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Post by LC on Aug 11, 2024 17:51:34 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. Loved that song. At the time, I pegged her as the female answer to John Mellencamp.
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Post by dth1971 on Aug 12, 2024 20:30:43 GMT -5
The 2024 Paris Olympics have come to close, so here's a LOST 80's CLASSIC in honor: From the 1988 Summer Olympic Games Album, here's a track by Jennifer Holliday that would be covered a year later by Eddie Money, this is Jennifer's original version of "Peace in Our Time": www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekZhaHg-rEA
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Post by jlthorpe on Aug 14, 2024 19:41:22 GMT -5
Three songs in the Billboard Top 40 for August 14, 1982 were part of noteworthy medleys whose other portion didn't get pop chart recognition.
At #5 was Chicago's "Hard to Say I'm Sorry", but the single version did not include the second part of the song "Get Away" that was included on the album Chicago 16.
At #17 was "Tainted Love" by Soft Cell, often played as part of a medley with a cover of The Supremes' "Where Did Our Love Go", which was featured on the 12" single. The two songs did chart together on Billboard's Disco Top 80 chart, hitting #4 in February 1982. Here is "Where Did Our Love Go" as a standalone song.
And at #23 was Alan Parsons Project's "Eye in the Sky", but on the album of the same name the song "Sirius" segues into it. Eventually "Sirius" became popular on its own as a song played at North American sports games.
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Post by dth1971 on Aug 14, 2024 19:58:57 GMT -5
Three songs in the Billboard Top 40 for August 14, 1982 were part of noteworthy medleys whose other portion didn't get pop chart recognition. At #5 was Chicago's "Hard to Say I'm Sorry", but the single version did not include the second part of the song "Get Away" that was included on the album Chicago 16. At #17 was "Tainted Love" by Soft Cell, often played as part of a medley with a cover of The Supremes' "Where Did Our Love Go", which was featured on the 12" single. The two songs did chart together on Billboard's Disco Top 80 chart, hitting #4 in February 1982. Here is "Where Did Our Love Go" as a standalone song. And at #23 was Alan Parsons Project's "Eye in the Sky", but on the album of the same name the song "Sirius" segues into it. Eventually "Sirius" became popular on its own as a song played at North American sports games. I think the 9/11/1982 AT40 show where Lee Sherwood guest hosted for Casey played the full "Hard to Say I'm Sorry/Get Away" medley when Chicago's "Hard to Say I'm Sorry" was the #1 song that week.
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Post by jlthorpe on Aug 18, 2024 15:25:47 GMT -5
Steve Winwood's "Split Decision" from Back in the High Life climbed from #7 to #6 on the Album Rock Tracks chart this week in 1986, ultimately peaking at #3 in September.
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Post by LC on Aug 18, 2024 17:08:15 GMT -5
Steve Winwood's "Split Decision" from Back in the High Life climbed from #7 to #6 on the Album Rock Tracks chart this week in 1986, ultimately peaking at #3 in September. Some sharp guitar work from Joe Walsh on that track.
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Post by jlthorpe on Aug 21, 2024 18:50:53 GMT -5
On this week's Hot 100 from 1984, a country-tinged new wave band named Rubber Rodeo debuted at #90 with "Anywhere with You"; it only peaked four notches higher at #86, and was the act's only Hot 100 hit.
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Post by trekkielo on Aug 21, 2024 23:25:46 GMT -5
"Just an Illusion" by Imagination was a major European hit that peaked at #2 UK, then US #27 R&B, #15 Dance and #102 Bubbling Under on August 21, 1982. It's also the end title song of F/X starring Bryan Brown, Brian Dennehy, Diane Venora, Cliff DeYoung, Mason Adams, Jerry Orbach, Martha Gehman and Joe Grifasi.
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Post by retrodaddy on Aug 23, 2024 10:48:09 GMT -5
On this week's Hot 100 from 1984, a country-tinged new wave band named Rubber Rodeo debuted at #90 with "Anywhere with You"; it only peaked four notches higher at #86, and was the act's only Hot 100 hit. I first knew of them when I heard their song Souvenir on a Living in Oblivion 80s new wave compilation set I bought in 1993. I dig their sound.
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Aug 23, 2024 13:44:37 GMT -5
On this week's Hot 100 from 1984, a country-tinged new wave band named Rubber Rodeo debuted at #90 with "Anywhere with You"; it only peaked four notches higher at #86, and was the act's only Hot 100 hit. I first knew of them when I heard their song Souvenir on a Living in Oblivion 80s new wave compilation set I bought in 1993. I dig their sound. Those Living In Oblivion 80s compilations are awesome. I have all 5 volumes.
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Post by jlthorpe on Aug 25, 2024 14:47:22 GMT -5
I first knew of them when I heard their song Souvenir on a Living in Oblivion 80s new wave compilation set I bought in 1993. I dig their sound. Those Living In Oblivion 80s compilations are awesome. I have all 5 volumes. I have all of the Just Can't Get Enough new wave compilations Rhino put out. That's where I first heard "Anywhere with You" and a number of other favorites. Now, on to today's post... All three songs I posted today ended up being from soundtracks. "Superman" came from The Tao of Steve and Scrubs, "Would?" came from Singles, and this song came from Back to the Future. On the August 24, 1985 Top Rock Tracks chart, "Back in Time" by Huey Lewis and the News climbed from #11 to #5, and was a week away from reaching #3.
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Post by jlthorpe on Aug 28, 2024 19:10:05 GMT -5
The Hot 100 for August 30, 1980 contained two live versions of well-known classic rock staples.
The first one was at #41 as the B-side to Eric Clapton's "Tulsa Time". Originally from his 1977 album Slowhand, "Cocaine" came from the live album Just One Night (as did "Tulsa Time"), but unlike "Tulsa Time"'s #30 peak, this side did not achieve its own chart position.
The second debuted at #88, and while the original single hit #9 in 1970, "Lola" by The Kinks (from One for the Road) reached #81 this time around.
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Post by jlthorpe on Sept 1, 2024 14:17:57 GMT -5
After a three week stay at #1 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart, "Channel Z" by The B-52's from Cosmic Thing drops from #3 to #25 for the week ending September 2, 1989.
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Post by jlthorpe on Sept 4, 2024 18:43:56 GMT -5
It spent five weeks on the 60-position Top (Rock) Tracks chart but only managed a peak of #59, and for the week ending September 4, 1982, "Avalon" by Roxy Music was at position #60.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Sept 6, 2024 10:21:03 GMT -5
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