1978 PART TWO

1978

 

THE LAST GREAT YEAR OF ROCK

 

 

INTO WEEK TWO OF 1978 STILL WINGS REMAIN AT THE TOP SPOT, WHILE STILL AT NUMBER TWO THE BRIGHOUSE AND RASTRICK BAND FLORAL DANCE ENJOYS ITS LAST WEEK.

 AT THREE AND AS HIGH HAS IT WILL GET DONNA SUMMERS LOVES UNKIND (COVER IN 1991 BY SOPHIE LAWRENCE IN A TIME WHEN EVERY TV ACTOR SEEMED TO HAVE A SINGLE OUT).

 FOUR GOING UP TWO BONNIE TYLER ITS A HEARTACHE OR AS ANY ONE WHO LISTENED TO RADIO ONE AT THE TIME WILL KNOW ITS A HARD EGG.

UP THREE TO FIVE CRYSTAL GALE DONT IT MAKE MY BROWN EYES BLUE. THE FIRST OF TWO TOP TWENTY HITS FOR HER THAT YEAR.

 

AT SIX AND PEAKING THERE THE FIRST OF A RUN OF CLASSIC BY CHIC DANCE DANCE DANCE.  ALSO PEAKING AT ITS HIGEST POSITION THIS WEEK DAVID SOUL AND HIS LAST TOP TEN HIT LETS HAVE A QUITE NIGHT IN.

 

DONNA SUMMER IS AT TEN,  LIKE LAST YEAR TWO RECORD LABEL AND TWO SINGLES IN THE TOP TWENTY AT THE SAME TIME, GTO AND CASABLANCA BATTLE IT OUT FOR SALES. CASABLANCA WILL WIN OUT IN THE END AND FOR THE NEXT TWO YEARS WILL RELEASE THE BULK OF SUMMERS CLASSIC WORK.

 

UP TOWN TOP RANKING BY ALTHEA AND DONNA CONTINUES TO CLIMB ON ITS WAY TO NUMBER ONE, AS DOES JULIE COVINGTON VERSION OF ALICE COOPER ONLY WOMAN BLEED, HER LAST HIT SINGLE.

 

BOB MARLEY IS AT SEVENTEEN WITH JAMMING ONE OF TWO TOP TEN SINGLES THAT YEAR. ODYSSEY START A TOP FORTY CHART RUN THAT WILL LAST INTO 1982, WITH NATIVE NEW YORKER.