David Carbines: The Hit Collector
A personal adventure of collecting and cataloguing the UK hit singles and albums. With some original art, music and literature reviews exclusively on this site as I am not on social media.
America, with Billboard, started recording music charts before we did in the UK. There has been somewhat of an American chart since 1940, when the Best Sellers In Stores chart was established. Billboard also collated Most Played by Jockeys (essentially an airplay chart) and Most Played in Jukeboxes which is self-explanatory. NME published it’s first …
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Artist – Title – Cat No, Position (Chart weeks: Top 10/40/75)/Hit Singles represented (Position, Weeks on top 75) 7″ Singles: Andrew Ridgeley – Shake – AJR1, #58 (0/0/3)/ Parent Album: Son Of Albert (failed to chart). CD Singles: Nick Heywood – He Doesn’t Love You Like I Do – 659728 2, #58 (0/0/2)/ Parent Album: …
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Adam meeting Angelina in the bar. The piano view from pure imagination. As this didn’t quite meet expectations, I practiced drawing form life: my mannequin in a seated piano-playing pose. My first figurative drawing since school. This will be practiced and improved.
Artist – Title – Cat No, Position (Chart weeks: Top 10/40/75)/Hit Singles represented (Position, Weeks on top 75) CD Albums Air – Everybody Hertz – CDV2956, #67 (0/0/1)/ No Singles Anita Baker – Rapture – 7559604442, #13 (0/12/35/47*)/Sweet Love (#13, 12wks), Caught Up In The Rapture (#51, 5wks) Bette Midler – Beaches Soundtrack – 7567819332, …
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Dates read: 13th – 20th June 2019 This is only the 2nd piece of ‘pure’ adult fiction I have ever read. The first being The Ice Twins by S. K. Tremayne, which will be reviewed here soon. Previously I have only read children’s fiction at school, factual (mostly music autobiographies) and more recently, fact-based fiction, …
Continue reading “The Best Of Adam Sharp by Graeme Simsion (Literary Review)”
I guess you could say it all started in the summer of 1996. It was at that seminal point in your life when career decisions and exams are foisted upon you and little else seems to matter. Something else did matter though! Music. Ever conscious of the future, it wasn’t clear to continue with my …
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David Carbines: The Hit Collector