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 10:19
Please come back @TallTrees
Finding the titles is part of the fun...
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on 24-12-2021 10:21
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on 24-12-2021 10:22
@TallTrees I know the singer of your find I Hear You Knocking but would only be a guess at the year....
on 24-12-2021 10:23
7 down, 23 to go at 10:20:
I'll catch up on the others put in whilst I was doing the update now...
on 24-12-2021 10:24
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on 24-12-2021 10:28
Can't stay too long..
3B - 21B ... LONELY THIS CHRISTMAS ... MUD ... 1974.
on 24-12-2021 10:29
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on 24-12-2021 10:32
on 24-12-2021 10:32
@TallTrees wrote:11 B - 11 I
I LOVE YOU Title now over to @Mi-Amigo
OMG - now you`re testing me @TallTrees
This is a wild guess but might be a very early Cliff Richard single but no idea of date - maybe late 50s...
If that is a Xmas single, then well done @pgn for a really tough one.