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  LISTEN HERE     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...

  LISTEN HERE                 Singles that entered the UK charts in October 1971 (in the order of chart entry / highest position)... (highest UK chart position in brackets) More chart shows HERE!    01 Aretha Franklin - Spanish Harlem (14) 02 Elvis Presley - I'm Leavin' (23) 03 Roger Whittaker - Mamy Blue (31) 04 Joan Baez - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down (6) 05 Al Green - Tired of Being Alone (4) 06 Elgins - Put Yourself In My Place (28) 07 Scott English - Brandy (12) 08 Los Pop Tops - Mammy Blue (35) 09 Clodagh Rodgers - Lady Love Bug (28) 10 Settlers - The Lightning Tree (36) 11 Sweet - Alexander Graham Bell (33) 12 Delfonics - Ready Or Not Here I Come (Can't Hide from Love) (41) 13 Autumn - My Little Girl (37) 14 Doors - Riders on the Storm (22) 15 Tom Jones - Till (2) 16 Move - Chinatown (23) 17 Springwater - I Will Return (5) 18 Who - Let's See Action (16) 19 Newbeats  - Run Baby Run (10) 20 Olivia Newton John - B...

  LISTEN HERE               Hello. Listen carefully! I am going to take you back. Back to February 1974, when Britons went to the polls in an election that produced a hung Parliament — a striking conclusion to a month in which everyday life had already been disrupted by industrial action, power restrictions and the three-day week. The month also saw the 16th Winter Olympics take place in Sapporo, Japan, attracting international attention. At the cinema, ‘ The Exorcist’ continued to generate enormous interest and controversy in Britain, while ‘ The Sting’ , starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford, was another major international success. On television, the films were as always, reviewed on a show hosted by Barry Norman called ‘Film 74’, while programmes such as ‘ The Two Ronnies’ provided a reassuringly British form of Saturday-night entertainment. Children’s TV was covered with cute, furry creatures such as ‘Bagpuss’ and ‘The Wombles’...