1978 PART SIX

1978

THE LAST GREAT YEAR OF ROCK

 

 

WE START OF THIS WEEK WITH FOUR FORMER OR SOON TO BE NUMBER ONES IN THE TOP FIVE , BROTHERHOOD OF MAN FIGARO AT ONE ABBA TAKE A CHANCE ON ME AT TWO ALTHIA AND DONNA UPTOWN TOP RANKING AT THREE AND WINGS MULL OF KINTYRE AT FIVE. THE ONLY OTHER ONE IF I HAD WORDS BY SCOTT FITZGERALD AND YVONNE KEELY STAYS AT FOUR AND WILL  NEXT WEEK MAKE IT TO NUMBER THREE.

 

THE TOP TEN HAS CHANGED VERY LITTLE WITH ONLY BACCARA SORRY IM A LADY BEING A NEW ENTRY IN TO THE TOP TEN.

 

ROSE ROYCE WISHING ON A STAR MAKE A FIFTEEN PLACE LEAP TO NUMBER ELEVEN, AND UP EIGHT TO TWELVE DARTS AND COME BACK MY LOVE.

 

CLIMBING SEVENTEEN PLACES TO FIFTEEN ARE TONIGHT AND THE DRUMMER MAN.

 

ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA STAY AT SIXTEEN WITH MR BLUE SKY, WHILE SWEET ARE UP TO EIGHTEEN WITH LOVE IS LIKE OXYGEN.

 

THE HIGEST NEW ENTRY THIS WEEK ARE THE STRANGLERS WITH FIVE MINUTES THE NON ALBUM TRACK WILL BE THE FIRST OF THREE HITS FOR THE BAND THIS YEAR.

 

THE RICH KIDS THE RICH KIDS STAYS AT TWENTY FOUR, AND AT TWENTY SIX YELLOW DOG HAVE THE BIGGEST HIT OF THEIR CAREER WITH ONE MORE NIGHT PRESSED ON YELLOW VINYL.

 

AS WE MOVE FURTHER DOWN THE CHART AT THIRTY BILLY JOEL HAS A NEW ENTRY WITH JUST THE WAY YOU ARE, COVERED AT THE END OF THE YEAR BY BARRY WHITE.

 

AT THIRTY TWO AND THIRTY THREE WE FIND TWO NEW ENTRYS BOTH WRITTEN BY THE BEE GEES, FIRST WE HAVE RITA COOLIDGE AND WORDS FOLLOWED BY SAMANTHA SANG AND EMOTIONS.

 

RUSH ARE AT NUMBER THIRTY SIX WITH THEIR FIRST UK HIT SINGLE CLOSER TO THE HEART AND THAT IS AS HIGH HAS THIS ONE WILL GET.

 

NEVER ABLE TO REPEAT THE CHART SUCCESS OF LAST YEARS HIT GARY GILMORE S EYES THE ADVERTS HAVE A NEW ENTRY AT THIRTY EIGHT WITH NO TIME TO BE 21.

 

THE RADIO STARS MAKE UP THE TOP FORTY WITH A NEW ENTRY AT FORTY AND NERVOUS WRECK. THE B SIDE BEING HORRIBLE BREATH A SONG WRITTEN BY MARC BOLAN, WHO LATER RECORDED IT AS YOU SCARE ME TO DEATH.

 

 

MAKING HER CHART DEBUT AT NUMBER FORTY TWO THIS WEEK IS KATE BUSH AND WUTHERING HEIGHTS.

 

 

WORDS BY PETER STOCK  HAMMERSMITH78MUSICPROMOTIONS COPY RIGHT 2018