Tuesday 28 December 2021

UK Number 40s: River City People - (What's Wrong With) Dreaming (1990)

 


If you read the comments on the video you'll find a lot of people say it's a shame they never really made it. River City People were a folk rock band from Liverpool and this was their debut single. It was first released in 1989 but failed to make the Top 40, reaching 70.

The following year they did make the Top 40 with a cover of "California Dreamin" which was a double a-side with "Carry the Blame". It made number 13 which is the highest they've charted to date.

On the back of this they re-issued "(What's Wrong With) Dreaming" which made the Top 40 this time round, just. 

The next 2 singles failed to reach the Top 40 in 1991 and by the end of the year they'd called it a day. However the story doesn't quite end there. They had one final Top 40 hit in 1992 with "Standing In The Need Of Love" which made number 36.

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