HITS O' THE NORTH

Those Scottish number one hits in full:

1 Cumberland Gap - Lonnie Donegan
2 Gamblin' Man - Lonnie Donegan
3 My Old Man's a Dustman - Lonnie Donegan
4 Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da - The Marmalade
5 Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep - Middle of the Road
6 Amazing Grace - Royal Scots Dragoon Guards
7 January - Pilot*
8 Bye Bye Baby - Bay City Rollers
9 Give a Little Love - Bay City Rollers
10 D.I.V.O.R.C.E. - Billy Connolly
11 Forever and Ever - Slik
12 One Day at a Time - Lena Martell
13 Feels Like I'm in Love - Kelly Marie
14 Japanese Boy - Aneka
15 I Should Have Known Better - Jim Diamond*
16 I Know Him So Well - Barbara Dickson and Elaine Paige
17 There Must Be an Angel - Eurythmics*
18 Don't Leave Me This Way - The Communards
19 If I Was - Midge Ure*
20 Perfect - Fairground Attraction*
21 With a Little Help from My Friends - Wet Wet Wet
22 Doctorin' the Tardis - Timelords
23 Belfast Child - Simple Minds
24 3 AM Eternal - KLF*
25 Goodnight Girl - Wet Wet Wet*
26 Young at Heart - The Bluebells*
27 Relight My Fire - Take That and Lulu
28 Inside - Stiltskin*
29 Love is All Around - Wet Wet Wet
30 Knockin' on Heaven's Door - Dunblane
31 Colourblind - Darius*

Artists and groups are either Scottish or have main members who are. * means original song is by artist or group and is not a novelty or charity hit. No, Hoots Mon wasn't by Scots and don't even mention Rod Stewart. Midge Ure has been at number one four times, with Band Aid I and II, Slik and as a solo artist. He also had top ten hits with Visage and Ultravox (Vienna was kept off the number one spot by Aussie Joe Dolce's novelty hit Shaddap You Face). As to the debate on the quality of the list, well, where do you start?

source: various