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	283.75/290	8.5	10	22	9.78
2	Sunday Girl	312.25/320	8.75	10	24	9.76
3	Hot Stuff	260/270	8	10	16	9.63
4	Them Heavy People	235.5/250	6	10	16	9.42
5	My Forbidden Lover	232.25/250	7	10	11	9.29
""	Don't Stop Til You Get Enough	232.25/250	7	10	10	9.29
7	Off The Wall	240/260	7	10	13	9.23
8	After The Love Has Gone	238.5/260	5	10	12	9.17
9	Say When	254.25/280	5	10	13	9.08
10	Lost In Music	225.75/250	7	10	6	9.03
11	Ring My Bell (Xmas version)	215.5/240	8	10	7	8.98
12	Shake Your Body (Down To The Ground)	241.25/270	7	10	7	8.94
13	Turn The Music Up	222/250	7	10	7	8.88
14	I Want Your Love	239.25/270	7.5	10	6	8.86
15	Born To Be Alive	230/260	6	10	6	8.85
16	Contact	246.75/280	6	10	4	8.81
17	Love You Inside Out	246.25/280	7.5	10	7	8.79
18	Knock On Wood	246/280	7	10	10	8.79
18	Tragedy	228.5/260	3.5	10	14	8.79
19	Morning Dance	244/280	5	10	9	8.71
21	Aint No Stoppin Us Now	235/270	6	10	6	8.70
22	One Nation Under A Groove	250.5/290	6	10	9	8.64
23	I Will Survive	215.25/250	6.5	10	3	8.61
24	Strut Your Funky Stuff	223/260	6.5	10	2	8.58
25	This Is It	245.5/290	6.5	10	4	8.47
26	Y.M.C.A	208.5/250	5	10	7	8.34
27	September	249.25/300	6	10	4	8.31
28	Rise	198/240	3.5	10	2	8.25
29	Forever In Blue Jeans	212.75/260	7	10	3	8.18
30	Bad Girls	220.5/270	6	10	2	8.17
31	Sultans Of Swing	218.5/270	5	10	1	8.09
32	If I Said You Had A Beautiful Body	217.5/270	5	10	4	8.06
33	Star	185.25/230	6	9	0	8.05
34	Chiquitita	222.25/280	5	9.5	0	7.94
35	Cavatina	253.5/320	2	10	6	7.92
36	Ring My Bell (version 1)	221.5/280	6	10	3	7.91
37	Something Else	191.5/250	5	10	2	7.75
38	Blue Peter	193/250	5	10	3	7.72
39	No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)	183.5/240	5	9	1	7.65
40	Living On An Island	188.5/250	4	10	2	7.54
41	Gone Gone Gone	179.75/240	6	9.5	0	7.49
42	You Can Do It	185.75/250	4	9	0	7.43
43	Reunited	179.25/250	4	10	1	7.28
44	Bang Bang	179.75/250	5	9.25	0	7.19
45	Keep On Dancing	178.5/250	5	9	0	7.14
46	Don't Bring Me Down	191.25/270	4	10	1	7.08
47	Tusk	189.25/270	3.5	10	2	7.01
48	Silly Thing	172.75/250	4	10	1	6.91
49	Lady Lynda	183.5/270	5	9	0	6.80
50	Cool Meditation	193/290	2	9.5	0	6.66
51	Que Tal America	178.5/270	3	8	0	6.61
52	Just When I Needed You Most	165.5/270	3	8	0	6.13

[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?