UK Top 40: 11 June 1977

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The CONTROVERSIAL Silver Jubilee chart in full. Do the flowers in the dustbin stand up? If not, what does?

Poll Results

OptionVotes
31. Ramones - Sheena Is A Punk Rocker 10
CONTROVERSIAL 2. Sex Pistols - God Save The Queen (No Future) 4
25. Emerson, Lake and Palmer - Fanfare For The Common Man 3
16. Trammps - Disco Inferno 3
32. Alessi - Oh Lori 3
11. Marvin Gaye - Got To Give It Up (Pt 1) 3
CONTROVERSIAL 1. Rod Stewart - I Don't Want To Talk About It/The First Cut Is The Deepest 2
29. Queen - Queen's First E.P. 1
24. Eagles - Hotel California 1
23. Stranglers - Peaches/Go Buddy Go 1
19. Liverpool Football Team - We Can Do It 1
13. Electric Light Orchestra - Telephone Line 1
12. Julie Covington, Rula Lenska, Charlotte Cornwell and Sue Jones-Davies - OK 1
22. Genesis - Spot The Pigeon (E.P.) 1
10. Muppets - Halfway Down The Stairs 1
7. Carole Bayer Sager - You're Moving Out Today 1
28. Bay City Rollers - It's A Game 0
30. Honky - Join The Party 0
33. Olivia Newton-John - Sam 0
34. Manhattan Transfer - Don't Let Go 0
35. Joy Sarney - Naughty Naughty Naughty 0
36. Tina Charles - Rendezvous 0
37. Shalamar - Uptown Festival (Medley) 0
38. George Benson - Nature Boy 0
39. Trinidad Oil Company - Calendar Song 0
27. Frankie Miller - Be Good To Yourself 0
26. Bo Kirkland and Ruth Davis - You're Gonna Get Next To Me 0
3. Kenny Rogers - Lucille 0
4. Barbra Streisand - Evergreen (Love Theme From "A Star Is Born") 0
5. Joe Tex - Ain't Gonna Bump No More (With No Big Fat Woman) 0
6. Jacksons - Show You The Way To Go 0
8. Van McCoy & the Soul City Symphony - The Shuffle 0
9. 10cc - Good Morning Judge 0
14. Boz Scaggs - Lido Shuffle 0
15. Bryan Ferry - Tokyo Joe 0
17. Heatwave - Too Hot To Handle/Slip Your Disc To This 0
18. Blue - Gonna Capture Your Heart 0
20. Piero Umillani - Mah Na Mah Na 0
21. Gladys Knight and the Pips - Baby Don't Change Your Mind 0
40. Tavares - Whodunit0


Dingbod Kesterson, Friday, 14 March 2008 13:20 (seventeen years ago)

Ramones in a second!

Mark G, Friday, 14 March 2008 13:23 (seventeen years ago)

Exactly what I was thinking!

Dingbod Kesterson, Friday, 14 March 2008 13:24 (seventeen years ago)

GSTQ. Nothing else comes anywhere close.

Stewart Osborne, Friday, 14 March 2008 13:25 (seventeen years ago)

KIDS! Have hours of fun guessing which ones Dale will play if he ever does this week on POTP!

Dingbod Kesterson, Friday, 14 March 2008 13:25 (seventeen years ago)

Rationally it's GSTQ head and shoulders but today I'm in a kind of Ramones mood...

Dingbod Kesterson, Friday, 14 March 2008 13:26 (seventeen years ago)

The Eagles

Dom Passantino, Friday, 14 March 2008 13:27 (seventeen years ago)

"It was a bit unusual, but we all loved it."

Dingbod Kesterson, Friday, 14 March 2008 13:28 (seventeen years ago)

disco inferno

blueski, Friday, 14 March 2008 13:32 (seventeen years ago)

Fanfare for the common man. Because I loved it at the time, and I was only - oh - eight? I remember bouncing around to it at the time.

Rob M v2, Friday, 14 March 2008 13:35 (seventeen years ago)

"Sheena" was my first ever 12" single purchase. They hadn't quite worked out how to press them at that stage, so the run-out groove was fatter than the actual track.

I'm leaving out "GSTQ" for the same reason that Peel left it out of his end-of-year personal Fifty, i.e. it "bestrides 1977 like a colossus" and so can't be considered next to anything else.

Having long considered 1977 as the worst year of the Seventies for the UK Top 40, I'm a bit taken aback by all the good stuff in this chart. On another day it might have been "Sheena", but today it's "Got To Give It Up", just ahead of Boz & Gladys. (No, not The Trammps: over-played.)

What the hell is Honky's "Join The Party"? I have zero recollection of this. Same goes for Trinidad Oil Company.

mike t-diva, Friday, 14 March 2008 13:46 (seventeen years ago)

I only remember what the punk singles sound like, apart from the Eagles and a bit of Rod. There were a lot of groups around that time with names like, I don't know, "The West Cheshire Meat Packers Guild", who nobody remembers.

snoball, Friday, 14 March 2008 13:58 (seventeen years ago)

"Join The Party" - very, very early stirrings of Britfunk in the JALN Band mode; lots of horns and slap bass. Not bad but not Hi-Tension either.

Trinidad Oil Company - lots of steel drums, reggae-lite, and the lyrics literally consisted of "January, February, March, A-ah-prilmay, Juuuunejuly" etc. Bob Stewart on the 208 Chart Show commented deadpan that it was "a useful record to have if you have trouble remembering the months of the year."

Dingbod Kesterson, Friday, 14 March 2008 13:59 (seventeen years ago)

ps: this "Honky" were nothing to do with the "Honky" who put out The Ego Has Landed on ZTT in 1994.

Dingbod Kesterson, Friday, 14 March 2008 13:59 (seventeen years ago)

oh, and nearly needless to say, this "Blue" were a Glasgow pub band signed to Elton John's Rocket Records and not the successful 21st century boy band.

Dingbod Kesterson, Friday, 14 March 2008 14:02 (seventeen years ago)

Didn't this 1977 Blue try to sue the boy band version for using their name?

Rob M v2, Friday, 14 March 2008 14:08 (seventeen years ago)

Maybe it's Elton's ambition to work with every band called Blue that ever existed. Sort of like boy band pok3m0n. In a similar vein, Boz Scaggs is probably not the pr0nstar in this instance.

snoball, Friday, 14 March 2008 14:11 (seventeen years ago)

Are Blue (I), Blue (II), Black and, up to a point, Deep Purple the only bands named after colours to have hits?

Dingbod Kesterson, Friday, 14 March 2008 14:14 (seventeen years ago)

Had to be Genesis for me (the "Spot The Pidgeon" tracks are rare but great).

Geir Hongro, Friday, 14 March 2008 14:14 (seventeen years ago)

xpost: How about Cream, or are we getting too "tonal" with our definitions? And does Yello count?

mike t-diva, Friday, 14 March 2008 14:24 (seventeen years ago)

Carole Bayer Sager

henry s, Friday, 14 March 2008 14:31 (seventeen years ago)

Trinidad Oil Company - Calendar Song

I'm sorry, but whatever was THIS? A company motivational anthem?

"Fill out your meeting times
Update with the secretaryyyyy..."

Ned Raggett, Friday, 14 March 2008 14:35 (seventeen years ago)

I may yet regret not picking Marvin Gaye...has there ever been a better we're-having-a-party-and-you're-invited song than "Got To Give It Up?"...(and don't say "Having A Party", 'cos it ain't)...

henry s, Friday, 14 March 2008 14:45 (seventeen years ago)

not a great week for singles

braveclub, Friday, 14 March 2008 15:04 (seventeen years ago)

Joe Tex - Ain't Gonna Bump No More (With No Big Fat Woman)

This is an hilarious country parody isn't it? YSI!

This is a rubbish chart. 'Sheena' the best thing here by some distance.

Matt DC, Friday, 14 March 2008 15:11 (seventeen years ago)

It's weird that this was the only hit of any size Joe Tex ever had in the UK.

Dingbod Kesterson, Friday, 14 March 2008 15:14 (seventeen years ago)

</i>I may yet regret not picking Marvin Gaye...has there ever been a better we're-having-a-party-and-you're-invited song than "Got To Give It Up?"...(and don't say "Having A Party", 'cos it ain't)... </i>

xylophone intro)

Oh what an atmosphere!
I love a party with a happy atmosphere,
So let me take you there,
And you and I'll be dancin' in the cool night air!

Well we're at the dancin' party,
And you're out there havin' fun,
And your girl is there beside you,
And you feel like number one!

So get your body movin'...
'Cos tonight has just begun...
OH WHOA! Let it go!
WHOOA! Let it show....
Aaah Aaah Aaah Aaah!

Oh what an atmosphere!
I love a party with a happy atmosphere,
So let me take you there,
And you and I'll be dancin' in the cool night air!
OH OH
Oh what an atmosphere!
I love a party with a happy atmosphere, yeah mmmm,
Music everywhere,
And soon we'll be dancin' in the cool night air!

Now we're out here all together,
Everybody's hand in hand,
We can make it last forever,
When we're dancin' with the gang!
Well you've got your favourite records,
And Frankie's got his band!

HUH!!!
OH WHOA! Let it go!
WHOOA! Let it show....
Aaah Aaah Aaah Aaah!

Oh what an atmosphere!
I love a party with a happy atmosphere,
So let me take you there,
And you and I'll be dancin' in the cool night air!
OH OH
Oh what an atmosphere!
I love a party with a happy atmosphere, mmmm yeah,
Music everywhere,
And soon we'll be dancin' in the cool night air!

(Riotous eighties party noises)

(Repeat chorus and fade out)

Thomas, Friday, 14 March 2008 15:29 (seventeen years ago)

Coherent, well-argued commentary.

Dingbod Kesterson, Friday, 14 March 2008 16:36 (seventeen years ago)

Alessi - Oh Lori

DavidM, Friday, 14 March 2008 19:09 (seventeen years ago)

Are Blue (I), Blue (II), Black and, up to a point, Deep Purple the only bands named after colours to have hits?
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http://www.bigbaer.com/assets/pink-get-the-party-started.jpg

Geir Hongro, Friday, 14 March 2008 20:58 (seventeen years ago)

Got to Give It Up

Eric H., Friday, 14 March 2008 20:59 (seventeen years ago)

All of these are good. Except for #19 obv.

Jeff W, Sunday, 16 March 2008 18:48 (seventeen years ago)

Alessi - Oh Lori

This is one of my guilty pleasures, too. I know I was only 4, but why is it that I have no memory whatsoever of the Sex Pistols (not just this song, but their entire career), but can clearly remember seeing Carole Bayer Sager on TOTP?

Nasty, Brutish & Short, Sunday, 16 March 2008 23:05 (seventeen years ago)

Clearly it's all Sean Rowley's fault.

Dingbod Kesterson, Monday, 17 March 2008 10:12 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

ILX System, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 00:01 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

ILX System, Thursday, 20 March 2008 00:01 (seventeen years ago)


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