I Love #1s - 1954

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Last week's titanic fight between those late-eighties pop ladies was right down to the wire, with Belinda just pipping Tiffany and Kylie to the top spot, making Heaven Is A Place On Earth your favourite number one of 1988 with a monstrous 44 ticks. This week the poll boxes might be a little less fruitful as we wind our way right back to 1954, when record sales were still counted on the fingers of two hands and rock and roll was but a glint in Bill Haley's eye.

[Poll #819053]

Comments

Banned!

[koganbot]

Numerous Web sites report that "Such a Night" was banned by the BBC following listener complaints about its supposedly sexual lyrics (or is it really about a sexualized performance of not particularly suggestive lyrics)? BBC's own site mentions the song being banned by some U.S. radio stations but doesn't mention the BBC! (Numerous Web sites have been wrong in the past, so I wonder if this might be an urban legend.)

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

i'm not sure the bbc of the 50s would have needed to BAN it to not play it -- as a station it was very constrained in the range of music music it played at that date (tea orchestra pop and light classics, pretty much: certainly very little jazz or R&B or doowop or country)