This week's nice weather has made me want to look back at the warmest summer I can remember - 1995!

These were the movies released at the cinema in June 1995:

The Bridges of Madison County

Fluke

Congo

Smoke

Batman Forever

Pocahontas

Apollo 13

Judge Dredd

Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers: The Movie

Not much to say really! Hardly classics - a RUBBISH version of Judge Dredd, but I enjoyed it more that Batman Forever - the start of the end of the Batman Movie franchise. It was also the end of Disney's long run of great animated films with Pocahontas, a film rarely mentioned and better best forgotten...

During this time, I was at Uni and really enjoying all the music around. To me the summer of 1995 was a great period in pop music history. So when I looked back at the chart of the time I was a little disappointed to see a major atrocity at the top...

1 Robson Green & Jerome Flynn Unchained Melody / White Cliffs Of Dover

2 Pulp Common People

3 Perez 'Prez' Prado & His Orchestra Guaglione

4 Scatman John Scatman (Ski-Ba-Bop-Ba-Dop-Bop)

5 Baby D I Need Your Loving (Everybody's Got To Learn Sometime)

6 Ali Campbell That Look In Your Eye

7 The Nightcrawlers featuring John Reid Surrender Your Love

8 McAlmont & Butler Yes

9 Billie Ray Martin Your Loving Arms

10 Michael Jackson & Janet Jackson Scream

11 Livin' Joy Dreamer

12 Reef Naked

13 Ladysmith Black Mambazo featuring China Black Swing Low Sweet Chariot

14 Celine Dion Only One Road

15 Montell Jordan This Is How We Do It

16 Bon Jovi This Ain't A Love Song

17 Jimmy Somerville Hurt So Good

18 Michelle Gayle Freedom

19 Joshua Kadison Jessie

20 Therapy? Stories

21 Tina Arena Chains

22 Black Grape Reverend Black Grape

23 Take That Back For Good

24 Radiohead Fake Plastic Trees

25 Whigfield Think Of You

26 Happy Clappers I Believe

27 Bryan Adams Have You Ever Really Loved A Woman?

28 Oasis Some Might Say

29 The Outhere Brothers Don't Stop (Wiggle Wiggle)

30 Elton John Made In England

31 Jam & Spoon featuring Plavka Right In The Night (Fall In Love With Music)

32 Blessid Union Of Souls I Believe

33 Love City Groove Love City Groove

34 Curtis Stigers This Time

35 Annie Lennox A Whiter Shade Of Pale

36 Manchester United 1995 Football Squad featuring Stryker We're Gonna Do It Again

37 Bobby Brown Two Can Play That Game

38 Dodgy Staying Out For The Summer '95

39 Boyzone Key To My Life

40 Gompie Alice (Who The X Is Alice?)

To be fair, if we pretended that the Number One never happened and moved all the other songs up a place the chart isn't that bad at all.
Pulp had released Common People which was one of the best tracks from "A Different Class" which was one of the best albums of the 1990s. Dodgy, Radiohead, Reef and Oasis were also setting up the beginnings of the Britpop phase which was going to dominate the charts over the next 12 months.
Dance music was also entering a great phase with Baby D, Living Joy, Billie Ray Martin and Jam and Spoon releasing the best Dance Anthems of the year, not to mention a cracking David Morales remix of Michael and Janet's "Scream"
Here were my favourite tracks:

I should also mention Love City Groove, this first time the in the 1990s the BBC took the Eurovision Song Contest seriously and used the viewers of Top Of The Pops to select the song.