NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL TOP OF THE POPS - VOLUME NINE

 

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In 1968, the Hallmark Label, a division of Pickwick Records, began to release in the UK a series of 92 albums (stretching to 1985) featuring re-recorded versions of current chart hits by uncredited session musicians who became known as 'The Top Of The Poppers'. Included among them were the likes of future hitmakers Elton John and Tina Charles, but here are all the original tracks that the recordings were based on.

The original cover tracks on volumes 17 and 18 can be found on albums SHM740 and SHM745 or on YouTube HERE!

(UK Chart Position)

01 Neil Diamond - I Am... I Said (4)

02 Chairmen Of The Board - Pay To The Piper (34)

03 MacGuinness Flint - Malt And Barley Blues (5)

04 Peter Noone - Oh You Pretty Thing (12)

05 Severine - Un Banc, Un Arbre, Une Rue (9)

06 R Dean Taylor - Indiana Wants Me (2)

07 Rolling Stones - Brown Sugar (2)

08 Dawn - Knock Three Times (1)

09 Elgins - Heaven Must Have Sent You (3)

10 Free - My Brother Jake (4)

11 Elvis Presley - Rags To Riches (9)

12 Tony Christie - I Did What I Did For Maria (2)

13 T Rex - Get It On (1)

14 Supremes with The Four Tops - River Deep Mountain High (11)

15 Lobo - Me And You A Dog Named Boo (4)

16 Hurricane Smith - Don't Let It Die (2)

17 Move - Tonight (11)

18 Middle Of The Road - Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep (1)

19 Sweet - Co Co (2)

20 Delfonics - La La Means I Love You (19)

21 Rolling Stones - Street Fighting Man (21)

22 New World - Tom Tom Turnaround (6)

23 Greyhound - Black And White (6)

24 Who - Won't Get Fooled Again (9)