1978 PART ELEVEN

 1978

THE LAST GREAT YEAR OF ROCK

 

THIS WEEK SAW THE STRANGLERS START THEIR DEBUT US TOUR, ELVIS COSTELLO RELEASES THIS YEARS MODEL, AMERICAN HOT WAX PREMIERS IN THE STATES. ONTARIO CALIFORNIA HOSTS CALIFORNIA JAM II , THE BEE GEES WERE NUMBER ONE AND TWO IN THE USA WITH NIGHT FEVER AND STAYING ALIVE AND WROTE THE NUMBER THREE EMOTION BY SAMANTHA SANG, ALSO IT WAS THE FIFTH OF SIX SINGLES IN A ROW FOR RSO RECORDS. 

 

 

HERE IN THE UK KATE BUSH SPENDS ANOTHER WEEK AT THE TOP WITH WUTHERING HEIGHTS,BLONDIE CLIMB TO NUMBER TWO WITH DENIS, WHILE ABBA DROP ONE TO NUMBER THREE WITH TAKE A CHANCE ON ME. DARTS AND ROSE ROYCE ALSO GO DOWN ONE PLACE TO FOUR AND FIVE.

 

GERRY RAFFERTY CLIMBS TWO TO NUMBER SIX WITH BAKER STREET AND ERUPTION HOLD STEADY AT NUMBER SEVEN WITH I CANT STAND THE RAIN.  STAYING ALIVE IS AT NUMBER EIGHT MR BLUE SKY E L O IS AT NUMBER NINE AND GOING UP EIGHT PLACES ON ITS WAY TO NUMBER ONE IS BRIAN AND MICHAEL MATCHSTALK MEN.

 

THE RESTS OF THE TOP TWENTY IS MADE UP OF BOB MARLEY AT NUMBER ELEVEN SAMANTHA SANG AT TWELVE , ANDY CAMERON A CLIMBER AT THIRTEEN WITH ALLYS TARTAN ARMY, FOLLOWED BY EARTH WIND AND FIRE AND YELLOW DOG AT FOURTEEN AND FIFTEEN.

 

ELKIE BROOKS NEW IN THE TOP TWENTY AT SIXTEEN, FREE GOING DOWN TO SEVENTEEN, BROTHERHOOD OF MAN AT EIGHTEEN DONNA SUMMER AND HOT CHOCOLATE ARE BOTH NEW TO THE TOP TWENTY AND NINETEEN AND TWENTY.

 

NICK LOWE IS A BIG CLIMBER UP FROM THIRTY THREE TO NUMBER TWENTY ONE WITH I LOVE THE SOUND OF BREAKING GLASS. TWENTY TWO TO TWENTY NINE IS MADE UP OF BILLY JOEL.SWEET TOM ROBINSON BAND,SCOTT FITZGERALD/YVONNE KEELY, MANHATTAN TRANSFER, THE STRANGLERS,RITA COOLIDGE AND THE REAL THING.

 

GENESIS CHART AT THIRTY WITH FOLLOW YOU FOLLOW ME WHICH WILL GO ON TO BE THEIR BIGGEST HIT TO DATE. AT THIRTY ONE ELVIS COSTELLO AND (I DONT WANT TO GO TO) CHELSEA. THEN TWO GOING DOWN ROD STEWART AND PLAYER AT THIRTY TWO AND THIRTY THREE.

 

ANDREA TRUE CONNECTION CHART AT THIRTY FOUR WITH THERE SECOND AND LAST HIT WHATS YOUR NAME WHATS YOUR NUMBER. THE JAM ARE UP THREE TO THIRTY FIVE WITH NEWS OF THE WORLD, WHILE NOTTINGHAM FOREST DROP TWELVE TO THIRTY SIX. DAN HILL CLIMBS TWO TO THIRTY SEVEN AND THE LAST THREE ARE ALL GOING DOWN THE CLASH, TONIGHT. AND QUEEN AT THIRTY EIGHT THIRTY NINE AND FORTY.

 

 

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