Top 40 - 12th August 1979
These were officially the biggest hits of 12th August 1979
1
I Don't Like Mondays
The Boomtown Rats
2
We Don't Talk Anymore
Cliff Richard
3
Reasons To Be Cheerful, Part 3
Ian Dury And The Blockheads
4
After The Love Has Gone
Earth Wind And Fire
5
Angeleyes/voulez-vous
ABBA
6
Hersham Boys
Sham 69
7
Can't Stand Losing You
The Police
8
Wanted
The Dooleys
9
Duke Of Earl
Darts
10
The Diary Of Horace Wimp
Electric Light Orchestra
11
Bang Bang
B.a. Robertson
12
Beat The Clock
Sparks
13
Angel Eyes
Roxy Music
14
Gangsters
The Special Aka
15
Girls Talk
Dave Edmunds
16
Stay With Me Till Dawn
Judie Tzuke
17
Sweet Little Rock 'n' Roller
Showaddywaddy
18
Born To Be Alive
Patrick Hernandez
19
Ooh! What A Life
Gibson Brothers
20
Morning Dance
Spyro Gyra
21
If I Had You
The Korgis
22
Gotta Go Home/el Lute
Boney M
23
Is She Really Going Out With Him?
Joe Jackson
24
Breakfast In America
Supertramp
25
My Sharona
The Knack
26
Good Times
Chic
27
Just When I Needed You Most
Randy Vanwarmer
28
Bad Girls
Donna Summer
29
Teenage Warning
Angelic Upstarts
30
Money
Flying Lizards
31
Silly Games
Janet Kay
32
Lost In Music
Sister Sledge
33
If I Said You Had A Beautiful Body Would You Hold It Against Me
Bellamy Brothers
34
Girls Girls Girls
Kandidate
35
Gone, Gone, Gone
Johnny Mathis
36
You Never Know What You've Got
Me And You
37
Rock Lobster
The B-52s
38
Are 'friends' Electric?
Tubeway Army
39
Rock Around The Clock
Telex
40
You Need Wheels
Merton Parkas
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