| Billboard Top Hits: 1979 | 
 enlarge | Artist: Various Artists
Label: Rhino / Wea
Category: Music
List Price: $6.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:   (12 reviews)
Sales Rank: 14336
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 70674
UPC: 081227067427
EAN: 0081227067427
ASIN: B0000032KA
Release Date: April 23, 1991
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | Heart of Glass - Harry, Debbie | | • | My Sharona - Fieger, Doug | | • | Just When I Needed You Most - VanWarmer, Randy | | • | Escape (The Pina Colada Song) - Holmes, Rupert | | • | I Will Survive - Fekaris, Dino | | • | Y.M.C.A. - Morali, Jacques | | • | Sad Eyes - John, Robert | | • | Fire - Springsteen, Bruce | | • | Ring My Bell - Knight, Frederick [ | | • | The Devil Went Down to Georgia - Crain, Tom |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Album Description
Rhino's Have A Nice Day series takes you back to the days of black light posters, eight-track tapes, earth shoes, and bell-bottoms, gathering together the lone hits by those "one-or-two-shot" wonders of the '70s-with many tracks appearing on CD for the first time!
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| Customer Reviews: Read 7 more reviews...
 top hits of 1979 October 15, 2008
The product was delivered on time and worked just fine. My family and I really enjoy the songs on the CD
 Billboard Top Hits: 1979 October 5, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought the cd just for that one song you cannot find anywhere else. Randy VanWarmer, Just When I Needed You Most. You cannot find this one anywhere, unless you have it on an old record.
A fun collection--great for parties! August 24, 2007
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
For all of you late 30s/early 40s-somethings out there, this CD collection is a must-have! Tell me, who doesn't like "Escape (The Pina Colada Song)"? You also have wedding dance classics such as "YMCA" and "I Will Survive," plus some real rock tunes in "Heart of Glass" and "My Sharona." Several songs on this album remain on my all-time favorites list, including "The Devil Went Down to Georgia." Although the year is 1979, fans of both late 70s and early 80s music are likely to enjoy this CD--definitely recommended!
1979, a Year Music Got Close To The Light November 6, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I always will call 1979 the year that music got close to the light, as it was the one year when the walls came down, and genres crossed into one another.
This 10 track retrospective is a good example of the diversity that topped the charts in '79. From Disco Classics (I Will Survive, Ring My Bell), to the camp from the openly gay Village People (Y.M.C.A.), to country (The Devil Went Down to Georgia), to a reworked track from Bruce Springsteen via the Pointer Sisters (Fire).
You have here a taste of what went on back in '79.
The dramatic ballad, another 70's staple is also featured here with Sad Eyes, and Just When I Needed You Most, and another 70's icon the "songs that defy description" is featured here with Escape (The Pina Colada Song).
There was much more to 1979, but this collection is a good primer.
Ken
Those Were The Days!! February 2, 2004
7 out of 9 found this review helpful
Ah, 1979. It was the last year that disco ruled the pop charts, new wave began its rise, rap had its first Top 40 hit ("Rapper's Delight"), and every newscast began with a countdown of the number of days hostages had been held in Iran. As a 9 year old, I heard these songs everywhere, from "My Sharona" played round the clock on the radio, to "Sad Eyes" and "Just When I Needed You Most" played during slow skate at the local roller rink. I saw most of these songs lip synced to on "Solid Gold" (remember that show?), where Dionne Warwick's hair got shorter every week. I thought Charlie Daniels was one bad dude when he was talking about the Devil coming down south, where I lived at the time! Who knew then that "Y.M.C.A." would become the most played song in the history of the universe? And though I've listened to it for 25 years without tiring of it, I still don't have the foggiest clue what Debbie Harry is singing on "Heart of Glass?!" Needless to say, this CD sums up one year better than just about any other Billboard collection to date. Memories usually don't come this cheap!!! As we said in 1979, "Na Noo, Na Noo."
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