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Post by jlthorpe on Jul 10, 2024 18:30:18 GMT -5
Two songs from The Cure debuted and peaked at #70 on the July 12, 1980 Disco Top 100 chart - "Boys Don't Cry" and "Jumping Someone Else's Train". The songs were originally released as singles in the U.K. in 1979, and appeared on the American version of their debut album Three Imaginary Boys (titled Boys Don't Cry in the U.S.).
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Post by lasvegaskid on Jul 12, 2024 22:02:35 GMT -5
At its peak position of #50 on the Hot 100 this week in 1984, here's the band Genesis with "Taking It All Too Hard". NOTE: Over the next two weeks, I'll be doing a couple of special theme weeks in this thread, so keep an eye out for those. Genesis had lots of good songs and a few crummy ones become big hits in the 80s; hard to believe this barely scratched top 50.
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Post by jlthorpe on Jul 14, 2024 9:59:55 GMT -5
On the July 16, 1988 Hot 100, the first chart hit for Tony! Toni! Toné! - "Little Walter" - dropped from its peak of #47 to #56, although the song was a #1 hit on the Hot Black Singles chart that June.
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Post by dth1971 on Jul 14, 2024 16:32:28 GMT -5
Because 1980's health miser Richard Simmons passed away July 13, 2024 at the age of 76, I present this Lost 80's Classic of a song by Richard himself from his 1982 Reach album called "This Time", it was released as a 45 single but never made Billboard's Hot 100: www.youtube.com/watch?v=76SQglMmZZQ
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Post by lasvegaskid on Jul 16, 2024 13:28:03 GMT -5
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Post by jlthorpe on Jul 17, 2024 18:59:28 GMT -5
It's hard to believe this wasn't a bigger hit, considering the massive success of its film and the popularity of instrumental theme songs in the early 80s. But John Williams' "Theme from E.T. (The Extra-Terrestrial)" (also known as "Flying" on the soundtrack album), which debuted at #107 on the July 17, 1982 Bubbling Under chart, only peaked at #103 the following week.
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Post by jlthorpe on Jul 21, 2024 16:10:07 GMT -5
Covered by everyone from Carl Carlton in the 70s to Rex Smith/Rachel Sweet in the 80s to Gloria Estefan in the 90s, Robert Knight's 1967 hit "Everlasting Love" was recorded by U2 as a B-side to their single "All I Want Is You". On the Modern Rock Tracks chart for July 22, 1989, it climbed from #27 to #21, ultimately peaking at #11.
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Post by jlthorpe on Jul 24, 2024 19:32:15 GMT -5
In 1983, two versions of "You Are in My System" hit the Hot 100.
The first was by the song's original artist The System, four years before their Top 40 hit "Don't Disturb This Groove"; this one hit #64 in April.
It was soon covered by Robert Palmer, whose own version dropped from #86 to #95 on the July 23, 1983 chart after reaching #78 three weeks earlier.
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Post by jlthorpe on Jul 28, 2024 17:48:43 GMT -5
Spending its only week on the Bubbling Under chart at #109 for the week ending July 27, 1985, "The Perfect Kiss" by New Order would be their first single to hit a Billboard pop chart.
Live music video:
Full 12" single version:
Edited album version (from Low-Life):
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Post by dth1971 on Jul 29, 2024 7:57:39 GMT -5
For the 2024 Summer Olympics now taking place, here's a LOST 1980's CLASSIC by me. From the 1988 SUMMER OLYMPICS ALBUM (ties in with the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea), here's a track from the album by the Bee Gees called "Shape of Things to Come": www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyM0lGYUKxE
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Post by jlthorpe on Jul 31, 2024 18:14:30 GMT -5
One of Ozzy Osbourne's best known songs, "Crazy Train" (from his debut solo album Blizzard of Ozz) nevertheless only peaked at #106 on the Bubbling Under chart; for the week ending August 1, 1981 it was down a notch to #107.
Also from Blizzard of Ozz, here are the tracks "I Don't Know" and "Goodbye to Romance".
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Post by jlthorpe on Aug 4, 2024 16:31:24 GMT -5
This week in 1987 on the British singles chart, a-ha's theme song to the James Bond film The Living Daylights dropped from #17 to #30, four weeks after it peaked at #5.
A year later, the band re-recorded the song for their 1988 album Stay on These Roads.
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Post by jlthorpe on Aug 7, 2024 19:27:53 GMT -5
Debuting at #87 on the Disco Top 100 chart for August 9, 1980 was the Canadian new wave band Martha and the Muffins with both "Echo Beach" and "Paint by Number Heart", two songs they eventually took to #37.
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Post by dth1971 on Aug 7, 2024 20:00:05 GMT -5
Debuting at #87 on the Disco Top 100 chart for August 9, 1980 was the Canadian new wave band Martha and the Muffins with both "Echo Beach" and "Paint by Number Heart", two songs they eventually took to #37. They are the same group who made Billboard's Hot 100 in 1984 as M + M with "Black Stations - White Stations": www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_zIUv-4XTE
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Post by jlthorpe on Aug 11, 2024 16:44:15 GMT -5
From her self-titled debut album Melissa Etheridge, "Bring Me Some Water" rose to #26 on the August 13, 1988 Album Rock Tracks chart, eventually peaking at #10.
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