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"Don't talk just kiss" - Jocelyn Brown

Attention, most regrettably, is on the blokes providing the backing vocals. Lads, whoever you are, there's a proper legend in the studio. Show some respect!

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"You showed me" - Salt-n-Pepa

The group followed up "Let's talk about sex" with this radically reinventive Turtles cover.

It's a move, similarly ballsy to when they followed up "Push it" with a "Twist and shout" remake a few years earlier.

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"Too blind to see it" - Kym Sims

"No man in the world!", and all the pain of the last three minutes dissolves away.

Proper commercial house music of the time: big piano intro, obligatory rap break, top-drawer vocals.

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"We should be together" - Cliff Richard

Taken from his Christmas album "Together with Cliff Richard".

Written by Bruce Roberts, who wrote Donna Summer and Babs Streisand's "No more tears".

Cliff's last two festive singles made number 1, and - however much he dresses the set with armchairs and fireplaces and Christmas cards that aren't even plugged in - this will not be a big hit.

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"Running out of time". Digital Orgasm, if you believe the single.

Another entry from the Big 1991 Book of Faceless Dance Acts. They were, apparently, Maurice Engelen, Nikkie van Lierop, and Oliver Adams.

Maurice went on to form Praga Khan, and apparently this tune bears more than a few similarities to his later work "Infected with a poison".

Be careful what you wish for.

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"Everybody move" - Cathy Dennis

See, her last single "Too many walls" was a very clever love song. And we know that she can sing, and write killer pop songs.

So why does this tune sound like something Five Star would turn down as too basic?

With those strobes and that much dry ice, don't think we're in 1980 any more, folks.

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"Super trouper" - ABBA

The video. When we saw this clip in 2015, we thought it would be ABBA's last week at number one, ever; "Don't shut me down" had other ideas.

I cannot remember if Swap Shop gave away Anni-Frid's blue jumper with the white flowers, or just sent out the pattern.

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"Runaway boys" - Stray Cats

Welcome to the top ten for Brian Setzer and his band.

The through-line from Showaddywaddy to this outfit is obvious. And this explains why Leicester's finest confined themselves to crisp adverts ever after.

I'm not sure that quiff's properly plugged in...