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Post by Michael1973 on Apr 3, 2021 13:33:10 GMT -5
From 1984, it's a song that was the follow-up to this artist's only Top 40 hit, "Let the Music Play". Debuting on the Hot 100 this week at #71, it would go on to peak at #46. Here's Shannon with "Give Me Tonight". My local CHR played this a lot in the 1990s during an era where their selection of older songs was very odd and random.
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Post by jlthorpe on Apr 4, 2021 15:10:13 GMT -5
Today's song comes from 1985, and a British dance/new wave band. While their only Top 40 hit "Relax" was at #26 on the Hot 100 this week, this song was debuting at #84, but it would only get to #48. Here's Frankie Goes to Hollywood with "Welcome to the Pleasuredome".
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Post by jlthorpe on Apr 11, 2021 15:06:28 GMT -5
From this week's Hot 100 in 1986, it's a solo country hit by one half of the duo England Dan and John Ford Coley. At #63 this week, it previously peaked at #42 in March. Here's Dan Seals with "Bop".
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Post by jlthorpe on Apr 18, 2021 10:53:00 GMT -5
From 1987, it's a song that was the follow-up to this group's previous Top 40 hits, "Walk This Way" and "You Be Illin'". At #66 on the Hot 100 this week, it peaked at #57 the previous week. Here's Run-D.M.C. with "It's Tricky".
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Post by jlthorpe on Apr 25, 2021 16:37:53 GMT -5
From this week in 1988, it's a song that was spending its second of two weeks at its peak position of #84 on the Hot 100. Here's Sting with "Englishman in New York".
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Post by jlthorpe on May 2, 2021 10:37:34 GMT -5
From 1989, here's the third single released from the album "Rattle and Hum" (following the Top 40 hits "Desire" and "Angel of Harlem"). It was at #77 on the Hot 100 this week that year, falling from its peak of #68 the week before. Here's U2 with B.B. King with "When Love Comes to Town".
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Post by jlthorpe on May 9, 2021 17:33:31 GMT -5
At #78 on the Hot 100 this week in 1982, today's song would go on to peak at #62 two weeks later. From The Waitresses, here's their only Hot 100 hit "I Know What Boys Like".
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Post by jlthorpe on May 16, 2021 16:42:27 GMT -5
On the Hot 100 at #68 this week in 1983, it's a song that was a week away from its peak of #63. With Tress MacNeille as the voice of Lucy, here's the first Hot 100 hit for "Weird Al" Yankovic - a parody of Toni Basil's "Mickey" and the TV show "I Love Lucy" called "Ricky".
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Post by jlthorpe on May 23, 2021 16:47:09 GMT -5
At #79 on this week's Hot 100 in 1980, and two weeks away from peaking just one notch higher at #78, here's a British new wave duo called The Motors with their only chart hit in the U.S., "Love and Loneliness".
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Post by jlthorpe on May 30, 2021 15:01:57 GMT -5
Today's song from 1985 came close to hitting the Top 40 in Billboard, peaking at #42, but this week that year it was only at #53 on the Hot 100. Here's Gino Vannelli with "Black Cars".
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Post by dth1971 on May 30, 2021 19:45:40 GMT -5
Today's song from 1985 came close to hitting the Top 40 in Billboard, peaking at #42, but this week that year it was only at #53 on the Hot 100. Here's Gino Vannelli with "Black Cars". This is not to be confused with around the same time a song by Autograph called "Blondes in Black Cars", I guess.
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Post by jlthorpe on May 30, 2021 20:17:23 GMT -5
Today's song from 1985 came close to hitting the Top 40 in Billboard, peaking at #42, but this week that year it was only at #53 on the Hot 100. Here's Gino Vannelli with "Black Cars". This is not to be confused with around the same time a song by Autograph called "Blondes in Black Cars", I guess. Not familiar with that song, but I assume it's a different one.
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Post by dth1971 on May 30, 2021 20:32:47 GMT -5
This is not to be confused with around the same time a song by Autograph called "Blondes in Black Cars", I guess. Not familiar with that song, but I assume it's a different one. Here's what the Autograph song "Blondes in Black Cars" is like: www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1LmAxynPuQ
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Post by jlthorpe on Jun 6, 2021 15:43:09 GMT -5
Beginning this week, I'll be posting in this thread twice a week just like with the 90s and 2000s threads.
From 1981, it's the title song from the album that produced this band's last Top 10 hit in the U.S., "The Winner Takes It All". At #86 on the Hot 100 this week that year, it only reached #45. Here's ABBA with "Super Trouper".
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Post by jlthorpe on Jun 9, 2021 9:45:37 GMT -5
At #84 on the Hot 100 this week in 1984, down from its peak of #47 a month earlier, it's a funk act best known for their Top 10 hit "Word Up". Here's Cameo with "She's Strange".
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