MUSIC enthusiasts got a lorra, lorra laughs when to their surprise, surprise they discovered Cilla Black was in the top 100 streamed songs in Oxford.
The Liverpool music and TV icon was among The New Seekers and Nick Drake in music streaming service Spotify’s top tunes streamed in the city.
Cilla shot to fame in the 60s with a duo of number ones, Anyone Who Had a Heart and You’re My World, but her most streamed song on Spotify was the 1968 hit Step Inside Love – written by Sir Paul McCartney.
Organiser of the Cornbury Festival and CEO of Sound Advice Group, Hugh Phillimore, said people of Oxford were more inclined to listen to legacy artists such as Cilla because of the city’s “community feel.”
He said: “Parents and children in Oxford are united by heritage artists at events like the Cornbury Festival because they’re enjoying listening to timeless classics.
“It didn’t used to be cool to listen to the same music as your parents, but now it is cool, which is fantastic.”
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Another artist included on Spotify’s top 100 streamed songs in Oxford is pop and country singer, Dolly Parton.
Dolly worked from nine to five throughout the 70s and 80s to ensure she was at the top of the charts with hits like Jolene, Islands In The Stream and Oxford’s favourite, Those Were The Days.
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She also composed more than 3,000 songs, the best known of which include Coat of Many Colours and Whitney Houston’s I Will Always Love You.
Carl Smithson, the manager of record shop Truckstore, on Cowley Road, said: “Heritage artists are colossally popular with the clientele at our Witney store, particularly artists like Dolly Parton and Cilla Black.
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“Even in our Cowley Road store, we regularly see young people coming in and buying records their dads would have bought – people like Pink Floyd and Dire Straits.
“There definitely seems to be a trend of people starting to re-visit artists they grew up listening to.”
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Ronan Munro, the editor of Nightshift, Oxford’s free monthly music magazine, believes that Cilla and Dolly are so popular in Oxford on account of the city’s elite taste in music.
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He said: “I think the list is so eclectic because we’ve got better music taste than everyone else.
“As a city we’ve got diverse groups of music fans, which means that we generally appreciate better music than other people.
“It can only be a positive that people are listening to both new and old music.”
OXFORD TOP 10
TOP 10 songs in Oxford
- Freak of the Week – Krept & Konan Jeremih
- House Every Weekend – David Zowie
- Liverpool – Nathaniel Rateliff
- Get To Heaven – Everything Everything
- Real Joy – Fono
- Spring/Sun/Winter/Dread – Everything Everything
- Magic Tree – Ruu Campbell
- To The Blade – Everything Everything
- Good Times – Ella Eyre, pictured
- That’s Not Me – Skepta JME
1970 TOP 10
TOP 10 songs of this week in 1970
- In the Summertime – Mungo Jerry
- All Right Now – Free
- Groovin’ With Mr. Bloe – Mr Bloe
- Sally – Gerry Monroe
- Cottonfields – The Beach Boys
- Goodbye Sam Hello Samantha – Cliff Richard, pictured
- Yellow River – Christie
- It’s All In The Game – The Four Tops
- Up Around The Bend – Creedence Clearwater Revival
- The Green Manalishi (With The Two-Prong Crown) – Fleetwood Mac
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