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Post by Earl Purple on Aug 4, 2021 12:12:55 GMT 1
28 October 1978
1 ( 1 ) Paradise By The Dashboard Light - Meat Loaf & Ellen Foley < 7th week at #1 > 2 ( 3 ) Rat Trap - Boomtown Rats 3 ( 2 ) Rasputin - Boney M (#2[2]) 4 ( 9 ) Down In The Tube Station At Midnight - Jam 5 ( 13 ) Part Time Love - Elton John 6 ( 8 ) Hurry Up Harry - Sham 69 7 ( 7 ) Can't Stand Losing You - Police 8 ( 5 ) Blame It On The Boogie - Jacksons (#5) 9 ( 4 ) Ever Fallen In Love - Buzzcocks (#2[2]) 10 ( 20 ) Teenage Kicks - Undertones
11 ( -- ) Bicycle Race - Queen 12 ( 14 ) Darlin' - Frankie Miller 13 ( 6 ) Lucky Stars - Dean Friedman & Denise Marsa (#3) 14 ( 23 ) Instant Replay - Dan Hartman 15 ( -- ) Radio Radio - Elvis Costello & The Attractions 16 ( 10 ) Down Among The Dead Men - Flash And The Pan (#7) 17 ( 12 ) Down At The Doctors - Dr Feelgood (#11) 18 ( 29 ) Public Image - Public Image Limited 19 ( 17 ) Sandy - John Travolta (#17) 20 ( 11 ) She's Always A Woman - Billy Joel (#3)
21 ( 15 ) Don't Come Close - Ramones (#12) 22 ( 21 ) One For You One For Me - La Bionda (#21) 23 ( 35 ) Blue Collar Man (Long Nights) - Styx 24 ( 26 ) I Just Wanna Stop - Gino Mannelli 25 ( 38 ) Promises - Eric Clapton 26 ( 18 ) It's A Laugh - Daryl Hall & John Oates (#14) 27 ( 19 ) Macarthur Park - Donna Summer (#15) 28 ( 16 ) Summer Night City - Abba (#6) 29 ( 25 ) Givin' Up Givin' In - Three Degrees (#25) 30 ( -- ) Change Of Heart - Eric Carmen
31 ( 33 ) Coming Home - Marshall Hain 32 ( -- ) Straight On - Heart 33 ( -- ) Strange Way - Firefall 34 ( 45 ) Brave New World - Jeff Wayne & David Essex 35 ( 37 ) Hard Road - Black Sabbath 36 ( 24 ) Dance (Disco Heat) - Sylvester (#18) 37 ( 31 ) Juke Box Gypsy - Lindisfarne (#31) 38 ( 22 ) Now That We've Found Love - Third World (#9) 39 ( 27 ) Dippety Day - Father Abraham (#21) 40 ( -- ) What A Night - City Boy
41 ( 49 ) (You Gotta Walk) Don't Look Back - Peter Tosh 42 ( -- ) Neon Lights - Kraftwerk 43 ( 50 ) Time Passages - Al Stewart 44 ( 42 ) Sharing The Night Together - Dr Hook (#42) 45 ( -- ) Love Is The Sweetest Thing - Peter Skellern 46 ( 30 ) Blame It On The Boogie - Mick Jackson (#23) 47 ( -- ) Prance On - Eddie Henderson 48 ( 34 ) I Go To Pieces - Gerri Granger (#29) 49 ( 28 ) Heads Down No Nonsense Mindless Boogie - Alberto Y Lost Trios Paranoias (#11) 50 ( -- ) Everybody Needs Love - Stephen Bishop
-- ( 32 ) Picture This - Blondie (#1[2]) -- ( 36 ) Josie - Steely Dan (#14) -- ( 39 ) Beast Of Burden - Rolling Stones (#23) -- ( 40 ) Middle Of The Night - Brotherhood Of Man (#34) -- ( 41 ) Sweet Suburbia - Skids (#18) -- ( 43 ) Double Vision - Foreigner (#37) -- ( 44 ) Mexican Girl - Smokie (#26) -- ( 46 ) Heartbreaker - Dolly Parton (#28) -- ( 47 ) Respectable - Rolling Stones (#38) -- ( 48 ) It's A Better Than Good Time - Gladys Knight & The Pips (#40)
-- ( -- ) Alive Again - Chicago -- ( -- ) Is Your Love In Vain - Bob Dylan -- ( -- ) Only You - Teddy Pendergrass
I will happily say this is my strongest ever top 2 in the entire history of my chart, the only other top 2 that comes close were those weeks in 1976 when "Music" by John Miles and "I'm Mandy Fly Me" by 10cc occupied the top 2 positions, which was 8 weeks in a row I think, and "Fernando" by Abba was #3 behind them for some of that time.
The top 15 I would say is pretty much filled with classics. Frankie Miller probably the weakest link in that top 15 and looks set to peak at #12 but really it's a strong top 15.
Queen get the highest new entry and "Fat Bottomed Girls" will chart separately in December. They really were a double A-side with radio stations playing both songs and both appeared on their Greatest Hits album, and each refers to the other: in Bicycle Race he sings "Fat-Bottomed Girls will be coming your way" and actually that little middle section sounds more like a Brian May song so maybe he contributed that bit but the track is credited to Mercury as songwriter and Fat Bottomed Girls to Brian May.
In my chart history, Queen have had a lot of number ones and Freddie Mercury is by far the most successful of the composers of those songs, but all the members have written a #1. John Deacon is the second most successful, Brian May had to wait until 1989 when "I Want It All" reached #1 and Roger Taylor until 1991 with "These Are The Days Of Our Lives".
Queen and Elvis Costello will be battling it out for a few weeks in 1979. For Elvis Costello that song was a bit controversial but I think he got to do it on Top of the Pops.
After those two classics, a severe drop in quality, but Eric Carmen does get another song into the chart... prior to doing this retro revisit I only knew 2 of his songs (All By Myself and Hungry Eyes). whilst Heart didn't reach my chart until around 1985. Below a few of those City Boy's far less successful follow-up to "5-7-0-5".
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Post by TheThorne on Aug 4, 2021 12:53:37 GMT 1
That whole top 11 are pretty storming although don't know the Elton song of the top of my head. I was 7 in 1978 so my knowledge of music was much more limited but I would have known all of them. Boomtown rats were huge then but I don't think its anything more than nostalgia that would class 'Rat Trap' as a classic. Its good but hardly life changing. 'I Don't Like Mondays' is a far stronger song, even if it was a tad overplayed.
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Post by Earl Purple on Aug 4, 2021 13:43:27 GMT 1
Boomtown Rats were my favourite band at the time, and obviously "Rat Trap" is a transition from the more "raw" sound of "She's So Modern" etc. although they were always musically ahead of some of the "punk" acts. It was however a transition I embraced, unlike sometimes when I don't like a band changing their sound. "I Don't Like Mondays" was clearly even more different, and a song that would clearly appeal to many who didn't like any other Boomtown Rats songs.
This is "Part Time Love". It reached the top 20 but "Song For Guy" was released whilst this was in the chart because that was a tribute to someone he knew who had died in a road accident. That will be along soon, of course.
Part Time Love is an uptempo song.
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Post by Earl Purple on Aug 5, 2021 15:43:16 GMT 1
I'll have to change the first post (with the topic name) now as Meat Loaf is no longer number one
4 November 1978
1 ( 2 ) Rat Trap - Boomtown Rats < 3rd #1 > 2 ( 1 ) Paradise By The Dashboard Light - Meat Loaf & Ellen Foley (#1[7]) 3 ( 4 ) Down In The Tube Station At Midnight - Jam 4 ( 5 ) Part Time Love - Elton John 5 ( 3 ) Rasputin - Boney M (#2[2]) 6 ( 11 ) Bicycle Race - Queen 7 ( 15 ) Radio Radio - Elvis Costello & The Attractions 8 ( 6 ) Hurry Up Harry - Sham 69 (#6) 9 ( 10 ) Teenage Kicks - Undertones 10 ( 7 ) Can't Stand Losing You - Police (#7)
11 ( 14 ) Instant Replay - Dan Hartman 12 ( 12 ) Darlin' - Frankie Miller 13 ( 8 ) Blame It On The Boogie - Jacksons (#5) 14 ( 18 ) Public Image - Public Image Limited 15 ( -- ) Toast - Streetband 16 ( 9 ) Ever Fallen In Love - Buzzcocks (#2[2]) 17 ( 30 ) Change Of Heart - Eric Carmen 18 ( 23 ) Blue Collar Man (Long Nights) - Styx 19 ( 32 ) Straight On - Heart 20 ( -- ) Germ Free Adolescents - X-Ray Spex
21 ( 25 ) Promises - Eric Clapton 22 ( 33 ) Strange Way - Firefall 23 ( -- ) The Saints Are Coming - Skids 24 ( -- ) Pretty Little Angel Eyes - Showaddywaddy 25 ( 13 ) Lucky Stars - Dean Friedman & Denise Marsa (#3) 26 ( 19 ) Sandy - John Travolta (#17) 27 ( -- ) I Love America - Patrick Juvet 28 ( 17 ) Down At The Doctors - Dr Feelgood (#11) 29 ( 16 ) Down Among The Dead Men - Flash And The Pan (#7) 30 ( 24 ) I Just Wanna Stop - Gino Mannelli (#24)
31 ( 22 ) One For You One For Me - La Bionda (#21) 32 ( -- ) You Don't Bring Me Flowers - Barbra & Neil 33 ( 40 ) What A Night - City Boy 34 ( 34 ) Brave New World - Jeff Wayne & David Essex 35 ( 42 ) Neon Lights - Kraftwerk 36 ( 21 ) Don't Come Close - Ramones (#12) 37 ( -- ) One Nation Under A Groove - Funkadelic 38 ( 20 ) She's Always A Woman - Billy Joel (#3) 39 ( 31 ) Coming Home - Marshall Hain (#31) 40 ( 45 ) Love Is The Sweetest Thing - Peter Skellern
41 ( 47 ) Prance On - Eddie Henderson 42 ( 35 ) Hard Road - Black Sabbath (#35) 43 ( 29 ) Givin' Up Givin' In - Three Degrees (#25) 44 ( 26 ) It's A Laugh - Daryl Hall & John Oates (#14) 45 ( 41 ) (You Gotta Walk) Don't Look Back - Peter Tosh (#41) 46 ( 27 ) Macarthur Park - Donna Summer (#15) 47 ( 50 ) Everybody Needs Love - Stephen Bishop 48 ( 43 ) Time Passages - Al Stewart (#43) 49 ( 28 ) Summer Night City - Abba (#6) 50 ( -- ) Ride-O-Rocket - Brothers Johnson
-- ( 36 ) Dance (Disco Heat) - Sylvester (#18) -- ( 37 ) Juke Box Gypsy - Lindisfarne (#31) -- ( 38 ) Now That We've Found Love - Third World (#9) -- ( 39 ) Dippety Day - Father Abraham (#21) -- ( 44 ) Sharing The Night Together - Dr Hook (#42) -- ( 46 ) Blame It On The Boogie - Mick Jackson (#23) -- ( 48 ) I Go To Pieces - Gerri Granger (#29) -- ( 49 ) Heads Down No Nonsense Mindless Boogie - Alberto Y Lost Trios Paranoias (#11)
-- ( -- ) The Power Of Gold - Dan Fogelberg -- ( -- ) (Our Love) Don't Throw It All Away - Andy Gibb -- ( -- ) East River - Brecker Brothers
So 6 years later Bob Geldof organised Band Aid and Paul Young was the first vocalist to be heard on "Do They Know It's Christmas", on this week Bob Geldof's Boomtown Rats get to #1 and Paul Young has the highest new entry as part of Streetband, a song they performed on Top of the Pops a few times. Originally intended as the B-side to "Hold On" but some DJs or producers flip them over to hear what the other side is like. Actually I've usually done that when it's an artist I like but I didn't like the A-side much.
Germ Free Adolescents is really X-Ray Spex's most definitive track and it's even synth-based slowish-medium paced. Her vocals aren't particularly good but the lyrics seem appropriate to the Covid crisis and all the hand sanitizing. (That and the face masks in Devo's "Jocko Homo" video earlier in the year).
"The Saints Are Coming" was covered by Green Day and U2 in collaboration and many at the time didn't know it was a cover of the Skids.
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Post by Earl Purple on Aug 6, 2021 14:46:58 GMT 1
11 November 1978
1 ( 1 ) Rat Trap - Boomtown Rats < 2nd week at #1 > 2 ( 2 ) Paradise By The Dashboard Light - Meat Loaf & Ellen Foley (#1[7]) 3 ( 3 ) Down In The Tube Station At Midnight - Jam 4 ( 4 ) Part Time Love - Elton John 5 ( 6 ) Bicycle Race - Queen 6 ( 7 ) Radio Radio - Elvis Costello & The Attractions 7 ( 5 ) Rasputin - Boney M (#2[2]) 8 ( 9 ) Teenage Kicks - Undertones 9 ( 11 ) Instant Replay - Dan Hartman 10 ( 15 ) Toast - Streetband
11 ( -- ) My Life - Billy Joel 12 ( -- ) My Best Friend's Girl - Cars 13 ( 20 ) Germ Free Adolescents - X-Ray Spex 14 ( -- ) Y.M.C.A - Village People 15 ( 23 ) The Saints Are Coming - Skids 16 ( 24 ) Pretty Little Angel Eyes - Showaddywaddy 17 ( 17 ) Change Of Heart - Eric Carmen 18 ( 8 ) Hurry Up Harry - Sham 69 (#6) 19 ( 14 ) Public Image - Public Image Limited (#14) 20 ( 19 ) Straight On - Heart (#19)
21 ( -- ) Hold The Line - Toto 22 ( 27 ) I Love America - Patrick Juvet 23 ( 12 ) Darlin' - Frankie Miller (#12) 24 ( -- ) Hanging On The Telephone - Blondie 25 ( 10 ) Can't Stand Losing You - Police (#7) 26 ( 18 ) Blue Collar Man (Long Nights) - Styx (#18) 27 ( 22 ) Strange Way - Firefall (#22) 28 ( -- ) I Lost My Heart To A Starship Trooper - Sarah Brightman & Hot Gossip 29 ( 32 ) You Don't Bring Me Flowers - Barbra & Neil 30 ( 21 ) Promises - Eric Clapton (#21)
31 ( 13 ) Blame It On The Boogie - Jacksons (#5) 32 ( -- ) Hammer Horror - Kate Bush 33 ( 37 ) One Nation Under A Groove - Funkadelic 34 ( -- ) Shooting Star - Dollar 35 ( 16 ) Ever Fallen In Love - Buzzcocks (#2[2]) 36 ( 33 ) What A Night - City Boy (#33) 37 ( 35 ) Neon Lights - Kraftwerk (#35) 38 ( -- ) Stumblin' In - Suzi Quatro & Chris Norman 39 ( -- ) Don't Cry Out Loud - Elkie Brooks 40 ( -- ) Strummin' - Chas & Dave
41 ( 26 ) Sandy - John Travolta (#17) 42 ( 34 ) Brave New World - Jeff Wayne & David Essex (#34) 43 ( 50 ) Ride-O-Rocket - Brothers Johnson 44 ( 40 ) Love Is The Sweetest Thing - Peter Skellern (#40) 45 ( 41 ) Prance On - Eddie Henderson (#41) 46 ( 30 ) I Just Wanna Stop - Gino Mannelli (#24) 47 ( 25 ) Lucky Stars - Dean Friedman & Denise Marsa (#3) 48 ( -- ) Like A Sunday In Salem - Gene Cotton 49 ( 28 ) Down At The Doctors - Dr Feelgood (#11) 50 ( 31 ) One For You One For Me - La Bionda (#21)
-- ( 29 ) Down Among The Dead Men - Flash And The Pan (#7) -- ( 36 ) Don't Come Close - Ramones (#12) -- ( 38 ) She's Always A Woman - Billy Joel (#3) -- ( 39 ) Coming Home - Marshall Hain (#31) -- ( 42 ) Hard Road - Black Sabbath (#35) -- ( 43 ) Givin' Up Givin' In - Three Degrees (#25) -- ( 44 ) It's A Laugh - Daryl Hall & John Oates (#14) -- ( 45 ) (You Gotta Walk) Don't Look Back - Peter Tosh (#41) -- ( 46 ) Macarthur Park - Donna Summer (#15) -- ( 47 ) Everybody Needs Love - Stephen Bishop -- ( 48 ) Time Passages - Al Stewart (#43) -- ( 49 ) Summer Night City - Abba (#6)
-- ( -- ) How You Gonna See Me Now - Alice Cooper -- ( -- ) I'm Gonna Love You Forever - Crown Heights Affair -- ( -- ) Don't Let It Fade Away - Darts -- ( -- ) Giving It Back - Phil Hurtt -- ( -- ) Lay Love On You - Luisa Fernandez
One of Billy Joel's classic songs, his biggest UK hit until 1983, gets the highest new entry, just ahead of the second Cars hit (but their first in the UK) which was also their biggest UK hit as far as chart position goes, but Drive probably sold more given it had two separate chart runs into the top 5.
"My Best Friend's Girl" is the second song this year whose lyrics are about losing your girlfriend to someone else, but this one is more praising of the woman's attributes than the utter rage and cursing we heard in "Jilted John" when he got ditched by Julie. Musically, it has the same chord sequence and tempo as Mink DeVille's "Spanish Stroll" which was a hit last year, and Showaddywaddy even noticed and covered them both as a medley (not until 2006 though, it would appear). They're #16 this week covering a song from 1961 by Curtis Lee. 2006 is still a long time to wait though if their normal gap between the original and the cover is 17 years or so. They could cover them both in 1995.
Just below those entries, the 3rd single by Village People, 2nd to reach the chart, but by far their biggest. And the debut for Toto.
That leaves Blondie and Kate Bush someway behind. Blondie's 3 hits so far have reached #3, #2 and #1 but their Nerves cover isn't set to reach those heights, whereas in the UK its #5 position gave them their 2nd highest peak of the time. Kate Bush in the UK had a #1 then a #6 and Hammer Horror stalled at #44. On this chart her first two singles both reached #1.
Between those, Sarah Brightman's debut as a disco-singer before she went opera. She will have two #1s though, one with Cliff Richard in 1986, and another solo in 2007, and between those her biggest UK hit with Andrea Bocelli.
Dollar make their debut as a duo though they were both part of Guys And Dolls who had a few hits.
And another duo to make their debut are Chas & Dave, who like Streetband were telling a tale with this one. Chas Hodges was once a session musician and played on a lot of Joe Meek's 1960s productions, including "Johnny Remember Me". They support Tottenham Hotspur, who were in the 2nd division but just got promoted back to the top of the league and signed Osvaldo Ardiles who said his big dream is to play at Wembley. Maybe they'll write a song about it.
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Post by Good Old Days on Aug 6, 2021 17:30:41 GMT 1
It's a traditional curse of 7th week at # 1 here.
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Post by Earl Purple on Aug 8, 2021 10:51:54 GMT 1
Pretty much the rule.
And as this is the all-time #1 and it was #1 for 7 weeks, it makes sense that no other number ones spend longer.
The two biggest selling UK singles both spent just 5 weeks at number one, one in 1997 and the other in 1984 (just running into 1985).
During the 1960s just one single spent 7 weeks at number one, that by one of the 3 artists who failed to get their song in the chart on 28 October 1978. In 2010s just one single spent 7 weeks at number one, that by the #1 of the decade but a one-hit wonder.
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Post by Earl Purple on Aug 10, 2021 12:30:47 GMT 1
18 November 1978
1 ( 1 ) Rat Trap - Boomtown Rats < 3rd week at #1 > 2 ( 11 ) My Life - Billy Joel 3 ( 2 ) Paradise By The Dashboard Light - Meat Loaf & Ellen Foley (#1[7]) 4 ( 3 ) Down In The Tube Station At Midnight - Jam (#3) 5 ( 12 ) My Best Friend's Girl - Cars 6 ( 4 ) Part Time Love - Elton John (#4) 7 ( 5 ) Bicycle Race - Queen (#5) 8 ( 14 ) Y.M.C.A - Village People 9 ( -- ) Le Freak - Chic 10 ( 6 ) Radio Radio - Elvis Costello & The Attractions (#6)
11 ( 10 ) Toast - Streetband (#10) 12 ( 8 ) Teenage Kicks - Undertones (#8) 13 ( 9 ) Instant Replay - Dan Hartman (#9) 14 ( 21 ) Hold The Line - Toto 15 ( 13 ) Germ Free Adolescents - X-Ray Spex (#13) 16 ( 7 ) Rasputin - Boney M (#2[2]) 17 ( 24 ) Hanging On The Telephone - Blondie 18 ( 15 ) The Saints Are Coming - Skids (#15) 19 ( 28 ) I Lost My Heart To A Starship Trooper - Sarah Brightman & Hot Gossip 20 ( 16 ) Pretty Little Angel Eyes - Showaddywaddy (#16)
21 ( -- ) Da Ya Think I'm Sexy - Rod Stewart 22 ( 32 ) Hammer Horror - Kate Bush 23 ( 17 ) Change Of Heart - Eric Carmen (#17) 24 ( 22 ) I Love America - Patrick Juvet (#22) 25 ( 34 ) Shooting Star - Dollar 26 ( -- ) I'm Every Woman - Chaka Khan 27 ( 20 ) Straight On - Heart (#19) 28 ( 38 ) Stumblin' In - Suzi Quatro & Chris Norman 29 ( -- ) Ease On Down The Road - Diana Ross & Michael Jackson 30 ( 39 ) Don't Cry Out Loud - Elkie Brooks
31 ( 19 ) Public Image - Public Image Limited (#14) 32 ( 40 ) Strummin' - Chas & Dave 33 ( -- ) Lydia - Dean Friedman 34 ( 29 ) You Don't Bring Me Flowers - Barbra & Neil (#29) 35 ( -- ) Goodbye Girl - Squeeze 36 ( 18 ) Hurry Up Harry - Sham 69 (#6) 37 ( 33 ) One Nation Under A Groove - Funkadelic (#33) 38 ( 27 ) Strange Way - Firefall (#22) 39 ( 48 ) Like A Sunday In Salem - Gene Cotton 40 ( 26 ) Blue Collar Man (Long Nights) - Styx (#18)
41 ( 23 ) Darlin' - Frankie Miller (#12) 42 ( 43 ) Ride-O-Rocket - Brothers Johnson 43 ( 30 ) Promises - Eric Clapton (#21) 44 ( 37 ) Neon Lights - Kraftwerk (#35) 45 ( 36 ) What A Night - City Boy (#33) 46 ( -- ) On The Shelf - Donny & Marie Osmond 47 ( 25 ) Can't Stand Losing You - Police (#7) 48 ( -- ) It Seems To Hang On - Ashford & Simpson 49 ( 44 ) Love Is The Sweetest Thing - Peter Skellern (#40) 50 ( 31 ) Blame It On The Boogie - Jacksons (#5)
-- ( 35 ) Ever Fallen In Love - Buzzcocks (#2[2]) -- ( 41 ) Sandy - John Travolta (#17) -- ( 42 ) Brave New World - Jeff Wayne & David Essex (#34) -- ( 45 ) Prance On - Eddie Henderson (#41) -- ( 46 ) I Just Wanna Stop - Gino Mannelli (#24) -- ( 47 ) Lucky Stars - Dean Friedman & Denise Marsa (#3) -- ( 49 ) Down At The Doctors - Dr Feelgood (#11) -- ( 50 ) One For You One For Me - La Bionda (#21)
-- ( -- ) In The Bush - Musique -- ( -- ) Ooh Baby Baby - Linda Ronstadt -- ( -- ) This Is Love - Paul Anka
Disco appears to be the order of the week, with Chic and Chaka Khan but between them even Rod Stewart kind-of embraces disco with the help of samples of tunes by Jorge Ben Jor and Bobby Womack. The Chaka Khan hit is her first that does not credit Rufus. It was written by Ashford & Simpson who also enter the chart themselves down at #48.
The chart is overall very strong at the moment, but Blondie only stumble up to #17. With a lot of singles above it in descent maybe that at Toto can climb further next week as they are both great songs.
Behind those, a collaboration between Diana Ross and Michael Jackson that was part of Quincy Jones's soundtrack to a new Wizard of Oz and "the road" mentioned is the Yellow Brick Road. It was not commercially successful, failing to reach the UK top 40 but was a song I knew at the time.
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Post by TheThorne on Aug 10, 2021 13:07:35 GMT 1
Is there any reason when you are redoing these you aren't including more songs that didn't chart in the UK like Foreigner currently #2 in the US for example or Chicago or Heart. I need to do retro charts for these years some time
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Post by Good Old Days on Aug 10, 2021 14:45:24 GMT 1
I need to do retro charts for these years some time It's always great to see more personal retro charts.
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Post by Earl Purple on Aug 10, 2021 15:06:38 GMT 1
Is there any reason when you are redoing these you aren't including more songs that didn't chart in the UK like Foreigner currently #2 in the US for example or Chicago or Heart. I need to do retro charts for these years some time I am including these but it's difficult for them to compete against the songs I really loved at the time. Double Vision stalled at #37 in my chart, "Straight On" by Heart is in the chart now but only peaked at #19, "Alive Again" by Chicago failed to reach my chart. It is extremely strong at this point, with even Blondie's "Hanging On The Telephone" only #17 this week and Sarah Brightman 2 places behind that.
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Post by TheThorne on Aug 10, 2021 15:20:11 GMT 1
Is there any reason when you are redoing these you aren't including more songs that didn't chart in the UK like Foreigner currently #2 in the US for example or Chicago or Heart. I need to do retro charts for these years some time I am including these but it's difficult for them to compete against the songs I really loved at the time. Double Vision stalled at #37 in my chart, "Straight On" by Heart is in the chart now but only peaked at #19, "Alive Again" by Chicago failed to reach my chart. It is extremely strong at this point, with even Blondie's "Hanging On The Telephone" only #17 this week and Sarah Brightman 2 places behind that. So it was sorry that’s good as I will be doing something similar soon
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Post by Earl Purple on Aug 12, 2021 15:41:05 GMT 1
25 November 1978
1 ( 1 ) Rat Trap - Boomtown Rats < 4th week at #1 > 2 ( 2 ) My Life - Billy Joel 3 ( 9 ) Le Freak - Chic 4 ( 5 ) My Best Friend's Girl - Cars 5 ( 3 ) Paradise By The Dashboard Light - Meat Loaf & Ellen Foley (#1[7]) 6 ( 8 ) Y.M.C.A - Village People 7 ( 4 ) Down In The Tube Station At Midnight - Jam (#3) 8 ( 6 ) Part Time Love - Elton John (#4) 9 ( 7 ) Bicycle Race - Queen (#5) 10 ( 14 ) Hold The Line - Toto
11 ( 17 ) Hanging On The Telephone - Blondie 12 ( 11 ) Toast - Streetband (#10) 13 ( 19 ) I Lost My Heart To A Starship Trooper - Sarah Brightman & Hot Gossip 14 ( 21 ) Da Ya Think I'm Sexy - Rod Stewart 15 ( 10 ) Radio Radio - Elvis Costello & The Attractions (#6) 16 ( 26 ) I'm Every Woman - Chaka Khan 17 ( -- ) Destination Venus - Rezillos 18 ( 29 ) Ease On Down The Road - Diana Ross & Michael Jackson 19 ( -- ) We've Got Tonite - Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band 20 ( 22 ) Hammer Horror - Kate Bush
21 ( 12 ) Teenage Kicks - Undertones (#8) 22 ( 13 ) Instant Replay - Dan Hartman (#9) 23 ( 33 ) Lydia - Dean Friedman 24 ( 15 ) Germ Free Adolescents - X-Ray Spex (#13) 25 ( -- ) Promises - Buzzcocks 26 ( 25 ) Shooting Star - Dollar (#25) 27 ( 35 ) Goodbye Girl - Squeeze 28 ( -- ) Lay Your Love On Me - Racey 29 ( 28 ) Stumblin' In - Suzi Quatro & Chris Norman (#28) 30 ( 18 ) The Saints Are Coming - Skids (#15)
31 ( 30 ) Don't Cry Out Loud - Elkie Brooks (#30) 32 ( -- ) Too Much Heaven - Bee Gees 33 ( 20 ) Pretty Little Angel Eyes - Showaddywaddy (#16) 34 ( 16 ) Rasputin - Boney M (#2[2]) 35 ( 32 ) Strummin' - Chas & Dave (#32) 36 ( 24 ) I Love America - Patrick Juvet (#22) 37 ( 23 ) Change Of Heart - Eric Carmen (#17) 38 ( -- ) Homicide - 999 39 ( 46 ) On The Shelf - Donny & Marie Osmond 40 ( -- ) Watch Out For Lucy - Eric Clapton
41 ( 39 ) Like A Sunday In Salem - Gene Cotton (#39) 42 ( 48 ) It Seems To Hang On - Ashford & Simpson 43 ( 27 ) Straight On - Heart (#19) 44 ( -- ) Dr Who - Mankind 45 ( -- ) Well All Right - Santana 46 ( -- ) Raining In My Heart - Leo Sayer 47 ( 34 ) You Don't Bring Me Flowers - Barbra & Neil (#29) 48 ( -- ) Accident Prone - Status Quo 49 ( 42 ) Ride-O-Rocket - Brothers Johnson (#42) 50 ( 37 ) One Nation Under A Groove - Funkadelic (#33)
-- ( 31 ) Public Image - Public Image Limited (#14) -- ( 36 ) Hurry Up Harry - Sham 69 (#6) -- ( 38 ) Strange Way - Firefall (#22) -- ( 40 ) Blue Collar Man (Long Nights) - Styx (#18) -- ( 41 ) Darlin' - Frankie Miller (#12) -- ( 43 ) Promises - Eric Clapton (#21) -- ( 44 ) Neon Lights - Kraftwerk (#35) -- ( 45 ) What A Night - City Boy (#33) -- ( 47 ) Can't Stand Losing You - Police (#7) -- ( 49 ) Love Is The Sweetest Thing - Peter Skellern (#40) -- ( 50 ) Blame It On The Boogie - Jacksons (#5)
-- ( -- ) Souvenirs - Voyage
Among the new entries we have the follow-up by the Rezillos which was very good but failed in commercial success. So much of the later music I liked (2010s) sounds a lot like this, I guess showing my age that it's the kind of thing I'd be into. Bob Seger's other classic also enters, the Buzzcocks two songs that peaked at #3 in the UK chart by Racey and The Bee Gees, the former written by Chinn Chapman who were in their time the most prolific songwriting team, and the latter by themselves of course, and they have probably been the most prolific songwriting team of 1978.
Too Much Heaven is ok but has never really been among my favourite Bee Gees song so a relatively weak song in a strong chart and #32 is the best it can get as an entry position.
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Post by Earl Purple on Aug 12, 2021 16:33:33 GMT 1
The UK chart generally dominates, but there are well-known classics that either charted first in the US Billboard chart or only charted there, even my #1 of all time, but also the hit by Bob Seger in that chart which was eventually a minor UK hit.
The US chart inclusion has also seen Steely Dan get a string of big hits in my chart, compared to their pathetic UK chart showing which was pretty much just "Haitian Divorce" plus a couple of others that got nowhere.
Styx have had a few NM hits so far but they will become massive in the early 80s, in fact rising when Queen begin to fall. I've always thought of Styx as a bit like America's answer to Queen, but I love Queen and anyone who makes music in that style will be popular for me.
Two of the biggest hits in my chart in 1975, "At Seventeen" by Janis Ian and "Born To Run" by Bruce Springsteen - both well known songs of course - were only hits in the USA, not the UK.
The early period of retro charts, i.e. the 50s and early 60s, are primarily dominated by the US Billboard chart, not the UK chart, as well as most of the big hits being by American artists.
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Post by Earl Purple on Aug 15, 2021 12:37:54 GMT 1
2 December 1978
1 ( 1 ) Rat Trap - Boomtown Rats < 5th week at #1 > 2 ( 2 ) My Life - Billy Joel 3 ( 3 ) Le Freak - Chic 4 ( 4 ) My Best Friend's Girl - Cars 5 ( 6 ) Y.M.C.A - Village People 6 ( 10 ) Hold The Line - Toto 7 ( 14 ) Da Ya Think I'm Sexy - Rod Stewart 8 ( 11 ) Hanging On The Telephone - Blondie 9 ( 17 ) Destination Venus - Rezillos 10 ( 13 ) I Lost My Heart To A Starship Trooper - Sarah Brightman & Hot Gossip
11 ( 5 ) Paradise By The Dashboard Light - Meat Loaf & Ellen Foley (#1[7]) 12 ( 19 ) We've Got Tonite - Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band 13 ( 16 ) I'm Every Woman - Chaka Khan 14 ( -- ) I'll Put You Together Again - Hot Chocolate 15 ( -- ) Mary's Boy Child - Boney M 16 ( 7 ) Down In The Tube Station At Midnight - Jam (#3) 17 ( 8 ) Part Time Love - Elton John (#4) 18 ( 25 ) Promises - Buzzcocks 19 ( 9 ) Bicycle Race - Queen (#5) 20 ( 18 ) Ease On Down The Road - Diana Ross & Michael Jackson (#18)
21 ( 28 ) Lay Your Love On Me - Racey 22 ( -- ) A Taste Of Aggro - Barron Knights 23 ( 12 ) Toast - Streetband (#10) 24 ( -- ) Greased Lightnin' - John Travolta 25 ( 23 ) Lydia - Dean Friedman (#23) 26 ( 32 ) Too Much Heaven - Bee Gees 27 ( 20 ) Hammer Horror - Kate Bush (#20) 28 ( 15 ) Radio Radio - Elvis Costello & The Attractions (#6) 29 ( 27 ) Goodbye Girl - Squeeze (#27) 30 ( 38 ) Homicide - 999
31 ( 40 ) Watch Out For Lucy - Eric Clapton 32 ( 26 ) Shooting Star - Dollar (#25) 33 ( 44 ) Dr Who - Mankind 34 ( -- ) Tommy Gun - Clash 35 ( 45 ) Well All Right - Santana 36 ( 21 ) Teenage Kicks - Undertones (#8) 37 ( 29 ) Stumblin' In - Suzi Quatro & Chris Norman (#28) 38 ( 46 ) Raining In My Heart - Leo Sayer 39 ( 22 ) Instant Replay - Dan Hartman (#9) 40 ( 31 ) Don't Cry Out Loud - Elkie Brooks (#30)
41 ( 48 ) Accident Prone - Status Quo 42 ( 24 ) Germ Free Adolescents - X-Ray Spex (#13) 43 ( -- ) Breaking Glass - David Bowie 44 ( 39 ) On The Shelf - Donny & Marie Osmond (#39) 45 ( 42 ) It Seems To Hang On - Ashford & Simpson (#42) 46 ( 35 ) Strummin' - Chas & Dave (#32) 47 ( 30 ) The Saints Are Coming - Skids (#15) 48 ( -- ) #1 Dee Jay - Goody Goody 49 ( 41 ) Like A Sunday In Salem - Gene Cotton (#39) 50 ( -- ) Anyway You Do It - Liquid Gold
-- ( 33 ) Pretty Little Angel Eyes - Showaddywaddy (#16) -- ( 34 ) Rasputin - Boney M (#2[2]) -- ( 36 ) I Love America - Patrick Juvet (#22) -- ( 37 ) Change Of Heart - Eric Carmen (#17) -- ( 43 ) Straight On - Heart (#19) -- ( 47 ) You Don't Bring Me Flowers - Barbra & Neil (#29) -- ( 49 ) Ride-O-Rocket - Brothers Johnson (#42) -- ( 50 ) One Nation Under A Groove - Funkadelic (#33)
-- ( -- ) New York Groove - Ace Frehley -- ( -- ) There'll Never Be - Switch -- ( -- ) No Goodbyes - Curtis Mayfield -- ( -- ) Christmas In Smurfland - Father Abraham
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.. well a bit like it anyway as we enter December. Hot Chocolate's entry appears to be aimed at Christmas although there is nothing in the lyrics about it, but it features choirs. It's pretty much the last hit single written by Geoff Stephens, co-written with Don Black, with whom he would later write a musical "Dear Anyone" based on a Jack Rosenthal novel. Geoff Stephens sometimes writes music, sometimes lyrics and sometimes both, in this case he's written the music and Don Black the lyrics.
There are a lot of cover versions over this Christmas period but none bigger than Boney M's cover of "Mary's Boy Child". The original by Harry Belafonte was a big UK hit in 1957, spending 7 weeks at #1 and selling over a million. In my chart it appeared on the playlist a year earlier, pretty much right at Christmas week and then didn't chart with "Banana Boat Song" out pretty much the same time and getting to #1. Harry Belafonte then got to #1 again with "Mama Look At Bubu" and then #3 with "Island In the Sun" to have a very successful year but when "Mary's Boy Child" came around again I didn't put it on the playlist. In any case it would have struggled as the end of 1957 was very strong in my chart with "Jingle Bell Rock" at #1 above "Great Balls Of Fire" by Jerry Lee Lewis, "Oh Boy" by the Crickets (which reached #1 the next week), "At The Hop" by Danny & The Juniors (had to make do with a #3 peak) and "Reet Petite" by Jackie Wilson on its way down from #1. Boney M's version is a bit more uptempo but has a calypso style, which was common for Harry Belafonte in general, and adds a new section, firstly with the "for a moment..." which appears in the middle, then a second time leading to the "Oh my lord.." part. Generally a very well constructed cover but it normally left off my Christmas playlist simply because it is too religious-based.
While that one enters, "A Taste Of Aggro" contains a parody of "Rivers Of Babylon" as well as the Smurf Song and Matchstalk Men & Matchstalk Cats And Dogs, and was their biggest selling hit and joint highest peaking.
If we haven't had enough of Grease yet, we have Greased Lightnin' which missed the UK top 10 this time but did get to #3 when part of the Grease Megamix 12 years later.
Ace Frehley who doesn't get in, is the lead singer of Kiss doing a cover of a song that was a top 10 hit for Hello just 3 years earlier (NM #9). Nothing particularly bad about this version, just feels like a pointless cover so soon after the original.
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Post by Good Old Days on Aug 15, 2021 19:19:29 GMT 1
"Stumblin' In" is shockingly low, I thought this duet will reach at least top 5 here.
The one from my least favourite music genres is successful in your chart.
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Post by Earl Purple on Aug 16, 2021 19:10:17 GMT 1
9 December 1978
1 ( 1 ) Rat Trap - Boomtown Rats < 6th week at #1 > 2 ( 2 ) My Life - Billy Joel 3 ( 3 ) Le Freak - Chic 4 ( 7 ) Da Ya Think I'm Sexy - Rod Stewart 5 ( 14 ) I'll Put You Together Again - Hot Chocolate 6 ( 6 ) Hold The Line - Toto 7 ( 4 ) My Best Friend's Girl - Cars (#4) 8 ( 15 ) Mary's Boy Child - Boney M 9 ( 5 ) Y.M.C.A - Village People (#5) 10 ( 9 ) Destination Venus - Rezillos (#9)
11 ( -- ) Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick - Ian Dury & The Blockheads 12 ( 8 ) Hanging On The Telephone - Blondie (#8) 13 ( 12 ) We've Got Tonite - Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band (#12) 14 ( 10 ) I Lost My Heart To A Starship Trooper - Sarah Brightman & Hot Gossip (#10) 15 ( 22 ) A Taste Of Aggro - Barron Knights 16 ( 24 ) Greased Lightnin' - John Travolta 17 ( -- ) Fat Bottomed Girls - Queen 18 ( 13 ) I'm Every Woman - Chaka Khan (#13) 19 ( 18 ) Promises - Buzzcocks (#18) 20 ( -- ) September - Earth Wind & Fire
21 ( 21 ) Lay Your Love On Me - Racey 22 ( -- ) New York New York - Gerard Kenny 23 ( 11 ) Paradise By The Dashboard Light - Meat Loaf & Ellen Foley (#1[7]) 24 ( 34 ) Tommy Gun - Clash 25 ( -- ) Mirrors - Sally Oldfield 26 ( -- ) A Little More Love - Olivia Newton John 27 ( 26 ) Too Much Heaven - Bee Gees (#26) 28 ( 20 ) Ease On Down The Road - Diana Ross & Michael Jackson (#18) 29 ( 30 ) Homicide - 999 30 ( 31 ) Watch Out For Lucy - Eric Clapton
31 ( 33 ) Dr Who - Mankind 32 ( 16 ) Down In The Tube Station At Midnight - Jam (#3) 33 ( -- ) I Was Made For Dancing - Leif Garrett 34 ( 17 ) Part Time Love - Elton John (#4) 35 ( 25 ) Lydia - Dean Friedman (#23) 36 ( 35 ) Well All Right - Santana (#35) 37 ( 43 ) Breaking Glass - David Bowie 38 ( -- ) Take That To The Bank - Shalamar 39 ( 19 ) Bicycle Race - Queen (#5) 40 ( -- ) A Touch Of Velvet A Sting Of Brass - Ron Grainer Orchestra
41 ( 29 ) Goodbye Girl - Squeeze (#27) 42 ( 38 ) Raining In My Heart - Leo Sayer (#38) 43 ( 48 ) #1 Dee Jay - Goody Goody 44 ( 27 ) Hammer Horror - Kate Bush (#20) 45 ( 23 ) Toast - Streetband (#10) 46 ( 41 ) Accident Prone - Status Quo (#41) 47 ( 50 ) Anyway You Do It - Liquid Gold 48 ( 32 ) Shooting Star - Dollar (#25) 49 ( 28 ) Radio Radio - Elvis Costello & The Attractions (#6) 50 ( 37 ) Stumblin' In - Suzi Quatro & Chris Norman (#28)
-- ( 36 ) Teenage Kicks - Undertones (#8) -- ( 39 ) Instant Replay - Dan Hartman (#9) -- ( 40 ) Don't Cry Out Loud - Elkie Brooks (#30) -- ( 42 ) Germ Free Adolescents - X-Ray Spex (#13) -- ( 44 ) On The Shelf - Donny & Marie Osmond (#39) -- ( 45 ) It Seems To Hang On - Ashford & Simpson (#42) -- ( 46 ) Strummin' - Chas & Dave (#32) -- ( 47 ) The Saints Are Coming - Skids (#15) -- ( 49 ) Like A Sunday In Salem - Gene Cotton (#39)
-- ( -- ) B-A-B-Y - Rachel Sweet -- ( -- ) Can You Fool - Glen
A 6th week at #1 for "Rat Trap" which means there have been just two number ones in the past 13 weeks. Billy Joel has sat behind it at #2 for 4 weeks in a row.
The highest entry took its time to get to #1 in the UK, eventually getting there the last week of January 1979 and staying just one week on the top before "Heart Of Glass" replaced it on top. That one isn't out for a few weeks yet. The other Queen song from the double A-side gets an entry this week in the top 20, and Earth Wind & Fire's first UK top 10 hit, but in my chart "Fantasy" reached #5 earlier in the year.
The song by Gerard Kenny is the one that goes "New York New York, so good they named it twice". It missed the UK top 40. Sally Oldfield gets her hit with her brother having an entry coming up soon, and after Grease, Olivia Newton John's biggest UK hit that wasn't connected to any musical / film.
Among those not charting is yet another of the covers. Carla Thomas took her version of "B-A-B-Y" to NM #13 in 1966.
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Post by Good Old Days on Aug 16, 2021 22:07:34 GMT 1
Rachel Sweet had one # 1 hit in my chart.
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Post by Earl Purple on Aug 17, 2021 8:39:30 GMT 1
A singer who just does lots of covers of 60s songs isn't likely to do well in my chart. Linda Ronstadt has been releasing a load of covers which were getting into the US top 40. A few did make my chart but didn't get that high.
Showaddywaddy are a bit of an exception as I really liked them at the time but most of their hits in the past 2 years haven't got as high as they did then and I don't think any of them got higher than the originals which were pretty much all top 5 hits for me and a few of them number ones. The original of "Under The Moon Of Love" was never a hit though, and Showaddywaddy's version has an amazing bit of drumming on it.
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Post by Earl Purple on Aug 17, 2021 23:59:07 GMT 1
16 December 1978
1 ( 2 ) My Life - Billy Joel < 3rd #1 > 2 ( 3 ) Le Freak - Chic 3 ( 11 ) Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick - Ian Dury & The Blockheads 4 ( 1 ) Rat Trap - Boomtown Rats (#1[4]) 5 ( 5 ) I'll Put You Together Again - Hot Chocolate 6 ( 4 ) Da Ya Think I'm Sexy - Rod Stewart (#4) 7 ( 8 ) Mary's Boy Child - Boney M 8 ( 17 ) Fat Bottomed Girls - Queen 9 ( 6 ) Hold The Line - Toto (#6) 10 ( 15 ) A Taste Of Aggro - Barron Knights
11 ( 20 ) September - Earth Wind & Fire 12 ( 22 ) New York New York - Gerard Kenny 13 ( -- ) Hello This Is Joannie - Paul Evans 14 ( 7 ) My Best Friend's Girl - Cars (#4) 15 ( 25 ) Mirrors - Sally Oldfield 16 ( 16 ) Greased Lightnin' - John Travolta 17 ( 10 ) Destination Venus - Rezillos (#9) 18 ( 26 ) A Little More Love - Olivia Newton John 19 ( 9 ) Y.M.C.A - Village People (#5) 20 ( -- ) Song For Guy - Elton John
21 ( 13 ) We've Got Tonite - Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band (#12) 22 ( 12 ) Hanging On The Telephone - Blondie (#8) 23 ( 24 ) Tommy Gun - Clash 24 ( 33 ) I Was Made For Dancing - Leif Garrett 25 ( 14 ) I Lost My Heart To A Starship Trooper - Sarah Brightman & Hot Gossip (#10) 26 ( 19 ) Promises - Buzzcocks (#18) 27 ( 21 ) Lay Your Love On Me - Racey (#21) 28 ( 38 ) Take That To The Bank - Shalamar 29 ( -- ) Please Come Home For Christmas - Eagles 30 ( 18 ) I'm Every Woman - Chaka Khan (#13)
31 ( -- ) Fire - Pointer Sisters 32 ( 40 ) A Touch Of Velvet A Sting Of Brass - Ron Grainer Orchestra 33 ( 29 ) Homicide - 999 (#29) 34 ( 27 ) Too Much Heaven - Bee Gees (#26) 35 ( 30 ) Watch Out For Lucy - Eric Clapton (#30) 36 ( 31 ) Dr Who - Mankind (#31) 37 ( 37 ) Breaking Glass - David Bowie 38 ( -- ) Rama Lama Ding Dong - Rocky Sharpe & The Replays 39 ( 23 ) Paradise By The Dashboard Light - Meat Loaf & Ellen Foley (#1[7]) 40 ( -- ) Shake It - Ian Matthews
41 ( 28 ) Ease On Down The Road - Diana Ross & Michael Jackson (#18) 42 ( 36 ) Well All Right - Santana (#35) 43 ( 43 ) #1 Dee Jay - Goody Goody 44 ( -- ) Jingle Bells - Judge Dread 45 ( -- ) I Will Be In Love With You - Livingston Taylor 46 ( 47 ) Anyway You Do It - Liquid Gold 47 ( -- ) Don't Hold Back - Chanson 48 ( 35 ) Lydia - Dean Friedman (#23) 49 ( -- ) Night Dancing - Joe Farrell 50 ( 42 ) Raining In My Heart - Leo Sayer (#38)
-- ( 32 ) Down In The Tube Station At Midnight - Jam (#3) -- ( 34 ) Part Time Love - Elton John (#4) -- ( 39 ) Bicycle Race - Queen (#5) -- ( 41 ) Goodbye Girl - Squeeze (#27) -- ( 44 ) Hammer Horror - Kate Bush (#20) -- ( 45 ) Toast - Streetband (#10) -- ( 46 ) Accident Prone - Status Quo (#41) -- ( 48 ) Shooting Star - Dollar (#25) -- ( 49 ) Radio Radio - Elvis Costello & The Attractions (#6) -- ( 50 ) Stumblin' In - Suzi Quatro & Chris Norman (#28)
-- ( -- ) Six Million Steps - Rahni Harris -- ( -- ) Like A Smurp For Christmas - Father Abraphart & The Smurps -- ( -- ) Silent Night - Dickies -- ( -- ) Don't Cry For Me Argentina - Shadows -- ( -- ) Just The Way You Are - Barry White
After 4 weeks of being #2 behind Rat Trap, Billy Joel's "My Life" finally grabs a week at #1, a year after he got there with "Just The Way You Are." Barry White's cover of that song is yet another cover out this week, as well as the Shadows covering a song that was only just a hit recently too. Whether he can get the Christmas #1 again depends on whether he can keep Ian Dury off next week.
Rama Lama Ding Dong is also a cover, the Edsels version failed to chart in 1961. Actually the lower end of the chart isn't that strong, nor is my first playlist of 1979.
The highest entry this week already starts giving us the flavour of early 1979 too. Paul Evans himself is returning to the chart for the first time since 1960 when "Happy-Go-Lucky Me" reached #9, and his biggest hit "Seven Little Girls Sitting In The Back Seat" got to #4. I think "Hello This Is Joannie" has potential to beat that and go top 3.
The Pointer Sisters hit "Fire" was written by Bruce Springsteen.
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