I forgot you had Different For Girls as a chart topper! Joe Jackson is one of my retrochart discoveries. Not sure I'd really heard of him before although I recognised Steppin' Out instantly!
Popjustice Retrochart - January 1983 - w/e 22/01/83
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Steppin' Out was nearly the 2nd ever record I bought. I'd seen the video on Saturday morning TV - all swanky NYC locations and atmospheric scenery - and just really fell for it; probably the piano/keyboard riff (a sign of things to come and my HoJo moment maybe?) - not 100% sure but I think we were out shopping later that day in London (it usually was London, every week!) and had the record shop we were in had the single, I probably would have gone home with it (I still wasn't familiar enough with the whole business of pop music and buying records to know all the places you could get them!).
Strange thing with Joe is he had these two huge singles in my life, but no other real hits to speak of. I'd get into his albums by the late 80s, and bought three of them between 1989 and 1991, as well as most of his A&M catalogue over the years since, but hits-wise I wasn't much different to the UK public. And what was the deal with Steppin' Out taking so long to be single from the album which had been out since May 1982? Very odd.
Strange thing with Joe is he had these two huge singles in my life, but no other real hits to speak of. I'd get into his albums by the late 80s, and bought three of them between 1989 and 1991, as well as most of his A&M catalogue over the years since, but hits-wise I wasn't much different to the UK public. And what was the deal with Steppin' Out taking so long to be single from the album which had been out since May 1982? Very odd.
I actually thought Joe Jackson was from NY at the time - the video was so cool...is it really about "Comin' out"? after all, wasn't Cole Porter a heavy influence on the "Night and Day" album and then we've got the brilliant "Real men" on the album
Same here! It was a hit first in America too, I think. It wasn't until his best of in 1990 that I realised he was the same guy who did Different For Girls.
Ha, just noticed that the 10th Anniversary edition of NOW 1983 - the original fatbox release - has an error for the chart peak of Steppin' Out. It says 4, and although I was almost 100% sure it was #6, I had to double check. It was.
At least some things are sticking in the memory bank!
At least some things are sticking in the memory bank!
#89 NEW ENTRY
#79 CHART ENTRY
#70 CHART ENTRY
#58 CHART ENTRY
#57 NEW ENTRY
51 59 40 12 Lies Thompson Twins
52 159 52 01 Last Night A DJ Saved My Life Indeep FEATURED
53 53 01 28 The Look Of Love ABC
54 54 54 10 Dirty Laundry Don Henley
55 25 08 12 Wishing (If I Had A Photgraph Of You) A Flock Of Seagulls
56 55 36 10 Love Is A Stranger Eurythmics
57 --- 57 01 Billie Jean Michael Jackson FEATURED
58 152 58 01 Mind Up Tonight Melba Moore FEATURED
59 60 03 19 Goody Two Shoes Adam Ant
60 100 60 02 Breaking Us In Two Joe Jackson
61 63 61 06 Uncertain Smile The The
62 58 58 05 Theme From E.T. John Williams
63 65 63 08 You & I Eddie Rabbitt & Crystal Gayle
64 64 08 27 Rock The Casbah The Clash
65 67 65 07 The Other Guy Little River Band
66 66 66 05 To Have And Have Not Ronny
67 51 14 08 Beat Surrender The Jam
68 70 68 13 What About Me Moving Pictures
69 72 69 03 Hey Little Girl Icehouse
70 108 70 01 Baby Come To Me Patti Austin & James Ingram FEATURED
71 75 13 20 Space Age Love Song A Flock Of Seagulls
72 68 56 14 Missing You Dan Fogelberg
73 90 71 13 I Keep Forgettin' Michael McDonald
74 40 09 13 Sexual Healing Marvin Gaye
75 78 75 06 Twilight Zone Golden Earring
76 81 76 04 Shame On The Moon Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
77 91 77 02 I Have The Touch Peter Gabriel
78 93 34 08 Here I Go Again Whitesnake
79 120 79 01 Tied Up Olivia Newton-John FEATURED
80 73 01 20 Do You Really Want To Hurt Me Culture Club
81 82 81 06 Cacharpaya Incantation
82 79 79 06 On The Loose Saga
83 83 12 16 Shock The Monkey Peter Gabriel
84 88 84 04 Betcha She Don't Love You Evelyn King
85 80 67 08 Going Home Patrick Cowley
86 84 84 05 I Knew You When Linda Ronstadt
87 14 04 11 Rio Duran Duran
88 97 01 16 Hungry Like The Wolf Duran Duran
89 --- 89 01 All Right Christopher Cross FEATURED
90 89 29 23 I Know There's Something Going On Frida
91 86 04 16 Back On The Chain Gang The Pretenders
92 74 49 07 Dear Addy Kid Creole
93 94 93 02 Your Love Is Driving Me Crazy Sammy Hagar
94 57 17 11 Someone, Somewhere, In Summertime Simple Minds
95 71 41 12 She Blinded Me With Science Thomas Dolby
96 143 96 01 Windows Missing Persons
97 61 07 22 Mickey Toni Basil
98 --- 98 01 Love On Your Side Thompson Twins
99 62 27 18 Pressure Billy Joel
100 99 99 02 Heart Of The Night Juice Newton
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I have wondered how this works for a while now. So I have to put together my top 10 / my top 20 (top 100 is not realistic) with songs that were released before 1983 and can go with the new releases weak by weak? Have I understood correctly? I could do that!
#52 CHART ENTRY
#35 NEW ENTRY
#20 NEW ENTRY
#14 NEW ENTRY
#11 HIGHEST NEW ENTRY
11 --- 11 01 New Year's Day U2 HIGHEST NEW ENTRY FEATURED
12 35 12 11 Up Where We Belong Joe Cocker & Jennifer Warnes
13 13 08 11 Best Years Of Our Lives Modern Romance
14 --- 14 01 Too Shy Kajagoogoo FEATURED
15 48 15 02 The Chinese Way Level 42
16 12 04 10 Friends Shalamar
17 16 02 12 The Girl Is Mine Michael Jackson & Paul McCartney
18 19 18 09 Africa Toto
19 18 18 09 Allentown Billy Joel
20 --- 20 01 Twisting By The Pool Dire Straits FEATURED
21 20 20 05 Heartache Avenue The Maisonettes
22 21 21 08 Buffalo Gals Malcolm McLaren
23 17 03 10 Mirror Man Human League
24 26 24 03 European Female The Stranglers
25 29 25 04 Oh Diane Fleetwood Mac
26 24 21 09 Hymn Ultravox
27 10 09 07 All The Love In The World Dionne Warwick
28 37 28 03 Wham Rap (Enjoy What You Do) Wham!
29 31 29 06 The Woman In Me Donna Summer
30 09 05 10 If You Can't Stand The Heat Bucks Fizz
31 30 30 08 I Feel Love (Remix) Donna Summer
32 33 32 08 I Confess The Beat
33 41 33 02 Hold Me Tighter In The Rain Billy Griffin
34 36 32 07 Changes Imagination
35 --- 35 01 The Cutter Echo & The Bunnymen FEATURED
36 22 21 08 Where The Heart Is Soft Cell
37 32 04 15 Heartbreaker Dionne Warwick
38 28 28 15 Shadows Of The Night Pat Benatar
39 52 39 09 1999 Prince
40 15 01 15 Maneater Hall & Oates
41 34 29 08 Cheers Then Bananarama
42 45 42 03 In The Name Of Love Sharon Redd
43 50 43 02 One On One Hall & Oates
44 38 03 14 Young Guns (Go For It) Wham!
45 27 27 07 Everybody Madonna
46 39 11 13 Living On The Ceiling Blancmange
47 47 29 13 Ooh La La La (Let's Go Dancing) Kool & The Gang
48 42 01 17 Mad World Tears For Fears
49 44 22 08 Little Town Cliff Richard
50 56 50 04 Hand To Hold On To John Cougar
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Oh my God...New blood in the Retrochart! Over to @phoenix123 to break you in gently!
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For the start I would send in a few songs I loved as kid to make you laugh and could grow up from then.
Yes that's correct. The idea is to have a fairly contemporary chart (so nothing before 1980 - don't want it full of Beatles and Slade hits!) and obviously we can't chart anything until it's been "released".
Everyone is welcome and please do feel free to submit a top 10 or top 20 or as much as you can each week it would be great to get to know your tastes over time! We all have our favourites…
We don't judge anyone's tastes, I have had Goombay Dance Band top my chart after all!
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I will be posting the next submission thread later for w/e 28 May 1983 (unless you have last minute submissions for w/e 29 January 1983 onward).
Another two new top ten hits this week!
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07 Time (Clock Of The Heart) Culture Club 234
Entry: 27/11/82
Peak: #3
Weeks: 9
Chart run: 24-09-04-04-03-03-04-07-10
@cityofdoomsday N/A
@Eric Generic #26
16
@Hairycub1969 #16
6
@phoenix123 #28
17
Culture Club continue to slide.
Entry: 27/11/82
Peak: #3
Weeks: 9
Chart run: 24-09-04-04-03-03-04-07-10
@cityofdoomsday N/A
@Eric Generic #26
@Hairycub1969 #16
@phoenix123 #28
Culture Club continue to slide.
HIGHCLIMBER
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46 Sign Of The Times The Belle Stars 236
Entry: 15/01/83
Peak: #9
Weeks: 2
Chart run: 46-09
@cityofdoomsday N/A
@Eric Generic #16 NEW
@Hairycub1969 #25
37
@phoenix123 #26
44
Our first brand new hit of 83 comes courtesy of The Belle Stars. They've had two previous top 30 retrochart hits with cover versions but only manage the top ten with an original, storming 46-9 in only its second week charted.
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Entry: 15/01/83
Peak: #9
Weeks: 2
Chart run: 46-09
@cityofdoomsday N/A
@Eric Generic #16 NEW
@Hairycub1969 #25
@phoenix123 #26
Our first brand new hit of 83 comes courtesy of The Belle Stars. They've had two previous top 30 retrochart hits with cover versions but only manage the top ten with an original, storming 46-9 in only its second week charted.
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05 Our House Madness 261
Entry: 27/11/82
Peak: #2
Weeks: 9
Chart run: 22-13-12-08-05-02-03-05-08
@cityofdoomsday N/A
@Eric Generic #19
12
@Hairycub1969 #12
7
@phoenix123 #11
6
Madness spend a sixth week in the top ten.
Entry: 27/11/82
Peak: #2
Weeks: 9
Chart run: 22-13-12-08-05-02-03-05-08
@cityofdoomsday N/A
@Eric Generic #19
@Hairycub1969 #12
@phoenix123 #11
Madness spend a sixth week in the top ten.
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08 The Story Of The Blues Wah! 275
Entry: 25/12/82
Peak: #7
Weeks: 4
Chart run: 117-100-34-08-07
@cityofdoomsday N/A
@Eric Generic #3
7
@Hairycub1969 #6
9
@phoenix123 #19
37
Are they running out of steam already? Wah still make some headway 8-7.
Entry: 25/12/82
Peak: #7
Weeks: 4
Chart run: 117-100-34-08-07
@cityofdoomsday N/A
@Eric Generic #3
@Hairycub1969 #6
@phoenix123 #19
Are they running out of steam already? Wah still make some headway 8-7.
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11 Electric Avenue Eddy Grant 281
Entry: 25/12/82
Peak: #6
Weeks: 2
Chart run: 11-06
@cityofdoomsday N/A
@Eric Generic #2
10
@Hairycub1969 #5
19
@phoenix123 #15
38
Eddy Grant vaults the competition with minimum effort. He's up 11-6.
Entry: 25/12/82
Peak: #6
Weeks: 2
Chart run: 11-06
@cityofdoomsday N/A
@Eric Generic #2
@Hairycub1969 #5
@phoenix123 #15
Eddy Grant vaults the competition with minimum effort. He's up 11-6.
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