UK Number 1s of 1989

Sir Cliff saw us through Christmas and into the new year with the festive favourite mistletoe and wine. Not a floor filler but it might get the occasional play at a office christmas party perhaps right the beginning or at the end of the evening when everyone's had plenty of christmas spirit.

Also in 1989 neighbors newlyweds Scott and Charlene were reunited with especially for you and Jason Donovan went on to have his own chart topping success with 'too many broken hearts' and 'sealed with a kiss'. Another SAW (Stock, Aitkin & Waterman) hit factory success came from Sonia who had given Pete Waterman a hard time out side a Liverpool radio station. He invited her to sing live on his radio show and she was signed up by SAW and made her first and only UK number one.

Jive Bunny had two number ones in 1989 both of which make worst tunes of the 80s list which are naughty and but not nice. This may be unfair because in party's at the time these records did work, and would keep a dancing crowd on the dance floor for a bit. However the DJ had to be careful not to over do it and play the whole track or both of these tunes back to back. Unfortunately these massive selling number one tunes were played to death on the radio and ultimately people get bored, we got very bored. To help prevent further harm befalling the disco dancing public we have kept our collection of Jive Bunny records as far away from our records decks as possible, our Jive Bunny tunes are stored in a locked vault in a secret location (well in a tescos bag at the back of the broom cupboard).

1989 finished with a remix at number one, and taking us into the new decade was the updated version of Do They Know its Christmas? We like this version less than the 1984 original, which we think is actually a very good pop record. Its has catchy, easy to sing along to lyrics and was very of the time, its perfect Christmas pop. The remake was produced by SAW and included many of their own acts and was meant to appeal to a new generation of the record buying public. Unfortunately the 1989 version of 'Do they know its Christmas?' did nothing like as well as the original, which until Elton Johns candle in the wind 97 was the biggest selling record of all time. The original 84 version was produced by Trevor Horn the FGTH producer and former radio killing video star of the Buggles (number one 20th Oct 1979). Despite the reason that inspired the tune and sentiment behind the track the original just seemed more fun. We purchased many copies of both versions and also the Band Aid 20 version which was released in 2004. We have a feeling this is a tune that could be re released every few years for ever. Good on ya Sir Bob.

The line up for band aid 2 includes the wobble board wonder and didgeridoo playing Australian superstar Rolf Harris, who has the chart topping distinction of having number one records in the 60s, 70s, 80's and 90's. Somehow Rolf managed to do this with just two records which were Band aid 2 and his earlier classic two little boys again a number 1 at the end of the 60s and into the seventies, this also must be a record.