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 John's 1979 Charts, Music to accompany my life (and TV) at 21 years old! |
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 16th May 2014, 06:31 PM
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1st May 1979
My TV chart has an important event. Yes, the first In concert performance that impressed me (ELO). There was also a general election 3rd May, a momentous day for the world. It was a major advance for the cause of equality, because it showed that women could be equally as bad as men. In the case of Thatcher, she took it to the stratosphere and changed things so much in favour of the rich and powerful at the expense of the economy and the rest of us that the damage is still being dealt with (unsuccessfully) now. Rather sadly, if it hadn’t been for the bloody Falklands War (which she started by removing the protective British warship, inviting the belligerent Argentine military junta in) she would have gone down in history as one of the most unpopular one-term Prime Ministers. I don’t usually have a lifelong loathing of democratic politicians but she made it SO easy... Anyways, I rated the TV event lower than The Sky At Night and Top Of The Pops. About right, I think... Back in music-land, Supertramp pop back on top as Bright Eyes fades quickly, leaving Wings to get their first top 3 for a year. Oldies meanwhile do well, Chris Montez’ 2nd go in the Top 10 as a reissue, Amii Stewart’s only-just-better-than-Bowie’s-live-version cover of Knock On Wood at 18, The Dickies cover of fab kids show theme The Banana Splits, all-punked-up and in at 28 (I liked Drooper best), Walk On By yet another cover version hit for Average White Band at 65 - not the first, certainly not the last! - and Child covering Only You, which Ringo had already covered. Covers of covers! More 1979, Eruption leap to 9 with a great euro-disco hit, Boney M leap to 21 with a cheesy euro-disco hit, Siouxsie climbs the staircase to 22, and Gary Moore goes top 40 and all French. New hits for Peaches & Herb’s smooth soul follow-up to their top 10 Groove Thing, Roxy get a swift 2nd comeback hit (and proper pop record, albeit it very smooth and MOR for them) with Dance Away at 49, and a hooker enters at 52, bleached-blonde pin-up boy on vocals and The Police reggae-rocking it big time. The Police became the band of the moment for students within months. Hudson-Ford get a comeback, good news after those 3 gem singles in a row 6 years earlier, bad news it’s with an awful novelty song as The Monks. Ugh! Better news, The Tubes are back with a knowingly kitsch mickey-take of pop using TV cliches for lyrics. It was both hilarious and melodically brilliant, a sort of The Turtles of the punk era. I had the white vinyl, TV picture cover single. 1 ( 2 ) THE LOGICAL SONG Supertramp 2 ( 3 ) THE RUNNER The Three Degrees 3 ( 6 ) GOODNIGHT TONIGHT Wings 4 ( 4 ) POP MUZIK M 5 ( 5 ) SHAKE YOUR BODY (DOWN TO THE GROUND) The Jacksons 6 ( 1 ) BRIGHT EYES Art Garfunkel 7 ( 13 ) DOES YOUR MOTHER KNOW Abba 8 ( 15 ) LET'S DANCE Chris Montez 9 ( 50 ) ONE WAY TICKET Eruption 10 ( 16 ) LOVE YOU INSIDE OUT The Bee Gees 11 ( 8 ) SULTANS OF SWING Dire Straits 12 ( 7 ) I WILL SURVIVE Gloria Gaynor 13 ( 17 ) SILLY THING The Sex Pistols 14 ( 9 ) WOW Kate Bush 15 ( 10 ) COOL FOR CATS Squeeze 16 ( 12 ) TRAGEDY The Bee Gees 17 ( 21 ) HAVEN'T STOPPED DANCING YET Gonzales 18 ( 28 ) KNOCK ON WOOD Amii Stewart 19 ( 14 ) IN THE NAVY The Village People 20 ( 11 ) HE'S THE GREATEST DANCER Sister Sledge 21 ( 58 ) HOORAY IT'S A HOLI HOLIDAY Boney M 22 ( 35 ) THE STAIRCASE (MYSTERY) Siouxsie & The Banshees 23 ( 19 ) I WANT YOUR LOVE Chic 24 ( 34 ) GUILTY Mike Oldfield 25 ( 18 ) KEEP ON DANCING Gary's Gang 26 ( 23 ) CHIQUITITA Abba 27 ( 27 ) I DON'T WANNA LOSE YOU Kandidate 28 ( NEW ) BANANA SPLITS The Dickies 29 ( 40 ) HERE COMES THE NIGHT The Beach Boys 30 ( 36 ) OFFSHORE BANKING BUSINESS The Members 31 ( 22 ) CAN YOU FEEL THE FORCE The Real Thing 32 ( 29 ) HEART OF GLASS Blondie 33 ( 25 ) HOLD THE LINE Toto 34 ( 24 ) HALLELUJAH Milk And Honey featuring Gali Atari 35 ( 56 ) LOVE BALLAD George Benson 36 ( 20 ) TURN THE MUSIC UP Player's Association 37 ( 63 ) FEEL THE NEED Leif Garrett 38 ( 48 ) I GO TO PIECES Rachel Sweet 39 ( NEW ) REUNITED Peaches and Herb 40 ( 64 ) PARISIENNE WALKWAYS Gary Moore featuring Phil Lynnot 41 ( 32 ) IMPERIAL WIZARD David Essex 42 ( 26 ) STRANGE TOWN The Jam 43 ( 38 ) REMEMBER THEN Showaddywaddy 44 ( 41 ) WHAT A FOOL BELIEVES The Doobie Brothers 45 ( 31 ) SOMETHING ELSE The Sex Pistols 46 ( 37 ) LUCKY NUMBERS Lene Lovich 47 ( 30 ) I JUST FALL IN LOVE AGAIN Anne Murray 48 ( 54 ) SWEET LUI LOUISE Iron Horse 49 ( NEW ) DANCE AWAY Roxy Music 50 ( 33 ) SOME GIRLS Racey 51 ( 43 ) OLIVER'S ARMY Elvis Costello 52 ( NEW ) ROXANNE The Police 53 ( 52 ) DREADLOCK HOLIDAY 10CC 54 ( 53 ) BAKER STREET Gerry Rafferty 55 ( 39 ) FIRE The Pointer Sisters 56 ( NEW ) NICE LEGS (SHAME ABOUT THE FACE) The Monks 57 ( 55 ) Y.M.C.A. The Village People 58 ( 42 ) LET'S FLY AWAY Voyage 59 ( 44 ) FOREVER IN BLUE JEANS Neil Diamond 60 ( 47 ) INTO THE VALLEY The Skids 61 ( 45 ) OVERKILL Motorhead 62 ( 60 ) RAT TRAP The Boomtown Rats 63 ( 59 ) I LOVE THE MUSIC Freefall 64 ( 51 ) WAITING FOR AN ALIBI Thin Lizzy 65 ( NEW ) WALK ON BY Average White Band 66 ( 46 ) DREAM LOVER/ MAC THE KNIFE Bobby Darrin 67 ( 70 ) DOUBLE LOVE Cracking 68 ( NEW ) PRIME TIME The Tubes 69 ( 61 ) MIRRORS Sally Oldfield 70 ( 73 ) I NEED YOUR HELP BARRY MANILOW Ray Stevens 71 ( 49 ) QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Sham '69 72 ( 62 ) I WAS MADE FOR DANCING Leif Garrett 73 ( NEW ) I'M AN UPSTART The Angelic Upstarts 74 ( 68 ) THE NUMBER ONE SONG IN HEAVEN Sparks 75 ( NEW ) ONLY YOU Child TV 1 Kenny Everett Video Show 2 ELO at Wembley 3 Mork & Mindy 4 Top Of The Pops 5 Rhoda 6 The Sky At Night 7 Election Coverage '79 8 The World About Us 9 Film '79 10 The Waltons This post has been edited by popchartfreak: 16th May 2014, 06:38 PM |
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17th May 2014, 05:15 PM
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8th May 1979
Surprise! Abba at number one again for the 11th time - actually it’s more of an unofficial double A side as I preferred Kisses Of Fire at the time, and still do, it’s a corking dancerock track, where Does Your Mother Know is cheesy singalong poprock, fun maybe, but flattered without the B side. Wings yet again at 2, and I was clearly feeling quite positive and jolly judging by the pure pop happy toons in the Top 10. Maybe it’s because 4 of my friends and me had been chatting about working the summer for cash enough to hop the new Laker airlines to California for an exciting student holiday. My dream place......! The chart though, not much happening this week, Police jumping up to 20 for the first of a long run 100% Top 10 run of singles. Sparks stop pottering about and rocket from 74 to 29, back in the 40 after a 4-year break. Bowie’s back with a bang. He always was of course, but the cross-dressing video, catchy guitar riffs and synths were irresistible at 33 and highest new entry. At 37 The Undertones were deservedly back in the 40 too, fun new wave, and Cheap Trick slip in for some new wave US rock at 74. 1 ( 7 ) DOES YOUR MOTHER KNOW/ KISSES OF FIRE Abba 2 ( 3 ) GOODNIGHT TONIGHT Wings 3 ( 1 ) THE LOGICAL SONG Supertramp 4 ( 2 ) THE RUNNER The Three Degrees 5 ( 4 ) POP MUZIK M 6 ( 9 ) ONE WAY TICKET Eruption 7 ( 10 ) LOVE YOU INSIDE OUT The Bee Gees 8 ( 5 ) SHAKE YOUR BODY (DOWN TO THE GROUND) The Jacksons 9 ( 6 ) BRIGHT EYES Art Garfunkel 10 ( 21 ) HOORAY IT'S A HOLI HOLIDAY Boney M 11 ( 17 ) HAVEN'T STOPPED DANCING YET Gonzales 12 ( 18 ) KNOCK ON WOOD Amii Stewart 13 ( 24 ) GUILTY Mike Oldfield 14 ( 28 ) BANANA SPLITS The Dickies 15 ( 12 ) I WILL SURVIVE Gloria Gaynor 16 ( 11 ) SULTANS OF SWING Dire Straits 17 ( 13 ) SILLY THING The Sex Pistols 18 ( 15 ) COOL FOR CATS Squeeze 19 ( 14 ) WOW Kate Bush 20 ( 52 ) ROXANNE The Police 21 ( 8 ) LET'S DANCE Chris Montez 22 ( 16 ) TRAGEDY The Bee Gees 23 ( 49 ) DANCE AWAY Roxy Music 24 ( 39 ) REUNITED Peaches and Herb 25 ( 27 ) I DON'T WANNA LOSE YOU Kandidate 26 ( 35 ) LOVE BALLAD George Benson 27 ( 20 ) HE'S THE GREATEST DANCER Sister Sledge 28 ( 26 ) CHIQUITITA Abba 29 ( 74 ) THE NUMBER ONE SONG IN HEAVEN Sparks 30 ( 40 ) PARISIENNE WALKWAYS Gary Moore featuring Phil Lynnot 31 ( 22 ) THE STAIRCASE (MYSTERY) Siouxsie & The Banshees 32 ( 19 ) IN THE NAVY The Village People 33 ( NEW ) BOYS KEEP SWINGING David Bowie 34 ( 32 ) HEART OF GLASS Blondie 35 ( 23 ) I WANT YOUR LOVE Chic 36 ( 33 ) HOLD THE LINE Toto 37 ( NEW ) JIMMY JIMMY The Undertones 38 ( 25 ) KEEP ON DANCING Gary's Gang 39 ( 37 ) FEEL THE NEED Leif Garrett 40 ( 29 ) HERE COMES THE NIGHT The Beach Boys 41 ( 31 ) CAN YOU FEEL THE FORCE The Real Thing 42 ( 48 ) SWEET LUI LOUISE Iron Horse 43 ( 44 ) WHAT A FOOL BELIEVES The Doobie Brothers 44 ( 41 ) IMPERIAL WIZARD David Essex 45 ( 36 ) TURN THE MUSIC UP Player's Association 46 ( 30 ) OFFSHORE BANKING BUSINESS The Members 47 ( 46 ) LUCKY NUMBERS Lene Lovich 48 ( 65 ) WALK ON BY Avergae White Band 49 ( 38 ) I GO TO PIECES Rachel Sweet 50 ( 56 ) NICE LEGS (SHAME ABOUT THE FACE) The Monks 51 ( 34 ) HALLELUJAH Milk And Honey featuring Gali Atari 52 ( 45 ) SOMETHING ELSE The Sex Pistols 53 ( 53 ) DREADLOCK HOLIDAY 10CC 54 ( 54 ) BAKER STREET Gerry Rafferty 55 ( 51 ) OLIVER'S ARMY Elvis Costello 56 ( 42 ) STRANGE TOWN The Jam 57 ( NEW ) VALLEY OF THE DOLLS Generation X 58 ( 50 ) SOME GIRLS Racey 59 ( 57 ) Y.M.C.A. The Village People 60 ( 47 ) I JUST FALL IN LOVE AGAIN Anne Murray 61 ( 68 ) PRIME TIME The Tubes 62 ( 59 ) FOREVER IN BLUE JEANS Neil Diamond 63 ( 62 ) RAT TRAP The Boomtown Rats 64 ( 60 ) INTO THE VALLEY The Skids 65 ( 43 ) REMEMBER THEN Showaddywaddy 66 ( 64 ) WAITING FOR AN ALIBI Thin Lizzy 67 ( 61 ) OVERKILL Motorhead 68 ( NEW ) UNTIL THE NIGHT Billy Joel 69 ( 58 ) LET'S FLY AWAY Voyage 70 ( 55 ) FIRE The Pointer Sisters 71 ( 69 ) MIRRORS Sally Oldfield 72 ( 73 ) I'M AN UPSTART The Angelic Upstarts 73 ( 75 ) ONLY YOU Child 74 ( NEW ) I WANT YOU TO WANT ME Cheap Trick 75 ( 67 ) DOUBLE LOVE Cracking TV 1 A Fire In The Sky (TV Film) 2 Soap 3 Mork & Mindy 4 Fawlty Towers 5 Top Of The Pops 6 Happy Days 7 The Birds (film) 8 Tomorrow's World 9 McMillan 10 The Odd Couple This post has been edited by popchartfreak: 17th May 2014, 05:27 PM |
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17th May 2014, 06:56 PM
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15th May 1979
2 weeks for Abba, holding off Pop Muzik at 2. M did eventually reach number one. 10 Years later! Eruption get 2 top 3’s, but not the start of a promising run of hits, more like the end of. The Dickies slip up to 7, Sparks rise to 11, Bowie to 18 and highest new entry is Lene Lovich, saying when, a great follow-up to Lucky Number, not nearly as annoying after overplays. Cheap Trick meanwhile shoot up to 33, Bachman-Turner Overd...oops I mean Iron Horse finally break the 40, and Linda Clifford discofies a classic. Or should that be crucifies...? I charted it purely for the song, I think. Nice to see the Damned go Top 40 too. Cher is back after a gap, and guess what, she’s gone disco. Take Me Home enters at 48, I rather liked it, though the UK buying public disagreed - well, at least not for another 20-odd years and Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s cover version. Blondie follow up a monster classic with a French-flavoured melodic pop gem of a single, at 60. Orleans are also back after a couple of years away from my charts, they never did get that UK hit, despite radio airplay exposure for Dance With Me and Still The One. A 2nd Beatle pops into the 75, George at 65, and one I’m going to have to youtube as i’ve not heard it in 35 years. Hope it’s good! Roy Wood’s back at 75 too, not one of his best, and virtually his last barring xmas reissues and rerecordings. Finally, Earth Wind & Fire duet with protogees The Emotions on a funky disco classic. Fab. 1 ( 1 ) DOES YOUR MOTHER KNOW/ KISSES OF FIRE Abba 2 ( 5 ) POP MUZIK M 3 ( 6 ) ONE WAY TICKET Eruption 4 ( 7 ) LOVE YOU INSIDE OUT The Bee Gees 5 ( 3 ) THE LOGICAL SONG Supertramp 6 ( 2 ) GOODNIGHT TONIGHT Wings 7 ( 14 ) BANANA SPLITS The Dickies 8 ( 10 ) HOORAY IT'S A HOLI HOLIDAY Boney M 9 ( 4 ) THE RUNNER The Three Degrees 10 ( 20 ) ROXANNE The Police 11 ( 29 ) THE NUMBER ONE SONG IN HEAVEN Sparks 12 ( 13 ) GUILTY Mike Oldfield 13 ( 9 ) BRIGHT EYES Art Garfunkel 14 ( 8 ) SHAKE YOUR BODY (DOWN TO THE GROUND) The Jacksons 15 ( 23 ) DANCE AWAY Roxy Music 16 ( 11 ) HAVEN'T STOPPED DANCING YET Gonzales 17 ( 12 ) KNOCK ON WOOD Amii Stewart 18 ( 33 ) BOYS KEEP SWINGING David Bowie 19 ( 24 ) REUNITED Peaches and Herb 20 ( 15 ) I WILL SURVIVE Gloria Gaynor 21 ( 30 ) PARISIENNE WALKWAYS Gary Moore featuring Phil Lynnot 22 ( 16 ) SULTANS OF SWING Dire Straits 23 ( 26 ) LOVE BALLAD George Benson 24 ( 18 ) COOL FOR CATS Squeeze 25 ( 19 ) WOW Kate Bush 26 ( 22 ) TRAGEDY The Bee Gees 27 ( 17 ) SILLY THING The Sex Pistols 28 ( 28 ) CHIQUITITA Abba 29 ( 37 ) JIMMY JIMMY The Undertones 30 ( NEW ) SAY WHEN Lene Lovich 31 ( 25 ) I DON'T WANNA LOSE YOU Kandidate 32 ( 21 ) LET'S DANCE Chris Montez 33 ( 74 ) I WANT YOU TO WANT ME Cheap Trick 34 ( 27 ) HE'S THE GREATEST DANCER Sister Sledge 35 ( 42 ) SWEET LUI LOUISE Iron Horse 36 ( NEW ) BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER Linda Clifford 37 ( 34 ) HEART OF GLASS Blondie 38 ( 36 ) HOLD THE LINE Toto 39 ( NEW ) LOVE SONG The Damned 40 ( 50 ) NICE LEGS (SHAME ABOUT THE FACE) The Monks 41 ( 31 ) THE STAIRCASE (MYSTERY) Siouxsie & The Banshees 42 ( 32 ) IN THE NAVY The Village People 43 ( 43 ) WHAT A FOOL BELIEVES The Doobie Brothers 44 ( 38 ) KEEP ON DANCING Gary's Gang 45 ( 35 ) I WANT YOUR LOVE Chic 46 ( 41 ) CAN YOU FEEL THE FORCE The Real Thing 47 ( 44 ) IMPERIAL WIZARD David Essex 48 ( NEW ) TAKE ME HOME Cher 49 ( 46 ) OFFSHORE BANKING BUSINESS The Members 50 ( 45 ) TURN THE MUSIC UP Player's Association 51 ( 40 ) HERE COMES THE NIGHT The Beach Boys 52 ( 39 ) FEEL THE NEED Leif Garrett 53 ( 47 ) LUCKY NUMBERS Lene Lovich 54 ( 53 ) DREADLOCK HOLIDAY 10CC 55 ( 54 ) BAKER STREET Gerry Rafferty 56 ( 61 ) PRIME TIME The Tubes 57 ( 48 ) WALK ON BY Average White Band 58 ( 52 ) SOMETHING ELSE The Sex Pistols 59 ( 55 ) OLIVER'S ARMY Elvis Costello 60 ( NEW ) SUNDAY GIRL Blondie 61 ( 59 ) Y.M.C.A. The Village People 62 ( NEW ) LOVE TAKES TIME Orleans 63 ( 72 ) I'M AN UPSTART The Angelic Upstarts 64 ( 63 ) RAT TRAP The Boomtown Rats 65 ( NEW ) LOVE COMES TO EVERYONE George Harrison 66 ( 51 ) HALLELUJAH Milk And Honey featuring Gali Atari 67 ( 58 ) SOME GIRLS Racey 68 ( 68 ) UNTIL THE NIGHT Billy Joel 69 ( 49 ) I GO TO PIECES Rachel Sweet 70 ( NEW ) CHAINS The Late Show 71 ( 64 ) INTO THE VALLEY The Skids 72 ( NEW ) BOOGIE WONDERLAND Earth, Wind & Fire and The Emotions 73 ( 57 ) VALLEY OF THE DOLLS Generation X 74 ( 71 ) MIRRORS Sally Oldfield 75 ( NEW ) WE'RE BACK ON THE ROAD AGAIN Roy Wood TV 1 3 Hungry Wives (TV film) 2 Soap 3 Top Of The Pops 4 South Bank Show 5 Barney Miller 6 Mork & Mindy (Fri) 7 Rockford Files 8 A Shot In The Dark (film) 9 Mork & Mindy (sat) 10 The Odd Couple This post has been edited by popchartfreak: 17th May 2014, 07:10 PM |
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19th May 2014, 09:17 AM
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QUOTE(popchartfreak @ May 17 2014, 05:15 PM)  8th May 1979 Surprise! Abba at number one again for the 11th time - actually it’s more of an unofficial double A side as I preferred Kisses Of Fire at the time, and still do, it’s a corking dancerock track, where Does Your Mother Know is cheesy singalong poprock, fun maybe, but flattered without the B side. 1 ( 7 ) DOES YOUR MOTHER KNOW/ KISSES OF FIRE Abba Yes, John.  Finally someone said it. "Kisses Of Fire" could replace Dusty Springfield on the top, if albums tracks were available for my retro charts. "Does Your Mother Know" even didn't reach top 10. "Sunday Girl" for the next # 1. Easily best Blondie's song. 
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19th May 2014, 11:36 AM
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QUOTE(AlexRange @ May 19 2014, 10:17 AM) Yes, John. Finally someone said it. "Kisses Of Fire" could replace Dusty Springfield on the top, if albums tracks were available for my retro charts. "Does Your Mother Know" even didn't reach top 10. "Sunday Girl" for the next # 1. Easily best Blondie's song. Thanks Alex, you're right, too about Blondie (Ive given it away!), but how long will it take to get there  cheers john |
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19th May 2014, 06:16 PM
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22nd May 1979 3 weeks for Abba, and Sparks get their biggest hit since This Town... up to 2 with the Number One Song, will they won’t they though..? Police take that red light up to 4, and Roxy get a Top 10 hit again, though to be fair they made the top 10 every year (or solo Ferry) every year bar 1978 since debuting in 1972. Mike Oldfield gets his 6th Top 10, and Blondie shoot up from 60 to 13, 6 Top 20’s in a row. Undertones and Lene Lovich go top 20, and then it’s all about the new entries: ELO highest at 22, with the disco-flavoured Shine A Little Love and never failing to make my charts, with one possible exception in 1974. Donna Summer at 34, going a bit raunchy in a guitar riff sense, and getting huge in the States at long last after being huge in the UK for 2 or 3 years. Elvis Costello is back at 38 with one of his most tuneful poptastic minor hits, Dollar follw-up at 43 with the not-dissimilar Who Were You With In The Moonlight (to Shooting Star), but soooo catchy anyway. The Shads insist on doing another cover (the dreary film theme), The Clash do a more inventive cover (60’s classic I Fought The Law), and best of all, sneaking in at 73 it’s Elton going all Philly disco 5 years late. To be fair, the record was several years old when it came out, oddly, but it was (to be honest) better than most of his records of the last 2 years. You may have heard of it, being as Are You Ready For Love got to Number One. Eventually. There may have been a record that had to wait longer than 24 years to top the chart (Reet Petite) but I’m not sure if it’s the oldest actual RECORDING to do it for the first time or not. Answers on a postcard. 1 ( 1 ) DOES YOUR MOTHER KNOW/ KISSES OF FIRE Abba 2 ( 11 ) THE NUMBER ONE SONG IN HEAVEN Sparks 3 ( 3 ) ONE WAY TICKET Eruption 4 ( 10 ) ROXANNE The Police 5 ( 8 ) HOORAY IT'S A HOLI HOLIDAY Boney M 6 ( 2 ) POP MUZIK M 7 ( 7 ) BANANA SPLITS The Dickies 8 ( 15 ) DANCE AWAY Roxy Music 9 ( 4 ) LOVE YOU INSIDE OUT The Bee Gees 10 ( 12 ) GUILTY Mike Oldfield 11 ( 5 ) THE LOGICAL SONG Supertramp 12 ( 6 ) GOODNIGHT TONIGHT Wings 13 ( 60 ) SUNDAY GIRL Blondie 14 ( 29 ) JIMMY JIMMY The Undertones 15 ( 30 ) SAY WHEN Lene Lovich 16 ( 19 ) REUNITED Peaches and Herb 17 ( 9 ) THE RUNNER The Three Degrees 18 ( 18 ) BOYS KEEP SWINGING David Bowie 19 ( 14 ) SHAKE YOUR BODY (DOWN TO THE GROUND) The Jacksons 20 ( 21 ) PARISIENNE WALKWAYS Gary Moore featuring Phil Lynnot 21 ( 13 ) BRIGHT EYES Art Garfunkel 22 ( NEW ) SHINE A LITTLE LOVE E.L.O. 23 ( 17 ) KNOCK ON WOOD Amii Stewart 24 ( 72 ) BOOGIE WONDERLAND Earth, Wind & Fire and The Emotions 25 ( 20 ) I WILL SURVIVE Gloria Gaynor 26 ( 56 ) PRIME TIME The Tubes 27 ( 35 ) SWEET LUI LOUISE Iron Horse 28 ( 23 ) LOVE BALLAD George Benson 29 ( 16 ) HAVEN'T STOPPED DANCING YET Gonzales 30 ( 36 ) BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER Linda Clifford 31 ( 22 ) SULTANS OF SWING Dire Straits 32 ( 39 ) LOVE SONG The Damned 33 ( 33 ) I WANT YOU TO WANT ME Cheap Trick 34 ( NEW ) HOT STUFF Donna Summer 35 ( 26 ) TRAGEDY The Bee Gees 36 ( 28 ) CHIQUITITA Abba 37 ( 24 ) COOL FOR CATS Squeeze 38 ( NEW ) ACCIDENTS WILL HAPPEN Elvis Costello 39 ( 25 ) WOW Kate Bush 40 ( 37 ) HEART OF GLASS Blondie 41 ( 31 ) I DON'T WANNA LOSE YOU Kandidate 42 ( 48 ) TAKE ME HOME Cher 43 ( NEW ) WHO WERE YOU WITH IN THE MOONLIGHT Dollar 44 ( 38 ) HOLD THE LINE Toto 45 ( 27 ) SILLY THING The Sex Pistols 46 ( 34 ) HE'S THE GREATEST DANCER Sister Sledge 47 ( 32 ) LET'S DANCE Chris Montez 48 ( 43 ) WHAT A FOOL BELIEVES The Doobie Brothers 49 ( NEW ) THEME FROM THE DEER HUNTER (CAVATINA) The Shadows 50 ( 41 ) THE STAIRCASE (MYSTERY) Siouxsie & The Banshees 51 ( 40 ) NICE LEGS (SHAME ABOUT THE FACE) The Monks 52 ( 44 ) KEEP ON DANCING Gary's Gang 53 ( 46 ) CAN YOU FEEL THE FORCE The Real Thing 54 ( 47 ) IMPERIAL WIZARD David Essex 55 ( 54 ) DREADLOCK HOLIDAY 10CC 56 ( 55 ) BAKER STREET Gerry Rafferty 57 ( 45 ) I WANT YOUR LOVE Chic 58 ( 65 ) LOVE COMES TO EVERYONE George Harrison 59 ( 42 ) IN THE NAVY The Village People 60 ( 50 ) TURN THE MUSIC UP Player's Association 61 ( 49 ) OFFSHORE BANKING BUSINESS The Members 62 ( 62 ) LOVE TAKES TIME Orleans 63 ( 63 ) I'M AN UPSTART The Angelic Upstarts 64 ( 53 ) LUCKY NUMBERS Lene Lovich 65 ( 51 ) HERE COMES THE NIGHT The Beach Boys 66 ( NEW ) I FOUGHT THE LAW The Clash 67 ( 70 ) CHAINS The Late Show 68 ( 61 ) Y.M.C.A. The Village People 69 ( 64 ) RAT TRAP The Boomtown Rats 70 ( 58 ) SOMETHING ELSE The Sex Pistols 71 ( 52 ) FEEL THE NEED Leif Garrett 72 ( 59 ) OLIVER'S ARMY Elvis Costello 73 ( NEW ) ARE YOU READY FOR LOVE Elton John 74 ( NEW ) RUNAWAY Elkie Brooks 75 ( 67 ) SOME GIRLS Racey TV 1 Soap 2 Mork & Mindy 3 Barney Miller 4 Top Of The Pops 5 The Last Voyage (film) 6 Rockford Files 7 Fantasy Island 8 The New Maverick (TV film) 9 Up The Chastity Belt (film) 10 The Odd Couple This post has been edited by popchartfreak: 19th May 2014, 06:24 PM |
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19th May 2014, 07:24 PM
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29th May 1979
4th and final week on top for Kisses Of Fire, but who’s going to get the spot, Sparks at 2, Blondie up to 3, Bowie up to 6, ELO up to 22...all faves, all former chart toppers, all still fab!? Lene Lovich at 9, Elvis Costello’s fab Accidents Will happen at 13, Tubes fab Prime Time at 14, and even Dollar shooting stars up to 15 could even make it a newcomer topper. Tune in next month to see if it is Blondie after all:) All that activity means the highest new track is Quantum Jump at 34. Whoooo?! Just listen to the first 30 seconds, longest town name in the world at the time (New Zealand), and the record is a 3-year-old slyly gay goodie too finally a hit thanks to Kenny Everett’s TV and radio shows. The Skids follow-up is the equal of Into The Valley, in at 37, and probably the last 2 ever Philly hits in the chart with McFadden & Whitehead’s classic (joining Elton) at 39, ain’t no stoppin them. 64, Tubeway Army, striking dark morose electronic music, people said a bit Bowie, well nothing like Boys Keep Swinging actually, and even better! Sister Sledge 2nd time round keep the disco ball rolling with another Chic classic, We Are Family, so that’s one-up on their Jackson 5 period. 1 ( 1 ) DOES YOUR MOTHER KNOW/ KISSES OF FIRE Abba 2 ( 2 ) THE NUMBER ONE SONG IN HEAVEN Sparks 3 ( 13 ) SUNDAY GIRL Blondie 4 ( 4 ) ROXANNE The Police 5 ( 8 ) DANCE AWAY Roxy Music 6 ( 18 ) BOYS KEEP SWINGING David Bowie 7 ( 22 ) SHINE A LITTLE LOVE E.L.O. 8 ( 3 ) ONE WAY TICKET Eruption 9 ( 15 ) SAY WHEN Lene Lovich 10 ( 7 ) BANANA SPLITS The Dickies 11 ( 14 ) JIMMY JIMMY The Undertones 12 ( 6 ) POP MUZIK M 13 ( 38 ) ACCIDENTS WILL HAPPEN Elvis Costello 14 ( 26 ) PRIME TIME The Tubes 15 ( 43 ) WHO WERE YOU WITH IN THE MOONLIGHT Dollar 16 ( 5 ) HOORAY IT'S A HOLI HOLIDAY Boney M 17 ( 10 ) GUILTY Mike Oldfield 18 ( 11 ) THE LOGICAL SONG Supertramp 19 ( 32 ) LOVE SONG The Damned 20 ( 24 ) BOOGIE WONDERLAND Earth, Wind & Fire and The Emotions 21 ( 9 ) LOVE YOU INSIDE OUT The Bee Gees 22 ( 12 ) GOODNIGHT TONIGHT Wings 23 ( 16 ) REUNITED Peaches and Herb 24 ( 17 ) THE RUNNER The Three Degrees 25 ( 19 ) SHAKE YOUR BODY (DOWN TO THE GROUND) The Jacksons 26 ( 30 ) BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER Linda Clifford 27 ( 33 ) I WANT YOU TO WANT ME Cheap Trick 28 ( 21 ) BRIGHT EYES Art Garfunkel 29 ( 34 ) HOT STUFF Donna Summer 30 ( 25 ) I WILL SURVIVE Gloria Gaynor 31 ( 23 ) KNOCK ON WOOD Amii Stewart 32 ( 49 ) THEME FROM THE DEER HUNTER (CAVATINA) The Shadows 33 ( 20 ) PARISIENNE WALKWAYS Gary Moore featuring Phil Lynnot 34 ( NEW ) THE LONE RANGER Quantum Jump 35 ( 35 ) TRAGEDY The Bee Gees 36 ( 36 ) CHIQUITITA Abba 37 ( NEW ) MASQUERADE The Skids 38 ( 31 ) SULTANS OF SWING Dire Straits 39 ( NEW ) AIN'T NO STOPPIN' US NOW McFadden and Whitehead 40 ( 29 ) HAVEN'T STOPPED DANCING YET Gonzales 41 ( 40 ) HEART OF GLASS Blondie 42 ( 37 ) COOL FOR CATS Squeeze 43 ( 27 ) SWEET LUI LOUISE Iron Horse 44 ( 28 ) LOVE BALLAD George Benson 45 ( 51 ) NICE LEGS (SHAME ABOUT THE FACE) The Monks 46 ( 39 ) WOW Kate Bush 47 ( 44 ) HOLD THE LINE Toto 48 ( 52 ) KEEP ON DANCING Gary's Gang 49 ( 41 ) I DON'T WANNA LOSE YOU Kandidate 50 ( 48 ) WHAT A FOOL BELIEVES The Doobie Brothers 51 ( 46 ) HE'S THE GREATEST DANCER Sister Sledge 52 ( 47 ) LET'S DANCE Chris Montez 53 ( 45 ) SILLY THING The Sex Pistols 54 ( 55 ) DREADLOCK HOLIDAY 10CC 55 ( 56 ) BAKER STREET Gerry Rafferty 56 ( 53 ) CAN YOU FEEL THE FORCE The Real Thing 57 ( 50 ) THE STAIRCASE (MYSTERY) Siouxsie & The Banshees 58 ( 42 ) TAKE ME HOME Cher 59 ( 66 ) I FOUGHT THE LAW The Clash 60 ( 54 ) IMPERIAL WIZARD David Essex 61 ( 57 ) I WANT YOUR LOVE Chic 62 ( 60 ) TURN THE MUSIC UP Player's Association 63 ( 67 ) CHAINS The Late Show 64 ( NEW ) ARE 'FRIENDS' ELECTRIC Tubeway Army 65 ( 58 ) LOVE COMES TO EVERYONE George Harrison 66 ( 59 ) IN THE NAVY The Village People 67 ( 61 ) OFFSHORE BANKING BUSINESS The Members 68 ( 73 ) ARE YOU READY FOR LOVE Elton John 69 ( 69 ) RAT TRAP The Boomtown Rats 70 ( 68 ) Y.M.C.A. The Village People 71 ( 74 ) RUNAWAY Elkie Brooks 72 ( NEW ) WE ARE FAMILY Sister Sledge 73 ( 64 ) LUCKY NUMBERS Lene Lovich 74 ( NEW ) YOU AND ME Liner 75 ( 65 ) HERE COMES THE NIGHT The Beach Boys TV 1 Soap 2 George Burns 100th Birthday 3 Top Of The Pops 4 Horizon 5 Dave Allan At Large 6 Petrocelli 7 Fantasy Island 8 Mary Hartman Mary Hartman 9 Centennial (Tues) 10 Tomorrow's World This post has been edited by popchartfreak: 19th May 2014, 07:35 PM |
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10th June 2014, 05:47 PM
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BuzzJack Legend
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5th June 1979
Still at College, towards the end of the second year and plans for a trip to california (after working over the summer to pay for it) were firming up. Meanwhile I became enraptured by a TV mini series called Centennial. Part of my degree involved American Studies - history, geography and literature (I always have had a thing for the USA!) - so this series was quite relevant to me, being as it covered an era I’d been studying, the Native American getting wiped out at worst, relocated onto badlands at best, in the movement West. It pretty much covered generations of settlers with an all-star cast, much-loved actors by me like David Janssen, Lynn Redgrave and new star Gregory Harrison. I loved it so much I wrote a letter of comment to Radio Times when it finished, which they printed, yay! It’s taken 35 years but I have a Dutch DVD version of the series now. Unlike new Glen A. Larson series Sword Of Justice (action-adventure) which I also liked a lot - only to never be repeated or available ever again. Back in pop land Debbie Harry ruled, everywhere it seemed, a pin-up fave of the boys at College, and Blondie duly topped my chart for the third time with the fab Sunday Girl. Ooh la la! ELO were also huge, and go up to 4 with a slightly-below-par single (but only slightly) while the fab Tubes shoot up to 5. Love that melody. Dollar’s synth-poppiness gets them a top 10 for the second time, The Skids shoot up to 11, Mcfadden & Whitehead at 17 prove there’s no stopping ‘em now, The Shads get a rare Top 20 hit and Tubeway Army rocket up to 22 after an enigmatic TOTP performance. Highest new entry is future UK topper Ring My Bell, Linda Ward sounding catchy for a while, and beating out more street-cred disco of The Bombers in at 30. Gerry Rafferty get’s a 3rd Top 40 hit, Night Owl entering at 37, and Edwin Starr gets 2 in a row thanks to some happy radio plays. The Village People get a 3rd hit, a lowly 58 to start with, but future-anthem Go West would eventually top my charts - by Pet Shop Boys and their genius take on this fairly standard gay disco track. Hot Choc make a statement about Mindless Boogie, and get rewarded with a relative flop, but hey they get 9 consecutive years of hits in my charts, big fan was I. Not many new entries though, and the short list of TV shows makes me think I was away somewhere, maybe London with the art or geography shtudents who were my natural crowds of friends. Must check my diary if I ever find it...(you didn’t think my ramblings were from notes did you!?) 1 ( 3 ) SUNDAY GIRL Blondie 2 ( 1 ) DOES YOUR MOTHER KNOW/ KISSES OF FIRE Abba 3 ( 2 ) THE NUMBER ONE SONG IN HEAVEN Sparks 4 ( 7 ) SHINE A LITTLE LOVE E.L.O. 5 ( 14 ) PRIME TIME The Tubes 6 ( 4 ) ROXANNE The Police 7 ( 9 ) SAY WHEN Lene Lovich 8 ( 15 ) WHO WERE YOU WITH IN THE MOONLIGHT Dollar 9 ( 5 ) DANCE AWAY Roxy Music 10 ( 6 ) BOYS KEEP SWINGING David Bowie 11 ( 37 ) MASQUERADE The Skids 12 ( 20 ) BOOGIE WONDERLAND Earth, Wind & Fire and The Emotions 13 ( 13 ) ACCIDENTS WILL HAPPEN Elvis Costello 14 ( 11 ) JIMMY JIMMY The Undertones 15 ( 12 ) POP MUZIK M 16 ( 8 ) ONE WAY TICKET Eruption 17 ( 39 ) AIN'T NO STOPPIN' US NOW McFadden and Whitehead 18 ( 23 ) REUNITED Peaches and Herb 19 ( 32 ) THEME FROM THE DEER HUNTER (CAVATINA) The Shadows 20 ( 17 ) GUILTY Mike Oldfield 21 ( 29 ) HOT STUFF Donna Summer 22 ( 64 ) ARE 'FRIENDS' ELECTRIC Tubeway Army 23 ( 10 ) BANANA SPLITS The Dickies 24 ( 18 ) THE LOGICAL SONG Supertramp 25 ( NEW ) RING MY BELL Anita Ward 26 ( 27 ) I WANT YOU TO WANT ME Cheap Trick 27 ( 34 ) THE LONE RANGER Quantum Jump 28 ( 16 ) HOORAY IT'S A HOLI HOLIDAY Boney M 29 ( 28 ) BRIGHT EYES Art Garfunkel 30 ( NEW ) (EVERYBODY) GET DANCING The Bombers 31 ( 72 ) WE ARE FAMILY Sister Sledge 32 ( 21 ) LOVE YOU INSIDE OUT The Bee Gees 33 ( 24 ) THE RUNNER The Three Degrees 34 ( 30 ) I WILL SURVIVE Gloria Gaynor 35 ( 25 ) SHAKE YOUR BODY (DOWN TO THE GROUND) The Jacksons 36 ( 22 ) GOODNIGHT TONIGHT Wings 37 ( NEW ) NIGHT OWL Gerry Rafferty 38 ( 19 ) LOVE SONG The Damned 39 ( 31 ) KNOCK ON WOOD Amii Stewart 40 ( NEW ) (H.A.P.P.Y.) RADIO Edwin Starr 41 ( 36 ) CHIQUITITA Abba 42 ( 35 ) TRAGEDY The Bee Gees 43 ( 41 ) HEART OF GLASS Blondie 44 ( 38 ) SULTANS OF SWING Dire Straits 45 ( 26 ) BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER Linda Clifford 46 ( 45 ) NICE LEGS (SHAME ABOUT THE FACE) The Monks 47 ( 59 ) I FOUGHT THE LAW The Clash 48 ( 33 ) PARISIENNE WALKWAYS Gary Moore featuring Phil Lynnot 49 ( 47 ) HOLD THE LINE Toto 50 ( 48 ) KEEP ON DANCING Gary's Gang 51 ( 46 ) WOW Kate Bush 52 ( 50 ) WHAT A FOOL BELIEVES The Doobie Brothers 53 ( 42 ) COOL FOR CATS Squeeze 54 ( 54 ) DREADLOCK HOLIDAY 10CC 55 ( 55 ) BAKER STREET Gerry Rafferty 56 ( 40 ) HAVEN'T STOPPED DANCING YET Gonzales 57 ( 44 ) LOVE BALLAD George Benson 58 ( NEW ) GO WEST The Village People 59 ( 43 ) SWEET LUI LOUISE Iron Horse 60 ( 51 ) HE'S THE GREATEST DANCER Sister Sledge 61 ( 52 ) LET'S DANCE Chris Montez 62 ( 56 ) CAN YOU FEEL THE FORCE The Real Thing 63 ( NEW ) THE WORKER Fischer Z 64 ( 68 ) ARE YOU READY FOR LOVE Elton John 65 ( 60 ) IMPERIAL WIZARD David Essex 66 ( NEW ) MINDLESS BOOGIE Hot Chocolate 67 ( 53 ) SILLY THING The Sex Pistols 68 ( 61 ) I WANT YOUR LOVE Chic 69 ( 69 ) RAT TRAP The Boomtown Rats 70 ( 49 ) I DON'T WANNA LOSE YOU Kandidate 71 ( 57 ) THE STAIRCASE (MYSTERY) Siouxsie & The Banshees 72 ( 62 ) TURN THE MUSIC UP Player's Association 73 ( 70 ) Y.M.C.A. The Village People 74 ( 75 ) HERE COMES THE NIGHT The Beach Boys 75 ( 66 ) IN THE NAVY The Village People TV 1 Centennial 2 Dave Allen At Large 3 Mork And Mindy 4 Top Of The Pops 5 Sword Of Justice 6 The World About Us This post has been edited by popchartfreak: 10th June 2014, 06:19 PM |
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10th June 2014, 07:51 PM
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BuzzJack Legend
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12th June 1979
2 weeks for Blondie on top, a lot of shuffling abaht, but not much going on, really. Only 6 new entries, top one from Linda Lewis at 39 with a musical track from Evita. It’s fab, and how I wish some of Linda’s early TV performances had survived (circa 1973 she was a singer-songwriter, hitting with Rock A Doodle Do, then a disco diva covering It’s In His Kiss decades before Cher, and eventually morphed into backing singer for 80’s pop stars). She had a unique voice, very girlie, which I loved. At 54 it’s another gem from Squeeze, a whole soap opera in over 3 minutes or so, Glen Tilbrook showing his great vocals this time solo. Patti Smith gets a follow-up in my charts at least (Frederick), John Williams gets his original version of Cavatina in the chart to join the dropping Shads, and The Scorpions debut over a decade before they got that huge hit, making do with 75. Elton's future number one (21st century that is) goes Top 40 (that's one up on the UK Top 40, hooray!), The Skids go Top 5 for the 2nd time in a row, Earth Wind & Fire get their 3rd Top 10 hit, and Anita Ward ding dong dings up to 9. Happily the far better Tubeway Army and Sister Sledge go top 20 along with Donna Summer and Quantum Jump. Centennial still rules on TV for me as Levi Zendt starts to establish the town of Centennial and marry a native Indian girl after being traumatically widowed after just getting married, running away from his Quaker community. It’s not just history, it’s soap drama! 1 ( 1 ) SUNDAY GIRL Blondie 2 ( 2 ) DOES YOUR MOTHER KNOW/ KISSES OF FIRE Abba 3 ( 4 ) SHINE A LITTLE LOVE E.L.O. 4 ( 11 ) MASQUERADE The Skids 5 ( 12 ) BOOGIE WONDERLAND Earth, Wind & Fire and The Emotions 6 ( 3 ) THE NUMBER ONE SONG IN HEAVEN Sparks 7 ( 8 ) WHO WERE YOU WITH IN THE MOONLIGHT Dollar 8 ( 5 ) PRIME TIME The Tubes 9 ( 25 ) RING MY BELL Anita Ward 10 ( 6 ) ROXANNE The Police 11 ( 10 ) BOYS KEEP SWINGING David Bowie 12 ( 9 ) DANCE AWAY Roxy Music 13 ( 22 ) ARE 'FRIENDS' ELECTRIC Tubeway Army 14 ( 31 ) WE ARE FAMILY Sister Sledge 15 ( 7 ) SAY WHEN Lene Lovich 16 ( 13 ) ACCIDENTS WILL HAPPEN Elvis Costello 17 ( 21 ) HOT STUFF Donna Summer 18 ( 17 ) AIN'T NO STOPPIN' US NOW McFadden and Whitehead 19 ( 27 ) THE LONE RANGER Quantum Jump 20 ( 15 ) POP MUZIK M 21 ( 14 ) JIMMY JIMMY The Undertones 22 ( 16 ) ONE WAY TICKET Eruption 23 ( 19 ) THEME FROM THE DEER HUNTER (CAVATINA) The Shadows 24 ( 18 ) REUNITED Peaches and Herb 25 ( 20 ) GUILTY Mike Oldfield 26 ( 37 ) NIGHT OWL Gerry Rafferty 27 ( 24 ) THE LOGICAL SONG Supertramp 28 ( 23 ) BANANA SPLITS The Dickies 29 ( 30 ) (EVERYBODY) GET DANCING The Bombers 30 ( 26 ) I WANT YOU TO WANT ME Cheap Trick 31 ( 28 ) HOORAY IT'S A HOLI HOLIDAY Boney M 32 ( 29 ) BRIGHT EYES Art Garfunkel 33 ( 40 ) (H.A.P.P.Y.) RADIO Edwin Starr 34 ( 34 ) I WILL SURVIVE Gloria Gaynor 35 ( 33 ) THE RUNNER The Three Degrees 36 ( 38 ) LOVE SONG The Damned 37 ( 32 ) LOVE YOU INSIDE OUT The Bee Gees 38 ( 35 ) SHAKE YOUR BODY (DOWN TO THE GROUND) The Jacksons 39 ( NEW ) I'D BE SURPRISNGLY GOOD FOR YOU Linda Lewis 40 ( 64 ) ARE YOU READY FOR LOVE Elton John 41 ( 41 ) CHIQUITITA Abba 42 ( 42 ) TRAGEDY The Bee Gees 43 ( 36 ) GOODNIGHT TONIGHT Wings 44 ( 39 ) KNOCK ON WOOD Amii Stewart 45 ( 47 ) I FOUGHT THE LAW The Clash 46 ( 58 ) GO WEST The Village People 47 ( 43 ) HEART OF GLASS Blondie 48 ( 45 ) BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER Linda Clifford 49 ( 44 ) SULTANS OF SWING Dire Straits 50 ( 66 ) MINDLESS BOOGIE Hot Chocolate 51 ( 46 ) NICE LEGS (SHAME ABOUT THE FACE) The Monks 52 ( 48 ) PARISIENNE WALKWAYS Gary Moore featuring Phil Lynnot 53 ( 50 ) KEEP ON DANCING Gary's Gang 54 ( NEW ) UP THE JUNCTION Squeeze 55 ( 49 ) HOLD THE LINE Toto 56 ( 54 ) DREADLOCK HOLIDAY 10CC 57 ( 55 ) BAKER STREET Gerry Rafferty 58 ( 52 ) WHAT A FOOL BELIEVES The Doobie Brothers 59 ( 63 ) THE WORKER Fischer Z 60 ( 51 ) WOW Kate Bush 61 ( 53 ) COOL FOR CATS Squeeze 62 ( NEW ) FREDERICK The Patti Smith Group 63 ( 62 ) CAN YOU FEEL THE FORCE The Real Thing 64 ( 61 ) LET'S DANCE Chris Montez 65 ( NEW ) LET'S LOVE DANCE TONIGHT Gary's Gang 66 ( 60 ) HE'S THE GREATEST DANCER Sister Sledge 67 ( 65 ) IMPERIAL WIZARD David Essex 68 ( 56 ) HAVEN'T STOPPED DANCING YET Gonzales 69 ( 69 ) RAT TRAP The Boomtown Rats 70 ( 74 ) HERE COMES THE NIGHT The Beach Boys 71 ( 57 ) LOVE BALLAD George Benson 72 ( 59 ) SWEET LUI LOUISE Iron Horse 73 ( 68 ) I WANT YOUR LOVE Chic 74 ( NEW ) CAVATINA John Williams 75 ( NEW ) IS THERE ANYBODY THERE The Scorpions TV 1 Centennial 2 Rhoda 3 Mork And Mindy 4 Sword Of Justice 5 Mork And Mindy 6 Saturday Night At The Mill 7 Top Of The Pops 8 Space 1999 9 The Odd Couple 10 Fantasy Island This post has been edited by popchartfreak: 10th June 2014, 07:59 PM |
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13th June 2014, 05:32 PM
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BuzzJack Legend
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19th June 1979
In which nothing much happens music chart-wise. So little in fact that the awful Gertcha sneaks in at the bottom of the charts. hey ho, at least the top end was still fab, Blondie getting three weeks on top and Tubeway ASrmy challenging at 3. Sister Sledge get their first (but not last) Top 10 hit, Gerry Rafferty his 6th Top 20, and Squeeze rocket right up the junction at 16 for their 3rd Top 20. Even the Village People get their third Top 20, and I don’t recall liking it that much at the time - the chart position says otherwise! The Clash at last break into the 30 with the old Bobby Fuller Four 60’s USA hit, while, hooray! New Entries! Nick Lowe gets Cracking Up at 50, he was always pretty decent. Olivia Newton-John enters at 57 with one I rather liked a lot, being as it became an American holiday hit on US radio in 2 months, but which didn’t do much in the UK. Trust me it sounded great cruising down hot sunny Californian desert highways! Deeper Than The Night! Eddy Grant is back, meanwhile! Eh? Back for me, as he was very much a voice and face I knew from Top Of The Pops in the 60’s with the Equals, Viva Bobby Joe especially, and here he was 10 years on with dreadlocks and looking and sounding all Bob Marley. Living On The Frontline was throbbing and fab. TV? A Python revival on TV, Centennial was still gripping me, and new pop show Jukebox Jury outdoes TOTP. I say new. Actually it was another childhood fave which had been revived (pop stars review new releases then get embarrassed for slagging them off when said new record release artist pops out from backstage). It was fun. 1 ( 1 ) SUNDAY GIRL Blondie 2 ( 2 ) DOES YOUR MOTHER KNOW/ KISSES OF FIRE Abba 3 ( 13 ) ARE 'FRIENDS' ELECTRIC Tubeway Army 4 ( 4 ) MASQUERADE The Skids 5 ( 3 ) SHINE A LITTLE LOVE E.L.O. 6 ( 5 ) BOOGIE WONDERLAND Earth, Wind & Fire and The Emotions 7 ( 9 ) RING MY BELL Anita Ward 8 ( 14 ) WE ARE FAMILY Sister Sledge 9 ( 6 ) THE NUMBER ONE SONG IN HEAVEN Sparks 10 ( 8 ) PRIME TIME The Tubes 11 ( 10 ) ROXANNE The Police 12 ( 7 ) WHO WERE YOU WITH IN THE MOONLIGHT Dollar 13 ( 26 ) NIGHT OWL Gerry Rafferty 14 ( 11 ) BOYS KEEP SWINGING David Bowie 15 ( 12 ) DANCE AWAY Roxy Music 16 ( 54 ) UP THE JUNCTION Squeeze 17 ( 19 ) THE LONE RANGER Quantum Jump 18 ( 46 ) GO WEST The Village People 19 ( 15 ) SAY WHEN Lene Lovich 20 ( 18 ) AIN'T NO STOPPIN' US NOW McFadden and Whitehead 21 ( 20 ) POP MUZIK M 22 ( 16 ) ACCIDENTS WILL HAPPEN Elvis Costello 23 ( 17 ) HOT STUFF Donna Summer 24 ( 22 ) ONE WAY TICKET Eruption 25 ( 21 ) JIMMY JIMMY The Undertones 26 ( 33 ) (H.A.P.P.Y.) RADIO Edwin Starr 27 ( 23 ) THEME FROM THE DEER HUNTER (CAVATINA) The Shadows 28 ( 24 ) REUNITED Peaches and Herb 29 ( 27 ) THE LOGICAL SONG Supertramp 30 ( 45 ) I FOUGHT THE LAW The Clash 31 ( 25 ) GUILTY Mike Oldfield 32 ( 39 ) I'D BE SURPRISNGLY GOOD FOR YOU Linda Lewis 33 ( 30 ) I WANT YOU TO WANT ME Cheap Trick 34 ( 34 ) I WILL SURVIVE Gloria Gaynor 35 ( 32 ) BRIGHT EYES Art Garfunkel 36 ( 28 ) BANANA SPLITS The Dickies 37 ( 35 ) THE RUNNER The Three Degrees 38 ( 29 ) (EVERYBODY) GET DANCING The Bombers 39 ( 37 ) LOVE YOU INSIDE OUT The Bee Gees 40 ( 38 ) SHAKE YOUR BODY (DOWN TO THE GROUND) The Jacksons 41 ( 41 ) CHIQUITITA Abba 42 ( 42 ) TRAGEDY The Bee Gees 43 ( 36 ) LOVE SONG The Damned 44 ( 43 ) GOODNIGHT TONIGHT Wings 45 ( 31 ) HOORAY IT'S A HOLI HOLIDAY Boney M 46 ( 44 ) KNOCK ON WOOD Amii Stewart 47 ( 47 ) HEART OF GLASS Blondie 48 ( 40 ) ARE YOU READY FOR LOVE Elton John 49 ( 50 ) MINDLESS BOOGIE Hot Chocolate 50 ( NEW ) CRACKING UP Nick Lowe 51 ( 48 ) BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER Linda Clifford 52 ( 49 ) SULTANS OF SWING Dire Straits 53 ( 51 ) NICE LEGS (SHAME ABOUT THE FACE) The Monks 54 ( 62 ) FREDERICK The Patti Smith Group 55 ( 57 ) BAKER STREET Gerry Rafferty 56 ( 56 ) DREADLOCK HOLIDAY 10CC 57 ( NEW ) DEEPER THAN THE NIGHT Olivia Newton-John 58 ( 55 ) HOLD THE LINE Toto 59 ( 53 ) KEEP ON DANCING Gary's Gang 60 ( 58 ) WHAT A FOOL BELIEVES The Doobie Brothers 61 ( 59 ) THE WORKER Fischer Z 62 ( NEW ) LIVING ON THE FRONTLINE Eddy Grant 63 ( 52 ) PARISIENNE WALKWAYS Gary Moore featuring Phil Lynnot 64 ( 74 ) CAVATINA John Williams 65 ( 63 ) CAN YOU FEEL THE FORCE The Real Thing 66 ( 65 ) LET'S LOVE DANCE TONIGHT Gary's Gang 67 ( 60 ) WOW Kate Bush 68 ( 64 ) LET'S DANCE Chris Montez 69 ( 69 ) RAT TRAP The Boomtown Rats 70 ( 61 ) COOL FOR CATS Squeeze 71 ( 70 ) HERE COMES THE NIGHT The Beach Boys 72 ( 67 ) IMPERIAL WIZARD David Essex 73 ( 75 ) IS THERE ANYBODY THERE The Scorpions 74 ( NEW ) GERTCHA Chas And Dave 75 ( 66 ) HE'S THE GREATEST DANCER Sister Sledge TV 1 Centennial 2 Soap 3 Mork And Mindy 4 Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes (film) 5 And Now For Something Completely Different... 6 Rhoda 7 Jukebox Jury 8 The Pythons 9 Top Of The Pops 10 S.W.A.T. This post has been edited by popchartfreak: 13th June 2014, 05:47 PM |
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13th June 2014, 06:17 PM
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BuzzJack Legend
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26th June 1979
A new Number One, hooray, and the chart comes alive again with great new entries. Tubeway Army gives Gary Numan his first (and last) chart-topper with the awesome Are ‘Friends’ Electric. Gerry Rafferty gets his 3rd Top 5 hit, at 3, Squeeze their 2nd Top 10, and Quantum jump up with that masked man to 10. Highest new entry is Amii Stewart, back with another disco-fied 60’s classic, this one Light My Fire at 14. I had huge love for the Jose Feliciano gentle latin version, which went top 10 in 1968 in my charts, and it was becoming obvious that this great Doors song was pretty indestructible, it can be done in any style, by anyone, and it’s still good, cos the song is just so perfect. Even better, the Beach Boys were back proper, a year ahead of their triumphant reunion tour (I was there Knebworth 1980) with a fab album and a bonafide hit, this time the Bach-based Al Jardine song, the gorgeous Lady Lynda. Wings were back in Old Siam, Sir, rocking it this time at 25 and Supertrtamp’s Breakfast In America nestled next to The Logical Song in at 33. Voyager have a halfway hotel at 35, and The Dooleys change tack, this time giving the two girls vocal duties, with a song that sounded like an Abba album track, and a rather damn fine one at that. It still sounds good, and it still sounds Abba 1979. Toto show their jazzy side, soon to be their only side, as Georgie Porgie kisses the girls at 55. That topnotch popstar Kevin Keegan (and part-time footballer hero of the 70’s) has a pop at a hit at 58 - basically, it’s a Smokie record. Without the harmonies. In at 63, a record that has yet to make the UK top 40, criminally. Another huge American holiday radio hit, Driver’s Seat still sounds marvellous and fresh, and is long overdue being a hit. The annoying thing is they are British, and the USA recognised it as a classic, but in the New Wave climate of 1979 the UK snubbed it. There’s still more: Art Garfunkel’s follow-up to Bright Eyes, a 50’s US ballad classic, the wonderful Since I Don’t Have You, was the first version to chart in my charts, later Guns ‘n’ Roses had a good go, but the best version was never a hit (also the most faithful to the original Skyliners version) - Don McLean - except in my chart. Thin Lizzy are back, starting to sound a tad formulaic, at 68, and the jazzy fab Chuck E’s In Love pops in for Rickie Lee Jones at 75. Phew! 1 ( 3 ) ARE 'FRIENDS' ELECTRIC Tubeway Army 2 ( 1 ) SUNDAY GIRL Blondie 3 ( 13 ) NIGHT OWL Gerry Rafferty 4 ( 2 ) DOES YOUR MOTHER KNOW/ KISSES OF FIRE Abba 5 ( 7 ) RING MY BELL Anita Ward 6 ( 6 ) BOOGIE WONDERLAND Earth, Wind & Fire and The Emotions 7 ( 4 ) MASQUERADE The Skids 8 ( 16 ) UP THE JUNCTION Squeeze 9 ( 5 ) SHINE A LITTLE LOVE E.L.O. 10 ( 17 ) THE LONE RANGER Quantum Jump 11 ( 9 ) THE NUMBER ONE SONG IN HEAVEN Sparks 12 ( 8 ) WE ARE FAMILY Sister Sledge 13 ( 20 ) AIN'T NO STOPPIN' US NOW McFadden and Whitehead 14 ( NEW ) LIGHT MY FIRE Amii Stewart 15 ( 18 ) GO WEST The Village People 16 ( 11 ) ROXANNE The Police 17 ( 15 ) DANCE AWAY Roxy Music 18 ( 14 ) BOYS KEEP SWINGING David Bowie 19 ( 10 ) PRIME TIME The Tubes 20 ( 19 ) SAY WHEN Lene Lovich 21 ( 12 ) WHO WERE YOU WITH IN THE MOONLIGHT Dollar 22 ( NEW ) LADY LYNDA The Beach Boys 23 ( 23 ) HOT STUFF Donna Summer 24 ( 27 ) THEME FROM THE DEER HUNTER (CAVATINA) The Shadows 25 ( NEW ) OLD SIAM, SIR Wings 26 ( 21 ) POP MUZIK M 27 ( 32 ) I'D BE SURPRISNGLY GOOD FOR YOU Linda Lewis 28 ( 25 ) JIMMY JIMMY The Undertones 29 ( 26 ) (H.A.P.P.Y.) RADIO Edwin Starr 30 ( 24 ) ONE WAY TICKET Eruption 31 ( 28 ) REUNITED Peaches and Herb 32 ( 22 ) ACCIDENTS WILL HAPPEN Elvis Costello 33 ( NEW ) BREAKFAST IN AMERICA Supertramp 34 ( 29 ) THE LOGICAL SONG Supertramp 35 ( NEW ) HALFWAY HOTEL Voyager 36 ( 34 ) I WILL SURVIVE Gloria Gaynor 37 ( 62 ) LIVING ON THE FRONTLINE Eddy Grant 38 ( 35 ) BRIGHT EYES Art Garfunkel 39 ( 57 ) DEEPER THAN THE NIGHT Olivia Newton-John 40 ( 30 ) I FOUGHT THE LAW The Clash 41 ( 31 ) GUILTY Mike Oldfield 42 ( 37 ) THE RUNNER The Three Degrees 43 ( 41 ) CHIQUITITA Abba 44 ( 42 ) TRAGEDY The Bee Gees 45 ( 50 ) CRACKING UP Nick Lowe 46 ( 40 ) SHAKE YOUR BODY (DOWN TO THE GROUND) The Jacksons 47 ( 64 ) CAVATINA John Williams 48 ( 36 ) BANANA SPLITS The Dickies 49 ( 39 ) LOVE YOU INSIDE OUT The Bee Gees 50 ( 47 ) HEART OF GLASS Blondie 51 ( 33 ) I WANT YOU TO WANT ME Cheap Trick 52 ( 44 ) GOODNIGHT TONIGHT Wings 53 ( 38 ) (EVERYBODY) GET DANCING The Bombers 54 ( NEW ) WANTED The Dooleys 55 ( NEW ) GEORGIE PORGIE Toto 56 ( 55 ) BAKER STREET Gerry Rafferty 57 ( 56 ) DREADLOCK HOLIDAY 10CC 58 ( NEW ) HEAD OVER HEELS IN LOVE Kevin Keegan 59 ( 45 ) HOORAY IT'S A HOLI HOLIDAY Boney M 60 ( 52 ) SULTANS OF SWING Dire Straits 61 ( 58 ) HOLD THE LINE Toto 62 ( 60 ) WHAT A FOOL BELIEVES The Doobie Brothers 63 ( NEW ) DRIVER'S SEAT Sniff 'n' The Tears 64 ( 46 ) KNOCK ON WOOD Amii Stewart 65 ( 43 ) LOVE SONG The Damned 66 ( 59 ) KEEP ON DANCING Gary's Gang 67 ( NEW ) SINCE I DON'T HAVE YOU Art Garfunkel 68 ( NEW ) DO ANYTHING YOU WANT TO DO Thin Lizzy 69 ( 48 ) ARE YOU READY FOR LOVE Elton John 70 ( 49 ) MINDLESS BOOGIE Hot Chocolate 71 ( 69 ) RAT TRAP The Boomtown Rats 72 ( 53 ) NICE LEGS (SHAME ABOUT THE FACE) The Monks 73 ( 65 ) CAN YOU FEEL THE FORCE The Real Thing 74 ( 51 ) BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER Linda Clifford 75 ( NEW ) CHUCK E'S IN LOVE Rickie Lee Jones TV 1 Rhoda 2 Soap 3 True Grit (film) 4 Top Of The Pops 5 Sword Of Justice 6 Centennial 7 My Name Is Bond 8 Hollywood Greats - Judy Garland 9 Fantasy Island 10 The Odd Couple This post has been edited by popchartfreak: 13th June 2014, 06:46 PM |
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20th July 2014, 12:52 PM
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4th July 1979
Wimbledon coverage pops into my TV chart, which reminds me I used to play tennis a lot at College, School, life, always my preferred game (along with badminton, squash, snooker, pool, darts), though College lunchtimes usually meant a game of pool. College was winding down though, exams over-ish, assignments done-ish, leaving me time for far more important stuff: Top Of The Pops at 2 in TV chart showing the music scene was alive; preparing to work in a hosiery warehouse near Mansfield for the summer for cash to pay for the US trip planned. The previous summer had been the nightmare that was Landers Bakery, now thankfully long-gone. 12 hour shifts 6pm to 6am stuffing rolls in to bags or a production line rush of bread popping out of scorching ovens in skin-scarring tins is still the worst job I’ve ever done. This one was mildly pleasant, moving boxes about, daytime Radio 1 on the factory speakers indelibly printing the songs of July and August 1979 on my mind to the point that I actually got sick of hearing many of the hits around. An old bloke Jim (ie prob my age now) used to give me a lift to work, early morn, and back again. Sorted! Chart-wise, straight in at 1, it’s Abba with a double-A side (official this time) the awesome Voulez-Vous and the poppy Angel Eyes, both from the fab Voulez-Vous album, stuffed with great potential singles, albeit a bit schizophrenic part-disco/dance part pop/ballad. The passionate, dramatic classic disco Voulez-Vous would have had a longer run, had album tracks been eligible, though Angel Eyes is flattered and probably wouldn’t have topped my chart alone, being as it’s a bit too jollypop. That means just the one week for Tubeway Army on top, and The Beach Boys take Lady Lynda into the top 3 for their highest charting new track since 1969. The Dooleys take their Abba-clone into the Top 20, rocketing up more than any previous singles had done. New entries: all summer factory song reminders. The reggae-tastic vocal-range-testing Janet Kay’s Silly Games in at 25; Patrick Hernandez’ sublimely eurocheesey Born To Be Alive at 26; Bonnie Tyler’s movie theme disco Married Men at 29; disco-synth After The Fire in at 32 with One Rule For You (red vinyl, my copy!); space-age disco synths plus farty noises for the fab Space Bass (Slick) at 44; The Ruts dramatic new wave/punk Babylon’s Burning at 53; The USA’s answer to New Wave, the first huge record to top the chart there to fit into the category, the rhythm-tastic My Sharona (The Knack) at 70, another American holiday hit it was impossible to avoid on US radio. Which leaves climbers from Thin Lizzy to 30, and Eddy Grant to 22. 1 ( NEW ) VOULEZ VOUS/ ANGEL EYES Abba 2 ( 1 ) ARE 'FRIENDS' ELECTRIC Tubeway Army 3 ( 22 ) LADY LYNDA The Beach Boys 4 ( 3 ) NIGHT OWL Gerry Rafferty 5 ( 5 ) RING MY BELL Anita Ward 6 ( 2 ) SUNDAY GIRL Blondie 7 ( 4 ) DOES YOUR MOTHER KNOW/ KISSES OF FIRE Abba 8 ( 8 ) UP THE JUNCTION Squeeze 9 ( 14 ) LIGHT MY FIRE Amii Stewart 10 ( 6 ) BOOGIE WONDERLAND Earth, Wind & Fire and The Emotions 11 ( 15 ) GO WEST The Village People 12 ( 7 ) MASQUERADE The Skids 13 ( 13 ) AIN'T NO STOPPIN' US NOW McFadden and Whitehead 14 ( 9 ) SHINE A LITTLE LOVE E.L.O. 15 ( 10 ) THE LONE RANGER Quantum Jump 16 ( 20 ) SAY WHEN Lene Lovich 17 ( 54 ) WANTED The Dooleys 18 ( 11 ) THE NUMBER ONE SONG IN HEAVEN Sparks 19 ( 12 ) WE ARE FAMILY Sister Sledge 20 ( 16 ) ROXANNE The Police 21 ( 25 ) OLD SIAM, SIR Wings 22 ( 37 ) LIVING ON THE FRONTLINE Eddy Grant 23 ( 18 ) BOYS KEEP SWINGING David Bowie 24 ( 17 ) DANCE AWAY Roxy Music 25 ( NEW ) SILLY GAMES Janet Kay 26 ( NEW ) BORN TO BE ALIVE Patrick Hernandez 27 ( 21 ) WHO WERE YOU WITH IN THE MOONLIGHT Dollar 28 ( 19 ) PRIME TIME The Tubes 29 ( NEW ) MARRIED MEN Bonnie Tyler 30 ( 68 ) DO ANYTHING YOU WANT TO DO Thin Lizzy 31 ( 26 ) POP MUZIK M 32 ( NEW ) ONE RULE FOR YOU After The Fire 33 ( 33 ) BREAKFAST IN AMERICA Supertramp 34 ( 23 ) HOT STUFF Donna Summer 35 ( 35 ) HALFWAY HOTEL Voyager 36 ( 24 ) THEME FROM THE DEER HUNTER (CAVATINA) The Shadows 37 ( 29 ) (H.A.P.P.Y.) RADIO Edwin Starr 38 ( 39 ) DEEPER THAN THE NIGHT Olivia Newton-John 39 ( 28 ) JIMMY JIMMY The Undertones 40 ( 36 ) I WILL SURVIVE Gloria Gaynor 41 ( 30 ) ONE WAY TICKET Eruption 42 ( 34 ) THE LOGICAL SONG Supertramp 43 ( 27 ) I'D BE SURPRISNGLY GOOD FOR YOU Linda Lewis 44 ( NEW ) SPACE BASS Slick 45 ( 38 ) BRIGHT EYES Art Garfunkel 46 ( 44 ) TRAGEDY The Bee Gees 47 ( 43 ) CHIQUITITA Abba 48 ( 58 ) HEAD OVER HEELS IN LOVE Kevin Keegan 49 ( 31 ) REUNITED Peaches and Herb 50 ( NEW ) STRANGLEHOLD UK Subs 51 ( 42 ) THE RUNNER The Three Degrees 52 ( 50 ) HEART OF GLASS Blondie 53 ( NEW ) BABYLON'S BURNING The Ruts 54 ( 41 ) GUILTY Mike Oldfield 55 ( 32 ) ACCIDENTS WILL HAPPEN Elvis Costello 56 ( 46 ) SHAKE YOUR BODY (DOWN TO THE GROUND) The Jacksons 57 ( 56 ) BAKER STREET Gerry Rafferty 58 ( 57 ) DREADLOCK HOLIDAY 10CC 59 ( NEW ) C'MON EVERYBODY The Sex Pistols 60 ( 49 ) LOVE YOU INSIDE OUT The Bee Gees 61 ( 48 ) BANANA SPLITS The Dickies 62 ( 67 ) SINCE I DON'T HAVE YOU Art Garfunkel 63 ( 52 ) GOODNIGHT TONIGHT Wings 64 ( 40 ) I FOUGHT THE LAW The Clash 65 ( 47 ) CAVATINA John Williams 66 ( 60 ) SULTANS OF SWING Dire Straits 67 ( 61 ) HOLD THE LINE Toto 68 ( 62 ) WHAT A FOOL BELIEVES The Doobie Brothers 69 ( 63 ) DRIVER'S SEAT Sniff 'n' The Tears 70 ( NEW ) MY SHARONA The Knack 71 ( 51 ) I WANT YOU TO WANT ME Cheap Trick 72 ( NEW ) MAYBE Thom Pace 73 ( 55 ) GEORGIE PORGIE Toto 74 ( 53 ) (EVERYBODY) GET DANCING The Bombers 75 ( 75 ) CHUCK E'S IN LOVE Rickie Lee Jones TV 1 Soap 2 Top Of The Pops 3 Centennial 4 Ask Aspel 5 Sword Of Justice 6 Rhoda 7 Juke Box Jury 8 Wimbledon Coverage 9 The World About Us 10 The Liver Birds This post has been edited by popchartfreak: 20th July 2014, 12:57 PM |
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21st July 2014, 06:07 PM
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BuzzJack Legend
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11th July 1979
2 weeks for Abba on top, Beach Boys at 2, and The old Doors song disco-fied at 3 for Amii Stewart. The Dooleys prove they are Wanted at 5 and Patrick Hernandez really is Borrrrrrn T Be Aliiive as he leaps 7. Reggae into the 20 for Janet kay and Eddy grant, both fab records, while Christian poprock band After The Fire synth it up to 14, and Supertramp have some Breakfast In America at 20 - something I was working on doing too. Highest new entry, a returning hero, as Dave Edmunds covers Elvis Costello, with Nick Lowe’s assist, and does it even better, Girl’s Talk in at 25 and just marvellous. 10 years on since Sabre Dance, 6 years since last topping my chart, too. Slick and the Sex Pistols (the latter doing another joke cover of Eddie Cochran) join The Ruts and UK Subs in breaking into the 40. 2 of them didn’t deserve to, though. Clue: I like Slick, and Ruts is a late punk classic. In at 34, a hugely-influential Chic record, Good Times, which was to pop up later in the year with the dance bassline underpinning something called “rap”. Bet that was just a gimmick, eh, everyone was saying so at the time....? In at 36, not looking pop stars, but with a melody and harmony to kill for, The Korgis brilliant If I Had You. Donna Summer’s quick follow-up to Hot Stuff is more in a soul vibe, and Bad Girls duly enters at 39 as it shoots up the American charts to make it a double US whammy. At 45, The Police really Can’t Stand Losing You, and like Roxanne a 1978 flop getting a new wind as Sting becomes number one pop male pin-up, but with an uptempo new wave-reggae vibe that appealed to lads as much as girls, if not more so. Finally, Manfred Mann keeps his run of chart hits going, nearly 11 years strong (officially) and 15 years of popchartfreak appreciation:) TV times, Soap was still ground-breaking manic comedy and pushing even beloved Star Trek down to 2. The men’s final at Wimbledon was a goodie as Bjorn Borg won a record 4th consecutive title, against Roscoe Tanner. Joanna Lumley is absolutely fabulous as Sapphire to David McCallum’s Steel, old faves both as Purdey (New Avengers) and Ilya Kuryakin (Man From UNCLE). Both are still working on TV of course, Ab Fab/documentaries, and NCIS, soo hooray for them! It was a mysterious rare ITV sci fi show that I liked a lot when the script was right. Jukebox Jury continued to give welcome exposure to new records in a fun setting, and Australia’s Chopper Squad showed what they had at 15. As I vaguely recall, noticeably. 1 ( 1 ) VOULEZ VOUS/ ANGEL EYES Abba 2 ( 3 ) LADY LYNDA The Beach Boys 3 ( 9 ) LIGHT MY FIRE Amii Stewart 4 ( 2 ) ARE 'FRIENDS' ELECTRIC Tubeway Army 5 ( 17 ) WANTED The Dooleys 6 ( 4 ) NIGHT OWL Gerry Rafferty 7 ( 26 ) BORN TO BE ALIVE Patrick Hernandez 8 ( 6 ) SUNDAY GIRL Blondie 9 ( 5 ) RING MY BELL Anita Ward 10 ( 7 ) DOES YOUR MOTHER KNOW/ KISSES OF FIRE Abba 11 ( 8 ) UP THE JUNCTION Squeeze 12 ( 11 ) GO WEST The Village People 13 ( 25 ) SILLY GAMES Janet Kay 14 ( 32 ) ONE RULE FOR YOU After The Fire 15 ( 22 ) LIVING ON THE FRONTLINE Eddy Grant 16 ( 13 ) AIN'T NO STOPPIN' US NOW McFadden and Whitehead 17 ( 10 ) BOOGIE WONDERLAND Earth, Wind & Fire and The Emotions 18 ( 12 ) MASQUERADE The Skids 19 ( 15 ) THE LONE RANGER Quantum Jump 20 ( 33 ) BREAKFAST IN AMERICA Supertramp 21 ( 14 ) SHINE A LITTLE LOVE E.L.O. 22 ( 29 ) MARRIED MEN Bonnie Tyler 23 ( 16 ) SAY WHEN Lene Lovich 24 ( 30 ) DO ANYTHING YOU WANT TO DO Thin Lizzy 25 ( NEW ) GIRL'S TALK Dave Edmunds 26 ( 44 ) SPACE BASS Slick 27 ( 20 ) ROXANNE The Police 28 ( 19 ) WE ARE FAMILY Sister Sledge 29 ( 18 ) THE NUMBER ONE SONG IN HEAVEN Sparks 30 ( 21 ) OLD SIAM, SIR Wings 31 ( 59 ) C'MON EVERYBODY The Sex Pistols 32 ( 53 ) BABYLON'S BURNING The Ruts 33 ( 50 ) STRANGLEHOLD UK Subs 34 ( NEW ) GOOD TIMES Chic 35 ( 35 ) HALFWAY HOTEL Voyager 36 ( NEW ) IF I HAD YOU The Korgis 37 ( 24 ) DANCE AWAY Roxy Music 38 ( 27 ) WHO WERE YOU WITH IN THE MOONLIGHT Dollar 39 ( NEW ) BAD GIRLS Donna Summer 40 ( 31 ) POP MUZIK M 41 ( 28 ) PRIME TIME The Tubes 42 ( 23 ) BOYS KEEP SWINGING David Bowie 43 ( 70 ) MY SHARONA The Knack 44 ( 40 ) I WILL SURVIVE Gloria Gaynor 45 ( NEW ) CAN'T STAND LOSING YOU The Police 46 ( 34 ) HOT STUFF Donna Summer 47 ( 42 ) THE LOGICAL SONG Supertramp 48 ( 48 ) HEAD OVER HEELS IN LOVE Kevin Keegan 49 ( 46 ) TRAGEDY The Bee Gees 50 ( 47 ) CHIQUITITA Abba 51 ( 38 ) DEEPER THAN THE NIGHT Olivia Newton-John 52 ( 37 ) (H.A.P.P.Y.) RADIO Edwin Starr 53 ( 45 ) BRIGHT EYES Art Garfunkel 54 ( 62 ) SINCE I DON'T HAVE YOU Art Garfunkel 55 ( 41 ) ONE WAY TICKET Eruption 56 ( 52 ) HEART OF GLASS Blondie 57 ( 51 ) THE RUNNER The Three Degrees 58 ( 75 ) CHUCK E'S IN LOVE Rickie Lee Jones 59 ( 57 ) BAKER STREET Gerry Rafferty 60 ( 58 ) DREADLOCK HOLIDAY 10CC 61 ( 36 ) THEME FROM THE DEER HUNTER (CAVATINA) The Shadows 62 ( 72 ) MAYBE Thom Pace 63 ( 43 ) I'D BE SURPRISNGLY GOOD FOR YOU Linda Lewis 64 ( 73 ) GEORGIE PORGIE Toto 65 ( 54 ) GUILTY Mike Oldfield 66 ( 69 ) DRIVER'S SEAT Sniff 'n' The Tears 67 ( 56 ) SHAKE YOUR BODY (DOWN TO THE GROUND) The Jacksons 68 ( 49 ) REUNITED Peaches and Herb 69 ( 60 ) LOVE YOU INSIDE OUT The Bee Gees 70 ( 61 ) BANANA SPLITS The Dickies 71 ( 63 ) GOODNIGHT TONIGHT Wings 72 ( 39 ) JIMMY JIMMY The Undertones 73 ( NEW ) DON'T KILL IT CAROL Manfred Mann's Earthband 74 ( 67 ) HOLD THE LINE Toto 75 ( 68 ) WHAT A FOOL BELIEVES The Doobie Brothers TV 1 Soap (Sun) 2 Star Trek: The Squire Of Gothos 3 Soap (Fri) 4 Centennial 5 The Odd Couple 6 Sapphire And Steel (Thurs) 7 Lost Horizon (film) 8 Barney Miller 9 Sword Of Justice 10 Sapphire And Steel (Tues) 11 Rhoda 12 Jukebox Jury 13 Top Of The Pops 14 Match Of The Day: Wimbledon Men's Finals 15 Chopper Squad This post has been edited by popchartfreak: 21st July 2014, 06:21 PM |
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23rd July 2014, 06:36 PM
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BuzzJack Legend
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18th July 1979
3 weeks at 1 for Abba, joined in the top 10 by After The Fire and Slick, both adding some synth delight into the upper reaches, and also the fab Silly Games. The Police almost make it in their second week, too, at 11, and even overhaul Dave Edmunds and his biggest hit since 1973 at 12. Bonnie Tyler’s moody disco track is at 14, while Thin Lizzy’s run of Top 20 hits is 6 years as the rock’n’rollin Do Anything You Wanna Do hits 20, just behind the leaping Good Times of Chic. The Knack take My Sharona into the 40, and Sniff ‘n’ The Tears manage what they did in the USA, but not the UK, and place the brilliant Driver’s Seat behind the Top 40 wheel. British they were, too. Highest two new entries, though, are 2 major pop classics, the epic Boomtown Rats “I Don’t Like Mondays” written as a response to a slacker teenage girl murderer’s quote. It’s brilliant, ambitious, sprawling and has just the right amount of bitterness - not that big in the States for some reason, can’t think why...oh, yes, they worship the gun, that’ll be why (plus to be fair it would have hampered a fair trial). Cliff’s back. Only 3 years since his last critically-well-received batch of songs, and whaddya know, he tops it and kickstarts his pop career for another 5 years run of great singles (courtesy of writer-producer Alan Tarney). We Don’t Talk Anymore pops in at 41, but it’s a pretty good candidate for his best record in a fairly substantial back catalogue. I will have no truck with popular Cliff-bashing opinions, then or now, you don’t last 55 years based on fan-base appeal, you get it by releasing great records, and this one, complete with mature-looking, leather-trouser-clad Cliff, was a biggie, even in the US of A, who only occasionally let him have a big hit. Others: Judie Tzuke’s gorgeous, haunting Stay With Me Till Dawn breaks in at 56; Siouxsie’s Playground Twist is at 60, but not one of my faves of hers, Let’s Playground Twist Again (like we did last summer) would have been more fun; PIL dirge their way in at 62, The Real Thing Boogie Down at 64 and the Doobie’s grab a minute at 75. TV chart, Centennial peaks again, such a great series, Trek repeats the classic sci-fi Frederic Brown short story adaptation Arena episode (which I still think would make a great movie with modern CGI and an as-originally-written naked and vulnerable hero battling to save the human race one-on-one against an equally naked and not-so-vulnerable alien fighting for his species). Suggestions for current hot actors to star welcome! The 20th anniversary of the Moon Landing pops in at 4. Mankind’s greatest achievement. A quick comment for all those Moon-landing hoax believers - now that they have a satellite orbiting the moon and photos of every single footprint and piece of equipment left on the Moon, don’t you feel a bit foolish? No? You should, for falling for every money-making conspiracy nut-job preying on gullibility. Scientists aren’t in the business of making things up, cos there’s nothing they hate more than being shown up to be wrong by other scientists. People who write books, on the other hand, spew crap masquerading as fact. Ker-ching! 1 ( 1 ) VOULEZ VOUS/ ANGEL EYES Abba 2 ( 2 ) LADY LYNDA The Beach Boys 3 ( 5 ) WANTED The Dooleys 4 ( 3 ) LIGHT MY FIRE Amii Stewart 5 ( 7 ) BORN TO BE ALIVE Patrick Hernandez 6 ( 14 ) ONE RULE FOR YOU After The Fire 7 ( 4 ) ARE 'FRIENDS' ELECTRIC Tubeway Army 8 ( 26 ) SPACE BASS Slick 9 ( 13 ) SILLY GAMES Janet Kay 10 ( 6 ) NIGHT OWL Gerry Rafferty 11 ( 45 ) CAN'T STAND LOSING YOU The Police 12 ( 25 ) GIRL'S TALK Dave Edmunds 13 ( 9 ) RING MY BELL Anita Ward 14 ( 22 ) MARRIED MEN Bonnie Tyler 15 ( 8 ) SUNDAY GIRL Blondie 16 ( 20 ) BREAKFAST IN AMERICA Supertramp 17 ( 10 ) DOES YOUR MOTHER KNOW/ KISSES OF FIRE Abba 18 ( 34 ) GOOD TIMES Chic 19 ( 11 ) UP THE JUNCTION Squeeze 20 ( 24 ) DO ANYTHING YOU WANT TO DO Thin Lizzy 21 ( 15 ) LIVING ON THE FRONTLINE Eddy Grant 22 ( 31 ) C'MON EVERYBODY The Sex Pistols 23 ( 36 ) IF I HAD YOU The Korgis 24 ( 39 ) BAD GIRLS Donna Summer 25 ( 19 ) THE LONE RANGER Quantum Jump 26 ( 43 ) MY SHARONA The Knack 27 ( 12 ) GO WEST The Village People 28 ( NEW ) I DON'T LIKE MOIDAYS The Boomtown Rats 29 ( 18 ) MASQUERADE The Skids 30 ( 27 ) ROXANNE The Police 31 ( 16 ) AIN'T NO STOPPIN' US NOW McFadden and Whitehead 32 ( 17 ) BOOGIE WONDERLAND Earth, Wind & Fire and The Emotions 33 ( 23 ) SAY WHEN Lene Lovich 34 ( 21 ) SHINE A LITTLE LOVE E.L.O. 35 ( 33 ) STRANGLEHOLD UK Subs 36 ( 32 ) BABYLON'S BURNING The Ruts 37 ( 30 ) OLD SIAM, SIR Wings 38 ( 29 ) THE NUMBER ONE SONG IN HEAVEN Sparks 39 ( 28 ) WE ARE FAMILY Sister Sledge 40 ( 66 ) DRIVER'S SEAT Sniff 'n' The Tears 41 ( NEW ) WE DON'T TALK ANYMORE Cliff Richard 42 ( 41 ) PRIME TIME The Tubes 43 ( 58 ) CHUCK E'S IN LOVE Rickie Lee Jones 44 ( 63 ) I'D BE SURPRISNGLY GOOD FOR YOU Linda Lewis 45 ( 42 ) BOYS KEEP SWINGING David Bowie 46 ( 40 ) POP MUZIK M 47 ( 44 ) I WILL SURVIVE Gloria Gaynor 48 ( 38 ) WHO WERE YOU WITH IN THE MOONLIGHT Dollar 49 ( 37 ) DANCE AWAY Roxy Music 50 ( 35 ) HALFWAY HOTEL Voyager 51 ( 62 ) MAYBE Thom Pace 52 ( 49 ) TRAGEDY The Bee Gees 53 ( 47 ) THE LOGICAL SONG Supertramp 54 ( 50 ) CHIQUITITA Abba 55 ( 73 ) DON'T KILL IT CAROL Manfred Mann's Earthband 56 ( NEW ) STAY WITH ME TILL DAWN Judy Tzuke 57 ( 60 ) DREADLOCK HOLIDAY 10CC 58 ( 56 ) HEART OF GLASS Blondie 59 ( 59 ) BAKER STREET Gerry Rafferty 60 ( NEW ) PLAYGROUND TWIST Siouxsie And The Banshees 61 ( 53 ) BRIGHT EYES Art Garfunkel 62 ( NEW ) DEATH DISCO Public Image Limited 63 ( 52 ) (H.A.P.P.Y.) RADIO Edwin Starr 64 ( NEW ) BOOGIE DOWN The Real Thing 65 ( 57 ) THE RUNNER The Three Degrees 66 ( 55 ) ONE WAY TICKET Eruption 67 ( 48 ) HEAD OVER HEELS IN LOVE Kevin Keegan 68 ( 70 ) BANANA SPLITS The Dickies 69 ( 72 ) JIMMY JIMMY The Undertones 70 ( 46 ) HOT STUFF Donna Summer 71 ( 67 ) SHAKE YOUR BODY (DOWN TO THE GROUND) The Jacksons 72 ( 65 ) GUILTY Mike Oldfield 73 ( 71 ) GOODNIGHT TONIGHT Wings 74 ( 64 ) GEORGIE PORGIE Toto 75 ( NEW ) MINUTE BY MINUTE The Doobie Brothers TV 1 Centennial 1 Star Trek: Arena 3 Soap 4 Project Apollo 5 Sword Of Justice 6 Top Of The Pops 7 Barney Miller 8 Rhoda 9 Hawaii 5-0 10 Sapphire And Steel (Tues) This post has been edited by popchartfreak: 23rd July 2014, 06:45 PM |
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24th July 2014, 06:24 PM
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BuzzJack Legend
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25th July 1979
A 4th week for Voulez-Vous (and Angel Eyes) on top, Abba ruling still, as they keep the fab Beach Boys at 2 for 3 weeks. The charts enter into the glorious summer of 79, for me, possibly because I heard so much radio while at work, but also cos there were just so many great new records coming out each week! Patrick Hernandez eurodances into the Top 3, while Girls keep Talking for Dave Edmunds at 4, his fourth Top 4. 4 is the magic number this week! The Police, The Boomtown Rats get another Top 10, while The Korgis sneak in too. So many great records in fact, that many are pushed down or held down in lower chart positions than they deserved. Donna Summer gets the latest in a long run of non-consecutive Top 20 hits, and Cliff is up to 22. It’s the new entries, though, that herald fabness, with highest new entry from the Pretenders at 27, the marvellous Kid. In at 40, Sparks try to Beat The Clock with lovely Moroder-ness, a timely entry. Sorry! E.L.O. sign in at 51 with a diary of a wimp - I’ll be perfectly honest, I felt they were talking about me in the lyrics, Horace Wimp was me in my own self-image. Regardless, it’s one of their best records, a touching feel-good inspiring pop song. The under-rated Gold, John Stewart’s very minor hit, is at 58, and the Gibson Brothers infectious salsa-pop at 66 is just as welcome, ahead of Telex and their bizarre Kraftwerk-esque version of Rock Around The Clock. Timely! Oh, already done that one.....! If at first you don’t get a laugh, keep on repeating it till you do, is my motto! 1 ( 1 ) VOULEZ VOUS/ ANGEL EYES Abba 2 ( 2 ) LADY LYNDA The Beach Boys 3 ( 5 ) BORN TO BE ALIVE Patrick Hernandez 4 ( 12 ) GIRL'S TALK Dave Edmunds 5 ( 8 ) SPACE BASS Slick 6 ( 4 ) LIGHT MY FIRE Amii Stewart 7 ( 11 ) CAN'T STAND LOSING YOU The Police 8 ( 3 ) WANTED The Dooleys 9 ( 28 ) I DON'T LIKE MOIDAYS The Boomtown Rats 10 ( 23 ) IF I HAD YOU The Korgis 11 ( 7 ) ARE 'FRIENDS' ELECTRIC Tubeway Army 12 ( 9 ) SILLY GAMES Janet Kay 13 ( 18 ) GOOD TIMES Chic 14 ( 10 ) NIGHT OWL Gerry Rafferty 15 ( 16 ) BREAKFAST IN AMERICA Supertramp 16 ( 24 ) BAD GIRLS Donna Summer 17 ( 26 ) MY SHARONA The Knack 18 ( 14 ) MARRIED MEN Bonnie Tyler 19 ( 13 ) RING MY BELL Anita Ward 20 ( 22 ) C'MON EVERYBODY The Sex Pistols 21 ( 6 ) ONE RULE FOR YOU After The Fire 22 ( 41 ) WE DON'T TALK ANYMORE Cliff Richard 23 ( 17 ) DOES YOUR MOTHER KNOW/ KISSES OF FIRE Abba 24 ( 15 ) SUNDAY GIRL Blondie 25 ( 19 ) UP THE JUNCTION Squeeze 26 ( 21 ) LIVING ON THE FRONTLINE Eddy Grant 27 ( NEW ) KID The Pretenders 28 ( 25 ) THE LONE RANGER Quantum Jump 29 ( 35 ) STRANGLEHOLD UK Subs 30 ( 62 ) DEATH DISCO Public Image Limited 31 ( 20 ) DO ANYTHING YOU WANT TO DO Thin Lizzy 32 ( 36 ) BABYLON'S BURNING The Ruts 33 ( 43 ) CHUCK E'S IN LOVE Rickie Lee Jones 34 ( 29 ) MASQUERADE The Skids 35 ( 30 ) ROXANNE The Police 36 ( 56 ) STAY WITH ME TILL DAWN Judy Tzuke 37 ( 33 ) SAY WHEN Lene Lovich 38 ( 60 ) PLAYGROUND TWIST Siouxsie And The Banshees 39 ( 64 ) BOOGIE DOWN The Real Thing 40 ( NEW ) BEAT THE CLOCK Sparks 41 ( 27 ) GO WEST The Village People 42 ( 37 ) OLD SIAM, SIR Wings 43 ( 42 ) PRIME TIME The Tubes 44 ( 51 ) MAYBE Thom Pace 45 ( 32 ) BOOGIE WONDERLAND Earth, Wind & Fire and The Emotions 46 ( 31 ) AIN'T NO STOPPIN' US NOW McFadden and Whitehead 47 ( 39 ) WE ARE FAMILY Sister Sledge 48 ( 34 ) SHINE A LITTLE LOVE E.L.O. 49 ( 38 ) THE NUMBER ONE SONG IN HEAVEN Sparks 50 ( 47 ) I WILL SURVIVE Gloria Gaynor 51 ( NEW ) THE DIARY OF HORACE WIMP E.L.O. 52 ( 52 ) TRAGEDY The Bee Gees 53 ( 54 ) CHIQUITITA Abba 54 ( 46 ) POP MUZIK M 55 ( 44 ) I'D BE SURPRISNGLY GOOD FOR YOU Linda Lewis 56 ( 45 ) BOYS KEEP SWINGING David Bowie 57 ( 53 ) THE LOGICAL SONG Supertramp 58 ( NEW ) GOLD John Stewart 59 ( 59 ) BAKER STREET Gerry Rafferty 60 ( 57 ) DREADLOCK HOLIDAY 10CC 61 ( 58 ) HEART OF GLASS Blondie 62 ( 49 ) DANCE AWAY Roxy Music 63 ( RE ) SINCE I DON'T HAVE YOU Art Garfunkel 64 ( 48 ) WHO WERE YOU WITH IN THE MOONLIGHT Dollar 65 ( 55 ) DON'T KILL IT CAROL Manfred Mann's Earthband 66 ( NEW ) OOH WHAT A NIGHT The Gibson brothers 67 ( 61 ) BRIGHT EYES Art Garfunkel 68 ( 65 ) THE RUNNER The Three Degrees 69 ( NEW ) ROCK AROUND THE CLOCK Telex 70 ( 40 ) DRIVER'S SEAT Sniff 'n' The Tears 71 ( 68 ) BANANA SPLITS The Dickies 72 ( 69 ) JIMMY JIMMY The Undertones 73 ( 75 ) MINUTE BY MINUTE The Doobie Brothers 74 ( 66 ) ONE WAY TICKET Eruption 75 ( 50 ) HALFWAY HOTEL Voyager TV 1 Centennial 1 Star Trek: Return Of The Archons 1 Soap 4 Rhoda 5 Top Of The Pops 6 Hawaii 5-0 7 Sapphire & Steel (thu) 8 The Liver Birds 9 Sapphire & Steel (Tues) 10 It Ain't Half Hot Mum This post has been edited by popchartfreak: 24th July 2014, 06:42 PM |
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21st August 2014, 07:27 PM
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BuzzJack Legend
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1st August 1979
5th and final week on top for Abba, so who is going to knock them off? The Police are up to 2, a new chart peak for a crackin New Wave track, The Boomtown Rats were reigning in the UK charts, but could they go higher than 4, and equal Rat Trap? Number One more often than not, ELO rocket up to 7 from 51 with the gorgeous wistful Diary Of Horace Wimp while the equally gorgeous Korgis are up to 5. Cliff shoots up from 22 to 8 with his best ever record, but can he grab a chart-topper for the first time in 8 years? We Don’t Talk Anymore, but apparently that doesn’t stop people talking about Cliff in another ridiculous Trial By BBC media. They had a bonafide evil mass paedophile and did nothing about rumours, but one whiff of an accusation at a 30-year-old religious meeting and it’s helicopters and seizing of all that 30-year-old evidence on hard drives. What? They didn’t have PC’s back in those days? Ah well, any excuse will do, eh, he’s bound to have a diary or something saying “I groped a 15-year-old”? Pity the police didn’t bother to ask him first before deciding he was guilty of something. Regardless, one of the best Top 10’s of all time IMHO. Elsewhere, Pretenders and Sparks go top 20, and The Gibson Brothers rocket to 26 5 years after their writer-producer hit my number 2 as The Yamasukis. Art Garfunkel finally breaks into the 40 with the lovely 50’s cover, while Telex do the same with a less lovely 50’s cover. Highest new entry is Bowie, D.J. at 43, for a literally cool decade of hits, with Showaddywaddy at 50 (and another cover) and a less-than-cool 6 years of hits. Buzzcocks at 59 with an old track, Undertones at 68 with a great new track, Darts with (yet) another cover at 70, Duke Of Earl, a former Gene Chandler hit, Gene having only recently dropped out of the charts with his own new stuff. At 66, earth Wind And Fire continue the run of great singles with a great ballad that takes me back to overcast LA streets, car radio and American stations who were hammering it. On TV Centennial still ruled, along with Soap, while Mork And Mindy stayed high. Robin Williams is much-missed, but he’ll always be the young manic alien for me, when he was fresh and on fire. Later series hit the sentimental button too much, but the first one was great. A great human being, and a comic inspiration. Another sitcom, Barney Miller, was also a fave of mine, a gentle whimsical cop show, and it had the fab Ron Glass in it, later of Firefly, the awesome Joss Whedon space cowboy show, as a preacher. Keeping up my astronomy interest Patrick Moore was ever-present with The Sky At Night. I once sat through one of his talks with a mate, when he asked for questions from the audience. I dared my mate to ask him if he’d “ever seen Your Anus”. Thankfully he didn’t! Yourannuss as they call Uranus these days. So, at home, my wisdom tooth started to cut me open. The bloody thing impacted eventually, but as I did nothing about it, it basically made my teeth all crooked for the rest of my life, and 30 years later I eventually had to get the bloody thing broken to bits and removed chunk by chunk while I tried hard not to have tears filling the dental goggles. Moral: get your teeth done early! Mum and dad were on holiday in North Wales this week, on the wednesday I got a call from grandma telling me she was coming friday, then got one from dad saying mum had been rushed to hospital with appendicitis and had an operation. That put me into severe anxiety mode, I rang my Aunty Eileen to let her know, and Uncle Tony popped round thursday for an update after I’d got in from my factory work job. The lovely couple who gave me a lift, Lil and Jim, wouldn’t take any money off me when they heard about mum, which was so sweet. Friday and grandma arrived to stay with a random friend in tow (as she often did) and told her about mum, turned out to be an infection elsewhere and antibiotics needed. Noted that at work I tended to hang around with the younger folk (always have) and listed a few things I bought that week with my wages: Record Mirror, Smash Hits, some 12” extended mixes of The Runner and Ain’t No Stoppin Us Now, and a stack of bargain bin singles, and I was also writing a Star Trek fan-fic piece. Juke Box Jury I enjoyed, noting Mike Reid was a big head (he got his own back in 1986 when he took the piss out of me on live Radio 1), and Bob Geldof: “as intelligent and slamming as ever”. Bit of a hero, Bob, long before Live Aid made him a saint. But that’s another story... 1 ( 1 ) VOULEZ VOUS/ ANGEL EYES Abba 2 ( 7 ) CAN'T STAND LOSING YOU The Police 3 ( 2 ) LADY LYNDA The Beach Boys 4 ( 9 ) I DON'T LIKE MONDAYS The Boomtown Rats 5 ( 10 ) IF I HAD YOU The Korgis 6 ( 3 ) BORN TO BE ALIVE Patrick Hernandez 7 ( 51 ) THE DIARY OF HORACE WIMP E.L.O. 8 ( 22 ) WE DON'T TALK ANYMORE Cliff Richard 9 ( 4 ) GIRL'S TALK Dave Edmunds 10 ( 8 ) WANTED The Dooleys 11 ( 5 ) SPACE BASS Slick 12 ( 6 ) LIGHT MY FIRE Amii Stewart 13 ( 11 ) ARE 'FRIENDS' ELECTRIC Tubeway Army 14 ( 12 ) SILLY GAMES Janet Kay 15 ( 15 ) BREAKFAST IN AMERICA Supertramp 16 ( 13 ) GOOD TIMES Chic 17 ( 17 ) MY SHARONA The Knack 18 ( 27 ) KID The Pretenders 19 ( 14 ) NIGHT OWL Gerry Rafferty 20 ( 40 ) BEAT THE CLOCK Sparks 21 ( 16 ) BAD GIRLS Donna Summer 22 ( 20 ) C'MON EVERYBODY The Sex Pistols 23 ( 19 ) RING MY BELL Anita Ward 24 ( 21 ) ONE RULE FOR YOU After The Fire 25 ( 36 ) STAY WITH ME TILL DAWN Judy Tzuke 26 ( 66 ) OOH WHAT A LIFE The Gibson brothers 27 ( 39 ) BOOGIE DOWN The Real Thing 28 ( 33 ) CHUCK E'S IN LOVE Rickie Lee Jones 29 ( 23 ) DOES YOUR MOTHER KNOW/ KISSES OF FIRE Abba 30 ( 24 ) SUNDAY GIRL Blondie 31 ( 18 ) MARRIED MEN Bonnie Tyler 32 ( 63 ) SINCE I DON'T HAVE YOU Art Garfunkel 33 ( 26 ) LIVING ON THE FRONTLINE Eddy Grant 34 ( 30 ) DEATH DISCO Public Image Limited 35 ( 25 ) UP THE JUNCTION Squeeze 36 ( 69 ) ROCK AROUND THE CLOCK Telex 37 ( 28 ) THE LONE RANGER Quantum Jump 38 ( 31 ) DO ANYTHING YOU WANT TO DO Thin Lizzy 39 ( 32 ) BABYLON'S BURNING The Ruts 40 ( 29 ) STRANGLEHOLD UK Subs 41 ( 35 ) ROXANNE The Police 42 ( 34 ) MASQUERADE The Skids 43 ( NEW ) D.J. David Bowie 44 ( 37 ) SAY WHEN Lene Lovich 45 ( 55 ) I'D BE SURPRISNGLY GOOD FOR YOU Linda Lewis 46 ( 43 ) PRIME TIME The Tubes 47 ( 38 ) PLAYGROUND TWIST Siouxsie And The Banshees 48 ( 44 ) MAYBE Thom Pace 49 ( 42 ) OLD SIAM, SIR Wings 50 ( NEW ) SWEET LITTLE ROCK 'N' ROLLER Showaddywaddy 51 ( 53 ) CHIQUITITA Abba 52 ( 50 ) I WILL SURVIVE Gloria Gaynor 53 ( 52 ) TRAGEDY The Bee Gees 54 ( 47 ) WE ARE FAMILY Sister Sledge 55 ( 46 ) AIN'T NO STOPPIN' US NOW McFadden and Whitehead 56 ( 49 ) THE NUMBER ONE SONG IN HEAVEN Sparks 57 ( 59 ) BAKER STREET Gerry Rafferty 58 ( 60 ) DREADLOCK HOLIDAY 10CC 59 ( NEW ) HARMONY IN MY HEAD Buzzcocks 60 ( 45 ) BOOGIE WONDERLAND Earth, Wind & Fire and The Emotions 61 ( 57 ) THE LOGICAL SONG Supertramp 62 ( 61 ) HEART OF GLASS Blondie 63 ( 54 ) POP MUZIK M 64 ( 41 ) GO WEST The Village People 65 ( 48 ) SHINE A LITTLE LOVE E.L.O. 66 ( NEW ) AFTER THE LOVE HAS GONE Earth Wind And Fire 67 ( 56 ) BOYS KEEP SWINGING David Bowie 68 ( NEW ) HERE COMES THE SUMMER The Undertones 69 ( 62 ) DANCE AWAY Roxy Music 70 ( NEW ) DUKE OF EARL Darts 71 ( NEW ) CONSCIOUS MAN Jolly Brothers 72 ( 68 ) THE RUNNER The Three Degrees 73 ( NEW ) LADY WRITER Dire Straits 74 ( NEW ) THE BOSS Diana Ross 75 ( NEW ) MORNING DANCE Spiro Gyra TV 1 Centennial 1 Soap 3 Star Trek: This Side Of Paradise 4 Rhoda 5 Mork And Mindy 6 Top Of The Pops 7 Barney Miller 8 Carry On...Don't Lose Your Head 9 Sword Of Justice 10 The Hollywood Greats 11 Sapphire And Steel (Thurs) 12 Juke Box Jury 13 The Sky At Night 14 Sapphire And Steel (Tues) 15 It Ain't Half Hot Mum This post has been edited by popchartfreak: 21st August 2014, 07:33 PM |
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26th August 2014, 04:11 PM
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BuzzJack Legend
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7th August 1979
The Police get their first chart-topper with the year-old Can’t Stand Losing You, I enjoyed singing along to this one! ELO (of course!) go top 5 with Horace Wimp, and Sparks get a 2nd Top 10 in a row, just like the 1974 heydays. Beat The Clock should have been higher but there were even greater records ahead of it! Judy Tzuke gets a top 20, and highest new entry is B.A. Robertson and his whimsical Bang Bang. A terrifically amusing lyricist, this one started a run of catchy great pop singles for him, though he was also in demand as songwriter for others. Bang Bang is fab. Spiro Gyra take their MOR jazz instrumental up to 26, while Earth Wind And Fire get an 8th Top 40 hit. Gerry Rafferty gets his 4th Top 40 in a row, as the absolutely fantastic, Get It Right Next Time enters at 31. This became an anthem for me and my group of friends on our South-West USA adventure, a massive radio airplay hit and a single I bought over there - oddly no picture covers, and poorer quality vinyl, but hey it’s important to me, and Gerry could do no wrong in 1979. Bossy Diana Ross is at 37, The Planets are new at 39 (a great Police-ish single) with Lines, and new at 41 it’s The Tourists getting their first hit - better known as Dave Stewart and Annie Lennox pre-Eurythmics, plus mates - with the lovely Loneliest Man In The World. Joe Jackson also debuts with the US hit Jazz-rock-new wave Is She Really Going Out With Him, pretty catchy and amusing too. Ian Dury, meanwhile finally follows up Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick, with a Radio-One hyped Reasons To Be Cheerful (Part 3), very low-key and a little disappointing at the time, but in at 49. Finally, in at 70, a sad sweet ballad from the brilliantly-inadvertedly-amusing Randy Vanwarmer, Just When I Needed You Most. On TV I was waxing lyrical on Centennial and it’s characters, especially Lynn Redgrave’s spine-tingling Charlotte during the Great Depression, and a speech about Planet Earth “reminiscent of The Octopus” (One of my college novels) and the “EPIC” finale, and I was so enthused I wrote my letter to the Radio Times - which got printed!. At home, the rest of the family was back, mum out of hospital, and weak, and a house full with grandma and her friend Hilda (Mrs Mitch as grandma called her, as her generation was wont to do with friends, seemingly odd to my generation), and Sue, brother Mark’s girlfriend, her young brother Chris completed the greeting as i got in from work. My holiday prezzie was stamps - yes I used to collect them, just add it to my list of nerd hobbies, I’ve millions. I was sleeping on the couch, bedroom donated to grandma, at work on the factory floor I was getting first-hand experience of lazy buggers creeping up to the boss, people who do nothing but make it appear as though they do and slag off others. My wages were £39 for the week, hooray! Babysat for my nieces Rachel (8) and Lisa (6), stayed the night as no room at home anyway, and Lisa fell asleep in my arms while Rachel was wide awake asking questions about “Sword Of Justice” TV show. Next morning Lisa wouldn’t let me go home! 1 ( 2 ) CAN'T STAND LOSING YOU The Police 2 ( 1 ) VOULEZ VOUS/ ANGEL EYES Abba 3 ( 4 ) I DON'T LIKE MONDAYS The Boomtown Rats 4 ( 7 ) THE DIARY OF HORACE WIMP E.L.O. 5 ( 8 ) WE DON'T TALK ANYMORE Cliff Richard 6 ( 5 ) IF I HAD YOU The Korgis 7 ( 6 ) BORN TO BE ALIVE Patrick Hernandez 8 ( 9 ) GIRL'S TALK Dave Edmunds 9 ( 3 ) LADY LYNDA The Beach Boys 10 ( 20 ) BEAT THE CLOCK Sparks 11 ( 18 ) KID The Pretenders 12 ( 26 ) OOH WHAT A LIFE The Gibson brothers 13 ( 17 ) MY SHARONA The Knack 14 ( 13 ) ARE 'FRIENDS' ELECTRIC Tubeway Army 15 ( 10 ) WANTED The Dooleys 16 ( 25 ) STAY WITH ME TILL DAWN Judy Tzuke 17 ( 12 ) LIGHT MY FIRE Amii Stewart 18 ( NEW ) BANG BANG B.A. Robertson 19 ( 14 ) SILLY GAMES Janet Kay 20 ( 16 ) GOOD TIMES Chic 21 ( 11 ) SPACE BASS Slick 22 ( 21 ) BAD GIRLS Donna Summer 23 ( 15 ) BREAKFAST IN AMERICA Supertramp 24 ( 19 ) NIGHT OWL Gerry Rafferty 25 ( 27 ) BOOGIE DOWN The Real Thing 26 ( 75 ) MORNING DANCE Spiro Gyra 27 ( 66 ) AFTER THE LOVE HAS GONE Earth Wind And Fire 28 ( 23 ) RING MY BELL Anita Ward 29 ( 43 ) D.J. David Bowie 30 ( 34 ) DEATH DISCO Public Image Limited 31 ( NEW ) GET IT RIGHT NEXT TIME Gerry Rafferty 32 ( 36 ) ROCK AROUND THE CLOCK Telex 33 ( 50 ) SWEET LITTLE ROCK 'N' ROLLER Showaddywaddy 34 ( 29 ) DOES YOUR MOTHER KNOW/ KISSES OF FIRE Abba 35 ( 30 ) SUNDAY GIRL Blondie 36 ( 22 ) C'MON EVERYBODY The Sex Pistols 37 ( 74 ) THE BOSS Diana Ross 38 ( 32 ) SINCE I DON'T HAVE YOU Art Garfunkel 39 ( NEW ) LINES The Planets 40 ( 70 ) DUKE OF EARL Darts 41 ( NEW ) THE LONELIEST MAN IN THE WORLD The Tourists 42 ( 24 ) ONE RULE FOR YOU After The Fire 43 ( 33 ) LIVING ON THE FRONTLINE Eddy Grant 44 ( 31 ) MARRIED MEN Bonnie Tyler 45 ( NEW ) IS SHE REALLY GOING OUT WITH HIM Joe Jackson 46 ( 35 ) UP THE JUNCTION Squeeze 47 ( 37 ) THE LONE RANGER Quantum Jump 48 ( 41 ) ROXANNE The Police 49 ( NEW ) REASONS TO BE CHEERFUL Ian Dury And The Blockheads 50 ( 42 ) MASQUERADE The Skids 51 ( 44 ) SAY WHEN Lene Lovich 52 ( 28 ) CHUCK E'S IN LOVE Rickie Lee Jones 53 ( 52 ) I WILL SURVIVE Gloria Gaynor 54 ( 51 ) CHIQUITITA Abba 55 ( 53 ) TRAGEDY The Bee Gees 56 ( 59 ) HARMONY IN MY HEAD Buzzcocks 57 ( 54 ) WE ARE FAMILY Sister Sledge 58 ( 45 ) I'D BE SURPRISNGLY GOOD FOR YOU Linda Lewis 59 ( 49 ) OLD SIAM, SIR Wings 60 ( 68 ) HERE COMES THE SUMMER The Undertones 61 ( 57 ) BAKER STREET Gerry Rafferty 62 ( 58 ) DREADLOCK HOLIDAY 10CC 63 ( 46 ) PRIME TIME The Tubes 64 ( 62 ) HEART OF GLASS Blondie 65 ( NEW ) HERSHAM BOYS Sham '69 66 ( 71 ) CONSCIOUS MAN Jolly Brothers 67 ( 48 ) MAYBE Thom Pace 68 ( 61 ) THE LOGICAL SONG Supertramp 69 ( 38 ) DO ANYTHING YOU WANT TO DO Thin Lizzy 70 ( NEW ) JUST WHEN I NEEDED YOU MOST Randy Vanwarmer 71 ( 56 ) THE NUMBER ONE SONG IN HEAVEN Sparks 72 ( 63 ) POP MUZIK M 73 ( NEW ) GOING THROUGH THE MOTIONS Hot Chocolate 74 ( 40 ) STRANGLEHOLD UK Subs 75 ( 39 ) BABYLON'S BURNING The Ruts TV 1 Star Trek: The Doomsday Machine 1 Centennial: final episode 3 Rhoda 4 Duck Soup: Marx Brothers film 5 The Hollywood Greats 6 Des O'Connor Entertains 7 Juke Box Jury 8 Mork And Mindy 9 Top Of The Pops 10 The New Avengers This post has been edited by popchartfreak: 26th August 2014, 04:20 PM |
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26th August 2014, 06:38 PM
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BuzzJack Legend
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14th August 1979
The Boomtown Rats knock off the Police from the top after only one week and get their second (and greatest) Number One. For such a sombre subject matter it’s an epic, ambitious record. The Pretenders get their first Top 10 hit with the beautiful Kid, and The Gibson Brothers get their first Top 10 too with the fab Ooh What A Life. Showaddywaddy quietly break into the top 20 but the times were a changing for them and also for Boney M, highest whooptastic new entry at 23 with Gotta Go Home, later to be served up as a bit of Duck Sauce. Just behind at 24, the sound of the future pops in: The Specials had a big effect on pop music with the ska revival and Two Tone records, and it all starts here with the superb Gangsters, as fresh as the day it first announced itself. Big jumps for Ian Dury at 27 and Joe Jackson at 29, before some more great new entries: Roxy Music show the comeback has legs with the great romping Angel Eyes (nothing to do with Abba’s song), and the quirky posh-tastic Flying Lizards bark their way through a cover of Money (as made famous by The Beatles) and single-handedly predict the 80’s yuppie. Johnny Mathis goes disco for his 4th hit, Kandidate drop by again, and The Bellamy Brothers finally follow-up their 1976 classic number one (for me) with the much-less-classic country ballad with the “deserves a slap” pick-up line title. In my life, arrangements for the forthcoming American trip were less-than-sorted, everything a bit up in the air, which caused me and my parents anxiety. Package holidays to the states weren’t a thing and this was all made up stuff! Seems like airport car hire was the way to go. An old school friend got in touch, while friends of my parents dropped by - I’d known them since I was a toddler. Got a bit miffed at the lack of a decent send-off for nice Fran at work, not even a box of chocs! I said hello to our neighbour-friend Renie’s sister (Renie was Serefina Modelefski, a Polish World War 2 refugee, recently widowed when refugee husband Ted died suddenly, and needing help with many things). On TV I was raving about American comedian John Byner (of Soap, Get Smart and the original Mork - he turned it down, he’s now forgotten and Robin Williams isn’t, but I noted, and I quote: “The classic U.S. stand-up comedian John Byner ..had me once again in tears of laughter with the best vocal and facial expressions this side of Robin Williams.” Praise indeed!). In the shops I bought 18 singles. On Juke Box Jury Kenny Everett joined Sting, Leslie Judd and Tina Charles for a very funny episode. Wish it was on DVD! At home a blazing family row upset me, even though I was not involved, as kids grow-up it causes problems if they don’t move out, and things had been simmering a while with sides taken not to dad’s liking. Family rows were fairly regular in the 70’s....and 80’s. Hey ho, I was doing a runner shortly, for a while. 1 ( 3 ) I DON'T LIKE MONDAYS The Boomtown Rats 2 ( 2 ) VOULEZ VOUS/ ANGEL EYES Abba 3 ( 1 ) CAN'T STAND LOSING YOU The Police 4 ( 5 ) WE DON'T TALK ANYMORE Cliff Richard 5 ( 4 ) THE DIARY OF HORACE WIMP E.L.O. 6 ( 6 ) IF I HAD YOU The Korgis 7 ( 10 ) BEAT THE CLOCK Sparks 8 ( 12 ) OOH WHAT A LIFE The Gibson brothers 9 ( 11 ) KID The Pretenders 10 ( 9 ) LADY LYNDA The Beach Boys 11 ( 8 ) GIRL'S TALK Dave Edmunds 12 ( 7 ) BORN TO BE ALIVE Patrick Hernandez 13 ( 16 ) STAY WITH ME TILL DAWN Judy Tzuke 14 ( 14 ) ARE 'FRIENDS' ELECTRIC Tubeway Army 15 ( 18 ) BANG BANG B.A. Robertson 16 ( 26 ) MORNING DANCE Spiro Gyra 17 ( 27 ) AFTER THE LOVE HAS GONE Earth Wind And Fire 18 ( 15 ) WANTED The Dooleys 19 ( 31 ) GET IT RIGHT NEXT TIME Gerry Rafferty 20 ( 33 ) SWEET LITTLE ROCK 'N' ROLLER Showaddywaddy 21 ( 13 ) MY SHARONA The Knack 22 ( 17 ) LIGHT MY FIRE Amii Stewart 23 ( NEW ) GOTTA GO HOME Boney M 24 ( NEW ) GANGSTERS The Specials 25 ( 39 ) LINES The Planets 26 ( 19 ) SILLY GAMES Janet Kay 27 ( 49 ) REASONS TO BE CHEERFUL Ian Dury And The Blockheads 28 ( 20 ) GOOD TIMES Chic 29 ( 45 ) IS SHE REALLY GOING OUT WITH HIM Joe Jackson 30 ( 32 ) ROCK AROUND THE CLOCK Telex 31 ( 21 ) SPACE BASS Slick 32 ( 25 ) BOOGIE DOWN The Real Thing 33 ( 22 ) BAD GIRLS Donna Summer 34 ( 24 ) NIGHT OWL Gerry Rafferty 35 ( 23 ) BREAKFAST IN AMERICA Supertramp 36 ( 40 ) DUKE OF EARL Darts 37 ( 37 ) THE BOSS Diana Ross 38 ( 41 ) THE LONELIEST MAN IN THE WORLD The Tourists 39 ( 35 ) SUNDAY GIRL Blondie 40 ( 34 ) DOES YOUR MOTHER KNOW/ KISSES OF FIRE Abba 41 ( NEW ) ANGEL EYES Roxy Music 42 ( 28 ) RING MY BELL Anita Ward 43 ( 70 ) JUST WHEN I NEEDED YOU MOST Randy Vanwarmer 44 ( 38 ) SINCE I DON'T HAVE YOU Art Garfunkel 45 ( 29 ) D.J. David Bowie 46 ( NEW ) MONEY The Flying Lizards 47 ( 36 ) C'MON EVERYBODY The Sex Pistols 48 ( 48 ) ROXANNE The Police 49 ( 43 ) LIVING ON THE FRONTLINE Eddy Grant 50 ( 42 ) ONE RULE FOR YOU After The Fire 51 ( 30 ) DEATH DISCO Public Image Limited 52 ( NEW ) GIRLS GIRLS GIRLS Kandidate 53 ( 44 ) MARRIED MEN Bonnie Tyler 54 ( 55 ) TRAGEDY The Bee Gees 55 ( 54 ) CHIQUITITA Abba 56 ( 53 ) I WILL SURVIVE Gloria Gaynor 57 ( 61 ) BAKER STREET Gerry Rafferty 58 ( 62 ) DREADLOCK HOLIDAY 10CC 59 ( 47 ) THE LONE RANGER Quantum Jump 60 ( 46 ) UP THE JUNCTION Squeeze 61 ( 57 ) WE ARE FAMILY Sister Sledge 62 ( 65 ) HERSHAM BOYS Sham '69 63 ( NEW ) GONE GONE GONE Johnny Mathis 64 ( 58 ) I'D BE SURPRISNGLY GOOD FOR YOU Linda Lewis 65 ( 51 ) SAY WHEN Lene Lovich 66 ( 50 ) MASQUERADE The Skids 67 ( 64 ) HEART OF GLASS Blondie 68 ( 52 ) CHUCK E'S IN LOVE Rickie Lee Jones 69 ( 59 ) OLD SIAM, SIR Wings 70 ( 73 ) GOING THROUGH THE MOTIONS Hot Chocolate 71 ( 56 ) HARMONY IN MY HEAD Buzzcocks 72 ( 63 ) PRIME TIME The Tubes 73 ( 66 ) CONSCIOUS MAN Jolly Brothers 74 ( 68 ) THE LOGICAL SONG Supertramp 75 ( NEW ) IF I SAID YOU HAD A BEAUTIFUL BODY (WOULD YOU HOLD IT AGAINST ME) The Bellamy Brothers TV 1 Star Trek: Erand Of Mercy 2 Rhoda 3 Juke Box Jury 4 Top Of The Pops 5 Sword Of Justice 6 Seven To One 7 The Hollywood Greats 8 Where Are They Now 9 It Ain't Half Hot Mum 10 Sykes This post has been edited by popchartfreak: 26th August 2014, 06:52 PM |
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27th August 2014, 07:24 PM
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BuzzJack Legend
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21st August 1979
2 weeks for the Rats, holding off Cliff, and mirroring the UK charts. Sparks up to 4 makes it 2 consecutive Top 5 hits for the first time for them, and Giorgio Moroder’s first 2 consecutive since Chicory Tip in 1972. The Specials bang in with their Gangsters though, up to 7, while BA Bang Bang’s in at 9. Boney M up to 10, and their 7th Top 10 since their debut number one in 1977 with Daddy Cool. It’s also their last one ever, though by way of compensation I had a dream about them on the Thursday. Apparently. I shall say no more about it! Rocketing into the 40 at 11 it’s Roxy, well on form for their 9th Top 20 (and Ferry’s 16th). Highest new entry and it’s Sister Sledge’s hat-trick of Chic-tastic singles, the sublime Lost In Music, future number one (in 1984) but making do with 21 first time round. The Flying Lizards are up at 26 (that’s what I want!), but even they are outdone on the quirky and bizarre front: The B52’s debut at 34 with the brilliant and odd Rock Lobster, kick-starting an unlikely 15 year-run of occasionally classic singles, all instantly recognisable as them and no-one else in the universe. Sort of retro 60’s garage trash, sort of New wave, sort of sci-fi, sort of fab. Amusingly Gone Gone Gone nestles up to Girls Girls Girls, ahead of Hot Chocolate who say they are going through the motions. That’s a nasty habit unless it’s NHS-based. At 54, The Stranglers are back with a great, albeit slightly mellow single, Duchess - which was an early indicator of things to come. In my life? A card from the BBC telling me of letter in Radio Times, I was “dead-chuffed” - modern-translation: well-impressed; decided I really liked Lil, Eileen and Nigel from work, as I was entering my last few days there, and finding it quite pleasant really. Bought American dollars! Bob Geldof impressed on a TV show Seven To One: “so articulate and thought-provoking”. I had a rather less-impressive opinion of Keith Chegwin on Juke Box Jury which is so rude I’m not repeating it! At the cinema it was “Buck Rogers In The 25th Century” with a couple of wacky robots (“not original still funny”) battling crap plots, characters. More than anything though getting anxiety over the forthcoming adventure, especially as the prime mover, mate Pete, seemed to have vanished from communication (working in Germany). Gulp! 1 ( 1 ) I DON'T LIKE MONDAYS The Boomtown Rats 2 ( 4 ) WE DON'T TALK ANYMORE Cliff Richard 3 ( 2 ) VOULEZ VOUS/ ANGEL EYES Abba 4 ( 7 ) BEAT THE CLOCK Sparks 5 ( 8 ) OOH WHAT A LIFE The Gibson brothers 6 ( 3 ) CAN'T STAND LOSING YOU The Police 7 ( 24 ) GANGSTERS The Specials 8 ( 5 ) THE DIARY OF HORACE WIMP E.L.O. 9 ( 15 ) BANG BANG B.A. Robertson 10 ( 23 ) GOTTA GO HOME Boney M 11 ( 41 ) ANGEL EYES Roxy Music 12 ( 17 ) AFTER THE LOVE HAS GONE Earth Wind And Fire 13 ( 6 ) IF I HAD YOU The Korgis 14 ( 19 ) GET IT RIGHT NEXT TIME Gerry Rafferty 15 ( 10 ) LADY LYNDA The Beach Boys 16 ( 16 ) MORNING DANCE Spiro Gyra 17 ( 14 ) ARE 'FRIENDS' ELECTRIC Tubeway Army 18 ( 13 ) STAY WITH ME TILL DAWN Judy Tzuke 19 ( 25 ) LINES The Planets 20 ( 9 ) KID The Pretenders 21 ( NEW ) LOST IN MUSIC Sister Sledge 22 ( 27 ) REASONS TO BE CHEERFUL Ian Dury And The Blockheads 23 ( 11 ) GIRL'S TALK Dave Edmunds 24 ( 12 ) BORN TO BE ALIVE Patrick Hernandez 25 ( 29 ) IS SHE REALLY GOING OUT WITH HIM Joe Jackson 26 ( 46 ) MONEY The Flying Lizards 27 ( 43 ) JUST WHEN I NEEDED YOU MOST Randy Vanwarmer 28 ( 18 ) WANTED The Dooleys 29 ( 20 ) SWEET LITTLE ROCK 'N' ROLLER Showaddywaddy 30 ( 22 ) LIGHT MY FIRE Amii Stewart 31 ( 37 ) THE BOSS Diana Ross 32 ( 21 ) MY SHARONA The Knack 33 ( 26 ) SILLY GAMES Janet Kay 34 ( NEW ) ROCK LOBSTER The B52's 35 ( 28 ) GOOD TIMES Chic 36 ( 38 ) THE LONELIEST MAN IN THE WORLD The Tourists 37 ( 63 ) GONE GONE GONE Johnny Mathis 38 ( 52 ) GIRLS GIRLS GIRLS Kandidate 39 ( 70 ) GOING THROUGH THE MOTIONS Hot Chocolate 40 ( 31 ) SPACE BASS Slick 41 ( 30 ) ROCK AROUND THE CLOCK Telex 42 ( 34 ) NIGHT OWL Gerry Rafferty 43 ( NEW ) YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT YOU GOT Me And You 44 ( 39 ) SUNDAY GIRL Blondie 45 ( 40 ) DOES YOUR MOTHER KNOW/ KISSES OF FIRE Abba 46 ( 33 ) BAD GIRLS Donna Summer 47 ( 36 ) DUKE OF EARL Darts 48 ( 35 ) BREAKFAST IN AMERICA Supertramp 49 ( 62 ) HERSHAM BOYS Sham '69 50 ( 42 ) RING MY BELL Anita Ward 51 ( NEW ) THE BITCH The Olympic Runners 52 ( 32 ) BOOGIE DOWN The Real Thing 53 ( 75 ) IF I SAID YOU HAD A BEAUTIFUL BODY (WOULD YOU HOLD IT AGAINST ME) The Bellamy Brothers 54 ( NEW ) DUCHESS The Stranglers 55 ( 57 ) BAKER STREET Gerry Rafferty 56 ( 58 ) DREADLOCK HOLIDAY 10CC 57 ( 48 ) ROXANNE The Police 58 ( 55 ) CHIQUITITA Abba 59 ( 54 ) TRAGEDY The Bee Gees 60 ( 56 ) I WILL SURVIVE Gloria Gaynor 61 ( 49 ) LIVING ON THE FRONTLINE Eddy Grant 62 ( 53 ) MARRIED MEN Bonnie Tyler 63 ( 50 ) ONE RULE FOR YOU After The Fire 64 ( 44 ) SINCE I DON'T HAVE YOU Art Garfunkel 65 ( 61 ) WE ARE FAMILY Sister Sledge 66 ( 64 ) I'D BE SURPRISNGLY GOOD FOR YOU Linda Lewis 67 ( 45 ) D.J. David Bowie 68 ( 67 ) HEART OF GLASS Blondie 69 ( 59 ) THE LONE RANGER Quantum Jump 70 ( 60 ) UP THE JUNCTION Squeeze 71 ( NEW ) YOU NEED WHEELS The Merton Parkas 72 ( 65 ) SAY WHEN Lene Lovich 73 ( 66 ) MASQUERADE The Skids 74 ( 69 ) OLD SIAM, SIR Wings 75 ( NEW ) LOVE'S GOT A HOLD ON ME Dollar TV 1 Star Trek: The Conscience Of The King 2 Top Of The Pops 3 Rhoda 4 The Hollywood Greats 5 Juke Box Jury 6 Where Are They Now This post has been edited by popchartfreak: 27th August 2014, 07:38 PM |
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28th August 2014, 12:50 PM
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BuzzJack Legend
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28th August 1979
35 years on and Cliff, about as non-rock-star as one can get in the rock world is being interviewed about historic allegations, while Kate Bush has just opened her new tour 35-years after her last one. One interesting aspect of re-reading my diaries from 1979 is how much I’d forgotten (and now been reminded of) and how much even with diary notes is completely gone from my memory. I’ve got a VERY good memory, and even I can’t trust my own memory of events from 30 and 35 years ago, and the younger one gets the less accurate the memory gets, it’s all just too hazy, a series of images and half-memories. I have two memories from 1966 Liverpool of being “flashed” by two men in two separate incidents (and yes my mum took me to the police to report it) but could I give any reliable account now of what happened then? Not a chance. Some countries take this into account and have a limit on eye-witness accounts of any event. What people think they remember is not necessarily correct.... In my charts, though, Cliff is at his peak with his best record, the brilliant We Don’t Talk Anymore, the one that refreshed his career in a good way, and broke him (again) in the States. Top of the UK charts too, it was his 3rd number one in my charts, his first for 7 years - and his last one ever with new material! B.A. Robertson goes top 3. Bang Bang! Roxy get another Top 10, and The Stranglers leap to 24. The new entries provide the interest as 2 future UK chart-toppers enter, Gary Numan going it solo (effectively just a name-change) with his classic Cars entering at 39, and Dr. Hook at 49 with When You’re In Love With A Beautiful Woman. It’s hard, you know it gets so hard. I’ve been to see them both in concert in the last few years (at least the voice of Dr. Hook Dennis Locorriere) and unexpectedly I’d take Dennis over Gary. Who’d a thunk it? At 51, the jazzy Crusaders introduce Randy Crawford to the charts with Street Life, a good single though I’ll take the Roxy Music song of the same title anyday. The Jam keep the run of hits going, and City Boy get a third hit with an exciting song title - I haven’t heard it for 35 years though, so youtube here I come. In My Life? I read my Radio Times letter on the bus home from work and was immediately overcome with embarrassment at the enthusiastic shtudent pedant mood of it and decided not to show it to anyone except parents (who liked it) and brother (who didn’t). Friday was my last day at work, I was sorry to leave, and at home I was packing. My charts were done on the friday early rather than Tuesday, which is why there’s not much happening. Pete rang and left me full of anxiety at the way we were winging everything with no organisation, and mum was worrying a lot too. So much so, that she cried when I got on the bus for London Saturday morning. “I’ll be alright” I promised. Read David Niven’s fab autobiography “The Moon’s A Balloon” on the bus. The mix of social types and races in London fascinated me en route to Laker Airways offices with dad’s RAF bag in tow, overpacked and heavy. Julie, Sue and her boyfriend Joe were already there with bad news: we couldn’t fly before Monday, and Pete hadn’t arrived. My anxiety then came out as negativity and moodiness, and Pete’s unreliability didn’t help at all. So, a bad start, and ill feelings when Pete turned up late (we already had our tickets, having had to make a decision to get them before 5pm or miss the Monday flight. Sue and Joe insisted it was Pete’s own fault for being late and not getting in touch, and Julie and I went along with it despite wanting to wait). He got there just before 5 and tried to pay for the ticket in Deutschmarks, causing hassles! So, a shared hotel room with 5 people and a weekend in London, unexpectedly. Saw “Moonraker” at the cinema, had my first MacDonalds ever (loved it), and then had excruciating belly-ache all night. I think it was the stress not the burger..... Next morning the boys sat in the Hotel Adams corridor in pyjamas while the girls changed. “Hello” we said to passing guests looking startled. That was funny. The day was spent at Hyde Park, where we hired two rowboats, which was a laugh, Buckingham Palace and Westminster Abbey - for some reason no-one trusted my sense of direction as Guide Designate, but my memory for places and routes is pretty damn good. Just as well I ended up working with maps years later then! Another MacDonalds with actual Cliff and Rats faves playing, then rang home. Monday was the flight to LA. from Gatwick, Huge queues and I commented on an “ancient (50’s)-looking woman with a wrinkled, ugly face” in jeans who was brimming with enthusiasm for England. Ageist! The fact that I am now in my 50’s serves me right for that comment! I also wear jeans still, so there! I got very excited to be on the plane, (in Smokers section, how things have changed!) and noted I always love take-off. We flew over Ireland, I chatted to a nice American woman and young Jewish American. I still remember the lady, Lucy Mojarro or Martha Delean - as she gave me her contact details and her mother’s in case we had problems - and she gave us great advice about hotels (don’t go near the airport, try Long Beach). It was my first experience at how friendly Americans can be, very welcoming. The rest of the trip? “Californian Suite” movie (appropriately!) and War Of The Worlds on radio (album). A stop-off at Bangor, Maine, a bit UK-looking to me, but VERY humid, for customs. At this point Pete got frog-marched off by officials as he’d not bothered to get a visa, assuming his student visa from 1978 was still valid. It wasn’t. We all got taken to a waiting room while Pete disappeared again, Sue was pissed off with him for not checking. Essentially Pete held up the plane, he got grilled, paid £5 for the visa and waltzed on board the plane to everyone staring at him. Typical Pete, things just drop into his lap no matter what! 2 hours later, clouds lifted and we had majestic views of deserts, canyons, mesas and buttes, towns and other incredibly exciting aerial scenes, until we landed in palm-treed Los Angeles. Avis courtesy bus, bags collected, car hired, and Joe tentatively drove us onto the American freeway, his first time, and ours, and he did really well adapting quickly to the roads. Once comfortable I HAD to put on the radio. First song in America? Lost In Music by Sister Sledge, how appropriate for me! Singing! Cruising highways! Yay! We were in America! tbc. 1 ( 2 ) WE DON'T TALK ANYMORE Cliff Richard 2 ( 1 ) I DON'T LIKE MONDAYS The Boomtown Rats 3 ( 9 ) BANG BANG B.A. Robertson 4 ( 3 ) VOULEZ VOUS/ ANGEL EYES Abba 5 ( 5 ) OOH WHAT A LIFE The Gibson brothers 6 ( 10 ) GOTTA GO HOME Boney M 7 ( 7 ) GANGSTERS The Specials 8 ( 14 ) GET IT RIGHT NEXT TIME Gerry Rafferty 9 ( 4 ) BEAT THE CLOCK Sparks 10 ( 11 ) ANGEL EYES Roxy Music 11 ( 8 ) THE DIARY OF HORACE WIMP E.L.O. 12 ( 6 ) CAN'T STAND LOSING YOU The Police 13 ( 26 ) MONEY The Flying Lizards 14 ( 21 ) LOST IN MUSIC Sister Sledge 15 ( 12 ) AFTER THE LOVE HAS GONE Earth Wind And Fire 16 ( 25 ) IS SHE REALLY GOING OUT WITH HIM Joe Jackson 17 ( 17 ) ARE 'FRIENDS' ELECTRIC Tubeway Army 18 ( 15 ) LADY LYNDA The Beach Boys 19 ( 19 ) LINES The Planets 20 ( 16 ) MORNING DANCE Spiro Gyra 21 ( 13 ) IF I HAD YOU The Korgis 22 ( 37 ) GONE GONE GONE Johnny Mathis 23 ( 27 ) JUST WHEN I NEEDED YOU MOST Randy Vanwarmer 24 ( 54 ) DUCHESS The Stranglers 25 ( 22 ) REASONS TO BE CHEERFUL Ian Dury And The Blockheads 26 ( 43 ) YOU'LL NEVER KNOW WHAT YOU GOT Me And You 27 ( 24 ) BORN TO BE ALIVE Patrick Hernandez 28 ( 34 ) ROCK LOBSTER The B52's 29 ( 20 ) KID The Pretenders 30 ( 18 ) STAY WITH ME TILL DAWN Judy Tzuke 31 ( 36 ) THE LONELIEST MAN IN THE WORLD The Tourists 32 ( 23 ) GIRL'S TALK Dave Edmunds 33 ( 49 ) HERSHAM BOYS Sham '69 34 ( 38 ) GIRLS GIRLS GIRLS Kandidate 35 ( 28 ) WANTED The Dooleys 36 ( 39 ) GOING THROUGH THE MOTIONS Hot Chocolate 37 ( 30 ) LIGHT MY FIRE Amii Stewart 38 ( 29 ) SWEET LITTLE ROCK 'N' ROLLER Showaddywaddy 39 ( NEW ) CARS Gary Numan 40 ( 33 ) SILLY GAMES Janet Kay 41 ( 32 ) MY SHARONA The Knack 42 ( 53 ) IF I SAID YOU HAD A BEAUTIFUL BODY (WOULD YOU HOLD IT AGAINST ME) The Bellamy Brothers 43 ( 31 ) THE BOSS Diana Ross 44 ( 35 ) GOOD TIMES Chic 45 ( 40 ) SPACE BASS Slick 46 ( 42 ) NIGHT OWL Gerry Rafferty 47 ( 44 ) SUNDAY GIRL Blondie 48 ( 45 ) DOES YOUR MOTHER KNOW/ KISSES OF FIRE Abba 49 ( NEW ) WHEN YOU'RE IN LOVE WITH A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN Dr. Hook 50 ( 41 ) ROCK AROUND THE CLOCK Telex 51 ( NEW ) STREET LIFE The Crusaders 52 ( 46 ) BAD GIRLS Donna Summer 53 ( 48 ) BREAKFAST IN AMERICA Supertramp 54 ( 55 ) BAKER STREET Gerry Rafferty 55 ( 56 ) DREADLOCK HOLIDAY 10CC 56 ( 50 ) RING MY BELL Anita Ward 57 ( 47 ) DUKE OF EARL Darts 58 ( 58 ) CHIQUITITA Abba 59 ( 59 ) TRAGEDY The Bee Gees 60 ( 60 ) I WILL SURVIVE Gloria Gaynor 61 ( 52 ) BOOGIE DOWN The Real Thing 62 ( 57 ) ROXANNE The Police 63 ( NEW ) REGGAE FOR IT NOW Bill Lovelady 64 ( 71 ) YOU NEED WHEELS The Merton Parkas 65 ( 51 ) THE BITCH The Olympic Runners 66 ( 61 ) LIVING ON THE FRONTLINE Eddy Grant 67 ( 75 ) LOVE'S GOT A HOLD ON ME Dollar 68 ( 62 ) MARRIED MEN Bonnie Tyler 69 ( 63 ) ONE RULE FOR YOU After The Fire 70 ( 68 ) HEART OF GLASS Blondie 71 ( 66 ) I'D BE SURPRISNGLY GOOD FOR YOU Linda Lewis 72 ( 65 ) WE ARE FAMILY Sister Sledge 73 ( NEW ) THE DAY THE WORLD CAUGHT FIRE City Boy 74 ( 69 ) THE LONE RANGER Quantum Jump 75 ( NEW ) WHEN YOU'RE YOUNG The Jam This post has been edited by popchartfreak: 28th August 2014, 01:11 PM |
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