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This is top flight tube machine. I am Andy Dawson, bye bye bye. I'm Sam Nifty Delaney, so what?

Yeah, you heard right, it's the tube machine, it's the special episode of today where we look

back at a particular chart week from any given time in history and it's chosen by the random chart

pop blob. Was it pop blob? We decided we called it, yeah? Yeah, pop blob. And then actually we have

a rhyme for it. Do you remember it? Pop blob, do your job. Job, tell us how to use our gob.

Oh, it's the other way around, did a pop blob, open your gob. Open your gob, tell us how to do our job.

Yeah, and here we go, and the pop blob is chosen.

There we are, that's 17th July night. Well, that's gotten later than I expected,

that's a full 10 years on from the last time, but you just, that's the beauty of working with

a random blob. This is a chart where I mean, I was, I'll have been 28 this week.

And I'll be honest, the top 40 was not at the forefront of my thoughts at this time.

I'll have been, 1999, I'll have been preparing for Sunderland's arrival in the Premier League.

That's what I'll be thinking about, so I wasn't really thinking about the top 40, but it's

the top 40. I can't remember, yeah, I was working. I would have been 24. What month is it, sorry?

July, 1999. Yeah, so I'd have been 24, and I was working, and yeah, I suppose the hit parade wasn't,

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