BBC Radio 1 - Top 40 (17-Dec-1978) (*almost FULL SHOW!)

*YouTube's automatic music copyright sensor means I've had to edit out the following tracks in order to upload the rest of the show:
No 31: Chaka Khan - I'm Every Woman
No 29: Dan Hartman - Instant Replay
No 10: Blondie - Hanging on the Telephone
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In addition, No 20: The Clash - Tommy Gun is incomplete because I had to turn my C-120 cassette over to capture the 2nd hour of the show!
I know I'm going to really disappoint some people when I come clean and tell you that this is the last of my regular recordings of the Sunday evening Chart Show. Apart from a few odds and ends that will follow this upload very soon, this - I'm afraid - is it!

I know... some of you will find it inexplicable that I didn't keep taping into 1979 and beyond... sorry!
So, please make the most of it :)

Christmas is coming... it's pitch black outside... it's Simon Bates' birthday... the chart is full of seasonal goodies... the show includes plenty of Radio 1 Christmas jingles to get you in the festive mood... and it's all in super stereo on VHF! Mince pie anyone?
*The Official Charts Company wrongly lists this chart as representing: 10 December 1978 - 16 December 1978:
https://www.officialcharts.com/charts/uk-top-40-singles-chart/19781210/750140/

This is because the Official Charts data doesn't take into account that the chart was published every TUESDAY (not on Sundays) during the 1970s. In fact, new charts were not announced on a Sunday until 1987: https://thechartshows.fandom.com/wiki/Chart_Show_Presenters

This programme was captured on a TDK D C-120 on my Akai GXC-40T stereo cassette-receiver.

Check out the other programmes in my Radio 1 Chart Show 1977/78 playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDDqWXrHliew7joSaOS8QwUsAebYS51mp

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Видео BBC Radio 1 - Top 40 (17-Dec-1978) (*almost FULL SHOW!) канала RetroRadioUK