1978 PART NINE

 1978

THE LAST GREAT YEAR OF ROCK

 

 



IN A WEEK WHERE ANDY GIBB STARTS A TWO WEEK RUN WITH (LOVE IS) THICKER THAN WATER AT NUMBER ONE IN THE US. JERRY LEE LEWIS HOME IS RAIDED TO PAY OF TAX DEBTS. THE RICH KIDS ARE TOURING THE UK AND THE ROLLING STONES FINISH RECORDING SOME GIRLS IN PARIS. 

 

ABBA  ARE AT NUMBER ONE FOR ONE LAST WEEK WITH TAKE A CHANCE ON ME, THE LAST OF THEIR THREE NUMBER ONES IN A ROW, THEIR LAST NUMBER ONE OF THE SEVENTIES AND THEIR LAST NUMBER ONE FOR TWO AND A HALF YEARS.

 

DARTS MOVE TO NUMBER TWO WITH COME BACK MY LOVE THE FIRST OF THREE SINGLES TO REACH NUMBER TWO IN 1978. ROSE ROYCE AND WISHING ON A STAR HIT THEIR HIGHEST POSITION THIS WEEK AT THREE.  THE BEE GEES STAYIN ALIVE LAST WEEKS NUMBER ONE IN THE STATES REACHES IT HIGHEST POSITION THIS WEEK TO AT NUMBER FOUR. UP FROM THIRTEEN LAST WEEK AND ON IT WAY TO NEXT WEEKS NUMBER ONE SPOT IS KATE BUSH AND WUTHERING HEIGHTS AT NUMBER FIVE.

 

THE REST OF THE TOP TEN ARE ALL GOING DOWN EXCEPT YELLOW DOG AND SWEET BOTH UP ONE TO NUMBERS EIGHT AND NINE AND FOR THEM ALSO THIS IS HAS HIGH AS THEY WILL GET.

 

BLONDIE JUST MISS OUT ON THE TOP TEN THIS WEEK GOING UP TWENTY TWO PLACES TO NUMBER ELEVEN WITH DENIS AND A START OF A GOLDEN RUN OF TOP TWENTY SINGLES THAT WILL LAST UNTIL 1982. GERRY RAFFERTY BAKER STREET ONE OF THE BIGGEST SEALING SINGLES OF THE YEARS CLIMES FOURTEEN PLACES TO FOURTEEN THIS WEEK.

 

ERUPTION, SAMANTHA SANG AND BOB MARLEY ALL HAVE BIG CLIMBERS THIS WEEK GOING UP TO NUMBERS FIFTEEN WITH I CANT STAND THE RAIN AND NUMBER SIXTEEN WITH EMOTIONS AND NUMBER SEVENTEEN WITH IS THIS LOVE.

 

THE TOM ROBINSON BAND AND THE RISING FREE EP REACHES IT HIGHEST POSITION THIS WEEK AT NUMBER EIGHTEEN, AS DOES BILLY JOEL AND JUST THE WAY YOU ARE AT NUMBER NINETEEN. BARRY WHITE WILL CHART RIGHT AT THE END OF THE YEAR WITH HIS VERSION AND TAKE IT TO NUMBER TWELVE IN JANUARY 1979.

 

RITA COOLIDGE TAKES WORDS TO NUMBER TWENTY FIVE ITS HIGHEST POSITION AND ANOTHER BEE GEES SONG AND HER LAST TOP FORTY HIT.

 

ELKIE BROOKS IS A NEW ENTRY AT NUMBER TWENTY SEVEN WITH LILAC WINE A SONG COVERED BY NINA SIMONE  JEFF BUCKLEY AND SUSAN BOYLE.

 

TWO FOOTBALL SONGS FEATURE IN THE TOP FORTY THIS WEEK WE VE GOT THE WHOLE WORLD NOTTINGHAM FOREST/ PAPER LACE AT NUMBER TWENTY EIGHT, AND AT NUMBER THIRTY TWO ANDY CAMERON AND ALLYS TARTAN ARMY.

 

THE CLASH ARE A NEW ENTRY AT THIRTY FIVE WITH THE CLASH CITY ROCKERS. NEW AT THIRTY SIX IS HOT CHOCOLATE AND EVERY 1 S A WINNER. BRIAN AND MICHAEL AND MATCHSTALK MEN AND MATCHSTALK CATS AND DOGS A FUTURE NUMBER ONE ENTERS AT NUMBER THIRTY SEVEN.

 

PLAYER A FORMER NUMBER ONE IN THE STATES MAKE A NEW ENTRY AT NUMBER THIRTY NINE.

 

IN THE ALBUM CHART THIS WEEK ABBA, FLEETWOOD MAC ,ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA , ROD STEWART ,BREAD, BOB MARLEY ALL HAVE TOP TWENTY ALBUMS. WHILE JUDAS PRIEST STAINED GLASS IS A NEW ENTRY AT TWENTY SEVEN, THE TUBES WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM LIFE IS NEW AT THIRTY EIGHT AND BLONDIE IS NEW AT FORTY WITH PLASTIC LETTERS

 

WORDS BY PETER STOCK HAMMERSMITH78MUSICPROMOTIONS COPY RIGHT 2018