Boris Gardiner is at Number One with I Want to Wake Up With You.

It is a song I have never heard before.

But I feel like I have.

I am bored with it already.

Woman jumping up and down in slow motion.

She's now doing it among flowers.

Was this video storyboarded in 1972?

Paper plane excitement.

Littering the river.

Playing out with the Communards and Don't Leave Me This Way.

Woman who sounds like Alison Moyet.

They probably wanted Alison Moyet but couldn't get her.

And now it is over.

That was a generally tolerable episode, with highlights by Depeche Mode, the Human League and Bruce Hornsby.

Now to look back at the thread and see what everyone else made of it.

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The Human League - Human. box

'Of flesh and blood I'm made' ?

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The man from Chicago and a soppy ballad that sounds exactly the same as all the other soppy ballads he did.

That's The Glory of Love I believe.

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Jermaine Stewart - We Don't Have to Take Our Clothes Off

'To have a good time, oh no'

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Modern Talking - Brother Louie.

Didn't that have an intro that really impressed me at the time?

Perhaps only I can answer that question.

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Boris Gardiner is at Number One with I Want to Wake Up With You.

'I want to be there when you open your eyes
And throughout the whole night
I want to hold you tight'

'Throughout' is a word that just doesn't belong in a pop song.

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Don't Leave Me This Way.

'Oooooooooooooooh baby!'



Btw when I say it means I taped the song onto one of my Good Top 40 Singles tapes.

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Boris Gardiner is at Number One with I Want to Wake Up With You.

'I want to be there when you open your eyes
And throughout the whole night
I want to hold you tight'

I was thinking last night, I can't have thought of that song since I first hated it in 1986. For 32 years I'd forgotten it existed at all, and yet now I can remember the first 4 lines.

That data has been taking up vital memory space that could have been used for something more useful.

The Call of the Wendigo wrote:

He looks a lot younger than I expected.

But Bruce Hornsby looks older than the 31 he'd have been there.

The Call of the Wendigo wrote:

Modern Talking - Brother Louie.

Orange people on Top of the Pops!

It's a very Eurovision song.

Fangirl Three wrote:

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Boris Gardiner is at Number One with I Want to Wake Up With You.

'I want to be there when you open your eyes
And throughout the whole night
I want to hold you tight'

I was thinking last night, I can't have thought of that song since I first hated it in 1986. For 32 years I'd forgotten it existed at all, and yet now I can remember the first 4 lines.

That data has been taking up vital memory space that could have been used for something more useful.

Boris Gardiner appears to be one of the most forgotten, or never even heard of, number one songs of all time. Even as an 80s music fan I don't remember the song from the time and didn't knowingly hear it until about 15 years ago, for ages being the only 80s number one single I didn't know. I was aware of the title though due to having the Guinness Hit Singles book.

Boris Gardiner was the third best-selling single of 1986 in the UK!