As originally published on Twitter in the first week of Straight In At...'s existence back in late-May 2021, if memory serves. Here are all of the new entries for the official singles chart of May 30th 1982, including two versions of the same song; lots of songs all stitched together to make one song; and the happiest ten-minute song you'll find. Enjoy.
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Click on the video or link to play each tune (links last checked as all working 15/05/2026).
New at #74. Not the last time we’ll be hearing Iko Iko in this 1982 selection, and whilst this version peaked a lot lower than the other in the UK, it later went top 20 in the States after its appearance on the Rain Man soundtrack.
New at #72. Actually their biggest hit in the US – way ahead of Oops Up Side Your Head, Big Fun and any others you might have thought were more obvious candidates. Taken from the erroneously entitled sixth album Gap Band IV.
BERTIE HIGGINS - Key Largo
New at #71. The signature track for this ‘40s movie-obsessed Floridan. This’ll make you feel soft rock…
MONSOON - Shakti
New at #62. The follow-up to Ever So Lonely. Frustratingly stalled at #41, and a further attempt to buy a hit with a cover of The Beatles’ Tomorrow Never Knows after that fared no better for Sheila Chandra and co. than it did for the tremendous Danielle Dax eight years later.
RANDY CRAWFORD - One Hello
New at #58. A Carole Bayer Sager composition taken as the theme for I Ought to Be In Pictures, a Walter Matthau-fronted 1982 film adaptation of a Neil Simon play of two years prior. Not one of Siskel & Ebert’s favourites of the year, I read…
THE BEATLES – The Beatles Movie Medley
New at #56. Apparently a compilation cash-in (albeit one painstaked over by pioneering Hollywood sound engineer John Palladino), rather than just an attempt to ride the early-1980s medley bandwagon.
NATASHA - Iko Iko
New at #54. The artist then known by marriage as Natasha England, although actually Scottish – bit of a Frank Beard scenario there. This ultimately went top ten, the only version of this song ever to do so in the UK.
THE CARS - Since You’re Gone
New at #50. Very much how I’d prefer to remember The Cars as opposed to certain later soft rock efforts – a skittering, nervy, yet playful, post-New Wave love-gone-wrong song.
STEVIE WONDER - Do I Do
New at #42. The near ten minutes’ worth of total, unadulterated joy that rounds off Stevie’s 1982 singles compilation Original Musiquarium, Dizzy Gillespie cameo and knowingly bobbins rap outro and all. The music equivalent of a plus sign.
BOW WOW WOW - I Want Candy
Highest new entry at #38. To finish, BA Robertson’s chatshow nemesis Annabella Lwin (c.f. assorted TV Hell-type clip shows), and the second of her two top ten hits. Loving some of the Razzmatazz audience’s attempts to keep up with Dave Barbarossa’s drumming here.
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