Found some disco era RECORD WORLDs

[remicks]

:D :D :D

--- At long last .... I’ve come upon a short stack of RECORD WORLD magazines (15 ) and they span the years 1974- 1979. ( One has MECO on its cover )

They're sealed in plastic and I haven't yet taken them out to look through them except the only one that's from 1976. The magazine seems much more chatty than Billboard .... has more interviews & more celebrity/artist focus.
This November 13, 1976 issue features several pages about Quincy Jones ..... with a long interview with him as well as a tie-in one with the Bros. Johnson.

Their disco column ( DISCO FILE ) is pretty lengthy. The disco page has the DISCO FILE TOP 20 (20 titles only ) . But it also lists four play lists from four different clubs.

This particular issue features two clubs , LA MARIPOSA and CHARLES GALLERY in NYC ... as well as the CRICKET CLUB in Miami ... and the LOST AND FOUND in Washington DC .

BTW ..... They name the DJs , and the one who's list is shown from the MARIPOSA, is .John Benitez!! 8)


Oh ... and check this out Marky ...... the chart 's ranking has :
SOUR AND SWEET /CHERCHEZ LE FEMME @ #6 .... and I'LL PLAY THE FOOL at #19!
Also Stevie Wonder's ANOTHER STAR is @ #4 and BLACK MAN / SIR DUKE/ I WISH are at #18 ....

......yep! ----- split rankings !! :D

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[markydefad]

remicks,

you sly puss---I know that's the way Record World did it--I can see the listings in Joel Whitburn's book. They ususally split the first single and list it separately and occasionally bundled several LP tracks together--or might list them separately as well.

I've been checking the rankings on Record World of the stuff I'm listing--this has led me to not want to bundle evey title from an LP at the same ranking as the obvious hit. Record World only charted "This is It" by Melba Moore--none of the other titles made the cut. They rank Donna's Try Me I Know I Can Make It as #1--Could It Be Magic peaks at #4. Then I think there is a separate listing for Wasted & Come With Mepeaking at #7....it gets very complicated.

But Record World tried to maintain the single title per ranking in it's lists--which I admire cause it feels like the traditional pop chart ....

Billboard lists the #1 record of 1977 as....

ANY WAY YOU LIKE IT / DON'T LEAVE ME THIS WAY - Thelma Houston ....

Now which was REALLY the #1 record? :roll:

Whitburn rightly reverses the order in his book...but Billboard sloppily didn't. Their year-end list for 1976 and 1977 are both really sloppy and haphazardly thrown together. The list for 1976 doesn't seem to include anything released after July.....it's odd but 75% of that list has already charted as of May, 1976 or so it seems... :o :o :o I think I can do better...we'll see.

I want a definitive list--free of the tagalong titles--but that's gonna get harder as we get the Billboard bundling gets more intense as the national chart is printed. It is a bundling nightmare and I'm afraid it's gonna be real hard to do it any other way...but I'm exploring options...I'm gonna check their stats real closely..... :P :P :P

[remicks]

remicks,

you sly puss---I know that's the way Record World did it--I can see the listinngs in Joel Whitburn's book.

:P

Gosh, I wasn't trying to be a sly puss :oops: :roll: :roll: :roll:

.................................................. ......................................this time !!! :P

Believe it or not I haven't seen the Joel Whitburn Disco Book :(
( how come no one knows what I really want for Christmas ! :P

So it shows each week's complete charts ... (?) ..... 8) 8)



I'll post some of the good stuff I find in these RECORD WORLD magazines :D

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Here's John Benitez' personal playlist for 11/13/ 76 :

Alphabetically :


ANOTHER STAR/ SIR DUKE/ BLACK MAN --- Stevie Wonder
CAR WASH --- Rose Royce
DANCIN'/ SEXY WAYS/ SEARCHIN' FOR LOVE --- Crown Heights Affair
DOING THE FEELING --- Alvin Cash ....... (?)
I BELIEVE IN LOVE --- Rock Gazers ......(?)
I'VE LEARNED FROM MY BURNS/ SPIDER'S WEB/ DON'T KNOW WHAT' S ON YOUR MIND --- Spiders Web
NO, NO, NO MY FRIEND --- Devoshun ....... (?)
SPRING AFFAIR/ SUMMER FEVER --- Donna Summer
TRIED , TESTED AND FOUND TRUE --- Ashford & Simpson .....(?)
WELCOME TO OUR WORLD/ I LIKE TO DANCE --- Mass Production

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[markydefad]

="remicks

Believe it or not I haven't seen the Joel Whitburn Disco Book :(
( how come no one knows what I really want for Christmas ! :P

So it shows each week's complete charts ... (?) ..... 8) 8)

No, it just shows the peak position, # of weeks charted and date it first charted--Whitburn uses the Record World chart til the Billboard National chart is published in the first week on Sept. 1976. It's limited to just 20 positions--so lotsa titles are left out and Record World usually didn't bundle titles . The column by Vince Aletti (sp?) is much more comprehensive than Moulton's, however. I've only obtained the beginning stuff from around Nov. 1974- March 1975 that shootyourshot sent me. Since I've already covered this era in the charts...I haven't typed any of it--but maybe someday.