Off The Chart Gold: Saturday 31 December 1983

By producercat

Live from Sandy MacPherson’s New Year party at the Village Hall, Strathpeffer, join us for two hours of hits, headlines and Hogmanay hijinks on the final Off The Chart of the year! We’re looking at the last singles chart of 1983 and playing lots of obscure and forgotten hits, as well as three of the…

Leap Year Chart Research Addendum

By producercat

Um, yeah, look, there’s been a bit of a cock-up. Not our fault, really, but adding in an extra day last week because of the leap year has thrown everything out of whack, with the result that the day we should be covering today, 5 March 1986, is a day we already did five years…

Sunday 16 March 1980

By producercat

Hey, wanna feel old? No, of course you don’t, nobody does. But nevertheless we’re revisiting the UK singles chart from this day in 1980 on this week’s Off The Chart! As always we’ll have a lorryload of obscure and forgotten hits, plus three of the week’s new albums, a look at the day’s goings-on and…

Micky Dolenz – “To Be Or Not To Be”

By producercat

As mentioned on the 9 June 1980 show, B.A. (Big Angus) Robertson’s “To Be Or Not To Be” was covered a couple of years later by Micky Dolenz of the Monkees, who released it as a single in Japan and promoted it with this… idiosyncratic TV performance.

Monday 9 June 1980

By producercat

Come back a full four decades to revisit this day in 1980 on this week’s Off The Chart! There’s the usual batch of obscure and forgotten hits, three of the week’s big new albums, a round-up of the day’s events, a look at the New Zealand chart and the top five singles in full. Whose…