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“Baby, it’s amazing just how wonderful it is, that the things we like to do are just the same” May 15, 2015

Filed under: Trivia — justwilliam1959 @ 12:45 pm
Tags: Diana Ross, Elvis Presley, Errol Brown, Hot Chocolate, Hot Chocolate (band), RAK, UK Chart, You Sexy Thing

As regular readers will know I am a 70s music fan. So I am always interested in 70s music trivia, particularly if it involves the UK charts. I was pleased to read a little bit of trivia that I don’t believe I have published before. There is only one British act who had at least one UK top 50 hit in every year of the 70s from 1970 to 1979. That band was Hot Chocolate. I haven’t been able to verify the next one but I understand Elvis Presley also achieved at least one top 50 UK hit for every year of the 70s. Diana Ross almost made it, as she only missed the UK top 50 in 1972. Do you know of any other artists who have done this?

Here are all of Hot Chocolate’s 1970’s UK top 50 hits (including their chart position), there is hardly a duff one among them in my opinion.

1970 “Love Is Life” 6
1971 “You Could Have Been a Lady” 22
1971 “I Believe (In Love)” 8
1972 “You’ll Always Be a Friend” 23
1973 “Rumours” 44
1973 “Brother Louie” 7
1974 “Emma” 3
1974 “Cheri Babe” 31
1975 “Disco Queen” 11
1975 “A Child’s Prayer” 7
1975 “You Sexy Thing” 2
1976 “Don’t Stop It Now” 11
1976 “Man to Man” 14
1976 “Heaven Is in the Back Seat of My Cadillac” 25
1977 “So You Win Again” 1
1977 “Put Your Love In Me” 10
1978 “Every 1’s a Winner” 12
1978 “I’ll Put You Together Again” 13
1979 “Mindless Boogie” 46

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO8V7pKVcFk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nouCb33Q1og

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-YioZGsokk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiM6hF1naXE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vPu_nrzgSU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87qXCBmfsXY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QmY7oH8Fvg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShMTuJ4VWuM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw8vw55GzhU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vcq4s6GfM9s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBAqNHBSFWs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUcbzH_JKQM

“I just don’t know where my home is anymore” May 6, 2015

Filed under: News,Obituary — justwilliam1959 @ 8:56 pm
Tags: Apple Records, Beatles, Blue Night, Brother Louie (Hot Chocolate song), Errol Brown, Harrods, Hot Chocolate, Hot Chocolate (band), The Bahamas, You Sexy Thing

Hot Chocolate‘s lead singer Errol Brown has died from liver cancer at his home in the Bahamas, aged just 71. That is really sad news, Errol was an iconic figure from my youth. For me Hot Chocolate were a superb singles band, particularly back in the days when singles were all I could afford. I would always do what I could to buy any Hot Chocolate single as it came out. I once even bought a single that they released on the Beatles Apple label. I can even tell you were I bought that one, in the Harrods sale in 1976.

Their hits are pretty much all classics and the majority really haven’t dated at all. Even the non-hits are pretty darned good. In the mid 70s I bought a Hot Chocolate single called “Blue Night”, it wasn’t a hit. But the B-Side (ask your grandparents if you don’t know what a b-side is) is a song you might know; it was “You Sexy Thing”. It looks like the record company may have got it wrong when making that a B-side initially.

Errol Brown and Hot Chocolate were a great band that were loved by many people. My thoughts go out to Errol’s family, friends and fans. Errol Brown RIP.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4O_Tght_iDA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQsg6XXGxXQ