Throwback Thursday 01.12.16

Talk about blast from the past. Here's your Christmas No.1 throwback...

Now it's December, the festive season has begun, as has the race for Christmas NO.1. So for this week's throwback we'll be looking back throughout the years instead of honing in on one year in particular.

The Beatles - Hello, Goodbye (1967)

This was the forth, and last from the group to hold onto the top spot throughout the festive season. The first three, I Want To Hold Your Hand, I Feel Fine and Day Tripper/We Can Work It Out topped the Official Singles Chart consecutively from 1963–1965. Hello, Goodbye was the fourth in 1967.

Whitney Houston - I Will Always Love You (1992)

Whitney Houston recorded a cover version of the song, originally sung by Dolly Parton, for the 1992 film The Bodyguard. Her single spent 14 weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. It has since become one of the best-selling singles of all time.

Spice Girls - 2 Become 1 (1996)

This was the first of three consecutive NO.1s for the girl band. The song was inspired by the special relationship that was developing between ginger spice, Geri Halliwell, and Rowe. 2 Become 1 was originally going to be released in the UK on 9 December, but the release date was delayed a week to let Knockin' on Heaven's Door —a tribute to the children killed at the Dunblane Primary School in Scotland stay at the top of the UK Singles Chart.

NHS Choir - A Bridge Over You (2015)

A Bridge Over You is a charity single recorded and released independently by the Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Choir, the choir of the Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust located in south-east London. It is a mashup of Bridge over Troubled Water by Simon & Garfunkel and Coldplay's 2005 single Fix You. The Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Choir were runners-up on the first series of Gareth Malone's BBC Two show The Choir: Sing While You Work.

Pet Shop Boys - Always On My Mind (1987)

Elvis Presley recorded his version of Always on My Mind on March 29, 1972, a few weeks after his February separation from wife Priscilla. In 1987, the Pet Shop Boys performed a synthpop version of the track.