OH SHERRIE – STEVE PERRY

Chart performance:

Week	Position	Movement	Comments
27-Jul-84	29	New
03-Aug-84	27	+2
10-Aug-84	25	+2
17-Aug-84	22	+3
24-Aug-84	20	+2
31-Aug-84	17	+3
07-Sep-84	15	+2
14-Sep-84	10	+5	Star rater
21-Sep-84	6	+4	Star rater/Peak
28-Sep-84	6	0	Peak
05-Oct-84	10	-4
12-Oct-84	10	0
19-Oct-84	13	-3
26-Oct-84	14	-1
02-Nov-84	15	-1
09-Nov-84	17	-2
16-Nov-84	24	-7	Biggest faller
23-Nov-84	30	-6	Biggest faller

Written by: Steve Perry, Randy Goodrum, Craig Krampf & Bill Cuomo
Produced by: Steve Perry & Bruce Botnick
South African record label (unless otherwise stated): CBS

Hit number for artist	1
Peak position	6
Weeks	18
Biggest climber awards	0
Star rater climbs	2
Biggest faller awards	2
Top 20 points	99
Overall Top 20 points ranking	=1118
Top 20 points ranking for the artist	1
Top 30 Points	248
Overall Top 30 points ranking	=921
Top 30 points ranking for the artist	1

Annual ranking:

1984

42

Other chart success:

Australia	5
Canada	1
Germany	50
New Zealand	8
UK	89
US	3
Zimbabwe	1

SA Radio charts:

Radio 702

2

Craig Krampf and Bill Cuomo, who co-wrote the song, had both played on Kim Carnes’ ‘Bette Davis Eyes’. ‘Oh Sherrie’ was Steve Perry’s first solo single and the album from which it came, ‘Street Talk’, was released while Perry was still a member of Journey. It would accumulate more top 20 points than the 2 Journey hits that made our charts put together (99 points vs 82 with ‘Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)’ getting 73 and ‘Wheel In The Sky’ managing 9).

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Artist link: Steve Perry

STEVE PERRY (US)

Born: 22 January 1949
Full name: Stephen Ray Perry

Perry was born in Hanford, California, a city about 50kms south of Fresno. His parents came from the Azores region in Portugal. His father co-owned a local radio station and was a singer. When he was 12, Perry heard Sam Cooke’s ‘Cupid’ on the radio and this inspired him to become a singer. In his early 20’s he moved to Sacramento where he formed the band Ice with Scott Matthews. Matthews would go on to become a producer, working with acts such as Mick Jagger and Barbra Streisand. Ice recorded several tracks during the day in a studio that was being used at night time by Stevie Wonder to record his ‘Talking Book’ album. The Ice recordings did nothing and they disbanded. Perry then he fronted a band called Alien Project and nearly quit the music world when a band mate was killed in a car crash. However, his mother encouraged him to answer a call from Walter Herbert who was managing a struggling band called Journey. Perry would end up joining the band and would see a very successful career as lead singer of the band. His firs hit outside of Journey was a duet with Kenny Loggins, ‘Don’t Fight It’ which made it to 17 in the US. In 1984 he released a solo album and would see his all-time best showing on the Hot 100 singles charts with ‘Oh Sherrie’ which peaked at 3. He would see a total of 7 solo/duet hits on the Hot 100. ‘Oh Sherrie’ would be his only UK chart showing where it peaked at 89.

Date of entry	Song	Peak (weeks at 1)	Weeks
27-Jul-1984	Oh Sherrie	6	18
		Total hits	1
		Total weeks	18

Biggest climber awards	0
Star rater climbs	2
Biggest fallers	2
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	682
Top 20 points ranking	=733
Top 30 points	248
Top 20 points	99

Hits as a member of Journey:

Date of entry	Song	Peak (weeks at 1)	Weeks
03-Nov-1978	Wheel in The Sky	12	13
27-May-1983	Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)	17	7
		Total hits	2
		Total weeks	20

Total chart involvement:

Number of hits	3
Weeks	38