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Post by Earl Purple on Aug 8, 2022 20:55:38 GMT 1
12 September 1981
1 ( 4 ) Souvenir - Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark < 1st #1 > 2 ( 1 ) Happy Birthday - Stevie Wonder (#1[6]) 3 ( 6 ) Passionate Friend - Teardrop Explodes 4 ( 2 ) One In Ten - UB40 (#2[2]) 5 ( 8 ) Wired For Sound - Cliff Richard 6 ( 3 ) Love Action (I Believe In Love) - Human League (#3) 7 ( 5 ) Abacab - Genesis (#5) 8 ( -- ) Prince Charming - Adam & The Ants 9 ( 11 ) Start Me Up - Rolling Stones 10 ( 13 ) Arthur's Theme (The Best That You Can Do) - Christopher Cross
11 ( 21 ) So This Is Romance - Linx 12 ( -- ) Under Your Thumb - Godley & Creme 13 ( 23 ) Pretend - Alvin Stardust 14 ( 7 ) Hand Held In Black And White - Dollar (#5) 15 ( 25 ) In And Out Of Love - Imagination 16 ( 9 ) The Voice - Moody Blues (#7) 17 ( 18 ) Hands Up (Give Me Your Heart) - Ottawan 18 ( 12 ) Jole Blon - Gary U.S. Bonds (#12) 19 ( 20 ) Nicole - Point Blank 20 ( -- ) Private Eyes - Daryl Hall & John Oates
21 ( 15 ) Marie Celeste - Polecats (#15) 22 ( 10 ) Tainted Love - Soft Cell (#2[2]) 23 ( 32 ) Super Freak - Rick James 24 ( 35 ) Play To Win - Heaven 17 25 ( 16 ) One Of Those Nights - Bucks Fizz (#13) 26 ( 14 ) You'll Never Know - Hi-Gloss (#8) 27 ( 22 ) I Could Never Miss You (More Than I Do) - Lulu (#22) 28 ( -- ) Just Another Broken Heart - Sheena Easton 29 ( 26 ) The Thin Wall - Ultravox (#26) 30 ( 31 ) Holliedaze - Hollies
31 ( -- ) I've Done Everything For You - Rick Springfield 32 ( 34 ) She's Got Claws - Gary Numan 33 ( 17 ) Hold On Tight - Electric Light Orchestra (#3) 34 ( 42 ) The Night Owls - Little River Band 35 ( -- ) Heart And Soul - Exile 36 ( 19 ) Girls On Film - Duran Duran (#3) 37 ( 37 ) In Your Letter - REO Speedwagon 38 ( -- ) The Birdie Song - Tweets 39 ( 27 ) Everybody Salsa - Modern Romance (#24) 40 ( 40 ) Audio Video - News
41 ( 48 ) Betcha Wouldn't Hurt Me - Quincy Jones 42 ( 24 ) Water On Glass - Kim Wilde (#10) 43 ( -- ) Seasons Of Gold - Gidea Park 44 ( -- ) Mule (Chant No 2) - Beggar & Co 45 ( 28 ) Inside Outside - Classix Nouveaux (#16) 46 ( 33 ) Breaking Away - Balance (#28) 47 ( 39 ) Sugar Doll - Jets (#39) 48 ( 30 ) Japanese Boy - Aneka (#18) 49 ( 29 ) Draw Of The Cards - Kim Carnes (#12) 50 ( -- ) We're In This Love Together - Al Jarreau
-- ( 36 ) Trouble Boys - Thin Lizzy (#20) -- ( 38 ) Wunderbar - Tenpole Tudor (#7) -- ( 41 ) Love Song - Simple Minds (#35) -- ( 43 ) Rainy Night In Georgia - Randy Crawford (#27) -- ( 44 ) Chant No 1 (I Don't Need This Pressure On) - Spandau Ballet (#4) -- ( 45 ) Ghost Town - Specials (#1[2]) -- ( 46 ) That Old Song - Ray Parker Jr & Raydio (#30) -- ( 47 ) Walking Into Sunshine - Central Line (#42) -- ( 49 ) Lawnchairs - Our Daughter's Wedding (#16) -- ( 50 ) Fire - U2 (#36)
-- ( -- ) You Sure Look Good To Me - Phyllis Hyman -- ( -- ) Day After Day - Pretenders -- ( -- ) Bras On 45 - Ivor Biggun -- ( -- ) Share Your Love With Me - Kenny Rogers -- ( -- ) I'm Lucky - Joan Armatrading -- ( -- ) General Hospi-Tale - Afternoon Delights -- ( -- ) Classical Muddly - Portsmouth Sinfonia
Orrchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark climb to #1, and "Souvenir" was also their joint-highest peaking single in the UK, albeit that Andy McCluskey would have success in the UK writing and producing for Atomic Kitten. At this stage the other members were Paul Humphreys, Malcolm Holmes and Martin Cooper and that was the main line-up until 1989, with Graham and Nei Weir also joining for a while, after which they disbanded and Andy McCluskey went on using the name with a completely new line-up.
The original line-up got back together in 2006 and Stuart Kershaw who was part-time in the second line-up then replaced Malcolm Holmes. Stuart Kershaw was also behind Atomic Kitten, but he isn't in the band at the point of their NM #1.
Teardrop Explodes climbs to #3 thus being a bigger hit than "Reward".
Meanwhile Adam & The Ants do get a decent high entry but nowhere near entering at the top - only #8. And Godley & Creme who were last in the chart with 10cc on "I'm Mandy Fly Me" get the second highest entry with their ghost story, a bit early for Hallowe'en. In the interim they did have two charting UK albums.
Private Eyes is another Hall & Oates classic, then we have a Sheena Easton song that failed to make the top 30 in the UK, and after that we pretty much didn't hear from her other than a few duets, one of which she wasn't actually credited on, until "Lover In Me" in 1989. But in the USA she had many other hits and we'll see them here.
"I've Done Everything For You" was a UK #36 hit for Sammy Hagar in 1980 and NM #5, but the song wasn't a hit in his own country so it got picked up by Rick Springfield who successfully covered it going top 10. It was a difficult decision - I wanted to chart it but so soon after the original... The same when "Heart And Soul" comes along for Huey Lewis & The News - the Exile version enters this week.
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Post by Earl Purple on Aug 17, 2022 9:27:42 GMT 1
19 September 1981
1 ( 1 ) Souvenir - Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark < 2nd week at #1 > 2 ( 8 ) Prince Charming - Adam & The Ants 3 ( 3 ) Passionate Friend - Teardrop Explodes 4 ( 12 ) Under Your Thumb - Godley & Creme 5 ( 2 ) Happy Birthday - Stevie Wonder (#1[6]) 6 ( 5 ) Wired For Sound - Cliff Richard (#5) 7 ( 11 ) So This Is Romance - Linx 8 ( 4 ) One In Ten - UB40 (#2[2]) 9 ( -- ) Just Can't Get Enough - Depeche Mode 10 ( 20 ) Private Eyes - Daryl Hall & John Oates
11 ( 13 ) Pretend - Alvin Stardust 12 ( 9 ) Start Me Up - Rolling Stones (#9) 13 ( 10 ) Arthur's Theme (The Best That You Can Do) - Christopher Cross (#10) 14 ( 15 ) In And Out Of Love - Imagination 15 ( 7 ) Abacab - Genesis (#5) 16 ( 6 ) Love Action (I Believe In Love) - Human League (#3) 17 ( -- ) It's My Party - Dave Stewart & Barbara Gaskin 18 ( 28 ) Just Another Broken Heart - Sheena Easton 19 ( 31 ) I've Done Everything For You - Rick Springfield 20 ( 17 ) Hands Up (Give Me Your Heart) - Ottawan (#17)
21 ( 24 ) Play To Win - Heaven 17 22 ( 23 ) Super Freak - Rick James 23 ( 19 ) Nicole - Point Blank (#19) 24 ( -- ) When She Was My Girl - Four Tops 25 ( 35 ) Heart And Soul - Exile 26 ( 14 ) Hand Held In Black And White - Dollar (#5) 27 ( 38 ) The Birdie Song - Tweets 28 ( 16 ) The Voice - Moody Blues (#7) 29 ( -- ) Quiet Life - Japan 30 ( 18 ) Jole Blon - Gary U.S. Bonds (#12)
31 ( 21 ) Marie Celeste - Polecats (#15) 32 ( 43 ) Seasons Of Gold - Gidea Park 33 ( 34 ) The Night Owls - Little River Band 34 ( 44 ) Mule (Chant No 2) - Beggar & Co 35 ( 30 ) Holliedaze - Hollies (#30) 36 ( -- ) Just Once - Quincy Jones ft James Ingram 37 ( 32 ) She's Got Claws - Gary Numan (#32) 38 ( -- ) Lock Up Your Daughters - Slade 39 ( 27 ) I Could Never Miss You (More Than I Do) - Lulu (#22) 40 ( 29 ) The Thin Wall - Ultravox (#26)
41 ( 25 ) One Of Those Nights - Bucks Fizz (#13) 42 ( 22 ) Tainted Love - Soft Cell (#2[2]) 43 ( 41 ) Betcha Wouldn't Hurt Me - Quincy Jones (#41) 44 ( 50 ) We're In This Love Together - Al Jarreau 45 ( 37 ) In Your Letter - REO Speedwagon (#37) 46 ( 26 ) You'll Never Know - Hi-Gloss (#8) 47 ( 40 ) Audio Video - News (#40) 48 ( -- ) You Scare Me To Death - Marc Bolan 49 ( -- ) Hard To Say - Dan Fogelberg 50 ( -- ) It Will Be Alright - Odyssey
-- ( 33 ) Hold On Tight - Electric Light Orchestra (#3) -- ( 36 ) Girls On Film - Duran Duran (#3) -- ( 39 ) Everybody Salsa - Modern Romance (#24) -- ( 42 ) Water On Glass - Kim Wilde (#10) -- ( 45 ) Inside Outside - Classix Nouveaux (#16) -- ( 46 ) Breaking Away - Balance (#28) -- ( 47 ) Sugar Doll - Jets (#39) -- ( 48 ) Japanese Boy - Aneka (#18) -- ( 49 ) Draw Of The Cards - Kim Carnes (#12)
-- ( -- ) Love All The Hurt Away - Aretha Franklin & George Benson -- ( -- ) Straight From The Heart - Allman Brothers Band -- ( -- ) Stars On Stevie - Stars On 45
OMD stay at number one now under pressure as Adam & The Ants climb to #2. The highest new entry is Depeche Mode, their last hit to feature Vince Clarke.
The cover of It's My Party enters at #17, 19 places above the entry by Quincy Jones who produced the original by Lesley Gore, although there was an intention at the time to give it to Phil Spector for one of his groups to do. Between those, another 60s act the Four Tops get an entry with a song that reached #3 in the UK chart, and Japan enter their being good stage with Quiet Life, a song that reached the UK top 20 and at some point I think they started releasing songs from their back catalogue as singles. I recall looking up their discography that many of their hits had been on much earlier albums.
I actually recall recently looking at the top 30 from the week 3 after this one (10 October) when many of these songs were reaching their peak, and apart from 2 versions of the Birdie Song and that Starsound Stevie Wonder medley the whole top 30 was really good. (That one isn't a good medley, the songs don't fit together well.. in any case Stevie Wonder is still in the top 5 here).
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Post by Earl Purple on Aug 18, 2022 22:23:58 GMT 1
26 September 1981
1 ( 2 ) Prince Charming - Adam & The Ants < 3rd #1 > 2 ( 1 ) Souvenir - Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark (#1[2]) 3 ( 4 ) Under Your Thumb - Godley & Creme 4 ( 9 ) Just Can't Get Enough - Depeche Mode 5 ( 3 ) Passionate Friend - Teardrop Explodes (#3) 6 ( 7 ) So This Is Romance - Linx 7 ( 10 ) Private Eyes - Daryl Hall & John Oates 8 ( 17 ) It's My Party - Dave Stewart & Barbara Gaskin 9 ( 6 ) Wired For Sound - Cliff Richard (#5) 10 ( -- ) Happy Birthday - Altered Images
11 ( 5 ) Happy Birthday - Stevie Wonder (#1[6]) 12 ( 11 ) Pretend - Alvin Stardust (#11) 13 ( 24 ) When She Was My Girl - Four Tops 14 ( -- ) I'm Gonna Love Her For Both Of Us - Meat Loaf 15 ( 18 ) Just Another Broken Heart - Sheena Easton 16 ( 19 ) I've Done Everything For You - Rick Springfield 17 ( 8 ) One In Ten - UB40 (#2[2]) 18 ( 14 ) In And Out Of Love - Imagination (#14) 19 ( -- ) Shut Up - Madness 20 ( 29 ) Quiet Life - Japan
21 ( 12 ) Start Me Up - Rolling Stones (#9) 22 ( 13 ) Arthur's Theme (The Best That You Can Do) - Christopher Cross (#10) 23 ( 25 ) Heart And Soul - Exile 24 ( 21 ) Play To Win - Heaven 17 (#21) 25 ( 27 ) The Birdie Song - Tweets 26 ( 36 ) Just Once - Quincy Jones ft James Ingram 27 ( -- ) Invisible Sun - Police 28 ( 22 ) Super Freak - Rick James (#22) 29 ( 38 ) Lock Up Your Daughters - Slade 30 ( 15 ) Abacab - Genesis (#5)
31 ( 20 ) Hands Up (Give Me Your Heart) - Ottawan (#17) 32 ( 32 ) Seasons Of Gold - Gidea Park 33 ( -- ) Walking In The Sunshine - Bad Manners 34 ( 16 ) Love Action (I Believe In Love) - Human League (#3) 35 ( 34 ) Mule (Chant No 2) - Beggar & Co (#34) 36 ( 23 ) Nicole - Point Blank (#19) 37 ( 33 ) The Night Owls - Little River Band (#33) 38 ( 48 ) You Scare Me To Death - Marc Bolan 39 ( 49 ) Hard To Say - Dan Fogelberg 40 ( -- ) Easy - Al Jarreau
41 ( 50 ) It Will Be Alright - Odyssey 42 ( -- ) I'm So Glad I'm Standing Here Today - Crusaders ft Joe Cocker 43 ( 26 ) Hand Held In Black And White - Dollar (#5) 44 ( 44 ) We're In This Love Together - Al Jarreau 45 ( 28 ) The Voice - Moody Blues (#7) 46 ( 35 ) Holliedaze - Hollies (#30) 47 ( 31 ) Marie Celeste - Polecats (#15) 48 ( 30 ) Jole Blon - Gary U.S. Bonds (#12) 49 ( 37 ) She's Got Claws - Gary Numan (#32) 50 ( 43 ) Betcha Wouldn't Hurt Me - Quincy Jones (#41)
-- ( 39 ) I Could Never Miss You (More Than I Do) - Lulu (#22) -- ( 40 ) The Thin Wall - Ultravox (#26) -- ( 41 ) One Of Those Nights - Bucks Fizz (#13) -- ( 42 ) Tainted Love - Soft Cell (#2[2]) -- ( 45 ) In Your Letter - REO Speedwagon (#37) -- ( 46 ) You'll Never Know - Hi-Gloss (#8) -- ( 47 ) Audio Video - News (#40)
-- ( -- ) Say Goodbye To Hollywood (Live) - Billy Joel -- ( -- ) Tryin' To Live My Life Without You - Bob Seger -- ( -- ) Let's Hang On - Barry Manilow -- ( -- ) If You Want My Lovin' - Evelyn King -- ( -- ) Remember Tomorrow (Live) - Iron Maiden -- ( -- ) Back To The Sixties Part 2 - Tight Fit -- ( -- ) Love Has Come Around - Donald Byrd
3 number one hits for Adam & The Ants in 1981. They were certainly the most iconic act of the year and this song sounds so different from what went before. The mum's reaction was probably that the song was ok once the shouting had finished at the start...
Another iconic hit of 1981 was "Happy Birthday" by Altered Images, or maybe a surprise hit but Clare Grogan also starred in Gregory's Girl. It enters at #10, one position above the massive hit of the same title that is on its way down, but will it be able to match the position of that one here, or even its UK peak?
Meat Loaf's return, anthemic dramatic rock written by Jim Steinman, and typical maybe of the kind of title or lyric he'd come up but no, you don't want to "love her for both of us" you just want to shag my bird..
Madness with the song that starts like someone sat on the piano. The title doesn't appear in the lyrics. The sun is invisible to the Police but not to Bad Manners who are walking in it. The former of those had a very quick chart-run after which they quickly released another single in time to stop this week's highest NM entry from getting to the top, but Invisible Sun was kept off UK #1 but the current chart topper and its video was banned from TOTP because of clips from the conflicts in Northern Ireland at the time. (However the song was not banned from radio).
Billy Joel's track that doesn't chart is a live version of a song from his 1976 album, and Bob Seger's is also live.
Barry Manilow fails to get his cover version in the chart, and his next one is already out "The Old Songs" but it may have the same fate, as well as 3 releases in 1980. However between those he had two top 10 hits, "I Made It Through The Rain" reaching #6 and "Bermuda Triangle" #7.
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Post by Good Old Days on Aug 19, 2022 8:11:07 GMT 1
I'm sorry, but Saturdays' version is better than original.
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Post by Earl Purple on Aug 19, 2022 9:25:39 GMT 1
Wallis Bird also covered Just Can't Get Enough, but you can't beat the original.
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Post by Earl Purple on Aug 23, 2022 0:02:46 GMT 1
3 October 1981
1 ( 1 ) Prince Charming - Adam & The Ants < 2nd week at #1 > 2 ( 4 ) Just Can't Get Enough - Depeche Mode 3 ( 10 ) Happy Birthday - Altered Images 4 ( 3 ) Under Your Thumb - Godley & Creme (#3) 5 ( 2 ) Souvenir - Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark (#1[2]) 6 ( 8 ) It's My Party - Dave Stewart & Barbara Gaskin 7 ( 14 ) I'm Gonna Love Her For Both Of Us - Meat Loaf 8 ( 7 ) Private Eyes - Daryl Hall & John Oates (#7) 9 ( 6 ) So This Is Romance - Linx (#6) 10 ( 19 ) Shut Up - Madness
11 ( 5 ) Passionate Friend - Teardrop Explodes (#3) 12 ( 13 ) When She Was My Girl - Four Tops 13 ( -- ) Good Year For The Roses - Elvis Costello 14 ( 27 ) Invisible Sun - Police 15 ( 9 ) Wired For Sound - Cliff Richard (#5) 16 ( 15 ) Just Another Broken Heart - Sheena Easton (#15) 17 ( 12 ) Pretend - Alvin Stardust (#11) 18 ( 16 ) I've Done Everything For You - Rick Springfield (#16) 19 ( 20 ) Quiet Life - Japan 20 ( -- ) Thunder In The Mountains - Toyah
21 ( -- ) Theme From Hill Street Blues - Mike Post & Larry Carlton 22 ( 11 ) Happy Birthday - Stevie Wonder (#1[6]) 23 ( 33 ) Walkin' In The Sunshine - Bad Manners 24 ( 26 ) Just Once - Quincy Jones ft James Ingram 25 ( 23 ) Heart And Soul - Exile (#23) 26 ( 18 ) In And Out Of Love - Imagination (#14) 27 ( -- ) Here I Am - Air Supply 28 ( 29 ) Lock Up Your Daughters - Slade 29 ( 25 ) The Birdie Song - Tweets (#25) 30 ( 40 ) Easy - Al Jarreau
31 ( 17 ) One In Ten - UB40 (#2[2]) 32 ( 42 ) I'm So Glad I'm Standing Here Today - Crusaders ft Joe Cocker 33 ( -- ) Europa & The Pirate Twins - Thomas Dolby 34 ( 24 ) Play To Win - Heaven 17 (#21) 35 ( 21 ) Start Me Up - Rolling Stones (#9) 36 ( 38 ) You Scare Me To Death - Marc Bolan 37 ( 22 ) Arthur's Theme (The Best That You Can Do) - Christopher Cross (#10) 38 ( 39 ) Hard To Say - Dan Fogelberg 39 ( 32 ) Seasons Of Gold - Gidea Park (#32) 40 ( -- ) Hanging Around - Hazel O'Connor
41 ( 41 ) It Will Be Alright - Odyssey 42 ( 28 ) Super Freak - Rick James (#22) 43 ( 35 ) Mule (Chant No 2) - Beggar & Co (#34) 44 ( -- ) Procession - New Order 45 ( -- ) Mad Eyed Screamer - Creatures 46 ( 37 ) The Night Owls - Little River Band (#33) 47 ( 31 ) Hands Up (Give Me Your Heart) - Ottawan (#17) 48 ( -- ) Burnin' For You - Blue Oyster Cult 49 ( 44 ) We're In This Love Together - Al Jarreau (#44) 50 ( 30 ) Abacab - Genesis (#5)
-- ( 34 ) Love Action (I Believe In Love) - Human League (#3) -- ( 36 ) Nicole - Point Blank (#19) -- ( 43 ) Hand Held In Black And White - Dollar (#5) -- ( 45 ) The Voice - Moody Blues (#7) -- ( 46 ) Holliedaze - Hollies (#30) -- ( 47 ) Marie Celeste - Polecats (#15) -- ( 48 ) Jole Blon - Gary U.S. Bonds (#12) -- ( 49 ) She's Got Claws - Gary Numan (#32) -- ( 50 ) Betcha Wouldn't Hurt Me - Quincy Jones (#41)
-- ( -- ) Keeping A Rendezvous - Budgie
Elvis Costello gets his country hit cover of George Jones' 1970 song as the highest entry but it is entering outside the top 10. Meanwhile Depeche Mode and Altered Images are putting in pressure at the top.
Toyah's "Thunder In The Mountains" gave her her second UK #4 of the year but it was the one in between that has done the best on this chart with "I Want To Be Free" spending several weeks at #3. The beautiful theme from Hill Street Blues gets the next entry and then Air Supply who have had a #1 and a #2 so far, but this single is not one of their best. It did however still reach #5 in the USA.
Thomas Dolby makes his chart debut as an artist, but also appears on the video of the song at #6.
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Post by Earl Purple on Aug 26, 2022 0:08:18 GMT 1
10 October 1981
1 ( 1 ) Prince Charming - Adam & The Ants < 3rd week at #1 > 2 ( 3 ) Happy Birthday - Altered Images 3 ( 2 ) Just Can't Get Enough - Depeche Mode (#2[1]) 4 ( 13 ) Good Year For The Roses - Elvis Costello 5 ( -- ) Open Your Heart - Human League 6 ( 7 ) I'm Gonna Love Her For Both Of Us - Meat Loaf 7 ( 6 ) It's My Party - Dave Stewart & Barbara Gaskin (#6) 8 ( -- ) Labelled With Love - Squeeze 9 ( 4 ) Under Your Thumb - Godley & Creme (#3) 10 ( 10 ) Shut Up - Madness
11 ( 20 ) Thunder In The Mountains - Toyah 12 ( 14 ) Invisible Sun - Police 13 ( -- ) Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic - Police 14 ( 21 ) Theme From Hill Street Blues - Mike Post & Larry Carlton 15 ( 5 ) Souvenir - Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark (#1[2]) 16 ( 8 ) Private Eyes - Daryl Hall & John Oates (#7) 17 ( 12 ) When She Was My Girl - Four Tops (#12) 18 ( -- ) Physical - Olivia Newton-John 19 ( 27 ) Here I Am - Air Supply 20 ( 9 ) So This Is Romance - Linx (#6)
21 ( 23 ) Walkin' In The Sunshine - Bad Manners 22 ( 11 ) Passionate Friend - Teardrop Explodes (#3) 23 ( 16 ) Just Another Broken Heart - Sheena Easton (#15) 24 ( 33 ) Europa & The Pirate Twins - Thomas Dolby 25 ( 19 ) Quiet Life - Japan (#19) 26 ( -- ) Genius Of Love - Tom Tom Club 27 ( 18 ) I've Done Everything For You - Rick Springfield (#16) 28 ( 15 ) Wired For Sound - Cliff Richard (#5) 29 ( 17 ) Pretend - Alvin Stardust (#11) 30 ( 24 ) Just Once - Quincy Jones ft James Ingram (#24)
31 ( 30 ) Easy - Al Jarreau (#30) 32 ( -- ) Juke Box Hero - Foreigner 33 ( 40 ) Hanging Around - Hazel O'Connor 34 ( 32 ) I'm So Glad I'm Standing Here Today - Crusaders ft Joe Cocker (#32) 35 ( 28 ) Lock Up Your Daughters - Slade (#28) 36 ( 25 ) Heart And Soul - Exile (#23) 37 ( 44 ) Procession - New Order 38 ( 45 ) Mad Eyed Screamer - Creatures 39 ( -- ) Nightmare - Gillan 40 ( 48 ) Burnin' For You - Blue Oyster Cult
41 ( 22 ) Happy Birthday - Stevie Wonder (#1[6]) 42 ( 29 ) The Birdie Song - Tweets (#25) 43 ( -- ) It's Raining - Shakin' Stevens 44 ( 26 ) In And Out Of Love - Imagination (#14) 45 ( 36 ) You Scare Me To Death - Marc Bolan (#36) 46 ( -- ) Tunnel Of Love - Dire Straits 47 ( 38 ) Hard To Say - Dan Fogelberg (#38) 48 ( -- ) Alien - Atlanta Rhythm Section 49 ( -- ) Don't Do That - Young And Moody Band 50 ( -- ) And I Wish - Dooleys
-- ( 31 ) One In Ten - UB40 (#2[2]) -- ( 34 ) Play To Win - Heaven 17 (#21) -- ( 35 ) Start Me Up - Rolling Stones (#9) -- ( 37 ) Arthur's Theme (The Best That You Can Do) - Christopher Cross (#10) -- ( 39 ) Seasons Of Gold - Gidea Park (#32) -- ( 41 ) It Will Be Alright - Odyssey -- ( 42 ) Super Freak - Rick James (#22) -- ( 43 ) Mule (Chant No 2) - Beggar & Co (#34) -- ( 46 ) The Night Owls - Little River Band (#33) -- ( 47 ) Hands Up (Give Me Your Heart) - Ottawan (#17) -- ( 49 ) We're In This Love Together - Al Jarreau (#44) -- ( 50 ) Abacab - Genesis (#5)
-- ( -- ) He's A Liar - Bee Gees -- ( -- ) Platinum Pop - This Year's Blonde -- ( -- ) Oh No - Commodores -- ( -- ) Status Rock - Headbangers -- ( -- ) And Then She Kissed Me - Gary Glitter -- ( -- ) I Can't Turn Away - Savanna -- ( -- ) When You Were Sweet Sixteen - Fureys & Davie Arthur -- ( -- ) Atlanta Lady - Marty Balin
This is just all so classic - what 1981 was about, Adam & The Ants and then the Human League and the latter band crash in at #5 this week. The "song association" happens again, i.e. one song that you link with another out at the time and Elvis Costello and Squeeze - well the former actually produced this week's 2nd highest entry but they're both country hits and were both the last top 10 hit for their artist, and both reached the UK top 10 at a time when both acts were relatively struggling, having at one point both reached #2 within a few weeks of each other in 1979.
It's hard to believe "Invisible Sun" can only climb from 14 to 12 and I heard the song come up on my "random oldies" list which is mostly top 10 hits from my chart, but in any case it's still climbing but they already have another one in the chart as "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic" enters just one place below it - I think it got in from the US chart but its UK entry isn't far off either.
As well as Elvis Costello and Squeeze, "Physical" was the last UK top 10 hit proper for Olivia Newton John (albeit the Grease Megamix and a re-issue of You're The One That I Want subsequently got her into the top 10 again). In the USA it spent 10 weeks at number one.
Tom Tom Club's single namechecks Sly & Robbie - I'd never heard of them in 1981 but they were clearly already significant enough then.
Also with 2 songs out, Foreigner, Juke Box Hero being a rock song - the other one a ballad but it might appear on Rock Idol I guess, but certainly Juke Box Hero and many of their other songs are "rock" in the classic sense. Gillan also rock of course, and the Young And Moody Band entry features Lemmy on guest vocals.
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Post by Earl Purple on Aug 28, 2022 12:46:26 GMT 1
1 ( 5 ) Open Your Heart - Human League < 1st #1 > 2 ( 8 ) Labelled With Love - Squeeze 3 ( 2 ) Happy Birthday - Altered Images (#2[1]) 4 ( 4 ) Good Year For The Roses - Elvis Costello 5 ( 1 ) Prince Charming - Adam & The Ants (#1[3]) 6 ( 13 ) Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic - Police 7 ( 3 ) Just Can't Get Enough - Depeche Mode (#2[1]) 8 ( 11 ) Thunder In The Mountains - Toyah 9 ( 6 ) I'm Gonna Love Her For Both Of Us - Meat Loaf (#6) 10 ( 12 ) Invisible Sun - Police
11 ( 18 ) Physical - Olivia Newton-John 12 ( 14 ) Theme From Hill Street Blues - Mike Post & Larry Carlton 13 ( 7 ) It's My Party - Dave Stewart & Barbara Gaskin (#6) 14 ( -- ) Tonight I'm Yours - Rod Stewart 15 ( 10 ) Shut Up - Madness (#10) 16 ( 26 ) Genius Of Love - Tom Tom Club 17 ( 19 ) Here I Am - Air Supply 18 ( 9 ) Under Your Thumb - Godley & Creme (#3) 19 ( -- ) Waiting For A Girl Like You - Foreigner 20 ( 32 ) Juke Box Hero - Foreigner
21 ( 24 ) Europa & The Pirate Twins - Thomas Dolby 22 ( 21 ) Walkin' In The Sunshine - Bad Manners (#21) 23 ( -- ) O Superman - Laurie Anderson 24 ( 17 ) When She Was My Girl - Four Tops (#12) 25 ( 39 ) Nightmare - Gillan 26 ( 16 ) Private Eyes - Daryl Hall & John Oates (#7) 27 ( -- ) In The Dark - Billy Squier 28 ( 15 ) Souvenir - Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark (#1[2]) 29 ( -- ) Hold Me - B.A. Robertson & Maggie Bell 30 ( -- ) Gloria - U2
31 ( 43 ) It's Raining - Shakin' Stevens 32 ( 33 ) Hanging Around - Hazel O'Connor 33 ( -- ) Sausalito Summernight - Diesel 34 ( 23 ) Just Another Broken Heart - Sheena Easton (#15) 35 ( 46 ) Tunnel Of Love - Dire Straits 36 ( 25 ) Quiet Life - Japan (#19) 37 ( 20 ) So This Is Romance - Linx (#6) 38 ( 37 ) Procession - New Order (#37) 39 ( 31 ) Easy - Al Jarreau (#30) 40 ( 38 ) Mad Eyed Screamer - Creatures (#38)
41 ( -- ) Do You Know - Secret Affair 42 ( 48 ) Alien - Atlanta Rhythm Section 43 ( 22 ) Passionate Friend - Teardrop Explodes (#3) 44 ( 40 ) Burnin' For You - Blue Oyster Cult (#40) 45 ( 49 ) Don't Do That - Young And Moody Band 46 ( 50 ) And I Wish - Dooleys 47 ( 30 ) Just Once - Quincy Jones ft James Ingram (#24) 48 ( 27 ) I've Done Everything For You - Rick Springfield (#16) 49 ( 34 ) I'm So Glad I'm Standing Here Today - Crusaders ft Joe Cocker (#32) 50 ( 29 ) Pretend - Alvin Stardust (#11)
-- ( 28 ) Wired For Sound - Cliff Richard (#5) -- ( 35 ) Lock Up Your Daughters - Slade (#28) -- ( 36 ) Heart And Soul - Exile (#23) -- ( 41 ) Happy Birthday - Stevie Wonder (#1[6]) -- ( 42 ) The Birdie Song - Tweets (#25) -- ( 44 ) In And Out Of Love - Imagination (#14) -- ( 45 ) You Scare Me To Death - Marc Bolan (#36) -- ( 47 ) Hard To Say - Dan Fogelberg (#38)
-- ( -- ) Mystery Girl - Dukes -- ( -- ) Charlotte Sometimes - Cure -- ( -- ) The Old Songs - Barry Manilow -- ( -- ) Dead Cities - Exploited -- ( -- ) Never My Love - Sugar Minott
The Human League climb to the top with "Open Your Heart", with their previous single "Love Action (I Believe In Love)" having reached #3 in both the UK and NM chart, but this single only reached UK #6. The album "Dare" was released this week thus entering next week at #2 then climbing a place to #3 and hanging around the top 10 before returning to #1 for 3 more weeks in January with Queen's original "Greatest Hits" and Abba's "The Visitors" occupying the top spot during the interim. (A compilation called Chart Hits '81 also spent a week at #1 as compilations were counted in the main chart then).
Back in 1981 some singles made fast climbs to their peaks and some a lot slower. Altered Images climbed 63-48-28-16 (this week) before leaping up to #5 next week and #2 the week after. It's My Party reached #1 this week with a climb 67-36-17-8-1, whilst Adam & The Ants were also falling off #1 this week (to #4 so not quite as far a drop as here) having spent 4 weeks on top, and "Invisible Sun" which is still climbing here had peaked at #2 and this week fell from #3 to #9 with Every Little Thing.. about to enter next week.
The highest entry this week is by Rod Stewart and would be his first UK top 10 hit for 3 years since "D'Ya Think I'm Sexy" which of course reached #1 and that song wasn't a #1 here but was a top 10 hit and also his last until now.
Side by side now, Foreigner's soft-rock ballad and more uptempo hit.
And yes, "that" song. I wasn't sure what I was going to do with it... in some ways brilliant and in some ways terrible, and yes it goes on far too long but it enters at #23.
And just in case you didn't see my comments in previous threads. "Hold Me" is a cover of the same song PJ Proby had a hit with in 1964, but his wasn't the original either, as the song dates back to the 1930s. But PJ Proby's version reached NM #5.
U2's Gloria is not a cover of the Umberto Tozzi song Jonathan King had a hit with (and later Laura Branigan) nor a cover of Them / Van Morrison. They're all different songs. But you probably knew that already.
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Post by Earl Purple on Aug 30, 2022 0:57:39 GMT 1
24 October 1981
1 ( 1 ) Open Your Heart - Human League < 2nd week at #1 > 2 ( 2 ) Labelled With Love - Squeeze 3 ( 6 ) Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic - Police 4 ( 4 ) Good Year For The Roses - Elvis Costello 5 ( 3 ) Happy Birthday - Altered Images (#2[1]) 6 ( 14 ) Tonight I'm Yours - Rod Stewart 7 ( 8 ) Thunder In The Mountains - Toyah 8 ( -- ) Twilight - Electric Light Orchestra 9 ( 19 ) Waiting For A Girl Like You - Foreigner 10 ( 11 ) Physical - Olivia Newton-John
11 ( 10 ) Invisible Sun - Police (#10) 12 ( 23 ) O Superman - Laurie Anderson 13 ( 5 ) Prince Charming - Adam & The Ants (#1[3]) 14 ( 16 ) Genius Of Love - Tom Tom Club 15 ( -- ) Favourite Shirts (Boy Meets Girl) - Haircut 100 16 ( 12 ) Theme From Hill Street Blues - Mike Post & Larry Carlton (#12) 17 ( 7 ) Just Can't Get Enough - Depeche Mode (#2[1]) 18 ( 27 ) In The Dark - Billy Squier 19 ( 9 ) I'm Gonna Love Her For Both Of Us - Meat Loaf (#6) 20 ( 20 ) Juke Box Hero - Foreigner
21 ( -- ) Joan Of Arc - Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark 22 ( 29 ) Hold Me - B.A. Robertson & Maggie Bell 23 ( 30 ) Gloria - U2 24 ( 17 ) Here I Am - Air Supply (#17) 25 ( -- ) Our Lips Are Sealed - Go-Gos 26 ( 25 ) Nightmare - Gillan (#25) 27 ( 33 ) Sausalito Summernight - Diesel 28 ( -- ) Love Me Tonight - Trevor Walters 29 ( 21 ) Europa & The Pirate Twins - Thomas Dolby (#21) 30 ( -- ) Absolute Beginners - Jam
31 ( 13 ) It's My Party - Dave Stewart & Barbara Gaskin (#6) 32 ( 15 ) Shut Up - Madness (#10) 33 ( 31 ) It's Raining - Shakin' Stevens (#31) 34 ( 22 ) Walkin' In The Sunshine - Bad Manners (#21) 35 ( 41 ) Do You Know - Secret Affair 36 ( 35 ) Tunnel Of Love - Dire Straits (#35) 37 ( 18 ) Under Your Thumb - Godley & Creme (#3) 38 ( -- ) Begin The Beguine - Julio Iglesias 39 ( 24 ) When She Was My Girl - Four Tops (#12) 40 ( 32 ) Hanging Around - Hazel O'Connor (#32)
41 ( -- ) Hooked On A Can Can - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra 42 ( 26 ) Private Eyes - Daryl Hall & John Oates (#7) 43 ( 42 ) Alien - Atlanta Rhythm Section (#42) 44 ( 38 ) Procession - New Order (#37) 45 ( 28 ) Souvenir - Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark (#1[2]) 46 ( 45 ) Don't Do That - Young And Moody Band (#45) 47 ( 40 ) Mad Eyed Screamer - Creatures (#38) 48 ( -- ) Why Do Fools Fall In Love - Diana Ross 49 ( 46 ) And I Wish - Dooleys (#46) 50 ( 34 ) Just Another Broken Heart - Sheena Easton (#15)
-- ( 36 ) Quiet Life - Japan (#19) -- ( 37 ) So This Is Romance - Linx (#6) -- ( 39 ) Easy - Al Jarreau (#30) -- ( 43 ) Passionate Friend - Teardrop Explodes (#3) -- ( 44 ) Burnin' For You - Blue Oyster Cult (#40) -- ( 47 ) Just Once - Quincy Jones ft James Ingram (#24) -- ( 48 ) I've Done Everything For You - Rick Springfield (#16) -- ( 49 ) I'm So Glad I'm Standing Here Today - Crusaders ft Joe Cocker (#32) -- ( 50 ) Pretend - Alvin Stardust (#11)
-- ( -- ) The Flame Trees Of Thika - Video Symphonic -- ( -- ) You've Got The Floor - Arthur Adams -- ( -- ) You Saved My Soul - Burton Cummings -- ( -- ) Never Again - Discharge -- ( -- ) Star Turn On 45 (Pints) - Star Turn On 45 (Pints)
The Police climb to #3, which is their highest position yet. Strange because I liked them but because their general NM peaks are lower than the songs peaked in the UK it makes it feel like they did a lot worse. Their previous highest position was #4 for "Don't Stand So Close To Me".
ELO's "Hold On Tight" reached #4 in the UK, #3 in this chart, but in the UK it would be their last ever top 10 hit, although the album "Time" did reach #1. Twilight fell short at just #30 although they did manage to break the top 20 one more time in 1983 with "Rock N Roll Is King". In the USA Twilight also fell short, only just scraping the top 40. I don't understand why as it's a very good song.
Haircut 100 would reached #4 with their debut hit but watch out for their follow-up on this chart. Favourite Shirts has very much the "sound of '81" feel to it though. Joan Of Arc is the follow-up to the NM #1 "Souvenir".
Our Lips Are Sealed, co-written by Jane Wiedlin of the Go-Gos and Terry Hall, for whom it's his first appearance on the chart as a songwriter as he wrote little for the Specials and none of their hits. His new band will be entering in 2 weeks time, in which he plays a much bigger part in the songwriting.
Trevor Walters would have his biggest UK hit with a cover of a Lionel Richie song but this one he wrote himself and is also much better. Absolute Beginners was based on the novel, and of course David Bowie would later have the hit of that title when it became a film but Paul Weller got to write a song for the soundtrack too... this was their second UK #4 hit of the year, this one climbing there from an entry position of #7, but 1982 will be a much better year for them in the UK chart.
And those two cover versions... They just got far too high in the UK chart when there were so many good original songs about. Kind of spoil an otherwise almost perfect list of songs.
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Post by Earl Purple on Aug 31, 2022 10:24:19 GMT 1
31 October 1981
1 ( 1 ) Open Your Heart - Human League < 3rd week at #1 > 2 ( 2 ) Labelled With Love - Squeeze 3 ( 3 ) Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic - Police 4 ( 8 ) Twilight - Electric Light Orchestra 5 ( 6 ) Tonight I'm Yours - Rod Stewart 6 ( 4 ) Good Year For The Roses - Elvis Costello (#4) 7 ( 15 ) Favourite Shirts (Boy Meets Girl) - Haircut 100 8 ( 5 ) Happy Birthday - Altered Images (#2[1]) 9 ( 9 ) Waiting For A Girl Like You - Foreigner 10 ( 7 ) Thunder In The Mountains - Toyah (#7)
11 ( 12 ) O Superman - Laurie Anderson 12 ( 21 ) Joan Of Arc - Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark 13 ( -- ) Young Turks - Rod Stewart 14 ( -- ) Let's Groove - Earth Wind & Fire 15 ( 10 ) Physical - Olivia Newton-John (#10) 16 ( 25 ) Our Lips Are Sealed - Go-Gos 17 ( 18 ) In The Dark - Billy Squier 18 ( 11 ) Invisible Sun - Police (#10) 19 ( 14 ) Genius Of Love - Tom Tom Club (#14) 20 ( 28 ) Love Me Tonight - Trevor Walters
21 ( 30 ) Absolute Beginners - Jam 22 ( -- ) Tears Are Not Enough - ABC 23 ( 22 ) Hold Me - B.A. Robertson & Maggie Bell (#22) 24 ( 23 ) Gloria - U2 (#23) 25 ( 20 ) Juke Box Hero - Foreigner (#20) 26 ( 16 ) Theme From Hill Street Blues - Mike Post & Larry Carlton (#12) 27 ( -- ) Tom Sawyer (Live) - Rush 28 ( 13 ) Prince Charming - Adam & The Ants (#1[3]) 29 ( 38 ) Begin The Beguine - Julio Iglesias 30 ( 27 ) Sausalito Summernight - Diesel (#27)
31 ( 41 ) Hooked On A Can Can - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra 32 ( 17 ) Just Can't Get Enough - Depeche Mode (#2[1]) 33 ( 26 ) Nightmare - Gillan (#25) 34 ( 19 ) I'm Gonna Love Her For Both Of Us - Meat Loaf (#6) 35 ( 35 ) Do You Know - Secret Affair 36 ( 24 ) Here I Am - Air Supply (#17) 37 ( -- ) Yes Tonight Josephine - Jets 38 ( 48 ) Why Do Fools Fall In Love - Diana Ross 39 ( -- ) Steppin' Out - Kool & The Gang 40 ( 33 ) It's Raining - Shakin' Stevens (#31)
41 ( -- ) Promises In The Dark - Pat Benatar 42 ( 29 ) Europa & The Pirate Twins - Thomas Dolby (#21) 43 ( 36 ) Tunnel Of Love - Dire Straits (#35) 44 ( -- ) Keep It Dark - Genesis 45 ( -- ) My Girl (Gone Gone Gone) - Chilliwack 46 ( -- ) Princess Of The Night - Saxon 47 ( 43 ) Alien - Atlanta Rhythm Section (#42) 48 ( 34 ) Walkin' In The Sunshine - Bad Manners (#21) 49 ( -- ) Secret Combination - Randy Crawford 50 ( 46 ) Don't Do That - Young And Moody Band (#45)
-- ( 31 ) It's My Party - Dave Stewart & Barbara Gaskin (#6) -- ( 32 ) Shut Up - Madness (#10) -- ( 37 ) Under Your Thumb - Godley & Creme (#3) -- ( 39 ) When She Was My Girl - Four Tops (#12) -- ( 40 ) Hanging Around - Hazel O'Connor (#32) -- ( 42 ) Private Eyes - Daryl Hall & John Oates (#7) -- ( 44 ) Procession - New Order (#37) -- ( 45 ) Souvenir - Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark (#1[2]) -- ( 47 ) Mad Eyed Screamer - Creatures (#38) -- ( 49 ) And I Wish - Dooleys (#46) -- ( 50 ) Just Another Broken Heart - Sheena Easton (#15)
-- ( -- ) It's Only Love - Gary US Bonds
The Human League have now clocked up 3 weeks on top. Their bigger hit to come will probably get to number one but there will be a major obstacle in its way so it may have to wait a bit behind it.
Rod Stewart climbs into the top 5 but the follow-up is already in the chart. That's because in the USA they switched the order of the releases so "Young Turks" was the lead single. I never quite understood why it was called "Young Turks" when the lyrics are "Young hearts" and obviously there is less confusion with the Candi Staton song (although that was Young Hearts Run Free, this one is Young hearts be free". It's about a young couple who run away and eventually she has a baby. Apparently a historic term for such a couple of "young Turks". Not sure if it was once very common in Turkey for that kind of thing to happen, possibly because there was a mix of traditional Muslim arranged marriages there and modernism of couples wanting to find their own partners (sort of makes sense). In any case this is one of his most classic songs too, I think he performed it live when I saw him, and I'm surprised it didn't make the UK top 10.
Earth Wind And Fire haven't had a UK top 10 hit since "After The Love Has Gone" reached #4 in 1979, and on this chart since "Boogie Wonderland" reached #6 that year. Their biggest UK hit to date is "September" reaching #3, and "Let's Groove" equalled that position. Their highest NM peak to date is #5 with "Fantasy" in 1978.
The artist who will get the biggest hit of the year of 1982 makes their debut this week...
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Post by Earl Purple on Sept 1, 2022 12:34:53 GMT 1
7 November 1981
1 ( 1 ) Open Your Heart - Human League < 4th week at #1 > 2 ( 4 ) Twilight - Electric Light Orchestra 3 ( 2 ) Labelled With Love - Squeeze (#2[3]) 4 ( 3 ) Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic - Police (#3) 5 ( 7 ) Favourite Shirts (Boy Meets Girl) - Haircut 100 6 ( 13 ) Young Turks - Rod Stewart 7 ( 14 ) Let's Groove - Earth Wind & Fire 8 ( 5 ) Tonight I'm Yours - Rod Stewart (#5) 9 ( 12 ) Joan Of Arc - Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark 10 ( 6 ) Good Year For The Roses - Elvis Costello (#4)
11 ( 22 ) Tears Are Not Enough - ABC 12 ( -- ) Don't Stop Believin' - Journey 13 ( -- ) The Voice - Ultravox 14 ( 9 ) Waiting For A Girl Like You - Foreigner (#9) 15 ( 11 ) O Superman - Laurie Anderson (#11) 16 ( 16 ) Our Lips Are Sealed - Go-Gos 17 ( 8 ) Happy Birthday - Altered Images (#2[1]) 18 ( -- ) The Lunatics Have Taken Over The Asylum - Fun Boy Three 19 ( 27 ) Tom Sawyer (Live) - Rush 20 ( 10 ) Thunder In The Mountains - Toyah (#7)
21 ( 20 ) Love Me Tonight - Trevor Walters (#20) 22 ( 21 ) Absolute Beginners - Jam (#21) 23 ( 17 ) In The Dark - Billy Squier (#17) 24 ( -- ) Trouble - Lindsey Buckingham 25 ( -- ) Harden My Heart - Quarterflash 26 ( 15 ) Physical - Olivia Newton-John (#10) 27 ( 37 ) Yes Tonight Josephine - Jets 28 ( -- ) Chihuahua - Bow Wow Wow 29 ( 29 ) Begin The Beguine - Julio Iglesias 30 ( 39 ) Steppin' Out - Kool & The Gang
31 ( 31 ) Hooked On A Can Can - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra 32 ( -- ) No Reply At All - Genesis 33 ( 19 ) Genius Of Love - Tom Tom Club (#14) 34 ( 23 ) Hold Me - B.A. Robertson & Maggie Bell (#22) 35 ( 18 ) Invisible Sun - Police (#10) 36 ( 24 ) Gloria - U2 (#23) 37 ( 41 ) Promises In The Dark - Pat Benatar 38 ( -- ) Leather And Lace - Stevie Nicks & Don Henley 39 ( 44 ) Keep It Dark - Genesis 40 ( -- ) Never Again - Classix Nouveaux
41 ( 45 ) My Girl (Gone Gone Gone) - Chilliwack 42 ( 25 ) Juke Box Hero - Foreigner (#20) 43 ( 38 ) Why Do Fools Fall In Love - Diana Ross (#38) 44 ( -- ) Ay Ay Ay Ay Moosey - Modern Romance 45 ( 46 ) Princess Of The Night - Saxon 46 ( 30 ) Sausalito Summernight - Diesel (#27) 47 ( 49 ) Secret Combination - Randy Crawford 48 ( 35 ) Do You Know - Secret Affair (#35) 49 ( 26 ) Theme From Hill Street Blues - Mike Post & Larry Carlton (#12) 50 ( -- ) Sweat In Bullet - Simple Minds
-- ( 28 ) Prince Charming - Adam & The Ants (#1[3]) -- ( 32 ) Just Can't Get Enough - Depeche Mode (#2[1]) -- ( 33 ) Nightmare - Gillan (#25) -- ( 34 ) I'm Gonna Love Her For Both Of Us - Meat Loaf (#6) -- ( 36 ) Here I Am - Air Supply (#17) -- ( 40 ) It's Raining - Shakin' Stevens (#31) -- ( 42 ) Europa & The Pirate Twins - Thomas Dolby (#21) -- ( 43 ) Tunnel Of Love - Dire Straits (#35) -- ( 47 ) Alien - Atlanta Rhythm Section (#42) -- ( 48 ) Walkin' In The Sunshine - Bad Manners (#21) -- ( 50 ) Don't Do That - Young And Moody Band (#45)
-- ( -- ) You Don't Believe Me - Stray Cats -- ( -- ) Sunny Day - Pigbag -- ( -- ) Visions Of China - Japan -- ( -- ) L.O.V.E Love - Orange Juice -- ( -- ) Take My Heart (You Can Have It If You Want It) - Kool & The Gang -- ( -- ) Little Lady - Aneka -- ( -- ) The Sweetest Thing (I've Ever Known) - Juice Newton -- ( -- ) Mob Rules - Black Sabbath
We're now in November 1981. Unlike last year there isn't a single tragic event that's about to hit us. 1981 wasn't exactly a great year though in Britain with there being many riots.
The Human League stay at #1 for a 4th week.
Behind them now are ELO who have 3 times reached #1 and 4 times peaked at #3 including their last single "Hold On Tight" but have never previously peaked at #2. Their first #3 "10538 Overture" was in 1972, so a career of just over 9 years so far. (Their other two that peaked at #3 were "Turn To Stone" and "Sweet Talking Woman", the latter of which will be brought up in a couple of months when a song that totally copies its structure hits the US chart. Their 3 #1s were "Livin' Thing", "Telephone Man" and of course "Mr Blue Sky"). Historically in my chart "Calling America" was their last "big" hit.
Much snubbed in the UK at the time, Journey were "AOR rock, for middle-aged middle-class Americans" or "radio safe rock" or whatever they thought it was. In any case the music press here didn't like them, most radio stations didn't play their music (although of course Paul Gambaccini played them on the US chart countdown show) and they didn't have any hits. But then two of my other favourite bands Styx and Air Supply only had one UK top 40 hit each (but whose many US hits also got played by Paul Gambaccini when they charted).
I guess culture has changed since then, as "Don't Stop Believin'" is now considered a classic.
Ultravox though were part of the "sound of 81" so not quite sure why "The Voice" missed the top 10, and I thought it had been a top 10 hit but no, it didn't climb any higher than #16.
Terry Hall, Lynval Golding and Neville Staples have broken away from the control of Jerry Dammers in the Specials to create their own band and those three are writing most of their songs, this being politically based, of course, with the "lunatics" being the government.
And so to one of the biggest rivalries in pop - Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks were once a "couple", with him introducing her to Fleetwood Mac, and of course it helped the band create more diverse music, but when they fell out, it led to a rivalry between them and now they've both got songs outside of the band entering on the same week. In the USA, Lindsey Buckingham's hit made the better start but then Stevie Nicks ended up surpassing it. In the UK, the Lindsey Buckingham hit narrowly made the top 40 in 1982 but Stevie Nicks failed totally. On this chart Lindsey Buckingham gets the higher entry and it will probably stay that way, but Stevie Nicks will get a much bigger hit later with "Rooms On Fire".
Just going further down you'll see "Ay Ay Ay Ay Moosey" enter at #44 - it has a nice catchy tune, maybe more suited for summer than November which is where this chart is, but a very silly title. Their first hit "Everybody Salsa" reached #24 after an entry position of #36, but I have mentioned before that this band were made up from former members of the Leyton Buzzards whose 1979 single "Saturday Night Beneath The Plastic Palm Trees" reached NM #3, and is a great song ahead of its time - it wouldn't be out of place in the Britpop era.
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Post by Good Old Days on Sept 1, 2022 15:07:12 GMT 1
"Little Lady" is # 2 in my 1981 Year-end chart. In 1983 year Aneka will get the third and last # 1 hit with "Rose Rose I Love You".
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Post by Earl Purple on Sept 2, 2022 12:35:43 GMT 1
I had a feeling you'd come to comment on the lack of chart success for "Little Lady". I'm sure you'd also hate "O Superman".. I was mixed with love and hate for that song - fascinatingly different, nauseating and goes on rather long when 3-4 minutes of it might have been better. Strangely enough Carol had the Laurie Anderson album - have no idea why she'd have been into that kind of music, but she had it on CD so must have bought it a lot later than 1981.
I think I have one more chart ready to post..
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Post by Earl Purple on Sept 2, 2022 13:03:15 GMT 1
14 November 1981
1 ( -- ) Under Pressure - Queen & David Bowie <8th/5th #1> 2 ( 1 ) Open Your Heart - Human League (#1[4]) 3 ( 2 ) Twilight - Electric Light Orchestra (#2[1]) 4 ( 12 ) Don't Stop Believin' - Journey 5 ( 6 ) Young Turks - Rod Stewart 6 ( 13 ) The Voice - Ultravox 7 ( 7 ) Let's Groove - Earth Wind & Fire 8 ( 5 ) Favourite Shirts (Boy Meets Girl) - Haircut 100 (#5) 9 ( 3 ) Labelled With Love - Squeeze (#2[3]) 10 ( 4 ) Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic - Police (#3)
11 ( -- ) Mirror Mirror (Mon Amour) - Dollar 12 ( 11 ) Tears Are Not Enough - ABC (#11) 13 ( 18 ) The Lunatics Have Taken Over The Asylum - Fun Boy Three 14 ( 9 ) Joan Of Arc - Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark (#9) 15 ( 24 ) Trouble - Lindsey Buckingham 16 ( -- ) I Go To Sleep - Pretenders 17 ( 25 ) Harden My Heart - Quarterflash 18 ( -- ) Bedsitter - Soft Cell 19 ( 8 ) Tonight I'm Yours - Rod Stewart (#5) 20 ( -- ) Cambodia - Kim Wilde
21 ( 28 ) Chihuahua - Bow Wow Wow 22 ( 19 ) Tom Sawyer (Live) - Rush (#19) 23 ( -- ) Never Too Much - Luther Vandross 24 ( 10 ) Good Year For The Roses - Elvis Costello (#4) 25 ( -- ) Flashback - Imagination 26 ( 16 ) Our Lips Are Sealed - Go-Gos (#16) 27 ( 32 ) No Reply At All - Genesis 28 ( -- ) Turn Your Love Around - George Benson 29 ( 15 ) O Superman - Laurie Anderson (#11) 30 ( 14 ) Waiting For A Girl Like You - Foreigner (#9) 31 ( -- ) Penthouse And Pavement - Heaven 17 32 ( 27 ) Yes Tonight Josephine - Jets (#27) 33 ( 38 ) Leather And Lace - Stevie Nicks & Don Henley 34 ( 21 ) Love Me Tonight - Trevor Walters (#20) 35 ( -- ) Paint Me Down - Spandau Ballet 36 ( 22 ) Absolute Beginners - Jam (#21) 37 ( 30 ) Steppin' Out - Kool & The Gang (#30) 38 ( 40 ) Never Again - Classix Nouveaux 39 ( -- ) Throwing My Baby Out With The Bathwater - Tenpole Tudor 40 ( -- ) Yesterday's Songs - Neil Diamond 41 ( 17 ) Happy Birthday - Altered Images (#2[1]) 42 ( -- ) Indian Reservation - 999 43 ( 44 ) Ay Ay Ay Ay Moosey - Modern Romance 44 ( 29 ) Begin The Beguine - Julio Iglesias (#29) 45 ( 23 ) In The Dark - Billy Squier (#17) 46 ( -- ) Starchild - Level 42 47 ( 20 ) Thunder In The Mountains - Toyah (#7) 48 ( 31 ) Hooked On A Can Can - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (#31) 49 ( -- ) Heart Like A Wheel - Steve Miller Band 50 ( 37 ) Promises In The Dark - Pat Benatar (#37)
-- ( 26 ) Physical - Olivia Newton-John (#10) -- ( 33 ) Genius Of Love - Tom Tom Club (#14) -- ( 34 ) Hold Me - B.A. Robertson & Maggie Bell (#22) -- ( 35 ) Invisible Sun - Police (#10) -- ( 36 ) Gloria - U2 (#23) -- ( 39 ) Keep It Dark - Genesis -- ( 41 ) My Girl (Gone Gone Gone) - Chilliwack -- ( 42 ) Juke Box Hero - Foreigner (#20) -- ( 43 ) Why Do Fools Fall In Love - Diana Ross (#38) -- ( 45 ) Princess Of The Night - Saxon -- ( 46 ) Sausalito Summernight - Diesel (#27) -- ( 47 ) Secret Combination - Randy Crawford -- ( 48 ) Do You Know - Secret Affair (#35) -- ( 49 ) Theme From Hill Street Blues - Mike Post & Larry Carlton (#12) -- ( 50 ) Sweat In Bullet - Simple Minds
-- ( -- ) Me And Mr Sanchez - Blue Rondo A La Turk -- ( -- ) Let Me Introduce You To My Family - Stranglers -- ( -- ) I Want You I Need You - Chris Christian -- ( -- ) Steal The Night - Stevie Woods
That just had to happen, didn't it? Queen and David Bowie - this song appeared to get a mixed reaction at the time, as these combinations often do, some saying it wasn't up to their standards. Seems that the test of time has labelled this something of a classic. In the UK chart it did get to the top pretty quickly, not quite as quickly as on this chart, but then had a very short chart life - actually you'll find that most UK number ones from 1981 had fairly quick descents and those that had a quick climb there too had short chart lives.
I could have referred to my chart of 1979 when Queen were last number one with "Don't Stop Me Now" to count how many they've had, but I made it 7 prior to this - Killer Queen, Bohemian Rhapsody, You're My Best Friend, Somebody To Love, Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy, We Are The Champions and Don't Stop Me Now. It would have been 8 last year but Another One Bites The Dust spent 2 weeks at #2 behind "Ashes To Ashes" as well as one more behind "Baggy Trousers" by Madness. David Bowie's other #1s have been "Space Oddity", "Starman", "Life On Mars" and "Ashes To Ashes" and all of them spent at least 5 weeks on top and all of them ending up in the top 2 of their year. Both the acts have had the #1 single of the year twice, David Bowie in 1969 and 1973 and Queen in 1975 and 1977, with Queen also runners-up in 1979.
So I guess based on those stats, if that's the standard it has to aspire to, if it doesn't finish in the top 2 of the year it's a flop by their standards? Stevie Wonder occupies that number 2 position now, and he also had the #2 of 1977 - behind Queen.
Dollar entering at #11: if it weren't for a few classics like Queen & David Bowie and another one coming up this might have been a number 1. In 2014 it almost definitely would have been. Written and produced by Trevor Horn who did get to #1 with the Buggles in 1979 and will produce further number ones. It didn't peak in the UK until January, but it's far better than the Bucks Fizz song that did get to #1 at the time.
Behind those we have classic entries by the Pretenders, Soft Cell and Kim Wilde. For Soft Cell, after a massive hit with a cover they released their own song.
Actually it's a strong set of entries throughout.
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Post by Good Old Days on Sept 2, 2022 14:33:15 GMT 1
I had a feeling you'd come to comment on the lack of chart success for "Little Lady". I'm sure you'd also hate "O Superman".. I was mixed with love and hate for that song - fascinatingly different, nauseating and goes on rather long when 3-4 minutes of it might have been better. "O Superman" is possibly the most weirdest hit (even more than "Wuthering Heights") in UK charts history. "Cambodia" is my least favourite single from Kim Wilde.
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Post by rubcale on Sept 4, 2022 12:01:41 GMT 1
I see you're not keen on La Ross's Fools.
Strangely enough in terms of shelf life it was her fourth biggest seller in the UK.
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Post by Earl Purple on Sept 4, 2022 16:35:49 GMT 1
I see you're not keen on La Ross's Fools. Strangely enough in terms of shelf life it was her fourth biggest seller in the UK. Frankie Lymon's version only got to #17 in my chart, and February 1956 is hardly considered a strong time for music. He had a much bigger hit on my chart with "Goody Goody" which peaked at #2 in 1957.
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Post by Earl Purple on Sept 9, 2022 16:22:03 GMT 1
21 November 1981
1 ( 1 ) Under Pressure - Queen & David Bowie <2nd week at #1> 2 ( 11 ) Mirror Mirror (Mon Amour) - Dollar 3 ( 4 ) Don't Stop Believin' - Journey 4 ( 3 ) Twilight - Electric Light Orchestra (#2[1]) 5 ( 6 ) The Voice - Ultravox 6 ( 2 ) Open Your Heart - Human League (#1[4]) 7 ( 5 ) Young Turks - Rod Stewart (#5) 8 ( 16 ) I Go To Sleep - Pretenders 9 ( 18 ) Bedsitter - Soft Cell 10 ( 20 ) Cambodia - Kim Wilde
11 ( 7 ) Let's Groove - Earth Wind & Fire (#7) 12 ( 23 ) Never Too Much - Luther Vandross 13 ( -- ) Easier Said Than Done - Shakatak 14 ( 15 ) Trouble - Lindsey Buckingham 15 ( 13 ) The Lunatics Have Taken Over The Asylum - Fun Boy Three (#13) 16 ( 25 ) Flashback - Imagination 17 ( -- ) I Can't Go For That (No Can Do) - Daryl Hall & John Oates 18 ( 8 ) Favourite Shirts (Boy Meets Girl) - Haircut 100 (#5) 19 ( 17 ) Harden My Heart - Quarterflash (#17) 20 ( -- ) Wedding Bells - Godley & Creme
21 ( 28 ) Turn Your Love Around - George Benson 22 ( 12 ) Tears Are Not Enough - ABC (#11) 23 ( 9 ) Labelled With Love - Squeeze (#2[3]) 24 ( 31 ) Penthouse And Pavement - Heaven 17 25 ( 21 ) Chihuahua - Bow Wow Wow (#21) 26 ( 10 ) Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic - Police (#3) 27 ( 35 ) Paint Me Down - Spandau Ballet 28 ( 14 ) Joan Of Arc - Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark (#9) 29 ( -- ) We Kill The World (Don't Kill The World) - Boney M 30 ( -- ) Sweetest Girl - Scritti Politti
31 ( 27 ) No Reply At All - Genesis (#27) 32 ( 39 ) Throwing My Baby Out With The Bathwater - Tenpole Tudor 33 ( 40 ) Yesterday's Songs - Neil Diamond 34 ( -- ) Poor Man's Son - Survivor 35 ( 22 ) Tom Sawyer (Live) - Rush (#19) 36 ( 42 ) Indian Reservation - 999 37 ( -- ) Can't Help Myself - Linx 38 ( -- ) Colours Fly By - Teardrop Explodes 39 ( 33 ) Leather And Lace - Stevie Nicks & Don Henley (#33) 40 ( 19 ) Tonight I'm Yours - Rod Stewart (#5)
41 ( 46 ) Starchild - Level 42 42 ( -- ) Buona Sera - Bad Manners 43 ( -- ) Ride The Love Train - Light Of The World 44 ( 49 ) Heart Like A Wheel - Steve Miller Band 45 ( 26 ) Our Lips Are Sealed - Go-Gos (#16) 46 ( 38 ) Never Again - Classix Nouveaux (#38) 47 ( 32 ) Yes Tonight Josephine - Jets (#27) 48 ( 24 ) Good Year For The Roses - Elvis Costello (#4) 49 ( 43 ) Ay Ay Ay Ay Moosey - Modern Romance (#43) 50 ( 29 ) O Superman - Laurie Anderson (#11)
-- ( 30 ) Waiting For A Girl Like You - Foreigner (#9) -- ( 34 ) Love Me Tonight - Trevor Walters (#20) -- ( 36 ) Absolute Beginners - Jam (#21) -- ( 37 ) Steppin' Out - Kool & The Gang (#30) -- ( 41 ) Happy Birthday - Altered Images (#2[1]) -- ( 44 ) Begin The Beguine - Julio Iglesias (#29) -- ( 45 ) In The Dark - Billy Squier (#17) -- ( 47 ) Thunder In The Mountains - Toyah (#7) -- ( 48 ) Hooked On A Can Can - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (#31) -- ( 50 ) Promises In The Dark - Pat Benatar (#37)
-- ( -- ) A Wonderful Time Up There - Alvin Stardust -- ( -- ) R.R. Express - Rose Royce -- ( -- ) Daddy's Home - Cliff Richard
Queen and David Bowie remain at #1, and Dollar shoot up to #2 behind them ahead of Journey, but there will be a massive new entry next week and a couple more the week after, one of which is actually a cover version I haven't put on my "cover versions on my playlist" topic yet.
Shakatak's jazzy entry comes in top this week ahead of what was the first UK top 10 hit for Daryl Hall & John Oates with their own version of I'd Do Anything For Love but I Won't Do That - ok, the same idea anyway, what is the "that" that they won't go for? (Yes obviously it's whisky - I can't go for that knockando...)
Boney M's last ever top 40 hit, their "green message" one - apparently Bobby Farrell really does perform the male vocal on this one. Scritti Politti's song was later covered by Madness. And it's the 3rd time in the chart for Buona Sera, #1 for Louis Prima in 1958 and then #2 for Acker Bilk at the end of 1960, the latter being the biggest UK hit version of the song reaching #7 in February 1961.
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Post by Earl Purple on Sept 11, 2022 13:49:25 GMT 1
28 November 1981
1 ( 1 ) Under Pressure - Queen & David Bowie <3rd week at #1> 2 ( 2 ) Mirror Mirror (Mon Amour) - Dollar 3 ( -- ) Dead Ringer For Love - Meat Loaf & Cher 4 ( 3 ) Don't Stop Believin' - Journey (#3) 5 ( 8 ) I Go To Sleep - Pretenders 6 ( 5 ) The Voice - Ultravox (#5) 7 ( 9 ) Bedsitter - Soft Cell 8 ( 4 ) Twilight - Electric Light Orchestra (#2[1]) 9 ( 13 ) Easier Said Than Done - Shakatak 10 ( 10 ) Cambodia - Kim Wilde
11 ( 17 ) I Can't Go For That (No Can Do) - Daryl Hall & John Oates 12 ( -- ) Centerfold - J Geils Band 13 ( 12 ) Never Too Much - Luther Vandross (#12) 14 ( 20 ) Wedding Bells - Godley & Creme 15 ( -- ) Rock 'N' Roll - Status Quo 16 ( 7 ) Young Turks - Rod Stewart (#5) 17 ( 6 ) Open Your Heart - Human League (#1[4]) 18 ( 16 ) Flashback - Imagination (#16) 19 ( 14 ) Trouble - Lindsey Buckingham (#14) 20 ( -- ) Good Morning Universe - Toyah
21 ( 29 ) We Kill The World (Don't Kill The World) - Boney M 22 ( 30 ) Sweetest Girl - Scritti Politti 23 ( -- ) The Land Of Make Believe - Bucks Fizz 24 ( 11 ) Let's Groove - Earth Wind & Fire (#7) 25 ( 21 ) Turn Your Love Around - George Benson (#21) 26 ( -- ) My Own Way - Duran Duran 27 ( 15 ) The Lunatics Have Taken Over The Asylum - Fun Boy Three (#13) 28 ( -- ) This Is Radio Clash - Clash 29 ( 34 ) Poor Man's Son - Survivor 30 ( 24 ) Penthouse And Pavement - Heaven 17 (#24)
31 ( 27 ) Paint Me Down - Spandau Ballet (#27) 32 ( 37 ) Can't Help Myself - Linx 33 ( 19 ) Harden My Heart - Quarterflash (#17) 34 ( 38 ) Colours Fly By - Teardrop Explodes 35 ( -- ) Disco Man - Damned 36 ( 42 ) Buona Sera - Bad Manners 37 ( 32 ) Throwing My Baby Out With The Bathwater - Tenpole Tudor (#32) 38 ( 43 ) Ride The Love Train - Light Of The World 39 ( 33 ) Yesterday's Songs - Neil Diamond (#33) 40 ( 18 ) Favourite Shirts (Boy Meets Girl) - Haircut 100 (#5)
41 ( 25 ) Chihuahua - Bow Wow Wow (#21) 42 ( 36 ) Indian Reservation - 999 (#36) 43 ( 22 ) Tears Are Not Enough - ABC (#11) 44 ( 31 ) No Reply At All - Genesis (#27) 45 ( 41 ) Starchild - Level 42 (#41) 46 ( 23 ) Labelled With Love - Squeeze (#2[3]) 47 ( 44 ) Heart Like A Wheel - Steve Miller Band (#44) 48 ( -- ) I Wouldn't Have Missed It For The World - Ronnie Milsap 49 ( 28 ) Joan Of Arc - Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark (#9) 50 ( 26 ) Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic - Police (#3)
-- ( 35 ) Tom Sawyer (Live) - Rush (#19) -- ( 39 ) Leather And Lace - Stevie Nicks & Don Henley (#33) -- ( 40 ) Tonight I'm Yours - Rod Stewart (#5) -- ( 45 ) Our Lips Are Sealed - Go-Gos (#16) -- ( 46 ) Never Again - Classix Nouveaux (#38) -- ( 47 ) Yes Tonight Josephine - Jets (#27) -- ( 48 ) Good Year For The Roses - Elvis Costello (#4) -- ( 49 ) Ay Ay Ay Ay Moosey - Modern Romance (#43) -- ( 50 ) O Superman - Laurie Anderson (#11)
-- ( -- ) Cool Night - Paul Davis -- ( -- ) Wild Is The Wind - David Bowie -- ( -- ) Footsteps - Showaddywaddy -- ( -- ) Comin' In And Out Of Your Life - Barbra Streisand
A 3rd week at #1 for Queen & David Bowie, and in the UK this was its second week on top where it didn't look in any danger (at least to me) of losing its crown the next week but somehow it lost sales and Julio Iglesias who had just edged up slowly to #2 made its way to the top.
In this chart, it does look very much in danger of losing its top place next week as Meat Loaf, together with Cher, fly in at #3 with "Dead Ringer For Love". Officially Cher was not credited on the label although the album does credit on the side "female vocal on Dead Ringer For Love: Cher". Ellen Foley was perhaps given a more distinct credit on "Paradise By The Dashboard Light" and it could all possibly have been contractual agreements with Cher's record label at the time as to whether she was allowed a full credit. In any case, it's a duet and she gets a credit here. She has previously reached NM #1 once before, with "Gypsys Tramps And Thieves" and Meat Loaf has topped the chart twice previously.
For J Geils Band, this is their 7th NM hit, the first dating back to 1972 when "Looking For A Love" reached #13.
Status Quo normally play rock 'n' roll music but now they're just singing about it - this song is a slow-paced ballad.
Bucks Fizz come in lower down below Toyah but above Duran Duran.
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Post by Good Old Days on Sept 11, 2022 17:54:51 GMT 1
I was sure in # 1 debut for Meat Loaf and Cher duet.
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