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In December, 2002, participants in the internet newsgroup uk.media.radio.archers were invited to vote for ten songs from a list of songs previously nominated by participants. They were also invited to vote to "save" three songs. A vote to "save" a song cancelled out a vote for that song. First of all the Top Ten, showing how many points or votes they received. Four songs tied for 1st place, with 19 votes each, so a second round of voting was held, just for those four, with 4 points awarded for the "worst", 3 for "second worst", etc. The total number of points gained by these four songs is shown. The total number of votes in the first round is shown for the other songs. | ||
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"There's no-one quite like Grandma" - St Winefred's School Choir |
95 points
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"Candle in the Wind" (Diana version) - Elton John |
92 points
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"Grandad" - Clive Dunn |
75 points
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"The Birdie Song" - The Tweets |
66 points
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"Long haired Lover From Liverpool" - Jimmy Osmond |
17 votes
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"Millennium Prayer" - Cliff Richard |
15 votes
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"Shaddupa your face" - Joe Dolce |
14 votes
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"Mr Blobby" - Mr Blobby |
12 votes
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"No Charge" - J J Barrie |
11 votes
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"Deck of Cards" - Wink Martindale |
10 votes
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Below are the rest of the results, shown in order of votes scored. Songs that tied are shown in alphabetical order. The total number of votes shown is the number of people voting for the song, minus any votes to save it. | ||
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"Blue is the colour" - Chelsea Football Club "Mistletoe and Wine" - Cliff Richard "My Way" - Frank Sinatra |
8 votes
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"Agadoo" - Black Lace "Lady In Red" - Chris de Burgh "Tie a Yellow Ribbon" - Tony Orlando and Dawn "Y Viva Espana" - Sylvia |
7 votes
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"Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep" - Middle of the Road "Save your Love" - Rene & Renato "Seasons in the Sun" - Terry Jacks "The Smurf Song" - Father Abraham and the Smurfs |
6 votes
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"Honey" - Bobby Goldsboro "Mother Of Mine" - Neil Reid "Teletubbies say Eh-Oh!" - Teletubblies |
5 votes
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"Billy don't be a hero" - Paper Lace "Green Green Grass of Home" - Tom Jones "Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah" - Alan Sherman "I've never been to me" - Charlene "My Heart will go on" - Celine Dion "Welcome Home" - Peters and Lee "Yummy, yummy, yummy, I've got love in my tummy" - Ohio Express |
4 votes
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"Amazing grace" - Royal Scots Dragoon Guards "Band of Gold" - Freda Payne "Barbie Girl" - Aqua "Brown Girl in the Ring" - Boney M "Clair" - Gilbert O'Sullivan "Come on Eileen" - Dexy`s Midnight Runners "Day Trip to Bangor" - Fidler's Dram "England swings" - Roger Miller "Everyone's gone to the moon" - Jonathan King "Hello this is Joannie (the telephone answering machine song)" - Paul Evans "How can we be lovers if we can't be friends?" - Michael Bolton "I will always love you" - Whitney Houston "Little White Bull" - Tommy Steele "My Ding-a-Ling" - Chuck Berry "Oldest swinger in town" - Fred Wedlock "Paper Roses" - Marie Osmond "(Simply Having a) Wonderful Christmas Time" - Paul McCartney "The Floral Dance" - Terry Wogan "We Are The World" - USA for Africa |
3 votes
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"Candle in the Wind" (original version) - Elton John "Chapel of Love" - The Dixie Cups "Coward Of The County" - Kenny Rogers "Ebony and Ivory" - Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder "Escape" (the Pina Colada Song) - Rupert Holmes "Especially for you" - Jason Donovan & Kylie Minogue "Everything I Do, I Do it For You" - Bryan Adams "Knock Three Times" - Dawn "Lara's Theme (Somewhere My Love)" - Ray Conniff "Loving You" - Minnie Riperton "Muskrat Love" - Captain & Tennille "Please Release Me" by Englebert Humperdinck "If" - Telly Savalas "Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini" - Mallet /Bombalurina "Puppy Love" - Donny Osmond "Rose Garden" - Lynn Anderson "Save your Kisses for me" - Brotherhood of Man "Something" - Shirley Bassey "To All The Girls I've Loved before" - Julio Inglesias "Two Little Boys" by Rolf Harris "Una Paloma Blanca" - Jonathan King / George Baker "What a wonderful world" - Louis Armstrong "You Need Hands" - Max Bygraves "You're a Pink Toothbrush, you're a Blue Toothbrush" - Max Bygraves |
2 votes
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""A-Tisket, A-Tasket" - Ella Fitzgerald "Baby I love your ways" / FreeBird Medley - Will to Power "Barcelona" - Mercury / Caballé "Bye Bye Baby"- Bay City Rollers "Crystal Waters" - Gypsy Woman "Easy Like Sunday Morning" - the Commodores "From a Distance" - Cliff Richard "Good Enough" - Dodgy "I Believe" - Frankie Lane "I Eat Cannibal" - Toto Coelo "It's oh so quiet" - Bjork "It Only Takes A Minute" - One Hundred Ton And A Feather / Take That "Jingle Bells" - Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters "Little Arrows" - Leapy Lee "Mary's Boy Child" - Harry Belafonte "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" - Beatles "Mouldy Old Dough" - Lieutenant Pigeon "Mustang Sally" - The Commitments "Mull of Kintyre" - Wings "Murder on the Dance Floor" - Sophie Ellis Bextor "Patches" - Clarence Carter "Raindrops keep falling on my head" - B J Thomas "Shang-a-Lang" - Bay City Rollers "Shifting, Whispering Sands" - Rusty Draper "Sometimes when we touch" - Dan Hill "Summer (The First Time)" - Bobby Goldsboro "Tammy" - Debbie Reynolds 'The Girl Is Mine" - Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson "The Stonk" - Hale & Pace "Think Twice" - Celine Dion "Whispering Grass" - Windsor Davies & Don Estelle "Who the **** is Alice" - Smokie featuring Roy Chubby Brown "Xanadu" - Olivia Newton John and ELO "Yellow Submarine" - Beatles |
1 votes
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The songs listed below were nominated but failed to score - either because no-one voted for them or because any votes cast were cancelled or outweighed by votes to "save" them. | ||
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"3 Is Family" - Dana Dawson "Absolutely Fabulous" - Pet Shop Boys "A Girl Like You" - Edwin Collin "A Windmill in Old Amsterdam" - Ronnie Hilton "Achy-breaky heart" - Billy Ray Cyrus "After The Goldrush"- Prelude "All Around My Hat" - Steeleye Span "American Pie" - Don McLean / Madonna "Annie's song" - John Denver" Be The First To Believe" - A1 "Bohemian Rhapsody" - Queen "Bridge over troubled water" - Simon and Garfunkel "Can't get you outta my head" - Kylie Minogue "Colours" - Donovan "D.I.V.O.R.C.E." - Billy Connolly "Deeper Love" - Ruff Driverz "Don't Look Back In Anger" - Oasis "Dy-Na-Mi-Tee" - Miss Dynamite "Easy Lover" - Phil Collins and Philip Bailey "Ebeneezer Goode" - The Shamen "Eternal Flame" - The Bangles "Eye of the Tiger" - Survivor "Fernando" - Abba "Gimme Shelter" - Samantha Fox / Hawkwind "Go Now" - Moody Blues "Happy Talk" - Captain Sensible "Hotel California" - The Eagles "How Am I Supposed to Live Without You?" - Michael Bolton "I hear you knocking" - Dave Edmunds "I talk to the trees" - Clint Eastwood "I just called to say I love you" - Stevie Wonder "I'm gonna dance the night away" - The Mavericks "I'm Sticking With You" - Velvet Underground "I should be so lucky" - Kylie Minogue "I want it all" - Queen "If you leave me now" - Chicago "Imagine" - John Lennon "Johnny Reggae" - The Piglets "Karma Police" - Radiohead "Killer Queen" - Queen "King of the Road" - Roger Miller "Lady Jane" - Rolling Stones "Let it be" - The Beatles "Let's have a quiet night in" - David Soul "MacArthur Park" - Richard Harris "Mambo Italiano" - Rosemary Clooney "Matchstalk Men" - Brian and Michael "Mmm Bop" - Hanson "Morningtown ride" - The Seekers "Nu Flow" - Big Brovaz "Oh Superman" - Laurie Anderson "Pipes of Peace" - Paul McCartney "Relax" - Frankie goes to Hollywood "S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y" - Bay City Rollers "Seven Tears" - Goombay Dance Band "She wears my ring" - Solomon King "Stairway To Heaven" - Rolf Harris "Stand by your man" - Tammy Wynette "Sweet Child O' Mine" - Guns'n'Roses "Sylvia's Mother" - Dr Hook & the Medicine Show "Tell Laura I love her" - Ray Peterson / Ricky Valance "Telstar" - The Tornadoes "Terry" - Twinkle "The Logical Song" - Pinky and Perky "The Chicken Song" - Spitting Image "The Sparrow Song" - The Seekers "This Pullover" - Jess Conrad "This One's For The Children" - New Kids On The Block "Unchained Melody" - Righteous Brothers "Wandering Star" - Lee Marvin "We All Stand Together" - Paul McCartney and the Frog Chorus "We didn't start the fire" by Billy Joel "White Christmas"- Bing Crosby "Winchester Cathedral" - New Vaudeville Band "Wooden Heart " - Elvis Presley "Young Girl" - Gary Puckett and the Union Gap |
0 votes or negative scores |
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In the last category above, "Bridge over troubled water" by Simon and Garfunkel proved to be the least unpopular song because, although it had been nominated, no-one voted for it but 13 people voted to save it. | ||