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Post by 1finemrg on Jun 3, 2017 5:43:45 GMT -5
Dave Edmunds wrote it and NRBQ famously covered it. So did this artist on her 1982 album "Green Light". Her rousing rendition was true to form. Unfortunately it only bubbled under for a couple of weeks. Still it's featured as the lost 80s classic from June 12, 1982. Me And The Boys - Bonnie Raitt
Featured as a lost 80s classic in 2014, we serve it up again in memory of his recent passing. The lost 80s classic from June 6, 1987 was spending its tenth and final week on the chart having peaked at #49. Contrary to what the title of this classic rock staple would indicate, I think there's some room for him on the good side of the afterlife. I'm No Angel - Gregg Allman Band
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Post by pb on Jun 3, 2017 14:40:43 GMT -5
Featured as a lost 80s classic in 2014, we serve it up again in memory of his recent passing. The lost 80s classic from June 6, 1987 was spending its tenth and final week on the chart having peaked at #49. Contrary to what the title of this classic rock staple would indicate, I think there's some room for him on the good side of the afterlife. I'm No Angel - Gregg Allman BandI would have thought this song made the top 20 considering how often I heard it then.
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Post by mga707 on Jun 3, 2017 15:24:16 GMT -5
Dave Edmunds wrote it and NRBQ famously covered it. So did this artist on her 1982 album "Green Light". Her rousing rendition was true to form. Unfortunately it only bubbled under for a couple of weeks. Still it's featured as the lost 80s classic from June 12, 1982. Me And The Boys - Bonnie Raitt
Featured as a lost 80s classic in 2014, we serve it up again in memory of his recent passing. The lost 80s classic from June 6, 1987 was spending its tenth and final week on the chart having peaked at #49. Contrary to what the title of this classic rock staple would indicate, I think there's some room for him on the good side of the afterlife. I'm No Angel - Gregg Allman BandTwo good ones!
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Post by 1finemrg on Jun 24, 2017 22:27:21 GMT -5
They are still selling out shows across their native Canada nearly fifty years later. From June 27, 1981, this lost 80s classic was the follow up to their third and final US Top 40 hit. It was at its #57 peak in the fifth of 8 weeks in the Hot 100. Kansas City, MO loved the song. It peaked at #2 on the KBEQ survey, higher than any peak position on Canadian radio station charts. Sign Of The Gypsy Queen - April Wine
Yes had reached the lowest rung of the Top 40 earlier in the year with a song that shared its title with this week's lost 80s classic. Unfortunately on June 25, 1988, this band would reach its #75 peak in their fourth week on the Hot 100. They would exit after 2 additional weeks. Dude! Scorps! Rhythm Of Love - Scorpions
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Post by mga707 on Jun 24, 2017 23:55:51 GMT -5
They are still selling out shows across their native Canada nearly fifty years later. From June 27, 1981, this lost 80s classic was the follow up to their third and final US Top 40 hit. It was at its #57 peak in the fifth of 8 weeks in the Hot 100. Kansas City, MO loved the song. It peaked at #2 on the KBEQ survey, higher than any peak position on Canadian radio station charts. Sign Of The Gypsy Queen - April Wine
Yes had reached the lowest rung of the Top 40 earlier in the year with a song that shared its title with this week's lost 80s classic. Unfortunately on June 25, 1988, this band would reach its #75 peak in their fourth week on the Hot 100. They would exit after 2 additional weeks. Dude! Scorps! Rhythm Of Love - ScorpionsLove the first one, have never cared for the second (or German rock in general)...
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Post by 1finemrg on Aug 26, 2017 21:54:03 GMT -5
After 2 Top 40 hits in the late 70s, it would be nearly two years before this band would have their third and final Hot 100 hit. The lost 80s classic from August 29, 1981 was one week from completing a 12 week chart run which just missed the Top 40 peaking at #42. Fly Away - Blackfoot
After making their first Top 40 appearance (#39) with "Runaway", Bon Jovi's next three singles fell short with each one peaking in a lower position than its predecessor. "She Don't Know Me" reached #48, "Only Lonely" peaked at #54, and this lost 80s classic from August 31, 1985 went to #69. In And Out Of Love - Bon JoviIt would be another 13 months before they would reach the Hot 100, but when they did it would be with "You Give Love A Bad Name".
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Post by bobbo428 on Oct 12, 2017 0:28:17 GMT -5
I have been writing a book about 1980s and 1990s music (the sequel to my 2016 book that I had self-published last year and covered 1955-79). This thread has been helpful in pointing me to songs I had forgotten about or had never heard back then. When the 1980s began, I was still in high school and an avid top-40 radio listener. By the end of the 1980s, I was not a big fan of pop radio because, as a 28-year-old, I wasn't into hair metal or salacious rap that was popular. As a result, I was tuning in to Dick Clark's "Countdown America" as often as Shadoe's AT40 or Casey's Top 40. Now I will go to the 1990s thread. Wish me luck on this book.
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Post by 1finemrg on Oct 12, 2017 5:50:03 GMT -5
She hoped lightning would strike when she released this lost 80s classic from October 19, 1980. Covering a Smokey Robinson tune from the 60s previously yielded a Top 10 hit for this artist. This time she turned to a #2 Box Tops hit from 1968 for inspiration. Its chart run was off to a good start at this point, reaching #52 after 3 weeks in the Hot 100. Sadly during her remaining 5 weeks she would get no higher than #44. Hopefully she didn't take a cue from the song's title. For her next trip up the Hot 100, she would cover a little-known tune co-written and originally sung by Jackie DeShannon in the 70s and turn it into the monster hit that defined her Hot 100 career. Cry Like A Baby - Kim Carnes
He doesn't pop up often on the lost classic threads, because the majority of Captain Fantastic's hits were major successes, but this one fell a little short of the Top 40. This lost 80s classic from October 19, 1986 would peak at #55 during an 8 week chart run. He was quoted in 2001 as saying it was the worst song he ever recorded. His "worst" is still better than someone else's best, a bit pedestrian for the time but not awful. Heartache All Over The World - Elton John
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Post by mga707 on Oct 12, 2017 10:08:45 GMT -5
That song and the LP it is from have 'contractural obligation' written all over them. After six or so years on Geffen MCA had lured him back to his original home with a big fat contract. Elton owed Geffen one more album, so he didn't put a lot into it.
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Post by dukelightning on Oct 12, 2017 10:44:06 GMT -5
^Good tidbit there. Explains why that album, Leather Jackets, did not produce any top 40 hits, ending a streak of 16 such albums for him. Have to go back to 1970's Tumbleweed Connection for the last Elt album with no top 40 hits on it.
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Post by mga707 on Oct 12, 2017 12:36:58 GMT -5
^Good tidbit there. Explains why that album, Leather Jackets, did not produce any top 40 hits, ending a streak of 16 such albums for him. Have to go back to 1970's Tumbleweed Connection for the last Elt album with no top 40 hits on it. True. Even 1979's "Victim Of Love", widely considered to be another such 'phone it in' LP, had a top 40 single in the title track. "Tumbleweed Connection", on the other hand, is a really good LP with some excellent songwriting by the Taupin/John duo. I think what happened with that one is that UNI Records (MCA) in America decided to go with the title song from the (really bad!) movie "Friends" as the follow-up single to "Your Song" rather than a track from the "TC" LP. Even so, "Country Comfort" and "Burn Down the Mission" did get quite a bit of airplay on FM 'album rock' stations and even some Top 40 stations in '71.
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Post by OldSchoolAT40Fan on Oct 14, 2017 15:23:20 GMT -5
Here is a lost 80s classic from 1987. It is a song that was later used in a commercial for Heinz ketchup, which I remember seeing on America's Top 10 during later 1987 or 1988. Eric Clapton performs in this song. It peaked at #77 in Summer or Fall 1987.
The song is "Jane's Getting Serious" by Jon Astley. And no, he's not related to Rick Astley. Great song, though.
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Post by OldSchoolAT40Fan on Oct 19, 2017 19:48:54 GMT -5
April Wine is one of my most favorite bands to come from Canada. I learned somewhere that this song likely made the Hot 100, though never made the U.S. top 40, but had sufficient airplay on MTV. I do recall hearing the song at school dances early in 1986, despite that the DJ focused heavily on music from summer or fall 1985.
From 1982, here is April Wine's "Enough is Enough":
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Post by mga707 on Oct 19, 2017 20:10:33 GMT -5
April Wine is one of my most favorite bands to come from Canada. I learned somewhere that this song likely made the Hot 100, though never made the U.S. top 40, but had sufficient airplay on MTV. I do recall hearing the song at school dances early in 1986, despite that the DJ focused heavily on music from summer or fall 1985. From 1982, here is April Wine's "Enough is Enough": Peaked at #50, August 1982. April Wine fan also.
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Post by 1finemrg on Nov 30, 2017 6:58:56 GMT -5
Contrary to popular belief, their name is derived from a Bob Dylan spoken ballad on his 1967 album "John Wesley Harding". Their only Hot 100 single is this week's lost 80s classic from December 4, 1982. The 2018 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nominees were spending their second consecutive week at their #67 peak position. It was the seventh of a 9 week total chart run. You've Got Another Thing Comin' - Judas Priest
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