John's 1979 Charts, Music to accompany my life (and TV) at 21 years old! |
Track this topic - Email this topic - Print this topic - Download this topic - Subscribe to this forum |
Oct 3 2014, 06:58 PM
Post
#41
|
|
BuzzJack Legend
Group: Moderator
Posts: 22,697 Member No.: 17,376 Joined: 18-July 12
No Gallery Pics
|
4th September 1979
The first chart in Long Beach, LA, and it’s too soon for anything to have happened musically, so it’s quite a dull chart with a bit of shuffling. On the plus side, Cliff’s fab record gets a second week on top, Boney M get a 4th Top 3 hit (yes I knew that hook was fab, even if it under-performed UK charts-wise), Gerry Rafferty gets a 4th Top 5, and the Specials are real Gangsters at 5. Don’t argue! Flying Lizards get to 10, Randy Vanwarmer takes his sweetsad ballad to 11, and Johnny Mathis gets a 3rd Top 20 hit. Jumping Randy Crawford with The Crusaders 51 to 27, Streetlife - sadly not the much better Roxy Music hit, though the nearly-as-good Angel Eyes is at 8 for them - and Dr Hook get to 39 with a future biggie. New entries: Wings (it’s OK), and not much else worth noting. So instead I’ll pop over to California ’79, where I was, and continue the pop culture anecdotes amongst the student nostalgia. Cheers! So, we headed randomly to Long Beach, and came across Beach Terrace Motel, literally on the beach, and facing the Queen Mary liner, and all for $11 each, wow! My American airplane friend gave us good advice! It was night, the ocean was full of blocks of colour and twinkling lights. Fab! Roomy, a iamspamspamami a balcony over the beach, living room and bedroom, “Pure sensational delight” I quote myself. Being an American TV fan, I took over the control next day as I re-acquainted with childhood faves not seen in a decade thanks to re-run stations - as opposed to the pathetic 3 UK channels. Notably Mel Brooks wacky sitcom Get Smart, and Gilligans Island daft but loveable sitcom, Ghost and Mrs Muir, Family Affair, Batman, Partridge Family. I was in babbling sitcom heaven. Tuesday: The daytime revealed we were basically living like Jim Rockford, on the beach, we got groceries at a nearby store, played frisbee, took photos, pancakes at a diner “a cup of tea, please” said Julie, the waitress loved the accent and repeated it. A recurring theme of the States: the English accent is very popular! We hired a tent, everyone was so happy to help us look for one, so friendly and helpful. I loved it here, shame we moved out next day.... Wednesday: Out for a drive, my un-named friend tried driving down the highway wrong direction, cars hurtling towards us - fortunately those alleyways you see on cop shows are real and dived down it. Laugh or cry about it? Laugh! Then it was a day in Disneyland: my first time, my first theme park. The thick brown cords I wore prob not a great idea in the heat... I loved the rides, the detail, the lifelike “robot” Abe Lincoln, and I pushed Tomorrowland as the place to be - so ME! Space Mountain: “the most exciting thing I’ve ever done” a pitch-black indoor roller-coaster, thus begins my roller-coaster obsession! I adored Disneyland. Thursday: Off to Las Vegas. I froze in the air-con car (I like heat!). I anticipated a future language cliche in my comment: “literally” my feet and arms were freezing, but I used the commas to show it wasn’t actually literal. So there! Nothing new under the sun. Station KFI (LA) - some of the big news items that cropped up: Lex Barker (Tarzan) died, actress Jean Seberg was found dead in Paris (Paint Your Wagon), Earl Mountbatten blown-up by the IRA, hurricanes. Gulp! Stop-off at Calico, a great desert mountain ghost mining town done up for tourists, terrific for photos and HOT, well over 100F. Yay! On the radio? My theme song, my all-time fave song, the song that has followed me round the world, wherever I go, I usually hear it (less so these days, mind you): Baker Street by Gerry Rafferty. Las Vegas: I found new DC Comics in a supermarket, Legion Of Super-Heroes especially. Me sorted, then! Accommodation? KOA campsite, a tent in desert heat, erecting it as night fell - yes, not thought through that one..... Cruising the Las Vegas strip at night in the car? Tick! Just like American Graffiti... Friday: newspaper tokens for a free casino breakfast and free $1 in coins to play. True! I demonstrated to Pete & Julie the futility of gambling on the one-armed bandits, feeding my coins in “you never win on these things” I said as $5 worth of cash tumbled out. I quit while I was ahead:) Drove to Hoover Dam: terrific photos. Pete and Julie were getting on VERY well by this time, leaving me as the 5th wheel, but all good fun. We were heading for the Grand Canyon.... TBC 1 ( 1 ) WE DON'T TALK ANYMORE Cliff Richard 2 ( 2 ) I DON'T LIKE MONDAYS The Boomtown Rats 3 ( 6 ) GOTTA GO HOME Boney M 4 ( 8 ) GET IT RIGHT NEXT TIME Gerry Rafferty 5 ( 7 ) GANGSTERS The Specials 6 ( 4 ) VOULEZ VOUS/ ANGEL EYES Abba 7 ( 3 ) BANG BANG B.A. Robertson 8 ( 10 ) ANGEL EYES Roxy Music 9 ( 5 ) OOH WHAT A LIFE The Gibson brothers 10 ( 13 ) MONEY The Flying Lizards 11 ( 23 ) JUST WHEN I NEEDED YOU MOST Randy Vanwarmer 12 ( 14 ) LOST IN MUSIC Sister Sledge 13 ( 9 ) BEAT THE CLOCK Sparks 14 ( 12 ) CAN'T STAND LOSING YOU The Police 15 ( 11 ) THE DIARY OF HORACE WIMP E.L.O. 16 ( 16 ) IS SHE REALLY GOING OUT WITH HIM Joe Jackson 17 ( 19 ) LINES The Planets 18 ( 17 ) ARE 'FRIENDS' ELECTRIC Tubeway Army 19 ( 22 ) GONE GONE GONE Johnny Mathis 20 ( 15 ) AFTER THE LOVE HAS GONE Earth Wind And Fire 21 ( 20 ) MORNING DANCE Spiro Gyra 22 ( 28 ) ROCK LOBSTER The B52's 23 ( 26 ) YOU'LL NEVER KNOW WHAT YOU GOT Me And You 24 ( 24 ) DUCHESS The Stranglers 25 ( 18 ) LADY LYNDA The Beach Boys 26 ( 34 ) GIRLS GIRLS GIRLS Kandidate 27 ( 51 ) STREET LIFE The Crusaders 28 ( 21 ) IF I HAD YOU The Korgis 29 ( 31 ) THE LONELIEST MAN IN THE WORLD The Tourists 30 ( 27 ) BORN TO BE ALIVE Patrick Hernandez 31 ( 25 ) REASONS TO BE CHEERFUL Ian Dury And The Blockheads 32 ( 30 ) STAY WITH ME TILL DAWN Judy Tzuke 33 ( 63 ) REGGAE FOR IT NOW Bill Lovelady 34 ( 39 ) CARS Gary Numan 35 ( 29 ) KID The Pretenders 36 ( 32 ) GIRL'S TALK Dave Edmunds 37 ( 35 ) WANTED The Dooleys 38 ( 42 ) IF I SAID YOU HAD A BEAUTIFUL BODY (WOULD YOU HOLD IT AGAINST ME) The Bellamy Brothers 39 ( 49 ) WHEN YOU'RE IN LOVE WITH A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN Dr. Hook 40 ( 33 ) HERSHAM BOYS Sham '69 41 ( 37 ) LIGHT MY FIRE Amii Stewart 42 ( 36 ) GOING THROUGH THE MOTIONS Hot Chocolate 43 ( 38 ) SWEET LITTLE ROCK 'N' ROLLER Showaddywaddy 44 ( 40 ) SILLY GAMES Janet Kay 45 ( 41 ) MY SHARONA The Knack 46 ( NEW ) GETTING CLOSER Wings 47 ( 54 ) BAKER STREET Gerry Rafferty 48 ( 55 ) DREADLOCK HOLIDAY 10CC 49 ( 48 ) DOES YOUR MOTHER KNOW/ KISSES OF FIRE Abba 50 ( 47 ) SUNDAY GIRL Blondie 51 ( 46 ) NIGHT OWL Gerry Rafferty 52 ( 45 ) SPACE BASS Slick 53 ( 44 ) GOOD TIMES Chic 54 ( 75 ) WHEN YOU'RE YOUNG The Jam 55 ( 53 ) BREAKFAST IN AMERICA Supertramp 56 ( 58 ) CHIQUITITA Abba 57 ( 64 ) YOU NEED WHEELS The Merton Parkas 58 ( 59 ) TRAGEDY The Bee Gees 59 ( 60 ) I WILL SURVIVE Gloria Gaynor 60 ( 43 ) THE BOSS Diana Ross 61 ( 50 ) ROCK AROUND THE CLOCK Telex 62 ( 62 ) ROXANNE The Police 63 ( 56 ) RING MY BELL Anita Ward 64 ( NEW ) BOY OH BOY Racey 65 ( 67 ) LOVE'S GOT A HOLD ON ME Dollar 66 ( 52 ) BAD GIRLS Donna Summer 67 ( 57 ) DUKE OF EARL Darts 68 ( NEW ) WHEN WILL YOU BE MINE Average White Band 69 ( 73 ) THE DAY THE WORLD CAUGHT FIRE City Boy 70 ( 70 ) HEART OF GLASS Blondie 71 ( 61 ) BOOGIE DOWN The Real Thing 72 ( NEW ) TEENAGE WARNING The Angelic Upstarts 73 ( 66 ) LIVING ON THE FRONTLINE Eddy Grant 74 ( 68 ) MARRIED MEN Bonnie Tyler 75 ( 69 ) ONE RULE FOR YOU After The Fire This post has been edited by popchartfreak: Oct 3 2014, 07:15 PM |
|
|
Oct 6 2014, 07:14 PM
Post
#42
|
|
BuzzJack Legend
Group: Moderator
Posts: 22,697 Member No.: 17,376 Joined: 18-July 12
No Gallery Pics
|
11th September 1979 The first US chart proper, and it shows in an inrush of Californian and Nevada radio tracks that hadn’t registered in the UK. Appropriately, the 3 highest were British acts, plus 3 US acts, and an Aussie and a Canadian, but the chart-topper was one of the 2 45’s I bought on holiday - Gerry Rafferty’s 2nd number one, the fabulous Get It Right Next Time, inexorably linked in my mind with desert highways. As was the highest new entry at 3, ELO’s 3rd Top 5 of the year off Discovery, the thumpingly brilliant Don’t Bring Me Down, the other 45 I bought, along with In The Ghetto, Aquarius/Let The Sunshine, and Good Morning Starshine as I was reliving the summer of 69. ELO: all the boys sang along to “Broooce” loudly in the car, every time it came on. yay! Sister Sledge get their biggest hit to date as the brilliant Lost In Music goes Top 5, Dr Hook get a 5th Top 20 hit at 18, and in at 20 it’s the 3rd Breakfast In America single, the US-hit-only Goodbye Stranger, a delicious ballad much better than the title track. In at 30 it’s Nick Lowe, fresh off helping Dave Edmunds, with the irresistible Cruel To Be Kind - in the right measure! Another non-UK-hit at 38, the wonderful Cars and Let’s Go, for a 3rd John hit and another great single. At 55, Babs is back with the theme tune to her last decent comedy, with Ryan O’Neal, The Main Event, all camp disco, and 8 years of hits. The Little River Band had a radio hit in the UK with Reminiscing but never broke through, but Lonesome Loser is a sort of 80’s poprock template and a great singalong bit of drama. Anne Murray gets 9 years of hits, 2 number ones, and a 3rd hit of the year with the pleasant Shadows In The Moonlight. A bit MOR but I always loved her soft easy-on-the-ear vocals. Robert Palmer gets a 2nd hit with Bad Case Of Loving You, rocking it where Every Kinda People ached wistfully, and finally a bit of country from Eddie Rabbit, and one I’ve never managed to hear again. Not for long though...! On the holiday media-scene, Laverne & Shirley (a Penny Marshall Happy Days spin-off, daft but loveable), The Jeffersons (black sitcoms were making inroads on US TV) and The Match Game, the US original version of Blankety Blank: more on this later... Friday (cont): The Grand Canyon. Just past Bedrock (I kid not, Fred Flintstone is alive and well!), through the woodland, park the car, and whooo the biggest hole in the world! If you’ve seen the photos, it comes as a letdown initially - but that’s only till you get a proper sense of scale. It blew my mind: I peered over the edge and watched a bird flying way below. Only it wasn’t a bird, it was a plane. It’s HUGE. One of the greatest spots on the planet to visit, stunning to me, less so for the others. Downside: we camped in the tent. It was bloody freezing! We weren’t dressed for cold! I loaned my pyjamas to the girls. Sat: The canyon was breathtaking in the morning light and blue skies. I picked up some souvenir stones to take home. I do that. Chipmunks. Ammonite souvenirs. Hoover Dam. KOA Las Vegas. Another nameless friend drove Pete & I in the dark to a casino - the wrong way down the highway! Quick U turn! Cruised the strip. Lady Luck casino, past gathering prostitutes and drunks. Watched a gathering of glamorous ladies getting picked up in the casino one by one by gentleman callers who gave them something before leaving. How thoughtful. Pete played cards, won some cash, a lady helpfully advised us that if we didn’t have ID proving we were over 21 (Julie wasn’t 21) we ought to make a quick exit as it was against the law. We took her advice! Sun: Death Valley via Pahrump, a dust devil, desert scrub, it was a National Monument, fabulous scenery, worryingly hot with names like Furnace Creek and danger signs all adding to the anxiety about breaking down en route. All good fun, as was the toilet rolls in the “emergency” roadsign box. Souvenir desert-salt fell immediately to bits in the car, as predicted by yours truly. Sand dunes. Hick gas shack on the mountain climb out of the valley. Mountains! Lone Pine: a motel! hooray! Luxury! Mon: To Lake Tahoe, sensational mountain scenery, forests and lakes, Lake Tahoe a deep blue edged by steep pine-treed slopes, and casinos on the Nevada end. The 2nd-highest lake in the world I read somewhere. Judy Collins and Jim Stafford were in town for shows: nobody knew who they were or cared to find out. Johnny Mathis more so, but expensive. Pity! Eagle Point Camp Site. tent again. Tues: Sunny, fresh campsite morning by the lake! Driving to KOA Auburn for the afternoon, put my washing in the campsite industrial-sized drier. My T shirts shrunk to the size of tots T shirts. Much merriment from others. Listed lots of oldies in my notebooks heard on radio: Beatles, Abba, Bee Gees a-plenty (yes Abba, despite popular perception they never made it in the States, did, and were played on radio), Love’s Theme, Jet, Driver’s Seat, Layla and many more.... 1 ( 4 ) GET IT RIGHT NEXT TIME Gerry Rafferty 2 ( 1 ) WE DON'T TALK ANYMORE Cliff Richard 3 ( NEW ) DON'T BRING ME DOWN E.L.O. 4 ( 2 ) I DON'T LIKE MONDAYS The Boomtown Rats 5 ( 12 ) LOST IN MUSIC Sister Sledge 6 ( 5 ) GANGSTERS The Specials 7 ( 6 ) VOULEZ VOUS/ ANGEL EYES Abba 8 ( 8 ) ANGEL EYES Roxy Music 9 ( 3 ) GOTTA GO HOME Boney M 10 ( 11 ) JUST WHEN I NEEDED YOU MOST Randy Vanwarmer 11 ( 7 ) BANG BANG B.A. Robertson 12 ( 10 ) MONEY The Flying Lizards 13 ( 9 ) OOH WHAT A LIFE The Gibson brothers 14 ( 17 ) LINES The Planets 15 ( 14 ) CAN'T STAND LOSING YOU The Police 16 ( 20 ) AFTER THE LOVE HAS GONE Earth Wind And Fire 17 ( 13 ) BEAT THE CLOCK Sparks 18 ( 39 ) WHEN YOU'RE IN LOVE WITH A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN Dr. Hook 19 ( 19 ) GONE GONE GONE Johnny Mathis 20 ( NEW ) GOODBYE STRANGER Supertramp 21 ( 15 ) THE DIARY OF HORACE WIMP E.L.O. 22 ( 18 ) ARE 'FRIENDS' ELECTRIC Tubeway Army 23 ( 27 ) STREET LIFE The Crusaders 24 ( 21 ) MORNING DANCE Spiro Gyra 25 ( 22 ) ROCK LOBSTER The B52's 26 ( 23 ) YOU'LL NEVER KNOW WHAT YOU GOT Me And You 27 ( 16 ) IS SHE REALLY GOING OUT WITH HIM Joe Jackson 28 ( 24 ) DUCHESS The Stranglers 29 ( 30 ) BORN TO BE ALIVE Patrick Hernandez 30 ( NEW ) CRUEL TO BE KIND Nick Lowe 31 ( 33 ) REGGAE FOR IT NOW Bill Lovelady 32 ( 25 ) LADY LYNDA The Beach Boys 33 ( 34 ) CARS Gary Numan 34 ( 26 ) GIRLS GIRLS GIRLS Kandidate 35 ( 38 ) IF I SAID YOU HAD A BEAUTIFUL BODY (WOULD YOU HOLD IT AGAINST ME) The Bellamy Brothers 36 ( 28 ) IF I HAD YOU The Korgis 37 ( 36 ) GIRL'S TALK Dave Edmunds 38 ( NEW ) LET'S GO The Cars 39 ( 45 ) MY SHARONA The Knack 40 ( 46 ) GETTING CLOSER Wings 41 ( 31 ) REASONS TO BE CHEERFUL Ian Dury And The Blockheads 42 ( 29 ) THE LONELIEST MAN IN THE WORLD The Tourists 43 ( 32 ) STAY WITH ME TILL DAWN Judy Tzuke 44 ( 47 ) BAKER STREET Gerry Rafferty 45 ( NEW ) LONESOME LOSER The Little River Band 46 ( 35 ) KID The Pretenders 47 ( 37 ) WANTED The Dooleys 48 ( 41 ) LIGHT MY FIRE Amii Stewart 49 ( 44 ) SILLY GAMES Janet Kay 50 ( 49 ) DOES YOUR MOTHER KNOW/ KISSES OF FIRE Abba 51 ( 48 ) DREADLOCK HOLIDAY 10CC 52 ( 50 ) SUNDAY GIRL Blondie 53 ( 64 ) BOY OH BOY Racey 54 ( 53 ) GOOD TIMES Chic 55 ( NEW ) THE MAIN EVENT/ FIGHT Barbra Streisand 56 ( 59 ) I WILL SURVIVE Gloria Gaynor 57 ( 58 ) TRAGEDY The Bee Gees 58 ( 51 ) NIGHT OWL Gerry Rafferty 59 ( 56 ) CHIQUITITA Abba 60 ( NEW ) SHADOWS IN THE MOONLIGHT Anne Murray 61 ( 66 ) BAD GIRLS Donna Summer 62 ( 54 ) WHEN YOU'RE YOUNG The Jam 63 ( 68 ) WHEN WILL YOU BE MINE Average White Band 64 ( 52 ) SPACE BASS Slick 65 ( 60 ) THE BOSS Diana Ross 66 ( 63 ) RING MY BELL Anita Ward 67 ( 40 ) HERSHAM BOYS Sham '69 68 ( 42 ) GOING THROUGH THE MOTIONS Hot Chocolate 69 ( 55 ) BREAKFAST IN AMERICA Supertramp 70 ( 62 ) ROXANNE The Police 71 ( RE ) POP MUZIK M 72 ( 70 ) HEART OF GLASS Blondie 73 ( 43 ) SWEET LITTLE ROCK 'N' ROLLER Showaddywaddy 74 ( NEW ) BAD CASE OF LOVING YOU (DOCTOR DOCTOR) Robert Palmer 75 ( NEW ) SUSPICION Eddie Rabbit TV 1 Laverne And Shirley 2 The Jeffersons 3 The Match Game This post has been edited by popchartfreak: Oct 6 2014, 07:22 PM |
|
|
Oct 7 2014, 07:19 PM
Post
#43
|
|
BuzzJack Legend
Group: Moderator
Posts: 22,697 Member No.: 17,376 Joined: 18-July 12
No Gallery Pics
|
18th September 1979 A split US/UK chart, with a couple of days back in the UK mixed in with American radio new entries. ELO get their 6th chart-topper, knocking off Gerry after one week only. The record has popped up since in American road movies (I mean how appropriate for me, being as it was, and is, and always will be, singing down freeways and highways) like the brilliant Paul, the good Super 8, Doctor Who, Family Guy, The Pirates, and only just missed getting onto Guardians Of The Galaxy (hoping to see it in the extended version on DVD). I feel all justified and warm... Both crackers! Gary Numan motors up to 4 for a 2nd Top 5 hit with Cars, and highest new entry is The Commodores (and Lionel Richie’s) best ballad, the gorgeous Sail On. It’s a country song from a soul band, and the delayed end chorus is just delicious. The Stranglers get all royal at 18, and Dollar re-enter with their soppy ballad at 25, making it 3 in a row Top 40’s. At 26, it’s Robert John, last seen in 1972 wimoweh-ing with a sleeping lion, back this time with a sweet falsetto ballad, Sad Eyes. Frantique strut some funky stuff at 28, Squeeze are up for a bit of Slap n Tickle at 30, a 5th hit for them, and Elton John follows-up his Philly-hit Are You Ready For Love with the US-only Philly hit Mama Can’t Buy You Love, almost as good and the track I preferred at the time. Dionne Warwick gets the Manilow treatment, and a decent ballad, at 49, back after 5 chart years away. Secret Affair debut with the storming Time For Action at 50, and Maxine Nightingale leads me on at 57, her 4th hit since her brilliant Motown-styled breakthrough in 1975, Right Back Where We Started From. Another US-only hit by a British act, the US charts were full of ‘em in those days, we had pop stars to spare. At 64, 3rd hit for Maureen Mcgovern, 6 years after her Poseidon Adventure song, and finally 2 big name comebacks: Herb Alpert’s sax goes disco for the fab Rise, the head of A&M records getting his first hit in 10 years, and former child-star Michael Jackson goes solo for a second-wind career, his 6th hit sneaking in at 75 produced by Quincy Jones, a slick, disco dance maturity on display. Wonder how that’ll go down? Not badly....! Wed/ Thurs: Sacremento. Pleasant city, and a Middle Of The Road song. San Francisco for 2 days: instantly my fave city, gorgeous to look at, lots to do, Chinatown, Golden Gate Bridge, Fisherman’s Wharf (views of Alcatraz) all done, all fab, Cable-car trolley ride? tick. The Bay bridges? yup. Attractive high-rise buildings? not bad. I especially loved Chinatown, giving me a heady dose of Singapore nostalgia, buying up oriental souvenirs and trinkets in a sweaty excitement. Pagoda wind-chimes, playing cards, chess piece, tiger-balm ointment (for mosquito bite ease), tiger-design & China scenery bamboo and cloth wall hangers, parasol, bamboo table mats. Yup I loved it. They all thought I was mad. KOA tent evening north of the Bridge, where I got chatted-to by a hunk and his blonde girlfriend, neither of them had heard of Nottingham, Robin Hood or Errol Flynn when I tried to explain where I came from. On the second day, I wanted to stay longer, but one friend wasn’t at all keen and ended up getting the others to agree to move on to the next campsite, while we were eating a meal. I threw a hissy fit, sulked for the journey and refused to help with the map reading to the KOA campsite in the middle of nowhere (I really had had enough of dull tent-life with nothing to do and nowhere to go, and also wanted to see an exciting-looking new film Alien starring a new actress called Sigourney Weaver, showing in SF). Hilariously (to me, in a petty, serves you right sort of way) we went sailing by the exit we needed, and had to double-back and put the tent up in the dark. How spiteful was I? I knew it was the road we needed when we sailed by and I said nothing. Sulky brat, that’s me! I apologise here and now to Julie and Sue (lost touch with Joe and Pete) for being an arse! Fri/Sat: Fresno. A younger girl bank-teller loved my “cute” T shirt and accent, and Pete’s. Aaaahhh! Sequioa National Park: mountain giant redwoods amazing! Saw General Sherman, the world’s biggest tree. Pete tricked me into thinking pine cones were falling on me on a huge fallen trunk. he was throwing them. Doh! Another KOA - did some charting while the others went swimming. They thought I was sulking again, and offered to go and see Alien at a local drive-in. Stopped by police for not stopping completely at a junction “stop” sign. It means just that, but they let us off when we explained it didn’t mean that in the UK. Phew! Being English had so many advantages! Too late for Alien, we went to a double-feature instead: Jaws, and the audience was SO unlike British audiences, screaming, gasping, laughing, applauding, so not-hung-up on showing emotion. Fab! Unfortunately they did the same for Airport ’80: The Concorde, a piece of tripe I slagged off afterwards, even though everyone else seemed to love it. “Sheer boring garbage” said I at the time and I stand by that! Sun: L.A. 120F degrees. Hot! Hollywood sign. Sunset Boulevard. Capitol Building. Chinese Theatre, pavement footprints of the stars! Yay! Monroe, Marx Bros and Bogart were my faves. The Life Of Brian was showing!!! Not even out in the UK and here was a controversial Brit-flick on at the most famous movie theatre in the world. Joe & Sue went to see it while Pete, Julie & I went to CBS studios to watch a recording of The Match Game (aka Blankety Blank) as we’d got free tickets outside the theatre. yay! The warm-up man took over, getting the audience jolly, pulling faces and making crude groin gestures to get a bigger laugh. Even during recording! That explains the manic laughing at mild jokes on US shows: it’s what’s happening off-stage that’s funny! The star guests: David Doyle (Charlie’s Angels); Charles Nelson Reilly; Marcia Wallace (then of Bob Newhart Show, most famously now Mrs Krabappel from the Simpsons, sadly died recently); Bill Daly (also Bob Newhart Show, and previously I Dream Of Jeannie - as I told a smart-ass kid waiting for autographs after the show, he didn’t believe me. Bill confirmed and signed autographs for us. Ahhh!); Randi Oakes (great name) from CHIPS. It was great fun to watch! At the KOA later a couple in the next tent were having loud sex. That was a first for me....! Mon: Universal studios, Battlestar Galactica sci-fi tunnel on the tram tour (still verrrry hot!), houses of The Munsters, The Addams Family, Animal House, Pyscho, sets of Kojak and The Sting (doubling as New York), Land Of The Giants TV show props (had my photo with a telephone bigger than me), the Jaws shark, and an icy-water avalanche as relief from the excess 120F heat. I bought a Mork And Mindy photonovel, the only way in those days to get a visual record of a beloved TV show. Loved Robin Williams, I did. Back to Mann’s/Grauman’s Chinese Theatre for The Life Of Brian in a plush cinema, it was BRILLIANT! Pete & I loved the depth and irreverence of it, piss-taking so much and so many, and my new fave all-time comedy as a result. Tues: That’s it, flight home, after a shopping mall detour, bought some more singles and gifts for the family, and really wanting to stay. I always want to stay when I go on holiday, it’s never long enough, but especially so for this one having packed so much in 2 weeks. Sorry for the self-indulgent stories, but hope the 1979 media references fit into the Retro Themes nicely! 1 ( 3 ) DON'T BRING ME DOWN E.L.O. 2 ( 1 ) GET IT RIGHT NEXT TIME Gerry Rafferty 3 ( 2 ) WE DON'T TALK ANYMORE Cliff Richard 4 ( 33 ) CARS Gary Numan 5 ( 5 ) LOST IN MUSIC Sister Sledge 6 ( 8 ) ANGEL EYES Roxy Music 7 ( 7 ) VOULEZ VOUS/ ANGEL EYES Abba 8 ( 4 ) I DON'T LIKE MONDAYS The Boomtown Rats 9 ( 10 ) JUST WHEN I NEEDED YOU MOST Randy Vanwarmer 10 ( 6 ) GANGSTERS The Specials 11 ( 9 ) GOTTA GO HOME Boney M 12 ( 12 ) MONEY The Flying Lizards 13 ( NEW ) SAIL ON The Commodores 14 ( 30 ) CRUEL TO BE KIND Nick Lowe 15 ( 14 ) LINES The Planets 16 ( 19 ) GONE GONE GONE Johnny Mathis 17 ( 13 ) OOH WHAT A LIFE The Gibson brothers 18 ( 28 ) DUCHESS The Stranglers 19 ( 11 ) BANG BANG B.A. Robertson 20 ( 20 ) GOODBYE STRANGER Supertramp 21 ( 23 ) STREET LIFE The Crusaders 22 ( 15 ) CAN'T STAND LOSING YOU The Police 23 ( 16 ) AFTER THE LOVE HAS GONE Earth Wind And Fire 24 ( 31 ) REGGAE FOR IT NOW Bill Lovelady 25 ( RE ) LOVE'S GOT A HOLD ON ME Dollar 26 ( NEW ) SAD EYES Robert John 27 ( 22 ) ARE 'FRIENDS' ELECTRIC Tubeway Army 28 ( NEW ) STRUT YOUR FUNKY STUFF Frantique 29 ( 35 ) IF I SAID YOU HAD A BEAUTIFUL BODY (WOULD YOU HOLD IT AGAINST ME) The Bellamy Brothers 30 ( NEW ) SLAP AND TICKLE Squeeze 31 ( 17 ) BEAT THE CLOCK Sparks 32 ( 21 ) THE DIARY OF HORACE WIMP E.L.O. 33 ( 38 ) LET'S GO The Cars 34 ( 29 ) BORN TO BE ALIVE Patrick Hernandez 35 ( 25 ) ROCK LOBSTER The B52's 36 ( 18 ) WHEN YOU'RE IN LOVE WITH A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN Dr. Hook 37 ( NEW ) MAMA CAN'T BUY YOU LOVE Elton John 38 ( 53 ) BOY OH BOY Racey 39 ( 32 ) LADY LYNDA The Beach Boys 40 ( 45 ) LONESOME LOSER The Little River Band 41 ( 36 ) IF I HAD YOU The Korgis 42 ( 42 ) THE LONELIEST MAN IN THE WORLD The Tourists 43 ( 37 ) GIRL'S TALK Dave Edmunds 44 ( 27 ) IS SHE REALLY GOING OUT WITH HIM Joe Jackson 45 ( 24 ) MORNING DANCE Spiro Gyra 46 ( 40 ) GETTING CLOSER Wings 47 ( 39 ) MY SHARONA The Knack 48 ( 48 ) LIGHT MY FIRE Amii Stewart 49 ( NEW ) I'LL NEVER LOVE THIS WAY AGAIN Dionne Warwick 50 ( NEW ) TIME FOR ACTION Secret Affair 51 ( 49 ) SILLY GAMES Janet Kay 52 ( 26 ) YOU'LL NEVER KNOW WHAT YOU GOT Me And You 53 ( 55 ) THE MAIN EVENT/ FIGHT Barbra Streisand 54 ( 44 ) BAKER STREET Gerry Rafferty 55 ( 51 ) DREADLOCK HOLIDAY 10CC 56 ( 50 ) DOES YOUR MOTHER KNOW/ KISSES OF FIRE Abba 57 ( NEW ) LEAD ME ON Maxine Nightingale 58 ( 59 ) CHIQUITITA Abba 59 ( 60 ) SHADOWS IN THE MOONLIGHT Anne Murray 60 ( 52 ) SUNDAY GIRL Blondie 61 ( 57 ) TRAGEDY The Bee Gees 62 ( 56 ) I WILL SURVIVE Gloria Gaynor 63 ( 34 ) GIRLS GIRLS GIRLS Kandidate 64 ( NEW ) DIFFERENT WORLDS Maureen McGovern 65 ( 54 ) GOOD TIMES Chic 66 ( NEW ) RISE Herb Alpert 67 ( 75 ) SUSPICION Eddie Rabbit 68 ( 41 ) REASONS TO BE CHEERFUL Ian Dury And The Blockheads 69 ( 61 ) BAD GIRLS Donna Summer 70 ( 58 ) NIGHT OWL Gerry Rafferty 71 ( 47 ) WANTED The Dooleys 72 ( 66 ) RING MY BELL Anita Ward 73 ( RE ) THE DAY THE WORLD CAUGHT FIRE City Boy 74 ( 69 ) BREAKFAST IN AMERICA Supertramp 75 ( NEW ) DON'T STOP TILL YOU GET ENOUGH Michael Jackson TV 1 Top Of The Pops 2 Get Smart 3 Carry On At Your Convenience: film 4 The Seachers: film 5 The Tonight Show This post has been edited by popchartfreak: Oct 7 2014, 07:39 PM |
|
|
Oct 8 2014, 02:39 PM
Post
#44
|
|
BuzzJack Legend
Group: Moderator
Posts: 22,697 Member No.: 17,376 Joined: 18-July 12
No Gallery Pics
|
25th September 1979 2 weeks on top for ELO as US holiday hit Robert John’s not so sad at 4, and The Commodores get their 3rd Top 10. It’s all about the new entries though, as a deluge of new UK releases invade my charts having been denied UK radio access for over 2 weeks, and led by highest new hit at 9 for Blondie, instantly catchy Dreaming. Just behind them, and also following up a chart-topper, it’s The Police shifting it up a gear with the frantic Message In A Bottle, a huge student fave and in at 11. That’s not all though, big new entry at 13 for Kate Bush’s Them Heavy People. Wow! One more big new entry at 15, Rainbow, a Deep Purple off-shoot and a great Russ (Argent) Ballard song already charted for Clout in my charts. This rockpopmetal version is even better though. Biggest climber, up 50 places to 25 for Michael Jackson, just hanging on ahead of another batch of new entries. Such as Quo at 30, Whatever You Want, one of their best records and rifftastic and all moody singalong - just bad luck it got overshadowed by even better records! At 38, Elvis Costello-a-like The Jags good Back Of My Hand, and then 2 new monster hits: Fleetwood Mac finally release something new, and it’s the sprawling, ambitious, rhythmic Tusk, confounding expectations brilliantly, in at 49. At 51, it’s Trevor Horn debuting. His group were called The Buggles and this was a little-known track mentioning the increasingly popular music videos that were cropping up on TV. I expect this utterly fab novelty record and music videos are long-forgotten these days. Finally, it’s a ska debut from a fresh-faced gang of lads called Madness: The Prince at 53. OK, so no sooner than back from the States than it was off to Batley by coach for Sue’s 21st birthday bash with her family and mutual college friends. That was saturday, sunday was back to mansfield and a procession of guests, Mona from down the street (mum’s school-friend’s mum, a family friend) and Great Aunty Doll (mum’s Aunt) who talked of the tragedies in grandma’s life - it’s a novel in itself - before dad took me and brother mark out for a driving lesson. Mark was much better than me, couldn’t get the hang of gear changes. Aunty Eileen, Uncle Tony and the cousins Rachel & Lisa popped round Monday, before a family outing to Monty Python & The Holy Grail - probably the last film dad bothered to go and see at the cinema. Mum and Sue hated it, and it just wasn’t as good as Life Of Brian in LA! The other film, Blazing saddles, everyone loved, cos it’s brilliant. Cleaned my goldfish tank, and the budgie aviary. Mark bought a 10-minute Dr Who & The Daleks movie edit for his new movie projector, which was good, pre-video days, like being at the cinema, and was disappointed at the quality of my American slides that came in the post - too dark, mostly. Tragic! 1 ( 1 ) DON'T BRING ME DOWN E.L.O. 2 ( 2 ) GET IT RIGHT NEXT TIME Gerry Rafferty 3 ( 4 ) CARS Gary Numan 4 ( 26 ) SAD EYES Robert John 5 ( 9 ) JUST WHEN I NEEDED YOU MOST Randy Vanwarmer 6 ( 13 ) SAIL ON The Commodores 7 ( 3 ) WE DON'T TALK ANYMORE Cliff Richard 8 ( 5 ) LOST IN MUSIC Sister Sledge 9 ( NEW ) DREAMING Blondie 10 ( 14 ) CRUEL TO BE KIND Nick Lowe 11 ( NEW ) MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE The Police 12 ( 7 ) VOULEZ VOUS/ ANGEL EYES Abba 13 ( NEW ) THEM HEAVY PEOPLE Kate Bush 14 ( 8 ) I DON'T LIKE MONDAYS The Boomtown Rats 15 ( NEW ) SINCE YOU'VE BEEN GONE Rainbow 16 ( 18 ) DUCHESS The Stranglers 17 ( 11 ) GOTTA GO HOME Boney M 18 ( 6 ) ANGEL EYES Roxy Music 19 ( 25 ) LOVE'S GOT A HOLD ON ME Dollar 20 ( 24 ) REGGAE FOR IT NOW Bill Lovelady 21 ( 10 ) GANGSTERS The Specials 22 ( 20 ) GOODBYE STRANGER Supertramp 23 ( 12 ) MONEY The Flying Lizards 24 ( 16 ) GONE GONE GONE Johnny Mathis 25 ( 75 ) DON'T STOP TILL YOU GET ENOUGH Michael Jackson 26 ( 19 ) BANG BANG B.A. Robertson 27 ( 30 ) SLAP AND TICKLE Squeeze 28 ( 28 ) STRUT YOUR FUNKY STUFF Frantique 29 ( 29 ) IF I SAID YOU HAD A BEAUTIFUL BODY (WOULD YOU HOLD IT AGAINST ME) The Bellamy Brothers 30 ( NEW ) WHATEVER YOU WANT Status Quo 31 ( 21 ) STREET LIFE The Crusaders 32 ( 50 ) TIME FOR ACTION Secret Affair 33 ( 23 ) AFTER THE LOVE HAS GONE Earth Wind And Fire 34 ( 22 ) CAN'T STAND LOSING YOU The Police 35 ( 42 ) THE LONELIEST MAN IN THE WORLD The Tourists 36 ( 17 ) OOH WHAT A LIFE The Gibson brothers 37 ( 38 ) BOY OH BOY Racey 38 ( NEW ) BACK OF MY HAND The Jags 39 ( 15 ) LINES The Planets 40 ( 49 ) I'LL NEVER LOVE THIS WAY AGAIN Dionne Warwick 41 ( 27 ) ARE 'FRIENDS' ELECTRIC Tubeway Army 42 ( 32 ) THE DIARY OF HORACE WIMP E.L.O. 43 ( 31 ) BEAT THE CLOCK Sparks 44 ( 66 ) RISE Herb Alpert 45 ( 36 ) WHEN YOU'RE IN LOVE WITH A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN Dr. Hook 46 ( 39 ) LADY LYNDA The Beach Boys 47 ( NEW ) THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME The Headboys 48 ( 34 ) BORN TO BE ALIVE Patrick Hernandez 49 ( NEW ) TUSK Fleetwood Mac 50 ( 40 ) LONESOME LOSER The Little River Band 51 ( NEW ) VIDEO KILLED THE RADIO STAR The Buggles 52 ( 48 ) LIGHT MY FIRE Amii Stewart 53 ( NEW ) THE PRINCE Madness 54 ( 57 ) LEAD ME ON Maxine Nightingale 55 ( 41 ) IF I HAD YOU The Korgis 56 ( 33 ) LET'S GO The Cars 57 ( 54 ) BAKER STREET Gerry Rafferty 58 ( 64 ) DIFFERENT WORLDS Maureen McGovern 59 ( 55 ) DREADLOCK HOLIDAY 10CC 60 ( NEW ) SOMETHING THAT I SAID The Ruts 61 ( 35 ) ROCK LOBSTER The B52's 62 ( 58 ) CHIQUITITA Abba 63 ( 60 ) SUNDAY GIRL Blondie 64 ( 56 ) DOES YOUR MOTHER KNOW/ KISSES OF FIRE Abba 65 ( NEW ) TOMORROW'S GIRLS The UK Subs 66 ( 43 ) GIRL'S TALK Dave Edmunds 67 ( NEW ) QUEEN OF HEARTS Dave Edmunds 68 ( 44 ) IS SHE REALLY GOING OUT WITH HIM Joe Jackson 69 ( 47 ) MY SHARONA The Knack 70 ( NEW ) DIM ALL THE LIGHTS Donna Summer 71 ( 61 ) TRAGEDY The Bee Gees 72 ( 62 ) I WILL SURVIVE Gloria Gaynor 73 ( RE ) WHEN YOU'RE YOUNG The Jam 74 ( 51 ) SILLY GAMES Janet Kay 75 ( NEW ) LASER LOVE After The Fire TV 1 Star Trek: Charlie X 2 Westworld: film 3 MASH 4 Arthur C. Clarke Profile 5 Targets 6 Top Of The Pops 7 Kojak 8 Carry On Doctor: film 9 Film 79 10 The Sky At Night This post has been edited by popchartfreak: Oct 8 2014, 02:43 PM |
|
|
Oct 25 2014, 06:41 PM
Post
#45
|
|
BuzzJack Legend
Group: Moderator
Posts: 22,697 Member No.: 17,376 Joined: 18-July 12
No Gallery Pics
|
2nd October 1979
3 weeks for ELO on top, but the competition is so fierce that classic records I bought full-price, like Cars, actually drop. Michael Jackson gets his biggest solo hit since 1972 as Don’t Stop Till You Get Enough shoots up to 3, chased by The Police following up their number 1 with a message in a bottle at 5. Kate gets her 4th Top 10, Rainbow get their first (and last) and Quo just miss out at 12. Supertramp, and The Tourists, go back up to new peaks of 14 and 15 respectively. Tusk, in the meantime, drums it’s way up 30 places to 19 and The Buggles take that video statement up 31 to 20. Squeeze, The Jags, Madness, Herb Alpert, The Headboys and The Little River Band all rise inside the 40, giving a very very busy chart. That’s not enough though! 12 new entries pop in, including The Dickies taking on The Moody Blues Nights In White Satin at 36: it must be heard to be believed! Following up the gorgeous Lady Lynda, The Beach Boys enter with the equally gorgeous Sumahama, a Japanese oriental-flavoured delight, while Judy Tzuke is For You at 53. Sad Cafe debut at 63, as do XTC at 66 with the brilliant, unusual and exciting Making Plans For Nigel, a record that is as relevant today as it was then in subject matter (nepotism of the rich). The O’Jays get 7 years of hits at 70, Gloria Gaynor 5 years at 74 - it’s I Will Survive part 2, sort of. Elton also makes it 8 years of hits as he goes full-blown disco again, after dabbling with older recordings of Philly soul sessions: Victim Of Love at 75 is a forgotten goodie. Back in the UK a while, I was now back at College (hooray!), in new digs, on campus (hooray!) for the first time as I started my 3rd and final year (Boo!). Most of my friends were in the same block, Pete and Paul on my floor, Sue, Julie and Bev upstairs, which was great. Did some painting, shelves, cleaning bedroom, cleaning budgies, fish tank cleaning. I taught one of mum’s friend’s young sons how to get water moving down the pipe from the tank by sucking - he got a mouthful of fishy water, though! I hope that wasn’t the start of his lifelong substance abuse, he certainly seemed happier then. Gracie Fields died, noted that Carry On The Khyber is the best Carry On, that MASH (practical joker episode) remained as good as ever 7 years on, and the Doctor Who episode in Paris was one of the best in ages, though I was still unsure about the new Romana. I watched Parkinson guests Terry Wogan and the marvellous Carol Channing have a great Python-esque show while the rest of the family had a huge argument downstairs, which meant Sue (brothers fiancee) had to go back home to her parents house (she’d been living with Mark here) while Ernie, the retired disabled father of the late next-door-neighbour still lived with us too in a 3-bedroom house. We have spent a lifetime often taking in people relations and family and it’s not always easy if things get fraught, as they tend to do when you have a lot of people in an overcrowded house. That, of course, is life in UK 2014 for many - just that’s it’s been life in mum and dad’s house in 1979, 1989, 1999, 2009....but not any more. Ernie, with mum and dad, took me to College, and he was always nice and appreciative of us till the day he died a few years later, but he was never happy with his condition, the loss of his wife and daughter, and really only his young grandson kept him going for a few years. When he got moved into a Council assisted flat development (staff on site, but own flats) the residents used to call it “Death Row” waiting to see who’d be next to go. It wasn’t that bad actually, certainly better than care homes and mental institutions I’ve seen. 1 ( 1 ) DON'T BRING ME DOWN E.L.O. 2 ( 2 ) GET IT RIGHT NEXT TIME Gerry Rafferty 3 ( 25 ) DON'T STOP TILL YOU GET ENOUGH Michael Jackson 4 ( 6 ) SAIL ON The Commodores 5 ( 11 ) MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE The Police 6 ( 3 ) CARS Gary Numan 7 ( 10 ) CRUEL TO BE KIND Nick Lowe 8 ( 13 ) THEM HEAVY PEOPLE Kate Bush 9 ( 9 ) DREAMING Blondie 10 ( 15 ) SINCE YOU'VE BEEN GONE Rainbow 11 ( 5 ) JUST WHEN I NEEDED YOU MOST Randy Vanwarmer 12 ( 30 ) WHATEVER YOU WANT Status Quo 13 ( 7 ) WE DON'T TALK ANYMORE Cliff Richard 14 ( 22 ) GOODBYE STRANGER Supertramp 15 ( 35 ) THE LONELIEST MAN IN THE WORLD The Tourists 16 ( 8 ) LOST IN MUSIC Sister Sledge 17 ( 12 ) VOULEZ VOUS/ ANGEL EYES Abba 18 ( 4 ) SAD EYES Robert John 19 ( 49 ) TUSK Fleetwood Mac 20 ( 51 ) VIDEO KILLED THE RADIO STAR The Buggles 21 ( 20 ) REGGAE FOR IT NOW Bill Lovelady 22 ( 14 ) I DON'T LIKE MONDAYS The Boomtown Rats 23 ( 27 ) SLAP AND TICKLE Squeeze 24 ( 38 ) BACK OF MY HAND The Jags 25 ( NEW ) YOU CAN DO IT Al Hudson 26 ( 32 ) TIME FOR ACTION Secret Affair 27 ( 53 ) THE PRINCE Madness 28 ( 50 ) LONESOME LOSER The Little River Band 29 ( 16 ) DUCHESS The Stranglers 30 ( 18 ) ANGEL EYES Roxy Music 31 ( 17 ) GOTTA GO HOME Boney M 32 ( 44 ) RISE Herb Alpert 33 ( 24 ) GONE GONE GONE Johnny Mathis 34 ( 31 ) STREET LIFE The Crusaders 35 ( 19 ) LOVE'S GOT A HOLD ON ME Dollar 36 ( NEW ) NIGHTS IN WHITE SATIN The Dickies 37 ( 26 ) BANG BANG B.A. Robertson 38 ( 21 ) GANGSTERS The Specials 39 ( NEW ) SUMAHAMA The Beach Boys 40 ( 47 ) THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME The Headboys 41 ( 28 ) STRUT YOUR FUNKY STUFF Frantique 42 ( 34 ) CAN'T STAND LOSING YOU The Police 43 ( 33 ) AFTER THE LOVE HAS GONE Earth Wind And Fire 44 ( 45 ) WHEN YOU'RE IN LOVE WITH A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN Dr. Hook 45 ( 39 ) LINES The Planets 46 ( 29 ) IF I SAID YOU HAD A BEAUTIFUL BODY (WOULD YOU HOLD IT AGAINST ME) The Bellamy Brothers 47 ( 41 ) ARE 'FRIENDS' ELECTRIC Tubeway Army 48 ( 70 ) DIM ALL THE LIGHTS Donna Summer 49 ( 43 ) BEAT THE CLOCK Sparks 50 ( 42 ) THE DIARY OF HORACE WIMP E.L.O. 51 ( 23 ) MONEY The Flying Lizards 52 ( 36 ) OOH WHAT A LIFE The Gibson brothers 53 ( NEW ) FOR YOU Judy Tzuke 54 ( 46 ) LADY LYNDA The Beach Boys 55 ( 67 ) QUEEN OF HEARTS Dave Edmunds 56 ( 52 ) LIGHT MY FIRE Amii Stewart 57 ( 37 ) BOY OH BOY Racey 58 ( 48 ) BORN TO BE ALIVE Patrick Hernandez 59 ( NEW ) OH SUSIE Secret Service 60 ( NEW ) GOOD GIRLS DON'T The Knack 61 ( 57 ) BAKER STREET Gerry Rafferty 62 ( 59 ) DREADLOCK HOLIDAY 10CC 63 ( NEW ) EVERYDAY HURTS Sad Cafe 64 ( 58 ) DIFFERENT WORLDS Maureen McGovern 65 ( 62 ) CHIQUITITA Abba 66 ( NEW ) MAKING PLANS FOR NIGEL XTC 67 ( 63 ) SUNDAY GIRL Blondie 68 ( 64 ) DOES YOUR MOTHER KNOW/ KISSES OF FIRE Abba 69 ( 69 ) MY SHARONA The Knack 70 ( NEW ) SING A HAPPY SONG The O'Jays 71 ( 55 ) IF I HAD YOU The Korgis 72 ( NEW ) THERE MUST BE THOUSANDS The Quads 73 ( 54 ) LEAD ME ON Maxine Nightingale 74 ( NEW ) LET ME KNOW (I HAVE A RIGHT) Gloria Gaynor 75 ( NEW ) VICTIM OF LOVE Elton John TV 1 Star Trek: Court Martial 2 MASH 3 Carry On Up The Khyber: film 4 Rhoda 5 The Rockford Files 6 Top Of The Pops 7 Film '79 8 Doctor Who 9 The Two Ronnies 10 Ned Sherrin: Christopher Reeves interview This post has been edited by popchartfreak: Oct 25 2014, 06:53 PM |
|
|
Oct 27 2014, 09:44 PM
Post
#46
|
|
BuzzJack Legend
Group: Moderator
Posts: 22,697 Member No.: 17,376 Joined: 18-July 12
No Gallery Pics
|
Squeeze slap n tickle press here...
OK I'm trying this out as a dry run... This post has been edited by popchartfreak: Oct 27 2014, 09:45 PM |
|
|
Oct 30 2014, 02:08 PM
Post
#47
|
|
PTTP
Group: Banned
Posts: 4,806 Member No.: 16,865 Joined: 30-April 12
No Gallery Pics
|
John, which Blondie's songs were # 1s in your chart ? Obviously # 2 group of decade (of course behind ABBA).
Peak at # 9 it's so low for amazing "Dreaming". Most possible 70s is my favourite decade in music. Really want to complete my top 200 favourite songs for this time period, but it's so hard to rate all those wonderful hits. This post has been edited by Outcast: Oct 30 2014, 02:12 PM |
|
|
Oct 30 2014, 07:51 PM
Post
#48
|
|
BuzzJack Legend
Group: Moderator
Posts: 22,697 Member No.: 17,376 Joined: 18-July 12
No Gallery Pics
|
9th October 1979
Michael Jackson gets his 2nd solo number one, 7 years after Ain’t No Sunshine, and it’s a brilliant Quincy Jones dance production, mixed with the first evidence that he was more than capable of writing his own great songs. It sounded like a disco step forward at the time - because it was. Still sounds great too. Quo go up to 4, Whatever You Want taking the throbbing riff and perfecting it - this is the best riffing Quo single, though surprisingly to some they had plenty of other non-riffing great singles. Squeeze grab a 4th Top 20 entry, and Madness their first of a long run as The Prince hits 19. XTC, Judy Tzuke, Donna Summer, Dave Edmunds and Sad Cafe go top 40 along with Secret Service, no-hit wonders. The highest new entry is an advert song, Don’t Be A Dummy, at 49, while at 55 The Devil, apparently, Went Down To Georgia with The Charlie Daniels Band, a record I’d heard on my US holiday but hadn’t rated much. It was a grower, country fiddle-tastic. Reggae? OK Fred, says Errol Dunkley new at 60, The Dooleys Are The Chosen Few, melodically tweeting at 67, and the funk run of soul singles by Earth Wind & Fire keeps shining a Star on my charts. The Nolan Sisters, before they dropped the sister and went pop, debut with a sweet enough old-fashioned pop song, Spirit Body And Soul at 70, The Eagles days are almost numbered for 30 years, as Heartache Tonight thumps in at 72, and the Atlanta Rhythm Section cover 60’s classic Spooky, jazzfunk style and grab 74 - Dusty Springfield has the definitive version, but it’s still pretty good. Lastly it’s The Skids with a 3rd frantic chanting punkpop single at 75, Charade! Back at College, in my new digs, new room, I gathered a large crowd in my room watching my portable black and white TV, half-joking “I’ll have to throw them out” I said to a friend when we went for our meal in the dining hall, who bluntly repeated it when I got back, to my mortal embarrassment, bright red, and they sheepishly drifted off, never to return some of them. Aaghhh! The core group of holiday friends and Jane thankfully stayed for some USA holiday slideshow fun. Most of my gang spent weekdays out on Teaching Practice while I had lectures with 4th-year honours students - though no “honours” title to my degree, pah! Snooker games, news of someone who’d failed exams and left, and the sudden realisation I had a 3-hour exam in 2 days on humour in 19th century novels and I hadn’t even got the books yet, swanning off to America all summer as I did. Agh! Revised like mad, answered only 2 questions and a big flop. The other 7 or 8 exam-takers joined me for consolation in my room afterwards, which meant I missed eating. Socialised lots with my growing gang of core friends, and had great fun, laughs, and noted they were all nice people. Ahhh good times! Friday was ART day, developing my photos in the darkroom (I always enjoy seeing what develops in darkrooms © 1965), by far my fave subject, loved it. An ex-college friend who’d left in the 2nd year was back visiting the day before she should have been getting married (it was a late cancellation of the permanent kind, sadly), then home to mansfield for the weekend, babysitting for my lil’ cousins and Kenny Everett on Parkinson, yay! Then my brother announced he was getting married to Sue next September. Can’t say it wasn’t a busy week.....! 1 ( 3 ) DON'T STOP TILL YOU GET ENOUGH Michael Jackson 2 ( 1 ) DON'T BRING ME DOWN E.L.O. 3 ( 5 ) MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE The Police 4 ( 12 ) WHATEVER YOU WANT Status Quo 5 ( 10 ) SINCE YOU'VE BEEN GONE Rainbow 6 ( 9 ) DREAMING Blondie 7 ( 2 ) GET IT RIGHT NEXT TIME Gerry Rafferty 8 ( 8 ) THEM HEAVY PEOPLE Kate Bush 9 ( 7 ) CRUEL TO BE KIND Nick Lowe 10 ( 4 ) SAIL ON The Commodores 11 ( 6 ) CARS Gary Numan 12 ( 20 ) VIDEO KILLED THE RADIO STAR The Buggles 13 ( 15 ) THE LONELIEST MAN IN THE WORLD The Tourists 14 ( 14 ) GOODBYE STRANGER Supertramp 15 ( 23 ) SLAP AND TICKLE Squeeze 16 ( 19 ) TUSK Fleetwood Mac 17 ( 18 ) SAD EYES Robert John 18 ( 11 ) JUST WHEN I NEEDED YOU MOST Randy Vanwarmer 19 ( 27 ) THE PRINCE Madness 20 ( 24 ) BACK OF MY HAND The Jags 21 ( 26 ) TIME FOR ACTION Secret Affair 22 ( 25 ) YOU CAN DO IT Al Hudson 23 ( 13 ) WE DON'T TALK ANYMORE Cliff Richard 24 ( 39 ) SUMAHAMA The Beach Boys 25 ( 17 ) VOULEZ VOUS/ ANGEL EYES Abba 26 ( 44 ) WHEN YOU'RE IN LOVE WITH A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN Dr. Hook 27 ( 16 ) LOST IN MUSIC Sister Sledge 28 ( 32 ) RISE Herb Alpert 29 ( 63 ) EVERYDAY HURTS Sad Cafe 30 ( 36 ) NIGHTS IN WHITE SATIN The Dickies 31 ( 66 ) MAKING PLANS FOR NIGEL XTC 32 ( 21 ) REGGAE FOR IT NOW Bill Lovelady 33 ( 28 ) LONESOME LOSER The Little River Band 34 ( 22 ) I DON'T LIKE MONDAYS The Boomtown Rats 35 ( 40 ) THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME The Headboys 36 ( 53 ) FOR YOU Judy Tzuke 37 ( 48 ) DIM ALL THE LIGHTS Donna Summer 38 ( 55 ) QUEEN OF HEARTS Dave Edmunds 39 ( 59 ) OH SUSIE Secret Service 40 ( 31 ) GOTTA GO HOME Boney M 41 ( 41 ) STRUT YOUR FUNKY STUFF Frantique 42 ( 30 ) ANGEL EYES Roxy Music 43 ( 35 ) LOVE'S GOT A HOLD ON ME Dollar 44 ( 38 ) GANGSTERS The Specials 45 ( 29 ) DUCHESS The Stranglers 46 ( 34 ) STREET LIFE The Crusaders 47 ( 37 ) BANG BANG B.A. Robertson 48 ( 42 ) CAN'T STAND LOSING YOU The Police 49 ( NEW ) DON'T BE A DUMMY John Du Cann 50 ( 75 ) VICTIM OF LOVE Elton John 51 ( 33 ) GONE GONE GONE Johnny Mathis 52 ( 43 ) AFTER THE LOVE HAS GONE Earth Wind And Fire 53 ( 50 ) THE DIARY OF HORACE WIMP E.L.O. 54 ( 47 ) ARE 'FRIENDS' ELECTRIC Tubeway Army 55 ( NEW ) THE DEVIL WENT DOWN TO GEORGIA The Charlie Daniels Band 56 ( 74 ) LET ME KNOW (I HAVE A RIGHT) Gloria Gaynor 57 ( 60 ) GOOD GIRLS DON'T The Knack 58 ( 49 ) BEAT THE CLOCK Sparks 59 ( 45 ) LINES The Planets 60 ( NEW ) OK FRED Errol Dunkley 61 ( 61 ) BAKER STREET Gerry Rafferty 62 ( 62 ) DREADLOCK HOLIDAY 10CC 63 ( 56 ) LIGHT MY FIRE Amii Stewart 64 ( 54 ) LADY LYNDA The Beach Boys 65 ( 58 ) BORN TO BE ALIVE Patrick Hernandez 66 ( 70 ) SING A HAPPY SONG The O'Jays 67 ( NEW ) THE CHOSEN FEW The Dooleys 68 ( NEW ) STAR Earth Wind & Fire 69 ( 46 ) IF I SAID YOU HAD A BEAUTIFUL BODY (WOULD YOU HOLD IT AGAINST ME) The Bellamy Brothers 70 ( NEW ) SPIRIT BODY AND SOUL The Nolan Sisters 71 ( 65 ) CHIQUITITA Abba 72 ( NEW ) HEARTACHE TONIGHT The Eagles 73 ( 52 ) OOH WHAT A LIFE The Gibson brothers 74 ( NEW ) SPOOKY Atlanta Rhythm Section 75 ( NEW ) CHARADE The Skids TV 1 Star Trek: Catspaw 2 Top Of The Pops 3 Doctor Who 4 MASH 5 Parkinson (sat) 6 Parkinson (wed) 7 Sykes 8 Talking Movies 9 Starsky and Hutch 10 To The Manor Born This post has been edited by popchartfreak: Oct 30 2014, 07:58 PM |
|
|
Oct 30 2014, 08:04 PM
Post
#49
|
|
BuzzJack Legend
Group: Moderator
Posts: 22,697 Member No.: 17,376 Joined: 18-July 12
No Gallery Pics
|
John, which Blondie's songs were # 1s in your chart ? Obviously # 2 group of decade (of course behind ABBA). Peak at # 9 it's so low for amazing "Dreaming". Most possible 70s is my favourite decade in music. Really want to complete my top 200 favourite songs for this time period, but it's so hard to rate all those wonderful hits. Look forward to that 70's rate if you manage it, Alex! Dreaming up to 6 this week Blondie number ones: Denis, Heart Of Glass, Sunday Girl, Atomic, Rapture, Good Boys (2003) - 6 in total |
|
|
Nov 1 2014, 05:58 PM
Post
#50
|
|
BuzzJack Legend
Group: Moderator
Posts: 22,697 Member No.: 17,376 Joined: 18-July 12
No Gallery Pics
|
16th October 1979
Another new number one as The Police get their 2nd chart-topper, the terrific frantic rock-reggae Message In A Bottle, and Sting very much being the pin-up man of the time (pin-up boys not being that much in demand). New in at 2, though, the group most-likely-to (knock ‘em off after 1 week) it’s Abba’s brilliant disco track Gimme Gimme Gimme - not only did it inspire a TV sitcom, that insistent catchy flutey sound was borrowed heavily by Madonna for her just-as-good Hung Up. By this time Abba hadn’t NOT topped my chart in four years (and would have had at least an additional 10 or 15 had I allowed album tracks). Bit of a fan. Rainbow go top 3, and Fleetwood Mac charge their Tusk up to 5, incredibly only their second top 5 hit (after Dreams peaked at 3). The Buggles get into the top 10, under-appreciated quite frankly! Herb Alpert gets his 2nd Top 20 hit 11 years on, as he rises, while The Chosen Few takes The Dooleys into the top 40 for the 5th time or so. New in at 40, their 6th, it’s Chic with my forbidden lover - I’m lying, I didn’t have one, forbidden or otherwise, but it’s as classy as previous hits, albeit not quite as bass-ily classic! In at 66, Lene Lovich has a 3rd hit with the utterly fantastic Bird Song, a complete change of pace, and still mad as a hatter in a touching way. Dusty’s back again with Baby Blue, her disco period, but this is a soulful disco minor classic that never became the hit it deserved to be, but giving my all-time fave female vocalist 11 years of hits. Steve Harley, meanwhile, has lost his Cockney Rebel’s, and bounced back with the great Freedom’s Prisoner at 64 5 years on from Judy Teen. Ian Gomm debuts at 67 with the gorgeous US hit Hold On: who he? He be ex-Brinsley Schwarz, and Cruel To be Kind British co-writer, that be who. Pure American-radio-sounding, it’s yet another UK flop, not being that much in vogue with New Wave UK. Wrapping up the lower-end, The Sex Pistols keep on having that barrel scraped as the 3rd version of Rock Around The Clock charts, more of a shambles than a punk record, but might have been mildly amusing if the tw*t farting about on lead vocal hadn’t murdered his girlfriend before overdosing. Not that funny, after that. Viola Wills also covers an old 50‘s song, disco-fashion, that had been a hit in many different genres, big-band swing, country, wall-of-sound, latino-pop, ska before it added another hit notch here. It’s OK, thanks to the song more than the arrangement. Suzi Quatro is also back again with a romping poprock She’s In Love With You at 74, and at 75 it’s Nostromo with a dance version of the theme tune to the forthcoming sci-fi film Alien. Nostromo is the name of the ship, the tune is haunting and daunting from the brilliant Jerry Goldsmith, composer of movie soundtracks like, (pause for breath) Planet Of The Apes, Logans Run, Star Trek (5 of ‘em!), Gremlins, LA Confidential, Chinatown, The Mummy. Among others. Phew! Back at college again, it was snooker games, a social group gathering in my room for TV & tea, where my review of Airport 80: Concorde was shared by Barry Norman on Film 79. Lots of friends, chatting, discussing, opinion-ating, and general fun times. Reading Lord Of The Flies for literature course - classic! Hanging about a bit with American exchange student Steve from Waukesha Wisconsin. Evenings, I’d forgotten how much my room was the social centre of the gang, I pretty much had a parade of visitors from tea-time till bed-time watching TV and chatting. Friday a gang of us over-crowded Paul’s car for a pub evening down at the Quay (The William IV’th). In town for records searching Saturday I bumped into my old form-tutor from school, Mrs Gibson. Entertained non-campus friends in the evening, but basically every single evening I socialised, an evening sat on my own watching TV was unheard of (I’m happy to say) as everyone wound down from the stress of Teaching Practice for a laugh. 1 ( 3 ) MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE The Police 2 ( NEW ) GIMME GIMME GIMME (A MAN AFTER MIDNIGHT) Abba 3 ( 5 ) SINCE YOU'VE BEEN GONE Rainbow 4 ( 1 ) DON'T STOP TILL YOU GET ENOUGH Michael Jackson 5 ( 16 ) TUSK Fleetwood Mac 6 ( 2 ) DON'T BRING ME DOWN E.L.O. 7 ( 6 ) DREAMING Blondie 8 ( 4 ) WHATEVER YOU WANT Status Quo 9 ( 12 ) VIDEO KILLED THE RADIO STAR The Buggles 10 ( 7 ) GET IT RIGHT NEXT TIME Gerry Rafferty 11 ( 8 ) THEM HEAVY PEOPLE Kate Bush 12 ( 24 ) SUMAHAMA The Beach Boys 13 ( 11 ) CARS Gary Numan 14 ( 10 ) SAIL ON The Commodores 15 ( 9 ) CRUEL TO BE KIND Nick Lowe 16 ( 26 ) WHEN YOU'RE IN LOVE WITH A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN Dr. Hook 17 ( 13 ) THE LONELIEST MAN IN THE WORLD The Tourists 18 ( 14 ) GOODBYE STRANGER Supertramp 19 ( 22 ) YOU CAN DO IT Al Hudson 20 ( 28 ) RISE Herb Alpert 21 ( 20 ) BACK OF MY HAND The Jags 22 ( 15 ) SLAP AND TICKLE Squeeze 23 ( 31 ) MAKING PLANS FOR NIGEL XTC 24 ( 18 ) JUST WHEN I NEEDED YOU MOST Randy Vanwarmer 25 ( 17 ) SAD EYES Robert John 26 ( 29 ) EVERYDAY HURTS Sad Cafe 27 ( 19 ) THE PRINCE Madness 28 ( 35 ) THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME The Headboys 29 ( 23 ) WE DON'T TALK ANYMORE Cliff Richard 30 ( 25 ) VOULEZ VOUS/ ANGEL EYES Abba 31 ( 67 ) THE CHOSEN FEW The Dooleys 32 ( 60 ) OK FRED Errol Dunkley 33 ( 38 ) QUEEN OF HEARTS Dave Edmunds 34 ( 37 ) DIM ALL THE LIGHTS Donna Summer 35 ( 21 ) TIME FOR ACTION Secret Affair 36 ( 36 ) FOR YOU Judy Tzuke 37 ( 55 ) THE DEVIL WENT DOWN TO GEORGIA The Charlie Daniels Band 38 ( 49 ) DON'T BE A DUMMY John Du Cann 39 ( 68 ) STAR Earth Wind & Fire 40 ( NEW ) MY FORBIDDEN LOVER Chic 41 ( 39 ) OH SUSIE Secret Service 42 ( 34 ) I DON'T LIKE MONDAYS The Boomtown Rats 43 ( 50 ) VICTIM OF LOVE Elton John 44 ( 70 ) SPIRIT BODY AND SOUL The Nolan Sisters 45 ( 27 ) LOST IN MUSIC Sister Sledge 46 ( 57 ) GOOD GIRLS DON'T The Knack 47 ( 33 ) LONESOME LOSER The Little River Band 48 ( 72 ) HEARTACHE TONIGHT The Eagles 49 ( 56 ) LET ME KNOW (I HAVE A RIGHT) Gloria Gaynor 50 ( 40 ) GOTTA GO HOME Boney M 51 ( 32 ) REGGAE FOR IT NOW Bill Lovelady 52 ( 48 ) CAN'T STAND LOSING YOU The Police 53 ( 66 ) SING A HAPPY SONG The O'Jays 54 ( 30 ) NIGHTS IN WHITE SATIN The Dickies 55 ( 54 ) ARE 'FRIENDS' ELECTRIC Tubeway Army 56 ( NEW ) BIRD SONG Lene Lovich 57 ( 44 ) GANGSTERS The Specials 58 ( 42 ) ANGEL EYES Roxy Music 59 ( NEW ) BABY BLUE Dusty Springfield 60 ( 41 ) STRUT YOUR FUNKY STUFF Frantique 61 ( 53 ) THE DIARY OF HORACE WIMP E.L.O. 62 ( 61 ) BAKER STREET Gerry Rafferty 63 ( 62 ) DREADLOCK HOLIDAY 10CC 64 ( NEW ) FREEDOM'S PRISONER Steve Harley 65 ( 58 ) BEAT THE CLOCK Sparks 66 ( 43 ) LOVE'S GOT A HOLD ON ME Dollar 67 ( NEW ) HOLD ON Ian Gomm 68 ( 63 ) LIGHT MY FIRE Amii Stewart 69 ( 64 ) LADY LYNDA The Beach Boys 70 ( NEW ) ROCK AROUND THE CLOCK The Sex Pistols 71 ( NEW ) GONNA GET ALONG WITHOUT YOU NOW Viola Wills 72 ( 52 ) AFTER THE LOVE HAS GONE Earth Wind And Fire 73 ( 47 ) BANG BANG B.A. Robertson 74 ( NEW ) SHE'S IN LOVE WITH YOU Suzi Quatro 75 ( NEW ) ALIEN Nostromo TV 1 MASH 2 Star Trek: Who Mourns For Adonis 3 Roots: The Next Generation 4 Rhoda 5 Parkinson (sat) 6 Top Of The Pops 7 Doctor Who 8 Ripping Yarns 9 To The Manor Born 10 Mike Yarwood Show This post has been edited by popchartfreak: Nov 1 2014, 06:09 PM |
|
|
Nov 1 2014, 10:35 PM
Post
#51
|
|
BuzzJack Legend
Group: Moderator
Posts: 22,697 Member No.: 17,376 Joined: 18-July 12
No Gallery Pics
|
23rd October 1979
Another week another new number one: of course Abba got there, it’s one of their great singles and it wasn’t on Voulez Vous (though there was yet another single to go from it). That makes it 12 in a row, far and away the longest run of number ones, and 13 in total. No other act has ever had a dozen in my chart, not even The Beatles and Pet Shop Boys. The Buggles and Blondie finally go top 5, both deserved even better, and Dr. Hook finally go top 10, their 5th in 7 years. The Beach Boys get a 2nd Top 10 hit of the year, the lovely Sumahama being their 7th in 11 years. Had I allowed album tracks, Good Timin’ would also have done it from the same album, a harmony delight. XTC make plans for the top 20, OK Fred ragga raggas up to 17, The Dooleys get a 4th top 20, and Lene Lovich makes it 3 in a row as Bird Song flies up 40 places to 16. The Sex Pistols mystifyingly make the top 40 while more understandably old faves the O’Jays double number one’s are long behind them, but are amiable enough singing a happy song at 39, and Steve Harley is at 40, freedom’s prisoner no more. Debuts for The Selecter and Matumbi, both decent singles, ska and reggae respectively, and The Undertones are back with their second great single, the very under-rated, and brilliant, You’ve Got My Number at 57. B.A. Robertson has a 2nd pop gem, claiming he knocked it off amongst other football references. Cats UK fly in from Luton Airport: fear not it flew out just as quickly to everyone’s relief. The Stranglers go atomic, Bob Marley has a good social message which sadly will never stop being relevant as long as their are people, Van Morrison is a little more optimistic with one of his least-dreary records, and Queen continue to underperform in my charts with their 1979 singles as Crazy Little Thing Called Love rockabilly’s its way in at 74 - the abrupt change of style didn’t work for me at the time, but it’s a pop gem actually. Lastly, Atlanta Rhythm Section re-enter with a song Dusty recorded, as she rises with her new one: Spooky! Back in digs, the stream of evening pals dropping by continues. I feel so loved! A dull poetry lecture, some photo lab-bing, some laughs with friends, some relationship developing between 2 of them (I was chaperone). Read “Pincher Martin”, snooker (I won), college cinema for “Jaws” I was gratified to see the American students just as reactive as they were in California a few weeks back “not dumb quiet like English”. A spot of Knights Of Ni Python silliness between ourselves afterwards, and Billy Connolly very funny on Parkinson. I got the boys in stitches of laughter when I announced to the girls we used the girls toilets on our side of the student block cos they were nearer than the men’s (it was down to the comic timing, you had to be there!). At the cinema I went to see spoof Dracula movie Love At First Bite with fave Susan Saint James in it: “good cast good script mildly amusing throughout...” which leaves me bewildered as to why it’s become so obscure these days, it’s never repeated. Doctor Who: “Excellent, best series in long time”. Post-wedding social-evening with non-campus friends, to complete another great week for me. I can see why I look back so fondly on those years compared to the 80’s... 1 ( 2 ) GIMME GIMME GIMME (A MAN AFTER MIDNIGHT) Abba 2 ( 1 ) MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE The Police 3 ( 5 ) TUSK Fleetwood Mac 4 ( 9 ) VIDEO KILLED THE RADIO STAR The Buggles 5 ( 7 ) DREAMING Blondie 6 ( 3 ) SINCE YOU'VE BEEN GONE Rainbow 7 ( 4 ) DON'T STOP TILL YOU GET ENOUGH Michael Jackson 8 ( 16 ) WHEN YOU'RE IN LOVE WITH A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN Dr. Hook 9 ( 12 ) SUMAHAMA The Beach Boys 10 ( 11 ) THEM HEAVY PEOPLE Kate Bush 11 ( 8 ) WHATEVER YOU WANT Status Quo 12 ( 6 ) DON'T BRING ME DOWN E.L.O. 13 ( 10 ) GET IT RIGHT NEXT TIME Gerry Rafferty 14 ( 23 ) MAKING PLANS FOR NIGEL XTC 15 ( 13 ) CARS Gary Numan 16 ( 56 ) BIRD SONG Lene Lovich 17 ( 32 ) OK FRED Errol Dunkley 18 ( 31 ) THE CHOSEN FEW The Dooleys 19 ( 15 ) CRUEL TO BE KIND Nick Lowe 20 ( 20 ) RISE Herb Alpert 21 ( 14 ) SAIL ON The Commodores 22 ( 39 ) STAR Earth Wind & Fire 23 ( 37 ) THE DEVIL WENT DOWN TO GEORGIA The Charlie Daniels Band 24 ( 21 ) BACK OF MY HAND The Jags 25 ( 25 ) SAD EYES Robert John 26 ( 26 ) EVERYDAY HURTS Sad Cafe 27 ( 40 ) MY FORBIDDEN LOVER Chic 28 ( 28 ) THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME The Headboys 29 ( 18 ) GOODBYE STRANGER Supertramp 30 ( 19 ) YOU CAN DO IT Al Hudson 31 ( 22 ) SLAP AND TICKLE Squeeze 32 ( 70 ) ROCK AROUND THE CLOCK The Sex Pistols 33 ( 36 ) FOR YOU Judy Tzuke 34 ( 17 ) THE LONELIEST MAN IN THE WORLD The Tourists 35 ( 49 ) LET ME KNOW (I HAVE A RIGHT) Gloria Gaynor 36 ( 71 ) GONNA GET ALONG WITHOUT YOU NOW Viola Wills 37 ( 30 ) VOULEZ VOUS/ ANGEL EYES Abba 38 ( 29 ) WE DON'T TALK ANYMORE Cliff Richard 39 ( 53 ) SING A HAPPY SONG The O'Jays 40 ( 64 ) FREEDOM'S PRISONER Steve Harley 41 ( 24 ) JUST WHEN I NEEDED YOU MOST Randy Vanwarmer 42 ( 27 ) THE PRINCE Madness 43 ( 43 ) VICTIM OF LOVE Elton John 44 ( 44 ) SPIRIT BODY AND SOUL The Nolan Sisters 45 ( NEW ) ON MY RADIO The Selecter 46 ( 35 ) TIME FOR ACTION Secret Affair 47 ( 74 ) SHE'S IN LOVE WITH YOU Suzi Quatro 48 ( 75 ) ALIEN Nostromo 49 ( 42 ) I DON'T LIKE MONDAYS The Boomtown Rats 50 ( NEW ) POINT OF VIEW Matumbi 51 ( 41 ) OH SUSIE Secret Service 52 ( 33 ) QUEEN OF HEARTS Dave Edmunds 53 ( 48 ) HEARTACHE TONIGHT The Eagles 54 ( 59 ) BABY BLUE Dusty Springfield 55 ( 45 ) LOST IN MUSIC Sister Sledge 56 ( 38 ) DON'T BE A DUMMY John Du Cann 57 ( NEW ) YOU'VE GOT MY NUMBER (WHY DON'T YOU USE IT) The Undertones 58 ( 55 ) ARE 'FRIENDS' ELECTRIC Tubeway Army 59 ( NEW ) KNOCKED IT OFF B.A. Robertson 60 ( RE ) CHARADE The Skids 61 ( 62 ) BAKER STREET Gerry Rafferty 62 ( 63 ) DREADLOCK HOLIDAY 10CC 63 ( 67 ) HOLD ON Ian Gomm 64 ( 52 ) CAN'T STAND LOSING YOU The Police 65 ( NEW ) LUTON AIRPORT Cats UK 66 ( 34 ) DIM ALL THE LIGHTS Donna Summer 67 ( 50 ) GOTTA GO HOME Boney M 68 ( NEW ) NUCLEAR DEVICE (WIZARD OF AUS) The Stranglers 69 ( RE ) SPOOKY Atlanta Rhythm Section 70 ( 65 ) BEAT THE CLOCK Sparks 71 ( NEW ) SO MUCH TROUBLE IN THE WORLD Bob Marley & The Wailers 72 ( 68 ) LIGHT MY FIRE Amii Stewart 73 ( NEW ) BRIGHT SIDE OF THE ROAD Van Morrison 74 ( NEW ) CRAZY LITTLE THING CALLED LOVE Queen 75 ( 61 ) THE DIARY OF HORACE WIMP E.L.O. TV 1 Star Trek: The Apple 2 Roots: The Next Generation 3 Parkinson (wed) 4 Top Of The Pops 5 For Pete's Sake: film 6 Doctor Who 7 Parkinson (sat) 8 Friday Night Sunday Morning: film 9 The Rockford Files 10 Blankety Blank This post has been edited by popchartfreak: Nov 1 2014, 10:40 PM |
|
|
Nov 2 2014, 02:56 PM
Post
#52
|
|
BuzzJack Legend
Group: Moderator
Posts: 22,697 Member No.: 17,376 Joined: 18-July 12
No Gallery Pics
|
30th October 1979
For the 4th week in a row it’s a new number one, even knocking off a new Abba single - Fleetwood Mac’s sprawling, ambitious, drum-thumping, everything-thrown-in-including-the-iamspamspamamisink marching Tusk. It shocked everyone at the time, following up Rumours, but I loved it. It’s fair to say if there hadn’t been so many great singles about Video Killed The Radio Star and When You’re In Love would have topped my charts as well as the UK’s. Lene Lovich and XTC bring a bit of New Wave quirkiness into my Top 10, and there’s no Hold On Ian Gomm up 43 to 20. Highest new entry is both the first chart version of a song to be big 4 years on for Laura Branigan - Gloria - and also, as a double-pack single, 60’s melodic classic Everyone’s Gone To The Moon which I loved as a kid, helping Jonathan King to be one of my fave pop stars during the 70’s - always fun, despite being a terrible singer. Moon was supposed to be a piss-take of cliched pop drivel with trite lyrics, rhymes designed to use every lyrical cliche about. Trouble was, the tune was so strong it wasn’t at all obvious it wasn’t serious and could be taken straight, giving graduate-student JK a surprise hit and career. It didn’t qualify for my charts (I’d excluded reissues by then unless they charted in the UK) but the reality is it would have at least been as high as the much inferior Gloria, and likely a number one, had I allowed it. Suzi Quatro’s back in the top 40, The Eagles also do it despite a little bit of heartache tonight, and The Nolan Sisters get their first Top 40 hit. Few new entries this week, but New Musik point the 80’s pop way with Straight Lines, a great debut entry at 47 from a great under-rated pop album From A To B chock-a-block with great singles and potential singles. Sham 69 have an abrupt change of style, Misty you’re a better man than I, and end their chart career in the process. On the one hand, phew! On the other hand the more ballady single should in theory have been a good way forward had some of their fans not been more into rioting and racism than actual music. On TV, Doctor Who nearly knocks Star Trek off my weekly top spot, and back in student-land, visitors to Chez-John this week included Alan, Julie, Jeanette, Paul, Pete, Sue, Jane, Bev, Joe, Ian, Jane D. individually or in any combination thereof day or evening. Designed a poster for a screen print (for Art), came to the conclusion that one of my English Lit lecturers was a droning bore, and had tons of coursework and assignments assigned, such as Volpone. Boo! More snooker and laughs, after I won by 20 points for spite because I wasn’t allowed some points I felt I deserved, so I played “brilliantly” while pretend-mocking I was annoyed about it. Our American students hosted an American Studies lecture, which was fun, and I noted this weeks TOTP was crap - yes the one that was just broadcast on BBC4 as I type. It’s still crap. Friday was an Art field trip to Bradford with Chuck my new American friend, Max, my art tutor, and 3 mature students, for a David Hockney exhibition - which didn’t overly impress me. Next stop was Sheffield for a Diane Arbus photographic exhibition, I do like her style to this day and choice of unusual people portraits. Late back, but not too late for a social evening for Paul’s Party in the student uni room, I refused to dance (as always in those days), though when a few punk tracks came on nearly everyone stopped dancing and I started - much more comfortable dancing to rock music (still am) The Cars, The Skids, The Sex Pistols which not many of our gang liked. Hey ho! Saturday in town, bumped into another ex-school teacher Mr Poole who i always liked, and had a quick chat. A pub afternoon in Anersley with Jane Dave and Paul, then the Rag Ball in the evening, with tie (against my principles, ties) and which I tried to get out of, the sound system and music pretty poor. Refused to dance again, but sulking cos I needed to stop having fun and knuckle down to the bloody pile of assignments - so Sunday was work day. Degrees, honestly, get spoilt by having to study and write rather than have fun! 1 ( 3 ) TUSK Fleetwood Mac 2 ( 1 ) GIMME GIMME GIMME (A MAN AFTER MIDNIGHT) Abba 3 ( 2 ) MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE The Police 4 ( 4 ) VIDEO KILLED THE RADIO STAR The Buggles 5 ( 8 ) WHEN YOU'RE IN LOVE WITH A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN Dr. Hook 6 ( 6 ) SINCE YOU'VE BEEN GONE Rainbow 7 ( 5 ) DREAMING Blondie 8 ( 16 ) BIRD SONG Lene Lovich 9 ( 14 ) MAKING PLANS FOR NIGEL XTC 10 ( 7 ) DON'T STOP TILL YOU GET ENOUGH Michael Jackson 11 ( 11 ) WHATEVER YOU WANT Status Quo 12 ( 12 ) DON'T BRING ME DOWN E.L.O. 13 ( 13 ) GET IT RIGHT NEXT TIME Gerry Rafferty 14 ( 17 ) OK FRED Errol Dunkley 15 ( 27 ) MY FORBIDDEN LOVER Chic 16 ( 18 ) THE CHOSEN FEW The Dooleys 17 ( 20 ) RISE Herb Alpert 18 ( 15 ) CARS Gary Numan 19 ( 23 ) THE DEVIL WENT DOWN TO GEORGIA The Charlie Daniels Band 20 ( 63 ) HOLD ON Ian Gomm 21 ( 9 ) SUMAHAMA The Beach Boys 22 ( 22 ) STAR Earth Wind & Fire 23 ( 10 ) THEM HEAVY PEOPLE Kate Bush 24 ( NEW ) GLORIA/ EVERYON'ES GONE TO THE MOON Jonathan King 25 ( 19 ) CRUEL TO BE KIND Nick Lowe 26 ( 21 ) SAIL ON The Commodores 27 ( 47 ) SHE'S IN LOVE WITH YOU Suzi Quatro 28 ( 33 ) FOR YOU Judy Tzuke 29 ( 45 ) ON MY RADIO The Selecter 30 ( 25 ) SAD EYES Robert John 31 ( 26 ) EVERYDAY HURTS Sad Cafe 32 ( 32 ) ROCK AROUND THE CLOCK The Sex Pistols 33 ( 36 ) GONNA GET ALONG WITHOUT YOU NOW Viola Wills 34 ( 35 ) LET ME KNOW (I HAVE A RIGHT) Gloria Gaynor 35 ( 44 ) SPIRIT BODY AND SOUL The Nolan Sisters 36 ( 29 ) GOODBYE STRANGER Supertramp 37 ( 40 ) FREEDOM'S PRISONER Steve Harley 38 ( 30 ) YOU CAN DO IT Al Hudson 39 ( 53 ) HEARTACHE TONIGHT The Eagles 40 ( 37 ) VOULEZ VOUS/ ANGEL EYES Abba 41 ( 24 ) BACK OF MY HAND The Jags 42 ( 38 ) WE DON'T TALK ANYMORE Cliff Richard 43 ( 57 ) YOU'VE GOT MY NUMBER (WHY DON'T YOU USE IT) The Undertones 44 ( 34 ) THE LONELIEST MAN IN THE WORLD The Tourists 45 ( 31 ) SLAP AND TICKLE Squeeze 46 ( 28 ) THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME The Headboys 47 ( NEW ) STRAIGHT LINES New Musik 48 ( 48 ) ALIEN Nostromo 49 ( 54 ) BABY BLUE Dusty Springfield 50 ( 41 ) JUST WHEN I NEEDED YOU MOST Randy Vanwarmer 51 ( 43 ) VICTIM OF LOVE Elton John 52 ( 42 ) THE PRINCE Madness 53 ( 49 ) I DON'T LIKE MONDAYS The Boomtown Rats 54 ( 59 ) KNOCKED IT OFF B.A. Robertson 55 ( NEW ) YOU'RE A BETTER MAN THAN I Sham '69 56 ( 52 ) QUEEN OF HEARTS Dave Edmunds 57 ( 58 ) ARE 'FRIENDS' ELECTRIC Tubeway Army 58 ( 68 ) NUCLEAR DEVICE (WIZARD OF AUS) The Stranglers 59 ( 61 ) BAKER STREET Gerry Rafferty 60 ( 62 ) DREADLOCK HOLIDAY 10CC 61 ( 39 ) SING A HAPPY SONG The O'Jays 62 ( 55 ) LOST IN MUSIC Sister Sledge 63 ( 69 ) SPOOKY Atlanta Rhythm Section 64 ( 74 ) CRAZY LITTLE THING CALLED LOVE Queen 65 ( 64 ) CAN'T STAND LOSING YOU The Police 66 ( 46 ) TIME FOR ACTION Secret Affair 67 ( 50 ) POINT OF VIEW Matumbi 68 ( 51 ) OH SUSIE Secret Service 69 ( 71 ) SO MUCH TROUBLE IN THE WORLD Bob Marley & The Wailers 70 ( 73 ) BRIGHT SIDE OF THE ROAD Van Morrison 71 ( NEW ) THE SPARROW The Ramblers 72 ( 72 ) LIGHT MY FIRE Amii Stewart 73 ( NEW ) IF YOU REMEMBER ME Chris Thompson 74 ( 70 ) BEAT THE CLOCK Sparks 75 ( 75 ) THE DIARY OF HORACE WIMP E.L.O. TV 1 Star Trek: Metamorphosis 2 Doctor Who 3 Fawlty Towers 4 Roots: The Next Generation 5 MASH 6 Film 79 7 The Odd Couple 8 Starsky And Hutch 9 The Two Ronnies 10 Top Of The Pops This post has been edited by popchartfreak: Nov 2 2014, 03:01 PM |
|
|
Dec 3 2014, 09:17 PM
Post
#53
|
|
BuzzJack Legend
Group: Moderator
Posts: 22,697 Member No.: 17,376 Joined: 18-July 12
No Gallery Pics
|
6th November 1979
The rapid turnover at the top continues as Lene Lovich gets an unexpected Number 1 with a minor UK hit, the quirkily melodic Bird Song. Many found Lene laughable, but I found her endearing, and loved this record. Earth Wind & Fire keep the run of big hits going, 4 years into their chart career, as Star goes up 7, just ahead of the gorgeous Hold On from Ian Gomm, and Herb Alpert Rises to 10, his first foray there since my very first chart of all in 1968, with Burt Bacharach’s heart-rending This Guy’s In Love, a record that still makes cry buckets if I try and sing along. And anyone else within earshot, for different reasons. Suzi Quatro’s back in the top 20, 6 years on and going strong, but never quite getting that number 1, and BA Robertson knocks one off at 27, his 2nd top 40 hit. Highest new entry is Dynasty with the OK disco track I Don’t Want To Be A Freak - well, I can’t help myself either! - ahead of the fairly average follow-up ballad to Sail On. Still, that’s normal for the Commodores. Another disappointing (ska) follow-up, for The Specials Rudi, who at least stay ahead of a bunch of kiddies tweeting about Sparrows! Kool and The Gang start their string of largely soundalike hits, with Ladies Night at 61, Bonnie Tyler appears to believe in my sweet love, actually not a bad single, pity it got no airplay to speak of. The Jam hit their stride though, at 53 with the brilliant Eton Rifles, The Damned Smash It Up at 68, Thin Lizzy mellow down with sarah at 71, Darts peter out a bit at 74 and Sparks get their third chart entry of the year - just! - at 75, their 9th or so. No airplay you see.....no internet, no airplay, no hear. In the real world, on TV Not The 9 o’clock news, it was a generally not-that-great sketch show, but with moments of inspiration and some new big comic names, like, oh Rowan Atkinson. Yes, Mr. Bean, Blackadder, Johnny English, him. At College, in English, our eccentric lecturer (Hello Mr Jackson) had us all prancing round a willow tree outside reciting folk poems, in full view of the staff room and other lecturers. I swear it was a bet to see who could make students look the most ridiculous. He won! It did make some of the 4th years students actually talk for a change though, so mission accomplished I suspect. The BBC singles charts disappointed, I entertained Ian and Pete with a coffee on a Teaching Practice break for them, Pete off to the Grimsby/Everton footie match in the evening. Sue round in the evenings, snooker with Ian, Pete and Sue lunchtime, great fun. Halloween masks for Pete, who tried to scare passers-by to his window with a flashlight - at least he tried! Pete, Sue, Pauline, Alan, and Helen popped in on their way to (allegedly) the most boring lecturer (ever, presumably), and consoled afterwards with drinks in my room, with Julie having arrived. I finished an assignment, somehow, amidst the stream of friends dropping by (Jane, Bev, Paul, Dave, Clive as well as the previous suspects), helped push a car to start, watched a play about a transvestite, painted some giant fireworks ready for the Rag Parade, watched more holiday slides on my projector, two first years got me to agree to put on tights for the fireworks costume I was going to wear, lying to me that Paul had already said he would - he did not!! We started doing the ‘Float up for the Parade, only to find it all blown away by the wind when we got back from dinner. Doh! Rather embarrassingly (but making up for the first year when I opted out) Paul and I were the only men on an otherwise entirely first-year-female lorry-load of brightly-coloured fireworks. Paul was fairly happy, I think, with that arrangement. We wet lots of passers-by on the slow-drive through Lincoln, and as usual I took loads of black and white photos. To my huge surprise, my first ever real day spent as a centre of public attention was pretty enjoyable - not that I did that again for 5 years or so, but it was good to realise I can do it without freezing. The Rag Revue had one highlight, Dave Allen and Robert Lythgoe as Hinge and Brackett, very funny (especially since Dave had been someone who got on my nerves in the first year, with his stories of his Bishop dad or something like it). A bonfire evening cheerio to the busy week, with Pete back from a London trip with a tale of being robbed while there. Hey ho, certainly wasn’t a dull life! 1 ( 8 ) BIRD SONG Lene Lovich 2 ( 1 ) TUSK Fleetwood Mac 3 ( 2 ) GIMME GIMME GIMME (A MAN AFTER MIDNIGHT) Abba 4 ( 5 ) WHEN YOU'RE IN LOVE WITH A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN Dr. Hook 5 ( 3 ) MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE The Police 6 ( 4 ) VIDEO KILLED THE RADIO STAR The Buggles 7 ( 22 ) STAR Earth Wind & Fire 8 ( 20 ) HOLD ON Ian Gomm 9 ( 6 ) SINCE YOU'VE BEEN GONE Rainbow 10 ( 17 ) RISE Herb Alpert 11 ( 15 ) MY FORBIDDEN LOVER Chic 12 ( 9 ) MAKING PLANS FOR NIGEL XTC 13 ( 7 ) DREAMING Blondie 14 ( 14 ) OK FRED Errol Dunkley 15 ( 11 ) WHATEVER YOU WANT Status Quo 16 ( 10 ) DON'T STOP TILL YOU GET ENOUGH Michael Jackson 17 ( 27 ) SHE'S IN LOVE WITH YOU Suzi Quatro 18 ( 12 ) DON'T BRING ME DOWN E.L.O. 19 ( 13 ) GET IT RIGHT NEXT TIME Gerry Rafferty 20 ( 29 ) ON MY RADIO The Selecter 21 ( 19 ) THE DEVIL WENT DOWN TO GEORGIA The Charlie Daniels Band 22 ( 18 ) CARS Gary Numan 23 ( 30 ) SAD EYES Robert John 24 ( 24 ) GLORIA/ EVERYONE'S GONE TO THE MOON Jonathan King 25 ( 33 ) GONNA GET ALONG WITHOUT YOU NOW Viola Wills 26 ( 16 ) THE CHOSEN FEW The Dooleys 27 ( 54 ) KNOCKED IT OFF B.A. Robertson 28 ( NEW ) I DON'T WANT TO BE A FREAK Dynasty 29 ( 26 ) SAIL ON The Commodores 30 ( 25 ) CRUEL TO BE KIND Nick Lowe 31 ( 43 ) YOU'VE GOT MY NUMBER (WHY DON'T YOU USE IT) The Undertones 32 ( 35 ) SPIRIT BODY AND SOUL The Nolan Sisters 33 ( 21 ) SUMAHAMA The Beach Boys 34 ( 23 ) THEM HEAVY PEOPLE Kate Bush 35 ( NEW ) STILL The Commodores 36 ( 36 ) GOODBYE STRANGER Supertramp 37 ( 37 ) FREEDOM'S PRISONER Steve Harley 38 ( NEW ) A MESSAGE TO YOU RUDI The Specials 39 ( 71 ) THE SPARROW The Ramblers 40 ( 31 ) EVERYDAY HURTS Sad Cafe 41 ( 32 ) ROCK AROUND THE CLOCK The Sex Pistols 42 ( 40 ) VOULEZ VOUS/ ANGEL EYES Abba 43 ( 42 ) WE DON'T TALK ANYMORE Cliff Richard 44 ( 34 ) LET ME KNOW (I HAVE A RIGHT) Gloria Gaynor 45 ( 38 ) YOU CAN DO IT Al Hudson 46 ( 28 ) FOR YOU Judy Tzuke 47 ( 47 ) STRAIGHT LINES New Musik 48 ( 58 ) NUCLEAR DEVICE (WIZARD OF AUS) The Stranglers 49 ( NEW ) I BELIEVE IN YOUR SWEET LOVE Bonnie Tyler 50 ( 44 ) THE LONELIEST MAN IN THE WORLD The Tourists 51 ( 55 ) YOU'RE A BETTER MAN THAN I Sham '69 52 ( 70 ) BRIGHT SIDE OF THE ROAD Van Morrison 53 ( NEW ) ETON RIFLES The Jam 54 ( 45 ) SLAP AND TICKLE Squeeze 55 ( 50 ) JUST WHEN I NEEDED YOU MOST Randy Vanwarmer 56 ( 53 ) I DON'T LIKE MONDAYS The Boomtown Rats 57 ( 60 ) DREADLOCK HOLIDAY 10CC 58 ( 59 ) BAKER STREET Gerry Rafferty 59 ( 57 ) ARE 'FRIENDS' ELECTRIC Tubeway Army 60 ( 64 ) CRAZY LITTLE THING CALLED LOVE Queen 61 ( NEW ) LADIES NIGHT Kool And The Gang 62 ( 39 ) HEARTACHE TONIGHT The Eagles 63 ( 63 ) SPOOKY Atlanta Rhythm Section 64 ( 41 ) BACK OF MY HAND The Jags 65 ( 48 ) ALIEN Nostromo 66 ( 65 ) CAN'T STAND LOSING YOU The Police 67 ( 46 ) THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME The Headboys 68 ( NEW ) SMASH IT UP The Damned 69 ( 62 ) LOST IN MUSIC Sister Sledge 70 ( 49 ) BABY BLUE Dusty Springfield 71 ( NEW ) SARAH Thin Lizzy 72 ( 52 ) THE PRINCE Madness 73 ( 73 ) IF YOU REMEMBER ME Chris Thompson 74 ( NEW ) CAN'T GET ENOUGH OF YOUR LOVE Darts 75 ( NEW ) TRYOUTS FOR THE HUMAN RACE Sparks TV 1 Star Trek: The Galileo Seven 2 It'll Be Alright On The Night 2 3 Soap 4 MASH 5 Top Of The Pops 6 The Rockford Files 7 Film 79 8 Muhammed Ali's Greatest Hits 9 The Waltons 10 Not The 9 o'clock News This post has been edited by popchartfreak: Dec 3 2014, 09:21 PM |
|
|
Dec 4 2014, 08:22 PM
Post
#54
|
|
BuzzJack Legend
Group: Moderator
Posts: 22,697 Member No.: 17,376 Joined: 18-July 12
No Gallery Pics
|
13th November 1979 Back up to number one, saving Gimme Gimme Gimme from the shame of shortest run topping my charts for an Abba song. It’s great too! New in at 2 though, following on from the Dickies cover, the original epic version by The Moody Blues is back 7 years after peaking at 3 and 11 years after first being released (pre-dating my charts). Saw them last year in concert (2013): fab. Sole climber into the 10 is ska act The Selecter, and a jumpy bit of the same old song On My Radio. Not really! BA climbs to 13, Commodores to 17, Specials to 21, Undertones to 25, Jam at 31 ahead of the new entries surge: Dan-I in at 30 with Monkey Chop, a great KC-ish soulpop minor dance hit that should have been big, lyrics aside it’s great. Donna Summer and Barbra Streisand had both hit the top spot in 1977, but not done it since despite hits throughout, so will the battling diva duet take them all the way? Nah! I like it though. At 37, ELO’s 5th of the year is a double A Side delight of two great tracks from discovery, following up number 1 Don’t Bring Me Down. First off the block was Last Train To London, a riffy catchy synthy pop slice of typical ELO. Confusion wasn’t getting any airplay at this time, sadly. Also following up number 1’s: The Police return with another winner, the great Saturn-V video’d Walking On The Moon at 57, while Cliff sneaks in at 75 with Hot Shot, behind his topper, and also behind his producer and songwriter Alan Tarney at 72 with a cover of Cathy’s Clown. Oops Cliff bad choice! The Tourists get on the Dusty cover-version bandwagon as 60’s pop nostalgia starts to get a hold on the new pop music scene, in at 65 with a good version (as opposed to the Bay City Rollers twee version from 1976) of I Only Want To be With You. At 59, though, it’s the majesty state-of-the-art synth-strings-percussive dance sounds of Rose Royce and their brilliant Is It Love You’re After. Heavily sampled for 1988 Number One Theme From S’Express, the original is an exciting, rifftastic anthemic delight, as is S’Express’. Also keeps up their run of hits 3 years in... Others: Secret Affair pop back with an OK track, France Joli has a smooth ballad, big in the USA, at 70, The Simms Brothers pop in quite highly at 51 - who?! - US rockjazz, actually, not a million miles away from Styx, who enter at 74 with future UK hit ballad Babe (and US biggie), a good ol’ song. At College, I finally got to get to see Alien, that Ridley Scott masterpiece of dramatic sci-fi tension, visually-stunning, plot-unpredictably-twisted, ground-breaking monster invention movie. The one I’d missed in California due to friends inability to get ready on time! My review? “Classic...I shivered from beginning to end...I haven’t seen such a tense film ever, I was biting my hand at the tenseness. Sigourney Weaver was Brilliant as the HERO - a heroic struggle of the individual versus the unknown...the definitive horror film for me.” Still is, actually! I made a list of my top films immediately: Close Encounters Of The Third Kind Star Wars Alien The Poseidon Adventure Superman 2001 Planet Of The Apes Jesus Christ Superstar Blazing Saddles I did my all-time top 100 recently, and 2010 edged out 2001 (though 2001 is the classic), while only Superman missed the list by a mile, so my tastes remain pretty constant. Raved about Alien to Julie, Pete, Bev, Paul, Sue and Jane, all round for TV, chat, slideshow, a game of scrabble, Life Of Brian featured on Film 79 (yes, seen it 2 months at the Chinese Theatre LA, already, I told Barry Norman on the screen, the UK having to wait even to see bloody British films!) and also panel discussion shows with tits like Malcolm Muggeridge insisting it was anti-Jesus, when it was actually anti-religious blind followers and full of social commentary. English lecturer this time had us performing a South Sea Island Pre-Marriage Ritual, which was kinda fun actually, as was snooker. Read Poe’s The Raven. One of my fave poem’s actually, largely due to the MAD magazine illustrated version I bought in Singapore. Watched a harrowing TV shown on Auschwitz. Not ideal bedtime viewing. Everyone decided to go and see Alien while Star Trek was on TV (so no chance of me joining them, everyone knew!). The next game of snooker “I was really brilliant” 33 point break. Well, everything’s relative! More evenings of laughs and visits and TV - I must say as social life goes, it can’t get better than everyone using you as a focal point, makes you feel so wanted! Or, more likely, I would never turn anyone away...! Mark Twain’s Huck Finn the next novel for American Studies. Top Of The Pops annoyed me: Dr Hook had been replaced at 1 by Lena Martell. How very dare they! That’s not what they announced on Tuesday’s chart rundown! Friday was Art day, I was grouped with 3 mature student ladies (probably in their 30’s, eek!) for a discussion on foyer printworks. Not the ceramic sculptures of the female ladyparts though, that were put on exhibit, and then very quickly taken off exhibit from the College foyer following complaints. I wasn’t shocked, more bemused as I’d never seen ladies bits up close before, but it made a great bit of drama and talking-point. The artist, male, was most put-out at his forest of lady-gardens being pruned. I went home for the weekend, dad picked me up, mum having been ill lately, and looking very tired, we had to call the doctor out saturday night as she was in so much pain and nauseous. By now she was so desperate to get rid of the pain, which had been going on weeks, that she wanted to get into hospital to get it sorted. All very worrying and depressing. Just to add to the mood, little cousin Rachel let loose that all my budgies were dead from the cold (donated to grandad’s school for the kids, they had an outdoor aviary and he was caretaker) which pissed me off. This is turning into a novel.....! Sorry! 1 ( 3 ) GIMME GIMME GIMME (A MAN AFTER MIDNIGHT) Abba 2 ( NEW ) NIGHTS IN WHITE SATIN The Moody Blues 3 ( 2 ) TUSK Fleetwood Mac 4 ( 1 ) BIRD SONG Lene Lovich 5 ( 4 ) WHEN YOU'RE IN LOVE WITH A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN Dr. Hook 6 ( 10 ) RISE Herb Alpert 7 ( 7 ) STAR Earth Wind & Fire 8 ( 20 ) ON MY RADIO The Selecter 9 ( 6 ) VIDEO KILLED THE RADIO STAR The Buggles 10 ( 5 ) MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE The Police 11 ( 8 ) HOLD ON Ian Gomm 12 ( 17 ) SHE'S IN LOVE WITH YOU Suzi Quatro 13 ( 27 ) KNOCKED IT OFF B.A. Robertson 14 ( 12 ) MAKING PLANS FOR NIGEL XTC 15 ( 23 ) SAD EYES Robert John 16 ( 16 ) DON'T STOP TILL YOU GET ENOUGH Michael Jackson 17 ( 35 ) STILL The Commodores 18 ( 9 ) SINCE YOU'VE BEEN GONE Rainbow 19 ( 11 ) MY FORBIDDEN LOVER Chic 20 ( 14 ) OK FRED Errol Dunkley 21 ( 38 ) A MESSAGE TO YOU RUDI The Specials 22 ( 13 ) DREAMING Blondie 23 ( 19 ) GET IT RIGHT NEXT TIME Gerry Rafferty 24 ( 18 ) DON'T BRING ME DOWN E.L.O. 25 ( 31 ) YOU'VE GOT MY NUMBER (WHY DON'T YOU USE IT) The Undertones 26 ( 28 ) I DON'T WANT TO BE A FREAK Dynasty 27 ( 15 ) WHATEVER YOU WANT Status Quo 28 ( 22 ) CARS Gary Numan 29 ( 25 ) GONNA GET ALONG WITHOUT YOU NOW Viola Wills 30 ( NEW ) MONKEY CHOP Dan-I 31 ( 53 ) ETON RIFLES The Jam 32 ( 29 ) SAIL ON The Commodores 33 ( NEW ) NO MORE TEARS (ENOUGH IS ENOUGH) Donna Summer and Barbra Streisand 34 ( 21 ) THE DEVIL WENT DOWN TO GEORGIA The Charlie Daniels Band 35 ( 24 ) GLORIA/ EVERYONE'S GONE TO THE MOON Jonathan King 36 ( 26 ) THE CHOSEN FEW The Dooleys 37 ( NEW ) CONFUSION/ LAST TRAIN TO LONDON E.L.O. 38 ( 30 ) CRUEL TO BE KIND Nick Lowe 39 ( 61 ) LADIES NIGHT Kool And The Gang 40 ( 51 ) YOU'RE A BETTER MAN THAN I Sham '69 41 ( 36 ) GOODBYE STRANGER Supertramp 42 ( 40 ) EVERYDAY HURTS Sad Cafe 43 ( 34 ) THEM HEAVY PEOPLE Kate Bush 44 ( 42 ) VOULEZ VOUS/ ANGEL EYES Abba 45 ( 33 ) SUMAHAMA The Beach Boys 46 ( 60 ) CRAZY LITTLE THING CALLED LOVE Queen 47 ( 49 ) I BELIEVE IN YOUR SWEET LOVE Bonnie Tyler 48 ( 43 ) WE DON'T TALK ANYMORE Cliff Richard 49 ( 63 ) SPOOKY Atlanta Rhythm Section 50 ( 71 ) SARAH Thin Lizzy 51 ( NEW ) BACK TO SCHOOL The Simms Brothers Band 52 ( 46 ) FOR YOU Judy Tzuke 53 ( 39 ) THE SPARROW The Ramblers 54 ( 55 ) JUST WHEN I NEEDED YOU MOST Randy Vanwarmer 55 ( 57 ) DREADLOCK HOLIDAY 10CC 56 ( 58 ) BAKER STREET Gerry Rafferty 57 ( NEW ) WALKING ON THE MOON The Police 58 ( 56 ) I DON'T LIKE MONDAYS The Boomtown Rats 59 ( NEW ) IS IT LOVE YOU'RE AFTER Rose Royce 60 ( 59 ) ARE 'FRIENDS' ELECTRIC Tubeway Army 61 ( 50 ) THE LONELIEST MAN IN THE WORLD The Tourists 62 ( 37 ) FREEDOM'S PRISONER Steve Harley 63 ( 32 ) SPIRIT BODY AND SOUL The Nolan Sisters 64 ( 45 ) YOU CAN DO IT Al Hudson 65 ( NEW ) I ONLY WANT TO BE WITH YOU The Tourists 66 ( 48 ) NUCLEAR DEVICE (WIZARD OF AUS) The Stranglers 67 ( 44 ) LET ME KNOW (I HAVE A RIGHT) Gloria Gaynor 68 ( 74 ) CAN'T GET ENOUGH OF YOUR LOVE Darts 69 ( NEW ) LET YOUR HEART DANCE Secret Affair 70 ( NEW ) COME TO ME France Joli 71 ( 66 ) CAN'T STAND LOSING YOU The Police 72 ( NEW ) CATHY'S CLOWN Tarney and Spencer 73 ( 73 ) IF YOU REMEMBER ME Chris Thompson 74 ( NEW ) BABE Styx 75 ( NEW ) HOT SHOT Cliff Richard TV 1 Star Trek: Wolf In The Fold 2 Soap 3 MASH 4 The Odd Couple 5 Top Of The Pops 6 Film 79 7 Friday Night Saturday Morning 8 The Rockford Files 9 The Muppet Show 10 Doctor Who This post has been edited by popchartfreak: Dec 4 2014, 08:26 PM |
|
|
Dec 6 2014, 07:48 PM
Post
#55
|
|
BuzzJack Legend
Group: Moderator
Posts: 22,697 Member No.: 17,376 Joined: 18-July 12
No Gallery Pics
|
20th November 1979 The Moody Blues get a new record - longest wait between chart debut and hitting number one, taking over from Hawkwind, at just over 7 years. Nights In White Satin is a sweeping dramatic orchestral rock masterpiece, oh yes it is! The video starts off in Paris, which is kinda appropriate (see later). B.A.Robertson gets a second top in a row, well he knocked it off. He knocked it off well I mean. Suzi Quatro keeps up her top 10 entries, her 7th, and Dan-I chops those monkeys at 15, while Donna & Babs, & ELO both shoot into the top 20. Rose Royce rocket to 25, and highest new entry is The Isley Brothers, having a disco night at 29, 11 years since they first impressed me with This Old Heart Of Mine, and since. The Tourists hit 34, as The Gibson Brothers follow up a big hit with a similar-sounding fun-packed Que Sera Mi Vida. Queen at long last make my top 40 with huge UK and USA hit Crazy Little Thing Called Love - I admit I preferred early Queen to rockabilly Queen, and as Matchbox claimed at 75, I’m a rockabilly rebel. Not really, but I like it. KC & The Sunshine Band are back after a year gap with a new sound, laid back soul essentially, which I rather liked at the time, less so these days thanks to that godawful 90’s moronic cover by KWS. Madness get a 2nd hit at 66, the largely instrumental and ska-tastic, sax-heavy One Step Beyond, pushing Madness into a higher league. Sparks have another go at tryouts, doing a little better this time at 64, Anne Murray gets a 4th hit subsequent to her number one in January, the lovely Broken Hearted Me. Less lovely, but whimsically cynical, The Boomtown Rats follow-up 2 number ones with social commentary Diamond Smiles, an under-rated record, and a flop in comparison to previous singles, sneaking in at 74. On TV repeats of Roots and TV series Logans Run still hit my appreciation spot, and new sitcom Barney Miller mildly amused. Back at college, and 2 months after the USA adventure, I was preparing for an Art course excursion to Paris art galleries, architecture and museums, my second one inside 12 months, but this time without my friends, being a mix of 2nd year students, a couple of girls on my Combined Studies course in the same year, and some Honours students. Rang mum to hear she was going into hospital again, which sort of relieved me a bit as it might sort out the problem and stop the pain. Snooker and TV/drinks with the extended gang of friends in various combinations, with Edgar Allen Poe stuff in between, and some great chatting with Jane, Julie and Pete, always a good combo the 4 of us. The College had a showing of Young Frankenstein Mel Brooks’ classic, which I watched with the American coursemates (they loved it as much as me) and my room left with friends watching TV, sob I knew it was my TV they wanted! I noted Terri Garr was wonderful, appropriately enough as I watching my home video last night of her and Burt Reynolds in a 90’s between-filming breaks to TV quiz show Reel To Reel, all about movies. Life can be quite circular... I gave a speech on Huck Finn’s optimism/pessimism, very monotone reading from notes and stuttering, not something I’m good at - John Davies the lecturer noted I was typically Lincolnshire in my casual remarks about important things. Lincoln is a sort of milder, less working class version of Mansfield, the two places I spent more of life in than anywhere else up to that point. Feeling depressed in mood I quoted, what with work, mum, and Paris anxiety. I wasn’t, I was mildly stressed and down but I can get moody. Went all introverted and friends tried to cheer me up, sweet of them. Saturday: 1.45 am rise for minibus ride to Grantham rail station, met Jane Moorse outside (lots of Jane’s at College) and chatted on the bus and train. Kings Cross, Charing Cross, breakfast guessing occupations of passer-by’s for amusement. Group trip to Dover by train, 2 noisy second-year lads took a fancy to Emma and Jane in our compartment - yes trains had compartments once upon a time - and then hung around them all day. Hovercraft at Dover (is this still running!?) for a bumpy ride to Calais, my first! Hovercraft that is. Train to Paris, Metro to Republic and the hotel where I met my new room-mate, David, who was actually easy-going, a drama student who had gossip-related comments directed to me about his alleged sexual preferences. We had single beds each and a sink, the girls on the other hand were pissed off at having to share double beds in smelly rooms. A pricey meal with Emma, Jane and Sue in the Notre-Dame area in the evening, then down the Boulevard Saint Michel (shades of Peter Sarstedt!) to the Sorbonne. Back to the hotel, David was out till late, and “must have forgotten his pyjamas” I noted, as he was starkers in the morning. Many years later I saw him on TV news as a Friend Of John McCarthy hostage activist, which impressed me. Sunday: Flea Market group visit, it pissed down, and gave sympathy to bedraggled Jo and Sarah, who I spent the morning with afterwards. Then we met up with David and his “nerd” friends - how rude of me! Kettle calling frying pan etc. Pompidou Centre. Photographs. Fire-breathers in the square. Chatted to Joe and Ann, stuck with them the rest of the day, poor me flipping about amongst everyone, felt like a virginal slag! walked to Notre Dame with them. Evening at Sacre-Coeur I love it there, the mood, the lighting, the streetlife, so took Emma Jane and Sue there for a meal at a restaurant I’d been to before. I sadly joined in the gossip about David, confirming his late nights (and not mentioning the winkle-washing behaviour in the sink when he got back in, thinking I was asleep. I thought that odd at the time, and of course know exactly what that means now!). So naive, me. 1 ( 2 ) NIGHTS IN WHITE SATIN The Moody Blues 2 ( 1 ) GIMME GIMME GIMME (A MAN AFTER MIDNIGHT) Abba 3 ( 3 ) TUSK Fleetwood Mac 4 ( 4 ) BIRD SONG Lene Lovich 5 ( 6 ) RISE Herb Alpert 6 ( 5 ) WHEN YOU'RE IN LOVE WITH A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN Dr. Hook 7 ( 13 ) KNOCKED IT OFF B.A. Robertson 8 ( 8 ) ON MY RADIO The Selecter 9 ( 12 ) SHE'S IN LOVE WITH YOU Suzi Quatro 10 ( 7 ) STAR Earth Wind & Fire 11 ( 11 ) HOLD ON Ian Gomm 12 ( 9 ) VIDEO KILLED THE RADIO STAR The Buggles 13 ( 17 ) STILL The Commodores 14 ( 10 ) MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE The Police 15 ( 30 ) MONKEY CHOP Dan-I 16 ( 21 ) A MESSAGE TO YOU RUDI The Specials 17 ( 37 ) CONFUSION/ LAST TRAIN TO LONDON E.L.O. 18 ( 33 ) NO MORE TEARS (ENOUGH IS ENOUGH) Donna Summer & Barbra Streisand 19 ( 14 ) MAKING PLANS FOR NIGEL XTC 20 ( 16 ) DON'T STOP TILL YOU GET ENOUGH Michael Jackson 21 ( 31 ) ETON RIFLES The Jam 22 ( 15 ) SAD EYES Robert John 23 ( 26 ) I DON'T WANT TO BE A FREAK Dynasty 24 ( 19 ) MY FORBIDDEN LOVER Chic 25 ( 59 ) IS IT LOVE YOU'RE AFTER Rose Royce 26 ( 23 ) GET IT RIGHT NEXT TIME Gerry Rafferty 27 ( 24 ) DON'T BRING ME DOWN E.L.O. 28 ( 18 ) SINCE YOU'VE BEEN GONE Rainbow 29 ( NEW ) IT’S A DISCO NIGHT The Isley Brothers 30 ( 39 ) LADIES NIGHT Kool And The Gang 31 ( 20 ) OK FRED Errol Dunkley 32 ( 22 ) DREAMING Blondie 33 ( 28 ) CARS Gary Numan 34 ( 65 ) I ONLY WANT TO BE WITH YOU The Tourists 35 ( 69 ) LET YOUR HEART DANCE Secret Affair 36 ( 27 ) WHATEVER YOU WANT Status Quo 37 ( 50 ) SARAH Thin Lizzy 38 ( 32 ) SAIL ON The Commodores 39 ( NEW ) QUE SERA MI VIDA (IF YOU SHOULD GO) The Gibson Brothers 40 ( 46 ) CRAZY LITTLE THING CALLED LOVE Queen 41 ( 29 ) GONNA GET ALONG WITHOUT YOU NOW Viola Wills 42 ( 34 ) THE DEVIL WENT DOWN TO GEORGIA The Charlie Daniels Band 43 ( 25 ) YOU'VE GOT MY NUMBER (WHY DON'T YOU USE IT) The Undertones 44 ( 38 ) CRUEL TO BE KIND Nick Lowe 45 ( 47 ) I BELIEVE IN YOUR SWEET LOVE Bonnie Tyler 46 ( 44 ) VOULEZ VOUS/ ANGEL EYES Abba 47 ( 40 ) YOU'RE A BETTER MAN THAN I Sham ’69 48 ( 36 ) THE CHOSEN FEW The Dooleys 49 ( 42 ) EVERYDAY HURTS Sad Cafe 50 ( 41 ) GOODBYE STRANGER Supertramp 51 ( 51 ) BACK TO SCHOOL The Simms Brothers Band 52 ( 35 ) GLORIA/ EVERYONE'S GONE TO THE MOON Jonathan King 53 ( 43 ) THEM HEAVY PEOPLE Kate Bush 54 ( 48 ) WE DON'T TALK ANYMORE Cliff Richard 55 ( 56 ) BAKER STREET Gerry Rafferty 56 ( 55 ) DREADLOCK HOLIDAY 10CC 57 ( 54 ) JUST WHEN I NEEDED YOU MOST Randy Vanwarmer 58 ( NEW ) PLEASE DON’T GO KC and The Sunshine Band 59 ( 45 ) SUMAHAMA The Beach Boys 60 ( 60 ) ARE 'FRIENDS' ELECTRIC Tubeway Army 61 ( 57 ) WALKING ON THE MOON The Police 62 ( 72 ) CATHY'S CLOWN Tarney and Spencer 63 ( 75 ) HOT SHOT Cliff Richard 64 ( RE ) TRYOUTS FOR THE HUMAN RACE Sparks 65 ( 58 ) I DON'T LIKE MONDAYS The Boomtown Rats 66 ( NEW ) ONE STEP BEYOND Madness 67 ( NEW ) BROKEN HEARTED ME Anne Murray 68 ( 70 ) COME TO ME France Joli 69 ( 49 ) SPOOKY Atlanta Rhythm Section 70 ( NEW ) HE WAS BEAUTIFUL Iris Williams 71 ( 53 ) THE SPARROW The Ramblers 72 ( 74 ) BABE Styx 73 ( 71 ) CAN'T STAND LOSING YOU The Police 74 ( NEW ) DIAMOND SMILES The Boomtown Rats 75 ( NEW ) ROCKABILLY REBEL Matchbox 1. Star Trek: The Changeling 2. Barney Miller 3. Soap 4. Logans Run 5. Barney Miller 6. Roots 7. The Muppet Show 8. Sapphire And Steel 9. Top Of The Pops 10. Doctor Who |
|
|
Dec 7 2014, 03:06 PM
Post
#56
|
|
BuzzJack Legend
Group: Moderator
Posts: 22,697 Member No.: 17,376 Joined: 18-July 12
No Gallery Pics
|
27th November 1979
A 2nd week for the Moody’s at 1, as ELO’s double A side shoots up to 2 to my Confusion, and BA goes top 5. The Commodores get a 4th Top 10, 5 years after the first (and best) Machine Gun, and Dan-I breaks his monkey chops to get to 9. The Tourists and Rose Royce make headway into the 20, their 2nd and 4th respectively, while The Isleys make it 7 or so at 20. Biggest climber: The Boomotwn Rats forgotten diamond single up 50 to 24, as highest new entry is Gary Numan’s forgotten bizarre ballad Complex at 26. Madness leap one step beyond at 29, and Blondie replace themselves in the top 40 with new single Union City Blue entering at 33. KC cries Please Don’t Go, and gets to 40, as new entries drop in from Marianne Faithful, once famous in the 60’s, and now debuting in my charts at 69 with Shel Silverstein’s great The Ballad Of Lucy Jordan (he was the principle songwriter for Dr Hook’s best records). Janis Ian follows up her gem of a 1975 UK flop At 17, with a laid-back Fly Too High, not flying that high at 75. Michael Jackson’s follow-up to his classic number one is Off The Wall at 67, title track off the album that changed his career, assisted in no small part by Quincy Jones and Rod (UK Heatwave songwriter) Temperton. Stevie Wonder’s career, on the other hand, is treading water with Send One Your Love at 66. The Pretenders 3rd hit enters at 53, the fantastic Brass In Pocket, Dollar get a 4th 1979 hit as they cover the Beatles I Want To Hold Your Hand, which was sounding a bit dated by then (albeit a childhood fave), so they gave it a clappy synthy vibe which grew on one. They had by now, of course, outdone their whole career inside Guys And Dolls. Final new entry is Touch from Lori and The Chameleons. Who!? You may have heard of David Balfour, of The Teardrop Explodes and producer of Echo And The Bunnymen, and Bill Drummond, he of The Timelords and KLF. Both were in cult Liverpool band Big In Japan, and this was one of their releases on their own record label Zoo Records. Quirky. Still in Paris this week, it was a trip to the UNESCO building, where we had a film about Thailand before, and I quote, “an upper-class one-eyed twit gave us a DULL lecture on UNESCO”. Gosh, I was SO judgmental in those days! This was followed by a Peruvian lady with a French accent trying to give a lecture tour in broken English. Henry Moore sculptures abounded outdoors, along with a Japanese-designed garden. I was impressed with the latter, and not in the slightest by the former. From here to the Eifel Tower, where we bumped into the very drunk and noisy Drama students (including David), and on to Jeu De Paume for some more art: I liked some Renoir and Pissarro works. I had a quiet night in after all the walking, how dull of me! Next day, Max (my ever-present mild and likeable art lecturer) took a group of us to the Hayter workshop, chock-full of artists from all over the world doing their etchings, where an American lady artist gave us a tour. I enjoyed the group I hung around with today, including 3 second-year lads who’d I’d been wanting to get to know, what with spending all my time with girls so far, pretty much, though I did end up showing a group of girls round Paris, for which they were gracious in thanking me. Notably, Notre Dame square for snacks and a cathedral tour. I had a hunch I’d see Quasimodo. Sorry....! River Seine, and off to climb le Tour Eifel, windy and cold. As it turned out a major movie shoot was in progress on the 2nd Stage, called The Hostage Tower, with some very famous (and cold) actors sat around a table doing nothing much waiting for “Action”: I recognised Douglas Fairbanks Junior immediately, and found out afterwards who the others were (we weren’t allowed to get too close): Maud Adams off James Bond, and Peter Fonda, off Henry, Jane and Easy Rider. Well, I get starstruck, what can I say! Arc de Triomphe up next, did some postcards and posted them, back to say hi to David at the hotel, and had an evening meal with Emma Jane and Sue off the Champs Elysees, where fleas in the wine failed to impress. Especially Sue, who swallowed one of them. In a bar, conversation drifted to a prostitute in the corner. Allegedly. I went bright red with embarrassment, and generally felt bad about the girls not having a party night (I didn’t want to go, and I think they didn’t feel comfortable going unescorted). Not the party type, me, in those days. Boring! Next day was the trip back via Boulogne hovercraft - or that was the plan. It broke down, so we had to wait for the next available ship. I was pissed off as it meant we wouldn’t get back in time for Star Trek. Pah (Pete and Sue recorded it on tape for me though)! As the general mood from everyone was one of “humbug” at the delays though, I became Mr Happy for the trip home, trying to cheer everyone up. I expect they wanted to throttle me. Back late evening to tell Julie Pete Jane and Sue of my adventures. Phew! 1 ( 1 ) NIGHTS IN WHITE SATIN The Moody Blues 2 ( 17 ) CONFUSION/ LAST TRAIN TO LONDON E.L.O. 3 ( 2 ) GIMME GIMME GIMME (A MAN AFTER MIDNIGHT) Abba 4 ( 3 ) TUSK Fleetwood Mac 5 ( 7 ) KNOCKED IT OFF B.A. Robertson 6 ( 4 ) BIRD SONG Lene Lovich 7 ( 6 ) WHEN YOU'RE IN LOVE WITH A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN Dr. Hook 8 ( 5 ) RISE Herb Alpert 9 ( 15 ) MONKEY CHOP Dan-I 10 ( 13 ) STILL The Commodores 11 ( 18 ) NO MORE TEARS (ENOUGH IS ENOUGH) Donna Summer & Barbra Streisand 12 ( 22 ) SAD EYES Robert John 13 ( 25 ) IS IT LOVE YOU'RE AFTER Rose Royce 14 ( 16 ) A MESSAGE TO YOU RUDI The Specials 15 ( 34 ) I ONLY WANT TO BE WITH YOU The Tourists 16 ( 14 ) MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE The Police 17 ( 8 ) ON MY RADIO The Selecter 18 ( 9 ) SHE'S IN LOVE WITH YOU Suzi Quatro 19 ( 23 ) I DON'T WANT TO BE A FREAK Dynasty 20 ( 29 ) IT’S A DISCO NIGHT The Isley Brothers 21 ( 12 ) VIDEO KILLED THE RADIO STAR The Buggles 22 ( 10 ) STAR Earth Wind & Fire 23 ( 11 ) HOLD ON Ian Gomm 24 ( 74 ) DIAMOND SMILES The Boomtown Rats 25 ( 21 ) ETON RIFLES The Jam 26 ( NEW ) COMPLEX Gary Numan 27 ( 20 ) DON'T STOP TILL YOU GET ENOUGH Michael Jackson 28 ( 30 ) LADIES NIGHT Kool And The Gang 29 ( 66 ) ONE STEP BEYOND Madness 30 ( 39 ) QUE SERA MI VIDA (IF YOU SHOULD GO) The Gibson Brothers 31 ( 27 ) DON'T BRING ME DOWN E.L.O. 32 ( 26 ) GET IT RIGHT NEXT TIME Gerry Rafferty 33 ( NEW ) UNION CITY BLUE Blondie 34 ( 35 ) LET YOUR HEART DANCE Secret Affair 35 ( 19 ) MAKING PLANS FOR NIGEL XTC 36 ( 33 ) CARS Gary Numan 37 ( 40 ) CRAZY LITTLE THING CALLED LOVE Queen 38 ( 28 ) SINCE YOU'VE BEEN GONE Rainbow 39 ( 37 ) SARAH Thin Lizzy 40 ( 58 ) PLEASE DON’T GO KC and The Sunshine Band 41 ( 45 ) I BELIEVE IN YOUR SWEET LOVE Bonnie Tyler 42 ( 24 ) MY FORBIDDEN LOVER Chic 43 ( 68 ) COME TO ME France Joli 44 ( 36 ) WHATEVER YOU WANT Status Quo 45 ( 38 ) SAIL ON The Commodores 46 ( 46 ) VOULEZ VOUS/ ANGEL EYES Abba 47 ( 32 ) DREAMING Blondie 48 ( 44 ) CRUEL TO BE KIND Nick Lowe 49 ( 31 ) OK FRED Errol Dunkley 50 ( NEW ) TOUCH Lori And The Chameleons 51 ( NEW ) I WANNA HOLD YOUR HAND Dollar 52 ( 41 ) GONNA GET ALONG WITHOUT YOU NOW Viola Wills 53 ( NEW ) BRASS IN POCKET The Pretenders 54 ( 55 ) BAKER STREET Gerry Rafferty 55 ( 56 ) DREADLOCK HOLIDAY 10CC 56 ( 54 ) WE DON'T TALK ANYMORE Cliff Richard 57 ( 62 ) CATHY'S CLOWN Tarney and Spencer 58 ( 67 ) BROKEN HEARTED ME Anne Murray 59 ( 61 ) WALKING ON THE MOON The Police 60 ( 50 ) GOODBYE STRANGER Supertramp 61 ( 57 ) JUST WHEN I NEEDED YOU MOST Randy Vanwarmer 62 ( 42 ) THE DEVIL WENT DOWN TO GEORGIA The Charlie Daniels Band 63 ( 53 ) THEM HEAVY PEOPLE Kate Bush 64 ( 65 ) I DON'T LIKE MONDAYS The Boomtown Rats 65 ( 60 ) ARE 'FRIENDS' ELECTRIC Tubeway Army 66 ( NEW ) SEND ONE YOUR LOVE Stevie Wonder 67 ( NEW ) OFF THE WALL Michael Jackson 68 ( 75 ) ROCKABILLY REBEL Matchbox 69 ( NEW ) THE BALLAD OF LUCY JORDAN Marianne Faithful 70 ( 43 ) YOU'VE GOT MY NUMBER (WHY DON'T YOU USE IT) The Undertones 71 ( 49 ) EVERYDAY HURTS Sad Cafe 72 ( 63 ) HOT SHOT Cliff Richard 73 ( 64 ) TRYOUTS FOR THE HUMAN RACE Sparks 74 ( 59 ) SUMAHAMA The Beach Boys 75 ( NEW ) FLY TOO HIGH Janis Ian 1. The Trouble With Tribbles 1. Soap 3. Sapphire And Steel 4. MASH 5. Top Of The Pops 6. The Odd Couple 7. My Wife Next Door 8. Soap 9. The Muppet Show 10. Hawaii 5-0 This post has been edited by popchartfreak: Dec 18 2014, 02:50 PM |
|
|
Jan 4 2015, 02:08 PM
Post
#57
|
|
BuzzJack Legend
Group: Moderator
Posts: 22,697 Member No.: 17,376 Joined: 18-July 12
No Gallery Pics
|
4th December 1979
ELO get their second number one of the year, largely due to Confusion and it’s fantastic melody and synth riff, love it! For the record, that’s 8 number ones spanning 7 years. Gary Numan gets his 3rd top 3 of the year as Complex leaps to 3, and Rose Royce get their 3rd Top 10 in 2 years as Theme From S’Express (well, sort of, hits 6), while Donna and Babs get their biggest hit of the year - enough is enough! The Police rocket 49 places taking giant steps attempting to walk on the moon at 10, that’ll be 4 top 10‘s in a row then! Lots of upward movements for several fave pop stars, and new at 18 it’s a genuine classic record from Pink Floyd, and that animated video. No-one expected Pink Floyd to do anything remotely commercial, they didn’t do singles, that was the firm rule, so to have this come out at christmas, off The Wall, while Michael Jackson was Off The Wall (see 25) was a major talking point amongst music fans. Not commercial? Not in one sense, but in another sense, brilliantly commercial by virtue of being effing fabulous. The Skids enter at 35 with 4th hit of 1979, Working For The Yankee Dollar, they claim, somewhat dubiously, as they had no USA success. The Three Degrees follow-up a fantastic disco classic with...err My Simple Heart. Hmmm. Mellow. Ditto Quo, rock classic, hmmm, mellow: Living On An Island, 50 and 53 respectively. Mike Oldfield follows up his guilty disco hit with a guilty Blue Peter TV theme update - we all knew the tune in those days, very jolly. At 69, belatedly entering, the terrific Sing Children Sing, Lesley Duncan’s great 1971 flop single is re-recorded for Children In Need with an all-star backing chorus: Kate Bush, Pete Townsend, Joe Brown, Phil Lynott, and many more. Lesley never made it big, despite critical approval and support from the likes of Elton John, possibly due to her stage fright problems, and sadly passed away in 2010. Finally, at 73, Sheila B. Devotion is back, showing us all B. Devotion is the name of her backing band, not hers, and it’s a Chic record, as in Chic in all but artist name - French-accented vocals as opposed to American, but Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards are behind this fab classy dance track with the sci-fi theme. Given Chic were running out of steam at this point, it was jolly decent of them to give this away! 1 ( 2 ) CONFUSION/ LAST TRAIN TO LONDON E.L.O. 2 ( 1 ) NIGHTS IN WHITE SATIN The Moody Blues 3 ( 26 ) COMPLEX Gary Numan 4 ( 5 ) KNOCKED IT OFF B.A. Robertson 5 ( 3 ) GIMME GIMME GIMME (A MAN AFTER MIDNIGHT) Abba 6 ( 13 ) IS IT LOVE YOU'RE AFTER Rose Royce 7 ( 4 ) TUSK Fleetwood Mac 8 ( 9 ) MONKEY CHOP Dan-I 9 ( 11 ) NO MORE TEARS (ENOUGH IS ENOUGH) Donna Summer & Barbra Streisand 10 ( 59 ) WALKING ON THE MOON The Police 11 ( 30 ) QUE SERA MI VIDA (IF YOU SHOULD GO) The Gibson Brothers 12 ( 7 ) WHEN YOU'RE IN LOVE WITH A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN Dr. Hook 13 ( 24 ) DIAMOND SMILES The Boomtown Rats 14 ( 8 ) RISE Herb Alpert 15 ( 15 ) I ONLY WANT TO BE WITH YOU The Tourists 16 ( 33 ) UNION CITY BLUE Blondie 17 ( 6 ) BIRD SONG Lene Lovich 18 ( NEW ) ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL (PART 2) Pink Floyd 19 ( 20 ) IT’S A DISCO NIGHT The Isley Brothers 20 ( 29 ) ONE STEP BEYOND Madness 21 ( 10 ) STILL The Commodores 22 ( 16 ) MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE The Police 23 ( 28 ) LADIES NIGHT Kool And The Gang 24 ( 12 ) SAD EYES Robert John 25 ( 67 ) OFF THE WALL Michael Jackson 26 ( 21 ) VIDEO KILLED THE RADIO STAR The Buggles 27 ( 23 ) HOLD ON Ian Gomm 28 ( 14 ) A MESSAGE TO YOU RUDI The Specials 29 ( 39 ) SARAH Thin Lizzy 30 ( 22 ) STAR Earth Wind & Fire 31 ( 40 ) PLEASE DON’T GO KC and The Sunshine Band 32 ( 31 ) DON'T BRING ME DOWN E.L.O. 33 ( 32 ) GET IT RIGHT NEXT TIME Gerry Rafferty 34 ( 34 ) LET YOUR HEART DANCE Secret Affair 35 ( NEW ) WORKING FOR THE YANKEE DOLLAR The Skids 36 ( 18 ) SHE'S IN LOVE WITH YOU Suzi Quatro 37 ( 53 ) BRASS IN POCKET The Pretenders 38 ( 27 ) DON'T STOP TILL YOU GET ENOUGH Michael Jackson 39 ( 43 ) COME TO ME France Joli 40 ( 17 ) ON MY RADIO The Selecter 41 ( 25 ) ETON RIFLES The Jam 42 ( 36 ) CARS Gary Numan 43 ( 37 ) CRAZY LITTLE THING CALLED LOVE Queen 44 ( 58 ) BROKEN HEARTED ME Anne Murray 45 ( 35 ) MAKING PLANS FOR NIGEL XTC 46 ( 38 ) SINCE YOU'VE BEEN GONE Rainbow 47 ( 50 ) TOUCH Lori And The Chameleons 48 ( 19 ) I DON'T WANT TO BE A FREAK Dynasty 49 ( 45 ) SAIL ON The Commodores 50 ( NEW ) MY SIMPLE HEART The Three Degrees 51 ( 51 ) I WANNA HOLD YOUR HAND Dollar 52 ( 46 ) VOULEZ VOUS/ ANGEL EYES Abba 53 ( NEW ) LIVING ON AN ISLAND Status Quo 54 ( 48 ) CRUEL TO BE KIND Nick Lowe 55 ( 44 ) WHATEVER YOU WANT Status Quo 56 ( 66 ) SEND ONE YOUR LOVE Stevie Wonder 57 ( 54 ) BAKER STREET Gerry Rafferty 58 ( 55 ) DREADLOCK HOLIDAY 10CC 59 ( 56 ) WE DON'T TALK ANYMORE Cliff Richard 60 ( 69 ) THE BALLAD OF LUCY JORDAN Marianne Faithful 61 ( 47 ) DREAMING Blondie 62 ( 61 ) JUST WHEN I NEEDED YOU MOST Randy Vanwarmer 63 ( 60 ) GOODBYE STRANGER Supertramp 64 ( 64 ) I DON'T LIKE MONDAYS The Boomtown Rats 65 ( 65 ) ARE 'FRIENDS' ELECTRIC Tubeway Army 66 ( 68 ) ROCKABILLY REBEL Matchbox 67 ( NEW ) BLUE PETER Mike Oldfield 68 ( 42 ) MY FORBIDDEN LOVER Chic 69 ( NEW ) SING CHILDREN SING Lesley Duncan 70 ( 41 ) I BELIEVE IN YOUR SWEET LOVE Bonnie Tyler 71 ( 49 ) OK FRED Errol Dunkley 72 ( 75 ) FLY TOO HIGH Janis Ian 73 ( NEW ) SPACER Sheila and B. Devotion 74 ( 63 ) THEM HEAVY PEOPLE Kate Bush 75 ( 62 ) THE DEVIL WENT DOWN TO GEORGIA The Charlie Daniels Band MY TV CHART 1. Star Trek: Journey To Babel 2. Soap 3. Top Of The Pops 4. A Day At The Races (Marx Brothers Film) 5. Logan’s Run (TV series) 6. The New Avengers 7. Parkinson 8. Happy Days 9. Doctor Who 10. Time Express: film At College still writing my Poe essay, snooker while 2nd year lads practiced on their drum kit (how cool to envious me!), Spike Milligan on Parkinson, really enjoyed John Davis American Studies literature lecture, lots of laughs and thought-provoking. Chatting to 2nd year Art students also working on screen printing enjoyable. A fab video-only Top Of The Pops with the usual gang round for a TV evening. We laughed a lot, always. This was the saturday that Pete Paul and I compared who’s record player was most accurate starting Message In A Bottle at the same time, I knew Pete’s ran too fast (verified), which was funny. The girls thought we were mad. We went to the cinema to see a reissue of The Poseidon Adventure, still one of my top 5 films at that time, then in the evening a 21st birthday disco in the student union function room where a Jane (there were several Jane friends) wrapped her arms round my neck and wouldn’t let me leave till I danced. I agreed only if everyone else sat also danced, this bit of blackmail backfired when everyone else got up and I had to dance for 4 numbers, unable to vary my dance - Judy Murray on Strictly looked positively flowing in comparison to my dance skills then! Pretty sure this Jane fancied me, I was invited to her party even though she was under the incorrect assumption that I was going out with Julie. Maybe she’d noticed her canoodling with Pete... Oops, stress for me next week! This post has been edited by popchartfreak: Jan 7 2015, 03:27 PM |
|
|
Jan 4 2015, 09:12 PM
Post
#58
|
|
BuzzJack Legend
Group: Moderator
Posts: 22,697 Member No.: 17,376 Joined: 18-July 12
No Gallery Pics
|
11th December 1979
Third number one for The Police, Walking On The Moon, and Sting is hot with everyone it seems, bleached blonde all 3. Hope that doesn’t make you lose your hair Sting! The Rats get a 3rd consecutive top 5, Diamond Smiles boys! The Gibson Brothers go for their 2nd, Madness their fabulous first, and The Tourists get Dave and Annie in the 10 3 years before Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This). Oh Yes, Pink Floyd also get in the 10 for the first time! Abba bizarrely go for an album track from Voulez Vous, the 5th to feature on a single, as the follow-up to brand-new non-album track Gimme Gimme Gimme, though it certainly had wide-appeal - obviously, as it hit 2 in the UK charts behind Pink Floyd. The Skids and The Pretenders zip up into the 20, both for the 3rd time, and a new entry at 22 for a very significant record: Yes it’s Nile Rodgers and Chic again - with a twist! It’s the backing track being rapped over by a new act, The Sugarhill Gang, of Sylvia Robinson’s record label (number 2 in 1973 with Pillow Talk in my charts, loved it). Widely-regarded as a novelty hit, it was actually the sign of Pop Future via message dance rap and gangsta rap all the way through to obligatory rap. At 24, Paul McCartney has a go at a christmas classic - and gets it with Wonderful Christmastime, though frankly I prefer the frog chorus anyday. Anyways, that’s 8 years of solo hits and 11 with The Beatles and Wings, but not his finest hour. Amusingly Dollar’s version of I want To Hold Your Hand nestles just below at 25, another record I’d rather hear than the annual christmas overplay. M get a follow-up hit, Moonlight And Musak, and it’s very nice, under-appreciated I thought. Spacer and The Ballad Of Lucy Jordan both go 40, both deservedly, while It’s My House enters twice: Diana Ross going for 11 years of hits at 40 with the original version, and a reggae version at 75 from Storm which is quite nice too. A bit of rockpop at 68 from Rocky Burnette, son of 50’s rocker Johnny Burnette, and the great Tired Of Toeing The Line, while a second Sara enters the charts - Thin Lizzy drop with theirs as Stevie Nicks utterly-effing-fantastic Fleetwood Mac affecting ballad enters at 70. Sara is a track that has grown with time, it reduces me to tears when I see and hear Stevie sing it live (as I have done 3 times, and will be doing again later this year). Just brilliance. At 74, Darts cover Jackie Wilson to minimal effect, Reet Petite at 74, but he’ll be back posthumously himself in 1986 with the only version that counts. 1 ( 10 ) WALKING ON THE MOON The Police 2 ( 1 ) CONFUSION/ LAST TRAIN TO LONDON E.L.O. 3 ( 3 ) COMPLEX Gary Numan 4 ( 2 ) NIGHTS IN WHITE SATIN The Moody Blues 5 ( 13 ) DIAMOND SMILES The Boomtown Rats 6 ( 6 ) IS IT LOVE YOU'RE AFTER Rose Royce 7 ( 11 ) QUE SERA MI VIDA (IF YOU SHOULD GO) The Gibson Brothers 8 ( 20 ) ONE STEP BEYOND Madness 9 ( 15 ) I ONLY WANT TO BE WITH YOU The Tourists 10 ( 18 ) ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL (PART 2) Pink Floyd 11 ( 5 ) GIMME GIMME GIMME (A MAN AFTER MIDNIGHT) Abba 12 ( 4 ) KNOCKED IT OFF B.A. Robertson 13 ( 8 ) MONKEY CHOP Dan-I 14 ( 16 ) UNION CITY BLUE Blondie 15 ( 7 ) TUSK Fleetwood Mac 16 ( NEW ) I HAVE A DREAM Abba 17 ( 35 ) WORKING FOR THE YANKEE DOLLAR The Skids 18 ( 12 ) WHEN YOU'RE IN LOVE WITH A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN Dr. Hook 19 ( 37 ) BRASS IN POCKET The Pretenders 20 ( 25 ) OFF THE WALL Michael Jackson 21 ( 9 ) NO MORE TEARS (ENOUGH IS ENOUGH) Donna Summer & Barbra Streisand 22 ( NEW ) RAPPER’S DELIGHT The Sugarhill Gang 23 ( 14 ) RISE Herb Alpert 24 ( NEW ) WONDERFUL CHRISTMASTIME Paul McCartney 25 ( 51 ) I WANNA HOLD YOUR HAND Dollar 26 ( 22 ) MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE The Police 27 ( 19 ) IT’S A DISCO NIGHT The Isley Brothers 28 ( 17 ) BIRD SONG Lene Lovich 29 ( 31 ) PLEASE DON’T GO KC and The Sunshine Band 30 ( 26 ) VIDEO KILLED THE RADIO STAR The Buggles 31 ( 21 ) STILL The Commodores 32 ( 23 ) LADIES NIGHT Kool And The Gang 33 ( NEW ) MOONLIGHT AND MUSAK M 34 ( 32 ) DON'T BRING ME DOWN E.L.O. 35 ( 33 ) GET IT RIGHT NEXT TIME Gerry Rafferty 36 ( 73 ) SPACER Sheila and B. Devotion 37 ( 39 ) COME TO ME France Joli 38 ( 60 ) THE BALLAD OF LUCY JORDAN Marianne Faithful 39 ( 24 ) SAD EYES Robert John 40 ( NEW ) IT’S MY HOUSE Diana Ross 41 ( 27 ) HOLD ON Ian Gomm 42 ( 29 ) SARAH Thin Lizzy 43 ( 53 ) LIVING ON AN ISLAND Status Quo 44 ( 30 ) STAR Earth Wind & Fire 45 ( 38 ) DON'T STOP TILL YOU GET ENOUGH Michael Jackson 46 ( 42 ) CARS Gary Numan 47 ( 47 ) TOUCH Lori And The Chameleons 48 ( 50 ) MY SIMPLE HEART The Three Degrees 49 ( 36 ) SHE'S IN LOVE WITH YOU Suzi Quatro 50 ( 44 ) BROKEN HEARTED ME Anne Murray 51 ( 41 ) ETON RIFLES The Jam 52 ( 34 ) LET YOUR HEART DANCE Secret Affair 53 ( 28 ) A MESSAGE TO YOU RUDI The Specials 54 ( 69 ) SING CHILDREN SING Lesley Duncan 55 ( 46 ) SINCE YOU'VE BEEN GONE Rainbow 56 ( 52 ) VOULEZ VOUS/ ANGEL EYES Abba 57 ( 40 ) ON MY RADIO The Selecter 58 ( 49 ) SAIL ON The Commodores 59 ( 57 ) BAKER STREET Gerry Rafferty 60 ( 58 ) DREADLOCK HOLIDAY 10CC 61 ( 56 ) SEND ONE YOUR LOVE Stevie Wonder 62 ( NEW ) MELLOW MELLOW RIGHT ON Lowrell 63 ( 59 ) WE DON'T TALK ANYMORE Cliff Richard 64 ( 54 ) CRUEL TO BE KIND Nick Lowe 65 ( 43 ) CRAZY LITTLE THING CALLED LOVE Queen 66 ( 62 ) JUST WHEN I NEEDED YOU MOST Randy Vanwarmer 67 ( 67 ) BLUE PETER Mike Oldfield 68 ( NEW ) TIRED OF TOEING THE LINE Rocky Burnette 69 ( 45 ) MAKING PLANS FOR NIGEL XTC 70 ( NEW ) SARA Fleetwood Mac 71 ( 55 ) WHATEVER YOU WANT Status Quo 72 ( 64 ) I DON'T LIKE MONDAYS The Boomtown Rats 73 ( 65 ) ARE 'FRIENDS' ELECTRIC Tubeway Army 74 ( NEW ) REET PETITE Darts 75 ( NEW ) IT’S MY HOUSE Storm 1. Star Trek: The Deadly Years 2. Soap 3. Logan’s Run 4. MASH 5. Happy Days 6. Fawlty Towers 7. The Odd Couple 8. Top Of The Pops 9. Barney Miller 10. Kelly Monteith 11. Time Express 12. Doctor Who 13. Hawaii 5-0 14. The New Avengers 15. My Wife Next Door Life? Had College breakfast with 5 Americans, mostly from Trenton, and had to read out a poem wot I wrote in English class. I’m not a fan of poetry for the most part, just too artificial unless it’s set to music for me. The Americans gave class an entertaining play in the afternoon, Italian immigrants in New York, though I was fascinated by the regional accents they had (Arizona, Wisconsin, New Jersey, New York) and just how much better Americans are at public presentation than shy and retiring Brits. Several assignments handed in (I did do work, honest!), Jane seemed depressed following Teaching Practice which worried me, spent all of friday on screen printing works, quick visits from various friends before Ian popped round prior to other-Jane’s party. Mostly girls there, and quite good fun actually, escorted to digs by merry Caroline arm around the waists, but too late for Paul’s party which had just wrapped up. Saturday was an outing in Paul’s car and Dave’s car to Nottingham for shopping, Julie, Jane, me and Bev as passengers. I got some Starlog/Starburst sci-fi mags and was overjoyed to find 2 1960’s Legion comics in a back-issue comic shop. I Love The Victoria Centre, said I! I ran out of money, sadly, so couldn’t get all I wanted. 10-pin bowls next, I love that game, been playing it since the late 60’s on and off. Paul won one, I won one, and showed off horribly at how much better I was. Not that I can say that about anything else much! On Monday, I arranged to “call-in impromptu” to Jane’s as she had a visiting teacher who was giving problems. It didn’t work and she didn’t take the hint. Tried to advise worried Jane afterwards. Barry Norman gave Star Trek: The Motion Picture a good review on Film Night: things were looking promising! |
|
|
Jan 5 2015, 11:05 PM
Post
#59
|
|
BuzzJack Legend
Group: Moderator
Posts: 22,697 Member No.: 17,376 Joined: 18-July 12
No Gallery Pics
|
18th December 1979 2 weeks for The Police on top, as Abba (of course) shoot up to 2 with I Have A Dream, fresh off their world tour. 1979 was the last time Kate Bush and Abba toured, so one down and one, err not a snowball chance of. Floyd at 5, and The Pretenders at 10 gives a great top 10 and a chance for me to feature videos not picked as new entry choices. Wonderful Christmastime at 15, Lesley Duncan big climb to 26, Mike Oldfield even bigger climb to 28, and Storm’s reggae cover leaps over Diana Ross’ version - mainly because it was a better record. Highest new entry is Day Trip To Bangor at 37: let’s put that down to childhood nostalgia from the days I lived on fab Isle Of Anglesey and passed through Bangor often, rather than any love of Fiddler’s Dram. Much better, it’s a classic alternate version of John I’m Only Dancing in at 39, David Bowie’s top 5 fave of mine from 1972 dating from the same period. Pretty similar and pretty brilliant, still one of my top-rated Bowie records, so under-rated. It’s also a double A side, with a 1975 version of the same song, from Bowie’s plastic soul period (which I loved) but the treatment didn’t improve the song in any way, and is at best mildly pleasant. In at 40, it’s Chic again, My Feet Keep Dancing, their third going up the charts (see 19 and 27), and shockingly their last biggish hit, though Nile Rodgers had bigger things ahead, and way ahead. Motorhead bomb back in at 43, Matchbox returns, as does Styx, while The Beat cover Smokey Robinson and debut at 56. The UK Subs cover The Zombies and enter at 63. Neither version is a patch on the original, though Tears Of A Clown is at least fun. 1 ( 1 ) WALKING ON THE MOON The Police 2 ( 16 ) I HAVE A DREAM Abba 3 ( 4 ) NIGHTS IN WHITE SATIN The Moody Blues 4 ( 8 ) ONE STEP BEYOND Madness 5 ( 10 ) ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL (PART 2) Pink Floyd 6 ( 2 ) CONFUSION/ LAST TRAIN TO LONDON E.L.O. 7 ( 7 ) QUE SERA MI VIDA (IF YOU SHOULD GO) The Gibson Brothers 8 ( 5 ) DIAMOND SMILES The Boomtown Rats 9 ( 9 ) I ONLY WANT TO BE WITH YOU The Tourists 10 ( 19 ) BRASS IN POCKET The Pretenders 11 ( 3 ) COMPLEX Gary Numan 12 ( 17 ) WORKING FOR THE YANKEE DOLLAR The Skids 13 ( 6 ) IS IT LOVE YOU'RE AFTER Rose Royce 14 ( 14 ) UNION CITY BLUE Blondie 15 ( 24 ) WONDERFUL CHRISTMASTIME Paul McCartney 16 ( 20 ) OFF THE WALL Michael Jackson 17 ( 11 ) GIMME GIMME GIMME (A MAN AFTER MIDNIGHT) Abba 18 ( 15 ) TUSK Fleetwood Mac 19 ( 22 ) RAPPER’S DELIGHT The Sugarhill Gang 20 ( 18 ) WHEN YOU'RE IN LOVE WITH A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN Dr. Hook 21 ( 12 ) KNOCKED IT OFF B.A. Robertson 22 ( 33 ) MOONLIGHT AND MUSAK M 23 ( 13 ) MONKEY CHOP Dan-I 24 ( 29 ) PLEASE DON’T GO KC and The Sunshine Band 25 ( 25 ) I WANNA HOLD YOUR HAND Dollar 26 ( 54 ) SING CHILDREN SING Lesley Duncan 27 ( 36 ) SPACER Sheila and B. Devotion 28 ( 67 ) BLUE PETER Mike Oldfield 29 ( 48 ) MY SIMPLE HEART The Three Degrees 30 ( 23 ) RISE Herb Alpert 31 ( 26 ) MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE The Police 32 ( 21 ) NO MORE TEARS (ENOUGH IS ENOUGH) Donna Summer & Barbra Streisand 33 ( 43 ) LIVING ON AN ISLAND Status Quo 34 ( 75 ) IT’S MY HOUSE Storm 35 ( 30 ) VIDEO KILLED THE RADIO STAR The Buggles 36 ( 40 ) IT’S MY HOUSE Diana Ross 37 ( NEW ) DAY TRIP TO BANGOR Fiddler’s Dram 38 ( 28 ) BIRD SONG Lene Lovich 39 ( NEW ) JOHN I’M ONLY DANCING (1972)/JOHN I’M ONLY DANCING (AGAIN) (1975) David Bowie 40 ( NEW ) MY FEET KEEP DANCING Chic 41 ( 34 ) DON'T BRING ME DOWN E.L.O. 42 ( 35 ) GET IT RIGHT NEXT TIME Gerry Rafferty 43 ( NEW ) BOMBER Motorhead 44 ( 27 ) IT’S A DISCO NIGHT The Isley Brothers 45 ( 39 ) SAD EYES Robert John 46 ( RE ) ROCKABILLY REBEL Matchbox 47 ( 61 ) SEND ONE YOUR LOVE Stevie Wonder 48 ( 31 ) STILL The Commodores 49 ( 38 ) THE BALLAD OF LUCY JORDAN Marianne Faithful 50 ( 46 ) CARS Gary Numan 51 ( 45 ) DON'T STOP TILL YOU GET ENOUGH Michael Jackson 52 ( 41 ) HOLD ON Ian Gomm 53 ( 62 ) MELLOW MELLOW RIGHT ON Lowrell 54 ( 32 ) LADIES NIGHT Kool And The Gang 55 ( 68 ) TIRED OF TOEING THE LINE Rocky Burnette 56 ( NEW ) TEARS OF A CLOWN The Beat 57 ( RE ) BABE Styx 58 ( 56 ) VOULEZ VOUS/ ANGEL EYES Abba 59 ( 37 ) COME TO ME France Joli 60 ( 44 ) STAR Earth Wind & Fire 61 ( 59 ) BAKER STREET Gerry Rafferty 62 ( 60 ) DREADLOCK HOLIDAY 10CC 63 ( NEW ) SHE’S NOT THERE The UK Subs 64 ( 51 ) ETON RIFLES The Jam 65 ( 55 ) SINCE YOU'VE BEEN GONE Rainbow 66 ( 70 ) SARA Fleetwood Mac 67 ( 66 ) JUST WHEN I NEEDED YOU MOST Randy Vanwarmer 68 ( 58 ) SAIL ON The Commodores 69 ( 74 ) REET PETITE Darts 70 ( 63 ) WE DON'T TALK ANYMORE Cliff Richard 71 ( 42 ) SARAH Thin Lizzy 72 ( 64 ) CRUEL TO BE KIND Nick Lowe 73 ( 47 ) TOUCH Lori And The Chameleons 74 ( 49 ) SHE'S IN LOVE WITH YOU Suzi Quatro 75 ( 50 ) BROKEN HEARTED ME Anne Murray TV CHART 1. Star Trek: A Private Little War 2. Parkinson 3. Soap 4. The Rockford Files 5. Kelly Monteith 6. Film 79 7. Butterflies 8. The New Avengers 9. Parkinson 10. Porridge 11. Time Express 12. Up The Gum Tree 13. The Sky At Night 14. Fantastic Voyage 15. My Wife Next Door At college, lunch with part of the gang and also Campion from Rhodesia, who was over on scholarship, very affable and only saw him get worked up once - when discussing white minority rule, he had stories to tell. Sadly, it’s replacement seems to be no improvement for some. Term was breaking up, Pete & Julie were saying goodbyes as Pete got a lift back with his sis. Sue and Paul were arguing over something - ah, end of term stresses! Fiona and Jo came round for tea and a (overlong) slide show from me of the USA. Paul, Julie, Jane round to watch Fantastic Voyage, Raquel Welch inside someone. Honest! My screen prints weren’t what I’d hoped they’d be, though OK, as I finished working in the art room. A pub evening, Paul took us in his car, and Jane gave me a £3 thank you record token! A lot of money in those days, Jane is so thoughtful and sweet-natured, artistic and intelligent too, fab company. I got tickled in the pub after going a bit enthusiastically about the jukebox music. No change there then! Back for William Shatner on Parkinson, bit of a revelation, intelligent and entertaining. In American Studies, lecturer John Davis called me a great wit (!!) which was quite a compliment, and embarrassedly mentioned my Chapel Harem - that’s my many girl mates who I supported when they had a do going on in there. I went red. A sad goodbye to American Steve who was off back to the States, and who’d had a bad assignment returned, sadly. The christmas carol college gathering was great fun, especially the American students doing Randolph The Red-Nosed Cowboy, and the Connie Stew Hall lads doing Ding Dong Merrily On High with electric guitar was funny. At the College disco it was a live College band, SAVVY, with 2nd-year Pete on drums, danced with Julie, and Sue, to the great band, The Police-inspired stuff. Last day was Art lectures, everyone tired from the late partying as people left for home during the day, including Bev off back to Mansfield (like me), and Chuck the American (another permanent goodbye). I miss being a serial gregarious-er, College absolutely taught me to socialise in a less introverted fashion. Took my wall posters down and waited for dad to pick me up and take me home, brother Mark tried to annoy me to get a reaction, mum did chips and beans for me, and they’d bought me a £40 record unit! Expensive, so I slightly told them off instead of being grateful! Doh! Played the Jesus Christ Superstar movie soundtrack album they’d also bought me for christmas. Christmas shopping for gifts on Saturday, Grandad and little cousins Helen and Neil came round with Uncle Geoff - he’s my age - and I played Risk with Mark, and won for the first time ever! We played it again with 9-year-old nephew John Christmas Day 2014. Mark won as usual. Some things never change! |
|
|
Jan 7 2015, 03:11 PM
Post
#60
|
|
BuzzJack Legend
Group: Moderator
Posts: 22,697 Member No.: 17,376 Joined: 18-July 12
No Gallery Pics
|
25th December 1979
Christmas Day chart, and we were in Gravesend (see later) and Abba’s song and Pink Floyd’s song were being heavily played on rotating 45’s by the two girls there. So appropriately they comprise my top 2! Abba get a 13th number one in a row, 14th in total, and 5th of the year. Needless to say that’s pretty much 3 records for the price of one at the time. David Bowie meanwhile gets a second top 5 hit with John I’m Only Dancing 7 years on. The Pretenders leapfrog The Tourists and girls fronting bands were catching on, after being quite the rarity pre-punk. KC gets his first top 10 single in 4 years, Macca just misses the christmas 10 with his christmas evergreen, Lesley Duncan finally cracks my top 20 8 years late, and Dollar get a 4th Top 20 hit. The Beat still cry at 28, and Babe is at 29. Not the pig, Styx. Motorhead get another top 40, and there are a mere 6 entries, headed by Boney M, who are Born Again. I wouldn’t put money on it actually! Elvis has an oldie christmas hit at 49, not one of his best though. Earth Wind & Fire Can’t Let Go at 55, not one of their best, Rupert Holmes finally starts to get his UK breakthrough hit a mere 5 years after debuting in my charts with the fab Our National Pastime. This time it’s the risque, morally dubious, but sorta sweet Escape (The Pina Colada Song) as featured in the 2014 blockbuster movie (and my 2014 charts) Guardians Of The Galaxy. Bung in The Clash at their best, London Calling at 62, and the second ever rap record to chart in the UK (and mine): Kurtis Blow with his Christmas Rappin’ at 75. 1 ( 2 ) I HAVE A DREAM Abba 2 ( 5 ) ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL (PART 2) Pink Floyd 3 ( 1 ) WALKING ON THE MOON The Police 4 ( 3 ) NIGHTS IN WHITE SATIN The Moody Blues 5 ( 39 ) JOHN I’M ONLY DANCING (1972)/JOHN I’M ONLY DANCING (AGAIN) (1975) David Bowie 6 ( 10 ) BRASS IN POCKET The Pretenders 7 ( 9 ) I ONLY WANT TO BE WITH YOU The Tourists 8 ( 6 ) CONFUSION/ LAST TRAIN TO LONDON E.L.O. 9 ( 4 ) ONE STEP BEYOND Madness 10 ( 24 ) PLEASE DON’T GO KC and The Sunshine Band 11 ( 15 ) WONDERFUL CHRISTMASTIME Paul McCartney 12 ( 12 ) WORKING FOR THE YANKEE DOLLAR The Skids 13 ( 13 ) IS IT LOVE YOU'RE AFTER Rose Royce 14 ( 7 ) QUE SERA MI VIDA (IF YOU SHOULD GO) The Gibson Brothers 15 ( 22 ) MOONLIGHT AND MUSAK M 16 ( 16 ) OFF THE WALL Michael Jackson 17 ( 8 ) DIAMOND SMILES The Boomtown Rats 18 ( 26 ) SING CHILDREN SING Lesley Duncan 19 ( 11 ) COMPLEX Gary Numan 20 ( 25 ) I WANNA HOLD YOUR HAND Dollar 21 ( 27 ) SPACER Sheila and B. Devotion 22 ( 14 ) UNION CITY BLUE Blondie 23 ( 28 ) BLUE PETER Mike Oldfield 24 ( 19 ) RAPPER’S DELIGHT The Sugarhill Gang 25 ( 17 ) GIMME GIMME GIMME (A MAN AFTER MIDNIGHT) Abba 26 ( 20 ) WHEN YOU'RE IN LOVE WITH A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN Dr. Hook 27 ( 18 ) TUSK Fleetwood Mac 28 ( 56 ) TEARS OF A CLOWN The Beat 29 ( 57 ) BABE Styx 30 ( 21 ) KNOCKED IT OFF B.A. Robertson 31 ( 23 ) MONKEY CHOP Dan-I 32 ( 37 ) DAY TRIP TO BANGOR Fiddler’s Dram 33 ( 36 ) IT’S MY HOUSE Diana Ross 34 ( 34 ) IT’S MY HOUSE Storm 35 ( 31 ) MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE The Police 36 ( 43 ) BOMBER Motorhead 37 ( 40 ) MY FEET KEEP DANCING Chic 38 ( 33 ) LIVING ON AN ISLAND Status Quo 39 ( 32 ) NO MORE TEARS (ENOUGH IS ENOUGH) Donna Summer & Barbra Streisand 40 ( NEW ) I’M BORN AGAIN Boney M 41 ( 30 ) RISE Herb Alpert 42 ( 42 ) GET IT RIGHT NEXT TIME Gerry Rafferty 43 ( 41 ) DON'T BRING ME DOWN E.L.O. 44 ( 29 ) MY SIMPLE HEART The Three Degrees 45 ( 35 ) VIDEO KILLED THE RADIO STAR The Buggles 46 ( 47 ) SEND ONE YOUR LOVE Stevie Wonder 47 ( 38 ) BIRD SONG Lene Lovich 48 ( 66 ) SARA Fleetwood Mac 49 ( NEW ) IT WON’T SEEM LIKE CHRISTMAS WITHOUT YOU Elvis Presley 50 ( 55 ) TIRED OF TOEING THE LINE Rocky Burnette 51 ( 63 ) SHE’S NOT THERE The UK Subs 52 ( 51 ) DON'T STOP TILL YOU GET ENOUGH Michael Jackson 53 ( 50 ) CARS Gary Numan 54 ( 45 ) SAD EYES Robert John 55 ( NEW ) CAN’T LET GO Earth Wind & Fire 56 ( 52 ) HOLD ON Ian Gomm 57 ( NEW ) ESCAPE (THE PINA COLADA SONG) Rupert Holmes 58 ( 62 ) DREADLOCK HOLIDAY 10CC 59 ( 61 ) BAKER STREET Gerry Rafferty 60 ( 58 ) VOULEZ VOUS/ ANGEL EYES Abba 61 ( 48 ) STILL The Commodores 62 ( NEW ) LONDON CALLING The Clash 63 ( 46 ) ROCKABILLY REBEL Matchbox 64 ( 44 ) IT’S A DISCO NIGHT The Isley Brothers 65 ( 53 ) MELLOW MELLOW RIGHT ON Lowrell 66 ( 49 ) THE BALLAD OF LUCY JORDAN Marianne Faithful 67 ( 54 ) LADIES NIGHT Kool And The Gang 68 ( 69 ) REET PETITE Darts 69 ( 67 ) JUST WHEN I NEEDED YOU MOST Randy Vanwarmer 70 ( 64 ) ETON RIFLES The Jam 71 ( 70 ) WE DON'T TALK ANYMORE Cliff Richard 72 ( 68 ) SAIL ON The Commodores 73 ( 60 ) STAR Earth Wind & Fire 74 ( 65 ) SINCE YOU'VE BEEN GONE Rainbow 75 ( NEW ) CHRISTMAS RAPPIN’ Kurtis Blow TV CHART 1. Star Trek: Obsession 2. Mork And Mindy 3. Soap 4. MASH 5. Logan’s Run (TV series) 6. Fawlty Towers 7. Top Of The Pops 8. Bananas (film) 9. Kelly Monteith 10. The Rockford Files 11. Time Express 12. My Wife Next Door 13. Parkinson (wednesday) 14. Horizon 15. Parkinson (saturday) 16. Film Night 17. Blankety Blank 18. Doctor Who 19. Up The Gum Tree 20. Happy Days At home, more christmas shopping, in the media lukewarm reviews for the Star Trek Motion Picture (doh!), and I did some College work in between wrapping prezzies. I went to see Star Trek for myself, and 8 years of waiting just sent into a tizzy of hyperbole : “long but not boring or overlong” (oh yes it was!) “sheer magic to have all the characters back, like seeing old friends again” and “the special effects were brilliant...now money can be spent to do them properly”. I also noted some similarities to TV episode plot, found myself in agreement with overall Trek philosphy, almost a cult by this point. I really loved Decker and Ilia, though didn’t love their loss of individuality (death) and rebirth as a merged being. rating: Top 4 film of all-time behind Close Encounters, Star Wars and Alien (!). It failed to make my top 100 last year. Bumped into Great Uncle Ernest and Great Aunty Ann in town who gave me some money, they always did love me and brother and loved visits, which we didn’t do often enough. At the cinema again for Meteor: “first three-quarters of an hour crap” with bad characterisations, Brian Keith and Henry Fonds stealing the movie for me. On saturday mum and dad drove me to Gravesend to stop with their good friends Joe & Sandra, Merseysiders (we had a lot in common) who were our next-door-neighbour family friends in Gloucester 1974/5, with kids Joanne & Tracy. As everyone did in those days, asked if I had a girlfriend yet. It was practically obligatory in those days, and no I didn’t. On TV the Beatles Help! movie: “still got it” I noted. John Cleese was on TV, too: I’m reading his autobiography at the moment, appropriately. Shopping in Gravesend Christmas Eve, bought the Pink Floyd single, and some sci-fi mags and prezzies for Joe Sandra & kids. Beatles Yellow Submarine on the telly (yay!). Christmas day was as pleasant as the previous couple, the first time we had one away from home or grandma’s. Joanne & Tracy were excited. Christmas Top Of The Pops with a late dinner, I summed it up as an “excellent year”, and yes it was, both for music and for me, quite probably my best year still. How sad! Trips to Tunisia, USA, Paris, great times at College, loads of good friends, and music TV and films were all on fire, and there were no tragedies or deaths, everything ticked along beautifully. TV: Hard Days Night, Goldfinger and The Gnomemobile, all regular TV faves in the 70’s. The Gnomemobile has been replaced by other better films, but it had Walter Brennan as a gnome, so what’s not to love! |
|
|
Lo-Fi Version | Time is now: 28th March 2024 - 08:26 PM |
Copyright © 2006 - 2023 BuzzJack.com
About | Contact | Advertise | Privacy Policy | Terms of Service