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

1978 PART FIVE

1978

 

THE LAST GREAT YEAR OF ROCK

 

 

 

THIS WEEK STARTS WITH A NEW NUMBER ONE THE FIRST OF 1978,AND THE FIRST ONE SINCE DECEMBER . ALTHIA AND DONNA CLIMB ONE WITH UP TOWN TOP RANKING. AFTER NINE WEEKS AT THE TOP WINGS MULL OF KINTYRE DROPS TO TWO.

 

BROTHERHOOD OF MAN, SCOTT FITZGERALD AND YVONNE KEELY, AND ODYSSEY FILL THE REST OF THE TOP FIVE.

 

ABBA COME STRAIGHT IN AT NUMBER TEN WITH TAKE A CHANCE ON ME, WHILE AT SEVENTEEN THE IMPERIALS WITH OUT LITTLE ANTHONY CLIMB SIX WITH WHO S GONNA LOVE ME.

 

ROD STEWART UP TO EIGHTEEN WITH HOT LEGS/I WAS ONLY JOKING, AND DARTS ARE A NEW ENTRY AT TWENTY WITH COME BACK MY LOVE. IT WILL BE THE FIRST OF FOUR TOP TWENTY HITS FOR THEM THIS YEAR WITH THIS ONE AND THE NEXT TWO ALL REACHING NUMBER TWO ,AND TWO OF THEM BECOMING GOLD SELLING SINGLES ON THE WAY.

 

 AT NUMBER TWENTY ONE SWEET MAKE A NEW ENTRY WITH LOVE IS LIKE OXYGEN THEIR FIRST AND LAST HIT SINGLE IN TWO YEARS WILL GO ON TO MAKE NUMBER NINE HERE AND NUMBER EIGHT IN THE USA.

 

ROSE ROYCE SOON TO BE TOP FIVE CLASSIC WISHING ON A STAR IS AT NUMBER TWENTY SIX. NEW AT TWENTY SEVEN AND FROM THE FILM OF THE SAME NAME STARING RICHARD PRYOR STARGUARD AND THE THEME FROM WHICH WAY IS UP.

 

AT THIRTY FOUR A NEW ENTRY AND ONE OF THE SINGLES THAT WILL DEFINE 1978 THE BEE GEES AND STAYIN ALIVE. ONE PLACE BELOW AT THIRTY FIVE LINDA RONSTADT AND BLUE BAYOU AGAIN IN THE DAYS OF COLOURED VINYL A 12 INCH BLUE VINYL HELPED SALES OF THIS INTO THE CHART.

 

THE ALBUM CHART IS SHOWING VERY LITTLE SIGNS OF PUNK/NEW WAVE AT THE MOMENT, WITH  ABBA THE ALBUM AT NUMBER ONE. THE ONLY THREE PUNK ALBUMS THIS WEEK IN THE CHART ARE SEX PISTOLS NEVER MIND THE BOLLOCKS AT NUMBER FOURTEEN, IAN DURY NEW BOOTS AND PANTIES AT NUMBER SEVENTEEN AND XTC WHITE MUSIC AT NUMBER FOURTY THREE.

 

IN THE STATES THIS WEEK THE BEE GEES START A FOUR WEEK RUN WITH STAYIN ALIVE.

 

WORDS BY PETER STOCK HAMMERSMITH78MUSICPROMOTIONS COPY RIGHT 2018 

SURE DONT KNOW

SURE DONT KNOW

SURE DONT KNOW

WHERE ITS ENDS

SURE DIDNT KNOW

THE RIVER HAD

SO MANY BENDS

THERES NO WAY

OF KNOWING

WHAT THE FUTURE HOLDS

JUST LET ME HELP

TAKE THE LOAD

SURE IS FUN

HAVING YOU

IN MY LIFE

SURE AM GLAD

YOU ARE MY WIFE

THERES NO WAY

OF KNOWING

WHAT THE FUTURE HOLDS

JUST LET ME HELP

TAKE THE LOAD

SURE GONNA

 LOOK AFTER YOU

WHEN WE RE OLD

SURE GONNA

MAKE YOU

LAUGH AT NIGHT

SURE GONNA

TELL YOU

I LOVE YOU

BEFORE WE

SWITCH OUT THE LIGHT

THERES NO WAY

OF KNOWING

WHAT THE FUTURE HOLDS

JUST LET ME HELP

TAKE THE LOAD

JUST LET ME HELP

TAKE THE LOAD

WORDS BY PETER STOCK HAMMERSMITH78MUSICPROMOTIONS COPY RIGHT 2018

DRINKING FROM A DIFFERENT CUP

DRINKING FROM A DIFFERENT CUP

IVE KNOWN YOU FOR A LONG TIME
IVE KNOWN YOU SINCE YESTERDAY
I ALWAYS KNEW
SOMEDAY WOMAN
THAT YOU WOULD STRAY


THAT SWEET LOVE WE HAD
SEEMS ALONG TIME AGO
SOME HOW I KNEW
IT WOULDNT LAST

I KNEW ONE DAY
YOULL BE DRINKING
FROM A DIFFERENT CUP

SOME HOW I TRIED TO TELL MYSELF
I DIDNT THINK THAT THINGS
WOULD GO THIS WAY

NO I DIDNT THINK
THINGS WOULD GO THIS WAY

BUT HERE I AM
WAY DOWN THE LIST
GETTING STONED
IN LONESOME BAR

 IVE JUST FOUND OUT
YOUVE BE DRINKING
FROM A DIFFERENT CUP

WHY TRY TO MAKE IT WORK
WHY TRY TO HOLD ON
WHEN I KNOW SOMETIME SOON
YOULL BE DOING IT AGAIN

I KNOW
YOULL BE DOING IT AGAIN

YOULL BE DRINKING
FROM A DIFFERENT CUP

SOMEHOW I JUST CANT
TAKE YOU BACK

WHEN YOUVE BE DRINKING
FROM A DIFFERENT CUP

OH WOMAN
LOOK WHAT YOU DONE
TO ME TODAY

DID YOU HAVE TO
HURT ME THIS WAY

I HOPE YOU GOT
WHAT YOU NEEDED
FROM HIM TODAY

WHEN YOUVE BEEN CAUGHT
DRINKING FROM A DIFFERENT CUP

WORDS BY PETER STOCK HAMMERSMITH78MUSICPROMOTIONS  COPY RIGHT 2018

1978 PART FOUR

1978

 

THE LAST GREAT YEAR OF ROCK

 

 

 

IN THE WEEK WHEN KATE BUSH WUTHERING HEIGHTS IS RELEASED , JOY DIVISION PLAY THEIR FIRST GIG UNDER THEIR NEW NAME AT PIPS DISCOTHEQUE MANCHESTER AND TERRY KATY OF CHICAGO BLOWS HIS BRAINS OUT, WE REACH WEEK FOUR OF 1978.

 

 WINGS HANG ON FOR ONE MORE WEEK WITH MULL OF KINTYRE ,McCARTNEY' S  LAST NUMBER ONE FOR OVER FOUR YEARS. ALTHIA AND DONNA WAIT IN THE WINGS AT NUMBER TWO AND DONNA SUMMER LOVES UNKIND AT NUMBER THREE.

THE BROTHERHOOD OF MAN AND FIGARO UP TEN TO FOUR ON IT WAY TO THE TOP , WITH ODYSSEY NATIVE NEW YORKER AT FIVE. TWO BIG JUMPERS INTO THE TOP TEN BILL WITHERS LOVELY DAY IN AT EIGHT AND SCOTT FITZGERALD AND YVONNE KEELY IF I HAD WORDS UP SEVENTEEN PLACES TO NUMBER TEN.

WAR ARE UP TWELVE PLACES TO NUMBER FOURTEEN WITH GALAXY THEIR SECOND BIGGEST HIT COMING TWO YEARS AFTER LOW RIDER. T CONNECTION ON FIRE AT SIXTEEN GIVES THEM THEIR SECOND AND LAST TOP TWENTY HIT.

LOWER DOWN IN THE TOP FORTY WE START TO HAVE SOME INTERESTING AND CLASSIC SONG CHARTING FOR THE FIRST TIME THIS WEEK.

RICH KIDS RICH KIDS FORMED BY GLEN MATLOCK AND MIDGE URE WITH RUSTY EGAN AND STEVE NEW CHART AT TWENTY NINE,NO DOUBT HELP BY THE FACT THE SINGLE IS PRESSED ON RED VINYL. DRUMMER MAN BY TONIGHT CHARTS AT THIRTY FOUR, WHILE ROD STEWART START THE YEAR ON A HIGH WHICH WILL ONLY GET BETTER LATTER IN THE YEAR, WITH HOT LEGS/ I WAS ONLY JOKING AT NUMBER THIRTY FIVE.

EDDIE AND THE HOT RODS NOW STRANGELY BACK CALLING THEM SELF THAT AGAIN AFTER BEING THE RODS ON DO ANYTHING YOU WANNA DO THEIR BIGGEST HIT FROM LAST YEAR CHART  THE LAST OF FIVE SINGLES AT NUMBER THIRTY SIX WITH QUIT THIS TOWN IT WONT GO ANY HIGHER.

SMOKIE WILL HAVE ONE MORE TOP FIVE HIT BEFORE THAT DREADFUL VERSION OF ALICE ( WHO THE F  IS ALICE) MAKES THE TOP THREE IN 1995 WITH THE GUY FROM BLACK LACE ALAN BARTON AND ROY CHUBBY BROWN BUT NOT WITH THIS ONE FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE IS NEW AT THIRTY EIGHT.

A CLASSIC IF EVER THERE WAS ONE ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA MR BLUE SKY . THE SECOND SINGLE LIFTED FROM THE OUT OF THE BLUE ALBUM IN ITSELF A CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE YEAR, CHARTS AT THIRTY NINE.

AND FINALLY DAVID BOWIE MAKES THE FORTY AT NUMBER FORTY WITH BEAUTY AND THE BEAST . THE SECOND SINGLE TAKEN FROM HEROES ,  IT WILL ONLY SPEND TWO WEEKS IN THE CHARTS AND PEAK AT THIRTY NINE.

BOTH THE ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA AND DAVID BOWIE WILL CHART HIGHER IN THEIR FIRST WEEK ON THE NME CHART OF THIS WEEK . DAVID BOWIE HOWEVER WILL STILL ONLY MANAGE TWO WEEKS ON THE CHART MAKING IT AS HIGH HAS TWENTY FIVE NEXT WEEK.


WORDS BY PETER STOCK  HAMMERSMITH78MUSICPROMOTIONS COPY RIGHT 2018 

NOISE TRADE TOP 10 OF THE WEEK 3 APRIL TO 8 APRIL 2018

1) GINA SICILIA                    TUG OF WAR                                                 6 TRACKS  SOUL
   BEST TRACK                      I DONT WANT TO BE IN LOVE

2) MCKENZIE LOCKHEART SUBURBS                                                        5 TRACKS ACOUSTIC
    BEST TRACK                    BALL AND CHAIN

3) LAZY EYE                          BLACK HILL                                                     9 TRACKS  JAM BAND
    BEST TRACK                     VOODOO BLUES

4) PUNCHLINE                    INTRODUCTION TO PUNCHLINE                 6 TRACKS POWERPOP
     BEST TRACK                   TELL ME HOW YOU SLEEP

5) ONISMEV                        REACH                                                             5 TRACKS INDIE
    BEST TRACK                    INDIE

6) MODEL M                       VENGEANCE                                                14  TRACKS ELECTRONICA
     BEST TRACK                   HEAVEN CALLING

7) WYATT BLAIR                 SMOKE AND MIRRORS                              10 TRACKS NEW WAVE
    BEST TRACK                   I DONT KNOW WHY

8) SETTLING HOUSES       DRIVE AND NEVER STOP EP                         4 TRACKS FOLK ROCK    

    BEST TRACK                  LOSING SLEEP

9) VIOLET MARY               A VIOLET MARY PRIMER                           10 TRACKS JAM BAND
   BEST TRACK                   GONE UP RIVER

10) GREG GOBEL             STORIES TO TELL                                          10 TRACKS PUNK
    BEST TRACK                 ANSWER

CHART COMPILED BY HAMMERSMITH78MUSICPROMOTIONS

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WE ARE OLD

WE ARE OLD

WE ARE OLD

BUT GETTING YOUNG

I DONT BELIEVE THAT

SPRING HAS SPRUNG

I DONT BELIEVE

OUR GOOD TIMES

ARE IN THE PAST

I JUST HOPE

THEY ARE GOING TO LAST

WE ARE OLD

BUT GETTING YOUNG

TWO LOVERS

LIVING AS ONE

KEEPING EACH OTHER YOUNG

WE ARE OLD

BUT GETTING YOUNG

LIVING FOR THE MOMENT

THERES NOTHING ELSE

WE CAN DO

ENJOY EVERY SANDWICH

FOR  SOON WE WILL BE MOVING ON


WORDS BY PETER STOCK  HAMMERSMITH78MUSICPROMOTIONS  COPY RIGHT 2018