On the day that New Zealand won the Rugby World Cup Final we celebrated another great World Cup victory in 1966 by the England Football Team. We learned that the price of a litre of petrol was around 6p in 1966 and listened to the top ten best selling singles of that year:-

1. Distant Drums – Jim Reeves

2. Strangers in the Night – Frank Sinatra

3. Spanish Flea – Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass

4. Hold Tight – Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich

5. Sloop John B – Beach Boys

6. These Boots are Made for Walkin’ – Nancy Sinatra

7. God Only Knows – Beach Boys

8. Mama – Dave Berry

9. A Groovy Kind of Love – The Mindbenders

10. Sunny Afternoon – The Kinks

In the second hour we had part two of Eighties Movie Hits, continued from last week.

Tracks played were

Billy Ocean – When the Going Gets Tough (Jewel of the Nile)

ELO – All Over the World (Xanadu)

Kenny Loggins – Dangerzone (Top Gun)

James Brown – I Got You (I Feel Good) (Good Morning Vietnam)

Marvin Gaye – I Heard it Through the Grapevine (The Big Chill)

Aretha Franklin – Think (The Blues Brothers)

Maria McKee – Show Me Heaven (Days of Thunder)

Chris De Burgh – Lady in Red (Working Girl)

Smokey Robinson and The Miracles – Tracks of my Tears (Platoon)

Beach Boys – Kokomo (Cocktail)

and Starship – Nothings Gonna Stop us Now (Mannequin)

TTFN!