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Post by dth1971 on Nov 17, 2022 6:26:42 GMT -5
Parodying "Born in the U.S.A." by Bruce Springsteen as well as "I Love L.A." by Randy Newman, Cheech and Chong returned to the Hot 100 after an almost eight year absence with a song that inspired the 1987 film of the same name starring Cheech Marin - "Born in East L.A." On the November 16, 1985 Hot 100, the #48 peaker was down from #74 to #79. Casey Kasem played a portion of "Born in East L.A.", then had this to say on American Top 40 from January 18, 1986, "Now a tale plucked from the pages of rock history back before the boss was the boss, it's Clarence Clemons story of his first official performance as a member of Bruce Sprinsteen's band, it was in November of 1972 in York, Pennsylvania, Bruce Springsteen and his band were newcomers, and they'd just gotten their first booking as opening act for one of the hottest acts of the early 70's, the comedy duo of Cheech & Chong, and Clarence Clemons remembers that there'd been a misunderstanding with the promoters, they thought Bruce Springsteen was a solo act, a folk singer, well at that performance Clarence says quote, they're expecting a folk singer and Bruce walks in with a 5-man band, electric guitar, organ, bass, drums and sax, full blown rock and roll, next thing you know Cheech & Chong's manager backstage says, if this guy ain't off the stage by the next song, I'm taking Cheech & Chong out of here, so we played two and a half songs, and that was the first real show Bruce and I played together, end of quote from saxman Clarence Clemons, Clarence told us recently he ran into Cheech of Cheech & Chong and they laughed about the whole thing, and ironically just a few months ago Cheech & Chong were on the Hot 100 chart with Born in East L.A., their parody of Born in the U.S.A., by the man who 13 years ago was their opening act, Bruce Springsteen, what comes around goes around, or something like that, this week Bruce Springsteen and Clarence Clemons are both in our countdown, we heard the big man at #18 with You're a Friend of Mine, now here's the boss at #11 with My Hometown" PS-It reminds me of Bob's Country Bunker in The Blues Brothers from 1980! Cheech and Chong did hit AT40 territory 3 times in 1973-1974 with "Basketball Jones", "Sister Mary Elephant", and "Earache My Eye".
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Post by jlthorpe on Nov 20, 2022 12:33:38 GMT -5
Performing as The Reddings, the sons of Otis Redding (Dexter and Otis III) climbed to #92 on the November 22, 1980 Hot 100 with "Remote Control" after a #94 debut the previous week. Despite only peaking at #89, the song spent a total of 13 weeks on the chart.
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Post by jlthorpe on Nov 23, 2022 20:29:11 GMT -5
Five years before Hi-Five hit the Top 10 with "I Can't Wait Another Minute", the British family quintet Five Star hit the Hot 100 with the similarly named "Can't Wait Another Minute". Just missing the Top 40 by peaking at #41 during a 14-week run (and coincidentally, 4 + 1 = 1 + 4 = 5), the group dropped 14(!) notches from #43 to #57 on the November 22, 1986 chart.
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Post by jlthorpe on Nov 27, 2022 10:10:29 GMT -5
Debuting on the November 26, 1983 Hot 100 at #85 and climbing to #76 the following week, "This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)" by Talking Heads did not reach the Top 10 or even the Top 40 as the band's previous hit "Burning Down the House" did; instead, the song found its home at #62.
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Post by jlthorpe on Nov 30, 2022 20:32:54 GMT -5
Turning to Billboard's Adult Contemporary chart for this week in 1987, Carly Simon's "The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of" was down to #46 after having climbed to #8.
And in honor of the late Christine McVie, debuting at #37 on the same chart was the McVie-penned and sung "Everywhere" from Fleetwood Mac's Tango in the Night album. The song reached #1 on the chart, staying there for three weeks, and also hit #14 on the Hot 100.
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Post by jlthorpe on Dec 4, 2022 17:49:56 GMT -5
While its third season was airing on ABC, the "Theme from Dynasty" by Rocky composer Bill Conti was on the Hot 100. On the December 4, 1982 chart, it climbed from #63 to #57, but it would only get up to #52. I'm not sure if the first song listed below was the actual single version (it matches the running time listed in Joel Whitburn's Pop Annual, but is very synth-y and not at all like how it sounded on the series itself), but one of the versions heard on the show is included as well.
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Post by jlthorpe on Dec 7, 2022 20:28:56 GMT -5
This week in 1988, the supergroup Traveling Wilburys reached their peak of #45 on the Hot 100 with "Handle with Care". Despite the star power of Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison, and Tom Petty, this was the band's highest-charting single, and their only other Hot 100 song (the previously-posted "End of the Line") would peak at #63.
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Post by jlthorpe on Dec 11, 2022 17:29:53 GMT -5
Although the Canadian band Red Rider charted three songs on the Hot 100 and Bubbling Under charts ("White Hot", "Don't Fight It", and "Young Thing, Wild Dreams (Rock Me)"), their best-known song didn't appear on either. In fact, its only pop chart appearance was in Record World, where it reached #120 on their Bubbling Under equivalent, Singles 101-150. The song - "Lunatic Fringe" - did appear on Billboard's Top Tracks rock chart, where it was at #12 in the December 12, 1981 issue, one notch away from its peak position of #11.
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Post by 80sat40fan on Dec 11, 2022 17:40:29 GMT -5
^ If the lead singer of Red Rider looks familiar, he's Tom Cochrane. Tom hit the Top 40 10 1/2 years later as a solo artist with the #6 hit, "Life Is A Highway".
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Post by jlthorpe on Dec 14, 2022 20:48:12 GMT -5
Before the '80s ended, Eric Clapton managed to score one more Hot 100 hit with "Pretending". Featuring Chaka Khan on backing vocals, "Pretending" was at its peak of #55 on the December 16, 1989 chart. That same week, it was spending its fourth of six weeks at #1 on Album Rock Tracks, becoming the last #1 of the '80s on that chart.
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Post by jlthorpe on Dec 18, 2022 11:45:45 GMT -5
A #15 hit on the U.K. singles chart during Christmas 1983, The Pretenders' original Christmas song "2000 Miles" was released in the U.S. as the B-side to "Middle of the Road", and on their album Learning to Crawl. As a bonus, I'm also including the band's cover of the holiday standard "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" from 1987's A Very Special Christmas, omitted during last year's week-long posting of songs from the album.
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Post by jlthorpe on Dec 21, 2022 19:31:08 GMT -5
Recorded as a style parody of the Christmas music produced by Phil Spector in the '60s, "Christmas at Ground Zero" was released on "Weird Al" Yankovic's album Polka Party! in 1986.
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Post by jlthorpe on Dec 25, 2022 16:30:29 GMT -5
Merry Christmas! From their 1984 holiday album Once Upon a Christmas, "A Christmas to Remember" by Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton shared its name with the TV special Kenny & Dolly: A Christmas to Remember, which aired during December of that year. Included are the song as well as the video which appeared as part of that TV special.
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Post by jlthorpe on Dec 28, 2022 19:08:50 GMT -5
An appropriate song to get people's minds off the cold of winter, "Hot Hot Hot" by Buster Poindexter (really David Johansen from the 70s punk act New York Dolls) and His Banshees of Blue was up to #67 on the December 26, 1987 Hot 100. Despite being released as a single in June 1987 according to Wikipedia, the song (a cover of a 1984 British hit by Montserratian musician Arrow) did not chart until December, and only reached #45 during the middle of February 1988. Maybe it would have been better off as a summer hit.
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Post by jlthorpe on Dec 31, 2022 12:25:23 GMT -5
Here's a list of every song I posted in this thread in 2022.
January 2 - 1980 - The Flying Lizards - "Money" January 5 - 1988 - Dokken - "Burning Like a Flame" January 9 - 1982 - Steve Carlisle - "WKRP in Cincinnati", Jim Ellis - "WKRP in Cincinnati End Credits" January 12 - 1989 - Basia - "New Day for You" January 16 - 1981 - Queen - "Flash's Theme aka Flash" January 19 - 1985 - Whodini - "Friends"/"Five Minutes of Funk" January 23 - 1984 - Toni Basil - "Over My Head" January 26 - 1987 - a-ha - "Cry Wolf" January 30 - 1983 - Rachel Sweet - "Voo Doo" February 2 - 1986 - Oingo Boingo - "Just Another Day" February 6 - 1980 - The Boomtown Rats - "I Don't Like Mondays" February 9 - 1988 - Depeche Mode - "Never Let Me Down Again" February 13 - 1981 - Ultravox - "Vienna" February 16 - 1985 - Deep Purple - "Knocking at Your Back Door" February 20 - 1982 - AC/DC - "Let's Get It Up" February 23 - 1989 - Marc Almond - "Tears Run Rings" February 27 - 1983 - Berlin - "Sex (I'm A...)" March 2 - 1986 - Divinyls - "Pleasure and Pain" March 6 - 1980 - The Buggles - "Living in the Plastic Age" March 9 - 1987 - Lone Justice - "Shelter" March 13 - 1984 - Mötley Crüe - "Looks That Kill" March 16 - 1985 - UTFO - "Roxanne, Roxanne", Roxanne Shante - "Roxanne's Revenge", The Real Roxanne with UTFO - "The Real Roxanne" March 20 - 1981 - The Pretenders - "Message of Love" March 23 - 1989 - Carly Simon - "Let the River Run" March 27 - 1982 - The Cars - "Since You're Gone" March 30 - 1988 - Kingdom Come - "Get It On" April 3 - 1980 - Vaughan Mason and Crew - "Bounce, Rock, Skate, Roll Pt. 1" April 6 - 1986 - Ozzy Osbourne - "Shot in the Dark" April 10 - 1983 - Wall of Voodoo - "Mexican Radio" April 13 - 1987 - Paul Lekakis - "Boom Boom (Let's Go Back to My Room)" April 17 - 1984 - Adam Ant - "Strip" April 20 - 1989 - Melissa Etheridge - "Similar Features" April 24 - 1981 - Rush - "Limelight" April 27 - 1985 - Kurtis Blow - "Basketball" May 1 - 1982 - Devo - "Through Being Cool" May 4 - 1988 - The World Class Wreckin' Cru - "Turn Off the Lights" May 8 - 1980 - Pink Floyd - "Mother" May 11 - 1987 - Tesla - "Little Suzi" May 15 - 1981 - Michael Jackson - "One Day in Your Life" May 18 - 1989 - The Replacements - "I'll Be You" May 22 - 1983 - The Belle Stars - "Sign of the Times" May 25 - 1985 - The Hooters - "All You Zombies" May 29 - 1984 - "Weird Al" Yankovic - "King of Suede" June 1 - 1986 - The Psychedelic Furs - "Pretty in Pink" (1986 version) June 5 - 1982 - The Jam - "Town Called Malice" June 8 - 1988 - The Smithereens - "Only a Memory" June 12 - 1981 - Joe Dolce - "Shaddap You Face" June 15 - 1987 - Bruce Willis - "Under the Boardwalk" June 19 - 1980 - Van Halen - "And the Cradle Will Rock..." June 22 - 1989 - R.E.M. - "Pop Song 89" June 26 - 1983 - Bananarama - "Shy Boy (Don't It Make You Feel Good)" June 29 - 1986 - INXS - "Listen Like Thieves" July 3 - 1982 - Squeeze - "Black Coffee in Bed" July 6 - 1988 - Kool Moe Dee - "Wild, Wild West" July 10 - 1984 - Def Leppard - "Bringin' On the Heartbreak" (remix), "Bringin' On the Heartbreak" (original version) July 13 - 1985 - Patti LaBelle - "Stir It Up" July 17 - 1981 - Loverboy - "The Kid Is Hot Tonite" July 20 - 1989 - Rob Base and D.J. E-Z Rock - "Joy and Pain" July 24 - 1980 - Maze featuring Frankie Beverly - "Joy and Pain" July 27 - 1987 - Poison - "I Want Action" July 31 - 1982 - Glenn Frey - "Partytown" August 3 - 1986 - New Edition - "With You All the Way" August 7 - 1988 - Cyndi Lauper - "Hole in My Heart (All the Way to China)" August 10 - 1984 - Scorpions - "Still Loving You" August 14 - 1983 - The Plimsouls - "A Million Miles Away" August 17 - 1985 - John Fogerty - "Centerfield" August 21 - 1980 - Split Enz - "I Got You" August 24 - 1986 - Prince and The Revolution - "Anotherloverholenyohead" August 28 - 1982 - Grand Master Flash and the Furious Five featuring: Melle Mel and Duke Bootee - "The Message" August 31 - 1989 - The Call - "Let the Day Begin" September 4 - 1984 - A Flock of Seagulls - "The More You Live, the More You Love" September 7 - 1988 - The Primitives - "Crash" September 11 - 1981 - Debra Laws - "Very Special" September 14 - 1985 - Depeche Mode - "Master and Servant" September 18 - 1983 - Kajagoogoo - "Hang on Now" September 21 - 1987 - Yello - "Oh Yeah" September 25 - 1984 - Krokus - "Midnite Maniac" September 28 - 1988 - Tracy Chapman - "Talkin' 'bout a Revolution" October 2 - 1983 - Freeez - "I.O.U.", Ēbn-Ōzn - "AEIOU Sometimes Y" October 5 - 1989 - The Cult - "Edie (Ciao Baby)" October 9 - 1981 - The Tubes - "Talk to Ya Later" October 12 - 1985 - Marillion - "Kayleigh" October 16 - 1982 - Stacy Lattisaw - "Attack of the Name Game" October 19 - 1987 - Joe Cocker - "Unchain My Heart" October 23 - 1980 - Genesis - "Turn It On Again" October 26 - 1986 - Far Corporation - "Stairway to Heaven" October 30 - 1988 - Siouxsie and the Banshees - "Peek-a-Boo" November 2 - 1984 - Kiss - "Heaven's on Fire" November 6 - 1982 - Talk Talk - "Talk Talk" November 9 - 1989 - Pajama Party - "Over and Over" November 13 - 1981 - Devo - "Beautiful World" November 16 - 1985 - Cheech and Chong - "Born in East L.A." November 20 - 1980 - The Reddings - "Remote Control" November 23 - 1986 - Five Star - "Can't Wait Another Minute" November 27 - 1983 - Talking Heads - "This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)" November 30 - 1987 - Carly Simon - "The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of", Fleetwood Mac - "Everywhere" December 4 - 1982 - Bill Conti - "Theme from Dynasty" (single version), "Theme from Dynasty" (television version) December 7 - 1988 - Traveling Wilburys - "Handle with Care" December 11 - 1981 - Red Rider - "Lunatic Fringe" December 14 - 1989 - Eric Clapton - "Pretending" December 18 - 1983 - The Pretenders - "2000 Miles", "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" (1987) December 21 - 1986 - "Weird Al" Yankovic - "Christmas at Ground Zero" December 25 - 1984 - Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton - "A Christmas to Remember" December 28 - 1987 - Buster Poindexter and His Banshees of Blue - "Hot Hot Hot"
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