1979 in Music - Other Significant Singles

Other Significant Singles

• "Accidents Will Happen" – Elvis Costello and the Attractions
• "After the Love Has Gone" – Earth, Wind & Fire
• "Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now" – McFadden & Whitehead
• "Ambition" – Vic Godard and Subway Sect
• "Angel Eyes" – Roxy Music
• "Angeleyes" – ABBA
• "Baby, I Love You" – Ramones
• "Babylon's Burning" – The Ruts
• "Bad Case of Loving You (Doctor, Doctor)" – Robert Palmer
• "The Ballad of Lucy Jordan" – Marianne Faithfull
• "Bang Bang" – B. A. Robertson
• "Bat Out of Hell" – Meat Loaf
• "Bela Lugosi's Dead" – Bauhaus
• "Big Shot" – Billy Joel
• "Boogie Wonderland" – Earth, Wind & Fire with the Emotions
• "(Boogie Woogie) Dancin' Shoes" – Claudja Barry
• "Born to Be Alive" – Patrick Hernandez
• "Boys Don't Cry" – The Cure
• "Boys Keep Swinging" – David Bowie
• "Breakfast at Sweethearts" – Cold Chisel
• "Breakfast in America" – Supertramp
• "Bright Side of the Road" – Van Morrison
• "Broken Hearted Me" – Anne Murray
• "California Über Alles" – The Dead Kennedys
• "Can You Feel the Force" – The Real Thing
• "Can You Read My Mind" – Maureen McGovern
• "Can't Stand Losing You" – The Police
• "Casanova" – Luv'
• "Chiquitita" – ABBA
• "Come to Me" – France Joli
• "Comfortably Numb" – Pink Floyd
• "Contact" – Edwin Starr
• "Cool For Cats" – Squeeze
• "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" – Queen
• "Cruel to Be Kind" – Nick Lowe
• "Dance Away" – Roxy Music
• "Dancing Barefoot" – Patti Smith Group
• "Dance the Night Away" – Van Halen
• "Death Disco" – Public Image Ltd.
• "Deeper Than the Night" – Olivia Newton-John
• "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" – Charlie Daniels Band
• "Dim All the Lights" – Donna Summer
• "Disco Nights" – GQ
• "Do Anything You Want To" – Thin Lizzy
• "Do That to Me One More Time" – Captain & Tennille
• "Do You Think I'm Disco?" – Steve Dahl & Teenage Radiation
• "Does Your Mother Know" – ABBA
• "Don't Bring Me Down" – Electric Light Orchestra
• "Don't Cry Out Loud" – Melissa Manchester
• "Don't Do Me Like That" – Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
• "Don't Throw Stones" – The Sports
• "Dreaming" – Blondie
• "Driver's Seat" – Sniff 'n' the Tears
• "Dschinghis Khan" – Dschinghis Khan
• "Duchess" – The Stranglers
• "Electricity" – OMD
• "The Eton Rifles" – The Jam
• "Even the Losers" – Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
• "Every Day Hurts" – Sad Café
• "Everybody's Happy Nowadays" – Buzzcocks
• "Fire" – The Pointer Sisters
• "Freedom's Prisoner" – Steve Harley
• "The Gambler" – Kenny Rogers
• "Gangsters" – The Special AKA
• "Get Over You" – The Undertones
• "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)" – ABBA
• "Girls Talk" – Dave Edmunds
• "Go West" – Village People
• "Good Times Roll" – The Cars
• "Gonna Get Along Without You Now" – Viola Wills
• "Good Girls Don't" – The Knack
• "Goodbye Stranger" – Supertramp
• "Green Light" – Cliff Richard
• "Half The Way" – Crystal Gayle
• "Hallelujah" – Milk and Honey featuring Gali Atari
• "H.A.P.P.Y. Radio" – Edwin Starr
• "Harmony In My Head" – Buzzcocks
• "He Must Have Been Eighteen" – Dalida
• "He's the Greatest Dancer" – Sister Sledge
• "Heart of the Night" – Poco
• "Heaven Knows" – Donna Summer w/Brooklyn Dreams
• "Helwa Ya Baladi" – Dalida
• "Here Comes the Summer" – The Undertones
• "Highway Song" – Blackfoot
• "Highway to Hell" – AC/DC
• "99" – Toto
• "Honesty" – Billy Joel
• "Hot Shot" – Cliff Richard
• "(If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want to Be Right" – Barbara Mandrell
• "I Have a Dream" – ABBA
• "I Just Fall in Love Again" – Anne Murray (the #1 US Country hit of the year)
• "I Wanna Be Sedated" – Ramones
• "I Want You To Want Me (live)" – Cheap Trick
• "I Want Your Love" – Chic
• "I Was Made For Lovin' You" – Kiss
• "If I Said You Had a Beautiful Body Would You Hold It Against Me" – The Bellamy Brothers
• "If You Remember Me" – Chris Thompson
• "Il faut danser reggae" – Dalida
• "I'll Never Love This Way Again" – Dionne Warwick
• "In the Navy" – Village People
• "In A Rut" – The Ruts
• "Into the Valley" – The Skids
• "Is It Love You're After?" – Rose Royce
• "Is She Really Going Out with Him?" – Joe Jackson
• "Japanese Girls" – Riff Regan
• "Jimmy Jimmy" – The Undertones
• "Jumping Someone Else's Train" – The Cure
• "Just the Way You Are" – Barry White
• "Just What I Needed" – The Cars
• "Just When I Needed You Most" – Randy VanWarmer
• "Kid" – The Pretenders
• "Lady Writer" – Dire Straits
• "Lady" – Little River Band
• "Lay Your Love on Me" – Racey
• "Lead Me On" – Maxine Nightingale
• "Let Me Dance Tonight" – Dalida
• "Let's Go" – The Cars
• "A Little Lovin' (Keeps the Doctor Away)" – The Raes
• "Living On The Front Line" – Eddy Grant
• "The Logical Song" – Supertramp
• "London Calling" – The Clash
• "Lonesome Loser" – Little River Band
• "The Long Run" – Eagles
• "Lotta Love" – Nicolette Larson
• "Love Don't Live Here Anymore" – Morrissey-Mullen
• "Love Drive" – Scorpions
• "Love's Gotta Hold on Me" – Dollar
• "Love Song" – The Damned
• "Lucky Number" – Lene Lovich
• "The Main Event/Fight" – Barbra Streisand
• "Mama Can't Buy You Love" - Elton John
• "Making Plans for Nigel" – XTC
• "Memory Lane" – Minnie Riperton
• "A Message to You, Rudy/Nite Klub" – The Specials
• "Milk and Alcohol" – Dr. Feelgood
• "Monday, Tuesday... Laissez-moi danser" – Dalida
• "Morning Dance" – Spyro Gyra
• "Moskau" – Dschinghis Khan
• "Music Box Dancer" – Frank Mills
• "My Forbidden Lover" – Chic
• "My Girl" – Madness
• "My Life" – Billy Joel
• "Nervous System" – Killing Joke
• "No time to Lose" – Tarney Spencer Band
• "Oliver's Army" – Elvis Costello and the Attractions
• "On My Radio" – The Selecter
• "One Step Beyond" – Madness
• "One Way or Another" – Blondie
• "One Way Ticket" – Eruption
• "Ooh Baby Baby" – Linda Ronstadt
• "Ooh, Yes I Do" – Luv'
• "Parisienne Walkways" – Gary Moore
• "Playground Twist" – Siouxsie and the Banshees
• "Please Don't Go" – KC & The Sunshine Band
• "The Prince" – Madness
• "Promises" – Eric Clapton
• "Queen of Hearts" – Dave Edmunds
• "Rapper's Delight" – The Sugarhill Gang
• "Reasons to Be Cheerful (Part 3)" – Ian Dury & the Blockheads
• "Refugee" – Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
• "Rock With You" – Michael Jackson
• "Rodrigo's Guitar Concerto" – The Shadows
• "Roll Over Beethoven (EP)" – Chuck Berry
• "Roxanne" – The Police
• "Run Like Hell – Pink Floyd
• "Sad Eyes" – Robert John
• "Sail On" – Commodores
• "Shake Your Body (Down to the Ground)" – The Jacksons
• "Shake Your Groove Thing" – Peaches & Herb
• "Shape I'm In" – Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons
• "Sharing The Night Together" – Dr. Hook
• "She Believes In Me" – Kenny Rogers
• "Shine a Little Love – Electric Light Orchestra
• "Ships" – Barry Manilow
• "Shooting Star" – Dollar
• "Silly Games" – Janet Kay
• "Since I Don't Have You" – Art Garfunkel
• "Since You Been Gone" – Rainbow
• "Slap and Tickle" – Squeeze
• "Smash It Up" – The Damned
• "Some Girls" – Racey
• "Somethin' Else"/"Friggin' in the Riggin'" – Sex Pistols
• "Somewhere in the Night" – Barry Manilow
• "Song on the Radio" – Al Stewart
• "Sooner Or Later" – Dixon House Band
• "Spiral Scratch (EP)" – Buzzcocks
• "Stop Your Sobbing" – Pretenders
• "Strange Town" – The Jam
• "Street Life" – The Crusaders w/Randy Crawford
• "Stumblin' In" – Suzi Quatro & Chris Norman
• "Sultans of Swing" – Dire Straits (released in 1978)
• "Life During Wartime (song)" – Talking Heads
• "Take On the World" – Judas Priest
• "Take The Long Way Home – Supertramp
• "Talking In Your Sleep" – Crystal Gayle
• "Tears of a Clown"/"Ranking Full Stop" – The Beat
• "The Cost of Living (EP)" – The Clash
• "The Diary of Horace Wimp" – Electric Light Orchestra
• "The Sound of the Suburbs" – The Members
• "The Staircase (Mystery)" – Siouxsie and the Banshees
• "Theme from the Deerhunter (Cavatina)" – The Shadows
• "This Night Won't Last Forever" – Michael Johnson
• "Time for Action" – Secret Affair
• "Time Passages" – Al Stewart
• "Train, Train" – Blackfoot
• "Transmission" – Joy Division
• "Turn to Red" – Killing Joke
• "Union City Blue" – Blondie
• "Up the Junction" – Squeeze
• "Voulez-Vous" – ABBA
• "Waiting for an Alibi" – Thin Lizzy
• "Wanted" – The Dooleys
• "We Are Family" – Sister Sledge
• "We Don't Talk Anymore" – Cliff Richard
• "Whatever You Want" – Status Quo
• "When You're Young" – The Jam
• "Who Were You With in the Moonlight" – Dollar
• "Wonderful Christmastime" – Paul McCartney
• "Y.M.C.A" – Village People
• "You Decorated My Life" – Kenny Rogers
• "You Needed Me" – Anne Murray (in the UK; hit #1 in the US in 1978)
• "You Take My Breath Away" – Rex Smith
• "You're Only Lonely" – J. D. Souther
• "You've Got My Number (Why Don't You Use It?)" – The Undertones