Vintage Chart... 12/09/81

[Robbie]

Long time since I did one of these!

Back 23 years now when half of the members of this board were probably not even born!

1 1 7 Tainted Love Soft Cell
2 NE 1 Prince Charming Adam And The Ants
3 2 6 Japanese Boy Aneka
4 11 3 Wired For Sound Cliff Richard
5 4 7 Hold On Tight Electric Light Orchestra
6 3 6 Love Action (I Believe In Love) Human League
7 13 3 Start Me Up Rolling Stones
8 23 3 Souvenir Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
9 7 6 One In Ten UB40
10 6 3 She's Got Claws Gary Numan
11 28 3 Hands Up (Give Me Your Heart) Ottawan
12 16 5 Everybody Salsa Modern Romance
13 9 4 Abacab Genesis
14 14 4 The Thin Wall Ultravox
15 5 8 Hooked On Classics Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
16 29 4 Slow Hand Pointer Sisters
17 10 8 The Caribbean Disco Show Lobo
18 20 6 Rainy Night In Georgia Randy Crawford
19 12 8 Girls On Film Duran Duran
20 15 5 Chemistry Nolans
21 8 8 Green Door Shakin' Stevens
22 32 5 One Of Those Nights Bucks Fizz
23 30 6 You'll Never Know Hi Gloss
24 31 5 Hand Held In Black And White Dollar
25 18 9 Back To The Sixties Tight Fit
26 43 2 Pretend Alvin Stardust
27 17 7 Wunderbar Ten Pole Tudor
28 25 12 Take It On The Run REO Speedwagon
29 24 6 Startrax Club Disco Startrax
30 19 8 Happy Birthday Stevie Wonder
31 51 2 In And Out Of Love Imagination
32 33 3 Passionate Friend Teardrop Explodes
33 72 2 So This Is Romance Linx
34 27 6 I Love Music Enigma
35 38 4 Everlasting Love Rex Smith And Rachel Sweet
36 36 2 Holliedaze Hollies
37 21 8 (Si Si) Je Suis Un Rock Star Bill Wyman
38 22 7 Water On Glass/Boys Kim Wilde
39 NE 1 Endless Love Diana Ross And Lionel Richie
40 26 11 Beach Boy Gold Gidea Park
41 40 3 Europe (After The Rain) John Foxx
42 45 5 Walking Into Sunshine Central Line
43 41 4 As Time Goes By Funkapolitan
44 NE 1 The Birdie Song (Birdie Dance) Tweets
45 34 12 For Your Eyes Only Sheena Easton
46 35 9 Chant No 1 (I Don't Need This Pressure On) Spandau Ballet
47 49 3 Beach Boys Medley Beach Boys
48 46 4 Ain't No Mountain High Enough/Remember Me Boystown Gang
49 39 6 Fire U2
50 NE 1 Just Another Broken Heart Sheena Easton
51 NE 1 Seasons Of Gold Gidea Park
52 62 2 Betcha Wouldn't Hurt Me Quincy Jones
53 56 2 Play To Win Heaven 17
54 37 7 Arabian Nights Siouxsie And The Banshees
55 73 2 Memories Mike Berry
56 47 13 Ghost Town Specials
57 42 14 New Life Depeche Mode
58 48 12 Can Can Bad Manners
59 44 11 Walk Right Now Jacksons
60 NE 1 Mule (Chant No 2) Beggar And Co
61 52 3 Audio Video News
62 50 3 Feeding Time Look
63 54 3 Urgent Foreigner
64 NE 1 Under Your Thumb Godley And Creme
65 NE 1 Don't Want To Wait Anymore Tubes
66 NE 1 Heart And Soul Exile
67 60 15 Dancing On The Floor (Hooked On Love) Third World
68 NE 1 Classical Muddley Portsmouth Sinfonia
69 53 4 Jeepster/Marie Celeste Polecats
70 NE 1 Day After Day Pretenders
71 70 6 Turn It On Level 42
72 NE 1 I'm Lucky Joan Armatrading
73 65 18 Body Talk Imagination
74 NE 1 You Sure Look Good To Me Phyllis Hyman
75 NE 1 Bras On 45 Ivor Biggun And The D Cups


The guy at #75, Ivor Biggun was also known as Doc Cox from "That's Life" and his other top 75 hit was back in 1978 with The W*nkers Song" which unsurprisingly was banned by Radio 1...

[Admin]

This was just as I was getting into music and charts, a great top 3, even the Cliff song was ok;) Tainted Love was BRILL!
And I think a fair few of us were born by 1981, got a few old farts floating around;)

[dandyhighwayman]

"Yay" for all of these!!!

1 1 7 Tainted Love Soft Cell ;D ;D ;D
2 NE 1 Prince Charming Adam And The Ants ;D ;D ;D
3 2 6 Japanese Boy Aneka
4 11 3 Wired For Sound Cliff Richard
6 3 6 Love Action (I Believe In Love) Human League ;D ;D ;D
7 13 3 Start Me Up Rolling Stones
8 23 3 Souvenir Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
9 7 6 One In Ten UB40
10 6 3 She's Got Claws Gary Numan
14 14 4 The Thin Wall Ultravox
19 12 8 Girls On Film Duran Duran ;D ;D ;D
27 17 7 Wunderbar Ten Pole Tudor
30 19 8 Happy Birthday Stevie Wonder
32 33 3 Passionate Friend Teardrop Explodes
38 22 7 Water On Glass/Boys Kim Wilde
45 34 12 For Your Eyes Only Sheena Easton
46 35 9 Chant No 1 (I Don't Need This Pressure On) Spandau Ballet
47 49 3 Beach Boys Medley Beach Boys
49 39 6 Fire U2
52 62 2 Betcha Wouldn't Hurt Me Quincy Jones
53 56 2 Play To Win Heaven 17
54 37 7 Arabian Nights Siouxsie And The Banshees
56 47 13 Ghost Town Specials
57 42 14 New Life Depeche Mode ;D ;D ;D
70 NE 1 Day After Day Pretenders
72 NE 1 I'm Lucky Joan Armatrading

[Sofie]

Robbie, could you please post these more often? Cheers

[Robbie]

Sofie said:

Robbie, could you please post these more often? Cheers

Certainly will!

I'm a bit limited in what I can post at the moment as I don't have excel on my new computer (as yet). It's a bit complicated to explain but currently I can only view the charts for 1980-1983 and 1990-1993 plus up to August 1984 & 1994 - I have msworks which can only view a certain amount of rows and columns and those are the cut-off points.

Once I get excel I'll be able to post any chart from 1980-1999 once more!