Songs that (IMHO) deserved to be bigger hits

[jcs72]

From the Class of 1983, the year I got my first radio:


"Make Believe It's Your First Time" - The Carpenters (#101 pop/#7 AC)

"Hold Me 'Til The Morning Comes" - Paul Anka (#40 pop/#2 AC)

"Minimum Love" - Mac McAnally (#41 pop/#7 AC, previously mentioned)

"Front Page Story" - Neil Diamond (#65 pop/#5 AC)

"Innocent Eyes" - Michel Berger (did not make the top 100/#23 AC)

"Old And Wise" - Alan Parsons Project (did not make the top 100/#21 AC)

"You Haven't Heard The Last Of Me" - Peter Allen (did not make the top 100/#15 AC)

"Easy For You To Say" - Linda Ronstadt (#54 pop/#7 AC)

"What You Do To Me" - Carl Wilson (of the Beach Boys) (#72 pop/#20 AC)

"Some Kind Of Friend" - Barry Manilow (#26 pop/#1 AC)

"The Way He Makes Me Feel" - Barbra Streisand (#40 pop/#1 AC)

"Make Love Stay" - Dan Fogelberg (#29 pop/#1 AC)

"Always" - Firefall (#59 pop/#24 AC)

"Take The Short Way Home" - Dionne Warwick (#41 pop/#5 AC)

"All The Love In The World" - Dionne Warwick (#101 pop/#16 AC)

"Nights Are Forever" - Jennifer Warnes (#105 pop/#8 AC)

"Ophelia" - Jesse Colin Young (of Youngbloods fame) (did not chart neither pop nor AC)

"Smiling Islands" - Robbie Patton & Stevie Nicks (#52 pop/#16 AC)

"Mornin'"- (Al) Jarreau (#21 pop/#2 AC)

"Trouble In Paradise" - Al Jarreau (#63 pop/#10 AC)

"All My Life" - Kenny Rogers (#37 pop/#2 AC/#13 country)

"All Time High" - Rita Coolidge (#36 pop/#1 AC)


I guess it was my exposure to AC stations and not so much Top 40. This list does not consist of my favorite songs that should have charted higher; it is reflective of what I heard on the radio at the time.

[mga707]

Nov 30, 2012 2:10:29 GMT -5 jcs72 said:

Let's see ...

"Tiny Dancer" - Elton John, 1972 (#41 pop/#35 AC)

It's amazing, given the amount of airplay it still gets, that "Tiny Dancer" was Elton's only Uni/MCA/Rocket/Geffen single from 1971 until 1986 that did not make the top 40 on the Hot 100.

"More Than A Woman" - The Bee Gees, 1978 (didn't make the Top 100/#39 AC). And it gets played much more than Tavares' version, which actually charted.

As I recall, RSO made a decision not to release "More Than a Woman" commercially as a 7-inch single. Therefore, it could not chart on the Hot 100 even though it was receiving plenty of airplay as a "Fever" LP track.

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[lasvegaskid]

Heartache All Over The World, Elt #55 pop
You Win Again, BeeGees #75 pop

[winfield]

I always thought Patrice Rushen's 'Forget me nots', should charted higher pop, than #23!

[lasvegaskid]

Dobie Gray: You Can Do It #37
Exile: You Thrill Me #40

[lasvegaskid]

Laura Branigan: I Found Someone (#90) and Shattered Glass (#48)
Sergio Mendes: Olympia (#58) and Real Life
Peter Allen: You Haven't Heard The Last Of Me

[lasvegaskid]

Richard Carpenter: Something In Your Eyes

[mrjukebox]

"Question"-Moody Blues (#21) in 1970.

[canat40fan]

Edge of the Universe - Bee Gees (#26) in 1977

[lasvegaskid]

Don't Girls Get Lonely- Glenn Shorrock #69, 1983

[dukelightning]

"That's When the Music Takes Me"-Neil Sedaka #27.
Casey mentioned in this week's 70s show how Neil had a hand in 8 hits over the previous 12 months. This one was the only one of those that missed the top 20. Should have been a top 10 hit IMO.

[davewollenberg]

I thought that 'Mama used to say', from Junior, should've done better than only #30 pop.

[lasvegaskid]

Fantasy, EWF, #32 1978

[lasvegaskid]

Old Fashioned Boy, Stallion, #37, 1977

[lasvegaskid]

David Soul, Going In With My Eyes Open, #52, 1977