{"id":4030,"date":"2021-02-07T15:34:15","date_gmt":"2021-02-07T15:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mediaofthings.co.uk\/?p=4030"},"modified":"2021-02-07T15:34:15","modified_gmt":"2021-02-07T15:34:15","slug":"sounds-on-sunday-50-years-ago-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mediaofthings.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/02\/07\/sounds-on-sunday-50-years-ago-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Sounds on Sunday: 50 years ago\/4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>50 YEARS AGO the Charts recorded the best-selling \u201csingles\u201d of each week. Have the hits of 1971 stood the test of half a century of time slipping by since they were released? Sadly, in most cases the top selling singles have not: with only some exceptions the number one hits of 1971 are either not memorable \u2013 or memorable for the wrong reasons. Join us as we look back and ask ourselves: \u201cwhat were we thinking???\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This week 50 years ago the British public was still listening to George Harrison sing <em>My Sweet Lord<\/em>, which spent five weeks at number one and has now been on our home page for a fortnight. We are therefore taking a short break from featuring the songs of 1971 to remember Hilton Valentine, who died at the end of last month.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Valentine was a guitarist with English rock band The Animals, and he wrote the guitar riff on their version of the traditional US folk Song<em> The House of the Rising Sun<\/em>.\u00a0 It was released in 1964, when it topped the charts in the UK and the US but it\u2019s such a classic, there must have still been a shedload of people giving it a listen in 1971 (if they could tear themselves away from Clive Dunne\u2019s <em>Grandad<\/em>). The Animals were from the North-East of England \u2013 a rare challenge to the North-West, which produced so many chart-topping bands over the decades there\u2019s either something in the water or the genes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Enjoy the Animals\u2019 version, give thanks to and for Hilton Valentine \u2013 and if you have time, catch Mark Lamarr\u2019s rendition on <em>Never Mind the Buzzcocks<\/em>, fortunately still available on YouTube.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/youtu.be\/0Fy7opKu46c<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>\u25cfListen to more Sounds on Sunday:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/vodcasts.uk\/?s=sounds+on+sunday\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Sounds on Sunday<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>50 YEARS AGO the Charts recorded the best-selling \u201csingles\u201d of each week. Have the hits of 1971 stood the test of half a century of time slipping by since they were released? 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