18 March 1983

TW	LW	Weeks	Song		Artist
1	1	15	I Don’t Wanna Dance	–	Eddy Grant
2	4	7	Talk Talk	–	Talk Talk
3	3	7	Maneater	–	Hall & Oates
4	2	20	Words	–	F.R. David
5	8	6	Mad World	–	Tears for Fears
6	7	10	Vyfster	–	Lloyd Ross
7	5	12	Ooh La, La, La (Let’s Go Dancin’)	–	Kool & The Gang
8	11	5	Feel so Strong	–	Steve Kekana and PJ Powers with Hotline
9	6	14	Heartbreaker	–	Dionne Warwick
10	17	2	Up Where We Belong	–	Joe Cocker & Jennifer Warnes
11	15	7	Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?	–	Culture Club
12	10	11	Zoom	–	Fat Larry’s Band
13	14	5	Everybody Wants You	–	Billy Squier
14	16	4	Jack and Diane	–	John Cougar
15	9	14	The Girl is Mine	–	Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson
16	19	2	Dirty Laundry	–	Don Henley
17	12	13	Pass the Dutchie	–	Musical Youth
18	18	4	Africa	–	Toto
19	New	1	You Can’t Hurry Love	–	Phil Collins
20	13	16	Don’t Go	–	Yazoo

Bubbling under:

Saddle Up	–	David Christie
The Other Side Of Love	–	Yazoo
A Winter’s Tale	–	David Essex
Was Ek Maar ‘n Digter	–	Kupido
Johnny Be Good	–	Men At Work
Living On The Ceiling	–	Blancmange
Shame On The Moon	–	Bob Seger

Eddy Grant’s ‘I Don’t Wanna Dance’ became the 16^th song to clock up at least 8 weeks at 1 as it held on to the top spot, but for the first week since it took over at the top of the charts, it did not have F.R. David’s ‘Words’ at number 2 as the latter, which had occupied the number 2 spot since conceding the top spot to Eddy Grant’s hit, dropped to 4 allowing Talk Talk’s ‘Talk Talk’ to move up from 4 to 2.

Last week a local collaboration (between Hotline, P.J. Powers and Steve Kekana) took the climber award. This week it was another collaboration that took the award, but it was a duet between a Brit and an American as Joe Cocker & Jennifer Warnes’ ‘Up Where We Belong’ climbed 7 from 17 to 10 to scoop up the award. There was 1 other star rater and that was Culture Club’s ‘Do You really Want To Hurt Me’ which moved up 4 from 15 to11.

Yazoo’s ‘Don’t Go’ was the faller of the week with a 7 place drop from 13 to 20. It was their first time with the award.

F.R. David’s ‘Words’ became the 60^th song to spend at least 20 weeks in the charts. It was the oldest in the top 20 and had now been so for 7 weeks. The song had amassed 342 points and that moved it into the top 20 for all time top points. It now sat 16^th overall.

The Belle Stars’ ‘The Clapping Song’ was the only song to depart the chart this week. It had been with us for 16 weeks and had peaked at 2, sitting there for 3 weeks while F.R. David’s ‘Words’ occupied the top spot. This would be their only SA chart hit. In the UK they would have 8 hits chart, the best performing of those would be ‘Sign Of The Times’ which got to number 3.

The new entry was last week’s official bubble, Phil Collins’ ‘You Can’t Hurry Love’ and it was his 2^nd to make the charts (his previous one being ‘In the Air Tonight’). The song was a cover of a 1966 hit for the Supremes which had topped the US charts. Collins’ version would get to the top of the charts in Belgium, The Netherlands, Ireland and the UK where it spent 2 weeks at 1 before being ousted by Men At Work’s ‘Down Under’. ‘You Can’t Hurry Love’ was the opening track on the very first ‘Now That’s What I Call Music’ compilation in the UK (in SA the series of the same name would have different track listings). It would be very successful on the local radio charts, topping the Capital 604 and Radio 702 ones and just missing out on the Radio 5 ones, peaking at 2 (behind Supertramp’s ‘My Kinda Lady’).

This week we saw the groups’ number of hits in the top 20 drop below 10 for the first time in 11 weeks. The groups had seen 10 or more in the charts on 509 occasions, which was just under 55% of the time.

The arrival of ‘You Can’t Hurry Love’ onto the charts meant we now had 8 songs in the top 20 that had topped the US and/or UK charts. The previous time this count was this high was back on 18 January 1982, 63 weeks earlier.

The Official Bubble this week was David Christie’s ‘Saddle Up’.

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