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27th Sep 2023, 5:57 PM
	Mike Wilson1 Musicologist Member since Dec 2019 26 Points	mister_tmg wrote: Mike Wilson1 wrote: mister_tmg wrote: Mike Wilson1 wrote: danceband91 wrote: My understanding is also that the information was based on sales of records as opposed to sheet music. Although I don't have the book (if anyone knows where you can still get it, please tell me!), there is a video about it on youtube which seems to back that up - it has interviews with both Steven Waters and Colin Brown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dpoxx2svXc4 Just re-read all the forewords on the book and it is definately based on Sheet Music Sales.....100% Well as I say I am quite happy to be wrong if that is the case, I'm wrong about a lot of things as I approach severe old age....It has stimulated a bit of discussion about a subject we all love Can you provide a quote to back this up? I’m afraid you are wrong on this, Mike. The book is definitely not based on sheet music sales. It doesn’t match the sheet music charts that were actually published at the time! Why would we need retrospective sheet music charts when they were compiled and published during this period - albeit with many gaps during the war? The website for the book is now gone, but it is on the Internet Archive: https://tinyurl.com/Missingcharts The foreword can be read here: https://tinyurl.com/Missingchartsforeword Surely the clue is in the book title… “singles” refers to records, not sheet music! I would bet many of these tracks never made the contemporary sheet music charts, and vice versa. Mike, it would help if you put your replies to quotes beneath the quoted sections, otherwise I have to search for your response… in this case, you wrote “Well as I say I am quite happy to be wrong if that is the case, I'm wrong about a lot of things as I approach severe old age....It has stimulated a bit of discussion about a subject we all love”, which appears within the quoted text. I think it’s good when people are happy to be wrong. Far too many collectors and enthusiasts of varying kinds think they know everything, and won’t accept being corrected - they may even take offence, but surely we all just want to get to the truth about our interests? I realise that the more I learn, the less I know.....It is most certainly not worth falling out over.....Your corrections are not motivated by malice but surely to help the understanding of another member which I am thankful for....I get my grandchildrens names wrong too !........Believe it or not, I appeared On "Mastermind" in 1983 !!