Timeslip moment again...
We've parachuted from the Space Shuttle Voyager 1 into 1977, a very different world indeed - before mobile phones or the internet, when we only had three television channels and all of them focussed in on HM The Queen's Silver Jubilee, the year Virgina Wade won Wimbledon, the "Yorkshire Ripper" murders were first linked to a single perpetrator, the world's worst ever air disaster that killed 583 people happened in Tenerife, Star Wars premiered in the USA, the National Front goaded violent opposition by holding a series of rallies, there were clashes between strikers and police at the Grunwick film processing plant, the Sex Pistols Never Mind the Bollocks was released, and the Jeremy Thorpe scandal hit the headlines; born this year were Jonathan Rhys Meyers, HRH Peter Phillips, Apple Computers, Chris Martin, Skytrain, Orlando Bloom, Michael Fassbender, the M5 motorway and Kanye West; and Joan Crawford, Marc Bolan, Elvis Presley, Bing Crosby, Sir Anthony Eden, Gary Gilmore, Groucho Marx, Zero Mostel and Charlie Chaplin all died.
In the news headlines in January '77: Home Secretary Roy Jenkins resigned to become President of the European Union, IRA bombs went off in London's West End (thankfully this time with no casualties), EMI dropped the Sex Pistols from its label, U.S. President Jimmy Carter took office, and The Pompidou Centre opened in Paris. In our cinemas: Rocky, The Pink Panther Strikes Again and Survive! On telly: Wings, Robin's Nest, Children of the Stones .
And in our charts this week forty-two years ago? One-hit-wonders Althea and Donna had scored a left-field Number 1 with Uptown Top Ranking, ending [to mass applause from a grateful public, I might add] the nine-week run at the top by the dreary Mull of Kintyre by Wings. Also present and correct were Odyssey, Scott Fitzgerald & Yvonne Keely, Donna Summer, Bonnie Tyler, Bob Marley, Bill Withers and Abba. But - fortuitously for our continuing countdown this week - lurking just outside the Top 10 were the eternally cheery Spanish duo Baccara...
I have featured their single Sorry I'm a Lady quite a few times on this very blog over the years, so I thought, for a change, I'd play the B-side - see what you think:
Fab lyrics. Fab choreography. Fab hair flicks. Ahem.
A million years ago...
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That one is a little dreary, I have to admit. And I just discovered this..!
Did they do Yes Sir I can Boogie as well? I will look it up.
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Too right they did - if you click on the "Baccara" label at the foot of this post, you'll find it, and more... Jx
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