RA Retro Rewind Charts 1980-89: Yearly Top 125s

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25/05/1980

01 Split Enz - I Got You (3wks 12-1-1)
02 Hot Chocolate - No Doubt About It (4wks 13-6-4-2)
03 Squeeze - Pulling Mussels (From The Shell) (3wks 17-5-3)
04 Kate Bush - Breathing (5wks 31-11-7-6-4)
05 Beat - Mirror In The Bathroom (3wks 14-8-5)
06 Roxy Music - Over You (2wks 19-6)
07 Clash - Train In Vain (6wks 16-6-4-1-2-7)
08 Paul McCartney - Coming Up (5wks 3-3-3-7-8)
09 Cure - A Forest (6wks 29-8-5-2-3-9)
10 Monochrome Set - Eine Symphonie des Grauens (4wks 20-10-9-10)

11 Peter Gabriel - No Self Control (3wks 25-16-11)
12 Pink Floyd - Run Like Hell (3wks 16-10-12)
13 Michael Jackson - She's Out Of My Life (2wks 20-13)
14 Jona Lewie - You'll Always Find Me In The Kitchen At Parties (2wks 24-14)
15 Average White Band - Let's Go Round Again (3wks 24-18-15)
16 Fischer Z - So Long (3wks 27-17-16)
17 Specials - Rat Race (1wk 17 NEW)
18 Gary Numan - We Are Glass (1wk 18 NEW)
19 Linda Ronstadt - Hurt So Bad (4wks 15-11-12-19)
20 Jimmy Ruffin - Hold On To My Love (5wks 33-14-13-14-20)

21 Whitesnake - Fool For Your Loving (3wks 31-26-21)
22 Narada Michael Walden - I Shoulda Loved Ya (3wks 28-21-22)
23 Blondie - Call Me (6wks 1-1-1-4-11-23)
24 Echo & The Bunnymen - Rescue (2wks 31-24)
25 Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Here Comes My Girl (3wks 34-25-25)
26 Nolans - Don't Make Waves (2wks 28-26)
27 Bette Midler - The Rose (1wk 27 NEW)
28 Photos - Irene (2wks 36-28)
29 Jermaine Jackson - Let's Get Serious (1wk 29 NEW)
30 Air Supply - Lost In Love (4wks 39-21-23-30)

31 Squeeze - If I Didn't Like You (6wks 33-17-7-8-15-31)
32 Dexys Midnight Runners - Geno (8wks 34-20-11-2-2-5-13-32)
33 Genesis - Duchess (2wks 35-33)
34 Angels - No Secrets (2wks 32-34)
35 Pat Benatar - We Live For Love (1wk 35 NEW)
36 George Jones - He Stopped Loving Her Today (1wk 36 NEW)
37 Human League - Only After Dark (1wk 37 NEW)
38 Rush - Entre Nous (1wk 38 NEW)
39 Ambrosia - Biggest Part Of Me (1wk 39 NEW)
40 Undertones - My Perfect Cousin (6wks 27-9-6-9-22-40)

LP Madness - Bed & Breakfast Man (2LP 1-1 One Step Beyond)
LP Pretenders - Private Life (4LP 1-1-2-2 The Pretenders)
LP Billy Joel - Sleeping With The Television On (1LP 3 Glass Houses)
LP Blondie - Shayla (3LP 2-3-4 Eat To The Beat)
LP Joe Jackson - Fools In Love (5LP 2-2-3-4-5 Look Sharp!)

Nine new entries come from:

• The UK #5 & Ireland #17 ska hit by the Coventry 2 Tone group which later turned up on their second album More Specials.
  
• The lead single from the forthcoming album Telekon saw the return of guitars and a UK #5 hit.
  
• The Paul A Rothchild produced title ballad USA #3 (AC #1), Canada #2, Australia #6, track for the Bette Midler film The Rose was written by Amanda McBroom. Sadly the British public ignored it, preferring a sh*te Oirsh Karaoke musak version in 2006.
  
• Written by Lee Garrett and producer Stevie Wonder, this Motown recording peaked at USA #9 (R&B #1) & UK #8.
• The In the Heat of the Night debut album track reached USA #27, Canada #8 & Australia #28 for the US rock singer.
  
• The much covered melancholy song was written by Bobby Braddock and Curly Putman, topped the USA country chart for six weeks for the Texas born singer.
• Produced by Colin Thurston this cover of the 1974 Mick Ronson composition failed to reach the UK charts but but helped the Sheffield synthpop group's Travelogue album.
  
• The Canadian progressive rock group's second single from Permanent Waves, translates as "Between Us" in French
  
• The Los Angeles soft rock band's USA #3 & Canada #18 hit penned by David Pack.
  

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"Eat To The Beat" - my 2nd favourite album from Blondie.

Personal favourites : Dreaming, Accidents Never Happen, Union City Blue
Don't like : Victor, Shayla, Eat To The Beat

[raliverpool]

01/06/1980

01 Split Enz - I Got You (4wks 12-1-1-1)
02 Hot Chocolate - No Doubt About It (5wks 13-6-4-2-2)
03 Squeeze - Pulling Mussels (From The Shell) (4wks 17-5-3-3)
04 Roxy Music - Over You (3wks 19-6-4)
05 Jona Lewie - You'll Always Find Me In The Kitchen At Parties (3wks 24-14-5)
06 Beat - Mirror In The Bathroom (4wks 14-8-5-6)
07 Specials - Rat Race (2wks 17-7)
08 Kate Bush - Breathing (6wks 31-11-7-6-4-8)
09 Gary Numan - We Are Glass (2wks 18-9)
10 Peter Gabriel - No Self Control (4wks 25-16-11-10)

11 Bette Midler - The Rose (2wks 27-11)
12 Average White Band - Let's Go Round Again (4wks 24-18-15-12)
13 Paul McCartney - Coming Up (6wks 3-3-3-7-8-13)
14 Michael Jackson - She's Out Of My Life (3wks 20-13-14)
15 Monochrome Set - Eine Symphonie des Grauens (5wks 20-10-9-10-15)
16 Pink Floyd - Run Like Hell (4wks 16-10-12-16)
17 Cure - A Forest (7wks 29-8-5-2-3-9-17)
18 Clash - Train In Vain (7wks 16-6-4-1-2-7-18)
19 Jermaine Jackson - Let's Get Serious (2wks 29-19)
20 Lipps Inc - Funky Town (1wk 20 NEW)

21 Fischer Z - So Long (4wks 27-17-16-21)
22 OMD - Messages (1wk 22 NEW)
23 Electric Light Orchestra - I'm Alive (1wk 23 NEW)
24 Whitesnake - Fool For Your Loving (4wks 31-26-21-24)
25 Echo & The Bunnymen - Rescue (3wks 31-24-25)
26 Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway - Back Together Again (1wk 26 NEW)
27 Narada Michael Walden - I Shoulda Loved Ya (4wks 28-21-22-27)
28 Pat Benatar - We Live For Love (2wks 35-28)
29 Nolans - Don't Make Waves (3wks 28-26-29)
30 George Jones - He Stopped Loving Her Today (2wks 36-30)

31 Don McLean - Crying (1wk 31 NEW)
32 Jimmy Ruffin - Hold On To My Love (6wks 33-14-13-14-20-32)
33 Frank Sinatra - Theme From New York New York (1wk 33 NEW)
34 Photos - Irene (3wks 36-28-34)
35 Matchbox - Midnight Dynamos (1wk 35 NEW)
36 Linda Ronstadt - Hurt So Bad (5wks 15-11-12-19-36)
37 Blondie - Call Me (7wks 1-1-1-4-11-23-37)
38 Angels - No Secrets (3wks 32-34-38)
39 Kenny Rogers & Kim Carnes - Don't Fall In Love With A Dreamer (1wk 39 NEW)
40 Air Supply - Lost In Love (5wks 39-21-23-30-40)

LP Paul McCartney - One Of These Days (1LP 1 McCartney II)
LP Elvis Costello - Riot Act (1LP 2 Get Happy)
LP Madness - Bed & Breakfast Man (3LP 1-1-3 One Step Beyond)
LP Pretenders - Private Life (5LP 1-1-2-2-4 The Pretenders)
LP Blondie - Shayla (4LP 2-3-4-5 Eat To The Beat)

Eight more retro rewind entries this week from:

• The Minneapolis, Minnesota pop band Casablanca records disco second single was written & produced by Steven Greenberg, and featured Cynthia Johnson (1976's Miss Black Minnesota) on lead vocals, and topped the charts in 28 countries but not the UK where it stalled at UK #2.
  
• The Liverpool synthpop group's UK #13 hit was taken from their debut album Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark. It was penned by Andy Humphreys & Andy McCluskey; & produced by Mike Howlett.
  
• As ever written & produced by Jeff Lynne, this UK #20, USA #16, Australia #27, Canada #7 synth pop hit was taken from the soundtrack album Xanadu.
  
• Taken from the Atlantic smooth soul singers second duet album Roberta Flack Featuring Donny Hathaway, this Reggie Lucas & James Mtume penned uptempo funk track features Luther Vandross & Gwen Guthrie on backing vocals. It stalled at USA #56 (R&B #8) & UK #3.
  
• The New York folk pop singer's country pop reading of the Roy Orbison tearjerker was a return to the charts after half a decade, reaching USA #5 (AC #2, Country #6), Canada #7, UK #1, & Australia #27.
  
• The Liza Minnelli theme song from the Martin Scorsese film New York, New York (1977), composed by John Kander, with lyrics by Fred Ebb was covered for the 64 year old for his album Trilogy: Past Present Future, hitting USA #32 (AC #10) & UK #4 in 1986.
  
• The English Rockabilly Revivalists UK #14 & Ireland #9 hit was the title track of their 1980 studio album.
  
• This adult contemporary duet was written by David Ellingson and Kim Carnes, and made USA #4 (Country #3, AC #2), Canada #3 & Australia #38.
  

[raliverpool]

08/06/1980

01 Split Enz - I Got You (5wks 12-1-1-1-1)
02 Hot Chocolate - No Doubt About It (6wks 13-6-4-2-2-2)
03 Jona Lewie - You'll Always Find Me In The Kitchen At Parties (4wks 24-14-5-3)
04 Specials - Rat Race (3wks 17-7-4)
05 Squeeze - Pulling Mussels (From The Shell) (5wks 17-5-3-3-5)
06 Roxy Music - Over You (4wks 19-6-4-6)
07 Bette Midler - The Rose (3wks 27-11-7)
08 OMD - Messages (2wks 22-8)
09 Don McLean - Crying (2wks 31-9)
10 Average White Band - Let's Go Round Again (5wks 24-18-15-12-10)

11 Jermaine Jackson - Let's Get Serious (3wks 29-19-11)
12 Gary Numan - We Are Glass (3wks 18-9-12)
13 Beat - Mirror In The Bathroom (5wks 14-8-5-6-13)
14 Frank Sinatra - Theme From New York New York (2wks 33-14)
15 Lipps Inc - Funky Town (2wks 20-15)
16 Peter Gabriel - No Self Control (5wks 25-16-11-10-16)
17 Kate Bush - Breathing (7wks 31-11-7-6-4-8-17)
18 Billy Joel - It's Still Rock & Roll To Me (1wk 18 NEW)
19 Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway - Back Together Again (2wks 26-19)
20 Electric Light Orchestra - I'm Alive (2wks 23-20)

21 Michael Jackson - She's Out Of My Life (4wks 20-13-14-21)
22 Paul McCartney - Coming Up (7wks 3-3-3-7-8-13-22)
23 Elton John - Little Jeannie (1wk 23 NEW)
24 Judas Priest - Breaking The Law (1wk 24 NEW)
25 Bob Seger - Against The Wind (1wk 25 NEW)
26 Pink Floyd - Run Like Hell (5wks 16-10-12-16-26)
27 Monochrome Set - Eine Symphonie des Grauens (6wks 20-10-9-10-15-27)
28 Pat Benatar - We Live For Love (3wks 35-28-28)
29 Thin Lizzy - Chinatown (1wk 29 NEW)
30 BA Robertson - To Be Or Not To Be (1wk 30 NEW)

31 Fischer Z - So Long (5wks 27-17-16-21-31)
32 Clash - Train In Vain (8wks 16-6-4-1-2-7-18-32)
33 Cure - A Forest (8wks 29-8-5-2-3-9-17-33)
34 Echo & The Bunnymen - Rescue (4wks 31-24-25-34)
35 Whitesnake - Fool For Your Loving (5wks 31-26-21-24-35)
36 George Jones - He Stopped Loving Her Today (3wks 36-30-36)
37 Matchbox - Midnight Dynamos (2wks 35-37)
38 Elvis Costello - New Amsterdam (1wk 38 NEW)
39 Mi-Sex - People (1wk 39 NEW)
40 Crown Heights Affair - You Gave Me Love (1wk 40 NEW)

LP Paul McCartney - One Of These Days (2LP 1-1 McCartney II)
LP Iron Maiden - The Phantom Of The Opera (1LP 2 Iron Maiden)
LP Elvis Costello - Riot Act (2LP 2-3 Get Happy)
LP Pretenders - Private Life (6LP 1-1-2-2-4-4 The Pretenders)
LP Madness - Bed & Breakfast Man (4LP 1-1-3-5 One Step Beyond)

Nine more Retro Rewind entries from:

• The New Wave rockabilly Glass Houses single by the New York singer/songwriter was a cynical look at the music industry which hit USA #1, Canada #1, Australia #10 & UK #14.
  
• The English Piano Man's 21 at 33 album track which was a ballad co-written with lyricist Gary Osbourne, & co-produced by Clive Franks. Whilst it stalled at UK #33, it faired better elsewhere including USA #3, Canada #1 & Australia #9.
  
• The Sheffield Heavy Metal group's British Steel album UK #12 track written by Rob Halford, K.K. Downing, Glenn Tipton.
  
• The USA #5, Canada #6 & Australia #91 melodic rock title track of the eleventh (& first US chart topping) album by the American rock singer, produced by Bill Szymczyk.
  
• The UK #21 & Ireland #12 title track of the tenth studio album by Irish rock band, was their first with new guitarist Snowy White replacing Gary Moore.
  
• The Scottish pub rock singer/songwriter's UK #9 hit was his 4th of 5 top twenty hits within a 3 year period.
  
• The Liverpool post punk songwriter's Get Happy!! album melancholic waltz track became a UK #36 third & final single from his 4th album.
  
• New Zealand's second most famous new wave band scored a New Zealand #3 & Australia #5 hit, which unlike their previous single failed to become an international hit.
  
• The New York R&B/disco/funk group biggest UK hit reached UK #10 & USA #102.
  

[raliverpool]

15/06/1980

01 Split Enz - I Got You (6wks 12-1-1-1-1-1)
02 Hot Chocolate - No Doubt About It (7wks 13-6-4-2-2-2-2)
03 Bette Midler - The Rose (4wks 27-11-7-3)
04 OMD - Messages (3wks 22-8-4)
05 Don McLean - Crying (3wks 31-9-5)
06 Jona Lewie - You'll Always Find Me In The Kitchen At Parties (5wks 24-14-5-3-6)
07 Billy Joel - It's Still Rock & Roll To Me (2wks 18-7)
08 Frank Sinatra - Theme From New York New York (3wks 33-14-8)
09 Specials - Rat Race (4wks 17-7-4-9)
10 Roxy Music - Over You (5wks 19-6-4-6-10)

11 Jermaine Jackson - Let's Get Serious (4wks 29-19-11-11)
12 Judas Priest - Breaking The Law (2wks 24-12)
13 Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway - Back Together Again (3wks 26-19-13)
14 Lipps Inc - Funky Town (3wks 20-15-14)
15 Elton John - Little Jeannie (2wks 23-15)
16 Average White Band - Let's Go Round Again (6wks 24-18-15-12-10-16)
17 Squeeze - Pulling Mussels (From The Shell) (6wks 17-5-3-3-5-17)
18 Bob Seger - Against The Wind (2wks 25-18)
19 Elvis Costello - New Amsterdam (2wks 38-19)
20 Electric Light Orchestra - I'm Alive (3wks 23-20-20)

21 BA Robertson - To Be Or Not To Be (2wks 30-21)
22 Korgis - Everybody's Got To Learn Sometime (1wk 22 NEW)
23 Police - The Bed's Too Big Without You (1wk 23 NEW)
24 Gary Numan - We Are Glass (4wks 18-9-12-24)
25 Peter Gabriel - No Self Control (6wks 25-16-11-10-16-25)
26 Siouxsie & The Banshees - Christine (1wk 26 NEW)
27 Beat - Mirror In The Bathroom (6wks 14-8-5-6-13-27)
28 Thin Lizzy - Chinatown (2wks 29-28)
29 Pat Benatar - We Live For Love (4wks 35-28-28-29)
30 Fleetwood Mac - Sisters Of The Moon (1wk 30 NEW)

31 Rachel Sweet - Spellbound (1wk 31 NEW)
32 Kate Bush - Breathing (8wks 31-11-7-6-4-8-17-32)
33 Paul McCartney - Coming Up (8wks 3-3-3-7-8-13-22-33)
34 Michael Jackson - She's Out Of My Life (5wks 20-13-14-21-34)
35 Liquid Gold - Substitute (1wk 35 NEW)
36 Queen - Play The Game (1wk 36 NEW)
37 Stranglers - Who Wants The World (1wk 37 NEW)
38 Iron Maiden - Sanctuary (1wk 38 NEW)
39 U2 - 11 O'Clock Tick Tock (1wk 39 NEW)
40 Mi-Sex - People (2wks 39-40)

LP Peter Gabriel - Intruder (1LP 1 Peter Gabriel 3)
LP Paul McCartney - One Of These Days (3LP 1-1-2 McCartney II)
LP Iron Maiden - The Phantom Of The Opera (2LP 2-3 Iron Maiden)
LP Pink Floyd - Goodbye Blue Sky (1LP 4 The Wall)
LP Elvis Costello - Riot Act (3LP 2-3-5 Get Happy)

With 25% new entries:

• The band formed from former members of 1970s progressive folk rock band Stackridge, scored a huge New Wave synthpop UK #5, USA #18, Australia #11, Canada #12 hit which topped the charts in France & Spain written by lead singer James Warren, and has been much covered since.
• The Sting penned reggae final UK #17 single from Reggatta de Blanc, as a bonus single in the Six Pack box set, which featured the band's five previous British singles.
  
• The post punk UK #22 song was written by Siouxsie Sioux and Steven Severin, taken from the Nigel Gray co-produced Kaleidoscope album.
  
• The USA #86 Stevie Nicks penned fourth & final atmospheric rock single from Tusk.
  
• The Ohio born singer, turned actress & TV screenplay writer reached USA #107 with this New Wave Stiff Records recording written by her then guitarist, the Scottish songwriter Jimme O'Neill (later of The Silencers).
  
• Featuring the lead vocals of Ellie Hope, the Northamptonshire disco pop group scored a UK #8 hit.
  
• Written by Freddie Mercury. It is the first track on the first side of their 1980 album The Game. As a single it made UK #14, USA #42, Canada #22, Australia #85.
• The non album UK #39 song is about alien visitation to Earth, produced by Alan Winstanley.
  
• The second UK #29 single released by the British heavy metal band's debut Iron Maiden album.
• The Martin Hannett produced second single by the Irish rock band. It remained a mainstay of their live sets up to and including 1985 The Unforgettable Fire World Tour, but has not been performed live since 2001.
  

[raliverpool]

22/06/1980

01 Bette Midler - The Rose (5wks 27-11-7-3-1)

02 Korgis - Everybody's Got To Learn Sometime (2wks 22-2)
03 Billy Joel - It's Still Rock & Roll To Me (3wks 18-7-3)
04 Don McLean - Crying (4wks 31-9-5-4)
05 Split Enz - I Got You (7wks 12-1-1-1-1-1-5)
06 OMD - Messages (4wks 22-8-4-6)
07 Hot Chocolate - No Doubt About It (8wks 13-6-4-2-2-2-2-7)
08 Judas Priest - Breaking The Law (3wks 24-12-8)
09 Police - The Bed's Too Big Without You (2wks 23-9)
10 Elton John - Little Jeannie (3wks 23-15-10)

11 Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway - Back Together Again (4wks 26-19-13-11)
12 Siouxsie & The Banshees - Christine (2wks 26-12)
13 Frank Sinatra - Theme From New York New York (4wks 33-14-8-13)
14 Jermaine Jackson - Let's Get Serious (5wks 29-19-11-11-14)
15 BA Robertson - To Be Or Not To Be (3wks 30-21-15)
16 Bob Seger - Against The Wind (3wks 25-18-16)
17 Jona Lewie - You'll Always Find Me In The Kitchen At Parties (6wks 24-14-5-3-6-17)
18 Lipps Inc - Funky Town (4wks 20-15-14-18)
19 Queen - Play The Game (2wks 36-19)
20 Elvis Costello - New Amsterdam (3wks 38-19-20)

21 Specials - Rat Race (5wks 17-7-4-9-21)
22 Joan Armatrading - Me Myself I (1wk 22 NEW)
23 Electric Light Orchestra - I'm Alive (4wks 23-20-20-23)
24 Roxy Music - Over You (6wks 19-6-4-6-10-24)
25 Human League - Empire State Human (1wk 25 NEW)
26 Teena Marie - Behind The Groove (1wk 26 NEW)
27 Clash - Clampdown (1wk 27 NEW)
28 Fleetwood Mac - Sisters Of The Moon (2wks 30-28)
29 Utopia - The Very Last Time (1wk 29 NEW)
30 U2 - 11 O'Clock Tick Tock (2wks 39-30)

31 UB40 - My Way Of Thinking (1wk 31 NEW)
32 Rachel Sweet - Spellbound (2wks 31-32)
33 Squeeze - Pulling Mussels (From The Shell) (7wks 17-5-3-3-5-17-33)
34 Liquid Gold - Substitute (2wks 35-34)
35 Pat Benatar - We Live For Love (5wks 35-28-28-29-35)
36 Average White Band - Let's Go Round Again (7wks 24-18-15-12-10-16-36)
37 Thin Lizzy - Chinatown (3wks 29-28-37)
38 Stranglers - Who Wants The World (2wks 37-38)
39 Hollies - Soldier's Song (1wk 39 NEW)
40 Gary Numan - We Are Glass (5wks 18-9-12-24-40)

LP Peter Gabriel - Intruder (2LP 1-1 Peter Gabriel 3)
LP Paul McCartney - One Of These Days (4LP 1-1-2-2 McCartney II)
LP Jam - Thick As Thieves (1LP 3 Setting Sons)
LP Iron Maiden - The Phantom Of The Opera (3LP 2-3-4 Iron Maiden)
LP Pink Floyd - Goodbye Blue Sky (2LP 4-5 The Wall)

The Divine Miss M claims her first Retro Rewind Chart topper with the Grammy & Golden Globe Award winning song later brutally murdered by Westlife.

Seven more entries arise from:

• The Richard Gottehrer produced UK #21 & Australia #24 title track of the Birmingham singer/songwriter's 1980 album.
  
• The UK #62 synth pop hit written by Philip Oakey, Martyn Ware and Ian Craig Marsh, and produced by Colin Thurston from the band's 1979 debut album Reproduction.
  
• Mary Christine Brockert's UK #6 hit which failed to chart in her native USA, was taken from her second album Lady T. She co-wrote this dance track with producer Richard Rudolph.
• The London Calling album track written by Joe Strummer and Mick Jones, was a single in Australia reaching #33.
  
• Todd Rundgren's rock group's melodic arena rock USA #76 from their Adventures in Utopia album.
  
• The Birmingham reggae band's second single from their debut album Signing Off peaked at UK #6, Ireland #12, Australia #90, & New Zealand #6.
  
• The Manchester pop veterans orchestral ballad UK #58 hit.
  

[raliverpool]

29/06/1980

01 Korgis - Everybody's Got To Learn Sometime (3wks 22-2-1)

02 Bette Midler - The Rose (6wks 27-11-7-3-1-2)
03 Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart (1wk 3 NEW)
04 Billy Joel - It's Still Rock & Roll To Me (4wks 18-7-3-4)
05 Don McLean - Crying (5wks 31-9-5-4-5)
06 Olvia Newton-John & Electric Light Orchestra - Xanadu (1wk 6 NEW)
07 Police - The Bed's Too Big Without You (3wks 23-9-7)
08 Siouxsie & The Banshees - Christine (3wks 26-12-8)
09 Elton John - Little Jeannie (4wks 23-15-10-9)
10 Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway - Back Together Again (5wks 26-19-13-11-10)

11 Judas Priest - Breaking The Law (4wks 24-12-8-11)
12 Queen - Play The Game (3wks 36-19-12)
13 Joan Armatrading - Me Myself I (2wks 22-13)
14 BA Robertson - To Be Or Not To Be (4wks 30-21-15-14)
15 Clash - Clampdown (2wks 27-15)
16 Paul McCartney - Waterfalls (1wk 16 NEW)
17 OMD - Messages (5wks 22-8-4-6-17)
18 Bob Seger - Against The Wind (4wks 25-18-16-18)
19 Human League - Empire State Human (2wks 25-19)
20 UB40 - My Way Of Thinking (2wks 31-20)

21 Split Enz - I Got You (8wks 12-1-1-1-1-1-5-21)
22 Utopia - The Very Last Time (2wks 29-22)
23 Teena Marie - Behind The Groove (2wks 26-23)
24 Stacy Lattishaw - Jump To The Beat (1wk 24 NEW)
25 Jermaine Jackson - Let's Get Serious (6wks 29-19-11-11-14-25)
26 Frank Sinatra - Theme From New York New York (5wks 33-14-8-13-26)
27 Donna Summer - Sunset People (1wk 27 NEW)
28 Hot Chocolate - No Doubt About It (9wks 13-6-4-2-2-2-2-7-28)
29 Carole King - One Fine Day (1wk 29 NEW)
30 Lipps Inc - Funky Town (5wks 20-15-14-18-30)

31 U2 - 11 O'Clock Tick Tock (3wks 39-30-31)
32 Fleetwood Mac - Sisters Of The Moon (3wks 30-28-32)
33 Electric Light Orchestra - I'm Alive (5wks 23-20-20-23-33)
34 Elvis Costello - New Amsterdam (4wks 38-19-20-34)
35 Jona Lewie - You'll Always Find Me In The Kitchen At Parties (7wks 24-14-5-3-6-17-35)
36 Liquid Gold - Substitute (3wks 35-34-36)
37 Specials - Rat Race (6wks 17-7-4-9-21-37)
38 Ray Parker Jr & Raydio - Two Places At The Same Time (1wk 38 NEW)
39 Splogenessabounds - Two Pints Of Lager & A Packet Of Crisps (1wk 39 NEW)
40 10cc - One-Two-Five (1wk 40 NEW)

LP Peter Gabriel - Intruder (3LP 1-1-1 Peter Gabriel 3)
LP Paul McCartney - One Of These Days (5LP 1-1-2-2-2 McCartney II)
LP Jam - Thick As Thieves (2LP 3-3 Setting Sons)
LP Grateful Dead - Althea (1LP Go To Heaven)
LP Pink Floyd - Goodbye Blue Sky (3LP 4-5-5 The Wall)

The West Country based synth pop act claim a Retro Rewind chart topper with a much covered song. Eight new entries this week from:

• The Manchester Post Punk band's classic was written in August 1979, and debuted when the band supported Buzzcocks on their UK tour from September to November of that same year. Singer Ian Curtis' lyrics ostensibly reflect the problems in his marriage to Deborah Curtis, as well as his general frame of mind in the time leading up to his suicide in May 1980. The single initially peaked at UK #13, Australia #26 & New Zealand #1.
  
• LThe Jeff Lynne written & produced title song from the soundtrack album Xanadu, & film starring Olivia Newton-John. The track topped the charts in the UK, Germany, Spain, Ireland, Norway, Netherlands, Belgium, Austria & Israel; and peaked at USA #8, Australia #2, & Canada #9.
  
• The McCartney II synth pop ballad reached UK #9, USA #106, & Australia #31.
  
• Produced by & written by Narada Michael Walden and Lisa Walden, this bouncy uptempo R&B track gave the Washington DC 13 year old a UK #3 hit, after failing to trouble her own countries Top 100.
  
• The Bad Girls album cut written by Pete Bellotte, Harold Faltermeyer, Keith Forsey was a belated UK #46 single.
  
• The Ray Parker Jr written & produced USA #30 title track to the third studio album from his group.
  
• The London Oi! movement Punk Rock band's UK #7 semi novelty hit.
  
• The lead single from the Look Hear? album failed to trouble the UK charts and stalled at Australia #82 written by Graham Gouldman & Eric Stewart.
  

[raliverpool]

06/07/1980

01 Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart (2wks 3-1)

02 Korgis - Everybody's Got To Learn Sometime (4wks 22-2-1-2)
03 Olivia Newton-John & Electric Light Orchestra - Xanadu (2wks 6-3)
04 Paul McCartney - Waterfalls (2wks 16-4)
05 Bette Midler - The Rose (7wks 27-11-7-3-1-2-5)
06 Billy Joel - It's Still Rock & Roll To Me (5wks 18-7-3-4-6)
07 Don McLean - Crying (6wks 31-9-5-4-5-7)
08 Joan Armatrading - Me Myself I (3wks 22-13-8)
09 Clash - Clampdown (3wks 27-15-9)
10 Elton John - Little Jeannie (5wks 23-15-10-9-10)

11 Siouxsie & The Banshees - Christine (4wks 26-12-8-11)
12 Police - The Bed's Too Big Without You (4wks 23-9-7-12)
13 Stacy Lattishaw - Jump To The Beat (2wks 24-13)
14 UB40 - My Way Of Thinking (3wks 31-20-14)
15 Queen - Play The Game (4wks 36-19-12-15)
16 BA Robertson - To Be Or Not To Be (5wks 30-21-15-14-16)
17 Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway - Back Together Again (6wks 26-19-13-11-10-17)
18 Donna Summer - Sunset People (2wks 27-18)
19 Utopia - The Very Last Time (3wks 29-22-19)
20 Odyssey - Use It Up & Wear It Out (1wk 20 NEW)

21 Bob Marley - Could You Be Loved (1wk 21 NEW)
22 Judas Priest - Breaking The Law (5wks 24-12-8-11-22)
23 Saxon - 747 (Strangers In The Night) (1wk 23 NEW)
24 Teena Marie - Behind The Groove (3wks 26-23-24)
25 Human League - Empire State Human (3wks 25-19-25)
26 Carole King - One Fine Day (2wks 29-26)
27 Bob Seger - Against The Wind (5wks 25-18-16-18-27)
28 OMD - Messages (6wks 22-8-4-6-17-28)
29 Icehouse - Can't Help Myself (1wk 29 NEW)
30 Pete Townshend - Let My Love Open The Door (1wk 30 NEW)

31 Janis Ian - The Other Side Of The Sun (1wk 31 NEW)
32 Dead Kennedys - Holiday In Cambodia (1wk 32 NEW)
33 Bill Nelson - Do You Dream In Colour (1wk 33 NEW)
34 Mental As Anything - Come Around (1wk 34 NEW)
35 U2 - 11 O'Clock Tick Tock (4wks 39-30-31-35)
36 Jermaine Jackson - Let's Get Serious (7wks 29-19-11-11-14-25-36)
37 Phil Lynott - King's Call (1wk 37 NEW)
38 Ray Parker Jr & Raydio - Two Places At The Same Time (2wks 38-38)
39 Split Enz - I Got You (9wks 12-1-1-1-1-1-5-21-39)
40 Alice Cooper - Clones (1wk 40 NEW)

LP Clash - Lost In The Supermarket (1LP 1 London Calling)
LP Peter Gabriel - Intruder (4LP 1-1-1-2 Peter Gabriel 3)
LP Paul McCartney - One Of These Days (6LP 1-1-2-2-2-3 McCartney II)
LP Jam - Thick As Thieves (3LP 3-3-4 Setting Sons)
LP Grateful Dead - Althea (2LP 4-5 Go To Heaven)

One of the greatest pieces of music ever recorded tops my Retro Rewind Chart .... Elsewhere, eleven new entries from:

• The disco based song was written by Sandy Linzer and L. Russell Brown saw the New York group fail to chart in their home country, yet they scored a UK #1 hit wth it, and a sizeable hit in Europe.
• Taken from the Jamaican Reggae artists final studio album whilst alive Uprising, this uplifting track peaked at UK #5, Australia #95 & went top 5 in Ireland, Netherlands, New Zealand, Switzerland & Belgium.
  
• The Wheels of Steel album cut by the Barnsley heavy metal group was a UK #13 hit.
  
• Written & co-produced by Iva Davies, the New Wave synthpop band initially known as Flowers, reached Australia #10.
• Written & co-produced with Chris Thomas, this UK #46, USA #9, Canada #5 hit was taken from the Who's guitarist's 1980 album Empty Glass.
• The former teen folk New York Singer/Songwriter scored a minor UK #44 & USA #47 easy listening hit culled from her Night Rains album.
  
• The US hardcore punk band's infamous track was taken from their debut album Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables. The sarcastic Jello Biafra penned song had on its single cover a photograph was taken from the Thammasat University massacre in Thailand, and depicts a member of the right-wing crowd beating the corpse of a student protester with a metal chair.
  
• The former Be Bop Deluxe frontman's solo UK #52 synthpop hit.
  
• The Sydney, Australia new wave pop rock group Australia #18 new wave hit from their second album Expresso Bongo.
  
• The Thin Lizzy frontman's solo self penned lament to Elvis Presley, featured Dire Straits' Mark Knopfler on this UK #35 Solo in Soho album cut.
  
• This USA #40, Canada #25, Australia #36 New Wave sounding rock track was produced Roy Thomas Baker from his 1980 album Flush the Fashion. It was written by David Carron and would be his last Top 40 hit anywhere for 8 years.
  

[Earl Purple]

I would have been rather shocked had that Joy Division song not made it to #1 in your chart.

[raliverpool]

13/07/1980

01 Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart (3wks 3-1-1)
02 Olivia Newton-John & Electric Light Orchestra - Xanadu (3wks 6-3-2)
03 Paul McCartney - Waterfalls (3wks 16-4-3)
04 Bob Marley - Could You Be Loved (2wks 21-4)
05 Joan Armatrading - Me Myself I (4wks 22-13-8-5)
06 Korgis - Everybody's Got To Learn Sometime (5wks 22-2-1-2-6)
07 Clash - Clampdown (4wks 27-15-9-7)
08 Odyssey - Use It Up & Wear It Out (2wks 20-8)
09 Stacy Lattishaw - Jump To The Beat (3wks 24-13-9)
10 Billy Joel - It's Still Rock & Roll To Me (6wks 18-7-3-4-6-10)

11 Elton John - Little Jeannie (6wks 23-15-10-9-10-11)
12 UB40 - My Way Of Thinking (4wks 31-20-14-12)
13 Kate Bush - Babooshka (1wk 13 NEW)
14 Donna Summer - Sunset People (3wks 27-18-14)
15 Pete Townshend - Let My Love Open The Door (2wks 30-15)
16 Don McLean - Crying (7wks 31-9-5-4-5-7-16)
17 Bette Midler - The Rose (8wks 27-11-7-3-1-2-5-17)
18 Saxon - 747 (Strangers In The Night) (2wks 23-18)
19 Icehouse - Can't Help Myself (2wks 29-19)
20 Utopia - The Very Last Time (4wks 29-22-19-20)

21 Siouxsie & The Banshees - Christine (5wks 26-12-8-11-21)
22 Queen - Play The Game (5wks 36-19-12-15-22)
23 Rolling Stones - Emotional Rescue (1wk 23 NEW)
24 BA Robertson - To Be Or Not To Be (6wks 30-21-15-14-16-24)
25 Police - The Bed's Too Big Without You (5wks 23-9-7-12-25)
26 Undertones - Wednesday Week (1wk 26 NEW)
27 Bill Nelson - Do You Dream In Colour (2wks 33-27)
28 Dead Kennedys - Holiday In Cambodia (2wks 32-28)
29 Genesis - Misunderstanding (1wk 29 NEW)
30 Sparks - When I'm With You (1wk 30 NEW)

31 Phil Lynott - King's Call (2wks 37-31)
32 Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway - Back Together Again (7wks 26-19-13-11-10-17-32)
33 New Musik - Sanctuary (1wk 33 NEW)
34 Cheap Trick - Everything Works If You Let It (1wk 34 NEW)
35 Carole King - One Fine Day (3wks 29-26-35)
36 Janis Ian - The Other Side Of The Sun (2wks 31-36)
37 Judas Priest - Breaking The Law (6wks 24-12-8-11-22-37)
38 Change - A Lovers Holiday (1wk 38 NEW)
39 Robbie Dupree - Steal Away (1wk 39 NEW)
40 Teena Marie - Behind The Groove (4wks 26-23-24-40)

LP Clash - Lost In The Supermarket (2LP 1-1 London Calling)
LP Roxy Music - In The Midnight Hour (1LP 2 Flesh & Blood)
LP Peter Gabriel - Intruder (5LP 1-1-1-2-3 Peter Gabriel 3)
LP Jam - Thick As Thieves (4LP 3-3-4-4 Setting Sons)
LP Paul McCartney - One Of These Days (7LP 1-1-2-2-2-3-5 McCartney II)

Nine more entries this week from:

• The second single taken from her UK #1 album Never for Ever, co-produced with Jon Kelly chronicling a wife's desire to test her husband's loyalty. To do so, she takes on the nom de plume of Babooshka and sends notes to her husband in the guise of a younger woman. A major international hit which reached UK #5, Canada #79 & Australia #2. It also went top 5 in Ireland, France, Italy, Norway, Switzerland, & Israel.
  
• The disco tinged UK #9, USA #3, Canada #7, & Australia #8 rock title track of the London veteran's 1980 The Glimmer Twins produced studio album.
  
• The John O' Neill penned UK #11 post punk hit for the Northern Irish group culled from their second album Hypnotized, produced by Roger Bechirian.
  
• The Phil Collins penned UK #42, Canada #1 & USA #14 North American breakthrough hit from the album Duke, produced by David Hentschel and Genesis.
  
• The Mael brothers second Giorgio Moroder produced album Terminal Jive contained this single which failed to chart in the UK & North America, yet it was a French #1 hit, as well as reaching Australia #17, and going top 10 in New Zealand, and a number of other European countries.
  
• The short lived English New Wave synth pop group's UK #31 final hit single.
  
• The George Martin produced rock song was released as a non-album single in 1980 from the soundtrack for the film "Roadie" which starred Meat Loaf in his first film starring role. The USA #44 & Canada #40 was written solely by Rick Nielsen.
  
• The Chic influenced Italian-American post-disco group formed in Bologna, Italy, whose debut single reached USA #40 & UK #14.
  
• The New York soft rocker's USA #6 debut hit from his self titled debut album on Elektra records.
  

[Whitneyfan]

I've never understood why Little Jeannie under-performed for Elton John. I've always considered it to be up there with his best.

In fact, the whole album from which it appears '21 at 33' is rather brilliant.

When somebody mentors Elton in the Haven Factor, I think he will be a really tough one to beat actually.

[raliverpool]

20/07/1980

01 Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart (4wks 3-1-1-1)
02 Bob Marley - Could You Be Loved (3wks 21-4-2)
03 Kate Bush - Babooshka (2wks 13-3)
04 Olivia Newton-John & Electric Light Orchestra - Xanadu (4wks 6-3-2-4)
05 Paul McCartney - Waterfalls (4wks 16-4-3-5)
06 Joan Armatrading - Me Myself I (5wks 22-13-8-5-6)
07 Odyssey - Use It Up & Wear It Out (3wks 20-8-7)
08 Rolling Stones - Emotional Rescue (2wks 23-8)
09 Pete Townshend - Let My Love Open The Door (3wks 30-15-9)
10 Stacy Lattishaw - Jump To The Beat (4wks 24-13-9-10)

11 Clash - Clampdown (5wks 27-15-9-7-11)
12 Korgis - Everybody's Got To Learn Sometime (6wks 22-2-1-2-6-12)
13 UB40 - My Way Of Thinking (5wks 31-20-14-12-13)
14 Icehouse - Can't Help Myself (3wks 29-19-14)
15 Undertones - Wednesday Week (2wks 26-15)
16 Billy Joel - It's Still Rock & Roll To Me (7wks 18-7-3-4-6-10-16)
17 Saxon - 747 (Strangers In The Night) (3wks 23-18-17)
18 Donna Summer - Sunset People (4wks 27-18-14-18)
19 Elton John - Little Jeannie (7wks 23-15-10-9-10-11-19)
20 Genesis - Misunderstanding (2wks 29-20)

21 Dexys Midnight Runners - There There My Dear (1wk 21 NEW)
22 Sparks - When I'm With You (2wks 30-22)
23 New Musik - Sanctuary (2wks 33-23)
24 Dead Kennedys - Holiday In Cambodia (3wks 32-28-24)
25 Leo Sayer - More Than I Can Say (1wk 25 NEW)
26 Bill Nelson - Do You Dream In Colour (3wks 33-27-26)
27 Fall - How I Wrote Elastic Man (1wk 27 NEW)
28 Don McLean - Crying (8wks 31-9-5-4-5-7-16-28)
29 Utopia - The Very Last Time (5wks 29-22-19-20-29)
30 Change - A Lovers Holiday (2wks 38-30)

31 Bad Manners - Lip Up Fatty (1wk 31 NEW)
32 Cheap Trick - Everything Works If You Let It (2wks 34-32)
33 Manhattans - Shining Star (1wk 33 NEW)
34 Grateful Dead - Alabama Getaway (1wk 34 NEW)
35 Black Sabbath - Neon Knights (1wk 35 NEW)
36 Phil Lynott - King's Call (3wks 37-31-36)
37 Bette Midler - The Rose (9wks 27-11-7-3-1-2-5-17-37)
38 Young Marble Giants - Final Day (1wk 38 NEW)
39 Queen - Play The Game (6wks 36-19-12-15-22-39)
40 Siouxsie & The Banshees - Christine (6wks 26-12-8-11-21-40)

LP Clash - Lost In The Supermarket (3LP 1-1-1 London Calling)
LP Roxy Music - In The Midnight Hour (2LP 2-2 Flesh & Blood)
LP Squeeze - I Think I'm Go Go (1LP 3 ArgyBargy)
LP Peter Gabriel - Intruder (6LP 1-1-1-2-3-4 Peter Gabriel 3)
LP Jam - Thick As Thieves (5LP 3-3-4-4-5 Setting Sons)

Eight more Retro Rewind entries this week from:

• The final track on the debut Searching For The Young Soul Rebels album written by Kevin Rowland & Kevin Archer became a UK #7 new wave soul hit.
  
• This Alan Tarney produced UK#2, USA #2, Australia #1, & Canada #3 soft rock cover of the Bobby Vee song written by Sonny Curtis and Jerry Allison, came from the Living In Fantasy album.
  
• The stand alone Rough Trade records release saw Mark E Smith's group reach #2 on the UK Indie Chart whilst Marc "Lard" Riley; Craig Scanlon and Steve Hanley were the other members of the group.
  
• The Brighton based 2 Tone ska band hit UK #15 with this Buster Bloodvessel penned ditty about being overweight.
  
• The New Jersey R&B vocal group became international 2 hit wonders with this USA #5 (R&B #4), Australia #67, Canada #6, & UK #45 soul hit.
  
• Their last USA #68 hit in 7 years was this chugging Southern boogie rocker taken from their Go to Heaven album, it was penned by Jerry Garcia & Robert Hunter.
  
• The Martin Birch produced, UK #22 heavy metal track was taken from Heaven and Hell, the Black Country rockers first album with American vocalist Ronnie James Dio (after Ozzy Osbourne quit/got fired).
  
• The 105 second single from the Colossal Youth album, the only album produced by the Cardiff post punk quartet featuring the vocals of Alison Statton.
  

[raliverpool]

Jul 17, 2017 21:52:55 GMT 1 Whitneyfan said:

I've never understood why Little Jeannie under-performed for Elton John. I've always considered it to be up there with his best.

In fact, the whole album from which it appears '21 at 33' is rather brilliant.

When somebody mentors Elton in the Haven Factor, I think he will be a really tough one to beat actually.

Retrospectively, Elton John seems to have a whole downer on his 1978 -1982 no Bernie Taupin as lyricist wilderness years, which is a real pity as I too think he did some great material with the likes of Gary Osbourne; Tim Rice & Tom "2468 Motorway/War Baby" Robinson.

[smokeyb]

Glad you are charting New Musik, I bought their album From A to B in 1980, remember having to write a speech and I borrowed their title 'Living By Numbers' as a title.

[raliverpool]

Jul 17, 2017 23:18:40 GMT 1 smokeyb said:

Glad you are charting New Musik, I bought their album From A to B in 1980, remember having to write a speech and I borrowed their title 'Living By Numbers' as a title.

I always liked Living By Numbers in a proto Stephen Tin Tin Duffy way, but was not aware of their other singles .... one of the joys of compiling these Retro Rewind charts is discovering minor gems such as This World Of Water and the album From A To B for the very first time.

[raliverpool]

27/07/1980

01 Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart (5wks 3-1-1-1-1)
02 Kate Bush - Babooshka (3wks 13-3-2)
03 Bob Marley - Could You Be Loved (4wks 21-4-2-3)
04 Rolling Stones - Emotional Rescue (4wks 23-8-4)
05 Olivia Newton-John & Electric Light Orchestra - Xanadu (5wks 6-3-2-4-5)
06 Odyssey - Use It Up & Wear It Out (4wks 20-8-7-6)
07 Diana Ross - Upside Down (1wk 7 NEW)
08 Olivia Newton-John - Magic (1wk 8 NEW)
09 Undertones - Wednesday Week (3wks 26-15-9)
10 Pete Townshend - Let My Love Open The Door (4wks 30-15-9-10)

11 Paul McCartney - Waterfalls (5wks 16-4-3-5-11)
12 Joan Armatrading - Me Myself I (6wks 22-13-8-5-6-12)
13 Icehouse - Can't Help Myself (4wks 29-19-14-13)
14 Dexys Midnight Runners - There There My Dear (2wks 21-14)
15 Genesis - Misunderstanding (3wks 29-20-15)
16 Sparks - When I'm With You (3wks 30-22-16)
17 Leo Sayer - More Than I Can Say (2wks 25-17)
18 Stacy Lattishaw - Jump To The Beat (5wks 24-13-9-10-18)
19 Saxon - 747 (Strangers In The Night) (4wks 23-18-17-19)
20 Fall - How I Wrote Elastic Man (2wks 27-20)

21 New Musik - Sanctuary (3wks 33-23-21)
22 Bad Manners - Lip Up Fatty (2wks 31-22)
23 UB40 - My Way Of Thinking (6wks 31-20-14-12-13-23)
24 Clash - Clampdown (6wks 27-15-9-7-11-24)
25 Ultravox - Sleepwalk (1wk 25 NEW)
26 Change - A Lovers Holiday (3wks 38-30-26)
27 Korgis - Everybody's Got To Learn Sometime (7wks 22-2-1-2-6-12-27)
28 Donna Summer - Sunset People (5wks 27-18-14-18-28)
29 Talking Heads - Cities (1wk 29 NEW)
30 Billy Joel - It's Still Rock & Roll To Me (8wks 18-7-3-4-6-10-16-30)

31 Elton John - Little Jeannie (8wks 23-15-10-9-10-11-19-31)
32 Young Marble Giants - Final Day (2wks 38-32)
33 Dead Kennedys - Holiday In Cambodia (4wks 32-28-24-33)
34 Bill Nelson - Do You Dream In Colour (4wks 33-27-26-34)
35 Manhattans - Shining Star (2wks 33-35)
36 Blues Brothers - Gimme Some Lovin' (1wk 36 NEW)
37 Kenny Rogers - Love The World Away (1wk 37 NEW)
38 Roy Orbison & Emmylou Harris - That Lovin' You Feelin' Again (1wk 38 NEW)
39 Kiss - Shandi (1wk 39 NEW)
40 Cheap Trick - Everything Works If You Let It (3wks 34-32-40)

LP Queen - Sail Away Sweet Sister (1LP 1 The Game)
LP Joy Division - Isolation (1LP 2 Closer)
LP Clash - Lost In The Supermarket (4LP 1-1-1-3 London Calling)
LP Squeeze - I Think I'm Go Go (2LP 3-4 ArgyBargy)
LP Roxy Music - In The Midnight Hour (3LP 2-2-5 Flesh & Blood)

Eight more entries this week from:

• The much sampled UK #2, Canada #5 & #1 song in USA, Australia, Denmark, Italy, New Zealand, Norway, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland written and produced by Chic members Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards from the Diana album.
• The John Farrar written & produced track from the Xanadu soundtrack topped the charts in the USA, Canada, and reached #4 in Australia & New Zealand, and UK #32.
  
• The English synthpop group's first single from their fourth album, Vienna, and their first with Midge Ure as frontman was a minor UK #29 success (their biggest to date).
  
• The David Byrne penned, Brian Eno co-produced New Wave track from the Fear Of Music album.
  
• The New York blues and soul revivalist band which was founded in 1978 by comedy actors Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi as part of a musical sketch on Saturday Night Live, signed to Atlantic records and created the Blues Brothers movie & soundtrack from which this Spencer Davis Group USA #18 cover came from.
  
• The USA #14 & Canada #25 ballad written by Bob Morrison and Johnny Wilson for the American country star taken from the Urban Cowboy soundtrack.
  
• Taken from the Roadie film soundtrack saw the 1960s USA pop star return to the USA charts for the first time in 13 years (USA #55) & Australia #97 with this duet with the female folk country singer.
• Released on their 1980 album, Unmasked, this showed a decline in the band's fortune in North America stalling at USA #47 & Canada #70. However, this Paul Stanley & producer Vini Poncia composition was a major hit in Australia #5.
  

[raliverpool]

I've just seen some of the songs that come out in the next month. .... This is going to get brutal...

[smokeyb]

Jul 18, 2017 20:22:05 GMT 1 raliverpool said:

I've just seen some of the songs that come out in the next month. .... This is going to get brutal...

You don't mean Sue Wilkinson, Kelly Marie, Mike Berry, The Dooleys & Shakin' Stevens do you?

[raliverpool]

03/08/1980

01 Kate Bush - Babooshka (4wks 13-3-2-1)

02 Diana Ross - Upside Down (2wks 7-2)
03 Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart (6wks 3-1-1-1-1-3)
04 Olivia Newton-John - Magic (2wks 8-4)
05 Abba - The Winner Takes It All (1wk 5 NEW)
06 Bob Marley - Could You Be Loved (5wks 21-4-2-3-6)
07 Undertones - Wednesday Week (4wks 26-15-9-7)
08 Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb (1wk 8 NEW)
09 Rolling Stones - Emotional Rescue (5wks 23-8-4-9)
10 Genesis - Misunderstanding (4wks 29-20-15-10)

11 Dexys Midnight Runners - There There My Dear (3wks 21-14-11)
12 Odyssey - Use It Up & Wear It Out (5wks 20-8-7-6-12)
13 Pete Townshend - Let My Love Open The Door (5wks 30-15-9-10-13)
14 Olivia Newton-John & Electric Light Orchestra - Xanadu (6wks 6-3-2-4-5-14)
15 Sparks - When I'm With You (4wks 30-22-16-15)
16 Talking Heads - Cities (2wks 29-16)
17 Ultravox - Sleepwalk (2wks 25-17)
18 Bad Manners - Lip Up Fatty (3wks 31-22-18)
19 Leo Sayer - More Than I Can Say (3wks 25-17-19)
20 Icehouse - Can't Help Myself (5wks 29-19-14-13-20)

21 Fall - How I Wrote Elastic Man (3wks 27-20-21)
22 Paul McCartney - Waterfalls (6wks 16-4-3-5-11-22)
23 New Musik - Sanctuary (4wks 33-23-21-23)
24 Joan Armatrading - Me Myself I (7wks 22-13-8-5-6-12-24)
25 George Benson - Give Me The Night (1wk 25 NEW)
26 Bow Wow Wow - C30 C60 C90 Go (1wk 26 NEW)
27 Sheena Easton - Morning Train (Nine To Five) (1wk 27 NEW)
28 Change - A Lovers Holiday (4wks 38-30-26-28)
29 Grace Jones - Private Life (1wk 29 NEW)
30 Magazine - Sweetheart Contract (1wk 30 NEW)

31 Split Enz - I Hope I Never (1wk 31 NEW)
32 Saxon - 747 (Strangers In The Night) (5wks 23-18-17-19-32)
33 Stacy Lattishaw - Jump To The Beat (6wks 24-13-9-10-18-33)
34 Young Marble Giants - Final Day (3wks 38-32-34)
35 Whitesnake - Ready An' Willing (1wk 35 NEW)
36 John Foxx - Burning Car (1wk 36 NEW)
37 Plasmatics - Butcher Baby (1wk 37 NEW)
38 Michael Jackson - Girlfriend (1wk 38 NEW)
39 Linda Ronstadt - I Can't Let Go (1wk 39 NEW)
40 Gerry Rafferty - The Royal Mile (1wk 40 NEW)

LP Queen - Sail Away Sweet Sister (2LP 1-1 The Game)
LP Pink Floyd - The Trial (1LP 2 The Wall)
LP Joy Division - Isolation (2LP 2-3 Closer)
LP Clash - Lost In The Supermarket (5LP 1-1-1-3-4 London Calling)
LP Squeeze - I Think I'm Go Go (3LP 3-4-5 ArgyBargy)

A second Retro Rewind chart topper for the original "Mighty Bush" .... in a week with 14 (Fourteen!) new entries from:

• The UK, South Africa, Ireland, the Netherlands, & Belgium #1, and USA #8 (AC #1), Canada #10 & Australia #7 ballad (with the original demo title of "The Story Of My Life") was the first single from the group's Super Trouper album, was written by both Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson, with Agnetha Fältskog singing the lead vocal. The breakup classic tale of divorce is non biographical according to both Agnetha & Bjorn who had just got divorced, although many critics think otherwise.
• The Wall rock classic written by guitarist David Gilmour and bassist Roger Waters was released as the third & final single from the double concept album. Incredibly it never charted at the time. But what a classic it has since become thanks to its ahead of its time tale of angst proto Grunge meets art rock sound predating the likes of Nirvana & Radiohead.
  
• The USA #4 (R&B #1), UK #7, Australia #10 & Canada #22 title track of the jazz guitarist's 1980 album written and composed by Heatwave's keyboard player Rod Temperton and produced by Quincy Jones.
  
• The self composed UK #34 debut single by English post punk band consisting of former Ants Dave Barbarossa, Leigh Gorman, Matthew Ashman, and singer Annabella Lwin, produced by their manager Malcolm McLaren written about (illegally) home taping on a blank cassette.
  
• The Scottish singer born Sheena Orr was the first British musical reality  pop star via the television programme The Big Time: Pop Singer, which recorded her attempts to gain a record contract and her eventual signing with EMI Records. Hence, this second pop single written by British songwriter Florrie Palmer, and produced by Christopher Neill hit UK #3 & Ireland #2. But then it took hold in other territories reaching #1 in the USA, Canada, Australia & New Zealand.
  
• The Jamaican singer's UK #17 cover of the Pretenders song from her Island records first post disco album Warm Leatherette produced by Chris Blackwell & Alex Sadkin, and featuring Sly & Robbie.
  
• The English post punk band's UK #54 single from their third album, The Correct Use of Soap was composed by the group consisting of Barry Adamson, Howard Devoto, John Doyle, Dave Formula and John McGeoch.
  
• The Tim Finn penned & sung art rock ballad from New Zealand's best selling album of 1980 True Colours. It peaked at Australia #18 & New Zealand #33.
  
• The Martin Birch produced UK #43 title track of the third studio album by English hard rock band.
  
• The former Ultravox frontman's UK #35 hard edged synth pop stand alone single.
  
• The shock punk rock and heavy metal band formed by Rod Swenson and Wendy O. Williams in New York City scored a minor UK #55 hit on Stiff Records.
  
• The Wings' London Town album track written by Paul McCartney. McCartney thought of the song as one that Michael Jackson might like to record, and mentioned this to Jackson at a party in Hollywood. This UK #41 was released as the fifth and final single from the Off the Wall album.
  
• The USA #31 new wave melodic rock cover of the 1965 song co-written by Al Gorgoni and Chip Taylor made famous by The Hollies.
  
• The Scottish singer/songwriter's USA #54, UK #67, & Australia #52 lead single from the Snakes & Ladders album was his final chart entry outside of re-releases of his two most well known songs.
  

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10/08/1980

01 Abba - The Winner Takes It All (2wk 5-1)

02 Diana Ross - Upside Down (3wks 7-2-2)
03 Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb (2wks 8-3)
04 Olivia Newton-John - Magic (3wks 8-4-4)
05 Kate Bush - Babooshka (5wks 13-3-2-1-5)
06 Genesis - Misunderstanding (5wks 29-20-15-10-6)
07 Roxy Music - Oh Yeah (1wk 7 NEW)
08 Bow Wow Wow - C30 C60 C90 Go (2wks 26-8)
09 George Benson - Give Me The Night (2wks 25-9)
10 Talking Heads - Cities (3wks 29-16-10)

11 Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart (7wks 3-1-1-1-1-3-11)
12 Undertones - Wednesday Week (5wks 26-15-9-7-12)
13 Bob Marley - Could You Be Loved (6wks 21-4-2-3-6-13)
14 Sheena Easton - Morning Train (Nine To Five) (2wks 27-14)
15 Ultravox - Sleepwalk (3wks 25-17-15)
16 Grace Jones - Private Life (2wks 29-16)
17 Dexys Midnight Runners - There There My Dear (4wks 21-14-11-17)
18 Sparks - When I'm With You (5wks 30-22-16-15-18)
19 Bad Manners - Lip Up Fatty (4wks 31-22-18-19)
20 Rolling Stones - Emotional Rescue (5wks 23-8-4-9-20)

21 Tom Browne - Funkin' For Jamaica (1wk 21 NEW)
22 Gap Band - Oops Upside Your Head (1wk 22 NEW)
23 Electric Light Orchestra - All Over The World (1wk 23 NEW)
24 Pete Townshend - Let My Love Open The Door (6wks 30-15-9-10-13-24)
25 Split Enz - I Hope I Never (2wks 31-25)
26 Leo Sayer - More Than I Can Say (4wks 25-17-19-26)
27 Odyssey - Use It Up & Wear It Out (6wks 20-8-7-6-12-27)
28 Magazine - Sweetheart Contract (2wks 30-28)
29 Olivia Newton-John & Electric Light Orchestra - Xanadu (7wks 6-3-2-4-5-14-29)
30 SOS Band - Take Your Time (1wk 30 NEW)

31 Kim Carnes - More Love (1wk 31 NEW)
32 Christopher Cross - Sailing (1wk 32 NEW)
33 Fall - How I Wrote Elastic Man (4wks 27-20-21-33)
34 New Musik - Sanctuary (5wks 33-23-21-23-34)
35 Icehouse - Can't Help Myself (6wks 29-19-14-13-20-35)
36 Girlschool - Race With The Devil (1wk 36 NEW)
37 Hot Chocolate - Are You Getting Enough Happiness (1wk 37 NEW)
38 Roger Daltrey - Free Me (1wk 38 NEW)
39 Change - A Lovers Holiday (5wks 38-30-26-28-39)
40 Joan Armatrading - Me Myself I (8wks 22-13-8-5-6-12-24-40)

LP Abba - Elaine (1B 1 b/s The Winner Takes It All)
LP Queen - Sail Away Sweet Sister (3LP 1-1-2 The Game)
LP Joy Division - Isolation (3LP 2-3-3 Closer)
LP Pink Floyd - The Trial (2LP 2-4 The Wall)
LP Clash - Lost In The Supermarket (6LP 1-1-1-3-4-5 London Calling)

The Swedish pop quartet score their 8th Retro Rewind chart topper. This week sees 10 more entries from:

• The Bryan Ferry penned nostalgic UK #5 & USA #102 second release from the Flesh & Blood album.
  
• The New York jazz trumpeter's much sampled funk UK #10 hit, which despite topping the US Billboard R&B chart never charted inside the top 100.
  
• The P-Funk much sampled anthem produced by Lonnie Simmons for the Oklahoma group, hit USA #102 (R&B #4) & UK #6. It was famous for its rowing dance.
  
• The Jeff Lynne written & produced Xanadu soundtrack single made UK #11, USA #13, Australia #78, & Canada #16.
  
• The Atlanta, Georgia R&B funk group's debut release became a USA #3 (R&B #1), UK #51, Canada #27 & Australia #40 hit written by Harold Clayton with producer Sigidi.
  
• The Los Angeles singer/songwriter's USA #10 & Australia #46 commercial breakthrough from her Romance Dance album, was a cover of the 1967 Smokey Robinson original.
  
• The Texas born Grammy Award winning soft rocker peaked at USA #1, Canada #1, UK #48 & Australia #46 with her second single from her self titled debut album.
  
• The all female Bristol heavy metal group 4th single was this cover of The Gun original, and first chart entry peaking at UK #49, produced by Vic Maile.
  
• Errol Brown's disco soul group's debut single from their 1980 Class album, was a UK #17 & Ireland #15 hit.
  
• The Russ Ballard penned, Jeff Wayne produced UK #39 & USA #39 hit for The Who's lead singer, from his 1980 McVicar album & film soundtrack.