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The "My goodness, did 1978 suck" quiz

41Forever
Jan 17 2020 03:42 PM

I always remembered 1978 as being kind of a suck year. Mets were awful. MFY's going to the Series, taking most the neighborhood on the bandwagon with it. Transitioning from junior high, which I liked, to a very crappy freshman year in high school.



Our recent look at the1978 albums showed their was some solace in classic rock. But holy crap the singles chart was the absolute dregs, especially to a 14 year old. Maybe these are bad because I associate it with a bad year. But I still cringe at most of these. Repressed memories escaped.



I've been hooked on the Stereo Gum reviews of all the Billboard No. 1 songs, and the writer just wrapped up 1978. Wow.



Here are the dates and the number of weeks at No. 1. Some had brutally long runs atop the chart. Tell me the group and the song. Bonus points if you can guess the run. It's easy to cheat this one, but try to avoid it. One group dominates, and it was either performing songs or writing songs.



Jan 1 (Three weeks):

Jan 12 (Three weeks):

Feb. 4 (Four weeks):

March 4 (Two weeks):

March 18: (Eight weeks):

May 13 (One week):

May 20 (Two weeks):

June 3 (One week):

June 10 (One week):

June 17 (Seven weeks):

Aug. 5 (One week):

Aug. 12 (Two weeks):

Aug. 26 (Two weeks):

Sept. 9 (Three weeks):

Sept. 30 (Four weeks):

Oct 28 (One week):

Nov. 4 (One week):

Nov. 11 (Three weeks):

Dec. 2 (Two weeks):

Dec. 9 (Six weeks):

ashie62
Jan 17 2020 04:04 PM
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Wings "With a little luck"

whippoorwill
Jan 17 2020 04:05 PM
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I got married in 1979 (close as a reference) and I worked at a record store and I remember music being atrocious that year and also 1978.

I am absolutely going to give this a shot

whippoorwill
Jan 17 2020 04:09 PM
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Somewhere:



Chic: Freak out and la chic

Cheap trick: I want you to want me

Alan parsons project: any of their shit



Good stuff:

Toto: I think Aja was out that year

ashie62
Jan 17 2020 04:09 PM
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And yes that group that dominates is vomit worthy

ashie62
Jan 17 2020 04:10 PM
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Shadow Dancin 7 weeks Andy Gibb

whippoorwill
Jan 17 2020 04:11 PM
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=whippoorwill post_id=29998 time=1579302550 user_id=79]
Somewhere:



Chic: Freak out and la chic

Cheap trick: I want you to want me

Alan parsons project: any of their shit



Good stuff:

Toto: I think Aja was out that year


Fogelberg: too many windows in this old hotel song

whippoorwill
Jan 17 2020 04:11 PM
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=ashie62 post_id=29999 time=1579302573 user_id=90]
And yes that group that dominates is vomit worthy



Gotta be chic

ashie62
Jan 17 2020 04:14 PM
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Stones grab a week with "Miss You."

whippoorwill
Jan 17 2020 04:37 PM
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One of my favorite Stones songs.



How about Cher and Take Me Home

ashie62
Jan 17 2020 04:45 PM
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Frankie Valli Greased us for one week lol

whippoorwill
Jan 17 2020 04:54 PM
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Totally rethinking this! I am off by two years.

1978 was the year I started dating my husband but there were a couple other boys before him and I totally remember Two Out Of a three Ain't Bad being a staple around that time

whippoorwill
Jan 17 2020 05:37 PM
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Okay. 1978 before I started dating my hubby I dated ... let's call him ‘PRL'

Popular were Close Encounters, Meatloaf, the tail end of Saturday night fever (love that soundtrack), You Light Up My Life🤮🤢🤮🤢, Grease (meh), ELO, and and new group my boyfriend liked called REO

Speedwagon

Gonna let this gel in my head tonight .

41Forever
Jan 17 2020 07:45 PM
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Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Jan 17 2020 08:22 PM

Ashie lands the two most listenable songs on the list! Keep trying, Whipp! You're not far off!





Jan 1 (Three weeks): How Deep is Your Love (LWFS)

Jan 12 (Three weeks):

Feb. 4 (Four weeks): Stayin' Alive, Bee Gees (LWFS)

March 4 (Two weeks):

March 18: (Eight weeks): Night Fever, Bee Gees (LWFS)

May 13 (One week):

May 20 (Two weeks): With A Little Love, Wings (Ashie)

June 3 (One week):

June 10 (One week):

June 17 (Seven weeks): Shadow Dancing, Andy Gibb (Ashie)

Aug. 5 (One week): Miss You, Rolling Stones (Ashie)

Aug. 12 (Two weeks):

Aug. 26 (Two weeks): Grease, Frankie Valle (Ashie)

Sept. 9 (Three weeks):

Sept. 30 (Four weeks):

Oct 28 (One week):

Nov. 4 (One week):

Nov. 11 (Three weeks):

Dec. 2 (Two weeks):

Dec. 9 (Six weeks): Le Freak, Chic (Whipporwill)



Misses:

We Will Rock You, Queen (Kmets)

Two Out of Three Ain't Bad, Meat Loaf (Kmets)

Take Me Home, Cher (Whipporwill)

I want you to want me, Cheap Trick (Whipporwill)

Any of their shit, Alan Parsons Project (Whipporwill)

Heart Hotel, Dan Fogelberg (Whipporwill)

kcmets
Jan 17 2020 08:14 PM
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We Will We Will Rock You

We Will We Will Rock You

LWFS
Jan 17 2020 08:14 PM
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We had an ANDY Gibb guess, but no BeeGees yet?



Gimme "Stayin' Alive." Hell, gimme "How Deep Is Your Love" and "Night Fever," to boot.

kcmets
Jan 17 2020 08:15 PM
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I want you I need you but there ain't no way I'm ever gonna love you

kcmets
Jan 17 2020 08:17 PM
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Forgot... Queen and Loafofmeat ^^^

41Forever
Jan 17 2020 08:25 PM
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Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Jan 17 2020 09:08 PM

Bee Gees had an amazing run.



Making the year even worse, my parents got me a Bee Gees greatest hits album for my birthday. The could not understand the abject horror this caused. I seriously thought it was a prank.



Jan 1 (Three weeks): How Deep is Your Love (LWFS)

Jan 12 (Three weeks):

Feb. 4 (Four weeks): Stayin' Alive, Bee Gees (LWFS)

March 4 (Two weeks):

March 18: (Eight weeks): Night Fever, Bee Gees (LWFS)

May 13 (One week):

May 20 (Two weeks): With A Little Love, Wings (Ashie)

June 3 (One week):

June 10 (One week):

June 17 (Seven weeks): Shadow Dancing, Andy Gibb (Ashie)

Aug. 5 (One week): Miss You, Rolling Stones (Ashie)

Aug. 12 (Two weeks):

Aug. 26 (Two weeks): Grease, Frankie Valle (Ashie)

Sept. 9 (Three weeks):

Sept. 30 (Four weeks):

Oct 28 (One week):

Nov. 4 (One week):

Nov. 11 (Three weeks):

Dec. 2 (Two weeks):

Dec. 9 (Six weeks): Le Freak, Chic (Whipporwill)



Misses:

We Will Rock You, Queen (Kmets)

Two Out of Three Ain't Bad, Meat Loaf (Kmets)

Take Me Home, Cher (Whipporwill)

I want you to want me, Cheap Trick (Whipporwill)

Any of their shit, Alan Parsons Project (Whipporwill)

Heart Hotel, Dan Fogelberg (Whipporwill)

LWFS
Jan 17 2020 08:26 PM
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SWEET!



For my next trick... I do love me some creepy, romantic Jesusmusic: "You Light Up My Life," Debby Boone



FULL DISCLOSURE: I was born in 1978, so I've seen more than my share of singles lists on those old-school amusement-park birth-year fake newspapers and such.

Edgy MD
Jan 17 2020 08:29 PM
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"Summer Lovin'."

LWFS
Jan 17 2020 08:36 PM
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"Hot Stuff," Donna Summer

kcmets
Jan 17 2020 08:46 PM
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One last dart, Don't Look Back - Boston

LWFS
Jan 17 2020 09:08 PM
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One last squirt of "Grease:" "You're the One that I Want," Travolta y Newton-John

41Forever
Jan 17 2020 09:15 PM
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A hit and near-misses. The Grease soundtrack is awful. My sisters got that, and I got the even worse "]




Jan 1 (Three weeks): How Deep is Your Love (LWFS)

Jan 12 (Three weeks):

Feb. 4 (Four weeks): Stayin' Alive, Bee Gees (LWFS)

March 4 (Two weeks):

March 18: (Eight weeks): Night Fever, Bee Gees (LWFS)

May 13 (One week):

May 20 (Two weeks): With A Little Love, Wings (Ashie)

June 3 (One week):

June 10 (One week): You're The One That I Want (Kmets)

June 17 (Seven weeks): Shadow Dancing, Andy Gibb (Ashie)

Aug. 5 (One week): Miss You, Rolling Stones (Ashie)

Aug. 12 (Two weeks):

Aug. 26 (Two weeks): Grease, Frankie Valle (Ashie)

Sept. 9 (Three weeks):

Sept. 30 (Four weeks):

Oct 28 (One week):

Nov. 4 (One week):

Nov. 11 (Three weeks):

Dec. 2 (Two weeks):

Dec. 9 (Six weeks): Le Freak, Chic (Whipporwill)



Misses:

We Will Rock You, Queen (Kmets)

Two Out of Three Ain't Bad, Meat Loaf (Kmets)

Take Me Home, Cher (Whipporwill)

I want you to want me, Cheap Trick (Whipporwill)

Any of their shit, Alan Parsons Project (Whipporwill)

Heart Hotel, Dan Fogelberg (Whipporwill)

Summer Nights, John Travolta and Olivia Newton John, (Edgy)

Don't Look Back, Boston (Kmets)

Hot Stuff, Donna Summer (LWFS)

kcmets
Jan 17 2020 09:21 PM
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At least the list is living up to sucking. I imagine rest will.



Yankees won the World Series in 1978 too, which also sucked.

Chad ochoseis
Jan 17 2020 09:35 PM
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1978 sucked in so many ways, not least of which was that it was the year my family moved from Brooklyn to Staten Island.



I think that was the year Rupert Holmes tortured us all with "The Piña Colada Song". Three weeks?



OE...actual title is "Escape".

whippoorwill
Jan 17 2020 09:41 PM
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Running on empty



Played constantly around mr Cooby and I started dating



Also I remember pointer sisters ‘Fire'

whippoorwill
Jan 17 2020 09:41 PM
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bee gees ‘too much love'?

41Forever
Jan 17 2020 09:52 PM
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A couple close ones!



The BeeGees crawled from the wreckage of "Sgt Pepper" with "Spirits Having Flown," and "Too Much Heaven" was the first single, but it was the first No. 1 of 1979.



Escape is nasty ear worm!



Misses:

Escape, Rupert Holmes

Too Much Heaven, BeeGees, (Whipporwill)

Running on Empty, Jackson Browne (Whipporwill)

Fire, Pointer Sisters (Whipporwill)

We Will Rock You, Queen (Kmets)

Two Out of Three Ain't Bad, Meat Loaf (Kmets)

Take Me Home, Cher (Whipporwill)

I want you to want me, Cheap Trick (Whipporwill)

Any of their shit, Alan Parsons Project (Whipporwill)

Heart Hotel, Dan Fogelberg (Whipporwill)

Summer Nights, John Travolta and Olivia Newton John, (Edgy)

Don't Look Back, Boston (Kmets)

Hot Stuff, Donna Summer (LWFS)

batmagadanleadoff
Jan 17 2020 10:56 PM
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Does anybody remember the Gong Show episode where every contestant sang Debby Boone's "You Light Up My Life"?

batmagadanleadoff
Jan 18 2020 12:26 AM
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Does anybody remember the Gong Show episode where every contestant sang Debby Boone's "You Light Up My Life"?




Me neither. My bad. It was "Feelings" by Morris Albert.

whippoorwill
Jan 18 2020 08:22 AM
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Just as bad

Edgy MD
Jan 18 2020 08:39 AM
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"Cabo Cantina" — Marry Banilow

ashie62
Jan 18 2020 08:44 AM
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Baby Come Back Player

whippoorwill
Jan 18 2020 08:57 AM
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Ooh ooh! King Tut was out that summer! I remember talking to said boyfriend about it!

And Always and Forever- Heatwave

ashie62
Jan 18 2020 09:32 AM
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I was watching a Time Life infomercial. Johnny Mathis is on tour at 92 years old



In 78 Too much, too little too Late with Mathis & Williams?

whippoorwill
Jan 18 2020 09:40 AM
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Yes my I hated that song

41Forever
Jan 18 2020 10:29 AM
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Some hits -- and misses. Ashie nails the Johnny Mathis song. But there is another two-person ballad on the list that the Stereogum guy wails on. He notes that today, there are tons of "guest" singers popping in for a verse or rap break, and these are literally emailed in. The the song on the list has the two singers -- old friends -- in the room, singing together and singing THROUGH each other.



There are couple one-hit wonders on here -- including "Baby Come Back," also nailed by Ashie -- and more Gibbs and Gibb buddies. There's a disco diva cover of an overwrought song often mocked for its ridiculous lyrics.




Jan 1 (Three weeks): How Deep is Your Love (LWFS)

Jan 12 (Three weeks): Baby Come Back, Player (Ashie)

Feb. 4 (Four weeks): Stayin' Alive, Bee Gees (LWFS)

March 4 (Two weeks):

March 18: (Eight weeks): Night Fever, Bee Gees (LWFS)

May 13 (One week):

May 20 (Two weeks): With A Little Love, Wings (Ashie)

June 3 (One week): Too Much, Too Little, Too Late, Johnny Mathis & Deniece Williams (Ashie)

June 10 (One week): You're The One That I Want (Kcmets)

June 17 (Seven weeks): Shadow Dancing, Andy Gibb (Ashie)

Aug. 5 (One week): Miss You, Rolling Stones (Ashie)

Aug. 12 (Two weeks):

Aug. 26 (Two weeks): Grease, Frankie Valli (Ashie)

Sept. 9 (Three weeks):

Sept. 30 (Four weeks):

Oct 28 (One week):

Nov. 4 (One week):

Nov. 11 (Three weeks):

Dec. 2 (Two weeks):

Dec. 9 (Six weeks): Le Freak, Chic (Whipporwill)






Escape, Rupert Holmes

Too Much Heaven, BeeGees, (Whipporwill)

Running on Empty, Jackson Browne (Whipporwill)

Fire, Pointer Sisters (Whipporwill)

We Will Rock You, Queen (Kcmets)

Two Out of Three Ain't Bad, Meat Loaf (Kcmets)

Take Me Home, Cher (Whipporwill)

I want you to want me, Cheap Trick (Whipporwill)

Any of their shit, Alan Parsons Project (Whipporwill)

Heart Hotel, Dan Fogelberg (Whipporwill)

Summer Nights, John Travolta and Olivia Newton John, (Edgy)

Don't Look Back, Boston (Kcmets)

Hot Stuff, Donna Summer (LWFS)

King Tut, Steve Martin, (Whipporwill)

And Always and Forever, Heatwave, (Whipporwill)

Copa Cobana, Barry Manilow (Edgy)

Johnny Lunchbucket
Jan 18 2020 12:08 PM
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Baker Street

LWFS
Jan 18 2020 01:42 PM
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Beat me to it.



"Just The Way You Are," that guy who plays the keyboard





Also... ahem.


Jan 1 (Three weeks): How Deep is Your Love (LWFS)

Jan 12 (Three weeks): Baby Come Back, Player (Ashie)

Feb. 4 (Four weeks): Stayin' Alive, Bee Gees (LWFS)

March 4 (Two weeks):

March 18: (Eight weeks): Night Fever, Bee Gees (LWFS)

May 13 (One week):

May 20 (Two weeks): With A Little Love, Wings (Ashie)

June 3 (One week): Too Much, Too Little, Too Late, Johnny Mathis & Deniece Williams (Ashie)

June 10 (One week): You're The One That I Want (Kcmets)

June 17 (Seven weeks): Shadow Dancing, Andy Gibb (Ashie)

Aug. 5 (One week): Miss You, Rolling Stones (Ashie)

Aug. 12 (Two weeks):

Aug. 26 (Two weeks): Grease, Frankie Valli (Ashie)

Sept. 9 (Three weeks):

Sept. 30 (Four weeks):

Oct 28 (One week):

Nov. 4 (One week):

Nov. 11 (Three weeks):

Dec. 2 (Two weeks):

Dec. 9 (Six weeks): Le Freak, Chic (Whipporwill)

Edgy MD
Jan 18 2020 02:20 PM
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Suck be relative I'd take almost any of these songs over almost any #1 from 2019.

Edgy MD
Jan 18 2020 02:24 PM
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But there is another two-person ballad on the list that the Stereogum guy wails on. He notes that today, there are tons of "guest" singers popping in for a verse or rap break, and these are literally emailed in. The the song on the list has the two singers -- old friends -- in the room, singing together and singing THROUGH each other.


"Yourself Fails to Deliver Blossoms into My Custody."



Though I'm not sure this one was literally recorded together. I think Barbra added her part onto a previously finished Neil track.

41Forever
Jan 18 2020 02:59 PM
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Edgy MD wrote:

But there is another two-person ballad on the list that the Stereogum guy wails on. He notes that today, there are tons of "guest" singers popping in for a verse or rap break, and these are literally emailed in. The the song on the list has the two singers -- old friends -- in the room, singing together and singing THROUGH each other.


"Yourself Fails to Deliver Blossoms into My Custody."



Though I'm not sure this one was literally recorded together. I think Barbra added her part onto a previously finished Neil track.


That's the song! The Stereogum quotes the producer saying they were singing together. Sounds odd, though, doesn't it?


Diamond's producer, the Four Seasons member Bob Gaudio, says that Diamond and Streisand were “nose to nose” when they recorded the duet, singing over nothing but a piano. Diamond and Streisand were both busy, so the session was a last-minute rush-job. Gaudio wasn't sure how he'd record or produce the duet, and the members of Diamond's band waited outside in the hallway in case Gaudio thought they were needed. But Gaudio figured that he'd captured something magic in that room.


Baker Street and Billy Joel are misses. Sorry about the Grease mistake!

Edgy MD
Jan 18 2020 03:21 PM
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I thinks I've got a Neil compilation where he sings it solo, and it sounds like the same backing track and Neil vocal, without Barbra's lines added yet, but what do I know? Bob Gaudio's a Hall-of-Famer.

Willets Point
Jan 18 2020 03:23 PM
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I read The Stereogum Number Ones column, so I recuse myself from participating, but I'm kind of fascinated by the misses here. Both that you're choosing them and that they missed being #1s.

Willets Point
Jan 18 2020 03:25 PM
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Oddly, both Johnny Lunchbucket and Tom Breihan of Stereogum have made me see the Bee Gees in a better light, so I don't see this list as sucking as much as I once would have.

Edgy MD
Jan 18 2020 03:27 PM
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Gots to be the year for "MacArthur Park," no?

ashie62
Jan 18 2020 03:47 PM
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Nick Gilder "Hot child in the City."

LWFS
Jan 18 2020 04:08 PM
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"Do I make you flugelhorny? I don't know, but it has to... Feels So Good."



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whippoorwill
Jan 18 2020 04:31 PM
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Hot legs

You're in my heart

Always a woman

Just the way you are

Dog and butterfly

MFS62
Jan 18 2020 05:14 PM
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(ducking) You Light Up My Life (Debbie Boone)

Are we allowed more than one?

If so

(One, Two) Three Times a Lady (Commodores)

Later

LWFS
Jan 18 2020 06:21 PM
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Hey, youse, get away

With your unfair spray-and-pray



Also, I'm going "I Love the Nightlife."

41Forever
Jan 18 2020 06:57 PM
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MacArthur Park, Hot Child and Three Times a Lady are in!



At a hockey game. Will fill in chart when I get home.



One hint: Probably only song with “Oggie” in the title! More Gibb crud out there.

Johnny Lunchbucket
Jan 18 2020 07:06 PM
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On and On Stephen Bishop. Just closing my eyes and throwing the darts

MFS62
Jan 18 2020 07:07 PM
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OK, Boogie Oggie Oggie (Taste of Honey).



It seemed like that Debbie Boone song was played endlessly that year. Maybe I just couldn't get it out my head (no matter how hard I tried)

Later

Willets Point
Jan 18 2020 07:08 PM
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Edgy MD wrote:

Gots to be the year for "MacArthur Park," no?

Tom Breihan's article on "MacArthur Park" is worth reading because it's a great example of what I like about The Number Ones column. He does a great job of going into the history of the song, but more importantly analyses the cultural zeitgeist that allowed a weird song to chart more than once.

Chad ochoseis
Jan 18 2020 07:22 PM
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=41Forever post_id=30086 time=1579399023 user_id=69]
More Gibb crud out there.



Tragedy?

Johnny Lunchbucket
Jan 18 2020 07:23 PM
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Sir Duke

ashie62
Jan 18 2020 07:59 PM
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Anne Murray, "You needed me."

41Forever
Jan 19 2020 08:21 AM
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Updated! Tragedy is a near miss because I think it hits No. 1 in early 1979.



Of the remaining three:



One is a Bee Gee relative, one is a Bee Gee song performed by someone else but on the soundtrack, and the third is a one-hit wonder, kind of an easy-listening song.



Willets is right about the Stereogum column, and I'm glad he first shared it here. The behind the scenes stuff is often fascinating.







Jan 1 (Three weeks): How Deep is Your Love (LWFS)

Jan 12 (Three weeks): Baby Come Back, Player (Ashie)

Feb. 4 (Four weeks): Stayin' Alive, Bee Gees (LWFS)

March 4 (Two weeks):

March 18: (Eight weeks): Night Fever, Bee Gees (LWFS)

May 13 (One week):

May 20 (Two weeks): With A Little Love, Wings (Ashie)

June 3 (One week): Too Much, Too Little, Too Late, Johnny Mathis & Deniece Williams (Ashie)

June 10 (One week): You're The One That I Want (LWFS)

June 17 (Seven weeks): Shadow Dancing, Andy Gibb (Ashie)

Aug. 5 (One week): Miss You, Rolling Stones (Ashie)

Aug. 12 (Two weeks): Three Times a Lady, Commodores (msf62)

Aug. 26 (Two weeks): Grease, Frankie Valli (Ashie)

Sept. 9 (Three weeks):Boogie Oogie Oogie, A Taste of Honey (msf62)

Sept. 30 (Four weeks):

Oct 28 (One week): Hot Child in the City, Nick Gilder (Ashie)

Nov. 4 (One week): You Needed Me, Anne Murray (Ashie)

Nov. 11 (Three weeks): MacArthur Park, Donna Summer (Edgy)

Dec. 2 (Two weeks):You Don't Bring me Flowers, Neil and Barbra (Edgy)

Dec. 9 (Six weeks): Le Freak, Chic (Whipporwill)



I Love the Nightlife, Alicia Bridges? (LWFS)

Tragedy, BeeGees (Chad Ocho)

On and On, Stephen Bishop (Lunchbucket)

Sir Duke, Stevie Wonder (Lunchbucket)

Feels So Good, Chuck Mangonie

Escape, Rupert Holmes

Too Much Heaven, BeeGees, (Whipporwill)

Running on Empty, Jackson Browne (Whipporwill)

Fire, Pointer Sisters (Whipporwill)

We Will Rock You, Queen (Kcmets)

Two Out of Three Ain't Bad, Meat Loaf (Kcmets)

Take Me Home, Cher (Whipporwill)

I want you to want me, Cheap Trick (Whipporwill)

Any of their shit, Alan Parsons Project (Whipporwill)

Heart Hotel, Dan Fogelberg (Whipporwill)

Summer Nights, John Travolta and Olivia Newton John, (Edgy)

Don't Look Back, Boston (Kcmets)

Hot Stuff, Donna Summer (LWFS)

King Tut, Steve Martin, (Whipporwill)

And Always and Forever, Heatwave, (Whipporwill)

Copa Cobana, Barry Manilow (Edgy)

MFS62
Jan 19 2020 09:20 AM
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If I Can't Have You - Yvonne Elleman?



BTW - another song on that SNF soundtrack Manhattan Skyline was written by my cousin, David Shire. The song was later used on NBA national telecasts when they cut to a commercial.



Later

41Forever
Jan 19 2020 12:47 PM
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Yvonne is correct -- and that's really cool about "Manhattan Skyline!"


=41Forever post_id=30104 time=1579447318 user_id=69]


Jan 1 (Three weeks): How Deep is Your Love (LWFS)

Jan 12 (Three weeks): Baby Come Back, Player (Ashie)

Feb. 4 (Four weeks): Stayin' Alive, Bee Gees (LWFS)

March 4 (Two weeks):

March 18: (Eight weeks): Night Fever, Bee Gees (LWFS)

May 13 (One week): If I Can't Have You," Yvonne Ellman (MSF62)

May 20 (Two weeks): With A Little Love, Wings (Ashie)

June 3 (One week): Too Much, Too Little, Too Late, Johnny Mathis & Deniece Williams (Ashie)

June 10 (One week): You're The One That I Want (LWFS)

June 17 (Seven weeks): Shadow Dancing, Andy Gibb (Ashie)

Aug. 5 (One week): Miss You, Rolling Stones (Ashie)

Aug. 12 (Two weeks): Three Times a Lady, Commodores (msf62)

Aug. 26 (Two weeks): Grease, Frankie Valli (Ashie)

Sept. 9 (Three weeks):Boogie Oogie Oogie, A Taste of Honey (msf62)

Sept. 30 (Four weeks):

Oct 28 (One week): Hot Child in the City, Nick Gilder (Ashie)

Nov. 4 (One week): You Needed Me, Anne Murray (Ashie)

Nov. 11 (Three weeks): MacArthur Park, Donna Summer (Edgy)

Dec. 2 (Two weeks):You Don't Bring me Flowers, Neil and Barbra (Edgy)

Dec. 9 (Six weeks): Le Freak, Chic (Whipporwill)



I Love the Nightlife, Alicia Bridges? (LWFS)

Tragedy, BeeGees (Chad Ocho)

On and On, Stephen Bishop (Lunchbucket)

Sir Duke, Stevie Wonder (Lunchbucket)

Feels So Good, Chuck Mangonie

Escape, Rupert Holmes

Too Much Heaven, BeeGees, (Whipporwill)

Running on Empty, Jackson Browne (Whipporwill)

Fire, Pointer Sisters (Whipporwill)

We Will Rock You, Queen (Kcmets)

Two Out of Three Ain't Bad, Meat Loaf (Kcmets)

Take Me Home, Cher (Whipporwill)

I want you to want me, Cheap Trick (Whipporwill)

Any of their shit, Alan Parsons Project (Whipporwill)

Heart Hotel, Dan Fogelberg (Whipporwill)

Summer Nights, John Travolta and Olivia Newton John, (Edgy)

Don't Look Back, Boston (Kcmets)

Hot Stuff, Donna Summer (LWFS)

King Tut, Steve Martin, (Whipporwill)

And Always and Forever, Heatwave, (Whipporwill)

Copa Cobana, Barry Manilow (Edgy)

whippoorwill
Jan 19 2020 03:26 PM
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=MFS62 post_id=30107 time=1579450852 user_id=60]
If I Can't Have You - Yvonne Elleman?



BTW - another song on that SNF soundtrack Manhattan Skyline was written by my cousin, David Shire. The song was later used on NBA national telecasts when they cut to a commercial.



Later



I LOVE Manhattan Skyline! My best to your cousin!

whippoorwill
Jan 19 2020 03:27 PM
Re: The "My goodness, did 1978 suck" quiz

Bee gees relative: emotion



Also Its a Heartace

whippoorwill
Jan 19 2020 03:30 PM
Re: The "My goodness, did 1978 suck" quiz

Dammit! I meant to stay out of this but is the BeeGees relative Tavares ‘more than a woman'?

But I already suggested that 😕

kcmets
Jan 19 2020 03:37 PM
Re: The "My goodness, did 1978 suck" quiz

If you listen closely, it's really 'bald headed woman.'

ashie62
Jan 19 2020 04:58 PM
Re: The "My goodness, did 1978 suck" quiz

Kiss you all over by Exile

41Forever
Jan 19 2020 06:22 PM
Re: The "My goodness, did 1978 suck" quiz

Ashie is correct with "Kiss You All Over." Only one missing is the Gibb sib with a title that make no sense at all.

41Forever
Jan 20 2020 08:22 AM
Re: The "My goodness, did 1978 suck" quiz

There you go! Check this out: For 20 weeks of the year, a song either performed by or written by one or more of the Gibb brothers was at No. 1. Heck, they even wrote the "Grease" theme performed by Frankie Valli -- with Peter Frampton on guitar, which I didn't know.






Jan 1 (Three weeks): How Deep is Your Love (LWFS)

Jan 12 (Three weeks): Baby Come Back, Player (Ashie)

Feb. 4 (Four weeks): Stayin' Alive, Bee Gees (LWFS)

March 4 (Two weeks): Love is Thicker Than Water, Andy Gibb

March 18: (Eight weeks): Night Fever, Bee Gees (LWFS)

May 13 (One week): If I Can't Have You, Yvonne Ellman (MSF62)

May 20 (Two weeks): With A Little Love, Wings (Ashie)

June 3 (One week): Too Much, Too Little, Too Late, Johnny Mathis & Deniece Williams (Ashie)

June 10 (One week): You're The One That I Want (LWFS)

June 17 (Seven weeks): Shadow Dancing, Andy Gibb (Ashie)

Aug. 5 (One week): Miss You, Rolling Stones (Ashie)

Aug. 12 (Two weeks): Three Times a Lady, Commodores (msf62)

Aug. 26 (Two weeks): Grease, Frankie Valli (Ashie)

Sept. 9 (Three weeks):Boogie Oogie Oogie, A Taste of Honey (msf62)

Sept. 30 (Four weeks): Kiss You All Over, Exile, (Ashie)

Oct 28 (One week): Hot Child in the City, Nick Gilder (Ashie)

Nov. 4 (One week): You Needed Me, Anne Murray (Ashie)

Nov. 11 (Three weeks): MacArthur Park, Donna Summer (Edgy)

Dec. 2 (Two weeks):You Don't Bring me Flowers, Neil and Barbra (Edgy)

Dec. 9 (Six weeks): Le Freak, Chic (Whipporwill)

whippoorwill
Jan 20 2020 09:07 AM
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There are four there that I even like

LWFS
Jan 20 2020 04:02 PM
Re: The "My goodness, did 1978 suck" quiz

Having heard quite a few pretty affecting/interesting covers, I feel like I like Bee Gees songs far more when it ain't the Bee Gees singing them.



Also, Chic is fuggin' great, unless you're not a fan of moving to music at all.

Edgy MD
Jan 20 2020 08:18 PM
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There you go! Check this out: For 20 weeks of the year, a song either performed by or written by one or more of the Gibb brothers was at No. 1. Heck, they even wrote the "Grease" theme performed by Frankie Valli -- with Peter Frampton on guitar, which I didn't know.


I'm counting more than 20 weeks.


[list]

  • [*]"How Deep is Your Love": 3 weeks

  • [*]"Stayin' Alive": 4 weeks

  • [*]"Love is Thicker Than Water": 2 weeks

  • [*]"Night Fever": 8 weeks

  • [*]"If I Can't Have You": 1 week

  • [*]"Shadow Dancing: 7 weeks

  • [*]"Grease": 2 weeks
    • [/list]

    That's 27 weeks, or more than half the year.



    Also, I'm always ready to champion "A Taste of Honey."

    41Forever
    Jan 20 2020 09:29 PM
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    Edgy MD wrote:


    There you go! Check this out: For 20 weeks of the year, a song either performed by or written by one or more of the Gibb brothers was at No. 1. Heck, they even wrote the "Grease" theme performed by Frankie Valli -- with Peter Frampton on guitar, which I didn't know.


    I'm counting more than 20 weeks.


    [list]
  • [*]"How Deep is Your Love": 3 weeks

  • [*]"Stayin' Alive": 4 weeks

  • [*]"Love is Thicker Than Water": 2 weeks

  • [*]"Night Fever": 8 weeks

  • [*]"If I Can't Have You": 1 week

  • [*]"Shadow Dancing: 7 weeks

  • [*]"Grease": 2 weeks
    • [/list]

    That's 27 weeks, or more than half the year.



    Also, I'm always ready to champion "A Taste of Honey."




    Good catch. I think I missed "Shadow Dancing." It's an incredible run. Even the stuff they threw away was going to No. 1. And it continued into the next year. Now, after that, they crashed so hard they became a punchline for a while.



    The Number Ones column today is about Rod Stewart's "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy," which we learned has parts ripped of from two other songs -- and is a glorious guilty pleasure. I had a 45 of that one.

    Willets Point
    Jan 21 2020 09:06 AM
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    =41Forever post_id=30211 time=1579580959 user_id=69]
    It's an incredible run. Even the stuff they threw away was going to No. 1. And it continued into the next year. Now, after that, they crashed so hard they became a punchline for a while.




    But Barry Gibb continued writing and producing huge hits through the 80s. The real punchline is that the people continued to love Bee Gees music when it wasn't performed by the Bee Gees, and Gibb laughed all the way to the bank.

    Willets Point
    Jan 21 2020 09:07 AM
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    =whippoorwill post_id=30163 time=1579536466 user_id=79]
    There are four there that I even like


    I like seven, although I wouldn't classify any of them as all-time favorites.

    whippoorwill
    Jan 21 2020 02:16 PM
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    Me either

    whippoorwill
    Jan 21 2020 02:19 PM
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    Edgy MD wrote:


    There you go! Check this out: For 20 weeks of the year, a song either performed by or written by one or more of the Gibb brothers was at No. 1. Heck, they even wrote the "Grease" theme performed by Frankie Valli -- with Peter Frampton on guitar, which I didn't know.


    I'm counting more than 20 weeks.


    [list]
  • [*]"How Deep is Your Love": 3 weeks

  • [*]"Stayin' Alive": 4 weeks

  • [*]"Love is Thicker Than Water": 2 weeks

  • [*]"Night Fever": 8 weeks

  • [*]"If I Can't Have You": 1 week

  • [*]"Shadow Dancing: 7 weeks

  • [*]"Grease": 2 weeks
    • [/list]

    That's 27 weeks, or more than half the year.



    Also, I'm always ready to champion "A Taste of Honey."


    Plus don't forget the ones that didn't get to #1

    No wonder we all got sick of them



    And I remember their early 60s songs

    Frayed Knot
    Jan 21 2020 03:15 PM
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    Even though I was reasonably alive during this era and quite music conscious at the time, I had no shot at getting any of the quiz.

    The R&R radio I was listening to at the time had very little overlap with chart topping singles and the 'Top-40' type of stations that had those on their playlists. And while you couldn't NOT know the BeeGees/SNF

    stuff, the fact that my flag was firmly planted in the 'Disco Suxx' mindset at that time made me almost unaware of some on the rest of that list.



    That gulf between was AOR radio (album oriented) was playing and which songs were released as singles would start to narrow within just a few years. Three years hence something called MTV would debut and

    their reliance on only those songs backed by the record companies as 'singles' began to reverse the decade-plus trend away from concentrating on one song at a time and only on those approved from above.

    Then, by the mid-'80s, those playlists had furthered tightened to the point where FM/AOR radio had essentially become what it was originally created to oppose.

    Fman99
    Jan 22 2020 10:25 AM
    Re: The "My goodness, did 1978 suck" quiz

    1978 sure did suck. I was so little (age 5) that I don't really have any recollection of hearing these songs on the radio.

    Edgy MD
    Jan 22 2020 01:16 PM
    Re: The "My goodness, did 1978 suck" quiz

    Exponentially better than 2019.

    Willets Point
    Jan 22 2020 03:17 PM
    Re: The "My goodness, did 1978 suck" quiz

    Edgy MD wrote:

    Exponentially better than 2019.


    "Old Town Road" slaps.

    Johnny Lunchbucket
    Jan 22 2020 07:47 PM
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    1979 got much better

    kcmets
    Jan 22 2020 08:02 PM
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    When did New Wave officially start!?!

    Willets Point
    Jan 23 2020 08:54 AM
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    Probably by around 1977, New Wave was being used to describe bands/artists who had a punk rock ethos but didn't play music that sounded "punk."



    I'd argue that the first New Wave #1 on the Billboard chart is "Pop Muzik" by M (Nov. 3, 1979), although "Heart of Glass" by Blondie (Apr. 28, 1979) could be seen as at the transition from Disco to New Wave.

    Johnny Lunchbucket
    Jan 23 2020 02:46 PM
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    Edgeward has said "So It Goes" by Nick Lowe might have been the New Wave song. It first came out in 1976 but didn't really catch on till some time later.



    Seymour Stein of Sire Records promoted New Wave as a concept because it seemed accessible to a greater audience than "punk" -- he was behind the Ramones, Talking Heads etc

    LWFS
    Jan 23 2020 06:02 PM
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    Waitwaitwait… "Pop Muzik" was a NUMBER ONE?



    Goddamn, them seventies was some weird-ass decadium.

    Johnny Lunchbucket
    Jan 24 2020 08:25 AM
    Re: The "My goodness, did 1978 suck" quiz


    Waitwaitwait… "Pop Muzik" was a NUMBER ONE?




    New York, London, Paris, Munich-- everybody talked about Pop Muzik.

    Frayed Knot
    Jan 24 2020 07:14 PM
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    back to an earlier topic: I tended to think of 'New Wave' more as a cross between rock and disco even if there were a few nods to punk along the way.

    Rock had gotten more -- maybe 'complicated' is the right word -- by the mid/late '70s to which the simpler and danceable disco beat was a counter.

    New Wave seemed to at least want to combine the spirit of rock but stripped of many of its excesses and with more of the beat of disco and be more welcomed in clubs.

    And, unlike the often heavy (or at least really loud) guitar of punk, a lot of NW was anti-guitar either toning down, or in some cases replacing entirely, the signature

    instrument of R&R in favor of synthesizers and drum machines.