"Grease" soundtrack singles

[prenatt1166]

UU-BRU Radio Playlist
[red]For Week Ending August 5, 1978[/red]

(Rank This Week, Last Week, Artist, Title)

[blue]01 02 Olivia Newton-John - Hopelessly Devoted To You[/blue]
02 01 Donna Summer - Last Dance
[blue]03 03 Frankie Valli - Grease[/blue]
04 04 Barry Manilow - Copacabana
[blue]05 ** John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John - Summer Nights
06 05 John Travolta & Oliva Newton-John - You're The One That I Want[/blue]
07 09 Foreigner - Hot Blooded
08 08 Barbra Streisand - Songbird
09 07 Commodores - Three Times A Lady
10 12 Evelyn "Champagne" King - Shame

The soundtrack to "Grease" dominated UU-BRU Radio Playlist during the summer of 1978. The first week of August four songs occupied the Top 6. Olivia Newton-John would spend 1 week at the top before yielding to "Summer Nights". John Travolta & ONJ spent 6 weeks at #1 with each duet, claiming the Top 2 singles of 1978.

www.keystonehighways.com/uubru1978.html

1978 year end rank for singles from "Grease".

#1 - You're The One That I Want (6 weeks at #1)
#2 - Summer Nights (6 weeks at #1)
#13 - Grease (peaked at #3)
#15 - Hopelessy Devoted To You (1 wk at #1)

A fifth single, "Greased Lightning" peaked at #21 in October 1978.

Over 18 years later, "The Grease Megamix" peaked at #2 for 3 weeks.

UU-BRU Radio Playlist
[red]For Week Ending November 23, 1996[/red]

(Rank This Week, Last Week, Artist, Title)

01 01 Alanis Morissette - Head Over Feet
[blue]02 04 John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John - Grease Megamix[/blue]
03 03 Hootie & The Blowfish - I Go Blind
04 05 Madonna - You Must Love Me
05 07 The Wonders - That Thing You Do!
06 02 Celine Dion - It's All Coming Back To Me Now
07 08 Brooks & Dunn - Mama Don't Get Dressed Up For Nothing
08 11 Toni Braxton - Unbreak My Heart
09 06 Ginuwine - Pony
10 12 Phil Collins - Dance Into The Light

GM finished 1996 at #34
www.keystonehighways.com/uubru1996.html

"Grease" holds special memories for me as I believe I saw it at the theater over a dozen times during the summer of 1978.

[mst3k]

prenatt1166 said:

"Grease" holds special memories for me as I believe I saw it at the theater over a dozen times during the summer of 1978.

Sounds like what my sister did... I was only seven at the time, so I only saw it once in the theater (and again when it was rereleased in 1998 or so). I've seen it many dozens of times since then, though. It never gets old for me... and the whole soundtrack is great.

[Deleted]

I only like "Grease" and "Hopelessly Devoted To You".

[johnnywest]

"Grease" is my favorite of all the songs on the soundtrack. The AC version of AT20 used to play it.

[jimmy74747]

The soundtrack is awful. "Hopelessly Devoted to You" is pretty good, but the others are amongst the worst songs ever.

[Hervard]

johnnywest said:

"Grease" is my favorite of all the songs on the soundtrack. The AC version of AT20 used to play it.

Yeah, I remember one time (summer of 2000 or 2001, I believe) they played it as an AT20 Archive song. Since the song was so short, it was one of six Archive songs instead of the usual five.

[johnnywest]

ulij20 said:

Yeah, I remember one time (summer of 2000 or 2001, I believe) they played it as an AT20 Archive song. Since the song was so short, it was one of six Archive songs instead of the usual five.

Now there's countdown minutia for ya. ;)

[BillboardBoy]

I like most of these songs, even "The Grease Megamix," which of course isn't on the soundtrack.

[irock]

This came out about the time I was beginning to realize that I was definitely gay, and every gay person I knew liked it. I remember thinking "oh no, I'm gonna lose all my straight friends when I come out and I'm gonna have to listen to crap like this and ABBA all the time". Neither thought turned out to be entirely true, but god I still hate this. Mind-numbingly awful! Almost as bad as Air Supply, but not quite.

[johnnywest]

Most of the songs on the soundtrack are pretty good. But I couldn't name a single one on the "Urban Cowboy" soundtrack, and I know that was pretty big too. Casey's always talking about it in the early 80s AT40 shows.