Musical stations

[Gloster]

Abergavenny by Marty Wilde

& I’ll include…

Neasden by Willie Russell

can’t confirm it made it into the top 40 back in 1972 though?

It was Willie Rushton, not Willie Russell, who wrote Educating Rita/for The Times in the Crimea/etc. I don’t think it charted.

Others that didn’t get high enough include Chas & Dave’s Margate and the Clash’s Guns of Brixton.

 

[nw1]

"Ladbroke Grove" by AJ Tracey

I had to check that one! Looks like it was a very big hit - have to admit I'm a little out of touch with the past 5 years or so (other than very well-known artists such as Ed Sheeran, and so on) but checking everything on polyhex as I said in a previous post.

 

[OhNoAPacer]

Sexual Healing by Marvyn Gaye

 

[nw1]

Sexual Healing by Marvyn Gaye

Had to check the station this time! But yes, that works.

 

[OhNoAPacer]

Sandy by John Travolta

 

[xotGD]

Another album, if I may:

From Langley Park to Memphis by Prefab Sprout

 

[nicolaboo]

(Wool)ly Bully - Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs
Ain't No Moun(tain) High Enough - Diana Ross
The (Dean) and I - 10cc
Sha-La-La-La-(Lee) - Small Faces

 

[duncanp]

Johnny Remember Me, by John Leyton

 

[Mcr Warrior]

'Ticket to Ryde' by the Beatles?

No? Please yourselves!

 

[Loppylugs]

How about a closed station but song recorded before closure?

Sitting on the dock of Tebay, by Otis Reading. Can't win 'em all

 

[Ashley Hill]

From a VAUXHALL Velox,from the album Brewing Up With Billy Bragg by Billy Bragg

 

[Loppylugs]

Jolene by Dolly Parton

 

[ls2270]

Walk On By - Dionne Warwick

 

[ls2270]

Jolene by Dolly Parton

That one can actually count twice as both Par in Cornwall and Parton on the Cumbrian Coast line are in there!

 

[Gloster]

If you want it in the actual title, then there is Parklife by Blur.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Luton Airport (if the connection has opened yet?) by Cats UK

Did Lorraine Chase sing a song about that, many years ago?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Unless there is another station called simply 'Portsmouth' which I am unaware of, in some other part of the country (a la Chichester, Tyne and Wear).

There was once a station with that name on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway's Copy Pit Line.

 

[Y Ddraig Coch]

Did Scarborough Fair ever make it into the top 40? It has been recorded enough times by enough different people.

 

[nw1]

How about a closed station but song recorded before closure?

Sitting on the dock of Tebay, by Otis Reading. Can't win 'em all

Except he's Redding with a D, as in the northern California town.

 

[nw1]

Did Lorraine Chase sing a song about that, many years ago?

That was the same one I think. Remember seeing it as a child on TOTP; something like

Luton Airport... woo-ee-oo!
Luton Airport... woo-ee-oo!

That's all I can remember of it!

 

[nw1]

If you want it in the actual title, then there is Parklife by Blur.

Either. These are the sort of ones that didn't come to my mind, I have to admit! But yes, perfectly valid.

Another: The Only Living Boy in New Cross by Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine.

Clue for another that I came up with: terminus station for suburban service with possible California connection.

 

[Gloster]

Clue for another that I came up with: terminus station for suburban service with possible California connection.

I don’t think Purple Hayes or Help me Rhonda would count.

The best known version of Scarborough Fair was by Simon & Garfunkel, but it did not chart here, if it was ever released as a single. Long ago it used to get a lot of airtime.

 

[nw1]

I don’t think Purple Hayes or Help me Rhonda would count.

Nope, not thinking of either. However you are on the right lines with one of the artists.

 

[johnnychips]

Did Lorraine Chase sing a song about that, many years ago?

The song was based on a Campari advert featuring Lorraine Chase, which finished with a suave bloke asking her ‘Did you fly here from Paradise?’ ‘Nah, Luton Airport’ and the phrase went pre-internet viral.

 

[lxfe_mxtterz]

Heaven Is A Place on Earth - Belinda Carlisle

 

[lxfe_mxtterz]

And another...

There Must Be An Angel - Eurythmics

 

[Gloster]

Into the Valley - The Skids

I missed that artists’ names can be included, so Starcrossed by Ash in #15 gets in twice.

 

[Loppylugs]

Layla - Eric Clapton

Never do a tango with an Eskimo - Alma Cogan

 

[johnnychips]

Damn! If Meadowhall hadn’t opened, we could have had ‘Always look on the Brightside of life’.

Edit: and if we can have top 40 albums, London 0 Hull 4 by the Housemartins.

 

[Gloster]

Well, if you want albums, you could have Keynsham, by the Bonzo Dog Band, although only since 1974. I don’t know where it got in the charts.