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Post by Earl Purple on Mar 21, 2023 21:51:51 GMT 1
25 September 1982
1 ( 1 ) All Of My Heart - ABC < 3rd week at #1 > 2 ( 10 ) The Bitterest Pill (I Ever Had To Swallow) - Jam 3 ( 2 ) Save A Prayer - Duran Duran (#1[2]) 4 ( 5 ) Just What I Always Wanted - Mari Wilson 5 ( 4 ) Gloria - Laura Branigan (#4) 6 ( 3 ) Private Investigations - Dire Straits (#3) 7 ( 14 ) Do You Really Want To Hurt Me - Culture Club 8 ( 6 ) Invitations - Shakatak (#6) 9 ( 18 ) Zoom - Fat Larry's Band 10 ( -- ) Should I Stay Or Should I Go - Clash
11 ( 9 ) Valley Girl - Frank Zappa ft Moon Unit (#9) 12 ( 7 ) The Message - Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five (#5) 13 ( 16 ) Make Believe - Toto 14 ( 26 ) Friend Or Foe - Adam Ant 15 ( 8 ) Hot In The City - Billy Idol (#1[1]) 16 ( 21 ) Paris By Air - Tygers Of Pan Tang 17 ( 11 ) Nobody's Fool - Haircut 100 (#7) 18 ( 12 ) Love Come Down - Evelyn King (#10) 19 ( -- ) Pass The Dutchie - Musical Youth 20 ( 19 ) Keeps Me Wondering Why - Steve Miller Band (#19)
21 ( 17 ) There It Is - Shalamar (#17) 22 ( 33 ) Danger Games - Pinkees 23 ( 15 ) Glittering Prize - Simple Minds (#12) 24 ( -- ) Take A Chance With Me - Roxy Music 25 ( 22 ) New World Man - Rush (#22) 26 ( 13 ) Hi Fidelity - Kids From Fame (#3) 27 ( 28 ) Voyeur - Kim Carnes 28 ( -- ) Reap The Wild Wind - Ultravox 29 ( 39 ) Give Me Some Kinda Magic - Dollar 30 ( 31 ) Halfway Up Halfway Down - Dennis Brown
31 ( 27 ) The Boom Boom Room - Natasha (#27) 32 ( -- ) Heart Attack - Olivia Newton-John 33 ( 43 ) Bits Of Kids - Stiff Little Fingers 34 ( -- ) From Head To Toe - Elvis Costello & The Attractions 35 ( 24 ) I Keep Forgettin' (Every Time You're Near) - Michael McDonald (#20) 36 ( 20 ) The River - King Trigger (#6) 37 ( 45 ) Jeanette - Beat 38 ( -- ) Gypsy - Fleetwood Mac 39 ( 35 ) Do Ya Wanna Funk - Sylvester & Patrick Cowley (#35) 40 ( 25 ) Leave In Silence - Depeche Mode (#19)
41 ( 23 ) Why - Carly Simon (#12) 42 ( 48 ) Where's Romeo - Cava Cava 43 ( -- ) Don't Fight It - Kenny Loggins & Steve Perry 44 ( 38 ) Dancer - Michael Schenker Group (#38) 45 ( -- ) Where Do We Go From Here - Cliff Richard 46 ( 30 ) White Boys And Heroes - Gary Numan (#24) 47 ( 29 ) Do You Wanna Touch Me (Oh Yeah) - Joan Jett & The Blackhearts (#22) 48 ( 41 ) The Lover In You - Sugarhill Gang (#41) 49 ( 36 ) No No No - Nancy Nova (#34) 50 ( -- ) In The Heat Of The Night - Imagination
-- ( 32 ) What - Soft Cell (#10) -- ( 34 ) Jack And Diane - John Cougar (#3) -- ( 37 ) So Here I Am - UB40 (#27) -- ( 40 ) Spread A Little Happiness - Sting (#8) -- ( 42 ) Jump To It - Aretha Franklin (#38) -- ( 44 ) Magic Touch - Odyssey -- ( 46 ) You Dropped A Bomb On Me - Gap Band -- ( 47 ) I Know There's Something Going On - Frida (#18) -- ( 49 ) Saddle Up - David Christie (#13) -- ( 50 ) I Eat Cannibals - Toto Coelo (#5)
-- ( -- ) Chances - Hot Chocolate -- ( -- ) Shock The Monkey - Peter Gabriel -- ( -- ) Ribbon In The Sky - Stevie Wonder -- ( -- ) I Can't Help It - Junior -- ( -- ) Total Erasure - Philip Jap
Some more big acts entering, many of them having been used in Haven Factor including one of my own acts although I didn't play that song of his, and one of my acts also not entering this week.
In any case, the song that came back in 1991 enters for the Clash as the highest entry at #10. They have already had an NM #1 with "London Calling" right at the start of the 1980s - that was the first new number one of the decade. There is a lot of strong competition against it.
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Post by Earl Purple on Mar 26, 2023 15:02:59 GMT 1
2 October 1982
1 ( 1 ) All Of My Heart - ABC < 4th week at #1 > 2 ( 2 ) The Bitterest Pill (I Ever Had To Swallow) - Jam 3 ( 10 ) Should I Stay Or Should I Go - Clash 4 ( 7 ) Do You Really Want To Hurt Me - Culture Club 5 ( 9 ) Zoom - Fat Larry's Band 6 ( 4 ) Just What I Always Wanted - Mari Wilson (#4) 7 ( -- ) Mad World - Tears For Fears 8 ( 3 ) Save A Prayer - Duran Duran (#1[2]) 9 ( -- ) Back On The Chain Gang - Pretenders 10 ( 5 ) Gloria - Laura Branigan (#4)
11 ( 19 ) Pass The Dutchie - Musical Youth 12 ( 14 ) Friend Or Foe - Adam Ant 13 ( -- ) Up Where We Belong - Joe Cocker & Jennifer Warnes 14 ( 6 ) Private Investigations - Dire Straits (#3) 15 ( 24 ) Take A Chance With Me - Roxy Music 16 ( 8 ) Invitations - Shakatak (#6) 17 ( 13 ) Make Believe - Toto (#13) 18 ( -- ) Jackie Wilson Said - Dexy's Midnight Runners 19 ( 16 ) Paris By Air - Tygers Of Pan Tang (#16) 20 ( 28 ) Reap The Wild Wind - Ultravox
21 ( -- ) Lifeline - Spandau Ballet 22 ( 11 ) Valley Girl - Frank Zappa ft Moon Unit (#9) 23 ( 22 ) Danger Games - Pinkees (#22) 24 ( 32 ) Heart Attack - Olivia Newton-John 25 ( -- ) Starmaker - Kids From Fame 26 ( 12 ) The Message - Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five (#5) 27 ( 34 ) From Head To Toe - Elvis Costello & The Attractions 28 ( -- ) Heartlight - Neil Diamond 29 ( 20 ) Keeps Me Wondering Why - Steve Miller Band (#19) 30 ( 29 ) Give Me Some Kinda Magic - Dollar (#29)
31 ( 38 ) Gypsy - Fleetwood Mac 32 ( 15 ) Hot In The City - Billy Idol (#1[1]) 33 ( 17 ) Nobody's Fool - Haircut 100 (#7) 34 ( 18 ) Love Come Down - Evelyn King (#10) 35 ( -- ) Athena - Who 36 ( 21 ) There It Is - Shalamar (#17) 37 ( 33 ) Bits Of Kids - Stiff Little Fingers (#33) 38 ( 27 ) Voyeur - Kim Carnes (#27) 39 ( 43 ) Don't Fight It - Kenny Loggins & Steve Perry 40 ( 25 ) New World Man - Rush (#22)
41 ( 30 ) Halfway Up Halfway Down - Dennis Brown (#30) 42 ( 45 ) Where Do We Go From Here - Cliff Richard 43 ( 37 ) Jeanette - Beat (#37) 44 ( 23 ) Glittering Prize - Simple Minds (#12) 45 ( 50 ) In The Heat Of The Night - Imagination 46 ( 31 ) The Boom Boom Room - Natasha (#27) 47 ( 42 ) Where's Romeo - Cava Cava (#42) 48 ( -- ) Weave Your Spell - Level 42 49 ( 26 ) Hi Fidelity - Kids From Fame (#3) 50 ( 39 ) Do Ya Wanna Funk - Sylvester & Patrick Cowley (#35)
-- ( 35 ) I Keep Forgettin' (Every Time You're Near) - Michael McDonald (#20) -- ( 36 ) The River - King Trigger (#6) -- ( 40 ) Leave In Silence - Depeche Mode (#19) -- ( 41 ) Why - Carly Simon (#12) -- ( 44 ) Dancer - Michael Schenker Group (#38) -- ( 46 ) White Boys And Heroes - Gary Numan (#24) -- ( 47 ) Do You Wanna Touch Me (Oh Yeah) - Joan Jett & The Blackhearts (#22) -- ( 48 ) The Lover In You - Sugarhill Gang (#41) -- ( 49 ) No No No - Nancy Nova (#34)
-- ( -- ) You Keep Runnin' Away - 38 Special -- ( -- ) Sweet Time - REO Speedwagon -- ( -- ) Parade - White And Torch -- ( -- ) Never Give You Up - Sharon Redd
Two classics from Tears For Fears and The Pretenders enter inside the top 10. Strangely enough "Back On The Chain Gang" didn't reach the UK top 10 but in the USA it was their biggest hit, peaking at #5.
"Up Where We Belong" wouldn't reach the UK chart until 1983 but in the USA it was a hit now.
Perhaps when I did sporting achievements of the year I might have included darts, because Jocky Wilson was the champion, and he was made famous in music by his backdrop on Top of the Pops. They ran a story on how it was meant to look like BBC producers were stupid with no knowledge of music and wouldn't know who Jackie Wilson was, but in reality the whole thing was a ploy by Kevin Rowland. The song was written and originally performed by Van Morrison. A cover of a Jackie Wilson hit though is on its way shortly.
After another Spandau Ballet hit there is another cover version - Starmaker was originally recorded by one of its songwriters, Bruce Roberts. He wrote the music, Carole Bayer-Sager wrote the lyrics. Michael Thoma, who played Mr Crandell in the TV series Fame, was in real life dying of cancer, and the song was done as a "tribute" to his character in the series, but in reality was a tribute to Michael Thoma, who died in September 1982.
Heartlight by Neil Diamond was his last US top 5 hit, peaking at #5 there, and was based on the ET story but wasn't part of the film soundtrack.
And "Athena" was the parting track from the Who.
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Post by Good Old Days on Mar 26, 2023 19:17:45 GMT 1
"Up Where We Belong" left my chart after one week at # 19.
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Post by Earl Purple on Mar 29, 2023 0:01:21 GMT 1
9 October 1982
1 ( 1 ) All Of My Heart - ABC < 5th week at #1 > 2 ( 3 ) Should I Stay Or Should I Go - Clash 3 ( 7 ) Mad World - Tears For Fears 4 ( 2 ) The Bitterest Pill (I Ever Had To Swallow) - Jam (#2[2]) 5 ( 9 ) Back On The Chain Gang - Pretenders 6 ( 4 ) Do You Really Want To Hurt Me - Culture Club (#4) 7 ( 5 ) Zoom - Fat Larry's Band (#5) 8 ( 13 ) Up Where We Belong - Joe Cocker & Jennifer Warnes 9 ( 18 ) Jackie Wilson Said - Dexy's Midnight Runners 10 ( 11 ) Pass The Dutchie - Musical Youth
11 ( -- ) Valerie - Steve Winwood 12 ( 21 ) Lifeline - Spandau Ballet 13 ( 6 ) Just What I Always Wanted - Mari Wilson (#4) 14 ( 15 ) Take A Chance With Me - Roxy Music 15 ( 12 ) Friend Or Foe - Adam Ant (#12) 16 ( 25 ) Starmaker - Kids From Fame 17 ( 28 ) Heartlight - Neil Diamond 18 ( 8 ) Save A Prayer - Duran Duran (#1[2]) 19 ( 20 ) Reap The Wild Wind - Ultravox 20 ( 10 ) Gloria - Laura Branigan (#4)
21 ( -- ) Annie I'm Not Your Daddy - Kid Creole & The Coconuts 22 ( 24 ) Heart Attack - Olivia Newton-John 23 ( 35 ) Athena - Who 24 ( 17 ) Make Believe - Toto (#13) 25 ( 27 ) From Head To Toe - Elvis Costello & The Attractions 26 ( 14 ) Private Investigations - Dire Straits (#3) 27 ( 19 ) Paris By Air - Tygers Of Pan Tang (#16) 28 ( 16 ) Invitations - Shakatak (#6) 29 ( 23 ) Danger Games - Pinkees (#22) 30 ( 31 ) Gypsy - Fleetwood Mac
31 ( -- ) Be Proud Be Loud (Be Heard) - Toyah 32 ( -- ) Nobody - Sylvia 33 ( 30 ) Give Me Some Kinda Magic - Dollar (#29) 34 ( -- ) Amor - Julio Iglesias 35 ( 48 ) Weave Your Spell - Level 42 36 ( 22 ) Valley Girl - Frank Zappa ft Moon Unit (#9) 37 ( -- ) Life In Tokyo - Japan 38 ( 39 ) Don't Fight It - Kenny Loggins & Steve Perry 39 ( 29 ) Keeps Me Wondering Why - Steve Miller Band (#19) 40 ( 42 ) Where Do We Go From Here - Cliff Richard
41 ( -- ) Ziggy Stardust - Bauhaus 42 ( 26 ) The Message - Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five (#5) 43 ( 45 ) In The Heat Of The Night - Imagination 44 ( -- ) Tug Of War - Paul McCartney 45 ( 37 ) Bits Of Kids - Stiff Little Fingers (#33) 46 ( -- ) Somebody To Love - Jets 47 ( -- ) I Get Excited - Rick Springfield 48 ( 38 ) Voyeur - Kim Carnes (#27) 49 ( 33 ) Nobody's Fool - Haircut 100 (#7) 50 ( 32 ) Hot In The City - Billy Idol (#1[1])
-- ( 34 ) Love Come Down - Evelyn King (#10) -- ( 36 ) There It Is - Shalamar (#17) -- ( 40 ) New World Man - Rush (#22) -- ( 41 ) Halfway Up Halfway Down - Dennis Brown (#30) -- ( 43 ) Jeanette - Beat (#37) -- ( 44 ) Glittering Prize - Simple Minds (#12) -- ( 46 ) The Boom Boom Room - Natasha (#27) -- ( 47 ) Where's Romeo - Cava Cava (#42) -- ( 49 ) Hi Fidelity - Kids From Fame (#3) -- ( 50 ) Do Ya Wanna Funk - Sylvester & Patrick Cowley (#35)
-- ( -- ) Love's Comin' At Ya - Melba Moore -- ( -- ) Burning Down One Side - Robert Plant -- ( -- ) Slowdive - Siouxsie & The Banshees -- ( -- ) Southern Cross - Crosby Stills And Nash -- ( -- ) Signed Sealed Delivered (I'm Yours) - Boys Town Gang
ABC holds on for a 5th week in spite of tremendous pressure from the Clash, Tears For Fears and The Pretenders, the latter climbing to #5 as the Jam stay in the top 4 but fall out of contention. Meanwhile they are joined by the classic "Valerie" by Steve Winwood, which missed the top 40 but did come back in 1987.
The highest peaking single in the UK by Kid Creole & The Coconuts which had a strange run that saw it leap from #9 to #2 only to fall back to #6 the following week. The last time before this a single spent its only week in the top 5 at #2 was in 1976, "The Killing Of Georgie" by Rod Stewart, which climbed from #8 to #6 then #2 then fell back to #8. Earlier in the year "Da Da Da" came close, climbing from #7 to #2 then dropping back to #5. Prior to Rod Stewart, Andy Kim had a similar sort of run with "Rock Me Gently" in 1974.
(And yes, there has never been such a run on the NM chart, well maybe a Christmas song but I don't even know if one of those has done it).
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Post by Earl Purple on Mar 30, 2023 20:56:10 GMT 1
16 October 1982
1 ( 3 ) Mad World - Tears For Fears < 1st #1 > 2 ( 1 ) All Of My Heart - ABC (#1[5]) 3 ( 5 ) Back On The Chain Gang - Pretenders 4 ( 2 ) Should I Stay Or Should I Go - Clash (#2[1]) 5 ( 11 ) Valerie - Steve Winwood 6 ( 8 ) Up Where We Belong - Joe Cocker & Jennifer Warnes 7 ( 9 ) Jackie Wilson Said - Dexy's Midnight Runners 8 ( 4 ) The Bitterest Pill (I Ever Had To Swallow) - Jam (#2[2]) 9 ( 12 ) Lifeline - Spandau Ballet 10 ( -- ) Steppin' Out - Joe Jackson
11 ( 21 ) Annie I'm Not Your Daddy - Kid Creole & The Coconuts 12 ( 6 ) Do You Really Want To Hurt Me - Culture Club (#4) 13 ( -- ) Young Guns (Got For It) - Wham! 14 ( 7 ) Zoom - Fat Larry's Band (#5) 15 ( 10 ) Pass The Dutchie - Musical Youth (#10) 16 ( 16 ) Starmaker - Kids From Fame 17 ( 17 ) Heartlight - Neil Diamond 18 ( -- ) I Don't Wanna Dance - Eddy Grant 19 ( 14 ) Take A Chance With Me - Roxy Music (#14) 20 ( 23 ) Athena - Who
21 ( 31 ) Be Proud Be Loud (Be Heard) - Toyah 22 ( 32 ) Nobody - Sylvia 23 ( 15 ) Friend Or Foe - Adam Ant (#12) 24 ( 34 ) Amor - Julio Iglesias 25 ( 19 ) Reap The Wild Wind - Ultravox (#19) 26 ( -- ) Pressure - Billy Joel 27 ( -- ) Cry Boy Cry - Blue Zoo 28 ( 13 ) Just What I Always Wanted - Mari Wilson (#4) 29 ( 22 ) Heart Attack - Olivia Newton-John (#22) 30 ( 37 ) Life In Tokyo - Japan
31 ( -- ) Child Come Away - Kim Wilde 32 ( 25 ) From Head To Toe - Elvis Costello & The Attractions (#25) 33 ( -- ) Ooh La La La (Let's Go Dancin') - Kool & The Gang 34 ( -- ) Muscles - Diana Ross 35 ( 41 ) Ziggy Stardust - Bauhaus 36 ( 35 ) Weave Your Spell - Level 42 (#35) 37 ( -- ) I Wanna Do It With You - Barry Manilow 38 ( 18 ) Save A Prayer - Duran Duran (#1[2]) 39 ( 44 ) Tug Of War - Paul McCartney 40 ( -- ) 101 Dam-Nations - Scarlet Party
41 ( 30 ) Gypsy - Fleetwood Mac (#30) 42 ( 20 ) Gloria - Laura Branigan (#4) 43 ( 46 ) Somebody To Love - Jets 44 ( -- ) I'll Be Satisfield - Shakin' Stevens 45 ( 24 ) Make Believe - Toto (#13) 46 ( 47 ) I Get Excited - Rick Springfield 47 ( 29 ) Danger Games - Pinkees (#22) 48 ( 27 ) Paris By Air - Tygers Of Pan Tang (#16) 49 ( -- ) Zambezi - Piranhas 50 ( 33 ) Give Me Some Kinda Magic - Dollar (#29)
-- ( 26 ) Private Investigations - Dire Straits (#3) -- ( 28 ) Invitations - Shakatak (#6) -- ( 36 ) Valley Girl - Frank Zappa ft Moon Unit (#9) -- ( 38 ) Don't Fight It - Kenny Loggins & Steve Perry -- ( 39 ) Keeps Me Wondering Why - Steve Miller Band (#19) -- ( 40 ) Where Do We Go From Here - Cliff Richard -- ( 42 ) The Message - Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five (#5) -- ( 43 ) In The Heat Of The Night - Imagination -- ( 45 ) Bits Of Kids - Stiff Little Fingers (#33) -- ( 48 ) Voyeur - Kim Carnes (#27) -- ( 49 ) Nobody's Fool - Haircut 100 (#7) -- ( 50 ) Hot In The City - Billy Idol (#1[1])
-- ( -- ) American Heartbeat - Survivor -- ( -- ) Do It To The Music - Raw Silk -- ( -- ) Mockingbird - Belle Stars
Mad World makes it up to #1 in what is just a totally brilliant chart. Surprisingly "Steppin' Out" enters now from the US top 40, before Joe Jackson charts here next year.
Welcome to Wham! We know George Michael is going to pile up a load of number ones.
Eddy Grant returns with the song that will be a UK #1 for him. And then another bunch of entries including the only UK top 10 hit for Barry Manilow. It won't make the top 10 here but he has had a few top 10 hits on this chart, as well as a number that have failed to chart. This one has at least charted, and might have done so higher in a less competitive chart.
More cover versions lower down, "Jackie Wilson Said" is a cover in the top 10 and Jackie Wilson did the original of "I'll Be Satisfied" which was an NM #1, the second time Shaky has covered an NM #1 as "Green Door" was also an NM #1 in the 50s. Zambezi is also a cover of a 50s hit, #6 for him in 1956. His version was mostly instrumental, but there is a chorus singing "Zambezi Zambezi Zambezi" at the start.
After a UK #1 and NM top 5 hit with "Eye Of The Tiger", Survivor fail to get in this week. The Belle Stars will be back in 1983 with original songs.
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Post by Earl Purple on Apr 2, 2023 16:01:14 GMT 1
23 October 1982
1 ( 1 ) Mad World - Tears For Fears < 2nd week at #1 > 2 ( 3 ) Back On The Chain Gang - Pretenders 3 ( 5 ) Valerie - Steve Winwood 4 ( 2 ) All Of My Heart - ABC (#1[5]) 5 ( 10 ) Steppin' Out - Joe Jackson 6 ( 13 ) Young Guns (Got For It) - Wham! 7 ( 6 ) Up Where We Belong - Joe Cocker & Jennifer Warnes (#6) 8 ( 7 ) Jackie Wilson Said - Dexy's Midnight Runners (#7) 9 ( 18 ) I Don't Wanna Dance - Eddy Grant 10 ( 11 ) Annie I'm Not Your Daddy - Kid Creole & The Coconuts
11 ( 4 ) Should I Stay Or Should I Go - Clash (#2[1]) 12 ( -- ) Don't Pay The Ferryman - Chris De Burgh 13 ( 9 ) Lifeline - Spandau Ballet (#9) 14 ( -- ) Young Love - Air Supply 15 ( 26 ) Pressure - Billy Joel 16 ( 27 ) Cry Boy Cry - Blue Zoo 17 ( 8 ) The Bitterest Pill (I Ever Had To Swallow) - Jam (#2[2]) 18 ( -- ) Heartbreaker - Dionne Warwick 19 ( -- ) The Day Before You Came - Abba 20 ( 21 ) Be Proud Be Loud (Be Heard) - Toyah
21 ( 22 ) Nobody - Sylvia 22 ( 31 ) Child Come Away - Kim Wilde 23 ( 16 ) Starmaker - Kids From Fame (#16) 24 ( -- ) I Can't Help Myself - Orange Juice 25 ( 24 ) Amor - Julio Iglesias (#24) 26 ( 17 ) Heartlight - Neil Diamond (#17) 27 ( 33 ) Ooh La La La (Let's Go Dancin') - Kool & The Gang 28 ( 20 ) Athena - Who (#20) 29 ( 12 ) Do You Really Want To Hurt Me - Culture Club (#4) 30 ( 34 ) Muscles - Diana Ross
31 ( 15 ) Pass The Dutchie - Musical Youth (#10) 32 ( -- ) Annie Get Your Gun - Squeeze 33 ( 37 ) I Wanna Do It With You - Barry Manilow 34 ( 14 ) Zoom - Fat Larry's Band (#5) 35 ( 19 ) Take A Chance With Me - Roxy Music (#14) 36 ( 40 ) 101 Dam-Nations - Scarlet Party 37 ( 30 ) Life In Tokyo - Japan (#30) 38 ( 44 ) I'll Be Satisfield - Shakin' Stevens 39 ( 35 ) Ziggy Stardust - Bauhaus (#35) 40 ( 25 ) Reap The Wild Wind - Ultravox (#19)
41 ( 23 ) Friend Or Foe - Adam Ant (#12) 42 ( -- ) Truly - Lionel Richie 43 ( 49 ) Zambezi - Piranhas 44 ( 39 ) Tug Of War - Paul McCartney (#39) 45 ( 29 ) Heart Attack - Olivia Newton-John (#22) 46 ( 36 ) Weave Your Spell - Level 42 (#35) 47 ( -- ) Thru' These Walls - Phil Collins 48 ( 32 ) From Head To Toe - Elvis Costello & The Attractions (#25) 49 ( 43 ) Somebody To Love - Jets (#43) 50 ( 28 ) Just What I Always Wanted - Mari Wilson (#4)
-- ( 38 ) Save A Prayer - Duran Duran (#1[2]) -- ( 41 ) Gypsy - Fleetwood Mac (#30) -- ( 42 ) Gloria - Laura Branigan (#4) -- ( 45 ) Make Believe - Toto (#13) -- ( 46 ) I Get Excited - Rick Springfield -- ( 47 ) Danger Games - Pinkees (#22) -- ( 48 ) Paris By Air - Tygers Of Pan Tang (#16) -- ( 50 ) Give Me Some Kinda Magic - Dollar (#29)
-- ( -- ) Love Me Tomorrow - Chicago -- ( -- ) Get Closer - Linda Ronstadt
Tears For Fears remain on top ahead of the Pretenders and Steve Winwood.
Chris De Burgh leads the new entries with his most classic song although the UK singles chart doesn't show it as being that way. He was a former Haven Factor act as were Abba and Squeeze in the most recent contest who played their song on this chart quite early on. Dionne Warwick, Lionel Richie and Phil Collins have never been in the Haven Factor, and the latter two were of course both in groups too, whilst the lead singer of Orange Juice had more hits when he later went solo. The Orange Juice song is not a cover of the Four Tops but mentions them in the chorus.. "Just like the Four Tops, I can't help myself.."
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Post by Earl Purple on Apr 3, 2023 15:19:38 GMT 1
Scoring up my next playlist which has 18 classic songs, yes 18.
Renee & Renato isn't among them, and there are a few others that also rank above that one, but not "The Girl Is Mine" - that one is even lower.
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Post by Good Old Days on Apr 4, 2023 10:59:46 GMT 1
Scoring up my next playlist which has 18 classic songs, yes 18. Renee & Renato isn't among them, and there are a few others that also rank above that one, but not "The Girl Is Mine" - that one is even lower. For everybody his/her personal. "Save Your Love" is classic song, which was a hit almost everywhere.
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Post by Earl Purple on Apr 4, 2023 11:45:35 GMT 1
The biggest issue I have with "Save My Love" as has been the case for a few other songs, is that the melody doesn't change at all, it just repeats the same thing again and again until the end.
In the scheme of things though it finished 22nd out of 42 whilst The Girl Is Mine finished 25th, and there are songs technically better than both that finished lower maybe due to me not knowing them at the time or building up any kind of love for them at all. "Holy Joe" by Haysi Fantaysee completely passed me by, I only remembered "John Wayne Is Big Leggy" and "Shiny Shiny". Toto Coelo is higher than both though with their Dracula's Tango song.
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Post by Earl Purple on Apr 9, 2023 12:53:27 GMT 1
30 October 1982
1 ( 3 ) Valerie - Steve Winwood < 1st #1 > 2 ( 1 ) Mad World - Tears For Fears (#1[2]) 3 ( 2 ) Back On The Chain Gang - Pretenders (#2[1]) 4 ( 5 ) Steppin' Out - Joe Jackson 5 ( 6 ) Young Guns (Got For It) - Wham! 6 ( 12 ) Don't Pay The Ferryman - Chris De Burgh 7 ( 9 ) I Don't Wanna Dance - Eddy Grant 8 ( 4 ) All Of My Heart - ABC (#1[5]) 9 ( 14 ) Young Love - Air Supply 10 ( 18 ) Heartbreaker - Dionne Warwick
11 ( 19 ) The Day Before You Came - Abba 12 ( -- ) Living On The Ceiling - Blancmange 13 ( -- ) It's Raining Again - Supertramp 14 ( 7 ) Up Where We Belong - Joe Cocker & Jennifer Warnes (#6) 15 ( 15 ) Pressure - Billy Joel 16 ( 10 ) Annie I'm Not Your Daddy - Kid Creole & The Coconuts (#10) 17 ( -- ) Maneater - Daryl Hall & John Oates 18 ( 8 ) Jackie Wilson Said - Dexy's Midnight Runners (#7) 19 ( 16 ) Cry Boy Cry - Blue Zoo (#16) 20 ( 24 ) I Can't Help Myself - Orange Juice
21 ( -- ) I.G.Y. (What A Beautiful World) - Donald Fagen 22 ( -- ) I'm So Excited - Pointer Sisters 23 ( -- ) Sexual Healing - Marvin Gaye 24 ( 22 ) Child Come Away - Kim Wilde (#22) 25 ( 32 ) Annie Get Your Gun - Squeeze 26 ( 13 ) Lifeline - Spandau Ballet (#9) 27 ( 11 ) Should I Stay Or Should I Go - Clash (#2[1]) 28 ( 20 ) Be Proud Be Loud (Be Heard) - Toyah (#20) 29 ( -- ) Let Me Go - Heaven 17 30 ( 21 ) Nobody - Sylvia (#21)
31 ( 27 ) Ooh La La La (Let's Go Dancin') - Kool & The Gang (#27) 32 ( 17 ) The Bitterest Pill (I Ever Had To Swallow) - Jam (#2[2]) 33 ( 25 ) Amor - Julio Iglesias (#24) 34 ( 42 ) Truly - Lionel Richie 35 ( 30 ) Muscles - Diana Ross (#30) 36 ( -- ) The Apple Stretching - Grace Jones 37 ( -- ) Save Your Love - Renée & Renato 38 ( -- ) The End.. Or The Beginning - Classix Nouveaux 39 ( 33 ) I Wanna Do It With You - Barry Manilow (#33) 40 ( 23 ) Starmaker - Kids From Fame (#16)
41 ( -- ) Subdivisions - Rush 42 ( 47 ) Thru' These Walls - Phil Collins 43 ( 36 ) 101 Dam-Nations - Scarlet Party (#36) 44 ( 38 ) I'll Be Satisfield - Shakin' Stevens (#38) 45 ( -- ) Passion In Dark Rooms - Mood 46 ( 26 ) Heartlight - Neil Diamond (#17) 47 ( 28 ) Athena - Who (#20) 48 ( -- ) Samson And Delilah - Bad Manners 49 ( 43 ) Zambezi - Piranhas (#43) 50 ( -- ) I Need You - Paul Carrack
-- ( 29 ) Do You Really Want To Hurt Me - Culture Club (#4) -- ( 31 ) Pass The Dutchie - Musical Youth (#10) -- ( 34 ) Zoom - Fat Larry's Band (#5) -- ( 35 ) Take A Chance With Me - Roxy Music (#14) -- ( 37 ) Life In Tokyo - Japan (#30) -- ( 39 ) Ziggy Stardust - Bauhaus (#35) -- ( 40 ) Reap The Wild Wind - Ultravox (#19) -- ( 41 ) Friend Or Foe - Adam Ant (#12) -- ( 44 ) Tug Of War - Paul McCartney (#39) -- ( 45 ) Heart Attack - Olivia Newton-John (#22) -- ( 46 ) Weave Your Spell - Level 42 (#35) -- ( 48 ) From Head To Toe - Elvis Costello & The Attractions (#25) -- ( 49 ) Somebody To Love - Jets (#43) -- ( 50 ) Just What I Always Wanted - Mari Wilson (#4)
-- ( -- ) Birds Of A Feature - Killing Joke -- ( -- ) Old Flames - Foster & Allen -- ( -- ) Don't Make Me Wait - Peech Boys
So back in 1982 Tears For Fears spent more weeks at #1 but "Valerie" was a #1 in 1987 and in the replay chart it is only going to chart in 1982 and not in 1987. On the other hand "Here I Go Again" is a completely different version in 1987 and so "Bloody Luxury" which was listed as a double A-side is being charted now in 1982. It is on this playlist but not this week.
Another song seemingly entering early is "I'm So Excited" by the Pointer Sisters which was originally an NM hit in 1984.
Only the second best song of the 1980s with the title starting "Living On" (or "Livin' On").. ok we those two were in a sing-off together, the only time I ever won one. But I haven't been in a sing-off for the last 2 editions and that sing-off possibly shouldn't have happened as "Blood On Blood" was far more deserving to go through than Cliff Richard's cover of "The Air That I Breathe", and incidentally, in the next edition it will not be permitted in the non-single round to play a song that was a hit single for another artist, regardless of which one is the original.
We haven't yet seen Supertramp in Haven Factor - but their last UK top 40 hit enters this week. Hall & Oates have been in it - their biggest UK hit, their second and final top 10 hit in the UK but they had another number one after this in the USA, gets an entry. What will also be the last UK hit for Marvin Gaye who would live only another 17 months, I always felt it was one rule for some and another for others as "Sexual Healing" is quite explicit but wasn't banned from the radio at the time. And on Spotify it doesn't have the Explicit label, not sure why. Because it's Marvin Gaye and a soul classic?
Steely Dan were always cruelly overlooked in the UK with very little chart success and that extended to Donald Fagen's solo career where I.G.Y wasn't a hit although it got some airplay.
Heaven 17's single also missed the top 40. But then the UK did prefer Renée & Renato, whose rather repetitive song made a slow climb up to being Christmas #1. There is it - at #37. But don't expect a slow climb to the top here, maybe #25 will be its peak, the same as Shaddap You Face. Or #27, the peak position for "Seven Tears" by the Goombay Dance Band, whose follow-up "Sun Of Jamaica" reached NM #25 (after entering at #37, the position Save Your Love entered in here).
To be fair, if you listen to that Grace Jones song just above it, it's rather good and yet has only just about done better.
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Post by Whitneyfan on Apr 10, 2023 13:36:30 GMT 1
Shocked that the amazing 'Gypsy' only made #30, although that's still better than it did on the actual chart!
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Post by Earl Purple on Apr 11, 2023 9:51:49 GMT 1
6 November 1982
1 ( 1 ) Valerie - Steve Winwood < 2nd week at #1 > 2 ( 2 ) Mad World - Tears For Fears (#1[2]) 3 ( 6 ) Don't Pay The Ferryman - Chris De Burgh 4 ( 3 ) Back On The Chain Gang - Pretenders (#2[1]) 5 ( 4 ) Steppin' Out - Joe Jackson (#4) 6 ( 12 ) Living On The Ceiling - Blancmange 7 ( 13 ) It's Raining Again - Supertramp 8 ( 5 ) Young Guns (Got For It) - Wham! (#5) 9 ( -- ) State Of Independence - Donna Summer 10 ( 17 ) Maneater - Daryl Hall & John Oates
11 ( 7 ) I Don't Wanna Dance - Eddy Grant (#7) 12 ( 21 ) I.G.Y. (What A Beautiful World) - Donald Fagen 13 ( 10 ) Heartbreaker - Dionne Warwick (#10) 14 ( 9 ) Young Love - Air Supply (#9) 15 ( 11 ) The Day Before You Came - Abba (#11) 16 ( 8 ) All Of My Heart - ABC (#1[5]) 17 ( 22 ) I'm So Excited - Pointer Sisters 18 ( 23 ) Sexual Healing - Marvin Gaye 19 ( -- ) Wishing (If I Had A Photograph Of You) - A Flock Of Seagulls 20 ( 29 ) Let Me Go - Heaven 17
21 ( 15 ) Pressure - Billy Joel (#15) 22 ( 20 ) I Can't Help Myself - Orange Juice (#20) 23 ( -- ) Stranger - Shakatak 24 ( 25 ) Annie Get Your Gun - Squeeze 25 ( 36 ) The Apple Stretching - Grace Jones 26 ( 37 ) Save Your Love - Renée & Renato 27 ( 14 ) Up Where We Belong - Joe Cocker & Jennifer Warnes (#6) 28 ( -- ) Shadows Of The Night - Pat Benatar 29 ( 38 ) The End.. Or The Beginning - Classix Nouveaux 30 ( 16 ) Annie I'm Not Your Daddy - Kid Creole & The Coconuts (#10)
31 ( -- ) She Blinded Me With Science - Thomas Dolby 32 ( 19 ) Cry Boy Cry - Blue Zoo (#16) 33 ( -- ) Theme From Harry's Game - Clannad 34 ( -- ) Lies - Thompson Twins 35 ( 41 ) Subdivisions - Rush 36 ( -- ) Bloody Luxury - Whitesnake 37 ( 24 ) Child Come Away - Kim Wilde (#22) 38 ( 34 ) Truly - Lionel Richie (#34) 39 ( 18 ) Jackie Wilson Said - Dexy's Midnight Runners (#7) 40 ( 45 ) Passion In Dark Rooms - Mood
41 ( -- ) The Girl Is Mine - Michael Jackson & Paul McCartney 42 ( 48 ) Samson And Delilah - Bad Manners 43 ( 50 ) I Need You - Paul Carrack 44 ( 31 ) Ooh La La La (Let's Go Dancin') - Kool & The Gang (#27) 45 ( 28 ) Be Proud Be Loud (Be Heard) - Toyah (#20) 46 ( 42 ) Thru' These Walls - Phil Collins (#42) 47 ( 30 ) Nobody - Sylvia (#21) 48 ( 26 ) Lifeline - Spandau Ballet (#9) 49 ( 35 ) Muscles - Diana Ross (#30) 50 ( 33 ) Amor - Julio Iglesias (#24)
-- ( 27 ) Should I Stay Or Should I Go - Clash (#2[1]) -- ( 32 ) The Bitterest Pill (I Ever Had To Swallow) - Jam (#2[2]) -- ( 39 ) I Wanna Do It With You - Barry Manilow (#33) -- ( 40 ) Starmaker - Kids From Fame (#16) -- ( 43 ) 101 Dam-Nations - Scarlet Party (#36) -- ( 44 ) I'll Be Satisfield - Shakin' Stevens (#38) -- ( 46 ) Heartlight - Neil Diamond (#17) -- ( 47 ) Athena - Who (#20) -- ( 49 ) Zambezi - Piranhas (#43)
-- ( -- ) Louise - Phil Everly -- ( -- ) Knock Me Out - Gary's Gang
No change in the top 2 with Chris De Burg climbing into the top 3. The highest new entry is in my mind one of the greatest cover versions of all time - originally an album track by Jon & Vangelis (who wrote the song), picked up by Quincy Jones who wanted to do a big production of it, he brought in Donna Summer as the singer and full choirs and many other stars appear on this.
After a classic song "I Ran" which failed to reach the UK top 40 and "Space Age Love Song" which just scraped in, the next Flock Of Seagulls song "Wishing" made the top 10. It just came up on Heardle 80s too, and needless to say I got it in 1 (quite easy when it's only just been on my 80s playlist).
Shakatak get their 4th hit of the year (Easier Said Than Done was right at the end of 1981). Night Birds got to #1 and then we had Street Walkin' and Invitation.
More Pat Benatar, the debuts of the Thompson Twins and Clannad, the latter song getting to #5 in the UK chart and they had one more hit "In A Lifetime" with Bono which in the UK charted twice (in 1986 and 1989) but in this chart will chart only in 1986, and there may be some others I don't remember. In the meantime the Thompson Twins are going to be huge, particularly in 1984. Billy Idol had a #1 in 1982 and again in 2014, but Tom Bailey, if you count the Thompson Twins and his solo hit beats that, 1984 and 2018. "What Kind Of World" was the 3rd last ever NM #1.
I mentioned I'd be charting Bloody Luxury. "Here I Go Again" can wait for the 1987 version.
Not the best of starts from the album "Thriller" but fortunately a lot better to come, and this song was recorded after "Say Say Say" and "The Man" but was released as a single before.
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Post by Earl Purple on Apr 17, 2023 19:34:38 GMT 1
13 November 1982
1 ( 1 ) Valerie - Steve Winwood < 3rd week at #1 > 2 ( 9 ) State Of Independence - Donna Summer 3 ( 3 ) Don't Pay The Ferryman - Chris De Burgh 4 ( 2 ) Mad World - Tears For Fears (#1[2]) 5 ( 6 ) Living On The Ceiling - Blancmange 6 ( 7 ) It's Raining Again - Supertramp 7 ( 4 ) Back On The Chain Gang - Pretenders (#2[1]) 8 ( -- ) Rio - Duran Duran 9 ( 10 ) Maneater - Daryl Hall & John Oates 10 ( 12 ) I.G.Y. (What A Beautiful World) - Donald Fagen
11 ( 5 ) Steppin' Out - Joe Jackson (#4) 12 ( 19 ) Wishing (If I Had A Photograph Of You) - A Flock Of Seagulls 13 ( 17 ) I'm So Excited - Pointer Sisters 14 ( 23 ) Stranger - Shakatak 15 ( -- ) Best Years Of Our Lives - Modern Romance 16 ( 8 ) Young Guns (Got For It) - Wham! (#5) 17 ( 28 ) Shadows Of The Night - Pat Benatar 18 ( 20 ) Let Me Go - Heaven 17 19 ( 18 ) Sexual Healing - Marvin Gaye (#18) 20 ( 11 ) I Don't Wanna Dance - Eddy Grant (#7)
21 ( 31 ) She Blinded Me With Science - Thomas Dolby 22 ( -- ) Dirty Laundry - Don Henley 23 ( 13 ) Heartbreaker - Dionne Warwick (#10) 24 ( -- ) Dracula's Tango (Sucker For Your Love) - Toto Coelo 25 ( 33 ) Theme From Harry's Game - Clannad 26 ( 25 ) The Apple Stretching - Grace Jones (#25) 27 ( 34 ) Lies - Thompson Twins 28 ( 26 ) Save Your Love - Renée & Renato (#26) 29 ( 15 ) The Day Before You Came - Abba (#11) 30 ( 14 ) Young Love - Air Supply (#9)
31 ( 36 ) Bloody Luxury - Whitesnake 32 ( -- ) Someone Somewhere (In Summertime) - Simple Minds 33 ( 29 ) The End.. Or The Beginning - Classix Nouveaux (#29) 34 ( 24 ) Annie Get Your Gun - Squeeze (#24) 35 ( 16 ) All Of My Heart - ABC (#1[5]) 36 ( 22 ) I Can't Help Myself - Orange Juice (#20) 37 ( 41 ) The Girl Is Mine - Michael Jackson & Paul McCartney 38 ( 21 ) Pressure - Billy Joel (#15) 39 ( 35 ) Subdivisions - Rush (#35) 40 ( -- ) Missing You - Dan Fogelberg
41 ( -- ) Holy Joe - Haysi Fantayzee 42 ( 40 ) Passion In Dark Rooms - Mood (#40) 43 ( -- ) I Can See Her Now - Dramatis 44 ( 42 ) Samson And Delilah - Bad Manners (#42) 45 ( 43 ) I Need You - Paul Carrack (#43) 46 ( -- ) Heart Of Stone - Suzi Quatro 47 ( 27 ) Up Where We Belong - Joe Cocker & Jennifer Warnes (#6) 48 ( -- ) (Beware) Boyfriend - Mari Wilson 49 ( -- ) Pleasure Boys - Visage 50 ( 38 ) Truly - Lionel Richie (#34)
-- ( 30 ) Annie I'm Not Your Daddy - Kid Creole & The Coconuts (#10) -- ( 32 ) Cry Boy Cry - Blue Zoo (#16) -- ( 37 ) Child Come Away - Kim Wilde (#22) -- ( 39 ) Jackie Wilson Said - Dexy's Midnight Runners (#7) -- ( 44 ) Ooh La La La (Let's Go Dancin') - Kool & The Gang (#27) -- ( 45 ) Be Proud Be Loud (Be Heard) - Toyah (#20) -- ( 46 ) Thru' These Walls - Phil Collins (#42) -- ( 47 ) Nobody - Sylvia (#21) -- ( 48 ) Lifeline - Spandau Ballet (#9) -- ( 49 ) Muscles - Diana Ross (#30) -- ( 50 ) Amor - Julio Iglesias (#24)
-- ( -- ) Be My Lady - Jefferson Starship -- ( -- ) Devil Or Angel - Billy Fury -- ( -- ) You And I - Eddie Rabbitt & Crystal Gayle
As Donna Summer moves up to challenge Steve Winwood, Duran Duran return with a classic at #8. Heading towards Christmas, a happy calypso pop song by Modern Romance captures the imagination. Don Henley's song about being hounded by the press, and Toto Coelo are back with what was probably a Hallowe'en-themed song and released close to that date so charted a bit after, and it didn't get into the UK top 40.
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Post by Earl Purple on Apr 23, 2023 12:50:15 GMT 1
20 November 1982
1 ( 2 ) State Of Independence - Donna Summer < 1st #1 > 2 ( 1 ) Valerie - Steve Winwood (#1[3]) 3 ( 8 ) Rio - Duran Duran 4 ( 3 ) Don't Pay The Ferryman - Chris De Burgh (#3) 5 ( -- ) Mirror Man - Human League 6 ( 5 ) Living On The Ceiling - Blancmange (#5) 7 ( -- ) Love Is A Stranger - Eurythmics 8 ( 6 ) It's Raining Again - Supertramp (#6) 9 ( 12 ) Wishing (If I Had A Photograph Of You) - A Flock Of Seagulls 10 ( -- ) Africa - Toto
11 ( 4 ) Mad World - Tears For Fears (#1[2]) 12 ( 15 ) Best Years Of Our Lives - Modern Romance 13 ( 9 ) Maneater - Daryl Hall & John Oates (#9) 14 ( 22 ) Dirty Laundry - Don Henley 15 ( -- ) On The Wings Of Love - Jeffrey Osborne 16 ( 10 ) I.G.Y. (What A Beautiful World) - Donald Fagen (#10) 17 ( 14 ) Stranger - Shakatak (#14) 18 ( 24 ) Dracula's Tango (Sucker For Your Love) - Toto Coelo 19 ( 13 ) I'm So Excited - Pointer Sisters (#13) 20 ( 7 ) Back On The Chain Gang - Pretenders (#2[1])
21 ( 17 ) Shadows Of The Night - Pat Benatar (#17) 22 ( -- ) Nightporter - Japan 23 ( 21 ) She Blinded Me With Science - Thomas Dolby (#21) 24 ( 32 ) Someone Somewhere (In Summertime) - Simple Minds 25 ( 18 ) Let Me Go - Heaven 17 (#18) 26 ( 11 ) Steppin' Out - Joe Jackson (#4) 27 ( 25 ) Theme From Harry's Game - Clannad (#25) 28 ( 19 ) Sexual Healing - Marvin Gaye (#18) 29 ( -- ) Love - John Lennon 30 ( -- ) The Other Side Of Love - Yazoo
31 ( 27 ) Lies - Thompson Twins (#27) 32 ( 16 ) Young Guns (Got For It) - Wham! (#5) 33 ( 40 ) Missing You - Dan Fogelberg 34 ( 41 ) Holy Joe - Haysi Fantayzee 35 ( 31 ) Bloody Luxury - Whitesnake (#31) 36 ( 26 ) The Apple Stretching - Grace Jones (#25) 37 ( 43 ) I Can See Her Now - Dramatis 38 ( 20 ) I Don't Wanna Dance - Eddy Grant (#7) 39 ( 28 ) Save Your Love - Renée & Renato (#26) 40 ( 46 ) Heart Of Stone - Suzi Quatro
41 ( -- ) Youth Of Today - Musical Youth 42 ( 48 ) (Beware) Boyfriend - Mari Wilson 43 ( 23 ) Heartbreaker - Dionne Warwick (#10) 44 ( 37 ) The Girl Is Mine - Michael Jackson & Paul McCartney (#37) 45 ( 49 ) Pleasure Boys - Visage 46 ( -- ) Market Square Heroes - Marillion 47 ( 33 ) The End.. Or The Beginning - Classix Nouveaux (#29) 48 ( -- ) A Penny For Your Thoughts - Tavares 49 ( 29 ) The Day Before You Came - Abba (#11) 50 ( 39 ) Subdivisions - Rush (#35)
-- ( 30 ) Young Love - Air Supply (#9) -- ( 34 ) Annie Get Your Gun - Squeeze (#24) -- ( 35 ) All Of My Heart - ABC (#1[5]) -- ( 36 ) I Can't Help Myself - Orange Juice (#20) -- ( 38 ) Pressure - Billy Joel (#15) -- ( 42 ) Passion In Dark Rooms - Mood (#40) -- ( 44 ) Samson And Delilah - Bad Manners (#42) -- ( 45 ) I Need You - Paul Carrack (#43) -- ( 47 ) Up Where We Belong - Joe Cocker & Jennifer Warnes (#6) -- ( 50 ) Truly - Lionel Richie (#34)
-- ( -- ) Back To Love - Evelyn King -- ( -- ) Give Me Fire - GBH -- ( -- ) You've Said Enough - Central Line
Donna Summer finally gets an NM #1 - charts were unkind for her in 1977 when Billy Joel pipped her to the Christmas #1. Having got there, her stay on top might not be very long looking at those new entries, particularly the Human League entering at #5, which would give them 3 consecutive number ones.
It took a while to be a UK hit but "Love Is A Stranger" flies into the top 10 here this week, whilst Toto had a #1 earlier in the year with "Rosanna" but "Make Believe" stumbled to just #13.
And joining the Pointer Sisters, "I thought that was 1984" - but in the US it was a hit in 1982, Jeffrey Osborne's ballad "On The Wings Of Love". I will point out that in 1984 "I'm So Excited" was NM #5 as were both their other two singles that year, but in 1982 only a #13. I do sort-of know that 1984 isn't as strong as 1982. "On The Wings Of Love" reached #4 in my chart then - I suspect it might make the top 10 but can't see it getting as high as that.
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Post by Good Old Days on Apr 23, 2023 19:47:44 GMT 1
Good luck to Bucks Fizz's fresh single (# 1 in my chart).
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Post by Earl Purple on Apr 24, 2023 10:45:44 GMT 1
17th in the playlist. That was one place below "The Other Side Of Love" by Yazoo which was 16th and just entered at #30.
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Post by Earl Purple on Apr 25, 2023 18:17:57 GMT 1
27 November 1982
1 ( 5 ) Mirror Man - Human League < 3rd #1 > 2 ( 1 ) State Of Independence - Donna Summer (#1[1]) 3 ( 3 ) Rio - Duran Duran 4 ( 7 ) Love Is A Stranger - Eurythmics 5 ( 10 ) Africa - Toto 6 ( 2 ) Valerie - Steve Winwood (#1[3]) 7 ( 15 ) On The Wings Of Love - Jeffrey Osborne 8 ( 4 ) Don't Pay The Ferryman - Chris De Burgh (#3) 9 ( 9 ) Wishing (If I Had A Photograph Of You) - A Flock Of Seagulls 10 ( -- ) Peace On Earth (Little Drummer Boy) - David Bowie & Bing Crosby
11 ( 6 ) Living On The Ceiling - Blancmange (#5) 12 ( 22 ) Nightporter - Japan 13 ( 14 ) Dirty Laundry - Don Henley 14 ( -- ) Our House - Madness 15 ( 12 ) Best Years Of Our Lives - Modern Romance (#12) 16 ( 8 ) It's Raining Again - Supertramp (#6) 17 ( -- ) Down Under - Men At Work 18 ( 18 ) Dracula's Tango (Sucker For Your Love) - Toto Coelo 19 ( 29 ) Love - John Lennon 20 ( 30 ) The Other Side Of Love - Yazoo
21 ( -- ) You Can't Hurry Love - Phil Collins 22 ( 13 ) Maneater - Daryl Hall & John Oates (#9) 23 ( -- ) Hymn - Ultravox 24 ( 24 ) Someone Somewhere (In Summertime) - Simple Minds 25 ( 11 ) Mad World - Tears For Fears (#1[2]) 26 ( 17 ) Stranger - Shakatak (#14) 27 ( 16 ) I.G.Y. (What A Beautiful World) - Donald Fagen (#10) 28 ( -- ) If You Can't Stand The Heat - Bucks Fizz 29 ( -- ) I'm Alright - Young Steve & The Afternoon Boys 30 ( 21 ) Shadows Of The Night - Pat Benatar (#17)
31 ( 19 ) I'm So Excited - Pointer Sisters (#13) 32 ( 41 ) Youth Of Today - Musical Youth 33 ( 23 ) She Blinded Me With Science - Thomas Dolby (#21) 34 ( -- ) Thank You - Pale Fountains 35 ( 33 ) Missing You - Dan Fogelberg (#33) 36 ( -- ) Time (Clock Of The Heart) - Culture Club 37 ( 34 ) Holy Joe - Haysi Fantayzee (#34) 38 ( 27 ) Theme From Harry's Game - Clannad (#25) 39 ( 46 ) Market Square Heroes - Marillion 40 ( 37 ) I Can See Her Now - Dramatis (#37)
41 ( 25 ) Let Me Go - Heaven 17 (#18) 42 ( -- ) Desperate But Not Serious - Adam Ant 43 ( 48 ) A Penny For Your Thoughts - Tavares 44 ( 20 ) Back On The Chain Gang - Pretenders (#2[1]) 45 ( 40 ) Heart Of Stone - Suzi Quatro (#40) 46 ( 31 ) Lies - Thompson Twins (#27) 47 ( -- ) (And Now The Waltz) C'est La Vie - Slade 48 ( 42 ) (Beware) Boyfriend - Mari Wilson (#42) 49 ( 28 ) Sexual Healing - Marvin Gaye (#18) 50 ( -- ) What About Me - Moving Pictures
-- ( 26 ) Steppin' Out - Joe Jackson (#4) -- ( 32 ) Young Guns (Got For It) - Wham! (#5) -- ( 35 ) Bloody Luxury - Whitesnake (#31) -- ( 36 ) The Apple Stretching - Grace Jones (#25) -- ( 38 ) I Don't Wanna Dance - Eddy Grant (#7) -- ( 39 ) Save Your Love - Renée & Renato (#26) -- ( 43 ) Heartbreaker - Dionne Warwick (#10) -- ( 44 ) The Girl Is Mine - Michael Jackson & Paul McCartney (#37) -- ( 45 ) Pleasure Boys - Visage -- ( 47 ) The End.. Or The Beginning - Classix Nouveaux (#29) -- ( 49 ) The Day Before You Came - Abba (#11) -- ( 50 ) Subdivisions - Rush (#35)
-- ( -- ) Let's Go To Bed - Cure -- ( -- ) It's You It's Only You (Mein Schmerz) - Lene Lovich -- ( -- ) Hand To Hold On To - John Cougar -- ( -- ) Friends - Shalamar -- ( -- ) Everybody Wants You - Billy Squier
The Human League get their 3rd consecutive number one. Last year "Don't You Want Me" climbed to #1 on the chart of 26 December, so it's half-disputed if they were Christmas #1 or Meat Loaf was. This year will have a chart dated 25 December and whoever is on top that week will be Christmas #1. The Human League will need to stay another 4 weeks on top (so 5 minimum) to achieve it.
Challenging them though is a song recorded 5 years previously, just before Bing Crosby died, but only now released as a single where it would be UK #3 on the Christmas chart.
The only US hit for Madness was a #5 in the UK and gets the second highest entry, whilst there then follow the first two UK #1s of 1983.
After Ultravox and the new Bucks Fizz song, close to Christmas is when DJs and TV presenters make their own hits, last year Brown Sauce and this year Steve Wright.
Of the lower ones, not so good this time for Culture Club or Adam Ant, but still above some others who didn't even chart.
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Post by Earl Purple on Apr 28, 2023 10:03:28 GMT 1
4 December 1982
1 ( 1 ) Mirror Man - Human League < 2nd week at #1 > 2 ( 4 ) Love Is A Stranger - Eurythmics 3 ( 5 ) Africa - Toto 4 ( 3 ) Rio - Duran Duran (#3) 5 ( 2 ) State Of Independence - Donna Summer (#1[1]) 6 ( 7 ) On The Wings Of Love - Jeffrey Osborne 7 ( 10 ) Peace On Earth (Little Drummer Boy) - David Bowie & Bing Crosby 8 ( 14 ) Our House - Madness 9 ( 17 ) Down Under - Men At Work 10 ( 12 ) Nightporter - Japan
11 ( 21 ) You Can't Hurry Love - Phil Collins 12 ( 23 ) Hymn - Ultravox 13 ( 9 ) Wishing (If I Had A Photograph Of You) - A Flock Of Seagulls (#9) 14 ( 6 ) Valerie - Steve Winwood (#1[3]) 15 ( 8 ) Don't Pay The Ferryman - Chris De Burgh (#3) 16 ( 13 ) Dirty Laundry - Don Henley (#13) 17 ( 19 ) Love - John Lennon 18 ( 28 ) If You Can't Stand The Heat - Bucks Fizz 19 ( -- ) Little Town - Cliff Richard 20 ( 20 ) The Other Side Of Love - Yazoo
21 ( 29 ) I'm Alright - Young Steve & The Afternoon Boys 22 ( -- ) Buffalo Gals - Malcolm McLaren & World's Famous Supreme Team 23 ( -- ) Beat Surrender - Jam 24 ( 11 ) Living On The Ceiling - Blancmange (#5) 25 ( 18 ) Dracula's Tango (Sucker For Your Love) - Toto Coelo (#18) 26 ( 15 ) Best Years Of Our Lives - Modern Romance (#12) 27 ( 34 ) Thank You - Pale Fountains 28 ( -- ) Let's Get This Straight (From The Start) - Dexy's Midnight Runners 29 ( 36 ) Time (Clock Of The Heart) - Culture Club 30 ( 24 ) Someone Somewhere (In Summertime) - Simple Minds (#24)
31 ( 16 ) It's Raining Again - Supertramp (#6) 32 ( 32 ) Youth Of Today - Musical Youth 33 ( -- ) Baby Come To Me - Patti Austin & James Ingram 34 ( 42 ) Desperate But Not Serious - Adam Ant 35 ( -- ) Where The Heart Is - Soft Cell 36 ( -- ) Cachapaya - Incantation 37 ( 22 ) Maneater - Daryl Hall & John Oates (#9) 38 ( 47 ) (And Now The Waltz) C'est La Vie - Slade 39 ( 39 ) Market Square Heroes - Marillion 40 ( -- ) Hi De Hi Hi De Ho - Kool & The Gang
41 ( 26 ) Stranger - Shakatak (#14) 42 ( 50 ) What About Me - Moving Pictures 43 ( -- ) I Confess - Beat 44 ( 35 ) Missing You - Dan Fogelberg (#33) 45 ( 27 ) I.G.Y. (What A Beautiful World) - Donald Fagen (#10) 46 ( 43 ) A Penny For Your Thoughts - Tavares (#43) 47 ( 30 ) Shadows Of The Night - Pat Benatar (#17) 48 ( 25 ) Mad World - Tears For Fears (#1[2]) 49 ( 37 ) Holy Joe - Haysi Fantayzee (#34) 50 ( -- ) Uncertain Smile - The The
-- ( 31 ) I'm So Excited - Pointer Sisters (#13) -- ( 33 ) She Blinded Me With Science - Thomas Dolby (#21) -- ( 38 ) Theme From Harry's Game - Clannad (#25) -- ( 40 ) I Can See Her Now - Dramatis (#37) -- ( 41 ) Let Me Go - Heaven 17 (#18) -- ( 44 ) Back On The Chain Gang - Pretenders (#2[1]) -- ( 45 ) Heart Of Stone - Suzi Quatro (#40) -- ( 46 ) Lies - Thompson Twins (#27) -- ( 48 ) (Beware) Boyfriend - Mari Wilson (#42) -- ( 49 ) Sexual Healing - Marvin Gaye (#18)
-- ( -- ) Cheers Then - Bananarama -- ( -- ) You Got Lucky - Tom Petty & The Hearbreakers -- ( -- ) The Other Guy - Little River Band -- ( -- ) I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter - Barry Manilow
This certainly is a great top 10. Last week's highest new entry by David Bowie and Bing Crosby climbs only 3 places but there are 3 more weeks to Christmas. By climbing to #7 it matches the best position that Bing Crosby has reached twice before, the first way back in 1956 with "In A Little Spanish Town", and later in 1977 with the re-issue of "White Christmas". He had 2 other NM hits in the 1950s that didn't get into the top 10, as well as one in 1975.
Cliff Richard releasing Christmas songs really starts here. Last year's cover of "Daddy's Home" may have been intended for the Christmas market and in the UK was obviously more commercially successful than "Little Town" but whilst Little Town is still sometimes played today at that time of year, I guess nobody bothers with "Daddy's Home" anymore and for good reason.
Having brought us punk rock with the Sex Pistols, Malcolm McLaren now turns his attention to other forms of music he'd like the pop world to hear, and Buffalo Gals is almost the first charting "house" track - had it been released 5 years later we'd have thought that anyway. The phrase "Buffalo Gals go round the outside" dates back to a folk song about a century old.
Meanwhile it's going to be goodbye to the Jam and hello instead soon to the Style Council, which will include Tracie Young for their first hit and she also appears on this one. Although Paul Weller had has had more #1 albums, "Beat Surrender" was the last time ever he was part of a fully bona-fide number one (i.e. not counting any charity ensembles in which he played a minor part). It's good in part, but nowhere near the class of "Town Called Malice", and the fact it was not part of an album and they'd announced a split (thus it was never going to be part of one) helped it to the top.
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Post by Earl Purple on Apr 30, 2023 16:37:51 GMT 1
11 December 1982
1 ( 1 ) Mirror Man - Human League < 3rd week at #1 > 2 ( 2 ) Love Is A Stranger - Eurythmics 3 ( 3 ) Africa - Toto 4 ( 7 ) Peace On Earth (Little Drummer Boy) - David Bowie & Bing Crosby 5 ( 8 ) Our House - Madness 6 ( 4 ) Rio - Duran Duran (#3) 7 ( 9 ) Down Under - Men At Work 8 ( 6 ) On The Wings Of Love - Jeffrey Osborne (#6) 9 ( 11 ) You Can't Hurry Love - Phil Collins 10 ( 5 ) State Of Independence - Donna Summer (#1[1])
11 ( 19 ) Little Town - Cliff Richard 12 ( -- ) A Winter's Tale - David Essex 13 ( 12 ) Hymn - Ultravox (#12) 14 ( -- ) Heartache Avenue - Maisonettes 15 ( 22 ) Buffalo Gals - Malcolm McLaren & World's Famous Supreme Team 16 ( 10 ) Nightporter - Japan (#10) 17 ( 23 ) Beat Surrender - Jam 18 ( 18 ) If You Can't Stand The Heat - Bucks Fizz 19 ( 28 ) Let's Get This Straight (From The Start) - Dexy's Midnight Runners 20 ( -- ) Under Attack - Abba
21 ( 21 ) I'm Alright - Young Steve & The Afternoon Boys 22 ( 17 ) Love - John Lennon (#17) 23 ( 13 ) Wishing (If I Had A Photograph Of You) - A Flock Of Seagulls (#9) 24 ( 33 ) Baby Come To Me - Patti Austin & James Ingram 25 ( 35 ) Where The Heart Is - Soft Cell 26 ( 16 ) Dirty Laundry - Don Henley (#13) 27 ( 36 ) Cachapaya - Incantation 28 ( 20 ) The Other Side Of Love - Yazoo (#20) 29 ( -- ) All The Love In The World - Dionne Warwick 30 ( 27 ) Thank You - Pale Fountains (#27)
31 ( 15 ) Don't Pay The Ferryman - Chris De Burgh (#3) 32 ( 14 ) Valerie - Steve Winwood (#1[3]) 33 ( 29 ) Time (Clock Of The Heart) - Culture Club (#29) 34 ( 40 ) Hi De Hi Hi De Ho - Kool & The Gang 35 ( -- ) Changes - Imagination 36 ( 43 ) I Confess - Beat 37 ( 34 ) Desperate But Not Serious - Adam Ant (#34) 38 ( -- ) Party Party - Elvis Costello & The Attractions 39 ( 38 ) (And Now The Waltz) C'est La Vie - Slade (#38) 40 ( -- ) Blue Christmas - Shakin' Stevens
41 ( 32 ) Youth Of Today - Musical Youth (#32) 42 ( -- ) Love In Store - Fleetwood Mac 43 ( 25 ) Dracula's Tango (Sucker For Your Love) - Toto Coelo (#18) 44 ( -- ) Dear Addy - Kid Creole & The Coconuts 45 ( -- ) Heart To Heart - Kenny Loggins 46 ( 42 ) What About Me - Moving Pictures (#42) 47 ( 50 ) Uncertain Smile - The The 48 ( 30 ) Someone Somewhere (In Summertime) - Simple Minds (#24) 49 ( 26 ) Best Years Of Our Lives - Modern Romance (#12) 50 ( 24 ) Living On The Ceiling - Blancmange (#5)
-- ( 31 ) It's Raining Again - Supertramp (#6) -- ( 37 ) Maneater - Daryl Hall & John Oates (#9) -- ( 39 ) Market Square Heroes - Marillion (#39) -- ( 41 ) Stranger - Shakatak (#14) -- ( 44 ) Missing You - Dan Fogelberg (#33) -- ( 45 ) I.G.Y. (What A Beautiful World) - Donald Fagen (#10) -- ( 46 ) A Penny For Your Thoughts - Tavares (#43) -- ( 47 ) Shadows Of The Night - Pat Benatar (#17) -- ( 48 ) Mad World - Tears For Fears (#1[2]) -- ( 49 ) Holy Joe - Haysi Fantayzee (#34)
-- ( -- ) Mannequin - Kids From Fame -- ( -- ) I Do - J Geils Band -- ( -- ) Singalong-A-Santa - Santa Claus & The Christmas Trees
No change in the top 3 this week. The highest new entry by David Essex was written by Mike Batt with lyrics by Tim Rice. David Essex has had one NM #1 in 1975 with "Hold Me Close", and before then had a #2 with Rock On and a #3 with I'm Gonna Make You A Star". It's the first time he's had a hit with a Mike Batt song, but not the first time he's done a Tim Rice song as he had a hit in 1978 with "Oh What A Circus" peaking at #7 with it. In the UK that reached #3 and "A Winter's Tale" would be his biggest hit since then.
On the subject of 1978, that's the last time Lol Mason was in the chart as part of City Boy. He's come back now with the Maisonettes. (1983 will see the return of another person who had a hit with a band in 1978).
All the other acts entering this week have had a top 10 hit before.
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Post by Earl Purple on May 1, 2023 12:16:32 GMT 1
It's strange how frequently ending a year coincides with a bank holiday so I play the chart of the year on one. Although it isn't quite completed yet, it will be by next weekend which is also a bank holiday weekend.
I will post the chart of 18 December tomorrow and the Christmas chart on Thursday. May the 4th be with you then... and a merry Christmas.
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