Gotta get up, gotta get up, gotta get up

Yet another American excuse for a marketing campaign (like "Blue Monday" [in January, to sell us holidays], Valentine's Day [to sell us flowers and sickly pink-and-red tat], Hallowe'en, and so on) has become "a thing" over here as well in the last few years - Black Friday. Inextricably tied to (the entirely Stateside-based event) Thanksgiving, it's bewildering why, or how, it has emerged here when we don't even celebrate that!

Sigh.

However, at least it is the end of another wearisome week, so I think it's time for a party, don't you?

Here's a man who celebrates Black Friday in his own way - Thank Disco Cazwell It's Friday!

If that's sent you blushing flowers heading off for your smelling salts - try this instead:

Black Box - Ride On Time

Have a great weekend, dear reader!

That's MISS Holloway to you!

Twenty years ago the UK Top Ten - despite the great movements in House/Dance, Madchester and Electronic music at the time - was not particularly brilliant, as the first five prove:

• 1 Swing the Mood - Jive Bunny And The Mastermixers
• 2 Ride on Time - Black Box
• 3 I Just Don't Have The Heart - Cliff Richard
• 4 Poison - Alice Cooper
• 5 Toy Soldiers - Martika

The prize for the next few weeks was to go to Black Box - which was indeed the best track of the five - who went on to hold the Number 1 spot for six weeks.

However even back then I was annoyed with them, because I loved the brilliant Loleatta Holloway. I felt it was shameful that this gaggle of Italians were trying to pass off their skinny model "singer" as the actual vocalist, when it was blatantly obvious she had nothing to do with the recording at all and it was Miss Holloway's vocals that they used.

For the sake of a comparison here are the two tracks - first Ride On Time by Black Box:

Black Box - Ride On Time

And here is the original (which I am aware has by now had more outings than a nursing home):

Loleatta Holloway - Love Sensation (extended mix)