Question about IT

[dougray2]

So far IT has been very good. They may be leaving off a few songs but they are playing almost every top 40 hit, plus a few that didn't make the top 40. I hope they will replay IT again maybe over the Christmas holidays.

[mstgator]

pasha913 said:

Just curious as to what 1981 songs are missing that are difficult to obtain.

This is actually just a small sampling of songs that made the Top 40 in 1981 that don't appear on the IT list (I could compile a full list if I had more time):

Michael Stanley Band, "He Can't Love You"
Fred Knoblock & Susan Anton, "Killin' Time"
The Outlaws, "Riders In The Sky"
Firefall, "Staying With It"
Elvis Presley, "Guitar Man (1981 mix)"
John O'Banion, "Love You Like I Never Loved Before"
Don McLean, "Since I Don't Have You"
Pure Prairie League, "Still Right Here In My Heart"
Jim Photoglo, "Fool In Love With You"
Jesse Winchester, "Say What"
Carole Bayer Sager, "Stronger Than Before"
Lulu, "I Could Never Miss You"
Franke & The Knockouts, "You're My Girl"
Robbie Patton, "Don't Give It Up"
Stevie Woods, "Steal The Night"

Some of these songs made it into the mid-20s on the chart, so the only reason I can think of for them being left off is that XM wasn't able to find CD copies of them.

[Karstens]

mstgator said:

pasha913 said:

Just curious as to what 1981 songs are missing that are difficult to obtain.

This is actually just a small sampling of songs that made the Top 40 in 1981 that don't appear on the IT list (I could compile a full list if I had more time):

Michael Stanley Band, "He Can't Love You"
Fred Knoblock & Susan Anton, "Killin' Time"
The Outlaws, "Riders In The Sky"
Firefall, "Staying With It"
Elvis Presley, "Guitar Man (1981 mix)"
John O'Banion, "Love You Like I Never Loved Before"
Don McLean, "Since I Don't Have You"
Pure Prairie League, "Still Right Here In My Heart"
Jim Photoglo, "Fool In Love With You"
Jesse Winchester, "Say What"
Carole Bayer Sager, "Stronger Than Before"
Lulu, "I Could Never Miss You"
Franke & The Knockouts, "You're My Girl"
Robbie Patton, "Don't Give It Up"
Stevie Woods, "Steal The Night"

Some of these songs made it into the mid-20s on the chart, so the only reason I can think of for them being left off is that XM wasn't able to find CD copies of them.

I will contest some of these are hard to find on CD. I have yet to see "Steal The Night", "Don't Give It Up" & "Fool In Love With You" on CD. These are long out-of-print and never made to CD. Also, the Susan Anton album "Foxy" is only available as import from Japan.

I would suggest that they hire Joel Whitburn for every song that hit the Hot 100 for the vinyl source & Shannon Lynn for digital enhancements.

[bdpop]

Some of these have appeared on the Rhino series Radio Daze, which was a five volume set covering the early eighties, similar to the Have a Nice Day series. I do not know if these CD's are still available. Some of these titles were also released on Time-Life compilations.

[Karstens]

bdpop said:

Some of these have appeared on the Rhino series Radio Daze, which was a five volume set covering the early eighties, similar to the Have a Nice Day series. I do not know if these CD's are still available. Some of these titles were also released on Time-Life compilations.

Yes, Radio Daze collection...I really like those CDs many out-of-print songs saved by Rhino records volume 4 had "Killin' Time" & others from 1980.

[mstgator]

Yeah, I have the "Radio Daze" series... unfortunately it must not have been a big seller, as Rhino gave up after just five volumes (covering 1980-mid '81) and it's now out of print (the Fred Knoblock and John O'Banion songs were featured). As for some of the other songs, I was able to buy a near-mint 45 of the Jim Photoglo song off eBay for a couple of bucks, and got the Lulu and Carole Bayer Sager songs off a p2p service (I don't feel bad for illegally downloading them, since I couldn't find them available anywhere else).

[top40man]

I for one can tell you most all of ythe songsw from the 1980's are avalable on Cd as i have a compleate mini disc and collection of every top 40 hit of the 1980's plus every top 40 hitof thw `1980's on Cd in some format.

Michael Stanley Band, "He Can't Love You" (On a Michael stanly Band Best of)
Fred Knoblock & Susan Anton, "Killin' Time" (Radio Daze)
The Outlaws, "Riders In The Sky" (On an Outlaws Best Of)
Firefall, "Staying With It" (on a firefall best of)
Elvis Presley, "Guitar Man (1981 mix)" (On the comp Nippers greatest hits the 80's)
John O'Banion, "Love You Like I Never Loved Before" (Radio Daze)
Don McLean, "Since I Don't Have You" The origonal Cd is still in print and you can find it on his best of too
Pure Prairie League, "Still Right Here In My Heart"on there best of
Jim Photoglo, "Fool In Love With You" japanise origonal Cd is in print from amazon
Jesse Winchester, "Say What" A Jessire winchester best of is out there
Carole Bayer Sager, "Stronger Than Before" Her Origonal Lp is out there on Cd
Lulu, "I Could Never Miss You" a Great Lulu best of is out there
Franke & The Knockouts, "You're My Girl" A great frankie and the knockouts best of is out there
Robbie Patton, "Don't Give It Up" Import of origonal LP
Stevie Woods, "Steal The Night" I had to get a copy from eather P2P or a 45 so they might have had a hard tiome getting this one

here are a few more I never found on Cd

1 The beatles Movie medley - The beatles
2 Pop Goes The Movies - Meco
3 Boys do Fall In Love - Robin Gibb (*)
4 Shine Shine - Barry Gibb
5 Sugar don't Bite - Sam Harris
6 A Nite at the Paolo - hall and otes with kendricks and ruffen )Only a mega long 4 song lp medley exsists but i copyed it off the 45)
7.Holdin on - Tanie Caine
8 So Wr4ong - patrick Simmons
9. The Clapping Song - Pia zadora
10 Put it in a magazine - Sonny Charles

there are other but these are just a few


Michael Stanley Band, "He Can't Love You"
Fred Knoblock & Susan Anton, "Killin' Time"
The Outlaws, "Riders In The Sky"
Firefall, "Staying With It"
Elvis Presley, "Guitar Man (1981 mix)"
John O'Banion, "Love You Like I Never Loved Before"
Don McLean, "Since I Don't Have You"
Pure Prairie League, "Still Right Here In My Heart"
Jim Photoglo, "Fool In Love With You"
Jesse Winchester, "Say What"
Carole Bayer Sager, "Stronger Than Before"
Lulu, "I Could Never Miss You"
Franke & The Knockouts, "You're My Girl"
Robbie Patton, "Don't Give It Up"
Stevie Woods, "Steal The Night"

[mstgator]

Thanks, Nicky... I'll have to look for some of those (although the imports are generally out of my price range). Maybe you could get in contact with XM and fill in some of their blanks!

[spt72]

Regarding "Sugar Dont Bite" by Sam Harris...

I was a big Sam Harris fan in the 80s. for those who don't remember, he won the Male Vocalist of the Year category on Star Search in 1984 which was the same year Sawyer Brown (future country starts) won Best Group.

I have Sam Harris' first two post-Star Search pop albums (the first, which includes Sugar Dont Bite and his incredible version of Somewhere Over the Rainbow, on LP and cassette and his second album on cassette).

BUT... the "Sam Harris" (first) LP with SDB is going for $75 used on CD on Amazon as we speak. Ok, yes, that may be above the price range for someone wanting one song, but it is out there. I believe both fo those albums were released on CD in Asia.

But it IS available.

Maybe someone on this site could "creatively" put together an MP3 CD of al of these hard to find tunes that we could all trade for... maybe?