Thursday 4 February 1988

By producercat

There’s an exciting new look to Off The Chart as it celebrates its 201st show! Sadly the show itself contains the same old rubbish as usual, but we’ll be looking at the chart from this day in 1988 and playing some of the hits you might not expect to hear on the radio. We’ll also…

Johnny Cash – The Chicken in Black

By producercat

Well now. A Johnny Cash single from 1984 which never had a sniff of the chart, which is a shame because it’s absolutely ludicrous. The story of the time Johnny had his brain replaced by that of a recently deceased bank robber, and his own organ transplanted into a chicken. True story. We came across…

Monday 28 January 1985

By producercat

They said it wouldn’t last… in fact, we said it wouldn’t last, but here we are with the 200th edition of Off The Chart! We’re heading back to this day in 1985 for a brace of unremembered hits, tracks from three of the week’s big albums, a look at the day’s events, a quick squint…

Monday 21 January 1980

By producercat

It’s almost a 1970s special on your favourite ’80s chart show this week, as we go back a whole forty years to this day in January 1980! As usual there’s two hours of hits you might just about vaguely remember, tracks from three of the week’s new hit albums, a look at what was going…