Originally posted by Martin Red:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by suenomartino:
so which MA record got bootlegged a few weeks back? anyone know? No idea, I suspect 1 , 2 or 3 or even 4 ?
Kelvy,
Jaki Graham,
Could It Be I'm Falling in with ya baby..
Jaki is from Birmingham UK, she was picked up by David Grant's manager and then produced by one of the guys out of Heatwave, she was quite popular here
Chart commentary, week beginning May 14th 1985
1(1) Paul Hardcastle: 19 (3 wks)
Producer/keyboardist Paul Hardcastle scored one of the more unusual no.1s with this record. Spending as many as 5 weeks on top, it was themed around the Vietnam War and featuring samples of news reports and quotes from veterans, to suitably dramatic backing synthesiser music. The central theme was the fact that the average age of the Vietnam War soldier was 19 - wonder why that was? More easy for the US Government to brainwash them perhaps? Oops... politics....
He later had three more top 40 hits, but of those only one, "Don't Waste My Time", reached the top 10 (no.8). That seemed much more of a standard pop song (he featured singer Carol Kenyon, who also appeared on Heaven 17's "Temptation" ) so not such a big hit as this.
2(2) Phyllis Nelson: Move Closer (9 wks)
A good ballad, this song, Phyllis Nelson's only hit (she's one of the "absolute one hit wonders" - quite surprising really...) spent just the one week at no.1, being knocked off by the phenomenon that was "19".
4(9) DeBarge: Rhythm Of The Night (4 wks)
The DeBarge family scored their one and only top 40 hit with this, a pretty good pop/dance song with a sound typical of the time, which peaked this week. Not the same song as the Corona hit from 9 years later, by the way.
5(7) Steve Arrington: Feel So Real (4 wks)
Another dance/pop song, this was also peaking this week. It was his first of only two top 40 hits, the other being "Dancin' In The Key Of Life" which reached no.21 later in the year. Unusually for a debut hit at the time, this charted as high as no.20 first week: I guess it must have been big in the clubs.
13(16) Curtis Hairston: I Want Your Lovin' (Just A Litle Bit) (4 wks)
Haven't the faintest idea who Curtis Hairston is, and I've never heard this, but it's funny how so many pop stars are called "Curtis", compared to the general population.... not only him but Curtis Mayfield and Curtis Stigers...
20(33) Loose Ends: Magic Touch (2 wks)
Loose Ends had previously scored quite a well known dance hit with "Hangin' On A String", which had reached no.13. This follow up (which I haven't heard) gave them two top 20 hits in a row, and after some minor hits they got another big one five years later when they jumped on the Soul II Soul bandwagon with "Don't Be A Fool".
21(12) Rah Band: Clouds Across The Moon (7 wks)
This was still getting a lot of airplay around 1989/90, although I've hardly ever heard it since; it seemed to have an unusual subject - the woman singer being separated from her lover who was stuck out in space somewhere, so that when she looks at the clouds across the moon she thinks of him. It also seemed to have something of an early/mid 70's feel to it: they had indeed been around since 1977 when their first hit (The Crunch) peaked at the same position as this, their last hit (no.6).
23(25) Divine: Walk Like A Man (3 wks)
The cross-dressing gay icon's other top 40 hit, besides the well known "You Think You're A Man" from the previous year, was peaking at no.23 this week. Although this wasn't, "You Think You're A Man" was produced by Stock Aitken Waterman of all people - at this stage they were more part of the "high energy" club scene, producing people like Hazell Dean and Dead Or Alive, before they changed style doing the "pure pop" of Rick Astley, Kylie, Jason and co.
30(15) David Grant and Jaki Graham: Could It Be I'm Falling In Love (9 wks)
This was a pretty good version (indeed better than the original in my view) of the Detroit Spinners ballad from 1973, and had been to no.5. David Grant had been in Linx, who had scored some top 20 hits early in the 80s, the biggest being the no.7 hit "Intuition", and had also had some solo hits in 1983 (the biggest being the no.10 "Watching You Watching Me"). By contrast, Jaki Graham was about to start a run of dance/pop hits in the next couple of years, four making the top 20, and two (Round and Round, Set Me Free) making the top 10.
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1973
"22 Detroit Spinners
Could It Be I'm Falling In Love
It could get quite confusing with all this Detroit stuff, the Spinners and the Emeralds. Detroit Spinners were having their first hit for three years with "Could It Be I'm Falling In Love". When this entered the chart the Emeralds were having their biggest hit with "Feel The Need In Me", and by a strange coincidence, both that plus this Spinners hit were back in the top 40 during the spring of 1977. By the time this was on it's way out of the chart, The Emeralds were back with their follow up "You Want It, You Got It".
This reached number 11 for the Spinners this time around, and number 32 when issued as the lead track of an EP in '77. It was a much bigger hit when performed as a duet between David Grant and Jaki Graham in 1985 (number five), and was taken to number 15 by 'Worlds Apart' in 1994.
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graemlins/thumbsup.gif </font>[/QUOTE]thanks Martin! that Spinners remake was nice...and that's just touching the surface with Jaki Graham's 1985 effort...what has Ms. Graham been up to as of late?