The UK Top 50 of 1975 Poll

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Another year, another poll

Poll Results

Option	Votes
Glen Campbell Rhinestone Cowboy	6
10cc I'm Not In Love	3
Roxy Music Love Is The Drug	3
Gloria Gaynor Never Can Say Goodbye	2
Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel Make Me Smile (Come Up And See Me)	2
David Bowie Space Oddity	2
Susan Cadogan Hurt So Good	2
Showaddywaddy Three Steps To Heaven	2
Minnie Riperton Lovin' You	2
The Bee Gees Jive Talkin'	2
The Sweet Fox On The Run	2
Billy Connolly DIVORCE	2
Windsor Davies & Don Estelle Whispering Grass	2
Gladys Knight & The Pips The Way We Were	1
Kenny The Bump	1
The Tymes Ms Grace	1
Telly Savalas If	1
Status Quo Down Down	1
Rod Stewart Sailing	1
Laurel & Hardy With The Avalon Boys featuring Chill Wills The Trail Of The Lonesome Pine	0
Bobby Goldsboro Honey	0
Mud The Secrets That You Keep	0
Smokie If You Think You Know How To Love Me	0
Mac & Katie Kissoon Sugar Candy Kisses	0
George McCrae It's Been So Long	0
Fox Only You Can	0
The Stylistics Sing Baby Sing	0
Moments & Whatnauts Girls	0
Ralph McTell Streets Of London	0
Leo Sayer Moonlighting	0
Jim Capaldi Love Hurts	0
The Drifters There Goes My First Love	0
Ray Stevens Misty	0
Queen Bohemian Rhapsody	0
Tammy Wynette Stand By Your Man	0
The Stylistics I Can't Give You Anything (But My Love)	0
David Essex Hold Me Close	0
Art Garfunkel I Only Have Eyes For You	0
Typically Tropical Barbados	0
Johnny Nash Tears On My Pillow	0
Bay City Rollers Give A Little Love	0
Roger Whittaker The Last Farewell	0
Pilot January	0
Hot Chocolate You Sexy Thing	0
Mud Oh Boy	0
Van McCoy The Hustle	0
Guys 'N' Dolls There's A Whole Lot Of Loving	0
Jasper Carrott Funky Moped / Magic Roundabout	0
The Carpenters Please Mr Postman	0
Bay City Rollers Bye Bye Baby	0

― Geir Hongro, Monday, 31 December 2007 12:32 (eighteen years ago)

The best song in here is "Bohemian Rhapsody". It'd be a bit boring to vote the same song in two polls in a row though, so I went for "I'm Not In Love" instead.

― Geir Hongro, Monday, 31 December 2007 12:33 (eighteen years ago)

It was a tossup between Laurel and Hardy, and The Tymes.

The Tymes it is.

God, it was bad!

― Mark G, Monday, 31 December 2007 14:25 (eighteen years ago)

you sexy thing.

― veryloggedout, Monday, 31 December 2007 14:35 (eighteen years ago)

No Who, no credibility.

So I'm going with "Jive Talkin'"

― Sara Sara Sara, Monday, 31 December 2007 15:53 (eighteen years ago)

This is a great poll. Hard not to vote for "The Hustle" - kind of a watershed moment for dance crossing from the clubs into the more general consciousness, isn't it? Hot Chocolate is hard to beat too though - seems to best encapsulate for me what it was like to listen to A.M. radio, the vibe of being a kid discovering pop music. However the big question is where the fuck is Earth Wind & Fire's "Shining Star," which is a better song than any of these and appears on U.S. top tens for '75?

At any rate I end up going with Glen Campbell here because c'mon, Glen Campbell.

― J0hn D., Monday, 31 December 2007 16:02 (eighteen years ago)

"Shining Star" is one of those rare cases of a US chart topper that didn't even crack the UK Top 75.

― Geir Hongro, Monday, 31 December 2007 17:41 (eighteen years ago)

The Sweet - Fox On The Run

This was easy, since it's one of my all-timers.

― nicky lo-fi, Monday, 31 December 2007 19:40 (eighteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― ILX System, Monday, 7 January 2008 00:01 (eighteen years ago)

space oddity

― our work is never over, Monday, 7 January 2008 02:43 (eighteen years ago)

10cc for the LOL CREME within.

Jasper Carrott's career really took off after this single.

― Autumn Almanac, Monday, 7 January 2008 02:48 (eighteen years ago)

I forgot Telly Savalas (the white Isaac Hayes?) was scoring hits back then. I'll go with 10cc. Don't even know probably half of the songs on this list, though.

― sw00ds, Monday, 7 January 2008 02:50 (eighteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― ILX System, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 00:01 (eighteen years ago)

Windsor Davies & Don Estelle Whispering Grass 2

Ha! (it wasn't me)

― Mark G, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 10:01 (eighteen years ago)

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