4/15/13

Wow! That's What I Call Music! RSO Chart Busters [1979]




On Christmas Morning 1979, HERC ran down the stairs, practically running over his little sister, to find the RSO Chart Busters album under the tree.  The album featured nine of HERC's favorite songs from 1977-1979, a kind of K-Tel-like sampler that focused on one record label's acts and hits only.  It was an amazing collection with only one track unfamiliar to HERC at the time: Linda Clifford's disco do-over of Simon & Garfunkel's seminal "Bridge Over Troubled Water" (below).


Curiously absent from the record were any hits from the label's initial signing and biggest act, the Brothers Gibb professionally known as the Bee Gees.  The youngest Gibb brother, Andy, is represented with two tracks and the oldest Bee Gee, Barry, wrote those two as well two additional songs on Chart Busters: "Grease" and "If I Can't Have You".



Unfortunately for an obsessive completest like HERC, the above two tracks are not on Spotify yet; at least not in their original single or disco versions so HERC presents the above "spinning vinyl" versions.


RSO, the label, began an unprecedented streak when the song above ascended to the Number One spot on Billboard's Hot 100 chart on Christmas Eve 1977.  The five videos below represent the next five consecutive #1 singles and all were on RSO, an amazing streak of 21 weeks occupying the most coveted spot on the charts.






Other RSO Number One records include "Disco Duck" (1976), "Shadow Dancing" (1978), "Jive Talkin' (1975), "You're The One That I Want" (1978), "You Should Be Dancing" (1976), "I Just Want To Be Your Everything" (1977), "Grease" (1978), "Too Much Heaven" (1979), "Tragedy" (1979) and "Love You Inside And Out" (1979).  Most of these songs appear in the greatly expanded HERC's M!X version of the original RSO Chart Busters album below.


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