Wigan Pier & Legend June 81 – Dec 83
These are the records that topped my floorfillers lists, from the time I started compiling a chart, in June 1981, until I stopped deejaying at the end of 1983.
From 16th June 81: Wigan Pier only
- RICK JAMES give it to me (us motown)
- GINO SOCCIO try it out (us warner brothers)
- WISH nice and soft (us perspective)
- CENTRAL LINE walking into sunshine (uk mercury)
- LEVEL 42 turn it on (uk polydor)
From 25th/26th Aug 81: Wigan Pier and Legend (separate charts)
WIGAN PIER
- INVERSIONS loco-moto (uk groove)
- DONALD BYRD love has come around (us elektra)
- MIKE T do it anyway you wanna (us golden pyramid)
- ARTHUR ADAMS you got the floor (us inculcation)
- SLAVE snap shot / wait for me (us cotillion)
LEGEND
- VAUGHAN MASON rockin’ big guitar (us brunswick)
- RAHMLEE think (us headfirst)
- DONALD BYRD love has come around (us elektra)
- MIKE T do it anyway you wanna (us golden pyramid)
- SLAVE snap shot / wait for me (us cotillion)
From 3rd Nov 81 Wigan Pier and Legend (combined chart)
- SLAVE snap shot / wait for me (us cotillion)
- BOHANNON let’s start II dance again (us phase II)
- K.I.D hupendi muziki wangu?! (you don’t like my music) (us sam)
- FINE QUALITY aah dance (us sugarhill)
- D TRAIN you’re the one for me (us prelude)
1982
- D TRAIN you’re the one for me (us prelude)
- LESSETTE WILSON caveman boogie (us headfirst)
- ONENESS OF JUJU every way but loose (us sutra)
- STONE time (us west end)
- P-FUNK ALL STARS hydraulic pump pt III (us hump)
- MYSTIC MERLIN mr magician (us capitol)
- ELECTRIK FUNK on a journey (I sing the funk electric) (us prelude)
- PATRICE RUSHEN forget me nots (us elektra)
- B.B.C.S & A BAND rock shock (us sam)
- PATRICE RUSHEN number one (us elektra)
- SINNAMON thanks to you (us becket)
- ODYSSEY inside out (us rca)
- LARRY GRAHAM sooner or later (us warner brothers)
- HOWARD JOHNSON so fine (us a&m)
- ROCKERS REVENGE walking on sunshine (us streetwise)
- GRANDMASTER FLASH & THE FURIOUS FIVE the message (us sugarhill)
- EVELYN KING love come down (us rca)
- SHARON REDD beat the street (us prelude)
- KLIEN & MBO dirty talk (italian zanza)
- EXTRA T’S e.t boogie (us sunnyview)
- WILLIE HUTCH in and out (us motown)
- WHODINI magic’s wand (us jive)
- MONTANA SEXTET heavy vibes (us philly sound works)
- DR JECKYLL & MR HYDE the challenge (us profile)
- INDEEP last night a dj saved my life (us sound of new york)
1983
- INDEEP last night a dj saved my life (us sound of new york)
- CASHMERE do it anyway you wanna (us philly world)
- SANDY KERR thug rock (us catawba)
- CLASS ACTION weekend (us jive)
- DAVID JOSEPH you can’t hide (your love from me) (uk island)
- SALSOUL ORCHESTRA ooh, I love it (love break) (us salsoul)
- C.O.D in the bottle (us emergency)
- VISUAL the music got me (us prelude)
- RUN-DMC it’s like that / sucker mc’s (us profile)
- BRASS CONSTRUCTION walking the line (us capitol)
- WEEKS & CO if you’re looking for fun (us salsoul)
- FREEEZ I dub u (us streetwise)
- NEWTRAMENT london bridge is falling down (uk jive)
- HERBIE HANCOCK rockit (us columbia)
- TWO SISTERS high noon (us sugarscoop)
- TIME ZONE the wildstyle (us celluloid)
- UNIQUE what I got is what you need (us prelude)
- HOT STREAK body work (us easy street)
- B BOYS two, three, break (us vintertainment)
- CURTIS HAIRSTON I want you (all tonight) (us pretty pearl)
- GRANDMASTER & MELLE MEL white lines (don’t don’t do it) (us sugarhill)
- CAPTAIN RAPP bad times (I can’t stand it) (us saturn)
- SHANNON let the music play (us emergency)
- HASHIM al-naafiysh (the soul) (us cutting)
© Greg Wilson, 2008
