Ratings `averages` from 1979 dances

[RYAN]

Crème de la Crème status... ...Top 100 Legs & Co status.

#	Song Title	Ratings	Low	High	Tens	Ave
1	Heart Of Glass	265.25/270	8.5	10	21	9.82
2	Sunday Girl	302.25/310	8.75	10	23	9.75
3	Hot Stuff	240/250	8	10	14	9.60
4	Them Heavy People	235.5/250	6	10	16	9.42
5	My Forbidden Lover	222.25/240	7	10	10	9.26
""	Don't Stop Til You Get Enough	222.25/240	7	10	9	9.26
7	Off The Wall	230/250	7	10	12	9.20
8	After The Love Has Gone	238.5/260	5	10	12	9.17
9	Say When	237.75/260	5	10	12	9.14
10	Ring My Bell (Xmas version)	207.5/230	8	10	7	9.02
11	Lost In Music	215.75/240	7	10	5	8.99
12	Shake Your Body (Down To The Ground)	231.25/260	7	10	6	8.89
13	Turn The Music Up	222/250	7	10	7	8.88
14	Born To Be Alive	230/260	6	10	6	8.85
15	Love You Inside Out	238.5/270	8	10	7	8.83
16	I Want Your Love	229.25/260	7.5	10	5	8.82
17	Tragedy	228.5/260	3.5	10	14	8.79
18	Contact	219.75/250	6	10	4	8.79
19	Morning Dance	236/270	5	10	9	8.74
20	Aint No Stoppin Us Now	218/250	6	10	6	8.72
21	Knock On Wood	226/260	7	10	8	8.69
22	I Will Survive	215.25/250	6.5	10	3	8.61
23	Strut Your Funky Stuff	214/250	6.5	10	2	8.56
24	One Nation Under A Groove	211.5/250	6	10	6	8.46
25	This Is It	219.5/260	6.5	10	3	8.44
26	Y.M.C.A	208.5/250	5	10	7	8.34
27	September	223.25/270	6	10	4	8.27
28	Rise	198/240	3.5	10	2	8.25
29	Forever In Blue Jeans	202.75/250	7	10	2	8.11
30	Bad Girls	210.5/260	6	10	1	8.10
""	Sultans Of Swing	210.5/260	5	10	1	8.10
32	If I Said You Had A Beautiful Body	208.5/260	5	10	4	8.02
""	Ring My Bell (version 1)	208.5/260	6	10	3	8.02
34	Star	176.25/220	6	9	0	8.01
35	Chiquitita	197.25/250	5	9.5	0	7.89
36	Cavatina	236.5/300	2	10	5	7.88
37	Something Else	191.5/250	5	9.5	0	7.66
38	No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)	176/230	5	9	1	7.65
39	Blue Peter	183/240	5	10	2	7.63
40	Gone Gone Gone	179.75/240	6	9.5	0	7.49
41	Living On An Island	178.5/240	4	10	1	7.44
42	You Can Do It	177.75/240	4	9	0	7.41
43	Bang Bang	173.75/240	5	9.25	0	7.24
44	Reunited	179.25/250	4	9.5	0	7.17
45	Keep On Dancing	178.5/250	5	9	0	7.14
46	Tusk	189.25/270	3.5	10	2	7.01
47	Don't Bring Me Down	181.25/260	4	9	0	6.97
48	Silly Thing	163.75/240	4	10	1	6.82
49	Lady Lynda	183.5/270	5	9	0	6.80
50	Que Tal America	158.5/240	3	8	0	6.60
51	Cool Meditation	171/260	2	9.5	0	6.58
52	Just When I Needed You Most	157.5/260	3	7.5	0	6.06

[Gorgeous Daze]

I see what you mean over on the chat thread Ryan. The top two are almost, er, parallel.

A couple of updates you've missed. 4 is now the lowest rating for Reunited, and like Pauline, Sue no longer has a DOTD clean sweep routine this year.

[RYAN]

Cheers, will amend.

[VintageVideos]

If the routines on the list above had been the only ones that Legs & Co ever performed, it would be reason enough to hold them in high esteem. There's hardly a dud amongst them, well for me anyway.

[PattiforPM]

I agree, there's a lot of entertainment in that Chart.  I do think the unique Tragedy is a little hard done by myself but I know not everyone agreed.  Overall though there are some astoundingly high marks and deservedly so

[sueforever]

Blondie were on a roll in this period, but we have two good routines to the Blondie hits.

[Andeebee]

8 of the top 10 is what we would call disco......you could include Blondie for Heart of Glass....seems the dreaded disco is the fan favourite for Legs

[Gorgeous Daze]

Just a couple of numbers to update, Ryan. The lowest ratings for Say When and Cavatina are now 6 and 5 respectively.

[RYAN]

Cheers GD, please keep any more amendments you spot coming.

[RYAN]

Poor Randy plummets even further down the table after our last rating

[Paperboyplod]

That'll pull down the average, potentially foiling a record points average for the '79 ratings.

[RYAN]

The 1979 average as well as all the other Legs & Co yearly average ratings can be easily found on this thread, which i update after every rating.
http://one-for-the-dads.979225.n3.nabble.com/Ratings-Whole-yearly-totals-tp4032187.html

[Mikey]

Well i dont think Randy deserves last place.

[Gorgeous Daze]

It's certainly not my least favourite but with the unfavourable camera-work and Randy's lack of charisma I can see why it's where it is.

[RYAN]

Its a pretty good song that hit the right notes with me way back when. But i was more of a romantic soul back then, rather than the grumpy, nay cynical old man i am now. Legs & Co i think would rather have been elsewhere, but got drafted into helping Randy out, rather like they did in 1978 when they got the job of digging Gene out of a hole.

[Andeebee]

not once but twice, tragic...

[Gorgeous Daze]

I'm the other way round. I would have had no interest in what I would have dismissed as a soppy song once upon a time, but now I really like it. After The Love Has Gone is another example.

[Andeebee]

After The Love is a classic full stop

reminds me, I sent a request into Colm's radio show to play something for OFTD's, he did he played After The Love has Gone and dedicated it to us...

[RYAN]

I used to love soppy ballads back then (78/79/80). I think it was because i was always in love with birds left right and centre. A ballad style song that spring to mind is `Every Day Day Hurts`, which i distinctly remember listening to whilst tuning into crackling radio Luxembourg whilst being given the elbow. Soon moved on though.

[Gorgeous Daze]

Great...but never knew he had a radio show. Which station?