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The winner... the winner... the winner... It's Dare! GG!

10/4/2023 39 James — Sit Down 34 B-52's — Love Shack +2 34 Deee-Lite — Groove Is In The Heart +2 32 DNA Ft. Suzanne Vega — Tom's Diner 32 Adventures Of Stevie V — Dirty Cash 32 Crystal Waters — Gypsy Woman 31 KLF — Last Train To Trancentral 28 Amy Grant — Baby Baby 27 Alannah Myles — Black Velvet 27 Seal — Crazy 27 2 Unlimited — Get Ready For This 24 Kylie Minogue — Better The Devil You Know 20 Craig McLachlan & Check 1-2 — Mona 20 Nomad — (I Wanna Give You) Devotion 20 Salt-N-Pepa — Let's Talk About Sex 19 Luciano Pavarotti — Nessun Dorma -4 16 Diana Ross — When You Tell Me That You Love Me 15 Heavy D And The Boyz — Now That We Found Love 14 Scorpions — Wind Of Change -1 12 Kim Appleby — Don't Worry 12 Extreme — More Than Words 5 Madonna — Crazy For You (Remix) -1

10/4/2023 28 Gnarls Barkley - Crazy -6 25 Gorillaz - Dare +4

Norman Wisdom died on this day 13 years ago, aged 95. - Wisdom ran away from home as a child and was homeless at one point, before joining the military as a cabin boy in 1929. - Wisdom first discovered his talent for entertaining others when putting on a shadow boxing performance, and would often employ physical comedy in his act (particularly silly walks and faces). - Wisdom would develop his own character for his comedy routines, which he would also portray in acting- called "The Gump": The Gump was also often referred to as "Norman Pitkin" in his film series, where he starred opposite Edward Chapman's Mr. Grimsdale- whom Wisdom would often shout the name of for comedic effect. - Wisdom would win the 1954 BAFTA for Most Promising Newcomer to Film for his role in Trouble in Store, and in 1959 was voted the third most popular British actor. - Wisdom became an unlikely icon in Albania during the Hoxha regime- Hoxha himself compared the character of Norman Pitkin to the proletariat emerging victorious over the bourgeoise (Mr. Grimsdale), and his films were some of the few Western films approved by the communists. Wisdom would visit the country in 1995 and became an honorary citizen, and would appear at an England vs. Albania soccer match in 2001 wearing a jacket combining the two teams' jerseys: - Among his last roles before his retirement in 2004 included Billy Ingleton in Last of the Summer Wine and Ernie Crabbe in Coronation Street. - Wisdom debuted on the DeathList in 1997, which led to this angry email being featured in the obit section: "Sir, I am currently working as a freelance production assistant, on a film that is to star Mr Norman Wisdom, and Sir John Mills. I can reliably inform you that both gentlemen are in fine health; I know them personally. If they were to be made aware of their inclusion on this sickening list of yours, they would be likely to take offence, or worse, be upset. I suggest that you remove their names forthwith and no further reference be made; and that you, whoever you are, find someting more worthwhile to do with your life than indulge in morbid speculation. SJ Walden." (wonder what they're up to now...) Needless to say, Wisdom would not return to the list until 2003. He also appeared on the list in 2005, 2006, and from 2008 until his death. - Wisdom's health declined rapidly when he was diagnosed with dementia in 2007, and would have several strokes during 2010 which hastened his demise. He was the sixth hit of the 2010 list (of the nine that year).

Bill Fagerbakke, the voice of Patrick Star, is 66.

10/3/2023 36 B-52's — Love Shack +2 34 Luciano Pavarotti — Nessun Dorma -5 33 James — Sit Down 28 Adventures Of Stevie V — Dirty Cash 27 DNA Ft. Suzanne Vega — Tom's Diner 27 2 Unlimited — Get Ready For This 26 Deee-Lite — Groove Is In The Heart +1 26 Alannah Myles — Black Velvet 26 Crystal Waters — Gypsy Woman 24 Kylie Minogue — Better The Devil You Know 24 Amy Grant — Baby Baby 23 Seal — Crazy 23 KLF — Last Train To Trancentral 21 Heavy D And The Boyz — Now That We Found Love 20 Craig McLachlan & Check 1-2 — Mona 20 Nomad — (I Wanna Give You) Devotion 20 Salt-N-Pepa — Let's Talk About Sex 18 Extreme — More Than Words 18 Diana Ross — When You Tell Me That You Love Me 16 Madonna — Crazy For You (Remix) 14 New Kids On The Block — Step By Step +1 14 Kim Appleby — Don't Worry 13 Deacon Blue — Four Bacharach And David Songs EP 12 Technotronic Ft. Ya Kid K — Get Up (Before The Night Is Over) 12 Scorpions — Wind Of Change 11 Bobby Vinton — Blue Velvet -1

10/3/2023 37 Gnarls Barkley - Crazy -6 30 Britney Spears - Toxic 28 Gorillaz - Dare +4

William Steig died on this day 20 years ago, aged 95. - Steig became a cartoonist in 1930, making illustrations and editorial cartoons for The New Yorker. Steig made a character called "Poor Pitiful Pearl", which was made into a doll line in 1956: - Steig made his first children's book in 1968, called Roland, the Minstel Pig (about a lute-playing pig who befriends a fox). His 1969 book Sylvester and the Magic Pebble (about a donkey who accidentally turns himself into a rock with said pebble to escape a lion) won the 1970 Caldecott Medal. His career would continue to see success in the '70s and '80s with books like Abel's Island (1976, made into a 1988 TV film starring Tim Curry) and Doctor De Soto (about a mouse dentist- winner of the 1983 National Book Award for Young People's Literature). - In 1990, Steig made his most famous work... Shrek: The plot revolved around the titular fire-breathing monster, who rescues an ugly princess from an evil knight. Steven Spielberg bought the film rights in 1991- followed by DreamWorks in 1995, leading to the first film of the now titan of meme culture being released in 2001. Despite Shrek deviating from the book's plot, Steig expressed approval, stating "[Steig's family] went sort of expecting to hate it, thinking, 'What has Hollywood done to it?' But we loved it. We were afraid it would be too sickeningly cute and, instead, Bill just thought they did a wonderful, witty job of it. It's vulgar, it's disgusting — and I love it!" - Following Steig's death, he would receive a tribute in the credits of Shrek 2 (released the following year):

Chubby Checker is 82.

10/2/2023 34 James — Sit Down 34 B-52's — Love Shack +2 31 Deee-Lite — Groove Is In The Heart +1 30 Luciano Pavarotti — Nessun Dorma -4 29 Adventures Of Stevie V — Dirty Cash 28 Alannah Myles — Black Velvet 27 DNA Ft. Suzanne Vega — Tom's Diner 24 2 Unlimited — Get Ready For This 24 Kylie Minogue — Better The Devil You Know 23 Seal — Crazy 23 KLF — Last Train To Trancentral 22 Crystal Waters — Gypsy Woman 22 Amy Grant — Baby Baby 21 Madonna — Crazy For You (Remix) 20 Bobby Vinton — Blue Velvet 20 Craig McLachlan & Check 1-2 — Mona 20 Kim Appleby — Don't Worry 20 Nomad — (I Wanna Give You) Devotion 20 Salt-N-Pepa — Let's Talk About Sex 20 Diana Ross — When You Tell Me That You Love Me 19 Heavy D And The Boyz — Now That We Found Love 18 Scorpions — Wind Of Change 16 New Kids On The Block — Step By Step +1 16 Deacon Blue — Four Bacharach And David Songs EP 16 Technotronic Ft. Ya Kid K — Get Up (Before The Night Is Over) 14 Extreme — More Than Words 11 Status Quo — The Anniversary Waltz Part 1 -2

10/2/2023 39 Gnarls Barkley - Crazy 31 Nelly Furtado - Maneater 21 Gorillaz - Dare +2 20 Lady Gaga — Bad Romance 14 Britney Spears - Toxic +2 14 Kylie Minogue - Can’t Get You Out Of My Head -6

Rock Hudson died on this day 38 years ago, aged 59. - Hudson's birth name was Roy Scherer- he took his stage name by combining the Rock of Gibraltar and the Hudson River. - Hudson debuted in film in 1948's Fighter Squadron- it reportedly took him 38 tries to get his one line in the film correct. - Hudson's first leading role was in the 1952 movie Scarlet Angel, and him starring opposite Jane Wyman in Magnificent Obsession is considered his breakout role. He soon earned an Oscar nomination for Best Actor for the 1956 film Giant. - Hudson was well-known for starring in several films opposite Doris Day- most notably Pillow Talk in 1959. Hudson and Day would become lifelong friends. - Hudson turned to TV roles due to being unsatisfied with the movie scripts he was offered. His best-known role was as the titular character of McMillan & Wife, which ran from 1971 to 1977. - Hudson was gay- this was known among his Hollywood friends but was not revealed to the public (due to homophobic stigma at the time, which would've ended his career). Tabloids managed to get this information as early as 1955, and he kept it a secret by revealing embarrassing information about his fellow celebrities. - Hudson was a heavy drinker and smoker, and he suffered a heart attack in 1981- he continued to smoke even after heart surgery. In 1984, Hudson was diagnosed with HIV- one of his last television appearances was on Doris Day's Best Friends in June of 1985, which fueled speculation about his health: One of his publicists tried to hide his disease by claiming it was terminal liver cancer, but another one confirmed he had AIDS. He was among the first celebrities to die from the disease.

Kevin Eldon is 64. Among his most recent work:

10/1/2023 30 Deee-Lite — Groove Is In The Heart +1 27 Alannah Myles — Black Velvet 25 Luciano Pavarotti — Nessun Dorma 25 Adventures Of Stevie V — Dirty Cash 23 James — Sit Down 23 KLF — Last Train To Trancentral 22 Crystal Waters — Gypsy Woman 22 Deacon Blue — Four Bacharach And David Songs EP 22 DNA Ft. Suzanne Vega — Tom's Diner 21 New Kids On The Block — Step By Step +1 21 Heavy D And The Boyz — Now That We Found Love 21 Bobby Vinton — Blue Velvet 20 B-52's — Love Shack +1 20 Technotronic Ft. Ya Kid K — Get Up (Before The Night Is Over) 20 Kylie Minogue — Better The Devil You Know 20 Craig McLachlan & Check 1-2 — Mona 20 Kim Appleby — Don't Worry 20 Seal — Crazy 20 Nomad — (I Wanna Give You) Devotion 20 Madonna — Crazy For You (Remix) 20 Amy Grant — Baby Baby 20 Extreme — More Than Words 20 Salt-N-Pepa — Let's Talk About Sex 20 2 Unlimited — Get Ready For This 20 Diana Ross — When You Tell Me That You Love Me 17 Paula Abdul & Wild Pair — Opposites Attract +1 15 Madonna — Justify My Love 15 Status Quo — The Anniversary Waltz Part 1 14 Londonbeat — I’ve Been Thinking About You 14 Madonna — Hanky Panky 13 Scorpions — Wind Of Change 12 Various Artists — The Brits 1990 -6

10/1/2023 41 Gnarls Barkley - Crazy 40 Lady Gaga — Bad Romance 28 Britney Spears - Toxic 26 Kylie Minogue - Can’t Get You Out Of My Head -6 25 Nelly Furtado - Maneater 13 Gorillaz — Dare +2 8 Eminem ft. Dido - Stan +2

Charles Aznavour died on this day 5 years ago, aged 94. - Aznavour began writing songs in 1944. During that time, World War II was well underway, and Aznavour and his family provided refuge to ethnic Armenians, Jews, and others who were persecuted by the Nazis in Vichy France- his mother was a survivor of the Armenian Genocide of 1915. - Early in his career, he opened for Edith Piaf, who encouraged him to pursue singing- also acting as his mentor. - Aznavour would go on to write over 1,200 songs, though among his most successful singles was 1972's ""Tous les visages de l'amour" ("All the Faces of Love")- better known in English as "She", which topped the UK chart for four weeks: - Aznavour would collaborate with many singers during his life- these ranged from Bing Crosby to Frank Sinatra to Bob Dylan to Elton John to Josh Groban. - Aznavour was also an actor who appeared in dozens of movies, and his final role was voicing Carl in the French dub of Pixar's Up. - Aznavour would often get into politics, and was friends with Jacques Chirac, whom he gave his support to in the 2002 election. He would also advocate for Armenian citizens (as he was of Armenian ancestry), and was named a National Hero of Armenia in 2004. - Aznavour first appeared on the DeathList in 1990 (no idea why), before returning in 2014 and for the final time in 2018, where he was the 10th death (of 12) that year.

Another list occupant birthday today... Sandy Gall is 96.

9/30/2023 (7:20 PM EST) 24 Adventures Of Stevie V — Dirty Cash 22 B-52's — Love Shack +2 21 Deee-Lite — Groove Is In The Heart +1 20 Technotronic ft. Ya Kid K — Get Up (Before The Night Is Over) 20 Various Artists — The Brits 1990 20 Alannah Myles — Black Velvet 20 Kylie Minogue — Better The Devil You Know 20 New Kids On The Block — Step By Step 20 Luciano Pavarotti — Nessun Dorma 20 Craig McLachlan & Check 1-2 — Mona 20 Madonna — Hanky Panky 20 DNA ft. Suzanne Vega — Tom's Diner 20 Deacon Blue — Four Bacharach And David Songs EP 20 Bobby Vinton — Blue Velvet 20 Status Quo — The Anniversary Waltz Part 1 20 Gazza & Lindisfarne — Fog On The Tyne (Revisited) 20 Kim Appleby — Don't Worry 20 Madonna — Justify My Love 20 Seal — Crazy 20 Nomad — (I Wanna Give You) Devotion 20 Madonna — Crazy For You (Remix) 20 James — Sit Down 20 KLF — Last Train To Trancentral 20 Crystal Waters — Gypsy Woman 20 Amy Grant — Baby Baby 20 Heavy D And The Boyz — Now That We Found Love 20 Extreme — More Than Words 20 Salt-N-Pepa — Let's Talk About Sex 20 Scorpions — Wind Of Change 20 2 Unlimited — Get Ready For This 20 Diana Ross — When You Tell Me That You Love Me 18 Right Said Fred — I’m Too Sexy -6 15 Paula Abdul & Wild Pair — Opposites Attract +1 14 Londonbeat — I’ve Been Thinking About You

Well, we have a winner. It took on every other UK #2 of the '80s, came for our love (and got it), and wasn't gone in the 34 days since its first vote. GG everyone!

9/30/2023 37 Gnarls Barkley - Crazy 30 Lady Gaga - Bad Romance 29 Nelly Furtado - Maneater 29 Kylie Minogue - Can’t Get You Out Of My Head 28 Gorillaz - Dare +2 27 Britney Spears - Toxic 24 Lady Gaga — Poker Face -6 13 Eminem ft. Dido - Stan +2 I like all these songs, but Poker Face seems to be the least good.

James Dean died on this day 68 years ago, aged 24. - Dean attended UCLA for a semester initially majoring in pre-law, but changed it to drama to the chagrin of his father. He dropped out after a semester to pursue a full-time acting career. - Dean's first TV appearance was in a Pepsi commercial which first aired in December of 1950: Among the TV shows he appeared in included Kraft Television Theatre, The United States Steel Hour, and General Electric Theater (many early '50s anthology series were named after their sponsors). - Dean's breakout role was in Elia Kazan's East of Eden, in which he improvised many of his scenes. This earned him a Best Actor Oscar nomination, and this was also his only major film to be released in his lifetime. - Dean would then star in Rebel Without a Cause, one of the defining movies of the 1950s counterculture and featuring his most iconic look- a red jacket and white undershirt (as seen in the above picture). - Dean's final film was Giant, released in 1956, which got him another posthumous Best Actor nomination. - Before his death, Dean was scheduled to portray Rocky Graziano in Somebody Up There Likes Me- the role ended up going to Paul Newman afterwards. - Dean had an interest in racing, and aspired to compete in the Indy 500. While practicing for the Salinas Road Race scheduled to happen the next day- using the Route 466 highway as a track- Dean got into a fatal car crash due to being unable to slow his car down at an intersection (where another car was merging). Ironically enough, Dean had appeared in a PSA about the dangers of speeding:

Angie Dickinson is 92.

9/29/2023 26 Eurythmics- Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) +4 26 Tears For Fears- Everybody Wants To Rule The World -6 14 A-Ha -Take On Me I love all three of these songs- but I prefer the other two compared to TFF.

9/29/2023 36 Kylie Minogue - Can’t Get You Out of My Head 31 Gnarls Barkley - Crazy 30 Eminem ft. Dido - Stan +1 28 Lady Gaga — Poker Face 28 Nelly Furtado - Maneater 27 Gorillaz - Dare +3 26 Lady Gaga - Bad Romance 22 Britney Spears - Toxic 22 Evanescence - Bring Me to Life 9 Spiller - Groovejet (If This Ain’t Love) -6

Nguyen Van Thieu died on this day 22 years ago, aged 78. - Thieu joined the nationalist Viet Minh movement in 1945 to prevent the French from recolonizing Vietnam- he left it in 1946 due to Ho Chi Minh's communist views, allying with the French at Saigon. - Thieu then joined the Vietnam National Army (founded by the former emperor to fight the Viet Minh), becoming a major by the end of the First Indochina War in 1954. In 1957 and 1960, Thieu would go to the US for military training. - Thieu effectively became South Vietnam's head of state in 1965 (2 years after the assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem), and officially became its president following the 1967 election. He held this position until just before the end of the Vietnam War in 1975, when he resigned as the Viet Cong closed in on Saigon- he blamed US withdrawal from the war and Henry Kissinger signing the Paris Peace Accords for South Vietnam's defeat. - Following his resignation, Thieu fled to Taiwan, before moving to the UK, where he lived a reclusive life- so much that the British government had no clue on his whereabouts. By the early 1990s, he moved to Foxborough, Massachusetts, where he lived for the rest of his life (probably attending some Patriots games considering where he moved to). - Thieu and his wife spent their 50th wedding anniversary in Hawaii- during this time 9/11 happened, causing their flight home to be delayed by over a week. He suffered a stroke shortly after returning home and died not long after. He wished to have his ashes scattered in his Vietnamese home town of Phan Rang, but the location of his ashes remains a mystery.