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Post by Good Old Days on Oct 5, 2021 8:58:24 GMT 1
Of your three, "Sugar Me" reached #6 and "It's Gonna Be A Cold Cold Christmas" #4 but Twiggy's only hit stalled at #16. That's not a surprise, because almost all her singles were illegal for your chart.
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Post by Earl Purple on Oct 6, 2021 19:42:17 GMT 1
7 April 1979
1 ( 1 ) Don't Stop Me Now - Queen < 2nd week at #1 > 2 ( 2 ) Oliver's Army - Elvis Costello & The Attractions (#1[4]) 3 ( 6 ) Cool For Cats - Squeeze 4 ( 9 ) The Logical Song - Supertramp 5 ( 3 ) Strange Town - Jam (#3) 6 ( 4 ) Wow - Kate Bush (#4) 7 ( 10 ) The Runner - Three Degrees 8 ( 18 ) Some Girls - Racey 9 ( 11 ) Questions And Answers - Sham 69 10 ( 7 ) In The Navy - Village People (#7)
11 ( 12 ) Shake Your Body (Down To The Ground) - Jacksons 12 ( -- ) Pop Muzik - M 13 ( 5 ) Saturday Night Beneath The Plastic Palm Trees - Leyton Buzzards (#3) 14 ( 22 ) Mary Ann - Black Lace 15 ( -- ) Silly Thing - Sex Pistols 16 ( -- ) Roxanne - Police 17 ( 14 ) Take Me Home - Cher (#14) 18 ( 8 ) Lucky Number - Lene Lovich (#3) 19 ( 28 ) Goodnight Tonight - Wings 20 ( 21 ) Let's Fly Away - Voyage
21 ( 32 ) The Staircase (Mystery) - Siouxsie & The Banshees 22 ( 33 ) Reunited - Peaches And Herb 23 ( -- ) Offshore Banking Business - Members 24 ( 34 ) Green Light - Cliff Richard 25 ( 15 ) Everybody's Happy Nowadays - Buzzcocks (#11) 26 ( 13 ) Bat Out Of Hell - Meat Loaf (#1[2]) 27 ( -- ) Renegade - Styx 28 ( 27 ) Imagination - Rocky Sharpe & The Replays (#27) 29 ( 38 ) Something's Cookin' In The Kitchen - Dana 30 ( 24 ) You Angel You - Manfred Mann's Earth Band (#24)
31 ( 19 ) He's The Greatest Dancer - Sister Sledge (#15) 32 ( 16 ) Bright Eyes - Art Garfunkel (#6) 33 ( 20 ) Cuba - Gibson Brothers (#16) 34 ( 17 ) Friggin' In The Riggin' - Sex Pistols (#7) 35 ( -- ) Valley Of The Dolls - Generation X 36 ( 23 ) Turn The Music Up - Players Association (#18) 37 ( 29 ) Bully For You - Tom Robinson Band (#29) 38 ( 36 ) Give Me Back Me Brain - Duffo (#36) 39 ( 30 ) Dog & Butterfly - Heart (#30) 40 ( 46 ) Remember Then - Showaddywaddy
41 ( -- ) Love Takes Time - Orleans 42 ( 48 ) Shoot Shoot - UFO 43 ( 39 ) Love Ballad - George Benson (#39) 44 ( -- ) Crazy Love - Allman Brothers Band 45 ( -- ) Love Is The Answer - England Dan & John Ford Coley 46 ( 25 ) Waiting For An Alibi - Thin Lizzy (#10) 47 ( 43 ) Sha La La Means I Love You - Barry White (#43) 48 ( 31 ) Blow Away - George Harrison (#23) 49 ( 26 ) Keep On Dancing - Gary's Gang (#8) 50 ( 40 ) Precious Love - Bob Welch (#39)
-- ( 35 ) Music Box Dancer - Frank Mills (#14) -- ( 37 ) Imperial Wizard - David Essex (#22) -- ( 41 ) Big Shot - Billy Joel (#23) -- ( 42 ) Overkill - Motorhead (#33) -- ( 44 ) Trash - Roxy Music (#27) -- ( 45 ) Tragedy - Bee Gees (#4) -- ( 47 ) Knock On Wood - Amii Stewart (#13) -- ( 49 ) Boogie Town - Fat Larry's Band (#37) -- ( 50 ) Money In My Pocket - Dennis Brown (#32)
-- ( -- ) Adventures Of The Love Crusader - Sarah Brightman & The Starship Troopers
M was Robin Scott or him and some session musicians he put together, but following in the style of Ian Dury we have a kind of rap but nobody is calling it rap at this point, just slightly quirky but interesting music.
The Sex Pistols are back already, and this entered the top 10 whilst the last single was still quite high in the chart. Not sure who exactly is performing on this song, but it had a flip-side of "Who Killed Bambi" by Tenpole Tudor, but I never knew that one at the time as radio stations always played Silly Thing, or at least the ones I listened to.
The Police are back - in the UK this is really the single that broke them, but "Can't Stand Losing You" was a minor hit first (then a bigger one on re-release) and was an NM top 10 hit last year.
The Members "Offshore Banking Business" was about offshore accounts that were either tax havens or actually used for money laundering. It wasn't about using overseas workers for call centres or even software development, the kind of "offshore" banking business I encountered in the 2000s, but the Members did come back with a new song based on this one (same tune different lyrics) about the banking industry in 2009 following the crash. "Sound Of The Suburbs" sounded a bit like the Jam but this is just a reggae song.
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Post by Earl Purple on Oct 7, 2021 17:49:09 GMT 1
14 April 1979
1 ( 1 ) Don't Stop Me Now - Queen < 3rd week at #1 > 2 ( 12 ) Pop Muzik - M 3 ( 3 ) Cool For Cats - Squeeze 4 ( 4 ) The Logical Song - Supertramp 5 ( 2 ) Oliver's Army - Elvis Costello & The Attractions (#1[4]) 6 ( 8 ) Some Girls - Racey 7 ( 15 ) Silly Thing - Sex Pistols 8 ( 16 ) Roxanne - Police 9 ( 7 ) The Runner - Three Degrees (#7) 10 ( 5 ) Strange Town - Jam (#3)
11 ( 9 ) Questions And Answers - Sham 69 (#9) 12 ( 6 ) Wow - Kate Bush (#4) 13 ( 23 ) Offshore Banking Business - Members 14 ( 14 ) Mary Ann - Black Lace 15 ( 11 ) Shake Your Body (Down To The Ground) - Jacksons (#11) 16 ( -- ) Love You Inside Out - Bee Gees 17 ( 27 ) Renegade - Styx 18 ( 19 ) Goodnight Tonight - Wings 19 ( 10 ) In The Navy - Village People (#7) 20 ( 21 ) The Staircase (Mystery) - Siouxsie & The Banshees
21 ( 22 ) Reunited - Peaches And Herb 22 ( -- ) Hallelujah - Gali Atari & Chalav U'Dvash 23 ( 24 ) Green Light - Cliff Richard 24 ( 35 ) Valley Of The Dolls - Generation X 25 ( 20 ) Let's Fly Away - Voyage (#20) 26 ( 17 ) Take Me Home - Cher (#14) 27 ( 13 ) Saturday Night Beneath The Plastic Palm Trees - Leyton Buzzards (#3) 28 ( 29 ) Something's Cookin' In The Kitchen - Dana 29 ( 41 ) Love Takes Time - Orleans 30 ( 18 ) Lucky Number - Lene Lovich (#3)
31 ( 44 ) Crazy Love - Allman Brothers Band 32 ( 28 ) Imagination - Rocky Sharpe & The Replays (#27) 33 ( 45 ) Love Is The Answer - England Dan & John Ford Coley 34 ( -- ) Happiness - Pointer Sisters 35 ( 40 ) Remember Then - Showaddywaddy 36 ( 25 ) Everybody's Happy Nowadays - Buzzcocks (#11) 37 ( 30 ) You Angel You - Manfred Mann's Earth Band (#24) 38 ( 42 ) Shoot Shoot - UFO 39 ( 26 ) Bat Out Of Hell - Meat Loaf (#1[2]) 40 ( 38 ) Give Me Back Me Brain - Duffo (#36)
41 ( -- ) Rock 'N' Roll Fantasy - Bad Company 42 ( -- ) Roller - April Wine 43 ( 31 ) He's The Greatest Dancer - Sister Sledge (#15) 44 ( 37 ) Bully For You - Tom Robinson Band (#29) 45 ( 33 ) Cuba - Gibson Brothers (#16) 46 ( -- ) Swingin' - Light Of The World 47 ( 43 ) Love Ballad - George Benson (#39) 48 ( 39 ) Dog & Butterfly - Heart (#30) 49 ( 32 ) Bright Eyes - Art Garfunkel (#6) 50 ( 36 ) Turn The Music Up - Players Association (#18)
-- ( 34 ) Friggin' In The Riggin' - Sex Pistols (#7) -- ( 46 ) Waiting For An Alibi - Thin Lizzy (#10) -- ( 47 ) Sha La La Means I Love You - Barry White (#43) -- ( 48 ) Blow Away - George Harrison (#23) -- ( 49 ) Keep On Dancing - Gary's Gang (#8) -- ( 50 ) Precious Love - Bob Welch (#39)
-- ( -- ) Dance Lady Dance - Crown Heights Affair
M fly up to #2 and so looks like a "new" song will finally break the top.
The highest entry is the Bee Gees, which reached #1 in the USA but missed the top 10 completely in the UK, which is a shame because it's a good song, certainly better than "Too Much Heaven" in my opinion, and the album's title track "Spirits Having Flown" would do even worse, but then they wouldn't even get another hit of their own for nearly 8 years (albeit they wrote big hits for others and performed on them).
The actual Eurovision winner now enters - I could find it on Spotify but only in Hebrew, but in any case that was the version I generally listened to at the time. Meanwhile Black Lace are frozen at #14 - that's a big improvement on its UK peak. You might think this is as high as they'll ever get here but "Agadoo" did actually reach #10 in my chart in 1984.
As for the Hebrew version of Hallelujah, that is on Spotify here:
My actual favourite at Eurovision 1979 was the German entry Dschinghis Khan by Dschinghis Khan.
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Post by Good Old Days on Oct 8, 2021 7:32:37 GMT 1
My actual favourite at Eurovision 1979 was the German entry Dschinghis Khan by Dschinghis Khan. My bottom 2 of ESC 1979 are Germany and Israel. Norway won for the second time with Anita Skorgan - Oliver. Eurovision songs (Average rate in 70s decade) : 1. Norway - 7.89 2. United Kingdom - 7.60 3. Ireland - 7.10 Eurovision (All results in 70s rankings) :Norway : 2-2-3-4-3-1-2-7-1 Ireland : 1-7-1-1-3-7-6-4-12-8 United Kingdom : 2-3-3-8-5-8-2-1-1-5
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Post by Earl Purple on Oct 8, 2021 8:58:20 GMT 1
Austria was by far the worst song in Eurovision 1979 and deserved to finish joint bottom (was lucky not to be completely bottom).
The Belgian song that came joint bottom with it wasn't that good but wasn't that bad either, just a chorus hey hey, na na na na na na na na is a bit naff. The children's "lai lai lai" chorus at the end of the Spanish song may have won over some, for me it had a bit of a negative effect. That song did come 2nd though. Anne-Marie David who actually is French and so represented her own country came 3rd but I didn't like that entry - just a boring ballad. I recall Luxembourg also did a ballad, not that memorable or even that good, but they had my favourite song of 1980.
Because in 1979 I went to Israel shortly after Eurovision and got a cassette of all the songs as well as them listening to them quite a lot there, I got rather familiar with them that year, but only the winner and the UK entry were eligible for my chart. The year in which I charted the most Eurovision songs was 2010 and that year Turkey (who finished 2nd) had my favourite with Manga.
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Post by Good Old Days on Oct 8, 2021 12:09:22 GMT 1
My full ranking : 1. Anita Skorgan - Oliver (Norway) - 9 2. Micha Marah - Hey, Nana (Belgium) - 8 3. Jeane Manson - J'ai Deja Vu Ca Dans Tes Yeux (Luxembourg) - 8 4. Katri Helena - Katson Sineen Taivaan (Finland) - 5 5. Black Lace - Mary-Ann (United Kingdom) - 5 6. Peter, Sue and Marc - Trodler Und Co (Switzerland) - 5 7. Christina Simon - Heute In Jerusalem (Austria) - 5 8. Cathal Dunne - Happy Man (Ireland) - 5 9. Ted Gardestad - Satellit (Sweden) - 4 10. Tommy Seebach - Disco Tango (Denmark) - 4 11. Laurent Vaguener - Notre Vie C'est La Musique (Monaco) - 4 12. Anne-Marie David - Je Suis L'enfant Soleil (France) - 4 13. Elpida - Sokrati (Greece) - 3 14. Manuela Bravo - Sobe, Sobe, Balao Sobe (Portugal) - 3 15. Matia Bazar - Raggio Di Luna (Italy) - 3 16. Xandra - Colorado (Netherlands) - 3 17. Betty Missiego - Su Cancion (Spain) - 2 18. Dschinghis Khan - Dschinghis Khan (Germany) - 2 19. Gali Atari, Milk and Honey - Hallelujah (Israel) - 1
Top 3 songs were included in my all-time Eurovision top 100. 13. Anita Skorgan - Oliver 79. Micha Marah - Hey, Nana 86. Jeane Manson - J'ai Deja Vu Ca Dans Tes Yeux
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Post by Good Old Days on Oct 8, 2021 12:18:48 GMT 1
The year in which I charted the most Eurovision songs was 2010 and that year Turkey (who finished 2nd) had my favourite with Manga. My predictable choice for the most successful Eurovision year is 1974 with six top 10 hits (Sweden, Germany, Norway, Ireland, UK, Finland). ESC 2010 ranking : 1. Anna Bergendahl - This Is My Life (Sweden) - 8 2. Lena Meyer-Landrut - Satellite (Germany) - 8 3. Kuunkuiskaajat - Tyolki Ellaa (Finland) - 7 4. 3+2 - Butterflies (Belarus) - 7 5. Feminnem - Lako Je Sve (Croatia) - 7 UK was 9th, Manga got only 37th place from 39 entries.
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Post by Earl Purple on Oct 8, 2021 12:23:03 GMT 1
your table for 1979 almost upside down to the way they finished then. (Israel won and you have them bottom, Spain were 2nd and you have them 3rd bottom, Belgium joint bottom and you have them second).
Waterloo is possibly my favourite ever Eurovision winner whilst at the same time not even being my favourite song from the 1974 contest.
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Post by Earl Purple on Oct 10, 2021 16:47:40 GMT 1
21 April 1979
1 ( 2 ) Pop Muzik - M < 1st #1 > 2 ( 3 ) Cool For Cats - Squeeze 3 ( 4 ) The Logical Song - Supertramp 4 ( 1 ) Don't Stop Me Now - Queen (#1[3]) 5 ( 7 ) Silly Thing - Sex Pistols 6 ( 8 ) Roxanne - Police 7 ( 6 ) Some Girls - Racey (#6) 8 ( 16 ) Love You Inside Out - Bee Gees 9 ( 13 ) Offshore Banking Business - Members 10 ( 5 ) Oliver's Army - Elvis Costello & The Attractions (#1[4])
11 ( 22 ) Hallelujah - Gali Atari & Chalav U'Dvash 12 ( -- ) Parisienne Walkways - Gary Moore & Phil Lynott 13 ( 17 ) Renegade - Styx 14 ( -- ) The Number One Song In Heaven - Sparks 15 ( 9 ) The Runner - Three Degrees (#7) 16 ( 11 ) Questions And Answers - Sham 69 (#9) 17 ( 14 ) Mary Ann - Black Lace (#14) 18 ( 10 ) Strange Town - Jam (#3) 19 ( -- ) One Way Ticket - Eruption 20 ( 24 ) Valley Of The Dolls - Generation X
21 ( 18 ) Goodnight Tonight - Wings (#18) 22 ( -- ) Banana Splits - Dickies 23 ( 12 ) Wow - Kate Bush (#4) 24 ( 34 ) Happiness - Pointer Sisters 25 ( -- ) Nice Legs Shame About Her Face - Monks 26 ( 15 ) Shake Your Body (Down To The Ground) - Jacksons (#11) 27 ( 20 ) The Staircase (Mystery) - Siouxsie & The Banshees (#20) 28 ( 21 ) Reunited - Peaches And Herb (#21) 29 ( 29 ) Love Takes Time - Orleans 30 ( 31 ) Crazy Love - Allman Brothers Band
31 ( 23 ) Green Light - Cliff Richard (#23) 32 ( -- ) Guilty - Mike Oldfield 33 ( 33 ) Love Is The Answer - England Dan & John Ford Coley 34 ( -- ) Highly Inflammible - X-Ray Spex 35 ( 41 ) Rock 'N' Roll Fantasy - Bad Company 36 ( 42 ) Roller - April Wine 37 ( -- ) Just When I Needed You Most - Randy Vanwarmer 38 ( 28 ) Something's Cookin' In The Kitchen - Dana (#28) 39 ( 19 ) In The Navy - Village People (#7) 40 ( 25 ) Let's Fly Away - Voyage (#20)
41 ( 46 ) Swingin' - Light Of The World 42 ( 35 ) Remember Then - Showaddywaddy (#35) 43 ( 38 ) Shoot Shoot - UFO (#38) 44 ( 26 ) Take Me Home - Cher (#14) 45 ( -- ) Diamonds - Chris Rea 46 ( 32 ) Imagination - Rocky Sharpe & The Replays (#27) 47 ( -- ) Sweet Lui Louise - Ironhorse 48 ( -- ) I'm An Upstart - Angelic Upstarts 49 ( 27 ) Saturday Night Beneath The Plastic Palm Trees - Leyton Buzzards (#3) 50 ( 30 ) Lucky Number - Lene Lovich (#3)
-- ( 36 ) Everybody's Happy Nowadays - Buzzcocks (#11) -- ( 37 ) You Angel You - Manfred Mann's Earth Band (#24) -- ( 39 ) Bat Out Of Hell - Meat Loaf (#1[2]) -- ( 40 ) Give Me Back Me Brain - Duffo (#36) -- ( 43 ) He's The Greatest Dancer - Sister Sledge (#15) -- ( 44 ) Bully For You - Tom Robinson Band (#29) -- ( 45 ) Cuba - Gibson Brothers (#16) -- ( 47 ) Love Ballad - George Benson (#39) -- ( 48 ) Dog & Butterfly - Heart (#30) -- ( 49 ) Bright Eyes - Art Garfunkel (#6) -- ( 50 ) Turn The Music Up - Players Association (#18)
M gets to #1, as Queen falls back to #4 however it is in its 11th week on the chart. The Sex Pistols climb to #5, their highest peak so far, having previously peaked twice at #6, twice at #7 and once at #9.
Phil Lynott is the lead singer on Parisienne Walkways but wasn't credited on it. However Spotify does credit him on it. Sparks are back and then we have two cover versions, "One Way Ticket" was originally recorded by Neil Sedaka but he didn't write it, and the Dickies are covering the Banana Splits theme from the 1960s TV series.
The Monks are Hudson-Ford plus a couple of others, and they were also previously in the Strawbs who reached #1 in 1973 with "Part Of The Union" before breaking off with a solo hit "Pick Up The Pieces" the same year, and is a tale of a man dating a woman with the attitude "nice legs, shame about the face" only for her to say those words right back to him when he thought he was going to be invited indoors.
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Post by Earl Purple on Oct 11, 2021 15:17:56 GMT 1
1 ( 1 ) Pop Muzik - M < 2nd week at #1 > 2 ( 2 ) Cool For Cats - Squeeze 3 ( 3 ) The Logical Song - Supertramp 4 ( 12 ) Parisienne Walkways - Gary Moore & Phil Lynott 5 ( 14 ) The Number One Song In Heaven - Sparks 6 ( 5 ) Silly Thing - Sex Pistols (#5) 7 ( 8 ) Love You Inside Out - Bee Gees 8 ( 6 ) Roxanne - Police (#6) 9 ( -- ) Dance Away - Roxy Music 10 ( 11 ) Hallelujah - Gali Atari & Chalav U'Dvash
11 ( 9 ) Offshore Banking Business - Members (#9) 12 ( 19 ) One Way Ticket - Eruption 13 ( 4 ) Don't Stop Me Now - Queen (#1[3]) 14 ( -- ) Hot Stuff - Donna Summer 15 ( 7 ) Some Girls - Racey (#6) 16 ( 22 ) Banana Splits - Dickies 17 ( 13 ) Renegade - Styx (#13) 18 ( 25 ) Nice Legs Shame About Her Face - Monks 19 ( -- ) Jimmy Jimmy - Undertones 20 ( -- ) Until The Night - Billy Joel
21 ( 10 ) Oliver's Army - Elvis Costello & The Attractions (#1[4]) 22 ( 32 ) Guilty - Mike Oldfield 23 ( 20 ) Valley Of The Dolls - Generation X (#20) 24 ( 24 ) Happiness - Pointer Sisters 25 ( 34 ) Highly Inflammible - X-Ray Spex 26 ( 17 ) Mary Ann - Black Lace (#14) 27 ( 37 ) Just When I Needed You Most - Randy Vanwarmer 28 ( 16 ) Questions And Answers - Sham 69 (#9) 29 ( 15 ) The Runner - Three Degrees (#7) 30 ( -- ) Get Used To It - Roger Voudouris
31 ( 21 ) Goodnight Tonight - Wings (#18) 32 ( 18 ) Strange Town - Jam (#3) 33 ( -- ) Prime Time - Tubes 34 ( 29 ) Love Takes Time - Orleans (#29) 35 ( 30 ) Crazy Love - Allman Brothers Band (#30) 36 ( 45 ) Diamonds - Chris Rea 37 ( 35 ) Rock 'N' Roll Fantasy - Bad Company (#35) 38 ( 36 ) Roller - April Wine (#36) 39 ( 47 ) Sweet Lui Louise - Ironhorse 40 ( -- ) Don't Write Her Off - McGuinn Clark & Hillman
41 ( 48 ) I'm An Upstart - Angelic Upstarts 42 ( 33 ) Love Is The Answer - England Dan & John Ford Coley (#33) 43 ( -- ) Such A Woman - Tycoon 44 ( 27 ) The Staircase (Mystery) - Siouxsie & The Banshees (#20) 45 ( 23 ) Wow - Kate Bush (#4) 46 ( 28 ) Reunited - Peaches And Herb (#21) 47 ( -- ) Hooray Hooray It's A Holi Holiday - Boney M 48 ( 41 ) Swingin' - Light Of The World (#41) 49 ( 26 ) Shake Your Body (Down To The Ground) - Jacksons (#11) 50 ( -- ) Long Live Rock - Who
-- ( 31 ) Green Light - Cliff Richard (#23) -- ( 38 ) Something's Cookin' In The Kitchen - Dana (#28) -- ( 39 ) In The Navy - Village People (#7) -- ( 40 ) Let's Fly Away - Voyage (#20) -- ( 42 ) Remember Then - Showaddywaddy (#35) -- ( 43 ) Shoot Shoot - UFO (#38) -- ( 44 ) Take Me Home - Cher (#14) -- ( 46 ) Imagination - Rocky Sharpe & The Replays (#27) -- ( 49 ) Saturday Night Beneath The Plastic Palm Trees - Leyton Buzzards (#3) -- ( 50 ) Lucky Number - Lene Lovich (#3)
-- ( -- ) Hot Number - Foxy -- ( -- ) Fear Of The Dark - Gordon Giltrap -- ( -- ) Dancer - Gino Soccio
The Roxy Music classic has a 3 week head start over "Sunday Girl" so there's a chance both songs will reach number one. Donna Summer's disco classic enters next - this song reached #1 in the USA and "Bad Girls" followed on top shortly after with Chic's "Good Times" taking over after that. It was all too much for some people who would stage an anti-disco protest in July, smashing disco records. That's 2-3 months away so I'll probably want to comment on it more at the time.
I'm not sure how "Jimmy Jimmy" stands among Undertones songs today, but until they had a top 10 hit next year, this was their only top 20 hit, but it was partly helped by them releasing two versions - clever marketing.. but silly boy...
There were a few occasions where a different Billy Joel single was released in the UK and the USA - in the US it's "Honesty" which will be due to chart quite soon.
I never really liked that Boney M song much - which explains why it scrapes in near the bottom below a bunch of other songs.
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Post by rubcale on Oct 11, 2021 18:23:54 GMT 1
Have you made many changes from the original?
Hooray definitely one of Boney M's worst.
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Post by Earl Purple on Oct 11, 2021 19:32:55 GMT 1
My chart is generally close to what I did at the time.
I just looked up my original chart. Roxy Music, Donna Summer and Undertones all charted, but not any of the other entries on this list probably because I wasn't familiar with them other than Boney M which I simply didn't like.
My chart was only a top 20 then.
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Post by Earl Purple on Oct 12, 2021 9:12:49 GMT 1
What I am changing from the original is that back then I charted the Shadows version of Cavatina (Theme From The Deer Hunter) but now I will be charting the John Williams version. Back then I chose to chart just one version, and maybe because the Shadows one charted first I picked it, but I just feel the John Williams version is superior and was the one I chose for my Soft Instrumentals playlist (which doesn't include any Shadows tracks, but if I did an uptempo twangy-guitar instrumentals playlist I'm sure they'd get many tracks on it, along with Duane Eddy).
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Post by Earl Purple on Oct 12, 2021 9:52:02 GMT 1
5 May 1979
1 ( 1 ) Pop Muzik - M < 3rd week at #1 > 2 ( 9 ) Dance Away - Roxy Music 3 ( 4 ) Parisienne Walkways - Gary Moore & Phil Lynott 4 ( 5 ) The Number One Song In Heaven - Sparks 5 ( 2 ) Cool For Cats - Squeeze (#2) 6 ( 3 ) The Logical Song - Supertramp (#3) 7 ( 14 ) Hot Stuff - Donna Summer 8 ( -- ) Does Your Mother Know - Abba 9 ( 7 ) Love You Inside Out - Bee Gees (#7) 10 ( 19 ) Jimmy Jimmy - Undertones
11 ( 20 ) Until The Night - Billy Joel 12 ( 6 ) Silly Thing - Sex Pistols (#5) 13 ( 12 ) One Way Ticket - Eruption (#12) 14 ( 10 ) Hallelujah - Gali Atari & Chalav U'Dvash (#10) 15 ( -- ) Boys Keep Swinging - David Bowie 16 ( 8 ) Roxanne - Police (#6) 17 ( 16 ) Banana Splits - Dickies (#16) 18 ( -- ) I Want You To Want Me - Cheap Trick 19 ( 18 ) Nice Legs Shame About Her Face - Monks (#18) 20 ( 11 ) Offshore Banking Business - Members (#9)
21 ( 30 ) Get Used To It - Roger Voudouris 22 ( 22 ) Guilty - Mike Oldfield 23 ( 33 ) Prime Time - Tubes 24 ( 25 ) Highly Inflammible - X-Ray Spex 25 ( 27 ) Just When I Needed You Most - Randy Vanwarmer 26 ( -- ) Revolt Into Style - Bill Nelson's Red Noise 27 ( 17 ) Renegade - Styx (#13) 28 ( 13 ) Don't Stop Me Now - Queen (#1[3]) 29 ( 15 ) Some Girls - Racey (#6) 30 ( -- ) Love Song - Damned
31 ( 24 ) Happiness - Pointer Sisters (#24) 32 ( 40 ) Don't Write Her Off - McGuinn Clark & Hillman 33 ( 23 ) Valley Of The Dolls - Generation X (#20) 34 ( 43 ) Such A Woman - Tycoon 35 ( -- ) Old Time Rock N Roll - Bob Seger & Silver Bullet Band 36 ( 36 ) Diamonds - Chris Rea 37 ( -- ) The Runaway - Elkie Brooks 38 ( -- ) As Long As The Price Is Right - Dr Feelgood 39 ( 47 ) Hooray Hooray It's A Holi Holiday - Boney M 40 ( 21 ) Oliver's Army - Elvis Costello & The Attractions (#1[4])
41 ( 39 ) Sweet Lui Louise - Ironhorse (#39) 42 ( 26 ) Mary Ann - Black Lace (#14) 43 ( 41 ) I'm An Upstart - Angelic Upstarts (#41) 44 ( 50 ) Long Live Rock - Who 45 ( 37 ) Rock 'N' Roll Fantasy - Bad Company (#35) 46 ( 34 ) Love Takes Time - Orleans (#29) 47 ( 28 ) Questions And Answers - Sham 69 (#9) 48 ( 38 ) Roller - April Wine (#36) 49 ( 35 ) Crazy Love - Allman Brothers Band (#30) 50 ( 31 ) Goodnight Tonight - Wings (#18)
-- ( 29 ) The Runner - Three Degrees (#7) -- ( 32 ) Strange Town - Jam (#3) -- ( 42 ) Love Is The Answer - England Dan & John Ford Coley (#33) -- ( 44 ) The Staircase (Mystery) - Siouxsie & The Banshees (#20) -- ( 45 ) Wow - Kate Bush (#4) -- ( 46 ) Reunited - Peaches And Herb (#21) -- ( 48 ) Swingin' - Light Of The World (#41) -- ( 49 ) Shake Your Body (Down To The Ground) - Jacksons (#11)
-- ( -- ) Blondes (Have More Fun) - Rod Stewart -- ( -- ) Come Dancing - No Dice -- ( -- ) Deeper Than The Night - Olivia Newton John -- ( -- ) (Everybody) Get Dancin' - Bombers -- ( -- ) Ride The Groove - Players Association
The 80s begin this week. Or Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister anyway. And they said if James Callaghan had called a General Election in October or November last year he'd probably have won, but after a winter of discontent he lost with a landslide and it wouldn't be until 1997 that we'd get a Labour government again.
Now to the music: Roxy Music have never had a #1 before. Apparently "Dance Away" has been around for a while and Bryan Ferry was going to record it as a solo track, perhaps because of its more mellow nature, but in the end, this is really the start of the change of direction. Some would say one is better than the other, I'll just say they're different, however unlike Fleetwood Mac, whose change in style was directly caused by different personnel in the band, this is simply a musical style change.
Does Your Mother Know features Bjorn on lead vocals - for anyone who never had an Abba album that might come as a bit of a shock, but he sang lead vocals on "Why Does It Have To Be Me" too on the Arrival album so I'd heard it before.. It spent 3 weeks at #4 in the UK, but that meant that only "Summer Night City" peaked lower in the period from 1976 to 1980. This was a top 20 hit in the USA too, peaking at #19 there where they were not as successful, but unfortunately neither "Angeleyes" nor "Voulez Vous" were hits in the USA so I can't chart them separately, but I'll warn you in advance that one won't do particularly well.
David Bowie gets into the chart and Cheap Trick make their debut, but it's a terrible week for Rod Stewart - I don't think he's had any singles fail to chart before in my chart, and this one also flopped in the UK reaching #63 - and Olivia Newton-John after such a great run including the Grease songs with a big fall from grace, but both will return - Olivia next year with a couple of tracks from the Xanadu soundtrack.
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Post by Earl Purple on Oct 15, 2021 16:39:35 GMT 1
12 May 1979
1 ( 2 ) Dance Away - Roxy Music < 1st #1 > 2 ( 1 ) Pop Muzik - M (#1[3]) 3 ( 8 ) Does Your Mother Know - Abba 4 ( 3 ) Parisienne Walkways - Gary Moore & Phil Lynott (#3) 5 ( 4 ) The Number One Song In Heaven - Sparks (#4) 6 ( 7 ) Hot Stuff - Donna Summer 7 ( 15 ) Boys Keep Swinging - David Bowie 8 ( 10 ) Jimmy Jimmy - Undertones 9 ( 18 ) I Want You To Want Me - Cheap Trick 10 ( 11 ) Until The Night - Billy Joel
11 ( 5 ) Cool For Cats - Squeeze (#2) 12 ( -- ) Accidents Will Happen - Elvis Costello & The Attractions 13 ( 6 ) The Logical Song - Supertramp (#3) 14 ( -- ) Boogie Wonderland - Earth Wind & Fire With The Emotions 15 ( 9 ) Love You Inside Out - Bee Gees (#7) 16 ( 26 ) Revolt Into Style - Bill Nelson's Red Noise 17 ( -- ) Honesty - Billy Joel 18 ( 13 ) One Way Ticket - Eruption (#12) 19 ( 30 ) Love Song - Damned 20 ( 21 ) Get Used To It - Roger Voudouris
21 ( 23 ) Prime Time - Tubes 22 ( -- ) Say When - Lene Lovich 23 ( 14 ) Hallelujah - Gali Atari & Chalav U'Dvash (#10) 24 ( 12 ) Silly Thing - Sex Pistols (#5) 25 ( 17 ) Banana Splits - Dickies (#16) 26 ( 35 ) Old Time Rock N Roll - Bob Seger & Silver Bullet Band 27 ( 19 ) Nice Legs Shame About Her Face - Monks (#18) 28 ( -- ) We Are Family - Sister Sledge 29 ( 37 ) The Runaway - Elkie Brooks 30 ( 38 ) As Long As The Price Is Right - Dr Feelgood
31 ( 22 ) Guilty - Mike Oldfield (#22) 32 ( -- ) Are You Ready For Love - Elton John 33 ( 24 ) Highly Inflammible - X-Ray Spex (#24) 34 ( 25 ) Just When I Needed You Most - Randy Vanwarmer (#25) 35 ( -- ) Chuck E's In Love - Rickie Lee Jones 36 ( 16 ) Roxanne - Police (#6) 37 ( -- ) Life Begins At The Hop - XTC 38 ( 32 ) Don't Write Her Off - McGuinn Clark & Hillman (#32) 39 ( -- ) She Believes In Me - Kenny Rogers 40 ( 34 ) Such A Woman - Tycoon (#34)
41 ( 20 ) Offshore Banking Business - Members (#9) 42 ( -- ) Life In A Day - Simple Minds 43 ( 39 ) Hooray Hooray It's A Holi Holiday - Boney M (#39) 44 ( 36 ) Diamonds - Chris Rea (#36) 45 ( 27 ) Renegade - Styx (#13) 46 ( -- ) You Take My Breath Away - Rex Smith 47 ( 31 ) Happiness - Pointer Sisters (#24) 48 ( 44 ) Long Live Rock - Who (#44) 49 ( -- ) Evening Star - Judas Priest 50 ( 33 ) Valley Of The Dolls - Generation X (#20)
-- ( 28 ) Don't Stop Me Now - Queen (#1[3]) -- ( 29 ) Some Girls - Racey (#6) -- ( 40 ) Oliver's Army - Elvis Costello & The Attractions (#1[4]) -- ( 41 ) Sweet Lui Louise - Ironhorse (#39) -- ( 42 ) Mary Ann - Black Lace (#14) -- ( 43 ) I'm An Upstart - Angelic Upstarts (#41) -- ( 45 ) Rock 'N' Roll Fantasy - Bad Company (#35) -- ( 46 ) Love Takes Time - Orleans (#29) -- ( 47 ) Questions And Answers - Sham 69 (#9) -- ( 48 ) Roller - April Wine (#36) -- ( 49 ) Crazy Love - Allman Brothers Band (#30) -- ( 50 ) Goodnight Tonight - Wings (#18)
-- ( -- ) Stop Breaking My Heart - Inner Circle -- ( -- ) How Could This Go Wrong - Exile -- ( -- ) Makin' It - David Naughton
Roxy Music finally get their first ever number one. I said they had a 3 week head-start over Blondie and this is its 3rd week in the chart so Blondie due next week, and Blondie's last single entered at #1, so can Roxy Music hold on for a second week?
Elvis Costello drops out after 3 months in the chart but also gets the highest entry, whilst Billy Joel gets an entry with another single just climbing into the top 10.
Between those, Earth Wind & Fire collaborate with the Emotions on one of their most classic hits. The uptempo song by Lene Lovich looked like it was going to miss the top 30 in the UK when it fell one week but then bounced back up and eventually peaked at #19.
Elton John's new entry was pretty much overlooked in the UK and didn't even get into the top 40 but 24 years later and a remix and it went all the way to #1.
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Post by Good Old Days on Oct 16, 2021 6:51:27 GMT 1
I said they had a 3 week head-start over Blondie and this is its 3rd week in the chart so Blondie due next week, and Blondie's last single entered at #1, so can Roxy Music hold on for a second week? It's my favourite their single and SOTY of 1979.
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Post by Earl Purple on Oct 18, 2021 0:29:39 GMT 1
19 May 1979
1 ( -- ) Sunday Girl - Blondie < 3rd #1 > 2 ( 1 ) Dance Away - Roxy Music (#1[1]) 3 ( 3 ) Does Your Mother Know - Abba 4 ( 12 ) Accidents Will Happen - Elvis Costello & The Attractions 5 ( 2 ) Pop Muzik - M (#1[3]) 6 ( 7 ) Boys Keep Swinging - David Bowie 7 ( 14 ) Boogie Wonderland - Earth Wind & Fire With The Emotions 8 ( 9 ) I Want You To Want Me - Cheap Trick 9 ( 4 ) Parisienne Walkways - Gary Moore & Phil Lynott (#3) 10 ( 17 ) Honesty - Billy Joel
11 ( 6 ) Hot Stuff - Donna Summer (#6) 12 ( 5 ) The Number One Song In Heaven - Sparks (#4) 13 ( -- ) Are Friends Electric - Tubeway Army 14 ( -- ) Cavatina (Theme From The Deer Hunter) - John Williams 15 ( 8 ) Jimmy Jimmy - Undertones (#8) 16 ( -- ) Shine A Little Love - Electric Light Orchestra 17 ( 22 ) Say When - Lene Lovich 18 ( 10 ) Until The Night - Billy Joel (#10) 19 ( 16 ) Revolt Into Style - Bill Nelson's Red Noise (#16) 20 ( -- ) Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now - McFadden & Whitehead
21 ( 19 ) Love Song - Damned (#19) 22 ( 28 ) We Are Family - Sister Sledge 23 ( -- ) Who Were You With In The Moonlight - Dollar 24 ( 32 ) Are You Ready For Love - Elton John 25 ( 11 ) Cool For Cats - Squeeze (#2) 26 ( 35 ) Chuck E's In Love - Rickie Lee Jones 27 ( 20 ) Get Used To It - Roger Voudouris (#20) 28 ( 21 ) Prime Time - Tubes (#21) 29 ( 26 ) Old Time Rock N Roll - Bob Seger & Silver Bullet Band (#26) 30 ( 13 ) The Logical Song - Supertramp (#3)
31 ( 37 ) Life Begins At The Hop - XTC 32 ( 15 ) Love You Inside Out - Bee Gees (#7) 33 ( 29 ) The Runaway - Elkie Brooks (#29) 34 ( 39 ) She Believes In Me - Kenny Rogers 35 ( 18 ) One Way Ticket - Eruption (#12) 36 ( 30 ) As Long As The Price Is Right - Dr Feelgood (#30) 37 ( 42 ) Life In A Day - Simple Minds 38 ( -- ) Maybe - Thom Pace 39 ( -- ) Groovy Times - Clash 40 ( 46 ) You Take My Breath Away - Rex Smith
41 ( 23 ) Hallelujah - Gali Atari & Chalav U'Dvash (#10) 42 ( 25 ) Banana Splits - Dickies (#16) 43 ( 49 ) Evening Star - Judas Priest 44 ( 27 ) Nice Legs Shame About Her Face - Monks (#18) 45 ( 24 ) Silly Thing - Sex Pistols (#5) 46 ( -- ) Minute By Minute - Doobie Brothers 47 ( 31 ) Guilty - Mike Oldfield (#22) 48 ( -- ) Saturday Night Sunday Morning - Thelma Houston 49 ( 33 ) Highly Inflammible - X-Ray Spex (#24) 50 ( -- ) Paradise Skies - Max Webster
-- ( 34 ) Just When I Needed You Most - Randy Vanwarmer (#25) -- ( 36 ) Roxanne - Police (#6) -- ( 38 ) Don't Write Her Off - McGuinn Clark & Hillman (#32) -- ( 40 ) Such A Woman - Tycoon (#34) -- ( 41 ) Offshore Banking Business - Members (#9) -- ( 43 ) Hooray Hooray It's A Holi Holiday - Boney M (#39) -- ( 44 ) Diamonds - Chris Rea (#36) -- ( 45 ) Renegade - Styx (#13) -- ( 47 ) Happiness - Pointer Sisters (#24) -- ( 48 ) Long Live Rock - Who (#44) -- ( 50 ) Valley Of The Dolls - Generation X (#20)
-- ( -- ) It Must Be Love - Alton McClain & Destiny -- ( -- ) Mindless Boogie - Hot Chocolate
Blondie fly in at number one again, and there are a few big drops from last week's top 10, as Billy Joel's singles pretty much swap places. I was quite surprised to see that Tubeway Army had entered the UK top 75 the same week as Blondie and therefore before Anita Ward. I'll mention here when she turns up. Of the others I have chosen this version of Cavatina over the Shadows, and John Williams did actually perform the version that was used in the Deer Hunter, which was in 1978 but he recorded it back in 1971. This is the second John Williams to chart this year, we had the Superman theme peak at #6 earlier in the year. (Note, they are different).
ELO are back with yet another single that peaked at #6 in the UK chart, a favourite position of theirs around this time and the first single from "Discovery".
McFadden & Whitehead were better known as songwriters before they had a hit of their own, and like Gamble & Huff wrote tunes for the O'Jays and similar, but I'm not sure they wrote that many well-known ones. Whitehead was shot dead in 2004 in a mysterious incident and McFadden (no relation to the guy in Westlife obviously) died 2 years later of natural causes.
Dollar get their 2nd hit, and "Maybe" by Thom Pace was the theme to the TV series the Life And Times Of Grizzly Adams, which we used to watch.
Groovy Times was track 2 from the EP from which the most played song was "I Fought The Law", and obviously their recording of that song was quite famous. That song was a cover of the Crickets (although some still think the original was by Bobby Fuller Four, which was a hit cover in the 1960s).
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Post by Good Old Days on Oct 18, 2021 10:19:27 GMT 1
Possibly I didn't hear Tubes song before.
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Post by Earl Purple on Oct 18, 2021 10:28:34 GMT 1
Yes, quite a change from their Alice Cooper sounding "White Punks On Dope" to disco... I had to look up that it was the same act, and not a completely different act with the same name...
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Post by Earl Purple on Oct 19, 2021 15:12:22 GMT 1
26 May 1979
1 ( 1 ) Sunday Girl - Blondie < 2nd week at #1 > 2 ( 2 ) Dance Away - Roxy Music (#1[1]) 3 ( 4 ) Accidents Will Happen - Elvis Costello & The Attractions 4 ( 3 ) Does Your Mother Know - Abba (#3) 5 ( 13 ) Are Friends Electric - Tubeway Army 6 ( 7 ) Boogie Wonderland - Earth Wind & Fire With The Emotions 7 ( 14 ) Cavatina (Theme From The Deer Hunter) - John Williams 8 ( 16 ) Shine A Little Love - Electric Light Orchestra 9 ( 6 ) Boys Keep Swinging - David Bowie (#6) 10 ( 10 ) Honesty - Billy Joel
11 ( 20 ) Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now - McFadden & Whitehead 12 ( 8 ) I Want You To Want Me - Cheap Trick (#8) 13 ( 5 ) Pop Muzik - M (#1[3]) 14 ( 23 ) Who Were You With In The Moonlight - Dollar 15 ( 17 ) Say When - Lene Lovich 16 ( -- ) Night Owl - Gerry Rafferty 17 ( 9 ) Parisienne Walkways - Gary Moore & Phil Lynott (#3) 18 ( -- ) Masquerade - Skids 19 ( 11 ) Hot Stuff - Donna Summer (#6) 20 ( 22 ) We Are Family - Sister Sledge
21 ( 24 ) Are You Ready For Love - Elton John 22 ( -- ) Gertcha - Chas & Dave 23 ( 12 ) The Number One Song In Heaven - Sparks (#4) 24 ( 26 ) Chuck E's In Love - Rickie Lee Jones 25 ( -- ) H.A.P.P.Y Radio - Edwin Starr 26 ( 38 ) Maybe - Thom Pace 27 ( 15 ) Jimmy Jimmy - Undertones (#8) 28 ( 19 ) Revolt Into Style - Bill Nelson's Red Noise (#16) 29 ( 39 ) Groovy Times - Clash 30 ( 21 ) Love Song - Damned (#19)
31 ( 31 ) Life Begins At The Hop - XTC 32 ( 18 ) Until The Night - Billy Joel (#10) 33 ( -- ) Ring My Bell - Anita Ward 34 ( 34 ) She Believes In Me - Kenny Rogers 35 ( 46 ) Minute By Minute - Doobie Brothers 36 ( -- ) Alison - Linda Ronstadt 37 ( 29 ) Old Time Rock N Roll - Bob Seger & Silver Bullet Band (#26) 38 ( 37 ) Life In A Day - Simple Minds (#37) 39 ( 48 ) Saturday Night Sunday Morning - Thelma Houston 40 ( -- ) Dance The Night Away - Van Halen
41 ( 27 ) Get Used To It - Roger Voudouris (#20) 42 ( -- ) Is There Anybody There - Scorpions 43 ( 40 ) You Take My Breath Away - Rex Smith (#40) 44 ( 28 ) Prime Time - Tubes (#21) 45 ( 50 ) Paradise Skies - Max Webster 46 ( -- ) Halfway Hotel - Voyager 47 ( -- ) The Worker - Fischer-Z 48 ( 33 ) The Runaway - Elkie Brooks (#29) 49 ( 43 ) Evening Star - Judas Priest (#43) 50 ( 25 ) Cool For Cats - Squeeze (#2)
-- ( 30 ) The Logical Song - Supertramp (#3) -- ( 32 ) Love You Inside Out - Bee Gees (#7) -- ( 35 ) One Way Ticket - Eruption (#12) -- ( 36 ) As Long As The Price Is Right - Dr Feelgood (#30) -- ( 41 ) Hallelujah - Gali Atari & Chalav U'Dvash (#10) -- ( 42 ) Banana Splits - Dickies (#16) -- ( 44 ) Nice Legs Shame About Her Face - Monks (#18) -- ( 45 ) Silly Thing - Sex Pistols (#5) -- ( 47 ) Guilty - Mike Oldfield (#22) -- ( 49 ) Highly Inflammible - X-Ray Spex (#24)
-- ( -- ) Pick Me Up I'll Dance - Melba Moore -- ( -- ) You And Me - Liner -- ( -- ) Razzle Dazzle - Heatwave
So there you go, Gerry Rafferty gets the highest entry, but let's focus on Anita Ward as it was a UK #1 and also a US #1. It is often classified as "disco" but I don't really think it is, but the "anti-disco" campaign labelled lots of stuff under disco, and that song was sandwiched between the two Donna Summer number ones in the USA. In the UK it was number one for 2 weeks between Blondie and Tubeway Army, and for a new artist, it rose and fell pretty quickly.
I wasn't that keen on it at the time, probably because of the lyrical chorus which sounds as corny as that of "My Ding-A-Ling" without being obviously a comic song.
So lyrically, the standout song in the chart is "Gertcha" - a cockney shout, and all the situations where his dad would cite it.
And then as well as climbing to #3 this week, a cover of Elvis Costello's "Alison" by Linda Ronstadt enters lower down. Another Elvis Costello composition recorded by someone else will be along soon...
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