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May 11 2011 
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Jason Maloney reviews
V o l u m e # 3 0 |
A week earlier Three Times A Lady had been the record to finally bring to an end the domination of John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John's You're The One That I Want. For 9 consecutive weeks the pair had seen off all competition with the first of their back-to-back #1s. You're The One That I Want and its follow-up Summer Nights were both taken from the film Grease, which also yielded a third major hit single in the shape of Frankie Valli's title song, new this week at #31. The setting for Grease, although you wouldn't have guessed from the sleek funkiness of the Barry Gibb-penned effort from Valli, was 50s America; an era which vocal group Darts drew on very successfully for a period between 1977 and 1979. Daddy Cool opened their account at the tail end of 1977, reaching #7, followed by another Top 10 hit The Boy From New York City. Their third entry, It's Raining, would become their highest-charting single to date; curently up a notch to #3, it peaked at #2 in early September. |
Although they originally made their name on the singles Top 40 in 1964 with the chart-topping Go Now, the Moody Blues had long since become better known as an album act. The hits tailed off after 1970's Question made #2, although signature tune Nights In White Satin repeated its Top 20 successes of 1968 (#19) and 1972 (#9) with another visit to the charts in the autumn of 1979. In the meantime, lead vocalist Justin Hayward - who replaced the singer of Go Now, Denny Laine, not long after their initial breakthrough in the mid-60s - had a major solo hit courtesy of Forever Autumn. Taken from Jeff Wayne's musical extravaganza based on H.G.Wells' War Of The Worlds, the track was at its peak of #5. The album itself became one of the longest-running hits of all-time, spending over 5 years on the UK chart. |
10cc, one of the most consistently successful singles bands of the decade, were in the Top 10 yet again. With its now-legendary chorus of "I Don't Like Cricket... I Love It", Dreadlock Holiday (rising 12 places to #6 on only its 2nd week in the Top 40) set its unsettling lyrics of a tourist's experiences in the Carribean to a almost jaunty reggae rhythm. The result was a late-summer smash, as the single toppled Three Times A Lady from the summit in September. For 60s icons such as Bob Dylan and The Who, significant singles chart careers were beginning to wind down. Baby Stop Crying, down from a high of #13 to #15, proved to be Dylan's last appearance on the UK singles rundown until the mid-90s, when Dignity sneaked into the lower region of the Top 40. Meanwhile, Who Are You (up 2 to #18) would only be followed by 1981's You Better You Bet and the #40 hit Athena a year later. |
Naming your single Top Of The Pops is shamelessly inviting attention, especially if said record fails to live up to its title by reaching #1, but The Rezillos did so anyway; Top Of The Pops (the song) climbed from #34 to #26, earning an appearance on Top Of The Pops (the music TV show) during its ascent to a high of #17. Highest entry to the chart was Forget About You, the Motors' follow-up to their Top 5 smash Airport, in at #31. Clearly the record-buying public still remembered them... for the time being at least. Immediately beneath them, an act destined for a longer career debuted with one of the earliest in a distinguished line of hits. The Jam's double A-side release David Watts/'A' Bomb In Wardour Street only managed #25 in the end, but it continued their steady progress from bright new things to fully-fledged national treasures. By contrast, Bryan Ferry's dismal #37 showing with Sign Of The Times temporarily called time on his previously lucrative solo escapades outside of Roxy Music. In 1979, Roxy Music returned with a drastically altered line-up and, most importantly, a series of major hit singles from the Manifesto album. |
The following is a list of Jason's Jukeboxes online for week ending:
Vol.40: The 40 Best Singles That Missed The UK Top 40 (20/12/2004) Vol.39: November 12th 1977 (12/11/2004) Vol.38: October 29th 1984 (29/10/2004) Vol.37: October 15th 1987 (15/10/2004) Vol.36: October 6th 1973 (08/10/2004) Vol.35: September 30th 1995 (30/09/2004) Vol.34: September 22nd 1979 (24/09/2004) Vol.33: September 13th 1986 (16/09/2004) Vol.32: September 9th 1989 (09/09/2004) Vol.31: September 4th 1982 (02/09/2004) Vol.30: August 26th 1978 (26/08/2004) Vol.29: August 21st 1976 (19/08/2004) Vol.28: August 13th 1983 (12/08/2004) Vol.27: August 3rd 1985 (06/08/2004) Vol.26: July 25th 1981 (29/07/2004) Vol.25: July 21st 1979 (22/07/2004) Vol.24: July 4th 1992 (08/07/2004) Vol.23: June 24th 1965 (01/07/2004) Vol.22: June 16th 1984 (17/06/2004) Vol.21: June 11th 1977 (10/06/2004) Vol.20: June 8th 1967 (03/06/2004) Vol.19: May 29th 1971 (27/05/2004) Vol.18: May 18th 1991 (20/05/2004) Vol.17: May 14th 1969 (13/05/2004) Vol.16: May 8th 1982 (06/05/2004) Vol.15: May 3rd 1980 (29/04/2004) Vol.14: April 19th 1986 (20/04/2004) Vol.13: April 14th 1990 (13/04/2004) Vol.12: April 8th 1989 (08/04/2004) Vol.11: April 2nd 1983 (06/04/2004) Vol.10: March 24th 1979 (23/03/2004) Vol.9: March 19th 1988 (16/03/2004) Vol.8: March 9th 1985 (09/03/2004) Vol.7: March 3rd 1973 (02/03/2004) Vol.6: February 28th 1987 (24/02/2004) Vol.5: February 20th 1993 (17/02/2004) Vol.4: February 11th 1978 (10/02/2004) Vol.3: February 3rd 1966 (03/02/2004) Vol.2: January 31st 1981 (27/01/2004) Vol.1: January 21st 1984 (20/01/2004)
And in chronological order:
June 24th 1965: Vol.23 (01/07/2004) February 3rd 1966: Vol.3 (03/02/2004) June 8th 1967: Vol.20 (03/06/2004) May 14th 1969: Vol.17 (13/05/2004) May 29th 1971: Vol.19 (27/05/2004) March 3rd 1973: Vol.7 (02/03/2004) August 21st 1976: Vol.29 (19/08/2004) June 11th 1977: Vol.21 (10/06/2004) November 12th 1977: Vol.39 (12/11/2004) February 11th 1978: Vol.4 (10/02/2004) August 26th 1978: Vol.30 (26/08/2004) March 24th 1979: Vol.10 (23/03/2004) July 21st 1979: Vol.25 (22/07/2004) September 22nd 1979: Vol.34 (24/09/2004) May 3rd 1980: Vol.15 (29/04/2004) January 31st 1981: Vol.2 (27/01/2004) July 25th 1981: Vol.26 (29/07/2004) May 8th 1982: Vol.16 (06/05/2004) September 4th 1982: Vol.31 (02/09/2004) April 2nd 1983: Vol.11 (06/04/2004) August 13th 1983: Vol.28 (12/08/2004) January 21st 1984: Vol.1 (20/01/2004) June 16th 1984: Vol.22 (17/06/2004) October 29th 1984: Vol.38 (29/10/2004) March 9th 1985: Vol.8 (09/03/2004) August 3rd 1985: Vol.27 (06/08/2004) April 19th 1986: Vol.14 (20/04/2004) September 13th 1986: Vol.33 (16/09/2004) February 28th 1987: Vol.6 (24/02/2004) October 15th 1987: Vol.37 (15/10/2004) March 19th 1988: Vol.9 (16/03/2004) April 8th 1989: Vol.12 (08/04/2004) September 9th 1989: Vol.32 (09/09/2004) April 14th 1990: Vol.13 (13/04/2004) May 18th 1991: Vol.18 (20/05/2004) July 4th 1992: Vol.24 (08/07/2004) February 20th 1993: Vol.5 (17/02/2004) September 30th 1995: Vol.35 (30/09/2004) The 40 Best Singles That Missed The UK Top 40: Vol.40 (20/12/2004)
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