Number 159:

 

Take it away Peter!

 

 

Number 4 in December 1977 & 490,000 sold

Number 158:

 

It's the Kid...And the other Paul Young

 

 

Number 3 in October 1979

Number 157:

 

Darts are back, with their Daddy!

 

 

Number 6 in December 1977

Number 156:

 

Bazza & the baby boom, with the full edit & not the cut off start, you hear today

 

 

Number One in December 1974 & 490,000 sold

Number 155:

 

First of 2 in a row from 1975

 

 

Number One in October 1975

 

 

Number 154:

 

It's a teenage dream to be 17...And for me the best single of the 70s

 

 

Number One in July 1975

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Number 153:

 

The worst number one of the 70s? A close contender & if you bought it in 1978, you may have had to return it, because the pressing plant went wrong & many copies had white paint all over them!

 

 

Number One in February 1978

Number 152:

 

Can barely stand on his feet!

 

 

Number 2 in December 1976 & 493,000 sold

Number 151:

 

The late Stealer's Wheel lead, without Bob Holness!

 

 

Number 3 in April 1978 & 495,000 sold

Number 150:

 

The first of 2 in a row from 1977 & The Jackos in Germany

 

 

Number One in June 1977

 

Number 149:

 

If anyone touches the drummer, i'll scratch his eyes...but it's not the Barron Knights, just yet!

 

 

Number One in August 1977 & 495,800 sold

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Number 148:

 

2 in a row from 1972. Is it you?

 

 

Number One in May 1972 & 496,000 sold

 

 

Number 147;

 

Gazza's back

 

 

A poinient piece of footage. Look at those girls (having to be held back from getting on stage). Number 2 in July 1972 & 498,000 sold.

Number 146:

 

Their first number one

 

 

Number One in November 1971 & 498,000 sold.

 

 

Number 145:

 

On yer bike in Oz

 

 

Number 2 in February 1971 & 498,000 sold

 

 

Number 144:

 

The first hit for Debra

 

 

A midweek Number One in March 1978. It sold 499,000 copies. Beaten horrifyingly by Easter sales of Brian & Michael!

Number 143:

 

February 1976 remembered December 63!

 

 

A misprint in the printed song, should of said December 1933...The end of Prohibition in the U.S. It was Number One in February 1976, after the chart was corrected from the mistake of Geoff Love's "Rodrigo's Guitar Concerto" being put at the top, by mis-management at the British Market Research Bureau. The first of a few mistakes by them...As we will find out. The Four Seasons sold 500,000 copies.

Number 142:

 

Roderick The Stewart!

 

 

Cheated of a midweek #2, by enormous sales of others. Rod made Number 3 in October 1977 & sold 500,555 copies.

Number 141:

 

It got a bit hot at the Disco

 

 

Rod Temperton (he with Michael Jackson connections, as he wrote Thriller, Off The Wall & Rock With You), but was he lead of Heatwave. Boogie Nights made Number 2 in March 1977 & sold 500,600 copies

Number 140:

 

South Africa sings Gloria Gaynor?

 

 

Kept off the top by "You're The One That I Want", by some 50,000 one week in July 1978. This South African outfit, took a Gloria Gaynor B side. Across Europe they got a fair sized follow up with a cover of a minor Clodagh Rodgers hit "Save Me". Substitute sold 501,000 copies.

Number 139:

 

Tom Browne couldn't decide whether it was Space by Magic Fly or Magic Fly by Space!

 

 

A close number one miss (mainly cos Elvis had died). It was Number 2 in September 1977 & sold 502,078 copies.

Number 138:

 

An original sound for Opportunity Knocks winners

 

 

Number One in February 1972 & 510,000 sold.

Number 137:

 

The record kept off the top by Benny Hill!

 

 

Number 2 in December 1971 & 510,000 sold.

Number 136:

 

A song parodied by Val Doonican on TV in 1977 as "You Pick A Fine Time To Go To The Loo", with 400 children & a crocodile in the field!

 

 

A surprise Number One, that snook in front of Rod Stewart (on a quiet week) in June 1977 & sold 510,000 copies.