Radio Caroline Countdown of Album Sound
20th, 27th February 1978.

In February 1978 Radio Caroline began an album chart show. Although the Countdown programme was broadcast every week, the same Top 30 remained in force for two weeks.

This chart is kindly provided by the Felixstowe & Offshore Radio Facebook page - and what a great chart it is!

Caroline Countdown of Album Sound Top 30 20th, 27th February 1978 Presented by James Ross

1		Rumours	Fleetwood Mac
2		Out of the Blue	The Electric Light Orchestra
3		Don Juan's Reckless Daughter	Joni Mitchell
4		News of the World	Queen
5		Stick To Me	Graham Parker & the Rumour
6		New Boots and Panties	Ian Dury
7		Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols	The Sex Pistols
8		“Heroes”	David Bowie
9		Love Songs	The Beatles
10		The Sound of Bread	Bread
11		Plastic Letters	Blondie
12		Slowhand	Eric Clapton
13		Live And Let Live	10cc
14		Moonflower	Santana
15		Running On Empty	Jackson Browne
16		Greatest Hits	Roxy Music
17		Broken Heart	The Babys
18		The Fabulous Poodles	The Fabulous Poodles
19		Songs For Swinging Lovers	Radio Stars
20		Night After Night	Nils Lofgren
21		Foot Loose and Fancy Free	Rod Stewart
22		Greatest Hits vol.II	Elton John
23		Thunder In My Heart	Leo Sayer
24		Down Two Then Left	Boz Scaggs
25		All 'n' All	Earth Wind & Fire
26		Seconds Out	Genesis
27		Chicago XI	Chicago
28		Simple Dreams	Linda Ronstadt
29		Rockin' All Over the World	Status Quo
30		Needle Time	Warsaw Pakt

A clip of James Ross starting the first Caroline Countdown of Album Sound programme on 20th February 1978. There is an advert for the Barry St.James Roadshow. Barry later hosted shows on Caroline and is still with the licensed version of the station today. This is an edited version of a recording available from www.azanorak.com. Our thanks to Ray Robinson (duration 3 minutes 40 seconds)

Our thanks to Brian Nichols.

The links from the songs on this page lead to the Amazon MP3 Store where you can hear short audio clips of the tracks and customers in the UK can buy downloads. Please see this note.

There are a number of other offshore charts listed on The Pirate Radio Hall of Fame. Full details here.

The next Top 30 is over the page.

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