THE HOLIDAY SERIES (Part 3)

Off for a quick break in the warmth and hopefully the sun on the island of Madeira. It's only for 7 nights, and rather than let TVV slide off your radars altogether, I'm pre-recording some postings looking back at singles that could have made it in the 45 45s at 45 series.

Those of you who followed that hugely self-indulgent exercise will know that with a rule of one song per act, it was sometimes a very close call which particular 45 went forward from a singer or band. And this short series will look at some of those that hit the crossbar....

The #23 song in the rundown was Into The Valley. But it could just as easily have been this:-

mp3 : The Skids - Working For The Yankee Dollar
mp3 : The Skids - Vanguard's Crusade

Actually, I've been a bit disingenuous suggesting this might have made#23 in the rundown. The fact is that Into the Valley got such a high chart position partly because it is a great song, but also because of its impact on me as a teenager seeking his own sense of identity.

If I had gone for Working For The Yankee Dollar as the song by The Skids, it might have just about scraped into the Top 40. But it's still a fantastic and exciting few minutes of fantastic plastic - and it was the third and final Top 20 single for the band in December 1979.

Happy Listening.