With only three weeks to go to Christmas day we started the Sunday Replay countdown to Christmas today, but not before we travelled back to 1976 for an hour of heat, drought and nostalgia. Yes the year the water nearly ran out led us to listen to these top ten selling tunes of the year.
1. Save Your Kisses for Me – Brotherhood of Man
2. Don’t Go Breaking My Heart – Elton John & Kiki Dee
3. Missisipi – Pussycat
4. Dancing Queen – Abba
5. A Little bit More – Dr Hook
6. If You Leave me Now – Chicago
7. Fernando – Abba
8. I Love to Love – Tina Charles
9. Forever and Ever – Demis Roussos
10. Under the Moon of Love – Showaddywaddy
1976 – Average House Price – £12,704
Gallon of petrol – £0.76p!!!!
In the second hour we started our countdown to Christmas with a mix of some good oldies, some great Christmas records and our Christmas curiosity – Rolf Harris – The Christmas Pig!
Last Christmas – Wham
Thank God it’s Christmas – Queen
Merry Christmas Darling – The Carpenters
Secret Smile – Semisonic
Chasing Cars – Snow Patrol
Use Somebody – Kings of Leon
Handbags and Gladrags – Stereophonics
The Christmas Pig – Rolf Harris
Merry Christmas (War is Over) – John Lennon & Yoko Ono
Feels Like Christmas – The Feeling
Ok so this time next week it’s only two weeks to Christmas Day – See you then!!!