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Tony Blackburn is a playlist hypocrite.
TOPIC: Tony Blackburn is a playlist hypocrite.
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Re:Tony Blackburn is a playlist hypocrite. 8 Months, 2 Weeks ago
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I've just been listening to Tony's recent bank holiday Monday soul music show that went out at lunch that day on Radio 2.
Great music choices, a lovely listen, but.....
He said, now going back to the 60's with Reet Petite by Jackie Wilson. Oh dear, it came out in 1957, and was the big hit of Christmas 86. Didn't touch the 60's.
He also played Diana Ross I'm Still Waiting, a track he's rightly proud of and every time he plays it he mentions how he got it released as a single, where it went to No1 in the summer of 1971 in Britain. But the trouble is he said it on this show and has said it before, that it went to No1 in both Britain and America and this is simply untrue, and I'm sure JK as an American charts officianado you will know this. Infact in the States the single barely registered and made only 63 on the Hot 100. I'm not sure why Tony keeps insisting it was an American No1, something he keeps repeating on radio. Actually, despite having a string of solo American No1 hits, the two that Diana Ross got here in the UK, I'm Still Waiting and Chain Reaction did next to nothing on the American Chart.
I do wish someone would set him straight on it. I love the song but I'm Still Waiting could count as another Tony tends to play to excess far too regularly.
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