Atlantic2NG's UK retro-chart is from June 25th 1974!
#40: wacky Sedaky in the rain -- 6 months before it hit in the US. And Karen & Richard won't last a day without Paul Williams.
NTM: "Central Park Arrest" by Thunderthighs, a First Choice-sounding group, who it turns out were the female backing vocalists on Mott the Hoople's "Roll Away the Stone" (!)
Wow: Ronnie Lane, "The Poacher", also NTM. Tons of tunes on this chart I've never heard; I may have to stick with it, esp given that AL's a rerun today.
Another Mott connection: Lynsey dePaul with one of those retro-Spector-sounding things that the Brits were swooning over in the early '70s: "Ooh I Do".
one of my all-time 10cc faves: "Wall St Shuffle"
No more Auggie Dogness! EJ's son goes down.
wow, Cockney Rebel's "Judy Teen" and Alan Price's brilliant "Jarrow Song".
I never knew the Drifters' mid-'70s UK comeback hits (like "Back Row of the Movies") were on Bell records -- their homage-to-the-Brill Building sound is very much like the early Dawn hits, also on Bell. Gotta be the same writers/producers, no? (ETA: no -- written by Roger Greenaway!)
Haven't heard Leo Sayer's "One Man Band" in ages. And R Dean Taylor's "Ghost in My House" will always be the "why didn't the 4 Tops record this one?" song.
boogity-boogity! "the Streak" was a UK hit too. Don't look, Lord & Lady Ethel!