Its a Bank Holiday which means I try to do something a little different. Tonight I played songs that were the first top 40 hit for a specific artist in the UK Charts. Here is what was played:
- Big Country – Fields Of Fire
- Bryan Adams – Run To You
- Daft Punk – Da Funk
- Chic – Dance Dance Dance (Yowsah Yowsah Yowsah)
- Adele – Chasing Pavements
- Mariah Carey – Vision Of Love
- Jessie J – Do It Like A Dude
- Aretha Franklin – Respect
- Bob Marley & The Wailers – No Woman No Cry
- Beatles – Love Me Do
- Paul McCartney – Another Day **
- John Lennon – Mind Games **
- George Harrison – My Sweet Lord **
- Ringo Starr – It Don’t Come Easy **
- Who – I Cant Explain
- Rolling Stones – Come On
- Stevie Wonder – Uptight
- Duran Duran – Planet Earth
- Spandau Ballet – To Cut A Long Story Short
- Simply Red – Money’s Too Tight (To Mention)
- Dead Or Alive – That’s The Way (I Like It)
- Talk Talk – Today
- Luther Vandross – I Really Didn’t Mean It
- Human League – Sound Of The Crowd
- Boomtown Rats – Looking After Number One
- Elvis Presley – Heartbreak Hotel
- Shalamar – Uptown Festival (Part 1)
- Tina Turner – Let’s Stay Together
- Ed Sheeran – The A Team
- Rod Stewart – Maggie May
- Madness – The Prince
- Queen – Seven Seas Of Rhye
** The four Beatles marked with the double asterisk may have had previous hits with other collaborations. We took what was listed as their first solo hit single
