The Real Thing (group)
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Albums
Studio albums- Real Thing (1976) - UKUK Albums ChartThe UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales in the United Kingdom. It is compiled every week by The Official Charts Company and broadcast on a Sunday on BBC Radio 1 , and published in Music Week magazine and on the OCC website .To qualify for the UK albums chart...
#34 - 4 from 8 (1977)
- Step Into Our World (1978), retitled Can You Feel the Force (1979) - UK #73
- ....Saints Or Sinners? (1980)
Live albums
- The Real Thing Live (1998)
Compilation albums
- 20 Greatest Hits (1980) - UK #56
- 100 Minutes (1982)
- The Best of The Real Thing (1986) - UK #24
Singles
| Year | Title | Album | Chart Positions | ||
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| UK UK Singles Chart The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ... |
IRL Irish Singles Chart The Irish Singles Chart is Ireland's music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by the Irish Recorded Music Association and compiled on behalf of the IRMA by Chart-Track. Chart rankings are based on sales, which are compiled through over-the-counter retail data captured... |
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| 1973 | "Plastic Man" | — | – | – | – |
| "Listen, Joe Mcgintoo" | – | – | – | ||
| "Humpty Dumpty" | – | – | – | ||
| 1974 | "Vicious Circle" | – | – | – | |
| "Daddy Dear" | – | – | – | ||
| 1975 | "Watch Out Carolina" | – | – | – | |
| "Stone Cold Love Affair" | – | – | – | ||
| 1976 | "You to Me Are Everything You to Me Are Everything "You to Me Are Everything" is a single by The Real Thing. Written by Ken Gold and Michael Denne and produced by Ken Gold, "You to Me Are Everything" was The Real Thing's sole number-one single in the UK, spending three weeks at the top in July 1976. A remixed version of the song returned to the... " |
Real Thing | 1 | 3 | 10 |
| "Can't Get By Without You" | 2 | – | – | ||
| 1977 | "You'll Never Know What You're Missing" | 16 | – | – | |
| "Love's Such a Wonderful Thing" | 4 From 8 | 33 | – | – | |
| "Lightning Strikes Again" | – | – | – | ||
| 1978 | "Whenever You Want My Love" | Step Into Our World / Can You Feel the Force | 18 | – | – |
| "Let's Go Disco" | — | 39 | – | – | |
| "Rainin' Through My Sunshine" | Step Into Our World / Can You Feel the Force | 40 | – | – | |
| 1979 | "Can You Feel the Force?" | 5 | 23 | 24 | |
| "Boogie Down (Get Funky Now)" | ....Saints Or Sinners? | 33 | – | 46 | |
| 1980 | "Give Me Your Love" | – | – | – | |
| "Saint or Sinner?" | – | – | – | ||
| "She's A Groovy Freak" | — | 52 | – | – | |
| 1981 | "I Believe in You" | – | – | – | |
| "Foot Tappin'" | – | – | – | ||
| 1982 | "Love Takes Tears" | – | – | – | |
| "Seen to Smile" | – | – | – | ||
| 1986 | "You to Me Are Everything (The Decade Remix 76-86) You to Me Are Everything "You to Me Are Everything" is a single by The Real Thing. Written by Ken Gold and Michael Denne and produced by Ken Gold, "You to Me Are Everything" was The Real Thing's sole number-one single in the UK, spending three weeks at the top in July 1976. A remixed version of the song returned to the... " |
5 | 6 | 2 | |
| "Can't Get By Without You (The Decade Remix II)" | 6 | 8 | – | ||
| "Can You Feel the Force? ('86 Remix)" | 24 | 17 | – | ||
| "Straight to the Heart" | 71 | – | – | ||
| 1987 | "Hard Times" | 90 | – | – | |
| "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch) I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch) "I Can't Help Myself " is a 1965 hit song recorded by the Four Tops for the Motown label.Written and produced by Motown's main production team Holland–Dozier–Holland, the song is one of the most well-known Motown tunes of the 1960s... " |
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| 1989 | "The Crime of Love" | – | – | – | |
| 2005 | "So Much Love To Give" (with Freeloaders) | Freshly Squeezed (Freeloaders album) | 9 | 30 | – |
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