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Truly pointless trivia
Posted by Skuds on 22 December 2011 - 11:46pm.
Watching the 1976 TOTP xmas special (as it looks like everybody else was) I was struck by how short the Laurel & Hardy song was.
It got me wondering how much shorter a chart single has gotten. It turns out that Stan and Ollie's masterpiece is actually a couple of seconds longer than Blur's Song 2 and the shortest chart single (not counting download-only songs) was a Duane Eddy single from 1959 - 1'17" in the US version (1'58" in the UK version) Imagine taking your pocket money down the shop and coming back with something that is over before it has even started...
Anyway, loads more stuff like that at http://www.everyhit.com/record7.html Surely a boon for sadistic pub quiz setters.
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It's Not Unusual
Is a very short song. If you are forced to do karaoke, go for that one. It's over before you know it.
I think that...
...this is the shortest Number One, and it's not a second too short at 1:38.
What Do You Want - Adam Faith
It's not the length that matters
It's what you manage to cram in
Not a UK chart hit
but I've got Ray Price's original version of I'll Be There (later covered by Nick Lowe and JJ Cale) that clocks in at 58 seconds.
Here's a couple of recents
Jonny Trunk & Wisby's The Ladies' Bras reached the Top 40 in 2007 and clocks in at a zippy 37 seconds.
The same year saw Hans Zimmer's Spider Pig (from The Simpsons Movie) hit the charts coming in at a lengthy 1:04 mins.
Blahdy downloads, innit.
And clocking in at 1.38
the masterful Stay by Maurice Williams.
Liam Lynch's
United States of Whatever
about a minute and a half. There was an extended version as an extra track on the CD single that lasted a whole two minutes