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Post by Earl Purple on Aug 19, 2021 9:25:35 GMT 1
23 December 1978
1 ( 2 ) Le Freak - Chic < 1st #1 > 2 ( 3 ) Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick - Ian Dury & The Blockheads 3 ( 1 ) My Life - Billy Joel (#1[1]) 4 ( 5 ) I'll Put You Together Again - Hot Chocolate 5 ( 7 ) Mary's Boy Child - Boney M 6 ( 8 ) Fat Bottomed Girls - Queen 7 ( 13 ) Hello This Is Joannie - Paul Evans 8 ( 11 ) September - Earth Wind & Fire 9 ( 12 ) New York New York - Gerard Kenny 10 ( 10 ) A Taste Of Aggro - Barron Knights
11 ( 20 ) Song For Guy - Elton John 12 ( 4 ) Rat Trap - Boomtown Rats (#1[4]) 13 ( 6 ) Da Ya Think I'm Sexy - Rod Stewart (#4) 14 ( -- ) The Gambler - Kenny Rogers 15 ( 15 ) Mirrors - Sally Oldfield 16 ( -- ) Car 67 - Driver 67 17 ( 9 ) Hold The Line - Toto (#6) 18 ( 18 ) A Little More Love - Olivia Newton John 19 ( 29 ) Please Come Home For Christmas - Eagles 20 ( 31 ) Fire - Pointer Sisters
21 ( 16 ) Greased Lightnin' - John Travolta 22 ( 17 ) Destination Venus - Rezillos (#9) 23 ( 24 ) I Was Made For Dancing - Leif Garrett 24 ( 28 ) Take That To The Bank - Shalamar 25 ( 14 ) My Best Friend's Girl - Cars (#4) 26 ( 38 ) Rama Lama Ding Dong - Rocky Sharpe & The Replays 27 ( 23 ) Tommy Gun - Clash 28 ( 40 ) Shake It - Ian Matthews 29 ( 32 ) A Touch Of Velvet A Sting Of Brass - Ron Grainer Orchestra 30 ( 44 ) Jingle Bells - Judge Dread
31 ( 21 ) We've Got Tonite - Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band (#12) 32 ( 19 ) Y.M.C.A - Village People (#5) 33 ( 45 ) I Will Be In Love With You - Livingston Taylor 34 ( -- ) Wrekorder Wrondo - Mike Oldfield 35 ( 47 ) Don't Hold Back - Chanson 36 ( 22 ) Hanging On The Telephone - Blondie (#8) 37 ( 27 ) Lay Your Love On Me - Racey (#21) 38 ( 26 ) Promises - Buzzcocks (#18) 39 ( 49 ) Night Dancing - Joe Farrell 40 ( -- ) Take Me To The River - Talking Heads
41 ( 25 ) I Lost My Heart To A Starship Trooper - Sarah Brightman & Hot Gossip (#10) 42 ( 37 ) Breaking Glass - David Bowie 43 ( 33 ) Homicide - 999 (#29) 44 ( -- ) A Man I'll Never Be - Boston 45 ( 35 ) Watch Out For Lucy - Eric Clapton (#30) 46 ( 34 ) Too Much Heaven - Bee Gees (#26) 47 ( 36 ) Dr Who - Mankind (#31) 48 ( 30 ) I'm Every Woman - Chaka Khan (#13) 49 ( -- ) Who What When Where Why - Manhattan Transfer 50 ( 39 ) Paradise By The Dashboard Light - Meat Loaf & Ellen Foley (#1[7])
-- ( 41 ) Ease On Down The Road - Diana Ross & Michael Jackson (#18) -- ( 42 ) Well All Right - Santana (#35) -- ( 43 ) #1 Dee Jay - Goody Goody -- ( 46 ) Anyway You Do It - Liquid Gold -- ( 48 ) Lydia - Dean Friedman (#23) -- ( 50 ) Raining In My Heart - Leo Sayer (#38)
So this is the Christmas number one and now Chic are number one, and it's pretty much been a case of accommodating what got to #1 in my chart at the time when Chic was Christmas #1 replacing the Boomtown Rats at #1 with Billy Joel not turning up until January with Ian Dury also getting to #1 in between and then Heart Of Glass in the first week of February.
There is quite a fast turnover of number ones around February-March to accommodate a number of all-time classics in what is considered the strongest ever sequence of 4 consecutive number ones in my chart.
There is no playlist for next week as both the UK and US charts were frozen. My chart will not be frozen but there is really nothing left over to put on it, so Meat Loaf will get a 16th week in the chart. In reality the "Christmas spirit" may have caused this to rise back up in the last couple of weeks, and he is among those in the mad February rush. This particular number one replaced Blondie at the top to get there, and that feat may well be repeated.
My general feeling is that 1979 is also a pretty strong year in patches, but there is a massive lull in Spring, but I'm excited about listening to the top hits of 1978, which has always been my favourite ever year for music, and doing this retro chart has not changed my mind on the issue.
This is also the time I will ask for some "albums to listen to" that represent the year, as well as picking a few of my own. A Tonic For The Troops, of course. Parallel Lines is an album I bought at the time. I had "The Stranger" on my 1977 album list, "42nd Street" was released at the end of 1978.
Other albums I will add will be "Can't Stand The Rezillos" and the Buzzcocks have 2 albums out "Another Music In A Different Kitchen" and "Love Bites". I have already listened to Devo's "Q: Are We Not Men A: We Are Devo" pretty much a discovery of the year as the only song I'd heard by them that year was their cover of Satisfaction which didn't really inspire me to check them out any further.
Looking at this week we have what is now considered by many Kenny Rogers' most definitive song. It had actually been recorded by a couple of other country singers, including Johnny Cash, before Kenny Rogers gave the song success when it reached #16 in the US chart. It wasn't a UK hit at the time but somehow got picked up in downloads in 2007 to reach #22 then.
Paul Phillips from Driver 67 used to be an active member of the "Popscene" group where I was also quite active, particularly around the time this song showed on Top of the Pops, and wrote a blog about being a one-hit wonder. Something about that song and "Hello This Is Joannie", perhaps the "fight" in the relationship, made me associate them, as well as them simply being in the chart at the same time, although they weren't actually in the top 10 at the same time, with "Joannie" reaching #6 in January then "Car 67" taking a bit longer to reach its UK peak of #7.
Mike Oldfield's entry is the one new tune on his EP, and hey, Talking Heads have arrived!
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Post by Earl Purple on Aug 20, 2021 15:03:11 GMT 1
30 December 1978
1 ( 1 ) Le Freak - Chic < 2nd week at #1 > 2 ( 2 ) Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick - Ian Dury & The Blockheads 3 ( 4 ) I'll Put You Together Again - Hot Chocolate 4 ( 5 ) Mary's Boy Child - Boney M 5 ( 7 ) Hello This Is Joannie - Paul Evans 6 ( 6 ) Fat Bottomed Girls - Queen 7 ( 16 ) Car 67 - Driver 67 8 ( 3 ) My Life - Billy Joel (#1[1]) 9 ( 14 ) The Gambler - Kenny Rogers 10 ( 8 ) September - Earth Wind & Fire (#8)
11 ( 11 ) Song For Guy - Elton John 12 ( 9 ) New York New York - Gerard Kenny (#9) 13 ( 10 ) A Taste Of Aggro - Barron Knights (#10) 14 ( 27 ) Tommy Gun - Clash 15 ( 19 ) Please Come Home For Christmas - Eagles 16 ( 20 ) Fire - Pointer Sisters 17 ( 15 ) Mirrors - Sally Oldfield (#15) 18 ( 18 ) A Little More Love - Olivia Newton John 19 ( 22 ) Destination Venus - Rezillos (#9) 20 ( 21 ) Greased Lightnin' - John Travolta
21 ( 34 ) Wrekorder Wrondo - Mike Oldfield 22 ( 26 ) Rama Lama Ding Dong - Rocky Sharpe & The Replays 23 ( 28 ) Shake It - Ian Matthews 24 ( 13 ) Da Ya Think I'm Sexy - Rod Stewart (#4) 25 ( 12 ) Rat Trap - Boomtown Rats (#1[4]) 26 ( 30 ) Jingle Bells - Judge Dread 27 ( 24 ) Take That To The Bank - Shalamar (#24) 28 ( 23 ) I Was Made For Dancing - Leif Garrett (#23) 29 ( 40 ) Take Me To The River - Talking Heads 30 ( 33 ) I Will Be In Love With You - Livingston Taylor
31 ( 17 ) Hold The Line - Toto (#6) 32 ( 35 ) Don't Hold Back - Chanson 33 ( 29 ) A Touch Of Velvet A Sting Of Brass - Ron Grainer Orchestra (#29) 34 ( 44 ) A Man I'll Never Be - Boston 35 ( 39 ) Night Dancing - Joe Farrell 36 ( 49 ) Who What When Where Why - Manhattan Transfer 37 ( 25 ) My Best Friend's Girl - Cars (#4) 38 ( 31 ) We've Got Tonite - Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band (#12) 39 ( 32 ) Y.M.C.A - Village People (#5) 40 ( 37 ) Lay Your Love On Me - Racey (#21)
41 ( 42 ) Breaking Glass - David Bowie 42 ( 38 ) Promises - Buzzcocks (#18) 43 ( 36 ) Hanging On The Telephone - Blondie (#8) 44 ( 50 ) Paradise By The Dashboard Light - Meat Loaf & Ellen Foley (#1[7]) 45 ( 43 ) Homicide - 999 (#29) 46 ( 45 ) Watch Out For Lucy - Eric Clapton (#30) 47 ( 41 ) I Lost My Heart To A Starship Trooper - Sarah Brightman & Hot Gossip (#10) 48 ( 47 ) Dr Who - Mankind (#31) 49 ( 46 ) Too Much Heaven - Bee Gees (#26) 50 ( 48 ) I'm Every Woman - Chaka Khan (#13)
No new entries as both the UK and US charts were frozen and nothing was worth putting back on the list. All of last week's ones got in, the week before's failed twice. There are 7 songs listed for the first week of 1979 and then quite a lot in the two weeks that follow for a "clear-out", particularly the Christmas songs (there are 3 in the chart, by Boney M, the Eagles and Judge Dread).
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Post by Good Old Days on Aug 20, 2021 16:05:34 GMT 1
My favourire Christmas songs had impressive longevity and left the chart only in April.
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Post by Earl Purple on Aug 20, 2021 17:42:29 GMT 1
The "big 4" in early 1979 are Heart Of Glass, Bat Out Of Hell, Oliver's Army and Don't Stop Me Now.
Lucky for Gloria Gaynor she gets to enter early, i.e "I Will Survive" is on the playlist for 20 January 1979.
I will compile the chart of the year and have already listened to a couple of albums from 1978.
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Post by Good Old Days on Aug 20, 2021 19:00:12 GMT 1
Lucky for Gloria Gaynor she gets to enter early, i.e " I Will Survive" is on the playlist for 20 January 1979. It's the one from my all-time least favourite songs. I want to see my # 1 (Doll - Desire Me) in top 20 here.
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Post by Earl Purple on Aug 21, 2021 21:41:12 GMT 1
Lucky for Gloria Gaynor she gets to enter early, i.e " I Will Survive" is on the playlist for 20 January 1979. It's the one from my all-time least favourite songs. I want to see my # 1 (Doll - Desire Me) in top 20 here. It's on my playlist but was such a blatant rip off of "Denis" I'm not sure how well it will do.
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Post by Earl Purple on Aug 22, 2021 10:38:12 GMT 1
My top 100 of the year, and as usual this is purely "points" based so does not reflect the fact that parts of the year were stronger than others (particularly the start of the year was not that strong) nor does it reckon for songs that crossed between years in particular the end of 1978 crossing into 1979 100 | Instant Replay | - | Dan Hartman | 99 | No One Is Innocent | - | Sex Pistols | 98 | I Love The Sound Of Breaking Glass | - | Nick Lowe | 97 | Automatic Lover | - | Dee D Jackson | 96 | More Than A Woman | - | Tavares | 95 | I Was Only Joking | - | Rod Stewart | 94 | Hanging On The Telephone | - | Blondie | 93 | Hurry Up Harry | - | Sham 69 | 92 | Jocko Homo | - | Devo | 91 | Nervous Wreck | - | Radio Stars | 90 | Boy From New York City | - | Darts | 89 | Lay Down Sally | - | Eric Clapton & Marcella Detroit | 88 | Come Back Jonee | - | Devo | 87 | Teenage Kicks | - | Undertones | 86 | Oh Carol | - | Smokie | 85 | Grease | - | Frankie Valli | 84 | Follow You Follow Me | - | Genesis | 83 | FM (No Static At All) | - | Steely Dan | 82 | Radio Radio | - | Elvis Costello & The Attractions | 81 | Wishing On A Star | - | Rose Royce | 80 | Hollywood Nights | - | Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band | 79 | Can't Stand Losing You | - | Police | 78 | Hopelessly Devoted To You | - | Olivia Newton-John | 77 | 5.7.0.5 | - | City Boy | 76 | How Can This Be Love | - | Andrew Gold | 75 | Love Is In The Air | - | John Paul Young | 74 | Just One More Night | - | Yellow Dog | 73 | Oh What A Circus | - | David Essex | 72 | Down Among The Dead Men | - | Flash And The Pan | 71 | If The Kids Are United | - | Sham 69 | 70** | Mary's Boy Child | - | Boney M | 69 | Is This Love | - | Bob Marley & The Wailers | 68 | (I Don't Want To Go To) Chelsea | - | Elvis Costello & The Attractions | 67 | Run For Home | - | Lindisfarne | 66 | Let's All Chant | - | Michael Zager Band | 65 | Wild West Hero | - | Electric Light Orchestra | 64 | What A Waste | - | Ian Dury & The Blockheads | 63 | Night Fever | - | Bee Gees | 62 | Da Ya Think I'm Sexy | - | Rod Stewart | 61 | Bicycle Race | - | Queen | 60 | Summer Night City | - | Abba | 59 | Hold The Line | - | Toto | 58** | Y.M.C.A | - | Village People | 57 | Davy's On The Road Again | - | Manfred Mann's Earth Band | 56 | Pump It Up | - | Elvis Costello & The Attractions | 55** | Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick | - | Ian Dury & The Blockheads | 54** | I'll Put You Together Again | - | Hot Chocolate | 53 | With A Little Luck | - | Wings | 52* | Just The Way You Are | - | Billy Joel | 51 | Figaro | - | Brotherhood Of Man | 50 | Reminiscing | - | Little River Band | 49 | Come Back My Love | - | Darts | 48 | Never Let Her Slip Away | - | Andrew Gold | 47 | Stayin' Alive | - | Bee Gees | 46 | Northern Lights | - | Renaissance | 45 | Take A Chance On Me | - | Abba | 44 | Take Me I'm Yours | - | Squeeze | 43 | Fantasy | - | Earth Wind & Fire | 42 | Airport | - | Motors | 41 | My Best Friend's Girl | - | Cars | 40 | Movin' Out (Anthony's Song) | - | Billy Joel | 39 | Emotion | - | Samantha Sang | 38 | Lucky Stars | - | Dean Friedman & Denise Marsa | 37 | Blame It On The Boogie | - | Jacksons | 36 | Part Time Love | - | Elton John | 35 | Like Clockwork | - | Boomtown Rats | 34 | Copacabana (At The Copa) | - | Barry Manilow | 33 | Dreadlock Holiday | - | 10cc | 32 | Brown Girl In The Ring | - | Boney M | 31 | Ca Plane Pour Moi | - | Plastic Bertrand | 30 | Sweet Talkin' Woman | - | Electric Light Orchestra | 29 | Down In The Tube Station At Midnight | - | Jam | 28 | Life's Been Good | - | Joe Walsh | 27 | She's Always A Woman | - | Billy Joel | 26 | Rasputin | - | Boney M | 25 | Ever Fallen In Love | - | Buzzcocks | 24* | Sometimes When We Touch | - | Dan Hill | 23 | Top Of The Pops | - | Rezillos | 22 | Denis | - | Blondie | 21 | Summer Nights | - | John Travolta & Olivia Newton John | 20 | Dancing In The City | - | Marshall Hain | 19 | (I'm Always Touched By Your) Presence Dear | - | Blondie | 18 | Lovely Day | - | Bill Withers | 17** | Le Freak | - | Chic | 16 | Glad To Be Gay | - | Tom Robinson Band | 15 | If You Can't Give Me Love | - | Suzi Quatro | 14 | You're The One That I Want | - | John Travolta & Olivia Newton John | 13 | Wuthering Heights | - | Kate Bush | 12** | My Life | - | Billy Joel | 11 | Picture This | - | Blondie | 10 | Forever Autumn | - | Justin Hayward | 9 | Jilted John | - | Jilted John | 8 | She's So Modern | - | Boomtown Rats | 7 | The Man With The Child In His Eyes | - | Kate Bush | 6 | Mr Blue Sky | - | Electric Light Orchestra | 5 | Because The Night | - | Patti Smith Group | 4 | Substitute | - | Clout | 3 | Baker Street | - | Gerry Rafferty | 2** | Rat Trap | - | Boomtown Rats | 1** | Paradise By The Dashboard Light | - | Meat Loaf & Ellen Foley |
* in the last chart of 1977 then crossed into 1978 ** in the last chart of 1978 and will possibly cross into 1979. There are some songs on the last chart of 1978 that therefore are not in the top 100 (Fat Bottomed Girls #111, September #145) which probably would be with combined points as they are still in the top 10 at the end of the year. Some like "Hello This Is Joannie" are likely to be among the top hits of 1979, and "Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick" will end up in both year-end charts but in a lower position than the combined points would get it.
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Post by Earl Purple on Aug 23, 2021 16:37:46 GMT 1
I have listened to my top 128 of the year (went beyond the top 100 posted here)
And a few albums, and I'd recommend the Rezillos album for those who like girl-fronted power-pop as that's really what it is, under the name of "new wave". What a fantastic band they were and underrated when it comes to musical history.
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