Welcome to Part Two of our look at the WLS Music Survey from the week ending September 27, 1980. If you missed Part One, click HERE. The reverse side of the survey features a Pepsi advertisement, a Bio section, and the "Etcetera, Etc." section.
In its fifth week on the list, "Take A Little Rhythm" sits at number 44 on this week's Forty-fives. The single initially appeared on WLS's list of singles as one of two EXTRA songs on the survey for the week ending August 23, 1980. The following week, "Take A Little Rhythm" joined the chart at number 44. Ultimately, the song would peak at number 36 in a six-week stay, spending half of those weeks at number 44 before taking a little exit. We had the song on two K-Tel albums: Images and Sound Waves. The Bio neglected to share that Ali's older brother is Dougie Thomson, the bassist for Supertramp.
Falling seven spots to number 31. "Shining Star" by the Manhattans has the song's lyrics featured in the Etcetera, Etc. box. The single had peaked at number 15 four weeks prior during its eventual 12 twelve week run on the Forty-fives. "Shining Star" also appears on K-Tel's Images.
As we had mentioned in Part One of our look at the WLS Music Survey for the week ending September 27, 1980, four singles from the album Xanadu are on the list of Forty-fives this week. Down at number 37, "I'm Alive" falls four positions from the previous week's list. The single had peaked at number 15 and would spend a total of seventeen weeks on the station's chart. Jumping up fifteen spots from last week, the album's title track is at number 29 this week. "Xanadu" would peak at number 10 in its thirteen-week journey on the Forty-fives. Electric Light Orchestra's third single on this week's chart is up at number 8, moving up one tik. "All Over the World" would spend seven weeks on the chart, peaking at number 6 and earning a spot on the year-end Big 89 of 1980 at number 55. Slipping from its spot at Number One last week, Olivia Newton-John's "Magic" is at number 2 this week. The song spent five of its twenty-three weeks on the chart at Number One, good enough for number 49 on the Big 89. None of these four singles appeared on a K-Tel album.
The only other act to have three singles on the list of Forty-fives is Billy Joel, with three tracks from his Glass Houses album. "You May Be Right" is at number 45 in what would prove to be its final week of twenty-eight spent on the Forty-fives list. The single peaked at number 10 for four consecutive weeks and wound up at number 22 on the Big 89. At number 25 this week is Joel's "Don't Ask Me Why", down three from last week. After peaking at number 21, the single ended up at 39 on the Big 89 after a fourteen-week stay on the Forty-fives. "It's Still Rock and Roll To Me" is down one spot to number 8 this week. The single had peaked at Number One for four weeks a couple of months back before beginning its slow descent down the chart. "It's Still Rock and Roll To Me" would wind up at number 2 on the Big 89. None of these three Billy Joel singles ended up on a US K-Tel album.
Along with Olivia Newton-John, two other acts have a pair of singles on the Forty-fives chart. Air Supply's "Lost in Love" is at number 42, down one tik from last week, near the end of its thirty-four-week run. It had been Number One back in June and would end up Number One on the Big 89 as well. Up one spot from number 5 to number 4 is Air Supply's "All Out Of Love" on its way to a peak at number 3. Surprisingly, the song wound up at number 14 on the Big 89. "Lost In Love" appears on the K-Tel albums Rainbow and Sound Waves, while "All Out Of Love" can be found on Certified Gold and Horizons.
The first of Charlie Daniels Band's two singles in the Top 15 of the Forty-fives list is "In America". The song sits at number 14, down from number 13 last week. The song peaked at number 8 during a nineteen-week chart trip. The second single by the band in the Top 15 is "Legend of Wooley Swamp", up at its peak position of number 10, moving up six spots. The song would earn a place on the Big 89, coming in at number 65 at year's end. Neither of these Charlie Daniels Band singles is available on K-Tel albums.
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These are many of the songs I was listening to as a dorky football-playing high school freshman in the Fall of 1980. There were four jukeboxes in my weekly routine: one in the high school lunch room (a top fundraiser for the Student Council though kind of a rip-off because too many people tried to play songs and maybe ten got played during each lunch period); one in the Pizza Hut where my Dad had a part-time gig as a manager three nights a week; one at the Base youth center where I hung out one afternoon a week; and one at Garcia's Pizza where my friends and I ate lunch once a week. I played many of these songs on those jukeboxes. In addition to hearing them on WLS, many of these songs were also played regularly on WLRW-FM and sounded amazing. Owned and still own about a dozen of these 45s. Had and have others on albums, including K-Tel compilations. Not a skippable song in the bunch for this listener.
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