WHY DON’T WE SPEND THE NIGHT – JOE FAGIN

Chart performance:

Week	Position	Movement	Comments
01-Jun-84	29	New
08-Jun-84	27	+2
15-Jun-84	23	+4	Star rater
22-Jun-84	22	+1
29-Jun-84	20	+2
06-Jul-84	18	+2
13-Jul-84	16	+2
20-Jul-84	16	0
27-Jul-84	14	+2
03-Aug-84	13	+1
10-Aug-84	10	+3	Peak
17-Aug-84	11	-1
24-Aug-84	13	-2
31-Aug-84	12	+1
07-Sep-84	12	0
14-Sep-84	17	-5
21-Sep-84	19	-2
28-Sep-84	23	-4

Written by: Bob McDill
Produced by: David MacKay
South African record label (unless otherwise stated): Transistor

Hit number for artist	1
Peak position	10
Weeks	18
Biggest climber awards	0
Star rater climbs	1
Biggest faller awards	0
Top 20 points	82
Overall Top 20 points ranking	=1257
Top 20 points ranking for the artist	1
Top 30 Points	243
Overall Top 30 points ranking	=943
Top 30 points ranking for the artist	1

Annual ranking:

1984

44

Other chart success:

Sweden	6
UK	82

SA Radio charts:

Radio 5

2

The song was first recorded by Ronnie Milsap (and released a month before Fagin recorded his version) and that version would top the US Country Singles charts. It would also be recorded by Frankie Miller. Songwriter, Bob McDill, also wrote Don Williams’ hit ‘I Recall A Gypsy Woman’. Fagin’s version would be the last of 10 hits produced by David MacKay to chart. MacKay produced 3 hits each for Bonnie Tyler and The New Seekers as well as hits for The Spencer Davis Group, The Mixtures and Frankie Miller. ‘Why Don’t You Spend The Night’ would rank 5^th out of the 10 hits using a top 30 points basis.

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Artist link: Joe Fagin

JOE FAGIN (UK)

Born: January 1940
Died 5 September 2023

Before his solo career, Joe was in a band called Brown’s Home Brew which was put together by Joe Brown and his wife Vicki (as an aside, Vicki was in a group called The Vernons Girl alongside Kim Wilde’s mother, Joyce Baker). The band produced a couple of albums in the early 70’s. Almost a decade later, Fagin saw his first solo hit as ‘Younger Days’ went to 80 in the US. It would be his only Hot 100 hit. A year later he cracked the UK charts with ‘Breaking Away’ which made it to 77. His second hit was ‘That’s Livin’ Alright’ which was taken from the BBC TV comedy ‘Auf Wiedersehen Pet’ and would give him his only top 10 hit as it went to 3. He would see 2 further UK chart hits, but neither made the top 50 of the charts.

Date of entry	Song	Peak (weeks at 1)	Weeks
01-Jun-1984	Why Don’t We Spend The Night	10	18
		Total hits	1
		Total weeks	18

Biggest climber awards	0
Star rater climbs	1
Biggest fallers	0
Weeks with oldest in the charts	0
Longest run in the charts (weeks)	18
Weeks with more than 1 in the charts	0
Biggest gap between hits (weeks)	0
Top 30 points ranking	=689
Top 20 points ranking	=783
Top 30 points	243
Top 20 points	82