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Post by Good Old Days on Nov 28, 2021 20:01:55 GMT 1
"Dreaming" for the next # 1. "Gimme*3" is very far from my favourite ABBA tracks and wasn't represented in GD.
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Post by Earl Purple on Nov 28, 2021 20:26:59 GMT 1
I like Gimme Gimme Gimme, it's "I Have A Dream" that I have more of a problem with, just never really liked it. Westlife didn't ruin it because it wasn't that great in the first place. Expect even "Day Trip To Bangor" to be above it in the chart.
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Post by Good Old Days on Nov 29, 2021 9:40:10 GMT 1
I like Gimme Gimme Gimme, it's "I Have A Dream" that I have more of a problem with, just never really liked it. Westlife didn't ruin it because it wasn't that great in the first place. Expect even "Day Trip To Bangor" to be above it in the chart. "I Have A Dream" became my # 1 on Christmas week and after it was replaced on the top by "Day Trip To Bangor". I'm looking forward to 1980 charts, maybe my favourite song of all 80s decade will reach top 25 here like in UK chart.
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Post by Earl Purple on Nov 29, 2021 9:50:49 GMT 1
If it's Sue Wilkinson then don't expect it to do that well but it might get in the chart.
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Post by Earl Purple on Dec 2, 2021 10:45:02 GMT 1
27 November 1979
1 ( 7 ) Babe - Styx < 1st #1 > 2 ( 3 ) On My Radio - Selecter 3 ( 1 ) Video Killed The Radio Star - Buggles (#1[2]) 4 ( 2 ) Dreaming - Blondie (#2[1]) 5 ( 11 ) Crazy Little Thing Called Love - Queen 6 ( 13 ) Gimme Gimme Gimme - Abba 7 ( 5 ) Straight Lines - New Musik (#5) 8 ( 14 ) Bright Side Of The Road - Van Morrison 9 ( 9 ) Heartache Tonight - Eagles 10 ( 6 ) Tusk - Fleetwood Mac (#6)
11 ( 4 ) Back Of My Hand - Jags (#1[3]) 12 ( 20 ) Broken Hearted Me - Anne Murray 13 ( -- ) No More Tears (Enough Is Enough) - Donna Summer & Barbra Streisand 14 ( -- ) A Message To You Rudy - Specials ft Rico 15 ( 26 ) Smash It Up - Damned 16 ( 8 ) Queen Of Hearts - Dave Edmunds (#4) 17 ( 28 ) If You Remember Me - Night 18 ( 29 ) Sarah - Thin Lizzy 19 ( 10 ) Making Plans For Nigel - XTC (#6) 20 ( -- ) Knocked It Off - B.A. Robertson
21 ( 21 ) Still - Commodores 22 ( 31 ) She's In Love With You - Suzi Quatro 23 ( -- ) Ladies Night - Kool & The Gang 24 ( 33 ) Rainbow Connection - Muppets 25 ( 16 ) Star - Earth Wind & Fire (#14) 26 ( 19 ) Let Me Know (I Have A Right) - Gloria Gaynor (#19) 27 ( 12 ) Since You've Been Gone - Rainbow (#2[1]) 28 ( 25 ) My Forbidden Lover - Chic (#25) 29 ( 15 ) Please Don't Go - KC & The Sunshine Band (#10) 30 ( 18 ) Luton Airport - Cats UK (#16)
31 ( -- ) Dream Police - Cheap Trick 32 ( 23 ) Gonna Get Along Without You Now - Viola Wills (#23) 33 ( 30 ) The Great Rock 'N' Roll Swindle - Sex Pistols (#30) 34 ( 17 ) Message In A Bottle - Police (#8) 35 ( 41 ) You've Got My Number - Undertones 36 ( 43 ) Bird Song - Lene Lovich 37 ( -- ) Found Out Too Late - 999 38 ( 24 ) Sing A Happy Song - O'Jays (#17) 39 ( 36 ) I Don't Want To Be A Freak - Dynasty (#36) 40 ( 47 ) Ships - Barry Manilow
41 ( 22 ) Whatever You Want - Status Quo (#10) 42 ( 48 ) Freedom's Prisoner - Steve Harley 43 ( -- ) You're A Better Man Than I - Sham 69 44 ( -- ) Tryouts For The Human Race - Sparks 45 ( 50 ) Nuclear Device (Wizard Of Aus) - Stranglers 46 ( -- ) Victim Of Love - Elton John 47 ( 27 ) Every Day Hurts - Sad Café (#9) 48 ( 38 ) Spirit Body And Soul - Nolan Sisters (#33) 49 ( 42 ) Hold On - Ian Gomm (#38) 50 ( 37 ) Jump The Gun - Three Degrees (#27)
-- ( 32 ) Them Heavy People - Kate Bush (#5) -- ( 34 ) Good Girls Don't - Knack (#16) -- ( 35 ) OK Fred - Errol Dunkley (#17) -- ( 39 ) Straw Dogs - Stiff Little Fingers (#30) -- ( 40 ) You Decorated My Life - Kenny Rogers (#21) -- ( 44 ) Cars - Gary Numan (#4) -- ( 45 ) There Must Be Thousands - Quads (#23) -- ( 46 ) Don't Be A Dummy - John Du Cann (#28) -- ( 49 ) Slap And Tickle - Squeeze (#8)
-- ( -- ) Please Don't Leave - Lauren Wood -- ( -- ) He Was Beautiful - Iris Williams
Styx get to number one - originally it was recorded solo by Dennis De Young as it didn't really fit into the Styx style, but then they were urged to include it on the Cornerstone album and Tommy Shaw added the guitar part in the middle (plus other members added backing vocals) and it became their biggest hit single in both the UK and USA. In the UK it should have led to their recognition and more hits but didn't, but the Paradise Theatre album did get to the UK top 10 in 1981 (and is one of my favourite albums of all time). Cornerstone also includes their well-known track "Boat On The River" which was not a single, at least at the time. However watch out for the follow-up "Why Me".
In the USA, Barbra Streisand had a disco hit earlier in the year with "The Main Event (Fight)" which reached #3 and was also a top 20 hit on this chart, but in the UK this was her first hit since the duet with Neil Diamond last year and she would also have hit duets next year with Barry Gibb (albeit Woman In Love is credited solo to her but he is on that track too), and they were all ballads even though Barry Gibb of course had written disco hits for others, so this in the UK was her only disco hit.
Both singers had reached #5 in 1978 (ok Donna Summer was #3 at the start of the year) and neither had yet reached the UK top 10 in 1979, Donna Summer had two disco songs that peaked just outside (#11 and #14) and a much lower one with Dim All The Lights, but this song reached #3 in the UK.
A Message To You Rudy is a cover version of a Dandy Livingstone song. And who is Rico? The saxophonist on the original, whom Jerry Dammers recruited to perform on this track too and also played with them live on occasion.
B.A. Robertson follows up "Bang Bang" with "Knocked It Off" which is an innocent song about a football game, or not so innocent depending on how you interpret the lyrics.
And then Kool & The Gang released "Ladies Night" and the UK finally discovered them after about 6 years of having hits in the USA. They made their NM debut in October 1973 with "Funky Stuff" and their highest peak so far has been #13 with "Jungle Boogie" in early 1974. "Ladies Night" is their 5th NM hit with one ("Higher Plane") that failed to chart along the way. It is however their first hit since "Spirit Of The Boogie" reached #26 in 1975.
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Post by Earl Purple on Dec 3, 2021 10:42:38 GMT 1
3 November 1979
1 ( 1 ) Babe - Styx < 2nd week at #1 > 2 ( 2 ) On My Radio - Selecter 3 ( 5 ) Crazy Little Thing Called Love - Queen 4 ( 6 ) Gimme Gimme Gimme - Abba 5 ( 13 ) No More Tears (Enough Is Enough) - Donna Summer & Barbra Streisand 6 ( 14 ) A Message To You Rudy - Specials ft Rico 7 ( 8 ) Bright Side Of The Road - Van Morrison 8 ( 3 ) Video Killed The Radio Star - Buggles (#1[2]) 9 ( -- ) Eton Rifles - Jam 10 ( 4 ) Dreaming - Blondie (#2[1])
11 ( 20 ) Knocked It Off - B.A. Robertson 12 ( 12 ) Broken Hearted Me - Anne Murray 13 ( 15 ) Smash It Up - Damned 14 ( 23 ) Ladies Night - Kool & The Gang 15 ( 9 ) Heartache Tonight - Eagles (#9) 16 ( 7 ) Straight Lines - New Musik (#5) 17 ( 17 ) If You Remember Me - Night 18 ( -- ) Take The Long Way Home - Supertramp 19 ( 18 ) Sarah - Thin Lizzy (#18) 20 ( -- ) Rockabilly Rebel - Matchbox
21 ( 10 ) Tusk - Fleetwood Mac (#6) 22 ( 31 ) Dream Police - Cheap Trick 23 ( 22 ) She's In Love With You - Suzi Quatro (#22) 24 ( 24 ) Rainbow Connection - Muppets 25 ( 11 ) Back Of My Hand - Jags (#1[3]) 26 ( -- ) Half The Way - Crystal Gayle 27 ( 37 ) Found Out Too Late - 999 28 ( 21 ) Still - Commodores (#21) 29 ( -- ) Better Love Next Time - Dr Hook 30 ( 16 ) Queen Of Hearts - Dave Edmunds (#4)
31 ( 43 ) You're A Better Man Than I - Sham 69 32 ( 19 ) Making Plans For Nigel - XTC (#6) 33 ( 44 ) Tryouts For The Human Race - Sparks 34 ( -- ) Hot Shot - Cliff Richard 35 ( 35 ) You've Got My Number - Undertones 36 ( 36 ) Bird Song - Lene Lovich 37 ( -- ) It's A Disco Night (Rock Don't Stop) - Isley Brothers 38 ( 46 ) Victim Of Love - Elton John 39 ( 28 ) My Forbidden Lover - Chic (#25) 40 ( -- ) Gloria - Jonathan King
41 ( 26 ) Let Me Know (I Have A Right) - Gloria Gaynor (#19) 42 ( 25 ) Star - Earth Wind & Fire (#14) 43 ( 40 ) Ships - Barry Manilow (#40) 44 ( 33 ) The Great Rock 'N' Roll Swindle - Sex Pistols (#30) 45 ( 42 ) Freedom's Prisoner - Steve Harley (#42) 46 ( -- ) Never 'Ad Nothin' - Angelic Upstarts 47 ( 45 ) Nuclear Device (Wizard Of Aus) - Stranglers (#45) 48 ( 32 ) Gonna Get Along Without You Now - Viola Wills (#23) 49 ( 30 ) Luton Airport - Cats UK (#16) 50 ( 27 ) Since You've Been Gone - Rainbow (#2[1])
-- ( 29 ) Please Don't Go - KC & The Sunshine Band (#10) -- ( 34 ) Message In A Bottle - Police (#8) -- ( 38 ) Sing A Happy Song - O'Jays (#17) -- ( 39 ) I Don't Want To Be A Freak - Dynasty (#36) -- ( 41 ) Whatever You Want - Status Quo (#10) -- ( 47 ) Every Day Hurts - Sad Café (#9) -- ( 48 ) Spirit Body And Soul - Nolan Sisters (#33) -- ( 49 ) Hold On - Ian Gomm (#38) -- ( 50 ) Jump The Gun - Three Degrees (#27)
The Jam enter at #9 with "Eton Rifles" which was their first top 10 hit in the UK, and after this reached #3 they started having number ones.
A couple of lesser-successful follow-ups to number ones, "Better Love Next TIme" though did reach #8 in the UK and in the USA it reached #12 at the time "When You're In Love With A Beautiful Woman" was #1 in the UK, something we celebrated only really because it was better than Lena Martell, but it would have been better had either Queen or the Jam reached #1 of course. Meanwhile one of Dr Hook's older songs "The Ballad Of Lucy Jordan" has been covered by Marianne Faithfull and is on my current playlist. She hasn't been in the chart since 1967. After "We Don't Talk Anymore", the follow-up "Hot Shot" failed to reach the top 40.
In the US battle between rock and disco, the Isley Brothers claim it's a disco night but subtitle the track "rock, don't stop..". In the USA there are far more genre-specific radio stations but they will often play crossover songs, e.g. "funk rock" may get picked up by both or neither, depending where they decide it fits in. Not sure who would have picked this one up, but the UK don't care and played it.
The song in the chart by Jonathan King is the same as the one that was later recorded by Laura Branigan. The versions however have different lyrics as it's originally an Italian song by Umberto Tozzi which he co-wrote with Giancarto Bigazzi. Jonathan King did his own English lyrics, whereas that in Laura Branigan's version was written by Trevor Veitch, and the latter had considered changing the title too to a male name but then wrote it about a woman called Gloria anyway.
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Post by Earl Purple on Dec 7, 2021 0:41:06 GMT 1
10 November 1979
1 ( 1 ) Babe - Styx < 3rd week at #1 > 2 ( 9 ) Eton Rifles - Jam 3 ( 3 ) Crazy Little Thing Called Love - Queen 4 ( 5 ) No More Tears (Enough Is Enough) - Donna Summer & Barbra Streisand 5 ( 2 ) On My Radio - Selecter (#2[2]) 6 ( 6 ) A Message To You Rudy - Specials ft Rico 7 ( 4 ) Gimme Gimme Gimme - Abba (#4) 8 ( 18 ) Take The Long Way Home - Supertramp 9 ( 11 ) Knocked It Off - B.A. Robertson 10 ( 7 ) Bright Side Of The Road - Van Morrison (#7)
11 ( -- ) One Step Beyond - Madness 12 ( 20 ) Rockabilly Rebel - Matchbox 13 ( 14 ) Ladies Night - Kool & The Gang 14 ( 26 ) Half The Way - Crystal Gayle 15 ( 13 ) Smash It Up - Damned (#13) 16 ( 12 ) Broken Hearted Me - Anne Murray (#12) 17 ( 8 ) Video Killed The Radio Star - Buggles (#1[2]) 18 ( -- ) Escape (The Pina Colada Song) - Rupert Holmes 19 ( 29 ) Better Love Next Time - Dr Hook 20 ( 22 ) Dream Police - Cheap Trick
21 ( 10 ) Dreaming - Blondie (#2[1]) 22 ( 17 ) If You Remember Me - Night (#17) 23 ( -- ) I Only Want To Be With You - Tourists 24 ( 34 ) Hot Shot - Cliff Richard 25 ( -- ) Do That To Me One More Time - Captain & Tennille 26 ( 27 ) Found Out Too Late - 999 27 ( 19 ) Sarah - Thin Lizzy (#18) 28 ( 37 ) It's A Disco Night (Rock Don't Stop) - Isley Brothers 29 ( 15 ) Heartache Tonight - Eagles (#9) 30 ( 31 ) You're A Better Man Than I - Sham 69
31 ( 24 ) Rainbow Connection - Muppets (#24) 32 ( 40 ) Gloria - Jonathan King 33 ( 23 ) She's In Love With You - Suzi Quatro (#22) 34 ( 33 ) Tryouts For The Human Race - Sparks (#33) 35 ( -- ) Send One Your Love - Stevie Wonder 36 ( 16 ) Straight Lines - New Musik (#5) 37 ( -- ) Let Your Heart Dance - Secret Affair 38 ( 46 ) Never 'Ad Nothin' - Angelic Upstarts 39 ( 38 ) Victim Of Love - Elton John (#38) 40 ( 21 ) Tusk - Fleetwood Mac (#6)
41 ( 35 ) You've Got My Number - Undertones (#35) 42 ( 28 ) Still - Commodores (#21) 43 ( 36 ) Bird Song - Lene Lovich (#36) 44 ( -- ) Cool Change - Little River Band 45 ( 25 ) Back Of My Hand - Jags (#1[3]) 46 ( -- ) I Need A Lover - John Cougar 47 ( -- ) Long Way From Home - Whitesnake 48 ( -- ) Theme One - Cozy Powell 49 ( 30 ) Queen Of Hearts - Dave Edmunds (#4) 50 ( -- ) A Night At Daddy Gee's - Showaddywaddy
-- ( 32 ) Making Plans For Nigel - XTC (#6) -- ( 39 ) My Forbidden Lover - Chic (#25) -- ( 41 ) Let Me Know (I Have A Right) - Gloria Gaynor (#19) -- ( 42 ) Star - Earth Wind & Fire (#14) -- ( 43 ) Ships - Barry Manilow (#40) -- ( 44 ) The Great Rock 'N' Roll Swindle - Sex Pistols (#30) -- ( 45 ) Freedom's Prisoner - Steve Harley (#42) -- ( 47 ) Nuclear Device (Wizard Of Aus) - Stranglers (#45) -- ( 48 ) Gonna Get Along Without You Now - Viola Wills (#23) -- ( 49 ) Luton Airport - Cats UK (#16) -- ( 50 ) Since You've Been Gone - Rainbow (#2[1])
-- ( -- ) Monkey Chop - Dan I -- ( -- ) I Want You Tonight - Pablo Cruise
Having once described Styx as being an American version of Queen, both have changed from their usual style on their current hits and it is Styx for whom it is working better here, as they are holding off Queen, with the Jam now poised to take over with what would be their first #1.
At this point Madness are still on 2-Tone records, they will move to Stiff for their next hit which is just a few weeks away. As with the Specials, their second hit is a cover, and the original was done by Prince Buster, who also recorded the song "Madness" which they covered and named themselves after, and also recorded the song "Al Capone" which the Specials sampled. Of course, Madness reciprocated with "The Prince", an original song but a tribute to Prince Buster (not Prince Rogers Nelson, although his debut isn't that far away).
Rupert Holmes was from England originally but had moved to the USA and this song reached #1 there and only just made the top 30 in the UK, charting with a song about being a man cheating on his wife by arranging to meet a woman through a want-ad only to find when she turned up it was his own wife. Kate Bush would write a song with a similar theme next year.
The Tourists get a hit with a cover of a song that was #1 for Dusty Springfield in 1963, and after Captain and Tennille's big hit we have a Stevie Wonder song from Journey Into The Secret Life Of Plants, a bit of a flop between two massive albums and it didn't spawn a UK top 40 single but this one reached the top 75, and also #4 in the USA.
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Post by Earl Purple on Dec 9, 2021 15:31:45 GMT 1
The next playlist was crazy covering just two weeks and loads of songs, including two artists that appear twice and one song that appears twice by different artists. That actually makes it 3 such weeks in a row
17 November 1979
1 ( 2 ) Eton Rifles - Jam < 1st #1 > 2 ( 1 ) Babe - Styx (#1[3]) 3 ( 11 ) One Step Beyond - Madness 4 ( 3 ) Crazy Little Thing Called Love - Queen (#3) 5 ( 4 ) No More Tears (Enough Is Enough) - Donna Summer & Barbra Streisand (#4) 6 ( 8 ) Take The Long Way Home - Supertramp 7 ( -- ) Diamond Smiles - Boomtown Rats 8 ( 6 ) A Message To You Rudy - Specials ft Rico (#6) 9 ( 12 ) Rockabilly Rebel - Matchbox 10 ( 18 ) Escape (The Pina Colada Song) - Rupert Holmes
11 ( -- ) Fly Too High - Janis Ian 12 ( 9 ) Knocked It Off - B.A. Robertson (#9) 13 ( 14 ) Half The Way - Crystal Gayle 14 ( 5 ) On My Radio - Selecter (#2[2]) 15 ( 23 ) I Only Want To Be With You - Tourists 16 ( -- ) Brass In Pocket - Pretenders 17 ( 7 ) Gimme Gimme Gimme - Abba (#4) 18 ( 25 ) Do That To Me One More Time - Captain & Tennille 19 ( -- ) Confusion - Electric Light Orchestra 20 ( 13 ) Ladies Night - Kool & The Gang (#13)
21 ( 19 ) Better Love Next Time - Dr Hook (#19) 22 ( 10 ) Bright Side Of The Road - Van Morrison (#7) 23 ( -- ) Last Train To London - Electric Light Orchestra 24 ( 24 ) Hot Shot - Cliff Richard 25 ( 15 ) Smash It Up - Damned (#13) 26 ( 20 ) Dream Police - Cheap Trick (#20) 27 ( -- ) Pilot Of The Airwaves - Charlie Dore 28 ( 35 ) Send One Your Love - Stevie Wonder 29 ( 16 ) Broken Hearted Me - Anne Murray (#12) 30 ( 37 ) Let Your Heart Dance - Secret Affair
31 ( 28 ) It's A Disco Night (Rock Don't Stop) - Isley Brothers (#28) 32 ( -- ) Is It Love You're After - Rose Royce 33 ( 26 ) Found Out Too Late - 999 (#26) 34 ( 32 ) Gloria - Jonathan King (#32) 35 ( 17 ) Video Killed The Radio Star - Buggles (#1[2]) 36 ( 22 ) If You Remember Me - Night (#17) 37 ( -- ) Que Sera Mi Vida - Gibson Brothers 38 ( 44 ) Cool Change - Little River Band 39 ( 30 ) You're A Better Man Than I - Sham 69 (#30) 40 ( 46 ) I Need A Lover - John Cougar
41 ( 38 ) Never 'Ad Nothin' - Angelic Upstarts (#38) 42 ( 47 ) Long Way From Home - Whitesnake 43 ( 21 ) Dreaming - Blondie (#2[1]) 44 ( -- ) Tired Of Toein' The Line - Rocky Burnette 45 ( 27 ) Sarah - Thin Lizzy (#18) 46 ( -- ) Cruisin' - Smokey Robinson 47 ( 34 ) Tryouts For The Human Race - Sparks (#33) 48 ( -- ) New Guitar In Town - Lurkers 49 ( 31 ) Rainbow Connection - Muppets (#24) 50 ( -- ) Damned If I Do - Alan Parsons Project
-- ( 29 ) Heartache Tonight - Eagles (#9) -- ( 33 ) She's In Love With You - Suzi Quatro (#22) -- ( 36 ) Straight Lines - New Musik (#5) -- ( 39 ) Victim Of Love - Elton John (#38) -- ( 40 ) Tusk - Fleetwood Mac (#6) -- ( 41 ) You've Got My Number - Undertones (#35) -- ( 42 ) Still - Commodores (#21) -- ( 43 ) Bird Song - Lene Lovich (#36) -- ( 45 ) Back Of My Hand - Jags (#1[3]) -- ( 48 ) Theme One - Cozy Powell -- ( 49 ) Queen Of Hearts - Dave Edmunds (#4) -- ( 50 ) A Night At Daddy Gee's - Showaddywaddy
-- ( -- ) Fall Out - Police -- ( -- ) Wasted - Def Leppard -- ( -- ) It's My House - Storm
I recall a number of under-achievers in the chart at this time, and one of those was "Diamond Smiles", which, after two #1s, failed to reach the UK top 10. Blondie did the same and then next year both artists went back to having top 10 hits, with Blondie getting 3 number ones. We'll see how "Union City Blue" gets on next week but for this week "Diamond Smiles" bags the highest entry. As with the Madness hit "Cardiac Arrest" which interrupted a run of top 10 hits for them later, it deals with the death of its subject. Ok, we don't know if the man in Cardiac Arrest actually died from his heart attack, and unlike this song it probably wasn't based on a true case. As a 14-year-old who was a big fan of the Boomtown Rats, I didn't quite get "Diamond Smiles" at the time either - listening back now though in this playlist it screamed out to me as the best song on it, and that's up against quite a few big ones. Putting aside Mick Hutchence and Paula Yates, the death of Peaches will "shout out" to us and I'd be tempted to write a blog on the subject - for me it's Rina Bowden and Heather Donlin whose suicides haunt me a bit more - the latter name you can even google.
Moving on to Janis Ian whose haunting folk song "At Seventeen" spent 5 weeks at NM #1 in 1975, "Fly Too High" is much lighter and was co-written with Giorgio Moroder, and was another song that totally underachieved in the chart, one of 4 songs at the time that got much airplay but didn't make it into the top 40 - the others include "Pilot Of The Airwaves" which enters lower down, "Crawling From The Wreckage" and "The Ballad Of Lucy Jordan" which are both expected in next week. "Crawling From The Wreckage" was even Paul Burnette's "record of the week".
And then, after "Stop Your Sobbing" and "Kid" both under-charted, "Brass In Pocket" ended up going all the way to #1...
A double A-side of ELO, but "Confusion" also entered the US top 40 this week so I can chart them separately. "Last Train To London" enters the US top 40 later so I could have staggered them but chose to enter them both this week. And unlike in the UK, "Pilot Of The Airwaves" did reach the top 20 in the USA.
"Is It Love You're After" was one of the tracks heavily sampled in the "Theme From S-Express".
"Que Sera Mi Vida" was the Gibson Brothers' biggest UK hit but I had to search deep to find the version I heard on the radio at the time, and still not sure I found it.
Rocky Burnette was the son of Johnny Burnette of "Dreamin'" and "You're Sixteen" fame, which peaked at NM #2 and NM #1 respectively, the latter also being covered later by Ringo Starr. Johnny Burnette died in 1964 at the age of 30 and Rocky was 11 at the time.
"Cruisin'" by Smokey Robinson was not a UK hit but did reach #4 in the USA.
"Fall Out" was an early Police single that flopped when first released and was re-issued due to their new-found fame, but didn't reach the UK top 40 even then. "So Lonely" was another such single but that did find success.
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Post by Earl Purple on Dec 10, 2021 11:14:28 GMT 1
24 November 1979
1 ( 1 ) Eton Rifles - Jam < 2nd week at #1 > 2 ( 7 ) Diamond Smiles - Boomtown Rats 3 ( 3 ) One Step Beyond - Madness 4 ( 11 ) Fly Too High - Janis Ian 5 ( 2 ) Babe - Styx (#1[3]) 6 ( 6 ) Take The Long Way Home - Supertramp 7 ( 16 ) Brass In Pocket - Pretenders 8 ( 4 ) Crazy Little Thing Called Love - Queen (#3) 9 ( 10 ) Escape (The Pina Colada Song) - Rupert Holmes 10 ( 5 ) No More Tears (Enough Is Enough) - Donna Summer & Barbra Streisand (#4)
11 ( 19 ) Confusion - Electric Light Orchestra 12 ( 9 ) Rockabilly Rebel - Matchbox (#9) 13 ( -- ) Rock With You - Michael Jackson 14 ( 23 ) Last Train To London - Electric Light Orchestra 15 ( 15 ) I Only Want To Be With You - Tourists 16 ( 8 ) A Message To You Rudy - Specials ft Rico (#6) 17 ( -- ) Crawling From The Wreckage - Dave Edmunds 18 ( 27 ) Pilot Of The Airwaves - Charlie Dore 19 ( 13 ) Half The Way - Crystal Gayle (#13) 20 ( 18 ) Do That To Me One More Time - Captain & Tennille (#18)
21 ( -- ) Working For The Yankee Dollar - Skids 22 ( 12 ) Knocked It Off - B.A. Robertson (#9) 23 ( -- ) Off The Wall - Michael Jackson 24 ( 32 ) Is It Love You're After - Rose Royce 25 ( -- ) Union City Blue - Blondie 26 ( -- ) The Ballad Of Lucy Jordan - Marianne Faithfull 27 ( 37 ) Que Sera Mi Vida - Gibson Brothers 28 ( -- ) My Simple Heart - Three Degrees 29 ( 28 ) Send One Your Love - Stevie Wonder (#28) 30 ( 14 ) On My Radio - Selecter (#2[2])
31 ( -- ) Jane - Jefferson Starship 32 ( 21 ) Better Love Next Time - Dr Hook (#19) 33 ( 24 ) Hot Shot - Cliff Richard (#24) 34 ( 30 ) Let Your Heart Dance - Secret Affair (#30) 35 ( -- ) Living On An Island - Status Quo 36 ( 20 ) Ladies Night - Kool & The Gang (#13) 37 ( 17 ) Gimme Gimme Gimme - Abba (#4) 38 ( 44 ) Tired Of Toein' The Line - Rocky Burnette 39 ( -- ) Head Games - Foreigner 40 ( -- ) Complex - Gary Numan
41 ( 46 ) Cruisin' - Smokey Robinson 42 ( -- ) Spacer - Sheila & B Devotion 43 ( 26 ) Dream Police - Cheap Trick (#20) 44 ( 38 ) Cool Change - Little River Band (#38) 45 ( 48 ) New Guitar In Town - Lurkers 46 ( 22 ) Bright Side Of The Road - Van Morrison (#7) 47 ( 31 ) It's A Disco Night (Rock Don't Stop) - Isley Brothers (#28) 48 ( -- ) It's My House - Diana Ross 49 ( 40 ) I Need A Lover - John Cougar (#40) 50 ( 25 ) Smash It Up - Damned (#13)
-- ( 29 ) Broken Hearted Me - Anne Murray (#12) -- ( 33 ) Found Out Too Late - 999 (#26) -- ( 34 ) Gloria - Jonathan King (#32) -- ( 35 ) Video Killed The Radio Star - Buggles (#1[2]) -- ( 36 ) If You Remember Me - Night (#17) -- ( 39 ) You're A Better Man Than I - Sham 69 (#30) -- ( 41 ) Never 'Ad Nothin' - Angelic Upstarts (#38) -- ( 42 ) Long Way From Home - Whitesnake -- ( 43 ) Dreaming - Blondie (#2[1]) -- ( 45 ) Sarah - Thin Lizzy (#18) -- ( 47 ) Tryouts For The Human Race - Sparks (#33) -- ( 49 ) Rainbow Connection - Muppets (#24) -- ( 50 ) Damned If I Do - Alan Parsons Project
-- ( -- ) The Second Time Around - Shalamar -- ( -- ) This Is It - Kenny Loggins -- ( -- ) I Wanna Hold Your Hand - Dollar -- ( -- ) If You Want It - Niteflyte -- ( -- ) Pretty Girls - Melissa Manchester
This list is just "brutal". Shalamar don't deserve to miss out completely, and probably even Dollar don't deserve to - their cover of the Beatles lingered outside the top 40 for a few weeks actually then went top 10 in the new year. But 24 November is too early in the year for me to be putting them back onto the "dead week" playlist (which will be 29 December this year, when both the UK and US charts roll. Last year I had only one song to stick on it. There are 14 songs on each of the next 3 weeks, although on 8 December it's a double A-side where I will only chart one of them.
Of those who do get in, I mentioned a few yesterday for the last chart, primarily Dave Edmunds and Marianne Faithfull who both missed the top 40. The former was written by Graham Parker who did his own version later but Dave Edmunds was the first one to release it, however "The Ballad Of Lucy Jordan" was written by Shel Silverstein and had been recorded by Dr Hook and released as a one-off single (as Jordon) but wasn't a hit for them.
Michael Jackson gets two entries as "Rock With You" was released at this point in the USA and "Off The Wall" in the UK, the former getting to #1 in the USA, the latter #7 in the UK, the same position "Rock With You" would reach later. But "Off The Wall" wasn't a #1 in the USA when that was eventually released there, peaking at #10. Rod Temperton (of Heatwave) wrote both songs, and would later also write "Thriller".
The Skids get their 3rd hit of the year following "Into The Valley" and "Masquerade", and Blondie comes in below them with what as a poor-performing UK hit and may well miss the top 10 here too, such is the standard, but it's their 5th hit this year so far.
Jefferson Starship's "Jane" was the first time any incarnation of this band had a UK hit single as Jefferson Airplane never charted here. Grace Slick is not a member at this point, but she will have a solo album "Dreams" out in 1980 which reached #28 and the title track reached the top 75 but "Seasons" was the much-played track and that flopped in both the UK and USA.
For the Three Degrees it's also the 5th single of the year but at the time it was their 3rd for me after "Woman In Love" and "The Runner", however "The Golden Lady" failed to reach the NM chart but "Jump The Gun" did get to #27. The first two both went top 10.
Status Quo in one of their "let's do something a bit different" moments, more rock from Foreigner, Gary Numan getting a UK top 10 hit after two number ones, Sheila & B Devotion returning with a Chic composition and Diana Ross scraping in with an Ashford & Simpson composition with a reggae version by Storm out at the same time (missed the chart last week).
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Post by Earl Purple on Dec 16, 2021 18:35:20 GMT 1
1 December 1979
1 ( 2 ) Diamond Smiles - Boomtown Rats < 5th #1 > 2 ( 1 ) Eton Rifles - Jam (#1[2]) 3 ( 4 ) Fly Too High - Janis Ian 4 ( 3 ) One Step Beyond - Madness (#3) 5 ( 13 ) Rock With You - Michael Jackson 6 ( 7 ) Brass In Pocket - Pretenders 7 ( -- ) Another Brick In The Wall - Pink Floyd 8 ( 17 ) Crawling From The Wreckage - Dave Edmunds 9 ( 6 ) Take The Long Way Home - Supertramp (#6) 10 ( 11 ) Confusion - Electric Light Orchestra
11 ( -- ) Coward Of The County - Kenny Rogers 12 ( 21 ) Working For The Yankee Dollar - Skids 13 ( 5 ) Babe - Styx (#1[3]) 14 ( 9 ) Escape (The Pina Colada Song) - Rupert Holmes (#9) 15 ( 14 ) Last Train To London - Electric Light Orchestra (#14) 16 ( -- ) Wonderful Christmastime - Paul McCartney 17 ( 23 ) Off The Wall - Michael Jackson 18 ( 25 ) Union City Blue - Blondie 19 ( -- ) Rapper's Delight - Sugarhill Gang 20 ( 26 ) The Ballad Of Lucy Jordan - Marianne Faithfull
21 ( 18 ) Pilot Of The Airwaves - Charlie Dore (#18) 22 ( 8 ) Crazy Little Thing Called Love - Queen (#3) 23 ( 28 ) My Simple Heart - Three Degrees 24 ( 15 ) I Only Want To Be With You - Tourists (#15) 25 ( 12 ) Rockabilly Rebel - Matchbox (#9) 26 ( 10 ) No More Tears (Enough Is Enough) - Donna Summer & Barbra Streisand (#4) 27 ( 31 ) Jane - Jefferson Starship 28 ( -- ) Walking On The Moon - Police 29 ( 24 ) Is It Love You're After - Rose Royce (#24) 30 ( 35 ) Living On An Island - Status Quo
31 ( 27 ) Que Sera Mi Vida - Gibson Brothers (#27) 32 ( 20 ) Do That To Me One More Time - Captain & Tennille (#18) 33 ( 39 ) Head Games - Foreigner 34 ( 16 ) A Message To You Rudy - Specials ft Rico (#6) 35 ( 40 ) Complex - Gary Numan 36 ( 19 ) Half The Way - Crystal Gayle (#13) 37 ( 42 ) Spacer - Sheila & B Devotion 38 ( -- ) The Long Run - Eagles 39 ( 29 ) Send One Your Love - Stevie Wonder (#28) 40 ( -- ) I Just Can't Be Happy Today - Damned
41 ( 22 ) Knocked It Off - B.A. Robertson (#9) 42 ( 38 ) Tired Of Toein' The Line - Rocky Burnette (#38) 43 ( 48 ) It's My House - Diana Ross 44 ( 41 ) Cruisin' - Smokey Robinson (#41) 45 ( 34 ) Let Your Heart Dance - Secret Affair (#30) 46 ( -- ) Wait For Me - Daryl Hall & John Oates 47 ( -- ) This Is It - Kenny Loggins 48 ( -- ) I Wanna Hold Your Hand - Dollar 49 ( 45 ) New Guitar In Town - Lurkers (#45) 50 ( -- ) Don't Bring Harry - Stranglers
-- ( 30 ) On My Radio - Selecter (#2[2]) -- ( 32 ) Better Love Next Time - Dr Hook (#19) -- ( 33 ) Hot Shot - Cliff Richard (#24) -- ( 36 ) Ladies Night - Kool & The Gang (#13) -- ( 37 ) Gimme Gimme Gimme - Abba (#4) -- ( 43 ) Dream Police - Cheap Trick (#20) -- ( 44 ) Cool Change - Little River Band (#38) -- ( 46 ) Bright Side Of The Road - Van Morrison (#7) -- ( 47 ) It's A Disco Night (Rock Don't Stop) - Isley Brothers (#28) -- ( 49 ) I Need A Lover - John Cougar (#40) -- ( 50 ) Smash It Up - Damned (#13)
-- ( -- ) Reet Petite - Darts -- ( -- ) I'm Not A Fool - Cockney Rejects -- ( -- ) Kicks - UK Subs -- ( -- ) Bomber - Motorhead -- ( -- ) Love Pains - Yvonne Elliman
The top 2 entries this week were both UK #1s but one of them wasn't a UK hit for a few more weeks, but charted in the USA at this point. In the UK it's the first chart hit single for Pink Floyd since the 1960s because they weren't releasing singles off albums, but "Money" was a US top 40 hit and thus also reached this chart where it got to #1.
Kenny Rogers was also having hits in the 1960s, of course, and was riding high in the chart when the 70s first came in, being kept off the top back then by Two Little Boys, but whilst he's had many US hits, the UK ones have been few and far between but "Lucille" was a UK #1 in 1977 and he hasn't charted in the UK since, not even with The Gambler, which reached NM #4 last year.
Wpnderful Christmastime.. feels strange almost to be doing a Christmas chart when it's close to Christmas in reality. This was most notable at the time for being credited solely to Paul McCartney, but we'd get used to that - no more Wings.
Rappers Delight wasn't the first ever rap track, but certainly brought its attention to the UK population. It wasn't even the first rap hit in the UK, but the first one to specifically call itself rap.
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Post by Earl Purple on Dec 17, 2021 15:54:28 GMT 1
8 December 1979
1 ( 1 ) Diamond Smiles - Boomtown Rats < 2nd week at #1 > 2 ( 7 ) Another Brick In The Wall - Pink Floyd 3 ( 5 ) Rock With You - Michael Jackson 4 ( 2 ) Eton Rifles - Jam (#1[2]) 5 ( 3 ) Fly Too High - Janis Ian (#3) 6 ( 11 ) Coward Of The County - Kenny Rogers 7 ( 8 ) Crawling From The Wreckage - Dave Edmunds 8 ( 16 ) Wonderful Christmastime - Paul McCartney 9 ( 4 ) One Step Beyond - Madness (#3) 10 ( 6 ) Brass In Pocket - Pretenders (#6)
11 ( 19 ) Rapper's Delight - Sugarhill Gang 12 ( 12 ) Working For The Yankee Dollar - Skids 13 ( 10 ) Confusion - Electric Light Orchestra (#10) 14 ( 9 ) Take The Long Way Home - Supertramp (#6) 15 ( -- ) Food For Thought - Barron Knights 16 ( 17 ) Off The Wall - Michael Jackson 17 ( 28 ) Walking On The Moon - Police 18 ( 18 ) Union City Blue - Blondie 19 ( -- ) Tears Of A Clown / Ranking Full Stop - Beat 20 ( 20 ) The Ballad Of Lucy Jordan - Marianne Faithfull
21 ( 15 ) Last Train To London - Electric Light Orchestra (#14) 22 ( -- ) Don't Do Me Like That - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers 23 ( 23 ) My Simple Heart - Three Degrees 24 ( 14 ) Escape (The Pina Colada Song) - Rupert Holmes (#9) 25 ( -- ) Touch - Lori & The Chameleons 26 ( 13 ) Babe - Styx (#1[3]) 27 ( 38 ) The Long Run - Eagles 28 ( -- ) I Wanna Be Your Lover - Prince 29 ( 27 ) Jane - Jefferson Starship (#27) 30 ( -- ) Moonlight And Muzak - M
31 ( 40 ) I Just Can't Be Happy Today - Damned 32 ( 21 ) Pilot Of The Airwaves - Charlie Dore (#18) 33 ( 30 ) Living On An Island - Status Quo (#30) 34 ( -- ) Blue Peter - Mike Oldfield 35 ( 33 ) Head Games - Foreigner (#33) 36 ( -- ) Third Time Lucky (First Time I Was A Fool) - Foghat 37 ( 46 ) Wait For Me - Daryl Hall & John Oates 38 ( 35 ) Complex - Gary Numan (#35) 39 ( 47 ) This Is It - Kenny Loggins 40 ( 37 ) Spacer - Sheila & B Devotion (#37)
41 ( 48 ) I Wanna Hold Your Hand - Dollar 42 ( 24 ) I Only Want To Be With You - Tourists (#15) 43 ( -- ) Put Him Out Of Your Mind - Dr Feelgood 44 ( 29 ) Is It Love You're After - Rose Royce (#24) 45 ( -- ) My Feet Keep Dancing - Chic 46 ( 50 ) Don't Bring Harry - Stranglers 47 ( 31 ) Que Sera Mi Vida - Gibson Brothers (#27) 48 ( 22 ) Crazy Little Thing Called Love - Queen (#3) 49 ( -- ) Don't Let Go - Isaac Hayes 50 ( 25 ) Rockabilly Rebel - Matchbox (#9)
-- ( 26 ) No More Tears (Enough Is Enough) - Donna Summer & Barbra Streisand (#4) -- ( 32 ) Do That To Me One More Time - Captain & Tennille (#18) -- ( 34 ) A Message To You Rudy - Specials ft Rico (#6) -- ( 36 ) Half The Way - Crystal Gayle (#13) -- ( 39 ) Send One Your Love - Stevie Wonder (#28) -- ( 41 ) Knocked It Off - B.A. Robertson (#9) -- ( 42 ) Tired Of Toein' The Line - Rocky Burnette (#38) -- ( 43 ) It's My House - Diana Ross -- ( 44 ) Cruisin' - Smokey Robinson (#41) -- ( 45 ) Let Your Heart Dance - Secret Affair (#30) -- ( 49 ) New Guitar In Town - Lurkers (#45)
-- ( -- ) The Walk - Inmates
This week in the UK chart "Another Brick In The Wall" also climbed up to #2, but from a much lower entry position of #26.
Shock "failed to reach the top 40" part 4 - following Janis Ian, Dave Edmunds and Marianne Faithfull recently, after getting to #7 in 1977 and #3 in 1978 the latest Barron Knights parody-medley failed to reach the top 40 at all, even though they performed it on Top of the Pops. Containing a parody of "Pop Musik" by M about a Chinese restaurant it was not politically correct enough to be shown in the reruns. They enter though in this chart above M's new entry. They reached NM #20 in 1977 and #10 in 1978 but did reach #6 a couple of times in the 1960s.
The Beat make their debut covering Smokey Robinson who drops out this week together with a new original song. Tom Petty will end the 1970s in the chart and also the 1980s with Free Fallin', and another song that missed the UK top 40 by Lori & The Chameleons featured Bill Drummond and is worth checking out.
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Post by Good Old Days on Dec 18, 2021 7:56:11 GMT 1
I Wanna Hold Your Hand - weak cover version of my favourite Beatles song.
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Post by Earl Purple on Dec 18, 2021 19:52:15 GMT 1
The Beatles version was called "I Want To Hold Your Hand", not "Wanna.." which was used for the Dollar version. It was the NM Christmas #1 of 1963. It was one of 15 NM #1s for them but not their biggest hit, that was "Day Tripper", 6 weeks at #1, but my favourite Beatles song is "A Day In The Life" which was an album track on Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
The term "Wanna" was already in use for rock and roll, and even "I Wanna Be Your Lover" which they wrote and was a hit for the Rolling Stones at the same time (December 1963 - oh what a night that was..) and got to #9.
Of course 8 December next year will be a tragic date for one of the Beatles.
I have one playlist left covering 1979. Can anybody guess what the first new number one of the 1980s is likely to be?
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Post by Good Old Days on Dec 19, 2021 17:19:43 GMT 1
Can anybody guess what the first new number one of the 1980s is likely to be? If it's Pink Floyd that's very easy question.
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Post by Earl Purple on Dec 19, 2021 22:03:14 GMT 1
Can anybody guess what the first new number one of the 1980s is likely to be? If it's Pink Floyd that's very easy question. If that one is going to get to number one it probably won't wait until 1980.
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Post by Earl Purple on Dec 21, 2021 19:21:50 GMT 1
15 December 1979
1 ( 2 ) Another Brick In The Wall - Pink Floyd < 2nd #1 > 2 ( 1 ) Diamond Smiles - Boomtown Rats #1[2]) 3 ( 3 ) Rock With You - Michael Jackson 4 ( 6 ) Coward Of The County - Kenny Rogers 5 ( 8 ) Wonderful Christmastime - Paul McCartney 6 ( 4 ) Eton Rifles - Jam (#1[2]) 7 ( 7 ) Crawling From The Wreckage - Dave Edmunds 8 ( 11 ) Rapper's Delight - Sugarhill Gang 9 ( 5 ) Fly Too High - Janis Ian (#3) 10 ( 15 ) Food For Thought - Barron Knights
11 ( 19 ) Tears Of A Clown / Ranking Full Stop - Beat 12 ( -- ) London Calling - Clash 13 ( 22 ) Don't Do Me Like That - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers 14 ( 17 ) Walking On The Moon - Police 15 ( 25 ) Touch - Lori & The Chameleons 16 ( -- ) Day Trip To Bangor - Fiddler's Dram 17 ( 12 ) Working For The Yankee Dollar - Skids (#12) 18 ( 28 ) I Wanna Be Your Lovet - Prince 19 ( 10 ) Brass In Pocket - Pretenders (#6) 20 ( 9 ) One Step Beyond - Madness (#3)
21 ( -- ) A Merry Jingle - Greedies 22 ( 30 ) Moonlight And Muzak - M 23 ( 16 ) Off The Wall - Michael Jackson (#16) 24 ( 13 ) Confusion - Electric Light Orchestra (#10) 25 ( -- ) John I'm Only Dancing (Again) - David Bowie 26 ( 18 ) Union City Blue - Blondie (#18) 27 ( 34 ) Blue Peter - Mike Oldfield 28 ( -- ) With You I'm Born Again - Billy Preston & Syreeta 29 ( 14 ) Take The Long Way Home - Supertramp (#6) 30 ( 27 ) The Long Run - Eagles (#27)
31 ( 36 ) Third Time Lucky (First Time I Was A Fool) - Foghat 32 ( 20 ) The Ballad Of Lucy Jordan - Marianne Faithfull (#20) 33 ( 23 ) My Simple Heart - Three Degrees (#23) 34 ( -- ) I Have A Dream - Abba 35 ( 31 ) I Just Can't Be Happy Today - Damned (#31) 36 ( -- ) Christmas Rappin' - Kurtis Blow 37 ( 21 ) Last Train To London - Electric Light Orchestra (#14) 38 ( 43 ) Put Him Out Of Your Mind - Dr Feelgood 39 ( -- ) Deja Vu - Dionne Warwick 40 ( 45 ) My Feet Keep Dancing - Chic
41 ( 37 ) Wait For Me - Daryl Hall & John Oates (#37) 42 ( 29 ) Jane - Jefferson Starship (#27) 43 ( 39 ) This Is It - Kenny Loggins (#39) 44 ( 24 ) Escape (The Pina Colada Song) - Rupert Holmes (#9) 45 ( 49 ) Don't Let Go - Isaac Hayes 46 ( 41 ) I Wanna Hold Your Hand - Dollar (#41) 47 ( 33 ) Living On An Island - Status Quo (#30) 48 ( -- ) The Planet's On Fire - Sammy Hagar 49 ( 35 ) Head Games - Foreigner (#33) 50 ( -- ) What's Your Sign Girl - Barry Biggs
-- ( 26 ) Babe - Styx (#1[3]) -- ( 32 ) Pilot Of The Airwaves - Charlie Dore (#18) -- ( 38 ) Complex - Gary Numan (#35) -- ( 40 ) Spacer - Sheila & B Devotion (#37) -- ( 42 ) I Only Want To Be With You - Tourists (#15) -- ( 44 ) Is It Love You're After - Rose Royce (#24) -- ( 46 ) Don't Bring Harry - Stranglers -- ( 47 ) Que Sera Mi Vida - Gibson Brothers (#27) -- ( 48 ) Crazy Little Thing Called Love - Queen (#3) -- ( 50 ) Rockabilly Rebel - Matchbox (#9)
-- ( -- ) Can't Let Go - Earth Wind & Fire -- ( -- ) I Still Have Dreams - Richie Furay -- ( -- ) It Won't Seem Like Christmas (Without You) - Elvis Presley -- ( -- ) I'm Born Again - Boney M
Pink Floyd replaces the Boomtown Rats at number one, but there is obviously a connection between those, as Bob Geldof actually stars in the film version of "The Wall".
The Clash get the highest entry as they move away from punk, and this is one of their definitive hits. Their insistence of not being on Top of the Pops may have been a reason why it didn't go top 10 in the UK - it did peak at #11.
A bit of Christmas novelty spirit with "Day Trip To Bangor" and also the Greedies, an amalgamation of the Sex Pistols and Thin Lizzy or maybe just the Sex Pistols with Phil Lynott on lead vocals, doing a medley of "We Wish You A Merry Christmas" and "Jingle Bells" which is all this really is so nothing musically spectacular but fun.
David Bowie's original version of John I'm Only Dancing was from 1972, this is the 1975 version but only just released. He replaced Pink Floyd at #1 the only previous time they reached the top.
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Post by Earl Purple on Dec 22, 2021 13:29:06 GMT 1
22 December 1979
1 ( 1 ) Another Brick In The Wall - Pink Floyd < 2nd week at #1 > 2 ( 4 ) Coward Of The County - Kenny Rogers 3 ( 2 ) Diamond Smiles - Boomtown Rats #1[2]) 4 ( 3 ) Rock With You - Michael Jackson (#3) 5 ( 5 ) Wonderful Christmastime - Paul McCartney 6 ( 12 ) London Calling - Clash 7 ( 8 ) Rapper's Delight - Sugarhill Gang 8 ( 11 ) Tears Of A Clown / Ranking Full Stop - Beat 9 ( 10 ) Food For Thought - Barron Knights 10 ( 16 ) Day Trip To Bangor - Fiddler's Dram
11 ( 7 ) Crawling From The Wreckage - Dave Edmunds (#7) 12 ( -- ) Sara - Fleetwood Mac 13 ( 21 ) A Merry Jingle - Greedies 14 ( 13 ) Don't Do Me Like That - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers (#13) 15 ( 6 ) Eton Rifles - Jam (#1[2]) 16 ( 15 ) Touch - Lori & The Chameleons (#15) 17 ( -- ) 7 Teen - Regents 18 ( 25 ) John I'm Only Dancing (Again) - David Bowie 19 ( 14 ) Walking On The Moon - Police (#14) 20 ( 18 ) I Wanna Be Your Lovet - Prince (#18)
21 ( 28 ) With You I'm Born Again - Billy Preston & Syreeta 22 ( 9 ) Fly Too High - Janis Ian (#3) 23 ( 22 ) Moonlight And Muzak - M (#22) 24 ( 34 ) I Have A Dream - Abba 25 ( 36 ) Christmas Rappin' - Kurtis Blow 26 ( -- ) I'm In The Mood For Dancing - Nolans 27 ( 27 ) Blue Peter - Mike Oldfield 28 ( 17 ) Working For The Yankee Dollar - Skids (#12) 29 ( 39 ) Deja Vu - Dionne Warwick 30 ( 31 ) Third Time Lucky (First Time I Was A Fool) - Foghat
31 ( 19 ) Brass In Pocket - Pretenders (#6) 32 ( -- ) Rotation - Herb Alpert 33 ( 23 ) Off The Wall - Michael Jackson (#16) 34 ( 20 ) One Step Beyond - Madness (#3) 35 ( -- ) Train Train - Blackfoot 36 ( 48 ) The Planet's On Fire - Sammy Hagar 37 ( 30 ) The Long Run - Eagles (#27) 38 ( 38 ) Put Him Out Of Your Mind - Dr Feelgood 39 ( 26 ) Union City Blue - Blondie (#18) 40 ( -- ) Yes I'm Ready - Teri De Sario & KC
41 ( 24 ) Confusion - Electric Light Orchestra (#10) 42 ( 50 ) What's Your Sign Girl - Barry Biggs 43 ( 40 ) My Feet Keep Dancing - Chic (#40) 44 ( 35 ) I Just Can't Be Happy Today - Damned (#31) 45 ( -- ) Can't Let Go - Earth Wind & Fire 46 ( 45 ) Don't Let Go - Isaac Hayes (#45) 47 ( 33 ) My Simple Heart - Three Degrees (#23) 48 ( -- ) I Still Have Dreams - Richie Furay 49 ( 32 ) The Ballad Of Lucy Jordan - Marianne Faithfull (#20) 50 ( 29 ) Take The Long Way Home - Supertramp (#6)
-- ( 37 ) Last Train To London - Electric Light Orchestra (#14) -- ( 41 ) Wait For Me - Daryl Hall & John Oates (#37) -- ( 42 ) Jane - Jefferson Starship (#27) -- ( 43 ) This Is It - Kenny Loggins (#39) -- ( 44 ) Escape (The Pina Colada Song) - Rupert Holmes (#9) -- ( 46 ) I Wanna Hold Your Hand - Dollar (#41) -- ( 47 ) Living On An Island - Status Quo (#30) -- ( 49 ) Head Games - Foreigner (#33)
-- ( -- ) It Won't Seem Like Christmas (Without You) - Elvis Presley -- ( -- ) We Got The Funk - Positive Force
42 is "Life, the universe, and everything". This retro chart is posted exactly 42 years after the date of the chart. This is the Christmas chart of 1979, and there will be one more chart of the year and thus of the decade, after which I will take a bit of time out to listen to the top hits of the year as well as some albums from the year. The last couple of years it was mostly punk / new wave based music I was listening to but now we are into the mod / ska revival era.
Also I'd call "new wave" the "post-punk" bands like the Buzzcocks whereas the "new romantics" are the synth-based acts that are also often called "new wave" but seem to have become more prominent since Tubeway Army go to #1 and are represented in different ways and I'd even put the Regents among that list.
In this week's chart though it is Fleetwood Mac who get the highest entry with a Stevie Nicks song. After her relationship with Lindsey Buckingham ended (which may have led to Go Your Own Way and Dreams) she had a relationship with Mick Fleetwood but that also ended and he married a woman called Sara, so this song is possibly about her. Totally under-performed in the UK only scraping inside the top 40 but in the USA it did go top 10.
Like last year the "chart after Christmas" was frozen in both the UK and USA so it's only Positive Force really who will get thrown back onto the list and might chart. There were also a few "revivals" last year, songs that went back up as the novelty / festive ones started going down, and the Clash were one of them, with "Tommy Gun" belatedly getting to #10, and this week they get into the top 10 again as "London Calling" climbs to #6.
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Post by Good Old Days on Dec 23, 2021 11:34:30 GMT 1
I have one playlist left covering 1979. Can anybody guess what the first new number one of the 1980s is likely to be? Clash ?
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Post by Earl Purple on Dec 23, 2021 12:03:09 GMT 1
I have one playlist left covering 1979. Can anybody guess what the first new number one of the 1980s is likely to be? Clash ? With those last two charts posted, it does look like either The Clash or Fleetwood Mac would be favourites.
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Post by Earl Purple on Dec 26, 2021 10:52:47 GMT 1
29 December 1979
1 ( 1 ) Another Brick In The Wall - Pink Floyd < 3rd week at #1 > 2 ( 2 ) Coward Of The County - Kenny Rogers 3 ( 6 ) London Calling - Clash 4 ( 12 ) Sara - Fleetwood Mac 5 ( 3 ) Diamond Smiles - Boomtown Rats #1[2]) 6 ( 5 ) Wonderful Christmastime - Paul McCartney (#5) 7 ( 4 ) Rock With You - Michael Jackson (#3) 8 ( 17 ) 7 Teen - Regents 9 ( 8 ) Tears Of A Clown / Ranking Full Stop - Beat (#8) 10 ( 7 ) Rapper's Delight - Sugarhill Gang (#7)
11 ( 10 ) Day Trip To Bangor - Fiddler's Dram (#10) 12 ( 13 ) A Merry Jingle - Greedies 13 ( 9 ) Food For Thought - Barron Knights (#9) 14 ( 26 ) I'm In The Mood For Dancing - Nolans 15 ( 18 ) John I'm Only Dancing (Again) - David Bowie 16 ( 11 ) Crawling From The Wreckage - Dave Edmunds (#7) 17 ( 14 ) Don't Do Me Like That - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers (#13) 18 ( 21 ) With You I'm Born Again - Billy Preston & Syreeta 19 ( 32 ) Rotation - Herb Alpert 20 ( 24 ) I Have A Dream - Abba
21 ( 16 ) Touch - Lori & The Chameleons (#15) 22 ( 25 ) Christmas Rappin' - Kurtis Blow 23 ( 35 ) Train Train - Blackfoot 24 ( 29 ) Deja Vu - Dionne Warwick 25 ( 20 ) I Wanna Be Your Lovet - Prince (#18) 26 ( 19 ) Walking On The Moon - Police (#14) 27 ( 15 ) Eton Rifles - Jam (#1[2]) 28 ( 40 ) Yes I'm Ready - Teri De Sario & KC 29 ( 23 ) Moonlight And Muzak - M (#22) 30 ( 36 ) The Planet's On Fire - Sammy Hagar
31 ( 27 ) Blue Peter - Mike Oldfield (#27) 32 ( 30 ) Third Time Lucky (First Time I Was A Fool) - Foghat (#30) 33 ( 45 ) Can't Let Go - Earth Wind & Fire 34 ( 48 ) I Still Have Dreams - Richie Furay 35 ( 22 ) Fly Too High - Janis Ian (#3) 36 ( 42 ) What's Your Sign Girl - Barry Biggs 37 ( 38 ) Put Him Out Of Your Mind - Dr Feelgood 38 ( 28 ) Working For The Yankee Dollar - Skids (#12) 39 ( 33 ) Off The Wall - Michael Jackson (#16) 40 ( 31 ) Brass In Pocket - Pretenders (#6)
41 ( 37 ) The Long Run - Eagles (#27) 42 ( 43 ) My Feet Keep Dancing - Chic (#40) 43 ( 46 ) Don't Let Go - Isaac Hayes (#45) 44 ( -- ) We Got The Funk - Positive Force 45 ( 34 ) One Step Beyond - Madness (#3) 46 ( 39 ) Union City Blue - Blondie (#18) 47 ( 44 ) I Just Can't Be Happy Today - Damned (#31) 48 ( 41 ) Confusion - Electric Light Orchestra (#10) 49 ( 47 ) My Simple Heart - Three Degrees (#23) 50 ( 49 ) The Ballad Of Lucy Jordan - Marianne Faithfull (#20)
-- ( 50 ) Take The Long Way Home - Supertramp (#6)
The final chart of 1979 - I have considered that it might be reduced to only a top 40 on this week, and possibly the first week of the new year after which it usually picks up.
Christmas day in 1979 was a Tuesday and at the time typically that is when the new chart was published, but it was published on a Wednesday when the Monday had been a bank holiday. However next week I think it will be published on Wednesday 2 January 1980 and the one after that on Tuesday 8 January 1980. In any case, the last one was 18 December in reality so the next chart covers the whole week up to Christmas which explains why "Wonderful Christmastime" peaks in the UK at #6 on the chart that came out on 2 January and is dated 5 January. Possibly the Greedies, Elvis Presley (which failed here) and Kurtis Blow also all climbed.
For now we have the Clash and Fleetwood Mac both poised to potentially take over at the top if Pink Floyd will yield yet, but there will be a few big ones at the start of 1980. It won't be the Pretenders though - they've dropped all the way down to #40 now having peaked at #6. It could of course be Kenny Rogers who entered the same week as Pink Floyd, both singles on their 5th week in the chart.
With this chart compiled I can now compile the chart of the year, and also of the decade, although those are always flawed by the fact that some years are far stronger than others.
As I view the 1970s, the first year, 1970, had some incredible songs in it but the overall quality wasn't that high. 1971, once the year took off and it took a while to do so, was strong throughout the top 5 on the whole then fell away fast. 1973 felt particularly strong plus the final two years. 1977 was overall quite good but not that great at the top, i.e. it doesn't really have any of the top songs in it, and felt rather weak for the first few months.
1978 just had a massive buzz to it, regardless of the genre of the songs with even Boney M throwing in a few classics. 1979 felt more like it had progressed into a few distinct types of music I got into, and compares quite well to 1978 but not quite as good as that year.
The other years, 1972, 1974 and 1975 all had some great moments in them but also maybe lacking in the depth we found later, i.e. in 1978 or 1979 the whole top 20 can be good, in the other years I'd probably stop bothering once we get below the top 10.
In the past few weeks, two major artists, Abba and Blondie, have had singles peak outside the top 10 for the first time, "Union City Blue" stumbled to #18 and "I Have A Dream" is only #20 this week and unlikely to progress much further if any. Prior to this, neither artist had missed the top 10 and both have had number ones, Abba 4 times and Blondie 3. We know that in 1980, those artists released 5 singles between them all of which reached #1 in the UK, so we'll see how they get on in this chart. And Abba haven't failed to reach the top 10 in the UK since "I Do I Do I Do I Do" only reached #38 in 1975, with "Does Your Mother Know" peaking at #4 in 1979 being their lowest charting single since "S.O.S" had restored them to being a top 10 band in 1975 at #6.
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