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Post by Earl Purple on Jan 4, 2021 20:36:36 GMT 1
14 August 1976
1 ( 1 ) Let 'Em In - Wings < 3rd week at #1 > 2 ( 2 ) Play That Funky Music - Wild Cherry 3 ( 3 ) You Should Be Dancing - Bee Gees 4 ( 10 ) Morning Glory - James & Bobby Purify 5 ( 5 ) Jeans On - David Dundas 6 ( 14 ) Lowdown - Boz Scaggs 7 ( 4 ) Don't Go Breaking My Heart - Elton John & Kiki Dee (#1[3]) 8 ( -- ) She's Gone - Daryl Hall & John Oates 9 ( 6 ) Harvest For The World - Isley Brothers (#4) 10 ( 13 ) Say You Love Me - Fleetwood Mac
11 ( 9 ) Now Is The Time - Jimmy James & The Vagabonds (#9) 12 ( 22 ) Nice And Slow - Jesse Green 13 ( 8 ) Back In The USSR - Beatles (#6) 14 ( 7 ) You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine - Lou Rawls (#2[1]) 15 ( 15 ) In Zaire - Johnny Wakelin 16 ( 11 ) Another Rainy Day In New York City - Chicago (#10) 17 ( 16 ) Dr Kiss Kiss - 5000 Volts (#16) 18 ( 12 ) Baby I Love Your Way - Peter Frampton (#11) 19 ( 29 ) Sixteen Bars - Stylistics 20 ( -- ) Jailbreak - Thin Lizzy
21 ( 20 ) What I've Got In Mind - Billie Jo Spears (#20) 22 ( 18 ) (Shake Shake Shake) Shake Your Booty - KC & The Sunshine Band (#17) 23 ( 21 ) This Masquerade - George Benson (#21) 24 ( -- ) Here I Go Again - Twiggy 25 ( 17 ) Mystery Song - Status Quo (#13) 26 ( 19 ) L.O.D (Love On Delivery) - Billy Ocean (#18) 27 ( 33 ) Shower The People - James Taylor 28 ( 23 ) Steppin' Out - Neil Sedaka (#23) 29 ( -- ) Lullaby Of Broadway - Winifred Shaw 30 ( 28 ) Better Use Your Head - Little Anthony & The Imperials (#28)
31 ( 37 ) I'm Gonna Let My Heart Do The Walking - Supremes 32 ( 26 ) It's Temptation - Sheer Elegance (#26) 33 ( 32 ) You Don't Have To Go - Chi-Lites (#32) 34 ( 31 ) Summer - War (#31) 35 ( -- ) It's So Nice - New Seekers 36 ( -- ) If You Know What I Mean - Neil Diamond 37 ( 24 ) I Need To Be In Love - Carpenters (#6) 38 ( 25 ) You're My Best Friend - Queen (#1[2]) 39 ( 27 ) Heaven Must Be Missing An Angel - Tavares (#10) 40 ( -- ) Night Fever - Fatback Band
-- ( 30 ) You Are My Love - Liverpool Express (#4) -- ( 34 ) The Boston Tea Party - Sensational Alex Harvey Band (#9) -- ( 35 ) Turn The Beat Around - Vicki Sue Robinson (#12) -- ( 36 ) Let's Stick Together - Bryan Ferry (#2[1]) -- ( 38 ) A Little Bit More - Dr Hook (#20) -- ( 39 ) Man To Man - Hot Chocolate (#21) -- ( 40 ) I Recall A Gypsy Woman - Don Williams (#14)
-- ( -- ) Still The One - Orleans -- ( -- ) With Your Love - Jefferson Starship -- ( -- ) Getaway - Earth Wind & Fire -- ( -- ) Street Singin' - Lady Flash
A classic song by Daryl Hall & John Oates gets the highest entry this week. Thin Lizzy follow up their #1 "The Boys Are Back In Town" although this one wasn't a big hit for them in the UK, only peaking at #31.
Twiggy was a model who some may blame for high rates of anorexia as women wanted a body as slim as hers, but she didn't suffer it herself and is still alive in 2020. She wasn't that successful in her music career, her biggest hit peaking at #17 and is isn't on Spotify.
Going back into retro-land again, "Lullaby On Broadway" dates back to 1935 and whilst people like Doris Day have recorded it, Winifred Shaw (also known as Wini Shaw) was the original, so this is 41 years old.
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Post by Good Old Days on Jan 4, 2021 20:44:01 GMT 1
Twiggy's single (her third consecutive number one in my chart) is better than other 39 songs combined.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jan 6, 2021 11:57:35 GMT 1
21 August 1976
1 ( 1 ) Let 'Em In - Wings < 4th week at #1 > 2 ( 2 ) Play That Funky Music - Wild Cherry 3 ( 8 ) She's Gone - Daryl Hall & John Oates 4 ( 4 ) Morning Glory - James & Bobby Purify 5 ( -- ) The Killing Of Georgie - Rod Stewart 6 ( 6 ) Lowdown - Boz Scaggs 7 ( 3 ) You Should Be Dancing - Bee Gees (#3) 8 ( -- ) Dancing Queen - Abba 9 ( 5 ) Jeans On - David Dundas (#5) 10 ( -- ) If You Leave Me Now - Chicago
11 ( 12 ) Nice And Slow - Jesse Green 12 ( 10 ) Say You Love Me - Fleetwood Mac (#10) 13 ( 20 ) Jailbreak - Thin Lizzy 14 ( -- ) Aria - Mr Acker Bilk 15 ( 7 ) Don't Go Breaking My Heart - Elton John & Kiki Dee (#1[3]) 16 ( 24 ) Here I Go Again - Twiggy 17 ( 9 ) Harvest For The World - Isley Brothers (#4) 18 ( 19 ) Sixteen Bars - Stylistics 19 ( -- ) Dance Little Lady Dance - Tina Charles 20 ( 11 ) Now Is The Time - Jimmy James & The Vagabonds (#9)
21 ( -- ) Doina De Jale - Gheorghe Zamfir 22 ( 15 ) In Zaire - Johnny Wakelin (#15) 23 ( -- ) Springtime Mama - Henry Gross 24 ( 29 ) Lullaby Of Broadway - Winifred Shaw 25 ( 13 ) Back In The USSR - Beatles (#6) 26 ( 17 ) Dr Kiss Kiss - 5000 Volts (#16) 27 ( 16 ) Another Rainy Day In New York City - Chicago (#10) 28 ( 14 ) You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine - Lou Rawls (#2[1]) 29 ( 21 ) What I've Got In Mind - Billie Jo Spears (#20) 30 ( 27 ) Shower The People - James Taylor (#27)
31 ( 35 ) It's So Nice - New Seekers 32 ( 36 ) If You Know What I Mean - Neil Diamond 33 ( 18 ) Baby I Love Your Way - Peter Frampton (#11) 34 ( -- ) Loving On The Losing Side - Tommy Hunt 35 ( 23 ) This Masquerade - George Benson (#21) 36 ( -- ) Satin Sheets - Bellamy Brothers 37 ( 31 ) I'm Gonna Let My Heart Do The Walking - Supremes (#31) 38 ( 22 ) (Shake Shake Shake) Shake Your Booty - KC & The Sunshine Band (#17) 39 ( 40 ) Night Fever - Fatback Band 40 ( -- ) Baby We Better Try And Get It Together - Barry White
-- ( 25 ) Mystery Song - Status Quo (#13) -- ( 26 ) L.O.D (Love On Delivery) - Billy Ocean (#18) -- ( 28 ) Steppin' Out - Neil Sedaka (#23) -- ( 30 ) Better Use Your Head - Little Anthony & The Imperials (#28) -- ( 32 ) It's Temptation - Sheer Elegance (#26) -- ( 33 ) You Don't Have To Go - Chi-Lites (#32) -- ( 34 ) Summer - War (#31) -- ( 37 ) I Need To Be In Love - Carpenters (#6) -- ( 38 ) You're My Best Friend - Queen (#1[2]) -- ( 39 ) Heaven Must Be Missing An Angel - Tavares (#10)
-- ( -- ) I Can't Ask For Anymore Than You - Cliff Richard -- ( -- ) Heaven Is In the Back Seat Of My Cadillac - Hot Chocolate -- ( -- ) Make Yours A Happy Home - Gladys Knight & The Pips -- ( -- ) One Love In My Lifetime - Diana Ross -- ( -- ) I Can't Hear You No More - Helen Reddy
This week that we could call the "second wave" of the year after the massive weeks at the end of March. Most weeks this year have had a couple of good songs then a bunch of disco stuff, but this week has not only a huge list but the ones left behind are big names - Cliff Richard had a #1 just before this, Hot Choclate got to #2 last year, Gladys Knight has been generally more successful in the 70s than she was in the 60s, Diana Ross slips further and Helen Reddy fails only the second time (perhaps I should have tried the flip-side Music Is My Life. Her other failure "You And Me Against The World" is just terrible though).
So Abba set to fail to get to #1 again? Their next single "Money Money Money" will chart one week before "Somebody To Love" so may sneak a week on top. In any case Chicago won't be a challenge to those two, they've already charted this week too. Acker Bilk got to #5 with this song, in the early 1960s he had many hits, some vocal jazz songs, some instrumental with him playing clarinet, this falls into the latter category.
In any case "The Killing Of Georgie" has to be one of Rod Stewart's greatest songs, and I feel deserves to go in above Abba. Unlike a Rubettes song about to appear, I can't actually see his death was connected to him being gay, it appears that he was killed in a mugging, and being gay was just an aside. This is based on a true story of a man who was friends with The Faces although his death happened in 1974, Rod Stewart sang "1975" because it rhymed with "Alive". The songwriting is credited totally to Rod Stewart on this song, compared to a co-write with Martin Quittenton on Maggie May, and "Sailing" (which also re-enters the UK chart and peaks at #3) being a cover version.
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Post by Good Old Days on Jan 6, 2021 17:54:35 GMT 1
It's very unpopular opinion, but ABBA should release "That's Me" on a main side of single instead "Dancing Queen". In Japan "Tiger" was a B-side of "Dancing Queen" and "That's Me" was released on A-side with "Money Money Money" in July 1977. New New Seekers song is not so nice as their previous hits.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jan 7, 2021 11:20:42 GMT 1
28 August 1976
1 ( 5 ) The Killing Of Georgie - Rod Stewart < 3rd #1 > 2 ( 8 ) Dancing Queen - Abba 3 ( 3 ) She's Gone - Daryl Hall & John Oates 4 ( 10 ) If You Leave Me Now - Chicago 5 ( 1 ) Let 'Em In - Wings (#1[4]) 6 ( 2 ) Play That Funky Music - Wild Cherry (#2[3]) 7 ( -- ) Blinded By The Light - Manfred Mann's Earth Band 8 ( 4 ) Morning Glory - James & Bobby Purify (#4) 9 ( 14 ) Aria - Mr Acker Bilk 10 ( 6 ) Lowdown - Boz Scaggs (#6)
11 ( 19 ) Dance Little Lady Dance - Tina Charles 12 ( 13 ) Jailbreak - Thin Lizzy 13 ( 21 ) Doina De Jale - Gheorghe Zamfir 14 ( -- ) Mississippi - Pussycat 15 ( 11 ) Nice And Slow - Jesse Green (#11) 16 ( 16 ) Here I Go Again - Twiggy 17 ( 23 ) Springtime Mama - Henry Gross 18 ( 7 ) You Should Be Dancing - Bee Gees (#3) 19 ( 9 ) Jeans On - David Dundas (#5) 20 ( 12 ) Say You Love Me - Fleetwood Mac (#10)
21 ( 18 ) Sixteen Bars - Stylistics (#18) 22 ( 24 ) Lullaby Of Broadway - Winifred Shaw 23 ( 34 ) Loving On The Losing Side - Tommy Hunt 24 ( -- ) I Need It - Johnny Guitar Watson 25 ( 15 ) Don't Go Breaking My Heart - Elton John & Kiki Dee (#1[3]) 26 ( 36 ) Satin Sheets - Bellamy Brothers 27 ( 17 ) Harvest For The World - Isley Brothers (#4) 28 ( 31 ) It's So Nice - New Seekers 29 ( -- ) Work All Day - Barry Biggs 30 ( 40 ) Baby We Better Try And Get It Together - Barry White
31 ( 32 ) If You Know What I Mean - Neil Diamond 32 ( 22 ) In Zaire - Johnny Wakelin (#15) 33 ( 20 ) Now Is The Time - Jimmy James & The Vagabonds (#9) 34 ( 30 ) Shower The People - James Taylor (#27) 35 ( 26 ) Dr Kiss Kiss - 5000 Volts (#16) 36 ( 29 ) What I've Got In Mind - Billie Jo Spears (#20) 37 ( 25 ) Back In The USSR - Beatles (#6) 38 ( -- ) I Want More - Can 39 ( 27 ) Another Rainy Day In New York City - Chicago (#10) 40 ( 39 ) Night Fever - Fatback Band (#39)
-- ( 28 ) You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine - Lou Rawls (#2[1]) -- ( 33 ) Baby I Love Your Way - Peter Frampton (#11) -- ( 35 ) This Masquerade - George Benson (#21) -- ( 37 ) I'm Gonna Let My Heart Do The Walking - Supremes (#31) -- ( 38 ) (Shake Shake Shake) Shake Your Booty - KC & The Sunshine Band (#17)
I was actually surprised to see the Mississippi is already in the UK chart only one week after Abba. Dancing Queen reached UK #1 on its 3rd chart week with a run 23-16-1 (a strange movement, why did it only go up 7 on its second week?) and Mississippi didn't get to #1 until its 8th chart week thus Abba topped the chart for 6 weeks (the second consecutive #1 of that length, the first time that had happened since 1970, when Mungo Jerry and Elvis Presley were consecutively #1 for 7 and 6 weeks). Pussycat are a Dutch country-music group and this was a hit in the Netherlands a year earlier and then gradually around Europe.
However there's a higher new entry, a cover of a Bruce Springsteen song where they changed it somewhat, and changed the lyrics slightly. Bruce Springsteen sings something about a deuce I think but they make it sound like "wrapped up like a douche" or is that just a misheard lyric? It's the second hit for Manfred Mann's Earth Band following "Joybringer".
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Post by Earl Purple on Jan 7, 2021 11:43:25 GMT 1
It's very unpopular opinion, but ABBA should release "That's Me" on a main side of single instead "Dancing Queen". In Japan "Tiger" was a B-side of "Dancing Queen" and "That's Me" was released on A-side with "Money Money Money" in July 1977. New New Seekers song is not so nice as their previous hits. They seemed to do rather well with Dancing Queen so you can hardly say they made the wrong choice. For my chart though, it probably made no difference what they released, they weren't going to beat Rod Stewart, particularly being released on the same week. Still this song kept Rod Stewart off #1 in the UK. For Rod Stewart this is potentially even better than Maggie May. Musically it's a very simple song until it gets to the part where it merges into part 2. The key to the song is the lyrics and the tale he is telling. I often think that for a very strong lyric, it needs a very simple tune so you keep your concentration on the lyrics.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jan 8, 2021 12:33:34 GMT 1
4 September 1976
1 ( 1 ) The Killing Of Georgie - Rod Stewart < 2nd week at #1 > 2 ( 2 ) Dancing Queen - Abba 3 ( 7 ) Blinded By The Light - Manfred Mann's Earth Band 4 ( 4 ) If You Leave Me Now - Chicago 5 ( 3 ) She's Gone - Daryl Hall & John Oates (#3) 6 ( 14 ) Mississippi - Pussycat 7 ( -- ) (Don't Fear) The Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult 8 ( 9 ) Aria - Mr Acker Bilk 9 ( 11 ) Dance Little Lady Dance - Tina Charles 10 ( -- ) Can't Get By Without You - Real Thing
11 ( 13 ) Doina De Jale - Gheorghe Zamfir 12 ( 5 ) Let 'Em In - Wings (#1[4]) 13 ( 6 ) Play That Funky Music - Wild Cherry (#2[3]) 14 ( 12 ) Jailbreak - Thin Lizzy (#12) 15 ( 24 ) I Need It - Johnny Guitar Watson 16 ( 8 ) Morning Glory - James & Bobby Purify (#4) 17 ( 17 ) Springtime Mama - Henry Gross 18 ( -- ) Rock 'N' Me - Steve Miller Band 19 ( 10 ) Lowdown - Boz Scaggs (#6) 20 ( 23 ) Loving On The Losing Side - Tommy Hunt
21 ( 16 ) Here I Go Again - Twiggy (#16) 22 ( 29 ) Work All Day - Barry Biggs 23 ( 26 ) Satin Sheets - Bellamy Brothers 24 ( 15 ) Nice And Slow - Jesse Green (#11) 25 ( 22 ) Lullaby Of Broadway - Winifred Shaw (#22) 26 ( 30 ) Baby We Better Try And Get It Together - Barry White 27 ( 21 ) Sixteen Bars - Stylistics (#18) 28 ( 28 ) It's So Nice - New Seekers 29 ( 38 ) I Want More - Can 30 ( -- ) Magic Man - Heart
31 ( 20 ) Say You Love Me - Fleetwood Mac (#10) 32 ( 19 ) Jeans On - David Dundas (#5) 33 ( 18 ) You Should Be Dancing - Bee Gees (#3) 34 ( 31 ) If You Know What I Mean - Neil Diamond (#31) 35 ( 25 ) Don't Go Breaking My Heart - Elton John & Kiki Dee (#1[3]) 36 ( 27 ) Harvest For The World - Isley Brothers (#4) 37 ( 34 ) Shower The People - James Taylor (#27) 38 ( -- ) Disco Duck - Rick Dees & His Cast Of Idiots 39 ( 40 ) Night Fever - Fatback Band (#39) 40 ( 32 ) In Zaire - Johnny Wakelin (#15)
-- ( 33 ) Now Is The Time - Jimmy James & The Vagabonds (#9) -- ( 35 ) Dr Kiss Kiss - 5000 Volts (#16) -- ( 36 ) What I've Got In Mind - Billie Jo Spears (#20) -- ( 37 ) Back In The USSR - Beatles (#6) -- ( 39 ) Another Rainy Day In New York City - Chicago (#10)
-- ( -- ) Don't Stop Believin' - Olivia Newton-John
This is a strong period near the top of the chart. After this week though it cools down. Whilst there is a potential number one in a couple of weeks I think one of the songs currently in the chart is likely to replace Rod Stewart. The next certain number one comes out on 16 October so there'll definitely be a new #1 in between. That's from my latest playlist and it's way ahead of anything else on it.
Don't Fear The Reaper first came out in 1976 though technically this is the single edit, with the full album version charting in the UK in 1978, but I play the full version even for 1976. Assuming I redo 1978 it won't chart again, but maybe it will be the song to replace "The Killing Of Georgie" at the top.
I always preferred "Can't Get By Without You" to "You To Me Are Everything". That song reached #5 in June.
As well as those, we get the Steve Miller Band, who reached #1 in 1973 with "The Joker", also another hit by Heart, one that went top 10 in the USA, and the second hit of a year by a disc-jockey at a time when DJs more commonly just played records rather than making them, but Rick Dees was a US DJ and this is something of a novelty disco song. The other disc-jockey song from 1976 was "Convoy GB" which featured "plastic chicken" rather than a duck, but whilst being a novelty song, "Disco Duck" isn't a parody of any particular song. It reached #1 in the USA and was I think a top 10 hit in the UK too.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jan 9, 2021 22:00:18 GMT 1
11 September 1976
1 ( 1 ) The Killing Of Georgie - Rod Stewart < 3rd week at #1 > 2 ( 2 ) Dancing Queen - Abba 3 ( 3 ) Blinded By The Light - Manfred Mann's Earth Band 4 ( 7 ) (Don't Fear) The Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult 5 ( 4 ) If You Leave Me Now - Chicago (#4) 6 ( 10 ) Can't Get By Without You - Real Thing 7 ( 6 ) Mississippi - Pussycat (#6) 8 ( 18 ) Rock 'N' Me - Steve Miller Band 9 ( 5 ) She's Gone - Daryl Hall & John Oates (#3) 10 ( 8 ) Aria - Mr Acker Bilk (#8)
11 ( 9 ) Dance Little Lady Dance - Tina Charles (#9) 12 ( 11 ) Doina De Jale - Gheorghe Zamfir (#11) 13 ( 15 ) I Need It - Johnny Guitar Watson 14 ( -- ) Rubberband Man - Spinners 15 ( -- ) Breakaway - Gallagher & Lyle 16 ( 14 ) Jailbreak - Thin Lizzy (#12) 17 ( 22 ) Work All Day - Barry Biggs 18 ( 17 ) Springtime Mama - Henry Gross (#17) 19 ( 30 ) Magic Man - Heart 20 ( 20 ) Loving On The Losing Side - Tommy Hunt
21 ( 12 ) Let 'Em In - Wings (#1[4]) 22 ( -- ) Every Nite's A Saturday Night With You - Drifters 23 ( 13 ) Play That Funky Music - Wild Cherry (#2[3]) 24 ( 23 ) Satin Sheets - Bellamy Brothers (#23) 25 ( 29 ) I Want More - Can 26 ( 26 ) Baby We Better Try And Get It Together - Barry White 27 ( -- ) Double Trouble - Lynyrd Skynyrd 28 ( 16 ) Morning Glory - James & Bobby Purify (#4) 29 ( 38 ) Disco Duck - Rick Dees & His Cast Of Idiots 30 ( 21 ) Here I Go Again - Twiggy (#16)
31 ( 28 ) It's So Nice - New Seekers (#28) 32 ( 19 ) Lowdown - Boz Scaggs (#6) 33 ( 25 ) Lullaby Of Broadway - Winifred Shaw (#22) 34 ( -- ) Doctor Tarr & Professor Fether - Alan Parsons Project 35 ( 27 ) Sixteen Bars - Stylistics (#18) 36 ( 24 ) Nice And Slow - Jesse Green (#11) 37 ( 34 ) If You Know What I Mean - Neil Diamond (#31) 38 ( 39 ) Night Fever - Fatback Band (#39) 39 ( 37 ) Shower The People - James Taylor (#27) 40 ( -- ) Disco Music (I Like It) - J.A.L.N Band
-- ( 31 ) Say You Love Me - Fleetwood Mac (#10) -- ( 32 ) Jeans On - David Dundas (#5) -- ( 33 ) You Should Be Dancing - Bee Gees (#3) -- ( 35 ) Don't Go Breaking My Heart - Elton John & Kiki Dee (#1[3]) -- ( 36 ) Harvest For The World - Isley Brothers (#4) -- ( 40 ) In Zaire - Johnny Wakelin (#15)
-- ( -- ) Superstar - Paul Davis -- ( -- ) Loving And Free - Kiki Dee -- ( -- ) Get Out Of Denver (Live At The Marquee) - Eddie & The Hotrods
We've had a long hot summer with a drought and it's coming to an end. I'm now at senior school or high school whatever you want to call it, and "Dancing Queen" is number one in the UK chart, but in my chart is stuck for a 3rd week behind Rod Stewart as other classics pile up behind it.
As is often the case with years that are not considered great years for music, it is good once you separate off the best songs and throw them all together, and I can clearly say about 1976 that the playlists have contained a lot of disco / funk music, and I don't mean the great Philly sound we had in 1973-74 but what it seemed to develop into, and some even by big names but I haven't really enjoyed them, but the top end of the chart has remained strong and we're in a second wave of a "pile-up" near the top, although this top 2 isn't as strong as the Music / I'm Mandy Fly Me one from earlier in the year (where Fernando got stuck at #3 behind those two).
I've called them The Spinners throughout so far (or just Spinners) and so I'm keeping that name for them. Rubberband Man is the better sort of disco for me, and I have no problems charting that. I couldn't remember that Gallagher & Lyle had 3 hits in 1976 but there we go "I Wanna Stay With You" and "Heart On My Sleeve" preceded "Breakaway".
Further down we have Lynyrd Skynyrd, this was co-credited with Sweet Home Alabama but that already got to #1 in 1974 so I had no choice really than to give Double Trouble its own run. "Freebird" reached #3.
Alan Parsons produced that John Miles epic I referred to earlier and now has his own chart entry. He will eventually get a #1 in 1983 with "Old & Wise".
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Post by Earl Purple on Jan 10, 2021 13:30:39 GMT 1
18 September 1976
1 ( 1 ) The Killing Of Georgie - Rod Stewart < 4th week at #1 > 2 ( 3 ) Blinded By The Light - Manfred Mann's Earth Band 3 ( 4 ) (Don't Fear) The Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult 4 ( 2 ) Dancing Queen - Abba (#2[3]) 5 ( 6 ) Can't Get By Without You - Real Thing 6 ( 7 ) Mississippi - Pussycat (#6) 7 ( 5 ) If You Leave Me Now - Chicago (#4) 8 ( 8 ) Rock 'N' Me - Steve Miller Band 9 ( 14 ) Rubberband Man - Spinners 10 ( 15 ) Breakaway - Gallagher & Lyle
11 ( 22 ) Every Nite's A Saturday Night With You - Drifters 12 ( -- ) Uptown Uptempo Woman - Randy Edelman 13 ( 13 ) I Need It - Johnny Guitar Watson 14 ( 10 ) Aria - Mr Acker Bilk (#8) 15 ( 19 ) Magic Man - Heart 16 ( 11 ) Dance Little Lady Dance - Tina Charles (#9) 17 ( 9 ) She's Gone - Daryl Hall & John Oates (#3) 18 ( 12 ) Doina De Jale - Gheorghe Zamfir (#11) 19 ( 17 ) Work All Day - Barry Biggs (#17) 20 ( 27 ) Double Trouble - Lynyrd Skynyrd
21 ( -- ) Sunrise - Eric Carmen 22 ( 16 ) Jailbreak - Thin Lizzy (#12) 23 ( 18 ) Springtime Mama - Henry Gross (#17) 24 ( 20 ) Loving On The Losing Side - Tommy Hunt (#20) 25 ( 34 ) Doctor Tarr & Professor Fether - Alan Parsons Project 26 ( 25 ) I Want More - Can (#25) 27 ( 29 ) Disco Duck - Rick Dees & His Cast Of Idiots 28 ( 24 ) Satin Sheets - Bellamy Brothers (#23) 29 ( 26 ) Baby We Better Try And Get It Together - Barry White (#26) 30 ( 40 ) Disco Music (I Like It) - J.A.L.N Band
31 ( 21 ) Let 'Em In - Wings (#1[4]) 32 ( -- ) It's Ok - Beach Boys 33 ( 23 ) Play That Funky Music - Wild Cherry (#2[3]) 34 ( -- ) Get The Funk Out Of Ma Face - Brothers Johnson 35 ( 31 ) It's So Nice - New Seekers (#28) 36 ( -- ) Get Up Offa That Thing - James Brown 37 ( 38 ) Night Fever - Fatback Band (#39) 38 ( 30 ) Here I Go Again - Twiggy (#16) 39 ( 28 ) Morning Glory - James & Bobby Purify (#4) 40 ( 37 ) If You Know What I Mean - Neil Diamond (#31)
-- ( 32 ) Lowdown - Boz Scaggs (#6) -- ( 33 ) Lullaby Of Broadway - Winifred Shaw (#22) -- ( 35 ) Sixteen Bars - Stylistics (#18) -- ( 36 ) Nice And Slow - Jesse Green (#11) -- ( 39 ) Shower The People - James Taylor (#27)
-- ( -- ) Destiny - Candi Staton -- ( -- ) The Best Disco In Town - Ritchie Family
Because at present this retro chart is my only set of songs I have to rate I'm getting through it quicker, so I did a rate during the week and made a new playlist, and it's making very good progress as I've rated that one too so can get a new one going for tomorrow. I will post at most one chart a day.
Randy Edelman had a UK hit earlier in the year with his cover of "Concrete And Clay", a song that was #1 for Unit 4 + 2 close to the time I was born (and was in the chart at that point), one of several one-week number ones in the first few months of 1965 (there were loads!). In any case I didn't chart it but whilst "Uptown Uptempo Woman" peaked lower in the UK chart, I don't know if it's because it was an original song or another reason but it felt this was by far the song he was remembered for and Capital Radio was still playing it as an oldie about 7 years later (when I listened a bit more to that channel).
Yet another entry by Eric Carmen also charts, a Beach Boys song I don't remember that well and some funk by the Brothers Johnson and James Brown near the lower end. The latter would claim he did it all first and everyone else is copying him. He'd probably be right. Those two beat Candi Staton doing a rehash of her last hit and the Ritchie Family's tune that brings in lots of other songs.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jan 11, 2021 17:23:36 GMT 1
25 September 1976
1 ( 2 ) Blinded By The Light - Manfred Mann's Earth Band < 1st #1 > 2 ( 1 ) The Killing Of Georgie - Rod Stewart (#1[4]) 3 ( 3 ) (Don't Fear) The Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult 4 ( 5 ) Can't Get By Without You - Real Thing 5 ( 6 ) Mississippi - Pussycat 6 ( 4 ) Dancing Queen - Abba (#2[3]) 7 ( 9 ) Rubberband Man - Spinners 8 ( 11 ) Every Nite's A Saturday Night With You - Drifters 9 ( 12 ) Uptown Uptempo Woman - Randy Edelman 10 ( 10 ) Breakaway - Gallagher & Lyle
11 ( 8 ) Rock 'N' Me - Steve Miller Band (#8) 12 ( -- ) Howzat - Sherbet 13 ( 7 ) If You Leave Me Now - Chicago (#4) 14 ( 21 ) Sunrise - Eric Carmen 15 ( 15 ) Magic Man - Heart 16 ( 13 ) I Need It - Johnny Guitar Watson (#13) 17 ( 20 ) Double Trouble - Lynyrd Skynyrd 18 ( 14 ) Aria - Mr Acker Bilk (#8) 19 ( -- ) I'll Meet You At Midnight - Smokie 20 ( 25 ) Doctor Tarr & Professor Fether - Alan Parsons Project
21 ( 32 ) It's Ok - Beach Boys 22 ( -- ) Under One Roof - Rubettes 23 ( 16 ) Dance Little Lady Dance - Tina Charles (#9) 24 ( 19 ) Work All Day - Barry Biggs (#17) 25 ( 34 ) Get The Funk Out Of Ma Face - Brothers Johnson 26 ( 30 ) Disco Music (I Like It) - J.A.L.N Band 27 ( 36 ) Get Up Offa That Thing - James Brown 28 ( 18 ) Doina De Jale - Gheorghe Zamfir (#11) 29 ( 17 ) She's Gone - Daryl Hall & John Oates (#3) 30 ( -- ) You Are The Woman - Firefall
31 ( 27 ) Disco Duck - Rick Dees & His Cast Of Idiots (#27) 32 ( 26 ) I Want More - Can (#25) 33 ( 23 ) Springtime Mama - Henry Gross (#17) 34 ( 22 ) Jailbreak - Thin Lizzy (#12) 35 ( 24 ) Loving On The Losing Side - Tommy Hunt (#20) 36 ( -- ) Beth - Kiss 37 ( 29 ) Baby We Better Try And Get It Together - Barry White (#26) 38 ( 28 ) Satin Sheets - Bellamy Brothers (#23) 39 ( -- ) The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald - Gordon Lightfoot 40 ( 37 ) Night Fever - Fatback Band (#39)
-- ( 31 ) Let 'Em In - Wings (#1[4]) -- ( 33 ) Play That Funky Music - Wild Cherry (#2[3]) -- ( 35 ) It's So Nice - New Seekers (#28) -- ( 38 ) Here I Go Again - Twiggy (#16) -- ( 39 ) Morning Glory - James & Bobby Purify (#4) -- ( 40 ) If You Know What I Mean - Neil Diamond (#31)
Manfred Mann's Earth Band are considered a separate band to Manfred Mann, so it's their first number one and only their second hit after Joybringer, but Manfred Mann had many hits in the 1960s including two number ones on this chart with "Pretty Flamingo" and "My Name Is Jack".
It's taken its time to get to the top but there was a very strong Rod Stewart song ahead of it.
A bit like in the UK where Pussycat took ages to get to #1 then ended up outselling Abba to be the 3rd biggest selling single of the year. In my chart that one climbs to a new peak with a strange run of 14-6-7-6-5, and is a very pleasant country song by a female vocal group (with male instrumental backing). However it's the kind of popular song that critics think is too "safe".
The Sex Pistols will arrive at the end of the year, but for me Manfred Mann's Earth Band who are of a more classic rock nature, doing a Bruce Springsteen song are far better anyway. Smokie's next song after their entry this week is now normally also sung with swear words, but it had to wait about 19 years for that to be the case.
As Rod Stewart falls, the Rubettes, who have decided to be a more "serious" band now, also tackle the subject of homophobia in the tale of a boy whose father cannot accept he is gay but actually gets violent and kills him.
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Post by Good Old Days on Jan 11, 2021 20:02:16 GMT 1
I like "Mississippi", but my favourite Pussycat song is "My Broken Souvenirs" (5 weeks at # 1 in New Zealand, # 2 in Belgium, # 2 in Netherlands, # 7 in Switzerland, # 12 in Austria, # 22 in Germany).
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Post by Earl Purple on Jan 12, 2021 11:55:27 GMT 1
I expected that you would like Pussycat. Generally country music doesn't do that well in my chart, although Lyin' Eyes by the Eagles reached #2 in 1975. Their music crosses over into country, but that one in particular. I guess you'll find out what happens early next year when the Rubettes dare to cross that line.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jan 12, 2021 15:24:24 GMT 1
2 October 1976
1 ( 1 ) Blinded By The Light - Manfred Mann's Earth Band < 2nd week at #1 > 2 ( 3 ) (Don't Fear) The Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult 3 ( 4 ) Can't Get By Without You - Real Thing 4 ( 2 ) The Killing Of Georgie - Rod Stewart (#1[4]) 5 ( 5 ) Mississippi - Pussycat 6 ( 12 ) Howzat - Sherbet 7 ( 7 ) Rubberband Man - Spinners 8 ( 8 ) Every Nite's A Saturday Night With You - Drifters 9 ( 9 ) Uptown Uptempo Woman - Randy Edelman 10 ( 19 ) I'll Meet You At Midnight - Smokie
11 ( 6 ) Dancing Queen - Abba (#2[3]) 12 ( 14 ) Sunrise - Eric Carmen 13 ( 22 ) Under One Roof - Rubettes 14 ( 10 ) Breakaway - Gallagher & Lyle (#10) 15 ( -- ) Nadia's Theme - Barry DaVorzon & Perry Botkin Jr 16 ( 21 ) It's Ok - Beach Boys 17 ( 11 ) Rock 'N' Me - Steve Miller Band (#8) 18 ( 17 ) Double Trouble - Lynyrd Skynyrd (#17) 19 ( 15 ) Magic Man - Heart (#15) 20 ( 20 ) Doctor Tarr & Professor Fether - Alan Parsons Project
21 ( 30 ) You Are The Woman - Firefall 22 ( 25 ) Get The Funk Out Of Ma Face - Brothers Johnson 23 ( 16 ) I Need It - Johnny Guitar Watson (#13) 24 ( 13 ) If You Leave Me Now - Chicago (#4) 25 ( 27 ) Get Up Offa That Thing - James Brown 26 ( -- ) Did You Boogie (With Your Baby) - Flash Cadillac & The Continental Kids 27 ( 18 ) Aria - Mr Acker Bilk (#8) 28 ( 26 ) Disco Music (I Like It) - J.A.L.N Band (#26) 29 ( 36 ) Beth - Kiss 30 ( 39 ) The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald - Gordon Lightfoot
31 ( 24 ) Work All Day - Barry Biggs (#17) 32 ( 23 ) Dance Little Lady Dance - Tina Charles (#9) 33 ( -- ) Laser Love - T Rex 34 ( 31 ) Disco Duck - Rick Dees & His Cast Of Idiots (#27) 35 ( -- ) Love So Right - Bee Gees 36 ( 32 ) I Want More - Can (#25) 37 ( 28 ) Doina De Jale - Gheorghe Zamfir (#11) 38 ( -- ) Like A Sad Song - John Denver 39 ( 29 ) She's Gone - Daryl Hall & John Oates (#3) 40 ( 33 ) Springtime Mama - Henry Gross (#17)
-- ( 34 ) Jailbreak - Thin Lizzy (#12) -- ( 35 ) Loving On The Losing Side - Tommy Hunt (#20) -- ( 37 ) Baby We Better Try And Get It Together - Barry White (#26) -- ( 38 ) Satin Sheets - Bellamy Brothers (#23) -- ( 40 ) Night Fever - Fatback Band (#39)
-- ( -- ) Hurt - Manhattans -- ( -- ) When Forever Has Gone - Demis Roussos
The Manhattans and Demis Roussos, this is what the public liked in 1976? The tune that enters at #15 is pleasant. The one at #26 sounds like they want to be the band at #8. That Bee Gees song isn't particularly good, on a better week for music it would fail to chart. Marc Bolan now has less than a year to live, but I wonder what he'd have contributed to music had he stayed alive - I think he may have made a comeback in the 80s - there was clearly a new direction and I think he'd have adapted to it well.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jan 13, 2021 12:19:19 GMT 1
9 October 1976
1 ( 1 ) Blinded By The Light - Manfred Mann's Earth Band < 3rd week at #1 > 2 ( 2 ) (Don't Fear) The Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult 3 ( 3 ) Can't Get By Without You - Real Thing 4 ( 6 ) Howzat - Sherbet 5 ( 5 ) Mississippi - Pussycat 6 ( 4 ) The Killing Of Georgie - Rod Stewart (#1[4]) 7 ( 10 ) I'll Meet You At Midnight - Smokie 8 ( 15 ) Nadia's Theme - Barry DaVorzon & Perry Botkin Jr 9 ( -- ) Don't Take Away The Music - Tavares 10 ( 7 ) Rubberband Man - Spinners (#7)
11 ( 13 ) Under One Roof - Rubettes 12 ( 8 ) Every Nite's A Saturday Night With You - Drifters (#8) 13 ( -- ) Couldn't Get It Right - Climax Blues Band 14 ( 9 ) Uptown Uptempo Woman - Randy Edelman (#9) 15 ( -- ) Dancing With The Captain - Paul Nicholas 16 ( 12 ) Sunrise - Eric Carmen (#12) 17 ( 16 ) It's Ok - Beach Boys (#16) 18 ( 26 ) Did You Boogie (With Your Baby) - Flash Cadillac & The Continental Kids 19 ( -- ) Queen Of My Soul - Average White Band 20 ( 21 ) You Are The Woman - Firefall
21 ( 11 ) Dancing Queen - Abba (#2[3]) 22 ( 14 ) Breakaway - Gallagher & Lyle (#10) 23 ( 18 ) Double Trouble - Lynyrd Skynyrd (#17) 24 ( 22 ) Get The Funk Out Of Ma Face - Brothers Johnson (#22) 25 ( 20 ) Doctor Tarr & Professor Fether - Alan Parsons Project (#20) 26 ( 33 ) Laser Love - T Rex 27 ( 35 ) Love So Right - Bee Gees 28 ( -- ) Summer Of My Life - Simon May 29 ( 19 ) Magic Man - Heart (#15) 30 ( 17 ) Rock 'N' Me - Steve Miller Band (#8)
31 ( 30 ) The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald - Gordon Lightfoot (#30) 32 ( 25 ) Get Up Offa That Thing - James Brown (#25) 33 ( 29 ) Beth - Kiss (#29) 34 ( 38 ) Like A Sad Song - John Denver 35 ( 23 ) I Need It - Johnny Guitar Watson (#13) 36 ( 28 ) Disco Music (I Like It) - J.A.L.N Band (#26) 37 ( 24 ) If You Leave Me Now - Chicago (#4) 38 ( -- ) Soul Dracula - Hot Blood 39 ( 27 ) Aria - Mr Acker Bilk (#8) 40 ( 34 ) Disco Duck - Rick Dees & His Cast Of Idiots (#27)
-- ( 31 ) Work All Day - Barry Biggs (#17) -- ( 32 ) Dance Little Lady Dance - Tina Charles (#9) -- ( 36 ) I Want More - Can (#25) -- ( 37 ) Doina De Jale - Gheorghe Zamfir (#11) -- ( 39 ) She's Gone - Daryl Hall & John Oates (#3) -- ( 40 ) Springtime Mama - Henry Gross (#17)
-- ( -- ) This One's For You - Barry Manilow -- ( -- ) Muskrat Love - Captain And Tennille
I have only one more scored-up playlist, so I'll post a chart tomorrow and then it's likely not until a bit later. In any case, there's a huge one that will enter next week, and more biggies to come a few weeks later, all in a row.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jan 14, 2021 14:50:54 GMT 1
16 October 1976
1 ( 1 ) Blinded By The Light - Manfred Mann's Earth Band < 3rd week at #1 > 2 ( -- ) More Than A Feeling - Boston 3 ( 2 ) (Don't Fear) The Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult (#2[2]) 4 ( 4 ) Howzat - Sherbet 5 ( 3 ) Can't Get By Without You - Real Thing (#3) 6 ( 9 ) Don't Take Away The Music - Tavares 7 ( 13 ) Couldn't Get It Right - Climax Blues Band 8 ( 8 ) Nadia's Theme - Barry DaVorzon & Perry Botkin Jr 9 ( 7 ) I'll Meet You At Midnight - Smokie (#7) 10 ( 5 ) Mississippi - Pussycat (#5)
11 ( 15 ) Dancing With The Captain - Paul Nicholas 12 ( 19 ) Queen Of My Soul - Average White Band 13 ( 6 ) The Killing Of Georgie - Rod Stewart (#1[4]) 14 ( 11 ) Under One Roof - Rubettes (#11) 15 ( 18 ) Did You Boogie (With Your Baby) - Flash Cadillac & The Continental Kids 16 ( 10 ) Rubberband Man - Spinners (#7) 17 ( 28 ) Summer Of My Life - Simon May 18 ( -- ) Love And Affection - Joan Armatrading 19 ( 12 ) Every Nite's A Saturday Night With You - Drifters (#8) 20 ( -- ) Fairytale - Dana
21 ( 17 ) It's Ok - Beach Boys (#16) 22 ( 14 ) Uptown Uptempo Woman - Randy Edelman (#9) 23 ( 20 ) You Are The Woman - Firefall (#20) 24 ( -- ) Remember Yesterday - John Miles 25 ( 16 ) Sunrise - Eric Carmen (#12) 26 ( 26 ) Laser Love - T Rex 27 ( 27 ) Love So Right - Bee Gees 28 ( -- ) A Dose Of Rock N Roll - Ringo Starr 29 ( 38 ) Soul Dracula - Hot Blood 30 ( 24 ) Get The Funk Out Of Ma Face - Brothers Johnson (#22)
31 ( -- ) Hold Tight - Liverpool Express 32 ( 23 ) Double Trouble - Lynyrd Skynyrd (#17) 33 ( 25 ) Doctor Tarr & Professor Fether - Alan Parsons Project (#20) 34 ( 22 ) Breakaway - Gallagher & Lyle (#10) 35 ( -- ) Coming Home - David Essex 36 ( 34 ) Like A Sad Song - John Denver (#34) 37 ( 21 ) Dancing Queen - Abba (#2[3]) 38 ( 31 ) The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald - Gordon Lightfoot (#30) 39 ( 33 ) Beth - Kiss (#29) 40 ( 32 ) Get Up Offa That Thing - James Brown (#25)
-- ( 29 ) Magic Man - Heart (#15) -- ( 30 ) Rock 'N' Me - Steve Miller Band (#8) -- ( 35 ) I Need It - Johnny Guitar Watson (#13) -- ( 36 ) Disco Music (I Like It) - J.A.L.N Band (#26) -- ( 37 ) If You Leave Me Now - Chicago (#4) -- ( 39 ) Aria - Mr Acker Bilk (#8) -- ( 40 ) Disco Duck - Rick Dees & His Cast Of Idiots (#27)
This playlist covered 4 weeks, there is one more to go (I miscounted) and Boston stood out a mile from everything else on it. Joan Armatrading's ballad was her first and biggest hit but she's one of those who seemed to have odd hits spread out, as 1980 "Me Myself I" and 1983 "Drop The Pilot" are her best known other songs so about 3-4 years between them. The later ones are far more uptempo rock-chick than this one.
Dana's song shares a title with a future Eurovision song contest winner, her being one herself, of course. This song perhaps isn't as good as Alexander Rybak but is better than her own winner "All Kinds Of Everything".
John Miles is also back in the chart. One total epic song for which he'll always be remembered, the rest mainly so-so.
Ringo Starr's album "Ringo's Rotogravure" contains separate compositions by Paul McCartney, John Lennon and George Harrison, as well as a few he co-wrote himself, but the single which reached #26 in the USA is not written by any of them, and is apparently a cover of a 60s song. The entire album (including this song) is not on Spotify, another of those mysteries as Ringo was the first Beatle keen on getting his music on there, and all the other stuff like Photograph is there, so why not this?
Liverpool Express come from the same city as he does, they are not covering a 60s song (Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick & Tich song is different). They had a big hit earlier in the year with "You Are My Love", and to be honest that's the only one of theirs I can really remember.
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Post by Good Old Days on Jan 14, 2021 16:52:47 GMT 1
"Muskrat Love" deserved to be in top 40.
Sadly "All Kinds Of Everything" is very underrated now, it's the one from the most lovely singles from all 70s decade.
I wanted to ask "Where is GlamourPuss - Superman ?", but you didn't include non-charted singles, so this question is pointless.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jan 14, 2021 17:59:56 GMT 1
Non-charted singles didn't start reaching my chart until April 1998. By 2018, the last year of my chart, it was rare that anything that reached my chart was a hit in the UK or USA.
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Post by Good Old Days on Jan 14, 2021 19:21:08 GMT 1
Non-charted singles didn't start reaching my chart until April 1998. By 2018, the last year of my chart, it was rare that anything that reached my chart was a hit in the UK or USA. I started to add UK non-charted singles in retrospective charts, when released that some my all-time favourite acts (Twiggy, Lynsey De Paul, Brotherhood of Man) had many unsuccessful singles. 45cat database is a very good source, especially for UK releases.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jan 14, 2021 21:20:37 GMT 1
I'm happy to reduce the amount of work and keep retro charts to chart hits only. Particularly in a year like 1976 when this is the music I knew at the time (albeit I didn't know some of the lower-peaking ones and didn't know some of the US-only hits although even then I knew a few of them). I didn't start doing charts until the start of 1977 and didn't include the US so "More Than A Feeling" charted for me back then. It peaked at #2, however given my age at the time I guess that genre of music wouldn't have appealed to me as much as pop so getting to #2 was quite an achievement for a song of that type, particularly as it only got to about #24 in the UK chart.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jan 15, 2021 10:41:52 GMT 1
If I'd been charting non-hit singles in 1976 I'd probably more likely have gone for "Blitzkrieg Bop" by the Ramones, which was released without any chart success around February, rather than Lynsey De Paul, Twiggy or Brotherhood Of Man.
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