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The Official Singles Chart – The Seventies
£19.00
The Official Singles Charts: The Seventies is an essential gathering together of all the UK’s Official charts, week-by-week, as full Top 75s, chronicling the shifting fashions and trends of that most memorable of decades. That means more than 500 weeks of singles charts. These are the charts recognised by the music industry as their official rundowns (as curated today by the Official Charts Company – and made available at OfficialCharts.com). This means the charts broadcast by BBC Radio 1 and Top Of The Pops, and published by music industry magazine Music Week. This is the first time these Top 75s have been gathered together in the same place in a printed volume and is the first in a series of books which, over the coming months, will make up a collection of volumes spanning every week of the UK’s Official singles and albums charts from 1952 to the present day.Published at the same time as this title is the companion volume, The Official Albums Charts: The Seventies. The additional volumes on the rest of the UK’s great chart decades are coming your way very soon.
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Additional information
| Publisher | Independently published (14 Oct. 2019) |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Paperback | 317 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 1790557143 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1790557141 |
| Dimensions | 21.59 x 1.83 x 27.94 cm |
by Flylegs
Some great stuff here.
by FR PHIL HUGHES
My favourite 1970`s group was The New Seekers.
For their1972/ 1973 hit “Come Softly To Me”, the book
correctly gives Marty Kristian his credit:
The New Seekers Featuring Marty Kristian.
Likewise Eve Graham gets her credit for “Nevertheless” (1973)
Eve Graham And The New Seekers.
I humbly point out to Graham Betts:
No credit for Lyn Paul
on the UK No1 single
“You Won`t Find Another Fool Like Me”
and the follow up UK Top 5 single
“I Get A little Sentimental Over You”
The record label for both New Seekers hits
states: The New Seekers Featuring Lyn Paul.
In the companion Hits Book, they all get their
credits on page 199.
For a Lyn Paul fan this is a big deal,
and such a shame to have not mentioned
the fact! Please include in any future revisions!!!
by Antony May
Unlike one of my fellow reviewers here, I think the fact that this book concentrates solely on the charts from the 1970’s is what makes it appealing.
Sure, other previously published books have ‘covered more ground’ but the downside of that often being that they have limited their content to say the top 40 or 50 chart placings – either that or they have not printed every individual chart in its entirety.
‘The Official Singles Chart – The Seventies’ however is a book that dedicates a page to each week’s singles chart from the 1970’s. This might be seen as ‘wasteful’ to some but to me it allows me to use the book for reference much more easily. If I want to find out what was in the charts on any given day of the year I can do so with ease – not have to ‘decipher’ charts that have been collated to show 4 weeks of chart movements in order to save space as in other publications.
Not only have I found this feature useful when thinking about putting the occasional radio show together ( I do hospital radio sometimes) It has also provided me with a fun book to ‘dip in and out of’. One of the things this book has gotten me interested in for example being seeking out hits I either do not know/have never heard before or had completely forgotten! It’s amazing how many of the hits in the lower reaches (and occasionally higher) of the charts have now been long forgotten and never now get played on the radio! I have discovered quite a few ‘new’ 70’s hits to now try and obtain on CD from flicking through this book and seeing as I pretty much hate the modern world buying this book has been somewhat thearputic for me.
Outside of the charts themselves there isn’t really much to actually read here and the overall quality of the pages and printing isn’t marvellous (hence the dropped star). What reading there is though is interesting and does provide an insight into the history of the U.K. singles chart but in honestly the main appeal of this book is the charts themselves and the simple and straight-forward way that they are presented.
While I feel the book is a little over-priced for what it is I am glad that I bought it and will almost certainly try and add some of the other volumes in this series to my collection at a later stage.
by Lee
At 59, sitting at the kitchen table with a bottle of wine and Alexa, it’s the perfect way to pass several hours of 70’s self indulgence. ( most nights to be honest !)
Well written and well laid out, it’s a must for anyone with one foot ( or even feet ) in the memories of our school days, YMCA Hall Discos, Choppers, Skate boarding and 50cc Mopeds.
by john fell
Really enjoy this book for Reference and making my own playlists from individual weeks.
Only complaint which is very pedantic. is it would be nice if peak positions were highlighted.
by Andrew e.
DJs dream
by Alan Clements
All the Singles Charts from the 2nd best decade in pop. Glam, Punk, Disco are all here!
by Darren Woods
Within minutes this book was well thumbed through. Finding some tunes I had long forgotten and finding out what kept my favourites off the top spot. Great for music quizzers and those interested in nostalgia