73 Survey For Week Ending 12/24/83 Billboard Dance Trax By BRIAN CHIN <. 80 any music distinctive enough to Dance/ Discolop As has always been the case with form of have acquired a label of its own, the crucial question facing dance music (for c Copyright 1983, Billboard Publications, Inc. No pa t of th s publication may be reproduced, about the umpteenth time in its history) is: "Will success spoil ?" stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior wri ten permission of the publisher. A big part of the answer lies in understanding the fact that post- Motown, post -Sly Stone dance music, created by the interplay of musicians and business- Weeks Weeks Last On people in New York, Philadelphia, Miami, Los Angeles and Germany, among Las On This Chart TITLE(S), Artist, Label Wee Chart TITLE(S), Artist, Label Week Week other locales, in the early- to mid -'70s, has gone through several phases of decay WEEKS and rebirth. 6 4 SAY IT ISN'T SO -Daryl Hall And John AT #1 41 41 4 CATCH ME- Marcia Raven -Profile (12 Inch) The rise -and -fall cycle of several "sounds" has marked dance music's 10-year O Oates -RCA (12 Inch) PD 13679 1 PRO 7034 42 43 MAGNETIC -Earth, Wind & Fire -Columbia (12 history as an identifiable trend. There was the Philadelphia sound, which con- 2 8 ROCKET TO YOUR HEART /MANDATORY Inch) 44 -04211 tinues to be mined with the remix of older sides such as "Let No Man Put Asun- LOVE- Lisa -Moby Dick (EP Cuts) BTG 1031 13 5 5 LET ME WAIT /SHINE THE LIGHT /SWEET der" and "Love Sensation." There was a similar, but somehow glitzier "New 4 7 COLOUR BY NUMBERS-Culture Club- DELIGHT-Jennifer Holliday-Geffen (LP York" sound, a European sound, a Miami sound, and, at the turn of the decade, 0 Virgin /Epic (LP -all cuts) QE 39107 Cuts) GHS 40144 a British sound, a new New York sound tagged "street music," and a new fusion 10 7 I NEED YOU /AUTOMATIC /JUMP -The Pointer FALL Wilson And Kwils- 0 44 58 3 AFTER THE -Kathy and American rap culture, called "hip- hop." Sisters -Planet (LP Cuts) BX4 -4705 BMO /Columbia (12 Inch) 4W9 -04195 of European electronics LOVE GOES MY the ad- 5 8 POP GOES MY /SCRATCH 45 4 8 4 LOVE SENSATION (REMIX) -Loleatta Make no mistake about it: Even most ardent partisans of club culture 0 DUB -Freeez- Streetwise (12 Inch) Holloway -Salsoul (12 Inch) SG 415 mit that there is occasional exhaustion among record producers, DJs, even the SWRL 2215 46 46 6 GIRL IN THE 80'S /BLUE EYED audience. Certainly, someday only those who still keep the faith will be able to 12 5 TROMMELTANZ (DIN DAA DAA)- George O TECH /STANDING IN THE SHADOWS - mention the word "hip -hop" with a straight face same sort of people who Kranz-Personal (12 Inch) P 49804 -the France Joli-Epic (LP Cuts) BFE 38829 will always hold genuine reverence for records like "Free Man," "Weekend," 7 1 8 TALKING IN YOUR SLEEP -The Romantics- 47 49 4 GOT TO GET TO YOU -Charade -Profile (12 Epic (12 Inch) AS 1767 "Dancing With Myself " or "It's Raining Men." Inch) PRO 7032 8 9 IS IT LOVE -Gang Of Four -Warner Bros.(LP When, as was the case in 1983, there isn't a distinct new musical trend, there l ° J 62 2 RITESPOT -Blue Print -Fantasy (7 Inch) 941 Cut) 1 -23936 (12 Inch *) (12 Inch *) is self-conscious worry among the club trendsetters. In the midst of the "new 9O 9 6 WHERE IS MY MAN ?- Eartha Kitt-Streetwise D. St-Island (12 music" explosion this fall, for example, Rockpool's newsletter was moved to beg (12 Inch) 2217 49 CRAZY CUTS -Grandmixer Inch) DMD 695 its readership of DJs and record company executives to "Wake Up!" lest the 10 11 6 WHY ME? -Irene Cara -Geffen (12 Inch) Back Bros. (12 a more 0 -20156 50 WHITE HORSE-Laid -Warner term "new music" make itself a code name for formularized music with 11 3 9 SAY SAY SAY -Paul McCartney,And Michael Inch) 0 -20178 saleable image. Jackson -Columbia (12 Inch) 44 -04169 51 51 TRI -TRA- TRULLALA- Joachim Witt-WEA Only the most disingenuous of industry hypesters would deny that much of 12 14 5 UNDERCOVER OF THE NIGHT/T00 MUCH Int'I /Jem the "new music" borrows from disco, if only because it has made the revolution- BLOOD -The Rolling Stones -Rolling Stones 52 54 2 LOVE IS A BATTLEFIELD-Pat Benatar- ary discovery (as disco did long ago) that in the dance-club environment, a (LP Cuts) 90120 Chrysalis (12 Inch) 4V9 -42734 prominent, well engineered beat is easier to dance to than an inconsistent, care- 13 30 3 OWNER OF A LONELY HEART -Yes-Atco (12 53 33 11 I AM WHAT I AM- -Silver Blue Inch) 96976 (12 Inch) SB -220 lessly produced one. 14 7 13 LET THE MUSIC PLAY- Shannon -Emergency 54 BEAT BOX - -Island (12 Inch) Therefore, if it can be accepted that even "new music" feeds on the old (12 Inch) EMDS 6540 DMD 692 (whether the "older" style is in fact outdated or merely needs a more acceptable 4 REMEMBER WHAT YOU LIKE -Jenny Burton - 15 28 55 5 9 2 UNION OF THE SNAKE-Duran Duran -Capitol image), the pressure toward generating trends that can be greeted as "new " - Atlantic (12 Inch) DMD 686 (12 Inch) 8567 and then formularized, criticized and discarded on schedule -should disappear. 16 18 5 UNISON-Junior -Casablanca (12 Inch) Yello- 56 65 2 PUMPING VELVET /NO MORE WORDS- Music does exhaust itself periodically, but none of us should be hastening to 814725 -1 Elektra (EP Cuts) EP 0-66979 17 17 5 EVERYTHING COUNTS -Depeche Mode-Sire retire any form of music, whether it's "street" music, which finally made its way 57 66 2 KEEPIN' MY LOVER SATISFIED -Melba (12 Inch) 20165 -QA Moore -Capitol (12 Inch) 8569 out of the clubs and onto top 40 with Madonna and Shannon's crossovers (no, 18 16 10 WHITE LINES (DON'T DO IT)-Grandmaster AUTOMATIC MAN -Michael Sembello-Warner the Clash doesn't count, and neither does Duran Duran, although the Thomp- Flash And Melle Mel -Sugarhill (12 Inch) 58 25 9 Bros. (12 Inch) 0 -20153 son Twins would have); rap, which has been vilified from the start; techno -pop, SH 465 ñ 11 BABY'S IN THE MOUNTAIN -Peter Godwin - can no longer fairly be called "Blue Monday" and "Let The rn 19 34 3 ON THE UPSIDE -Xena- Emergency (12 Inch) 59 27 which "cold" after 6541 EMDS Polydor (12 Inch) Music Play" Inch) 20 15 8 HAPPINESS IS JUST AROUND THE BEND - 60 WE ALL NEED LOVE- Ebony -Quality (12 As ever, then, dance music is at a critical juncture. There is much history (12 Inch) QUS 048 2 Cuba Gooding- Streetwise behind it, and a vigorous future waiting to be created. As a term, "dance music" ro SWRL 2214 (61) EARTHQUAKE -Flirtations -D &D Records (12 is so incredibly stilted we're glad it's the standard tag because it could never 21 24 5 THE PARTY STARTS WHEN I'M WITH YOU - Inch) 103 ' was. We hope that all the var- Rue Caldwell- Critique (12 Inch) CRI 1203 62 LIAR ON THE WIRE- Sharon Redd -Prelude (7 become the dangerously fashionable one "disco" ied musical possibilities that dance music has presented over the years will re- 00 22 38 ' 3 OVER MY HEAD -Toni Basil- Chrysalis (12 Inch) Inch) 4V9 -42754 (63) RUSH RUSH -Debbie Harry -Chrysalis (12 main fresh in people's minds, even as they get into their senile phase of being 23 32 4 PLEASURE OF LOVE -Tom Tom Club -Sire (12 Inch) 4V9 -42741 gobbled up, commercialized and retreaded to death, since they will continue to W Inch) 0 -20164 (64) ACTION -Evelyn "Champagne" King -RCA (12 be important tools in bringing dance music into the future. 24 26 7 A NIGHT IN NEW YORK -Elbow Bones And Inch) PD -13683 co Inch) O The Racketeers -EMI -America (12 65 SKIPS A BEAT -Mayana- Atlantic (12 Inch) 7812 06980 1 We have a complete selection of all U.S. re- 29 5 NEED SOMEBODY NEW- Jamaica Girls - DISCO/ DANCE 2 "-- leases and all import disco records. We also v 25 (66) ENCORE -Cheryl Lynn -Columbia (12 Inch) Inch) SLX -005 export to foreign countries. Sleeping Bag (12 44 -04257 U.S. & Imports 26 21 9 TELEFONE (LONG DISTANCE LOVE AFFAIR) - Hold On I'm Coming -Sharon 67 10 TOUR DE FRANCE -Kraftwerk- Warner Bros. (WHOLESALE FOR STORES) Benson Sheena Easton -EMI -America (12 Inch) 7814 67 (12 Inch) USA Canada England Germany Hi Energy-Hi Energy 27 31 5 BAD TIMES (I CAN'T STAND IT)-Captain Italy France Holland Spring Rain -Cascade Orchestra LIFE IS THE REASON /MAYBE THIS TIME - Rapp- Beckett (12 Inch) SAT 2003A 68 Special Agent Man-Gaz Nevada Norma Lewis -E.R.C. 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