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Post by mrjukebox on May 24, 2022 10:10:27 GMT -5
I'd add "Shakedown" by Bob Seger to the 80's list.
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Post by 1finemrg on May 24, 2022 12:52:47 GMT -5
"Love You Inside Out" seems to be the big Bee Gees hit that's fallen through the cracks.) Heard "Love You Inside Out" on Chicago's Me-TV FM this morning. It's actually a low-powered UHF station that broadcasts east of the FM radio frequency (87.7 FM) If you're interested, they began streaming within the last year. Me-TV FM Link
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Post by matt on May 25, 2022 10:21:37 GMT -5
According to radioinsight.com/lost-factor/ these are some of the most obscure #1 songs: 1980s New Kids On The Block - I'll Be Loving You (Forever) Tiffany - Could've Been Vangelis - Chariots Of Fire Prince - Batdance Milli Vanilli - Girl I'm Gonna Miss You Stars On 45 - Stars On 45 Medley Debbie Gibson - Foolish Beat Jan Hammer - Miami Vice Theme Madonna - Who's That Girl George Michael - Monkey As with all these lists, most of the list is accurate while a few of the picks leaves you scratching your head. George Michael "Monkey" was one of the biggest hits off of Faith and was all over the radio and MTV during the summer of 1988 (if you were going to pick an obscure GM song, "One More Try" would be a much better fit for this list). Similar with "Who's That Girl", which may have been one of Madonna's lesser known hits but was the title song to her movie from the summer of 1987 and likewise got a ton of radio and MTV airplay.
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Post by mga707 on May 25, 2022 11:50:56 GMT -5
As with all these lists, most of the list is accurate while a few of the picks leaves you scratching your head. George Michael "Monkey" was one of the biggest hits off of Faith and was all over the radio and MTV during the summer of 1988 (if you were going to pick an obscure GM song, "One More Try" would be a much better fit for this list). Similar with "Who's That Girl", which may have been one of Madonna's lesser known hits but was the title song to her movie from the summer of 1987 and likewise got a ton of radio and MTV airplay. What you wrote is true, but I think these 'lost-factor' top 10s are more about #1 songs that are rarely heard today, rather than how much radio or other media played them at the time they were hits.
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Post by chrislc on May 25, 2022 14:05:41 GMT -5
I know more and more people were (probably justifiably) fed up with Barry's falsetto by Spring 1979, but, wow, Love You Inside Out was an amazingly good record. I wish we could go back in time and convince him to sing in his normal voice from 1975 on. Would they have been even bigger if he had?
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Post by retrodaddy on May 25, 2022 22:18:07 GMT -5
I thought it was odd to see Monkey on that list. I hear it somewhat regularly on classic hits stations. One More Try is definitely a more obscure #1.
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Post by matt on May 26, 2022 10:58:05 GMT -5
I'd add "Shakedown" by Bob Seger to the 80's list. "Shakedown" probably would be less of a "lost" hit if it had been performed by somebody who was a better fit for the song than Bob Seger. I really liked that song when it was out in 1987 and I actually thought Seger did a terrific job with it, but he took some heat for it and the song was criticized because it wasn't a typical Seger type cut. I personally thought it was a much better hit of his than songs like "American Storm" and "Even Now", two songs that will quickly get me to skip to the next song anytime I hear them.
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