1978-09-11 — WAVZ 1300 AM ( New Haven, Connecticut ) TOP 30--WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 11, 1978 | TW | LW | | ARTIST | TITLE | WKS | NOTES |
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| 16 | 16 | | Linda Ronstadt | Back In The U.S.A. | | | | 15 | 14 | | Bruce Springsteen | Badlands | | | | 27 | 28 | | Aerosmith | Come Together | | | | 3 | 7 | | Boston | Don't Look Back | | | | 10 | 9 | | The Stylistics | First Impressions | | | | 7 | 5 | | Chris Rea | Fool (If You Think It's Over) | | | | 18 | 11 | | Foxy | Get Off | | | | 6 | 2 | | Earth, Wind & Fire | Got To Get You Into My Life | | | | 20 | 12 | | Frankie Valli | Grease | | | | 13 | 20 | | L.T.D. | Holding On (When Love Is Gone) | | | | 26 | 23 | | Olivia Newton-John | Hopelessly Devoted To You | | | | 25 | 21 | | Foreigner | Hot Blooded | | | | 5 | 6 | | Nick Gilder | Hot Child In The City | | | | 28 | 30 | | Ambrosia | How Much I Feel | | | | 23 | 27 | | Rose Royce | I'm In Love (And I Love The Feeling) | | | | 2 | 1 | | Exile | Kiss You All Over | | | | 30 | 35 | | Heatwave | Mind Blowing Decisions | | | | 11 | 10 | | Robin Gibb | Oh! Darling | | | | 4 | 15 | | Funkadelic | One Nation Under A Groove | | | | 29 | 31 | | Meat Loaf | Paradise By The Dashboard Light | | | | 14 | 19 | | Barry Manilow | Ready To Take A Chance Again | | | | 1 | 3 | | Little River Band | Reminiscing | | | | 21 | 26 | | Gerry Rafferty | Right Down The Line | | | | 9 | 8 | | Commodores | Three Times A Lady | | | | 24 | 25 | | David Gates | Took The Last Train | | | | 19 | 22 | | Kenny Loggins | Whenever I Call You "Friend" | | | | 12 | 17 | | The Who | Who Are You | | | | 22 | 13 | | Rita Coolidge | You | | | | 8 | 4 | | Rick James | You And I | | | | 17 | 24 | | Anne Murray | You Needed Me | | |
| TW | LW | | ARTIST | ALBUM | WKS | NOTES |
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| 10 | -- | | Billy Joel | The Stranger | | | | 1 | 2 | | Boston | Don't Look Back | | | | 9 | 7 | | Bruce Springsteen | Darkness On The Edge Of Town | | | | 11 | 11 | | Commodores | Natural High | | (survey wrongly shows LP title as "Flyin' High") | | 5 | 4 | | Foreigner | Double Vision | | | | 12 | 13 | | Gerry Rafferty | City To City | | | | 13 | -- | | Little River Band | Sleeper Catcher | | | | 7 | -- | | Lynyrd Skynyrd | Skynyrd's First...And Last | | (survey omits an LP title) | | 8 | 6 | | Meat Loaf | Bat Out Of Hell | | | | 2 | 3 | | Soundtrack (Movie) | Grease | | | | 6 | 9 | | The Brothers Johnson | Blam!! | | | | 3 | 1 | | The Rolling Stones | Some Girls | | | | 4 | 5 | | The Who | Who Are You | | |
**This survey shows a "last week" # of #31 (for #29) and #35 (for #30). For a
short time, WAVZ began to internally compute and report to the trade
magazines approximately 40 songs a week. The surveys never listed these
songs, however, unless they actually reached the "published" Top 30.**
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