cant get the latest charts.... the sites bust or summut... dunno when ill get the chance..

1 1 Message In A Bottle POLICE

2 7 Dreaming BLONDIE

3 2 Cars GARY NUMAN

4 12 Whatever You Want STATUS QUO

5 3 If I Said You Had A Beautiful Body Would You Hold It BELLAMY BROS

6 24 Video Killed The Radio Star BUGGLES

7 16 Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough MICHAEL JACKSON

8 11 Since You've Been Gone RAINBOW

9 4 Love's Got A Hold On Me DOLLAR

10 5 Don't Bring Me Down ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA

11 23 Them Heavy People KATE BUSH

12 14 Cruel To Be Kind NICK LOWE

13 8 Sail On COMMODORES

14 10 Strut Your Funky Stuff FRANTIQUE

15 13 Time For Action SECRET AFFAIR

16 21 The Prince MADNESS

17 6 We Don't Talk Anymore CLIFF RICHARD

18 9 Street Life CRUSADERS

19 15 Reggae For It Now BILL LOVELADY

20 31 Queen Of Hearts DAVE EDMUNDS

21 34 Everyday Hurts SAD CAFE

22 29 You Can Do It AL HUDSON AND THE SOUL PARTNERS

23 18 Gone Gone Gone JOHNNY MATHIS

24 28 Slap & Tickle SQUEEZE

25 22 Gotta Go Home / El Lute BONEY M

26 17 Just When I Needed You Most RANDY VANWARMER

27 30 Back Of My Hand JAGS

28 50 One Day At A Time LENA MARTELL

29 26 Boy Oh Boy RACEY

30 44 The Chosen Few DOOLEYS

31 27 Lost In Music SISTER SLEDGE

32 32 Dim All The Lights DONNA SUMMER

33 45 Charade SKIDS

34 48 OK Fred ERROL DUNKLEY

35 40 The Loneliest Man In The World TOURISTS

36 20 Angel Eyes ROXY MUSIC

37 19 Bang Bang B.A. ROBERTSON

38 41 The Devil Went Down To Georgia CHARLIE DANIELS BAND

39 46 Don't Be A Dummy JOHN DUNCAN

40 43 When You're In Love With A Beautiful Woman DR HOOK

41 ne Sing A Happy Song O'JAYS

42 ne Making Plans For Nigel XTC

43 25 Duchess STRANGLERS

44 36 Gangsters SPECIALS

45 ne Straw Dogs STIFF LITTLE FINGERS

46 39 Nights In White Satin DICKIES

47 ne Mittageisen SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES

48 ne Jump The Gun THREE DEGREES

49 ne Sumahama BEACH BOYS

50 37 Get It Right Next Time GERRY RAFFERTY

 

well, got there in the end... interesting new entries from siouxsie and a great underated track from XTC .. 'making plans for nigel' was pop class. the rest i dont know.

 

siouxsie

 

xtc

Siouxsie was good but XTC was excellent, probably the best song in this chart. I really rated XTC and they should have been really huge, thoroughly recomend their greatest hits album.

Album Chart For Week Up To 06/10/1979

 

 

1 2 Gary Numan - The Pleasure Principle

2 1 Boney M - Oceans Of Fantasy

3 3 Cliff Richard - Rock 'N' Roll Juvenile

4 6 The Shadows - String Of Hits

5 4 Electric Light Orchestra - Discovery

6 Ne The Stranglers - The Raven

7 5 Led Zeppelin - In Through The Out Door

8 14 The Police - Outlandos D'Amour

9 8 Sham 69 - The Adventures Of The Hersham Boys

10 7 Bob Dylan - Slow Train Coming

11 Ne Judas Priest - Unleashed In The East

12 9 Earth, Wind And Fire - I Am

13 15 Blondie - Parallel Lines

14 16 Tubeway Army - Replicas

15 20 The Commodores - Midnight Magic

16 17 Gerry Rafferty - Night Owl

17 21 Rainbow - Down To Earth

18 13 The Crusaders - Street Life

19 11 Supertramp - Breakfast In America

20 36 James Last - Last The Whole Night Long

21 10 Various Artists - The Best Disco Album In The World

22 18 Siouxsie And The Banshees - Join Hands

23 19 Roxy Music - Manifesto

24 12 ABBA - Voulez Vous

25 22 Judie Tzuke - Welcome To The Cruise

26 25 Michael Jackson - Off The Wall

27 29 Tubeway Army - Tubeway Army

28 Ne 10cc - Greatest Hits 1972-1978

29 27 Meat Loaf - Bat Out Of Hell

30 37 Slits - Cut

 

 

Quite a variety in the album charts this week.

Surprised you don't know Stiff Little Fingers.

 

Great Punk band from Northern Ireland.

 

 

And Making plans For Nigel is a truly great song. Definitely in my top tunes of all time.

Remember seeing XTC do the song on Crackerjack!

Edited October 2, 200915 yr by grebo69

Surprised you don't know Stiff Little Fingers.

 

i know of them, just not this track...

1979, The Buzzcocks kicked off a 25- date UK tour at the Mountford Hall, Liverpool, England.

 

a great band, loved their version of punk/new wave

01. - The Police - Message In A Bottle

02. The Buggles - Video Killed The Radio Star

03. Blondie - Dreaming

04. Michael Jackson - Don't Stop 'til You Get Enough

05. Status Quo - Whatever You Want

06. Rainbow - Since You've Been Gone

07. Gary Numan - Cars

08. Bellamy Brothers - If I Said You Had A Beautiful Body Would You Hold It Against Me

09. Lena Martell - One Day At A Time

10. Kate Bush - Kate Bush On Stage EP

11. Sad Cafe - Every Day Hurts

12. Dollar - Love's Gotta Hold On Me

13. - The Commodores - Sail On

14. Nick Lowe - Cruel To Be Kind

15. Al Hudson And The Soul Partners - You Can Do It

16. The Dooleys - The Chosen Few

17. Frantique - Strut Your Funky Stuff

18. Dave Edmunds - Queen Of Hearts

19. Madness - The Prince

20. Electric Light Orchestra - Don't Bring Me Down

21. Secret Affair - Time For Action

22. Cliff Richard - We Don't Talk Anymore

23. Errol Dunkley - OK Fred

24. The Crusaders - Street Life

25. Squeeze - Slap And Tickle

26. Dr Hook - When You're In Love With A Beautiful Woman

27. Charlie Daniels Band - The Devil Went Down To Georgia

28. Jags - Back Of My Hand

29. Donna Summer - Dim All The Lights

30. Fleetwood Mac - Tusk

31. Bill Lovelady - Reggae For It Now

32. Tourists - The Loneliest Man In The World

33. John Du Cann - Don't Be A Dummy

34. Earth, Wind And Fire - Star

35. Matumbi - Point Of View

36. Sex Pistols/Ten Pole Tudor - The Great Rock 'N' Roll Swindle/Rock Around The Clock

37. XTC - Making Plans For Nigel

38. Boney M - Gotta Go Home/El Lute

39. The O'Jays - Sing A Happy Song

40. The Nolans - Spirit, Body And Soul

41. Gloria Gaynor - Let Me Know (I Have A Right)

42. Skids - Charade

43. Johnny Mathis - Gone Gone Gone

44. Stiff Little Fingers - Straw Dogs

45. The Beach Boys - Sumahama

46. Randy Vanwarmer - Just When I Needed You Most

47. Viola Wills - Gonna Get Along Without You Now

48. - The Three Degrees - Jump The Gun

49. BA Robertson - Bang Bang

50. Roxy Music - Angel Eyes

 

a pretty boring week without any movement much... 1 new entry, the sex pistols ... pretty poor really...

1979, Fleetwood Mac were awarded a star on Hollywood's Walk Of Fame.

 

now you know they have really lost it....

1979, Michael Jackson went to No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Don't Stop Till You Get Enough', his second US solo No.1, a No.3 hit in the UK.

01. The Buggles - Video Killed The Radio Star

02. The Police - Message In A Bottle

03. Michael Jackson - Don't Stop 'til You Get Enough

04. Blondie - Dreaming

05. Lena Martell - One Day At A Time

06. Sad Cafe - Every Day Hurts

07. Rainbow - Since You've Been Gone

08. Status Quo - Whatever You Want

09. Dr Hook - When You're In Love With A Beautiful Woman

10. The Dooleys - The Chosen Few

11. Dave Edmunds - Queen Of Hearts

12. Errol Dunkley - OK Fred

13. Kate Bush - Kate Bush On Stage EP

14. Gary Numan - Cars

15. Al Hudson And The Soul Partners - You Can Do It

16. Bellamy Brothers - If I Said You Had A Beautiful Body Would You Hold It Against Me

17. Jags - Back Of My Hand

18. Fleetwood Mac - Tusk

19. Nick Lowe - Cruel To Be Kind

20. Charlie Daniels Band - The Devil Went Down To Georgia

21. Sex Pistols/Ten Pole Tudor - The Great Rock 'N' Roll Swindle/Rock Around The Clock

22. Madness - The Prince

23. Chic - My Forbidden Lover

24. Secret Affair - Time For Action

25. Earth, Wind And Fire - Star

26. Dollar - Love's Gotta Hold On Me

27. Viola Wills - Gonna Get Along Without You Now

28. XTC - Making Plans For Nigel

29. Cats UK - Luton Airport

30. ABBA - Gimme Gimme Gimme

31. Skids - Charade

32. Squeeze - Slap And Tickle

33. Queen - Crazy Little Thing Called Love

34. Frantique - Strut Your Funky Stuff

35. The Nolans - Spirit, Body And Soul

36. Electric Light Orchestra - Don't Bring Me Down

37. Gloria Gaynor - Let Me Know (I Have A Right)

38. The Commodores - Sail On

39. The O'Jays - Sing A Happy Song

40. The Stranglers - Nuclear Device (The Wizard Of Aus)

41. Donna Summer - Dim All The Lights

42. John Du Cann - Don't Be A Dummy

43. The Damned - Smash It Up

44. Dynasty - I Don't Want To Be A Freak

45. The Headboys - The Shape Of Things To Come

46. Suzi Quatro - She's In Love With You

47. Selecter - On My Radio

48. Matumbi - Point Of View

49. The Crusaders - Street Life

50. Eagles - Heartache Tonight

 

thats odd...i have no knowlege of this weeks highest new entry... al hudson? who tf ie ha? lol

 

'gimmie gimmie gimmie' of course was a wel known abba track that gave its name to a sit com... good classic pop imho.

 

queens offered 'a crazy little thing called love'... was this a rock n roll cover version?... it smacks of the rock n roll era...

 

the o jays were awful! lol, well this track was... as for the strangles... dunno this track!!! must be asleep or summut!

 

the best new entry though was easily the damned 'smash it up'... :)

1979, Abba played their first concert in North America when they appeared in Vancouver, Canada.

 

 

how did abba go down across the pond in america and canada?... i dont think they did very well did they?...

1979, Buggles were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Video Killed The Radio Star.' A studio band featuring producer Trevor Horn. Famously, it was the first ever music video shown on MTV in North America.

 

1979, Abba played their first concert in North America when they appeared in Vancouver, Canada.

how did abba go down across the pond in america and canada?... i dont think they did very well did they?...

I don't know how well Abba did on the Canadian charts but in the US they had a number of hits on the Billboard Hot 100. One number one (Dancing Queen, 1 week at number one in 1977) plus Name Of The Game reached #3, Waterloo #6 and The Winner Takes It All #8. They had 4 other top 20 hits, a total of 14 top 40 hits and 20 Hot 100 chart entries in total. Abba Gold has also sold upwards of 5m copies, their biggest (by far) selling album in the US.

 

Album Chart For Week Up To 20/10/1979

 

 

1 1 The Police - Regatta De Blanc

2 2 Blondie - Eat To The Beat

3 ne Status Quo - Whatever You Want

4 4 Eagles - The Long Run

5 10 Michael Jackson - Off The Wall

6 3 Gary Numan - The Pleasure Principle

7 5 Boney M - Oceans Of Fantasy

8 7 Electric Light Orchestra - Discovery

9 9 The Police - Outlandos D'Amour

10 8 The Shadows - String Of Hits

11 15 Rainbow - Down To Earth

12 11 Blondie - Parallel Lines

13 16 Led Zeppelin - In Through The Out Door

14 19 10cc - Greatest Hits 1972-1978

15 6 The Stranglers - The Raven

16 54 Ruts - The Crack

17 18 Earth, Wind And Fire - I Am

18 14 Supertramp - Breakfast In America

19 ne Gillan - Mr Universe

20 34 Bob Marley & The Wailers - Survival

21 30 Judas Priest - Unleashed In The East

22 ne Tony Banks - A Curious Feeling

23 39 Joe Jackson - I'm The Man

24 ne Lena Martell - Lena's Music Album

25 32 Jeff Wayne - War Of The Worlds

26 13 Cliff Richard - Rock 'N' Roll Juvenile

27 66 Max Boyce - Not That I Was Biased

28 27 The Commodores - Midnight Magic

29 17 Tubeway Army - Replicas

30 41 Sad Cafe - Fascades

 

thats odd...i have no knowlege of this weeks highest new entry... al hudson? who tf ie ha? lol

 

'gimmie gimmie gimmie' of course was a wel known abba track that gave its name to a sit com... good classic pop imho.

 

queens offered 'a crazy little thing called love'... was this a rock n roll cover version?... it smacks of the rock n roll era...

 

the o jays were awful! lol, well this track was... as for the strangles... dunno this track!!! must be asleep or summut!

 

the best new entry though was easily the damned 'smash it up'... :)

Al Hudson's single was quite popular at radio at the time so you've probably heard it. It's a disco song, very much bass rather than beat driven and in 1982 David Christie "borrowed" the bass line for his (dreadful) top 10 hit "Saddle Up".

 

Queen's single was an original song not a cover though it is a 50s pastiche.

Al Hudson's single was quite popular at radio at the time so you've probably heard it. It's a disco song, very much bass rather than beat driven and in 1982 David Christie "borrowed" the bass line for his (dreadful) top 10 hit "Saddle Up".

 

Queen's single was an original song not a cover though it is a 50s pastiche.

 

thanks for the info robbie :)

1979, a 40 date 2 Tone Records UK tour started in Brighton, with ska bands, The Selecter, The Specials and Madness.

 

 

wow, i bet that was good!

1979, Herb Alpert started a two week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Rise', giving the co founder of A&M records his second US No.1. It made No.13 in the UK.

 

1979, The Eagles started a nine week run at No.1 on the US album chart with 'The Long Run', the bands fourth US No.1.

 

 

oh dear..... lol