This was the second successive UK #1 for Blondie, in May 1979, just a few months after Heart Of Glass.
mp3 : Blondie – Sunday Girl
mp3 : Blondie – Sunday Girl (French Version)
mp3 : Blondie – I Know But I Don’t Know
They didn’t get the hat-trick however, as the next release, Dreaming stalled at #2 some 17 months later.
But Blondie would go on to enjoy another three #1 hits in 1980, making them, without question, the most commercially successful band of the era.
And with the unexpected success of Maria, they would also go on to have a sixth song reach #1 come 1999. Not sure if nineteen years between #1 singles is some sort of record or not….particularly when it involves a new and not re-released song. Can’t be bothered looking it up though.
Oh and it was pure chance that a band from NYC was scheduled to feature the day after I found the space for the lastest treat from JTFL and Echorich.
THE NEW VINYL VILLAIN 
Not that disposable JC if it can still be listened to 37 years later.
Agree about the A-side. The B-side is another story. Chrysalis was a crap label that just coupled album tracks on 7″s. “I know But I Don’t Know” is a track from Parallel Lines, but it’s a great song and the ONLY one of the band’s releases written solely by its under-appreciated guitar hero, Frank Infante.
In the UK, the record between No. 1 songs goes to The Hollies but with a caveat. It was 23 years between their first top hit “I’m Alive” in 1965 and their next top hit, the re-release of “He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother” in 1988.A re-release seems like a cheap parlor trick, especially given it was a hit the first time around, but that’s the official word.Sunday Girl, Heart of Glass, Dreaming and Maria are all tops in my book.
Blondie during their “can do no wrong” Era. Something to really appreciate.
I think Dreaming was a bit closer than 17 months after Sunday Girl as it preceded the late ’79 release of the Eat To The Beat album. 2 singles that I’ve never fallen out of love with.