2 August 1980
1 ( 1 ) All Out Of Love - Air Supply < 2nd week at #1 >2 ( 3 ) Sanctuary - New Musik
3 ( 2 ) Babooshka - Kate Bush (#1[1])
4 ( 5 ) Oops Upside Your Head - Gap Band
5 ( 11 ) Fame - Irene Cara
6 ( 6 ) British Way Of Life - Chords
7 ( 9 ) 9 To 5 - Sheena Easton
8 ( 4 ) Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division (#1[2])
9 ( 10 ) Upside Down - Diana Ross
10 ( 17 ) Give Me The Night - George Benson
11 ( 19 ) Drivin' My Life Away - Eddie Rabbitt
12 ( -- ) The Winner Takes It All - Abba
13 ( 7 ) Sailing - Christopher Cross (#6)
14 ( 14 ) Funkin' For Jamaica (N.Y.) - Tom Browne
15 ( -- ) Oh Yeah (On The Radio) - Roxy Music
16 ( 16 ) Gigantor - Dickies
17 ( 8 ) Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap - AC/DC (#3)
18 ( 18 ) Are You Getting Enough Of What Makes You Happy - Hot Chocolate
19 ( -- ) All Over The World - Electric Light Orchestra
20 ( 13 ) There There My Dear - Dexy's Midnight Runners (#13)
21 ( 15 ) Into The Night - Benny Mardones (#15)
22 ( 30 ) Private Life - Grace Jones
23 ( 12 ) Sleepwalk - Ultravox (#8)
24 ( 33 ) Tulsa Time - Eric Clapton
25 ( 24 ) Burning Car - John Foxx (#24)
26 ( -- ) Tom Hark - Piranhas
27 ( 36 ) C30 C60 C90 Go - Bow Wow Wow
28 ( -- ) You Gotta Be A Hustler If You Wanna Get On - Sue Wilkinson
29 ( 38 ) Boulevard - Jackson Browne
30 ( 22 ) Mariana - Gibson Brothers (#22)
31 ( 29 ) Easy Life - Bodysnatchers (#29)
32 ( -- ) Kings Of The Wild Frontier - Adam & The Ants
33 ( 41 ) Girlfriend - Michael Jackson
34 ( -- ) A Walk In The Park - Nick Straker Band
35 ( 26 ) Ready An' Willing - Whitesnake (#26)
36 ( 20 ) Wednesday Week - Undertones (#13)
37 ( 34 ) Shot Down In The Night - Hawkwind (#34)
38 ( -- ) Lookin' For Love - Johnny Lee
39 ( -- ) Feels Like I'm In Love - Kelly Marie
40 ( 45 ) Sweet Heart Contract - Magazine
41 ( 46 ) For You For Love - Average White Band
42 ( -- ) The Sunshine Of Your Smile - Mike Berry
43 ( 21 ) Theme From New York New York - Frank Sinatra (#1[4])
44 ( -- ) You're The Only Woman - Ambrosia
45 ( 27 ) DK 50-80 - John Otway & Wild Willy Barrett (#19)
46 ( 49 ) Butcher Baby - Plasmatics
47 ( 35 ) Hangin' Out - Kool & The Gang (#35)
48 ( 23 ) To Be Or Not To Be - B.A. Robertson (#2[3])
49 ( -- ) Free Me - Roger Daltrey
50 ( 37 ) Take A Little Rhythm - Ali Thomson (#37)
-- ( 25 ) Play The Game - Queen (#3)
-- ( 28 ) Emotional Rescue - Rolling Stones (#17)
-- ( 31 ) In America - Charlie Daniels Band (#12)
-- ( 32 ) Clones - Alice Cooper (#24)
-- ( 39 ) Xanadu - Olivia Newton John & Electric Light Orchestra (#6)
-- ( 40 ) Jojo - Boz Scaggs (#39)
-- ( 42 ) Old-Fashion Love - Commodores (#41)
-- ( 43 ) News At Ten - Vapors (#33)
-- ( 44 ) Magic - Olivia Newton John (#4)
-- ( 47 ) Walks Like A Lady - Journey (#40)
-- ( 48 ) A Lover's Holiday - Change (#19)
-- ( 50 ) The Other Side Of The Sun - Janis Ian (#23)
-- ( -- ) Dream Sequence - Pauline Murray & The Invisible Girls
-- ( -- ) Race With The Devil - Girlschool
-- ( -- ) Last Night Another Soldier - Angelic Upstarts
-- ( -- ) Stretchin' Out - Gayle Adams
I'm expecting
Good Old Days to jump in any moment, as this is the week Sue Wilkinson charts. A pretty strong week for new hits with Abba's "The Winner Takes It All" entering at #12, having reached the top 10 with all their hits so far other than their last one "I Have A Dream" which stopped way short at #20.
Roxy Music continue with their soft mood as "Oh Yeah" was another UK #5 hit, but this one has far more streams than "Over You", possibly because it appeared in a film or TV series at some point. ELO's song definitely featured in a film, but nobody watched it.
The Piranhas took an old 50s tune and are probably responsible for making it popular to a new generation - not sure how it ended up as a terrace chant. But Elias & His Zigzag Jive Flutes took it to NM #6 (and UK #2) in 1958 as an instrumental.
Sue Wilkinson's song does stand out and it is fairly strong in that it has good lyrical content - possibly does deserve some "classic" status. I don't actually subscribe to what she is saying, I don't know if any women really "sleep their way to the top" and certainly doubt many prostitutes went on to be celebrity wives or get on chat shows.
Adam & The Ants make their triumphant entrance. The below all those we have
* Nick Straker Band - don't know that much about them, it was memorable at the time.
* Johnny Lee's country song from Urban Cowboy was co-written by Marcella Detroit
* Kelly Marie's UK #1 was originally written for Elvis Presley, and Mungo Jerry's Ray Dorset wrote it (and produced this version, Elvis having died before he got to submit it. But Elvis will peak 2 places behind her in the UK chart and we'll see that song here too).
* People like me thought Mike Berry was primarily an actor but he was a singer first, and with the Outlaws had some 1960s hits, with "Don't You Think It's Time" reaching NM #9 in 1963 (the same as the UK peak for this song). Chas Hodges played bass guitar with the Outlaws (and on a lot of Joe Meek's productions) and now he's in Chas & Dave and they produced this, a song that dates back to 1913. I was aware it was a very old song at the time and asked my grandmother if she knew it. She did.
* Ambrosia's follow up to "Biggest Part Of Me"
* The second solo Who member to have a hit this year although Roger Daltrey had some solo hits in the 70s too. "Free Me" was from the soundtrack of McVicar.
Among those not charting is Girlschool, whose song is a cover of Gun's 1968 hit which peaked at NM #6 and was written by Adrian "Classic" Gurvitz, who also played the guitar riff on the original.