1986 in British music cover of the disco song "Don't Leave Me This Way". The band included singer Jimmy Somerville who had previously enjoyed success with Bronski Beat, and later started a solo career. The Christmas number one single was something of a surprise, a re-issue of Jackie Wilson's 1957 single "Reet Petite". Wilson had died in 1984, but the song been re-issued after being used in a television advert for Levi's, with a new video made of a Claymation version of Wilson. Having first been released 29 years earlier, it broke the record for the longest time between a single being released and
Christmas in Dixie R.C. Bannon. A 1997 rerelease had "Thistlehair the Christmas Bear" as its b-side. In 2010, Allan Caswell initiated a lawsuit against ATV/Sony, who published both his song, "On The Inside" and the Alabama song "Christmas In Dixie", because he thought that it plagiarized the theme song he wrote for "Prisoner, On the Inside". This action was based on ATV Sony commissioning a copyright expert to provide advice as to whether a plagiarism had taken place. The original version spent seven weeks on the charts between late 1982 and early 1983, peaking at number 35. It re-entered the chart three times