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Post by Earl Purple on Nov 8, 2020 15:45:02 GMT 1
1976 has a bad reputation among chart years, but also has a few of my all time favourite singles. In fact my top 2 of the year are among my all time favourite singles and they will both appear on the same week.
Now here's a bit of a shock to get the year going:
3 January 1976
1 ( 5 ) Convoy - C.W. McCall < 1st #1 > 2 ( 3 ) Mamma Mia - Abba 3 ( 1 ) I Believe In Father Christmas - Greg Lake (#1[1]) 4 ( 6 ) Glass Of Champagne - Sailor (#4) 5 ( 2 ) Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen (#1[7]) 6 ( 7 ) Evil Woman - Electric Light Orchestra 7 ( 8 ) In Dulci Jubilo - Mike Oldfield 8 ( 10 ) Milky Way - Sheer Elegance 9 ( 9 ) Love Machine - Miracles 10 ( 4 ) It's Gonna Be A Cold Cold Christmas - Dana (#4)
11 ( 13 ) Wake Up Everybody - Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes 12 ( 21 ) Let The Music Play - Barry White 13 ( -- ) 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover - Paul Simon 14 ( 17 ) Fire On The Mountain - Marshall Tucker Band 15 ( 15 ) Winners & Losers - Hamilton Joe Frank & Reynolds 16 ( -- ) Squeeze Box - Who 17 ( 12 ) Wide Eyed And Legless - Andy Fairweather Low (#9) 18 ( 18 ) Over My Head - Fleetwood Mac 19 ( 27 ) Love To Love You Baby - Donna Summer 20 ( 32 ) Somewhere In The Night - Helen Reddy
21 ( 33 ) Both Ends Burning - Roxy Music 22 ( 25 ) Dance Of The Cuckoos - Band Of The Black Watch 23 ( 14 ) Art For Arts Sake - 10cc (#4) 24 ( 29 ) School Boy Crush - Average White Band 25 ( 23 ) Sing A Song - Earth Wind & Fire (#23) 26 ( -- ) Hurricane - Bob Dylan 27 ( 36 ) Get It Together - Crispy & Co 28 ( 20 ) If I Could - David Essex (#16) 29 ( 16 ) All Around My Hat - Steeleye Span (#3) 30 ( 11 ) Make A Daft Noise For Christmas - Goodies (#11)
31 ( 38 ) Midnight Rider - Paul Davidson 32 ( 19 ) Theme From Mahogany (Do You Know Where You're Going To) - Diana Ross (#5) 33 ( 31 ) Let's Womble To The Party Tonight - Wombles (#31) 34 ( 22 ) You Sexy Thing - Hot Chocolate (#2[3]) 35 ( 24 ) Golden Years - David Bowie (#9) 36 ( 26 ) In For A Penny - Slade (#8) 37 ( -- ) Let It Shine - Olivia Newton John 38 ( 30 ) Walk Away From Love - David Ruffin (#14) 39 ( 34 ) Rock And Roll All Nite - Kiss (#18) 40 ( 37 ) Can I Take You Home Little Girl - Drifters (#24)
-- ( 28 ) Christmas In Dreadland - Judge Dread (#28) -- ( 35 ) Venus And Mars Rock Show - Wings (#5) -- ( 39 ) Show Me You're A Woman - Mud (#25) -- ( 40 ) Saturday Night - Bay City Rollers (#3)
C.W. McCall, real name William (or Bill) Fries, already 47 at the time of this hit and still alive in 2020, gets his trucker song to #1. But it's a great song and unique. Based lyrically on several trucker's protests, about the oil crisis and the new 55mph limit, about "swindle sheets" that meant the tracking of hours was not accurate and truckers were being made to drive longer than regulation hours, and tolls.
So good, they made a film about it. And a UK parody, plus a sort-of parody coming up in the next couple of weeks too. And they used C.B. Radios. "Breaker 1-9 this is Rubber Duck...". As I was playing this it soon became obvious it was going to beat Abba to be the first #1 of the year.
He becomes the 3rd oldest artist to top my chart who is still alive, Harry Belafonte and Burt Bacharach are the oldest, and the latter achieved his only number one in 1999 at the age of 71. Betty Johnson is pushed into 4th place.
In the meantime, high entries for Paul Simon and The Who this week. And whilst the "black lives matter" protests were going on for a long time, Bob Dylan's tale of a black man wrongly framed for a crime enters at #26 this week.
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Post by Good Old Days on Nov 8, 2020 17:08:48 GMT 1
My personal highlights of 1976 year : ABBA - When I Kissed A Teacher Brotherhood Of Man - My Sweet Rosalie Blondie - In The Flesh Anne Karine Strom - Mata Hari Twiggy - Here I Go Again
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Post by Earl Purple on Nov 8, 2020 17:40:02 GMT 1
Only singles that reached the UK top 50 or US hot 100 top 40 qualify so of those only Twiggy is eligible.
My general expectation is that March-April is when the "big two" appear and "Fernando" may get caught behind them. The rest of the year will be generally mediocre.
However I may get surprised by some decent rock from the US charts.
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Post by Earl Purple on Nov 9, 2020 17:47:17 GMT 1
10 January 1976
1 ( 1 ) Convoy - C.W. McCall < 2nd week at #1 >2 ( 2 ) Mamma Mia - Abba 3 ( 4 ) Glass Of Champagne - Sailor 4 ( 13 ) 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover - Paul Simon 5 ( 6 ) Evil Woman - Electric Light Orchestra 6 ( 3 ) I Believe In Father Christmas - Greg Lake (#1[1]) 7 ( 16 ) Squeeze Box - Who 8 ( 7 ) In Dulci Jubilo - Mike Oldfield (#7) 9 ( 8 ) Milky Way - Sheer Elegance (#8) 10 ( 12 ) Let The Music Play - Barry White 11 ( 5 ) Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen (#1[7]) 12 ( 9 ) Love Machine - Miracles (#9) 13 ( 11 ) Wake Up Everybody - Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes (#11) 14 ( 14 ) Fire On The Mountain - Marshall Tucker Band 15 ( 20 ) Somewhere In The Night - Helen Reddy 16 ( 26 ) Hurricane - Bob Dylan 17 ( 21 ) Both Ends Burning - Roxy Music 18 ( 19 ) Love To Love You Baby - Donna Summer 19 ( 15 ) Winners & Losers - Hamilton Joe Frank & Reynolds (#15) 20 ( -- ) We Do It - R & J Stone 21 ( 18 ) Over My Head - Fleetwood Mac (#18) 22 ( 10 ) It's Gonna Be A Cold Cold Christmas - Dana (#4) 23 ( 22 ) Dance Of The Cuckoos - Band Of The Black Watch (#22) 24 ( 24 ) School Boy Crush - Average White Band 25 ( 27 ) Get It Together - Crispy & Co 26 ( 17 ) Wide Eyed And Legless - Andy Fairweather Low (#9) 27 ( 37 ) Let It Shine - Olivia Newton John 28 ( 31 ) Midnight Rider - Paul Davidson 29 ( 25 ) Sing A Song - Earth Wind & Fire (#23) 30 ( -- ) Slow Ride - Foghat 31 ( -- ) Theme From S.W.A.T - Rhythm Heritage 32 ( 23 ) Art For Arts Sake - 10cc (#4) 33 ( 33 ) Let's Womble To The Party Tonight - Wombles (#31) 34 ( 28 ) If I Could - David Essex (#16) 35 ( 29 ) All Around My Hat - Steeleye Span (#3) 36 ( 32 ) Theme From Mahogany (Do You Know Where You're Going To) - Diana Ross (#5) 37 ( 38 ) Walk Away From Love - David Ruffin (#14) 38 ( 36 ) In For A Penny - Slade (#8) 39 ( 34 ) You Sexy Thing - Hot Chocolate (#2[3]) 40 ( 35 ) Golden Years - David Bowie (#9)
-- ( 30 ) Make A Daft Noise For Christmas - Goodies (#11) -- ( 39 ) Rock And Roll All Nite - Kiss (#18) -- ( 40 ) Can I Take You Home Little Girl - Drifters (#24)
Only 3 songs on the playlist this week, but next week the year does start to take off, at least in quantity, and there's a potential number one in next week's list. Not this week, but Russell and Joanne Stone's ballad gets the highest of the 3 entries. She died just 3 years later, he turned alcoholic and then eventually came out of it and recorded new music quite recently. I haven't actually listened to it though. Maybe I should contact him telling him I'm doing retro charts and this song has just turned up. When I was nearly 11, I wasn't generally into slushy ballad songs, but thought it was quite funny that they sang "we do it...".. the implication of what "it" meant that they were doing, and I'm not sure they intended it that way, and as they were a married couple, why not, but still it sounded funny them singing that - especially "every night, every day, every possible way..". They explored a lot of positions then? We're about 5 years away from "combi chart" reaching where I am now. I have no idea how these songs will do for others. Abba sure-fire number one, "Convoy" if it's popular at all will enter a month or so later, but I noticed raliverpool failed to chart it. Too novelty for him I guess.
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Post by Earl Purple on Nov 10, 2020 16:10:00 GMT 1
17 January 1976
1 ( 1 ) Convoy - C.W. McCall < 3rd week at #1 > 2 ( 2 ) Mamma Mia - Abba 3 ( 4 ) 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover - Paul Simon 4 ( 3 ) Glass Of Champagne - Sailor (#3) 5 ( 7 ) Squeeze Box - Who 6 ( -- ) All By Myself - Eric Carmen 7 ( 5 ) Evil Woman - Electric Light Orchestra (#5) 8 ( -- ) No Regrets - Walker Brothers 9 ( -- ) Take It To The Limit - Eagles 10 ( 20 ) We Do It - R & J Stone
11 ( -- ) Forever And Ever - Slik 12 ( 10 ) Let The Music Play - Barry White (#10) 13 ( 8 ) In Dulci Jubilo - Mike Oldfield (#7) 14 ( 16 ) Hurricane - Bob Dylan 15 ( 9 ) Milky Way - Sheer Elegance (#8) 16 ( 6 ) I Believe In Father Christmas - Greg Lake (#1[1]) 17 ( 15 ) Somewhere In The Night - Helen Reddy (#15) 18 ( -- ) Sunshine Day - Osibisa 19 ( 17 ) Both Ends Burning - Roxy Music (#17) 20 ( 14 ) Fire On The Mountain - Marshall Tucker Band (#14)
21 ( 12 ) Love Machine - Miracles (#9) 22 ( 13 ) Wake Up Everybody - Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes (#11) 23 ( 11 ) Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen (#1[7]) 24 ( 18 ) Love To Love You Baby - Donna Summer (#18) 25 ( 30 ) Slow Ride - Foghat 26 ( 31 ) Theme From S.W.A.T - Rhythm Heritage 27 ( -- ) Answer Me - Barbara Dickson 28 ( 27 ) Let It Shine - Olivia Newton John (#27) 29 ( -- ) Drive Safely Darlin' - Tony Christie 30 ( 19 ) Winners & Losers - Hamilton Joe Frank & Reynolds (#15)
31 ( 25 ) Get It Together - Crispy & Co (#25) 32 ( 24 ) School Boy Crush - Average White Band (#24) 33 ( 23 ) Dance Of The Cuckoos - Band Of The Black Watch (#22) 34 ( 21 ) Over My Head - Fleetwood Mac (#18) 35 ( 28 ) Midnight Rider - Paul Davidson (#28) 36 ( -- ) God's Gonna Punish You - Tymes 37 ( 33 ) Let's Womble To The Party Tonight - Wombles (#31) 38 ( -- ) Fanny (Be Tender With My Love) - Bee Gees 39 ( 29 ) Sing A Song - Earth Wind & Fire (#23) 40 ( 26 ) Wide Eyed And Legless - Andy Fairweather Low (#9)
-- ( 22 ) It's Gonna Be A Cold Cold Christmas - Dana (#4) -- ( 32 ) Art For Arts Sake - 10cc (#4) -- ( 34 ) If I Could - David Essex (#16) -- ( 35 ) All Around My Hat - Steeleye Span (#3) -- ( 36 ) Theme From Mahogany (Do You Know Where You're Going To) - Diana Ross (#5) -- ( 37 ) Walk Away From Love - David Ruffin (#14) -- ( 38 ) In For A Penny - Slade (#8) -- ( 39 ) You Sexy Thing - Hot Chocolate (#2[3]) -- ( 40 ) Golden Years - David Bowie (#9)
3 entries inside the top 10 and another at #11. That will happen one week also in January 2000. It marks the year finally getting some long awaited new songs.
Eric Carmen leads the way, albeit I picked the single edit, as that's what I'm used to, and the album version goes on forever in the middle. In the UK this is his only hit, in my chart (and the US) he had another big hit in the 1980s with "Hungry Eyes" but this one is a potential number one.
The Walker Brothers make a comeback with a cover of a song written and recorded by Tom Rush in 1968 but not a hit for him. His version was folk-country style, this has a far more string-based background.
Passing over the Eagles, we get Slik, a band featuring Midge Ure on vocals doing a Bay City Rollers reject song but taking it to #1 in the UK.
#18 may feel out of place in January, but it may just brighten you up a bit.
Scottish singer Barbara Dickson makes her chart debut, which will end in her recording a duet co-written by members of the band at #2. Still, this is a very old song dating back to the 1950s. Originally religious-based, "Answer Me My Lord", but Nat King Cole covered it with lyrics changed to a love song, and Frankie Laine re-recorded it with the new style and had a #1. Unfortunately David Whitfield also covered it... The new version is somewhat faster, and the instrumental outro is identical to the intro of Elton John's "Part Time Love". I had never actually noticed that before - someone should segue them together. They probably already have. With the religious theme in mind we have the Tymes song further down, although that's more a hollow threat to some lover if she doesn't give him his way, I think.
A tragic tale by Tony Christie between those. They used to ban that kind of song.
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Post by Earl Purple on Nov 11, 2020 22:24:50 GMT 1
24 January 1976
1 ( 1 ) Convoy - C.W. McCall < 4th week at #1 > 2 ( 6 ) All By Myself - Eric Carmen 3 ( 8 ) No Regrets - Walker Brothers 4 ( 9 ) Take It To The Limit - Eagles 5 ( 3 ) 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover - Paul Simon (#3) 6 ( 2 ) Mamma Mia - Abba (#2[3]) 7 ( 11 ) Forever And Ever - Slik 8 ( 5 ) Squeeze Box - Who (#5) 9 ( 10 ) We Do It - R & J Stone 10 ( 4 ) Glass Of Champagne - Sailor (#3)
11 ( 18 ) Sunshine Day - Osibisa 12 ( 7 ) Evil Woman - Electric Light Orchestra (#5) 13 ( 14 ) Hurricane - Bob Dylan 14 ( 27 ) Answer Me - Barbara Dickson 15 ( 12 ) Let The Music Play - Barry White (#10) 16 ( -- ) Moonlight Serenade - Glenn Miller 17 ( 29 ) Drive Safely Darlin' - Tony Christie 18 ( 13 ) In Dulci Jubilo - Mike Oldfield (#7) 19 ( 17 ) Somewhere In The Night - Helen Reddy (#15) 20 ( 25 ) Slow Ride - Foghat
21 ( 15 ) Milky Way - Sheer Elegance (#8) 22 ( 19 ) Both Ends Burning - Roxy Music (#17) 23 ( 26 ) Theme From S.W.A.T - Rhythm Heritage 24 ( -- ) Lies In Your Eyes - Sweet 25 ( 36 ) God's Gonna Punish You - Tymes 26 ( -- ) Love Or Leave - Spinners 27 ( 38 ) Fanny (Be Tender With My Love) - Bee Gees 28 ( 20 ) Fire On The Mountain - Marshall Tucker Band (#14) 29 ( -- ) Weak Spot - Evelyn Thomas 30 ( 28 ) Let It Shine - Olivia Newton John (#27)
31 ( 24 ) Love To Love You Baby - Donna Summer (#18) 32 ( 21 ) Love Machine - Miracles (#9) 33 ( 22 ) Wake Up Everybody - Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes (#11) 34 ( 16 ) I Believe In Father Christmas - Greg Lake (#1[1]) 35 ( -- ) The White Knight - Cledus Maggard & The Citizen's Band 36 ( 23 ) Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen (#1[7]) 37 ( 31 ) Get It Together - Crispy & Co (#25) 38 ( -- ) Honey I - George McCrae 39 ( 32 ) School Boy Crush - Average White Band (#24) 40 ( 30 ) Winners & Losers - Hamilton Joe Frank & Reynolds (#15)
-- ( 33 ) Dance Of The Cuckoos - Band Of The Black Watch (#22) -- ( 34 ) Over My Head - Fleetwood Mac (#18) -- ( 35 ) Midnight Rider - Paul Davidson (#28) -- ( 37 ) Let's Womble To The Party Tonight - Wombles (#31) -- ( 39 ) Sing A Song - Earth Wind & Fire (#23) -- ( 40 ) Wide Eyed And Legless - Andy Fairweather Low (#9)
In C.W. McCall's song, his truckers took on all sorts of challenges - police blockades, toll booths etc. So a couple of challenges to his place on top haven't proved a problem and having seen off Abba he's kept Eric Carmen and the chasing pack out for at least one more week.
The highest new entry is from the early 1940s, and Glenn Miller died in 1944. The song is listed as a #4 peak in 1946 according to my Hit Singles from the 40s, and he also reached the "official" chart at #12 with it in 1953 (a minimal chart act at the time).
That leads a pack of entries. The song at #35 is certainly a take-off of the #1 although it isn't quite a parody in the way that happens later in the year with two British DJs.
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Post by Earl Purple on Nov 15, 2020 17:06:05 GMT 1
31 January 1976
1 ( 2 ) All By Myself - Eric Carmen < 1st #1 > 2 ( 3 ) No Regrets - Walker Brothers 3 ( 1 ) Convoy - C.W. McCall (#1[4]) 4 ( 4 ) Take It To The Limit - Eagles 5 ( -- ) December 1963 (Oh What A Night) - Four Seasons 6 ( 7 ) Forever And Ever - Slik 7 ( 16 ) Moonlight Serenade - Glenn Miller 8 ( 11 ) Sunshine Day - Osibisa 9 ( 5 ) 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover - Paul Simon (#3) 10 ( 14 ) Answer Me - Barbara Dickson
11 ( 9 ) We Do It - R & J Stone (#9) 12 ( -- ) Rodrigo's Guitar Concerto De Aranjeuz (2nd Movement) - Manuel & The Music Of The Mountains 13 ( 17 ) Drive Safely Darlin' - Tony Christie 14 ( 6 ) Mamma Mia - Abba (#2[3]) 15 ( 8 ) Squeeze Box - Who (#5) 16 ( 24 ) Lies In Your Eyes - Sweet 17 ( 13 ) Hurricane - Bob Dylan (#13) 18 ( 26 ) Love Or Leave - Spinners 19 ( 20 ) Slow Ride - Foghat 20 ( 10 ) Glass Of Champagne - Sailor (#3)
21 ( 29 ) Weak Spot - Evelyn Thomas 22 ( 12 ) Evil Woman - Electric Light Orchestra (#5) 23 ( 25 ) God's Gonna Punish You - Tymes 24 ( -- ) Something's Been Making Me Blue - Smokie 25 ( 15 ) Let The Music Play - Barry White (#10) 26 ( -- ) Break Away - Art Garfunkel 27 ( 27 ) Fanny (Be Tender With My Love) - Bee Gees 28 ( 23 ) Theme From S.W.A.T - Rhythm Heritage (#23) 29 ( 19 ) Somewhere In The Night - Helen Reddy (#15) 30 ( 35 ) The White Knight - Cledus Maggard & The Citizen's Band
31 ( -- ) Grow Some Funk Of Your Own - Elton John 32 ( 18 ) In Dulci Jubilo - Mike Oldfield (#7) 33 ( 22 ) Both Ends Burning - Roxy Music (#17) 34 ( 38 ) Honey I - George McCrae 35 ( 21 ) Milky Way - Sheer Elegance (#8) 36 ( 30 ) Let It Shine - Olivia Newton John (#27) 37 ( 28 ) Fire On The Mountain - Marshall Tucker Band (#14) 38 ( 31 ) Love To Love You Baby - Donna Summer (#18) 39 ( -- ) Dream Weaver - Gary Wright 40 ( 32 ) Love Machine - Miracles (#9)
-- ( 33 ) Wake Up Everybody - Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes (#11) -- ( 34 ) I Believe In Father Christmas - Greg Lake (#1[1]) -- ( 36 ) Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen (#1[7]) -- ( 37 ) Get It Together - Crispy & Co (#25) -- ( 39 ) School Boy Crush - Average White Band (#24) -- ( 40 ) Winners & Losers - Hamilton Joe Frank & Reynolds (#15)
-- ( -- ) Let Me Be The Number One - Dooley Silverspoon
Eric Carmen gets to #1 but the Four Seasons classic written by Bob Gaudio and his (future) wife Judy Parker enters at #5 this week.
In keeping with the tradition of 1976 being full of retro stuff, Manuel & The Music Of The Mountains, who have had a couple of hits in my chart in 1959 too, make a comeback with a famous and much recorded guitar piece by Rodrigo, written around 1939 and first recorded around 1947. (Aranjeuz sounds a bit like Orange Juice if not pronounced the way it should be). This instrumental hit reached #3 in the UK chart.
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Post by Earl Purple on Nov 16, 2020 17:28:39 GMT 1
7 February 1976
1 ( 1 ) All By Myself - Eric Carmen < 2nd week at #1 > 2 ( 5 ) December 1963 (Oh What A Night) - Four Seasons 3 ( 2 ) No Regrets - Walker Brothers (#2[1]) 4 ( -- ) Dat - Pluto Shervington 5 ( 7 ) Moonlight Serenade - Glenn Miller 6 ( 12 ) Rodrigo's Guitar Concerto De Aranjeuz (2nd Movement) - Manuel & The Music Of The Mountains 7 ( 4 ) Take It To The Limit - Eagles (#4) 8 ( 3 ) Convoy - C.W. McCall (#1[4]) 9 ( 6 ) Forever And Ever - Slik (#6) 10 ( 8 ) Sunshine Day - Osibisa (#8)
11 ( 10 ) Answer Me - Barbara Dickson (#10) 12 ( -- ) I Love To Love - Tina Charles 13 ( 13 ) Drive Safely Darlin' - Tony Christie 14 ( -- ) Let's Call It Quits - Slade 15 ( 16 ) Lies In Your Eyes - Sweet 16 ( 24 ) Something's Been Making Me Blue - Smokie 17 ( 18 ) Love Or Leave - Spinners 18 ( 11 ) We Do It - R & J Stone (#9) 19 ( 9 ) 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover - Paul Simon (#3) 20 ( 26 ) Break Away - Art Garfunkel
21 ( 21 ) Weak Spot - Evelyn Thomas 22 ( 19 ) Slow Ride - Foghat (#19) 23 ( 31 ) Grow Some Funk Of Your Own - Elton John 24 ( -- ) Miss You Nights - Cliff Richard 25 ( 17 ) Hurricane - Bob Dylan (#13) 26 ( 23 ) God's Gonna Punish You - Tymes (#23) 27 ( 15 ) Squeeze Box - Who (#5) 28 ( 14 ) Mamma Mia - Abba (#2[3]) 29 ( -- ) Tuxedo Junction - Manhattan Transfer 30 ( 30 ) The White Knight - Cledus Maggard & The Citizen's Band
31 ( 27 ) Fanny (Be Tender With My Love) - Bee Gees (#27) 32 ( 39 ) Dream Weaver - Gary Wright 33 ( -- ) Your Magic Put A Spell On Me - L J Johnson 34 ( 20 ) Glass Of Champagne - Sailor (#3) 35 ( 34 ) Honey I - George McCrae (#34) 36 ( 22 ) Evil Woman - Electric Light Orchestra (#5) 37 ( 28 ) Theme From S.W.A.T - Rhythm Heritage (#23) 38 ( 25 ) Let The Music Play - Barry White (#10) 39 ( -- ) Junk Food Junkie - Larry Groce 40 ( 29 ) Somewhere In The Night - Helen Reddy (#15)
-- ( 32 ) In Dulci Jubilo - Mike Oldfield (#7) -- ( 33 ) Both Ends Burning - Roxy Music (#17) -- ( 35 ) Milky Way - Sheer Elegance (#8) -- ( 36 ) Let It Shine - Olivia Newton John (#27) -- ( 37 ) Fire On The Mountain - Marshall Tucker Band (#14) -- ( 38 ) Love To Love You Baby - Donna Summer (#18) -- ( 40 ) Love Machine - Miracles (#9)
-- ( -- ) Lonely Night - Captain And Tennille -- ( -- ) Inside America - Juggy Murray Jones
It's strange, because when I put in the US hits at the point they chart it means they are earlier in the running than when I was expecting them to turn up, so I wasn't expecting Eric Carmen to replace C.W. McCall at this point, both were supposed to be earlier, and the Four Seasons might have had an easy run to the top but with Pluto Shervington entering this week at #4, it might not get there at all. They had two #1s in my charts in the 1960s with "Walk Like A Man" and "Let's Hang On".
The top few in the chart are great, the playlist gets relatively weak further down and the new one, which is just 3 weeks long, doesn't have anything spectacular in it, just a few decent songs. The 4th week is the one where two massive ones both enter together, just off my new playlist.
Dat is possibly a forgotten reggae classic, maybe because it wasn't by a big name, although Pluto (real name Leighton) Shervington had a follow-up minor hit "Ram Goat Liver" and then "Your Honour" which was recorded in 1975 finally released in 1982 to join the "1976 and 1982" club. (Artists who had a top 20 hit in both years but none in between. There were 5 such acts including The Beatles. The others were Steve Miller Band, Chicago and Melba Moore). As reggae songs go, I'd call it classic because it's pretty much a simple reggae beat and melody, tells a tale about rastafarians and is in rasta-English. You pretty much have to look at the lyrics to get what he's singing about but that to me is the big attraction of the song.
Up to this point the only reggae #1 has been "Young Gifted And Black" by Bob & Marcia, which isn't quite "straight reggae". Harry Belafonte's calypso hit "Mama Look At Bubu" is also slightly reggae-sounding before that particular type of music was popularised but we all know music, even new styles, is influenced by what came before.
In the UK they went for Tina Charles, a fun pop song. Good but doesn't really sound like a #1 to me. Slade's current song just missed the UK top 10, and Cliff has a far better song later this year, but he was on both my playlists, and will enter in 1959 too.
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Post by Earl Purple on Nov 17, 2020 22:39:00 GMT 1
14 February 1976
1 ( 4 ) Dat - Pluto Shervington < 1st week at #1 > 2 ( 2 ) December 1963 (Oh What A Night) - Four Seasons 3 ( 1 ) All By Myself - Eric Carmen (#1[2]) 4 ( 3 ) No Regrets - Walker Brothers (#2[1]) 5 ( 6 ) Rodrigo's Guitar Concerto De Aranjeuz (2nd Movement) - Manuel & The Music Of The Mountains 6 ( 12 ) I Love To Love - Tina Charles 7 ( 5 ) Moonlight Serenade - Glenn Miller (#5) 8 ( 14 ) Let's Call It Quits - Slade 9 ( 7 ) Take It To The Limit - Eagles (#4) 10 ( 16 ) Something's Been Making Me Blue - Smokie
11 ( 24 ) Miss You Nights - Cliff Richard 12 ( 10 ) Sunshine Day - Osibisa (#8) 13 ( 9 ) Forever And Ever - Slik (#6) 14 ( 11 ) Answer Me - Barbara Dickson (#10) 15 ( 13 ) Drive Safely Darlin' - Tony Christie (#13) 16 ( 8 ) Convoy - C.W. McCall (#1[4]) 17 ( 15 ) Lies In Your Eyes - Sweet (#15) 18 ( 20 ) Break Away - Art Garfunkel 19 ( 17 ) Love Or Leave - Spinners (#17) 20 ( 29 ) Tuxedo Junction - Manhattan Transfer
21 ( 23 ) Grow Some Funk Of Your Own - Elton John 22 ( 33 ) Your Magic Put A Spell On Me - L J Johnson 23 ( 21 ) Weak Spot - Evelyn Thomas (#21) 24 ( 18 ) We Do It - R & J Stone (#9) 25 ( 22 ) Slow Ride - Foghat (#19) 26 ( -- ) Dream On - Aerosmith 27 ( 32 ) Dream Weaver - Gary Wright 28 ( 39 ) Junk Food Junkie - Larry Groce 29 ( -- ) Rain - Status Quo 30 ( 19 ) 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover - Paul Simon (#3)
31 ( 26 ) God's Gonna Punish You - Tymes (#23) 32 ( 30 ) The White Knight - Cledus Maggard & The Citizen's Band (#30) 33 ( -- ) Funky Weekend - Stylistics 34 ( 25 ) Hurricane - Bob Dylan (#13) 35 ( -- ) Tangerine - Salsoul Orchestra 36 ( 31 ) Fanny (Be Tender With My Love) - Bee Gees (#27) 37 ( 35 ) Honey I - George McCrae (#34) 38 ( -- ) Sweet Love - Commodores 39 ( 27 ) Squeeze Box - Who (#5) 40 ( 28 ) Mamma Mia - Abba (#2[3])
-- ( 34 ) Glass Of Champagne - Sailor (#3) -- ( 36 ) Evil Woman - Electric Light Orchestra (#5) -- ( 37 ) Theme From S.W.A.T - Rhythm Heritage (#23) -- ( 38 ) Let The Music Play - Barry White (#10) -- ( 40 ) Somewhere In The Night - Helen Reddy (#15)
-- ( -- ) Sweet Thing - Rufus -- ( -- ) Cloud 99 (Soleado) - St Andrews Chorale
The new entries didn't quite pile in so high this week, but at the top Pluto Shervington grabs the number one ahead of the Four Seasons. It isn't the first reggae song to reach the top as Bob & Marcia topped the chart with "Young Gifted And Black" in 1970. In addition Bob Marley's "I Shot The Sheriff" was a #1 in a cover by Eric Clapton in 1974 but "Dat" feels more pure and less commercialised to me, especially as those two were both cover versions and this is the original version.
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Post by Earl Purple on Nov 18, 2020 19:22:36 GMT 1
21 February 1976
1 ( 1 ) Dat - Pluto Shervington < 2nd week at #1 > 2 ( 2 ) December 1963 (Oh What A Night) - Four Seasons 3 ( 3 ) All By Myself - Eric Carmen (#1[2]) 4 ( 6 ) I Love To Love - Tina Charles 5 ( 5 ) Rodrigo's Guitar Concerto De Aranjeuz (2nd Movement) - Manuel & The Music Of The Mountains 6 ( 8 ) Let's Call It Quits - Slade 7 ( 4 ) No Regrets - Walker Brothers (#2[1]) 8 ( 11 ) Miss You Nights - Cliff Richard 9 ( -- ) Love Really Hurts Without You - Billy Ocean 10 ( 10 ) Something's Been Making Me Blue - Smokie
11 ( 7 ) Moonlight Serenade - Glenn Miller (#5) 12 ( 9 ) Take It To The Limit - Eagles (#4) 13 ( -- ) Falling Apart At The Seams - Marmalade 14 ( 26 ) Dream On - Aerosmith 15 ( 20 ) Tuxedo Junction - Manhattan Transfer 16 ( -- ) Ships In The Night - Be Bop Deluxe 17 ( 12 ) Sunshine Day - Osibisa (#8) 18 ( 22 ) Your Magic Put A Spell On Me - L J Johnson 19 ( -- ) Renegade - Michael Murphey 20 ( 29 ) Rain - Status Quo
21 ( 18 ) Break Away - Art Garfunkel (#18) 22 ( 14 ) Answer Me - Barbara Dickson (#10) 23 ( 13 ) Forever And Ever - Slik (#6) 24 ( 15 ) Drive Safely Darlin' - Tony Christie (#13) 25 ( 21 ) Grow Some Funk Of Your Own - Elton John (#21) 26 ( 17 ) Lies In Your Eyes - Sweet (#15) 27 ( 28 ) Junk Food Junkie - Larry Groce 28 ( 33 ) Funky Weekend - Stylistics 29 ( 19 ) Love Or Leave - Spinners (#17) 30 ( 35 ) Tangerine - Salsoul Orchestra
31 ( 27 ) Dream Weaver - Gary Wright (#27) 32 ( 16 ) Convoy - C.W. McCall (#1[4]) 33 ( 23 ) Weak Spot - Evelyn Thomas (#21) 34 ( 38 ) Sweet Love - Commodores 35 ( 25 ) Slow Ride - Foghat (#19) 36 ( 24 ) We Do It - R & J Stone (#9) 37 ( -- ) Do The Spanish Hustle - Fatback Band 38 ( 32 ) The White Knight - Cledus Maggard & The Citizen's Band (#30) 39 ( 31 ) God's Gonna Punish You - Tymes (#23) 40 ( 37 ) Honey I - George McCrae (#34)
-- ( 30 ) 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover - Paul Simon (#3) -- ( 34 ) Hurricane - Bob Dylan (#13) -- ( 36 ) Fanny (Be Tender With My Love) - Bee Gees (#27) -- ( 39 ) Squeeze Box - Who (#5) -- ( 40 ) Mamma Mia - Abba (#2[3])
Billy Ocean makes his chart debut this week with "Love Really Hurts Without You". As well as the Spanish Hustle song there is a Latin Hustle one coming up with 2 different versions, neither on Spotify (although one was and has been made unavailable). I've playlisted the original of the two.
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Post by Earl Purple on Nov 23, 2020 23:41:11 GMT 1
28 February 1976
1 ( 1 ) Dat - Pluto Shervington < 3rd week at #1 > 2 ( 9 ) Love Really Hurts Without You - Billy Ocean 3 ( 2 ) December 1963 (Oh What A Night) - Four Seasons (#2[3]) 4 ( 4 ) I Love To Love - Tina Charles 5 ( 3 ) All By Myself - Eric Carmen (#1[2]) 6 ( 13 ) Falling Apart At The Seams - Marmalade 7 ( 6 ) Let's Call It Quits - Slade (#6) 8 ( 5 ) Rodrigo's Guitar Concerto De Aranjeuz (2nd Movement) - Manuel & The Music Of The Mountains (#5) 9 ( 16 ) Ships In The Night - Be Bop Deluxe 10 ( 8 ) Miss You Nights - Cliff Richard (#8)
11 ( 19 ) Renegade - Michael Murphey 12 ( 14 ) Dream On - Aerosmith 13 ( 10 ) Something's Been Making Me Blue - Smokie (#10) 14 ( 7 ) No Regrets - Walker Brothers (#2[1]) 15 ( 15 ) Tuxedo Junction - Manhattan Transfer 16 ( -- ) I Wanna Stay With You - Gallagher & Lyle 17 ( 20 ) Rain - Status Quo 18 ( 18 ) Your Magic Put A Spell On Me - L J Johnson 19 ( 12 ) Take It To The Limit - Eagles (#4) 20 ( 11 ) Moonlight Serenade - Glenn Miller (#5)
21 ( 17 ) Sunshine Day - Osibisa (#8) 22 ( -- ) Take It Like A Man - Bachman Turner Overdrive 23 ( 28 ) Funky Weekend - Stylistics 24 ( 21 ) Break Away - Art Garfunkel (#18) 25 ( 37 ) Do The Spanish Hustle - Fatback Band 26 ( 30 ) Tangerine - Salsoul Orchestra 27 ( 27 ) Junk Food Junkie - Larry Groce 28 ( 25 ) Grow Some Funk Of Your Own - Elton John (#21) 29 ( 22 ) Answer Me - Barbara Dickson (#10) 30 ( 34 ) Sweet Love - Commodores
31 ( -- ) People Like You And People Like Me - Glitter Band 32 ( 24 ) Drive Safely Darlin' - Tony Christie (#13) 33 ( 23 ) Forever And Ever - Slik (#6) 34 ( 26 ) Lies In Your Eyes - Sweet (#15) 35 ( 31 ) Dream Weaver - Gary Wright (#27) 36 ( -- ) Hey Miss Payne - Chequers 37 ( -- ) Let's Do The Latin Hustle - Eddie Drennon 38 ( 29 ) Love Or Leave - Spinners (#17) 39 ( -- ) Just You And I - Melissa Manchester 40 ( -- ) Inseparable - Natalie Cole
-- ( 32 ) Convoy - C.W. McCall (#1[4]) -- ( 33 ) Weak Spot - Evelyn Thomas (#21) -- ( 35 ) Slow Ride - Foghat (#19) -- ( 36 ) We Do It - R & J Stone (#9) -- ( 38 ) The White Knight - Cledus Maggard & The Citizen's Band (#30) -- ( 39 ) God's Gonna Punish You - Tymes (#23) -- ( 40 ) Honey I - George McCrae (#34)
-- ( -- ) Can't Say How Much I Love You - Demis Roussos
Here is the new chart, Billy Ocean hoping to snatch a couple of weeks on top before the explosion happens.
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Post by Earl Purple on Nov 24, 2020 21:05:36 GMT 1
6 March 1976
1 ( 2 ) Love Really Hurts Without You - Billy Ocean < 1st #1 > 2 ( 1 ) Dat - Pluto Shervington (#1[3]) 3 ( 6 ) Falling Apart At The Seams - Marmalade 4 ( 4 ) I Love To Love - Tina Charles 5 ( 3 ) December 1963 (Oh What A Night) - Four Seasons (#2[3]) 6 ( 9 ) Ships In The Night - Be Bop Deluxe 7 ( 16 ) I Wanna Stay With You - Gallagher & Lyle 8 ( 11 ) Renegade - Michael Murphey 9 ( -- ) Let Your Love Flow - Bellamy Brothers 10 ( 5 ) All By Myself - Eric Carmen (#1[2])
11 ( 7 ) Let's Call It Quits - Slade (#6) 12 ( 22 ) Take It Like A Man - Bachman Turner Overdrive 13 ( -- ) You See The Trouble In Me - Barry White 14 ( 12 ) Dream On - Aerosmith (#12) 15 ( 8 ) Rodrigo's Guitar Concerto De Aranjeuz (2nd Movement) - Manuel & The Music Of The Mountains (#5) 16 ( 10 ) Miss You Nights - Cliff Richard (#8) 17 ( 17 ) Rain - Status Quo 18 ( -- ) Here There And Everywhere - Emmylou Harris 19 ( 15 ) Tuxedo Junction - Manhattan Transfer (#15) 20 ( 13 ) Something's Been Making Me Blue - Smokie (#10)
21 ( -- ) Hey Mr Music Man - Peters & Lee 22 ( 25 ) Do The Spanish Hustle - Fatback Band 23 ( 18 ) Your Magic Put A Spell On Me - L J Johnson (#18) 24 ( 31 ) People Like You And People Like Me - Glitter Band 25 ( 23 ) Funky Weekend - Stylistics (#23) 26 ( -- ) Good Hearted Woman - Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson 27 ( 14 ) No Regrets - Walker Brothers (#2[1]) 28 ( 26 ) Tangerine - Salsoul Orchestra (#26) 29 ( 36 ) Hey Miss Payne - Chequers 30 ( 37 ) Let's Do The Latin Hustle - Eddie Drennon
31 ( 21 ) Sunshine Day - Osibisa (#8) 32 ( -- ) London Boys - T.Rex 33 ( 19 ) Take It To The Limit - Eagles (#4) 34 ( 30 ) Sweet Love - Commodores (#30) 35 ( -- ) Seagull - Rainbow Cottage 36 ( 27 ) Junk Food Junkie - Larry Groce (#27) 37 ( -- ) Never Gonna Fall In Love Again - Dana 38 ( 24 ) Break Away - Art Garfunkel (#18) 39 ( -- ) Only Love Is Real - Carole King 40 ( 20 ) Moonlight Serenade - Glenn Miller (#5)
-- ( 28 ) Grow Some Funk Of Your Own - Elton John (#21) -- ( 29 ) Answer Me - Barbara Dickson (#10) -- ( 32 ) Drive Safely Darlin' - Tony Christie (#13) -- ( 33 ) Forever And Ever - Slik (#6) -- ( 34 ) Lies In Your Eyes - Sweet (#15) -- ( 35 ) Dream Weaver - Gary Wright (#27) -- ( 39 ) Just You And I - Melissa Manchester (#39) -- ( 38 ) Love Or Leave - Spinners (#17) -- ( 40 ) Inseparable - Natalie Cole (#40)
-- ( -- ) Disco Lady - Johnnie Taylor -- ( -- ) Other Side Of Me - Andy Williams
Billy Ocean gets to #1 in a week with a lot of entries. The highest is an uptempo country song by the Bellamy Brothers. Barry White got to #2 in the UK with his entry but it was covered and got to #1 in 2000 for Black Legend but I didn't chart the cover version.
Here There And Everywhere is a cover, of a Beatles song. There are a lot of Beatles covers this year as well as a lot of their songs re-issued.
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Post by Earl Purple on Nov 26, 2020 22:51:47 GMT 1
13 March 1976
1 ( 1 ) Love Really Hurts Without You - Billy Ocean < 2nd week at #1 > 2 ( 2 ) Dat - Pluto Shervington (#1[3]) 3 ( 3 ) Falling Apart At The Seams - Marmalade 4 ( 9 ) Let Your Love Flow - Bellamy Brothers 5 ( 7 ) I Wanna Stay With You - Gallagher & Lyle 6 ( 13 ) You See The Trouble In Me - Barry White 7 ( 6 ) Ships In The Night - Be Bop Deluxe (#6) 8 ( 4 ) I Love To Love - Tina Charles (#4) 9 ( 8 ) Renegade - Michael Murphey (#8) 10 ( 12 ) Take It Like A Man - Bachman Turner Overdrive
11 ( 18 ) Here There And Everywhere - Emmylou Harris 12 ( 5 ) December 1963 (Oh What A Night) - Four Seasons (#2[3]) 13 ( -- ) Show Me The Way - Peter Frampton 14 ( 21 ) Hey Mr Music Man - Peters & Lee 15 ( -- ) Hello Happiness - Drifters 16 ( 26 ) Good Hearted Woman - Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson 17 ( 11 ) Let's Call It Quits - Slade (#6) 18 ( 10 ) All By Myself - Eric Carmen (#1[2]) 19 ( 14 ) Dream On - Aerosmith (#12) 20 ( 17 ) Rain - Status Quo (#17)
21 ( -- ) You Belong To Me - Gary Glitter 22 ( 24 ) People Like You And People Like Me - Glitter Band 23 ( 32 ) London Boys - T.Rex 24 ( 22 ) Do The Spanish Hustle - Fatback Band (#22) 25 ( -- ) That's Where The Happy People Go - Trammps 26 ( 16 ) Miss You Nights - Cliff Richard (#8) 27 ( 15 ) Rodrigo's Guitar Concerto De Aranjeuz (2nd Movement) - Manuel & The Music Of The Mountains (#5) 28 ( -- ) Save Your Kisses For Me - Brotherhood Of Man 29 ( 35 ) Seagull - Rainbow Cottage 30 ( 19 ) Tuxedo Junction - Manhattan Transfer (#15)
31 ( 29 ) Hey Miss Payne - Chequers (#29) 32 ( 30 ) Let's Do The Latin Hustle - Eddie Drennon (#30) 33 ( 37 ) Never Gonna Fall In Love Again - Dana 34 ( 20 ) Something's Been Making Me Blue - Smokie (#10) 35 ( 39 ) Only Love Is Real - Carole King 36 ( 25 ) Funky Weekend - Stylistics (#23) 37 ( 23 ) Your Magic Put A Spell On Me - L J Johnson (#18) 38 ( -- ) Love Fire - Jigsaw 39 ( 28 ) Tangerine - Salsoul Orchestra (#26) 40 ( -- ) Boogie Fever - Sylvers
-- ( 27 ) No Regrets - Walker Brothers (#2[1]) -- ( 31 ) Sunshine Day - Osibisa (#8) -- ( 33 ) Take It To The Limit - Eagles (#4) -- ( 34 ) Sweet Love - Commodores (#30) -- ( 36 ) Junk Food Junkie - Larry Groce (#27) -- ( 38 ) Break Away - Art Garfunkel (#18) -- ( 40 ) Moonlight Serenade - Glenn Miller (#5)
-- ( -- ) La Booga Rooga - Surprise Sisters
This chart is "the calm before the storm". Peter Frampton, formerly of the 60s band The Herd gets the highest new entry whilst Brotherhood Of Man do enter but only at #28.
This is the last 1976 chart to be posted this week but we'll see what happens next.
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Post by Earl Purple on Nov 29, 2020 23:07:28 GMT 1
20 March 1976
1 ( -- ) Music - John Miles < 1st #1 > 2 ( -- ) I'm Mandy Fly Me - 10cc 3 ( 1 ) Love Really Hurts Without You - Billy Ocean (#1[2]) 4 ( 4 ) Let Your Love Flow - Bellamy Brothers 5 ( 2 ) Dat - Pluto Shervington (#1[3]) 6 ( 6 ) You See The Trouble In Me - Barry White 7 ( 3 ) Falling Apart At The Seams - Marmalade (#3) 8 ( 5 ) I Wanna Stay With You - Gallagher & Lyle (#5) 9 ( 13 ) Show Me The Way - Peter Frampton 10 ( 15 ) Hello Happiness - Drifters
11 ( 11 ) Here There And Everywhere - Emmylou Harris 12 ( 7 ) Ships In The Night - Be Bop Deluxe (#6) 13 ( 10 ) Take It Like A Man - Bachman Turner Overdrive (#10) 14 ( 21 ) You Belong To Me - Gary Glitter 15 ( 14 ) Hey Mr Music Man - Peters & Lee (#14) 16 ( 16 ) Good Hearted Woman - Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson 17 ( 9 ) Renegade - Michael Murphey (#8) 18 ( 8 ) I Love To Love - Tina Charles (#4) 19 ( 25 ) That's Where The Happy People Go - Trammps 20 ( 28 ) Save Your Kisses For Me - Brotherhood Of Man
21 ( 23 ) London Boys - T.Rex 22 ( -- ) City Lights - David Essex 23 ( 12 ) December 1963 (Oh What A Night) - Four Seasons (#2[3]) 24 ( 22 ) People Like You And People Like Me - Glitter Band (#22) 25 ( 17 ) Let's Call It Quits - Slade (#6) 26 ( -- ) Jungle Rock - Hank Mizell 27 ( 20 ) Rain - Status Quo (#17) 28 ( 19 ) Dream On - Aerosmith (#12) 29 ( 29 ) Seagull - Rainbow Cottage 30 ( 38 ) Love Fire - Jigsaw
31 ( 18 ) All By Myself - Eric Carmen (#1[2]) 32 ( 24 ) Do The Spanish Hustle - Fatback Band (#22) 33 ( 40 ) Boogie Fever - Sylvers 34 ( -- ) If You Love Me - Mary Hopkin 35 ( 33 ) Never Gonna Fall In Love Again - Dana (#33) 36 ( 35 ) Only Love Is Real - Carole King (#35) 37 ( -- ) He's A Friend - Eddie Kendricks 38 ( 31 ) Hey Miss Payne - Chequers (#29) 39 ( 32 ) Let's Do The Latin Hustle - Eddie Drennon (#30) 40 ( 26 ) Miss You Nights - Cliff Richard (#8)
-- ( 27 ) Rodrigo's Guitar Concerto De Aranjeuz (2nd Movement) - Manuel & The Music Of The Mountains (#5) -- ( 30 ) Tuxedo Junction - Manhattan Transfer (#15) -- ( 34 ) Something's Been Making Me Blue - Smokie (#10) -- ( 36 ) Funky Weekend - Stylistics (#23) -- ( 37 ) Your Magic Put A Spell On Me - L J Johnson (#18) -- ( 39 ) Tangerine - Salsoul Orchestra (#26)
-- ( -- ) Looking For Space - John Denver -- ( -- ) Spanish Wine - Chris White
You were forewarned that something strange would happen this week, and there we have 2 new entries on the same week. Incidentally in the modern chart era that also happened on 22 December 2012. In the UK it first happened in December 1984 with Band Aid and Wham! and those went on to be among the biggest sellers of all time, in fact Wham's single outsold all their others even though many of those got to #1 and this did not, and the same is likely to happen on my chart with 10cc, for whom "I'm Not In Love" spent 5 weeks at #1.
I knew this would turn up and it goes back historically to when these songs first came out, and "Music" was always above "I'm Mandy Fly Me" for me but at the same time they were just above most of what else was out at the time.
If I now state that "Bohemian Rhapsody" is the #1 in my chart to date (i.e. from December 1955 until this point in 1976) we will possibly see the two biggest hits within a few months of each other.
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Post by Earl Purple on Nov 30, 2020 22:59:02 GMT 1
27 March 1976
1 ( 1 ) Music - John Miles < 2nd week at #1 > 2 ( 2 ) I'm Mandy Fly Me - 10cc 3 ( 4 ) Let Your Love Flow - Bellamy Brothers 4 ( 3 ) Love Really Hurts Without You - Billy Ocean (#1[2]) 5 ( -- ) Fernando - Abba 6 ( 6 ) You See The Trouble In Me - Barry White 7 ( -- ) Girls Girls Girls - Sailor 8 ( 9 ) Show Me The Way - Peter Frampton 9 ( 10 ) Hello Happiness - Drifters 10 ( 5 ) Dat - Pluto Shervington (#1[3])
11 ( 14 ) You Belong To Me - Gary Glitter 12 ( 22 ) City Lights - David Essex 13 ( -- ) Lorelei - Styx 14 ( 11 ) Here There And Everywhere - Emmylou Harris (#11) 15 ( 8 ) I Wanna Stay With You - Gallagher & Lyle (#5) 16 ( 7 ) Falling Apart At The Seams - Marmalade (#3) 17 ( 26 ) Jungle Rock - Hank Mizell 18 ( 20 ) Save Your Kisses For Me - Brotherhood Of Man 19 ( 19 ) That's Where The Happy People Go - Trammps 20 ( 16 ) Good Hearted Woman - Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson (#16)
21 ( 13 ) Take It Like A Man - Bachman Turner Overdrive (#10) 22 ( 15 ) Hey Mr Music Man - Peters & Lee (#14) 23 ( 12 ) Ships In The Night - Be Bop Deluxe (#6) 24 ( 21 ) London Boys - T.Rex (#21) 25 ( 34 ) If You Love Me - Mary Hopkin 26 ( 30 ) Love Fire - Jigsaw 27 ( 37 ) He's A Friend - Eddie Kendricks 28 ( 17 ) Renegade - Michael Murphey (#8) 29 ( 24 ) People Like You And People Like Me - Glitter Band (#22) 30 ( 33 ) Boogie Fever - Sylvers
31 ( 18 ) I Love To Love - Tina Charles (#4) 32 ( 29 ) Seagull - Rainbow Cottage (#29) 33 ( -- ) Livin' For The Weekend - O'Jays 34 ( 25 ) Let's Call It Quits - Slade (#6) 35 ( 27 ) Rain - Status Quo (#17) 36 ( 23 ) December 1963 (Oh What A Night) - Four Seasons (#2[3]) 37 ( 28 ) Dream On - Aerosmith (#12) 38 ( 36 ) Only Love Is Real - Carole King (#35) 39 ( 35 ) Never Gonna Fall In Love Again - Dana (#33) 40 ( 32 ) Do The Spanish Hustle - Fatback Band (#22)
-- ( 31 ) All By Myself - Eric Carmen (#1[2]) -- ( 38 ) Hey Miss Payne - Chequers (#29) -- ( 39 ) Let's Do The Latin Hustle - Eddie Drennon (#30) -- ( 40 ) Miss You Nights - Cliff Richard (#8)
-- ( -- ) Fopp - Ohio Players
So let John Miles and 10cc be joined in the chart by Abba, who have had two #1s and a string of #2, but unless it can pass those two at the top, what is almost certainly their strongest song so far will be stuck at #3. Sailor follow up "Glass Of Champagne" with "Girls Girls Girls", their previous song had strong influences of Roxy Music, this one sounds like the Muppets theme a bit in its chorus.
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Post by Good Old Days on Dec 1, 2020 10:42:27 GMT 1
"Fernando" is my least favourite ABBA song.
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Post by Earl Purple on Dec 1, 2020 11:21:32 GMT 1
Fernando has Frida on lead vocals during the verses. Although it was supposed to be about evenly spread, I'm sure Agnetha has more vocals on hit singles than Frida.
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Post by Earl Purple on Dec 1, 2020 22:45:19 GMT 1
3 April 1976
1 ( 1 ) Music - John Miles < 3rd week at #1 > 2 ( 2 ) I'm Mandy Fly Me - 10cc 3 ( 5 ) Fernando - Abba 4 ( 7 ) Girls Girls Girls - Sailor 5 ( 3 ) Let Your Love Flow - Bellamy Brothers (#3) 6 ( 13 ) Lorelei - Styx 7 ( 4 ) Love Really Hurts Without You - Billy Ocean (#1[2]) 8 ( 6 ) You See The Trouble In Me - Barry White (#6) 9 ( 12 ) City Lights - David Essex 10 ( 8 ) Show Me The Way - Peter Frampton (#8)
11 ( 9 ) Hello Happiness - Drifters (#9) 12 ( 11 ) You Belong To Me - Gary Glitter (#11) 13 ( 17 ) Jungle Rock - Hank Mizell 14 ( -- ) Arms Of Mary - Sutherland Brothers & Quiver 15 ( 10 ) Dat - Pluto Shervington (#1[3]) 16 ( -- ) Fooled Around And Fell In Love - Elvin Bishop 17 ( 18 ) Save Your Kisses For Me - Brotherhood Of Man 18 ( 14 ) Here There And Everywhere - Emmylou Harris (#11) 19 ( 25 ) If You Love Me - Mary Hopkin 20 ( 19 ) That's Where The Happy People Go - Trammps (#19)
21 ( 27 ) He's A Friend - Eddie Kendricks 22 ( 33 ) Livin' For The Weekend - O'Jays 23 ( -- ) Get Up And Boogie - Silver Convention 24 ( 15 ) I Wanna Stay With You - Gallagher & Lyle (#5) 25 ( 26 ) Love Fire - Jigsaw 26 ( 20 ) Good Hearted Woman - Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson (#16) 27 ( -- ) Movin' - Brass Construction 28 ( 16 ) Falling Apart At The Seams - Marmalade (#3) 29 ( 30 ) Boogie Fever - Sylvers 30 ( 24 ) London Boys - T.Rex (#21)
31 ( -- ) Sara Smile - Daryl Hall & John Oates 32 ( 22 ) Hey Mr Music Man - Peters & Lee (#14) 33 ( 21 ) Take It Like A Man - Bachman Turner Overdrive (#10) 34 ( 29 ) People Like You And People Like Me - Glitter Band (#22) 35 ( 23 ) Ships In The Night - Be Bop Deluxe (#6) 36 ( -- ) You Sexy Sugar Plum (But I Like It) - Rodger Collins 37 ( 32 ) Seagull - Rainbow Cottage (#29) 38 ( 28 ) Renegade - Michael Murphey (#8) 39 ( -- ) Disco Connection - Isaac Hayes 40 ( 38 ) Only Love Is Real - Carole King (#35)
-- ( 31 ) I Love To Love - Tina Charles (#4) -- ( 34 ) Let's Call It Quits - Slade (#6) -- ( 35 ) Rain - Status Quo (#17) -- ( 36 ) December 1963 (Oh What A Night) - Four Seasons (#2[3]) -- ( 37 ) Dream On - Aerosmith (#12) -- ( 39 ) Never Gonna Fall In Love Again - Dana (#33) -- ( 40 ) Do The Spanish Hustle - Fatback Band (#22)
-- ( -- ) Life Is Too Short Girl - Sheer Elegance -- ( -- ) Shannon - Henry Gross -- ( -- ) We Can't Hide It Anymore - Larry Santos
After Rod Stewart took their song "Sailing" to #1, Sutherland Brothers and Quiver now have a hit of their own.
Movin' by Brass Construction has been sampled for another big UK hit.
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Post by Earl Purple on Dec 3, 2020 20:26:44 GMT 1
10 April 1976
1 ( 1 ) Music - John Miles < 4th week at #1 > 2 ( 2 ) I'm Mandy Fly Me - 10cc 3 ( 3 ) Fernando - Abba 4 ( 4 ) Girls Girls Girls - Sailor 5 ( 6 ) Lorelei - Styx 6 ( 14 ) Arms Of Mary - Sutherland Brothers & Quiver 7 ( 16 ) Fooled Around And Fell In Love - Elvin Bishop 8 ( 9 ) City Lights - David Essex 9 ( 5 ) Let Your Love Flow - Bellamy Brothers (#3) 10 ( -- ) Rhiannon - Fleetwood Mac
11 ( -- ) S-S-S-Single Bed - Fox 12 ( 13 ) Jungle Rock - Hank Mizell 13 ( 8 ) You See The Trouble In Me - Barry White (#6) 14 ( 7 ) Love Really Hurts Without You - Billy Ocean (#1[2]) 15 ( 23 ) Get Up And Boogie - Silver Convention 16 ( -- ) Strange Magic - Electric Light Orchestra 17 ( 10 ) Show Me The Way - Peter Frampton (#8) 18 ( 11 ) Hello Happiness - Drifters (#9) 19 ( 12 ) You Belong To Me - Gary Glitter (#11) 20 ( 27 ) Movin' - Brass Construction
21 ( 19 ) If You Love Me - Mary Hopkin (#19) 22 ( 22 ) Livin' For The Weekend - O'Jays 23 ( -- ) Love Me Like I Love You - Bay City Rollers 24 ( 17 ) Save Your Kisses For Me - Brotherhood Of Man (#17) 25 ( 21 ) He's A Friend - Eddie Kendricks (#21) 26 ( 31 ) Sara Smile - Daryl Hall & John Oates 27 ( -- ) Welcome Back - John Sebastian 28 ( 15 ) Dat - Pluto Shervington (#1[3]) 29 ( 20 ) That's Where The Happy People Go - Trammps (#19) 30 ( -- ) Ram Goat Liver - Pluto Shervington
31 ( 18 ) Here There And Everywhere - Emmylou Harris (#11) 32 ( 36 ) You Sexy Sugar Plum (But I Like It) - Rodger Collins 33 ( 25 ) Love Fire - Jigsaw (#25) 34 ( -- ) Honky Tonk Train Blues - Keith Emerson 35 ( 39 ) Disco Connection - Isaac Hayes 36 ( 29 ) Boogie Fever - Sylvers (#29) 37 ( 26 ) Good Hearted Woman - Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson (#16) 38 ( 24 ) I Wanna Stay With You - Gallagher & Lyle (#5) 39 ( -- ) Tryin' To Get The Feeling Again - Barry Manilow 40 ( 30 ) London Boys - T.Rex (#21)
-- ( 28 ) Falling Apart At The Seams - Marmalade (#3) -- ( 32 ) Hey Mr Music Man - Peters & Lee (#14) -- ( 33 ) Take It Like A Man - Bachman Turner Overdrive (#10) -- ( 34 ) People Like You And People Like Me - Glitter Band (#22) -- ( 35 ) Ships In The Night - Be Bop Deluxe (#6) -- ( 37 ) Seagull - Rainbow Cottage (#29) -- ( 38 ) Renegade - Michael Murphey (#8) -- ( 40 ) Only Love Is Real - Carole King (#35)
-- ( -- ) Misty Blue - Dorothy Moore
Adding to the pile-up at the top we have a new single by Fleetwood Mac, written by Stevie Nicks, that wasn't a hit in the UK but is considered a classic, and Fox.. We've had L-l-lucy by Mud and later we'll have N-n-n-nineteen but for now we have S-s-s-single bed. It's likely to finish higher than the #8 of "Only You Can" and has already beaten the #13 peak of "Imagine You Imagine Me".
Below them what is probably going to be the last hit for Bay City Rollers, it got to #4 in the UK chart, but then they covered Dusty Springfield's other NM #1, the one Guys And Dolls didn't already cover this year, and I probably won't chart that either. That also got them to #4 in the UK though.
John Sebastian got to #1 with that song in the USA. He featured on an NM #1 10 years ago with Lovin' Spoonful (Summer In The City, the NM #1 the week England won the world cup). Pluto Shervington though has only just had his #1 and it's 2 places higher than his new entry.
Greg Lake had a solo hit so now it's Keith Emerson's turn.
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Post by Earl Purple on Dec 6, 2020 12:12:48 GMT 1
17 April 1976
1 ( 1 ) Music - John Miles < 5th week at #1 > 2 ( 2 ) I'm Mandy Fly Me - 10cc 3 ( 3 ) Fernando - Abba 4 ( 4 ) Girls Girls Girls - Sailor 5 ( 10 ) Rhiannon - Fleetwood Mac 6 ( 6 ) Arms Of Mary - Sutherland Brothers & Quiver 7 ( 11 ) S-S-S-Single Bed - Fox 8 ( 7 ) Fooled Around And Fell In Love - Elvin Bishop (#7) 9 ( 5 ) Lorelei - Styx (#5) 10 ( 16 ) Strange Magic - Electric Light Orchestra
11 ( 8 ) City Lights - David Essex (#8) 12 ( -- ) Silly Love Songs - Wings 13 ( 15 ) Get Up And Boogie - Silver Convention 14 ( -- ) More More More - Andrea True Connection 15 ( 23 ) Love Me Like I Love You - Bay City Rollers 16 ( 12 ) Jungle Rock - Hank Mizell (#12) 17 ( 9 ) Let Your Love Flow - Bellamy Brothers (#3) 18 ( 27 ) Welcome Back - John Sebastian 19 ( 20 ) Movin' - Brass Construction 20 ( -- ) Convoy G.B. - Laurie Lingo & The Dipsticks
21 ( -- ) Reggae Like It Used To Be - Paul Nicholas 22 ( 30 ) Ram Goat Liver - Pluto Shervington 23 ( 13 ) You See The Trouble In Me - Barry White (#6) 24 ( -- ) Rain Forest - Biddu Orchestra 25 ( -- ) Moviestar - Harpo 26 ( 14 ) Love Really Hurts Without You - Billy Ocean (#1[2]) 27 ( 34 ) Honky Tonk Train Blues - Keith Emerson 28 ( 26 ) Sara Smile - Daryl Hall & John Oates (#26) 29 ( 22 ) Livin' For The Weekend - O'Jays (#22) 30 ( 21 ) If You Love Me - Mary Hopkin (#19)
31 ( 17 ) Show Me The Way - Peter Frampton (#8) 32 ( -- ) Shout It Out Loud - Kiss 33 ( 18 ) Hello Happiness - Drifters (#9) 34 ( 19 ) You Belong To Me - Gary Glitter (#11) 35 ( 39 ) Tryin' To Get The Feeling Again - Barry Manilow 36 ( 32 ) You Sexy Sugar Plum (But I Like It) - Rodger Collins (#32) 37 ( -- ) Fallen Angel - Frankie Valli 38 ( 25 ) He's A Friend - Eddie Kendricks (#21) 39 ( -- ) Union Man - Cate Brothers 40 ( 24 ) Save Your Kisses For Me - Brotherhood Of Man (#17)
-- ( 28 ) Dat - Pluto Shervington (#1[3]) -- ( 29 ) That's Where The Happy People Go - Trammps (#19) -- ( 31 ) Here There And Everywhere - Emmylou Harris (#11) -- ( 33 ) Love Fire - Jigsaw (#25) -- ( 35 ) Disco Connection - Isaac Hayes -- ( 36 ) Boogie Fever - Sylvers (#29) -- ( 37 ) Good Hearted Woman - Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson (#16) -- ( 38 ) I Wanna Stay With You - Gallagher & Lyle (#5) -- ( 40 ) London Boys - T.Rex (#21)
-- ( -- ) Doomsday - Evelyn Thomas -- ( -- ) Come On Over - Olivia Newton John -- ( -- ) Happy Music - Blackbyrds
The top 4 remain unchanged again, Fleetwood Mac move to the top 5 and the highest new entry is by Wings.
The second highest entry is the original by Andrea True Connection. It was covered by Bananarama (UK #24 in 1993) and Rachel Stevens (UK #3 in 2004).
There were 2 big parody hits out at this time, the other is coming up in a few weeks - surprisingly later than I was expecting it given "Silly Love Songs" has already appeared and peaked at #2 behind it, but songs were making very slow climbs up the chart. You know which the other is, but perhaps you weren't expecting me to chart them, or especially this one, but Convoy G.B. is actually a rather good parody of "Convoy" by C.W. McCall, a song that spent 4 weeks at NM #1 at the start of the year. It's mostly Dave Lee Travis, with contributions by Paul Burnette as "Plastic Chicken", obviously based on the "Rubber Duck" nickname (DLT is Super Scouse), and is supposed to be based on the M1 motorway although the later Spaghetti Junction mentioned is part of the M6 network near Birmingham. Also mention of a "bear in the air", a "suicide jockey" and they shout 10-4 at one point. I don't know who wrote the parody as the original songwriters are given the credit on the label and potentially took all the royalties. That sometimes happens with parodies to make life easy.
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