RETARInG DISCO The scheme is called `Videorentals' Video rentaland there is no membership require-Bubbling New ment on borrowers.Instead a £30Under Danceability deposit is left on each video taken out, 51 66 WILL I SEE YOU TONIGHT? 1 - SAY HELLO, WAVE GOODBYE scheme at with charges of £1.99 for the first night Zafra Brothers (import) Soft Cell Some Bizarre 12" 52 53 AFTER ALL THIS TIME 21 THE MODEL Kraftwerk EMI 12" and £1.50 for each subsequent day. Double Exposure (import) 3 - DON'T STOP Mood RCA 12" 53 54 DANCIN' TO THE BEAT 45 MAID OF ORLEANS The Waltz Joan of Arc HMV shops Initially the scheme will operate in the Henderson:Whitfield Park Place (import) Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark Dindisc 12" Oxford Street flagship, and Bedford, 54 62 SIXTY-NINE 5 2 BEING BOILED Human League Fast 7" Brooklyn Express One Way (import) 6 - EUROPEAN SON HMV RETAIL is launching a videoBirmingham, Liverpool and Manches- 55 - IT'S NASTY (GENIUS OF LOVE) Japan Hansa/Ariola Grandmaster Flash Sugarhill (import) 7 6 GO WILD IN THE COUNTRY rentals scheme, initially in five majorter stores, all of which have a large video 56 63 HIT'N'RUN LOVER (REMIX) Bow -Wow -Wow RCA 12" stores and eventually nationwide, whichcassette selection. At present, however, Carol Jiani Moby Dick (import) 8 - LOVE PLUS ONE 57 37I'VE GOT TO LEARN TO SAY NO! Haircut One Hundred Arista 7" will allow passing customers to take outthe shops stock only VHS tapes, except Richard 'Dimples' Fields Epic 9 - WATERLINE A Certain Ratio Factory 12" 58 64 THIS FEELING'S KILLING ME 10 - LES VISITEURS DU SOIR tapes for up to 14 days. for Oxford Street which has Beta. Norma Lewis Jive Methematiques Modernes Island LP 59 - THE ULTIMATE WARLORD New danceabilitychartfrom FlashbackRecords, Immortals Moby Dick (import) Newport 60 58 GHETTO LIFE Rick James Motown 61 - QUICK SLICK Syreeta Motown WEA and Virgin team up 62 49 PAPA'S GOT A BRAND NEW PIG BAG Pig Bag Y Reggae 63 48 GET UP AND DANCE Mynk Posse (import) 64 - DON'T STOP THE TRAIN 12-inchers Phyllis Nelson Tropique (import) 65 47 KILIMANJARO Letta Mbulu MJS (import) 1 1 YOU BRING THE SUN OUT 66 - JAZZY SENSATION Kryptic Krew (import) Janet Kay Black Roots BR 033 67 - IT'S A PLEASURE Sheree Brown Capitol 2 - ONE DRAW Rita Marley 68 35 I'M GLAD THAT YOU'RE HERE 3 3 IN LOVE Arena City Boy (no number) Alphonse Mouzon London 4 - OPEN UP THE DOOR 69 33 WHAT'S FUNK Perry Haines Fetish Charisma (King City KCD 005) 5 6 I'M YOUR FOOL 70 46 STARCHILD Level 42 Polydor One Blood Sound City (no number) 6 2 ONE IN A MILLION Pat Kelly Channel One pre 7 - ME AND JANE Bingly Bunny Cha Cha 87 JUST A LITTLE BIT Twelve Carroll Thompson Red Bus RBUS(L) 65 9 4 DISEASES Inchers Papa Michigan & General Smiley Greensleeves GRED 75 1 2 YOU'RE THE ONE FOR ME 10 - SIMPLE AS THAT D Train Epic Sugar Minott Black Roots BR 034 2 - WATCH OUT Brandi Wells Virgin 3 3I JUST WANNA (SPEND SOME TIME Reggae12"chartfromSunshineRecords,North WITH YOU) Alton Edwards Streetwave London 4 - NIGHTS OVER EGYPT Jones Girls Phil. Int. 5 4 EASIER SAID THAN DONE Shakatak Polydor 6 6 THIS BEAT IS MINE Vicky D Sam (import) Disco Dealer 7 1 GET DOWN ON IT Kool & The Gang De-Lite 8 6 NEVER GIVE UP ON A GOOD THING George Benson Warner Bros NOW FIRMLY on British 12 -inch 9 7I CAN'T GO FOR THAT (NO CAN DO) release, D Train's 'You're The One Daryl Hall & John Oates RCA 10 11 YOU DON'T LIKE MY MUSIK Excaliber For Me' eases smartly into the number 12 - KEEP ON Touch Elite WEA AND Virgin staff are seen at Virgin stores. Pictures are Jes Mil- 11 9 DON'T TELL ME Central Line Mercury one slot this week as predicted; what is the launch of the January Price ler, WEA sales and promotion rep, 13 5 FUNGI MAMA Tom Browne GRP/Arista not apparent from viewing the chart 14 - I'VE HAD ENOUGH Earth, Wind & Fire CBS Bonanza, the co-operative cam- Cindy Johnson, WEA personality 15 12 BODY SHAKE T.C. Curtis Groove Prod. alone is the quantity of sales of the 16 10 LET'S CELEBRATE New York Skyy Epic paign which meant special promo- girl, Gerard Talbot, of the Virgin 17 13 HELP IS ON THE WAY record through the specialist outlets as tion of 30 top selling WEA cata- Megastore, and Rod Butler, WEA Whatnauts Harlem International (import) reflected by the Disco Chart panel - its 18 - NIGHTCRUISING Bar -Kays Mercury logue albums and tapes in three big merchandising rep. 19 14 DONT DEPEND ON ME/TIME MACHINE total this week is ahead of the number Direct Drive Oval two disc by a factor of something like 20 15 MIRROR, MIRROR Diana Ross Capitol two to one. Disco The other big success storyis HEWS obviously Brandi Wells, moving from Albums the anchor position last week straight an album Sweat It Out (TVU 99T) 1 3 LOVE IS WHERE YOU AND IT into the top five. Many were surprised Deals released under the deal. The album in- Whispers Solar 2 1 SOMETHING SPECIAL Kool & The Gang De-Lite by the sudden pick-up of the WMOT cludes a free 12 -inch single. Distribution is 3 2 THE GEORGE BENSON COLLECTION FORMER JET Records managing Georae Benson Warner Bros label by Virgin, not a company strong- director Ronnie Fowler has formedthrough Spartan. 4 10 RAISE! Earth Wind & Fire CBS ly associated with black music to any 56 BREAKING POINT Central Line Mercury Roulette Music and Management Ltd 68 SECRET COMBINATION great extent (apart from a couple of CHARLIE WAYNE, who as Carl Randy Crawford Warner Bros with the aim of bridging the gapWayne was founder and lead singer of 7 5 BODY TALK Imagination R&B flirtations with reggae) in the past. between record companies and man- 87 SECOND SUITE Various CBS PRT, in fact, issued a promotional The Move, has signed to Jet Records 9 4 COME MORNING agement that often occurs. and released a single 'Deeper Than Grover Washington Jr. Elektra record to DJs and some specialist 10 11 NEVER TOO MUCH Luther Vandross Epic First signing to the company isLove' (JET 7010) on January 15 which 11 9 YOURS TRULY Tom Browne GRP/Arista dealers around Christmas, containing five -piece rock band Stampede while 12 12 WHY DO FOOLS FALL IN LOVE/ a couple of tracks from Brandi's as yet features Roy Wood on back-up vocals. Diana Ross Capitol Fowler has also concluded a deal withWayne's last single- was with Polydor 13 17 DIMPLES Richard 'Dimpes' Fields Epic unissued WMOT album - obviously 14 - SKYYLINE New York Skyy Epic electronic synthesiser band Val Hal-five years ago. 15 13 LEVEL 42 Level 42 Polydor the change of outlet was not expected ler. At a later date Fowler expects to 16 15 SHOW TIME Slave Cotillion when THAT was being pressed and 17 TASTE THE MUSIC Kleeer Atlantic launch a Roulette Records label. 18 16 ALL THE GREAT HITS Diana Ross Motown promoted! 19 14 JACKSONS LIVE Jacksons Epic 20 20 MORNING SUN Alphonse Mouzon London The Watch Out album is now in fact WILL BIRCH has been signed to Riviera due from Virgin within a few days, and Global's growing stable of record producers " s the company is already talking hope- which includes Elvis Costello, Nick Lowe, Import 44 allt fully of product by Brandi's stable - Clive Langer and Roger Bechirian. Birch, mates Fat Larry, Captain Sky, Margie former drummer with The Records and albums 1 1 GET AS MUCH LOVE AS YOU CAN Joseph and Frankie Smith for later in Kursaal Flyers is producing Billy Brem- Jones Girls Phil. Int. 2 2 SILK Fuse One CTI the year. ner's next Stiff single and The Records new 3 4 LAMONT Lamont Dozier M&M At the other end of the scale (size - Virgin album. 43 WATCH OUT Brandi Wells WMOT 5 20 OBJECTS OF DESIRE wise), congratulations to indie labels Michael Franks Warner Bros ENSIGN RECORDS has signed Fun - 6 10 ALIVE Bohannon Phase II Elite and Sotosound, forging strongly 7 5 NOW THAT I'VE GOT YOUR ATTENTION house, a five/piece group formed byLONDON BASED Buzzz is seen with Lesette Wilson Headfirst ahead with new chart entries from RCA executives after signing a worl- 8 18 CHARIOTS OF FIRE Ernie Watts Qwest Touch and Jerome. Elite has seen Mike Scott and John Caldwell former- 9 13 AKA AKA Band Prelude ly of Edinburgh -based Another Prettydwide deal with the label. 'Sorry My 10 - SLEEPWALK some specialist action before, particu- Larry Canton Warner Bros Face. A debut single 'This Could BeDear' (RCAT 181). is released this week, 11 12 MR. C Norman Connors Arista larly with Atmosfear, a band eventual- followed by a seven inch version on 12 6 SHOCK Shock Fantasy ly licensed with further success to Hell' is scheduled for next month with 13 - DON LATARSKI an album due in June. February 5. Pictured are: from left to Don Latarski Inner City MCA. This, however, is Sotosound's 14 16 RISING Gemini Destiny right; front row Dee Sharp, Don Ellis 159 THE POET Bobby Womack Beverly Glen very firstrelease, and repays the ALBION RECORDS has picked up(RCA md) Jenny, Dotty and Bill Kem- 168 MEGATRON MAN Patrick Cowley Megatone company's shrewdness in picking up 17 - SET MY LOVE IN MOTION releases by The Cheaters on the Manches-ber, (RCA a&r director).