Hot Chocolate – “You Could Have Been A Lady”, “Emma”, “You Sexy Thing”, “So You Win Again”, “Every 1’s A Winner” and “It Started With A Kiss”

British band Hot Chocolate, led by Errol Brown, was the only group to have at least one UK hit every year throughout the Seventies, and in fact from 1970 to 1984, with songs like “You Could Have Been A Lady”, “Emma”, “You Sexy Thing”, “So You Win Again”, “Every 1’s A Winner” and “It Started With A Kiss” (the latter in 1982).

In 1977, after 15 hits, they finally had a Number One with “So You Win Again”, one of the few Hot Chocolate recordings not written at least partly by Errol Brown (it was penned by Russ Ballard).

I seem to remember they played quite a bit in Germany in the early Eighties, not long after I moved there from New Zealand. I’m pretty sure they were playing a venue in Nuremberg one time when I was there (I lived about 70 km from Nuremberg in Bamberg at the time).

Hot Chocolate have a very distinctive sound, and it’s no wonder they had one hit after another.

From 1971, here is “You Could Have Been A Lady”:

1974 brought the distinctive (and tragic) “Emma”, also known as “Emma, Emmaline”, which peaked at No. 3 in the UK:

“You Sexy Thing” (No. 2 in 1975, and made the Top 10 in three decades) was featured in a number of films, including UK comedy “The Full Monty”:

As mentioned above, “So You Win Again” made it to No. 1 in the UK charts in 1977:

About nine months later “Every 1’s A Winner” peaked at No. 12 in the UK:

Still going strong into the 1980s, Hot Chocolate reached Number 5 in the UK in 1982 with “It Started With A Kiss”:

Hot Chocolate – Every 1’s a winner, that’s for sure…

Paul

Tags: Emma, Emmaline, Errol Brown, Every 1's A Winner, Hot Chocolate, It Started With A Kiss, Music of the Seventies, Russ Ballard, Seventies Rock Bands, So You Win Again, You Could Have Been A Lady, You Sexy Thing

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