Party Like It’s 1979

As I’ve said previously there is shift that will be taking place with the website, not a shift away from music, but a shift to more recommendations and playlists and a mix of nostalgia and discovery, something I have already been pursuing with the podcast. Today I am sharing a playlist of my top 60 from Sept. 23, 1979. It is a countdown of the top 60 and some other highlights from below the top 60.

For many this will be a mix of nostalgia and discovery as some of these songs may be new to you. Back then I also was doing a top 150 of the week and I had just started college at Boston University a few weeks earlier. It’s a chart that started to see the effect of the Boston radio landscape that was much different than New York City (I grew up in Passaic, NJ). And it also was the first chart that started a new written format.

Here is the actual list

1              1              POCO    Heart Of The Night

6              2              GERRY RAFFERTY              Days Gone Down (Still Got That Light In Your Eyes)

4              3              KANSAS People Of The Southwind

7              5              BARBRA STREISAND        The Main Event/Fight

2              5              REX SMITH          You Take My Breath Away

9              6              WET WILLIE        Weekend

3              7              ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA       Shine A Little Love

11           8              ELTON JOHN      Mama Can’t Buy You Love

12           9              THE CARS            Let’s Go

5              10           TYCOON               Such A Woman

10           11           ORLEANS             Love Takes Time

16           12           JAMES TAYLOR  Up On A Roof

17           13           KISS       I Was Made For Lovin’ You

15           14           TANYA TUCKER I’m The Singer, You’re The Song

8              15           BOB SEGER         Old Time Rock ‘n Roll

19           16           ATLANTA RHYTHM SECTION        Do It Or Die

20           17           ANNE MURRAY Shadows In The Moonlight

13           18           ROGER VOUDOURIS       Get Used To It

22           19           SWEET  Mother Earth

23           20           DIONNE WARWICK          I’ll Never Love This Way Again

14           21           BLONDIE              One Way Or Another

27           22           CHRIS THOMPSON          If You Remember Me

25           23           MANFRED MANN’S EARTH BAND              You Angel You

24           24           VAN HALEN        Dance The Night Away

28           25           ORLEANS             Don’t Throw Our Love Away

18           26           ABBA     Does Your Mother Know

31           27           GRAHAM PARKER            I Want You Back (Alive)

21           28           JAY FERGUSON Shakedown Cruise

36           29           THE KNACK         My Sharona

33           30           CARLY SIMON    Vengeance

38           31           ROBERT JOHN    Sad Eyes

37           32           TRIUMPH            Hold On

35           33           SUPERTRAMP    Goodbye Stranger

39           34           LITTLE RIVER BAND          Lonesome Loser

26           35           CHRIS REA           Diamonds

42           36           FLASH & THE PAN            Hey St. Peter

40           37           EDDIE MONEY   Can’t Keep A Good Man Down

41           38           PAUL MCCARTNEY & WINGS       Getting Closer

44           39           TYCOON               Slow Down Boy

46           41           JOURNEY             Lovin’, Touchin’ Squeezin’

29           42           JOE JACKSON     Is She Really Going Out With Him

30           43           NIGEL OLSSON  A Little Bit of Soap

47           44           RAYDIO You Can’t Change That

50           45           MAXINE NIGHTINGALE  Lead Me On

49           46           AMERICA             The Only Game In Town

51           47           POCO    The Last Goodbye

52           48           CHARLIE DANIELS BAND The Devil Went Down To Georgia

32           49           NEW ENGLAND Don’t Ever Wanna Lose You

54           50           LINDA RONSTADT            All That You Dream

56           51           EARTH, WIND & FIRE      After The Love Is Gone

57           52           LAKE      Paradise Way

58           53           NICK GILDER       Rock Me

59           54           ERIC CARMEN    Haven’t We Come A Long Way Baby

60           55           MAUREEN McGOVERN  Different Worlds

61           56           MICHAEL JOHNSON        This Night Won’t Last Forever

34           57           BEACH BOYS       Good Timin’

64           58           ROBERT PALMER              Bad Case of Loving You (Doctor Doctor)

65           59           BADFINGER        Lost Inside Your Love

43           60           JOURNEY             Just The Same Way