What would we do without Lene Lovich?

Lene Lovich : What Will I Do Without You

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On March 23, 1980 Lene Lovich returned to the UK charts at #63  with her Stiff Record single "What Will I Do Without You",  which would peak at UK#58. The actual release consisted on two 45's made up of two studio tracks from 1979's Flex, the single and "Joan", and four live tracks, "Monkey Talk", "The Night", "Too Tender (To Touch)" and "You Can't Kill Me". The whole lot sells for 96p. 

"A marvelous record, it deserves to be huge!" sez Smash Hits.

Other new singles on the UK charts include "No One Driving" by John Foxx at #32

And "Missing Words" by The Selecter, which debuts at UK#51.

Such a Cold Bird

Lene Lovich : Bird Song

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In September of 1979, a quite remarkable month for new music, let's not forget Detroit's Lene Lovich wowed us with her third Top 40 U.K. hit, "Bird Song". The track from Flex begins and ends with Lovich using her incredible  multi-octave range to imitate a bird's song. The music video is a high concept classic that suggests Lovich is far off her rocker. 

The Undertones : You've Got My Number

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The Undertones also released their fifth single, "You've Got My Number (Why Don't You Use It)". A U.K. Top 40 hit, the song received raves from David Hepworth of Smash Hits who called it "a taut compulsive love song, resting on a guitar figure that could have been lifted from an early Buzzcocks track with Feargal Sharkey, as good a singer as you'll find anywhere, wringing the lyric for every last ounce of desperation. The number on the cover , SIR4024, refers to the Sire single's catalogue number ,not the number to Feargal's mum.