1 - 1961

    • Bobby Angelo

      Baby Sittin'

    • Johnny Burnette

      Girls

    • Elvis Presley

      Wooden Heart

    • Duane Eddy

      Ring of Fire

    • Sam Cooke

      Cupid

    • The Shadows

      Frightened City

    • South Pacific

      Happy Talk

    • Clarence “Frogman” Henry

      But I Do

    • Acker Bilk

      That's My Home

    • Bobby Vee

      How Many Tears

    • Eddie Cochran

      Weekend

    • Gary “U.S.” Bonds

      Quarter to Three

    • Shirley Bassey

      Reach For the Stars

    • Rick Nelson

      Hello Mary Lou

    • Petula Clark

      Romeo

    • Eden Kane

      Well I Ask You

    • John Leyton

      Johnny Remember Me

    • Helen Shapiro

      You Don't Know

  • Hour 2 - 1979

    • The Flying Lizards

      Money

    • Angelic Upstarts

      Teenage Warning

    • Boney M.

      Gotta Go Home

    • Electric Light Orchestra

      The Diary of Horace Wimp

    • Showaddywaddy

      Sweet Little Rock 'n'Roller

    • The Specials

      Gangsters

    • Roxy Music

      Angel Eyes

    • B.A. Robertson

      Bang Bang

    • Darts

      Duke of Earl

    • Earth, Wind & Fire

      After the Love has Gone

    • Ian Dury

      Reasons to be Cheerful

    • Cliff Richard

      We Don't talk Anymore

    • The Boomtown Rats

      I Don't Like Mondays

Broadcasts

  • Sun 21 Aug 201613:00
    BBC Radio Gloucestershire, BBC Radio Bristol, BBC Radio Wiltshire & BBC Radio Somerset
  • Sun 21 Aug 201617:00
    BBC Radio Devon, BBC Radio Jersey & BBC Radio Guernsey