Top Songs of 1977 | #1s Official UK Singles Chart

This video presents all the songs that hit number 1 on the Official UK Singles chart in 1977, listed chronologically.

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[historiador]

Abba sure did have a lots of imitators! plus Baccara's biggest hit, The Jacksons, Donna Summer, Julie Covington's original rendition of Don't Cry for Me Argentina and...David Soul?!?! That's what I love about the UK charts they are so varied and full of surprises

[raydunn]

Thank you.

So many didn't hit the Top 10 in the USA. Some didn't even hit the top 40, I think.

Some artists are totally unknown in the USA like Brotherhood and one that sang Angelo.

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Number one in USA in 1977
Rich girl by Daryl hall and John Oates - March
Dancing queen by abba - April
Best of love by the emotions- August and September
Star Wars themes by meco - October
Uncover angel by Alan o day - July
How deep is your love by the bee gees - December
Your light up my life by Debby Boone - October and November

[wmbrown]

And now for the busiest year since 1974 in terms of how many reached the top of one or both of the "other" charts but blocked from the top spot "officially." Starting with:
- "Boogie Nights" by Heatwave
#1 on Melody Maker for 1 week - 12 March 1977
(Blocked "officially" by "When I Need You"; was likewise #2 on NME)
- "Going In With My Eyes Open" by David Soul
#1 on Melody Maker for 1 week - 09 April 1977
(Blocked "officially" by "Knowing Me, Knowing You"; also pinned down at #2 on NME)
- "Ain't Gonna Bump No More (With No Big Fat Woman)" by Joe Tex
#1 on Melody Maker for 1 week - 04 June 1977
(Blocked "officially" by "I Don't Want To Talk About It" / "The First Cut Is The Deepest"; another where it also couldn't get past #2 on NME)
- "God Save The Queen" by the Sex Pistols
#1 on NME for 1 week - 18 June 1977
(Infamously blocked "officially" by "I Don't Want To Talk About It" / "The First Cut Is The Deepest"; alas, Mr. Rotten, Mr. Jones, Mr. Cook and Mr. Matlock got off lucky "officially" compared with Melody Maker which ensured it got no higher than #5, where it was kept off by not only the two-headed Stewart topper, but also "Ain't Gonna Bump No More, " "Lucille, " and "Love Theme From 'A Star Is Born' (Evergreen)" by Barbra Streisand)
- "Ma Baker" by Boney M
#1 on NME for 1 week - 16 July 1977
(Blocked "officially" by "I Feel Love"; also unable to nudge past the #2 spot on Melody Maker)
- "Magic Fly" by Space
#1 on NME for 3 weeks - 10, 17, 24 September 1977
#1 on Melody Maker for 3 non-consecutive weeks - 10, 17 September and 01 October 1977
(Blocked "officially" by "Way Down")
- "Oxygene (Part 4)" by Jean Michel Jarre
#1 on Melody Maker for 1 week - 24 September 1977
(Blocked "officially" by "Way Down, " "Magic Fly, " "Float On" and "Silver Lady"; NME had this one at #2)
- "Black Is Black" by La Belle Epoque
#1 on Melody Maker for 2 weeks - 15, 22 October 1977
(Blocked "officially" by "Silver Lady, " which was kept out of MM's top spot, as well as "Yes Sir, I Can Boogie, " by this; on NME, this also went to #2)
- "You're In My Heart" by Rod Stewart
#1 on NME for 1 week - 29 October 1977
#1 on Melody Maker for 2 weeks - 29 October-5 October 1977
(Blocked "officially" by "Yes Sir, I Can Boogie, " then by "The Name Of The Game, " plus "Black Is Black")
- "Rockin' All Over The World" by Status Quo
#1 on NME and Melody Maker for 1 week - 26 November 1977
(Blocked "officially" by "The Name Of The Game")

Conversely, "Lucille" was only the third "official" #1 (after Dana's "All Kinds Of Everything" and Mud's "Oh Boy") to be kept out of the top of the "other" charts; couldn't get past #2 in either NME or Melody Maker. Other "official" #1's that missed the top of either of the two "other" charts included:
- "Angelo" (Melody Maker - #2)
- "Float On" (NME - #2)
- "Silver Lady" (Melody Maker - #2)
- "Yes Sir, I Can Boogie" (Melody Maker - #2)

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1977
President in the White House- Gerald ford or Jimmy Carter
Prime minister of United Kingdom - James Callaghan
Television show on USA - Charlie's Angels, happy days and little house on the prairie
Actor- Sylvester Stallone and Burt Reynolds
Actress- Sally Field
Male celebrity alive- Jack Nicholson
Female celebrity- Farrah Fawcett

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Songs that reached Number 2 in Australia 1977 are as follows:

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Famous male actors are alive in 1977
Are
Jack Nicholson (40)
Robert Redford (41)
Tom Selleck (32)
Michael Landon (41)- he on little house on the prairie
James garner (49)- he on The Rockford Files
Dustin Hoffman (40)
Alan Alda (41)- He on M * A* S * H*
John Travolta (23)
Marlon Brando
Clint Eastwood (47)
Sean Connery (47)
Gene Hackman (47)
Paul Newman
Robert Duvall
Al Pacino (37)
Sylvester Stallone (31)
Larry Hagman
Cliff Robertson
Roger Moore - ( his is James Bond next to Sean Connery)
Telly Savalas
Richardo Montalban- ( he on fantasy island)
James Arness
Peter graves
Peter Falk aka frank Columbo
Cary Grant
Steve McQueen (47)- his death in 1980
Rock Hudson
Charlton Heston
Fess Parker
Walter Matthau
Jack Lemmon
Tony Randall
Jack Klugman
William Shatner
Leonard Nimoy
Deforest Kelley
Fred Astaire
James Cagney (78)
Gregory peck
Sidney Poitier
Peter Fonda
Henry Fonda
Dennis Weaver
Dennis hopper
Hector Elizondo
And mores

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Who number one in USA in 1977
They are
Hotel California by Eagles
Sir Duke by Stevie wonder
I wish by Stevie wonder
Rich girl by Daryl hall and John Oates

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0:42 burnette from Manhattan transfers look like Cindy Williams

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Born in 1977
Kerry Washington
Kayne west
Jessica Christian

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Who got cancelled in tv in 1977
Are
The Mary Tyler Moore Show with Mary Tyler Moore
Sanford and son with Redd Foxx

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Who on tv in 1977
Are
Charlie's Angels with Kate Jackson
Happy Days with Ron Howard
The Rockford Files with James Garner
Threes Company with John Ritter
The Jeffersons with Sherman Hemsley
Laverne and Shirley with Penny Marshall
The Bob Newhart show with Bob Newhart
The love boat with Ted Lange

[zbrwmzv]

WHERE'S DUST IN THE WIND, MOVIN OUT, JUST THE WAY YOU ARE, GO YOUR OWN WAY

[samfeldstein]

It's kind of weird how Way Down only reached #18 here in the US but got to #1 in the UK

[molinalong]

Celebrities was born in that year

Jessica Christian
Sarah Michelle Gellar
Robin Thickle
Kerry Washington
Kanye

[wmbrown]

If a concomitant "Hot 100 #1s for 1977" were produced, and the :06 second snippet length were to hold, I'd calculate its length at 3:17 - 4 seconds longer than this which I noticed sampled 8 seconds.

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The television shows in United states of America
Are

NBC
Little house on the prairie ( Michael Landon)
The Rockford Files ( James Garner)
Columbo ( Peter Falk)

Abc
Happy days ( Henry Winkler)
Charlie's angels ( Jaclyn Smith)
The six million dollars man ( Lee Majors)

CBS
The Jeffersons ( Sherman Hemsley)
M*A* S*H*. ( Alan Alda)
The Bob Newhart Show ( Bob Newhart)
Kojak ( Telly Savalas)

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died in 1977
Joan Crawford
Bing Crosby
Groucho Marx

[toothpasteboy]

1:54 Are these abba impersonators *LOL*

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Who died in 1977
Are
Joan Crawford