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Post by Cartman on Sept 9, 2017 9:34:20 GMT
Chic and Nile Rodgers were excellent, Gene, and 78/79 was when they were at their best and producing some great stuff. Nile also produced on some other artists stuff like Sister Sledge and maybe a few more at the time
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Post by Villain on Sept 9, 2017 16:05:23 GMT
Some great listings there folks, looking back on that short period there really was so much variety and creativity about and the standard of production was wonderful, those records all had space to breathe even when heard on a crappy little radio. I can remember Terry Wogan and everyone else on R2 at the time playing those Abba, ELO and Gerry Rafferty tracks all the time but I've never tired of them. Around '78 / '79 certain other tracks from just a year or two earlier were still being played quite regularly, namely 10cc's 'I'm Not In Love' (one of my all time favourites this) and Queen's 'Bohemian Rhapsody'. It's amazing how these records can take you back to a period or, as is more often the case, to a very specific moment in your life. There was certainly some utter tosh in the charts, there always has been but overall it was a wonderful period for British music... some of the many stand outs for me from the 1978-82 period are Joe Jackson's 'Stepping Out' (truly timeless this one), just about anything from ELO, Abba's 'Take A Chance On Me' and 'What's The Name Of The Game', 10cc's 'Dreadlock Holiday', The Korgis 'Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime', The Stranglers 'Golden Brown' and Kratfwerk's 'The Model' which all take me back to times and places never to be forgotten. Villain
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Post by Cartman on Sept 11, 2017 7:44:18 GMT
Here's May. One or two really great songs coming into it now, again, ones I like are marked *
Darts - The boy from New York City* Patti Smith Group - Because the Night* one of my favourite records of the year Andrew Gold - Never let her slip away - OK ish Yvonne Elliman - If I cant have you* John Paul Young - Love is in the air Blondie - Im always touched by your presence dear* Tavares - More than a woman* Ian Dury - What a waste* The Stranglers - Nice and sleazy* Plastic Bertrand - Ca plane pour moi* Wings - With a little luck* John Travolta & Olivia Newton John - Youre the one that I want* Elvis Costello - Pump it up* - another one of my favourites for the year
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Post by Steve Austin on Sept 11, 2017 8:11:29 GMT
Here's May. One or two really great songs coming into it now, again, ones I like are marked *
Darts - The boy from New York City* Patti Smith Group - Because the Night* one of my favourite records of the year Andrew Gold - Never let her slip away - OK ish Yvonne Elliman - If I cant have you* John Paul Young - Love is in the air Blondie - Im always touched by your presence dear* Tavares - More than a woman* Ian Dury - What a waste* The Stranglers - Nice and sleazy* Plastic Bertrand - Ca plane pour moi* Wings - With a little luck* John Travolta & Olivia Newton John - Youre the one that I want* Elvis Costello - Pump it up* - another one of my favourites for the year
Like all of these, especially "What A Waste", "With A Little Luck" & "Pump It Up". How spoiled we were
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Post by Cartman on Sept 11, 2017 9:59:00 GMT
Lets quickly move on into June 1978, a significant month for me as it is the month I left school, at 18, armed with 2 GCE A Levels and entered the world of work!
Father Abraham & The Smurfs - no comment necessary!! apart from who bought this dreck? The Rolling Stones - Miss You* Manfred Mann - Davys on the road again* Goldie - Making up again The Motors - Airport* another of my favourites of the year Marshall Hain - Dancing in the city* Kate Bush - The man with the child in his eyes* Heatwave - Mind blowing decisions Blue Oyster Cult - Don't fear the reaper* Manhattan Transfer - On a little street in Singapore Sham 69 - Angels with Dirty Faces* Guy Marks - Loving you has made me Bananas* - guilty pleasure time! Meat Loaf - You took the words out of my mouth* Boomtown Rats - Like clockwork*
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Post by Sam Tyler on Sept 11, 2017 10:08:06 GMT
What a time that was for me; May / June '78. I'd been dating the future Mrs Tyler for only two months, we were 16 and still at school doing our O-Levels, and we still had the summer to look forward to before I left home for a year for the first year of my apprenticeship in South Wales.
It is great that the odd snippet of those chart tunes can evoke such memories.
Sam.
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Post by Steve Austin on Sept 11, 2017 12:33:34 GMT
Lets quickly move on into June 1978, a significant month for me as it is the month I left school, at 18, armed with 2 GCE A Levels and entered the world of work!
Father Abraham & The Smurfs - no comment necessary!! apart from who bought this dreck? The Rolling Stones - Miss You* Manfred Mann - Davys on the road again* Goldie - Making up again The Motors - Airport* another of my favourites of the year Marshall Hain - Dancing in the city* Kate Bush - The man with the child in his eyes* Heatwave - Mind blowing decisions Blue Oyster Cult - Don't fear the reaper* Manhattan Transfer - On a little street in Singapore Sham 69 - Angels with Dirty Faces* Guy Marks - Loving you has made me Bananas* - guilty pleasure time! Meat Loaf - You took the words out of my mouth* Boomtown Rats - Like clockwork*
Not so many for me this month but what there is, is great. "Don't Fear The Reaper" has been played 1000's of times & I don't know why that is. There have been better OHW (such as Yellow Dogs One More Night which charted higher) but this one is played regularly.
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Post by Cartman on Sept 11, 2017 14:09:45 GMT
And lets get into July now with some more crackers:
Clout - Substitute* a one hit wonder Showaddywaddy - A little bit of soap* - about the only one they ever did I thought was OK A Taste of Honey - Boogie Oogie oogie* ELO - Wild West Hero* Lindisfarne - Run for home* - love this Sex Pistols - My Way - an exception, I like the Pistols but this was a poor effort Jackson Browne - Stay* City Boy - 5705* Gladys Knight & The Pips - Come back and finish what you started* Justin Hayward - Forever Autumn* Joe Walsh - Lifes been good* - love this too
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Post by Steve Austin on Sept 11, 2017 15:11:30 GMT
And lets get into July now with some more crackers:
Clout - Substitute* a one hit wonder Showaddywaddy - A little bit of soap* - about the only one they ever did I thought was OK A Taste of Honey - Boogie Oogie oogie* ELO - Wild West Hero* Lindisfarne - Run for home* - love this Sex Pistols - My Way - an exception, I like the Pistols but this was a poor effort Jackson Browne - Stay* City Boy - 5705* Gladys Knight & The Pips - Come back and finish what you started* Justin Hayward - Forever Autumn* Joe Walsh - Lifes been good* - love this too Another stonking month, with Showaddywaddy my pick of the bunch. As I mentioned previously, this was the first band I was into and I used to love singing all of their songs into my sisters tape recorder. I always used to think that Life's Been Good To Me was by David Essex, sounds a little like him, no? OK, just me then As one hit wonders go, Substitute is a corker and better than the one from last month
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Post by Bojan Scores on Sept 11, 2017 16:12:14 GMT
Wasn't the ridiculous Car 67 by Driver 67 (I think) in the charts about this time? When I worked in the pottery industry in Stoke, Showaddywaddy, anything from Grease or the Saturday Night Fever sound track, would be on the local radio Thursday afternoons. Nothing to do with the fact, that people had their weekly cash pay, then a liquid lunch and would be singing along to these late 70s tunes quite merrily :D And when you think about those Early Kate Bush records, what a unique talent - absolutely wonderful stuff.
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