Billboard #1s for the Week Ending September 11, 1982

This week’s Time Capsule!

Chart	Song	Act	Weeks
Hot 100	Hard To Say I’m Sorry	Chicago	1
R & B	Jump to It	Aretha Franklin	2
Country	She Got the Goldmine (I Got the Shaft)	Jerry Reed	1
Adult Contemporary	Blue Eyes	Elton John	1
Rock	Everybody Wants You	Billy Squier	3
Album	American Fool	John Cougar	1

This week sees a very successful dance hit end its first run at #1. Keyboard whiz Vince Clarke — late of Depeche Mode — and soulful singer Alison Moyet formed Yazoo (known as Yaz in the U.S.) Their first single stateside was Situation, a Hot 100 disappointment at #73. It topped the Dance charts for four weeks, however, and gained some further crossover appeal hitting #31 on the R&B chart. Featuring some of Clarke’s most innovative keyboard work to that point and Moyet’s eerie laughter and driving vocal, it has remained an airplay staple; it has also been sampled many times, most notably in the monster hit Macarena. There were numerous remixes of the song as well, not unusual for dance hits. Besides the club mixes included in various 1982 releases, there were two more released mixes. Situation ’91 made a modest #46 showing on the Dance chart, but Situation ’99 made it back to #1 where it stayed for three weeks.