The UK chart of exactly two and half decades, ten months and two weeks ago

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Top 40 Hits of Early June 1979
1 Blondie Sunday Girl
2 Anita Ward Ring My Bell
3 Roxy Music Dance Away
4 Earth Wind & Fire Boogie Wonderland
5 Electric Light Orchestra Shine A Little Love
6 McFadden & Whitehead Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now
7 Peaches & Herb Reunited
8 Shadows Theme From 'The Deer Hunter' (Cavatina)
9 M Pop Muzik
10 Tubeway Army Are 'Friends' Electric
11 David Bowie Boys Keep Swingin'
12 Donna Summer Hot Stuff
13 Sister Sledge We Are Family
14 Edwin Starr HAPPY Radio
15 Sparks The Number One Song In Heaven
16 Skids Masquerade
17 Gary Moore Parisienne Walkways
18 Abba Does Your Mother Know
19 Squeeze Up The Junction
20 Art Garfunkel Bright Eyes
21 Undertones Jimmy Jimmy
22 Eruption One Way Ticket
23 Police Roxanne
24 Quantum Jump The Lone Ranger
25 Dollar Who Were You With In The Moonlight
26 Clash I Fought The Law
27 Amii Stewart Knock On Wood
28 Lene Lovich Say When
29 Elvis Costello Accidents Will Happen
30 Gerry Rafferty Night Owl
31 Chas & Dave Gertcha
32 John Williams Cavatina (Original Soundtrack From 'The Deer Hunter')
33 Cheap Trick I Want You To Want Me
34 Tubes Prime Time
35 Damned Love Song
36 Monks Nice Legs Shame About Her Face
37 Boney M Hooray Hooray It's A Holi-Holiday
38 Eddy Grant Living On The Front Line
39 Mike Oldfield Guilty
40 Kevin Keegan Head Over Heels In Love

I challenge anyone to come up with a better one than this! Blondie at No. 1, Bowie's Boys Keep Swinging, Tubeway Army, Earth Wind And Fire, Donna Summer, M's Pop Muzik, Sister Sledge, Sparks, Elvis Costello and on an on and on...

Submissions to thread please.
http://www.everyhit.com/retrocharts/index.html

― Sylvia North, Wednesday, 27 April 2005 10:33 (twenty years ago)

Sept 1978

1 Commodores Three Times A Lady
2 Boney M Rivers Of Babylon / Brown Girl In The Ring
3 10cc Dreadlock Holiday
4 Darts It's Raining
5 David Essex Oh What A Circus
6 Jilted John Jilted John
7 Cerrone Super Nature
8 Hi Tension British Hustle
9 John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John You're The One That I Want
10 Siouxsie & The Banshees Hong Kong Garden
11 Andy Gibb An Everlasting Love
12 Exile Kiss You All Over
13 Child It's Only Make Believe
14 Motors Forget About You
15 Blondie Picture This
16 Bob Dylan Baby Stop Crying
17 Rezillos Top Of The Pops
18 Justin Hayward Forever Autumn
19 Status Quo Again And Again
20 Herbie Hancock I Thought It Was You
21 Frankie Valli Grease
22 Who Who Are You
23 Clout Substitute
24 A Taste Of Honey Boogie Oogie Oogie
25 Renaissance Northern Lights
26 Crown Heights Affair Galaxy Of Love
27 Jam David Watts / 'A' Bomb In Wardour Street
28 Sylvester You Make Me Feel
29 Stranglers Walk On By
30 Dooleys A Rose Has To Die
31 City Boy 5-7-0-5
32 Abba Summer Night City
33 Meat Loaf Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad
34 Sham 69 If The Kids Are United
35 Hylda Baker & Arthur Mullard You're The One That I Want
36 Crystal Gayle Talking In Your Sleep
37 Karen Young Hot Shot
38 Patrick Juvet Got A Feeling
39 Gladys Knight & The Pips Come Back And Finish What You Started
40 Father Abraham & The Smurfs Smurf Song

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 10:37 (twenty years ago)

Yayyyyy I win.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 10:37 (twenty years ago)

Chart week ending 29 May 1982. You won't find it on EveryHit but there has never been a better singles chart.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 10:38 (twenty years ago)

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I don't think that 78 chart is quite as packed with winners as my 79 chart. The mix of new wave and disco on the 79 chart is superlative. And in the final analysis Father Abraham and the Smurfs let your side down.

― Sylvia North, Wednesday, 27 April 2005 10:42 (twenty years ago)

I would say the 1978 chart is severely and fatally unbalanced by the top four.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 10:44 (twenty years ago)

Two songs that have the line "and we don't care"

The Smurf Song
Pretty Vacant.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 10:45 (twenty years ago)

AND A ROSE HAS TO DIE! EVERY TIME YOU TELL A LIE!

Admit it, Mark, it ain't all that.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 10:45 (twenty years ago)

Gertcha!

― NickB (NickB), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 10:48 (twenty years ago)

The Who! The Abba! The Bob Dylan! The Jilted John! The Jam!

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 10:48 (twenty years ago)

Hylda Baker and Arthur Mullard.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 10:49 (twenty years ago)

Hey, if it hadn't been for the Dooleys' song there, no "buy this or the puppies get killed"

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 10:49 (twenty years ago)

THE HYLDA BAKER AND THE ARTHUR MULLARD

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 10:50 (twenty years ago)

Talking in your sleep!

(That's the radio play title, obv)

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 10:51 (twenty years ago)

Those top three singles have cumulatively done more harm to civilisation than Pol Pot.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 10:51 (twenty years ago)

Some great stuff in there. I can't imagine I'll end up saying the same thing two decades, ten months and two weeks from now when someone posts the charts from today....

...BECAUSE I'm AN OLD POOP WHO WALLOWS IN A TEPID MUDSLICK OF CONTEMPT FOR ALL THINGS YOUNG AND NEW! ARRGH! WHERE'S MY WALKER?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 10:52 (twenty years ago)

"young" and "new" are criminally overrated

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 10:52 (twenty years ago)

I love that first chart, but two Deer Hunters and a Parisienne Walkway?!?! Wake up kids!

― NickB (NickB), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 10:54 (twenty years ago)

It was an omen to Princess Diana which she failed to heed.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 10:58 (twenty years ago)

No, that was Accidents Will Happen.

― NickB (NickB), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 10:59 (twenty years ago)

Still, it's nice that Martin Fry liked the chorus of "5-7-0-5" so much that he used it four years later in "The Look Of Love." Only better.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 11:01 (twenty years ago)

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