The next 20 20 Retro Countdown takes us back to the week when Michael Jackson released his "Off The Wall" album..

 

Here's a TV ad that you might have seen during this week in 1979 - do you remember when "Dragon" were advertising flavoured milk?

 

And you might have seen that ad while watching this new tv show that was a spin off from "Different Strokes"... The Drummond's housekeeper, Mrs Garrett, moved on to work at a private all girls school.

 

Racey feature twice in our countdown of the 20 biggest hits of this week in 1979.

 

 

 

Join me for the Kiss KIss Countdown... 20 songs with kiss and kissing in the title..

And while we'll spend 2 hours "kissing".... we are still well short of the world record for the longest kiss!

And while we count down the greatest kissing songs... which kisses stand out as the best movie kisses?

How's this for a list...

10. The kiss on the fire escape at the end of "Pretty Woman"

9. "As You Wish" Kiss in "The Princess Bride"

8. Dirty clay hands kiss in "Ghost"

7. "I Do Give A Damn" kiss from "Gone With The Wind"

6. I wrote you a letter for each day kiss in "The Notebook"

5. The spaghetti dog kiss in "Lady And The Tramp"

4. The "I'm The King Of The World" kiss in "Titanic"

3. The kiss everyone remembers from "Casablanca"

2. "My Girl" with the real kiss after practising on their arms!

1. It gets the number 1 spot for degree of difficulty! The upside down kiss!

 

By the way - the number 1 in our kiss kiss countdown is a cover... so you might like to vote for it as we celebrate covers in August... go to the retrocountdown.com.au home page to vote - and listen out for our countdowns of the biggest covers from each decade!

 

 

 

Right through August, we're celebrating the best covers of all time... looking back at the original versions of songs and playing the covers we remember best..

At the end of the month, I'll be playing the biggest covers as voted by you - so tell me your favourites now...http://www.retrocountdown.com.au/as-voted-by-you

And listen for the countdown of your best on the last Friday in August...

 

Between now and then, we'll play individual countdowns of the biggest covers of the 70's, 80's and 90's...

In our 70's covers - You'll hear the version of a Beatles song that John Lennon played on under the name Dr Winston O'Boogie...

 

And check this out... the song originally recorded in 1929 - and turned into a number 1 hit in the 70's - do you remember who did the cover?

 

So we start with the biggest covers of the 70's and move on to the 80's and 90's in coming weeks on the 20 20 Retro Countdown!

 

Here's an interesting fact - 1988 was the first year where CD's outsold vinyl for the first time..

So you might have bought the "Cocktail" movie sound track on LP or CD..
 that movie hit the cinema during the first week of August 1988...

And Kylie was on the charts with her first single since leaving Neighbours..