Known as the first rap chart hit in the UK and the US, The Sugarhill Gang peaked at UK#3 in December.
It was in the chart for the last time on this day in the 80s, at #59. It would return to the chart 3 times – in ’86 (as a double ‘A’ side), 89 (a new version) and ’04, but the combined high was only #58. The group’s only other hit was “The Lover In You”, a #54 in ’82.
It peaked at US#36, their first and biggest of 3 hits from ’79-’91
And You Don’t Stop
in the 80s 