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Post by Good Old Days on Oct 20, 2021 21:47:08 GMT 1
Will you separate "Voulez-Vous" and "Angeleyes" in this chart ?
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Post by Earl Purple on Oct 21, 2021 14:47:09 GMT 1
Will you separate "Voulez-Vous" and "Angeleyes" in this chart ? I would if either of them had reached the US top 40, but neither did. "Does Your Mother Know" enters the US chart around this time and then Chiquitita right near the end of the year. "Does Your Mother Know" has been their biggest hit since "Take A Chance On Me" also reached #3 but Angeleyes / Voulez Vous will be a relative flop, I'm not that keen on either song. Gimme Gimme Gimme is better but will probably also peak somewhat lower, and then "I Have A Dream"... it will probably chart but a massive flop in their terms on my chart. At the time I loved Abba in 1976-77, then got a bit older and was more into mod/post-punk etc. or we called it New Wave at the time but that was changed to mean other things, and I liked artists like Elvis Costello, Squeeze, Nick Lowe / Dave Edmunds (Rockpile) in 1979. Elvis Costello has already had a #1, watch out of the others. My "rerun" chart does tend to follow close to what I liked at the time and charted high. I didn't really "get" X-Ray Spex or Siouxsie & The Banshees at the time, for example. Minimal success now but not setting the chart alight. I also mentioned there was a bit of a Spring lull for me. You could say "Pop Musik" and "Dance Away" will be the "weakest" two number ones of the year - certainly based on how I felt at the time. "Cool For Cats" was ok, wouldn't have been a #2 at a better time. The ones that is about to enter on the next chart however, well that's a different story...
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Post by Earl Purple on Oct 22, 2021 13:11:40 GMT 1
2 June 1979
1 ( 1 ) Sunday Girl - Blondie < 3rd week at #1 > 2 ( 3 ) Accidents Will Happen - Elvis Costello & The Attractions 3 ( 5 ) Are Friends Electric - Tubeway Army 4 ( 2 ) Dance Away - Roxy Music (#1[1]) 5 ( 7 ) Cavatina (Theme From The Deer Hunter) - John Williams 6 ( 8 ) Shine A Little Love - Electric Light Orchestra 7 ( 16 ) Night Owl - Gerry Rafferty 8 ( 4 ) Does Your Mother Know - Abba (#3) 9 ( -- ) Up The Junction - Squeeze 10 ( 6 ) Boogie Wonderland - Earth Wind & Fire With The Emotions (#6)
11 ( 18 ) Masquerade - Skids 12 ( 11 ) Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now - McFadden & Whitehead (#11) 13 ( 22 ) Gertcha - Chas & Dave 14 ( 14 ) Who Were You With In The Moonlight - Dollar 15 ( 10 ) Honesty - Billy Joel (#10) 16 ( -- ) The Lone Ranger - Quantum Jump 17 ( 25 ) H.A.P.P.Y Radio - Edwin Starr 18 ( 9 ) Boys Keep Swinging - David Bowie (#6) 19 ( 15 ) Say When - Lene Lovich (#15) 20 ( 12 ) I Want You To Want Me - Cheap Trick (#8)
21 ( 33 ) Ring My Bell - Anita Ward 22 ( 26 ) Maybe - Thom Pace 23 ( 20 ) We Are Family - Sister Sledge (#20) 24 ( 21 ) Are You Ready For Love - Elton John (#21) 25 ( -- ) Living On The Front Line - Eddy Grant 26 ( 36 ) Alison - Linda Ronstadt 27 ( -- ) When You're In Love With A Beautiful Woman - Dr Hook 28 ( 13 ) Pop Muzik - M (#1[3]) 29 ( 29 ) Groovy Times - Clash 30 ( 24 ) Chuck E's In Love - Rickie Lee Jones (#24)
31 ( -- ) I'd Be Surprisingly Good For You - Linda Lewis 32 ( 40 ) Dance The Night Away - Van Halen 33 ( -- ) Gold - John Stewart 34 ( 17 ) Parisienne Walkways - Gary Moore & Phil Lynott (#3) 35 ( 42 ) Is There Anybody There - Scorpions 36 ( 35 ) Minute By Minute - Doobie Brothers (#35) 37 ( 19 ) Hot Stuff - Donna Summer (#6) 38 ( 46 ) Halfway Hotel - Voyager 39 ( 31 ) Life Begins At The Hop - XTC (#31) 40 ( 39 ) Saturday Night Sunday Morning - Thelma Houston (#39)
41 ( 47 ) The Worker - Fischer-Z 42 ( 34 ) She Believes In Me - Kenny Rogers (#34) 43 ( 23 ) The Number One Song In Heaven - Sparks (#4) 44 ( 28 ) Revolt Into Style - Bill Nelson's Red Noise (#16) 45 ( 30 ) Love Song - Damned (#19) 46 ( 27 ) Jimmy Jimmy - Undertones (#8) 47 ( 38 ) Life In A Day - Simple Minds (#37) 48 ( 45 ) Paradise Skies - Max Webster (#45) 49 ( -- ) Easy Come Easy Go - Sutherland Brothers 50 ( -- ) Frederick - Patti Smith Group
-- ( 32 ) Until The Night - Billy Joel (#10) -- ( 37 ) Old Time Rock N Roll - Bob Seger & Silver Bullet Band (#26) -- ( 41 ) Get Used To It - Roger Voudouris (#20) -- ( 43 ) You Take My Breath Away - Rex Smith (#40) -- ( 44 ) Prime Time - Tubes (#21) -- ( 48 ) The Runaway - Elkie Brooks (#29) -- ( 49 ) Evening Star - Judas Priest (#43) -- ( 50 ) Cool For Cats - Squeeze (#2)
-- ( -- ) Let's Love Dance Tonight - Gary's Gang
I told you - Squeeze enter at #9 with "Labelled With Love" and this truly is a fantastic song. Quantum Jump's hit has a memorable spoken intro in a foreign language, if that actually means anything.
Two songwriters from the 1960s return, Eddy Grant was songwriter and guitarist for the Equals, and now returns as a soloist performing vocals and fortunately his catalogue is back on Spotify. John Stewart was once a member of the Kingston Trio but I'm not sure if that coincided with the time they were having hits, but he did also compose a #1 in 1967, namely the Monkees hit "Daydream Believer". On the song "Gold", Stevie Nicks performs backing vocals.
A UK number one much later in the year but already in the US top 40 for Dr Hook, and a "surprisingly good" song by Linda Lewis - would have won the "pleasant surprise" vote if I had one for the playlist. It is exactly 6 years after "Rock A Doodle Doo" was on the playlist but failed to chart, and her cover of the Shoop Shoop Song wasn't even playlisted.
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Post by Earl Purple on Oct 23, 2021 21:48:36 GMT 1
9 June 1979
1 ( 1 ) Sunday Girl - Blondie < 4th week at #1 > 2 ( 9 ) Up The Junction - Squeeze 3 ( 3 ) Are Friends Electric - Tubeway Army 4 ( 2 ) Accidents Will Happen - Elvis Costello & The Attractions (#2[1]) 5 ( 7 ) Night Owl - Gerry Rafferty 6 ( 5 ) Cavatina (Theme From The Deer Hunter) - John Williams (#5) 7 ( 6 ) Shine A Little Love - Electric Light Orchestra (#6) 8 ( 16 ) The Lone Ranger - Quantum Jump 9 ( 4 ) Dance Away - Roxy Music (#1[1]) 10 ( 11 ) Masquerade - Skids
11 ( 13 ) Gertcha - Chas & Dave 12 ( 25 ) Living On The Front Line - Eddy Grant 13 ( 17 ) H.A.P.P.Y Radio - Edwin Starr 14 ( -- ) Bad Girls - Donna Summer 15 ( 27 ) When You're In Love With A Beautiful Woman - Dr Hook 16 ( 8 ) Does Your Mother Know - Abba (#3) 17 ( -- ) Silly Games - Janet Kay 18 ( 12 ) Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now - McFadden & Whitehead (#11) 19 ( 21 ) Ring My Bell - Anita Ward 20 ( 14 ) Who Were You With In The Moonlight - Dollar (#14)
21 ( 10 ) Boogie Wonderland - Earth Wind & Fire With The Emotions (#6) 22 ( 31 ) I'd Be Surprisingly Good For You - Linda Lewis 23 ( 33 ) Gold - John Stewart 24 ( 22 ) Maybe - Thom Pace (#22) 25 ( 26 ) Alison - Linda Ronstadt 26 ( 15 ) Honesty - Billy Joel (#10) 27 ( -- ) You Can't Change That - Raydio 28 ( 19 ) Say When - Lene Lovich (#15) 29 ( 32 ) Dance The Night Away - Van Halen 30 ( 23 ) We Are Family - Sister Sledge (#20)
31 ( -- ) One Rule For You - After The Fire 32 ( 18 ) Boys Keep Swinging - David Bowie (#6) 33 ( 24 ) Are You Ready For Love - Elton John (#21) 34 ( 20 ) I Want You To Want Me - Cheap Trick (#8) 35 ( -- ) Women In Uniform - Skyhooks 36 ( 29 ) Groovy Times - Clash (#29) 37 ( 35 ) Is There Anybody There - Scorpions (#35) 38 ( -- ) Blind Among The Flowers - Tourists 39 ( -- ) Crackin' Up - Nick Lowe 40 ( 38 ) Halfway Hotel - Voyager (#38)
41 ( -- ) Head Over Heels In Love - Kevin Keegan 42 ( 49 ) Easy Come Easy Go - Sutherland Brothers 43 ( 50 ) Frederick - Patti Smith Group 44 ( 41 ) The Worker - Fischer-Z (#41) 45 ( 30 ) Chuck E's In Love - Rickie Lee Jones (#24) 46 ( -- ) Shakedown Cruise - Jay Ferguson 47 ( 36 ) Minute By Minute - Doobie Brothers (#35) 48 ( -- ) Good Timin' Beach Boys 49 ( 40 ) Saturday Night Sunday Morning - Thelma Houston (#39) 50 ( 28 ) Pop Muzik - M (#1[3])
-- ( 34 ) Parisienne Walkways - Gary Moore & Phil Lynott (#3) -- ( 37 ) Hot Stuff - Donna Summer (#6) -- ( 39 ) Life Begins At The Hop - XTC (#31) -- ( 42 ) She Believes In Me - Kenny Rogers (#34) -- ( 43 ) The Number One Song In Heaven - Sparks (#4) -- ( 44 ) Revolt Into Style - Bill Nelson's Red Noise (#16) -- ( 45 ) Love Song - Damned (#19) -- ( 46 ) Jimmy Jimmy - Undertones (#8) -- ( 47 ) Life In A Day - Simple Minds (#37) -- ( 48 ) Paradise Skies - Max Webster (#45)
-- ( -- ) I Can't Stand It No More - Peter Frampton -- ( -- ) Out In The Dark - Lurkers -- ( -- ) Love Disco Style - Erotic Drum Band
Donna Summer gets the highest entry, but the real explosion is going to happen over the next few weeks. In the UK this song missed the top 10 but in the USA it was number one for 5 weeks.
Entering behind her is Janet Kay with a reggae song, although she is actually from London (not Jamaica).
Far lower down we have the Tourists making a debut, and a relatively low entry for Nick Lowe, but let's see how his next single does..
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Post by Earl Purple on Oct 23, 2021 21:51:11 GMT 1
In showing how good this year is compared to other years, a song like "Ain't No Stopping Us Now" would probably have gone top 5 in 1976, and possibly in some of the other earlier years, whereas I see it peaked at #11.
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Post by Earl Purple on Oct 24, 2021 14:31:53 GMT 1
16 June 1979
1 ( 2 ) Up The Junction - Squeeze < 1st #1 > 2 ( 1 ) Sunday Girl - Blondie (#1[4]) 3 ( 3 ) Are Friends Electric - Tubeway Army 4 ( 5 ) Night Owl - Gerry Rafferty 5 ( 4 ) Accidents Will Happen - Elvis Costello & The Attractions (#2[1]) 6 ( 8 ) The Lone Ranger - Quantum Jump 7 ( 14 ) Bad Girls - Donna Summer 8 ( 17 ) Silly Games - Janet Kay 9 ( 12 ) Living On The Front Line - Eddy Grant 10 ( -- ) Babylon's Burning - Ruts
11 ( 6 ) Cavatina (Theme From The Deer Hunter) - John Williams (#5) 12 ( -- ) Go West - Village People 13 ( 7 ) Shine A Little Love - Electric Light Orchestra (#6) 14 ( 15 ) When You're In Love With A Beautiful Woman - Dr Hook 15 ( -- ) Born To Be Alive - Patrick Hernandez 16 ( 10 ) Masquerade - Skids (#10) 17 ( 11 ) Gertcha - Chas & Dave (#11) 18 ( 13 ) H.A.P.P.Y Radio - Edwin Starr (#13) 19 ( 27 ) You Can't Change That - Raydio 20 ( 9 ) Dance Away - Roxy Music (#1[1])
21 ( -- ) I Was Made For Lovin' You - Kiss 22 ( 31 ) One Rule For You - After The Fire 23 ( 22 ) I'd Be Surprisingly Good For You - Linda Lewis (#22) 24 ( -- ) Lady Lynda - Beach Boys 25 ( 23 ) Gold - John Stewart (#23) 26 ( 19 ) Ring My Bell - Anita Ward (#19) 27 ( -- ) Wanted - Dooleys 28 ( 35 ) Women In Uniform - Skyhooks 29 ( 38 ) Blind Among The Flowers - Tourists 30 ( 39 ) Crackin' Up - Nick Lowe
31 ( 18 ) Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now - McFadden & Whitehead (#11) 32 ( 16 ) Does Your Mother Know - Abba (#3) 33 ( 25 ) Alison - Linda Ronstadt (#25) 34 ( 41 ) Head Over Heels In Love - Kevin Keegan 35 ( -- ) Do Anything You Want To - Thin Lizzy 36 ( 20 ) Who Were You With In The Moonlight - Dollar (#14) 37 ( 24 ) Maybe - Thom Pace (#22) 38 ( 29 ) Dance The Night Away - Van Halen (#29) 39 ( 46 ) Shakedown Cruise - Jay Ferguson 40 ( 21 ) Boogie Wonderland - Earth Wind & Fire With The Emotions (#6)
41 ( -- ) Old Siam Sir - Wings 42 ( 48 ) Good Timin' Beach Boys 43 ( -- ) You're The Greatest Lover - Jonathan King 44 ( 42 ) Easy Come Easy Go - Sutherland Brothers (#42) 45 ( 43 ) Frederick - Patti Smith Group (#43) 46 ( 30 ) We Are Family - Sister Sledge (#20) 47 ( 28 ) Say When - Lene Lovich (#15) 48 ( 26 ) Honesty - Billy Joel (#10) 49 ( -- ) Don't Ever Want To Lose You - New England 50 ( 37 ) Is There Anybody There - Scorpions (#35)
-- ( 32 ) Boys Keep Swinging - David Bowie (#6) -- ( 33 ) Are You Ready For Love - Elton John (#21) -- ( 34 ) I Want You To Want Me - Cheap Trick (#8) -- ( 36 ) Groovy Times - Clash (#29) -- ( 40 ) Halfway Hotel - Voyager (#38) -- ( 44 ) The Worker - Fischer-Z (#41) -- ( 45 ) Chuck E's In Love - Rickie Lee Jones (#24) -- ( 47 ) Minute By Minute - Doobie Brothers (#35) -- ( 49 ) Saturday Night Sunday Morning - Thelma Houston (#39) -- ( 50 ) Pop Muzik - M (#1[3])
-- ( -- ) Days Gone Down - Gerry Rafferty -- ( -- ) Talk To Me - Third World -- ( -- ) At Home He's A Tourist - Gang Of Four -- ( -- ) Space Bass - Slick -- ( -- ) Do It Or Die - Atlanta Rhythm Section -- ( -- ) Dance With You - Carrie Lucas -- ( -- ) Heart Of The Night - Poco -- ( -- ) Baby Lay Down - Ruby Winters
Squeeze get to number one. The Ruts get the highest entry with their most classic song. Village People are back with another song which didn't seem to catch on as well as the time until the Pet Shop Boys covered it, and also when it got used as a terrace chant. We'll get to Arsenal and co after 2 more weeks of charts...
Born To Be Alive features Madonna as a backing vocalist (if that is true). Kiss make their UK debut with this song and also it's their last ever US hit. And the Beach Boys also get an entry with a song that was a UK top 10 hit, and all those above the Dooleys' biggest UK hit. "Love Of My Life" reached NM #10 and that is likely to end up as their highest ever position.
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Post by Good Old Days on Oct 25, 2021 8:55:22 GMT 1
Scooter's cover version of "I Was Made For Lovin' You" was the most successful song in glory days of MTV Russia (1998-2003). It spent somewhere near 40 weeks in top 20, almost all from them were in top 10. I have Dooleys LP of their Moscow concert from 1975 year. This was a couple of years before they had a chart hit in their homeland, and some three years before Elton John's concerts in Russia.
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Post by Earl Purple on Oct 25, 2021 21:12:20 GMT 1
I thought maybe you'd come to comment on the absence of "They Don't Know" by Kirsty MacColl which would have charted around this time.
I have the next playlist scored up so can post a chart in what was a quiet week for new songs before the explosion the follows.
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Post by Earl Purple on Oct 25, 2021 21:24:24 GMT 1
23 June 1979
1 ( 1 ) Up The Junction - Squeeze < 2nd week at #1 > 2 ( 10 ) Babylon's Burning - Ruts 3 ( 2 ) Sunday Girl - Blondie (#1[4]) 4 ( 3 ) Are Friends Electric - Tubeway Army 5 ( 4 ) Night Owl - Gerry Rafferty 6 ( 12 ) Go West - Village People 7 ( 7 ) Bad Girls - Donna Summer 8 ( 8 ) Silly Games - Janet Kay 9 ( 15 ) Born To Be Alive - Patrick Hernandez 10 ( 6 ) The Lone Ranger - Quantum Jump
11 ( 5 ) Accidents Will Happen - Elvis Costello & The Attractions (#2[1]) 12 ( 9 ) Living On The Front Line - Eddy Grant 13 ( 21 ) I Was Made For Lovin' You - Kiss 14 ( 24 ) Lady Lynda - Beach Boys 15 ( 27 ) Wanted - Dooleys 16 ( 14 ) When You're In Love With A Beautiful Woman - Dr Hook 17 ( 19 ) You Can't Change That - Raydio 18 ( -- ) Driver's Seat - Sniff N The Tears 19 ( 22 ) One Rule For You - After The Fire 20 ( 11 ) Cavatina (Theme From The Deer Hunter) - John Williams (#5)
21 ( 35 ) Do Anything You Want To - Thin Lizzy 22 ( 13 ) Shine A Little Love - Electric Light Orchestra (#6) 23 ( -- ) Mama Can't Buy You Love - Elton John 24 ( 16 ) Masquerade - Skids (#10) 25 ( 29 ) Blind Among The Flowers - Tourists 26 ( 28 ) Women In Uniform - Skyhooks 27 ( -- ) If I Had You - Korgis 28 ( 18 ) H.A.P.P.Y Radio - Edwin Starr (#13) 29 ( 17 ) Gertcha - Chas & Dave (#11) 30 ( 30 ) Crackin' Up - Nick Lowe
31 ( 23 ) I'd Be Surprisingly Good For You - Linda Lewis (#22) 32 ( -- ) Stranglehold - UK Subs 33 ( 41 ) Old Siam Sir - Wings 34 ( 25 ) Gold - John Stewart (#23) 35 ( 43 ) You're The Greatest Lover - Jonathan King 36 ( 34 ) Head Over Heels In Love - Kevin Keegan 37 ( 20 ) Dance Away - Roxy Music (#1[1]) 38 ( 26 ) Ring My Bell - Anita Ward (#19) 39 ( 39 ) Shakedown Cruise - Jay Ferguson 40 ( -- ) Shadows In The Moonlight - Anne Murray
41 ( 49 ) Don't Ever Want To Lose You - New England 42 ( -- ) Sunburn - Graham Gouldman 43 ( 42 ) Good Timin' Beach Boys 44 ( -- ) People Of The Southwind - Kansas 45 ( 33 ) Alison - Linda Ronstadt (#25) 46 ( -- ) Sound System - Steel Pulse 47 ( 31 ) Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now - McFadden & Whitehead (#11) 48 ( 44 ) Easy Come Easy Go - Sutherland Brothers (#42) 49 ( 38 ) Dance The Night Away - Van Halen (#29) 50 ( 45 ) Frederick - Patti Smith Group (#43)
-- ( 32 ) Does Your Mother Know - Abba (#3) -- ( 36 ) Who Were You With In The Moonlight - Dollar (#14) -- ( 37 ) Maybe - Thom Pace (#22) -- ( 40 ) Boogie Wonderland - Earth Wind & Fire With The Emotions (#6) -- ( 46 ) We Are Family - Sister Sledge (#20) -- ( 47 ) Say When - Lene Lovich (#15) -- ( 48 ) Honesty - Billy Joel (#10) -- ( 50 ) Is There Anybody There - Scorpions (#35)
-- ( -- ) The Golden Lady - Three Degrees
It's about to explode as I mentioned but hasn't quite yet, and Kirsty MacColl would probably be top 5 at least in this chart if it was eligible.
I recall "Driver's Seat" just missed the top 40 but did a bit better in the USA. That Elton John song was top 10 in the USA but was probably not released in the UK (and it sounds nothing like the Beatles song of a similar title). The Korgis hit did go top 20 but they had a far bigger hit next year.
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Post by Good Old Days on Oct 25, 2021 22:16:14 GMT 1
I thought maybe you'd come to comment on the absence of " They Don't Know" by Kirsty MacColl which would have charted around this time. I didn't know that "There's A Guy Works Down The Chip Shop, Swears He's Elvis" wasn't her debut single.
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Post by Earl Purple on Oct 26, 2021 14:06:27 GMT 1
30 June 1979
1 ( 1 ) Up The Junction - Squeeze < 3rd week at #1 > 2 ( 2 ) Babylon's Burning - Ruts 3 ( 6 ) Go West - Village People 4 ( 3 ) Sunday Girl - Blondie (#1[4]) 5 ( -- ) Girls Talk - Dave Edmunds 6 ( 4 ) Are Friends Electric - Tubeway Army (#3) 7 ( 9 ) Born To Be Alive - Patrick Hernandez 8 ( 18 ) Driver's Seat - Sniff N The Tears 9 ( 5 ) Night Owl - Gerry Rafferty (#4) 10 ( -- ) My Sharona - Knack
11 ( 7 ) Bad Girls - Donna Summer (#7) 12 ( 8 ) Silly Games - Janet Kay (#8) 13 ( 13 ) I Was Made For Lovin' You - Kiss 14 ( 14 ) Lady Lynda - Beach Boys 15 ( 15 ) Wanted - Dooleys 16 ( 23 ) Mama Can't Buy You Love - Elton John 17 ( -- ) One Way Or Another - Blondie 18 ( -- ) Breakfast In America - Supertramp 19 ( 27 ) If I Had You - Korgis 20 ( 21 ) Do Anything You Want To - Thin Lizzy
21 ( 10 ) The Lone Ranger - Quantum Jump (#6) 22 ( 12 ) Living On The Front Line - Eddy Grant (#9) 23 ( 17 ) You Can't Change That - Raydio (#17) 24 ( 32 ) Stranglehold - UK Subs 25 ( 19 ) One Rule For You - After The Fire (#19) 26 ( 11 ) Accidents Will Happen - Elvis Costello & The Attractions (#2[1]) 27 ( -- ) Good Times - Chic 28 ( 16 ) When You're In Love With A Beautiful Woman - Dr Hook (#14) 29 ( 25 ) Blind Among The Flowers - Tourists (#25) 30 ( 40 ) Shadows In The Moonlight - Anne Murray
31 ( 26 ) Women In Uniform - Skyhooks (#26) 32 ( -- ) Sad Eyes - Robert John 33 ( 42 ) Sunburn - Graham Gouldman 34 ( 33 ) Old Siam Sir - Wings (#33) 35 ( -- ) Getting Closer - Wings 36 ( 44 ) People Of The Southwind - Kansas 37 ( 35 ) You're The Greatest Lover - Jonathan King (#35) 38 ( 20 ) Cavatina (Theme From The Deer Hunter) - John Williams (#5) 39 ( -- ) Friday's Angels - Generation X 40 ( 30 ) Crackin' Up - Nick Lowe (#30)
41 ( 46 ) Sound System - Steel Pulse 42 ( -- ) Nothing To Lose - UK 43 ( 22 ) Shine A Little Love - Electric Light Orchestra (#6) 44 ( 24 ) Masquerade - Skids (#10) 45 ( 41 ) Don't Ever Want To Lose You - New England (#41) 46 ( 28 ) H.A.P.P.Y Radio - Edwin Starr (#13) 47 ( 36 ) Head Over Heels In Love - Kevin Keegan (#34) 48 ( 39 ) Shakedown Cruise - Jay Ferguson (#39) 49 ( 31 ) I'd Be Surprisingly Good For You - Linda Lewis (#22) 50 ( -- ) No Class - Motorhead
-- ( 29 ) Gertcha - Chas & Dave (#11) -- ( 34 ) Gold - John Stewart (#23) -- ( 37 ) Dance Away - Roxy Music (#1[1]) -- ( 38 ) Ring My Bell - Anita Ward (#19) -- ( 43 ) Good Timin' Beach Boys (#42) -- ( 45 ) Alison - Linda Ronstadt (#25) -- ( 47 ) Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now - McFadden & Whitehead (#11) -- ( 48 ) Easy Come Easy Go - Sutherland Brothers (#42) -- ( 49 ) Dance The Night Away - Van Halen (#29) -- ( 50 ) Frederick - Patti Smith Group (#43)
-- ( -- ) C'Mon Everybody - Sex Pistols -- ( -- ) Married Men - Bonnie Tyler
Dave Edmunds was part of Love Sculpture who reached NM #3 in 1968 with their version of Sabre Dance. He peaked at #6 with his cover of "I Hear You Knocking" but then quite a few other covers were rejected. Having teamed up with Nick Lowe in "Rockpile" they have deals with different record companies so never actually call themselves Rockpile on the label, and Nick Lowe has been producing Elvis Costello who very nicely gave them this song to record themselves and here it is - Girls Talk. Also working with them is an American musician called Huey Lewis (or Hughie Lewis) who wrote the B-side "Bad Is Bad" and also plays harmonica on it.
Meanwhile British producers Chinn/Chapman who were songwriters but are also sometimes just producers have been working with American rock group The Knack and "My Sharona" storms in at #10. In addition Chapman produces Blondie and as we have seen sometimes they are releasing different singles in the UK and USA and thus "One Way Or Another" is the US follow-up to Heart Of Glass instead of Sunday Girl and enters whilst that one is still in the chart. Wings also enter lower whilst still in the chart and Gerry Rafferty had one that failed last week whilst also being in the top 5. Billy Joel of course also recently had two #10 hits that were charting together.
"Breakfast In America" the title track and second hit from Supertramp's latest album and then Chic enters at #27, a disco song that will be sampled a bit later in the year. Robert John's single gets him into the chart but in 1968 he was on the playlist but failed to chart with "If You Don't Want My Love". As it was "Sad Eyes" reached #31 in the UK but in the USA it went all the way to #1 after a very slow climb.
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Post by Earl Purple on Oct 28, 2021 23:05:20 GMT 1
We have reached the mid-point in the year. And you know what that means... the sporting winners post.
Football
Liverpool regained the league title, but after last year's achievements, Nottingham Forest finished 2nd and won the European Cup beating Malmo 1-0 in the final. For a supposedly "small" club, they did make the first million pound signing - of Trevor Francis from Birmingham City. They also won the League Cup beating Southampton 3-2 in the final. Southampton led at half time before Forest scored 3 goals in the second half, and Southampton pulled one back late.
The FA Cup final also finished 3-2, in favour of Arsenal against Manchester United. In that game Arsenal led 2-0 going into the last few minutes but there was a lot of late drama with Manchester United scoring two goals within a couple of minutes to equalise only for Alan Sunderland to then bag a third for the Gunners.
In Scotland, Celtic won the Premier League title whilst Rangers won both cups, with another 3-2 (albeit in a 2nd replay) in the Scottish cup final against Hibernian and 2-1 in the League Cup final against Aberdeen.
The European Cup-Winners Cup was won by Barcelona 4-3 in extra time (2-2 after normal time) against Fortuna Dusseldorf. The UEFA Cup was won by Borussia Mönchengladbach drawing 1-1 away at Red Star Belgrade then beating them 1-0 at home to win 2-1 on aggregate.
Cricket
This year had a "World Cup" held in England and won by the West Indies who beat England in the final. Matches were played with a single innings maximum of 60 overs. In the final England were all out for 194 with the West Indies, who batted first, having achieved 286/9 in 60 overs.
Tennis
Bjorn Borg retained the men's singles champion at Wimbledon beating Roscoe Tanner in the final in 5 sets, 6-7. 6-1, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 John McEnroe won the US open men's title in straight sets against Vitas Gerulaitis 7-5. 6-3, 6-3
Martina Navratilova retained the Wimbledon women's championship beating Chris Evert-Lloyd 6-4, 6-4 Tracy Austin prevailed in the US Open women's championship, also against Chris Evert-Lloyd 6-4, 6-3
In the US sports it was a good year for Pittsburgh.
Baseball
The Pittburgh Pirates beat the Baltimore Orioles by 4 games to 3 in the World Series.
American Football
The SuperBowl was won by Pittsburgh Steelers 35-31 against the Dallas Cowboys.
Snooker
Terry Griffiths was World Champion beating Dennis Taylor 24-16. Subsequent World Championships would only be the first to 18 games. Terry Griffiths was a qualifier and beat the previous year's finalist Perrie Mans in the first round.
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Post by Earl Purple on Oct 29, 2021 15:53:19 GMT 1
7 July 1979
1 ( 5 ) Girls Talk - Dave Edmunds < 1st #1 > 2 ( 1 ) Up The Junction - Squeeze (#1[3]) 3 ( 2 ) Babylon's Burning - Ruts (#2[2]) 4 ( 10 ) My Sharona - Knack 5 ( 3 ) Go West - Village People (#3) 6 ( 8 ) Driver's Seat - Sniff N The Tears 7 ( 4 ) Sunday Girl - Blondie (#1[4]) 8 ( 17 ) One Way Or Another - Blondie 9 ( 7 ) Born To Be Alive - Patrick Hernandez (#7) 10 ( 18 ) Breakfast In America - Supertramp
11 ( -- ) Is She Really Going Out With Him - Joe Jackson 12 ( 6 ) Are Friends Electric - Tubeway Army (#3) 13 ( 16 ) Mama Can't Buy You Love - Elton John 14 ( 27 ) Good Times - Chic 15 ( -- ) Bad Case Of Loving You (Doctor Doctor) - Robert Palmer 16 ( 13 ) I Was Made For Lovin' You - Kiss (#13) 17 ( 9 ) Night Owl - Gerry Rafferty (#4) 18 ( 19 ) If I Had You - Korgis 19 ( 14 ) Lady Lynda - Beach Boys (#14) 20 ( 15 ) Wanted - Dooleys (#15)
21 ( 11 ) Bad Girls - Donna Summer (#7) 22 ( 12 ) Silly Games - Janet Kay (#8) 23 ( -- ) Don't Kill It Carol - Manfred Mann's Earth Band 24 ( 32 ) Sad Eyes - Robert John 25 ( 24 ) Stranglehold - UK Subs (#24) 26 ( 35 ) Getting Closer - Wings 27 ( 20 ) Do Anything You Want To - Thin Lizzy (#20) 28 ( -- ) The Main Event (Fight) - Barbra Streisand 29 ( 30 ) Shadows In The Moonlight - Anne Murray 30 ( 39 ) Friday's Angels - Generation X
31 ( 33 ) Sunburn - Graham Gouldman 32 ( 42 ) Nothing To Lose - UK 33 ( 23 ) You Can't Change That - Raydio (#17) 34 ( 36 ) People Of The Southwind - Kansas 35 ( 25 ) One Rule For You - After The Fire (#19) 36 ( 22 ) Living On The Front Line - Eddy Grant (#9) 37 ( 21 ) The Lone Ranger - Quantum Jump (#6) 38 ( -- ) Lead Me On - Maxine Nightingale 39 ( 29 ) Blind Among The Flowers - Tourists (#25) 40 ( 34 ) Old Siam Sir - Wings (#33)
41 ( 50 ) No Class - Motorhead 42 ( -- ) I'm A Sucker For Your Love - Teena Marie & Rick James 43 ( 41 ) Sound System - Steel Pulse (#41) 44 ( 31 ) Women In Uniform - Skyhooks (#26) 45 ( -- ) Playground Twist - Siouxsie & The Banshees 46 ( 37 ) You're The Greatest Lover - Jonathan King (#35) 47 ( 28 ) When You're In Love With A Beautiful Woman - Dr Hook (#14) 48 ( 26 ) Accidents Will Happen - Elvis Costello & The Attractions (#2[1]) 49 ( 40 ) Crackin' Up - Nick Lowe (#30) 50 ( 45 ) Don't Ever Want To Lose You - New England (#41)
-- ( 38 ) Cavatina (Theme From The Deer Hunter) - John Williams (#5) -- ( 43 ) Shine A Little Love - Electric Light Orchestra (#6) -- ( 44 ) Masquerade - Skids (#10) -- ( 46 ) H.A.P.P.Y Radio - Edwin Starr (#13) -- ( 47 ) Head Over Heels In Love - Kevin Keegan (#34) -- ( 48 ) Shakedown Cruise - Jay Ferguson (#39) -- ( 49 ) I'd Be Surprisingly Good For You - Linda Lewis (#22)
-- ( -- ) Doctor Jackyll And Mister Funk - Jackie McLean -- ( -- ) Death Disco - Public Image Limited -- ( -- ) Since I Don't Have You - Art Garfunkel -- ( -- ) Stars - Sylvester
So with regarding this week's entries, Joe Jackson actually entered the US top 40 first with this song - I didn't realise that. The singles by Robert Palmer, Manfred Mann's Earth Band and Barbra Streisand all failed to reach the top 40 in the UK, although the former of those is very well known but #61 was as high as it got.
Manfred Mann's Earth Band is a cover but I remember it being on Top of the Pops at the time and I liked it, so not just a response to any song with the name Carol in the title (which of course had no significance to me in 1979). Barbra Streisand's song was disco, featured in a film in which she starred about boxing and reached #3 in the USA. Of course she will be involved in another disco song before the year is out, a better known one in the UK. And next year she will team-up with Barry Gibb for an album but it won't be disco.
In fact apart from Joe Jackson, only Siouxsie & The Banshees got into the UK top 40 from among my entries. Teena Marie would next year but not this time. A couple of those that failed to reach my chart though did get in.
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Post by Earl Purple on Nov 1, 2021 17:35:48 GMT 1
14 July 1979
1 ( 1 ) Girls Talk - Dave Edmunds < 2nd week at #1 > 2 ( 4 ) My Sharona - Knack 3 ( 11 ) Is She Really Going Out With Him - Joe Jackson 4 ( 2 ) Up The Junction - Squeeze (#1[3]) 5 ( 3 ) Babylon's Burning - Ruts (#2[2]) 6 ( 8 ) One Way Or Another - Blondie 7 ( 15 ) Bad Case Of Loving You (Doctor Doctor) - Robert Palmer 8 ( 6 ) Driver's Seat - Sniff N The Tears (#6) 9 ( 10 ) Breakfast In America - Supertramp 10 ( 5 ) Go West - Village People (#3)
11 ( 14 ) Good Times - Chic 12 ( 23 ) Don't Kill It Carol - Manfred Mann's Earth Band 13 ( -- ) Stay With Me Till Dawn - Judie Tzuke 14 ( 7 ) Sunday Girl - Blondie (#1[4]) 15 ( 13 ) Mama Can't Buy You Love - Elton John (#13) 16 ( 9 ) Born To Be Alive - Patrick Hernandez (#7) 17 ( 28 ) The Main Event (Fight) - Barbra Streisand 18 ( 18 ) If I Had You - Korgis 19 ( -- ) Voulez Vous / Angeleyes - Abba 20 ( 24 ) Sad Eyes - Robert John
21 ( 12 ) Are Friends Electric - Tubeway Army (#3) 22 ( 16 ) I Was Made For Lovin' You - Kiss (#13) 23 ( -- ) Love Of My Life - Queen 24 ( 26 ) Getting Closer - Wings 25 ( 38 ) Lead Me On Maxine Nightingale 26 ( 30 ) Friday's Angels - Generation X 27 ( -- ) If I Said You Had A Beautiful Body Would You Hold It Against Me - Bellamy Brothers 28 ( 19 ) Lady Lynda - Beach Boys (#14) 29 ( 32 ) Nothing To Lose - UK 30 ( 20 ) Wanted - Dooleys (#15)
31 ( 17 ) Night Owl - Gerry Rafferty (#4) 32 ( 25 ) Stranglehold - UK Subs (#24) 33 ( 42 ) I'm A Sucker For Your Love - Teena Marie & Rick James 34 ( 29 ) Shadows In The Moonlight - Anne Murray (#29) 35 ( -- ) Kid - Pretenders 36 ( 31 ) Sunburn - Graham Gouldman (#31) 37 ( 45 ) Playground Twist - Siouxsie & The Banshees 38 ( 21 ) Bad Girls - Donna Summer (#7) 39 ( 22 ) Silly Games - Janet Kay (#8) 40 ( 34 ) People Of The Southwind - Kansas (#34)
41 ( 41 ) No Class - Motorhead 42 ( 27 ) Do Anything You Want To - Thin Lizzy (#20) 43 ( -- ) David's Song - Vladimir Cosma 44 ( 33 ) You Can't Change That - Raydio (#17) 45 ( 35 ) One Rule For You - After The Fire (#19) 46 ( 43 ) Sound System - Steel Pulse (#41) 47 ( 40 ) Old Siam Sir - Wings (#33) 48 ( -- ) Suspicions - Eddie Rabbitt 49 ( 39 ) Blind Among The Flowers - Tourists (#25) 50 ( 36 ) Living On The Front Line - Eddy Grant (#9)
-- ( 37 ) The Lone Ranger - Quantum Jump (#6) -- ( 44 ) Women In Uniform - Skyhooks (#26) -- ( 46 ) You're The Greatest Lover - Jonathan King (#35) -- ( 47 ) When You're In Love With A Beautiful Woman - Dr Hook (#14) -- ( 48 ) Accidents Will Happen - Elvis Costello & The Attractions (#2[1]) -- ( 49 ) Crackin' Up - Nick Lowe (#30) -- ( 50 ) Don't Ever Want To Lose You - New England (#41)
-- ( -- ) Bring The Family Back - Billy Paul -- ( -- ) Midnight Groovin' - Light Of The World
It's the summer of 1979 and "that song" is about to enter... The number of massively great songs is lining up. For this week the Judie Tzuke classic wins over Abba's double A-side.
I wasn't sure really what to do with Queen as it feels really out of place here, being a track from "A Night At The Opera", their 1975 album so I have no idea why it was in the UK singles chart at this time. A bit like questioning why Rod Stewart's "I Don't Want To Talk About It" charted when it did, or "Three Little Birds" by Bob Marley next year, and we also had Samba Pa Ti by Santana chart as a single several years after the album. Given that "Love Of My Life" only reached #63 in the UK chart it probably wasn't promoted as a single officially.
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Post by Earl Purple on Nov 1, 2021 18:42:00 GMT 1
I briefly mentioned it a few weeks ago, but that week has come - the week ending 14 July 1979 signalled "Disco Demolition Night", in particular on 12th-13th July. This is the wikipedia page about it: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disco_Demolition_Night"Disco" had been rather dominant in the US chart. Rock acts were embracing disco-style into their music - actually I like that. And songs that cross the bridge between the disco and rock genre, of which the 1976 hit "Play That Funky Music" by Wild Cherry has to be mentioned as the most classic case. There was a lot of disco songs in the UK chart but it didn't quite feel saturated with it. The top of the US chart in particular appeared to be very heavily based on "disco" but the Knack were fast climbing the chart and would soon be the top single of the year, with the Eagles and Styx both getting number ones before the year was over too. In 1980, Queen, Pink Floyd and Billy Joel would all get to number one but disco didn't really disappear, and Lipps Inc had a big number one in 1980, while Chic were writing and producing for Diana Ross who had a number one with "Upside Down". (Both those singles reached #2 in the UK). However, many disco artists did complain about the "backlash". I will say though that there whilst I enjoy the classic disco songs with catchy tunes, there are far too many that just go on and on, and others where 4 minutes is quite long enough but there are far too many 8 minute versions that really don't do enough to justify being that long.
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Post by Earl Purple on Nov 1, 2021 18:51:33 GMT 1
Looking at my chart above, there is nothing I would call disco until you reach #10 where Village People's "camp high energy" anthem appears, then Chic with more "classic" disco at #11. Patrick Hernandez is Eurodance but could be called disco, Barbra Streisand's song at #17 is also a disco song. "Voulez Vous" might be considered disco (I'd say Gimme Gimme Gimme is Abba's most "disco" song), Angeleyes is just pure pop though.
Kiss are generally rock but there's hints of disco in that song. Teena Marie is definitely disco / funk, quite rare for a song like that to get to my chart, albeit it's only just inside the top 40, and Donna Summer's Bad Girls" on the way down.
A good balance, I think.
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Post by Earl Purple on Nov 3, 2021 0:57:30 GMT 1
21 July 1979
1 ( 1 ) Girls Talk - Dave Edmunds < 3rd week at #1 > 2 ( 2 ) My Sharona - Knack 3 ( 3 ) Is She Really Going Out With Him - Joe Jackson 4 ( -- ) I Don't Like Mondays - Boomtown Rats 5 ( 13 ) Stay With Me Till Dawn - Judie Tzuke 6 ( 7 ) Bad Case Of Loving You (Doctor Doctor) - Robert Palmer 7 ( 6 ) One Way Or Another - Blondie (#6) 8 ( -- ) The Devil Went Down To Georgia - Charlie Daniels Band 9 ( 4 ) Up The Junction - Squeeze (#1[3]) 10 ( 19 ) Voulez Vous / Angeleyes - Abba
11 ( 12 ) Don't Kill It Carol - Manfred Mann's Earth Band 12 ( 5 ) Babylon's Burning - Ruts (#2[2]) 13 ( 9 ) Breakfast In America - Supertramp (#9) 14 ( -- ) Beat The Clock - Sparks 15 ( 11 ) Good Times - Chic (#11) 16 ( 23 ) Love Of My Life - Queen 17 ( 8 ) Driver's Seat - Sniff N The Tears (#6) 18 ( 17 ) The Main Event (Fight) - Barbra Streisand (#17) 19 ( -- ) Morning Dance - Spyro Gyra 20 ( 27 ) If I Said You Had A Beautiful Body Would You Hold It Against Me - Bellamy Brothers
21 ( -- ) We Don't Talk Anymore - Cliff Richard 22 ( -- ) The Diary Of Horace Wimp - Electric Light Orchestra 23 ( 10 ) Go West - Village People (#3) 24 ( 25 ) Lead Me On - Maxine Nightingale 25 ( 20 ) Sad Eyes - Robert John (#20) 26 ( 15 ) Mama Can't Buy You Love - Elton John (#13) 27 ( 18 ) If I Had You - Korgis (#18) 28 ( 35 ) Kid - Pretenders 29 ( 14 ) Sunday Girl - Blondie (#1[4]) 30 ( 24 ) Getting Closer - Wings (#24)
31 ( 26 ) Friday's Angels - Generation X (#26) 32 ( 16 ) Born To Be Alive - Patrick Hernandez (#7) 33 ( 33 ) I'm A Sucker For Your Love - Teena Marie & Rick James 34 ( 29 ) Nothing To Lose - UK (#29) 35 ( -- ) Ooh! What A Life - Gibson Brothers 36 ( 43 ) David's Song - Vladimir Cosma 37 ( 22 ) I Was Made For Lovin' You - Kiss (#13) 38 ( 21 ) Are Friends Electric - Tubeway Army (#3) 39 ( 37 ) Playground Twist - Siouxsie & The Banshees (#37) 40 ( 48 ) Suspicions - Eddie Rabbitt
41 ( -- ) Here Comes The Summer - Undertones 42 ( -- ) Duke Of Earl - Darts 43 ( -- ) Harmony In My Head - Buzzcocks 44 ( 28 ) Lady Lynda - Beach Boys (#14) 45 ( 32 ) Stranglehold - UK Subs (#24) 46 ( -- ) The Boss - Diana Ross 47 ( 34 ) Shadows In The Moonlight - Anne Murray (#29) 48 ( 30 ) Wanted - Dooleys (#15) 49 ( 41 ) No Class - Motorhead (#41) 50 ( 36 ) Sunburn - Graham Gouldman (#31)
-- ( 31 ) Night Owl - Gerry Rafferty (#4) -- ( 38 ) Bad Girls - Donna Summer (#7) -- ( 39 ) Silly Games - Janet Kay (#8) -- ( 40 ) People Of The Southwind - Kansas (#34) -- ( 42 ) Do Anything You Want To - Thin Lizzy (#20) -- ( 44 ) You Can't Change That - Raydio (#17) -- ( 45 ) One Rule For You - After The Fire (#19) -- ( 46 ) Sound System - Steel Pulse (#41) -- ( 47 ) Old Siam Sir - Wings (#33) -- ( 49 ) Blind Among The Flowers - Tourists (#25) -- ( 50 ) Living On The Front Line - Eddy Grant (#9)
-- ( -- ) DJ - David Bowie -- ( -- ) Rock Around The Clock - Telex -- ( -- ) Kiss In The Dark - Pink Lady -- ( -- ) Boogie Down (Get Funky Now) - Real Thing -- ( -- ) Paranoid - Dickies
On another week that Boomtown Rats song would have just flown straight in at #1, but that top 3 are so strong, it could only enter at #4. That bunch of new entries are just great - and David Bowie ends up frozen out completely. Telex's cover of Rock Around The Clock similarly.
In addition to this bunch, there's more to come.
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Post by Earl Purple on Nov 3, 2021 16:21:07 GMT 1
28 July 1979
1 ( 4 ) I Don't Like Mondays - Boomtown Rats < 4th #1 > 2 ( 1 ) Girls Talk - Dave Edmunds (#1[3]) 3 ( 8 ) The Devil Went Down To Georgia - Charlie Daniels Band 4 ( 3 ) Is She Really Going Out With Him - Joe Jackson (#3) 5 ( 2 ) My Sharona - Knack (#2[2]) 6 ( 5 ) Stay With Me Till Dawn - Judie Tzuke (#5) 7 ( 14 ) Beat The Clock - Sparks 8 ( 6 ) Bad Case Of Loving You (Doctor Doctor) - Robert Palmer (#6) 9 ( 10 ) Voulez Vous / Angeleyes - Abba 10 ( 19 ) Morning Dance - Spyro Gyra
11 ( -- ) Bang Bang - B.A. Robertson 12 ( 21 ) We Don't Talk Anymore - Cliff Richard 13 ( 7 ) One Way Or Another - Blondie (#6) 14 ( 22 ) The Diary Of Horace Wimp - Electric Light Orchestra 15 ( 11 ) Don't Kill It Carol - Manfred Mann's Earth Band (#11) 16 ( 16 ) Love Of My Life - Queen 17 ( 9 ) Up The Junction - Squeeze (#1[3]) 18 ( 20 ) If I Said You Had A Beautiful Body Would You Hold It Against Me - Bellamy Brothers 19 ( -- ) Gangsters - Specials 20 ( 13 ) Breakfast In America - Supertramp (#9)
21 ( 35 ) Ooh! What A Life - Gibson Brothers 22 ( 15 ) Good Times - Chic (#11) 23 ( 12 ) Babylon's Burning - Ruts (#2[2]) 24 ( 18 ) The Main Event (Fight) - Barbra Streisand (#17) 25 ( -- ) After The Love Has Gone - Earth Wind & Fire 26 ( -- ) I'll Never Love This Way Again - Dionne Warwick 27 ( 28 ) Kid - Pretenders 28 ( 24 ) Lead Me On - Maxine Nightingale (#24) 29 ( 41 ) Here Comes The Summer - Undertones 30 ( -- ) Lady Writer - Dire Straits
31 ( 17 ) Driver's Seat - Sniff N The Tears (#6) 32 ( 42 ) Duke Of Earl - Darts 33 ( 43 ) Harmony In My Head - Buzzcocks 34 ( -- ) Let's Go - Cars 35 ( 25 ) Sad Eyes - Robert John (#20) 36 ( 36 ) David's Song - Vladimir Cosma 37 ( 46 ) The Boss - Diana Ross 38 ( -- ) Sweet Little Rock N Roller - Showaddywaddy 39 ( 33 ) I'm A Sucker For Your Love - Teena Marie & Rick James (#33) 40 ( 40 ) Suspicions - Eddie Rabbitt
41 ( 30 ) Getting Closer - Wings (#24) 42 ( 27 ) If I Had You - Korgis (#18) 43 ( 23 ) Go West - Village People (#3) 44 ( 31 ) Friday's Angels - Generation X (#26) 45 ( 26 ) Mama Can't Buy You Love - Elton John (#13) 46 ( -- ) You Never Know What You've Got - Me And You 47 ( 34 ) Nothing To Lose - UK (#29) 48 ( 39 ) Playground Twist - Siouxsie & The Banshees (#37) 49 ( 29 ) Sunday Girl - Blondie (#1[4]) 50 ( -- ) Going Through The Motions - Hot Chocolate
-- ( 32 ) Born To Be Alive - Patrick Hernandez (#7) -- ( 37 ) I Was Made For Lovin' You - Kiss (#13) -- ( 38 ) Are Friends Electric - Tubeway Army (#3) -- ( 44 ) Lady Lynda - Beach Boys (#14) -- ( 45 ) Stranglehold - UK Subs (#24) -- ( 47 ) Shadows In The Moonlight - Anne Murray (#29) -- ( 48 ) Wanted - Dooleys (#15) -- ( 49 ) No Class - Motorhead (#41) -- ( 50 ) Sunburn - Graham Gouldman (#31)
-- ( -- ) Star - Nazareth -- ( -- ) Heaven Must Have Sent You - Bonnie Pointer -- ( -- ) Conscious Man - Jolly Brothers -- ( -- ) The b**** - Olympic Runners
In the UK their second number one, and their most classic work. They would manage two top 5 hits in 1980, one peaking at #3 and the other at #4, then their "time was up" but Bob Geldof didn't quite get it at first.
In my chart it's their 4th number one as "Looking After No 1" and "She's So Modern" were also both number ones, and yes I did consider them among my favourite bands. "Rat Trap" was NM #1 for 6 weeks and you might expect similar of this, but its run on top will be shorter than you expect, due to what's coming up plus the fact I'm getting fit in one more #1 than I had at the time, simply because that song is so fantastic that it has to be number one.
Of the entries this week, B.A. Robertson has co-written songs on Cliff Richard's latest album but not "We Don't Talk Anymore", the song that kept "Bang Bang" off the top. In my chart he would get to #1 in 1989 (but only #2 again in the UK) with a composition "The Living Years" which he co-wrote with Mike Rutherford. In the Haven poll for the best number twos this song was one I voted for both times. Any song that even gets into my top 5 at this point of time would be likely to make that list, this chart is just so strong.
Gangsters by the Specials: probably not the first, but the first I knew about, i.e. a brand new song written on top of a sample of an old one, this using "Al Capone" by Prince Buster. The "ska revival" or "two-tone movement" is here though.
For Dionne Warwick only her second hit of the 1970s following "Then Came You". She was prolific in the 1960s and will be back for a few hits in the 1980s. Barry Manilow produced this (but he didn't write it).
Among those lower down, Showaddywaddy were on their way out: this their second top 20 hit of the year but it didn't get into the top 10 which they had managed several times before that. It is a cover version, but is far more recent than most of their hits, dating back to 1974 when Joe Dolan recorded it.
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Post by Earl Purple on Nov 3, 2021 16:28:28 GMT 1
It can be difficult to judge classics doing retro or replay charts when you've been saturated by them. In spite of being a fan of earlier Boomtown Rats hits, I didn't object to the total change of style for this song, but maybe that's just because it's so magnificent.
That intro - I didn't know at first how they did it, but one day the cleaner was dusting the piano and as she cleaned the black keys, I had a "oh, so that's it then" and reproduced it by just sliding down the black keys on the piano a few times. It is one of the most magnificent intros of all time.
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Post by Earl Purple on Nov 4, 2021 11:03:11 GMT 1
1 ( 1 ) I Don't Like Mondays - Boomtown Rats < 2nd week at #1 > 2 ( 3 ) The Devil Went Down To Georgia - Charlie Daniels Band 3 ( 2 ) Girls Talk - Dave Edmunds (#1[3]) 4 ( 7 ) Beat The Clock - Sparks 5 ( 11 ) Bang Bang - B.A. Robertson 6 ( 6 ) Stay With Me Till Dawn - Judie Tzuke (#5) 7 ( 4 ) Is She Really Going Out With Him - Joe Jackson (#3) 8 ( 10 ) Morning Dance - Spyro Gyra 9 ( 19 ) Gangsters - Specials 10 ( 12 ) We Don't Talk Anymore - Cliff Richard
11 ( 5 ) My Sharona - Knack (#2[2]) 12 ( 14 ) The Diary Of Horace Wimp - Electric Light Orchestra 13 ( -- ) Goodbye Stranger - Supertramp 14 ( 9 ) Voulez Vous / Angeleyes - Abba (#9) 15 ( -- ) Hersham Boys - Sham 69 16 ( 8 ) Bad Case Of Loving You (Doctor Doctor) - Robert Palmer (#6) 17 ( 25 ) After The Love Has Gone - Earth Wind & Fire 18 ( 26 ) I'll Never Love This Way Again - Dionne Warwick 19 ( 21 ) Ooh! What A Life - Gibson Brothers 20 ( 30 ) Lady Writer - Dire Straits
21 ( 16 ) Love Of My Life - Queen (#16) 22 ( 18 ) If I Said You Had A Beautiful Body Would You Hold It Against Me - Bellamy Brothers (#18) 23 ( -- ) Reasons To Be Cheerful Part 3 - Ian Dury & The Blockheads 24 ( 34 ) Let's Go - Cars 25 ( 15 ) Don't Kill It Carol - Manfred Mann's Earth Band (#11) 26 ( 13 ) One Way Or Another - Blondie (#6) 27 ( -- ) Money - Flying Lizards 28 ( 29 ) Here Comes The Summer - Undertones 29 ( 38 ) Sweet Little Rock N Roller - Showaddywaddy 30 ( 32 ) Duke Of Earl - Darts
31 ( 17 ) Up The Junction - Squeeze (#1[3]) 32 ( 33 ) Harmony In My Head - Buzzcocks 33 ( 27 ) Kid - Pretenders (#27) 34 ( -- ) Lonesome Loser - Little River Band 35 ( 20 ) Breakfast In America - Supertramp (#9) 36 ( -- ) Hot Summer Nights - Night 37 ( 22 ) Good Times - Chic (#11) 38 ( 37 ) The Boss - Diana Ross (#37) 39 ( 24 ) The Main Event (Fight) - Barbra Streisand (#17) 40 ( 46 ) You Never Know What You've Got - Me And You
41 ( 28 ) Lead Me On - Maxine Nightingale (#24) 42 ( 23 ) Babylon's Burning - Ruts (#2[2]) 43 ( 50 ) Going Through The Motions - Hot Chocolate 44 ( 36 ) David's Song - Vladimir Cosma (#36) 45 ( -- ) You Need Wheels - Merton Parkas 46 ( 40 ) Suspicions - Eddie Rabbitt (#40) 47 ( 35 ) Sad Eyes - Robert John (#20) 48 ( 31 ) Driver's Seat - Sniff N The Tears (#6) 49 ( 39 ) I'm A Sucker For Your Love - Teena Marie & Rick James (#33) 50 ( -- ) Highway Song - Blackfoot
-- ( 41 ) Getting Closer - Wings (#24) -- ( 42 ) If I Had You - Korgis (#18) -- ( 43 ) Go West - Village People (#3) -- ( 44 ) Friday's Angels - Generation X (#26) -- ( 45 ) Mama Can't Buy You Love - Elton John (#13) -- ( 47 ) Nothing To Lose - UK (#29) -- ( 48 ) Playground Twist - Siouxsie & The Banshees (#37) -- ( 49 ) Sunday Girl - Blondie (#1[4])
-- ( -- ) Girls Girls Girls - Kandidate
I was actually quite surprised to find that Ian Dury's single had entered the top 75 just outside the top 40 before leaping up to #6, I always thought that the time that the week at #6 was its first week in the chart at all. Thus it enters this week - Hersham Boys was the UK's highest entry this week at #23 and that leapt up to #7 the following week, then one further place climb. Those are two of the definitive songs of the era but it's Supertramp's wonderful "Goodbye Stranger", the 3rd single from the Breakfast In America album that gets the highest entry here.
The cover of "Rock Around The Clock" by Telex that didn't quite make it was an interesting concept, and the Flying Lizards do something similar perhaps with "Money", a song that reached NM #3 for Barrett Strong in 1960. Berry Gordy Jnr co-wrote the song, Barrett Strong didn't but would co-write a massive #1 "I Heard It Through The Grapevine" with Norman Whitfield, among the many songs that duo wrote together.
"Lonesome Loser" reached #6 in the USA for Ausralian rock band Little River Band. They never had any UK hits, "Reminiscing" was their biggest hit both in the USA and in my chart.
Night had two hits in the USA and one in the UK although it wasn't credited to them here. Their second hit will come later, but this one features female vocal and the other one male vocal by Chris Thompson who was perhaps given credit in the UK for "If You Remember Me" because he's a known name here but both were by the band, of which he was a member. The Merton Parkas featured Mick Talbot as a member - he later joined Paul Weller in the Style Council.
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