The 20th of February 1974
Official U.K. Albums Chart results from Sunday the 17th to Saturday the 23rd of February 1974
Cut-off for sales figures was up to the end of Saturday the 16th of February
Results counted from Sunday the 17th,
and published on Wednesday the 20th of February 1974.
Perry Como
And I Love You So
At No.5, on the “The Top 50 U.K. Albums Chart”, the week of my 2nd Birthday, is Perry Como with And I Love You So.
A welcome return…
…along my musical road for this album, which I’ve already featured extensively as one of my fondest memories during my second year.
Back then, I’d reminisced about how much my own mother adored this man, and how the sound of this album floated serenely around the home while everyone else was out, and my mother could get on with keeping the house in peace.
I’d left the story of this LP’s journey at the close of last year in 1973, and so now, it revisits me as I complete that second year and begin a third; and with two of the tracks featuring this very same week in the corresponding Singles chart.
The album,..
…since I’d last left it, was still sitting comfortably in the middle positions of the Top 10 as this year of 1974 dawned, but in the first couple of weeks it began to show signs of slipping ever closer to the edge of the Top 10.
But then, something happily unexpected happened.
As January began to draw to a close, so the LP leapt up surprisingly, and actually became that week’s best selling album!
For the first time in his long distinguished career, Perry had hit the top of the UK album charts. The last time he’d scored a No.1 in the UK, had been when his single “Magic Moments” had hit the top spot, all the way in the past during Valentine’s Day week in February 1958. Back then, it most probably still would have been sold most popularly on a shellac 78rpm record.
After this album’s high point, Perry didn’t have anything else to prove, but as we can see just a few weeks into this following month of February, he hasn’t moved that far.
From here,..
…the album stays relatively close to this position. In fact, it won’t be for around another month before it descends lower, and then only very slightly, as spring takes hold and the LP settles comfortably in the mid-teens.
By July, it climbs back into the Top 10 once again, and stays until the month gives way to August, when it then begins a very gradual descent as autumn approaches which, by the middle of November, it gets as low as No.44.
It’s at this precise moment, Perry visits the UK and headlines this year’s Royal Variety Performance and sings his latest single from this album to Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother (footage of which I’ve already included regarding said single’s post), and lo and behold, within a month, the album is back in the Top 10 once again, just in time for Christmas.
The longevity of this LP’s run will carry on into another year, as so will I; and so once again I will leave it here, celebrating another Top 10 run, just as it was twelve months before, and will catch up with it during a future birthday week.
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