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Post by jlthorpe on Sept 11, 2022 15:46:21 GMT -5
R&B singer Debra Laws spent her last week on the Hot 100 with "Very Special" at #99 on the September 12, 1981 chart. The song features her brother Ronnie Laws on male vocals and peaked at #90 a week before; it was covered by Big Daddy Kane in 1993, as well as sampled by Jennifer Lopez/LL Cool J for "All I Have" in 2002.
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Post by jlthorpe on Sept 14, 2022 20:19:47 GMT -5
Spending three weeks total on the Hot 100, and at its peak of #87 during the middle of that chart run on September 14, 1985, was Depeche Mode's follow-up to the much more dominant hit "People Are People" - "Master and Servant".
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Post by jlthorpe on Sept 18, 2022 11:55:57 GMT -5
Kajagoogoo's only other Hot 100 hit besides the #5 "Too Shy" was its follow-up single. On the September 17, 1983 chart, "Hang on Now" was down to #99 in its fourth week but failed to hang on after that, having only reached #78 during its short stay.
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Post by jlthorpe on Sept 21, 2022 19:02:39 GMT -5
This song has probably become too pervasive in pop culture to really be a lost classic. Still, during its Hot 100 chart run, "Oh Yeah" by Yello only reached #51, peaking at that spot this week in 1987.
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Post by jlthorpe on Sept 25, 2022 10:55:42 GMT -5
Hard rock band Krokus became (according to Wikipedia) the first Swiss act to hit the Hot 100 when "Midnite Maniac" charted in 1984. This week that year, the song was up to #78 on its way to reaching #71.
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Post by jlthorpe on Sept 28, 2022 19:47:29 GMT -5
Debuting at #90 on this week's Hot 100 from 1988 was the follow-up to Tracy Chapman's "Fast Car". Ironically, "Talkin' 'bout a Revolution" had a much faster chart life than its predecessor, only climbing to #75 during a four-week run.
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Album version:
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Post by jlthorpe on Oct 2, 2022 11:45:37 GMT -5
Time for a spelling lesson. Two very similar songs were on the Billboard dance chart for October 1, 1983. At #77 was the British #2 hit "I.O.U." by Freeez; despite its success overseas and on the dance chart (where it went to #1 in July), the song only managed to score a #104 on the Bubbling Under chart stateside. Then at #79 was the New York duo Ēbn-Ōzn with "AEIOU Sometimes Y", the first single in the U.S. to be recorded entirely on a computer (according to Wikipedia); despite that extra credit, this one did not do as well as "I.O.U." on the dance chart, where it only got to #20.
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Post by jlthorpe on Oct 5, 2022 6:36:53 GMT -5
"Edie (Ciao Baby)" by The Cult debuted the previous week at its peak position of #93, and dropped to #97 this week in 1989; the band's tribute to model/actress Edie Sedgwick spent a total of four weeks on the Hot 100.
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Post by jlthorpe on Oct 9, 2022 10:16:55 GMT -5
The Tubes debuted at the top of the October 10, 1981 Bubbling Under chart with "Talk to Ya Later", but the follow-up to the Top 40 "Don't Want to Wait Anymore" didn't even make it to the Hot 100, and #101 was as high as it got.
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Post by mga707 on Oct 9, 2022 11:19:59 GMT -5
The Tubes debuted at the top of the October 10, 1981 Bubbling Under chart with "Talk to Ya Later", but the follow-up to the Top 40 "Don't Want to Wait Anymore" didn't even make it to the Hot 100, and #101 was as high as it got. Remember them performing this song around this time in 1981 on "SCTV Network 90" on a Friday night on NBC. And they got to go fishing with Gil Fisher, the Fishing Musician (the late, great John Candy).
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Post by jlthorpe on Oct 12, 2022 19:50:32 GMT -5
In their second week on the Hot 100 (October 12, 1985), British band Marillion climbed from #89 to #82 with "Kayleigh". But #74 would be the final destination for this band's only pop chart hit.
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Post by jlthorpe on Oct 16, 2022 11:33:34 GMT -5
Mariah Carey would sample this song for her #1 Hot 100 hit "Heartbreaker" in 1999. But on today's chart date in 1982, "Attack of the Name Game" by Stacy Lattisaw was debuting at #86 on its way to #70.
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Post by mga707 on Oct 16, 2022 12:00:47 GMT -5
Mariah Carey would sample this song for her #1 Hot 100 hit "Heartbreaker" in 1999. But on today's chart date in 1982, "Attack of the Name Game" by Stacy Lattisaw was debuting at #86 on its way to #70. Unlike Shirley Ellis' original 1965 "Name Game", there's no problem with 'Chuck' on this one.
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Post by jlthorpe on Oct 19, 2022 19:52:19 GMT -5
Going to Billboard's Album Rock Tracks chart for this week in 1987, Joe Cocker moves from #49 to #34 in his second week with a song he brought to #11 there but did not reach the Hot 100 with - "Unchain My Heart".
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Post by jlthorpe on Oct 23, 2022 11:46:00 GMT -5
Spending its last week on the Hot 100 at #94 for the week ending October 25, 1980, "Turn It On Again" by Genesis reached a peak of #58 during an eight-week run.
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