Death Impends

5/26/2024 61 R. Dean Taylor - There’s A Ghost in My House 37 Lulu - The Man Who Sold The World 31 The Drifters - There Goes My First Love 30 Van McCoy & The Soul City Symphony - The Hustle 27 Kenny - The Bump 27 Cozy Powell - Dance With the Devil 25 The Wombles - Remember You’re a Womble 23 Smokie - If You Think You Know How to Love Me 21 Paul McCartney & Wings - Band on the Run +4 20 Slade - Bangin’ Man 18 Fox - Only You Can 16 Slade - Everyday 10 The Rubettes - Juke Box Jive 02 Paper Lace - The Night Chicago Died -6

5/25/2024 52 R. Dean Taylor - There’s A Ghost in My House +1 37 Lulu - The Man Who Sold The World  35 Van McCoy & The Soul City Symphony - The Hustle +1 33 The Drifters - There Goes My First Love 29 Paul McCartney & Wings - Band on the Run +2 27 The Wombles - Remember You’re a Womble 22 Cozy Powell - Dance With the Devil 22 Smokie - If You Think You Know How to Love Me 22 Kenny - The Bump  21 The Rubettes - Juke Box Jive 20 Slade - Bangin’ Man 18 Fox - Only You Can  18 Slade - Everyday 17 Paper Lace - The Night Chicago Died 11 Hot Chocolate - Emma 10 Bay City Rollers - Summerlove Sensation -6

I guess they had a crinkly wrinkle in their relationship that they weren't able to sort out.

5/24/2024 45 R. Dean Taylor - There’s A Ghost in My House +2 34 Cozy Powell - Dance With the Devil 32 Van McCoy & The Soul City Symphony - The Hustle +2 28 The Drifters - There Goes My First Love 26 The Wombles - Remember You’re a Womble 25 Lulu - The Man Who Sold The World 23 Paper Lace - The Night Chicago Died 21 Smokie - If You Think You Know How to Love Me 21 Kenny - The Bump 21 The Rubettes - Juke Box Jive 20 Slade - Everyday 20 Slade - Bangin’ Man 20 Johnny Bristol - Hang On In There Baby 20 Fox - Only You Can 19 Paul McCartney & Wings - Band on the Run 18 Bay City Rollers - Summerlove Sensation 15 Peter Shelley - Love Me Love My Dog -3 15 Hot Chocolate - Emma 10 Bay City Rollers - Money Honey 03 The Stylistics - Sing Baby Sing 00 Mud - The Secrets That You Keep -3

Similarly, the name first registered to me in late 2021 when I saw him as a pick on several PMed Hartlepool Deadlypool teams. Piers Corbyn was a cult pick at the time, so I thought to myself "huh, two Labour leaders in a row have an unwell brother?"

5/23/2024 34 R Dean Taylor - There’s A Ghost in My House +4 26 Cozy Powell - Dance With the Devil 25 The Wombles - Remember You’re a Womble 24 The Drifters - There Goes My First Love 24 Bay City Rollers - Summerlove Sensation 24 Van McCoy & the Soul City Symphony - The Hustle 24 Lulu - The Man Who Sold the World 21 Kenny - The Bump 20 Paul McCartney & Wings - Band on the Run 20 Hot Chocolate - Emma 20 Slade - Everyday 20 Paper Lace - The Night Chicago Died 20 Slade - Bangin’ Man 20 Johnny Bristol - Hang On In There Baby 20 The Rubettes - Juke Box Jive 20 Mud - The Secrets That You Keep 20 Fox - Only You Can 20 The Moments and Whatnauts - Girls 20 Peter Shelley - Love Me Love My Dog 20 The Stylistics - Sing Baby Sing 20 Smokie - If You Think You Know How to Love Me 14 Bay City Rollers - Money Honey 00 Peters and Lee - Don’t Stay Away Too Long -3 00 Mac and Katie Kissoon - Sugar Candy Kisses -3 Yeah, this round is gash. R. Dean's banger excepted, even most of the better stuff is moreso in the "I wouldn't mind this cropping up on the radio, but wouldn't go out of my way to listen to it" hinterland. The melody to that Peters and Lee song had a version in the US by Bobby sodding Vinton, who was somehow still able to chart high in the mid-1970s

5/22/2024 50 David Bowie - Life on Mars? 48 Mott the Hoople - All The Young Dudes 45 America - A Horse With No Name 39 Suzi Quatro - 48 Crash +2 25 Hawkwind - Silver Machine +2 14 Carly Simon - You’re So Vain 09 David Bowie - Drive-In Saturday -1 00 T. Rex - 20th Century Boy -5

5/21/2024 48 David Bowie - Life on Mars? 48 Mott the Hoople - All The Young Dudes 39 America - A Horse With No Name -6 32 Carly Simon - You’re So Vain 31 Suzi Quatro - 48 Crash 24 Hawkwind - Silver Machine +4 17 T. Rex - 20th Century Boy 13 David Bowie - Drive-In Saturday 08 The Shangri-Las - Leader of the Pack Happy to leave the Shangris here; given our unwritten rules on previous decade hits in these games, the victory was getting them to the top third.

Well, this passed me by, Toby Keith really will be needing retroactive bonus points in a different category. He did Hollywood Squares. That shall be remedied come early June.

5/20/2024 52 David Bowie - Life on Mars? 51 Mott the Hoople - All The Young Dudes 39 Carly Simon - You’re So Vain +1 38 America - A Horse With No Name -6 33 Suzi Quatro - 48 Crash +2 29 The Shangri-Las - Leader of the Pack +1 24 Hawkwind - Silver Machine 18 David Bowie - Drive-In Saturday 14 T. Rex - 20th Century Boy

I also liked to say that Clarence "Frogman" Henry was my equivalent of the Ifield pick. He really timed this perfectly.

Will have to be retroactively applying them to Toby Keith then, too. Perhaps a good omen for the people who picked Bobby Vinton or Bruce Willis

5/19/2024 49 David Bowie - Life on Mars? 47 Mott the Hoople - All The Young Dudes 41 Carly Simon - You’re So Vain +1 40 America - A Horse With No Name -6 35 Suzi Quatro - 48 Crash +1 33 The Shangri-Las - Leader of the Pack +1 30 Hawkwind - Silver Machine +1 27 T. Rex - 20th Century Boy 20 David Bowie - Drive-In Saturday 8 The Drifters - At The Club/Saturday Night At The Movies

5/18/2024 45 David Bowie - Life on Mars? 39 Mott the Hoople - All The Young Dudes 39 Carly Simon - You’re So Vain 38 America - A Horse With No Name -6 36 Hawkwind - Silver Machine 36 Suzi Quatro - 48 Crash +2 30 The Shangri-Las - Leader of the Pack +2 28 T. Rex - 20th Century Boy 27 David Bowie - Drive-In Saturday 18 Python Lee Jackson - In a Broken Dream 18 The Drifters - At The Club/Saturday Night At The Movies 5 Medicine Head - One and One is One 3 Limmie and the Family Cookin’ - You Can Do Magic

TBH I think it was mix of Stevens and Stephens I dealt with. But it's better for my sanity I don't dig too deep into school memories

Also, I had such a bad experience with Stevens throughout school that on the first day of a new school, when it turned out one of the new classmates was a Steven, my mom joked to me that this was "the good Steven". It turned out he was an even bigger twat than the previous Stevens!

My current first name is outside the top 100 on that list, while my current middle is in the top 50. I admit, I deliberately picked a first name that was quite common for my birth year, while my middle name was more anything goes, so a bit funny to see it switch around (though the first still appears to be more popular than the second in the US, albeit neither overly high).

TBH I can only really remember Little Richard having a cameo and the rest is a blur. Which does Coleman a disservice given that's moreso the episode's fault than his own. Though I second Willz in loving him as the slimy boss in 9 to 5. RIP.

5/17/2024 41 Hawkwind - Silver Machine 37 David Bowie - Life on Mars? 37 Mott the Hoople - All The Young Dudes 37 America - A Horse With No Name 34 Suzi Quatro - 48 Crash 34 Carly Simon - You’re So Vain +2 29 T. Rex - 20th Century Boy 27 David Bowie - Drive-In Saturday 26 Python Lee Jackson - In a Broken Dream 25 The Shangri-Las - Leader of the Pack +2 22 The Drifters - At The Club/Saturday Night At The Movies 17 Medicine Head - One and One is One 17 Limmie and the Family Cookin’ - You Can Do Magic 09 Lindisfarne - Lady Eleanor 08 Mungo Jerry - Alright, Alright, Alright -6 I'm at least fine with everything left at this point.

Short of a rapid deluge in the next day or so, it looks like May 15 was the last day where our rate was at least one per day.

5/16/2024 36 Hawkwind - Silver Machine 35 David Bowie - Life on Mars? 33 Mott the Hoople - All The Young Dudes 31 America - A Horse With No Name 29 Suzi Quatro - 48 Crash 27 Carly Simon - You’re So Vain 27 T. Rex - 20th Century Boy 26 Python Lee Jackson - In a Broken Dream 23 David Bowie - Drive-In Saturday 22 The Drifters - At The Club/Saturday Night At The Movies 22 The Shangri-Las - Leader of the Pack +4 21 Limmie and the Family Cookin’ - You Can Do Magic 20 Lindisfarne - Lady Eleanor 20 Medicine Head - One and One is One 20 Mungo Jerry - Alright, Alright, Alright 16 Gilbert O’Sullivan - Alone Again (Naturally) 12 David Bowie - Sorrow 10 Peter Skellern - You’re a Lady -6 08 The Chi-Lites - Have You Seen Her 02 Perry Como - And I Love You So

5/15/2024 33 David Bowie - Life on Mars? 32 Hawkwind - Silver Machine 29 Mott the Hoople - All The Young Dudes 28 Carly Simon - You’re So Vain +2 26 The Shangri-Las - Leader of the Pack +1 25 America - A Horse With No Name 25 T. Rex - 20th Century Boy 25 Suzi Quatro - 48 Crash +1 23 Python Lee Jackson - In a Broken Dream 22 The Drifters - At The Club/Saturday Night At The Movies 21 David Bowie - Drive-In Saturday 21 Limmie and the Family Cookin’ - You Can Do Magic 20 Gilbert O’Sullivan - Alone Again (Naturally) 20 Lindisfarne - Lady Eleanor 20 Medicine Head - One and One is One 20 Mungo Jerry - Alright, Alright, Alright 20 The Chi-Lites - Have You Seen Her 16 Peter Skellern - You’re a Lady -3 12 David Essex - Rock On -3 14 David Bowie - Sorrow 11 Perry Como - And I Love You So 08 Bobby “Boris” Pickett and the Crypt-Kickers - Monster Mash

It's still the year the Shangri Las frontwoman died for me. I march to the beat of my own drum but it's a very predictable beat

5/14/2024 28 Hawkwind- Silver Machine +2 26 David Bowie- Life on Mars? 25 Suzi Quatro- 48 Crash +1 24 The Drifters — At The Club/Saturday Night At The Movies 24 The Shangri-Las- Leader of the Pack 22 Carly Simon- You’re So Vain 22 America- A Horse With No Name 22 Mott the Hoople- All The Young Dudes 22 T. Rex- 20th Century Boy 21 David Bowie- Drive-In Saturday 21 Python Lee Jackson- In a Broken Dream +1 20 The Chi-Lites- Have You Seen Her20 Lindisfarne- Lady Eleanor 20 Perry Como- And I Love You So 20 Medicine Head- One and One is One 20 Mungo Jerry- Alright, Alright, Alright 20 Limmie and the Family Cookin’- You Can Do Magic 20 David Bowie- Sorrow 20 Bobby “Boris” Pickett and the Crypt-Kickers- Monster Mash 19 Peter Skellern- You’re a Lady -1 19 David Cassidy- I Am a Clown/Some Kind of a Summer -1 19 Gilbert O’Sullivan- Alone Again (Naturally) 14 David Essex- Rock On 12 Faron Young- It’s Four in the Morning -2 08 Michael Jackson- Rockin’ Robin 00 The Partridge Family- Breaking Up Is Hard To Do -2 In tandem with the self-education bit in my previous post, giving a shout out to some of the songs new to me that I quite liked.