Grease is Tops!
Grease IS the word! Voting for The Sun-Herald Album and Single of 1978 confirms it.
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Album of the Year Grease.
Single of the Year You’re the One That I Want, Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta from the Grease movie soundtrack.
Both records won their categories by majority.
Grease captured 34 per cent of the vote, supported most strongly by under-13s and 14-18 year olds.
Runners-up for Album of the Year were Saturday Night Fever (16 per cent) and War of the Worlds (13 per cent).
Other albums to poll well included Meat Loaf’s Bat. Out of Hell, Dire Straits, and Dragon’s O Zambezi.
You’re the One That I Want’s victory was even more clear-cut. It attracted 31 per cent, but the runners-up were a long way behind The Village People’s Macho Man (6 per cent) and the Bee Gees Stayin’ Alive (5 percent).
Voting was the far more surprising features about the poll.
Abba seems to have run out of steam, a far cry to the hysteria the group generated a couple of years ago. Abba, The Album, and the single Summer Night City, had few fans.
Sherbert, arguably Australia’s top pop group of a year or two ago, did not show up well in either category.
Rod Stewart is riding high in the album and singles charts, but our readers did not rate him highly.
This will not be the year of punk rock, judging by the voting. Only Elvis Costello rated a mention.
The Grease album has become the highest-earning album in Australia history, according to Polygram. Sales are now more than 520,000. The album looks like launching another hit, with the release Greased Lightnin’ John Travolta.