This week's #OneThatGotAway a record that was not a UK hit and should have been....
A mere UK No 49 in 1982, No 5 in the US, She Blinded Me With Science by Thomas Dolby.
Scientist Magnus Pyke provided the spoken word interjections, despite admonishment from Arthur Lowe - don't tell him, Pyke!
This week's #OneThatGotAway a record that was not a UK hit and should have been....
To 1989 we go, and this US No 6 hit for R.E.M.. Stand - a mere No 48 in the UK.
This week's #OneThatGotAway a record that was not a UK hit and should have been....
1984 saw the start of former Teardrop Explodes genius singer/songwriter Julian Cope's solo career. This single, filled with jangly guitars, catchy sing along bits and a joyous breezy sound was sadly, a mere UK No 52
This week's #OneThatGotAway a record that was not a UK hit and should have been....
1969 closed with the international breakout smash hit, Venus by Dutch rockers Shocking Blue.
This was their follow-up single, Mighty Joe, which was a hit in several European countries, but a mere UK No 43.
This week's #OneThatGotAway a record that was not a UK hit and should have been....
To 1968 we go, with this UK non-hit by Spanky & Our Gang, called Like To Get To Know You - a US No 17.
This week's #OneThatGotAway a record that was not a UK hit and should have been....
To 1966 we go, with this UK non-hit by singer/songwriter Laura Nyro - Wedding Bell Blues, a song that went all the way to US No 1 by 5th Dimension in 1969.
Laura died in 1997 of ovarian cancer, aged 49. RIP.
This week's #OneThatGotAway a record that was not a UK hit and should have been....
To 1973 we go ,with this UK non-hit that went all the way to US No 1.
Billy Preston - Will It Go Round In Circles
This week's #OneThatGotAway, a record that was not a UK hit but should have been...
All You Get from Love Is a Love Song was a Carpenters single in 1978 - with the misheard lyric "the best love songs are written with a broken arm".
Sax solo on this provided by prolific session musician Tom Scott.
This week's #OneThatGotAway, a record that was not a UK hit but should have been....
A 1974 joyous single by Stevie Wonder - Don't you worry bout a thing - a US No 16 hit that didn't chart in the UK
This track was on his 1974 album Innervisions - his 16th studio album. At that time, he was 23.
This week's #OneThatGotAway, a record that was not a UK hit but should have been....
American country-rockers The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band's 1970 single Some of Shelly's Blues, a minor US hit in 1971 and a miss in the UK.
The song was written by Mike Nesmith.
This week's #OneThatGotAway, a record that was not a UK hit but should have been....
If you thought Lovin Things was the first recording by Marmalade, here's a 1967 single that came before it.
I See The Rain, sounding like how Jimi Hendrix would have covered Black Veils of Melancholy by Status Quo
This week's #OneThatGotAway, a record that was not a UK hit but should have been....
Black Water, the B side in the US to the Doobie Brothers' single Another Park, Another Sunday a US No 32 1974.
Radio interest prompted the re-release of this song, and it became a US No 1 in 1975 as an A side.
This week's #OneThatGotAway, a record that was not a UK hit but should have been.....
Look Away - Chicago
This track went all the way to No 1 in the US in 1988, one of 21 singles that reached the Top 10 there.
Not a hit in the UK, Chicago's success was sporadic at best, just 5 Top 10 hits here.
This week's #OneThatGotAway, a record that was not a hit but should have been.....
Singer/songwriter Todd Rundgren's 1972 track I Saw The Light
US No 16. UK No 36.
This week's #OneThatGotAway, a record that was not a hit but should have been.....
This warm pleasant song from 1988 reached only UK No 82, far short of the Top 40 used by the Beeb at the time.
Return to Yesterday by Lilac Time, with singer Stephen Duffy, his Wiki Page is a must read for Duranies
We need a #OneThatGotAway thread!
i think my therapist should not have brought up the #onethatgotaway this morning but she sure did
Author copies of the Not Marriage Material anthology are here! It’s always exciting to see a paperback with your name on it!
www.amazon.com/dp/B0DTFLWBC3 #bookstagram #nonfiction #onethatgotaway #love #romance #relationships #booksbooksbooks
I love when lesbians kill men and then kiss each other
#muna
#onethatgotaway
#greatestbandintheworld
Sigh, I will never forget Rilke being quoted to me by a German professor of literature on the lawns of Cambridge, love at first site on a punt ride down the Cam in 1994. #onethatgotaway
Very nice, here's one that we had on loan for a vey brief time more than twenty years ago!
#An-2
#OneThatGotAway
Marsh Harrier
Wigeon
Lesser Black backed Gull
Knot
Afternoon #patchbirding Greylag, 38 Grey Plover, 60 Golden Plover, Jack Snipe, Greenshank, 7 Turnstone, 29 Knot, 3 GWE, 2 Marsh Harrier, Kingfisher, Chiffchaff, Cetti’s, 4 Stonechat, Rock Pipit and a frustrating distant Ringtail sp that looked very interesting #onethatgotaway 😞
This photo haunts me now 😢 wish things were different but #longcovid took everything from me. 11 years gone, I only wanted one thing in life and it's gone. Why is this photo all over the internet ugh 😢 #gay #lgbtq #lostlove #gayboys #onethatgotaway #imisshim #longcovid
We scouted him a lot in Germany in 19/20 and our then client signed him for the next season.
Where he then didn't make the team and got recalled from loan in the January.
#onethatgotaway
Nocturnal birding is under appreciated & one of my favourite escapisms. I’ve had some quality experiences in Cambs over the years, and last nights added to the magic. We should have been sound-recording the whole time. Details attached. Lesson learnt #onethatgotaway #broadbilled
Large, head-lifting diver just gone north along Ross Back Sands and cut out east of Holy Island...
#didntseethebill #onethatgotaway
time to fess up - after listening to calls (I heard it call 5 times before it landed) and retrieving some deleted images out of I-Cloud, looks like I probably made a mess of the Stint ID at Hesketh from last Tuesday - too proud to admit I was wrong, what a plonker #onethatgotaway
