on 24-12-2021 09:33
Welcome back everyone - Christmas Eve and bored of wrapping presents? Well, here's chance for the Forum Festive Frivolities to continue - come join the fun!
Hidden in a straight line across, up, down or diagonally (backwards or forwards too!) in the grid below are 30 singles titles. Each has been a #1 hit in the UK in the week in which Christmas Day fell, from the 1950s to last year,
The rules are simple:
- Find a title in the grid, give me the full title as printed in the grid, the start and end co-ordinates of the title and the title's group/singer/band name for a point;
- For a bonus, give me the year (or years - a bonus point per year) that the title by that artist was at the top in the Christmas Week chart;
- First person to tell me the year or years gets the bonus.
Then give someone else a chance, and repeat.
I'll be around to update the grid and keep track of the scores at intervals during the day. I will compile the winners towards the end of day.
NB: There are a few tricky ones in there, where a song or variant of a song was released by different artists, or where a release was a double A-side, watch out!
PS. Feel free to use any tool at your disposal to check date(s) and/or artist/s once you have found a title in the grid.
Over to you, happy hunting: @Cleoriff @Bambino @blissgirl @BobM @Cairdeas1 @gmarkj @J9el @jonsie @lewys-gp @madasaf1sh @MAKAZAGA @Martin-O2 @Mi-Amigo @MI5 @Pennywren @Projectionist @RafaC @RunrigForever @sheepdog @TallTrees and anyone else who fancies a go!
on 24-12-2021 10:51
on 24-12-2021 10:51
Love to stay, but gotta go, good luck all 👋
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on 24-12-2021 10:52
on 24-12-2021 10:52
@Cleoriff wrote:
@Mi-Amigo wrote:@TallTrees I know the singer of your find I Hear You Knocking but would only be a guess at the year....
I HEAR YOU KNOCKING DAVE EDMUNDS 1970
And fresh from a sit under a roaring hairdryer, @Cleoriff gets a bonus for TagTeam @TallTrees annd @Mi-Amigo 😃
1970 | Dave Edmunds | IHearYouKnocking | K16 | Z16 |
on 24-12-2021 10:53
on 24-12-2021 10:53
9B- 9H TOO MUCH- SPICE GIRLS 1997/8?
Veritas Numquam Perit
on 24-12-2021 10:54
on 24-12-2021 10:54
on 24-12-2021 10:55
on 24-12-2021 10:55
@TallTrees wrote:Have you every heard
"When we collide" @Mi-Amigo
I put that up earlier
I don't even know whether I have heard the tune.
RafaC got that one earlier
24D - 24P: When we Collide - Matt Cardle - 2010
on 24-12-2021 10:57
on 24-12-2021 10:57
on 24-12-2021 10:58
on 24-12-2021 10:58
on 24-12-2021 10:58
on 24-12-2021 10:59
on 24-12-2021 10:59
@TallTrees wrote:Now I do know Cliff Richard played with
The shadows?
decade 1960
Hey, Tag Teams of Three now! lol
Here we go:
1960 | Cliff Richard and The Shadows | ILoveYou | B11 | I11 |