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Post by Earl Purple on Aug 25, 2021 11:17:43 GMT 1
6 January 1979
1 ( 2 ) Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick - Ian Dury & The Blockheads < 1st #1 > 2 ( 1 ) Le Freak - Chic (#1[2]) 3 ( 5 ) Hello This Is Joannie - Paul Evans 4 ( 6 ) Fat Bottomed Girls - Queen 5 ( 3 ) I'll Put You Together Again - Hot Chocolate (#3) 6 ( 7 ) Car 67 - Driver 67 7 ( 9 ) The Gambler - Kenny Rogers 8 ( 11 ) Song For Guy - Elton John 9 ( 10 ) September - Earth Wind & Fire (#8) 10 ( 14 ) Tommy Gun - Clash
11 ( 16 ) Fire - Pointer Sisters 12 ( 4 ) Mary's Boy Child - Boney M (#4) 13 ( 17 ) Mirrors - Sally Oldfield (#15) 14 ( 8 ) My Life - Billy Joel (#1[1]) 15 ( 12 ) New York New York - Gerard Kenny (#9) 16 ( 19 ) Destination Venus - Rezillos (#9) 17 ( 18 ) A Little More Love - Olivia Newton John 18 ( -- ) Theme From Superman - John Williams & London Symphony Orchestra 19 ( -- ) Cool Meditation - Third World 20 ( 22 ) Rama Lama Ding Dong - Rocky Sharpe & The Replays
21 ( 23 ) Shake It - Ian Matthews 22 ( 20 ) Greased Lightnin' - John Travolta (#21) 23 ( 21 ) Wrekorder Wrondo - Mike Oldfield (#21) 24 ( -- ) Don't Cry Out Loud - Melissa Manchester 25 ( 29 ) Take Me To The River - Talking Heads 26 ( 13 ) A Taste Of Aggro - Barron Knights (#10) 27 ( 34 ) A Man I'll Never Be - Boston 28 ( 36 ) Who What When Where Why - Manhattan Transfer 29 ( 15 ) Please Come Home For Christmas - Eagles (#15) 30 ( 30 ) I Will Be In Love With You - Livingston Taylor
31 ( 32 ) Don't Hold Back - Chanson 32 ( -- ) Home And Dry - Gerry Rafferty 33 ( 27 ) Take That To The Bank - Shalamar (#24) 34 ( 35 ) Night Dancing - Joe Farrell 35 ( 28 ) I Was Made For Dancing - Leif Garrett (#23) 36 ( -- ) Four Strong Winds - Neil Young 37 ( 24 ) Da Ya Think I'm Sexy - Rod Stewart (#4) 38 ( 33 ) A Touch Of Velvet A Sting Of Brass - Ron Grainer Orchestra (#29) 39 ( 25 ) Rat Trap - Boomtown Rats (#1[4]) 40 ( 44 ) Paradise By The Dashboard Light - Meat Loaf & Ellen Foley (#1[7])
41 ( 41 ) Breaking Glass - David Bowie 42 ( -- ) Every Night - Phoebe Snow 43 ( 40 ) Lay Your Love On Me - Racey (#21) 44 ( 38 ) We've Got Tonite - Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band (#12) 45 ( 31 ) Hold The Line - Toto (#6) 46 ( -- ) Got To Be Real - Cheryl Lynn 47 ( 39 ) Y.M.C.A - Village People (#5) 48 ( 42 ) Promises - Buzzcocks (#18) 49 ( 26 ) Jingle Bells - Judge Dread (#26) 50 ( 37 ) My Best Friend's Girl - Cars (#4)
-- ( 43 ) Hanging On The Telephone - Blondie (#8) -- ( 45 ) Homicide - 999 (#29) -- ( 46 ) Watch Out For Lucy - Eric Clapton (#30) -- ( 47 ) I Lost My Heart To A Starship Trooper - Sarah Brightman & Hot Gossip (#10) -- ( 48 ) Dr Who - Mankind (#31) -- ( 49 ) Too Much Heaven - Bee Gees (#26) -- ( 50 ) I'm Every Woman - Chaka Khan (#13)
The usual quiet start to the year but it will pick up pretty soon, with the week of 10 February the strongest ever week for new singles. We've had clashes of 2 big ones a few times, that week has a clash of 3 massive songs, and there are quite a few big ones in the weeks before it too.
Early week in the year so I let Melissa Manchester in? Actually I think this is better than Elkie Brooks's version, with neither actually being the original, that being recorded in 1976 but not released as a single. I did snub a Blues Brothers cover of "Soul Man" though.
Some songs lower down also "recovering" their chart run after the mad rush to take advantage of the quiet period, in particular the Clash whose "Tommy Gun" has now climbed into the top 10 whilst "Destination Venus" by the Rezillos climbs back up inside the top 20 having peaked at #9 a few weeks ago. It wasn't originally on their album "Can't Stand The Rezillos" but I was listening to the repackaged version where they added it.
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Post by Earl Purple on Aug 26, 2021 9:40:42 GMT 1
13 January 1979
1 ( 1 ) Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick - Ian Dury & The Blockheads < 2nd week at #1 > 2 ( 3 ) Hello This Is Joannie - Paul Evans 3 ( 6 ) Car 67 - Driver 67 4 ( 7 ) The Gambler - Kenny Rogers 5 ( 4 ) Fat Bottomed Girls - Queen (#4) 6 ( 2 ) Le Freak - Chic (#1[2]) 7 ( 8 ) Song For Guy - Elton John 8 ( 18 ) Theme From Superman - John Williams & London Symphony Orchestra 9 ( 19 ) Cool Meditation - Third World 10 ( 5 ) I'll Put You Together Again - Hot Chocolate (#3)
11 ( 10 ) Tommy Gun - Clash (#10) 12 ( 11 ) Fire - Pointer Sisters (#11) 13 ( 9 ) September - Earth Wind & Fire (#8) 14 ( 24 ) Don't Cry Out Loud - Melissa Manchester 15 ( 13 ) Mirrors - Sally Oldfield (#15) 16 ( -- ) Woman In Love - Three Degrees 17 ( 16 ) Destination Venus - Rezillos (#9) 18 ( 17 ) A Little More Love - Olivia Newton John (#17) 19 ( 32 ) Home And Dry - Gerry Rafferty 20 ( 15 ) New York New York - Gerard Kenny (#9)
21 ( 20 ) Rama Lama Ding Dong - Rocky Sharpe & The Replays (#20) 22 ( -- ) Desire Me - Doll 23 ( 21 ) Shake It - Ian Matthews (#21) 24 ( 36 ) Four Strong Winds - Neil Young 25 ( 14 ) My Life - Billy Joel (#1[1]) 26 ( 27 ) A Man I'll Never Be - Boston 27 ( 25 ) Take Me To The River - Talking Heads (#25) 28 ( -- ) Baby I'm Burnin' - Dolly Parton 29 ( 28 ) Who What When Where Why - Manhattan Transfer (#28) 30 ( 22 ) Greased Lightnin' - John Travolta (#21)
31 ( 23 ) Wrekorder Wrondo - Mike Oldfield (#21) 32 ( 42 ) Every Night - Phoebe Snow 33 ( 12 ) Mary's Boy Child - Boney M (#4) 34 ( -- ) No Tell Lover - Chicago 35 ( 30 ) I Will Be In Love With You - Livingston Taylor (#30) 36 ( 31 ) Don't Hold Back - Chanson (#31) 37 ( 46 ) Got To Be Real - Cheryl Lynn 38 ( -- ) Shattered - Rolling Stones 39 ( 34 ) Night Dancing - Joe Farrell (#34) 40 ( 39 ) Rat Trap - Boomtown Rats (#1[4])
41 ( 40 ) Paradise By The Dashboard Light - Meat Loaf & Ellen Foley (#1[7]) 42 ( -- ) This Is It - Dan Hartman 43 ( 33 ) Take That To The Bank - Shalamar (#24) 44 ( 26 ) A Taste Of Aggro - Barron Knights (#10) 45 ( 41 ) Breaking Glass - David Bowie (#41) 46 ( 35 ) I Was Made For Dancing - Leif Garrett (#23) 47 ( -- ) Je Suis Music - Cerrone 48 ( 38 ) A Touch Of Velvet A Sting Of Brass - Ron Grainer Orchestra (#29) 49 ( 43 ) Lay Your Love On Me - Racey (#21) 50 ( 37 ) Da Ya Think I'm Sexy - Rod Stewart (#4)
-- ( 29 ) Please Come Home For Christmas - Eagles (#15) -- ( 44 ) We've Got Tonite - Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band (#12) -- ( 45 ) Hold The Line - Toto (#6) -- ( 47 ) Y.M.C.A - Village People (#5) -- ( 48 ) Promises - Buzzcocks (#18) -- ( 49 ) Jingle Bells - Judge Dread (#26) -- ( 50 ) My Best Friend's Girl - Cars (#4)
-- ( -- ) Heat Of The Beat - Roy Ayers
Ok, so I guess that 1979 really starts to "take off" next week. The last few weeks of 1978 had some very good songs and they are still keeping us company at the top of the chart, but I always just get the feeling that a new year gets exciting when its own entries start taking over the chart, which often takes a while.
I've already posted a flavour of what we're getting in a poll, that will be the 3rd week of the playlist after this one. This is the 2nd week of the current playlist, and there are 3 weeks on this one.
The Three Degrees song was co-written by Giorgio Moroder and we know Twiggy recorded it in 1977 because she performed it on Top of the Pops. Many wouldn't remember but I recorded that episode and so I definitely knew her version of it which failed to chart at all - yes they often had new songs on the show that weren't hits yet, and many of them never charted. Elkie Brooks performed "Saved" on the same episode, and that also failed to chart - a shame because it was quite good uptempo music albeit rather gospel-religious. In any case for the Three Degrees it would become their 2nd biggest hit, so even bigger than "Take Good Care Of Yourself" and bettered only by "When Will I See You Again".
Doll: Would be good if it weren't such an obvious rip-off of "Denis". The songwriter of that song is Neil Levenson, and it was a hit for Randy & The Rainbows in 1963. Whilst Blondie's version had its own production, it was still a cover and Neil Levenson's name appeared as songwriter. So Doll stole the rhythm / structure of the song but not the melody or lyrics and so technically didn't breach any copyright but it's still a rip-off.
The rest are just ok songs by artists who have done better. It's the 2nd high-energy disco hit within 3 years called "This Is It", but whilst I clearly remember the Melba Moore song (NM #4, 1976), this one is lost on me as Instant Replay mark 2 which even incorporates bits of his previous hit near the end.
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Post by Good Old Days on Aug 26, 2021 9:58:20 GMT 1
Every Twiggy single is a gem, she should have been a big pop star. "A Woman In Love" was her 6th # 1 in "Gražios Dainos".
I started this year with Brotherhood of Man "Goodbye Goodbye" on the top, after it "Desire Me" and predictably "Heart of Glass" became # 1 hits.
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Post by Earl Purple on Aug 27, 2021 16:41:04 GMT 1
20 January 1979
1 ( 1 ) Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick - Ian Dury & The Blockheads < 3rd week at #1 > 2 ( 2 ) Hello This Is Joannie - Paul Evans 3 ( 3 ) Car 67 - Driver 67 4 ( 4 ) The Gambler - Kenny Rogers 5 ( 7 ) Song For Guy - Elton John 6 ( 8 ) Theme From Superman - John Williams & London Symphony Orchestra 7 ( 9 ) Cool Meditation - Third World 8 ( 16 ) Woman In Love - Three Degrees 9 ( 5 ) Fat Bottomed Girls - Queen (#4) 10 ( 14 ) Don't Cry Out Loud - Melissa Manchester
11 ( -- ) Milk And Alcohol - Dr Feelgood 12 ( 22 ) Desire Me - Doll 13 ( -- ) King Rocker - Generation X 14 ( 6 ) Le Freak - Chic (#1[2]) 15 ( -- ) I Will Survive - Gloria Gaynor 16 ( 19 ) Home And Dry - Gerry Rafferty 17 ( -- ) Equinoxe - Jean Michel Jarre 18 ( 11 ) Tommy Gun - Clash (#10) 19 ( -- ) Take On The World - Judas Priest 20 ( 28 ) Baby I'm Burnin' - Dolly Parton
21 ( 12 ) Fire - Pointer Sisters (#11) 22 ( 10 ) I'll Put You Together Again - Hot Chocolate (#3) 23 ( 24 ) Four Strong Winds - Neil Young 24 ( 13 ) September - Earth Wind & Fire (#8) 25 ( 15 ) Mirrors - Sally Oldfield (#15) 26 ( 34 ) No Tell Lover - Chicago 27 ( 17 ) Destination Venus - Rezillos (#9) 28 ( 18 ) A Little More Love - Olivia Newton John (#17) 29 ( 38 ) Shattered - Rolling Stones 30 ( 21 ) Rama Lama Ding Dong - Rocky Sharpe & The Replays (#20)
31 ( -- ) Blue Morning Blue Day - Foreigner 32 ( 32 ) Every Night - Phoebe Snow 33 ( 20 ) New York New York - Gerard Kenny (#9) 34 ( 26 ) A Man I'll Never Be - Boston (#26) 35 ( -- ) One Last Kiss - J Geils Band 36 ( 23 ) Shake It - Ian Matthews (#21) 37 ( 42 ) This Is It - Dan Hartman 38 ( -- ) When I'm Away From You - Frankie Miller 39 ( 27 ) Take Me To The River - Talking Heads (#25) 40 ( 37 ) Got To Be Real - Cheryl Lynn (#37)
41 ( 29 ) Who What When Where Why - Manhattan Transfer (#28) 42 ( 47 ) Je Suis Music - Cerrone 43 ( -- ) Shake Your Groove Thing - Peaches And Herb 44 ( 25 ) My Life - Billy Joel (#1[1]) 45 ( -- ) Heaven Knows - Donna Summer 46 ( 30 ) Greased Lightnin' - John Travolta (#21) 47 ( 31 ) Wrekorder Wrondo - Mike Oldfield (#21) 48 ( 35 ) I Will Be In Love With You - Livingston Taylor (#30) 49 ( 40 ) Rat Trap - Boomtown Rats (#1[4]) 50 ( 36 ) Don't Hold Back - Chanson (#31)
-- ( 33 ) Mary's Boy Child - Boney M (#4) -- ( 39 ) Night Dancing - Joe Farrell (#34) -- ( 41 ) Paradise By The Dashboard Light - Meat Loaf & Ellen Foley (#1[7]) -- ( 43 ) Take That To The Bank - Shalamar (#24) -- ( 44 ) A Taste Of Aggro - Barron Knights (#10) -- ( 45 ) Breaking Glass - David Bowie (#41) -- ( 46 ) I Was Made For Dancing - Leif Garrett (#23) -- ( 48 ) A Touch Of Velvet A Sting Of Brass - Ron Grainer Orchestra (#29) -- ( 49 ) Lay Your Love On Me - Racey (#21) -- ( 50 ) Da Ya Think I'm Sexy - Rod Stewart (#4)
-- ( -- ) Got My Mind Made Up - Instant Funk -- ( -- ) Que Tal America - Two Man Sound -- ( -- ) Cream (Always Rises To The Top) - Gregg Diamond Bionic Boogie -- ( -- ) Shoot Me (With Your Love) - Tasha Thomas -- ( -- ) Sir Dancealot - Olympic Runners
The flood of new entries this week, every odd numbered position from 11 to 19 sees 5 of them, and the highest is Dr Feelgood's biggest hit, actually pretty much their only hit single with a few that charted a lot lower, although they've been around for a number of years and had a live album reach #1 in 1976.
Behind them, the biggest hit for Generation X, although the lead singer Billy Idol had bigger solo hits.
Oh now go, walk out the door... so overplayed it may have done a lot worse, and would have been buried among the far superior stuff that was out when it actually reached #1 in the UK but got in the door early enough.
Equinoxe was a pretty well-known instrumental, was surprised it failed to reach the top 40.
Judas Priest, named after a character in a Bob Dylan song, get a top 20 entry with the anthemic "Take On The World", and will have another anthemic rock hit "Living After Midnight" next year.
Those that fail to get in are all pretty much disco tracks, many of which are several minutes long and might not even have edited versions. The only version of "Haven't Stopped Dancing Yet" by Gonzales (next playlist) on Spotify is 8 minutes long. That doesn't make it the longest track on the playlist but Bat Out Of Hell does a lot more in its 9 minutes 50 seconds than disco tracks that just go on and on.
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Post by Good Old Days on Aug 28, 2021 11:52:50 GMT 1
It's the last 70s year. What about the personal charts from the next decade (1980s) ?
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Post by Earl Purple on Sept 2, 2021 10:20:22 GMT 1
27 January 1979
1 ( -- ) Heart Of Glass - Blondie < 2nd #1 > 2 ( 1 ) Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick - Ian Dury & The Blockheads (#1[3]) 3 ( 2 ) Hello This Is Joannie - Paul Evans (#2[2]) 4 ( 11 ) Milk And Alcohol - Dr Feelgood 5 ( 3 ) Car 67 - Driver 67 (#3) 6 ( 13 ) King Rocker - Generation X 7 ( 8 ) Woman In Love - Three Degrees 8 ( 4 ) The Gambler - Kenny Rogers (#4) 9 ( 5 ) Song For Guy - Elton John (#5) 10 ( 15 ) I Will Survive - Gloria Gaynor
11 ( 6 ) Theme From Superman - John Williams & London Symphony Orchestra (#6) 12 ( 17 ) Equinoxe - Jean Michel Jarre 13 ( 7 ) Cool Meditation - Third World (#7) 14 ( 19 ) Take On The World - Judas Priest 15 ( 12 ) Desire Me - Doll (#12) 16 ( 10 ) Don't Cry Out Loud - Melissa Manchester (#10) 17 ( 9 ) Fat Bottomed Girls - Queen (#4) 18 ( 16 ) Home And Dry - Gerry Rafferty (#16) 19 ( 20 ) Baby I'm Burnin' - Dolly Parton 20 ( -- ) Contact - Edwin Starr
21 ( 31 ) Blue Morning Blue Day - Foreigner 22 ( -- ) Lady - Little River Band 23 ( 35 ) One Last Kiss - J Geils Band 24 ( 26 ) No Tell Lover - Chicago 25 ( -- ) May The Sunshine - Nazareth 26 ( 38 ) When I'm Away From You - Frankie Miller 27 ( 14 ) Le Freak - Chic (#1[2]) 28 ( 23 ) Four Strong Winds - Neil Young (#23) 29 ( 29 ) Shattered - Rolling Stones 30 ( -- ) Every Which Way But Loose - Eddie Rabbitt
31 ( -- ) Radioactive - Gene Simmons 32 ( 18 ) Tommy Gun - Clash (#10) 33 ( 43 ) Shake Your Groove Thing - Peaches And Herb 34 ( 45 ) Heaven Knows - Donna Summer 35 ( 21 ) Fire - Pointer Sisters (#11) 36 ( 32 ) Every Night - Phoebe Snow (#32) 37 ( 37 ) This Is It - Dan Hartman 38 ( 22 ) I'll Put You Together Again - Hot Chocolate (#3) 39 ( 25 ) Mirrors - Sally Oldfield (#15) 40 ( 24 ) September - Earth Wind & Fire (#8)
41 ( -- ) You Need A Woman Tonight - Captain And Tennille 42 ( 27 ) Destination Venus - Rezillos (#9) 43 ( 42 ) Je Suis Music - Cerrone (#42) 44 ( -- ) Doctor Doctor - UFO 45 ( 28 ) A Little More Love - Olivia Newton John (#17) 46 ( 30 ) Rama Lama Ding Dong - Rocky Sharpe & The Replays (#20) 47 ( 34 ) A Man I'll Never Be - Boston (#26) 48 ( 40 ) Got To Be Real - Cheryl Lynn (#37) 49 ( 33 ) New York New York - Gerard Kenny (#9) 50 ( -- ) Outdoor Miner - Wire
-- ( 36 ) Shake It - Ian Matthews (#21) -- ( 39 ) Take Me To The River - Talking Heads (#25) -- ( 41 ) Who What When Where Why - Manhattan Transfer (#28) -- ( 44 ) My Life - Billy Joel (#1[1]) -- ( 46 ) Greased Lightnin' - John Travolta (#21) -- ( 47 ) Wrekorder Wrondo - Mike Oldfield (#21) -- ( 48 ) I Will Be In Love With You - Livingston Taylor (#30) -- ( 49 ) Rat Trap - Boomtown Rats (#1[4]) -- ( 50 ) Don't Hold Back - Chanson (#31)
-- ( -- ) Dancin' Shoes - Nigel Olsson -- ( -- ) Together We Are Beautiful - Steve Allan
Blondie crashes in at #1. In the UK, this was their first number one and reached the top in its second week after entering at #6. In my chart, their first number one was "Picture This" which climbed to #1 after entering at #3, and was then replaced two weeks later by Meat Loaf, who entered at the time. "Bat Out Of Hell" is due in 2 weeks...
Of the songs that replaced Blondie at #1 in the UK, one of them was out in a previous version this week but fails to make any impact on my chart. Blondie need not worry about Fern Kinney either on my chart. There are other great songs that will challenge "Atomic" but that isn't one of them. It will probably fail to chart at all, just like Steve Allan's version, which is also not the original, as that was about 2-3 years ago.
Edwin Starr is back as a disco singer, maybe a natural progression for him, but he hasn't been in the chart since 1971 when the follow-up to War called "Stop The War Now" made it to #28. "War" (originally a Temptations album track) was his biggest hit peaking at #2, but he had 3 top 10 hits in the mid-60s, "Agent Double-O Soul" (#6), "Stop Her On Sight" (#5) and "Headline News" (#10) in 1965 and 1966. Gene Chandler will soon also be making a comeback as a disco singer, and we had Joe Tex in 1977 doing that.
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Post by Earl Purple on Sept 2, 2021 12:03:26 GMT 1
On the subject of the songs that replaced Blondie at #1 in the UK, this is my ranking, first to last.
1. Dexy's Midnight Runners - Geno (replaced Call Me) 2. Abba - Super Trouper (replaced The Tide Is High) 3. Bee Gees - Tragedy (replaced Heart Of Glass) 4. Lenny Kravitz - Fly Away (replaced Maria) 5. Anita Ward - Ring My Bell (replaced Sunday Girl) 6. Fern Kinney - Together We Are Beautiful (replaced Atomic)
Abba's song is definitely better than the Blondie song it replaced (whereas Heart Of Glass is superior to Chiquitita and deserved to keep it off #1), Dexy's possibly, the others not with Anita Ward and Fern Kinney both being far worse.
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Post by Earl Purple on Sept 3, 2021 14:58:51 GMT 1
3 February 1979
1 ( 1 ) Heart Of Glass - Blondie < 2nd week at #1 > 2 ( 4 ) Milk And Alcohol - Dr Feelgood 3 ( 6 ) King Rocker - Generation X 4 ( 2 ) Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick - Ian Dury & The Blockheads (#1[3]) 5 ( 3 ) Hello This Is Joannie - Paul Evans (#2[2]) 6 ( 7 ) Woman In Love - Three Degrees 7 ( 10 ) I Will Survive - Gloria Gaynor 8 ( 20 ) Contact - Edwin Starr 9 ( 5 ) Car 67 - Driver 67 (#3) 10 ( -- ) Chiquitita - Abba
11 ( 22 ) Lady - Little River Band 12 ( 12 ) Equinoxe - Jean Michel Jarre 13 ( 14 ) Take On The World - Judas Priest 14 ( 25 ) May The Sunshine - Nazareth 15 ( -- ) The Sound Of The Suburbs - Members 16 ( 8 ) The Gambler - Kenny Rogers (#4) 17 ( 9 ) Song For Guy - Elton John (#5) 18 ( 21 ) Blue Morning Blue Day - Foreigner 19 ( 30 ) Every Which Way But Loose - Eddie Rabbitt 20 ( 23 ) One Last Kiss - J Geils Band
21 ( 31 ) Radioactive - Gene Simmons 22 ( 11 ) Theme From Superman - John Williams & London Symphony Orchestra (#6) 23 ( -- ) You Bet Your Love - Herbie Hancock 24 ( 26 ) When I'm Away From You - Frankie Miller 25 ( 15 ) Desire Me - Doll (#12) 26 ( 19 ) Baby I'm Burnin' - Dolly Parton (#19) 27 ( -- ) Get Over You - Undertones 28 ( 13 ) Cool Meditation - Third World (#7) 29 ( -- ) Weekend - Mick Jackson 30 ( 18 ) Home And Dry - Gerry Rafferty (#16)
31 ( 16 ) Don't Cry Out Loud - Melissa Manchester (#10) 32 ( 24 ) No Tell Lover - Chicago (#24) 33 ( 17 ) Fat Bottomed Girls - Queen (#4) 34 ( 41 ) You Need A Woman Tonight - Captain And Tennille 35 ( 33 ) Shake Your Groove Thing - Peaches And Herb (#33) 36 ( -- ) Every Time I Think Of You - Babys 37 ( 34 ) Heaven Knows - Donna Summer (#34) 38 ( -- ) Just Thirteen - Lurkers 39 ( -- ) Ain't Love A b**** - Rod Stewart 40 ( 44 ) Doctor Doctor - UFO
41 ( 29 ) Shattered - Rolling Stones (#29) 42 ( -- ) You Thrill Me - Exile 43 ( 28 ) Four Strong Winds - Neil Young (#23) 44 ( -- ) The Joker (The Wigan Joker) - JBS All Night Band 45 ( -- ) Get Down - Gene Chandler 46 ( 50 ) Outdoor Miner - Wire 47 ( 37 ) This Is It - Dan Hartman (#37) 48 ( 27 ) Le Freak - Chic (#1[2]) 49 ( 36 ) Every Night - Phoebe Snow (#32) 50 ( -- ) Everybody Is A Star - Pointer Sisters
-- ( 32 ) Tommy Gun - Clash (#10) -- ( 35 ) Fire - Pointer Sisters (#11) -- ( 38 ) I'll Put You Together Again - Hot Chocolate (#3) -- ( 39 ) Mirrors - Sally Oldfield (#15) -- ( 40 ) September - Earth Wind & Fire (#8) -- ( 42 ) Destination Venus - Rezillos (#9) -- ( 43 ) Je Suis Music - Cerrone (#42) -- ( 45 ) A Little More Love - Olivia Newton John (#17) -- ( 46 ) Rama Lama Ding Dong - Rocky Sharpe & The Replays (#20) -- ( 47 ) A Man I'll Never Be - Boston (#26) -- ( 48 ) Got To Be Real - Cheryl Lynn (#37) -- ( 49 ) New York New York - Gerard Kenny (#9)
-- ( -- ) Destiny - Jacksons -- ( -- ) I'm In Love (And I Love The Feeling) - Rose Royce -- ( -- ) I Don't Know If It's Right - Evelyn Champagne King -- ( -- ) What You Won't Do For Love - Bobby Caldwell
In the UK this is the week Heart Of Glass replaced Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick at #1. I can't actually recall the last time two consecutive NM #1s matched two consecutive UK #1s. I think it happened around 1962-63 but not sure how often since then. In 1978, only 3 UK #1s were also NM #1s (Wuthering Heights, You're The One That I Want, Rat Trap) and they weren't consecutive.
Perhaps surprisingly "Chiquitita" gave Abba their highest entry new entry position despite not being one of their number ones, when it entered at #8. "The Winner Takes It All" entered at #9 and "Take A Chance On Me" at #10. Other big number ones "Mamma Mia" and "Fernando" entered outside the top 40 before climbing up to the top.
The Members were a "mod-rock" band, or just a band that sounded a bit like the Jam.
Among the others, Herbie Hancock is quite interesting for the kind of music he makes, but Gene Chandler's comeback is perhaps disappointing by contrast. Rod Stewart has a bit of a slump period for me starting at this point, and in the UK too with all his singles missing the top 10 until "Tonight I'm Yours" in 1981.
One that passed me by at the time too. I knew "Teenage Kicks" even though it missed the UK top 30 (I didn't even know it had), but thought the follow-up was "Jimmy Jimmy". But no, there was a minor hit in between.
The revenge of Mick Jackson - his "Weekend" gets into the chart whilst the Jacksons fail to get in with this song. But of course his supremacy won't last long.
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Post by Earl Purple on Sept 6, 2021 15:42:12 GMT 1
10 February 1979
1 ( 1 ) Heart Of Glass - Blondie < 3rd week at #1 > 2 ( -- ) Bat Out Of Hell - Meat Loaf 3 ( 2 ) Milk And Alcohol - Dr Feelgood (#2[1]) 4 ( 3 ) King Rocker - Generation X (#3) 5 ( 10 ) Chiquitita - Abba 6 ( 8 ) Contact - Edwin Starr 7 ( -- ) Oliver's Army - Elvis Costello & The Attractions 8 ( 15 ) The Sound Of The Suburbs - Members 9 ( 7 ) I Will Survive - Gloria Gaynor (#7) 10 ( -- ) Don't Stop Me Now - Queen
11 ( 6 ) Woman In Love - Three Degrees (#6) 12 ( 11 ) Lady - Little River Band (#11) 13 ( 4 ) Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick - Ian Dury & The Blockheads (#1[3]) 14 ( -- ) Tragedy - Bee Gees 15 ( 5 ) Hello This Is Joannie - Paul Evans (#2[2]) 16 ( 14 ) May The Sunshine - Nazareth (#14) 17 ( 23 ) You Bet Your Love - Herbie Hancock 18 ( -- ) What A Fool Believes - Doobie Brothers 19 ( -- ) Stop Your Sobbing - Pretenders 20 ( 27 ) Get Over You - Undertones
21 ( 12 ) Equinoxe - Jean Michel Jarre (#12) 22 ( 19 ) Every Which Way But Loose - Eddie Rabbitt (#19) 23 ( 13 ) Take On The World - Judas Priest (#13) 24 ( 9 ) Car 67 - Driver 67 (#3) 25 ( -- ) Get It - Darts 26 ( 29 ) Weekend - Mick Jackson 27 ( 21 ) Radioactive - Gene Simmons (#21) 28 ( 18 ) Blue Morning Blue Day - Foreigner (#18) 29 ( 20 ) One Last Kiss - J Geils Band (#20) 30 ( 36 ) Every Time I Think Of You - Babys
31 ( 38 ) Just Thirteen - Lurkers 32 ( 24 ) When I'm Away From You - Frankie Miller (#24) 33 ( 39 ) Ain't Love A b**** - Rod Stewart 34 ( 16 ) The Gambler - Kenny Rogers (#4) 35 ( 17 ) Song For Guy - Elton John (#5) 36 ( 42 ) You Thrill Me - Exile 37 ( 34 ) You Need A Woman Tonight - Captain And Tennille (#34) 38 ( 44 ) The Joker (The Wigan Joker) - JBS All Night Band 39 ( 45 ) Get Down - Gene Chandler 40 ( -- ) Crazy Love - Poco
41 ( -- ) Haven't Stopped Dancin' Yet - Gonzales 42 ( 26 ) Baby I'm Burnin' - Dolly Parton (#19) 43 ( 22 ) Theme From Superman - John Williams & London Symphony Orchestra (#6) 44 ( 25 ) Desire Me - Doll (#12) 45 ( 50 ) Everybody Is A Star - Pointer Sisters 46 ( 40 ) Doctor Doctor - UFO (#40) 47 ( 35 ) Shake Your Groove Thing - Peaches And Herb (#33) 48 ( -- ) Honey I'm Lost - Dooleys 49 ( 32 ) No Tell Lover - Chicago (#24) 50 ( 37 ) Heaven Knows - Donna Summer (#34)
-- ( 28 ) Cool Meditation - Third World (#7) -- ( 30 ) Home And Dry - Gerry Rafferty (#16) -- ( 31 ) Don't Cry Out Loud - Melissa Manchester (#10) -- ( 33 ) Fat Bottomed Girls - Queen (#4) -- ( 41 ) Shattered - Rolling Stones (#29) -- ( 43 ) Four Strong Winds - Neil Young (#23) -- ( 46 ) Outdoor Miner - Wire -- ( 47 ) This Is It - Dan Hartman (#37) -- ( 48 ) Le Freak - Chic (#1[2]) -- ( 49 ) Every Night - Phoebe Snow (#32)
-- ( -- ) I Just Fall In Love Again - Anne Murray -- ( -- ) You Can Do It - Dobie Gray -- ( -- ) Ain't That Enough For You - John Davis
the week of the very strong entries, except unlike in the poll, this is from the UK top 75 and US top 40 so we get "Tragedy" by the Bee Gees this week instead of next week and also "What A Fool Believes" by the Doobie Brothers, plus Toto already charted.
This is also the week the Pretenders make their chart debut.
For Meat Loaf it's his 4th hit, the follow-up to the massive "Paradise By The Dashboard Light" and it was only a single in the UK (and other countries but not the USA). It entered inside the top 40 at #35 then fell to #37 before leaping up to #15 only to fall again the next week. Eventually it reached #8 in 1993 when re-released.
"Oliver's Army" became Elvis Costello's biggest UK hit and first to reach the top 10. In my chart this is his 5th single having peaked #4, #6, #4, #6. Prior to "Watching The Detectives" he did have at least two hit singles that flopped totally in the UK and some may feel I should have playlisted them anyway.
"Don't Stop Me Now" took ages to finally get to the UK top 10 peaking at #9, and in the streaming period has become their most popular song after Bohemian Rhapsody.
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Post by Earl Purple on Sept 10, 2021 11:56:42 GMT 1
17 February 1979
1 ( 2 ) Bat Out Of Hell - Meat Loaf < 2nd #1 > 2 ( 1 ) Heart Of Glass - Blondie (#1[3]) 3 ( 7 ) Oliver's Army - Elvis Costello & The Attractions 4 ( 3 ) Milk And Alcohol - Dr Feelgood (#2[1]) 5 ( 5 ) Chiquitita - Abba 6 ( 10 ) Don't Stop Me Now - Queen 7 ( 4 ) King Rocker - Generation X (#3) 8 ( 14 ) Tragedy - Bee Gees 9 ( 8 ) The Sound Of The Suburbs - Members (#8) 10 ( 6 ) Contact - Edwin Starr (#6)
11 ( -- ) Lucky Number - Lene Lovich 12 ( 18 ) What A Fool Believes - Doobie Brothers 13 ( 19 ) Stop Your Sobbing - Pretenders 14 ( -- ) Into The Valley - Skids 15 ( -- ) Sultans Of Swing - Dire Straits 16 ( 25 ) Get It - Darts 17 ( 9 ) I Will Survive - Gloria Gaynor (#7) 18 ( 17 ) You Bet Your Love - Herbie Hancock (#17) 19 ( 12 ) Lady - Little River Band (#11) 20 ( -- ) Forever In Blue Jeans - Neil Diamond
21 ( 20 ) Get Over You - Undertones (#20) 22 ( 11 ) Woman In Love - Three Degrees (#6) 23 ( 16 ) May The Sunshine - Nazareth (#14) 24 ( -- ) Clog Dance - Violinski 25 ( 13 ) Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick - Ian Dury & The Blockheads (#1[3]) 26 ( 26 ) Weekend - Mick Jackson 27 ( 40 ) Crazy Love - Poco 28 ( 30 ) Every Time I Think Of You - Babys 29 ( 15 ) Hello This Is Joannie - Paul Evans (#2[2]) 30 ( 41 ) Haven't Stopped Dancin' Yet - Gonzales
31 ( 31 ) Just Thirteen - Lurkers 32 ( 22 ) Every Which Way But Loose - Eddie Rabbitt (#19) 33 ( -- ) Baby Of Mine - Alan Price 34 ( 33 ) Ain't Love A b**** - Rod Stewart (#33) 35 ( -- ) Stormy - Santana 36 ( 21 ) Equinoxe - Jean Michel Jarre (#12) 37 ( 36 ) You Thrill Me - Exile (#36) 38 ( -- ) American Generation - Ritchie Family 39 ( 38 ) The Joker (The Wigan Joker) - JBS All Night Band (#38) 40 ( 48 ) Honey I'm Lost - Dooleys
41 ( 27 ) Radioactive - Gene Simmons (#21) 42 ( 23 ) Take On The World - Judas Priest (#13) 43 ( 39 ) Get Down - Gene Chandler (#39) 44 ( -- ) Can You Feel The Force - Real Thing 45 ( 29 ) One Last Kiss - J Geils Band (#20) 46 ( 28 ) Blue Morning Blue Day - Foreigner (#18) 47 ( 24 ) Car 67 - Driver 67 (#3) 48 ( 32 ) When I'm Away From You - Frankie Miller (#24) 49 ( 37 ) You Need A Woman Tonight - Captain And Tennille (#34) 50 ( 45 ) Everybody Is A Star - Pointer Sisters (#45)
-- ( 34 ) The Gambler - Kenny Rogers (#4) -- ( 35 ) Song For Guy - Elton John (#5) -- ( 42 ) Baby I'm Burnin' - Dolly Parton (#19) -- ( 43 ) Theme From Superman - John Williams & London Symphony Orchestra (#6) -- ( 44 ) Desire Me - Doll (#12) -- ( 46 ) Doctor Doctor - UFO (#40) -- ( 47 ) Shake Your Groove Thing - Peaches And Herb (#33) -- ( 49 ) No Tell Lover - Chicago (#24) -- ( 50 ) Heaven Knows - Donna Summer (#34)
-- ( -- ) Song On The Radio - Al Stewart -- ( -- ) Fifty-Four - Sea Level
For the second time within a few months Meat Loaf replaces Blondie at #1. Both will have several more number ones after this but their paths won't cross again. Meat Loaf's next number one will be "Dead Ringer For Love" and then will return for more in 1993. Blondie will make brief returns to the top in 1999 and 2017. Both acts are considered "legendary" which is quite magical given they make totally different music.
Lene Lovich is much better than Tiffany Darwisch.. well her cover of "I Think We're Alone Now" was anyway, that was her release before this with "Lucky Number" on the B-side but it flopped and then "Lucky Number" was released as the A-side and it was a massive hit. At this point Tiffany is 7 years old.
"Into The Valley" is played regularly at The Valley before Charlton Athletic home games.. And welcome also Dire Straits to the chart.
Another new song by Neil Diamond following his duet with Barbra Streisand, I prefer this one... And Violinski was a side-project by Mik Kaminski from E.L.O.
Further down "Can You Feel The Force" was essentially the 3rd big hit for the Real Thing after a few that didn't do so well, this one got them back into the UK top 5 and is more disco than their two soul-based hits from 1976. My own favourite of theirs is "Can't Get By Without You". After this one they had no more success other than remixes of their former hits.
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Post by Earl Purple on Sept 17, 2021 16:09:28 GMT 1
24 February 1979
1 ( 1 ) Bat Out Of Hell - Meat Loaf < 2nd week at #1 > 2 ( 3 ) Oliver's Army - Elvis Costello & The Attractions 3 ( 2 ) Heart Of Glass - Blondie (#1[3]) 4 ( 6 ) Don't Stop Me Now - Queen 5 ( 8 ) Tragedy - Bee Gees 6 ( 11 ) Lucky Number - Lene Lovich 7 ( 14 ) Into The Valley - Skids 8 ( 12 ) What A Fool Believes - Doobie Brothers 9 ( 15 ) Sultans Of Swing - Dire Straits 10 ( 5 ) Chiquitita - Abba (#5)
11 ( 4 ) Milk And Alcohol - Dr Feelgood (#2[1]) 12 ( 20 ) Forever In Blue Jeans - Neil Diamond 13 ( 13 ) Stop Your Sobbing - Pretenders 14 ( 24 ) Clog Dance - Violinski 15 ( 7 ) King Rocker - Generation X (#3) 16 ( 9 ) The Sound Of The Suburbs - Members (#8) 17 ( 16 ) Get It - Darts (#16) 18 ( 10 ) Contact - Edwin Starr (#6) 19 ( 33 ) Baby Of Mine - Alan Price 20 ( -- ) Keep On Dancing - Gary's Gang
21 ( 27 ) Crazy Love - Poco 22 ( 35 ) Stormy - Santana 23 ( 18 ) You Bet Your Love - Herbie Hancock (#17) 24 ( -- ) Knock On Wood - Amii Stewart 25 ( 38 ) American Generation - Ritchie Family 26 ( 30 ) Haven't Stopped Dancin' Yet - Gonzales 27 ( -- ) Furniture Music - Bill Nelson's Red Noise 28 ( 21 ) Get Over You - Undertones (#20) 29 ( 17 ) I Will Survive - Gloria Gaynor (#7) 30 ( 26 ) Weekend - Mick Jackson (#26)
31 ( 19 ) Lady - Little River Band (#11) 32 ( 28 ) Every Time I Think Of You - Babys (#28) 33 ( -- ) I Want Your Love - Chic 34 ( 44 ) Can You Feel The Force - Real Thing 35 ( 23 ) May The Sunshine - Nazareth (#14) 36 ( 31 ) Just Thirteen - Lurkers (#31) 37 ( 22 ) Woman In Love - Three Degrees (#6) 38 ( 40 ) Honey I'm Lost - Dooleys 39 ( 34 ) Ain't Love A b**** - Rod Stewart (#33) 40 ( 25 ) Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick - Ian Dury & The Blockheads (#1[3])
41 ( -- ) Maybe I'm A Fool - Eddie Money 42 ( 37 ) You Thrill Me - Exile (#36) 43 ( 39 ) The Joker (The Wigan Joker) - JBS All Night Band (#38) 44 ( -- ) Pops We Love You - Stevie Wonder & Diana Ross & Marvin Gaye & Smokey Robinson 45 ( 32 ) Every Which Way But Loose - Eddie Rabbitt (#19) 46 ( 29 ) Hello This Is Joannie - Paul Evans (#2[2]) 47 ( -- ) Everything Is Great - Inner Circle 48 ( -- ) At Midnight - T-Connection 49 ( -- ) Sing Sing - Gaz 50 ( 43 ) Get Down - Gene Chandler (#39)
-- ( 36 ) Equinoxe - Jean Michel Jarre (#12) -- ( 41 ) Radioactive - Gene Simmons (#21) -- ( 42 ) Take On The World - Judas Priest (#13) -- ( 45 ) One Last Kiss - J Geils Band (#20) -- ( 46 ) Blue Morning Blue Day - Foreigner (#18) -- ( 47 ) Car 67 - Driver 67 (#3) -- ( 48 ) When I'm Away From You - Frankie Miller (#24) -- ( 49 ) You Need A Woman Tonight - Captain And Tennille (#34) -- ( 50 ) Everybody Is A Star - Pointer Sisters (#45)
-- ( -- ) You're A Star - Aquarian Dream -- ( -- ) B.Y.O.F - Fantastic Four
The current festivals are holding me back a bit. 1979 was a fairly average year regarding the festival placement, i.e. from Purim onward but Tu Bishvat would have been late that year, whereas 2021 is the second earliest in the calendar.
Now here we have an artist called "Gary's Gang" and when you see that name you think of "I'm The Leader Of The Gang" by Gary Glitter, but in fact the band sounds nothing like that at all, it's a funky disco track and quite good, entering even higher than Chic, for whom "I Want Your Love" was their highest peaking UK single but I doubt many think it's their most classic (and would agree with me that probably goes to Le Freak, which was #1 on this chart a few weeks ago).
We have Furniture Music, one of those great treasures that isn't well known and didn't make the top 40 but did make the top 75.
A few covers around, but Amii Stewart's disco rendition of Knock On Wood is probably something of a classic cover. A bit of a shame she followed it up with "Light My Fire" which just didn't work for me, but also she had an original song hit a few years later with "Friends".
That "Pops" song was a collaboration with a few singers and the UK official chart seems to list Diana Ross first but on Spotify Stevie Wonder is given first and I just threw them in any order, and also have to separate them with & signs as I use CSV and commas anywhere other than separators mess things up.
The top 20 this week is pretty strong and next week will see a few more good entries but it's downhill from there, the new playlist has very few good songs on it.
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Post by Earl Purple on Sept 18, 2021 21:08:13 GMT 1
3 March 1979
1 ( 2 ) Oliver's Army - Elvis Costello & The Attractions < 1st #1 > 2 ( 1 ) Bat Out Of Hell - Meat Loaf (#1[2]) 3 ( 4 ) Don't Stop Me Now - Queen 4 ( 5 ) Tragedy - Bee Gees 5 ( 6 ) Lucky Number - Lene Lovich 6 ( 3 ) Heart Of Glass - Blondie (#1[3]) 7 ( 7 ) Into The Valley - Skids 8 ( 9 ) Sultans Of Swing - Dire Straits 9 ( 8 ) What A Fool Believes - Doobie Brothers (#8) 10 ( 20 ) Keep On Dancing - Gary's Gang
11 ( 12 ) Forever In Blue Jeans - Neil Diamond 12 ( 14 ) Clog Dance - Violinski 13 ( -- ) Saturday Night Beneath The Plastic Palm Trees - Leyton Buzzards 14 ( 24 ) Knock On Wood - Amii Stewart 15 ( -- ) Bright Eyes - Art Garfunkel 16 ( 19 ) Baby Of Mine - Alan Price 17 ( 27 ) Furniture Music - Bill Nelson's Red Noise 18 ( -- ) Friggin' In The Riggin' - Sex Pistols 19 ( 13 ) Stop Your Sobbing - Pretenders (#13) 20 ( 22 ) Stormy - Santana
21 ( -- ) Waiting For An Alibi - Thin Lizzy 22 ( 10 ) Chiquitita - Abba (#5) 23 ( -- ) Music Box Dancer - Frank Mills 24 ( 21 ) Crazy Love - Poco (#21) 25 ( 25 ) American Generation - Ritchie Family 26 ( 33 ) I Want Your Love - Chic 27 ( 11 ) Milk And Alcohol - Dr Feelgood (#2[1]) 28 ( 17 ) Get It - Darts (#16) 29 ( 26 ) Haven't Stopped Dancin' Yet - Gonzales (#26) 30 ( 16 ) The Sound Of The Suburbs - Members (#8)
31 ( 15 ) King Rocker - Generation X (#3) 32 ( -- ) Imperial Wizard - David Essex 33 ( -- ) Big Shot - Billy Joel 34 ( 41 ) Maybe I'm A Fool - Eddie Money 35 ( 18 ) Contact - Edwin Starr (#6) 36 ( 34 ) Can You Feel The Force - Real Thing (#34) 37 ( 23 ) You Bet Your Love - Herbie Hancock (#17) 38 ( 44 ) Pops We Love You - Stevie Wonder & Diana Ross & Marvin Gaye & Smokey Robinson 39 ( -- ) Trash - Roxy Music 40 ( 47 ) Everything Is Great - Inner Circle
41 ( 48 ) At Midnight - T-Connection 42 ( -- ) Money In My Pocket - Dennis Brown 43 ( 49 ) Sing Sing - Gaz 44 ( 30 ) Weekend - Mick Jackson (#26) 45 ( 28 ) Get Over You - Undertones (#20) 46 ( -- ) Painter Man - Boney M 47 ( 38 ) Honey I'm Lost - Dooleys (#38) 48 ( 32 ) Every Time I Think Of You - Babys (#28) 49 ( -- ) English Civil War - Clash 50 ( 29 ) I Will Survive - Gloria Gaynor (#7)
-- ( 31 ) Lady - Little River Band (#11) -- ( 35 ) May The Sunshine - Nazareth (#14) -- ( 36 ) Just Thirteen - Lurkers (#31) -- ( 37 ) Woman In Love - Three Degrees (#6) -- ( 39 ) Ain't Love A b**** - Rod Stewart (#33) -- ( 40 ) Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick - Ian Dury & The Blockheads (#1[3]) -- ( 42 ) You Thrill Me - Exile (#36) -- ( 43 ) The Joker (The Wigan Joker) - JBS All Night Band (#38) -- ( 45 ) Every Which Way But Loose - Eddie Rabbitt (#19) -- ( 46 ) Hello This Is Joannie - Paul Evans (#2[2]) -- ( 50 ) Get Down - Gene Chandler (#39)
-- ( -- ) Bristol Stomp - Late Show
Elvis Costello & The Attractions get to #1, which may have been a surprise given it had to pass Meat Loaf to get there. In the UK this moved to #2 behind the Bee Gees and then surprisingly the Bee Gees fell to #3 but as Gloria Gaynor rose to #1, Elvis Costello was stuck at #2 for two further weeks. His album "Armed Forces" also reached #2 as he did with two further albums and had compilation albums not been allowed into the main chart he would have had a #1. However up to this point he had never had a top 10 single and nor had Squeeze would would also get a UK #2 hit quite soon after (in fact they got 2 in a row).
A further injustice is that "Saturday Night (Between The Plastic Palm Trees)" was not a top 40 hit, it's pretty much a classic. If you haven't heard it then think of Blur 15 years ahead of their time. This song would fit happily into Britpop. Unfortunately after the failure of this song the band "sold out" and formed Modern Romance, scoring a hit with "Ay Ay Ay Ay Moosey". The line-up of that band changed a few times so I'm not sure there were many Leyton Buzzards left for their later hits. More shocking is that Plastic Palm Trees isn't on Spotify and Ay Ay Ay Ay Moosey is. Probably something to do with their record label. Which song do they really want as their legacy? There is a cover version of this song on there though.
Moving from Wombles to rabbits, we have Mike Batt's theme from Watership Down which was a massive hit for Art Garfunkel.
Among the "covers" is the Sex Pistols adaptation of the traditional "Good Ship Venus" along with the radio-safe cover of Eddie Cochran's "Something Else", the latter featuring the vocals of the now late Sid Vicious and they had Legs & Co appear dressed in "punk style" on Top of the Pops to dance to it.
For Thin Lizzy, "Waiting For An Alibi" was their first top 10 hit since "The Boys Are Back In Town" in 1976.
The last Roxy Music psychedelic/glam single which didn't do that well in the chart and after a massive follow-up they went for the soft-style going forward.
"Painter Man" reached #10 for Creation in late 1966. At the time I noticed the riff had a similar melody to "Milk And Alcohol" albeit this song obviously is about 12 years old.
Adam Faith reached #12 in 1960 with "When Johnny Comes Marching Home", the song on which "English Civil War" is based. And the Dovells took "Bristol Stomp" to #29 in 1961 based on a Bristol in the USA, but the Late Show came from the South West of England. Not enough to get them in the chart, or perhaps just not a great song in the first place.
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Post by Earl Purple on Sept 23, 2021 17:00:03 GMT 1
10 March 1979
1 ( 1 ) Oliver's Army - Elvis Costello & The Attractions < 2nd week at #1 > 2 ( 3 ) Don't Stop Me Now - Queen 3 ( 2 ) Bat Out Of Hell - Meat Loaf (#1[2]) 4 ( 5 ) Lucky Number - Lene Lovich 5 ( 13 ) Saturday Night Beneath The Plastic Palm Trees - Leyton Buzzards 6 ( 4 ) Tragedy - Bee Gees (#4) 7 ( 15 ) Bright Eyes - Art Garfunkel 8 ( 10 ) Keep On Dancing - Gary's Gang 9 ( 18 ) Friggin' In The Riggin' - Sex Pistols 10 ( 7 ) Into The Valley - Skids (#7)
11 ( 8 ) Sultans Of Swing - Dire Straits (#8) 12 ( 21 ) Waiting For An Alibi - Thin Lizzy 13 ( 14 ) Knock On Wood - Amii Stewart 14 ( 23 ) Music Box Dancer - Frank Mills 15 ( 6 ) Heart Of Glass - Blondie (#1[3]) 16 ( 11 ) Forever In Blue Jeans - Neil Diamond (#11) 17 ( 9 ) What A Fool Believes - Doobie Brothers (#8) 18 ( 12 ) Clog Dance - Violinski (#12) 19 ( 17 ) Furniture Music - Bill Nelson's Red Noise (#17) 20 ( -- ) Everybody's Happy Nowadays - Buzzcocks
21 ( 16 ) Baby Of Mine - Alan Price (#16) 22 ( 32 ) Imperial Wizard - David Essex 23 ( 33 ) Big Shot - Billy Joel 24 ( 20 ) Stormy - Santana (#20) 25 ( -- ) He's The Greatest Dancer - Sister Sledge 26 ( -- ) Cuba - Gibson Brothers 27 ( 26 ) I Want Your Love - Chic (#26) 28 ( -- ) Turn The Music Up - Players Association 29 ( 39 ) Trash - Roxy Music 30 ( 25 ) American Generation - Ritchie Family (#25)
31 ( 19 ) Stop Your Sobbing - Pretenders (#13) 32 ( -- ) Blow Away - George Harrison 33 ( 42 ) Money In My Pocket - Dennis Brown 34 ( 24 ) Crazy Love - Poco (#21) 35 ( 34 ) Maybe I'm A Fool - Eddie Money (#34) 36 ( 46 ) Painter Man - Boney M 37 ( 29 ) Haven't Stopped Dancin' Yet - Gonzales (#26) 38 ( 38 ) Pops We Love You - Stevie Wonder & Diana Ross & Marvin Gaye & Smokey Robinson 39 ( 22 ) Chiquitita - Abba (#5) 40 ( 40 ) Everything Is Great - Inner Circle
41 ( 49 ) English Civil War - Clash 42 ( 41 ) At Midnight - T-Connection (#41) 43 ( -- ) Overkill - Motorhead 44 ( -- ) Boogie Town - Fat Larry's Band 45 ( 43 ) Sing Sing - Gaz (#43) 46 ( 36 ) Can You Feel The Force - Real Thing (#34) 47 ( 28 ) Get It - Darts (#16) 48 ( 27 ) Milk And Alcohol - Dr Feelgood (#2[1]) 49 ( 30 ) The Sound Of The Suburbs - Members (#8) 50 ( -- ) Gimmix! Play Loud - John Cooper Clarke
-- ( 31 ) King Rocker - Generation X (#3) -- ( 35 ) Contact - Edwin Starr (#6) -- ( 37 ) You Bet Your Love - Herbie Hancock (#17) -- ( 44 ) Weekend - Mick Jackson (#26) -- ( 45 ) Get Over You - Undertones (#20) -- ( 47 ) Honey I'm Lost - Dooleys (#38) -- ( 48 ) Every Time I Think Of You - Babys (#28) -- ( 50 ) I Will Survive - Gloria Gaynor (#7)
-- ( -- ) Disco Nights (Rock Freak) - GQ -- ( -- ) Keep Reaching Out for Love - Liner -- ( -- ) Livin' It Up (Friday Night) - Bell & James
The highest new entry this week is by the Buzzcocks, the follow up to Promises, this peaked at #29 in the UK. For Sister Sledge, this is a comeback after one hit "Mama Never Told Me" in 1975, and they have worked with Chic who wrote and produced this.
So Sisters enter just above Brothers, who are really brothers but their name isn't really Gibson, it is actually Francfort. There are many versions of this on Spotify but only the 12" sounds the way I recall, and that is about 7 minutes long. The Players Association hit is also only an 8 minute 12" version. I wish they'd put the single versions of these on Spotify as I generally find the extra length adds nothing (unlike on Meat Loaf where you can't edit it without skipping out a significant part of the song).
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Post by Earl Purple on Sept 24, 2021 12:59:23 GMT 1
17 March 1979
1 ( 1 ) Oliver's Army - Elvis Costello & The Attractions < 3rd week at #1 > 2 ( 2 ) Don't Stop Me Now - Queen 3 ( 4 ) Lucky Number - Lene Lovich 4 ( 5 ) Saturday Night Beneath The Plastic Palm Trees - Leyton Buzzards 5 ( 3 ) Bat Out Of Hell - Meat Loaf (#1[2]) 6 ( 7 ) Bright Eyes - Art Garfunkel 7 ( 9 ) Friggin' In The Riggin' - Sex Pistols 8 ( 8 ) Keep On Dancing - Gary's Gang 9 ( -- ) Strange Town - Jam 10 ( 12 ) Waiting For An Alibi - Thin Lizzy
11 ( 20 ) Everybody's Happy Nowadays - Buzzcocks 12 ( 6 ) Tragedy - Bee Gees (#4) 13 ( -- ) Wow - Kate Bush 14 ( 14 ) Music Box Dancer - Frank Mills 15 ( -- ) In The Navy - Village People 16 ( 25 ) He's The Greatest Dancer - Sister Sledge 17 ( 26 ) Cuba - Gibson Brothers 18 ( 13 ) Knock On Wood - Amii Stewart (#13) 19 ( 28 ) Turn The Music Up - Players Association 20 ( 10 ) Into The Valley - Skids (#7)
21 ( 11 ) Sultans Of Swing - Dire Straits (#8) 22 ( 22 ) Imperial Wizard - David Essex 23 ( 23 ) Big Shot - Billy Joel 24 ( 32 ) Blow Away - George Harrison 25 ( 16 ) Forever In Blue Jeans - Neil Diamond (#11) 26 ( 19 ) Furniture Music - Bill Nelson's Red Noise (#17) 27 ( 29 ) Trash - Roxy Music 28 ( -- ) Take Me Home - Cher 29 ( 18 ) Clog Dance - Violinski (#12) 30 ( 15 ) Heart Of Glass - Blondie (#1[3])
31 ( 17 ) What A Fool Believes - Doobie Brothers (#8) 32 ( 33 ) Money In My Pocket - Dennis Brown 33 ( 21 ) Baby Of Mine - Alan Price (#16) 34 ( 43 ) Overkill - Motorhead 35 ( 27 ) I Want Your Love - Chic (#26) 36 ( 36 ) Painter Man - Boney M 37 ( 44 ) Boogie Town - Fat Larry's Band 38 ( 24 ) Stormy - Santana (#20) 39 ( -- ) You Angel You - Manfred Mann's Earth Band 40 ( -- ) Bully For You - Tom Robinson Band
41 ( -- ) Dog & Butterfly - Heart 42 ( 41 ) English Civil War - Clash (#41) 43 ( 50 ) Gimmix! Play Loud - John Cooper Clarke 44 ( 30 ) American Generation - Ritchie Family (#25) 45 ( 35 ) Maybe I'm A Fool - Eddie Money (#34) 46 ( 38 ) Pops We Love You - Stevie Wonder & Diana Ross & Marvin Gaye & Smokey Robinson (#38) 47 ( 40 ) Everything Is Great - Inner Circle (#40) 48 ( -- ) Precious Love - Bob Welch 49 ( 31 ) Stop Your Sobbing - Pretenders (#13) 50 ( 42 ) At Midnight - T-Connection (#41)
-- ( 34 ) Crazy Love - Poco (#21) -- ( 37 ) Haven't Stopped Dancin' Yet - Gonzales (#26) -- ( 39 ) Chiquitita - Abba (#5) -- ( 45 ) Sing Sing - Gaz (#43) -- ( 46 ) Can You Feel The Force - Real Thing (#34) -- ( 47 ) Get It - Darts (#16) -- ( 48 ) Milk And Alcohol - Dr Feelgood (#2[1]) -- ( 49 ) The Sound Of The Suburbs - Members (#8)
-- ( -- ) I Don't Wanna Lose You - Kandidate -- ( -- ) Chase - Giorgio Moroder -- ( -- ) Superman - Herbie Mann -- ( -- ) Keeep Your Body Working - Kleeer -- ( -- ) Bustin' Loose - Chuck Brown & The Soul Searchers
Another Jam classic enters inside my top 10 but in the UK this one stalled at #15, even though it wasn't on any album at the time, and Kate Bush one place higher on the same week, then spending two more weeks at #14, that one from the Lionheart album.
Village People's "In The Navy" flew up from #16 to #2 on one week but didn't make it to the top the next week and was one of the lowest selling #2s of the year. (There are different versions but I'm following the one where it's #49 and only "Can't Stand Losing You" which isn't on the list is below it).
Cher doing disco and that song in particular didn't work that well in 1979 for the UK public. 1998 was a different matter for Cher though, and 2001 for that song.
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Post by Earl Purple on Oct 1, 2021 10:09:17 GMT 1
24 March 1979
1 ( 1 ) Oliver's Army - Elvis Costello & The Attractions < 4th week at #1 > 2 ( 2 ) Don't Stop Me Now - Queen 3 ( 4 ) Saturday Night Beneath The Plastic Palm Trees - Leyton Buzzards 4 ( 3 ) Lucky Number - Lene Lovich (#3) 5 ( 9 ) Strange Town - Jam 6 ( 13 ) Wow - Kate Bush 7 ( 5 ) Bat Out Of Hell - Meat Loaf (#1[2]) 8 ( 15 ) In The Navy - Village People 9 ( 6 ) Bright Eyes - Art Garfunkel (#6) 10 ( 7 ) Friggin' In The Riggin' - Sex Pistols (#7)
11 ( 11 ) Everybody's Happy Nowadays - Buzzcocks 12 ( -- ) Cool For Cats - Squeeze 13 ( 8 ) Keep On Dancing - Gary's Gang (#8) 14 ( 10 ) Waiting For An Alibi - Thin Lizzy (#10) 15 ( 16 ) He's The Greatest Dancer - Sister Sledge 16 ( 17 ) Cuba - Gibson Brothers 17 ( 28 ) Take Me Home - Cher 18 ( 19 ) Turn The Music Up - Players Association 19 ( -- ) The Runner - Three Degrees 20 ( 14 ) Music Box Dancer - Frank Mills (#14)
21 ( -- ) Questions And Answers - Sham 69 22 ( -- ) Shake Your Body (Down To The Ground) - Jacksons 23 ( 24 ) Blow Away - George Harrison 24 ( 12 ) Tragedy - Bee Gees (#4) 25 ( 22 ) Imperial Wizard - David Essex (#22) 26 ( 39 ) You Angel You - Manfred Mann's Earth Band 27 ( 23 ) Big Shot - Billy Joel (#23) 28 ( 18 ) Knock On Wood - Amii Stewart (#13) 29 ( 40 ) Bully For You - Tom Robinson Band 30 ( 41 ) Dog & Butterfly - Heart
31 ( 27 ) Trash - Roxy Music (#27) 32 ( -- ) Let's Fly Away - Voyage 33 ( 34 ) Overkill - Motorhead 34 ( -- ) Imagination - Rocky Sharpe & The Replays 35 ( 20 ) Into The Valley - Skids (#7) 36 ( 21 ) Sultans Of Swing - Dire Straits (#8) 37 ( 32 ) Money In My Pocket - Dennis Brown (#32) 38 ( 37 ) Boogie Town - Fat Larry's Band (#37) 39 ( 48 ) Precious Love - Bob Welch 40 ( 26 ) Furniture Music - Bill Nelson's Red Noise (#17)
41 ( 25 ) Forever In Blue Jeans - Neil Diamond (#11) 42 ( 36 ) Painter Man - Boney M (#36) 43 ( 43 ) Gimmix! Play Loud - John Cooper Clarke 44 ( -- ) Give Me Back Me Brain - Duffo 45 ( 29 ) Clog Dance - Violinski (#12) 46 ( -- ) Love Ballad - George Benson 47 ( 35 ) I Want Your Love - Chic (#26) 48 ( 42 ) English Civil War - Clash (#41) 49 ( -- ) Sha La La Means I Love You - Barry White 50 ( 33 ) Baby Of Mine - Alan Price (#16)
-- ( 30 ) Heart Of Glass - Blondie (#1[3]) -- ( 31 ) What A Fool Believes - Doobie Brothers (#8) -- ( 38 ) Stormy - Santana (#20) -- ( 44 ) American Generation - Ritchie Family (#25) -- ( 45 ) Maybe I'm A Fool - Eddie Money (#34) -- ( 46 ) Pops We Love You - Stevie Wonder & Diana Ross & Marvin Gaye & Smokey Robinson (#38) -- ( 47 ) Everything Is Great - Inner Circle (#40) -- ( 49 ) Stop Your Sobbing - Pretenders (#13) -- ( 50 ) At Midnight - T-Connection (#41)
The first of the two consecutive UK #2 hits by Squeeze enters at #12 as the highest entry hoping to break the domination at the top
Other entries by the Three Degrees (their last UK top 10 hit), Sham 69 and the Jacksons - for the latter this reached #4 in the UK but I believe it is their first ever hit they wrote themselves, at least in the UK, and certainly their first "big" self-written hit.
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Post by Good Old Days on Oct 1, 2021 15:36:43 GMT 1
R.I.P. Rocky Sharpe.
Big thanks to you and Helen Highwater for "If You Wanna Be Happy", "Martian Hop", "Imagination" and many other nice tunes with late 50s-60s roots.
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Post by Earl Purple on Oct 1, 2021 17:01:09 GMT 1
"Imagination" dates back even further, apparently to 1940 and it wasn't originally a doo-wop song, so there is some originality in this cover version.
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Post by Earl Purple on Oct 4, 2021 23:27:51 GMT 1
31 March 1979
1 ( 2 ) Don't Stop Me Now - Queen < 7th #1 > 2 ( 1 ) Oliver's Army - Elvis Costello & The Attractions (#1[4]) 3 ( 5 ) Strange Town - Jam 4 ( 6 ) Wow - Kate Bush 5 ( 3 ) Saturday Night Beneath The Plastic Palm Trees - Leyton Buzzards (#3) 6 ( 12 ) Cool For Cats - Squeeze 7 ( 8 ) In The Navy - Village People 8 ( 4 ) Lucky Number - Lene Lovich (#3) 9 ( -- ) The Logical Song - Supertramp 10 ( 19 ) The Runner - Three Degrees
11 ( 21 ) Questions And Answers - Sham 69 12 ( 22 ) Shake Your Body (Down To The Ground) - Jacksons 13 ( 7 ) Bat Out Of Hell - Meat Loaf (#1[2]) 14 ( 17 ) Take Me Home - Cher 15 ( 11 ) Everybody's Happy Nowadays - Buzzcocks (#11) 16 ( 9 ) Bright Eyes - Art Garfunkel (#6) 17 ( 10 ) Friggin' In The Riggin' - Sex Pistols (#7) 18 ( -- ) Some Girls - Racey 19 ( 15 ) He's The Greatest Dancer - Sister Sledge (#15) 20 ( 16 ) Cuba - Gibson Brothers (#16)
21 ( 32 ) Let's Fly Away - Voyage 22 ( -- ) Mary Ann - Black Lace 23 ( 18 ) Turn The Music Up - Players Association (#18) 24 ( 26 ) You Angel You - Manfred Mann's Earth Band 25 ( 14 ) Waiting For An Alibi - Thin Lizzy (#10) 26 ( 13 ) Keep On Dancing - Gary's Gang (#8) 27 ( 34 ) Imagination - Rocky Sharpe & The Replays 28 ( -- ) Goodnight Tonight - Wings 29 ( 29 ) Bully For You - Tom Robinson Band 30 ( 30 ) Dog & Butterfly - Heart
31 ( 23 ) Blow Away - George Harrison (#23) 32 ( -- ) The Staircase (Mystery) - Siouxsie & The Banshees 33 ( -- ) Reunited - Peaches And Herb 34 ( -- ) Green Light - Cliff Richard 35 ( 20 ) Music Box Dancer - Frank Mills (#14) 36 ( 44 ) Give Me Back Me Brain - Duffo 37 ( 25 ) Imperial Wizard - David Essex (#22) 38 ( -- ) Something's Cookin' In The Kitchen - Dana 39 ( 46 ) Love Ballad - George Benson 40 ( 39 ) Precious Love - Bob Welch (#39)
41 ( 27 ) Big Shot - Billy Joel (#23) 42 ( 33 ) Overkill - Motorhead (#33) 43 ( 49 ) Sha La La Means I Love You - Barry White 44 ( 31 ) Trash - Roxy Music (#27) 45 ( 24 ) Tragedy - Bee Gees (#4) 46 ( -- ) Remember Then - Showaddywaddy 47 ( 28 ) Knock On Wood - Amii Stewart (#13) 48 ( -- ) Shoot Shoot - UFO 49 ( 38 ) Boogie Town - Fat Larry's Band (#37) 50 ( 37 ) Money In My Pocket - Dennis Brown (#32)
-- ( 35 ) Into The Valley - Skids (#7) -- ( 36 ) Sultans Of Swing - Dire Straits (#8) -- ( 40 ) Furniture Music - Bill Nelson's Red Noise (#17) -- ( 41 ) Forever In Blue Jeans - Neil Diamond (#11) -- ( 42 ) Painter Man - Boney M (#36) -- ( 43 ) Gimmix! Play Loud - John Cooper Clarke -- ( 45 ) Clog Dance - Violinski (#12) -- ( 47 ) I Want Your Love - Chic (#26) -- ( 48 ) English Civil War - Clash (#41) -- ( 50 ) Baby Of Mine - Alan Price (#16)
-- ( -- ) Voodoo Voodoo - Den Hegarty -- ( -- ) Rubber Biscuit - Blues Brothers -- ( -- ) Love And Desire - Arpeggio -- ( -- ) I (Who Have Nothing) - Sylvester -- ( -- ) Here Comes The Night - Beach Boys
Queen finally make it to #1 with what has become one of their most popular songs, and it's their 8th chart topper in its 8th week on the chart. 10 February 1979 is the only ever week to yield 3 NM #1s as entries, and that also means that no week since then has yielded a chart-topper but if last week's highest entry by Squeeze doesn't get there then maybe Supertramp, for whom this was their biggest UK hit and also a track from their most successful album "Breakfast In America", but they have already had an NM #1 with "Dreamer" in 1975.
Racey's "Some Girls" would give Chinn-Chapman a big hit, bigger than UK's Eurovision entry by Black Lace which clearly ripped off one of their songs, i.e. "Oh Carol" by Smokie, and Alan Barton later became lead-singer of Smokie when Chris Norman left, only to die in a bus crash in Cologne in 1995. That was in March, but his vocal is the one on the "Who The F**k is Alice" version with Ray Chubby Brown.
Two other former Eurovision acts enter this week too, Dana who won in 1970 and Cliff Richard who came close in 1968 and not quite so close in 1973. Green Light failed to reach the top 40. I wonder what will happen to his next single?
Goodnight Tonight was a UK #5, the last major hit for Wings before Paul McCartney simply started recording under his own name. The Staircase Mystery isn't that bad but ended up in a first-round sing-off.
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Good Old Days
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Post by Good Old Days on Oct 5, 2021 6:51:40 GMT 1
Who is your favourite 70s female singer?
My top 3 are Twiggy, Lynsey De Paul and Dana.
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Post by Earl Purple on Oct 5, 2021 8:31:02 GMT 1
Who is your favourite 70s female singer? My top 3 are Twiggy, Lynsey De Paul and Dana. The one I know you don't like, i.e. Kate Bush. Number 4 this week and 2 number ones last year with "Wuthering Heights" and "The Man With The Child In His Eyes", with "Hammer Horror" peaking at #20 in between those. Other massive NM #1s by solo female singers this decade have been "It's Too Late" by Carole King, "You're So Vain" by Carly Simon and "At Seventeen" by Janis Ian. Carly Simon also reached #2 with "Nobody Does It Better". As part of a duo with her brother, Karen Carpenter had 3 number ones spending 11 weeks on top during the 1970s. So far, Blondie have had two number ones topping the chart for 5 weeks, both times being replaced by Meat Loaf. Dolly Parton has had 5 hits, but as yet hasn't climbed higher than #11 with "Jolene". Of your three, "Sugar Me" reached #6 and "It's Gonna Be A Cold Cold Christmas" #4 but Twiggy's only hit stalled at #16.
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