The 20th of February 1972
Official U.K. Singles Chart results from Sunday the 20th to Saturday the 26th of February 1972
Cut-off for sales figures was up to the end of Saturday the 19th of February
Results counted from Sunday the 20th,
announced on Tuesday the 22nd,
and broadcast on B.B.C. Radio 1 on Sunday the 27th of February 1972.
The Fortunes
Storm In A Teacup
At No.7, on the the U.K. Top 50 Singles Chart the day I am born, is The Fortunes with “Storm In A Teacup”.
This single rises up to hit its peak position this week.
The band from Birmingham are having a bit of a renaissance at this point in their careers, after experiencing quite a lengthy quiet spell chart-wise.
They were best known…
…for striking fame during the mid-1960’s with their Merseybeat style sound but since then, things had gone a tad quiet.
In fact, since 1965,..
…even though they’d released a string of potential hits, none of them managed to break into the Top 50.
The one memorable moment they did achieve in the U.K. was the jingle to a Coca-Cola advert which also introduced the soft drink’s new slogan “It’s The Real Thing” in 1969.
However,..
…it would take another couple of years before they managed to make it back into the charts with the catchy “Freedom Come, Freedom Go” which had proved to be a massive hit the previous Autumn in 1971.
That hit had been written…
…by the partnership of the two Rogers, Cooke and Greenaway, with assistance from two other accomplshed songwriters Albert Hammond and Mike Hazlewood.
The next single would come from another couple of budding writers.
The first of the two songwriters…
was Lyndsey De Paul under the name of Lyndsey Rubin, who had brought the song to Roger Greenaway, who immediately thought of the song as a follow-up to the Fotunes big comeback hit.
Lyndsey had been writing hundreds of songs at this time, including a few for the former Artful Dodger from the film ‘Oliver!’ Jack Wild.
Lyndsey’s collaborator…
…in this composition was Ron Roker, who the year before had provided the theme tune to the new ‘Rupert The Bear’ children’s TV series, and released “Rupert” as a single, sung by Jackie Lee.
Now with this new song,..
…it was time to see if fortunes would strike once again.
The new single…
…had previously entered at No.35, nearly a month before on the 23rd of January, then jumping up to No.23 as the year turned to this month of February, and further leaping to No.16 the week after.
It had broken the Top 10 in the U.K. Singles Chart last week when it reached No.9, and this week would see it peak at this position.
The single will slip back a place to No.8 next week, before leaving the Top 10 the week after, as it begins its fall back through the chart.
Still, a modest 6 weeks in the Top 20 will be part of an overall 11 weeks in the Top 50 which would run it’s course from the 23rd of January to when it leaves after the 8th of April.
Sadly, this would be the last visit the band would ever have to the U.K. Charts.
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