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Saturday, 30 August 2025

Saturday Shuffle 112

 


Three songs today from the late 70's/early 80s which for those of us of a certain age surely was a purple patch in our musical education.

We start with this week's cover star Ian Dury and his band The Blockheads  and the brilliant Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick a well deserved UK number 1 in January 1979.

I was going to say that The Fall never had much success in the singles charts. However, they charted 14 times but reached no higher than number 30 with There's a Ghost in My House. In another  and better world Totally Wired would surely have been a top 10 hit.

Searching for the Young Soul Rebels criminally was not a number one album for Dexy's Midnight Runners in 1988 although Geno hit the top of the Singles chart. Tell My When My Light Turn Green was not released as a single but could never be accused of being an album filler.

All killers, no fillers again next week on SS113


Ian Dury & the Blockheads - Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick

The Fall - Totally Wired

Dexys Midnight Runners -Tell Me When My Light Turns Green

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