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Post by Good Old Days on Nov 4, 2021 13:31:36 GMT 1
"Disco" had been rather dominant in US chart. That's a good reason for disliking 70s US chart.
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Post by Earl Purple on Nov 4, 2021 14:44:14 GMT 1
"Disco" had been rather dominant in US chart. That's a good reason for disliking 70s US chart. it's been dominant but not ever-present. One thing about the US chart is it's based a lot on airplay, and most radio stations back in 1979 were genre-specific, in fact the guy who organised the protest had been sacked from the radio station he used to DJ because they changed from being rock to disco. He was hired by a different rock station, but you can sort-of understand his anger. I guess that explains also where there was very little reggae if any in the US chart. Bob Marley never had a top 40 hit there. Rap was far more successful in its early days in the UK than in the USA even though most of the rappers were American, and for many Americans it took Blondie's "Rapture" to introduce them to it. I far prefer a mix of the best of all genres to lots of similar-sounding songs of the same one, many of which turn into "also-rans" and for me that includes, a lot of the time, Foreigner, but maybe because apart from a couple of songs I didn't know them at the time and it's hard for them to compete with what I liked at the time. I do get a few great "discovery" songs, including a minor US hit on my new playlist called "Hold On" by Triumph. It will probably under-achieve just because it's new to me and competing with what I liked at the time but it's a great discovery.
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Post by Earl Purple on Nov 4, 2021 15:10:00 GMT 1
I'll also say the new entry list this week is so strong, had this been around 1975 then all of the entries down to Night would have easily made the top 10. "Hot Summer Nights" is a song I did know at the time, as I started listening to Paul Gambaccini's show regularly around this time, but it's a "haven't heard that since it came out" moment.
I think "Lonesome Loser" is already on my "big playlist" and has even come up.
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Post by Earl Purple on Nov 5, 2021 12:43:26 GMT 1
11 August 1979
1 ( 1 ) I Don't Like Mondays - Boomtown Rats < 3rd week at #1 > 2 ( 2 ) The Devil Went Down To Georgia - Charlie Daniels Band 3 ( 5 ) Bang Bang - B.A. Robertson 4 ( 4 ) Beat The Clock - Sparks 5 ( 13 ) Goodbye Stranger - Supertramp 6 ( 3 ) Girls Talk - Dave Edmunds (#1[3]) 7 ( 15 ) Hersham Boys - Sham 69 8 ( 9 ) Gangsters - Specials 9 ( 6 ) Stay With Me Till Dawn - Judie Tzuke (#5) 10 ( 8 ) Morning Dance - Spyro Gyra (#8)
11 ( -- ) Rock Lobster - B-52s 12 ( 10 ) We Don't Talk Anymore - Cliff Richard (#10) 13 ( 23 ) Reasons To Be Cheerful Part 3 - Ian Dury & The Blockheads 14 ( 7 ) Is She Really Going Out With Him - Joe Jackson (#3) 15 ( 12 ) The Diary Of Horace Wimp - Electric Light Orchestra (#12) 16 ( -- ) Don't Bring Me Down - Electric Light Orchestra 17 ( 17 ) After The Love Has Gone - Earth Wind & Fire 18 ( 27 ) Money - Flying Lizards 19 ( 18 ) I'll Never Love This Way Again - Dionne Warwick (#18) 20 ( 20 ) Lady Writer - Dire Straits
21 ( -- ) Angel Eyes - Roxy Music 22 ( 24 ) Let's Go - Cars 23 ( 11 ) My Sharona - Knack (#2[2]) 24 ( 19 ) Ooh! What A Life - Gibson Brothers (#19) 25 ( 34 ) Lonesome Loser - Little River Band 26 ( 14 ) Voulez Vous / Angeleyes - Abba (#9) 27 ( 36 ) Hot Summer Nights - Night 28 ( 29 ) Sweet Little Rock N Roller - Showaddywaddy 29 ( -- ) Gotta Go Home - Boney M 30 ( 16 ) Bad Case Of Loving You (Doctor Doctor) - Robert Palmer (#6)
31 ( 22 ) If I Said You Had A Beautiful Body Would You Hold It Against Me - Bellamy Brothers (#18) 32 ( 21 ) Love Of My Life - Queen (#16) 33 ( 28 ) Here Comes The Summer - Undertones (#28) 34 ( 30 ) Duke Of Earl - Darts (#30) 35 ( 45 ) You Need Wheels - Merton Parkas 36 ( 32 ) Harmony In My Head - Buzzcocks (#32) 37 ( -- ) Lost In Music - Sister Sledge 38 ( 40 ) You Never Know What You've Got - Me And You 39 ( 25 ) Don't Kill It Carol - Manfred Mann's Earth Band (#11) 40 ( 50 ) Highway Song - Blackfoot
41 ( -- ) Gone Gone Gone - Johnny Mathis 42 ( 43 ) Going Through The Motions - Hot Chocolate 43 ( -- ) Strut Your Funky Stuff - Frantique 44 ( 33 ) Kid - Pretenders (#27) 45 ( 26 ) One Way Or Another - Blondie (#6) 46 ( 38 ) The Boss - Diana Ross (#37) 47 ( -- ) Teenage Warning - Angelic Upstarts 48 ( 31 ) Up The Junction - Squeeze (#1[3]) 49 ( -- ) Different Worlds - Maureen McGovern 50 ( 35 ) Breakfast In America - Supertramp (#9)
-- ( 37 ) Good Times - Chic (#11) -- ( 39 ) The Main Event (Fight) - Barbra Streisand (#17) -- ( 41 ) Lead Me On - Maxine Nightingale (#24) -- ( 42 ) Babylon's Burning - Ruts (#2[2]) -- ( 44 ) David's Song - Vladimir Cosma (#36) -- ( 46 ) Suspicions - Eddie Rabbitt (#40) -- ( 47 ) Sad Eyes - Robert John (#20) -- ( 48 ) Driver's Seat - Sniff N The Tears (#6) -- ( 49 ) I'm A Sucker For Your Love - Teena Marie & Rick James (#33)
-- ( -- ) Oh Well - Rockets -- ( -- ) I Do Love You - GQ
Yet again showing how massively strong this chart is, "Lost In Music" can only enter at #37 and I'd say all the entries down to that one are particularly strong.
Whilst our "retro combi chart" is now in 1989 and I have "Love Shack" in the chart then, the original release of "Rock Lobster" was a decade earlier although it only scraped into the top 40, but was a bigger UK hit in 1986. If my replay chart reaches that point then "Planet Claire", although also an old track, had never previously charted anywhere so would be eligible to do so then.
Again with the UK and US not always getting the same releases, "The Diary Of Horace Wimp" was a single only in the UK so the USA got "Don't Bring Me Down" bit quicker and it charts now. It was their biggest hit in both the UK and US (or highest peaking anyway) on which they also sang (i.e not counting "Xanadu"). "Livin' Thing" may have sold more though because that was a hit around Christmas time and spent more weeks in the chart but peaked one position lower. A bit surprising that Horace Wimp only got to #12 here, it's a good song, just so are many others.
Gotta Go Home is far better than "It's a Holi-Holiday" but wasn't as big a hit in the UK, and its failing to reach the top 10 signalled the beginning of the end really, although it certainly didn't help they released nothing particularly good afterwards, in particular "I'm Born Again" is dire. (Ok, they had a top 10 hit with a megamix a long time later, but we don't count that).
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Post by Earl Purple on Nov 7, 2021 13:09:07 GMT 1
18 August 1979
1 ( 1 ) I Don't Like Mondays - Boomtown Rats < 4th week at #1 > 2 ( 5 ) Goodbye Stranger - Supertramp 3 ( 3 ) Bang Bang - B.A. Robertson 4 ( 7 ) Hersham Boys - Sham 69 5 ( 2 ) The Devil Went Down To Georgia - Charlie Daniels Band (#2[2]) 6 ( 11 ) Rock Lobster - B-52s 7 ( 4 ) Beat The Clock - Sparks (#4) 8 ( 16 ) Don't Bring Me Down - Electric Light Orchestra 9 ( -- ) Cruel To Be Kind - Nick Lowe 10 ( 8 ) Gangsters - Specials (#8)
11 ( 13 ) Reasons To Be Cheerful Part 3 - Ian Dury & The Blockheads 12 ( 21 ) Angel Eyes - Roxy Music 13 ( 6 ) Girls Talk - Dave Edmunds (#1[3]) 14 ( 18 ) Money - Flying Lizards 15 ( 10 ) Morning Dance - Spyro Gyra (#8) 16 ( 9 ) Stay With Me Till Dawn - Judie Tzuke (#5) 17 ( 25 ) Lonesome Loser - Little River Band 18 ( -- ) Love's Gotta Hold On Me - Dollar 19 ( 29 ) Gotta Go Home - Boney M 20 ( 12 ) We Don't Talk Anymore - Cliff Richard (#10)
21 ( 27 ) Hot Summer Nights - Night 22 ( 17 ) After The Love Has Gone - Earth Wind & Fire (#17) 23 ( 15 ) The Diary Of Horace Wimp - Electric Light Orchestra (#12) 24 ( -- ) Street Life - Crusaders 25 ( 20 ) Lady Writer - Dire Straits (#20) 26 ( 19 ) I'll Never Love This Way Again - Dionne Warwick (#18) 27 ( 22 ) Let's Go - Cars (#22) 28 ( 37 ) Lost In Music - Sister Sledge 29 ( 14 ) Is She Really Going Out With Him - Joe Jackson (#3) 30 ( -- ) Sail On - Commodores
31 ( -- ) Lines - Planets 32 ( 41 ) Gone Gone Gone - Johnny Mathis 33 ( 28 ) Sweet Little Rock N Roller - Showaddywaddy (#28) 34 ( 35 ) You Need Wheels - Merton Parkas 35 ( 43 ) Strut Your Funky Stuff - Frantique 36 ( 24 ) Ooh! What A Life - Gibson Brothers (#19) 37 ( -- ) Duchess - Stranglers 38 ( 47 ) Teenage Warning - Angelic Upstarts 39 ( 40 ) Highway Song - Blackfoot 40 ( -- ) Reggae For It Now - Bill Lovelady
41 ( 49 ) Different Worlds - Maureen McGovern 42 ( -- ) Get It Right Next Time - Gerry Rafferty 43 ( 23 ) My Sharona - Knack (#2[2]) 44 ( 38 ) You Never Know What You've Got - Me And You (#38) 45 ( 26 ) Voulez Vous / Angeleyes - Abba (#9) 46 ( -- ) Boy Oh Boy - Racey 47 ( 34 ) Duke Of Earl - Darts (#30) 48 ( 33 ) Here Comes The Summer - Undertones (#28) 49 ( 31 ) If I Said You Had A Beautiful Body Would You Hold It Against Me - Bellamy Brothers (#18) 50 ( 36 ) Harmony In My Head - Buzzcocks (#32)
-- ( 30 ) Bad Case Of Loving You (Doctor Doctor) - Robert Palmer (#6) -- ( 32 ) Love Of My Life - Queen (#16) -- ( 39 ) Don't Kill It Carol - Manfred Mann's Earth Band (#11) -- ( 42 ) Going Through The Motions - Hot Chocolate -- ( 44 ) Kid - Pretenders (#27) -- ( 45 ) One Way Or Another - Blondie (#6) -- ( 46 ) The Boss - Diana Ross (#37) -- ( 48 ) Up The Junction - Squeeze (#1[3]) -- ( 50 ) Breakfast In America - Supertramp (#9)
-- ( -- ) I Can't Stand My Baby - Rezillos -- ( -- ) Girl Of My Dreams - Bram Tchaikovsky -- ( -- ) Lookin' For Love Tonight - Fat Larry's Band -- ( -- ) Let's Dance - Bombers -- ( -- ) You Gonna Make Me Love Somebody Else - Jones Girls
The highest new entry is the return of Nick Lowe with what I consider to be his best remembered song even though it wasn't his highest charting. In the USA this song also reached the top 20 for him.
The second highest entry is by Dollar - perhaps a surprise it enters so high with the chart competition. It's unique among Dollar's hits in two ways - firstly it's the only hit single they wrote themselves, although they did write other songs that ended up as album tracks or B-sides, and it's the only one to feature Theresa Bazaar on lead vocals. Musically it is quite pleasant although her vocals aren't great - not sure I ever quite got the lyrics, especially the "if you want to leave I'll let you baby, you know how I try to forget you.." why exactly?
On the subject of vocal projection, I felt Lionel Richie's vocal on "Sail On" came across with quite a strong accent which was slightly off-putting. Otherwise it's my favourite Commodores song after "Easy".
Between those we have the Crusaders which has Randy Crawford on vocals but she wasn't formally named at the time. Once she became famous on her own they often tagged her name also onto this hit too and it possibly featured on her "best of" albums. There are multiple versions, one lasting 11 minutes or so, another which is just over 5 minutes but seems to have cut out the primary instrumental part.
Lines and Duchess are both great songs too. That they entered below Dollar reflects more of how I charted them at the time.
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Post by Earl Purple on Nov 9, 2021 18:38:40 GMT 1
25 August 1979
1 ( 2 ) Goodbye Stranger - Supertramp < 2nd #1 > 2 ( 1 ) I Don't Like Mondays - Boomtown Rats (#1[4]) 3 ( 4 ) Hersham Boys - Sham 69 4 ( 9 ) Cruel To Be Kind - Nick Lowe 5 ( 6 ) Rock Lobster - B-52s 6 ( 3 ) Bang Bang - B.A. Robertson (#3) 7 ( 8 ) Don't Bring Me Down - Electric Light Orchestra 8 ( 11 ) Reasons To Be Cheerful Part 3 - Ian Dury & The Blockheads 9 ( 12 ) Angel Eyes - Roxy Music 10 ( 5 ) The Devil Went Down To Georgia - Charlie Daniels Band (#2[2])
11 ( 18 ) Love's Gotta Hold On Me - Dollar 12 ( 24 ) Street Life - Crusaders 13 ( -- ) Rise - Herb Alpert 14 ( 7 ) Beat The Clock - Sparks (#4) 15 ( 14 ) Money - Flying Lizards (#14) 16 ( 17 ) Lonesome Loser - Little River Band 17 ( -- ) Hold On - Triumph 18 ( 10 ) Gangsters - Specials (#8) 19 ( 19 ) Gotta Go Home - Boney M 20 ( 30 ) Sail On - Commodores
21 ( 31 ) Lines - Planets 22 ( 21 ) Hot Summer Nights - Night (#21) 23 ( -- ) Breakdown - Buzzcocks 24 ( 15 ) Morning Dance - Spyro Gyra (#8) 25 ( 13 ) Girls Talk - Dave Edmunds (#1[3]) 26 ( -- ) When You're Young - Jam 27 ( 37 ) Duchess - Stranglers 28 ( 28 ) Lost In Music - Sister Sledge 29 ( 16 ) Stay With Me Till Dawn - Judie Tzuke (#5) 30 ( 40 ) Raggae For It Now - Bill Lovelady
31 ( 32 ) Gone Gone Gone - Johnny Mathis 32 ( 42 ) Get It Right Next Time - Gerry Rafferty 33 ( 22 ) After The Love Has Gone - Earth Wind & Fire (#17) 34 ( 20 ) We Don't Talk Anymore - Cliff Richard (#10) 35 ( 35 ) Strut Your Funky Stuff - Frantique 36 ( 25 ) Lady Writer - Dire Straits (#20) 37 ( 46 ) Boy Oh Boy - Racey 38 ( 38 ) Teenage Warning - Angelic Upstarts 39 ( 23 ) The Diary Of Horace Wimp - Electric Light Orchestra (#12) 40 ( 27 ) Let's Go - Cars (#22)
41 ( 26 ) I'll Never Love This Way Again - Dionne Warwick (#18) 42 ( 34 ) You Need Wheels - Merton Parkas (#34) 43 ( 41 ) Different Worlds - Maureen McGovern (#41) 44 ( 39 ) Highway Song - Blackfoot (#39) 45 ( 33 ) Sweet Little Rock N Roller - Showaddywaddy (#28) 46 ( -- ) Love Will Make You Fail In School - Rocky Sharpe & The Replays 47 ( -- ) Lovin' Touchin' Squeezin' - Journey 48 ( -- ) Lovedrive - Scorpions 49 ( 29 ) Is She Really Going Out With Him - Joe Jackson (#3) 50 ( 36 ) Ooh! What A Life - Gibson Brothers (#19)
-- ( 43 ) My Sharona - Knack (#2[2]) -- ( 44 ) You Never Know What You've Got - Me And You (#38) -- ( 45 ) Voulez Vous / Angeleyes - Abba (#9) -- ( 47 ) Duke Of Earl - Darts (#30) -- ( 48 ) Here Comes The Summer - Undertones (#28) -- ( 49 ) If I Said You Had A Beautiful Body Would You Hold It Against Me - Bellamy Brothers (#18) -- ( 50 ) Harmony In My Head - Buzzcocks (#32)
-- ( -- ) When Will You Be Mine - Average White Band -- ( -- ) Switch - Benelux & Nancy Dee -- ( -- ) In The Brownies - Billy Connolly
Mostly the number ones I have now match those of the time but not always exactly the same week as they may now enter earlier than they did back then, and Supertramp's "Goodbye Stranger" was not a #1 for me back then but has subsequently become my favourite of all their songs, and made some pretty good songs. "Dreamer" was #1 in 1975 and it replaced Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel's "Make Me Smile (Come Up And See Me)" to get there. Now they're replaced the Boomtown Rats "I Don't Like Mondays" to get to #1, so both songs that were also UK number ones.
Herb Alpert has never had an NM #1 in spite of the fact I do like his music, and this instrumental got to #1 in the USA. "Spanish Flea" reached NM #2 behind the Beatles' "Day Tripper" (but ahead of We Can Work It Out, which charted separately at #3 below those two).
"Hold On" by Triumph, a Canadian rock band led by Rik Emmett, is a totally new discovery. It scraped into the US top 40.
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Post by Good Old Days on Nov 10, 2021 7:29:27 GMT 1
I rediscovered "Love Will Make You Fail In School" through your chart. Don't know why this single wasn't in my 1979 songs list.
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Post by Earl Purple on Nov 11, 2021 16:22:52 GMT 1
I rediscovered "Love Will Make You Fail In School" through your chart. Don't know why this single wasn't in my 1979 songs list. Like the Dollar song, it was different from their others in that the female did the lead vocal. Unlike the case of Dollar however this wasn't their own song, it was a cover of a 1950s song albeit not a well-known one. It also flopped. The man responsible for writing and producing the 1981-82 part of Dollar's career will be along with his own hit in a few weeks.
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Post by Good Old Days on Nov 11, 2021 16:32:26 GMT 1
it was different from their others in that the female did the lead vocal. In Rocky Sharpe topic I posted a song, which had only Helen Highwater vocal. Sadly they didn't reach a level of Shakin' Stevens success in UK singles chart.
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Post by Earl Purple on Nov 11, 2021 16:34:48 GMT 1
1 September 1979
1 ( 1 ) Goodbye Stranger - Supertramp < 2nd week at #1 > 2 ( 4 ) Cruel To Be Kind - Nick Lowe 3 ( 3 ) Hersham Boys - Sham 69 4 ( 2 ) I Don't Like Mondays - Boomtown Rats (#1[4]) 5 ( 13 ) Rise - Herb Alpert 6 ( 5 ) Rock Lobster - B-52s (#5) 7 ( 17 ) Hold On - Triumph 8 ( 11 ) Love's Gotta Hold On Me - Dollar 9 ( 8 ) Reasons To Be Cheerful Part 3 - Ian Dury & The Blockheads (#8) 10 ( 12 ) Street Life - Crusaders
11 ( 7 ) Don't Bring Me Down - Electric Light Orchestra (#7) 12 ( 9 ) Angel Eyes - Roxy Music (#9) 13 ( -- ) Cars - Gary Numan 14 ( 23 ) Breakdown - Buzzcocks 15 ( 6 ) Bang Bang - B.A. Robertson (#3) 16 ( -- ) The Prince - Madness 17 ( 26 ) When You're Young - Jam 18 ( 20 ) Sail On - Commodores 19 ( -- ) Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough - Michael Jackson 20 ( 21 ) Lines - Planets
21 ( 10 ) The Devil Went Down To Georgia - Charlie Daniels Band (#2[2]) 22 ( 16 ) Lonesome Loser - Little River Band (#16) 23 ( 15 ) Money - Flying Lizards (#14) 24 ( -- ) Highway To Hell - AC/DC 25 ( 19 ) Gotta Go Home - Boney M (#19) 26 ( 27 ) Duchess - Stranglers 27 ( 14 ) Beat The Clock - Sparks (#4) 28 ( 30 ) Raggae For It Now - Bill Lovelady 29 ( 22 ) Hot Summer Nights - Night (#21) 30 ( -- ) Time For Action - Secret Affair
31 ( 32 ) Get It Right Next Time - Gerry Rafferty 32 ( -- ) The Sideboard Song - Chas & Dave 33 ( 18 ) Gangsters - Specials (#8) 34 ( -- ) Baby's Request - Wings 35 ( 28 ) Lost In Music - Sister Sledge (#28) 36 ( 37 ) Boy Oh Boy - Racey 37 ( 31 ) Gone Gone Gone - Johnny Mathis (#31) 38 ( 46 ) Love Will Make You Fail In School - Rocky Sharpe & The Replays 39 ( 47 ) Lovin' Touchin' Squeezin' - Journey 40 ( -- ) American Hearts - Billy Ocean
41 ( 48 ) Lovedrive - Scorpions 42 ( 24 ) Morning Dance - Spyro Gyra (#8) 43 ( 35 ) Strut Your Funky Stuff - Frantique (#35) 44 ( -- ) Dim All The Lights - Donna Summer 45 ( 25 ) Girls Talk - Dave Edmunds (#1[3]) 46 ( 38 ) Teenage Warning - Angelic Upstarts (#38) 47 ( 29 ) Stay With Me Till Dawn - Judie Tzuke (#5) 48 ( 33 ) After The Love Has Gone - Earth Wind & Fire (#17) 49 ( 43 ) Different Worlds - Maureen McGovern (#41) 50 ( 36 ) Lady Writer - Dire Straits (#20)
-- ( 34 ) We Don't Talk Anymore - Cliff Richard (#10) -- ( 39 ) The Diary Of Horace Wimp - Electric Light Orchestra (#12) -- ( 40 ) Let's Go - Cars (#22) -- ( 41 ) I'll Never Love This Way Again - Dionne Warwick (#18) -- ( 42 ) You Need Wheels - Merton Parkas (#34) -- ( 44 ) Highway Song - Blackfoot (#39) -- ( 45 ) Sweet Little Rock N Roller - Showaddywaddy (#28) -- ( 49 ) Is She Really Going Out With Him - Joe Jackson (#3) -- ( 50 ) Ooh! What A Life - Gibson Brothers (#19)
-- ( -- ) Young Blood - Rickie Lee Jones -- ( -- ) What Cha Gonna Do - Stephanie Mills -- ( -- ) Saturday Night - Herman Brood -- ( -- ) When You're #1 - Gene Chandler
Having had a number one, Tubeway Army were re-branded under the lead singer's name, but the band were all still performing on it. It may have been done for contractual reasons, just in case they split, so that Gary Numan but none of the others would be tied to the record contract. In any case, the fact the line-up didn't change is probably why British Hit Singles didn't list them separately.
Paul McCartney and Wings have also been listed together but I think "Baby's Request" really is the last Wings hit, the next will be "Wonderful Christmastime" and that and all those after it are simply "Paul McCartney".
Michael Jackson had solo hits in the early 70s but this is the start of his "Epic" career, or in reality the solo career proper, and he also wrote this hit, although it was the only hit single from the "Off The Wall" album that he did write.
AC/DC's only top 10 hit in the UK eventually, after a campaign, but at this point Bon Scott has less than 6 months left to live, and whilst they never had a top 10 single other than this one, their 1980 album "Back In Black" got to #1 and is one of the biggest selling albums of all time.
After an entry by Secret Affair, which I recall one boy in school said was his favourite at the time, we have more fun by Chas & Dave, a song that is well known even though it didn't reach the top 40 because it was used in a commercial for Courage Best.
I remembered that Billy Ocean had recorded "American Hearts" but I didn't know it at the time, and am far more familiar with Air Supply's version on their "Lost In Love" album which is a totally different arrangement.
"Dim All The Lights" reached #2 in the USA for Donna Summer actually breaking a run of number ones for her. The disco bubble burst didn't happen right away after the protest but her success did reduce vastly after 1979, but she did continue to get some US hits in the 1980s (in particular "She Works Hard For The Money" and then "This Time I Know It's For Real" at the end of the decade).
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Post by Earl Purple on Nov 13, 2021 19:56:27 GMT 1
8 September 1979
1 ( 2 ) Cruel To Be Kind - Nick Lowe < 1st #1 > 2 ( 1 ) Goodbye Stranger - Supertramp (#1[2]) 3 ( 5 ) Rise - Herb Alpert 4 ( 3 ) Hersham Boys - Sham 69 (#3) 5 ( 7 ) Hold On - Triumph 6 ( 13 ) Cars - Gary Numan 7 ( 16 ) The Prince - Madness 8 ( -- ) Back Of My Hand - Jags 9 ( 8 ) Love's Gotta Hold On Me - Dollar (#8) 10 ( 4 ) I Don't Like Mondays - Boomtown Rats (#1[4])
11 ( 19 ) Don't Stop Till You Get Enough - Michael Jackson 12 ( 6 ) Rock Lobster - B-52s (#5) 13 ( 10 ) Street Life - Crusaders (#10) 14 ( 14 ) Breakdown - Buzzcocks 15 ( 24 ) Highway To Hell - AC/DC 16 ( 9 ) Reasons To Be Cheerful Part 3 - Ian Dury & The Blockheads (#8) 17 ( 17 ) When You're Young - Jam 18 ( 30 ) Time For Action - Secret Affar 19 ( 12 ) Angel Eyes - Roxy Music (#9) 20 ( 11 ) Don't Bring Me Down - Electric Light Orchestra (#7)
21 ( -- ) Slap And Tickle - Squeeze 22 ( 32 ) The Sideboard Song - Chas & Dave 23 ( 18 ) Sail On - Commodores (#18) 24 ( 34 ) Baby's Request - Wings 25 ( 20 ) Lines - Planets (#20) 26 ( -- ) The Loneliest Man In The World - Tourists 27 ( 15 ) Bang Bang - B.A. Robertson (#3) 28 ( 40 ) American Hearts - Billy Ocean 29 ( 26 ) Duchess - Stranglers (#26) 30 ( 28 ) Raggae For It Now - Bill Lovelady (#28)
31 ( 22 ) Lonesome Loser - Little River Band (#16) 32 ( 44 ) Dim All The Lights - Donna Summer 33 ( -- ) Something That I Said - Ruts 34 ( 31 ) Get It Right Next Time - Gerry Rafferty (#31) 35 ( -- ) Rock 'N Roll High School - Ramones 36 ( 25 ) Gotta Go Home - Boney M (#19) 37 ( 23 ) Money - Flying Lizards (#14) 38 ( 38 ) Love Will Make You Fail In School - Rocky Sharpe & The Replays 39 ( 21 ) The Devil Went Down To Georgia - Charlie Daniels Band (#2[2]) 40 ( 39 ) Lovin' Touchin' Squeezin' - Journey (#39)
41 ( -- ) Laser Love - After The Fire 42 ( 41 ) Lovedrive - Scorpions (#41) 43 ( 36 ) Boy Oh Boy - Racey (#36) 44 ( 29 ) Hot Summer Nights - Night (#21) 45 ( -- ) Tomorrow's Girls - UK Subs 46 ( -- ) War Stories - Starjets 47 ( 27 ) Beat The Clock - Sparks (#4) 48 ( 35 ) Lost In Music - Sister Sledge (#28) 49 ( 37 ) Gone Gone Gone - Johnny Mathis (#31) 50 ( -- ) Spooky - Atlanta Rhythm Section
-- ( 33 ) Gangsters - Specials (#8) -- ( 42 ) Morning Dance - Spyro Gyra (#8) -- ( 43 ) Strut Your Funky Stuff - Frantique (#35) -- ( 45 ) Girls Talk - Dave Edmunds (#1[3]) -- ( 46 ) Teenage Warning - Angelic Upstarts (#38) -- ( 47 ) Stay With Me Till Dawn - Judie Tzuke (#5) -- ( 48 ) After The Love Has Gone - Earth Wind & Fire (#17) -- ( 49 ) Different Worlds - Maureen McGovern (#41) -- ( 50 ) Lady Writer - Dire Straits (#20)
-- ( -- ) When I Was Falling In Love - Lobo -- ( -- ) Feel The Real - David Bendeth
A first number one for Nick Lowe but in reality a second number one within a few months for Rockpile, in fact in my original chart in 1979 Rockpile got to #1 either side of the Boomtown Rats "I Don't Like Mondays" as Supertramp didn't get to #1.
Whilst my friend in school said his favourite song was Secret Affair, mine was the new entry this week by the Jags. Maybe there was something cool about liking something that wasn't in the top 10 or by a major artist - both these singles peaked inside the top 20. Secret Affair would peak at #13 and manage one more top 20 hit and a few much smaller ones. The Jags would peak at #17 in the UK chart and have one #75 hit to add to it.
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Post by Earl Purple on Nov 17, 2021 23:17:56 GMT 1
15 September 1979
1 ( 1 ) Cruel To Be Kind - Nick Lowe < 2nd week at #1 > 2 ( 8 ) Back Of My Hand - Jags 3 ( 3 ) Rise - Herb Alpert 4 ( 6 ) Cars - Gary Numan 5 ( 2 ) Goodbye Stranger - Supertramp (#1[2]) 6 ( 7 ) The Prince - Madness 7 ( 5 ) Hold On - Triumph (#5) 8 ( 4 ) Hersham Boys - Sham 69 (#3) 9 ( -- ) Since You've Been Gone - Rainbow 10 ( 11 ) Don't Stop Till You Get Enough - Michael Jackson
11 ( 21 ) Slap And Tickle - Squeeze 12 ( 15 ) Highway To Hell - AC/DC 13 ( 9 ) Love's Gotta Hold On Me - Dollar (#8) 14 ( 18 ) Time For Action - Secret Affar 15 ( 26 ) The Loneliest Man In The World - Tourists 16 ( -- ) Them Heavy People - Kate Bush 17 ( 14 ) Breakdown - Buzzcocks (#14) 18 ( 22 ) The Sideboard Song - Chas & Dave 19 ( 13 ) Street Life - Crusaders (#10) 20 ( 10 ) I Don't Like Mondays - Boomtown Rats (#1[4])
21 ( 24 ) Baby's Request - Wings 22 ( 17 ) When You're Young - Jam (#17) 23 ( 33 ) Something That I Said - Ruts 24 ( 12 ) Rock Lobster - B-52s (#5) 25 ( 35 ) Rock 'N Roll High School - Ramones 26 ( 28 ) American Hearts - Billy Ocean 27 ( -- ) You Can Do It - Al Hudson & The Soul Partners 28 ( 16 ) Reasons To Be Cheerful Part 3 - Ian Dury & The Blockheads (#8) 29 ( 32 ) Dim All The Lights - Donna Summer 30 ( 41 ) Laser Love - After The Fire
31 ( 19 ) Angel Eyes - Roxy Music (#9) 32 ( -- ) The Day The Earth Caught Fire - City Boy 33 ( 23 ) Sail On - Commodores (#18) 34 ( -- ) This Time Baby - Jackie Moore 35 ( 20 ) Don't Bring Me Down - Electric Light Orchestra (#7) 36 ( 45 ) Tomorrow's Girls - UK Subs 37 ( 25 ) Lines - Planets (#20) 38 ( 46 ) War Stories - Starjets 39 ( 30 ) Raggae For It Now - Bill Lovelady (#28) 40 ( 29 ) Duchess - Stranglers (#26)
41 ( -- ) Breakfast In Bed - Sheila Hylton 42 ( 50 ) Spooky - Atlanta Rhythm Section 43 ( 34 ) Get It Right Next Time - Gerry Rafferty (#31) 44 ( 38 ) Love Will Make You Fail In School - Rocky Sharpe & The Replays (#38) 45 ( 27 ) Bang Bang - B.A. Robertson (#3) 46 ( 31 ) Lonesome Loser - Little River Band (#16) 47 ( 40 ) Lovin' Touchin' Squeezin' - Journey (#39) 48 ( -- ) Dependin' On You - Doobie Brothers 49 ( 42 ) Lovedrive - Scorpions (#41) 50 ( 36 ) Gotta Go Home - Boney M (#19)
-- ( 37 ) Money - Flying Lizards (#14) -- ( 39 ) The Devil Went Down To Georgia - Charlie Daniels Band (#2[2]) -- ( 43 ) Boy Oh Boy - Racey (#36) -- ( 44 ) Hot Summer Nights - Night (#21) -- ( 47 ) Beat The Clock - Sparks (#4) -- ( 48 ) Lost In Music - Sister Sledge (#28) -- ( 49 ) Gone Gone Gone - Johnny Mathis (#31)
-- ( -- ) Sexy Cream - Slick
Since You've Been Gone was written by Russ Ballard of Argent, and he'd also recorded it but it was when Rainbow covered it that it became a classic, and also gave them a big hit for the first time after a lot of small ones.
"Them Heavy People" was a song from Kate Bush's first album "The Kick Inside" whereas by 1979 she was already on "Lionheart" but officially the version that was a hit was part of a live EP but the radio stations and Top of the Pops always played the studio version as is in the promotional video and I've never heard the live version. Nor did radio stations ever play any other tracks on the EP.
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Post by Earl Purple on Nov 19, 2021 14:29:17 GMT 1
22 September 1979
1 ( 2 ) Back Of My Hand - Jags < 1st #1 > 2 ( 1 ) Cruel To Be Kind - Nick Lowe (#1[2]) 3 ( 9 ) Since You've Been Gone - Rainbow 4 ( 4 ) Cars - Gary Numan 5 ( 3 ) Rise - Herb Alpert (#3) 6 ( 16 ) Them Heavy People - Kate Bush 7 ( 6 ) The Prince - Madness (#6) 8 ( 11 ) Slap And Tickle - Squeeze 9 ( -- ) Video Killed The Radio Star - Buggles 10 ( -- ) Queen Of Hearts - Dave Edmunds
11 ( 5 ) Goodbye Stranger - Supertramp (#1[2]) 12 ( 15 ) The Loneliest Man In The World - Tourists 13 ( 7 ) Hold On - Triumph (#5) 14 ( 10 ) Don't Stop Till You Get Enough - Michael Jackson (#10) 15 ( 12 ) Highway To Hell - AC/DC (#12) 16 ( -- ) Making Plans For Nigel - XTC 17 ( 14 ) Time For Action - Secret Affar (#14) 18 ( 27 ) You Can Do It - Al Hudson & The Soul Partners 19 ( 8 ) Hersham Boys - Sham 69 (#3) 20 ( -- ) Message In A Bottle - Police
21 ( -- ) Every Day Hurts - Sad Café 22 ( 18 ) The Sideboard Song - Chas & Dave (#18) 23 ( -- ) Whatever You Want - Status Quo 24 ( 23 ) Something That I Said - Ruts (#23) 25 ( 32 ) The Day The Earth Caught Fire - City Boy 26 ( -- ) Good Girls Don't - Knack 27 ( 13 ) Love's Gotta Hold On Me - Dollar (#8) 28 ( 25 ) Rock 'N Roll High School - Ramones (#25) 29 ( 34 ) This Time Baby - Jackie Moore 30 ( 21 ) Baby's Request - Wings (#21)
31 ( -- ) OK Fred - Errol Dunkley 32 ( 17 ) Breakdown - Buzzcocks (#14) 33 ( 30 ) Laser Love - After The Fire (#30) 34 ( -- ) You Decorated My Life - Kenny Rogers 35 ( -- ) There Must Be Thousands - Quads 36 ( 26 ) American Hearts - Billy Ocean (#26) 37 ( 19 ) Street Life - Crusaders (#10) 38 ( 41 ) Breakfast In Bed - Sheila Hylton 39 ( -- ) Don't Be A Dummy - John Du Cann 40 ( 29 ) Dim All The Lights - Donna Summer (#29)
41 ( -- ) The Shape Of Things To Come - Headboys 42 ( 22 ) When You're Young - Jam (#17) 43 ( 36 ) Tomorrow's Girls - UK Subs (#36) 44 ( 20 ) I Don't Like Mondays - Boomtown Rats (#1[4]) 45 ( -- ) Dirty White Boy - Foreigner 46 ( -- ) Millions Like Us - Purple Hearts 47 ( 38 ) War Stories - Starjets (#38) 48 ( 48 ) Dependin' On You - Doobie Brothers 49 ( -- ) Arrow Through Me - Wings 50 ( 42 ) Spooky - Atlanta Rhythm Section (#42)
-- ( 24 ) Rock Lobster - B-52s (#5) -- ( 28 ) Reasons To Be Cheerful Part 3 - Ian Dury & The Blockheads (#8) -- ( 31 ) Angel Eyes - Roxy Music (#9) -- ( 33 ) Sail On - Commodores (#18) -- ( 35 ) Don't Bring Me Down - Electric Light Orchestra (#7) -- ( 37 ) Lines - Planets (#20) -- ( 39 ) Raggae For It Now - Bill Lovelady (#28) -- ( 40 ) Duchess - Stranglers (#26) -- ( 43 ) Get It Right Next Time - Gerry Rafferty (#31) -- ( 44 ) Love Will Make You Fail In School - Rocky Sharpe & The Replays (#38) -- ( 45 ) Bang Bang - B.A. Robertson (#3) -- ( 46 ) Lonesome Loser - Little River Band (#16) -- ( 47 ) Lovin' Touchin' Squeezin' - Journey (#39) -- ( 49 ) Lovedrive - Scorpions (#41) -- ( 50 ) Gotta Go Home - Boney M (#19)
-- ( -- ) I Know A Heartache - Jennifer Warnes -- ( -- ) Rolene - Moon Martin -- ( -- ) The Chosen Few - Dooleys
So the Jags get to #1. I'm somewhat uncomfortable though about the fact Lonesome Loser reached only #16, as I looked up and originally I had it at #4 and there's no reason why it should have fallen so much further down other than the week it was on the playlist. The fact that "Hold On" came from nowhere to be a #5 suggests that should have really been "Lonesome Loser" being that position which at least closely matches its position when I first did my chart.
Wanted by the Dooleys is a good pop song, Chosen Few is awful.
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Post by Good Old Days on Nov 19, 2021 20:02:08 GMT 1
I prefer "Chosen Few" (remind me the most cheesiest BoM songs) over "Wanted", but my top 2 Dooleys singles are "And I Wish" and "Body Language".
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Post by Earl Purple on Nov 20, 2021 18:51:44 GMT 1
Trevor Horn became one of the top producers of the 1980s, "Video Killed The Radio Star" was actually written some time before with an earlier version of the Buggles and there were two versions released. It has been covered multiple times but this is clearly the definitive version and was the first track played on MTV in the USA.
In my chart, it took more significance in 2015 when having a video became a requisite to qualify, but it was never a video chart, that was just a requisite, i.e. the number one was based on the audio quality.
Below that, Queen Of Hearts was a UK hit for Dave Edmunds, or Rockpile if you prefer just as Nick Lowe's single falls from the top, but in the USA a cover by Juice Newton was a far bigger hit.
XTC's "Life Begins At The Hop" was a minor hit but it was "Making Plans For Nigel" that really broke them.
The first UK #1 for the Police "Message In A Bottle" also enters this week, in what is an extremely strong week for entries.
And yes "Arrow Through Me" - I'd never heard of that one, but they're certainly piling out Wings songs before Paul McCartney starts using his name.
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Post by Earl Purple on Nov 20, 2021 19:08:22 GMT 1
1 ( 1 ) Back Of My Hand - Jags < 2nd week at #1 > 2 ( 3 ) Since You've Been Gone - Rainbow 3 ( 9 ) Video Killed The Radio Star - Buggles 4 ( 10 ) Queen Of Hearts - Dave Edmunds 5 ( 6 ) Them Heavy People - Kate Bush 6 ( 2 ) Cruel To Be Kind - Nick Lowe (#1[2]) 7 ( 4 ) Cars - Gary Numan (#4) 8 ( 16 ) Making Plans For Nigel - XTC 9 ( 8 ) Slap And Tickle - Squeeze (#8) 10 ( 20 ) Message In A Bottle - Police
11 ( 5 ) Rise - Herb Alpert (#3) 12 ( 21 ) Every Day Hurts - Sad Café 13 ( 7 ) The Prince - Madness (#6) 14 ( -- ) Dreaming - Blondie 15 ( 23 ) Whatever You Want - Status Quo 16 ( 12 ) The Loneliest Man In The World - Tourists (#12) 17 ( 26 ) Good Girls Don't - Knack 18 ( 18 ) You Can Do It - Al Hudson & The Soul Partners 19 ( 31 ) OK Fred - Errol Dunkley 20 ( 11 ) Goodbye Stranger - Supertramp (#1[2])
21 ( -- ) Please Don't Go - KC & The Sunshine Band 22 ( 15 ) Highway To Hell - AC/DC (#12) 23 ( 14 ) Don't Stop Till You Get Enough - Michael Jackson (#10) 24 ( 34 ) You Decorated My Life - Kenny Rogers 25 ( 35 ) There Must Be Thousands - Quads 26 ( 13 ) Hold On - Triumph (#5) 27 ( 25 ) The Day The Earth Caught Fire - City Boy (#25) 28 ( 17 ) Time For Action - Secret Affar (#14) 29 ( -- ) Sing A Happy Song - O'Jays 30 ( 39 ) Don't Be A Dummy - John Du Cann
31 ( 29 ) This Time Baby - Jackie Moore (#29) 32 ( 24 ) Something That I Said - Ruts (#23) 33 ( 41 ) The Shape Of Things To Come - Headboys 34 ( 22 ) The Sideboard Song - Chas & Dave (#18) 35 ( 45 ) Dirty White Boy - Foreigner 36 ( 19 ) Hersham Boys - Sham 69 (#3) 37 ( 46 ) Millions Like Us - Purple Hearts 38 ( 28 ) Rock 'N Roll High School - Ramones (#25) 39 ( 49 ) Arrow Through Me - Wings 40 ( -- ) Jump The Gun - Three Degrees
41 ( 38 ) Breakfast In Bed - Sheila Hylton (#38) 42 ( 33 ) Laser Love - After The Fire (#30) 43 ( -- ) Straw Dogs - Stiff Little Fingers 44 ( 30 ) Baby's Request - Wings (#21) 45 ( -- ) Charade - Skids 46 ( 27 ) Love's Gotta Hold On Me - Dollar (#8) 47 ( -- ) Point Of View - Matumbi 48 ( -- ) Night Won't Last Forever - Michael Johnson 49 ( -- ) Sumahama - Beach Boys 50 ( 36 ) American Hearts - Billy Ocean (#26)
-- ( 32 ) Breakdown - Buzzcocks (#14) -- ( 37 ) Street Life - Crusaders (#10) -- ( 40 ) Dim All The Lights - Donna Summer (#29) -- ( 42 ) When You're Young - Jam (#17) -- ( 43 ) Tomorrow's Girls - UK Subs (#36) -- ( 44 ) I Don't Like Mondays - Boomtown Rats (#1[4]) -- ( 47 ) War Stories - Starjets (#38) -- ( 48 ) Dependin' On You - Doobie Brothers -- ( 50 ) Spooky - Atlanta Rhythm Section (#42)
-- ( -- ) Mittageisen - Siouxsie & The Banshees -- ( -- ) Come To Me - France Joli -- ( -- ) Midnight Wind - John Stewart
Blondie's "Dreaming" is the first single released from "Eat To The Beat" and I subsequently went and bought that album on its week of release, the first time I ever did that.
"Please Don't Go" started a very slow ascent of the US Billboard Chart reaching #1 right at the start of 1980, at the same time when it entered the UK chart to climb to #3, and as we know this was a slow version, but a dance version by Dutch act Double You in 1992 inspired K.W.S to quickly copy that and release it in the UK leading to a dispute about whether changing the style of a cover version was significant enough to allow them some royalties from the K.W.S version.
Another of the early pioneers of "disco" get an entry as the O'Jays "Sing A Happy Song" which reached #39 in the UK gets in at #29 here, and their biggest NM hit "Love Train" reached #3 in 1973. Another of the disco acts of the mid-70s the Three Degrees also get an entry.
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Post by Earl Purple on Nov 26, 2021 10:28:49 GMT 1
6 October 1979
1 ( 1 ) Back Of My Hand - Jags < 3rd week at #1 > 2 ( 3 ) Video Killed The Radio Star - Buggles 3 ( 2 ) Since You've Been Gone - Rainbow (#2[1]) 4 ( 4 ) Queen Of Hearts - Dave Edmunds 5 ( 14 ) Dreaming - Blondie 6 ( 8 ) Making Plans For Nigel - XTC 7 ( 5 ) Them Heavy People - Kate Bush (#5) 8 ( 10 ) Message In A Bottle - Police 9 ( 12 ) Every Day Hurts - Sad Café 10 ( 15 ) Whatever You Want - Status Quo
11 ( 21 ) Please Don't Go - KC & The Sunshine Band 12 ( 7 ) Cars - Gary Numan (#4) 13 ( 6 ) Cruel To Be Kind - Nick Lowe (#1[2]) 14 ( -- ) Tusk - Fleetwood Mac 15 ( 9 ) Slap And Tickle - Squeeze (#8) 16 ( 17 ) Good Girls Don't - Knack 17 ( 19 ) OK Fred - Errol Dunkley 18 ( 29 ) Sing A Happy Song - O'Jays 19 ( -- ) Straight Lines - New Musik 20 ( -- ) Star - Earth Wind & Fire
21 ( 24 ) You Decorated My Life - Kenny Rogers 22 ( 11 ) Rise - Herb Alpert (#3) 23 ( 25 ) There Must Be Thousands - Quads 24 ( 18 ) You Can Do It - Al Hudson & The Soul Partners (#18) 25 ( -- ) Luton Airport - Cats UK 26 ( 13 ) The Prince - Madness (#6) 27 ( 16 ) The Loneliest Man In The World - Tourists (#12) 28 ( 30 ) Don't Be A Dummy - John Du Cann 29 ( 40 ) Jump The Gun - Three Degrees 30 ( -- ) Let Me Know (I Have A Right) - Gloria Gaynor
31 ( 33 ) The Shape Of Things To Come - Headboys 32 ( 35 ) Dirty White Boy - Foreigner 33 ( 43 ) Straw Dogs - Stiff Little Fingers 34 ( -- ) Gonna Get Along Without You Now - Viola Wills 35 ( 22 ) Highway To Hell - AC/DC (#12) 36 ( 20 ) Goodbye Stranger - Supertramp (#1[2]) 37 ( 27 ) The Day The Earth Caught Fire - City Boy (#25) 38 ( 45 ) Charade - Skids 39 ( 37 ) Millions Like Us - Purple Hearts (#37) 40 ( 39 ) Arrow Through Me - Wings (#39)
41 ( 47 ) Point Of View - Matumbi 42 ( 23 ) Don't Stop Till You Get Enough - Michael Jackson (#10) 43 ( -- ) Spirit Body And Soul - Nolan Sisters 44 ( 48 ) Night Won't Last Forever - Michael Johnson 45 ( 31 ) This Time Baby - Jackie Moore (#29) 46 ( 49 ) Sumahama - Beach Boys 47 ( -- ) Hold On - Ian Gomm 48 ( 28 ) Time For Action - Secret Affar (#14) 49 ( 26 ) Hold On - Triumph (#5) 50 ( 32 ) Something That I Said - Ruts (#23)
-- ( 34 ) The Sideboard Song - Chas & Dave (#18) -- ( 36 ) Hersham Boys - Sham 69 (#3) -- ( 38 ) Rock 'N Roll High School - Ramones (#25) -- ( 41 ) Breakfast In Bed - Sheila Hylton (#38) -- ( 42 ) Laser Love - After The Fire (#30) -- ( 44 ) Baby's Request - Wings (#21) -- ( 46 ) Love's Gotta Hold On Me - Dollar (#8) -- ( 50 ) American Hearts - Billy Ocean (#26)
-- ( -- ) Gotta Serve Somebody - Bob Dylan -- ( -- ) Now It's Gone - Chords -- ( -- ) No One Gets The Prize - Diana Ross -- ( -- ) Good Friend - Mary MacGregor
We're in the final 3 months of the 1970s and the start of the "synth" new romantic era is already here which many would claim began with Tubeway Army / Gary Numan and then the Buggles and now New Musik are in the chart.
The highest new entry was the first UK top 10 hit single for the "new" Fleetwood Mac as surprisinginly Rumours didn't yield particularly hit singles, although it generated two NM #1s in 1977, the first "Go Your Own Way" being written by Lindsey Buckingham who also wrote "Tusk". Of course we know that in Haven Factor it was eliminated in around where the current #5 was safe (and Blondie went on to win the whole contest).
Among the new entries lower down is Viola Wills with "Gonna Get Along Without You Now". That song reached NM #2 in 1956-7 for Patience And Prudence (kept off #1 by Teresa Brewer's "Mutual Admiration Society") - that's going back a long way, although interestingly Viola Wills was older than both Patience and Prudence, although younger than Trini Lopez who had a UK hit version in the 1960s. Viola Wills was the first of those to die too, Trini Lopez died only a few years ago and last time I checked Patience and Prudence, who I think were 14 and 11 when they had a hit with it, are both still alive.
Other entries include Cats UK who were formed primarily to record the song after Lorraine Chase's commercial - she was offered it herself but turned it down, although I'm not sure she could even sing. In spite of the BBC normally censoring songs that sounded commercial in any way, they did play this and it was on Top of the Pops, possibly because the ad was for Campari and not Luton Airport.
Also the Nolan Sisters as they were credited on this single and it wasn't a big hit for them but is actually rather pleasant, and in my opinion better sung albeit less memorable than the far bigger follow-up.
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Post by Earl Purple on Nov 27, 2021 20:12:55 GMT 1
13 October 1979
1 ( 2 ) Video Killed The Radio Star - Buggles < 1st #1 > 2 ( 1 ) Back Of My Hand - Jags (#1[3]) 3 ( 5 ) Dreaming - Blondie 4 ( 4 ) Queen Of Hearts - Dave Edmunds 5 ( 3 ) Since You've Been Gone - Rainbow (#2[1]) 6 ( 6 ) Making Plans For Nigel - XTC 7 ( 14 ) Tusk - Fleetwood Mac 8 ( 19 ) Straight Lines - New Musik 9 ( 8 ) Message In A Bottle - Police (#8) 10 ( 11 ) Please Don't Go - KC & The Sunshine Band
11 ( -- ) On My Radio - Selecter 12 ( 10 ) Whatever You Want - Status Quo (#10) 13 ( 9 ) Every Day Hurts - Sad Café (#9) 14 ( 20 ) Star - Earth Wind & Fire 15 ( 7 ) Them Heavy People - Kate Bush (#5) 16 ( 25 ) Luton Airport - Cats UK 17 ( 18 ) Sing A Happy Song - O'Jays 18 ( -- ) Heartache Tonight - Eagles 19 ( 30 ) Let Me Know (I Have A Right) - Gloria Gaynor 20 ( 16 ) Good Girls Don't - Knack (#16)
21 ( 17 ) OK Fred - Errol Dunkley (#17) 22 ( 12 ) Cars - Gary Numan (#4) 23 ( 34 ) Gonna Get Along Without You Now - Viola Wills 24 ( 21 ) You Decorated My Life - Kenny Rogers (#21) 25 ( 13 ) Cruel To Be Kind - Nick Lowe (#1[2]) 26 ( 15 ) Slap And Tickle - Squeeze (#8) 27 ( 29 ) Jump The Gun - Three Degrees 28 ( 23 ) There Must Be Thousands - Quads (#23) 29 ( -- ) Still - Commodores 30 ( 33 ) Straw Dogs - Stiff Little Fingers
31 ( 28 ) Don't Be A Dummy - John Du Cann (#28) 32 ( -- ) My Forbidden Lover - Chic 33 ( 43 ) Spirit Body And Soul - Nolan Sisters 34 ( 31 ) The Shape Of Things To Come - Headboys (#31) 35 ( 32 ) Dirty White Boy - Foreigner (#32) 36 ( 24 ) You Can Do It - Al Hudson & The Soul Partners (#18) 37 ( -- ) The Great Rock 'N' Roll Swindle - Sex Pistols 38 ( 47 ) Hold On - Ian Gomm 39 ( 38 ) Charade - Skids (#38) 40 ( 22 ) Rise - Herb Alpert (#3)
41 ( -- ) I Don't Want To Be A Freak - Dynasty 42 ( 41 ) Point Of View - Matumbi (#41) 43 ( 27 ) The Loneliest Man In The World - Tourists (#12) 44 ( 26 ) The Prince - Madness (#6) 45 ( 44 ) Night Won't Last Forever - Michael Johnson (#44) 46 ( 40 ) Arrow Through Me - Wings (#39) 47 ( 39 ) Millions Like Us - Purple Hearts (#37) 48 ( 46 ) Sumahama - Beach Boys (#46) 49 ( -- ) Found A Cure - Ashford Simpson 50 ( -- ) So Good So Right - Brenda Russell
-- ( 35 ) Highway To Hell - AC/DC (#12) -- ( 36 ) Goodbye Stranger - Supertramp (#1[2]) -- ( 37 ) The Day The Earth Caught Fire - City Boy (#25) -- ( 42 ) Don't Stop Till You Get Enough - Michael Jackson (#10) -- ( 45 ) This Time Baby - Jackie Moore (#29) -- ( 48 ) Time For Action - Secret Affar (#14) -- ( 49 ) Hold On - Triumph (#5) -- ( 50 ) Something That I Said - Ruts (#23)
-- ( -- ) Typical Girls - Slits -- ( -- ) The Sparrow - Ramblers
Video Killed The Radio Star becomes the 5th single so far in 1979 that was both UK and NM #1, following Ian Dury, Blondie twice and the Boomtown Rats. There may well be one more before the year is out, but certainly not the song that replaced the Buggles at #1 in the UK, clearly the worst number one of the year and I have no idea how it got there as I haven't met anyone who liked it, not even Christians.
As part of the ska revival the Selecter with a classic gets the highest entry. That song reached the UK top 10 and they had a couple of smaller hits after that. I saw them live supporting the Levellers in 2014.
Heartache Tonight by the Eagles was their last US #1 single, with a strange run 15-9-7-2-1-5 then spent 2 more weeks at #5. In the UK it scraped into the top 40 at #40. I remember posting this about them a few days ago... yes when I was doing the album chart of 2001 and their "Best Of" album entered...
The last UK hit I recall for the Commodores while Lionel Richie was in the band, this became the typical Lionel Richie ballad sound. It replaced "Heartache Tonight" at #1 in the US Billboard chart and also stayed on top for just one week. In the UK it did manage #4.
I threw the Ramblers into the end of that list just to show it was this week but I removed it from the playlist after one listen. There's a good novelty / for children song next week but the playlist is so huge it is quite a long way down. It would have been the 4th highest entry this week. Instead it will be the 10th highest entry but I'd expect the top 11 on next week's list to all get in.
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Post by Good Old Days on Nov 28, 2021 6:36:49 GMT 1
Cats UK got two number ones in "Gražios Dainos". It was not only "Luton Airport" (my favourite girl group song from 20th century), but the follow-up single "Sixteen Looking For Love" too.
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Post by Earl Purple on Nov 28, 2021 19:57:13 GMT 1
1 ( 1 ) Video Killed The Radio Star - Buggles < 2nd week at #1 > 2 ( 3 ) Dreaming - Blondie 3 ( 11 ) On My Radio - Selecter 4 ( 2 ) Back Of My Hand - Jags (#1[3]) 5 ( 8 ) Straight Lines - New Musik 6 ( 7 ) Tusk - Fleetwood Mac 7 ( -- ) Babe - Styx 8 ( 4 ) Queen Of Hearts - Dave Edmunds (#4) 9 ( 18 ) Heartache Tonight - Eagles 10 ( 6 ) Making Plans For Nigel - XTC (#6)
11 ( -- ) Crazy Little Thing Called Love - Queen 12 ( 5 ) Since You've Been Gone - Rainbow (#2[1]) 13 ( -- ) Gimme Gimme Gimme - Abba 14 ( -- ) Bright Side Of The Road - Van Morrison 15 ( 10 ) Please Don't Go - KC & The Sunshine Band (#10) 16 ( 14 ) Star - Earth Wind & Fire (#14) 17 ( 9 ) Message In A Bottle - Police (#8) 18 ( 16 ) Luton Airport - Cats UK (#16) 19 ( 19 ) Let Me Know (I Have A Right) - Gloria Gaynor 20 ( -- ) Broken Hearted Me - Anne Murray
21 ( 29 ) Still - Commodores 22 ( 12 ) Whatever You Want - Status Quo (#10) 23 ( 23 ) Gonna Get Along Without You Now - Viola Wills 24 ( 17 ) Sing A Happy Song - O'Jays (#17) 25 ( 32 ) My Forbidden Lover - Chic 26 ( -- ) Smash It Up - Damned 27 ( 13 ) Every Day Hurts - Sad Café (#9) 28 ( -- ) If You Remember Me - Night 29 ( -- ) Sarah - Thin Lizzy 30 ( 37 ) The Great Rock 'N' Roll Swindle - Sex Pistols
31 ( -- ) She's In Love With You - Suzi Quatro 32 ( 15 ) Them Heavy People - Kate Bush (#5) 33 ( -- ) Rainbow Connection - Muppets 34 ( 20 ) Good Girls Don't - Knack (#16) 35 ( 21 ) OK Fred - Errol Dunkley (#17) 36 ( 41 ) I Don't Want To Be A Freak - Dynasty 37 ( 27 ) Jump The Gun - Three Degrees (#27) 38 ( 33 ) Spirit Body And Soul - Nolan Sisters (#33) 39 ( 30 ) Straw Dogs - Stiff Little Fingers (#30) 40 ( 24 ) You Decorated My Life - Kenny Rogers (#21)
41 ( -- ) You've Got My Number - Undertones 42 ( 38 ) Hold On - Ian Gomm (#38) 43 ( -- ) Bird Song - Lene Lovich 44 ( 22 ) Cars - Gary Numan (#4) 45 ( 28 ) There Must Be Thousands - Quads (#23) 46 ( 31 ) Don't Be A Dummy - John Du Cann (#28) 47 ( -- ) Ships - Barry Manilow 48 ( -- ) Freedom's Prisoner - Steve Harley 49 ( 26 ) Slap And Tickle - Squeeze (#8) 50 ( -- ) Nuclear Device (Wizard Of Aus) - Stranglers
-- ( 25 ) Cruel To Be Kind - Nick Lowe (#1[2]) -- ( 34 ) The Shape Of Things To Come - Headboys (#31) -- ( 35 ) Dirty White Boy - Foreigner (#32) -- ( 36 ) You Can Do It - Al Hudson & The Soul Partners (#18) -- ( 39 ) Charade - Skids (#38) -- ( 40 ) Rise - Herb Alpert (#3) -- ( 42 ) Point Of View - Matumbi (#41) -- ( 43 ) The Loneliest Man In The World - Tourists (#12) -- ( 44 ) The Prince - Madness (#6) -- ( 45 ) Night Won't Last Forever - Michael Johnson (#44) -- ( 46 ) Arrow Through Me - Wings (#39) -- ( 47 ) Millions Like Us - Purple Hearts (#37) -- ( 48 ) Sumahama - Beach Boys (#46) -- ( 49 ) Found A Cure - Ashford Simpson -- ( 50 ) So Good So Right - Brenda Russell
-- ( -- ) Baby Blue - Dusty Springfield -- ( -- ) You're Only Lonely - J.D. Souther -- ( -- ) So Much Trouble In The World - Bob Marley & The Wailers -- ( -- ) Can't Get Enough Of Your Love - Darts -- ( -- ) Fins - Jimmy Buffett
This is a bit of a "crazy" week, 15 new entries from a playlist where more songs were in this week than the previous two combined.
As both Steve Harley and the Stranglers were above Ashford & Simpson and Brenda Russell in the full playlist ranking, those two drop out to let the other two in. That means that at this point Brenda Russell is a "least successful chart act" with one week at #50. She won't remain that way indefinitely as "Piano In The Dark" will be a far bigger hit for her in 1988. In the UK, "So Good So Right" doubles up with "In The Thick Of It" in 1980 so the latter can potentially chart separately, in which case she can break out even sooner.
And now for those entries, and it's Styx with their ballad "Babe", their only UK top 40 hit and their biggest US hit (their only #1 there) that gets the highest entry. It won't end up being their biggest hit on this chart.
"Crazy Little Thing Called Love" became Queen's biggest hit since "We Are The Champions" also reached #2 two years earlier, however since then "Don't Stop Me Now" has become one of their most streamed songs of all time and is thus considered a bigger hit. The song does show some diversity in the kind of music they make, this being a simple rockabilly track.
Below that, Abba's "Gimme Gimme Gimme" which will no doubt enter the top 10 next week but the one that follows this probably won't do so well...
A bit further down, Night had two vocalists, Stevie Vann (a.k.a. Stevie Lange) who is female and came from Zambia and Chris Thompson who is English and was previously in Manfred Mann, and the musicians are a mix of British and American. Stevie Vann sang lead vocals on "Hot Summer Nights" and Chris Thompson does on "If You Remember Me", and in the UK that was credited simply to Chris Thompson, in the US to Chris Thompson and Night but it was on the Night album and the band were playing on it.
Further down we have the Muppets (the lead vocals by Kermit the Frog i.e. Jim Henson). I mention this after the Ramblers song that failed dismally - this song is actually good. This is how you make a decent song for children. This would have been the 4th highest entry two weeks ago, but with the massive list it came in 10th this week.
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