Fiera's 60s Thread Strikes Back. Again.

[Buck Birdseed]

I think I'd better supply another question or two before this degenerates futher into the Geriatric Nursing Home Social Hour theme.

(Still British Charts)

Ten people have had posthumous* #1 records. Can you name them all?

What is the biggest-selling single in history never to have reached the #1 spot?

*Yes, this is where I originally wrote "Post-Humorous". Laugh at me, ha ha ha.

[redbaron]

Originally posted by Snapcase
post-humorous

?????

[Buck Birdseed]

typo. Posthumous, of course.

[redbaron]

Ah, I see. I thought you meant something like if Bennie Hill had had a No. 1 after "Ernie".

[Buck Birdseed]

Benny Hill and "post-humorous" don't go together, mainly because there's no "humorous" phase to preceed it.

[redbaron]

Tell that to some of our US posters.

[finbar]

Enough said.

Well, Snappy, John Lennon for starters. The "Imagine" re-release went to #1 shortly after you-know-what.

BTW, these long song and album titles are giving me the irrits!

Edit. Hang about, Lennon did it twice. "Woman" went to #1 in 1981. Does that mean I only have to find eight more?

[finbar]

Elvis Presley did it. "Way Down" entered the charts 4 days before he died in 1977 and went on to reach #1. Ergo, it must be posthumous.

Hendrix did it not long after his death in 1970 with "Voodoo Chile".

Edit. Hang about again! It famously happened recently! That girl who was killed in the plane crash had a posthumous #1 and it was replaced by another one with George Harrison's "My Sweet Lord". Phew ... two in one go.

[finbar]

Jim Reeves did it in '66 with "Distant Drums". I'd better go and check out Patsy Cline.

Edit. Nuh. Patsy didn't do it. Quite surprised to find, in fact, that she only had two singles in the Brit charts and the highest she got was #31.

[finbar]

Buddy Holly, of course, did it in 1959 with "It Doesn't Matter Anymore".

[Buck Birdseed]

Originally posted by finbar
Enough said.

Well, Snappy, John Lennon for starters. The "Imagine" re-release went to #1 shortly after you-know-what.

BTW, these long song and album titles are giving me the irrits!

Edit. Hang about, Lennon did it twice. "Woman" went to #1 in 1981. Does that mean I only have to find eight more?

Sorry. Lennon has in fact had three Posthumous #1s, the first being "Just Like (Starting Over)". Naw, I meant ten individuals.

Correct so far: Lennon, Henrix, Presley, Aaliyah, Harrison, Jim Reeves, Buddy Holly.

Three more. One in the sixties, one in the eighties (but the song is much older, in fact it has its own "slowest climb" record in the singles category), one (with two separate entries) in the nineties.

[Fiera]

Freddie Mercury with "Living on my own". Perhaps you're counting "Bohemian Rhapsody" (with Queen) as his other entry?

[Buck Birdseed]

Yes. I mean, he was dead.

[Fiera]

I thought perhaps only solo hits were valid entries, since the rest of the group were (are) fortunately alive.

[Buck Birdseed]

I don't know about "fortunately"...

All the other entries are solo, and since he had a solo hit too there really is no controversy.