In complete contrast to the depressing stuff from Jarvis & Co the other day*, let's relax a wee bit today with some disposable fluff that got to #1 in May 1979:-mp3 : Blondie - Sunday Girl
mp3 : Blondie - Sunday Girl (French Version)
mp3 : Blondie - I Know But I Don't Know
This was the band's second successive #1 in the UK, coming just a few months after Heart Of Glass. They didn't get the hat-trick however, as the next release, Dreaming stalled at #2 some 17 months later.
But Blondie would go on to enjoy another three #1 hits in 1980, making them, without question, the most commercially successful band of the era.
And with the unexpected success of Maria, they would also go on to have a sixth song reach #1 in 1999. But they are running out of time now if they want to try and have a fourth successive decade with a song that hits the top.....there's on;y a matter of weeks left now.
NB : * before the problems with Filden, the posting on This Is Hardcore was scheduled to appear the day before Sunday Girl......
8 comments:
Ah, Deborah Harry.
I don't agree with you about it being disposable fluff.
Dreaming and Union City Blues are my favourites.
Ah, Deborah Harry.
'Disposable fluff' ?? I think you mean 'one of the best pop records ever made'...x
I don't think Blondie recorded any disposable fluff, not on their first four LPs anyway.
Britney is disposable fluff; Blondie is keepable fluff!
A joy to read, thank you kind sir.
I have a gig of theirs dating to early '77 which may well change your mind, were I ever to get round to putting it on my blog. Let me know if you'd like me to.
I've waxed lyrically in past posings about my love for Deborah and he boys in Blondie. Given I've featured 'Heart Of Glass' elsewhere in the Class of '79 series, the band are the first to be given the nonour of a second appearance on a Sunday in 2009.
But I just am not fond at all of Sunday Girl...there were much better songs on 'Parallel Lines' that were more worthy contenders for singles.
Oh and Adam....yes to your question.
this is the only record my intended owns. and she didn't have a record player neither.
x
NEVER forget that Blondie is truly NYC Punk. And Deborah Harry is it's Goddess! I first saw them at 13 when I snuck into CBGB's and along with Talking Heads, Television and The Ramones, their music changed my life!
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