One down, 5 to go out of all the end of year specials I have from the Chart Show starting with 1991. I didn't see this first time round as on the Saturday it was transmitted we were making our way back on a long car journey back to Canterbury from our holiday house in Devon.
It doesn't feel as exciting watching it without any intoxication yet I still felt the need to sing to the many tracks that were featured, especially in the Top Ten.
The Best Solo Artist of that year was Seal with his first solo hit "Crazy". This was covered by Alanis Morrisette a couple of years ago and whilst the original is superb, her version really made me think more about the lyrics.
Kenny Thomas managed to win the Best New Act of that year who's still performing today and I had the pleasure of seeing him at the Royal Albert Hall as the support act for Level 42 last year.
All three specialist charts were featured as it was the Xmas Special, not a very good year for Indie in my opinion with Curve getting both the Number 1 and Number 2 slots.
The best one that year had to be the Rock Chart with two cracking tracks by Extreme including the blissfull "More Than Words" and the more raging "Get The Funk Out".
It's worth mentioning that all the musical stings in this episode from the 1991 relaunch are musically linked together based around the elements of the show's signature tune, except for the Rock Chart which sounds more like the Top Ten intro from the fairground era although not as good!
There were also sneak previews for what were actually rather big hits in 1992 including the brilliant Curtis Stigers with "I Wonder Why", Des'ree with "Feel So High" and Shakespeare's Sister and "Stay". The band were also the recipients of the Best Video of 1991 with "Goodbye Cruel World" which returned to the chart in the following year.
But for every best, there's always a worst and the video that fell into that category this year really was that bad; Barry Manilow's version of Jingle Bells.
As mentioned earlier the Top Ten had some very catchy numbers including Cher's "The Shoop Shoop Song" and "I'm Too Sexy" by Right Said Fred which we had performed to us earlier in the year by none other than Dave Benson Phillips!
And as expected the Number 1 not just in the Top Ten but also in the Rock Chart of 1991 was Bryan Adams who stayed for 13 weeks at the top spot on the Chart Show's rundown. It probably went to show that Saturday really was the most popular day for buying records back then.
1992 will be on the cards for tomorrow which I actually can remember watching first time round on our only Christmas in Canterbury. I seem to remember going for a walk in Tankerton on that Boxing Day morning and on the way back we went past the newly built Invicta Radio studios in nearby Whitstable. One day I'll get there, you wait!
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