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Wurzels
In The Charts
Everyone
knows that Combine Harvester reached Number
1 in the charts, but how did all the other releases do - and what
about the albums?
For
this archive, we are taking the UK singles charts, and the UK Albums
charts - and have gleaned the definitive statistics from the excellent
chartstats.com website.
Here is the complete run-down:
UK
Singles
| UK Albums | Irish Charts
| Canadian Charts
UK
Singles Charts
|
Drink
Up Thy Cider |
Adge's
pioneering debut single only managed one week in the charts
- arriving at #45 on 4
February 1967, and disappearing the week after. |
|
Combine
Harvester |
First
charted 15 May 1976 at #33, before climbing to #14 the week
after (a climb that earned them a slot of Top Of The
Pops). On 29th June they had reached #3 with Abba at
the top with Fernando, and JJ Barrie just behind with
No Charge. The week later JJ Barrie took over at the
top with the Wurzels up to #2. And they finally reached #1 on
12
June 1976 and stayed there for two weeks before being knocked
off the top by Real Thing's You To Me Are Everything.
Combine Harvester stayed in the charts
for 13 weeks. |
|
I
Am A Cider Drinker |
First
charted 11th September 1976 entering the charts at #23 following
a New Release appearance on Top Of The Pops
the previous week. A week later it was up to #9, and it reached
#3 on 25
September 1976. But that was as high as it went, dropping
the week afterwards; I Am A Cider Drinker
stayed in the charts for 9 weeks. |
|
Farmer
Bill's Cowman |
First
charted in 25th June 1977 entering the charts at #45. It climbed
to 39 the week after and peaked at #32 on 9
July 1977. Farmer Bill's Cowman stayed
in the charts for 5 weeks. |
|
Combine
Harvester (2001 Remix) |
First
charted in 11th
August 2001 at #39, but dropped to #56 the week after and
was gone for good after 2 weeks. |
|
Don't
Look Back In Anger |
First
charted in 12
October 2002 at #59, before dropping straight out the week
after. |
|
I
Am A Cider Drinker 2007 |
First
charted in 5
May 2007 at #57, and also dropped straight out the week
after. |
|
One
For The Bristol City |
First
charted in 6
October 2007 at #66, but also dropped straight out the week
after. |
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UK
Albums Charts
|
Adge
Cutler And The Wurzels |
First
charted in 11
March 1967 at #38, but dropped to #40 the week after before
dropping out of the charts altogether. |
|
Combine
Harvester |
First
charted in 3 July 1976 at #50. It climbed up to #26 and then
#21 in the subsequent weeks before peaking at #15 on 31
July 1976. Although it dropped out of the top 30 the following
week, it returned for another two weeks peaking at #17.
It dropped out of the top 40 in the first week of September
1976, but immediately reappeared the following week climbing
back up to #26 on the 18 September 1976 on the back of I
Am A Cider Drinker's single chart success.
It finally dropped out of the charts in mid-November, but
made one last appearance at #58 on 29 January 1977 for no
reason at all! Combine Harvester
stayed in the album charts for 20 weeks in all and was without
doubt the band's biggest selling album.
|
|
Golden
Delicious |
First
charted in 2
April 1977 at #32, but this was as high as it reached dropping
to #48 the week after. Golden Delicious
managed 5 weeks in the album charts. |
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Irish
Charts
From
the Irish Charts Top 50
Singles Archive, The Wurzels had a modicum of chart success in 1977.
Interesting to note that Combine Harvester was not a success
in Ireland; perhaps not a surprise considering that the parody lyric
writer Brendan Grace had topped the Irish Single Charts with the
song the previous autumn.
|
I
Am A Cider Drinker |
First
charted in 1
October 1977 at #19, but also dropped straight out the week
after. |
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