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Post by Earl Purple on Jun 22, 2021 16:49:34 GMT 1
Interesting fact I discovered is that Graham Fellows (i.e. Jilted John) has the same date of birth as Morrissey.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jun 23, 2021 14:38:50 GMT 1
19 August 1978
1 ( 3 ) Jilted John - Jilted John < 1st #1 > 2 ( 6 ) Top Of The Pops - Rezillos 3 ( 1 ) Forever Autumn - Justin Hayward (#1[2]) 4 ( 2 ) Brown Girl In The Ring - Boney M (#2[1]) 5 ( 12 ) Dreadlock Holiday - 10cc 6 ( 5 ) If The Kids Are United - Sham 69 (#5) 7 ( 19 ) Reminiscing - Little River Band 8 ( -- ) Summer Nights - John Travolta & Olivia Newton John 9 ( 4 ) Substitute - Clout (#1[4]) 10 ( 11 ) Kiss You All Over - Exile
11 ( 21 ) Just What I Needed - Cars 12 ( -- ) Oh What A Circus - David Essex 13 ( -- ) Hollywood Nights - Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band 14 ( 14 ) It's Raining - Darts 15 ( 7 ) Northern Lights - Renaissance (#5) 16 ( -- ) Forget About You - Motors 17 ( 9 ) Hopelessly Devoted To You - Olivia Newton-John (#6) 18 ( 8 ) Copacabana (At The Copa) - Barry Manilow (#3) 19 ( 13 ) Fool (If You Think It's Over) - Chris Rea (#13) 20 ( 10 ) An Everlasting Love - Andy Gibb (#7)
21 ( 15 ) Baby Stop Crying - Bob Dylan (#15) 22 ( 17 ) Supernature - Cerrone (#17) 23 ( 23 ) Sign Of The Times - Bryan Ferry 24 ( -- ) You Needed Me - Anne Murray 25 ( 34 ) British Hustle - Hi Tension 26 ( -- ) You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) - Sylvester 27 ( 26 ) I Don't Need To Tell Her - Lurkers (#26) 28 ( 16 ) Who Are You - Who (#12) 29 ( -- ) Galaxy Of Love - Crown Heights Affair 30 ( 30 ) Hot Child In The City - Nick Gilder
31 ( 40 ) Walk On By - Stranglers 32 ( 18 ) Prove It All Night - Bruce Springsteen (#9) 33 ( -- ) Privilege - Patti Smith Group 34 ( 43 ) Be Stiff - Devo 35 ( 35 ) Sha La La La Lee - Plastic Bertrand 36 ( 36 ) Got To Get You Into My Life - Earth Wind & Fire 37 ( 29 ) Two Tickets To Paradise - Eddie Money (#29) 38 ( 22 ) Love You More - Buzzcocks (#12) 39 ( 20 ) Life's Been Good - Joe Walsh (#2[2]) 40 ( 25 ) Took The Last Train - David Gates (#18)
41 ( -- ) A Rock 'N' Roll Fantasy - Kinks 42 ( 28 ) Identity - X-Ray Spex (#23) 43 ( -- ) Whenever I Call You Friend - Kenny Loggins & Stevie Nicks 44 ( 31 ) The Race Is On - Suzi Quatro (#27) 45 ( 37 ) You - Rita Coolidge (#37) 46 ( 24 ) 5.7.0.5 - City Boy (#7) 47 ( -- ) Hot Shot - Karen Young 48 ( 27 ) No One Is Innocent - Sex Pistols ft Ronnie Biggs (#9) 49 ( -- ) Let The Music Play - Charles Earland 50 ( 32 ) Anthem - New Seekers (#19)
-- ( 33 ) Three Times A Lady - Commodores (#11) -- ( 38 ) Can We Still Be Friends - Todd Rundgren (#14) -- ( 39 ) Love Or Something Like It - Kenny Rogers (#30) -- ( 41 ) Wait Until Midnight - Yellow Dog (#35) -- ( 42 ) Lovin' Livin' And Givin' - Diana Ross (#36) -- ( 44 ) I've Had Enough - Wings (#17) -- ( 45 ) The Man With The Child In His Eyes - Kate Bush (#1[4]) -- ( 46 ) Macho Man - Village People (#42) -- ( 47 ) Only You Can Rock Me - UFO -- ( 48 ) FM (No Static At All) - Steely Dan (#8) -- ( 49 ) Stuff Like That - Quincy Jones (#39) -- ( 50 ) I'm Not Gonna Let It Bother Me Tonight - Atlanta Rhythm Section (#27)
-- ( -- ) Don't Wanna Say Goodnight - Kandidate -- ( -- ) Oh Darling - Robin Gibb
As Jilted John represents the sound of "punk" on here and the Rezillos possibly "post-punk" or "new wave" we have the highest entry as another song from the Grease soundtrack, but this one is from the original stage soundtrack written by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey in 1971. However most people will think of this version as the "definitive" one.
So both the highest new entries are from original stage musicals as "Oh What A Circus" is from Evita, sung by the character of Che and here by David Essex, to the same tune as "Don't Cry For Me Argentina" but far more uptempo.
Bob Seger enters with what I'd consider his best known song, or second best known after "We Got Tonight" but it appears not to have been a particularly big hit. It's up there among his most streamed, but not first or second.
The Motors 3rd hit sounds a lot like the theme from Grandstand. One of those where you hear it and think "I know that tune... " then have to stop it to think what it is before working it out. Enjoy the original of "You Needed Me" over the Boyzone cover that's currently in the 1999 rate and another song covered in that year will enter next week, but that one beat Sylvester's disco classic which was later covered by the Communards.
This is all a pretty strong set of songs, leaving the Patti Smith Group to enter at #33 but with that they are no longer one-hit wonders.
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Post by Good Old Days on Jun 23, 2021 14:51:41 GMT 1
Please "Picture This" or "Summer Nights" for the next # 1.
I will check Loggins and Nicks duet, because don't know this track.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jun 23, 2021 15:05:27 GMT 1
Both Kenny Loggins and Stevie Nicks have been in the chart before, the former as half of Loggins And Messina and the latter as part of Fleetwood Mac.
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Post by Good Old Days on Jun 23, 2021 19:27:20 GMT 1
My favourite Stevie Nicks single, # 40 in UK.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jun 24, 2021 16:00:41 GMT 1
26 August 1978
1 ( 1 ) Jilted John - Jilted John < 2nd week at #1 > 2 ( 2 ) Top Of The Pops - Rezillos 3 ( -- ) Picture This - Blondie 4 ( 8 ) Summer Nights - John Travolta & Olivia Newton John 5 ( 5 ) Dreadlock Holiday - 10cc 6 ( 7 ) Reminiscing - Little River Band 7 ( 4 ) Brown Girl In The Ring - Boney M (#2[1]) 8 ( 12 ) Oh What A Circus - David Essex 9 ( 13 ) Hollywood Nights - Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band 10 ( 3 ) Forever Autumn - Justin Hayward (#1[2])
11 ( 11 ) Just What I Needed - Cars 12 ( 16 ) Forget About You - Motors 13 ( 6 ) If The Kids Are United - Sham 69 (#5) 14 ( 10 ) Kiss You All Over - Exile (#10) 15 ( 24 ) You Needed Me - Anne Murray 16 ( 26 ) You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) - Sylvester 17 ( -- ) Hong Kong Garden - Siouxsie & The Banshees 18 ( 29 ) Galaxy Of Love - Crown Heights Affair 19 ( 14 ) It's Raining - Darts (#14) 20 ( 9 ) Substitute - Clout (#1[4])
21 ( -- ) Talking In Your Sleep - Crystal Gayle 22 ( -- ) Don't Care - Klark Kent 23 ( 33 ) Privilege - Patti Smith Group 24 ( 25 ) British Hustle - Hi Tension 25 ( -- ) David Watts - Jam 26 ( 23 ) Sign Of The Times - Bryan Ferry (#23) 27 ( 15 ) Northern Lights - Renaissance (#5) 28 ( -- ) I Thought It Was You - Herbie Hancock 29 ( 31 ) Walk On By - Stranglers 30 ( 19 ) Fool (If You Think It's Over) - Chris Rea (#13)
31 ( 17 ) Hopelessly Devoted To You - Olivia Newton-John (#6) 32 ( 41 ) A Rock 'N' Roll Fantasy - Kinks 33 ( 34 ) Be Stiff - Devo 34 ( 22 ) Supernature - Cerrone (#17) 35 ( 21 ) Baby Stop Crying - Bob Dylan (#15) 36 ( 43 ) Whenever I Call You Friend - Kenny Loggins & Stevie Nicks 37 ( 18 ) Copacabana (At The Copa) - Barry Manilow (#3) 38 ( 27 ) I Don't Need To Tell Her - Lurkers (#26) 39 ( 30 ) Hot Child In The City - Nick Gilder (#30) 40 ( 20 ) An Everlasting Love - Andy Gibb (#7)
41 ( 47 ) Hot Shot - Karen Young 42 ( 49 ) Let The Music Play - Charles Earland 43 ( 35 ) Sha La La La Lee - Plastic Bertrand (#35) 44 ( -- ) Right Down The Line - Gerry Rafferty 45 ( 36 ) Got To Get You Into My Life - Earth Wind & Fire (#36) 46 ( -- ) Don't Look Back - Boston 47 ( 28 ) Who Are You - Who (#12) 48 ( -- ) Think It Over - Cheryl Ladd 49 ( -- ) I Won't Mention It Again - Ruby Winters 50 ( 37 ) Two Tickets To Paradise - Eddie Money (#29)
-- ( 32 ) Prove It All Night - Bruce Springsteen (#9) -- ( 38 ) Love You More - Buzzcocks (#12) -- ( 39 ) Life's Been Good - Joe Walsh (#2[2]) -- ( 40 ) Took The Last Train - David Gates (#18) -- ( 42 ) Identity - X-Ray Spex (#23) -- ( 44 ) The Race Is On - Suzi Quatro (#27) -- ( 45 ) You - Rita Coolidge (#37) -- ( 46 ) 5.7.0.5 - City Boy (#7) -- ( 48 ) No One Is Innocent - Sex Pistols ft Ronnie Biggs (#9) -- ( 50 ) Anthem - New Seekers (#19)
-- ( -- ) She's Gonna Win - Bilbo -- ( -- ) Prisoner (Love Theme From The Eyes Of Laura Mars) - Barbra Streisand -- ( -- ) Get Off - Foxy -- ( -- ) Let's Start The Dance - Hamilton Bohannon
BLondie fly in at #3 with "Picture This". In the UK chart their first 3 hits peak progresively lower, but in my chart they reached #3 with "Denis" and #2 with "I'm Always Touched By Your Presence Dear" and will therefore hope they are getting progressively higher. Don't expect them to get more than 2 weeks on top though with this, and in February next year they'll be undone by the same artist.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jun 25, 2021 10:04:57 GMT 1
2 September 1978
1 ( 3 ) Picture This - Blondie < 1st #1 > 2 ( 1 ) Jilted John - Jilted John (#1[2]) 3 ( 2 ) Top Of The Pops - Rezillos (#2[2]) 4 ( 4 ) Summer Nights - John Travolta & Olivia Newton John 5 ( 5 ) Dreadlock Holiday - 10cc 6 ( 6 ) Reminiscing - Little River Band 7 ( 8 ) Oh What A Circus - David Essex 8 ( 9 ) Hollywood Nights - Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band 9 ( 12 ) Forget About You - Motors 10 ( 7 ) Brown Girl In The Ring - Boney M (#2[1])
11 ( 17 ) Hong Kong Garden - Siouxsie & The Banshees 12 ( 21 ) Talking In Your Sleep - Crystal Gayle 13 ( 22 ) Don't Care - Klark Kent 14 ( 15 ) You Needed Me - Anne Murray 15 ( 16 ) You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) - Sylvester 16 ( 25 ) David Watts - Jam 17 ( 11 ) Just What I Needed - Cars (#11) 18 ( 18 ) Galaxy Of Love - Crown Heights Affair 19 ( -- ) Come Back Jonee - Devo 20 ( 28 ) I Thought It Was You - Herbie Hancock
21 ( 23 ) Privilege - Patti Smith Group 22 ( 10 ) Forever Autumn - Justin Hayward (#1[2]) 23 ( 14 ) Kiss You All Over - Exile (#10) 24 ( 13 ) If The Kids Are United - Sham 69 (#5) 25 ( 24 ) British Hustle - Hi Tension (#24) 26 ( 19 ) It's Raining - Darts (#14) 27 ( 32 ) A Rock 'N' Roll Fantasy - Kinks 28 ( -- ) A Rose Has To Die - Dooleys 29 ( 29 ) Walk On By - Stranglers 30 ( -- ) Again And Again - Status Quo
31 ( 44 ) Right Down The Line - Gerry Rafferty 32 ( 26 ) Sign Of The Times - Bryan Ferry (#23) 33 ( -- ) Steppin' In A Slide Zone - Moody Blues 34 ( 36 ) Whenever I Call You Friend - Kenny Loggins & Stevie Nicks 35 ( 46 ) Don't Look Back - Boston 36 ( 20 ) Substitute - Clout (#1[4]) 37 ( -- ) The Winker's Song (Misprint) - Ivor Biggun 38 ( 33 ) Be Stiff - Devo (#33) 39 ( 48 ) Think It Over - Cheryl Ladd 40 ( 49 ) I Won't Mention It Again - Ruby Winters
41 ( 41 ) Hot Shot - Karen Young 42 ( 42 ) Let The Music Play - Charles Earland 43 ( 27 ) Northern Lights - Renaissance (#5) 44 ( 30 ) Fool (If You Think It's Over) - Chris Rea (#13) 45 ( -- ) Ain't We Funkin' Now - Brothers Johnson 46 ( 31 ) Hopelessly Devoted To You - Olivia Newton-John (#6) 47 ( -- ) Meteor Man - Dee D Jackson 48 ( 34 ) Supernature - Cerrone (#17) 49 ( 39 ) Hot Child In The City - Nick Gilder (#30) 50 ( -- ) Got A Feeling - Patrick Juvet
-- ( 35 ) Baby Stop Crying - Bob Dylan (#15) -- ( 37 ) Copacabana (At The Copa) - Barry Manilow (#3) -- ( 38 ) I Don't Need To Tell Her - Lurkers (#26) -- ( 40 ) An Everlasting Love - Andy Gibb (#7) -- ( 43 ) Sha La La La Lee - Plastic Bertrand (#35) -- ( 45 ) Got To Get You Into My Life - Earth Wind & Fire (#36) -- ( 47 ) Who Are You - Who (#12) -- ( 50 ) Two Tickets To Paradise - Eddie Money (#29)
-- ( -- ) Come Together - Aerosmith -- ( -- ) Standing On The Verge - Platinum Hook -- ( -- ) Ain't Nothing Gonna Keep Me From You - Teri De Sario
Blondie finally get to #1. Not much on the new entry front, but Devo get the highest entry as their other song in the chart "Be Stiff" falls from #33 to #38, and as Justin Hayward's "Forever Autumn" continues its descent, his band The Moody Blues, who have got back together, get a new entry, although this song is written by John Lodge who also sings on the track.
A bit of folk fun at #37, not surprisingly they didn't play the song on the radio, and the man behind it was the "doc" from That's Life.
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Post by Robbie on Jun 27, 2021 21:55:21 GMT 1
The Moody Blues are back after a 5 year break (solo and duo projects aside) with a record that was a decent sized radio hit. Their next single - I wonder if it will chart here - is one of my favourites by the group but it too failed to chart despite gaining much radio play.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jun 29, 2021 13:25:12 GMT 1
9 September 1978
1 ( 1 ) Picture This - Blondie < 2nd week at #1 > 2 ( 4 ) Summer Nights - John Travolta & Olivia Newton John 3 ( 2 ) Jilted John - Jilted John (#1[2]) 4 ( 3 ) Top Of The Pops - Rezillos (#2[2]) 5 ( 5 ) Dreadlock Holiday - 10cc 6 ( 6 ) Reminiscing - Little River Band 7 ( 7 ) Oh What A Circus - David Essex 8 ( 8 ) Hollywood Nights - Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band 9 ( 19 ) Come Back Jonee - Devo 10 ( 9 ) Forget About You - Motors (#9)
11 ( 12 ) Talking In Your Sleep - Crystal Gayle 12 ( 11 ) Hong Kong Garden - Siouxsie & The Banshees (#11) 13 ( -- ) She's Always A Woman - Billy Joel 14 ( 13 ) Don't Care - Klark Kent (#13) 15 ( -- ) Eve Of The War - Jeff Wayne 16 ( 16 ) David Watts - Jam 17 ( 28 ) A Rose Has To Die - Dooleys 18 ( 10 ) Brown Girl In The Ring - Boney M (#2[1]) 19 ( 14 ) You Needed Me - Anne Murray (#14) 20 ( 15 ) You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) - Sylvester (#15)
21 ( 20 ) I Thought It Was You - Herbie Hancock (#20) 22 ( 30 ) Again And Again - Status Quo 23 ( 33 ) Steppin' In A Slide Zone - Moody Blues 24 ( -- ) I Love The Night Life - Alicia Bridges 25 ( 18 ) Galaxy Of Love - Crown Heights Affair (#18) 26 ( 21 ) Privilege - Patti Smith Group (#21) 27 ( 37 ) The Winker's Song (Misprint) - Ivor Biggun 28 ( 31 ) Right Down The Line - Gerry Rafferty 29 ( 27 ) A Rock 'N' Roll Fantasy - Kinks (#27) 30 ( 17 ) Just What I Needed - Cars (#11)
31 ( -- ) London Town - Wings 32 ( 25 ) British Hustle - Hi Tension (#24) 33 ( 35 ) Don't Look Back - Boston 34 ( -- ) Back In The U.S.A - Linda Ronstadt 35 ( 29 ) Walk On By - Stranglers (#29) 36 ( 45 ) Ain't We Funkin' Now - Brothers Johnson 37 ( -- ) Don't Kill The Whale - Yes 38 ( 39 ) Think It Over - Cheryl Ladd 39 ( 47 ) Meteor Man - Dee D Jackson 40 ( 23 ) Kiss You All Over - Exile (#10)
41 ( 34 ) Whenever I Call You Friend - Kenny Loggins & Stevie Nicks (#34) 42 ( 40 ) I Won't Mention It Again - Ruby Winters (#40) 43 ( 26 ) It's Raining - Darts (#14) 44 ( 22 ) Forever Autumn - Justin Hayward (#1[2]) 45 ( 24 ) If The Kids Are United - Sham 69 (#5) 46 ( 50 ) Got A Feeling - Patrick Juvet 47 ( -- ) Holding On (When Love Is Gone) - L.T.D. 48 ( 32 ) Sign Of The Times - Bryan Ferry (#23) 49 ( 41 ) Hot Shot - Karen Young (#41) 50 ( 42 ) Let The Music Play - Charles Earland (#42)
-- ( 36 ) Substitute - Clout (#1[4]) -- ( 38 ) Be Stiff - Devo (#33) -- ( 43 ) Northern Lights - Renaissance (#5) -- ( 44 ) Fool (If You Think It's Over) - Chris Rea (#13) -- ( 46 ) Hopelessly Devoted To You - Olivia Newton-John (#6) -- ( 48 ) Supernature - Cerrone (#17) -- ( 49 ) Hot Child In The City - Nick Gilder (#30)
-- ( -- ) You Never Done It Like That - Captain And Tennille -- ( -- ) Gimme Your Lovin' - Atlantic Starr -- ( -- ) You're The One That I Want - Hylda Baker & Arthur Mullard -- ( -- ) Dance Get Down - Al Hudson -- ( -- ) What You Waiting For - Stargard
The top 10 is pretty static, Billy Joel gets the highest entry and Justin Hayward now appears on 3 songs in the chart, one solo, one with the Moody Blues and he is also the singer at the end of "Eve Of The War", which is part of the same "War Of The Worlds" soundtrack as "Forever Autumn".
Wings enter with a song about London and below that Linda Ronstadt covers the Chuck Berry song that the Beatles based "Back In the USSR" on.
No chart placing though for the silly version of "You're The One That I Want"
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Post by Earl Purple on Jun 30, 2021 10:29:03 GMT 1
16 September 1978
1 ( -- ) Paradise By The Dashboard Light - Meat Loaf & Ellen Foley < 1st #1 > 2 ( 1 ) Picture This - Blondie (#1[2]) 3 ( 2 ) Summer Nights - John Travolta & Olivia Newton John (#2[1]) 4 ( 3 ) Jilted John - Jilted John (#1[2]) 5 ( 13 ) She's Always A Woman - Billy Joel 6 ( 4 ) Top Of The Pops - Rezillos (#2[2]) 7 ( 9 ) Come Back Jonee - Devo 8 ( 5 ) Dreadlock Holiday - 10cc (#5) 9 ( 15 ) Eve Of The War - Jeff Wayne 10 ( 6 ) Reminiscing - Little River Band (#6)
11 ( 7 ) Oh What A Circus - David Essex (#7) 12 ( 8 ) Hollywood Nights - Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band (#8) 13 ( 24 ) I Love The Night Life - Alicia Bridges 14 ( 11 ) Talking In Your Sleep - Crystal Gayle (#11) 15 ( 17 ) A Rose Has To Die - Dooleys 16 ( 10 ) Forget About You - Motors (#9) 17 ( -- ) Summer Night City - Abba 18 ( 12 ) Hong Kong Garden - Siouxsie & The Banshees (#11) 19 ( -- ) Love Don't Live Here Anymore - Rose Royce 20 ( 14 ) Don't Care - Klark Kent (#13)
21 ( 31 ) London Town - Wings 22 ( 16 ) David Watts - Jam (#16) 23 ( 23 ) Steppin' In A Slide Zone - Moody Blues 24 ( 22 ) Again And Again - Status Quo (#22) 25 ( 34 ) Back In The U.S.A - Linda Ronstadt 26 ( 27 ) The Winker's Song (Misprint) - Ivor Biggun 27 ( 37 ) Don't Kill The Whale - Yes 28 ( -- ) I Can't Stop Lovin' You - Leo Sayer 29 ( 21 ) I Thought It Was You - Herbie Hancock (#20) 30 ( 19 ) You Needed Me - Anne Murray (#14)
31 ( 20 ) You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) - Sylvester (#15) 32 ( 28 ) Right Down The Line - Gerry Rafferty (#28) 33 ( 18 ) Brown Girl In The Ring - Boney M (#2[1]) 34 ( 36 ) Ain't We Funkin' Now - Brothers Johnson 35 ( 26 ) Privilege - Patti Smith Group (#21) 36 ( 33 ) Don't Look Back - Boston (#33) 37 ( 29 ) A Rock 'N' Roll Fantasy - Kinks (#27) 38 ( 47 ) Holding On (When Love Is Gone) - L.T.D. 39 ( 25 ) Galaxy Of Love - Crown Heights Affair (#18) 40 ( 39 ) Meteor Man - Dee D Jackson (#39)
41 ( -- ) Daylight Katy - Gordon Lightfoot 42 ( 38 ) Think It Over - Cheryl Ladd (#38) 43 ( 32 ) British Hustle - Hi Tension (#24) 44 ( -- ) You Got Me Running - Lenny Williams 45 ( 35 ) Walk On By - Stranglers (#29) 46 ( 46 ) Got A Feeling - Patrick Juvet 47 ( 30 ) Just What I Needed - Cars (#11) 48 ( 42 ) I Won't Mention It Again - Ruby Winters (#40) 49 ( -- ) Louie Louie - Motorhead 50 ( 41 ) Whenever I Call You Friend - Kenny Loggins & Stevie Nicks (#34)
-- ( 40 ) Kiss You All Over - Exile (#10) -- ( 43 ) It's Raining - Darts (#14) -- ( 44 ) Forever Autumn - Justin Hayward (#1[2]) -- ( 45 ) If The Kids Are United - Sham 69 (#5) -- ( 48 ) Sign Of The Times - Bryan Ferry (#23) -- ( 49 ) Hot Shot - Karen Young (#41) -- ( 50 ) Let The Music Play - Charles Earland (#42)
-- ( -- ) Je Voulais Te Dire - Manhattan Transfer -- ( -- ) Magic Mandrake - Sarr Band
So there you are, a new entry at number one, and if all your knowledge of music was what had been in the charts before this, you wouldn't have seen it coming as Meat Loaf's previous two hits this year peaked around #10 and apart from perhaps the spoken intro part on "You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth" there was nothing that interesting about either of them.
We've had songs with multiple parts before, the first perhaps being Macarthur Park in 1968 (and hey aren't we got to get a cover of that in a few weeks?) and the top 3 of all time so far, "Music", "Bohemian Rhapsody" and "Question" were all songs made up of different parts. And now "Paradise By The Dashboard Light" but unlike the others, it isn't a mix of fast and slow parts, they're all pretty much the same tempo, 50s rock and roll style even, which makes sense in the lyrics as it was supposed to take place "long ago and far away" so perhaps in the 50s if it is now 1978. In particular, the dialogue exchange in "Will You Love Me Forever.. Let Me Sleep On It" stands out so much that when I heard this song on the radio just once I immediately went out and bought the album on the strength of it. Towards the end of that part, they are both singing their own parts simultaneously and it blends together so well.
I also had to add Ellen Foley's name to the credits. Phil Rizzuto also has a vocal part as the baseball commentator.
So whilst "Summer Nights" is pretty much starting its run at the top of the UK chart at this point, this song is beginning its run here and expect it to stay on top a while. It is the number one of all time.
It will also be a while until I post the next chart as it is the 3-weeks break.
I could mention that Abba and Rose Royce get entries in the top 20. For Rose Royce it was their highest peaking UK single, with their second highest "Wishing On A Star" earlier in the year also being a ballad. Their uptempo song "Is It Love You're After" though was sampled for a #1 by S-Express. For Abba it reached UK #5 but was their lowest peaking single between the #6 of "S.O.S" in 1975 and the #7 of "Lay All Your Love On Me" in 1981. On my chart so far "Name Of The Game" (#5) and "Honey Honey" (#7) are their only singles not to reach the top 3 so far.
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Post by Good Old Days on Jul 1, 2021 21:21:40 GMT 1
Obviously it's not the best time for ABBA in my chart.
"Eagle", "Chiquitita" and "Does Your Mother Know" weren't represented in "Gražios Dainos". "Summer Night City" and "Voulez-Vous" spent only some weeks in the end of top 20.
"Angeleyes" will be their 9th number one, almost two years later the ultimate success of "That's Me" in 1977.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jul 2, 2021 9:41:34 GMT 1
Obviously it's not the best time for ABBA in my chart. "Eagle", "Chiquitita" and "Does Your Mother Know" weren't represented in "Gražios Dainos". "Summer Night City" and "Voulez-Vous" spent only some weeks in the end of top 20. "Angeleyes" will be their 9th number one, almost two years later the ultimate success of "That's Me" in 1977. I thought you may have come here to post that Brotherhood Of Man covered my #1. It seems they missed the first half though and called their version "Let Me Sleep On It". It was also popularised by Glee and I think their version reached the top 75, but in spite of not being a single in the UK, "Paradise By The Dashboard Light" was still pretty much a well-known song here, especially when people starting doing it at karaokes. I was one of those (thank you Sam in particular who enjoyed doing it with me) and my karaoke version (with Sam) may have been the first time many people heard the song! The Meat Loaf version did reach #1 in the Netherlands and #2 in Belgium.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jul 23, 2021 17:33:56 GMT 1
23 September 1978
1 ( 1 ) Paradise By The Dashboard Light - Meat Loaf & Ellen Foley < 2nd week at #1 > 2 ( 2 ) Picture This - Blondie (#1[2]) 3 ( 3 ) Summer Nights - John Travolta & Olivia Newton John (#2[1]) 4 ( 5 ) She's Always A Woman - Billy Joel 5 ( -- ) Ever Fallen In Love - Buzzcocks 6 ( 4 ) Jilted John - Jilted John (#1[2]) 7 ( 17 ) Summer Night City - Abba 8 ( 9 ) Eve Of The War - Jeff Wayne 9 ( 7 ) Come Back Jonee - Devo (#7) 10 ( -- ) Lucky Stars - Dean Friedman & Denise Marsa
11 ( 19 ) Love Don't Live Here Anymore - Rose Royce 12 ( 13 ) I Love The Night Life - Alicia Bridges 13 ( -- ) Blame It On The Boogie - Jacksons 14 ( 6 ) Top Of The Pops - Rezillos (#2[2]) 15 ( -- ) Down Among The Dead Men - Flash And The Pan 16 ( -- ) Now That We've Found Love - Third World 17 ( 8 ) Dreadlock Holiday - 10cc (#5) 18 ( -- ) Heads Down No Nonsense Mindless Boogie - Alberto Y Lost Trios Paranoias 19 ( 28 ) I Can't Stop Lovin' You - Leo Sayer 20 ( 15 ) A Rose Has To Die - Dooleys (#15)
21 ( -- ) Josie - Steely Dan 22 ( 10 ) Reminiscing - Little River Band (#6) 23 ( 21 ) London Town - Wings (#21) 24 ( 11 ) Oh What A Circus - David Essex (#7) 25 ( 12 ) Hollywood Nights - Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band (#8) 26 ( -- ) Sweet Suburbia - Skids 27 ( 14 ) Talking In Your Sleep - Crystal Gayle (#11) 28 ( 25 ) Back In The U.S.A - Linda Ronstadt (#25) 29 ( 27 ) Don't Kill The Whale - Yes (#27) 30 ( 16 ) Forget About You - Motors (#9)
31 ( 23 ) Steppin' In A Slide Zone - Moody Blues (#23) 32 ( 18 ) Hong Kong Garden - Siouxsie & The Banshees (#11) 33 ( 26 ) The Winker's Song (Misprint) - Ivor Biggun (#26) 34 ( 41 ) Daylight Katy - Gordon Lightfoot 35 ( 20 ) Don't Care - Klark Kent (#13) 36 ( 24 ) Again And Again - Status Quo (#22) 37 ( -- ) Beast Of Burden - Rolling Stones 38 ( 22 ) David Watts - Jam (#16) 39 ( 44 ) You Got Me Running - Lenny Williams 40 ( -- ) Mexican Girl - Smokie
41 ( -- ) Heartbreaker - Dolly Parton 42 ( 38 ) Holding On (When Love Is Gone) - L.T.D. (#38) 43 ( 34 ) Ain't We Funkin' Now - Brothers Johnson (#34) 44 ( -- ) Almost Like Being In Love - Michael Johnson 45 ( 49 ) Louie Louie - Motorhead 46 ( -- ) Devoted To You - Carly Simon & James Taylor 47 ( 32 ) Right Down The Line - Gerry Rafferty (#28) 48 ( 29 ) I Thought It Was You - Herbie Hancock (#20) 49 ( 36 ) Don't Look Back - Boston (#33) 50 ( 30 ) You Needed Me - Anne Murray (#14)
-- ( 31 ) You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) - Sylvester (#15) -- ( 33 ) Brown Girl In The Ring - Boney M (#2[1]) -- ( 35 ) Privilege - Patti Smith Group (#21) -- ( 37 ) A Rock 'N' Roll Fantasy - Kinks (#27) -- ( 39 ) Galaxy Of Love - Crown Heights Affair (#18) -- ( 40 ) Meteor Man - Dee D Jackson (#39) -- ( 42 ) Think It Over - Cheryl Ladd (#38) -- ( 43 ) British Hustle - Hi Tension (#24) -- ( 45 ) Walk On By - Stranglers (#29) -- ( 46 ) Got A Feeling - Patrick Juvet -- ( 47 ) Just What I Needed - Cars (#11) -- ( 48 ) I Won't Mention It Again - Ruby Winters (#40) -- ( 50 ) Whenever I Call You Friend - Kenny Loggins & Stevie Nicks (#34)
-- ( -- ) Bama Boogie Woogie - Cleveland Eaton
An unchanged top 3 as we are now in the equivalent week in the UK chart where "Dreadlock Holiday" is #1, and "Summer Nights" has leapt up to #11. The turnover is massive which sees "Brown Girl In The Ring" leave the chart already, having had a run of just 8 weeks in spite of reaching #2 (11-3-2-4-7-10-18-33). You won't be missing them for too long though.
Total classic punk or new wave whatever you prefer to call it by the Buzzcocks (and Fine Young Cannibals cover was a travesty), Dean Friedman's domestic argument song gets a top 10 hit with a full credit here for Denise Marsa. I met Dean Friedman in 2011 at Edinburgh Synagogue, which he regularly visits during the Edinburgh Festival. There are two versions of "Blame It On The Boogie" and the Jacksons is the superior version, even Mick Jackson agrees, and he only recorded it himself because the Jacksons had delayed and it hadn't got back to him theirs was being released. In any case he got songwriting royalties for their version too (and Big Fun's cover which was poor but not as much of a travesty as Fine Young Cannibals doing Ever Fallen In Love).
Another song with multiple recorded versions "Now That We've Found Love" was a bigger hit later in the UK for Heavy D & The Boyz, Third World putting a reggae beat to it on their version. The original was recorded by the O'Jays as a disco-soul song and it was written by Gamble and Huff.
Flash And The Pan are two members of the Easybeats, Vander and Young. This song was a minor hit in the UK and they re-released it later after "Waiting For A Train" had been a top 10 but it flopped again. It's about the Titanic.
And "pub punk" in the form of Alberto Y Lost Trios Paranoias who have a foreign-sounding name but are totally English and are almost making fun of the punk scene and possibly Status Quo at the same time. But isn't this what punk was meant to be about? Still I wouldn't enter it into a Haven contest, it would score a big zero by those who don't get the joke. It still beats the Skids, who only enter lower, and Steely Dan get another hit between those.
Further down another cover, with Carly Simon and James Taylor covering an Everly Brothers song which reached NM #12 in 1958, charting the same time as Bird Dog which did better than it (#8).
The Rolling Stones also have two nearly simultaneous singles and "Respectable" will be out next week but we'll have to see how high it can go.
Smokie getting rather corny again, rhyming "Hasta La Vista" with "Kissed Her", and again appearing to date underage women by the sound of the lyrics.
Dolly Parton recorded a song called "Heartbreaker" before Dionne Warwick did, but the latter was the first to do a Bee Gees composition as Dolly didn't do hers until a year later (with Kenny Rogers).
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Post by Whitneyfan on Jul 24, 2021 14:35:11 GMT 1
'Heartbreaker' is brilliant. I was dubious about entering it in Haven Factor though as ballads don't always do well.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jul 24, 2021 23:45:06 GMT 1
'Heartbreaker' is brilliant. I was dubious about entering it in Haven Factor though as ballads don't always do well. Two of your Haven Factor acts got entries in the chart above ... and one of mine of course.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jul 25, 2021 0:21:29 GMT 1
This is the last chart I have for now, as there were so many songs I could only fit 2 weeks of entries onto a playlist. I have a new one covering 3 weeks but I've only just created that.
30 September 1978
1 ( 1 ) Paradise By The Dashboard Light - Meat Loaf & Ellen Foley < 3rd week at #1 > 2 ( 5 ) Ever Fallen In Love - Buzzcocks 3 ( 4 ) She's Always A Woman - Billy Joel 4 ( 2 ) Picture This - Blondie (#1[2]) 5 ( 10 ) Lucky Stars - Dean Friedman & Denise Marsa 6 ( 7 ) Summer Night City - Abba 7 ( 3 ) Summer Nights - John Travolta & Olivia Newton John (#2[1]) 8 ( 13 ) Blame It On The Boogie - Jacksons 9 ( 15 ) Down Among The Dead Men - Flash And The Pan 10 ( 16 ) Now That We've Found Love - Third World
11 ( 18 ) Heads Down No Nonsense Mindless Boogie - Alberto Y Lost Trios Paranoias 12 ( 11 ) Love Don't Live Here Anymore - Rose Royce (#11) 13 ( 8 ) Eve Of The War - Jeff Wayne (#8) 14 ( 21 ) Josie - Steely Dan 15 ( 6 ) Jilted John - Jilted John (#1[2]) 16 ( 9 ) Come Back Jonee - Devo (#7) 17 ( 12 ) I Love The Night Life - Alicia Bridges (#12) 18 ( 26 ) Sweet Suburbia - Skids 19 ( 19 ) I Can't Stop Lovin' You - Leo Sayer 20 ( -- ) Down At The Doctors - Dr Feelgood
21 ( -- ) Don't Come Close - Ramones 22 ( -- ) It's A Laugh - Daryl Hall & John Oates 23 ( 37 ) Beast Of Burden - Rolling Stones 24 ( -- ) Macarthur Park - Donna Summer 25 ( 14 ) Top Of The Pops - Rezillos (#2[2]) 26 ( -- ) Dance (Disco Heat) - Sylvester 27 ( 40 ) Mexican Girl - Smokie 28 ( -- ) Dippety Day - Father Abraham 29 ( 20 ) A Rose Has To Die - Dooleys (#15) 30 ( 41 ) Heartbreaker - Dolly Parton
31 ( 23 ) London Town - Wings (#21) 32 ( -- ) Blame It On The Boogie - Mick Jackson 33 ( 17 ) Dreadlock Holiday - 10cc (#5) 34 ( 34 ) Daylight Katy - Gordon Lightfoot 35 ( 44 ) Almost Like Being In Love - Michael Johnson 36 ( 46 ) Devoted To You - Carly Simon & James Taylor 37 ( 29 ) Don't Kill The Whale - Yes (#27) 38 ( 28 ) Back In The U.S.A - Linda Ronstadt (#25) 39 ( -- ) I Go To Pieces - Gerri Granger 40 ( 22 ) Reminiscing - Little River Band (#6)
41 ( 39 ) You Got Me Running - Lenny Williams (#39) 42 ( -- ) Middle Of The Night - Brotherhood Of Man 43 ( 24 ) Oh What A Circus - David Essex (#7) 44 ( -- ) Respectable - Rolling Stones 45 ( 25 ) Hollywood Nights - Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band (#8) 46 ( 31 ) Steppin' In A Slide Zone - Moody Blues (#23) 47 ( -- ) Double Vision - Foreigner 48 ( 33 ) The Winker's Song (Misprint) - Ivor Biggun (#26) 49 ( 27 ) Talking In Your Sleep - Crystal Gayle (#11) 50 ( -- ) It's A Better Than Good Time - Gladys Knight & The Pips
-- ( 30 ) Forget About You - Motors (#9) -- ( 32 ) Hong Kong Garden - Siouxsie & The Banshees (#11) -- ( 35 ) Don't Care - Klark Kent (#13) -- ( 36 ) Again And Again - Status Quo (#22) -- ( 38 ) David Watts - Jam (#16) -- ( 42 ) Holding On (When Love Is Gone) - L.T.D. (#38) -- ( 43 ) Ain't We Funkin' Now - Brothers Johnson (#34) -- ( 45 ) Louie Louie - Motorhead -- ( 47 ) Right Down The Line - Gerry Rafferty (#28) -- ( 48 ) I Thought It Was You - Herbie Hancock (#20) -- ( 49 ) Don't Look Back - Boston (#33) -- ( 50 ) You Needed Me - Anne Murray (#14)
-- ( -- ) L.A. Connection - Rainbow -- ( -- ) Brandy - O'Jays -- ( -- ) Rollin' On - Cirrus -- ( -- ) How Much I Feel - Ambrosia -- ( -- ) I Will Still Love You - Stonebolt
No huge entries this week, but the most notable of the entries is "Macarthur Park" and I was never sure what I'd do with this cover. The original reached NM #1 in 1968 and is one of the reasons I put down to that year being the best of the whole 1960s, and it had multiple parts. There was a "suite" version by Donna Summer which also had multiple parts and appears to bring in other songs too, but I've primarily charted this based on the regular single version, which doesn't really capture the song.
So ok, with "punk" being prominent now the Ramones get an entry but it "don't come close" to being one of their most classic ones. Dance (Disco Heat) was a flip-side to Mighty Real but charts separately here. That's because of the UK and US chartings.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jul 29, 2021 16:59:48 GMT 1
7 October 1978
1 ( 1 ) Paradise By The Dashboard Light - Meat Loaf & Ellen Foley < 4th week at #1 > 2 ( 2 ) Ever Fallen In Love - Buzzcocks 3 ( 5 ) Lucky Stars - Dean Friedman & Denise Marsa 4 ( 3 ) She's Always A Woman - Billy Joel (#3) 5 ( 8 ) Blame It On The Boogie - Jacksons 6 ( 6 ) Summer Night City - Abba 7 ( 9 ) Down Among The Dead Men - Flash And The Pan 8 ( 4 ) Picture This - Blondie (#1[2]) 9 ( 10 ) Now That We've Found Love - Third World 10 ( -- ) Rasputin - Boney M
11 ( 11 ) Heads Down No Nonsense Mindless Boogie - Alberto Y Lost Trios Paranoias 12 ( 20 ) Down At The Doctors - Dr Feelgood 13 ( 21 ) Don't Come Close - Ramones 14 ( 22 ) It's A Laugh - Daryl Hall & John Oates 15 ( 14 ) Josie - Steely Dan (#14) 16 ( 24 ) Macarthur Park - Donna Summer 17 ( 7 ) Summer Nights - John Travolta & Olivia Newton John (#2[1]) 18 ( 26 ) Dance (Disco Heat) - Sylvester 19 ( -- ) Can't Stand Losing You - Police 20 ( 18 ) Sweet Suburbia - Skids (#18)
21 ( 28 ) Dippety Day - Father Abraham 22 ( 12 ) Love Don't Live Here Anymore - Rose Royce (#11) 23 ( 23 ) Beast Of Burden - Rolling Stones 24 ( 32 ) Blame It On The Boogie - Mick Jackson 25 ( 13 ) Eve Of The War - Jeff Wayne (#8) 26 ( 27 ) Mexican Girl - Smokie 27 ( 19 ) I Can't Stop Lovin' You - Leo Sayer (#19) 28 ( 30 ) Heartbreaker - Dolly Parton 29 ( 17 ) I Love The Night Life - Alicia Bridges (#12) 30 ( -- ) Sandy - John Travolta
31 ( 39 ) I Go To Pieces - Gerri Granger 32 ( 16 ) Come Back Jonee - Devo (#7) 33 ( 15 ) Jilted John - Jilted John (#1[2]) 34 ( -- ) One For You One For Me - La Bionda 35 ( 42 ) Middle Of The Night - Brotherhood Of Man 36 ( -- ) Givin' Up Givin' In - Three Degrees 37 ( 35 ) Almost Like Being In Love - Michael Johnson (#35) 38 ( 36 ) Devoted To You - Carly Simon & James Taylor (#36) 39 ( 44 ) Respectable - Rolling Stones 40 ( 47 ) Double Vision - Foreigner
41 ( -- ) Juke Box Gypsy - Lindisfarne 42 ( 34 ) Daylight Katy - Gordon Lightfoot (#34) 43 ( 50 ) It's A Better Than Good Time - Gladys Knight & The Pips 44 ( 25 ) Top Of The Pops - Rezillos (#2[2]) 45 ( 29 ) A Rose Has To Die - Dooleys (#15) 46 ( 31 ) London Town - Wings (#21) 47 ( 41 ) You Got Me Running - Lenny Williams (#39) 48 ( 37 ) Don't Kill The Whale - Yes (#27) 49 ( 38 ) Back In The U.S.A - Linda Ronstadt (#25) 50 ( 33 ) Dreadlock Holiday - 10cc (#5)
-- ( 40 ) Reminiscing - Little River Band (#6) -- ( 43 ) Oh What A Circus - David Essex (#7) -- ( 45 ) Hollywood Nights - Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band (#8) -- ( 46 ) Steppin' In A Slide Zone - Moody Blues (#23) -- ( 48 ) The Winker's Song (Misprint) - Ivor Biggun (#26) -- ( 49 ) Talking In Your Sleep - Crystal Gayle (#11)
-- ( -- ) Sweet Life - Paul Davis -- ( -- ) Ready To Take A Chance Again - Barry Manilow
Boney M's classic enters at #10, but with the greatest song of all time at #1 and another of the greatest songs of all time due to enter next week it will be hard-pressed to get to #1. It may manage #2 where the Buzzcocks spend a second week.
The Police make their debut this week, although one of the members, Stuart Copeland, was recently in the chart under the guise of Klark Kent with "Don't Care". In the UK this was eventually a hit the following summer peaking at #2 behind the artist due to enter next week (but not the same song).
John Travolta is among the few artists in the UK chart to be #1 and #2 on the same week.
There are two versions of "Blame It On The Boogie" in the chart but I'm limiting it to just one version of "One For You One For Me" which means Jonathan King is left on the shelf, having been treated the same way over his "Una Paloma Blanca" cover and he did other covers under silly names, which have also all been snubbed.
Among those who don't chart is Barry Manilow, for the second time in a row, shortly after having his biggest career hit.
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Post by Good Old Days on Jul 29, 2021 17:08:38 GMT 1
30 ( -- ) Sandy - John Travolta Dutch singer Anita Weijers was inspired by this single and recorded her top 5 hit "Mama, I'm In Love With John Travolta" under pseudonym Sandy.
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Post by Earl Purple on Aug 1, 2021 10:54:04 GMT 1
14 October 1978
1 ( 1 ) Paradise By The Dashboard Light - Meat Loaf & Ellen Foley < 5th week at #1 > 2 ( 10 ) Rasputin - Boney M 3 ( 2 ) Ever Fallen In Love - Buzzcocks (#2[2]) 4 ( 3 ) Lucky Stars - Dean Friedman & Denise Marsa (#3) 5 ( 5 ) Blame It On The Boogie - Jacksons 6 ( -- ) Rat Trap - Boomtown Rats 7 ( 4 ) She's Always A Woman - Billy Joel (#3) 8 ( 7 ) Down Among The Dead Men - Flash And The Pan (#7) 9 ( 6 ) Summer Night City - Abba (#6) 10 ( 19 ) Can't Stand Losing You - Police
11 ( 12 ) Down At The Doctors - Dr Feelgood 12 ( 13 ) Don't Come Close - Ramones 13 ( 9 ) Now That We've Found Love - Third World (#9) 14 ( 14 ) It's A Laugh - Daryl Hall & John Oates 15 ( 16 ) Macarthur Park - Donna Summer 16 ( 11 ) Heads Down No Nonsense Mindless Boogie - Alberto Y Lost Trios Paranoias (#11) 17 ( 8 ) Picture This - Blondie (#1[2]) 18 ( 18 ) Dance (Disco Heat) - Sylvester 19 ( -- ) Hurry Up Harry - Sham 69 20 ( 30 ) Sandy - John Travolta
21 ( 21 ) Dippety Day - Father Abraham 22 ( 15 ) Josie - Steely Dan (#14) 23 ( 24 ) Blame It On The Boogie - Mick Jackson 24 ( 34 ) One For You One For Me - La Bionda 25 ( -- ) Darlin' - Frankie Miller 26 ( 36 ) Givin' Up Givin' In - Three Degrees 27 ( 20 ) Sweet Suburbia - Skids (#18) 28 ( 23 ) Beast Of Burden - Rolling Stones (#23) 29 ( 31 ) I Go To Pieces - Gerri Granger 30 ( 26 ) Mexican Girl - Smokie (#26)
31 ( 41 ) Juke Box Gypsy - Lindisfarne 32 ( 28 ) Heartbreaker - Dolly Parton (#28) 33 ( 17 ) Summer Nights - John Travolta & Olivia Newton John (#2[1]) 34 ( 35 ) Middle Of The Night - Brotherhood Of Man 35 ( -- ) I Just Wanna Stop - Gino Mannelli 36 ( 22 ) Love Don't Live Here Anymore - Rose Royce (#11) 37 ( 40 ) Double Vision - Foreigner 38 ( 39 ) Respectable - Rolling Stones 39 ( 27 ) I Can't Stop Lovin' You - Leo Sayer (#19) 40 ( 43 ) It's A Better Than Good Time - Gladys Knight & The Pips
41 ( 25 ) Eve Of The War - Jeff Wayne (#8) 42 ( -- ) Coming Home - Marshall Hain 43 ( 37 ) Almost Like Being In Love - Michael Johnson (#35) 44 ( 38 ) Devoted To You - Carly Simon & James Taylor (#36) 45 ( 29 ) I Love The Night Life - Alicia Bridges (#12) 46 ( -- ) Hard Road - Black Sabbath 47 ( 32 ) Come Back Jonee - Devo (#7) 48 ( 42 ) Daylight Katy - Gordon Lightfoot (#34) 49 ( -- ) Sharing The Night Together - Dr Hook 50 ( 33 ) Jilted John - Jilted John (#1[2])
-- ( 44 ) Top Of The Pops - Rezillos (#2[2]) -- ( 45 ) A Rose Has To Die - Dooleys (#15) -- ( 46 ) London Town - Wings (#21) -- ( 47 ) You Got Me Running - Lenny Williams (#39) -- ( 48 ) Don't Kill The Whale - Yes (#27) -- ( 49 ) Back In The U.S.A - Linda Ronstadt (#25) -- ( 50 ) Dreadlock Holiday - 10cc (#5)
-- ( -- ) Get It While You Can - Olympic Runners
Meat Loaf has now been at the top for 5 weeks and the mighty Boomtown Rats get a new entry at #6 this week with what will eventually be a UK #1, although it didn't top the UK chart until its 6th chart week, with a run 22-9-7-3-2-1 and it ended up as the 8th biggest selling single of 1978. I'm not sure I want to envisage Bob Geldof tearing up posters of Meat Loaf, and whilst John Travolta's chart career pretty much ended in 1978, he remained a top actor and was starring in Pulp Fiction in 1994 the year Meat Loaf had his last NM #1 whilst Bob Geldof was best remembered as the guy who had "Fed the world".
Sham 69's "Hurry Up Harry" is another punk anthem and appears to now be their most streamed with "If The Kids Are United" just behind and Hersham Boys much further behind. Hurry Up Harry was adapted for an England football team anthem, but long before Mr Kane was a star player.
I'd say the quality generally drops from there, Frankie Miller's country hit is ok, but Dr Hook managed to squeeze in to the bottom end with a lower score than I've seen get in before.
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Post by Earl Purple on Aug 2, 2021 23:42:32 GMT 1
21 October 1978
1 ( 1 ) Paradise By The Dashboard Light - Meat Loaf & Ellen Foley < 6th week at #1 > 2 ( 2 ) Rasputin - Boney M 3 ( 6 ) Rat Trap - Boomtown Rats 4 ( 3 ) Ever Fallen In Love - Buzzcocks (#2[2]) 5 ( 5 ) Blame It On The Boogie - Jacksons 6 ( 4 ) Lucky Stars - Dean Friedman & Denise Marsa (#3) 7 ( 10 ) Can't Stand Losing You - Police 8 ( 19 ) Hurry Up Harry - Sham 69 9 ( -- ) Down In The Tube Station At Midnight - Jam 10 ( 8 ) Down Among The Dead Men - Flash And The Pan (#7)
11 ( 7 ) She's Always A Woman - Billy Joel (#3) 12 ( 11 ) Down At The Doctors - Dr Feelgood (#11) 13 ( -- ) Part Time Love - Elton John 14 ( 25 ) Darlin' - Frankie Miller 15 ( 12 ) Don't Come Close - Ramones (#12) 16 ( 9 ) Summer Night City - Abba (#6) 17 ( 20 ) Sandy - John Travolta 18 ( 14 ) It's A Laugh - Daryl Hall & John Oates (#14) 19 ( 15 ) Macarthur Park - Donna Summer (#15) 20 ( -- ) Teenage Kicks - Undertones
21 ( 24 ) One For You One For Me - La Bionda 22 ( 13 ) Now That We've Found Love - Third World (#9) 23 ( -- ) Instant Replay - Dan Hartman 24 ( 18 ) Dance (Disco Heat) - Sylvester (#18) 25 ( 26 ) Givin' Up Givin' In - Three Degrees 26 ( 35 ) I Just Wanna Stop - Gino Mannelli 27 ( 21 ) Dippety Day - Father Abraham (#21) 28 ( 16 ) Heads Down No Nonsense Mindless Boogie - Alberto Y Lost Trios Paranoias (#11) 29 ( -- ) Public Image - Public Image Limited 30 ( 23 ) Blame It On The Boogie - Mick Jackson (#23)
31 ( 31 ) Juke Box Gypsy - Lindisfarne 32 ( 17 ) Picture This - Blondie (#1[2]) 33 ( 42 ) Coming Home - Marshall Hain 34 ( 29 ) I Go To Pieces - Gerri Granger (#29) 35 ( -- ) Blue Collar Man (Long Nights) - Styx 36 ( 22 ) Josie - Steely Dan (#14) 37 ( 46 ) Hard Road - Black Sabbath 38 ( -- ) Promises - Eric Clapton 39 ( 28 ) Beast Of Burden - Rolling Stones (#23) 40 ( 34 ) Middle Of The Night - Brotherhood Of Man (#34)
41 ( 27 ) Sweet Suburbia - Skids (#18) 42 ( 49 ) Sharing The Night Together - Dr Hook 43 ( 37 ) Double Vision - Foreigner (#37) 44 ( 30 ) Mexican Girl - Smokie (#26) 45 ( -- ) Brave New World - Jeff Wayne & David Essex 46 ( 32 ) Heartbreaker - Dolly Parton (#28) 47 ( 38 ) Respectable - Rolling Stones (#38) 48 ( 40 ) It's A Better Than Good Time - Gladys Knight & The Pips (#40) 49 ( -- ) (You Gotta Walk) Don't Look Back - Peter Tosh 50 ( -- ) Time Passages - Al Stewart
-- ( 33 ) Summer Nights - John Travolta & Olivia Newton John (#2[1]) -- ( 36 ) Love Don't Live Here Anymore - Rose Royce (#11) -- ( 39 ) I Can't Stop Lovin' You - Leo Sayer (#19) -- ( 41 ) Eve Of The War - Jeff Wayne (#8) -- ( 43 ) Almost Like Being In Love - Michael Johnson (#35) -- ( 44 ) Devoted To You - Carly Simon & James Taylor (#36) -- ( 45 ) I Love The Night Life - Alicia Bridges (#12) -- ( 47 ) Come Back Jonee - Devo (#7) -- ( 48 ) Daylight Katy - Gordon Lightfoot (#34) -- ( 50 ) Jilted John - Jilted John (#1[2])
-- ( -- ) Don't Want To Live Without It - Pablo Cruise -- ( -- ) Themes From The Wizard Of Oz - Meco -- ( -- ) Prisoner Of Your Love - Player -- ( -- ) Don't Walk Away Till I Touch You - Elaine Paige -- ( -- ) Get On Up Get On Down - Roy Ayers
Here we continue, what a set of entries. The Jam's 6th single but only their 2nd UK top 20 hit, and "All Around The World" was also their biggest so far in the NM chart reaching #5 but this one might beat that. Elton John is back with his best single since "Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word" which reached #4 2 years ago, a debut for a classic Undertones song and then Instant Replay by Dan Hartman...
We also see John Lydon return with his new band. "Brave New World" appears to be credted on OCC only to David Essex but it's on Jeff Wayne's album and Spotify credits them both so I will too.
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