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Post by jlthorpe on Mar 13, 2024 18:31:38 GMT -5
On the Top Rock Tracks chart for March 16, 1985, George Thorogood and the Destroyers debuted at #41 with "I Drink Alone", and eventually took the song to #13.
Also that same week, on the Hot 100 at #67, was the late Eric Carmen with "I Wanna Hear It from Your Lips", a lost classic despite being a Top 40 hit on both that chart (#35) and on Radio and Records' pop chart (#30).
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Post by lasvegaskid on Mar 13, 2024 23:03:49 GMT -5
During happier times, the guys were starting to Bubble this week in 1980. Their only other entry on that chart was 22 years later with Do It For Love. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQ-kNJm_964
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Post by lasvegaskid on Mar 15, 2024 20:30:15 GMT -5
The last Hot 100 week ever in 1985 for retooled Little River Band. Yacht Rock in the rearview mirror, they went full MTV being billed as just LRB. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WX_fK6P34dA
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Post by jlthorpe on Mar 17, 2024 9:33:22 GMT -5
With her last Hot 100 entry this week in 1986, Anne Murray climbed from #93 to peak at #92 with "Now and Forever (You and Me)".
As a funny aside, I remember hearing a song years ago with the lyric "Now and forever you are a part of me" and thought it was this Anne Murray song. After listening to it, I realized it wasn't the same one, so I looked up the lyrics and the song I remembered was "Now and Forever" by Carole King from 1992. Maybe I'll be posting that in the Lost 90s Classic thread at some point.
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Post by mga707 on Mar 17, 2024 12:02:04 GMT -5
As a funny aside, I remember hearing a song years ago with the lyric "Now and forever you are a part of me" and thought it was this Anne Murray song. After listening to it, I realized it wasn't the same one, so I looked up the lyrics and the song I remembered was "Now and Forever" by Carole King from 1992. Maybe I'll be posting that in the Lost 90s Classic thread at some point. "Now and Forever", from the 1992 film "A League Of Their Own", is a great song. One of King's best, IMO. An excellent song for a memorial service.
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Post by dth1971 on Mar 17, 2024 13:46:22 GMT -5
As a funny aside, I remember hearing a song years ago with the lyric "Now and forever you are a part of me" and thought it was this Anne Murray song. After listening to it, I realized it wasn't the same one, so I looked up the lyrics and the song I remembered was "Now and Forever" by Carole King from 1992. Maybe I'll be posting that in the Lost 90s Classic thread at some point. "Now and Forever", from the 1992 film "A League Of Their Own", is a great song. One of King's best, IMO. An excellent song for a memorial service. Here's another "Now and Forever" song not connected to Anne Murray or Carole King: Done by Air Supply from the album of the same name in 1982: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk5cU2vkca0
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Post by jlthorpe on Mar 20, 2024 18:41:52 GMT -5
During happier times, the guys were starting to Bubble this week in 1980. Their only other entry on that chart was 22 years later with Do It For Love. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQ-kNJm_964The same week that this song debuted and peaked on the Bubbling Under chart at #110 (March 22, 1980), Rush were holding at their peak position of #4 on the Top LPs and Tape chart with Permanent Waves. From the album is a track that did not chart on the Hot 100 but is one of their best known songs - "Freewill".
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Post by jlthorpe on Mar 24, 2024 11:07:25 GMT -5
At its peak position of #70 on the March 26, 1983 Hot 100 was "Walking in L.A." by Missing Persons. The song was their highest-charting hit on the Top (Rock) Tracks chart, reaching #12.
The B-side of the single was "Mental Hopscotch", a song originally released on their 1980 Missing Persons EP.
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Post by jlthorpe on Mar 27, 2024 20:30:10 GMT -5
"Weird Al" Yankovic's first song to hit Billboard's pop singles charts was at its peak of #104 on the Bubbling Under chart for March 28, 1981. "Another One Rides the Bus" was, of course, a parody of Queen's "Another One Bites the Dust", and was also the song Al performed on his first television appearance a month later on Tom Snyder's Tomorrow Coast to Coast.
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Post by jlthorpe on Mar 31, 2024 15:04:21 GMT -5
Bonnie Raitt's "Thing Called Love" from her album Nick of Time climbed from #34 to #27 on the Album Rock Tracks chart for April 1, 1989. Written and originally recorded by John Hiatt, the song eventually peaked at #11.
And coincidentally since today is Easter, here's another song from the same chart by a British duo named Easterhouse. "Come Out Fighting" dropped from its peak of #17 to #22; it also debuted at #91 on the Hot 100 that week and reached #82 two weeks later.
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Post by dth1971 on Apr 1, 2024 19:29:42 GMT -5
For April Fools Day 2024, here's a Lost 1980's classic I selected that's a 1986 dance novelty by Steinski and Mass Media spoofing TV commercials called "We'll Be Right Back (After This Word)": www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1lZ819y7V4Fact: 3 years later it was used as the opening and closing theme to a 1989 Nick at Nite TV special on classic TV commercials as you can watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws9egLD1vxs
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Post by jlthorpe on Apr 3, 2024 18:28:51 GMT -5
From the film Less than Zero and their first song to hit Billboard's R&B chart (then known as Hot Black Singles), Public Enemy's "Bring the Noise" had peaked at #56; for the week ending April 2, 1988 it was down to #94.
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Post by jlthorpe on Apr 7, 2024 15:24:20 GMT -5
"In My Dreams" wasn't Dokken's only song dealing with nighttime visions; up to its peak of #22 on the Album Rock Tracks chart for April 11, 1987 was "Dream Warriors" from the film A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors.
The runner-up from that chart: Paul Simon's "The Boy in the Bubble".
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Post by jlthorpe on Apr 10, 2024 19:09:30 GMT -5
The late leader of the British punk band Buzzcocks, Pete Shelley, was on the April 10, 1982 Dance/Disco Top 80 with two songs at #78. "I Don't Know What It Is" had reached #22 in February, but "Homosapien", in a separate chart run, climbed higher than that the previous November, to #14.
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Post by jlthorpe on Apr 14, 2024 14:46:07 GMT -5
Three songs by The Pretenders from their debut album Pretenders were climbing the Disco Top 100 chart together this week in 1980. Along with their Top 40 hit "Brass in Pocket (I'm Special)", "Mystery Achievement" and "Precious" were going from #74 to #63, and all three would peak at #28.
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