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Post by Earl Purple on May 6, 2021 9:43:00 GMT 1
Oh wow, we're in 1978. This year and 1979 are the greatest years for music ever? 1977 was pretty fantastic too, of course
7 January 1978
1 ( 1 ) Just The Way You Are - Billy Joel < 4th week at #1 > 2 ( 5 ) Sometimes When We Touch - Dan Hill 3 ( 6 ) Stayin' Alive - Bee Gees 4 ( 3 ) Native New Yorker - Odyssey (#3) 5 ( 7 ) Lay Down Sally - Eric Clapton & Marcella Detroit 6 ( 2 ) Love's Unkind - Donna Summer (#2[4]) 7 ( 4 ) It's A Heartache - Bonnie Tyler (#3) 8 ( 11 ) Uptown Top Ranking - Althia & Donna 9 ( -- ) Emotion - Samantha Sang 10 ( 13 ) Who's Gonna Love Me - Imperials
11 ( 8 ) Jamming - Bob Marley & The Wailers (#6) 12 ( 12 ) Who Pays The Ferryman - Yannis Markoupoulos 13 ( 18 ) Desiree - Neil Diamond 14 ( 10 ) We Will Rock You - Queen (#3) 15 ( 14 ) As - Stevie Wonder (#8) 16 ( 17 ) Short People - Randy Newman 17 ( 25 ) Girls' School - Wings 18 ( 23 ) Point Of No Return - Kansas 19 ( 15 ) Mull Of Kintyre - Wings (#5) 20 ( -- ) Peg - Steely Dan
21 ( 9 ) White Christmas - Bing Crosby (#7) 22 ( 34 ) I Don't Wanna Lose Your Love - Emotions 23 ( 20 ) I Love You - Donna Summer (#18) 24 ( 22 ) Hollywood - Boz Scaggs (#21) 25 ( 36 ) Ain't Doin' Nothin' - Jet Bronx & The Forbidden 26 ( 16 ) We Are The Champions - Queen (#1[6]) 27 ( 26 ) Let's Have A Quiet Night In - David Soul (#26) 28 ( 28 ) Little Girl - Banned 29 ( 37 ) Keep Doin' It - Showdown 30 ( 21 ) Run Back - Carl Douglas (#16)
31 ( 19 ) Really Free - John Otway & Wild Willy Barrett (#10) 32 ( 27 ) Don't Dilly Dally On The Way - Muppets (#27) 33 ( -- ) What's Your Name - Lynyrd Skynyrd 34 ( 29 ) (Love Is) Thicker Than Water - Andy Gibb (#29) 35 ( 24 ) As Time Goes By - Dooley Wilson (#17) 36 ( 33 ) White Punks On Dope - Tubes (#22) 37 ( 30 ) Put Your Love In Me - Hot Chocolate (#10) 38 ( 32 ) Dance Dance Dance (Yowzah Yowzah Yowzah) - Chic (#8) 39 ( 31 ) Georgina Bailey - Noosha Fox (#3) 40 ( 35 ) Hey Deanie - Shaun Cassidy (#29)
-- ( 38 ) You're In My Heart (The Final Acclaim) - Rod Stewart (#2[4]) -- ( 39 ) Floral Dance - Brighouse And Rastrick Brass Band (#8) -- ( 40 ) Turn To Stone - Electric Light Orchestra (#3)
The Bee Gees' "Stayin' Alive" climbs from #6 to #3 this week whilst they are also involved with the highest new entry, essentially it's a duet with them and Samantha Sang. I've seen a cover credited to Samantha Sang & The Bee Gees and with an 's' at the end of the title, but officially they weren't credited on it and the title is "Emotion" not "Emotions" (unlike the Mariah Carey song which is called Emotions). The Emotions also climb the chart this week.
If you recognise the riff on the Steely Dan song, it was sampled by De La Soul in 1989 for "Eye Know". The band have reached #2 in my chart 3 times without ever quite making it to #1. Surprisingly relatively little success in the UK. Their biggest of those hits "Reelin' In The Years" spent 4 weeks at #2 in 1973, behind "Walk On The Wild Side" and later behind "See My Baby Jive". Their others "Do It Again" in 1973 (entering last week of 1972, and was kept out by "You're So Vain") and "Haitian Divorce" last year (entering near the end of 1976 and peaked behind "The Things We Do For Love") both spent 2 weeks at #2. "Rikki Don't Lose That Number" reached #7 in 1974, and their only other hit "Black Friday" reached #26 in 1975.
And Lynyrd Skynyrd did more than 2 songs. But one of those "Sweet Home Alabama" did get to NM #1.
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Post by Good Old Days on May 6, 2021 11:43:43 GMT 1
1978 was the year of Blondie, Brotherhood of Man and "Summer Nights" (For "You're The One That I Want" I prefer Debbie Gibson and Craig McLachlan duet from 1993 year).
As a big Twiggy stan I'm very sad, because after fantastic "Fallen Angel" she did a long pause in music career and her 80s songs were weaker than classic tunes from 1976-1978 years.
My main favourites for "Song of the Year" award are "Fallen Angel", "Figaro" and "(I'm Always Touched By Your) Presence Dear".
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Post by Earl Purple on May 7, 2021 12:13:07 GMT 1
14 January 1978
1 ( 2 ) Sometimes When We Touch - Dan Hill < 1st #1 > 2 ( 1 ) Just The Way You Are - Billy Joel (#1[4]) 3 ( 3 ) Stayin' Alive - Bee Gees 4 ( 9 ) Emotion - Samantha Sang 5 ( 5 ) Lay Down Sally - Eric Clapton & Marcella Detroit 6 ( -- ) Lovely Day - Bill Withers 7 ( 4 ) Native New Yorker - Odyssey (#3) 8 ( 8 ) Uptown Top Ranking - Althia & Donna 9 ( -- ) Figaro - Brotherhood Of Man 10 ( 10 ) Who's Gonna Love Me - Imperials
11 ( 20 ) Peg - Steely Dan 12 ( 13 ) Desiree - Neil Diamond 13 ( -- ) Wishing On A Star - Rose Royce 14 ( 7 ) It's A Heartache - Bonnie Tyler (#3) 15 ( 6 ) Love's Unkind - Donna Summer (#2[4]) 16 ( -- ) Heartsong - Gordon Giltrap 17 ( 17 ) Girls' School - Wings 18 ( 12 ) Who Pays The Ferryman - Yannis Markoupoulos (#12) 19 ( -- ) The Groove Line - Heatwave 20 ( 11 ) Jamming - Bob Marley & The Wailers (#6)
21 ( 18 ) Point Of No Return - Kansas (#18) 22 ( 22 ) I Don't Wanna Lose Your Love - Emotions 23 ( 16 ) Short People - Randy Newman (#16) 24 ( 15 ) As - Stevie Wonder (#8) 25 ( -- ) Sorry I'm A Lady - Baccara 26 ( 25 ) Ain't Doin' Nothin' - Jet Bronx & The Forbidden (#25) 27 ( 14 ) We Will Rock You - Queen (#3) 28 ( -- ) Galaxy - War 29 ( 33 ) What's Your Name - Lynyrd Skynyrd 30 ( 29 ) Keep Doin' It - Showdown (#29)
31 ( 19 ) Mull Of Kintyre - Wings (#5) 32 ( -- ) Long Long Way From Home - Foreigner 33 ( 24 ) Hollywood - Boz Scaggs (#21) 34 ( 23 ) I Love You - Donna Summer (#18) 35 ( 28 ) Little Girl - Banned (#28) 36 ( 27 ) Let's Have A Quiet Night In - David Soul (#26) 37 ( -- ) Up With The Cock - Judge Dread 38 ( -- ) Too Hot Ta Trot - Commodores 39 ( 26 ) We Are The Champions - Queen (#1[6]) 40 ( 21 ) White Christmas - Bing Crosby (#7)
-- ( 30 ) Run Back - Carl Douglas (#16) -- ( 31 ) Really Free - John Otway & Wild Willy Barrett (#10) -- ( 32 ) Don't Dilly Dally On The Way - Muppets (#27) -- ( 34 ) (Love Is) Thicker Than Water - Andy Gibb (#29) -- ( 35 ) As Time Goes By - Dooley Wilson (#17) -- ( 36 ) White Punks On Dope - Tubes (#22) -- ( 37 ) Put Your Love In Me - Hot Chocolate (#10) -- ( 38 ) Dance Dance Dance (Yowzah Yowzah Yowzah) - Chic (#8) -- ( 39 ) Georgina Bailey - Noosha Fox (#3) -- ( 40 ) Hey Deanie - Shaun Cassidy (#29)
-- ( -- ) If I Had Words - Scott Fitzgerald & Yvonne Keely -- ( -- ) On Fire - T-Connection
Dan Hill takes over at the top in the battle of the soft rock ballads and as I mentioned when it entered, the music was composed by Barry Mann who had a #1 in 1965 as a composer with "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling". I don't think he's had another since then.
The highest new entry is by Bill Withers, who has twice peaked at #2 with "Ain't No Sunshine" and "Lean On Me" so will hope to go one better but will need to get there quick given what is coming up.
Brotherhood Of Man perhaps surprisingly also enter inside the top 10, taking a bit of advantage of the beginning of year situation (lots of old ones ready to drop, not that many classics yet ready to enter, but they're along soon). In the UK chart it managed a week at #1, the third time they reached that position, but becamse their last top 10 hit with "Beautiful Lover" missing the top 10 and then pretty much nothing after that. Their first hit "United We Stand" reached #7 on this chart, and subsequently both their previous UK #1s peaked at NM #17, whilst they had two other smaller hits which peaked at #26 and #23.
That's ahead of the big ballad by Rose Royce, whose biggest hit so far was "Car Wash" in the chart this time last year and peaking at #7, they also had two smaller hits.
Much further down we have the follow-up by Baccara.
What hasn't charted is that annoying "If I Had Words" song. It would be ok if they didn't just repeat exactly the same thing for nearly 4 minutes. It's credited as a duet to Scott Fitzgerald who was beaten by Céline Dion in the 1988 Eurovision song contest and Yvonne Keeley but there's no mention of the children's choir on it, which kind-of irritated me at the time, and subsequently a male duo singing about a painter (that will be along soon) also failed to credit their school choir who later had a big hit of their own right, albeit it was terrible. Pink Floyd then "left the kids alone" on their massive hit, and later had some of them claiming royalties for it.
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Post by Good Old Days on May 7, 2021 13:17:34 GMT 1
Brotherhood of Man deserved much better results with the previous singles. In my chart "Figaro" was their seventh consecutive number one.
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Post by Earl Purple on May 9, 2021 10:25:01 GMT 1
21 January 1978
1 ( 6 ) Lovely Day - Bill Withers < 1st #1 > 2 ( 1 ) Sometimes When We Touch - Dan Hill (#1[1]) 3 ( 4 ) Emotion - Samantha Sang 4 ( 3 ) Stayin' Alive - Bee Gees (#3) 5 ( 9 ) Figaro - Brotherhood Of Man 6 ( 2 ) Just The Way You Are - Billy Joel (#1[4]) 7 ( 13 ) Wishing On A Star - Rose Royce 8 ( 5 ) Lay Down Sally - Eric Clapton & Marcella Detroit (#5) 9 ( 16 ) Heartsong - Gordon Giltrap 10 ( 11 ) Peg - Steely Dan
11 ( 19 ) The Groove Line - Heatwave 12 ( 8 ) Uptown Top Ranking - Althia & Donna (#8) 13 ( 10 ) Who's Gonna Love Me - Imperials (#10) 14 ( 7 ) Native New Yorker - Odyssey (#3) 15 ( 12 ) Desiree - Neil Diamond (#12) 16 ( 25 ) Sorry I'm A Lady - Baccara 17 ( 28 ) Galaxy - War 18 ( -- ) Quit This Town - Eddie & The Hotrods 19 ( 17 ) Girls' School - Wings (#17) 20 ( 32 ) Long Long Way From Home - Foreigner
21 ( 14 ) It's A Heartache - Bonnie Tyler (#3) 22 ( 22 ) I Don't Wanna Lose Your Love - Emotions 23 ( 18 ) Who Pays The Ferryman - Yannis Markoupoulos (#12) 24 ( 15 ) Love's Unkind - Donna Summer (#2[4]) 25 ( 21 ) Point Of No Return - Kansas (#18) 26 ( 37 ) Up With The Cock - Judge Dread 27 ( -- ) Happy Anniversary - Little River Band 28 ( 29 ) What's Your Name - Lynyrd Skynyrd 29 ( 38 ) Too Hot Ta Trot - Commodores 30 ( 26 ) Ain't Doin' Nothin' - Jet Bronx & The Forbidden (#25)
31 ( 20 ) Jamming - Bob Marley & The Wailers (#6) 32 ( -- ) Beauty And The Beast - David Bowie 33 ( 23 ) Short People - Randy Newman (#16) 34 ( -- ) Close Encounters Of The Third Kind - John Williams 35 ( 30 ) Keep Doin' It - Showdown (#29) 36 ( 24 ) As - Stevie Wonder (#8) 37 ( -- ) Jam Jam Jam (All Night Long) - People's Choice 38 ( -- ) Zodiacs - Roberta Kelly 39 ( 27 ) We Will Rock You - Queen (#3) 40 ( -- ) Morning Of Our Lives - Modern Lovers
-- ( 31 ) Mull Of Kintyre - Wings (#5) -- ( 33 ) Hollywood - Boz Scaggs (#21) -- ( 34 ) I Love You - Donna Summer (#18) -- ( 35 ) Little Girl - Banned (#28) -- ( 36 ) Let's Have A Quiet Night In - David Soul (#26) -- ( 39 ) We Are The Champions - Queen (#1[6]) -- ( 40 ) White Christmas - Bing Crosby (#7)
-- ( -- ) Ffun - Con Funk Shun
Bill Withers takes over at the top so Dan Hill has only one week at #1, the first single to be only a single week on top since the Stranglers last year. The first two new UK #1s of 1978 were both on top for only a single week, and there's such a huge one to enter next week that we could find the same thing happens here.
We have a pile of massive songs due to enter in fact, and the same will happen around this time in 1979.
That isn't really the case this week though, nothing that big entering.
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Post by Earl Purple on May 10, 2021 15:16:24 GMT 1
28 January 1978
1 ( -- ) Mr Blue Sky - Electric Light Orchestra < 3rd #1 > 2 ( 1 ) Lovely Day - Bill Withers (#1[1]) 3 ( 2 ) Sometimes When We Touch - Dan Hill (#1[1]) 4 ( 3 ) Emotion - Samantha Sang (#3) 5 ( 5 ) Figaro - Brotherhood Of Man 6 ( 7 ) Wishing On A Star - Rose Royce 7 ( 4 ) Stayin' Alive - Bee Gees (#3) 8 ( 9 ) Heartsong - Gordon Giltrap 9 ( 11 ) The Groove Line - Heatwave 10 ( 18 ) Quit This Town - Eddie & The Hotrods
11 ( 10 ) Peg - Steely Dan (#10) 12 ( -- ) Come Back My Love - Darts 13 ( 6 ) Just The Way You Are - Billy Joel (#1[4]) 14 ( 16 ) Sorry I'm A Lady - Baccara 15 ( 17 ) Galaxy - War 16 ( 8 ) Lay Down Sally - Eric Clapton & Marcella Detroit (#5) 17 ( -- ) Hot Legs - Rod Stewart 18 ( 20 ) Long Long Way From Home - Foreigner 19 ( 27 ) Happy Anniversary - Little River Band 20 ( -- ) Love Is Like Oxygen - Sweet
21 ( 13 ) Who's Gonna Love Me - Imperials (#10) 22 ( 12 ) Uptown Top Ranking - Althia & Donna (#8) 23 ( 15 ) Desiree - Neil Diamond (#12) 24 ( 26 ) Up With The Cock - Judge Dread 25 ( -- ) Drummer Man - Tonight 26 ( 32 ) Beauty And The Beast - David Bowie 27 ( 14 ) Native New Yorker - Odyssey (#3) 28 ( 19 ) Girls' School - Wings (#17) 29 ( 34 ) Close Encounters Of The Third Kind - John Williams 30 ( 22 ) I Don't Wanna Lose Your Love - Emotions (#22)
31 ( -- ) For A Few Dollars More - Smokie 32 ( 29 ) Too Hot Ta Trot - Commodores (#29) 33 ( -- ) Rich Kids - Rich Kids 34 ( 28 ) What's Your Name - Lynyrd Skynyrd (#28) 35 ( 23 ) Who Pays The Ferryman - Yannis Markoupoulos (#12) 36 ( 21 ) It's A Heartache - Bonnie Tyler (#3) 37 ( 37 ) Jam Jam Jam (All Night Long) - People's Choice 38 ( -- ) Street Corner Serenade - Wet Willie 39 ( 25 ) Point Of No Return - Kansas (#18) 40 ( -- ) Thunder Island - Jay Ferguson
-- ( 24 ) Love's Unkind - Donna Summer (#2[4]) -- ( 30 ) Ain't Doin' Nothin' - Jet Bronx & The Forbidden (#25) -- ( 31 ) Jamming - Bob Marley & The Wailers (#6) -- ( 33 ) Short People - Randy Newman (#16) -- ( 35 ) Keep Doin' It - Showdown (#29) -- ( 36 ) As - Stevie Wonder (#8) -- ( 38 ) Zodiacs - Roberta Kelly -- ( 39 ) We Will Rock You - Queen (#3) -- ( 40 ) Morning Of Our Lives - Modern Lovers
-- ( -- ) Easy To Love - Leo Sayer -- ( -- ) Theme From Which Way Is Up - Stargard
At this point we get a musical highlight in the history of pop-rock music. What the Beatles might have been had they continued - well John Lennon said so anyway, and clearly there are some Beatles influences in "Mr Blue Sky".
This was the last track of side 1 on the album "Out Of The Blue", back in the days when LP records had two sides, and after what appears to be the end of the song, or the main part of it anyway, there's an orchestral part which ends with "Please turn me over".
In Haven Factor it did come 2nd in its round, but was behind Kylie Minogue's "Can't Get You Out Of My Head"..
Elsewhere, Darts' "doo-wop" revival cover of a Wrens 1955 song (even before my chart era) enters ahead of Rod Stewart. "I Was Only Joking" is rather an epic, actually, and will chart later in the year when it is a separate hit in the US. "Ole Ola" is out around that time too.
By the way, I don't dare take on Rod Stewart in Haven Factor, I'm bound to mess it up by playing the "wrong" songs. I'll let someone else have a go.
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Post by Earl Purple on May 11, 2021 12:32:42 GMT 1
4 February 1978
1 ( 1 ) Mr Blue Sky - Electric Light Orchestra < 2nd week at #1 >2 ( 2 ) Lovely Day - Bill Withers (#1[1]) 3 ( 12 ) Come Back My Love - Darts 4 ( 3 ) Sometimes When We Touch - Dan Hill (#1[1]) 5 ( 5 ) Figaro - Brotherhood Of Man 6 ( 4 ) Emotion - Samantha Sang (#3) 7 ( 6 ) Wishing On A Star - Rose Royce (#6) 8 ( 10 ) Quit This Town - Eddie & The Hotrods 9 ( 17 ) Hot Legs - Rod Stewart 10 ( -- ) Take A Chance On Me - Abba 11 ( 8 ) Heartsong - Gordon Giltrap (#8) 12 ( 9 ) The Groove Line - Heatwave (#9) 13 ( 20 ) Love Is Like Oxygen - Sweet 14 ( -- ) Just One More Night - Yellow Dog 15 ( 7 ) Stayin' Alive - Bee Gees (#3) 16 ( 11 ) Peg - Steely Dan (#10) 17 ( 14 ) Sorry I'm A Lady - Baccara (#14) 18 ( 25 ) Drummer Man - Tonight 19 ( -- ) Nervous Wreck - Radio Stars 20 ( 15 ) Galaxy - War (#15) 21 ( 19 ) Happy Anniversary - Little River Band (#19) 22 ( 18 ) Long Long Way From Home - Foreigner (#18) 23 ( -- ) Always And Forever - Heatwave 24 ( 31 ) For A Few Dollars More - Smokie 25 ( 13 ) Just The Way You Are - Billy Joel (#1[4]) 26 ( 33 ) Rich Kids - Rich Kids 27 ( -- ) Five Minutes - Stranglers 28 ( 26 ) Beauty And The Beast - David Bowie (#26) 29 ( 24 ) Up With The Cock - Judge Dread (#24) 30 ( 16 ) Lay Down Sally - Eric Clapton & Marcella Detroit (#5) 31 ( 29 ) Close Encounters Of The Third Kind - John Williams (#29) 32 ( 38 ) Street Corner Serenade - Wet Willie 33 ( 40 ) Thunder Island - Jay Ferguson 34 ( 21 ) Who's Gonna Love Me - Imperials (#10) 35 ( 23 ) Desiree - Neil Diamond (#12) 36 ( 22 ) Uptown Top Ranking - Althia & Donna (#8) 37 ( -- ) No Time To Be 21 - Adverts 38 ( 32 ) Too Hot Ta Trot - Commodores (#29) 39 ( 37 ) Jam Jam Jam (All Night Long) - People's Choice (#37) 40 ( 28 ) Girls' School - Wings (#17)
-- ( 27 ) Native New Yorker - Odyssey (#3) -- ( 30 ) I Don't Wanna Lose Your Love - Emotions (#22) -- ( 34 ) What's Your Name - Lynyrd Skynyrd (#28) -- ( 35 ) Who Pays The Ferryman - Yannis Markoupoulos (#12) -- ( 36 ) It's A Heartache - Bonnie Tyler (#3) -- ( 39 ) Point Of No Return - Kansas (#18)
-- ( -- ) The Way You Do The Things You Do - Rita Coolidge -- ( -- ) Words - Rita Coolidge -- ( -- ) Falling - LeBlanc & Carr
Abba arrive as the highest new entry in the same position where they enter the UK chart this week, and there it will get to #1 in two weeks time, but the song that will eventually replace it is due to enter next week, along with a couple of huge disco classics. Also entering this week, a couple of "one-hit wonders" although Yellow Dog did have a second minor hit and released 2 albums. Kenny Young was born in Palestine / Israel, eventually moved to the USA and had a major hit as a songwriter in 1964, "Under The Boardwalk", which reached NM #1 for the Drifters. In 1968 he wrote "Captain Of Your Ship" which was NM #2 for Reparata & The Delrons, and in the 1970s he formed Fox and wrote all their hits and also wrote Noosha's solo hit "Georgina Bailey" which reached NM #3 just a few months ago. I think he's actually the lead vocalist on "Just One More Night" which is memorable for the ending where someone shouts "no!" and you hear a door slam. Then you hear the phone ring and when it's picked up, the singing starts again. It reached #8 in the UK As for Radio Stars, this is just classic fun sing-a-long pop (some would call it punk). The kind of music I was still charting in the 2010s although many considered it "dated" (and probably it was), but Milliways should definitely check this song out if he hasn't heard it before. It was on Top of the Pops but peaked only at #39 in the UK and they disappeared without a trace. They did also release a whole album though, called "Songs For Swinging Lovers". Not sure Frank Sinatra covered any of them.
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Post by Earl Purple on May 12, 2021 10:43:15 GMT 1
11 February 1978
1 ( 1 ) Mr Blue Sky - Electric Light Orchestra < 3rd week at #1 > 2 ( 2 ) Lovely Day - Bill Withers (#1[1]) 3 ( 3 ) Come Back My Love - Darts 4 ( 10 ) Take A Chance On Me - Abba 5 ( -- ) Wuthering Heights - Kate Bush 6 ( 14 ) Just One More Night - Yellow Dog 7 ( 9 ) Hot Legs - Rod Stewart 8 ( 19 ) Nervous Wreck - Radio Stars 9 ( 5 ) Figaro - Brotherhood Of Man (#5) 10 ( 13 ) Love Is Like Oxygen - Sweet
11 ( 4 ) Sometimes When We Touch - Dan Hill (#1[1]) 12 ( -- ) Fantasy - Earth Wind & Fire 13 ( 8 ) Quit This Town - Eddie & The Hotrods (#8) 14 ( -- ) Night Fever - Bee Gees 15 ( 6 ) Emotion - Samantha Sang (#3) 16 ( 7 ) Wishing On A Star - Rose Royce (#6) 17 ( 23 ) Always And Forever - Heatwave 18 ( 18 ) Drummer Man - Tonight 19 ( 11 ) Heartsong - Gordon Giltrap (#8) 20 ( 27 ) Five Minutes - Stranglers
21 ( 12 ) The Groove Line - Heatwave (#9) 22 ( -- ) Jack And Jill - Raydio 23 ( 24 ) For A Few Dollars More - Smokie 24 ( 17 ) Sorry I'm A Lady - Baccara (#14) 25 ( 26 ) Rich Kids - Rich Kids 26 ( 16 ) Peg - Steely Dan (#10) 27 ( 15 ) Stayin' Alive - Bee Gees (#3) 28 ( 21 ) Happy Anniversary - Little River Band (#19) 29 ( -- ) Shot By Both Sides - Magazine 30 ( 37 ) No Time To Be 21 - Adverts
31 ( 20 ) Galaxy - War (#15) 32 ( -- ) Closer To The Heart - Rush 33 ( 22 ) Long Long Way From Home - Foreigner (#18) 34 ( 32 ) Street Corner Serenade - Wet Willie (#32) 35 ( 33 ) Thunder Island - Jay Ferguson (#33) 36 ( -- ) Sweet Sweet Smile - Carpenters 37 ( 28 ) Beauty And The Beast - David Bowie (#26) 38 ( 31 ) Close Encounters Of The Third Kind - John Williams (#29) 39 ( 29 ) Up With The Cock - Judge Dread (#24) 40 ( -- ) Even Though You're Gone - Jacksons
-- ( 25 ) Just The Way You Are - Billy Joel (#1[4]) -- ( 30 ) Lay Down Sally - Eric Clapton & Marcella Detroit (#5) -- ( 34 ) Who's Gonna Love Me - Imperials (#10) -- ( 35 ) Desiree - Neil Diamond (#12) -- ( 36 ) Uptown Top Ranking - Althia & Donna (#8) -- ( 38 ) Too Hot Ta Trot - Commodores (#29) -- ( 39 ) Jam Jam Jam (All Night Long) - People's Choice (#37) -- ( 40 ) Girls' School - Wings (#17)
-- ( -- ) Journey To The Moon - Biddu Orchestra -- ( -- ) Our Love - Natalie Cole -- ( -- ) Wonderful World - Art Garfunkel
Kate Bush makes her debut at #5, albeit it took longer to grow on me at the time, and I far preferred "Denis" which will be along soon, but is likely to get squeezed out of any chance of being number one now.
Entering lower down we have two disco songs, and perhaps surprisingly Earth Wind & Fire come in ahead of the Bee Gees, they are both brilliant songs, and in the case of Earth Wind & Fire it's already their highest peaking single at #12, with "Saturday Nite" having peaked at #13 at the start of 1977.
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Post by Earl Purple on May 12, 2021 11:21:45 GMT 1
Denis is along in the next chart and won't even be the 2nd highest new entry. There is a brilliant work involving a great saxophone and one of the biggest protest anthems of its day due to chart next week.
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Post by Earl Purple on May 13, 2021 14:37:00 GMT 1
18 February 1978
1 ( 1 ) Mr Blue Sky - Electric Light Orchestra < 4th week at #1 > 2 ( 5 ) Wuthering Heights - Kate Bush 3 ( 4 ) Take A Chance On Me - Abba 4 ( 2 ) Lovely Day - Bill Withers (#1[1]) 5 ( 6 ) Just One More Night - Yellow Dog 6 ( 3 ) Come Back My Love - Darts (#3) 7 ( 12 ) Fantasy - Earth Wind & Fire 8 ( 8 ) Nervous Wreck - Radio Stars 9 ( 14 ) Night Fever - Bee Gees 10 ( -- ) Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty
11 ( -- ) Glad To Be Gay - Tom Robinson Band 12 ( 7 ) Hot Legs - Rod Stewart (#7) 13 ( -- ) Denis - Blondie 14 ( 10 ) Love Is Like Oxygen - Sweet (#10) 15 ( 22 ) Jack And Jill - Raydio 16 ( 17 ) Always And Forever - Heatwave 17 ( 9 ) Figaro - Brotherhood Of Man (#5) 18 ( -- ) I Can't Stand The Rain - Eruption 19 ( 20 ) Five Minutes - Stranglers 20 ( 29 ) Shot By Both Sides - Magazine
21 ( 18 ) Drummer Man - Tonight (#18) 22 ( 13 ) Quit This Town - Eddie & The Hotrods (#8) 23 ( 11 ) Sometimes When We Touch - Dan Hill (#1[1]) 24 ( 32 ) Closer To The Heart - Rush 25 ( 23 ) For A Few Dollars More - Smokie (#23) 26 ( -- ) Can't Smile Without You - Barry Manilow 27 ( 36 ) Sweet Sweet Smile - Carpenters 28 ( 15 ) Emotion - Samantha Sang (#3) 29 ( 25 ) Rich Kids - Rich Kids (#25) 30 ( 30 ) No Time To Be 21 - Adverts
31 ( 16 ) Wishing On A Star - Rose Royce (#6) 32 ( 19 ) Heartsong - Gordon Giltrap (#8) 33 ( 40 ) Even Though You're Gone - Jacksons 34 ( 21 ) The Groove Line - Heatwave (#9) 35 ( 24 ) Sorry I'm A Lady - Baccara (#14) 36 ( -- ) If It Don't Fit Don't Force It - Kellee Patterson 37 ( -- ) Dust In The Wind - Kansas 38 ( 28 ) Happy Anniversary - Little River Band (#19) 39 ( 26 ) Peg - Steely Dan (#10) 40 ( -- ) Breakdown - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
-- ( 27 ) Stayin' Alive - Bee Gees (#3) -- ( 31 ) Galaxy - War (#15) -- ( 33 ) Long Long Way From Home - Foreigner (#18) -- ( 34 ) Street Corner Serenade - Wet Willie (#32) -- ( 35 ) Thunder Island - Jay Ferguson (#33) -- ( 37 ) Beauty And The Beast - David Bowie (#26) -- ( 38 ) Close Encounters Of The Third Kind - John Williams (#29) -- ( 39 ) Up With The Cock - Judge Dread (#24)
-- ( -- ) Walk In Love - Manhattan Transfer -- ( -- ) Gone Dead Train - Nazareth -- ( -- ) Goodbye Girl - David Gates
Look at that for a set of new entries, the second week in a row... Last week "Wuthering Heights", "Fantasy" and "Night Fever", this week "Baker Street", "Glad To Be Gay" and "Denis". And recall the week before that we had "Take A Chance On Me", "Just One More Night" and "Nervous Wreck". At to those "Mr Blue Sky" and it's almost the top 10 but for Bill Withers, Darts and Rod Stewart on the way down, and I really loved that Darts cover at the time, reflected by it getting to #3.
Gerry Rafferty has been on the chart before, of course, as part of Stealers Wheel - "Stuck In The Middle With You" actually only reached #9, "Everything Will Turn Out Fine" #26 and "Star" #15, those hits all coming in 1973 and 1974.
His solo hit very much enhanced by the saxophone playing on it.
Tom Robinson wrote the song in 1976 - we had Rod Stewart's "The Killing Of Georgie" and the Rubettes "Under One Roof" as hits that year about mistreatment of gays, but weren't quite as heavy a protest song as this, and we've had political protest songs in the 1960s and early 1970s. Not sure any quite like this. After finally getting a record deal and a hit with the rock song "2-4-6-8 Motorway" it was time to "come out" with this one.. He has stated in an interview that with the Sex Pistols opening the door to modern protest music, and other artists like The Clash getting signed up, it made it easier for him too to release a song like this.
BBC radio didn't totally ban it, but as it was on an EP they went for the safer "Don't Take No For An Answer", but John Peel played it. On Capital Radio, back then they didn't stick to safe and it was extremely popular and often requested.
And below those, well Blondie! It's a cover of the Randy & The Rainbows song but done in a totally new style, with some of it sung in very poor French. (Debbie Harry preferred it this way). This is a track from their 2nd album "Plastic Letters", their 1976 eponymous album had some wonderful tracks on it. "Rip Her To Shreds", "X Offender" and "In The Flesh" the best known, but didn't yield any hit singles.
Eruption's entry is also a cover, a hit for Ann Peebles in the 1960s. Barry Manilow also gets an entry with "Can't Smile Without You".
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Post by Earl Purple on May 14, 2021 10:19:17 GMT 1
25 February 1978
1 ( 2 ) Wuthering Heights - Kate Bush < 1st #1 > 2 ( 1 ) Mr Blue Sky - Electric Light Orchestra (#1[4]) 3 ( 10 ) Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty 4 ( 3 ) Take A Chance On Me - Abba (#3) 5 ( 7 ) Fantasy - Earth Wind & Fire 6 ( 11 ) Glad To Be Gay - Tom Robinson Band 7 ( 13 ) Denis - Blondie 8 ( 9 ) Night Fever - Bee Gees 9 ( 5 ) Just One More Night - Yellow Dog (#5) 10 ( 4 ) Lovely Day - Bill Withers (#1[1])
11 ( 8 ) Nervous Wreck - Radio Stars (#8) 12 ( 6 ) Come Back My Love - Darts (#3) 13 ( 18 ) I Can't Stand The Rain - Eruption 14 ( -- ) Is This Love - Bob Marley & The Wailers 15 ( -- ) Matchstalk Men And Matchstalk Cats And Dogs - Brian & Michael 16 ( 15 ) Jack And Jill - Raydio (#15) 17 ( -- ) If I Can't Have You - Yvonne Elliman 18 ( 26 ) Can't Smile Without You - Barry Manilow 19 ( 20 ) Shot By Both Sides - Magazine 20 ( 16 ) Always And Forever - Heatwave (#16)
21 ( 12 ) Hot Legs - Rod Stewart (#7) 22 ( 24 ) Closer To The Heart - Rush 23 ( 14 ) Love Is Like Oxygen - Sweet (#10) 24 ( 19 ) Five Minutes - Stranglers (#19) 25 ( -- ) Spread Your Wings - Queen 26 ( 27 ) Sweet Sweet Smile - Carpenters 27 ( -- ) Rumour Has It - Donna Summer 28 ( 36 ) If It Don't Fit Don't Force It - Kellee Patterson 29 ( 21 ) Drummer Man - Tonight (#18) 30 ( 37 ) Dust In The Wind - Kansas
31 ( -- ) Poor Poor Pitiful Me - Linda Ronstadt 32 ( 17 ) Figaro - Brotherhood Of Man (#5) 33 ( -- ) Ebony Eyes - Bob Welch 34 ( 25 ) For A Few Dollars More - Smokie (#23) 35 ( 33 ) Even Though You're Gone - Jacksons (#33) 36 ( -- ) Lilac Wine - Elkie Brooks 37 ( 40 ) Breakdown - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers 38 ( 30 ) No Time To Be 21 - Adverts (#30) 39 ( 22 ) Quit This Town - Eddie & The Hotrods (#8) 40 ( -- ) Lady Love - Lou Rawls
-- ( 23 ) Sometimes When We Touch - Dan Hill (#1[1]) -- ( 28 ) Emotion - Samantha Sang (#3) -- ( 29 ) Rich Kids - Rich Kids (#25) -- ( 31 ) Wishing On A Star - Rose Royce (#6) -- ( 32 ) Heartsong - Gordon Giltrap (#8) -- ( 34 ) The Groove Line - Heatwave (#9) -- ( 35 ) Sorry I'm A Lady - Baccara (#14) -- ( 38 ) Happy Anniversary - Little River Band (#19) -- ( 39 ) Peg - Steely Dan (#10)
-- ( -- ) Flash Light - Parliament
I reckon last week's top 20 may have been the strongest yet. This week sees Bob Marley join it with what is certainly one of the best of his songs. A shame he went out so quickly in Haven Factor.
I'm not sure many on here would think the top 20 has improved by the addition of Brian & Michael and Barry Manilow, but they are both now in it along with Yvonne Elliman doing another Bee Gees song, only this time it's one they gave to her (but also did their own version on the B-side), whilst we lose the Stranglers, Rod Stewart, The Sweet and Brotherhood Of Man.
In case you didn't know, the film Saturday Night Fever has the 3 Bee Gees recent hits plus the Yvonne Elliman song as part of the soundtrack, as well as some music unrelated to the Bee Gees e.g. the Trammps "Disco Inferno" which reached NM #3 last year and enters the US chart belatedly as a result of its appearance on the soundtrack. (Emotion by Samantha Sang is not part of the soundtrack).
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Post by Earl Purple on May 14, 2021 10:40:23 GMT 1
In general, in spite of the fact that the chart is "brilliant", the playlists don't feel the standard is that high overall.
Each week, about 3 brilliant songs, 3-4 ok songs and the rest not that good. The lower end of the chart is often "fill".
Queen's "Spread Your Wings" is disappointing, and its chart position in the UK reflects that too, I think it peaked at about #34. Sounds a bit like Styx, now you know all how they sound, but not Styx on a great day. This song wouldn't have got through a double elimination round, and probably not even a single-elimination round. In fact "Calling All Girls" is possibly better than "Spread Your Wings".
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Post by Good Old Days on May 14, 2021 11:02:19 GMT 1
"Wuthering Heights" is the one from my all-time least favourite songs.
Suprisingly you don't dislike "Matchstalk Men And Matchstalk Cats And Dogs", it's my favourite UK # 1 from 70s without any female vocals and # 21 (from 168 songs) overall.
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Post by Earl Purple on May 14, 2021 11:12:20 GMT 1
Suprisingly you don't dislike "Matchstalk Men And Matchstalk Cats And Dogs", it's my favourite UK # 1 from 70s without any female vocals and # 21 (from 168 songs) overall. It does have female vocals, provided by St Winifred's School Choir. As I commented a few weeks ago when "If I Had Words" came out, they never credited the children on any of these hits. Only when the school choir were the main act did they get credited. Brian and Michael or one of them at least was responsible also for that awful "Sparrow" song. Perhaps not surprisingly, we won't be seeing either that or "Grandma" on my chart. Actually, it wasn't "Brian" at all on this hit, as he had quit whilst Michael was seeking out getting a record deal to release it, and someone else came in in his place. There's a colliery band at the start, a fascinating intro really, and a well-constructed song. And it has good meaningful lyrics.
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Post by Earl Purple on May 16, 2021 10:44:10 GMT 1
4 March 1978
1 ( 1 ) Wuthering Heights - Kate Bush < 2nd week at #1 > 2 ( 3 ) Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty 3 ( 2 ) Mr Blue Sky - Electric Light Orchestra (#1[4]) 4 ( 6 ) Glad To Be Gay - Tom Robinson Band 5 ( 7 ) Denis - Blondie 6 ( 5 ) Fantasy - Earth Wind & Fire (#5) 7 ( 8 ) Night Fever - Bee Gees 8 ( 14 ) Is This Love - Bob Marley & The Wailers 9 ( 4 ) Take A Chance On Me - Abba (#3) 10 ( 15 ) Matchstalk Men And Matchstalk Cats And Dogs - Brian & Michael
11 ( 17 ) If I Can't Have You - Yvonne Elliman 12 ( 13 ) I Can't Stand The Rain - Eruption 13 ( 25 ) Spread Your Wings - Queen 14 ( 18 ) Can't Smile Without You - Barry Manilow 15 ( -- ) Every 1's A Winner - Hot Chocolate 16 ( 9 ) Just One More Night - Yellow Dog (#5) 17 ( 11 ) Nervous Wreck - Radio Stars (#8) 18 ( 27 ) Rumour Has It - Donna Summer 19 ( 10 ) Lovely Day - Bill Withers (#1[1]) 20 ( 16 ) Jack And Jill - Raydio (#15)
21 ( -- ) Thank You For Being A Friend - Andrew Gold 22 ( 12 ) Come Back My Love - Darts (#3) 23 ( 19 ) Shot By Both Sides - Magazine (#19) 24 ( 31 ) Poor Poor Pitiful Me - Linda Ronstadt 25 ( 22 ) Closer To The Heart - Rush (#22) 26 ( 33 ) Ebony Eyes - Bob Welch 27 ( 28 ) If It Don't Fit Don't Force It - Kellee Patterson 28 ( -- ) Ally's Tartan Army / I Want To Be A Punk Rocker - Andy Cameron 29 ( -- ) Running On Empty - Jackson Browne 30 ( 36 ) Lilac Wine - Elkie Brooks
31 ( 20 ) Always And Forever - Heatwave (#16) 32 ( 30 ) Dust In The Wind - Kansas (#30) 33 ( 26 ) Sweet Sweet Smile - Carpenters (#26) 34 ( 40 ) Lady Love - Lou Rawls 35 ( 24 ) Five Minutes - Stranglers (#19) 36 ( -- ) Whenever You Want My Love - Real Thing 37 ( 21 ) Hot Legs - Rod Stewart (#7) 38 ( 23 ) Love Is Like Oxygen - Sweet (#10) 39 ( -- ) Clash City Rockers - Clash 40 ( 37 ) Breakdown - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers (#37)
-- ( 29 ) Drummer Man - Tonight (#18) -- ( 32 ) Figaro - Brotherhood Of Man (#5) -- ( 34 ) For A Few Dollars More - Smokie (#23) -- ( 35 ) Even Though You're Gone - Jacksons (#33) -- ( 38 ) No Time To Be 21 - Adverts (#30) -- ( 39 ) Quit This Town - Eddie & The Hotrods (#8)
-- ( -- ) Before My Heart Finds Out - Gene Cotton -- ( -- ) What's Your Name What's Your Number - Andrea True Connection
Hot Chocolate get the highest entry with the title track of their album. Andrew Gold has two songs out in quick succession, I don't think either are as good as "Lonely Boy" and this one wasn't a UK hit until much later in the year when it failed to reach the top 40, but expect "Never Let Her Slip Away" to do quite well.. still not in the class of Lonely Boy. Then several years later he made a comeback as part of Wax and had an NM #1.
Andy Cameron's song is based on a chorus from a very old war song called "Tramp Tramp Tramp" for which the lyrics are
"Tramp, Tramp, Tramp, The boys are marching, Cheer up comrades they will come, And beneath the starry flag we shall breathe the air again, Of the free land in our own beloved home"
well you know the tune.. But the "cause ... are the greatest football team" with whatever club you support thrown in became used as a standard in football terrace chants. I think the verses are an original tune for this song, they're not the same as in "Tramp Tramp Tramp" although they're not totally dissimilar either.
The B-side of the song was "I Want To Be A Punk Rocker". Paul Burnette even played it once as part of his comedy sketch feature. And when I played a retro countdown of 1978 I once included it too.
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Post by Whitneyfan on May 16, 2021 12:25:21 GMT 1
Glad to see 'Wuthering Heights' at the top. It's a total masterpiece, and there may be songs that are equally as good - but I don't even think it's possible to get anything better.
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Post by Earl Purple on May 19, 2021 14:55:59 GMT 1
11 March 1978
1 ( 2 ) Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty < 1st #1 > 2 ( 1 ) Wuthering Heights - Kate Bush (#1[2]) 3 ( 4 ) Glad To Be Gay - Tom Robinson Band 4 ( 5 ) Denis - Blondie 5 ( 3 ) Mr Blue Sky - Electric Light Orchestra (#1[4]) 6 ( 8 ) Is This Love - Bob Marley & The Wailers 7 ( 6 ) Fantasy - Earth Wind & Fire (#5) 8 ( 7 ) Night Fever - Bee Gees (#7) 9 ( -- ) Sweet Talkin' Woman - Electric Light Orchestra 10 ( 10 ) Matchstalk Men And Matchstalk Cats And Dogs - Brian & Michael
11 ( 15 ) Every 1's A Winner - Hot Chocolate 12 ( 13 ) Spread Your Wings - Queen 13 ( 11 ) If I Can't Have You - Yvonne Elliman (#11) 14 ( -- ) (I Don't Want To Go To) Chelsea - Elvis Costello & The Attractions 15 ( 21 ) Thank You For Being A Friend - Andrew Gold 16 ( 14 ) Can't Smile Without You - Barry Manilow (#14) 17 ( 12 ) I Can't Stand The Rain - Eruption (#12) 18 ( -- ) Follow You Follow Me - Genesis 19 ( 18 ) Rumour Has It - Donna Summer (#18) 20 ( 9 ) Take A Chance On Me - Abba (#3)
21 ( -- ) I Love The Sound Of Breaking Glass - Nick Lowe 22 ( 28 ) Ally's Tartan Army / I Want To Be A Punk Rocker - Andy Cameron 23 ( 29 ) Running On Empty - Jackson Browne 24 ( 24 ) Poor Poor Pitiful Me - Linda Ronstadt 25 ( 26 ) Ebony Eyes - Bob Welch 26 ( -- ) Singin' In The Rain - Sheila B Devotion 27 ( 17 ) Nervous Wreck - Radio Stars (#8) 28 ( 16 ) Just One More Night - Yellow Dog (#5) 29 ( 36 ) Whenever You Want My Love - Real Thing 30 ( 20 ) Jack And Jill - Raydio (#15)
31 ( -- ) Ready Steady Go - Generation X 32 ( 30 ) Lilac Wine - Elkie Brooks (#30) 33 ( 27 ) If It Don't Fit Don't Force It - Kellee Patterson (#27) 34 ( 23 ) Shot By Both Sides - Magazine (#19) 35 ( 39 ) Clash City Rockers - Clash 36 ( 19 ) Lovely Day - Bill Withers (#1[1]) 37 ( 25 ) Closer To The Heart - Rush (#22) 38 ( 34 ) Lady Love - Lou Rawls (#34) 39 ( -- ) News Of The World - Jam 40 ( 22 ) Come Back My Love - Darts (#3)
-- ( 31 ) Always And Forever - Heatwave (#16) -- ( 32 ) Dust In The Wind - Kansas (#30) -- ( 33 ) Sweet Sweet Smile - Carpenters (#26) -- ( 35 ) Five Minutes - Stranglers (#19) -- ( 37 ) Hot Legs - Rod Stewart (#7) -- ( 38 ) Love Is Like Oxygen - Sweet (#10) -- ( 40 ) Breakdown - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers (#37)
-- ( -- ) You Really Got Me - Van Halen -- ( -- ) We'll Never Have To Say Goodbye Again - England Dan & John Ford Coley -- ( -- ) It's You That I Need - Enchantment
"Wuthering Heights" isn't number one anymore, as "Baker Street" replaces it at the top, both of these songs being remarkable classics.
Meanwhile, as the previous number one by ELO falls further to #5, they also have the highest new entry as "Sweet Talkin' Woman" is in the US top 40.
Elvis Costello returns to the chart, now crediting a backing band "The Attractions", and Nick Lowe is credited this time but as with "I Knew The Bride" last year it is really a "Rockpile" single. Between those a new entry for Genesis, their first UK top 10 hit.
One of the more interesting cover version hits of 1978 is Sheila B Devotion doing a disco version of "Singin' In The Rain", famously done by Gene Kelly in the film of the same name although that wasn't actually the original version either. That's a somewhat more interesting cover than Van Halen's of The Kinks.
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Post by Earl Purple on May 19, 2021 21:37:23 GMT 1
Next playlist: a few brilliant songs, a couple of "bit cheesy but fun" songs (primarily Rafaella Carra, Michael Zager Band and even Chic), a couple sort-of ok, and the rest a pile of crap.
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Post by Good Old Days on May 19, 2021 22:00:03 GMT 1
-- ( -- ) Walk In Love - Manhattan Transfer It's very beautiful song.
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Post by Earl Purple on May 20, 2021 13:10:50 GMT 1
18 March 1978
1 ( 1 ) Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty < 2nd week at #1 > 2 ( 3 ) Glad To Be Gay - Tom Robinson Band 3 ( 4 ) Denis - Blondie 4 ( 2 ) Wuthering Heights - Kate Bush (#1[2]) 5 ( 9 ) Sweet Talkin' Woman - Electric Light Orchestra 6 ( 14 ) (I Don't Want To Go To) Chelsea - Elvis Costello & The Attractions 7 ( 6 ) Is This Love - Bob Marley & The Wailers (#6) 8 ( -- ) If You Can't Give Me Love - Suzi Quatro 9 ( 18 ) Follow You Follow Me - Genesis 10 ( 5 ) Mr Blue Sky - Electric Light Orchestra (#1[4])
11 ( 11 ) Every 1's A Winner - Hot Chocolate 12 ( 7 ) Fantasy - Earth Wind & Fire (#5) 13 ( 21 ) I Love The Sound Of Breaking Glass - Nick Lowe 14 ( 8 ) Night Fever - Bee Gees (#7) 15 ( 10 ) Matchstalk Men And Matchstalk Cats And Dogs - Brian & Michael (#10) 16 ( 15 ) Thank You For Being A Friend - Andrew Gold (#15) 17 ( 12 ) Spread Your Wings - Queen (#12) 18 ( 26 ) Singin' In The Rain - Sheila B Devotion 19 ( 13 ) If I Can't Have You - Yvonne Elliman (#11) 20 ( 22 ) Ally's Tartan Army / I Want To Be A Punk Rocker - Andy Cameron
21 ( 31 ) Ready Steady Go - Generation X 22 ( 23 ) Running On Empty - Jackson Browne 23 ( 16 ) Can't Smile Without You - Barry Manilow (#14) 24 ( 19 ) Rumour Has It - Donna Summer (#18) 25 ( 17 ) I Can't Stand The Rain - Eruption (#12) 26 ( -- ) Automatic Lover - Vibrator 27 ( 29 ) Whenever You Want My Love - Real Thing 28 ( 24 ) Poor Poor Pitiful Me - Linda Ronstadt (#24) 29 ( 25 ) Ebony Eyes - Bob Welch (#25) 30 ( 39 ) News Of The World - Jam
31 ( -- ) Feels So Good - Chuck Mangione 32 ( 20 ) Take A Chance On Me - Abba (#3) 33 ( 35 ) Clash City Rockers - Clash 34 ( 32 ) Lilac Wine - Elkie Brooks (#30) 35 ( 27 ) Nervous Wreck - Radio Stars (#8) 36 ( 33 ) If It Don't Fit Don't Force It - Kellee Patterson (#27) 37 ( 30 ) Jack And Jill - Raydio (#15) 38 ( 28 ) Just One More Night - Yellow Dog (#5) 39 ( -- ) The Ghost Of Love - Tavares 40 ( 38 ) Lady Love - Lou Rawls (#34)
-- ( 34 ) Shot By Both Sides - Magazine (#19) -- ( 36 ) Lovely Day - Bill Withers (#1[1]) -- ( 37 ) Closer To The Heart - Rush (#22) -- ( 40 ) Come Back My Love - Darts (#3)
-- ( -- ) The Closer I Get To You - Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway
Gerry Rafferty remains at #1 and Kate Bush drops to #4 to make way for Tom Robinson Band and Blondie's classics to get a higher chart peak but E.L.O must be content with a climb to #5.
Suzi Quatro's biggest hit "Devil Gate Drive" peaked at NM #3 in 1974. She's gone soft though, sounding more like Smokie now, with Chinn/Chapman being responsible for that and in the UK this became her first big hit since Devil Gate Drive too, peaking at #4 whilst that one was a #1.
Apart from that song, not a great week for new entries as the Vibrators are the first within a couple of months to release a song called "Automatic Lover".
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