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First going on air in the early 1980s, the advertisement featured the English actress Jenny Logan, [3] dancing about in a typical British living room in high heels, shaking the powder onto a carpet and vacuuming it up, while appearing to sing a musical jingle. The main lyric is "do the Shake n' Vac, and put the freshness back".
During the 1980s the chart was based collectively on each single's weekly physical sales figures and airplay on American radio stations. George Michael was the only artist to achieve two year-end Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles in the 1980s. He achieved this with his songs "Faith" and "Careless Whisper".
Jenny Logan (born 1942) is an English actress, trained dancer and singer. Though she played WPC Sally Reed in the television series Dixon of Dock Green between 1968 and 1969, she is most familiar from her appearances in the TV commercial for the carpet freshener Shake n' Vac, which was shot in 1979 and ran from 1980 to 1986.
"1980" is the debut single of British rapper and singer-songwriter Estelle and lead single from her debut album, The 18th Day (2004). In the song, which samples Tony Orlando and Dawn 's "Lazy Susan", Estelle talks about her childhood in London; she titled the song "1980" for the year she was born. [ 2 ]
If you grew up in the '80s, '90s, or the 2000's, it's safe to say there were plenty of heartthrobs over the years. SEE ALSO: 11 TV stars from the '90s that you most definitely had a crush on We ...
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It was number-one on the UK Singles Chart [2] from 21 December 1980 to 3 January 1981. [3] The song was written by Gordon Lorenz, recorded at 10cc's Strawberry Studios in Stockport and features Rick Wakeman on keyboards. The song was the 1980 Christmas number-one single in both the UK and Ireland.