Recording the Top 20

I knew there must have been a time.

Yes happy innocent days.  Did Jimmy Saville ever do the top 20 show?

back then in the early 70's records remained in the charts for months

they only used to go up/down 3 or 4 places a week, maximum

nothing ever went in straight to number one, nothing ever went straight in to the top 10

I have always despised the bulk of the top of the mainstream charts. Aside from the real artists (e.g. David Bowie, Michael Jackson, The Who, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Motown and the odd soul band/singer  ....) I find it very hard to accept that people like those records that make up the bulk of the top of the mainstream charts. (e.g. Boy bands, many x factor winners etc) THEY have managed to carry off one of the greatest conspiracies.  I despise radio one for going along with it for all these years rather than letting the DJs play what they want. The fact that some of these "DJs" have also been made famous and wealthy on the back of this absolutely sickens me.

That's because when kids had money to spend they spent it on the bands that appealed to them ie the likes of The Spice Girls and Boyzone.
Neither of these bands and loads of others would have succeeded in the 60s as money was tighter then and very little found it's way down to youngsters.

"Back in the 60's. Grundig tape player, in the front room, recording singles being played on the radio on a Sunday afternoon"

....with the mic in front the radio...and put the budgie out the room.....and make sure no-one pulls the flush in the toilet !

Sunday 5 till 7 Tom Brown I think did the charts in late 70's though the chart was actually produced on the Tuesday

John Peel, 10 pm, C-120 in the recorder, please don't jam this time! "Tonight we've got sessions from Swell Maps (Hooray) and Ivor Cutler (Oh Christ) ..."

Marvellous.

Mar 24, 2015 -- 9:01PM, TELL DEL wrote:

"Back in the 60's. Grundig tape player, in the front room, recording singles being played on the radio on a Sunday afternoon"....with the mic in front the radio...and put the budgie out the room.....and make sure no-one pulls the flush in the toilet !

this sounds like code for a 1970's porn flick.

I first heard John Peel on pirate radio.He had a show called the Perfumed Garden.I was convinced he was John Lennon. Wasn't the Sunday chart show hosted by Fluff Freeman? Hi pop pickers da da da da da D A D A

Yep

nothing ever went in straight to number one, nothing ever went straight in to the top 10

1973 **** on feel the noize, skweeze me pleeze me, merry xmas everybody all entered the chart at number 1

Not the only fallacy in that post MrB...

back then in the early 70's records remained in the charts for months

Consecutive weeks on chart:

1. 69 Happy - Pharell Williams (2013)
2= 63 I Gotta Feeling - Black Eyed Piss (2009)
2= 63 Let It Go - Adele Dazeem (2013)
4= 61 Someone Like You - Just Adele (2011)
4= 61 Rather Be - Clean Bandit (2014)
6= 59 Counting Stars - One Republic (2013)
6= 59 All of Me - John Legend (2014)
8. 57 Wake Me Up - Avicii (2013)
9. 56 Release Me - Engelbert Humerdinck (1967)
10 55 Stranger on the Shore - Acker Bilk (1961)

Some right guff in that lot, eh? Only two singles from the '70s managed more than 50 weeks total, let alone consecutive - Judy Collins' Amazing Grace, and Slade, yet again, with the released-umpteen-times Merry Xmas Everybody.

From this summer,the top 40 countdown will move from Sunday to Friday 4pm to 6pm to coincide with Fridays becoming the new release day for singles.

All those weeks on the chart .... and thankfully  I haven't heard any of the top 8 ....unfortunately I have heard the last two.

Pick up a guitar, sixtwosix, and croon G Puh-lease release me, let me C gohoh, for D I don't luuurve you uhny G moooore D

You'll soon learn to love the Hump, even if your neighbours won't.