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KC & The Sunshine Band: Dance Remixes KC & The Sunshine Band were at #1 in the UK for the first time in their career, and they weren't about to Give It Up. Despite stiffing at #46 on the US chart (the American market having previously been a lucrative one for the band), Give It Up proved the surprise smash of 1983 thanks to strong support from radio, moving #30-19-5 on its way to the top. The rise of KC & The Sunshine Band brought to an end the 3-week reign of ex-Streetband and Q-Tips vocalist Paul Young's Wherever I Lay My Hat (That's My Home). Young's only previous chart entry was courtesy of Streetband's #18 hit Toast/Hold On in 1978. Wherever I Lay My Hat was a striking cover of an old Marvin Gaye song, and the first four entries of Paul Young's solo career would all be versions of other people's material until 1984's self-penned #9 hit Everything Must Change briefly halted the sequence.

Depeche Mode: Singles 1981-1985 Perhaps it was the scorching weather, but the rest of the Top 5 had a distinctly club-oriented flavour. Down a notch to #3 was I.O.U. by Freeez, while Malcolm McLaren's Double Dutch also fell one place from #3 to #4. Up 5 positions to #5 were Wham! and the immortal Club Tropicana, while holding steady at #6 was Gary Byrd & The GB Experience's The Crown. Some of the most seminal summer records were on the Top 40 of 21 years ago; Bananarama's Cruel Summer was falling from its peak of #8 to #13, The Sun Goes Down (Livin' It Up) by Level 42 moved in the opposite direction from #38 to #33 en route to the Top 10, while The Style Council's Long Hot Summer (part of the A Paris E.P.) made the biggest entrance of the week at #8. Highest climber, with a leap of 15 places to #9, was Elton John's I'm Still Standing; the second major hit single from Too Low For Zero, it consolidated an extraordinary return to form and commercial success after the period 1979-1982 had yielded just one Top 20 entry in the form of Blue Eyes. Also moving strongly into the Top 10 were Depeche Mode with Everything Counts, up from #16 and eventually destined for #6, the equal-highest position of their career thus far. Little more than 6 months later they would do even better, as People Are People reached #4 in March 1984.

Robert Plant: The Principle of Moments Despite becoming one of the biggest groups on the planet during the early 1970s with a string of legendary albums, Led Zeppelin never released an official UK single in their lifetime. Frontman Robert Plant went solo in 1982 following the band's demise, and his first Top 40 entry Big Log (climbing #15-#11) was in fact his very first appearance on the UK singles chart. Plant's debut solo set Picture At Eleven had failed to produce a hit single, but Big Log - taken from the Autumn '83 follow-up The Principle Of Moments - made an immediate impact, and remains his biggest hit. Other notable advances were made by Herbie Hancock's Rockit (up 10 to #15), The First Picture Of You by fancied newcomers The Lotus Eaters (moving #23-#21), and Wait Until Tonight (My Love) from Galaxy Featuring Phil Fearon (moving #37-#26). The credit on future hits by the latter during 1984 would be reversed to Phil Fearon & Galaxy.

Kraftwerk: Tour de France Soundtracks There were only five new entries to the Top 40; unthinkable in this day and age but more or less par for the course back in the early 1980s. Aside from The Style Council's #8 debut, Spandau Ballet were in at #12 with Gold (the follow-up to their #1 smash True) which came tantalisingly close to the top itself just 7 days later. New at #31 was Kraftwerk's Tour De France, a single that would return to the Top 40 in slightly remixed form during the summer of 1984 after its use in the Breakdance film. In 1983 it would reach #22, a year later #24.

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The following is a list of Jason's Jukeboxes online for week ending:

Vol.40: The 40 Best Singles That Missed The UK Top 40 (20/12/2004)
Vol.39: November 12th 1977 (12/11/2004)
Vol.38: October 29th 1984 (29/10/2004)
Vol.37: October 15th 1987 (15/10/2004)
Vol.36: October 6th 1973 (08/10/2004)
Vol.35: September 30th 1995 (30/09/2004)
Vol.34: September 22nd 1979 (24/09/2004)
Vol.33: September 13th 1986 (16/09/2004)
Vol.32: September 9th 1989 (09/09/2004)
Vol.31: September 4th 1982 (02/09/2004)
Vol.30: August 26th 1978 (26/08/2004)
Vol.29: August 21st 1976 (19/08/2004)
Vol.28: August 13th 1983 (12/08/2004)
Vol.27: August 3rd 1985 (06/08/2004)
Vol.26: July 25th 1981 (29/07/2004)
Vol.25: July 21st 1979 (22/07/2004)
Vol.24: July 4th 1992 (08/07/2004)
Vol.23: June 24th 1965 (01/07/2004)
Vol.22: June 16th 1984 (17/06/2004)
Vol.21: June 11th 1977 (10/06/2004)
Vol.20: June 8th 1967 (03/06/2004)
Vol.19: May 29th 1971 (27/05/2004)
Vol.18: May 18th 1991 (20/05/2004)
Vol.17: May 14th 1969 (13/05/2004)
Vol.16: May 8th 1982 (06/05/2004)
Vol.15: May 3rd 1980 (29/04/2004)
Vol.14: April 19th 1986 (20/04/2004)
Vol.13: April 14th 1990 (13/04/2004)
Vol.12: April 8th 1989 (08/04/2004)
Vol.11: April 2nd 1983 (06/04/2004)
Vol.10: March 24th 1979 (23/03/2004)
Vol.9: March 19th 1988 (16/03/2004)
Vol.8: March 9th 1985 (09/03/2004)
Vol.7: March 3rd 1973 (02/03/2004)
Vol.6: February 28th 1987 (24/02/2004)
Vol.5: February 20th 1993 (17/02/2004)
Vol.4: February 11th 1978 (10/02/2004)
Vol.3: February 3rd 1966 (03/02/2004)
Vol.2: January 31st 1981 (27/01/2004)
Vol.1: January 21st 1984 (20/01/2004)

And in chronological order:

June 24th 1965: Vol.23 (01/07/2004)
February 3rd 1966: Vol.3 (03/02/2004)
June 8th 1967: Vol.20 (03/06/2004)
May 14th 1969: Vol.17 (13/05/2004)
May 29th 1971: Vol.19 (27/05/2004)
March 3rd 1973: Vol.7 (02/03/2004)
August 21st 1976: Vol.29 (19/08/2004)
June 11th 1977: Vol.21 (10/06/2004)
November 12th 1977: Vol.39 (12/11/2004)
February 11th 1978: Vol.4 (10/02/2004)
August 26th 1978: Vol.30 (26/08/2004)
March 24th 1979: Vol.10 (23/03/2004)
July 21st 1979: Vol.25 (22/07/2004)
September 22nd 1979: Vol.34 (24/09/2004)
May 3rd 1980: Vol.15 (29/04/2004)
January 31st 1981: Vol.2 (27/01/2004)
July 25th 1981: Vol.26 (29/07/2004)
May 8th 1982: Vol.16 (06/05/2004)
September 4th 1982: Vol.31 (02/09/2004)
April 2nd 1983: Vol.11 (06/04/2004)
August 13th 1983: Vol.28 (12/08/2004)
January 21st 1984: Vol.1 (20/01/2004)
June 16th 1984: Vol.22 (17/06/2004)
October 29th 1984: Vol.38 (29/10/2004)
March 9th 1985: Vol.8 (09/03/2004)
August 3rd 1985: Vol.27 (06/08/2004)
April 19th 1986: Vol.14 (20/04/2004)
September 13th 1986: Vol.33 (16/09/2004)
February 28th 1987: Vol.6 (24/02/2004)
October 15th 1987: Vol.37 (15/10/2004)
March 19th 1988: Vol.9 (16/03/2004)
April 8th 1989: Vol.12 (08/04/2004)
September 9th 1989: Vol.32 (09/09/2004)
April 14th 1990: Vol.13 (13/04/2004)
May 18th 1991: Vol.18 (20/05/2004)
July 4th 1992: Vol.24 (08/07/2004)
February 20th 1993: Vol.5 (17/02/2004)
September 30th 1995: Vol.35 (30/09/2004)
The 40 Best Singles That Missed The UK Top 40: Vol.40 (20/12/2004)

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