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Jason Maloney reviews

The Very Best Of Jimmy Somerville The record at #1 in the UK this week 18 years ago was also the biggest-selling single of 1986 overall. Don't Leave Me This Way, climbing a notch to the top, gave the Communards their one and only chart-topper. Originally recorded by Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes, it provided simultaneous Top 20 hits for Melvin and a rival cover version by disco queen Thelma Houston in early 1977. The Communards' ascent to the summit ended the 3-week reign of Boris Gardiner's lovers rock classic I Want To Wake Up With You, which swapped places with Jimmy Somerville's new band by falling to #2. Jermaine Stewart's anthem of restraint We Don't Have To Take Our Clothes Off, subtly shortened to We Don't Have To... so as not to offend anyone (!), was stuck at #3.

The Best Of Cutting Crew Frankie Goes To Hollywood had blazed a trail through 1984's pop landscape, dominating the UK Top 40 with a trio of #1s. Then came the slight disappointment of a #2 with fourth single Welcome To The Pleasuredome, before an 18-month hiatus ensued while the band wrote and recorded their second opus outside of the UK for tax reasons (a common practice for the 80s popstar). Rage Hard was the first single to be taken from the upcoming Liverpool album; a typically brazen tour-de-force but lacking the killer appeal of their breakthrough hits, it debuted at #6 and now moved up to its peak of #4. Barring a glut of crass remixes in the 1990s, it would be the last time FGTH reached the Top 10. Aside from seminal eighties soft-rock classic (I Just) Died In Your Arms Tonight by Cutting Crew up to #8 (DVDfever Dom adds: "...and taken from the very underrated 'Broadcast' album") and The Human League's poignant Jam & Lewis-penned Human falling to #10, the rest of the Top 10 was occupied by the likes of Modern Talking, Peter Cetera, Sinitta and, soaring 17 places to #6, MC Miker G & DJ Sven's wretched mauling of Madonna's Holiday entitled Holiday Rap.

The Voicce of Michael McDonald Moving on quickly, at #11 was the first record from the emerging Chicago House scene to crack the UK chart; Love Can't Turn Around by Farley Jackmaster Funk featuring the vocals of Darryl Pandy. A little further down at #15 was the equally groundbreaking collaboration between Hip-Hop masters Run DMC and has-been rockers Aerosmith, Walk This Way (up from #37). The track became a huge US smash and effectively ressurected Aerosmith's career, but the album from whence it came - Raising Hell - proved to be Run DMC's finest hour. Another of 1986's cutting edge releases was Word Up by funk veterans Cameo, climbing 15 to #13 on the chart of September 13th. Bon Jovi's debut Top 40 hit You Give Love A Bad Name was moving up 8 to #14 at the same time as Eurythmics' last major UK hit single Thorn In My Side was on its way towards the Top 5, advancing 13 places to #16. Sweet Freedom, taken from the film Running Scared, provided Michael McDonald with his first solo hit on these shores by entering at #27. McDonald had previously sung on the Doobie Brothers' What A Fool Believes (#31 in 1980) and duetted with James Ingram on Yah Mo B There (#12 in 1985), but his US Top 5 success with I Keep Forgettin' in 1982 had failed to translate into UK chart action.

The The: Infected Hollywood also had a helping hand in finally taking the Pyschedelic Furs' Pretty In Pink into the Top 40; re-recorded for the John Hughes movie named afer the song, it surpassed the #43 peak of the 1981 original and was moving #38-25 en route to the Top 20. Also moving in the right direction were Genesis (In Too Deep up 2 to #23), Huey Lewis & The News (Stuck With You likewise to #24) and Samantha Fox (Hold On Tight rising from #39 to #26). The The's Heartland was in temporary decline, slipping from #34 to #35, but a week later it would rebound to a high of #29. New to the chart were Five Star with future #2 hit Rain Or Shine, Timex Social Club with the salacious Rumors at #34 (they would soon be forced to drop the Timex part of their moniker), O.M.D. at #38 with Forever Live And Die, and at #39 the unlikely combination of Meatloaf in tandem with St. Elmo's Fire-man John Parr on the rowdy Rock'n'Roll Mercenaries.

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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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