21 August 1981

WEEK REF	LW	Weeks	Song		Artist
1	2	10	Bette Davis Eyes	–	Kim Carnes
2	1	10	Kids in America	–	Kim Wilde
3	4	8	Stand and Deliver	–	Adam & The Ants
4	3	11	More and More	–	Joe Dolan
5	7	4	Chequered Love	–	Kim Wilde
6	5	7	Louise (We Get It Right)	–	Jona Lewie
7	8	4	For Your Eyes Only	–	Sheena Easton
8	6	7	Hands Up (Give Me Your Heart)	–	Ottawan
9	10	5	Tequila Sheila	–	Mac Davis
10	9	9	Nightmare	–	Peach
11	14	2	Chariots of Fire (Titles)	–	Vangelis
12	19	3	Hak Hom Blokkies	–	David Kramer
13	18	3	Being with You	–	Smokey Robinson
14	New	1	It’s Hard to be Humble	–	Mac Davis
15	17	3	One Day in Your Life	–	Michael Jackson
16	16	6	How I Feel Inside	–	Roy Bulkin
17	15	6	Hey You	–	Hey You
18	20	2	Distant Love	–	Maywood
19	11	9	When I’m Gone	–	Albert Hammond
20	12	13	Do You Feel My Love	–	Eddy Grant

Bubbling under (thanks to Kevin Farquhason for the info):

Santana	Winning (official bubble)
REO Speedwagon	Take It On The Run
Shakin’ Stevens	You Drive Me Crazy
Maria Tyl	Blue Eyes Crying In Rain
Ray Parker Jr. & Raydio	A Woman Needs Love (Just Like You Do)
Sandy Coast	The Eyes Of Jenny

Kim Wilde’s ‘Kids In America’ only lasted 1 week at the top of the charts as this week Kim Carnes’ ‘Bette Davis Eyes’ recaptured the number 1 spot. This was the 9^th time a solo woman had taken over the top spot from another solo woman and it gave us the 20^th week overall and a record equalling 4^th consecutive week with the top 2 songs being by solo women. Kim Wilde’s other hit, ‘Chequered Love’ moved into the top 5 from 7 last week and she became the 8^th act and the first woman to have 2 hits in the top 5 in the same week. The previous acts to manage this were Chris Andrews, The Hollies, Four Jacks & A Jill, The Sweet, Wings, Pussycat and The Bee Gees with The Bee Gees being the only act to manage 3 in the top 5.

David Kramer’s ‘Hak Hom Blokkies’ took the climber of the week award with a 7 place jump from 19 to 12. Kramer was the first local solo male act to take the award since Anton Goosen managed it with ‘Kruidjie-Roer-My-Nie’ in the May of 1979. The only other star rater this week was Smokey Robinson’s ‘Being With You’ which moved up 5 from 18 to 13.

Having waited 47 weeks before getting his first biggest faller award, Albert Hammond now made it 2 in 2 weeks as ‘When I’m Gone’ took the award again with an 8 place drop from 11 to 19. It shared the award with Eddy Grant’s ‘Do You Feel My Love’ which dropped from 12 to 20. ‘Do You Feel My Love’ was the oldest on the charts, enjoying its 13^th week with us and its 4^th as the oldest.

There was only 1 song leaving the charts this week and this was Phil Collins’ ‘In The Air Tonight’ which managed a run of 11 weeks and peaked at 2. There would be more to come from the Genesis drummer both as part of the group and as a solo artist.

The new entry was ‘It’s Hard To be Humble’, Mac Davis’ 2^nd hit as an artist (he had seen success as a song writer too). Davis’ previous hit, ‘Tequila Sheila’ was still in the charts (at number 9) and he became the 70^th act to see 2 or more hits in the chart in the same week. ‘It’s Hard To be Humble’ was written by Davis, giving him his 4^th hit as a song writer, and it would go to number 43 on the US Hot 100 chart. It would also go to 9 in Australia, 14 in Canada and 3 in New Zealand. All this chart action was in 1980 and in that same year a band called Stout took a cover to 18 in Ireland and 27 in the UK.

Both Adam & The Ants and Peach celebrated reaching the 20 weeks in the charts milestone while Joe Dolan became the 15^th act to reach a century of weeks. He was the 3^rd act from the non-big 3 nations to make this landmark total with Sweden’s Abba on 224 and Boney M (who could be Jamaican or German) on 108 above him.

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