🤪 Stir Crazy Antidote #9 - Who had the best music at the age of 12?

Monkey Tennis Stir Crazy Antidotes
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I can’t find a suitable place for this but I find it an interesting read. Giant Steps is a superb album. I hated Wake Up Boo

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Sandwiched between Paul Hardcastle 19 and “Frankie” by sister sledge was The Crowd. I remember all the number 1 songs on the list from Wikipedia apart from this.

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#1 on my 12th Birthday

The Tide is High, Blondie (I win)

#1s during 1980
Pink Floyd “Another Brick in the Wall (Part II)” 15 December 1979
Pretenders “Brass in Pocket” 19 January 1980
The Special A.K.A. feat. Rico “Too Much Too Young”[nb 2] 2 February 1980
Kenny Rogers “Coward of the County” 16 February 1980
Blondie “Atomic” 1 March 1980
Fern Kinney “Together We Are Beautiful” 15 March 1980
The Jam “Going Underground” / “Dreams of Children” 22 March 1980
The Detroit Spinners “Working My Way Back to You – Forgive Me Girl” * 12 April 1980
Blondie “Call Me” 26 April 1980
Dexys Midnight Runners “Geno” 3 May 1980
Johnny Logan “What’s Another Year” 17 May 1980
The Mash “Theme from MAS*H (Suicide is Painless)” 31 May 1980
Don McLean “Crying” 21 June 1980
Olivia Newton-John and the Electric Light Orchestra “Xanadu” 12 July 1980
Odyssey “Use It Up and Wear It Out” 26 July 1980
ABBA “The Winner Takes It All” 9 August 1980
David Bowie “Ashes to Ashes” 23 August 1980
The Jam “Start!” 6 September 1980
Kelly Marie “Feels Like I’m in Love” * 13 September 1980
The Police “Don’t Stand So Close to Me” † 27 September 1980
Barbra Streisand “Woman in Love” 25 October 1980
Blondie “The Tide Is High” 15 November 1980
ABBA “Super Trouper” 29 November 1980
John Lennon “(Just Like) Starting Over” 20 December 1980
St Winifred’s School Choir “There’s No One Quite Like Grandma” * 27 December 1980

A better year the @saintbletch’s indeed

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I thought @gavstar was younger than this and that @CB-Saint was older.

I’m still not convinced @saintbletch isn’t trying to gather personal information on us all to hack bank accounts and whatnot.

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I am wise beyond my years

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I am an idiot forgot I should have been 12. August 1976

“Don’t Go Breaking My Heart”

Elton John and Kiki Dee

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If your criterion is that the song should be a truly appalling cover version of a truly brilliant record, then yes you do.

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Good year.
I get Abba Super Trouper so yeah you win😉

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Not proud now, but the 12 yo me loved it and bought it.

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Oh dear. This was number one on the day of my twelfth birthday.

I think I can say that 1972 was a mixed bag for number ones. Alongside T Rex, Rod, Slade and Alice Cooper you’ll find Lieutenant Pigeon, two Osmond brothers, David Cassidy and Gilbert O’Sullivan. Hmm.

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I am very immature for my age.

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I’ll settle for that.

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This was a notable recording as it was the poem where the phrase “Gottle ov Geer” was first used.

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I live down Chesney’s Road, funnily enough. Nice bloke.

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I don’t win.

Fast Love - George Michael.

Fucking hell.

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I’ll give you that this is a good year - but a better year?

I don’t think so.

There’s only one way to solve this…

…a complex and needlessly involved series of posts and polls…

Once I’ve thought this through, I’ll be back.

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We’ve already seen, “The Charge of The Light Brigade” was in at number one, with a bullet (or should that be cannonball)
Just a selection of 45s in the charts on my 12th birthday in November 1960. I think you’ll agree there are some real classics there:

ARE YOU LONESOME TO-NIGHT –•– Elvis Presley)
POETRY IN MOTION –•– Johnny Tillotson
GEORGIA ON MY MIND –•– Ray Charles
SAVE THE LAST DANCE FOR ME –•– The Drifters
BLUE ANGEL –•– Roy Orbison
PERFIDIA –•– The Ventures
CHAIN GANG –•– Sam Cooke
YOU’RE SIXTEEN –•– Johnny Burnette
PETER GUNN –•– Duane Eddy
MY DEAREST DARLING –•– Etta James
FOOLS RUSH IN (Where Angels Fear To Tread) –•– Brook Benton

Of course I’ve omitted the dross but I was still listening to Jimmy Saville on Radio Luxembourg whilst trying to crack one off to Connie Francis under the bed sheets.