Great Old Chart List Sites.

[Chris]

Just discovered this, some of the old official top 40 charts from the 70's and 80's with commentaries about each single.

www.yearsofgold.org.uk/1976WEEK28JULY10.htm

[Smurfie]

Great site

This was the Top 40 the week I was born...

TW LW
1 2 Wurzels Combine Harvester
2 5 Wings Silly Love Songs
3 1 J.J. Barrie No Charge
4 4 Abba Fernando
5 22 Real Thing You To Me Are Everything
6 3 Robin Sarstedt My Resistance Is Low
7 6 Rolling Stones Fool To Cry
8 7 Bellamy Brothers Let Your Love Flow
9 21 Melba Moore This Is It
10 8 Sutherland Brothers And Quiver Arms Of Mary
11 10 Gladys Knight & The Pips Midnight Train To Georgia
12 9 Cliff Richard Devil Woman
13 NEW Rod Stewart Tonight's The Night
14 11 Diana Ross Love Hangover
15 29 Our Kid You Just Might See Me Cry
16 15 Peter Frampton Show Me The Way
17 18 Dolly Parton Jolene
18 13 James And Bobby Purify I'm Your Puppet
19 19 Gallagher & Lyle Heart On My Sleeve
20 14 Andrea True Connection More More More
21 24 Archie Bell & The Drells Soul City Walk
22 12 Mud Shake It Down
23 26 Mistura The Flasher
24 37 Thin Lizzy The Boys Are Back In Town
25 20 Brotherhood Of Man Save Your Kisses For Me
26 34 Candi Staton Young Hearts Run Free
27 31 Dion The Wanderer
28 38 Lee Garret You're My Everything
29 23 Hank Mizell Jungle Rock
30 35 Slik Requiem
31 16 Four Seasons Silver Star
32 NEW Maureen McGovern The Continental
33 25 Silver Convention Get Up And Boogie
34 NEW Bryan Ferry Let's Stick Together
35 33 David Bowie TVC 15
36 32 Showaddywaddy Trocadero
37 30 Billy Paul Let's Make A Baby
38 27 Fox S-S-S-Single Bed
39 NEW Flintlock Dawn
40 36 Jimmy James I'll Go Where Your Music Takes Me

Not sure I'm entirely happy at the number 1

[Chris]

Remember that chart well Smurfie, was 16. Interesting to see No's 21 to 40 of these charts, some of which never made the top 20.

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Yes yearsofgold is a very good site, and one of the very first chart sites i ever found.

[suedehead]

srsmerdon said:

Great site

This was the Top 40 the week I was born...

TW LW
1 2 Wurzels Combine Harvester
2 5 Wings Silly Love Songs
3 1 J.J. Barrie No Charge
4 4 Abba Fernando
5 22 Real Thing You To Me Are Everything
6 3 Robin Sarstedt My Resistance Is Low
7 6 Rolling Stones Fool To Cry
8 7 Bellamy Brothers Let Your Love Flow
9 21 Melba Moore This Is It
10 8 Sutherland Brothers And Quiver Arms Of Mary
11 10 Gladys Knight & The Pips Midnight Train To Georgia
12 9 Cliff Richard Devil Woman
13 NEW Rod Stewart Tonight's The Night
14 11 Diana Ross Love Hangover
15 29 Our Kid You Just Might See Me Cry
16 15 Peter Frampton Show Me The Way
17 18 Dolly Parton Jolene
18 13 James And Bobby Purify I'm Your Puppet
19 19 Gallagher & Lyle Heart On My Sleeve
20 14 Andrea True Connection More More More
21 24 Archie Bell & The Drells Soul City Walk
22 12 Mud Shake It Down
23 26 Mistura The Flasher
24 37 Thin Lizzy The Boys Are Back In Town
25 20 Brotherhood Of Man Save Your Kisses For Me
26 34 Candi Staton Young Hearts Run Free
27 31 Dion The Wanderer
28 38 Lee Garret You're My Everything
29 23 Hank Mizell Jungle Rock
30 35 Slik Requiem
31 16 Four Seasons Silver Star
32 NEW Maureen McGovern The Continental
33 25 Silver Convention Get Up And Boogie
34 NEW Bryan Ferry Let's Stick Together
35 33 David Bowie TVC 15
36 32 Showaddywaddy Trocadero
37 30 Billy Paul Let's Make A Baby
38 27 Fox S-S-S-Single Bed
39 NEW Flintlock Dawn
40 36 Jimmy James I'll Go Where Your Music Takes Me

Not sure I'm entirely happy at the number 1

That was around the time I was doing my O Levels. I hated the fact that the bloody Wurzels were top of the charts at such a significant time in my life.

BTW, an early happy birthday for Friday.

[suedehead]

Looking at the full list, I can remember almost all of them. God, that makes me feel old. Of course, Slik (at number 30) were a boy band featuring Mr Midge Ure. He then joined a punk band, the Rich Kids before being part of Ultravox and Visage. The rest, as they say, is history.

[Smurfie]

suedehead said:

BTW, an early happy birthday for Friday.

Thank you