UK Chart - Week ending 1980/05/10

TW LW LW? Movement Title Artist Songwriter Producer Label Catalogue Number Peak Peak Icon WOC Chart Progress This Week Ultimate Peak Ulimate WOC
1 1 Steady Geno Dexy's Midnight Runners Archer/Rowland Unknown Late Night Feelings - 1 ◄ 8 ████████ 1 18
2 15 Up 13 What's Another Year Johnny Logan Shay Healy Bill Whelan/Dave Pennefather Epic - 2 ↑ 2 █████ 1 8
3 2 Down 1 Coming Up Paul McCartney Paul McCartney Unknown Parlophone - 2 ↓ 4 ████████ 2 9
4 3 Down 1 Call Me Blondie Debbie Harry/Giorgio Moroder Giorgio Moroder Chrysalis - 1 ↓ 5 ███████████ 1 9
5 4 Down 1 Silver Dream Machine David Essex David Essex Unknown Mercury - 4 ↓ 6 ██████████ 4 11
6 5 Down 1 Toccata Sky Johann Sebastian Bach/arr. Kevin Peek/Leroy Holmes Unknown Ariola - 5 ↓ 6 ██████████ 5 11
7 13 Up 6 The Groove Rodney Franklin Unknown Unknown CBS - 7 ◄ 4 ████████ 7 9
8 23 Up 15 Golden Years (EP) (Dead Men Tell No Tales / Too Late Is Too Late / Leaving Here / Stone Dead Forever) Motorhead Unknown Unknown Bronze BRO 92 8 ◄ 2 █████ 8 7
9 31 Up 22 No Doubt About It Hot Chocolate Burns/Glen/Most Unknown RAK RAK 310 9 ↑ 2 ███ 2 11
10 11 Up 1 My Perfect Cousin The Undertones Unknown Unknown Sire - 10 ↑ 6 ████████████ 9 10
11 19 Up 8 I Shoulda Loved Ya Narada Michael Walden Narada Michael Walden/Stevens/Willis Unknown Atlantic - 11 ↑ 3 ██████ 8 9
12 10 Down 2 Check Out The Groove Bobby Thurston Unknown Unknown Epic - 10 ↓ 7 ██████████████ 10 10
13 6 Down 7 King / Food For Thought UB40 UB40 Bob Lamb/UB40 Graduate - 4 ↓ 10 ███████████████ 4 13
14 36 Up 22 Hold On To My Love Jimmy Ruffin Robin Gibb/Derek "Blue" Weaver Unknown RSO - 14 ↑ 2 █████ 7 8
15 25 Up 10 Don't Make Waves The Nolans Ben Findon/Mike Myers/Robert Puzey Ben Findon Epic - 15 ↑ 5 █████████ 12 11
16 8 Down 8 Sexy Eyes Dr. Hook Chris Waters/Keith Stegall/Bob Mather Ron Haffkine Capitol CL 16127 4 ↓ 7 ███████████████ 4 9
17 58 Up 41 Mirror In The Bathroom The Beat Roger Charlery/Andy Cox/Everett Morton/David Steele/Dave Wakeling Unknown Go Feet - 17 ↑ 2 ████ 4 9
18 7 Down 11 Working My Way Back To You - Forgive Me Girl (Medley) The Detroit Spinners Sandy Linzer/Denny Randell/Michael Zager Unknown Atlantic - 1 ↓ 12 █████████████████ 1 14
19 12 Down 7 Don't Push It Don't Force It Leon Haywood Unknown Unknown 20th Century - 12 ↓ 9 ████████████████ 12 11
20 20 Steady Wheels Of Steel Saxon Bill Byford/Graham Oliver/Steve Dawson/Paul Quinn/Pete Gill Unknown Carrere CAR 143 20 ◄ 8 ██████████████ 20 11
21 30 Up 9 Fool For Your Loving Whitesnake David Coverdale/Bernie Marsden/Mike Moody Unknown United Artists BP 352 21 ↑ 3 ██████ 13 9
22 9 Down 13 Talk Of The Town The Pretenders Unknown Unknown Real - 8 ↓ 6 ███████████████ 8 8
23 27 Up 4 The Greatest Cockney Ripoff Cockney Rejects Jeff Geggus/Vince Riordan/Pursey Unknown Zonophone - 23 ↑ 3 ████████ 21 7
24 16 Down 8 My Oh My Sad Cafe Unknown Unknown RCA - 14 ↓ 9 ████████████████ 14 11
25 55 Up 30 She's Out Of My Life Michael Jackson Tom Bahler Unknown Epic - 25 ↑ 2 ████ 3 9
26 29 Up 3 Breathing Kate Bush Kate Bush Unknown EMI - 26 ↑ 3 ████████ 16 7
27 32 Up 5 Staring At The Rude Boys The Ruts Paul Fox/John 'Segs' Jennings/Malcolm Owen/Dave Ruffy Unknown Virgin - 27 ↑ 4 ██████████ 22 8
28 39 Up 11 Let's Go Round Again The Average White Band Unknown Unknown RCA - 28 ↑ 3 █████ 12 11
29 14 Down 15 Work Rest And Play (EP) (Night Boat To Cairo / Deceives The Eye / The Young And The Old / Don't Quote Me On That) Madness Unknown Unknown Stiff BUY 71 6 ↓ 6 ███████████████ 6 8
30 41 Up 11 Just Can't Give You Up Mystic Merlin Unknown Unknown Capitol - 30 ↑ 3 ██████ 20 9
31 38 Up 7 This World Of Water New Musik Unknown Unknown GTO - 31 ◄ 3 ████████ 31 7
32 35 Up 3 A Forest The Cure Laurence Tolhurst/Matthieu Hartley/Simon Gallup Unknown Fiction - 32 ↑ 5 ████████████ 31 8
33 28 Down 5 Ne-Ne Na-Na Na-Na Nu-Nu Bad Manners Unknown Unknown Magnet - 28 ↓ 11 ███████████████ 28 14
34 34 Steady Take Good Care Of My Baby Smokie Gerry Goffin/Carole King Unknown RAK RAK 309 34 ◄ 4 ███████████ 34 7
35 61 Up 26 You Gave Me Love Crown Heights Affair Unknown Unknown De-Lite - 35 ↑ 2 ███ 10 12
36 63 Up 27 The Bucket Of Water Song The Four Bucketeers Unknown Unknown CBS - 36 ↑ 2 ██████ 26 6
37 24 Down 13 Missing Words Selecter Unknown Unknown 2 Tone - 23 ↓ 7 █████████████████ 23 8
38 22 Down 16 Kool In The Kaftan B.A. Robertson Unknown Unknown Asylum - 17 ↓ 11 ██████████████████ 17 12
39 67 Up 28 Police And Thieves Junior Murvin Unknown Unknown Island - 39 ↑ 2 ████ 23 9
40 17 Down 23 Dance Yourself Dizzy Liquid Gold Adrian Baker/Eddie Seago Unknown Polo - 2 ↓ 12 █████████████████ 2 14
41 N/E New Entry Crying Don McLean Roy Orbison/Joe Melson Larry Butler EMI - 41 ↑ 1 █ 1 14
42 N/E New Entry Theme From M*A*S*H (Suicide Is Painless) The Mash Johnny Mandel/Michael Altman Thomas Z Shepard CBS 8536 42 ↑ 1 █ 1 12
43 56 ● Up 13 High Fidelity Elvis Costello And The Attractions Elvis Costello Unknown F. Beat - 30 ↓ 5 ████████████████████ 30 5
44 45 Up 1 Strange Town The Jam Paul Weller Unknown Polydor - 15 ↓ 12 ██████████████████ 15 13
45 40 Down 5 In The City The Jam Unknown Unknown Polydor 5876117 40 ↓ 9 ████████████ 40 14
46 18 Down 28 January February Barbara Dickson Alan Tarney Alan Tarney Epic - 11 ↓ 9 ██████████████████ 11 10
47 21 Down 26 Poison Ivy Lambrettas Unknown Unknown Rocket - 7 ↓ 11 ██████████████████ 7 12
48 71 Up 23 The Seduction (Love Theme) James Last Band Giorgio Moroder Unknown Polydor - 48 ◄ 2 ██████████ 48 4
49 33 Down 16 Going Underground/Dreams Of Children The Jam Paul Weller Unknown Polydor - 1 ↓ 8 █████████████████ 1 9
50 48 Down 2 Love Enough For Two Prima Donna Unknown Unknown Ariola - 48 ↓ 3 ███████████████ 48 4
51 60 Up 9 Platinum Blonde Prelude Unknown Unknown EMI 5046 51 ↑ 3 ████████ 45 7
52 N/E New Entry Pulling Mussels (From The Shell) Squeeze Unknown Unknown A&M - 52 ↑ 1 ███ 44 6
53 N/E New Entry Messages Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark Andy McCluskey/Paul Humphreys Unknown Dindisc - 53 ↑ 1 █ 13 11
54 43 ● Down 11 All Around The World The Jam Paul Weller Unknown Polydor 2058 903 13 ↓ 11 ████████████████████ 13 11
55 57 ● Up 2 Something's Missing The Chords Unknown Unknown Polydor - 55 ◄ 3 ████████████████████ 55 3
56 53 ● Down 3 News Of The World The Jam Unknown Unknown Polydor - 27 ↓ 8 ████████████████████ 27 8
57 37 ● Down 20 Dear Miss Lonely Hearts Phil Lynott Unknown Unknown Vertigo - 32 ↓ 6 ████████████████████ 32 6
58 N/E New Entry No Self Control Peter Gabriel Unknown Unknown Charisma - 58 ↑ 1 ███ 33 6
59 54 Down 5 David Watts/'A' Bomb In Wardour Street The Jam Unknown Unknown Polydor - 25 ↓ 11 ██████████████ 25 15
60 26 ● Down 34 Let's Do Rock Steady Bodysnatchers Unknown Unknown 2 Tone - 22 ↓ 9 ████████████████████ 22 9
61 N/E New Entry Let's Get Serious Jermaine Jackson Lee Garrett/Stevie Wonder Stevie Wonder Motown - 61 ↑ 1 █ 8 11
62 44 ● Down 18 Rough Boys Pete Townshend Unknown Unknown Atco - 39 ↓ 6 ████████████████████ 39 6
63 64 Up 1 My Friend Jack Boney M Unknown Unknown Atlantic/Hansa - 63 ↑ 3 ████████████ 57 5
64 51 Down 13 So Good, So Right / In The Thick Of It Brenda Russell Brenda Russell Andre Fischer A&M AMS 7515 51 ↓ 4 ████████████████ 51 5
65 52 ● Down 13 Modern World The Jam Unknown Unknown Polydor - 36 ↓ 7 ████████████████████ 36 7
66 49 ● Down 17 The Monkees EP ( Daydream Believer / Monkees Theme / Last Train To Clarksville / A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You )) The Monkees John Stewart Unknown Arista ARIST 326 33 ↓ 9 ████████████████████ 33 9
67 N/E New Entry Midnite Dynamos Matchbox Unknown Unknown Magnet MAG 169 67 ↑ 1 █ 14 12
68 46 ● Down 22 Stomp The Brothers Johnson Louis Johnson/George "Happy" Johnson/Valerie Johnson/Rod Temperton Unknown A&M - 6 ↓ 12 ████████████████████ 6 12
69 N/E New Entry Body Language The Detroit Spinners Unknown Unknown Atlantic - 69 ↑ 1 ██ 40 7
70 42 Down 28 Turn It On Again Genesis Tony Banks/Phil Collins/Mike Rutherford Unknown Charisma - 8 ↓ 9 ██████████████████ 8 10
71 47 ● Down 24 Living After Midnight Judas Priest Glenn Tipton/K.K. Downing/Rob Halford Unknown CBS - 12 ↓ 7 ████████████████████ 12 7
72 75 Up 3 Holiday 80 (Double Single) The Human League Unknown Unknown Virgin - 72 ↑ 2 ████ 46 10
73 N/E New Entry You'll Always Find Me In The Kitchen At Parties Jona Lewie Jona Lewie/Keith Trussell Bob Andrews Stiff - 73 ↑ 1 ██ 16 9
74 72 ● Down 2 So Long Fischer-Z Unknown Unknown United Artists - 72 ↓ 2 ████████████████████ 72 2
75 N/E New Entry Lady The Whispers Unknown Unknown Solar - 75 ↑ 1 ██████ 55 3