Oscar Party 2024 and Creature of the Black Lagoon series on Monday Morning Diary (March 11)

Retired Cliffside Park English teacher Patrick Shelley, Steve Savianeso, Tony Lucibello, and me, at the Walker Street Fire House for 2024 Oscar party!

 

by Sam Juliano

Our 45th annual Oscar party (it would have been 47th if we hadn’t missed it twice because of the pandemic) was held Sunday evening at the Walker Street Fire House in Fairview.  Just shy of 50 people attended, and everyone had a grand time and some terrific food and desserts.

The 1980 Best Song voting will continue until Friday, March 15th.

Many thanks to Lee Price for his fantastic three-part Creature of the Black Lagoon series. It brought the site nice traction and attention over the past days.

Writing continues on Mikey’s Absolution. 

A 70th Anniversary Tribute to the Gill Man: Part Three, Creatures Walking Among Us

                                            The Gill Man underwater

by Lee Price

 Four Encounters Leading to a Creature Epiphany

1. Meeting with Dr. AC: This three-part Gill Man tribute series was inspired by an invitation to participate in a panel discussion with Dan Kiggins, Bobby Zier, and Aaron Christensen (aka Dr. AC) on “Horror 101 with Dr. AC,” a YouTube video and podcast series. In late February 2024, our panel gathered, Zoom-style, to discuss and celebrate the Creature’s 70th anniversary, covering each of the three movie in turn. On the subject of the third movie, The Creature Walks Among Us, I ventured the following criticism:

“There are some things that I don’t like about that whole melodrama approach. It feels very much like a Douglas Sirk Universal melodrama from that period.”

Our host, Dr. AC himself (Aaron Christensen), countered: “Well, I really like Douglas Sirk melodramas. Nobody did melodrama like Douglas Sirk! If it can even approach that, then well done.”

Well, I enjoy Douglas Sirk movies, too. Just not when I’m settling down to enjoy some Gill Man mayhem! Perhaps I should have said, “It feels like a weak imitation of a Douglas Sirk movie.”

But the question lingered… Could the Creature be inserted into a good domestic melodrama? Could anyone make this work?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN5KjiZ2nT8&t

2. Meeting with Aquarius the Monster-Man: For me, the first two movies, Creature from the Black Lagoon and Revenge of the Creature, tell a single complete Creature story. The Gill Man surfaces in the Amazon, develops a crush on a beautiful woman, is caught and brought to Marineland, escapes with maximum havoc, carries off a beautiful woman who is then rescued, and the Creature is killed. Our last glimpse is of his Creature corpse floating in the river. End of story. It’s not structured as a trilogy. There’s no need for a third movie.

While the third movie acknowledges all that’s taken place previously, The Creature Walks Among Us departs from the first two movies both thematically and tonally. Consequently, it stands apart, perhaps best regarded as the first of the cultural children of the Gill Man. As I mentioned during the “Horror 101 with Dr. AC” discussion, The Creature Walks Among Us wades into melodrama territory, with the subject of an unhappy marriage often overshadowing the science fiction/horror elements. There’s more attention granted to the loveless marriage of the mad scientist and his beautiful wife than to the mad scientist experimentation and torture of the Gill Man that he keeps in captivity. It almost feels like the Gill Man is primarily there to resolve their plot, akin to Clarence the Guardian Angel in It’s a Wonderful Life (1946).

Lee Price’s “70th Anniversary Creature series,” “Dune 2,” 1979 Best Song Poll Results and 1980 Best Song Launching on Monday Morning Diary (March 4)

                                Capture from Lee Price’s THE CREATURE series

 

by Sam Juliano

Thank you so much, Lee Price, for your enthralling CREATURE series this week at WONDERS IN THE DARK!  Your scholarship is fascinating, and the tribute brings so many memories!  Look forward to the last part, mid-week!

Lucille and I hope to see the second part of DUNE late Sunday night (hours after this early-bird MMD posts).

I have been progressing slowly on my third novel, Mikey’s Absolution, but am still approaching 40,000 words.

London Calling Named Best Popular Song of 1979 in landslide vote!

The title track to one of the most critically praised albums in rock history was named the best song of 1979 by more than 100 points, according to Voting Tabulator Angelo A. D’Arminio Jr. The Clash’s London Calling received 363 points to win by a wide margin over Pink Floyd’s Comfortably Numb, 363-247. A total of 40 ballots were cast for this popular year, one many consider among the best ever.

1 London Calling – The Clash 363

2 Comfortably Numb – Pink Floyd 247

3 Dreaming – Blondie 215

4 Life During Wartime – Talking Heads 174

5 Brass in Pocket – The Pretenders 173

6 Hey Hey My My – Neil Young and Crazy Horse 167

7 The Logical Song – Supertramp 153

8 Message in a Bottle – Police 147

9 Cars – Gary Numan 140

10 Cruel to Be Kind – Nick Lowe 138

11 Another Brick in the Wall Part II – Pink Floyd 133

12 Refugee – Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers 128

13 Dancing Barefoot – Patti Smith 102

14 What a Fool Believes – Doobie Brothers 95

15 We Are Family – Sister Sledge 94

16 Powderfinger – Neil Young 92

17 Transmission-Joy Division 92

18 Don’t Bring Me Down – ELO 87

19 Oliver’s Army – Elvis Costello 85

20 Rock With You – Michael Jackson 85

21 Fool in the Rain – Led Zeppelin 83

22 My Sharona – The Knack 82

23 Another Brick in the Wall – Pink Floyd 81

24 Train in Vain – The Clash 81

25 Dance this Mess Around – B52’s 78

26 Making Plans for Nigel – XTC 76

27 Hot Stuff – Donna Summer 75

28 Rock Lobster-B52’s 74

29 Don’t Stop Till You Get Enough – Micheal Jackson 70

30 Rise – Herb Alpert 66

31 Let’s Go – The Cars 63

32 MacArthur Park – Donna Summer 60

33 It’s Money That I Love – Randy Newman 55

34 Peace, Love & Understanding – Elvis Costello 55

35 Atomic – Blondie 53

36 Dance the Night Away – Van Halen 52

37 Tragedy – Bee Gees 51

38 Heartbreaker – Pat Benatar 49

39 All of My Love – Led Zeppelin 46

40 Da Ya Think I’m Sexy – Rod Stewart 46

41 (Wish I Could Fly Like Superman – The Kinks 44

42 Don’t Stop Till You Get Enough 40

43 Is She Really Going Out with Him? – Joe Jackson 40

44 Video Killed the Radio Star – The Buggles 40

45 Crazy Little Thing Called Love-Queen 39

46 YMCA 39

47 Boys Don’t Cry – The Cure 38

48 Clampdown – The Clash 38

49 Bright Side of the Road – Van Morrison 36

50 My Life – Billy Joel 36

40 ballots cast.

A 70th Anniversary Tribute to the Gill Man: Part Two, Revenge of the Creature

                                             The Gill Man underwater

by Lee Price

The Creature at Home in Weird Florida

Compared to King Kong on the Empire State Building, the Creature at Marineland may sound like small potatoes. But for me, it’s not. This is personal. When I saw Revenge of the Creature (1955) as a young boy, I knew Marineland as the place we visited on summer vacations. I had sat in those bleachers watching the porpoise shows, sitting above the exact same tank where the Creature had once been manacled and broken free. I’ve never been to the top of the Empire State Building, but I’ve walked where the Creature rampaged. That’s holy ground for me. It’s personal.

My parents loved the glass-bottomed boats, the swamps and cypress knees, the mermaids, and the water ski shows of 1960s pre-Disney World Florida. On our vacations there, they humored my desire to stop at every park that advertised (life-size, concrete) dinosaurs. And I loved the signs at the parks that would proudly announce that Esther Williams’ movies, or Tarzan movies, or Creature from the Black Lagoon movies, had been filmed there. I could stand by the bank of some waterside paradise and imagine that the Gill Man’s webbed footprints might still be preserved in this mud, like ancient dinosaur footprints. The word kitsch hadn’t entered our vocabularies yet. This was simply Florida.
We visited Marineland, which looked exactly like it did in Revenge of the Creature. We visited Silver Springs, once visited by Hollywood crews for nearly every movie purporting to take place in Africa or South America. We visited Weeki Wachee, with its mermaids and mermen who looked human but swam sort of like the Gill Man did. And so many more memories from visiting the manatees at Homosassa Springs to walking the catwalk through the swamps at Cypress Knee Museum.

A 70th Anniversary Tribute to the Gill Man: Part One, The Creature from the Black Lagoon

The Creature underwater, with Ricou Browning in the suit

by Lee Price

 Birthday Greetings to the Creature

Marvelously scaled creatures gliding through the water – like fish, snakes, alligators, and gill men from black lagoons – don’t show their age. Based simply on his timeless appearance, you’d probably never guess that Universal’s final classic monster, the Gill Man, is about to pass the 70^th anniversary of his original mass-market film release in March 1954. Or perhaps he’s turning 400 million years old, if we assume that the movie scientists are correct in placing him as a sole lonely survivor from the Devonian period, eternally gliding through vast expanses of swampy time.

For the occasion, we’ll light one candle on the cake and let him bat it out with a sweep of his webbed hand. (He never liked light much.) Happy Birthday to the Creature from the Black Lagoon!

The following notes, in this blog entry and two subsequent pieces on the sequels, are intended to serve as a birthday tribute to an old friend, aging well in 3D and glorious black-and-white widescreen, and still retaining enough potency to inspire Academy-Award winning filmmakers.

The Genius of the Creature

I first saw the Creature from the Black Lagoon nearly sixty years ago, doubtless with all the poor image quality endemic to a mid-1960s TV set. It wasn’t widescreen, it wasn’t 3-D, and the screen was probably fuzzy with static. Nevertheless, I don’t remember being bothered by the image quality one bit. Perhaps poor reception even increased the atmosphere, rendering the murky Amazon and its primeval wildlife all the more mysterious.

Sixty years late, I still love the film. It’s a very good 1950s science fiction movie that succeeds via the same route taken by Casablanca (1942) – through an unexpected alchemy of talents almost accidently arriving at the right place at the right time. It’s not the vision of a single auteur, instead benefiting most from genius contributions offered by people not even listed in the screen credits.

Here’s where I see genius in the Creature from the Black Lagoon:

The Genius of the Design of the Creature: The vague script described a man-fish – equipped with both gills and lungs – measuring seven-feet in length from his webbed feet to the dome of his frog-like head. Studio memos offered contradictory advice regarding the percentage of man to fish in a man-fish. The first attempt at constructing a Gill Man costume was an unintentionally comic getup, derisively dubbed The Pollywog at the studio.

Seventy years later, the final full-body Creature suit has become so iconic that it’s difficult to grasp just how creative and original it was. I see genius in both its design and sculptural execution. So who gets the credit for this inspired work? For artistic concept and design, a wealth of evidence points to Milicent Patrick as the visionary with a sketchpad, seamlessly combining elements of fish, frog, reptile, and human into a unified whole – one part plausible aquatic creature and one part lumbering land monster. While the film was in production, Patrick’s work was highly respected by her peers and she was even briefly feted for her role as a sort of den mother to the Universal monsters on a national publicity tour when the film opened.

Unfortunately, that brief burst of national attention spelled the end of Milicent Patrick’s budding career as a designer of monsters. Enraged by the attention she received, Bud Westmore, head of the makeup department at Universal International, immediately dismissed Patrick upon her return from the tour, essentially blackballing her from any further makeup work at the major Hollywood studios, all dominated by the powerful Westmore family. Her full story has only emerged in the past 15 years, first through investigation by horror movie researcher par excellence Tom Weaver, then significantly built upon by Mallory O’Meara in her biography of Milicent Patrick, The Lady from the Black Lagoon. It’s a delightful book, brimming with well-deserved outrage and scorn for a Hollywood culture that happily accepted Patrick’s genius contribution and then promptly kicked her out the door. O’Meara firmly establishes a prominent place for Patrick in the Universal monster hall of fame, deserving of similar acclaim to that accorded to other monster-kid fan favorites like Jack Pierce, Kenneth Strickfaden, and John P. Fulton.

More genius needed?  Masterfully bringing Patrick’s sketches to foam rubber life, ace craftsman Jack Kevan molded the sleek reptilian body and Chris Mueller, Jr. sculpted the surprisingly expressive monster head, with matching suits created for both Creature actors (Ricou Browning in the water and Ben Chapman on land). In its seamless detail, their work easily surpasses all the knock-off full-body monster suits that soon cluttered the world of 1950s science fiction cinema in movies bound for eventual desecration on Mystery Science Theater 3000.

Milicent Patrick, Jack Kevan, Chris Mueller, Jr… you won’t find their names in the screen credits. Bud Westmore seized all the credit, while contributing nothing of artistic importance. According to Chris Mueller, “Westmore signed the checks.”

Perfect Days and the SAG Awards on Monday Morning Diary (February 26)

by Sam Juliano

Last night’s Screen Actor’s Guild Awards (SAG) showed just how strong Oppenheimer is and how it seems headed for many Oscars on March 10th.  Not that the Oscars mean squat, but we always find the diversion as a way to discuss our favorite films of any given year.  I’m still rooting for Paul Giamatti to upset Cillian Murphy, but last night’s result indicates it will be a tall task.  Lucille and I finally saw Wim Wenders’s Japanese Perfect Days on Tuesday night, after we couldn’t pull off the previous plans to see it on Sunday evening.  “Perfect” is also how I frame it – 5 of 5.

This past week, we lost my last McCartney cousin, Jeffrey, who passed at the young age of 72 after fighting cancer for eight years.  Jeffrey was actively staging plays at the Leonia Player’s Guild for decades, and was one of the most creative persons.  R.I.P. dear cousin.

I have resumed writing the third novel, now re-titled Mikey’s Absolution, but the off-week from school was impacted by the wake and funeral and other responsibilities. 

The Taste of Things, Perfect Days, 1978 Song Poll Results and 1979 Song Poll Launching on Monday Morning Diary (February 19)

by Sam Juliano

Happy President’s Week!  Preparations are underway for our annual Oscar party, which will be held on Sunday, March 10th, at the Tiger Hose Firehouse on Sedore Avenue in Fairview.  As always, the affair is an “open house.”  Lucille and I look forward to meeting with family and friends.

This past week, we saw two films in theaters, although the second one, Japanese Perfect Days, will be seen tonight.  (I am preparing this MMD on Sunday afternoon so that screening is many hours away)

The Taste of Things   (Saturday)   **** 1/2  (Garden State multiplex)

Perfect Days  (Sunday)                                    (Garden State multiplex)

RESULTS OF 1978 SONG POLL!!

Blondie’s “Heart of Glass” Named Best Song of 1978!

Blondie’s wildly popular “Heart of Glass” (featured on their third album, “Parallel Lines”) placed first in our polling of 1978’s songs. According to Voting Tabulator Angelo A. D’Arminio Jr., the Blondie hit was followed by “Because the Night,” “Radio, Radio,” “Werewolves of London,” “Take Me to the River,” “Roxanne,” “Wuthering Heights,” “Sultans of Swing,” “I Want to Be Sedated,” “Badlands,” “Pump It Up,” and “I Will Survive” (Top dozen). A total of 41 ballots were cast.

1. Heart of Glass – Blondie 293

2. Because the Night – Patti Smith 236

3. Radio, Radio – Elvis Costello 213

4. Werewolves of London – Warren Zevon 210

5. Take Me to the River – Talking Heads 206

6. Roxanne – The Police 191

7. Wuthering Heights – Kate Bush 191

8. Sultans of Swing – Dire Straits 168

9. I Want to Be Sedated – Ramones 160

10. Pump It Up – Elvis Costello 157

11. Badlands – Bruce Springsteen 151

12. I Will Survive – Gloria Gaynor 151

13. Miss You – The Rolling Stones 150

14. My Best Friend’s Girl – The Cars 111

15. Beat of Burden – Rolling Stones 103

16. Ever Fallen In Love – Buzzcocks 102

17. Le Freak (Chic) 96

18. Shattered – The Rolling Stones 95

19. Who Are You – The Who 93

20. Fool If You Think Its Over – Chris Rea 91

21. Last Dance – Donna Summer 90

22. Stayin’ Alive – Bee Gees 90

23. Grease – Frankie Valli 88

24. Rock Lobster – The B-52’s 87

25. Baker Street – Gerry Rafferty 83

26. FM – Steely Dan 72

27. Surrender – Cheap Trick 68

28. Promised Land (Bruce Springsteen) 67

29. Deacon Blues – Steely Dan 66

30. I Want You To Want Me- Cheap Trick 60

31. Sometimes When We Touch – Dan Hill 59

32. Prove It All Night- Bruce Springsteen 58

33. Life’s Been Good/Joe Walsh 52

34. Dust in the Wind” – Kansas 46

35. I Need To Know-Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers 46

36. Rock N’ Roll Fantasy-The Kinks 46

37. Hopelessly Devoted to You” —Olivia Newton-John. 45

38. The Man with the Child In His Eyes–Kate Bush 44

39. Shadow Dancing-Andy Gibb 41

40. Don’t Stop Me Now-Queen 40

41. Is She Really Going Out with Him?, Joe Jackson 40

42. Lights–Journey 40

43. One Nation Under a Groove-Funkadelic 40

44. Sister Disco-The Who 40

45. So It Goes – Nick Lowe 40

46. Just What I Needed” – The Cars 39

47. Kiss You All Over” – Exile 39

48. Night Fever-Bee Gees 39

49.Wavelength – Van Morrison 37

50. Damaged Goods (Gang of Four) 36

50. Got to Be Real, Cheryl Lynn 36

50. Three Times a Lady – Commodores 36

Super Bowl Sunday and DGA Awards on Monday Morning Diary (February 12)

by Sam Juliano

There aren’t any movie reports this week, and we are at the halfway point of the 1978 Best Song Poll, so there is nothing to add except that the ballots have been coming in. This is a down week, starting on Abraham Lincoln’s birthday.  After I pen this brief Monday Morning Diary report, my family and I will be heading up to Butler, New Jersey, for our annual Super Bowl party at the mansion home of Lucille’s sister Elaine and her husband Jim Lampmann.  We have no “horse” in this game, as we are not fans of the Chiefs or the 49ers.  May the best team win, and we’re hoping for an exciting game, either way.

Thanking those who are regularly posting their son ballots, Tony d’Ambra for his generosity in posting the results to Spotify and to regular commentator Mark Smith, who has enlivened these halls with his eclectic taste and wit for years.

The Director’s Guild of America Best Feature Film Director award was won, as expected, by Christopher Nolan for Oppenheimer.

I have been working on the third novel, but it now appears I will need to change the title.  The major event signaled by Roses for Saoirse won’t occur until 1989.  This third novel runs from 1980 to 1986.  However, Roises for Saoirse will be ideal for the fourth novel, which will span from 1986 to 1991.  Right now, I am leaning towards Mikey’s Absolution for the third book title. 

1977 Best Popular Song Poll Results and 1978 Best Popular Song Launching on Monday Morning Diary (February 5)

by Sam Juliano

My deepest apologies for the rare Monday Morning Diary miss last week.  While this seldom happens, I am sidetracked once in a blue moon.  We are back in force this week with our song poll results and the launching of our 1978 poll.  Many thanks to all who have participated and will continue to do so!

“Heroes” was named Best Popular Song of 1977 in a landslide vote!

David Bowie’s “Heroes,” from his seminal album of the same title, won our 1977 popular song balloting by a whopping 117 points, according to Voting Tabulator Angelo A. D’Arminio Jr. The Talking Heads’ “Psycho Killer,” Elvis Costello’s “Alison,” the Bee Gees’ “Night Fever,” and Fleetwood Mac’s “Dreams” rounded out the Top 5. A total of 38 ballots were cast.

NOTE: “Hotel California” and “Dancing Queen” also placed in the Top 50 of 1976.

1 Heroes – David Bowie 346

2 Psycho Killer – Talking Heads 229

3 Allison- Elvis Costello 188

4 Night Fever – Bee Gees 182

5 Dreams – Fleetwood Mac 155

6 Lust for Life – Iggy Pop 140

7 Marquee Moon – Television 135

8 Running on Empty – Jackson Browne 117

9 We Are the Champions – Queen 117

10 I Feel Love – Donna Summer 114

11 Like a Hurricane – Neil Young 108

12 White Riot – The Clash 108

13 Little Criminals – Randy Newman 105

14 Go Your Own Way – Fleetwood Mac 103

15 Hotel California – Eagles 88

16 Just The Way You Are – Billy Joel 86

17 Nobody Does It Better – Carly Simon 85

18 Stayin’ Alive – The Bee Gees 84

19 Cold as Ice – Foreigner 82

20 Bat Out of Hell – Meat Loaf 79

21 The Chain- Fleetwood Mac 76

22 Margaritaville – Jimmy Buffett 75

23 Got To Give It Up – Marvin Gaye 74

24 Watching the Detectives (Elvis Costello) 73

25 Deacon Blues– Steely Dan 71

26 It’s So Easy – Linda Ronstadt 70

27 You and Me (Alice Cooper) 70

28 Sheena Is a Punk Rocker – The Ramones 66

29 Solsbury Hill – Peter Gabriel 65

30 The Passenger-Iggy Pop 65

31 Cocaine- Eric Clapton 60

32 Best of My Love, 59

33 I Just Want to Be Your Everything – Andy Gibb 58

34 Dancing Queen – ABBA. 57

35 God Save The Queen-The Sex Pistols 56

36 Sound and Vision – David Bowie 56

37 Star Wars – London Symphony Orchestra. 56

38 If I Can’t Have You” – Yvonne Elliman 54

39 Barrracuda-Heart 53

40 Somebody to Love–Queen 52

41 Aja–Steely Dan 51

42 Three Little Birds-Bob Marley and The Wailers 51

43 Holidays in the Sun – The Sex Pistols 50

44 Rich Girl (Hall & Oates) 48

45 Rockaway Beach” – The Ramones 48

46 Blinded by the light – Manfred Mann 47

47 Don’t Stop – Fleetwood Mac. 47

48 Fly Like an Eagle Steve Miller Band 46

49 See No Evil – Television 46

50 Paradise by the Dashboard Light – Meat Loaf 45

38 ballots cast.

1976 Best Song Poll Results and 1977 Polling Launch on Monday Morning Diary (January 22)

by Sam Juliano

Bob Dylan’s “Hurricane” Named Best Popular Song of 1976!

Bob Dylan’s politically pointed “Hurricane” from his “Desire” album, that dealt with the imprisonment of Rubin ‘Hurricane’ Carter and the acts of racism and profiling against Carter, edged past the Ramones “Blitzkrieg Bop,” 272-269 in the closest vote for Number 1 of all our song pollings to win our 1976 vote. This was the renowned Mr. Dylan’s first song to finish #1, and the Top 50 was a cornucopia of style and diversity. According to Tabulator Angelo A. D’Arminio Jr., 42 ballots were cast. Number 50 was a three-way tie, meaning our list contains 52 songs.

1. Hurricane – Bob Dylan 272
2. Blitzkrieg Bop – Ramones 269
3. American Girl -Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers 254
4. Dancing Queen – ABBA 240
5. Sir Duke – Stevie Wonder 234
6. Anarchy in the UK – Sex Pistols 220
7. The Year of the Cat – Al Stewart 194
8. Coyote – Joni Mitchell 173
9. Night Moves – Bob Seger 160
10. Sara Smile – Hall & Oates 157
11. More Than a Feeling – Boston 154
12. Kid Charlemagne – Steely Dan 152
13. Dont Fear the Reaper – Blue Oyster Cult 148
14. I Wish – Stevie Wonder 146
15. Hotel California – The Eagles 135
16. December, 1963 – The Four Seasons 132
17. The Boys Are Back in Town -Thin Lizzy 130
18. Another Star – Stevie Wonder 128
19. Golden Years – David Bowie 127
20. Cherry Bomb – Runaways 126
21. Lowdown – Boz Scaggs 112
22. Someone To Love – Queen. 105
23. You Should Be Dancing – Bee Gees 103
24. The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald – Gordon Lightfoot 91
25. Isnt She Lovely – Stevie Wonder 82
26. Jailbreak – Thin lizzy 82
27. Roadrunner – The Modern Lovers 79
28. You Sexy Thing – Hot Chocolate 79
29. X-Offender – Blondie 78
30. Fooled Around and Fell in Love – Elvin Bishop 76
31. Take It To The Limit – The Eagles 72
32. Show Me the Way – Peter Frampton 70
33. Go Your Own Way – Fleetwood Mac 65
34. Station to Station – David Bowie 64
35. Carry on Wayward Son – Kansas 63
36. Play That Funky Music – Wild Cherry 62
37. Lido Shuffle – Boz Scaggs 61
38. Love Hangover – Diana Ross 61
39. Thatll be the Day – Linda Ronstadt 60
40. Blinded By The Light – Manfred Mann 59
41. Thats The Way (I Like It) – KC and the Sunshine Band 58
42. If You Leave Me Now – Chicago 56
43. Dream On – Aerosmith 55
44. Tonights the Night – Rod Stewart 53
45. Right Back Where We Started From – Maxine Nightingale 52
46. Rich Girl….Hall and Oates 49
47. Breakdown – Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
48. Rhiannon” Fleetwood Mac 46
49. Bohemian Rhapsody – Queen 45
50. Fernando – ABBA 45
Fly Like an Eagle – Steve Miller Band 45
In the Flesh – Blondie 45