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Post by Earl Purple on Feb 1, 2021 15:33:43 GMT 1
Way back I compiled a personal chart, the first date being the one of 1 January 1977. Having now done 21 years prior to this, it may be obvious to stop, except for a few considerations:
- My chart at the end of 1976 is a lot longer (top 40). - It doesn't run-in. So there are 4 songs in the first top 10 now of 1977 that were also in that first top 10, and therefore a few that were in the top 10 but fell short this time, partly because of timing. Some of those that are high in the chart now entered my chart then within the next couple of weeks and were big hits, so it makes sense they are big hits now.
However I have to keep in mind what I did back in 1977, and therefore songs will chart high if I liked them then (and made them big hits) even if I'm not so keen on them now. Fortunately there aren't that many. There are far more the other way - songs I didn't know or care about at the time that are going to achieve this time around.
And drawing from the US chart and a full top 50 gives me a bigger playlist and also having songs enter earlier, but then I have a bigger chart to put them in. A full top 40.
So the new chart of
1 January 1977
1 ( 1 ) Somebody To Love - Queen < 3rd week at #1 > 2 ( 3 ) Things We Do For Love - 10cc 3 ( 2 ) Money Money Money - Abba (#1[2]) 4 ( 5 ) Haitian Divorce - Steely Dan 5 ( 4 ) Living Next Door To Alice - Smokie (#3) 6 ( 6 ) Anarchy In The UK - Sex Pistols 7 ( 7 ) Car Wash - Rose Royce 8 ( 11 ) You're More Than A Number In My Little Red Book - Drifters 9 ( 12 ) Daddy Cool - Boney M 10 ( 10 ) Walk This Way - Aerosmith
11 ( 14 ) Mademoiselle - Styx 12 ( 22 ) Winter Melody - Donna Summer 13 ( 13 ) Saturday Nite - Earth Wind & Fire 14 ( 17 ) Don't Give Up On Us - David Soul 15 ( 18 ) Every Man Must Have A Dream - Liverpool Express 16 ( 9 ) I Wish - Stevie Wonder (#6) 17 ( 8 ) Ring Out Solstice Bells - Jethro Tull (#8) 18 ( 26 ) Smile - Pussycat 19 ( 29 ) Don't Cry For Me Argentina - Julie Covington 20 ( 24 ) Sing Me An Old Fashioned Song - Billie Jo Spears
21 ( 15 ) Portsmouth - Mike Oldfield (#8) 22 ( 19 ) Dr Love - Tina Charles (#15) 23 ( 27 ) This Song - George Harrison 24 ( 16 ) Little Does She Know - Kursaal Flyers (#3) 25 ( 31 ) Flip - Jesse Green 26 ( -- ) Suspicion - Elvis Presley 27 ( 20 ) Sideshow - Barry Biggs (#13) 28 ( 25 ) Hey Mr Dream Maker - Cliff Richard (#24) 29 ( 23 ) Grandma's Party - Paul Nicholas (#20) 30 ( -- ) Wild Side Of Life - Status Quo
31 ( 39 ) Do What You Want Be What You Are - Daryl Hall & John Oates 32 ( 40 ) Drivin' Wheel - Foghat 33 ( 32 ) Enjoy Yourself - Jacksons (#32) 34 ( 21 ) Livin' Thing - Electric Light Orchestra (#1[2]) 35 ( 35 ) Lost Without Your Love - Bread 36 ( 33 ) One Fine Morning - Tommy Hunt (#30) 37 ( 28 ) Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word - Elton John (#4) 38 ( 30 ) When A Child Is Born - Johnny Mathis (#10) 39 ( 36 ) Teenage Depression - Eddie & The Hotrods (#11) 40 ( 34 ) Under The Moon Of Love - Showaddywaddy (#3)
-- ( 37 ) Shake Your Rump To The Funk - Bar-Kays (#36) -- ( 38 ) Secrets - Sutherland Brothers & Quiver (#14)
Ok so comparisons. Well back then I didn't chart the Sex Pistols. It wasn't a big UK hit, it wasn't played, I think I only knew who they were when "God Save The Queen" came out, and then I didn't know the song because it wasn't played. "Pretty Vacant" was actually their first hit in my chart.
I hadn't heard of Aerosmith either, and only knew "Walk This Way" when Run DMC covered it, although by then I'd already heard of Aerosmith, just not that song.
Those that performed better than, Dr Love number 9 (only #15 peak now) and Grandma's Party 10 (only #20 peak). Kursaal Flyers and E.L.O were both in my chart but have peaked and dropped by now.
The four that were in the chart then and now are Queen, Abba, 10cc and Smokie. Steely Dan entered the following week, the Drifters and Rose Royce the week after and Boney M the week after that.
The change of view on charting cover versions has allowed both Elvis Presley and Status Quo in this week, although Status Quo would have been allowed in anyway as their version is totally different to any previous. Elvis Presley, not surprisingly, does a more faithful cover.
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Post by Good Old Days on Feb 1, 2021 15:50:16 GMT 1
Your old chart was better without Sex Pistols and "Walk This Way".
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Post by Earl Purple on Feb 1, 2021 18:48:11 GMT 1
But given the fact that I did chart "Pretty Vacant" which was probably the first Sex Pistols song I actually knew, I'd probably have charted "Anarchy In The UK" too.
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Post by Earl Purple on Feb 2, 2021 23:53:09 GMT 1
8 January 1977
1 ( 2 ) The Things We Do For Love - 10cc < 4th #1 > 2 ( 1 ) Somebody To Love - Queen (#1[3]) 3 ( 4 ) Haitian Divorce - Steely Dan 4 ( 3 ) Money Money Money - Abba (#1[2]) 5 ( 8 ) You're More Than A Number In My Little Red Book - Drifters 6 ( 6 ) Anarchy In The UK - Sex Pistols 7 ( 5 ) Living Next Door To Alice - Smokie (#3) 8 ( 12 ) Winter Melody - Donna Summer 9 ( 9 ) Daddy Cool - Boney M 10 ( 7 ) Car Wash - Rose Royce (#7)
11 ( 11 ) Mademoiselle - Styx 12 ( 10 ) Walk This Way - Aerosmith (#10) 13 ( -- ) Evergreen (A Star Is Born) - Barbra Streisand 14 ( 14 ) Don't Give Up On Us - David Soul 15 ( 19 ) Don't Cry For Me Argentina - Julie Covington 16 ( 18 ) Smile - Pussycat 17 ( 15 ) Every Man Must Have A Dream - Liverpool Express (#15) 18 ( 13 ) Saturday Nite - Earth Wind & Fire (#13) 19 ( 26 ) Suspicion - Elvis Presley 20 ( 20 ) Sing Me An Old Fashioned Song - Billie Jo Spears
21 ( 30 ) Wild Side Of Life - Status Quo 22 ( 23 ) This Song - George Harrison 23 ( 25 ) Flip - Jesse Green 24 ( -- ) Fly Like An Eagle - Steve Miller Band 25 ( 16 ) I Wish - Stevie Wonder (#6) 26 ( 31 ) Do What You Want Be What You Are - Daryl Hall & John Oates 27 ( 22 ) Dr Love - Tina Charles (#15) 28 ( 32 ) Drivin' Wheel - Foghat 29 ( 17 ) Ring Out Solstice Bells - Jethro Tull (#8) 30 ( 21 ) Portsmouth - Mike Oldfield (#8)
31 ( 28 ) Hey Mr Dream Maker - Cliff Richard (#24) 32 ( 24 ) Little Does She Know - Kursaal Flyers (#3) 33 ( 27 ) Sideshow - Barry Biggs (#13) 34 ( 33 ) Enjoy Yourself - Jacksons (#32) 35 ( 35 ) Lost Without Your Love - Bread 36 ( 29 ) Grandma's Party - Paul Nicholas (#20) 37 ( 36 ) One Fine Morning - Tommy Hunt (#30) 38 ( 34 ) Livin' Thing - Electric Light Orchestra (#1[2]) 39 ( 37 ) Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word - Elton John (#4) 40 ( 38 ) When A Child Is Born - Johnny Mathis (#10)
-- ( 39 ) Teenage Depression - Eddie & The Hotrods (#11) -- ( 40 ) Under The Moon Of Love - Showaddywaddy (#3)
10cc move to the top, replacing Queen. Whilst Queen will continue having hits for over 14 more years, until Freddie Mercury dies, 10cc will only have 2 more hits, although Graham Gouldman, who achieved his first NM #1 as a songwriter back in 1966 with "No Milk Today" will get another number one in 1987, and his partner on that song will also chart in the next few months.
Barbra Streisand gets the highest new entry, this was a UK hit (and thus a hit in my chart) a few months later, getting to UK #3, and she co-wrote the song (she wrote the music but not the lyrics). I don't know if Barbra Streisand has written or co-written any of her other hits. In the film she stars with Kris Kristofferson, the one who wrote one of the worst UK number ones of all time (a song that has already turned up in a different version). Fortunately he had no part in writing this song.
Steve Miller Band's hit was covered by Seal but he never had a UK hit with it.
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Post by Earl Purple on Feb 3, 2021 21:51:56 GMT 1
15 January 1977
1 ( 1 ) The Things We Do For Love - 10cc < 2nd week at #1 > 2 ( 3 ) Haitian Divorce - Steely Dan 3 ( 2 ) Somebody To Love - Queen (#1[3]) 4 ( 5 ) You're More Than A Number In My Little Red Book - Drifters 5 ( 13 ) Evergreen (A Star Is Born) - Barbra Streisand 6 ( 4 ) Money Money Money - Abba (#1[2]) 7 ( 8 ) Winter Melody - Donna Summer 8 ( 6 ) Anarchy In The UK - Sex Pistols (#6) 9 ( 9 ) Daddy Cool - Boney M 10 ( 7 ) Living Next Door To Alice - Smokie (#3)
11 ( 11 ) Mademoiselle - Styx 12 ( 24 ) Fly Like An Eagle - Steve Miller Band 13 ( 15 ) Don't Cry For Me Argentina - Julie Covington 14 ( 10 ) Car Wash - Rose Royce (#7) 15 ( 19 ) Suspicion - Elvis Presley 16 ( 14 ) Don't Give Up On Us - David Soul (#14) 17 ( 16 ) Smile - Pussycat (#16) 18 ( 12 ) Walk This Way - Aerosmith (#10) 19 ( 21 ) Wild Side Of Life - Status Quo 20 ( -- ) New Kid In Town - Eagles
21 ( 17 ) Every Man Must Have A Dream - Liverpool Express (#15) 22 ( 20 ) Sing Me An Old Fashioned Song - Billie Jo Spears (#20) 23 ( -- ) Don't Believe A Word - Thin Lizzy 24 ( 22 ) This Song - George Harrison (#22) 25 ( 23 ) Flip - Jesse Green (#23) 26 ( 26 ) Do What You Want Be What You Are - Daryl Hall & John Oates 27 ( 18 ) Saturday Nite - Earth Wind & Fire (#13) 28 ( 28 ) Drivin' Wheel - Foghat 29 ( -- ) Hard Luck Woman - Kiss 30 ( -- ) Isn't She Lovely - David Parton
31 ( 27 ) Dr Love - Tina Charles (#15) 32 ( -- ) Night Moves - Bob Seger 33 ( 25 ) I Wish - Stevie Wonder (#6) 34 ( 31 ) Hey Mr Dream Maker - Cliff Richard (#24) 35 ( 35 ) Lost Without Your Love - Bread 36 ( 34 ) Enjoy Yourself - Jacksons (#32) 37 ( 37 ) One Fine Morning - Tommy Hunt (#30) 38 ( 33 ) Sideshow - Barry Biggs (#13) 39 ( 30 ) Portsmouth - Mike Oldfield (#8) 40 ( 32 ) Little Does She Know - Kursaal Flyers (#3)
-- ( 29 ) Ring Out Solstice Bells - Jethro Tull (#8) -- ( 36 ) Grandma's Party - Paul Nicholas (#20) -- ( 38 ) Livin' Thing - Electric Light Orchestra (#1[2]) -- ( 39 ) Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word - Elton John (#4) -- ( 40 ) When A Child Is Born - Johnny Mathis (#10)
-- ( -- ) Nobody But You - Gladys Knight & The Pips -- ( -- ) You - Randy Edelman
The chart is starting to move faster now, we have more new hits. The highest is the Eagles, but had Stevie Wonder released "Isn't She Lovely" it would probably be the highest entry and possibly heading towards number one. Instead we have a karaoke cover version by David Parton which still charts but with much less success. Those two and Thin Lizzy I knew at the time, whereas I didn't know the songs by Kiss or Bob Seger (I did know Hollywood Nights and that one is along in 1978, though apparently the current one was a bigger US hit. The Eagles also have an even bigger one coming up in a couple of months).
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Post by Earl Purple on Feb 5, 2021 0:28:26 GMT 1
22 January 1977
1 ( 1 ) The Things We Do For Love - 10cc < 3rd week at #1 > 2 ( 2 ) Haitian Divorce - Steely Dan 3 ( 5 ) Evergreen (A Star Is Born) - Barbra Streisand 4 ( 4 ) You're More Than A Number In My Little Red Book - Drifters 5 ( 3 ) Somebody To Love - Queen (#1[3]) 6 ( -- ) Go Your Own Way - Fleetwood Mac 7 ( 12 ) Fly Like An Eagle - Steve Miller Band 8 ( 7 ) Winter Melody - Donna Summer (#7) 9 ( -- ) Don't Leave Me This Way - Harold Melvin & The Bluenotes 10 ( 6 ) Money Money Money - Abba (#1[2])
11 ( 20 ) New Kid In Town - Eagles 12 ( -- ) Boogie Nights - Heatwave 13 ( 9 ) Daddy Cool - Boney M (#9) 14 ( 8 ) Anarchy In The UK - Sex Pistols (#6) 15 ( 23 ) Don't Believe A Word - Thin Lizzy 16 ( 11 ) Mademoiselle - Styx (#11) 17 ( 13 ) Don't Cry For Me Argentina - Julie Covington (#13) 18 ( 15 ) Suspicion - Elvis Presley (#15) 19 ( -- ) Jack In The Box - Moments 20 ( 10 ) Living Next Door To Alice - Smokie (#3)
21 ( -- ) What Can I Say - Boz Scaggs 22 ( 29 ) Hard Luck Woman - Kiss 23 ( 30 ) Isn't She Lovely - David Parton 24 ( 19 ) Wild Side Of Life - Status Quo (#19) 25 ( 14 ) Car Wash - Rose Royce (#7) 26 ( 17 ) Smile - Pussycat (#16) 27 ( 16 ) Don't Give Up On Us - David Soul (#14) 28 ( -- ) Year Of The Cat - Al Stewart 29 ( 32 ) Night Moves - Bob Seger 30 ( 18 ) Walk This Way - Aerosmith (#10)
31 ( 22 ) Sing Me An Old Fashioned Song - Billie Jo Spears (#20) 32 ( 21 ) Every Man Must Have A Dream - Liverpool Express (#15) 33 ( 26 ) Do What You Want Be What You Are - Daryl Hall & John Oates (#26) 34 ( 24 ) This Song - George Harrison (#22) 35 ( 25 ) Flip - Jesse Green (#23) 36 ( 28 ) Drivin' Wheel - Foghat (#28) 37 ( -- ) Save It For A Rainy Day - Stephen Bishop 38 ( 35 ) Lost Without Your Love - Bread (#35) 39 ( 31 ) Dr Love - Tina Charles (#15) 40 ( 27 ) Saturday Nite - Earth Wind & Fire (#13)
-- ( 33 ) I Wish - Stevie Wonder (#6) -- ( 34 ) Hey Mr Dream Maker - Cliff Richard (#24) -- ( 36 ) Enjoy Yourself - Jacksons (#32) -- ( 37 ) One Fine Morning - Tommy Hunt (#30) -- ( 38 ) Sideshow - Barry Biggs (#13) -- ( 39 ) Portsmouth - Mike Oldfield (#8) -- ( 40 ) Little Does She Know - Kursaal Flyers (#3)
-- ( -- ) You've Got Me Runnin' - Gene Cotton -- ( -- ) It Takes All Night Long - Gary Glitter -- ( -- ) It Keeps You Runnin' - Doobie Brothers -- ( -- ) Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is - Rose Royce -- ( -- ) You + Me = Love - Undisputed Truth
Finally a bunch of new songs, 12 in fact but only 7 of them get into the chart, with Gary Glitter among those left out in the cold. I think this is actually around the time he was doing the things he later got convicted for.
Anyway, the new sound Fleetwood Mac are struggling in the singles chart, this one only reached #38, after a #40 for Say You Love Me but the album "Rumours" would sell loads. "Go Your Own Way" is the first Fleetwood Mac single written by Lindsay Buckingham. Some people would rather Jack - and the Moments enter at #19 this week. That's the song that goes "A jack comes out of a box, the bears came home and caught Goldilocks" and isn't a cover of Clodagh Rodgers.
As "Walk This Way" is falling down the chart, we get another song entering that was covered in the summer of 1986, "Don't Leave Me This Way", which has 2 versions out at this point, but I always liked Harold Melvin & The Bluenotes over Thelma Houston (who is not related to Whitney. Nor by the way is David Parton related to Dolly. Nor Al Stewart to Rod).
Boogie Nights reached #2 in the UK. Rod Temperton was a member of the band and wrote the song. He also wrote 3 hits for Michael Jackson, "Off The Wall", "Beat It" and best of all "Thriller".
"What Can I Say" was Boz Scaggs' biggest hit as an artist in the UK, but it was a relative flop in the USA. A cover of his song "We're All Alone" did even better later in the year for Rita Coolidge. It's the follow-up to "Lowdown" which was his biggest US hit but much smaller in the UK.
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Post by Earl Purple on Feb 7, 2021 13:35:59 GMT 1
29 January 1977
1 ( 1 ) The Things We Do For Love - 10cc < 4th week at #1 > 2 ( 6 ) Go Your Own Way - Fleetwood Mac 3 ( 3 ) Evergreen (A Star Is Born) - Barbra Streisand 4 ( 9 ) Don't Leave Me This Way - Harold Melvin & The Bluenotes 5 ( 2 ) Haitian Divorce - Steely Dan (#2[2]) 6 ( 12 ) Boogie Nights - Heatwave 7 ( 4 ) You're More Than A Number In My Little Red Book - Drifters (#4) 8 ( 7 ) Fly Like An Eagle - Steve Miller Band (#7) 9 ( 11 ) New Kid In Town - Eagles 10 ( 5 ) Somebody To Love - Queen (#1[3])
11 ( 19 ) Jack In The Box - Moments 12 ( 21 ) What Can I Say - Boz Scaggs 13 ( 8 ) Winter Melody - Donna Summer (#7) 14 ( 15 ) Don't Believe A Word - Thin Lizzy 15 ( -- ) Sing Me - Brothers 16 ( 10 ) Money Money Money - Abba (#1[2]) 17 ( -- ) I Wanna Go Back - New Seekers 18 ( 28 ) Year Of The Cat - Al Stewart 19 ( 22 ) Hard Luck Woman - Kiss 20 ( 13 ) Daddy Cool - Boney M (#9)
21 ( 23 ) Isn't She Lovely - David Parton 22 ( 14 ) Anarchy In The UK - Sex Pistols (#6) 23 ( 17 ) Don't Cry For Me Argentina - Julie Covington (#13) 24 ( 16 ) Mademoiselle - Styx (#11) 25 ( 18 ) Suspicion - Elvis Presley (#15) 26 ( 37 ) Save It For A Rainy Day - Stephen Bishop 27 ( -- ) When I Need You - Leo Sayer 28 ( 29 ) Night Moves - Bob Seger 29 ( 24 ) Wild Side Of Life - Status Quo (#19) 30 ( 20 ) Living Next Door To Alice - Smokie (#3)
31 ( -- ) Everybody's Talking About Love - Silver Convention 32 ( -- ) Wake Up Susan - Spinners 33 ( 26 ) Smile - Pussycat (#16) 34 ( -- ) Every Little Teardrop - Gallagher & Lyle 35 ( 25 ) Car Wash - Rose Royce (#7) 36 ( 27 ) Don't Give Up On Us - David Soul (#14) 37 ( -- ) Boogie Child - Bee Gees 38 ( 33 ) Do What You Want Be What You Are - Daryl Hall & John Oates (#26) 39 ( 31 ) Sing Me An Old Fashioned Song - Billie Jo Spears (#20) 40 ( -- ) I Like To Do It - KC & The Sunshine Band
-- ( 30 ) Walk This Way - Aerosmith (#10) -- ( 32 ) Every Man Must Have A Dream - Liverpool Express (#15) -- ( 34 ) This Song - George Harrison (#22) -- ( 35 ) Flip - Jesse Green (#23) -- ( 36 ) Drivin' Wheel - Foghat (#28) -- ( 38 ) Lost Without Your Love - Bread (#35) -- ( 39 ) Dr Love - Tina Charles (#15) -- ( 40 ) Saturday Nite - Earth Wind & Fire (#13)
Not a great week for new hits, the reggae song "Sing Me" which isn't on Spotify but reached #8 in the UK chart, is the highest entry this week.
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Post by Earl Purple on Feb 9, 2021 0:00:20 GMT 1
5 February 1977
1 ( 2 ) Go Your Own Way - Fleetwood Mac < 1st #1 > 2 ( 1 ) The Things We Do For Love - 10cc (#1[4]) 3 ( 4 ) Don't Leave Me This Way - Harold Melvin & The Bluenotes 4 ( 6 ) Boogie Nights - Heatwave 5 ( 3 ) Evergreen (A Star Is Born) - Barbra Streisand (#3) 6 ( 11 ) Jack In The Box - Moments 7 ( 12 ) What Can I Say - Boz Scaggs 8 ( 15 ) Sing Me - Brothers 9 ( 17 ) I Wanna Go Back - New Seekers 10 ( 9 ) New Kid In Town - Eagles (#9)
11 ( 5 ) Haitian Divorce - Steely Dan (#2[2]) 12 ( 8 ) Fly Like An Eagle - Steve Miller Band (#7) 13 ( 7 ) You're More Than A Number In My Little Red Book - Drifters (#4) 14 ( -- ) Rich Girl - Daryl Hall & John Oates 15 ( 18 ) Year Of The Cat - Al Stewart 16 ( 14 ) Don't Believe A Word - Thin Lizzy (#14) 17 ( 27 ) When I Need You - Leo Sayer 18 ( 10 ) Somebody To Love - Queen (#1[3]) 19 ( 19 ) Hard Luck Woman - Kiss 20 ( -- ) This Is Tomorrow - Bryan Ferry
21 ( 13 ) Winter Melody - Donna Summer (#7) 22 ( -- ) Carry On Wayward Son - Kansas 23 ( 31 ) Everybody's Talking About Love - Silver Convention 24 ( 26 ) Save It For A Rainy Day - Stephen Bishop 25 ( 21 ) Isn't She Lovely - David Parton (#21) 26 ( 32 ) Wake Up Susan - Spinners 27 ( -- ) Chanson D'Amour - Manhattan Transfer 28 ( 34 ) Every Little Teardrop - Gallagher & Lyle 29 ( 16 ) Money Money Money - Abba (#1[2]) 30 ( 37 ) Boogie Child - Bee Gees
31 ( 20 ) Daddy Cool - Boney M (#9) 32 ( 28 ) Night Moves - Bob Seger (#28) 33 ( 40 ) I Like To Do It - KC & The Sunshine Band 34 ( -- ) Gypsy Roadhog - Slade 35 ( 23 ) Don't Cry For Me Argentina - Julie Covington (#13) 36 ( 22 ) Anarchy In The UK - Sex Pistols (#6) 37 ( -- ) The Mighty Power Of Love - Tavares 38 ( 25 ) Suspicion - Elvis Presley (#15) 39 ( 24 ) Mademoiselle - Styx (#11) 40 ( 29 ) Wild Side Of Life - Status Quo (#19)
-- ( 30 ) Living Next Door To Alice - Smokie (#3) -- ( 33 ) Smile - Pussycat (#16) -- ( 35 ) Car Wash - Rose Royce (#7) -- ( 36 ) Don't Give Up On Us - David Soul (#14) -- ( 38 ) Do What You Want Be What You Are - Daryl Hall & John Oates (#26) -- ( 39 ) Sing Me An Old Fashioned Song - Billie Jo Spears (#20)
-- ( -- ) Ha Cha Cha (Funktion) - Brass Construction -- ( -- ) She Thinks I Still Care - Elvis Presley
Daryl Hall & John Oates get the highest new entry. At #27 is an entry that reached #1 in the UK and the original by Art & Dotty Todd reached #4 in my chart in 1958, and we also will have "When" by Showaddywaddy which got to #1 in my chart to the Kalin Twins also in 1958, so the covers rule has generally been lifted because of the fact that I did charts back in 1977 and charted these songs then so don't want to restrict myself from charting them now.
With the exception of the one week of "Don't Cry For Me Argentina", the run of number ones at the start of 1977 is generally considered poor, with "Don't Give Up On Us" by David Soul, "When I Need You" by Leo Sayer and then "Chanson D'Amour" by Manhattan Transfer, and yet all of these have reached my top 20 albeit none of them have gone top 10 so far.
Yet there are clearly better songs in the chart, and Fleetwood Mac stuck at #38 in the UK whilst those were getting to #1 sort-of shows the best songs weren't doing well, but even so we don't get the excitement we had before even with the rock classics. Well ok, in my chart there is Kiss at #19 with all his weird make-up.
Elvis failing to chart is only because I credited the flip-side, the other side is on the new playlist and in my opinion is Elvis Presley's best single since "Suspicious Minds" and will do well but maybe I should have charted it this week as it's going to be up against better competition in 4 weeks time.
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Post by Earl Purple on Feb 9, 2021 22:13:24 GMT 1
12 February 1977
1 ( 1 ) Go Your Own Way - Fleetwood Mac < 2nd week at #1 > 2 ( 3 ) Don't Leave Me This Way - Harold Melvin & The Bluenotes 3 ( 4 ) Boogie Nights - Heatwave 4 ( 2 ) The Things We Do For Love - 10cc (#1[4]) 5 ( -- ) Baby I Know - Rubettes 6 ( 6 ) Jack In The Box - Moments 7 ( 7 ) What Can I Say - Boz Scaggs 8 ( 8 ) Sing Me - Brothers 9 ( 14 ) Rich Girl - Daryl Hall & John Oates 10 ( -- ) Romeo - Mr Big
11 ( 9 ) I Wanna Go Back - New Seekers (#9) 12 ( 5 ) Evergreen (A Star Is Born) - Barbra Streisand (#3) 13 ( 20 ) This Is Tomorrow - Bryan Ferry 14 ( 22 ) Carry On Wayward Son - Kansas 15 ( 17 ) When I Need You - Leo Sayer 16 ( 10 ) New Kid In Town - Eagles (#9) 17 ( 15 ) Year Of The Cat - Al Stewart (#15) 18 ( 27 ) Chanson D'Amour - Manhattan Transfer 19 ( -- ) Long Time - Boston 20 ( 12 ) Fly Like An Eagle - Steve Miller Band (#7)
21 ( 11 ) Haitian Divorce - Steely Dan (#2[2]) 22 ( 23 ) Everybody's Talking About Love - Silver Convention 23 ( 16 ) Don't Believe A Word - Thin Lizzy (#14) 24 ( 19 ) Hard Luck Woman - Kiss (#19) 25 ( 13 ) You're More Than A Number In My Little Red Book - Drifters (#4) 26 ( 26 ) Wake Up Susan - Spinners 27 ( 34 ) Gypsy Roadhog - Slade 28 ( 24 ) Save It For A Rainy Day - Stephen Bishop (#24) 29 ( -- ) You'll Never Know What You're Missing - Real Thing 30 ( 28 ) Every Little Teardrop - Gallagher & Lyle (#28)
31 ( 30 ) Boogie Child - Bee Gees (#30) 32 ( 37 ) The Mighty Power Of Love - Tavares 33 ( -- ) Soul Cha Cha - Van McCoy 34 ( 18 ) Somebody To Love - Queen (#1[3]) 35 ( 33 ) I Like To Do It - KC & The Sunshine Band (#33) 36 ( -- ) They Shoot Horses Don't They - Racing Cars 37 ( 21 ) Winter Melody - Donna Summer (#7) 38 ( 25 ) Isn't She Lovely - David Parton (#21) 39 ( -- ) Crackerbox Palace - George Harrison 40 ( 32 ) Night Moves - Bob Seger (#28)
-- ( 29 ) Money Money Money - Abba (#1[2]) -- ( 31 ) Daddy Cool - Boney M (#9) -- ( 35 ) Don't Cry For Me Argentina - Julie Covington (#13) -- ( 36 ) Anarchy In The UK - Sex Pistols (#6) -- ( 38 ) Suspicion - Elvis Presley (#15) -- ( 39 ) Mademoiselle - Styx (#11) -- ( 40 ) Wild Side Of Life - Status Quo (#19)
-- ( -- ) Darlin' Darlin' Baby - O'Jays -- ( -- ) Say You'll Stay Until Tomorrow - Tom Jones
Whilst Fleetwood Mac get a second week at #1, another group who have completely changed their sound from what they were like before get the highest new entry this week. The new "more serious" and "laid back" Rubettes in addition to the kind of stuff Chinn and Chapman were now giving to Smokie, plus the fact Mud had changed and their singer did a cover of "A Groovy Kind Of Love" etc gave an indication glam rock was dead.
Instead we have the new "Adult Oriented Rock" and I've heard Queen even listed among that category along with Boston, and Mr Big get their moment of glory with a song that has some influence of Queen in it, particularly in the video. This glorious song might have been my highest new entry but I'm heavily influenced by my original chart, and it would be a close thing but "Romeo" was a #2 even back then and will possibly be again.
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Post by Good Old Days on Feb 10, 2021 8:19:37 GMT 1
Which your # 1s from 60s and 70s were least successful in the official charts ?
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Post by Earl Purple on Feb 10, 2021 11:30:08 GMT 1
Remember I have 50s charts too. In the 50s it uses the UK top 30 and US top 25, in the 1960s it moved to UK top 50 and US top 30 and a bit later US top 40.
So the "least successful" would have to be the one that had the lowest peak in either UK or US.
As a quick guess, you'd be surprised because it's such a famous song by "Heartbeat" by Buddy Holly reached #30 in the UK chart twice, in 1959 and again in 1960, and was not a US Top 40 hit.
Two singles that spent one week in the UK chart at #50 reached #2 in my chart in 1960 and 1961: "Little Boy Lost" by Michael Holliday and "Night Of The Vampire" by the Moontrekkers, and neither were hits in the USA.
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Post by Earl Purple on Feb 10, 2021 22:00:49 GMT 1
19 February 1977
1 ( 5 ) Baby I Know - Rubettes < 1st #1 > 2 ( 1 ) Go Your Own Way - Fleetwood Mac (#1[2]) 3 ( 2 ) Don't Leave Me This Way - Harold Melvin & The Bluenotes (#2[1]) 4 ( 3 ) Boogie Nights - Heatwave (#3) 5 ( 10 ) Romeo - Mr Big 6 ( 9 ) Rich Girl - Daryl Hall & John Oates 7 ( 6 ) Jack In The Box - Moments (#6) 8 ( 4 ) The Things We Do For Love - 10cc (#1[4]) 9 ( -- ) Sam - Olivia Newton John 10 ( 7 ) What Can I Say - Boz Scaggs (#7)
11 ( -- ) Rockaria - Electric Light Orchestra 12 ( 19 ) Long Time - Boston 13 ( 8 ) Sing Me - Brothers (#8) 14 ( 13 ) This Is Tomorrow - Bryan Ferry (#13) 15 ( -- ) Sound And Vision - David Bowie 16 ( 14 ) Carry On Wayward Son - Kansas (#14) 17 ( -- ) (Get A) Grip (On Yourself) - Stranglers 18 ( 18 ) Chanson D'Amour - Manhattan Transfer 19 ( 11 ) I Wanna Go Back - New Seekers (#9) 20 ( 15 ) When I Need You - Leo Sayer (#15)
21 ( 29 ) You'll Never Know What You're Missing - Real Thing 22 ( 12 ) Evergreen (A Star Is Born) - Barbra Streisand (#3) 23 ( 17 ) Year Of The Cat - Al Stewart (#15) 24 ( -- ) One Drink Too Many - Sailor 25 ( 33 ) Soul Cha Cha - Van McCoy 26 ( 22 ) Everybody's Talking About Love - Silver Convention (#22) 27 ( 27 ) Gypsy Roadhog - Slade 28 ( 16 ) New Kid In Town - Eagles (#9) 29 ( -- ) Maybe I'm Amazed - Wings 30 ( 36 ) They Shoot Horses Don't They - Racing Cars
31 ( 26 ) Wake Up Susan - Spinners (#26) 32 ( 39 ) Crackerbox Palace - George Harrison 33 ( 32 ) The Mighty Power Of Love - Tavares (#32) 34 ( 20 ) Fly Like An Eagle - Steve Miller Band (#7) 35 ( 24 ) Hard Luck Woman - Kiss (#19) 36 ( 23 ) Don't Believe A Word - Thin Lizzy (#14) 37 ( 21 ) Haitian Divorce - Steely Dan (#2[2]) 38 ( 31 ) Boogie Child - Bee Gees (#30) 39 ( 30 ) Every Little Teardrop - Gallagher & Lyle (#28) 40 ( 28 ) Save It For A Rainy Day - Stephen Bishop (#24)
-- ( 25 ) You're More Than A Number In My Little Red Book - Drifters (#4) -- ( 34 ) Somebody To Love - Queen (#1[3]) -- ( 35 ) I Like To Do It - KC & The Sunshine Band (#33) -- ( 37 ) Winter Melody - Donna Summer (#7) -- ( 38 ) Isn't She Lovely - David Parton (#21) -- ( 40 ) Night Moves - Bob Seger (#28)
-- ( -- ) Here Come Those Tears Again - Jackson Browne -- ( -- ) First Thing In The Morning - Kiki Dee -- ( -- ) Fancy Dancer - Commodores
The Rubettes get to #1 with what will be their last ever hit. It looked like their new sound was taking them places when this peaked at #10 in the UK chart but they wouldn't have any more hits. In my chart, they only reached #9 with "Sugar Baby Love" but had a much bigger hit with "Juke Box Jive", peaking at #2, and now they have gone one better.
Keeping up the "country music" theme, perhaps a surprise that the highest new entry is by Olivia Newton John who has done so badly in this chart recently, and in the UK this is her first hit pretty much since her Eurovision entry, and will also start a revival as it reached #6 in the UK but later in the year.
The other entries are Electric Light Orchestra with a follow-up to their #1 "Livin' Thing", a new David Bowie hit, his biggest hit in fact in the second half of the 70s aside from the re-issue of "Space Oddity" but his classic "Heroes" will be out later in the year, and the debut hit for the Stranglers. Also another hit for Sailor which isn't that bad but I didn't remember it at all (unlike their other two) and a Wings live-version of a song that was originally just a Paul McCartney song. We'll see how their song at the end of this year gets on.
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Post by Earl Purple on Feb 11, 2021 23:44:24 GMT 1
26 February 1977
1 ( 1 ) Baby I Know - Rubettes < 2nd week at #1 >
2 ( 5 ) Romeo - Mr Big 3 ( 9 ) Sam - Olivia Newton John 4 ( 11 ) Rockaria - Electric Light Orchestra 5 ( 2 ) Go Your Own Way - Fleetwood Mac (#1[2]) 6 ( -- ) Knowing Me Knowing You - Abba 7 ( 6 ) Rich Girl - Daryl Hall & John Oates (#6) 8 ( 3 ) Don't Leave Me This Way - Harold Melvin & The Bluenotes (#2[1]) 9 ( 15 ) Sound And Vision - David Bowie 10 ( 4 ) Boogie Nights - Heatwave (#3)
11 ( 17 ) (Get A) Grip (On Yourself) - Stranglers 12 ( 12 ) Long Time - Boston 13 ( 7 ) Jack In The Box - Moments (#6) 14 ( -- ) The First Cut Is The Deepest - Rod Stewart 15 ( 24 ) One Drink Too Many - Sailor 16 ( 8 ) The Things We Do For Love - 10cc (#1[4]) 17 ( 10 ) What Can I Say - Boz Scaggs (#7) 18 ( 14 ) This Is Tomorrow - Bryan Ferry (#13) 19 ( 21 ) You'll Never Know What You're Missing - Real Thing 20 ( 29 ) Maybe I'm Amazed - Wings
21 ( -- ) Another Suitcase In Another Hall - Barbara Dickson 22 ( 18 ) Chanson D'Amour - Manhattan Transfer (#18) 23 ( 13 ) Sing Me - Brothers (#8) 24 ( 16 ) Carry On Wayward Son - Kansas (#14) 25 ( 25 ) Soul Cha Cha - Van McCoy 26 ( -- ) Bite Your Lip (Get Up And Dance) - Elton John 27 ( 30 ) They Shoot Horses Don't They - Racing Cars 28 ( 20 ) When I Need You - Leo Sayer (#15) 29 ( 32 ) Crackerbox Palace - George Harrison 30 ( 27 ) Gypsy Roadhog - Slade (#27)
31 ( 19 ) I Wanna Go Back - New Seekers (#9) 32 ( 23 ) Year Of The Cat - Al Stewart (#15) 33 ( -- ) Oh Boy (The Mood I'm In) - Brotherhood Of Man 34 ( 26 ) Everybody's Talking About Love - Silver Convention (#22) 35 ( -- ) So Into You - Atlanta Rhythm Section 36 ( 22 ) Evergreen (A Star Is Born) - Barbra Streisand (#3) 37 ( 33 ) The Mighty Power Of Love - Tavares (#32) 38 ( -- ) Right Time Of The Night - Jennifer Warnes 39 ( -- ) Crazy Water - Elton John 40 ( 31 ) Wake Up Susan - Spinners (#26)
-- ( 28 ) New Kid In Town - Eagles (#9) -- ( 34 ) Fly Like An Eagle - Steve Miller Band (#7) -- ( 35 ) Hard Luck Woman - Kiss (#19) -- ( 36 ) Don't Believe A Word - Thin Lizzy (#14) -- ( 37 ) Haitian Divorce - Steely Dan (#2[2]) -- ( 38 ) Boogie Child - Bee Gees (#30) -- ( 39 ) Every Little Teardrop - Gallagher & Lyle (#28) -- ( 40 ) Save It For A Rainy Day - Stephen Bishop (#24)
-- ( -- ) Your Own Special Way - Genesis -- ( -- ) I've Got Love On My Mind - Natalie Cole
Another classic week of new music, but unlike August last year, Abba beat Rod Stewart this time in getting the highest new entry. "Knowing Me Knowing You" took a while to reach the top of the UK chart, but eventually would stay there for 5 weeks. At one point it stalled a second week at #2 whilst a David Soul song entered at #5, and it looked like Abba wouldn't make it, but the next 3 weeks it was on top with David Soul behind at #2, and then Billy Ocean had a couple of weeks at #2 behind it, before Abba fell all the way to #7.
Billy Ocean is on the current playlist, but isn't going to pose a threat. The song that will be will enter in 2 weeks time and is such a classic.. well you'll see.
In the meantime Abba has to pass not just the Rubettes but a bunch of other songs that have climbed into the top 5 this week.
Barbara Dickson enters with another song from Evita, and Elton John has two new entries this week.
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Post by Earl Purple on Feb 12, 2021 13:25:30 GMT 1
5 March 1977
1 ( 6 ) Knowing Me Knowing You - Abba < 4th #1 > 2 ( 1 ) Baby I Know - Rubettes (#1[2]) 3 ( 2 ) Romeo - Mr Big (#2[1]) 4 ( 3 ) Sam - Olivia Newton John (#3) 5 ( 4 ) Rockaria - Electric Light Orchestra (#4) 6 ( 14 ) The First Cut Is The Deepest - Rod Stewart 7 ( 9 ) Sound And Vision - David Bowie 8 ( -- ) Moody Blue - Elvis Presley 9 ( 11 ) (Get A) Grip (On Yourself) - Stranglers 10 ( 5 ) Go Your Own Way - Fleetwood Mac (#1[2])
11 ( 7 ) Rich Girl - Daryl Hall & John Oates (#6) 12 ( 21 ) Another Suitcase In Another Hall - Barbara Dickson 13 ( 15 ) One Drink Too Many - Sailor 14 ( 12 ) Long Time - Boston (#12) 15 ( 8 ) Don't Leave Me This Way - Harold Melvin & The Bluenotes (#2[1]) 16 ( -- ) When - Showaddywaddy 17 ( 26 ) Bite Your Lip (Get Up And Dance) - Elton John 18 ( 20 ) Maybe I'm Amazed - Wings 19 ( -- ) My Kinda Life - Cliff Richard 20 ( 10 ) Boogie Nights - Heatwave (#3)
21 ( 19 ) You'll Never Know What You're Missing - Real Thing (#19) 22 ( 13 ) Jack In The Box - Moments (#6) 23 ( -- ) Tear Me Apart - Suzi Quatro 24 ( 33 ) Oh Boy (The Mood I'm In) - Brotherhood Of Man 25 ( -- ) Do Ya - Electric Light Orchestra 26 ( 18 ) This Is Tomorrow - Bryan Ferry (#13) 27 ( 35 ) So Into You - Atlanta Rhythm Section 28 ( 17 ) What Can I Say - Boz Scaggs (#7) 29 ( 16 ) The Things We Do For Love - 10cc (#1[4]) 30 ( 27 ) They Shoot Horses Don't They - Racing Cars (#27)
31 ( 25 ) Soul Cha Cha - Van McCoy (#25) 32 ( 38 ) Right Time Of The Night - Jennifer Warnes 33 ( 22 ) Chanson D'Amour - Manhattan Transfer (#18) 34 ( -- ) Southern Nights - Glen Campbell 35 ( 29 ) Crackerbox Palace - George Harrison (#29) 36 ( 39 ) Crazy Water - Elton John 37 ( -- ) I'm Qualified To Satisfy You - Barry White 38 ( 24 ) Carry On Wayward Son - Kansas (#14) 39 ( 23 ) Sing Me - Brothers (#8) 40 ( 30 ) Gypsy Roadhog - Slade (#27)
-- ( 28 ) When I Need You - Leo Sayer (#15) -- ( 31 ) I Wanna Go Back - New Seekers (#9) -- ( 32 ) Year Of The Cat - Al Stewart (#15) -- ( 34 ) Everybody's Talking About Love - Silver Convention (#22) -- ( 36 ) Evergreen (A Star Is Born) - Barbra Streisand (#3) -- ( 37 ) The Mighty Power Of Love - Tavares (#32) -- ( 40 ) Wake Up Susan - Spinners (#26)
-- ( -- ) Cause You Love Me Baby - Deniece Williams -- ( -- ) Love In C Minor - Cerrone -- ( -- ) Gloria - Enchantment
Abba get their 4th number one, and in one sense "avenge" the Rubettes, as in the UK chart, "Sugar Baby Love" replaced "Waterloo" at #1. All the others that were climbing well last week in the top 5 recede one position.
Meanwhile, Elvis Presley gets his biggest hit for a while. I said this is his best song since "Suspicious Minds" and indeed Mark James who wrote "Suspicious Minds" also wrote "Moody Blue" which might explain it. In the UK this was also a big hit reaching #6, better than "Way Down" looked set to achieve, but we'll get to that one in a few months (which means a few weeks).
Next week unleashes a huge monster.
Otherwise this week Rod Stewart climbs but we'll see if it can pass any of that top 5. Covers are in, the Kalin Twins may have got to #1 with it in 1958 but I charted Showaddywaddy back then. "When" actually replaced "I Wonder Why" at the top, a song Showaddywaddy will cover in exactly one year. That one replaced "Johnny B Goode" at the top. Not sure Showaddywaddy ever covered that... But "I Wonder Why" by Showaddywaddy was in the UK top 5 with a far better Suzi Quatro song than the one she enters with here.
And I'd never heard of that ELO song before, but it was a top 40 hit in the USA. I far prefer "Rockaria", or maybe it's just familiarity.
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Post by Good Old Days on Feb 12, 2021 17:07:30 GMT 1
Next week unleashes a huge monster. Bonnie Tyler - More Than A Lover ? Long-awaited and deserved # 1 for ABBA, "Knowing Me, Knowing You" is my favourite their UK single.
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Post by Earl Purple on Feb 13, 2021 21:55:46 GMT 1
Next week unleashes a huge monster. Bonnie Tyler - More Than A Lover ? Long-awaited and deserved # 1 for ABBA, "Knowing Me, Knowing You" is my favourite their UK single. I'd hardly say long awaited, it's their 4th number one and they reached #1 with "Money Money Money" just a few months ago. Bonnie Tyler performed that song on my birthday TOTP episode, and it was the worst song/performance on the show. It's borderline whether it will get into my chart. But she'll get to #1 in 6 years time and also have a big hit at the end of the year. It's still better than Demis Roussos though who has a song out the same week. In any case that's not until 19th.
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Post by Earl Purple on Feb 14, 2021 11:39:25 GMT 1
12 March 1977
1 ( 1 ) Knowing Me Knowing You - Abba < 2nd week at #1 > 2 ( 2 ) Baby I Know - Rubettes (#1[2]) 3 ( 3 ) Romeo - Mr Big (#2[1]) 4 ( 4 ) Sam - Olivia Newton John (#3) 5 ( 8 ) Moody Blue - Elvis Presley 6 ( 6 ) The First Cut Is The Deepest - Rod Stewart 7 ( 5 ) Rockaria - Electric Light Orchestra (#4) 8 ( -- ) Hotel California - Eagles 9 ( 7 ) Sound And Vision - David Bowie (#7) 10 ( 16 ) When - Showaddywaddy
11 ( 12 ) Another Suitcase In Another Hall - Barbara Dickson 12 ( 9 ) (Get A) Grip (On Yourself) - Stranglers (#9) 13 ( 19 ) My Kinda Life - Cliff Richard 14 ( 23 ) Tear Me Apart - Suzi Quatro 15 ( 17 ) Bite Your Lip (Get Up And Dance) - Elton John 16 ( 13 ) One Drink Too Many - Sailor (#13) 17 ( 25 ) Do Ya - Electric Light Orchestra 18 ( 11 ) Rich Girl - Daryl Hall & John Oates (#6) 19 ( 10 ) Go Your Own Way - Fleetwood Mac (#1[2]) 20 ( -- ) Love Hit Me - Maxine Nightingale
21 ( 18 ) Maybe I'm Amazed - Wings (#18) 22 ( 14 ) Long Time - Boston (#12) 23 ( 24 ) Oh Boy (The Mood I'm In) - Brotherhood Of Man 24 ( 27 ) So Into You - Atlanta Rhythm Section 25 ( 34 ) Southern Nights - Glen Campbell 26 ( 15 ) Don't Leave Me This Way - Harold Melvin & The Bluenotes (#2[1]) 27 ( 21 ) You'll Never Know What You're Missing - Real Thing (#19) 28 ( -- ) Sunny - Boney M 29 ( 37 ) I'm Qualified To Satisfy You - Barry White 30 ( 32 ) Right Time Of The Night - Jennifer Warnes
31 ( -- ) Disco Lucy - Wilton Place Street Band 32 ( 20 ) Boogie Nights - Heatwave (#3) 33 ( 22 ) Jack In The Box - Moments (#6) 34 ( 36 ) Crazy Water - Elton John 35 ( 30 ) They Shoot Horses Don't They - Racing Cars (#27) 36 ( 26 ) This Is Tomorrow - Bryan Ferry (#13) 37 ( 31 ) Soul Cha Cha - Van McCoy (#25) 38 ( 28 ) What Can I Say - Boz Scaggs (#7) 39 ( 35 ) Crackerbox Palace - George Harrison (#29) 40 ( 29 ) The Things We Do For Love - 10cc (#1[4])
-- ( 33 ) Chanson D'Amour - Manhattan Transfer (#18) -- ( 38 ) Carry On Wayward Son - Kansas (#14) -- ( 39 ) Sing Me - Brothers (#8) -- ( 40 ) Gypsy Roadhog - Slade (#27)
-- ( -- ) Tryin' To Love Two - William Bell -- ( -- ) At Midnight (My Love Will Lift You Up) - Rufus -- ( -- ) Double Dutch - Fatback Band -- ( -- ) Welcome To Our World (Of Merry Music) - Mass Production
The arrival of Hotel California at this point almost "messes up" the pattern of what my chart was like in 1977 originally when it appeared around May, when it charted in the UK, and then it did indeed get to #1.
Rod Stewart remains at #6 but the other song will show up soon on its own and won't be competing with The Eagles. The song that is likely to replace the Eagles is in the next playlist, but there is likely to be a #1 from the time that misses out now.
(I'd never heard of that Disco Lucy tune, subtitled "I Love Lucy Theme", nor do I think I even knew anyone called Lucy back then, but now there's a Lucy among my ex-girlfriends).
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Post by Earl Purple on Feb 15, 2021 21:25:38 GMT 1
19 March 1977
1 ( 1 ) Knowing Me Knowing You - Abba < 3rd week at #1 > 2 ( 8 ) Hotel California - Eagles 3 ( 5 ) Moody Blue - Elvis Presley 4 ( 2 ) Baby I Know - Rubettes (#1[2]) 5 ( 3 ) Romeo - Mr Big (#2[1]) 6 ( 4 ) Sam - Olivia Newton John (#3) 7 ( -- ) I Don't Want To Put A Hold On You - Berni Flint 8 ( 6 ) The First Cut Is The Deepest - Rod Stewart (#6) 9 ( 10 ) When - Showaddywaddy 10 ( -- ) Lay Back In The Arms Of Someone - Smokie
11 ( 20 ) Love Hit Me - Maxine Nightingale 12 ( 14 ) Tear Me Apart - Suzi Quatro 13 ( 13 ) My Kinda Life - Cliff Richard 14 ( 7 ) Rockaria - Electric Light Orchestra (#4) 15 ( -- ) Red Light Spells Danger - Billy Ocean 16 ( 11 ) Another Suitcase In Another Hall - Barbara Dickson (#11) 17 ( 9 ) Sound And Vision - David Bowie (#7) 18 ( 17 ) Do Ya - Electric Light Orchestra (#17) 19 ( -- ) Lido Shuffle - Boz Scaggs 20 ( 15 ) Bite Your Lip (Get Up And Dance) - Elton John (#15)
21 ( 12 ) (Get A) Grip (On Yourself) - Stranglers (#9) 22 ( 28 ) Sunny - Boney M 23 ( 31 ) Disco Lucy - Wilton Place Street Band 24 ( -- ) Tie Your Mother Down - Queen 25 ( 25 ) Southern Nights - Glen Campbell 26 ( 16 ) One Drink Too Many - Sailor (#13) 27 ( 24 ) So Into You - Atlanta Rhythm Section (#24) 28 ( 23 ) Oh Boy (The Mood I'm In) - Brotherhood Of Man (#23) 29 ( 29 ) I'm Qualified To Satisfy You - Barry White 30 ( 21 ) Maybe I'm Amazed - Wings (#18)
31 ( -- ) Gimme Some - Brendon 32 ( 18 ) Rich Girl - Daryl Hall & John Oates (#6) 33 ( 19 ) Go Your Own Way - Fleetwood Mac (#1[2]) 34 ( 30 ) Right Time Of The Night - Jennifer Warnes 35 ( 22 ) Long Time - Boston (#12) 36 ( 34 ) Crazy Water - Elton John 37 ( -- ) Spring Rain - Silvetti 38 ( 27 ) You'll Never Know What You're Missing - Real Thing (#19) 39 ( -- ) I Wanna Get Next To You - Rose Royce 40 ( 26 ) Don't Leave Me This Way - Harold Melvin & The Bluenotes (#2[1])
-- ( 32 ) Boogie Nights - Heatwave (#3) -- ( 33 ) Jack In The Box - Moments (#6) -- ( 35 ) They Shoot Horses Don't They - Racing Cars (#27) -- ( 36 ) This Is Tomorrow - Bryan Ferry (#13) -- ( 37 ) Soul Cha Cha - Van McCoy (#25) -- ( 38 ) What Can I Say - Boz Scaggs (#7) -- ( 39 ) Crackerbox Palace - George Harrison (#29) -- ( 40 ) The Things We Do For Love - 10cc (#1[4])
-- ( -- ) More Than A Lover - Bonnie Tyler -- ( -- ) All Strung Out On You - John Travolta -- ( -- ) Because - Demis Roussos
Abba get a 3rd week at #1, with the Eagles climbing to #2 and Elvis gets his first top 3 hit for nearly 8 years. He peaked at #6 with "The Wonder of You" and "Always On My Mind" and at #8 with "T-R-O-U-B-L-E". He has had 14 number ones up to this point, one fewer than the Beatles. In the UK he has had 16, one fewer than the Beatles.
Berni Flint was a milkman who then appeared on Opportunity Knocks and won something like 13 weeks in a row which meant he kept coming back. Not sure what he sang on the show. The version of this song on Spotify is not the original one though so I'd check out on youtube how it is really meant to sound. It entered at #29 this week and eventually reached #3 in the UK, and he appeared on Top of the Pops pretty much every 2nd week, with Billy Ocean usually appearing on the same shows, as his song reached #2.
Boz Scaggs "Lido Shuffle" though was later in the year in the UK and was his 2nd biggest UK hit (after "What Can I Say" and 2nd biggest US hit (after "Lowdown").
In the UK, Smokie's hit didn't go top 10 but it was big in other parts of Europe and is their 2nd most streamed song.
Queen didn't do that well with "Tie Your Mother Down", pretty much a flop in fact, and it wasn't included on their Greatest Hits. "Gimme Some" is a cover version, originally done by Jimmy Bo Horne in 1975.
John Travolta fails to get into the chart. Whilst Olivia Newton John falls from #4 to #6 this week. John Travolta is the better dancer though.
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Post by Earl Purple on Feb 16, 2021 23:47:34 GMT 1
26 March 1977
1 ( 2 ) Hotel California - Eagles < 1st #1 > 2 ( 1 ) Knowing Me Knowing You - Abba (#1[3]) 3 ( 7 ) I Don't Want To Put A Hold On You - Berni Flint 4 ( 3 ) Moody Blue - Elvis Presley (#3) 5 ( 10 ) Lay Back In The Arms Of Someone - Smokie 6 ( 15 ) Red Light Spells Danger - Billy Ocean 7 ( 4 ) Baby I Know - Rubettes (#1[2]) 8 ( 11 ) Love Hit Me - Maxine Nightingale 9 ( 5 ) Romeo - Mr Big (#2[1]) 10 ( 19 ) Lido Shuffle - Boz Scaggs
11 ( 6 ) Sam - Olivia Newton John (#3) 12 ( 9 ) When - Showaddywaddy (#9) 13 ( 8 ) The First Cut Is The Deepest - Rod Stewart (#6) 14 ( 12 ) Tear Me Apart - Suzi Quatro (#12) 15 ( 24 ) Tie Your Mother Down - Queen 16 ( 13 ) My Kinda Life - Cliff Richard (#13) 17 ( -- ) Rio - Michael Nesmith 18 ( 23 ) Disco Lucy - Wilton Place Street Band 19 ( -- ) Rock Bottom - Lynsey De Paul & Mike Moran 20 ( 22 ) Sunny - Boney M
21 ( 31 ) Gimme Some - Brendon 22 ( 18 ) Do Ya - Electric Light Orchestra (#17) 23 ( 16 ) Another Suitcase In Another Hall - Barbara Dickson (#11) 24 ( 14 ) Rockaria - Electric Light Orchestra (#4) 25 ( -- ) 7000 Dollars & You - Stylistics 26 ( -- ) Going In With My Eyes Open - David Soul 27 ( 37 ) Spring Rain - Silvetti 28 ( 25 ) Southern Nights - Glen Campbell (#25) 29 ( 20 ) Bite Your Lip (Get Up And Dance) - Elton John (#15) 30 ( 17 ) Sound And Vision - David Bowie (#7)
31 ( 39 ) I Wanna Get Next To You - Rose Royce 32 ( -- ) Have I The Right - Dead End Kids 33 ( 29 ) I'm Qualified To Satisfy You - Barry White (#29) 34 ( -- ) N.Y. You Got Me Dancing - Andrea True Connection 35 ( 21 ) (Get A) Grip (On Yourself) - Stranglers (#9) 36 ( 27 ) So Into You - Atlanta Rhythm Section (#24) 37 ( 28 ) Oh Boy (The Mood I'm In) - Brotherhood Of Man (#23) 38 ( -- ) Together - O.C. Smith 39 ( 26 ) One Drink Too Many - Sailor (#13) 40 ( 36 ) Crazy Water - Elton John (#36)
-- ( 30 ) Maybe I'm Amazed - Wings (#18) -- ( 32 ) Rich Girl - Daryl Hall & John Oates (#6) -- ( 33 ) Go Your Own Way - Fleetwood Mac (#1[2]) -- ( 34 ) Right Time Of The Night - Jennifer Warnes -- ( 35 ) Long Time - Boston (#12) -- ( 38 ) You'll Never Know What You're Missing - Real Thing (#19) -- ( 40 ) Don't Leave Me This Way - Harold Melvin & The Bluenotes (#2[1])
-- ( -- ) Somethin' 'Bout 'Cha - Latimore
Abba fall from the top, but in the UK they haven't even got there yet, they do so next week, beating David Soul to the top who enters my chart this week at #26 but in the UK at #5.
Meanwhile the Eagles do register a chart topper having had hits since 1972 with a previous #2 peak for "Lyin' Eyes" in 1975.
The highest entry is by Michael Nesmith who had two #1s as part of the Monkees but as a soloist had one previous hit "Joanne" which reached only #31 in 1970.
The UK Eurovision entry comes in at #19. Lynsey De Paul has charted a few times before. Mike Moran is otherwise mostly a producer and songwriter, and this song was written by both of them.
The Stylistics enter with a song about different amounts of money and how he'd spend it on a woman if they were together but when he gets to a million dollars, he suddenly doesn't want to spend it on her anymore. "If I had a million dollars baby, I won't need you". A bit of a strange lyric. I reckon this will be their last ever hit, in a career that goes back to 1971 with "Stop Look Listen To Your Heart", and has included six top 10 hits, including one #1 in 1975 with "Sing Baby Sing". Their new one won't get to #1 but has an outside chance of reaching the top 10. More likely to peak somewhere around #13.
"Have I The Right" was also a #1, in my chart for just one week, by the Honeycombs in 1964. That was on the chart dated 15 August.
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Post by Earl Purple on Feb 17, 2021 12:53:59 GMT 1
Coming up:
- A male singer whose first NM hit was in 1963, and has twice reached #2 to date. - A male singer making his UK debut in 1977 but in my chart has had 5 previous hits dating back to 1965, the biggest of which reached #4 in my chart in 1966.
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