29 July 1978
1 ( 1 ) Substitute - Clout < 4th week at #1 >2 ( 3 ) Forever Autumn - Justin Hayward
3 ( 4 ) Copacabana (At The Copa) - Barry Manilow
4 ( 2 ) Life's Been Good - Joe Walsh (#2[2])
5 ( 5 ) Northern Lights - Renaissance
6 ( 16 ) Hopelessly Devoted To You - Olivia Newton-John
7 ( 7 ) 5.7.0.5 - City Boy
8 ( 19 ) An Everlasting Love - Andy Gibb
9 ( 13 ) Prove It All Night - Bruce Springsteen
10 ( 9 ) No One Is Innocent - Sex Pistols ft Ronnie Biggs (#9)
11 ( -- ) Brown Girl In The Ring - Boney M
12 ( 15 ) Love You More - Buzzcocks
13 ( 6 ) The Man With The Child In His Eyes - Kate Bush (#1[4])
14 ( 11 ) Three Times A Lady - Commodores (#11)
15 ( 24 ) Who Are You - Who
16 ( 8 ) FM (No Static At All) - Steely Dan (#8)
17 ( -- ) If The Kids Are United - Sham 69
18 ( 14 ) Can We Still Be Friends - Todd Rundgren (#14)
19 ( 21 ) Anthem - New Seekers
20 ( 29 ) Took The Last Train - David Gates
21 ( 17 ) I've Had Enough - Wings (#17)
22 ( 10 ) Like Clockwork - Boomtown Rats (#3)
23 ( 12 ) How Can This Be Love - Andrew Gold (#6)
24 ( -- ) Fool (If You Think It's Over) - Chris Rea
25 ( 22 ) Many Too Many - Genesis (#22)
26 ( 34 ) Identity - X-Ray Spex
27 ( -- ) Baby Stop Crying - Bob Dylan
28 ( 27 ) I'm Not Gonna Let It Bother Me Tonight - Atlanta Rhythm Section (#27)
29 ( -- ) Supernature - Cerrone
30 ( 32 ) Love Or Something Like It - Kenny Rogers
31 ( 18 ) Dancing In The City - Marshall Hain (#2[2])
32 ( 41 ) The Race Is On - Suzi Quatro
33 ( 20 ) A Little Bit Of Soap - Showaddywaddy (#10)
34 ( 30 ) Is This A Love Thing - Raydio (#30)
35 ( 23 ) Come Back And Finish What You Started - Gladys Knight & The Pips (#15)
36 ( 44 ) Wait Until Midnight - Yellow Dog
37 ( 28 ) Chattanooga Choo Choo - Tuxedo Junction Ballroom Band (#28)
38 ( 48 ) Lovin' Livin' And Givin' - Diana Ross
39 ( 25 ) Grease - Frankie Valli (#7)
40 ( 49 ) Stuff Like That - Quincy Jones
41 ( -- ) Two Tickets To Paradise - Eddie Money
42 ( 26 ) Airport - Motors (#3)
43 ( 40 ) King Tut - Steve Martin & The Toot Uncommons (#40)
44 ( 42 ) Hot Blooded - Foreigner (#42)
45 ( 31 ) Boogie Oogie Oogie - A Taste Of Honey (#9)
46 ( -- ) You - Rita Coolidge
47 ( 33 ) Only The Good Die Young - Billy Joel (#10)
48 ( 38 ) Dragon Power - JKD Band (#31)
49 ( 37 ) Ain't No Love In The Heart Of The City - Whitesnake (#23)
50 ( -- ) Macho Man - Village People
-- ( 35 ) (White Man) In Hammersmith Palais - Clash (#16)
-- ( 36 ) Wild West Hero - Electric Light Orchestra (#5)
-- ( 39 ) Stone Blue - Foghat (#24)
-- ( 43 ) Songbird - Barbra Streisand
-- ( 45 ) Runaway - Jefferson Starship (#29)
-- ( 46 ) Stay - Jackson Browne (#39)
-- ( 47 ) Argentine Melody - San Jose (#12)
-- ( 50 ) Magnet And Steel - Walter Egan
-- ( -- ) Magic Mind - Earth Wind & Fire
-- ( -- ) Somewhere In The Night - Barry Manilow
-- ( -- ) You're All I Need To Get By - Johnny Mathis & Deniece Williams
In the UK, they never left the chart. But Rivers Of Babylon wasn't a huge hit for me, however come July, when they flipped it, Brown Girl In The Ring, cheesy though it is, was a perhaps not-so guilty pleasure for a 13-year old but still clearly was one. There must have been loads of others too who didn't buy Rivers Of Babylon at first who then bought this now because it rose all the way back to #2 in the UK chart, selling around another half-million on what it had already to be one of the biggest selling singles of all time (in fact at this point 2nd behind Mull Of Kintyre).
It enters above the second hit for Sham 69 (follow up to Angels With Dirty Faces), a chart debut for Chris Rea and comeback for Bob Dylan who hasn't been in the chart since "Hurricane" reached #13 near the start of 1976. That's the biggest gap between hits for Bob Dylan since he first charted in 1965, with 1970 (as well as 1977) being a year he didn't have any hits.
Cerrone chart with a disco hit whose instrumental riff is someone reminiscent of "The Days Of Pearly Spencer" although I only found one person on the internet who seems to have also made this comparison.
Barry Manilow gets his best ever peak in my chart, whilst at the same time the flip-side in the UK fails to breach the chart at all. (This week marks his highest ever position in my chart which he will never attain again. Read 'Em And Weep will peak at #4 end of 1983 - start of 1984)