|
|
Post by SFGuy on Dec 21, 2014 2:07:12 GMT -5
Holy nutsballs, really? Always thought of it as a lame white boy anthem. I hate that song so much! Sometimes When We Touch is an ALL TIME no, just no for me. Wow, never thought Dan Hill was black either and same here as we agree on "Sometimes When We Touch", although he did sort of redeem himself with "It's a Long Road" from the 1982 Sly Stallone film First Blood that started it all for Rambo!  What makes "Sometimes When We Touch" bad is that Manny Pacquiao sings it. If your ears could take it, check You Tube  Absolutely awful. |
|
|
|
Post by trekkielo on Jan 5, 2015 9:25:22 GMT -5
From this past weekend's 1976 AT40 year-end countdown show at #49 "Lowdown" by Boz Scaggs. |
|
|
|
Post by 80sfan on Jan 5, 2015 13:28:06 GMT -5
Wild Cherry - Play That Funky Music. Surprisingly, none of the band members are black.
|
|
|
|
Post by dukelightning on Jan 5, 2015 18:32:18 GMT -5
They sing...'play the funky music white boy'. Song came about because they were in a club once and a black man asked them, "Are you guys gonna play any funk/funky music?" Glad he asked!
|
|
|
|
Post by chrislc on May 22, 2016 23:57:15 GMT -5
OMG I just discovered another one.
Oh How Happy by Shades Of Blue
Amazing.
|
|
|
|
Post by freakyflybry on May 23, 2016 0:40:59 GMT -5
A current example is G-Eazy... surprised he's white!
|
|
|
|
Post by dth1971 on May 23, 2016 6:59:33 GMT -5
What about Teena Marie and Mariah Carey?
|
|
|
|
Post by at40nut on May 23, 2016 11:06:59 GMT -5
When I first heard Hervard's fave of 1983-Kajagoogoo's "Too Shy" (just kidding LOL), I thought Limahl was a black woman singing. In 1985, his solo hit "Never Ending Story", he got a little help from a female vocalist by the name of Beth Anderson, who sang backing vocals, helped offset that theory a little bit even if you didn't have MTV, which I didn't at the time.
|
|
|
|
Post by cursereversed on May 23, 2016 12:55:43 GMT -5
I'll go the other way around. Until I heard Casey's story about black British artists on the 1988 show that was played a couple of weeks ago I thought Maxine Nightingale was white.
|
|
|
|
Post by chrislc on May 23, 2016 21:04:22 GMT -5
|
|
|
|
Post by dukelightning on Jun 8, 2016 12:43:11 GMT -5
Not a known artist as Lisa Fischer was a one hit wonder. And her very soulful hit was "How Can I Ease the Pain", which I just heard on the AT40 from today's date in 1991.
|
|
|
|
Post by johnnywest on Jun 8, 2016 13:22:31 GMT -5
I had always assumed that Herbie Mann was black until I saw an album cover with him on it. Maybe I was picturing Herbie Hancock in my head.
|
|
|
|
Post by matt on Jun 8, 2016 15:10:28 GMT -5
Can't believe Vehicle by The Ides Of March hasn't been mentioned yet. As for womanly men, how about: Laughter In The Rain, which sounds like a lesbian love affair, and I Saw The Light. When I was younger, I thought both were by Anne Murray. I've always thought this about "Vehicle" by Ides of March along with "Laughter in the Rain" by Neil Sedaka and "I Saw the Light" by Todd Rundgren, speaking of womanly men, Smokey Robinson on "Being With You"! You could have told me Terri Gibbs' "Somebody's Knockin'" and "I Saw the Light" were sung by the same artist and I would've believed you. That being said, I really like "I Saw the Light"..."Somebody's Knockin'" not so much. The lyrics are the only reason I always assumed Terri was female. |
|
|
|
Post by jlthorpe on Jun 8, 2016 19:50:47 GMT -5
Not a known artist as Lisa Fischer was a one hit wonder. And her very soulful hit was "How Can I Ease the Pain", which I just heard on the AT40 from today's date in 1991. Are you saying she's black or white? From the pictures I've seen, she looks black to me. |
|
|
|
Post by dukelightning on Jun 9, 2016 6:43:59 GMT -5
I was going by the photo at the R&R charts site. Skin seems white to me but maybe that is the result of the lighting. Incidentally, Shadoe said later after playing Mariah Carey who is also listed in this thread although I thought she was half black and half white that Narada Michael Walder co-wrote and produced both songs ("I Don't Wanna Cry" and "How Can I Ease the Pain").
|
|
Absolutely awful.
