UK Top Ten Singles The Week You Were Born

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Following on from my post “UK Top Ten Singles Charts — 1970 to 1999” https://forums.doyouremember.co.uk/f...0%94-1970-1999 …….

What were the top ten singles the week you were born?

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19 September 1982 - 25 September 1982

1. Eye Of the Tiger – Survivor
2. The Bitterest Pill (I Ever Had To Swallow) – The Jam
3. Private Investigations – Dire Straits
4. Walking On Sunshine – Rocker’s Revenge FT Donnie Calvin
5. All Of My Heart – ABC
6. There It Is – Shalamar
7. Save A Prayer – Duran Duran
8. The Message – Grandmaster Flash and the furious five
9. Saddle Ip – David Christie
10. Friend Or Foe – Adam Ant

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This website will help out:

https://www.officialcharts.com/charts/singles-chart/

Completely searchable by DD/MM/YYYY

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19 September 1982 - 25 September 1982

1. Eye Of the Tiger – Survivor
2. The Bitterest Pill (I Ever Had To Swallow) – The Jam
3. Private Investigations – Dire Straits
4. Walking On Sunshine – Rocker’s Revenge FT Donnie Calvin
5. All Of My Heart – ABC
6. There It Is – Shalamar
7. Save A Prayer – Duran Duran
8. The Message – Grandmaster Flash and the furious five
9. Saddle Ip – David Christie
10. Friend Or Foe – Adam Ant

This was from the week I was born.

[davidthomas27]

20-26 February 1983

1. Too Shy - Kajagoogoo
2. Billie Jean - Michael Jackson
3. Africa - Toto
4. Change - Tears for Fears
5. Sign of the Times - The Belle Stars
6. Down Under - Men at Work
7. Up Where We Belong - Joe Cocker & Jennifer Warnes
8. Never Gonna Give You Up - Musical Youth
9. Tomorrow's (Just Another Day)/Madness is Just in the Mind - Madness
10. Wham Rap (Enjoy What You Do?) - Wham!

[Heather74]

• 1 Carl Douglas - "Kung Fu Fighting"
• 2 John Denver - "Annie's Song"
• 3 Johnny Bristol - "Hang On In There Baby"
• 4 The Osmonds - "Love Me For A Reason"
• 5 Sylvia - "Y Viva Espana"
• 6 Alvin Stardust - "You You You"
• 7 KC And The Sunshine Band - "Queen Of Clubs"
• 8 Barry White - "Can't Get Enough Of Your Love, Babe"
• 9 Andy Kim - "Rock Me Gently"
• 10 Leo Sayer - "Long Tall Glasses"

[George 1978]

Sunday 27th August 1978 to Saturday 2nd September 1978 (Courtesy of the Official Charts website):

1) Three Times a Lady - The Commodores
2) It's Raining - Darts
3) Rivers of Babylon/Brown Girl in the Ring - Boney M
4) Dreadlock Holiday - 10CC
5) You're The One That I Want - John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John
6) Oh What a Circus - David Essex
7) Jilted John - Jilted John
8) Supernature - Cerrone
9) Forever Autumn - Justin Hayward
10) It's Only Make Believe - Child

Pick of the Pops on BBC Radio 2 played the same chart from the week I was born in 2024 and I listened to it when I was on holiday at the time.

Ironically, my birth was my late mother's third pregnancy, and so one could say that she was also three times a lady! (Numbers two and three refer to rain and rivers - let's hope that any water there wasn't broken!) Rivers of Babylon was in the charts for 40 weeks, and a number one from earlier in the year; it was just an A-side in the charts originally but from the first week of August in 1978, the B-side, Brown Girl in the Ring was included in the charts. The story goes that a DJ played the wrong side of the record; the listeners loved it and as a result, it went back up the charts with the B-side included as well, although I am assuming that it was the A-side that was still mostly played, and I believed that it stayed in the charts until the end of that year.

Dreadlock Holiday was to become a future number one around three weeks later. A still image from You're The One That I want at number five can be seen performed in my avatar, although I didn't deliberately choose it because it was in the top ten during the week I was born. Oh What a Circus was a song from Evita (I have to admit that this particular chart was great for songs from theatre musicals considering both Evita and Grease), and I keep thinking that it is basically the same song and tune as Don't Cry for Me Argentina which Julie Covington had a hit with some 18 or so months before.

Jilted John did indeed have an eponymous hit in the charts; Cerrone was Mark Cerrone, a French DJ and record producer; Justin Hayward, guitarist with the Moody Blues sang Forever Autumn just as autumn was to begin a few weeks later. And I believe Child's It's Only Make Believe was a cover version of Conway Twitty's 1958 Christmas number one.