* NM retro singles - 1980 (redone) *

[Earl Purple]

8 March 1980

1 ( 1 ) Atomic - Blondie < 2nd week at #1 >
2 ( 2 ) Games Without Frontiers - Peter Gabriel (#1[2])
3 ( 7 ) Echo Beach - Martha & The Muffins
4 ( 11 ) Ride Like The Wind - Christopher Cross
5 ( 3 ) All Night Long - Rainbow (#3)
6 ( 4 ) Carrie - Cliff Richard (#2[1])
7 ( 5 ) I've Done Everything For You - Sam Hagar (#5)
8 ( 8 ) Hands Off She's Mine - Beat
9 ( 16 ) Kool In The Kaftan - B.A. Robertson
10 ( 6 ) Turning Japanese - Vapors (#5)

11 ( 19 ) Another Nail In My Heart - Squeeze
12 ( 9 ) I Can't Stand Up For Falling Down - Elvis Costello & The Attractions (#9)
13 ( -- ) Call Me - Blondie
14 ( 10 ) So Lonely - Police (#10)
15 ( 15 ) Stomp - Brothers Johnson
16 ( 12 ) At The Edge - Stiff Little Fingers (#12)
17 ( 13 ) Hot Dog - Shakin' Stevens (#13)
18 ( -- ) Lost In Love - Air Supply
19 ( 26 ) Ne-Ne-Na-Na-Na-Na-Nu-Nu - Bad Manners
20 ( -- ) Food For Thought - UB40

21 ( -- ) My World - Secret Affair
22 ( 24 ) Dance Yourself Dizzy - Liquid Gold
23 ( 14 ) So Good To Be Back Home - Tourists (#10)
24 ( 34 ) Fire Lake - Bob Seger
25 ( 27 ) Rosie - Joan Armatrading
26 ( 22 ) Special Lady - Ray Goodman & Brown (#22)
27 ( 25 ) Fan Mail - Dickies (#25)
28 ( -- ) It Will Come In Time - Billy Preston & Syreeta
29 ( 40 ) Poison Ivy - Lambrettas
30 ( 31 ) Hello America - Def Leppard

31 ( 17 ) Save Me - Queen (#7)
32 ( 42 ) I Can't Tell You Why - Eagles
33 ( -- ) Love Patrol - Dooleys
34 ( 21 ) TV - Flying Lizards (#14)
35 ( -- ) Jimmy - Purple Hearts
36 ( 18 ) Why Me - Styx (#1[2])
37 ( 46 ) I Thank You - ZZ Top
38 ( 37 ) Running Free - Iron Maiden (#37)
39 ( 47 ) Alabama Song - David Bowie
40 ( 20 ) Someone's Looking At You - Boomtown Rats (#2[1])

41 ( 32 ) Give It All You Got - Chuck Mangione (#31)
42 ( 49 ) Animation - Skids
43 ( -- ) In The Stone - Earth Wind & Fire
44 ( 23 ) Too Much Too Young (Live) - Specials (#4)
45 ( 30 ) Him - Rupert Holmes (#24)
46 ( -- ) Come Back - J Geils Band
47 ( 29 ) Woman's World - Jags (#17)
48 ( -- ) Back On My Feet Again - Babys
49 ( 43 ) Three Times In Love - Tommy James (#43)
50 ( 45 ) Kiss Me In The Rain - Barbra Streisand (#45)

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-- ( 28 ) The Plastic Age - Buggles (#7)
-- ( 33 ) Motorbike Beat - Revillos (#10)
-- ( 35 ) 99 - Toto (#26)
-- ( 36 ) Quote Goodbye Quote - Carolyne Mas (#18)
-- ( 38 ) Heartbreaker - Pat Benatar (#28)
-- ( 39 ) It's Different For Girls - Joe Jackson (#3)
-- ( 41 ) Tonight - Zaine Griff (#38)
-- ( 44 ) Bad Man - Cockney Rejects (#41)
-- ( 48 ) Refugee - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers (#31)
-- ( 50 ) And The Beat Goes On - Whispers (#22)

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-- ( -- ) Baby Talks Dirty - Knack
-- ( -- ) Ooh Boy - Rose Royce
-- ( -- ) Warhead - UK Subs
-- ( -- ) Just A Touch Of Love - Slave
-- ( -- ) Hello I Am Your Heart - Bette Bright

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Blondie remain at #1 but also have the highest new entry as "Call Me" enters the US top 40. It will enter the UK chart soon and also reach #1 for just one week but wasn't a big seller with it, and fell pretty fast, however in the USA it was a far bigger hit, staying 6 weeks at #1. Co-written by Giorgio Moroder with lyrics by Debbie Harry, it featured in the film American Gigolo.

Entering just below that is the debut for Air Supply, a band formed in Australia from the cast of Jesus Christ Superstar but Graham Russell is from the UK originally and Clive Davis signed them to Arista Records in the USA, and Lost In Love is a new version of a song originally on their "Life Support" album, with Graham Russell providing much of the vocal on it, when most of the time Russell Hitchcock performs lead vocals (he does provide some on this song too).

So they debut the same week as UB40, who have a double A-side "King" (referring to Martin Luther King) and "Food For Thought", the second song of this title to enter the chart in 3 months, and like the Barron Knights medley, it doesn't feature the title anywhere in the lyrics. What we didn't know at this point is that in the summer of 1985 UB40, together with Chrissie Hynde of the Pretenders, would cover "I Got You Babe" and knock Madonna off the top of the chart, and we didn't know who Madonna was then but her name features heavily in the lyrics of "Food For Thought".

[Earl Purple]

15 March 1980

1 ( 1 ) Atomic - Blondie < 3rd week at #1 >
2 ( 3 ) Echo Beach - Martha & The Muffins
3 ( 13 ) Call Me - Blondie
4 ( 4 ) Ride Like The Wind - Christopher Cross
5 ( 2 ) Games Without Frontiers - Peter Gabriel (#1[2])
6 ( -- ) Spirit Of Radio - Rush
7 ( 9 ) Kool In The Kaftan - B.A. Robertson
8 ( 18 ) Lost In Love - Air Supply
9 ( 11 ) Another Nail In My Heart - Squeeze
10 ( 20 ) Food For Thought - UB40

11 ( 5 ) All Night Long - Rainbow (#3)
12 ( 21 ) My World - Secret Affair
13 ( 8 ) Hands Off She's Mine - Beat (#8)
14 ( 6 ) Carrie - Cliff Richard (#2[1])
15 ( 7 ) I've Done Everything For You - Sam Hagar (#5)
16 ( -- ) Turn It On Again - Genesis
17 ( 28 ) It Will Come In Time - Billy Preston & Syreeta
18 ( 19 ) Ne-Ne-Na-Na-Na-Na-Nu-Nu - Bad Manners
19 ( 10 ) Turning Japanese - Vapors (#5)
20 ( -- ) My Oh My - Sad Cafe

21 ( 15 ) Stomp - Brothers Johnson (#15)
22 ( 12 ) I Can't Stand Up For Falling Down - Elvis Costello & The Attractions (#9)
23 ( 24 ) Fire Lake - Bob Seger
24 ( 33 ) Love Patrol - Dooleys
25 ( 14 ) So Lonely - Police (#10)
26 ( -- ) That's The Way The Money Goes - M
27 ( 35 ) Jimmy - Purple Hearts
28 ( -- ) Let's Do Rock Steady - Bodysnatchers
29 ( 16 ) At The Edge - Stiff Little Fingers (#12)
30 ( 22 ) Dance Yourself Dizzy - Liquid Gold (#22)

31 ( -- ) Sexy Eyes - Dr Hook
32 ( 17 ) Hot Dog - Shakin' Stevens (#13)
33 ( 29 ) Poison Ivy - Lambrettas (#29)
34 ( -- ) Happy House - Siouxsie & The Banshees
35 ( 25 ) Rosie - Joan Armatrading (#25)
36 ( 32 ) I Can't Tell You Why - Eagles (#32)
37 ( -- ) Don't Push It Don't Force It - Leon Haywood
38 ( 43 ) In The Stone - Earth Wind & Fire
39 ( -- ) January February - Barbara Dickson
40 ( 30 ) Hello America - Def Leppard (#30)

41 ( 27 ) Fan Mail - Dickies (#25)
42 ( 37 ) I Thank You - ZZ Top (#37)
43 ( -- ) Even It Up - Heart
44 ( 46 ) Come Back - J Geils Band
45 ( 26 ) Special Lady - Ray Goodman & Brown (#22)
46 ( 23 ) So Good To Be Back Home - Tourists (#10)
47 ( 39 ) Alabama Song - David Bowie (#39)
48 ( 48 ) Back On My Feet Again - Babys
49 ( 42 ) Animation - Skids (#42)
50 ( 38 ) Running Free - Iron Maiden (#37)

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-- ( 31 ) Save Me - Queen (#7)
-- ( 34 ) TV - Flying Lizards (#14)
-- ( 36 ) Why Me - Styx (#1[2])
-- ( 40 ) Someone's Looking At You - Boomtown Rats (#2[1])
-- ( 41 ) Give It All You Got - Chuck Mangione (#31)
-- ( 44 ) Too Much Too Young (Live) - Specials (#4)
-- ( 45 ) Him - Rupert Holmes (#24)
-- ( 47 ) Woman's World - Jags (#17)
-- ( 49 ) Three Times In Love - Tommy James (#43)
-- ( 50 ) Kiss Me In The Rain - Barbra Streisand (#45)

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-- ( -- ) I Like To Rock - April Wine
-- ( -- ) I Pledge My Love - Peaches & Herb

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Atomic achieves what it failed to do in the UK this week and remain a 3rd week at #1. Their main challengers appear to be themselves, climbing from 13 to 3 or one of two Canadian bands with Martha & The Muffins climbing now to #2 and Rush storming in at #6 with the classic "Spirit Of Radio" but there's also a song that didn't appear to be an immediate challenge to the top at the time yet proved otherwise... Blondie were the last act to enter at #1, doing so twice in fact in 1979.

[Earl Purple]

22 March 1980

1 ( 6 ) Spirit Of Radio - Rush < 1st #1 >
2 ( 1 ) Atomic - Blondie (#1[3])
3 ( 3 ) Call Me - Blondie
4 ( 2 ) Echo Beach - Martha & The Muffins (#2[1])
5 ( -- ) Going Underground - Jam
6 ( 8 ) Lost In Love - Air Supply
7 ( 4 ) Ride Like The Wind - Christopher Cross (#4)
8 ( 16 ) Turn It On Again - Genesis
9 ( 10 ) Food For Thought - UB40
10 ( 7 ) Kool In The Kaftan - B.A. Robertson (#7)

11 ( -- ) Geno - Dexy's Midnight Runners
12 ( 12 ) My World - Secret Affair
13 ( 20 ) My Oh My - Sad Cafe
14 ( 9 ) Another Nail In My Heart - Squeeze (#9)
15 ( 5 ) Games Without Frontiers - Peter Gabriel (#1[2])
16 ( -- ) You May Be Right - Billy Joel
17 ( 17 ) It Will Come In Time - Billy Preston & Syreeta
18 ( 26 ) That's The Way The Money Goes - M
19 ( 28 ) Let's Do Rock Steady - Bodysnatchers
20 ( 31 ) Sexy Eyes - Dr Hook

21 ( -- ) Hold On To My Love - Jimmy Ruffin
22 ( 11 ) All Night Long - Rainbow (#3)
23 ( 18 ) Ne-Ne-Na-Na-Na-Na-Nu-Nu - Bad Manners (#18)
24 ( 24 ) Love Patrol - Dooleys
25 ( 13 ) Hands Off She's Mine - Beat (#8)
26 ( 34 ) Happy House - Siouxsie & The Banshees
27 ( 27 ) Jimmy - Purple Hearts
28 ( 37 ) Don't Push It Don't Force It - Leon Haywood
29 ( 14 ) Carrie - Cliff Richard (#2[1])
30 ( 23 ) Fire Lake - Bob Seger (#23)

31 ( 39 ) January February - Barbara Dickson
32 ( 15 ) I've Done Everything For You - Sam Hagar (#5)
33 ( 21 ) Stomp - Brothers Johnson (#15)
34 ( 43 ) Even It Up - Heart
35 ( 19 ) Turning Japanese - Vapors (#5)
36 ( -- ) Wheels Of Steel - Saxon
37 ( 22 ) I Can't Stand Up For Falling Down - Elvis Costello & The Attractions (#9)
38 ( -- ) All I Ever Wanted - Santana
39 ( 38 ) In The Stone - Earth Wind & Fire (#38)
40 ( -- ) Bear Cage - Stranglers

41 ( 25 ) So Lonely - Police (#10)
42 ( 33 ) Poison Ivy - Lambrettas (#29)
43 ( 30 ) Dance Yourself Dizzy - Liquid Gold (#22)
44 ( -- ) Bring It All Home - Gerry Rafferty
45 ( 36 ) I Can't Tell You Why - Eagles (#32)
46 ( 29 ) At The Edge - Stiff Little Fingers (#12)
47 ( 44 ) Come Back - J Geils Band (#44)
48 ( -- ) Invasion - Magnum
49 ( 35 ) Rosie - Joan Armatrading (#25)
50 ( 48 ) Back On My Feet Again - Babys (#48)

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-- ( 32 ) Hot Dog - Shakin' Stevens (#13)
-- ( 40 ) Hello America - Def Leppard (#30)
-- ( 41 ) Fan Mail - Dickies (#25)
-- ( 42 ) I Thank You - ZZ Top (#37)
-- ( 45 ) Special Lady - Ray Goodman & Brown (#22)
-- ( 46 ) So Good To Be Back Home - Tourists (#10)
-- ( 47 ) Alabama Song - David Bowie (#39)
-- ( 49 ) Animation - Skids (#42)
-- ( 50 ) Running Free - Iron Maiden (#37)

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-- ( -- ) Let Me Rock You - Kandidate
-- ( -- ) We Gotta Get Out Of This Place - Angelic Upstarts

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That song by Rush is one that makes you just go "wow!". It entered the UK chart around #22 but didn't make it into the UK top 10.

This is, of course, the week that "Going Underground" went straight in at #1, and of course it's a fantastic song and I was even happier because it knocked Fern Kinney off the top, but whilst that song was rather dodgy, the standard of the good songs at this point has been tremendously high.

This level is not going to be maintained, in fact the best song in the next playlist (covering 3 weeks) would probably have come no higher than 7th at best on this one.

In some ways this is reflected in the UK chart, as all the UK number ones for the next 10 weeks are already in my chart (or have been). Like "Spirit Of Radio", there is something magical about "Geno" too. Although the Spinners cover of "Working My Way Back To You" just missed the top 10 here, it was a bit unlucky, and apart from Fern Kinney all the UK #1s up to "Geno" in 1980 were great songs, and there are also a load of great songs that didn't do so well.

Billy Joel's single went top 10 in the USA but in the UK they released "All For Leyna" instead which is on the next playlist. In Haven Factor, "You May Be Right" got him eliminated bottom in a double-elimination round but I gave it my top vote that round.

Jimmy Ruffin reached NM #2 in 1966 with "What Becomes Of The Brokenhearted" (kept off by Winchester Cathedral if I recall). That song reached the UK top 10 twice, and in 1970 he had 3 UK top 10 hits, although only one of them reached the NM top 10 and surprisingly it wasn't "Farewell Is A Lonely Sound". This is his first chart entry since 1974 though, co-written by Robin Gibb from the Bee Gees.

[Good Old Days]

I'm not sure if it will be interesting for anybody else, but I will join if you wish to do "Rate NM # 1,2,3 from any year" or something like it. Also I can add the hits from my chart too (for sample 10 your favourites against the same number of "Gražios Dainos" hits) and we will know which music taste is more close to Haven forum community.

[Earl Purple]

I think Time Machine 1978 had just 1 UK #1 and 4 NM #1s (which did not overlap), 1979 had 5 NM #1s including "Video Killed The Radio Star" which was also a UK #1 but I that "Bright Eyes" was the only other UK #1 in that time machine.

1979 had 6 NM/UK number ones, quite a high overlap. "Atomic" is the first from 1980 to achieve this and "Going Underground" having entered at #5 is obviously a strong contender too. There are two later on in the year that are stonewall certainties.

[Earl Purple]

29 March 1980

1 ( 1 ) Spirit Of Radio - Rush < 2nd week at #1 >
2 ( 5 ) Going Underground - Jam
3 ( 3 ) Call Me - Blondie
4 ( 2 ) Atomic - Blondie (#1[3])
5 ( 11 ) Geno - Dexy's Midnight Runners
6 ( 8 ) Turn It On Again - Genesis
7 ( 6 ) Lost In Love - Air Supply (#6)
8 ( 16 ) You May Be Right - Billy Joel
9 ( 4 ) Echo Beach - Martha & The Muffins (#2[1])
10 ( 21 ) Hold On To My Love - Jimmy Ruffin

11 ( 9 ) Food For Thought - UB40 (#9)
12 ( 13 ) My Oh My - Sad Cafe
13 ( 7 ) Ride Like The Wind - Christopher Cross (#4)
14 ( 12 ) My World - Secret Affair (#12)
15 ( 18 ) That's The Way The Money Goes - M
16 ( 19 ) Let's Do Rock Steady - Bodysnatchers
17 ( 20 ) Sexy Eyes - Dr Hook
18 ( 10 ) Kool In The Kaftan - B.A. Robertson (#7)
19 ( -- ) Living After Midnight - Judas Priest
20 ( -- ) Missing Words - Selecter

21 ( 17 ) It Will Come In Time - Billy Preston & Syreeta (#17)
22 ( 14 ) Another Nail In My Heart - Squeeze (#9)
23 ( 26 ) Happy House - Siouxsie & The Banshees
24 ( 36 ) Wheels Of Steel - Saxon
25 ( 28 ) Don't Push It Don't Force It - Leon Haywood
26 ( 38 ) All I Ever Wanted - Santana
27 ( -- ) Check Out The Groove - Bobby Thurston
28 ( -- ) Any Way You Want It - Journey
29 ( 24 ) Love Patrol - Dooleys (#24)
30 ( 40 ) Bear Cage - Stranglers

31 ( 31 ) January February - Barbara Dickson
32 ( 15 ) Games Without Frontiers - Peter Gabriel (#1[2])
33 ( 34 ) Even It Up - Heart
34 ( 27 ) Jimmy - Purple Hearts (#27)
35 ( 23 ) Ne-Ne-Na-Na-Na-Na-Nu-Nu - Bad Manners (#18)
36 ( 44 ) Bring It All Home - Gerry Rafferty
37 ( -- ) Outside My Window - Stevie Wonder
38 ( 22 ) All Night Long - Rainbow (#3)
39 ( -- ) Set Me Free - Utopia
40 ( 30 ) Fire Lake - Bob Seger (#23)

41 ( 25 ) Hands Off She's Mine - Beat (#8)
42 ( -- ) Think About Me - Fleetwood Mac
43 ( 39 ) In The Stone - Earth Wind & Fire (#38)
44 ( -- ) No-One Driving - John Foxx
45 ( -- ) The Trial Of Hissing Sid - Keith Michell
46 ( 29 ) Carrie - Cliff Richard (#2[1])
47 ( 33 ) Stomp - Brothers Johnson (#15)
48 ( 32 ) I've Done Everything For You - Sam Hagar (#5)
49 ( 47 ) Come Back - J Geils Band (#44)
50 ( 42 ) Poison Ivy - Lambrettas (#29)

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-- ( 35 ) Turning Japanese - Vapors (#5)
-- ( 37 ) I Can't Stand Up For Falling Down - Elvis Costello & The Attractions (#9)
-- ( 41 ) So Lonely - Police (#10)
-- ( 43 ) Dance Yourself Dizzy - Liquid Gold (#22)
-- ( 45 ) I Can't Tell You Why - Eagles (#32)
-- ( 46 ) At The Edge - Stiff Little Fingers (#12)
-- ( 48 ) Invasion - Magnum
-- ( 49 ) Rosie - Joan Armatrading (#25)
-- ( 50 ) Back On My Feet Again - Babys (#48)

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This is my birthday chart, my birthday fell on a Monday and there was a new UK chart the following day which was also the first day of Pesach that year, but this was the week the Jam remained at #1 for a second week. The first single to enter at #1 for just over 6 years and it was never really considered in doubt it would stay there. On this week in the UK the Vapors reached their peak of #3, but in my chart it drops out this week in spite of having reached #5. It took longer to get to its UK peak than I had realised at the time.

The highest entry is the sing-a-long rock anthem by Judas Priest - this era of rock is how I like it, with Journey getting an anthemic hit lower down, but Judas Priest was a hit only in the UK and Journey only in the USA (where that song reached #23).

Missing Words the 3rd hit from the Selecter, a lot better than Three Minute Hero, but not as good as On My Radio.

"Outside My Window" didn't reach the top 40, in fact none of the songs from "Journey Into The Secret Life Of Plants" got to the top 40 in the UK, although "Send One Your Love" did reach #4 in the USA. Stevie Wonder will be back having big UK hits in just a few months.

The first of the 3 "groove" hits, with Rodney Franklin and Teena Marie coming up soon, the first of those on my next playlist in fact, Bobby Thurston enters this week.

Among those lower down the Trial of Hissing Sid is the follow-up to Captain Beaky, everyone knew he was innocent anyway, but he slipped out of the trial which wasn't going very well even up to then.. The single was actually credited to "Captain Beaky & His Band", but it only scraped into the top 75.

[Robbie]

'Going Underground' by The Jam was the official number 1 on my 16th birthday but 'Spirit Of Radio' by Rush is a mighty fine alternative.

From your first post:

Steve Forbert - his only hit single, but "The Sweet Love That You Give (Sure Goes A Long Long Way)" got a fair amount of airplay but wasn't a hit. According to wikipedia it wasn't a single but according to discogs it was, so I'll believe discogs. (discogs suggests it was released in the UK in January 1980 and in the US at some point in 1979, but I think it was probably released in 1979 in the UK too, that's the year I heard it on the radio regularly, and when Romeo's Tune hit the US chart in early 1980 I knew his name).

According to 45cat.com 'The Sweet Love (That You Give Sure Goes A Long Way)' by Steve Forbert was released as a single in the UK on 25 January 1980 www.45cat.com/record/sepc8124 . Note the slight difference in the title from the album version. It was the follow up to 'Romeo's Tune' which had been released in the UK in October 1979. Surprisingly, in light of its success in the US, 'Romeo's Tune' wasn't repromoted at any point in the UK and the label released another track from his 'Jackrabbit Slim' album as a single in March 1980. Of the three singles releases from the album I only remember 'Romeo's Tune' and that was from hearing it on the US chart countdowns on Radio 1 and AFN.

[Earl Purple]

5 April 1980

1 ( 2 ) Going Underground - Jam < 2nd #1 >
2 ( 1 ) Spirit Of Radio - Rush (#1[2])
3 ( 5 ) Geno - Dexy's Midnight Runners
4 ( 3 ) Call Me - Blondie (#3)
5 ( 8 ) You May Be Right - Billy Joel
6 ( 6 ) Turn It On Again - Genesis
7 ( 10 ) Hold On To My Love - Jimmy Ruffin
8 ( 4 ) Atomic - Blondie (#1[3])
9 ( 19 ) Living After Midnight - Judas Priest
10 ( 20 ) Missing Words - Selecter

11 ( 7 ) Lost In Love - Air Supply (#6)
12 ( -- ) Night Boat To Cairo - Madness
13 ( 12 ) My Oh My - Sad Cafe (#12)
14 ( -- ) My Perfect Cousin - Undertones
15 ( 27 ) Check Out The Groove - Bobby Thurston
16 ( 15 ) That's The Way The Money Goes - M (#15)
17 ( -- ) Toccata - Sky
18 ( 28 ) Any Way You Want It - Journey
19 ( 11 ) Food For Thought - UB40 (#9)
20 ( 16 ) Let's Do Rock Steady - Bodysnatchers (#16)

21 ( -- ) Talk Of The Town - Pretenders
22 ( 9 ) Echo Beach - Martha & The Muffins (#2[1])
23 ( -- ) Modern Girl - Sheena Easton
24 ( 17 ) Sexy Eyes - Dr Hook (#17)
25 ( 24 ) Wheels Of Steel - Saxon (#24)
26 ( 14 ) My World - Secret Affair (#12)
27 ( -- ) Silver Dream Machine - David Essex
28 ( 26 ) All I Ever Wanted - Santana (#26)
29 ( 13 ) Ride Like The Wind - Christopher Cross (#4)
30 ( 23 ) Happy House - Siouxsie & The Banshees (#23)

31 ( 37 ) Outside My Window - Stevie Wonder
32 ( 25 ) Don't Push It Don't Force It - Leon Haywood (#25)
33 ( 30 ) Bear Cage - Stranglers (#30)
34 ( 39 ) Set Me Free - Utopia
35 ( 21 ) It Will Come In Time - Billy Preston & Syreeta (#17)
36 ( 18 ) Kool In The Kaftan - B.A. Robertson (#7)
37 ( 42 ) Think About Me - Fleetwood Mac
38 ( -- ) Clean Clean - Buggles
39 ( -- ) I've Never Been In Love - Suzi Quatro
40 ( 44 ) No-One Driving - John Foxx

41 ( -- ) Dear Miss Lonely Hearts - Phil Lynott
42 ( 36 ) Bring It All Home - Gerry Rafferty (#36)
43 ( 45 ) The Trial Of Hissing Sid - Keith Michell
44 ( 22 ) Another Nail In My Heart - Squeeze (#9)
45 ( -- ) Rough Boys - Pete Townshend
46 ( 31 ) January February - Barbara Dickson (#31)
47 ( 33 ) Even It Up - Heart (#33)
48 ( 29 ) Love Patrol - Dooleys (#24)
49 ( 34 ) Jimmy - Purple Hearts (#27)
50 ( -- ) I'm The Face - High Numbers

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-- ( 32 ) Games Without Frontiers - Peter Gabriel (#1[2])
-- ( 35 ) Ne-Ne-Na-Na-Na-Na-Nu-Nu - Bad Manners (#18)
-- ( 38 ) All Night Long - Rainbow (#3)
-- ( 40 ) Fire Lake - Bob Seger (#23)
-- ( 41 ) Hands Off She's Mine - Beat (#8)
-- ( 43 ) In The Stone - Earth Wind & Fire (#38)
-- ( 46 ) Carrie - Cliff Richard (#2[1])
-- ( 47 ) Stomp - Brothers Johnson (#15)
-- ( 48 ) I've Done Everything For You - Sam Hagar (#5)
-- ( 49 ) Come Back - J Geils Band (#44)
-- ( 50 ) Poison Ivy - Lambrettas (#29)

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-- ( -- ) Keep The Fire - Kenny Loggins
-- ( -- ) Fire In The Morning - Melissa Manchester

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In the UK chart this week the Jam was on its 3rd and final week at number one, but on this chart it has now only just got there. Meanwhile it would be 4 weeks from now that "Geno" would replace "Call Me" at number one, but on this chart it replaces it at #3.

"Night Boat To Cairo" was also the highest entry in the UK chart this week and would peak at #6, whilst "My Perfect Cousin" would be the Undertones' biggest ever hit, although their lead singer would eventually get to #1.

Possibly the oldest tune ever to reach the chart, "Toccata" by Sky was written in the early 18th century by Johann Sebastian Bach. "A Lover's Concerto" by the Toys (NM #9 in 1965) was based on Minuet in G (either by Bach or Petzold, usually credited to the former) and it isn't certain which was composed first. John Williams of Sky was the guitarist who had a hit with Cavatina last year (and should not be confused with the other John Williams).

The latest Pretenders hit, the debut of Sheena Easton and David Essex all got into the UK top 10 albeit it took a re-issue by Sheena Easton a few months later.

Two songs involving Pete Townshend lower down, his solo hit and High Numbers were in fact the Who and this is an old recording, as Phil Lynott also has a solo hit but Thin Lizzy aren't over and will be back soon with "Chinatown", as Phil Lynott has gone "solo in Soho" only as a side project.

[Earl Purple]

12 April 1980

1 ( 1 ) Going Underground - Jam < 2nd week at #1 >
2 ( 3 ) Geno - Dexy's Midnight Runners
3 ( 2 ) Spirit Of Radio - Rush (#1[2])
4 ( 12 ) Night Boat To Cairo - Madness
5 ( 5 ) You May Be Right - Billy Joel
6 ( 14 ) My Perfect Cousin - Undertones
7 ( 9 ) Living After Midnight - Judas Priest
8 ( 4 ) Call Me - Blondie (#3)
9 ( 7 ) Hold On To My Love - Jimmy Ruffin (#7)
10 ( 10 ) Missing Words - Selecter

11 ( 17 ) Toccata - Sky
12 ( 6 ) Turn It On Again - Genesis (#6)
13 ( 21 ) Talk Of The Town - Pretenders
14 ( 15 ) Check Out The Groove - Bobby Thurston
15 ( 23 ) Modern Girl - Sheena Easton
16 ( 18 ) Any Way You Want It - Journey
17 ( 27 ) Silver Dream Machine - David Essex
18 ( 8 ) Atomic - Blondie (#1[3])
19 ( 13 ) My Oh My - Sad Cafe (#12)
20 ( 11 ) Lost In Love - Air Supply (#6)

21 ( 16 ) That's The Way The Money Goes - M (#15)
22 ( -- ) All For Leyna - Billy Joel
23 ( 38 ) Clean Clean - Buggles
24 ( 39 ) I've Never Been In Love - Suzi Quatro
25 ( 20 ) Let's Do Rock Steady - Bodysnatchers (#16)
26 ( 41 ) Dear Miss Lonely Hearts - Phil Lynott
27 ( -- ) Don't Fall In Love With A Dreamer - Kenny Rogers & Kim Carnes
28 ( 31 ) Outside My Window - Stevie Wonder
29 ( 25 ) Wheels Of Steel - Saxon (#24)
30 ( 19 ) Food For Thought - UB40 (#9)

31 ( 45 ) Rough Boys - Pete Townshend
32 ( 34 ) Set Me Free - Utopia
33 ( 28 ) All I Ever Wanted - Santana (#26)
34 ( 24 ) Sexy Eyes - Dr Hook (#17)
35 ( 37 ) Think About Me - Fleetwood Mac
36 ( -- ) High Fidelity - Elvis Costello & The Attractions
37 ( -- ) A Forest - Cure
38 ( 22 ) Echo Beach - Martha & The Muffins (#2[1])
39 ( 50 ) I'm The Face - High Numbers
40 ( 33 ) Bear Cage - Stranglers (#30)

41 ( 40 ) No-One Driving - John Foxx (#40)
42 ( 30 ) Happy House - Siouxsie & The Banshees (#23)
43 ( -- ) Love And Loneliness - Motors
44 ( 26 ) My World - Secret Affair (#12)
45 ( 32 ) Don't Push It Don't Force It - Leon Haywood (#25)
46 ( -- ) Don't Make Waves - Nolans
47 ( 43 ) The Trial Of Hissing Sid - Keith Michell (#43)
48 ( 29 ) Ride Like The Wind - Christopher Cross (#4)
49 ( -- ) Tell The Children - Sham 69
50 ( -- ) Hollywood Tease - Girl

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-- ( 35 ) It Will Come In Time - Billy Preston & Syreeta (#17)
-- ( 36 ) Kool In The Kaftan - B.A. Robertson (#7)
-- ( 42 ) Bring It All Home - Gerry Rafferty (#36)
-- ( 44 ) Another Nail In My Heart - Squeeze (#9)
-- ( 46 ) January February - Barbara Dickson (#31)
-- ( 47 ) Even It Up - Heart (#33)
-- ( 48 ) Love Patrol - Dooleys (#24)
-- ( 49 ) Jimmy - Purple Hearts (#27)

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-- ( -- ) Only A Lonely Heart Sees - Felix Cavaliere
-- ( -- ) Do Right - Paul Davis

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No change at number one here, but the Jam lose the top spot in the UK as the Spinners (or the Detroit Spinners as they are called in the UK) complete a slow climb to the top with their Four Seasons cover and Liquid Gold who have also made a slow climb hold on to number 2. "Call Me" enters at a lowly #21 but will leap up to #2 next week and "Geno" climbs from 37 to 29 but will leap up to #12 next week and #2 the week after that. In this chart, it has now made its way to #2.

Billy Joel holds at #5 with the US single release "You May Be Right" whilst his UK single release "All For Leyna" gets the highest entry, these from his "Glass Houses" album.

Kenny Rogers usually does better for me with this more uptempo country songs that tell stories than the slower ballads, but in what isn't that strong a week "Don't Fall In Love With A Dreamer" bags the second highest entry, and it introduces us to Kim Carnes. The two voices will later blend together on "We Are The World" when they sing a line together.

Below those we have a current Haven Factor contestant but not his strongest song and a former winner and I can't remember whether "A Forest" got used and if so when but for me they've also done a lot stronger songs, but this is a chart debut.

[Earl Purple]

19 April 1980

1 ( 1 ) Going Underground - Jam < 3rd week at #1 >
2 ( 2 ) Geno - Dexy's Midnight Runners
3 ( 4 ) Night Boat To Cairo - Madness
4 ( 6 ) My Perfect Cousin - Undertones
5 ( 3 ) Spirit Of Radio - Rush (#1[2])
6 ( 5 ) You May Be Right - Billy Joel (#5)
7 ( 7 ) Living After Midnight - Judas Priest
8 ( 11 ) Toccata - Sky
9 ( -- ) Funkytown - Lipps Inc
10 ( 13 ) Talk Of The Town - Pretenders

11 ( 22 ) All For Leyna - Billy Joel
12 ( 15 ) Modern Girl - Sheena Easton
13 ( 10 ) Missing Words - Selecter (#10)
14 ( 17 ) Silver Dream Machine - David Essex
15 ( 9 ) Hold On To My Love - Jimmy Ruffin (#7)
16 ( 27 ) Don't Fall In Love With A Dreamer - Kenny Rogers & Kim Carnes
17 ( 8 ) Call Me - Blondie (#3)
18 ( 14 ) Check Out The Groove - Bobby Thurston (#14)
19 ( 23 ) Clean Clean - Buggles
20 ( -- ) Biggest Part Of Me - Ambrosia

21 ( 16 ) Any Way You Want It - Journey (#16)
22 ( 24 ) I've Never Been In Love - Suzi Quatro
23 ( -- ) Coming Up - Paul McCartney
24 ( 26 ) Dear Miss Lonely Hearts - Phil Lynott
25 ( 12 ) Turn It On Again - Genesis (#6)
26 ( 36 ) High Fidelity - Elvis Costello & The Attractions
27 ( -- ) Do You Remember Rock N Roll Radio - Ramones
28 ( 37 ) A Forest - Cure
29 ( 31 ) Rough Boys - Pete Townshend
30 ( -- ) Staring At The Rude Boys - Ruts

31 ( 19 ) My Oh My - Sad Cafe (#12)
32 ( 28 ) Outside My Window - Stevie Wonder (#28)
33 ( 21 ) That's The Way The Money Goes - M (#15)
34 ( 43 ) Love And Loneliness - Motors
35 ( 18 ) Atomic - Blondie (#1[3])
36 ( 20 ) Lost In Love - Air Supply (#6)
37 ( 25 ) Let's Do Rock Steady - Bodysnatchers (#16)
38 ( 32 ) Set Me Free - Utopia (#32)
39 ( 39 ) I'm The Face - High Numbers
40 ( 46 ) Don't Make Waves - Nolans

41 ( -- ) The Groove - Rodney Franklin
42 ( 35 ) Think About Me - Fleetwood Mac (#35)
43 ( 29 ) Wheels Of Steel - Saxon (#24)
44 ( 49 ) Tell The Children - Sham 69
45 ( -- ) Breakdown Dead Ahead - Boz Scaggs
46 ( 50 ) Hollywood Tease - Girl
47 ( 33 ) All I Ever Wanted - Santana (#26)
48 ( 30 ) Food For Thought - UB40 (#9)
49 ( -- ) In The Thick Of It - Brenda Russell
50 ( 41 ) No-One Driving - John Foxx (#40)

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-- ( 34 ) Sexy Eyes - Dr Hook (#17)
-- ( 38 ) Echo Beach - Martha & The Muffins (#2[1])
-- ( 40 ) Bear Cage - Stranglers (#30)
-- ( 42 ) Happy House - Siouxsie & The Banshees (#23)
-- ( 44 ) My World - Secret Affair (#12)
-- ( 45 ) Don't Push It Don't Force It - Leon Haywood (#25)
-- ( 47 ) The Trial Of Hissing Sid - Keith Michell (#43)
-- ( 48 ) Ride Like The Wind - Christopher Cross (#4)

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-- ( -- ) Heart Hotels - Dan Fogelberg
-- ( -- ) Hurt So Bad - Linda Ronstadt
-- ( -- ) Take Good Care Of My Baby - Smokie
-- ( -- ) Tell Me On A Sunday - Marti Webb
-- ( -- ) I Can't Help It - Andy Gibb
-- ( -- ) Girl (It's All I Have) - Shy

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So for 1980 has been very rock-dominated, and whilst these 3 weeks (i.e. this week and the next two, which constitute a single playlist) do contain some rock, there's more of a dance/disco nature to many of the big entries, and one of those is "Funkytown", a song that was later given a rock cover, but which reached #1 in the USA and #2 in the UK. Lipps Inc is primarily the brainchild of Steven Greenberg, a Jewish composer/producer from Minneapolous, and singer Cynthia Johnson. They did have a #64 single in Billboard prior to this but it was their only top 40 hit and their only UK hit.

Ambrosia get their first hit in 5 years, "Holdin' On To Yesterday" reached #31 in 1975, but they had a couple of flops after that including their Beatles cover and "How Much I Feel" but the soft-rock song that reached #3 in the USA gets the second highest entry.

There are two versions of "Coming Up", the studio version reached #2 in the UK and a live version #1 in the USA, but I'm only charting one version.

And now finally some rock, and this Ramones song is so much better than their cover of "Baby I Love You", more of how I remember them, and the Ruts getting another hit with the term "Rude Boys" appearing to be quite popular now in the ska revival age.

[Earl Purple]

26 April 1980

1 ( 1 ) Going Underground - Jam < 4th week at #1 >
2 ( 2 ) Geno - Dexy's Midnight Runners
3 ( 9 ) Funky Town - Lipps Inc
4 ( 3 ) Night Boat To Cairo - Madness (#3)
5 ( 4 ) My Perfect Cousin - Undertones (#4)
6 ( 11 ) All For Leyna - Billy Joel
7 ( 8 ) Toccata - Sky
8 ( 20 ) Biggest Part Of Me - Ambrosia
9 ( 7 ) Living After Midnight - Judas Priest (#7)
10 ( 5 ) Spirit Of Radio - Rush (#1[2])

11 ( 6 ) You May Be Right - Billy Joel (#5)
12 ( -- ) Let's Go Round Again - Average White Band
13 ( 10 ) Talk Of The Town - Pretenders (#10)
14 ( 23 ) Coming Up - Paul McCartney
15 ( 16 ) Don't Fall In Love With A Dreamer - Kenny Rogers & Kim Carnes
16 ( 12 ) Modern Girl - Sheena Easton (#12)
17 ( -- ) Fool For Your Loving - Whitesnake
18 ( 14 ) Silver Dream Machine - David Essex (#14)
19 ( 27 ) Do You Remember Rock N Roll Radio - Ramones
20 ( 30 ) Staring At The Rude Boys - Ruts

21 ( 19 ) Clean Clean - Buggles (#19)
22 ( 13 ) Missing Words - Selecter (#10)
23 ( -- ) Platinum Blonde - Prelude
24 ( -- ) The Rose - Bette Midler
25 ( 26 ) High Fidelity - Elvis Costello & The Attractions
26 ( 22 ) I've Never Been In Love - Suzi Quatro (#22)
27 ( 15 ) Hold On To My Love - Jimmy Ruffin (#7)
28 ( 28 ) A Forest - Cure
29 ( 18 ) Check Out The Groove - Bobby Thurston (#14)
30 ( 24 ) Dear Miss Lonely Hearts - Phil Lynott (#24)

31 ( -- ) Just Can't Give You Up - Mystic Merlin
32 ( 41 ) The Groove - Rodney Franklin
33 ( -- ) Train In Vain (Stand By Me) - Clash
34 ( 21 ) Any Way You Want It - Journey (#16)
35 ( 17 ) Call Me - Blondie (#3)
36 ( 34 ) Love And Loneliness - Motors (#34)
37 ( 29 ) Rough Boys - Pete Townshend (#29)
38 ( -- ) I Shoulda Loved Ya - Narada Michael Walden
39 ( 45 ) Breakdown Dead Ahead - Boz Scaggs
40 ( -- ) The Seduction - James Last

41 ( -- ) This World Of Water - New Musik
42 ( 49 ) In The Thick Of It - Brenda Russell
43 ( 40 ) Don't Make Waves - Nolans (#40)
44 ( -- ) Breathing - Kate Bush
45 ( 32 ) Outside My Window - Stevie Wonder (#28)
46 ( 25 ) Turn It On Again - Genesis (#6)
47 ( 39 ) I'm The Face - High Numbers (#39)
48 ( 44 ) Tell The Children - Sham 69 (#44)
49 ( 46 ) Hollywood Tease - Girl (#46)
50 ( 31 ) My Oh My - Sad Cafe (#12)

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-- ( 33 ) That's The Way The Money Goes - M (#15)
-- ( 35 ) Atomic - Blondie (#1[3])
-- ( 36 ) Lost In Love - Air Supply (#6)
-- ( 37 ) Let's Do Rock Steady - Bodysnatchers (#16)
-- ( 38 ) Set Me Free - Utopia (#32)
-- ( 42 ) Think About Me - Fleetwood Mac (#35)
-- ( 43 ) Wheels Of Steel - Saxon (#24)
-- ( 47 ) All I Ever Wanted - Santana (#26)
-- ( 48 ) Food For Thought - UB40 (#9)
-- ( 50 ) No-One Driving - John Foxx (#40)

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-- ( -- ) Something's Missing - Chords
-- ( -- ) The Greatest Cockney Ripoff - Cockney Rejects
-- ( -- ) My Friend Jack - Boney M
-- ( -- ) Love Enough For Two - Prima Donna

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The first single to remain at #1 for 4 weeks since "I Don't Like Mondays" last year, "Going Underground" refuses to budge. "Geno" is still #2 and is also #2 in the UK this week as "Call Me" is UK #1 and also #1 in the USA but having reached #3 has fallen to #35 now here.

"Pick Up The Pieces" was a mostly instrumental jazz-funk song with a few spoken words of the title. "Let's Go Round Again" though is a straightforward pop song, you'd hardly know it was the same act. Not sure how much the line-up has changed.

David Coverdale's Whitesnake is back with their real breakthrough having had a minor hit prior to this. This song is also on my annual "Fool song" playlist.

Also unrecognisable from their previous hit, Prelude covered Neil Young's "After The Goldrush" a-cappella style but "Platinum Blonde" is a haunting pop song that tells a story that ends with a murder. I've often pondered if it was based on a true story, and haven't managed to find a source to suggest it was, but thousands of people die from shootings in the USA every year, many of them killed by their own family, so whilst the story itself may have been made-up, there sadly probably were a few true similar cases.

Bette Midler's song from a film was of course a UK #1 much later for Westlife but her version reached #3 in the USA. The Clash song was also a hit only in the USA.

Mystic Merlin's song is a jazz/R&B blend, not on Spotify for some reason.

Looking at what failed to chart, I've never liked the Prima Donna song, although it somehow came 3rd in the contest. Johnny Logan's winner was far better but wasn't my favourite entry that year either. Two pretty French twins aged 17 with a song written by a German composer who also had another entry in the contest and represented Luxembourg (as their entries rarely had any connection with the country) was my favourite entry of 1980. Unfortunately the twins had a tragic ending, one of them died of AIDS in 1996 and the other died just a few years ago.

[Good Old Days]

From ESC my top 2 are "Love Enough For Two" and "Amsterdam".
Luxembourg was 4th and Logan closed top 5.

[Earl Purple]

ok, very twee but let's show it here:

[Earl Purple]

3 May 1980

1 ( 3 ) Funkytown - Lipps Inc < 1st #1 >
2 ( 1 ) Going Underground - Jam (#1[4])
3 ( 2 ) Geno - Dexy's Midnight Runners (#2[3])
4 ( 12 ) Let's Go Round Again - Average White Band
5 ( 8 ) Biggest Part Of Me - Ambrosia
6 ( 6 ) All For Leyna - Billy Joel
7 ( 4 ) Night Boat To Cairo - Madness (#3)
8 ( 17 ) Fool For Your Loving - Whitesnake
9 ( 5 ) My Perfect Cousin - Undertones (#4)
10 ( 7 ) Toccata - Sky (#7)

11 ( -- ) She's Out Of My Life - Michael Jackson
12 ( 14 ) Coming Up - Paul McCartney
13 ( 23 ) Platinum Blonde - Prelude
14 ( -- ) You Gave Me Love - Crown Heights Affair
15 ( 24 ) The Rose - Bette Midler
16 ( -- ) No Doubt About It - Hot Chocolate
17 ( 9 ) Living After Midnight - Judas Priest (#7)
18 ( -- ) Steal Away - Robbie Dupree
19 ( 20 ) Staring At The Rude Boys - Ruts
20 ( 19 ) Do You Remember Rock N Roll Radio - Ramones (#19)

21 ( 15 ) Don't Fall In Love With A Dreamer - Kenny Rogers & Kim Carnes (#15)
22 ( 10 ) Spirit Of Radio - Rush (#1[2])
23 ( 31 ) Just Can't Give You Up - Mystic Merlin
24 ( 13 ) Talk Of The Town - Pretenders (#10)
25 ( 11 ) You May Be Right - Billy Joel (#5)
26 ( 33 ) Train In Vain (Stand By Me) - Clash
27 ( -- ) Mirror In The Bathroom - Beat
28 ( 16 ) Modern Girl - Sheena Easton (#12)
29 ( 38 ) I Shoulda Loved Ya - Narada Michael Walden
30 ( 18 ) Silver Dream Machine - David Essex (#14)

31 ( -- ) What's Another Year - Johnny Logan
32 ( 21 ) Clean Clean - Buggles (#19)
33 ( 40 ) The Seduction - James Last
34 ( 25 ) High Fidelity - Elvis Costello & The Attractions (#25)
35 ( 32 ) The Groove - Rodney Franklin (#32)
36 ( 41 ) This World Of Water - New Musik
37 ( -- ) Let's Get Serious - Jermaine Jackson
38 ( 28 ) A Forest - Cure (#28)
39 ( 44 ) Breathing - Kate Bush
40 ( 26 ) I've Never Been In Love - Suzi Quatro (#22)

41 ( -- ) Being Boiled - Human League
42 ( 22 ) Missing Words - Selecter (#10)
43 ( 39 ) Breakdown Dead Ahead - Boz Scaggs (#39)
44 ( 42 ) In The Thick Of It - Brenda Russell (#42)
45 ( 30 ) Dear Miss Lonely Hearts - Phil Lynott (#24)
46 ( -- ) Police And Thieves - Junior Murvin
47 ( 36 ) Love And Loneliness - Motors (#34)
48 ( -- ) So Long - Fischer-Z
49 ( 27 ) Hold On To My Love - Jimmy Ruffin (#7)
50 ( -- ) Wondering Where The Lions Are - Bruce Cockburn

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-- ( 29 ) Check Out The Groove - Bobby Thurston (#14)
-- ( 34 ) Any Way You Want It - Journey (#16)
-- ( 35 ) Call Me - Blondie (#3)
-- ( 37 ) Rough Boys - Pete Townshend (#29)
-- ( 43 ) Don't Make Waves - Nolans (#40)
-- ( 45 ) Outside My Window - Stevie Wonder (#28)
-- ( 46 ) Turn It On Again - Genesis (#6)
-- ( 47 ) I'm The Face - High Numbers (#39)
-- ( 48 ) Tell The Children - Sham 69 (#44)
-- ( 49 ) Hollywood Tease - Girl (#46)
-- ( 50 ) My Oh My - Sad Cafe (#12)

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-- ( -- ) Let Me Be The Clock - Smokey Robinson
-- ( -- ) Dead Men Tell No Tales - Motorhead
-- ( -- ) Starting Over Again - Dolly Parton
-- ( -- ) The Bucket Of Water Song - Four Bucketeers

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After 4 weeks of the Jam at number one, "Funkytown" gets to the top, and is the first "disco" song to reach NM #1 since Chic reached the top for Christmas 1978 with "Le Freak". "Geno" only reached #1 in the UK on this week on its 7th week in the UK top 40: in this chart its run has been 11-5-3-2-2-2-3

Part 3 of "sounding nothing like they did before" we have Michael Jackson, whose recent hits at least have been uptempo disco songs now doing a very slow ballad. The song was written by Tom Bahler and the string arrangement was done by Johnny Mandel - we'll meet him again soon. His brother also has a new entry, that one doing the kind of song Michael is more associated with.

"You Gave Me Love" is another jolly dance-orientated pop song, Crown Heights Affair having had a reasonably big hit in 1978 with "Galaxy Of Love" plus I think a couple of much smaller ones.

Hot Chocolate with their tale of a UFO, apparently it landed somewhere near the western extension of Hampstead Heath in 1979. Robbie Dupree reached #6 in the USA with "Steal Away" and then the Beat's UK #4 hit "Mirror In The Bathroom".

I said it was far better than Prima Donna, but Johnny Logan still only good enough for a #31 entry this week. There appear to be 2 versions of the song - one of them is the version I am used to, and it seems to be unfairly hated, but the saxophone instrumentation is really beautiful.

The Human League make their debut even lower down - this song was the lead track from the "Holiday 80" EP, but was a standalone #6 hit in the UK chart in 1982 after they had "broken big".

Among those failing to chart are Motorhead and Dolly Parton, the former actually getting to the UK top 10 with this song (lead track from the Golden Years EP) but I'm expecting Motorhead to have a massive hit later this year and Dolly Parton to have one in early 1981. Smokey Robinson too is likely to find success in 1981 with his big UK hit.

[Good Old Days]

"The Bucket Of Water Song" is the one from my favourite novelty songs.

[Earl Purple]

10 May 1980

1 ( 1 ) Funky Town - Lipps Inc < 2nd week at #1 >
2 ( 4 ) Let's Go Round Again - Average White Band
3 ( 11 ) She's Out Of My Life - Michael Jackson
4 ( 2 ) Going Underground - Jam (#1[4])
5 ( 5 ) Biggest Part Of Me - Ambrosia
6 ( 14 ) You Gave Me Love - Crown Heights Affair
7 ( 8 ) Fool For Your Loving - Whitesnake
8 ( 3 ) Geno - Dexy's Midnight Runners (#2[3])
9 ( 16 ) No Doubt About It - Hot Chocolate
10 ( 18 ) Steal Away - Robbie Dupree

11 ( -- ) You'll Always Find Me In The Kitchen At Parties - Jona Lewie
12 ( 6 ) All For Leyna - Billy Joel (#6)
13 ( 13 ) Platinum Blonde - Prelude
14 ( -- ) Midnite Dynamos - Matchbox
15 ( 15 ) The Rose - Bette Midler
16 ( 7 ) Night Boat To Cairo - Madness (#3)
17 ( 12 ) Coming Up - Paul McCartney (#12)
18 ( -- ) Messages - Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
19 ( 27 ) Mirror In The Bathroom - Beat
20 ( -- ) Pulling Mussels (From The Shell) - Squeeze

21 ( 10 ) Toccata - Sky (#7)
22 ( 9 ) My Perfect Cousin - Undertones (#4)
23 ( -- ) Little Jeannie - Elton John
24 ( 31 ) What's Another Year - Johnny Logan
25 ( 23 ) Just Can't Give You Up - Mystic Merlin (#23)
26 ( 19 ) Staring At The Rude Boys - Ruts (#19)
27 ( -- ) Crying - Don McLean
28 ( -- ) Suicide Is Painless - M*A*S*H
29 ( 26 ) Train In Vain (Stand By Me) - Clash (#26)
30 ( 37 ) Let's Get Serious - Jermaine Jackson

31 ( 20 ) Do You Remember Rock N Roll Radio - Ramones (#19)
32 ( 29 ) I Shoulda Loved Ya - Narada Michael Walden (#29)
33 ( 17 ) Living After Midnight - Judas Priest (#7)
34 ( 41 ) Being Boiled - Human League
35 ( 21 ) Don't Fall In Love With A Dreamer - Kenny Rogers & Kim Carnes (#15)
36 ( 33 ) The Seduction - James Last (#33)
37 ( 46 ) Police And Thieves - Junior Murvin
38 ( 36 ) This World Of Water - New Musik (#36)
39 ( 48 ) So Long - Fischer-Z
40 ( -- ) Against The Wind - Bob Seger

41 ( 22 ) Spirit Of Radio - Rush (#1[2])
42 ( 39 ) Breathing - Kate Bush (#39)
43 ( 24 ) Talk Of The Town - Pretenders (#10)
44 ( 50 ) Wondering Where The Lions Are - Bruce Cockburn
45 ( -- ) No Self Control - Peter Gabriel
46 ( 35 ) The Groove - Rodney Franklin (#32)
47 ( 25 ) You May Be Right - Billy Joel (#5)
48 ( 28 ) Modern Girl - Sheena Easton (#12)
49 ( 30 ) Silver Dream Machine - David Essex (#14)
50 ( 34 ) High Fidelity - Elvis Costello & The Attractions (#25)

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-- ( 32 ) Clean Clean - Buggles (#19)
-- ( 38 ) A Forest - Cure (#28)
-- ( 40 ) I've Never Been In Love - Suzi Quatro (#22)
-- ( 42 ) Missing Words - Selecter (#10)
-- ( 43 ) Breakdown Dead Ahead - Boz Scaggs (#39)
-- ( 44 ) In The Thick Of It - Brenda Russell (#42)
-- ( 45 ) Dear Miss Lonely Hearts - Phil Lynott (#24)
-- ( 47 ) Love And Loneliness - Motors (#34)
-- ( 49 ) Hold On To My Love - Jimmy Ruffin (#7)

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-- ( -- ) Headed For A Fall - Firefall
-- ( -- ) Body Language - Spinners
-- ( -- ) Should've Never Let You Go - Neil Sedaka & Dara Sedaka
-- ( -- ) Gee Whiz - Bernadette Peters
-- ( -- ) Lady - Whispers

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Jona Lewie previously charted with Terry Dactyl & The Dinosaurs but the first of his brilliant two hits from 1980 enters this week. Matchbox's rockabilly revival for me reaches its peak with this song - and someone at school really loved this one too. They were on Top of the Pops driving in a cadillac and looking very 50s.

After a flop with Red Frame White Heat, OMD finally do break into the chart with "Messages" which was also a far bigger hit in the UK for them.

Another of those "did this really miss the top 40" moments, "Pulling Mussels From A Shell" is such a classic Squeeze song, and "Little Jeannie" peaked in the 30s in the UK, but in the USA was a #3 hit (in a sequence of number 3s that started with Air Supply, followed by Ambrosia, Bette Midler, Elton John and later "that" Rolling Stones song).

I was surprised to see these two UK #1s entered next to each other outside the top 40 this week, M.A.S.H climbed quite slowly to the top and Don McLean like a snail 3 weeks after that. I mentioned Johnny Mandel for the Michael Jackson hit and now he has his own hit, as he is behind the M.A.S.H hit, writing the tune and providing the instrumentation. It dates back to 1970 though for the film, so the 15-year-old son of the film's producer who wrote the lyrics is now 25 and enjoying the royalty cheques as an adult.

In that decade since it was out originally, Don McLean managed a 7-week number one with "American Pie" on this chart and two #2 hits. He wrote those himself but of course "Crying" was written by Roy Orbison and is the first of two covers of NM #1s from 1961 that are coming from this playlist.

"Against The Wind" was a top 5 hit in the USA. I recall singing it when cycling to school sometimes if I was cycling against the wind, something I decided was far more difficult than cycling uphill.

After a massive number 1, Peter Gabriel only just scrapes into the top 50. His next single will be "Biko" so I'm expecting that one to do somewhat better.

Among those not charting, the Spinners' one is a re-issue from 1979 on the success of their last big hit. This is mostly a new song but samples a bit of Michael Zager's "Let's All Chant" near the end. In actual fact Michael Zager is their producer at this time, and also wrote the "extra" bits on their two big covers of this year (i.e. "Forgive Me Girl" and "I've Loved You For A Long Time"). Also not charting is Neil Sedaka's duet with his daughter.

[Earl Purple]

17 May 1980

1 ( 1 ) Funky Town - Lipps Inc < 3rd week at #1 >
2 ( 11 ) You'll Always Find Me In The Kitchen At Parties - Jona Lewie
3 ( 3 ) She's Out Of My Life - Michael Jackson
4 ( 2 ) Let's Go Round Again - Average White Band (#2[1])
5 ( 6 ) You Gave Me Love - Crown Heights Affair
6 ( 14 ) Midnite Dynamos - Matchbox
7 ( 5 ) Biggest Part Of Me - Ambrosia (#5)
8 ( 9 ) No Doubt About It - Hot Chocolate
9 ( 10 ) Steal Away - Robbie Dupree
10 ( 18 ) Messages - Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark

11 ( 4 ) Going Underground - Jam (#1[4])
12 ( 7 ) Fool For Your Loving - Whitesnake (#7)
13 ( 20 ) Pulling Mussels (From The Shell) - Squeeze
14 ( 23 ) Little Jeannie - Elton John
15 ( 27 ) Crying - Don McLean
16 ( 28 ) Suicide Is Painless - M*A*S*H
17 ( 13 ) Platinum Blonde - Prelude (#13)
18 ( 8 ) Geno - Dexy's Midnight Runners (#2[3])
19 ( 19 ) Mirror In The Bathroom - Beat
20 ( 15 ) The Rose - Bette Midler (#15)

21 ( 12 ) All For Leyna - Billy Joel (#6)
22 ( 24 ) What's Another Year - Johnny Logan
23 ( 17 ) Coming Up - Paul McCartney (#12)
24 ( -- ) Over You - Roxy Music
25 ( 40 ) Against The Wind - Bob Seger
26 ( -- ) Twilight Zone - Manhattan Transfer
27 ( 30 ) Let's Get Serious - Jermaine Jackson
28 ( 16 ) Night Boat To Cairo - Madness (#3)
29 ( -- ) We Live For Love - Pat Benatar
30 ( 25 ) Just Can't Give You Up - Mystic Merlin (#23)

31 ( -- ) The Eyes Have It - Karel Fialka
32 ( 34 ) Being Boiled - Human League
33 ( -- ) Irene - Photos
34 ( 45 ) No Self Control - Peter Gabriel
35 ( 37 ) Police And Thieves - Junior Murvin
36 ( -- ) Back Together Again - Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway
37 ( 39 ) So Long - Fischer-Z
38 ( 21 ) Toccata - Sky (#7)
39 ( 29 ) Train In Vain (Stand By Me) - Clash (#26)
40 ( 26 ) Staring At The Rude Boys - Ruts (#19)

41 ( 22 ) My Perfect Cousin - Undertones (#4)
42 ( 32 ) I Shoulda Loved Ya - Narada Michael Walden (#29)
43 ( -- ) Rudi Got Married - Laurel Aitken & The Unitone
44 ( 44 ) Wondering Where The Lions Are - Bruce Cockburn
45 ( 36 ) The Seduction - James Last (#33)
46 ( 38 ) This World Of Water - New Musik (#36)
47 ( 31 ) Do You Remember Rock N Roll Radio - Ramones (#19)
48 ( -- ) Shante - Mass Production
49 ( -- ) Teenage - UK Subs
50 ( 42 ) Breathing - Kate Bush (#39)

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-- ( 33 ) Living After Midnight - Judas Priest (#7)
-- ( 35 ) Don't Fall In Love With A Dreamer - Kenny Rogers & Kim Carnes (#15)
-- ( 41 ) Spirit Of Radio - Rush (#1[2])
-- ( 43 ) Talk Of The Town - Pretenders (#10)
-- ( 46 ) The Groove - Rodney Franklin (#32)
-- ( 47 ) You May Be Right - Billy Joel (#5)
-- ( 48 ) Modern Girl - Sheena Easton (#12)
-- ( 49 ) Silver Dream Machine - David Essex (#14)
-- ( 50 ) High Fidelity - Elvis Costello & The Attractions (#25)

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-- ( -- ) Rescue - Echo & The Bunnymen
-- ( -- ) I Don't Want To Walk Without You - Barry Manilow
-- ( -- ) Duchess - Genesis
-- ( -- ) I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles - Cockney Rejects

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Lipps Inc get a third week at #1, only the 3rd number one this year so far to manage this, but Jona Lewie's leap suggests it's unlikely to get a 4th.

Jona Lewie's song presumably was there to teach me party etiquette - if I'm invited to a party but am not in a relationship I should remain in the kitchen, and try to form one there, after which I may leave the kitchen. I wasn't actually invited to that many parties. And when I was, I usually didn't enjoy them that much.

Among the new entries is the new Roxy Music as the highest entry, sticking to the somewhat smoother sound we will get used to, and a debut for Karel Fialka whose other single "Hey Matthew" will be out in 1987. "Back Together Again" was posthumous for Donny Hathaway who died in 1979, it reached #3 in the UK.

No debut this week though for Echo & The Bunnymen, they'll have to wait a bit longer. Genesis suffered from there not being a 7" edit available on Spotify, if there was one in the first place, and having to wait for absolutely ages before anything happened. The single didn't reach the UK top 40 but was on the album "Duke". Before Genesis chart again we'll get into Phil Collins's solo career.

"Rudi Got Married" sounds like it's probably a reissue of a late 1960s song but I couldn't find any reference to it being any older than 1980, so it's probably just based on the revival, but I've been introduced to the vocabulary of "Rudy" or "Rudi" and the seemingly associated "Rude Boys", and also the term "Yaga Yaga" appears in this song, having been introduced to it by Errol Dunkley in his 1979 hit "Ok Fred", although I've never known what it meant.

[Earl Purple]

24 May 1980

1 ( 2 ) You'll Always Find Me In The Kitchen At Parties - Jona Lewie < 1st #1 >
2 ( 3 ) She's Out Of My Life - Michael Jackson
3 ( 1 ) Funky Town - Lipps Inc (#1[3])
4 ( 6 ) Midnite Dynamos - Matchbox
5 ( 5 ) You Gave Me Love - Crown Heights Affair
6 ( 4 ) Let's Go Round Again - Average White Band (#2[1])
7 ( 10 ) Messages - Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
8 ( 8 ) No Doubt About It - Hot Chocolate
9 ( -- ) It's Still Rock & Roll To Me - Billy Joel
10 ( 9 ) Steal Away - Robbie Dupree (#9)

11 ( 15 ) Crying - Don McLean
12 ( 13 ) Pulling Mussels (From The Shell) - Squeeze
13 ( 14 ) Little Jeannie - Elton John
14 ( 7 ) Biggest Part Of Me - Ambrosia (#5)
15 ( 16 ) Suicide Is Painless - M*A*S*H
16 ( 24 ) Over You - Roxy Music
17 ( -- ) Cupid (I've Loved You For A Long Time) - Spinners
18 ( 26 ) Twilight Zone - Manhattan Transfer
19 ( 29 ) We Live For Love - Pat Benatar
20 ( -- ) Everybody's Got To Learn Sometime - Korgis

21 ( 31 ) The Eyes Have It - Karel Fialka
22 ( 25 ) Against The Wind - Bob Seger
23 ( -- ) Rat Race - Specials
24 ( 12 ) Fool For Your Loving - Whitesnake (#7)
25 ( 33 ) Irene - Photos
26 ( -- ) I'm Alive - Electric Light Orchestra
27 ( 11 ) Going Underground - Jam (#1[4])
28 ( 19 ) Mirror In The Bathroom - Beat (#19)
29 ( 36 ) Back Together Again - Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway
30 ( 22 ) What's Another Year - Johnny Logan (#22)

31 ( 17 ) Platinum Blonde - Prelude (#13)
32 ( -- ) D-A-A-Ance - Lambrettas
33 ( 27 ) Let's Get Serious - Jermaine Jackson (#27)
34 ( 20 ) The Rose - Bette Midler (#15)
35 ( -- ) We Are Glass - Gary Numan
36 ( 34 ) No Self Control - Peter Gabriel (#34)
37 ( 43 ) Rudi Got Married - Laurel Aitken & The Unitone
38 ( 18 ) Geno - Dexy's Midnight Runners (#2[3])
39 ( 23 ) Coming Up - Paul McCartney (#12)
40 ( 21 ) All For Leyna - Billy Joel (#6)

41 ( 32 ) Being Boiled - Human League (#32)
42 ( -- ) Dreams - Grace Slick
43 ( 48 ) Shante - Mass Production
44 ( 35 ) Police And Thieves - Junior Murvin (#35)
45 ( 49 ) Teenage - UK Subs
46 ( -- ) Chinatown - Thin Lizzy
47 ( 37 ) So Long - Fischer-Z (#37)
48 ( 30 ) Just Can't Give You Up - Mystic Merlin (#23)
49 ( -- ) Let Me Love You Tonight - Pure Prairie League
50 ( -- ) Love Stinks - J Geils Band

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-- ( 28 ) Night Boat To Cairo - Madness (#3)
-- ( 38 ) Toccata - Sky (#7)
-- ( 39 ) Train In Vain (Stand By Me) - Clash (#26)
-- ( 40 ) Staring At The Rude Boys - Ruts (#19)
-- ( 41 ) My Perfect Cousin - Undertones (#4)
-- ( 42 ) I Shoulda Loved Ya - Narada Michael Walden (#29)
-- ( 44 ) Wondering Where The Lions Are - Bruce Cockburn
-- ( 45 ) The Seduction - James Last (#33)
-- ( 46 ) This World Of Water - New Musik (#36)
-- ( 47 ) Do You Remember Rock N Roll Radio - Ramones (#19)
-- ( 50 ) Breathing - Kate Bush (#39)

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-- ( -- ) Heartbeat - Sammy Hagar
-- ( -- ) Nobody's Hero - Stiff Little Fingers
-- ( -- ) Don't Say Goodnight - Isley Brothers
-- ( -- ) It's Alright - Sho Nuff

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Jona Lewie gets to #1. Although Kirsty MacColl appeared on Top of the Pops as one of his backing vocalists, she wasn't on the studio recording.

The highest entry is the new single by Billy Joel which reached #1 in the USA and was also released in the UK going top 20, although he didn't get a top 10 hit in the UK until his number one.

"Cupid" like "Crying" was an NM #1 in 1961, this one for Sam Cooke, who were in the chart the same time the Spinners' first US top 40 hit "That's What Girls Are Made For" came out. The extra part "I've Loved You For A Long Time" was added by Michael Zager.

Quite a lot of good entries this week - a classic ballad by the Korgis, we have the Specials and E.L.O who will be along soon accompanying Olivia Newton John, who will also have a solo hit out at the same time, and all from the soundtrack of Xanadu. A shame the film wasn't as good as the music.

[Earl Purple]

31 May 1980

1 ( 1 ) You'll Always Find Me In The Kitchen At Parties - Jona Lewie < 2nd week at #1 >
2 ( 2 ) She's Out Of My Life - Michael Jackson
3 ( 9 ) It's Still Rock & Roll To Me - Billy Joel
4 ( -- ) Theme From New York New York - Frank Sinatra
5 ( 4 ) Midnite Dynamos - Matchbox (#4)
6 ( 7 ) Messages - Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
7 ( 5 ) You Gave Me Love - Crown Heights Affair (#5)
8 ( 3 ) Funky Town - Lipps Inc (#1[3])
9 ( 17 ) Cupid (I've Loved You For A Long Time) - Spinners
10 ( 20 ) Everybody's Got To Learn Sometime - Korgis

11 ( -- ) To Be Or Not To Be - B.A. Robertson
12 ( 8 ) No Doubt About It - Hot Chocolate (#8)
13 ( 6 ) Let's Go Round Again - Average White Band (#2[1])
14 ( 11 ) Crying - Don McLean (#11)
15 ( 23 ) Rat Race - Specials
16 ( 16 ) Over You - Roxy Music
17 ( 12 ) Pulling Mussels (From The Shell) - Squeeze (#12)
18 ( 10 ) Steal Away - Robbie Dupree (#9)
19 ( 26 ) I'm Alive - Electric Light Orchestra
20 ( 13 ) Little Jeannie - Elton John (#13)

21 ( 19 ) We Live For Love - Pat Benatar (#19)
22 ( 18 ) Twilight Zone - Manhattan Transfer (#18)
23 ( 15 ) Suicide Is Painless - M*A*S*H (#15)
24 ( 21 ) The Eyes Have It - Karel Fialka (#21)
25 ( 32 ) D-A-A-Ance - Lambrettas
26 ( -- ) Behind The Groove - Teena Marie
27 ( 25 ) Irene - Photos (#25)
28 ( 35 ) We Are Glass - Gary Numan
29 ( 22 ) Against The Wind - Bob Seger (#22)
30 ( 14 ) Biggest Part Of Me - Ambrosia (#5)

31 ( -- ) Substitute - Liquid Gold
32 ( -- ) The Scratch - Surface Noise
33 ( 29 ) Back Together Again - Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway (#29)
34 ( -- ) Ashes And Diamonds - Zaine Griff
35 ( 42 ) Dreams - Grace Slick
36 ( 46 ) Chinatown - Thin Lizzy
37 ( -- ) Let's Hang On - Darts
38 ( 37 ) Rudi Got Married - Laurel Aitken & The Unitone (#37)
39 ( 49 ) Let Me Love You Tonight - Pure Prairie League
40 ( -- ) Who You Lookin' At - Salford Jets

41 ( 50 ) Love Stinks - J Geils Band
42 ( 24 ) Fool For Your Loving - Whitesnake (#7)
43 ( 28 ) Mirror In The Bathroom - Beat (#19)
44 ( 30 ) What's Another Year - Johnny Logan (#22)
45 ( 36 ) No Self Control - Peter Gabriel (#34)
46 ( 43 ) Shante - Mass Production (#43)
47 ( 33 ) Let's Get Serious - Jermaine Jackson (#27)
48 ( 45 ) Teenage - UK Subs (#45)
49 ( -- ) Shining Star - Manhattans
50 ( 27 ) Going Underground - Jam (#1[4])

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-- ( 31 ) Platinum Blonde - Prelude (#13)
-- ( 34 ) The Rose - Bette Midler (#15)
-- ( 38 ) Geno - Dexy's Midnight Runners (#2[3])
-- ( 39 ) Coming Up - Paul McCartney (#12)
-- ( 40 ) All For Leyna - Billy Joel (#6)
-- ( 41 ) Being Boiled - Human League (#32)
-- ( 44 ) Police And Thieves - Junior Murvin (#35)
-- ( 47 ) So Long - Fischer-Z (#37)
-- ( 48 ) Just Can't Give You Up - Mystic Merlin (#23)

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-- ( -- ) Make It Real - Scorpions
-- ( -- ) We Were Meant To Be Lovers - Photoglo
-- ( -- ) If Loving You Is Wrong - Rod Stewart
-- ( -- ) It's Written On Your Body - Ronnie Bond
-- ( -- ) Light Up The Night - Brothers Johnson

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We're getting to the "Top of the Pops blackout" period - due to strikes by the musicians union they didn't show it for about 2 months. In 2015 when they were doing the repeats and this came up, I created 4 "filler" episodes of my own, one every second week, with no repeated songs. The fact there was a different UK #1 in all those weeks made that possible. I also didn't really "select" what I played, anything that was a hit got in exactly once, it was just a matter of which week.

In any case it was based on the UK top 40 only and Frank Sinatra's narrowly got into the US top 40 but will miss the UK top 40 this year albeit it does reach the top 75, but will be a far bigger UK hit for him in 1986. However this classic leaps in at #4 suggesting he may get his first chart-topper on here since Christmas 1966 when "That's Life" was at the top of the chart. He also had an NM #1 in 1959 with "High Hopes" but failed to get one in the 1970s.

"To Be Or Not To Be" is the last B.A. Robertson hit, but he will write that Scottish world cup song of 1982 on which he also sang backing vocals, but of course he also wrote the lyrics for "The Living Years" by Mike & The Mechanics, which will get to NM #1.

"Behind The Groove" is the 3rd song of the year to contain the word "groove" following Bobby Thurston's "Behind The Groove" and Rodney Franklin's "The Groove" and this one peaked slightly higher than the latter of those to be highest chart placing although Madonna would of course trump the lot in 1985 (and Earth Wind & Fire's 1981 hit). Meanwhile Zaine Griff's entry is the first of three "ashes" hits, the second is "Ashes By Now" by Rodney Crowell and you know what the third one is...

"Substitute" is one of those song titles that in the NM chart was used twice for two completely different number ones, but it's unlikely Liquid Gold will make it 3.

"Let's Hang On" was NM #1 for the Four Seasons in 1965, spending 4 weeks on top, and their second of two NM #1s after "Walk Like A Man". Rod Stewart fails to chart with his cover, but Luther Ingram did take that song to NM #13 in 1972.

The Salford Jets were a punk band but the instrumentation used an organ - so did the Stranglers and later so did Inspiral Carpets.

[Earl Purple]

7 June 1980

1 ( 4 ) Theme From New York New York - Frank Sinatra < 3rd #1 >
2 ( 1 ) You'll Always Find Me In The Kitchen At Parties - Jona Lewie (#1[2])
3 ( 3 ) It's Still Rock & Roll To Me - Billy Joel
4 ( 11 ) To Be Or Not To Be - B.A. Robertson
5 ( 2 ) She's Out Of My Life - Michael Jackson (#2[2])
6 ( 9 ) Cupid (I've Loved You For A Long Time) - Spinners
7 ( 10 ) Everybody's Got To Learn Sometime - Korgis
8 ( 6 ) Messages - Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark (#6)
9 ( 5 ) Midnite Dynamos - Matchbox (#4)
10 ( 7 ) You Gave Me Love - Crown Heights Affair (#5)

11 ( 15 ) Rat Race - Specials
12 ( 19 ) I'm Alive - Electric Light Orchestra
13 ( 26 ) Behind The Groove - Teena Marie
14 ( -- ) New Amsterdam - Elvis Costello
15 ( 8 ) Funkytown - Lipps Inc (#1[3])
16 ( 31 ) Substitute - Liquid Gold
17 ( 16 ) Over You - Roxy Music (#16)
18 ( 12 ) No Doubt About It - Hot Chocolate (#8)
19 ( 32 ) The Scratch - Surface Noise
20 ( 14 ) Crying - Don McLean (#11)

21 ( 34 ) Ashes And Diamonds - Zaine Griff
22 ( 25 ) D-A-A-Ance - Lambrettas
23 ( 13 ) Let's Go Round Again - Average White Band (#2[1])
24 ( 37 ) Let's Hang On - Darts
25 ( 17 ) Pulling Mussels (From The Shell) - Squeeze (#12)
26 ( 28 ) We Are Glass - Gary Numan
27 ( 21 ) We Live For Love - Pat Benatar (#19)
28 ( 40 ) Who You Lookin' At - Salford Jets
29 ( -- ) Breaking The Law - Judas Priest
30 ( 22 ) Twilight Zone - Manhattan Transfer (#18)

31 ( 18 ) Steal Away - Robbie Dupree (#9)
32 ( 20 ) Little Jeannie - Elton John (#13)
33 ( 24 ) The Eyes Have It - Karel Fialka (#21)
34 ( 36 ) Chinatown - Thin Lizzy
35 ( -- ) See You Later - Regents
36 ( 27 ) Irene - Photos (#25)
37 ( 35 ) Dreams - Grace Slick (#35)
38 ( 23 ) Suicide Is Painless - M*A*S*H (#15)
39 ( 39 ) Let Me Love You Tonight - Pure Prairie League
40 ( -- ) Christine - Siouxsie & The Banshees

41 ( 41 ) Love Stinks - J Geils Band
42 ( 49 ) Shining Star - Manhattans
43 ( 29 ) Against The Wind - Bob Seger (#22)
44 ( -- ) Della And The Dealer - Hoyt Axton
45 ( 33 ) Back Together Again - Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway (#29)
46 ( -- ) Who Wants The World - Stranglers
47 ( 38 ) Rudi Got Married - Laurel Aitken & The Unitone (#37)
48 ( -- ) New Romance (It's A Mystery) - Spider
49 ( -- ) Sanctuary - Iron Maiden
50 ( 30 ) Biggest Part Of Me - Ambrosia (#5)

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-- ( 42 ) Fool For Your Loving - Whitesnake (#7)
-- ( 43 ) Mirror In The Bathroom - Beat (#19)
-- ( 44 ) What's Another Year - Johnny Logan (#22)
-- ( 45 ) No Self Control - Peter Gabriel (#34)
-- ( 46 ) Shante - Mass Production (#43)
-- ( 47 ) Let's Get Serious - Jermaine Jackson (#27)
-- ( 48 ) Teenage - UK Subs (#45)
-- ( 50 ) Going Underground - Jam (#1[4])

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-- ( -- ) Two Places At The Same Time - Ray Parker Jr
-- ( -- ) Keep In Touch - Freeez
-- ( -- ) Sweet Danger - Angel Witch

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I guess at the start of the year we wouldn't have seen that coming, but of course the "Theme From New York New York" is such a classic, it's hardly surprising it storms to number one.

The depth of this playlist felt to me that it had no really bad songs in it but also perhaps didn't have quite as many strong ones as the previous list. It's rather surprising that "Pulling Mussels From A Shell" and "Little Jeannie" both failed to reach the top 10 and even "Crying" which is a fairly good cover and that "Mirror In The Bathroom" could only reach #19 and "Let's Get Serious" #27. I'd say Johnny Logan's #22 peak is quite low too, I know people on here don't like that song, but actually if you listen to the right version the saxophone on it is really good and is the big selling point to me. The relatively low peaks of M*A*S*H and Roxy Music are also somewhat surprising but just shows the depth of what I had at the time to squeeze into the chart.

Of the new entries, the last Elvis Costello single "High Fidelity" did very badly, all his previous hits have reached the top 10 and it looks like "New Amsterdam" will return him there. He's a current Haven Factor contestant and Siouxsie & The Banshees were in the last contest and enter with "Christine". I do wonder if one day we'll see Iron Maiden in Haven Factor, and Metallica actually did reasonably well when they were in it.

Hoyt Axton gets a new entry - he's previously reached #1 as a songwriter back in 1971 when his song "Joy To The World" hit the top for Three Dog Night. His mother also co-wrote "Heartbreak Hotel", a song that was NM #1 for 6 weeks in 1956.