Neil’s Top 30 Number 2s
So many great songs have almost made it to the top of the charts but missed out by one spot. In this countdown, we are going to celebrate the Top 30 songs that, according to our reference book, The Book: Top 40 Research, made it to number 2 and no further.
How many of these would you include in your list?
- God Only Knows / Wouldn’t It Be Nice – Beach Boys
- Baker Street – Gerry Rafferty
- Are You Old Enough – Dragon
- You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling – The Righteous Brothers
- San Francisco – Scott McKenzie
- Good Vibrations – Beach Boys
- Hey St Peter – Flash & The Pan
- I Love You, I Honestly Love You – Olivia Newton-John
- You Don’t Have To Say You Love Me – Dusty Springfield
- Solid Rock – Goanna
- Ring Ring – ABBA
- Girls On The Avenue – Richard Clapton
- I’d Love You To Want Me – Lobo
- Help Is On Its Way – Little River Band
- Young Girl – Gary Puckett & The Union Gap
- Georgy Girl – The Seekers
- Don’t Go Breaking My Heart – Elton John & Kiki Dee
- Bonnie, Please Don’t Go – Kevin Johnson
- Lido Shuffle – Boz Scaggs
- She (Didn’t Remember My Name) – Osmosis
- You’ll Never Walk Alone – Gerry & The Pacemakers
- A Lover’s Concerto – The Toys
- Hold Me Now – The Thompson Twins
- Let’s Dance – David Bowie
- Keep On Loving You – REO Speedwagon
- To Sir With Love – Lulu
- Ebony Eyes – Bob Welch
- Devil Gate Drive – Suzi Quatro
- That’ll Be The Day – Buddy Holly
- Killing Me Softly – Roberta Flack
The next 10 cabs off the rank if we had taken it to number 40 – in chronological order:
- Lola – The Kinks – 1970
- Jump In My Car – Ted Mulry Gang – 1976
- Tonight’s The Night – Rod Stewart – 1976
- You And Me – Alice Cooper – 1977
- Baby It’s You – Promises – 1979
- Bright Eyes – Art Garfunkel – 1979
- Another Brick In The Wall (Part II) – Pink Floyd – 1980
- True Colours – Cyndi Lauper – 1986
- Run To Paradise – Choirboys – 1987
- The Flame – Cheap Trick – 1988