Your favorite songs from this weekend's 70s/80s shows

[listenerwants2know]

5/19/84:

John Cougar Mellencamp - The Authority Song
Mike Reno & Ann Wilson - Almost Paradise
Steve Perry - Oh, Sherrie
The Go-Go´s - Head Over Heels
Tracey Ullman - They Don´t Know

A special show for Ascension of Christ (5/18/2023):

7/18/87 (guest-host: Charlie Van Dyke):

Fleetwood Mac - Seven Wonders
Gloria Estefan & Miami Sound Machine - Rhythm Is Gonna Get You
Kenny G - Songbird
Level 42 - Lessons In Love
Robbie Nevil - Wot´s It To Ya

Ö3 Music Holiday on Ascension of Christ

On this music holiday, there´s nothing on Ö3 but the greatest rock classics in Ö3 history from AC/DC to ZZ Top, from Avril Lavigne to Nirvana and from Guns N´ Roses to Linkin Park. These are Austria´s favorite hits with lots of guitar and drums.
Matching my "AT40 Rock" editions:

5/19/84:

Rick Springfield - Love Somebody
Scorpions - Rock You Like A Hurricane
Slade - Run, Runaway
Van Halen - I´ll Wait
Van Stephenson - Modern Day Delilah

7/18/87 (guest-host: Charlie Van Dyke):

Bruce Hornsby & The Range - Every Little Kiss
Bryan Adams - Hearts On Fire
Heart - Alone
Mötley Crüe - Girls, Girls, Girls
Pseudo Echo - Funkytown

Time for an extra: Break Machine

Break Machine was a US rap/hip-hop ensemble of the 1980s. It consisted of musician and rapper Keith Rodgers, the group´s frontman, and producers Jacques Morali and Henri Belolo - the team behind Village People.

Break Machine was personified by break dancers Lindsay Blake, Lindell Blake and Cortez Jordan. They are named "Break Machine" under an early photo in the then trade magazine Cashbox (3/10/84) and are also listed as "Break Machine" on the record sleeves. Lindell Blake now lives in Las Vegas and is a dancer, singer and choreographer. He has been a dancer in videos of Michael Jackson and has doubled a stunt for Eddie Murphy. He has also worked on cruise ships and for television and theater.

The whistle-like hookline so characteristic of this track is still regularly covered today, for example by Scooter, the breakdance troupe Flying Steps and the Southside Rockers.




from my musical category "daydreamer"
My motto: "Not always the often heard hits.

[seminolefan]

My faves from 05/25/1985:

Everything She Wants - Wham!
Don't You (Forget About Me) - Simple Minds
Everybody Wants To Rule The World - Tears For Fears
Axel F - Harold Faltermeyer
Smooth Operator - Sade
Crazy For You - Madonna
One Night In Bangkok - Murray Head
Suddenly - Billy Ocean
Some Like It Hot - The Power Station
Things Can Only Get Better - Howard Jones
Fresh - Kool & The Gang
Heaven - Bryan Adams
In My House - The Mary Jane Girls
We Are The World - USA For Africa
Just a Gigolo / I Ain't Got Nobody - David Lee Roth
Rhythm Of The Night - DeBarge
Walking On Sunshine - Katrina & The Waves
Don't Come Around Here No More - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Angel - Madonna
New Attitude - Patti LaBelle
Smuggler's Blues - Glenn Frey
Sussudio - Phil Collins
Obsession - Animotion
Never Ending Story - Limahl
The Search Is Over - Survivor
All She Wants To Do Is Dance - Don Henley
'Til My Baby Comes Home - Luther Vandross
Raspberry Beret - Prince & The Revolution
Would I Lie To You? - Eurythmics
Voices Carry - 'Til Tuesday
Nightshift - The Commodores
A View To a Kill - Duran Duran


05/28/1977:

Sir Duke - Stevie Wonder
I'm Your Boogie Man - KC & The Sunshine Band
Dreams - Fleetwood Mac
Got To Give It Up - Marvin Gaye
Gonna Fly Now - Bill Conti
Feels Like The First Time - Foreigner
Hotel California - The Eagles
Angel In Your Arms - Hot
Ain't Gonna Bump No More (With No Big Fat Woman) - Joe Tex
Calling Dr. Love - KISS
Whodunit - Tavares
Uptown Festival - Shalamar
High School Dance - The Sylvers
I Just Want To Be Your Everything - Andy Gibb
I've Got Love On My Mind - Natalie Cole

[trekkielo]

5/28/1977

Hotel California - Eagles
Life in the Fast Lane - Eagles
Feels Like the First Time - Foreigner
Dreams - Fleetwood Mac
Sir Duke - Stevie Wonder
I'm Your Boogie Man - K.C. & The Sunshine Band
Jet Airliner - Steve Miller Band
Heard It in a Love Song - Marshall Tucker Band
Couldn't Get It Right - Climax Blues Band
So Into You - Atlanta Rhythm Section
Calling Dr. Love - Kiss
Lido Shuffle - Boz Scaggs
Southern Nights - Glen Campbell
Margaritaville - Jimmy Buffett
Mainstreet - Bob Seger
When I Need You - Leo Sayer
Theme from "Rocky" - Bill Conti
Got to Give It Up - Marvin Gaye
Looks Like We Made It - Barry Manilow
I Just Want to Be Your Everything - Andy Gibb
Undercover Angel - Alan O'Day
Lucille - Kenny Rogers
Right Time of the Night - Jennifer Warnes
My Heart Belongs to Me - Barbra Streisand
Hello Stranger - Yvonne Elliman
Angel in Your Arms - Hot

5/25/1985

Sussudio - Phil Collins


Axel F - Harold Faltermeyer


Don't Come Around Here No More - Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers
A View to a Kill - Duran Duran
Everybody Wants to Rule the World - Tears For Fears
Don't You (Forget About Me) - Simple Minds
Some Like It Hot - The Power Station
The Search Is Over - Survivor
Everything She Wants - Wham
Nightshift - The Commodores
Fresh - Kool & The Gang
Raspberry Beret - Prince and the Revolution
Never Ending Story - Limahl
All She Wants to Do Is Dance - Don Henley
Things Can Only Get Better - Howard Jones
Heaven - Bryan Adams
Just a Gigolo/I Ain't Got Nobody - David Lee Roth
We Are the World - USA for Africa
Would I Lie to You - Eurythmics
Obsession - Animotion
Walking on Sunshine - Katrina and the Waves
New Attitude - Patti LaBelle
Crazy for You - Madonna
Smooth Operator - Sade

[80sat40fan]

Apologies for the late post... end of year school activities!

While I really like or love 31 songs from the 5/25/85 countdown, here are my 14 absolute faves:
That Was Yesterday, A View To A Kill, Voices Carry, Would I Lie To You, All She Wants To Do Is Dance, Obsession, Just A Gigolo/I Ain't Got Nobody, In My House, Fresh, Things Can Only Get Better, Some Like It Hot, One Night In Bangkok, Smooth Operator, Everybody Wants To Rule The World

While I really like or love 29 songs from the 5/28/77 countdown, here are my 8 absolute faves:
I've Got Love On My Mind, Life In The Fast Lane, Calling Dr. Love, So Into You, Lido Shuffle, Couldn't Get It Right, I'm Your Boogie Man, Sir Duke

The Power Station and Boz Scaggs get recognition as This Week's Pick Hits. If I had to create a Top 100 of All Time list for me, "Some Like It Hot" and "Lido Shuffle" would both make the list. Tony Thompson's drum intro on SLIH alone makes it an awesome tune. LS is both a pop/rocker yet so smooth at the same time. I crank both of these tunes to 11 every time I hear them (actually, more like 16 on my car radio ):

[listenerwants2know]

5/25/85:

Boy Meets Girl - Oh Girl
Bryan Adams - Heaven
Madonna - Crazy For You
Survivor - The Search Is Over
The Commodores - Nightshift

A special show for Whit Monday (5/29/2023):

11/21/81 (guest-host: Dave Roberts):

Chilliwack - My Girl (Gone, Gone, Gone)

Diesel - Sausalito Summernight

Foreigner - Waiting For A Girl Like You

Lindsey Buckingham - Trouble

Mike Post - Theme From Hillstreet Blues

Tina Turner in Carinthia



In 2017 Tina Turner was a guest at a wedding in Carinthia. The well-known Villach Claudia Susanne Boyneburg Lengsfeld Spendier remembers a long and above all nice conversation with the star.
In 2017, she was at the Carinthian Wörthersee, as she was the wedding guest of "Micky" Feichtinger. Well-known Villach entrepreneur Claudia Susanne Boyneburg Lengsfeld Spendier was also a guest at the wedding and she remembers Tina Turner as a "likeable, polite" person. "She told me at the time that her biggest concern is to promote young dynamic women. She also told me that she liked Austria and Carinthia in particular very much," Claudia reminisces. She was also saddened to learn of the singer´s death: "The world will be missing a particularly kind-hearted person !"

In addition to her career, Tina Turner was also committed to women´s rights and worked to empower them. In the 80s, she was one of the pioneers of "Female Emancipation" and made it easier for young women at the time to define themselves as self-confident and independent individuals.
Therefore, here are two musically powerful "women"-editions at this point:

5/25/85:

Alison Moyet - Invisible

Mary Jane Girls - In My House

Patti Labelle - New Attitude

Sade - Smooth Operator

Tina Turner - Show Some Respect

11/21/81 (guest-host: Dave Roberts):

Diana Ross - Why Do Fools Fall In Love
Juice Newton - The Sweetest Thing (I´ve Ever Known)
Olivia Newton-John - Physical
Sheena Easton - For Your Eyes Only
The Go-Go´s - Our Lips Are Sealed

Time for an extra: Stephen "Tin Tin" Duffy

"I've always been very frustrated with people who come in, make records, tell a big story about themselves as artists and what they´re all about. Then they actually make some records and disappear. They were kind of lying. You have to keep going. You don´t make records because you can keep making records, you make records because you want to express something," Stephen "Tin Tin" Duffy says in 2004. It´s thanks to this attitude that he´s been active in the music business since the late 1970s, despite numerous disappointments.
His career began with a misstep. Born in Birmingham in 1960, Stephen met bassist John Taylor and keyboardist Nick Rhodes at art college in 1979. Together they form Duran Duran. After a few months, however, Stephen decides he would rather join "The Hawk". While he bumbles along with his new comrades-in-arms, Rhodes and Taylor make it big with new singer Simon LeBon.

"The biggest jinx in pop history," one English music editor calls him. After Stephen finally manages a successful single with "Kiss Me," he turns down an offer to write songs for a young American singer. Her name: Madonna. Instead of boasting a success like "Like A Virgin", he embarks on a solo career.
In the second half of the 80s, he initially presents danceable material and lands a hit in 1985 with "Icing On The Cake", but later devotes himself to folk rock. With his backing band "The Lilac Times", to which his brother Nick also belongs, he releases several albums, sings a contribution on a Leonard Cohen tribute album and enters into an idiosyncratic collaboration with violinist Nigel Kennedy ("In Colors", 1993). Along the way, he also releases works under his own name.

Although he attracts attention again with Nick Rhodes under the alias "The Devils" with "Dark Circles" in 2001, Stephen ends up without a record deal. He rejoins "Lilac Time" and records the self-financed and self-produced "Keep Going" (2003). According to his own statements, it is his most personal album, but with its quiet folk tones it is initially lost in the general disinterest.

In 2004 Robbie Williams releases the single "Radio". The co-writer: Stephen "Tin Tin" Duffy. The collaboration extends to Williams' "Intensive Care" (2005). Suddenly, Stephen is the talk of the town again and gets a new record deal. "Keep Going" lands on the shelves again with a new press campaign.
The second work with Robbie Williams, "Rudebox" (2006) disappoints, however, and seals the collaboration. Stephen returns to "Lilac Time" and strikes again rather calm tones with "Runout Groove" (2007).

In 2008 Stephen marries band member Claire Worrall (once keyboardist in Robbie Williams´ backing band), retreats to Cornwall and takes it easy in the following years.




from my musical category "daydreamer"
My motto: "Not always the often heard hits.

[80sat40fan]

While I really like or love 23 songs from the 6/2/73 countdown, these 10 songs are absolute faves:
Frankenstein, I'm Gonna Love You Just A Little More Baby, Wildflower, Stuck In The Middle With You, Right Place Wrong Time, Will It Go Round In Circles, Kodachrome, The Cisco Kid, Give It To Me*, Shambala

While I really like or love 21 songs from the 6/7/80 countdown, these 6 songs are my absolute faves:
Funky Town, Coming Up, Hurt So Bad, Cars, Love Stinks*, With You I'm Born Again

The J. Geils Band receives both of my Shooda Dun Betr Picks this week. One music critic called The J. Geils Band, "Too White for the Black kids, and too Black for the White kids" ... which might explain their lack of Top 10 hits until "Centerfold" made their career. "Give It To Me" just has a groove in the second half of the song (the full album version is featured here) while "Love Stinks" is an early 80s perfect pop/rock tune that just didn't fit in with Top 40 stations that leaned Adult Contemporary at the time. By the way, I'm featuring one of those "reaction" videos by Jamel AKA Jamal for GITM... who pronounces the name of the band as "The J. Gills Band" ... but it's fun watching his reaction to the song!:

[trekkielo]

6/2/1973

Daniel - Elton John
Kodachrome - Paul Simon
Give Me Love - George Harrison
You Are the Sunshine of My Life - Stevie Wonder
My Love - Paul McCartney & Wings
Long Train Running - Doobie Brothers
Shambala - Three Dog Night
One of a Kind - Spinners
Reeling in the Years - Steely Dan
Cisco Kid - War
Little Willie - The Sweet
Stuck in the Middle With You - Stealers Wheel
Funky Worm - Ohio Players
Frankenstein - Edgar Winter Group
No More Mr. Nice Guy - Alice Cooper
Right Place, Wrong Time - Dr. John
Drift Away - Dobie Gray
Will It Go Round in Circles - Billy Preston
Bad, Bad Leroy Brown - Jim Croce
Steamroller Blues - Elvis Presley
Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Old Oak Tree - Dawn
The Right Thing to Do - Carly Simon
The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia - Vicki Lawrence

6/5/1976

Strange Magic - Electric Light Orch.


Silly Love Songs - Wings
Takin' It to the Streets - Doobie Bros.
Rhiannon - Fleetwood Mac
Still Crazy After All These Years - Paul Simon
Never Gonna Fall in Love Again - Eric Carmen
Love Is Alive - Gary Wright
Take the Money & Run - Steve Miller
Show Me the Way - Peter Frampton
Shannon - Henry Gross
Welcome Back - John Sebastian
Fooled Around & Fell in Love - Elvin Bishop
Happy Days - Pratt & McClain
Get Closer - Seals & Crofts
Sara Smile - John Oates & Daryl Hall
Moonlight Feels Right - Starbuck
The Boys Are Back in Town - Thin Lizzy
Kiss & Say Goodbye - Manhattans
I'll Be Good to You - Brothers Johnson
Get Up & Boogie - Silver Convention
Boogie Fever - Sylvers
Afternoon Delight - Starland Vocal Band
Crazy on You - Heart
Shop Around - Captain & Tennille
Right Back Where We Started From - Maxine Nightengale
Love Hangover - Diana Ross
More, More More - Andrea True

6/7/1980

Love Stinks - The J. Geils Band


It's Still Rock & Roll to Me - Billy Joel


Little Jeannie - Elton John
Coming Up - Paul McCartney & Wings
Cupid/I've Loved You For a Long Time - Spinners
Another Brick in the Wall - Pink Floyd
Train in Vain - The Clash
Biggest Part of Me - Ambrosia
Let Me Love You Tonight - Pure Prairie League
Lost in Love - Air Supply
Shining Star - The Manhattans
Twilight Zone - The Manhattan Transfer
Stomp - The Brothers Johnson
Ride Like the Wind - Christopher Cross
Sexy Eyes - Dr. Hook
Steal Away - Robbie Dupree
Against the Wind - Bob Seger
Cars - Gary Numan
Theme from New York, New York - Frank Sinatra
Tired of Toein' the Line - Rocky Burnette
Breakdown Dead Ahead - Boz Scaggs
The Rose - Bette Midler
Call Me - Blondie
Funkytown - Lipps Inc.
Brass in Pocket - The Pretenders
Hurt So Bad - Linda Ronstadt

6/6/1987

In Too Deep - Genesis


Big Love - Fleetwood Mac
Jammin' Me - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
You Can Call Me Al - Paul Simon
Shakedown - Bob Seger
Meet Me Half Way - Kenny Loggins
Sweet Sixteen - Billy Idol
Nothing's Gonna Change My Love for You - Glenn Medeiros
Just to See Her - Smokey Robinson
Diamonds - Herb Alpert
Something So Strong - Crowded House
Don't Disturb This Groove - The System
Wanted Dead or Alive - Bon Jovi
(I Just) Died in Your Arms - Cutting Crew
With or Without You - U2
Alone - Heart
Heart and Soul - T'Pau
You Keep Me Hangin' On - Kim Wilde

[seminolefan]

My faves from 06/07/1980:

Funkytown - Lipps Inc.
Coming Up - Paul McCartney
Biggest Part Of Me - Ambrosia
Call Me - Blondie
Hurt So Bad - Linda Ronstadt
Cars - Gary Numan
It's Still Rock & Roll To Me - Billy Joel
Steal Away - Robbie Dupree
Cupid - The Spinners
Sexy Eyes - Dr. Hook
Stomp! - The Brothers Johnson
Let's Get Serious - Jermaine Jackson
Brass In Pocket - The Pretenders
Ride Like The Wind - Christopher Cross
Shining Star - The Manhattans
Lady - The Whispers
Another Brick In The Wall - Pink Floyd
Love Stinks - The J. Geils Band


06/02/1973:

My Love - Paul McCartney & Wings
Daniel - Elton John
Frankenstein - The Edgar Winter Group
Pillow Talk - Sylvia
Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round The Ole Oak Tree - Dawn feat. Tony Orlando
You Are The Sunshine Of My Life - Stevie Wonder
I'm Gonna Love You Just a Little More Baby - Barry White
Drift Away - Dobie Gray
Stuck In The Middle With You - Stealers Wheel
Right Place, Wrong Time - Dr. John
I'm Doin' Fine Now - New York City
Will It Go Round In Circles - Billy Preston
Leaving Me - The Independents
The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia - Vicki Lawrence
One Of a Kind (Love Affair) - The Spinners
Funky Worm - The Ohio Players
Bad, Bad Leroy Brown - Jim Croce
The Cisco Kid - War
Daddy Could Swear I Declare - Gladys Knight & The Pips
Superfly Meets Shaft - John & Ernest

[listenerwants2know]

6/7/80 (A):

Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band - Against The Wind
Frank Sinatra - Theme From New York, New York
The J. Geils Band - Love Stinks
The Manhattans - Shining Star
The Pretenders - Brass In Pocket (I´m Special)

6/6/87 (B):

Eddie Money - Endless Nights
Kenny Loggins - Meet Me Half Way
Partland Brothers - Soul City
Poison - Talk Dirty To Me
Restless Heart - I´ll Still Be Loving You

Beat the city

The beat the city competitions are urban obstacle races for men and women who are looking for a special sporting challenge. The runs take place directly in the city centers of Linz, Innsbruck and Graz. Thanks to the at least 20 natural and artificial obstacles on the at least 10 km long courses right through the city center, variety is guaranteed. Sport, fun and city - these are precisely the factors that make the beat the city competitions a tough challenge. Not only endurance counts here, but also strength, dexterity, agility and cleverness.

Of course, there are also separate competitions for the youngest among you. For kids and teenagers between 8 and 15 years there are the Junior Athlons in the respective city. On a distance of about 2km the Juniors have to master about 10 obstacles.

Together the city is conquerable for all.

And here are my "beat the city"-editions of the week:

6/7/80 (A):

Billy Joel - It´s Still Rock And Roll To Me
Dr. Hook - Sexy Eyes
Lipps, Inc. - Funky Town
Pink Floyd - Another Brick In The Wall
Rocky Burnette - Tired Of Toein´ The Line

6/6/87 (B):

Bob Seger - Shakedown
David Bowie - Day-In Day-Out
Europe - Rock The Night
Huey Lewis & The News - I Know What I Like
Pseudo Echo - Funkytown

Time for an extra: Earth & Fire

A Dutch band caused full dance floors in Europe´s discotheques in 1980.
As cheerful as "Weekend" may sound, the lyrics are anything but sunny and beautiful. The singer is aware that she is only his weekend love. She sings full of longing about the fact that parting on Sunday is hard to bear and that feeling is already there when her lover reappears on the scene on Friday night.

It´s certainly one of the many songs where no one pays attention to the lyrics, because the cheerful, relaxed reggae-pop of the band Earth & Fire just invites you to associate the song with the feeling "Finally weekend". That´s how it will have been when "Weekend" was released in the Netherlands in November 1979.

Earth & Fire had already been around for ten years at that point. The band was founded by twin brothers Chris and Gerard Koerts. In addition to the twins, Earth & Fire - similar to the most popular group in Holland at the time of its formation, Shocking Blue - had a female vocalist to offer. Jerney Kaagman quickly became the heartthrob of many young men in the country. The front woman of Earth & Fire, whose voice and attractiveness were the trademark of the group for many years, remained very successful even after leaving the band. She knew how to market not only her voice: With exclusive photos, she ensured record circulations of the Dutch Playboy and as a juror in a casting show for top ratings.

The music of Earth & Fire was also stylistically not far from Shocking Blue. Maybe they were even a little bit more rocking than the established band. Already with their first single "Seasons", released at the end of 1969, they climbed up to #2 in the Dutch sales charts. The band landed their first #1 hit in 1972 with "Memories".

After a creative break between 1977 and 1979 with some changes in the band, Earth & Fire came back with the pop song "Weekend". The song had been written by one of the twins, the keyboard player Gerard Koerts. In December, the party song was #1 on the charts in their home country.

The song itself was covered in many other countries and was, for example, in Sweden by the local band Chips both in 1980 and 1997 a hit that could not be missing at any party.




from my musical category "daydreamer"
My motto: "Not always the often heard hits.

[80sat40fan]

Disclaimer: I am taking my first full week of vacation in two years this week. This may mean more "absolute faves" than usual ...

While I really like or love 32 songs from the 6/10/78 countdown, these 12 are my absolute faves:
Feels So Good, Baker Street, On Broadway, With A Little Luck, Baby Hold On, Love Is Like Oxygen, Dance With Me, The Closer I Get To You, You Belong To Me, Deacon Blues, Imaginary Lover, Miss You

While I really like or love 23 songs from the 6/12/82 countdown, these 12 are my absolute faves:
Don't Talk To Strangers, The Other Woman, 867-5309/Jenny, Let It Whip, '65 Love Affair, Empty Garden (Hey Hey Johnny), Caught Up In You, Did It In A Minute, Play The Game Tonight, Only The Lonely, Fantasy, Forget Me Nots

The Nines have it as Sweet and Hall & Oates are This Week's Pick Hits... both songs peaked at #9. You know what I love about both songs? The intros. "Love Is Like Oxygen" sounds orchestral at times and then rocks out while "Did It In A Minute" kicks off like an '80s soundtrack tune then pop-rocks out. The album version of LILO is featured below along with DIIAM:

[seminolefan]

My faves from 06/12/1982:

Don't Talk To Strangers - Rick Springfield
Don't You Want Me - The Human League
The Other Woman - Ray Parker Jr.
Heat Of The Moment - Asia
Rosanna - Toto
867-5309 / Jenny - Tommy Tutone
It's Gonna Take a Miracle - Deniece Williams
Body Language - Queen
Let It Whip - The Dazz Band
Hurts So Good - John Cougar
'65 Love Affair - Paul Davis
Tainted Love - Soft Cell
Did It In a Minute - Hall & Oates
Only The Lonely - The Motels
Fantasy - Aldo Nova
Forget Me Nots - Patrice Rushen
Murphy's Law - Cheri


06/10/1978:

You're The One That I Want - John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John
Shadow Dancing - Andy Gibb
Too Much, Too Little, Too Late - Johnny Mathis & Deniece Williams
Feels So Good - Chuck Mangione
Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty
It's a Heartache - Bonnie Tyler
On Broadway - George Benson
Take a Chance On Me - ABBA
Baby Hold On - Eddie Money
Dance With Me - Peter Brown
The Closer I Get To You - Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway
The Groove Line - Heatwave
Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad - Meat Loaf
Because The Night - Patti Smith
Use Ta Be My Girl - The O'Jays
Disco Inferno - The Trammps
Last Dance - Donna Summer
Oh What a Night For Dancing - Barry White
If I Can't Have You - Yvonne Elliman
Night Fever - The Bee Gees
Miss You - The Rolling Stones
Stay - Rufus & Chaka Khan
Wonderful Tonight - Eric Clapton

[trekkielo]

6/10/1978

Follow You, Follow Me - Genesis


With a Little Luck - Wings
Imaginary Lover - Atlanta Rhythm Section
Disco Inferno - Trammps
Miss You - Rolling Stones
Love Is Like Oxygen - Sweet
Deacon Blues - Steely Dan
Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty
Every Kinda People - Robert Palmer
Still the Same - Bob Seger
Cheeseburger in Paradise - Jimmy Buffett
Feels So Good - Chuck Mangione
Bluer Than Blue - Michael Johnson
Baby Hold On - Eddie Money
On Broadway - George Benson
Wonderful Tonight - Eric Clapton
Two Out of Three Ain't Bad - Meat Loaf
Shadow Dancing - Andy Gibb
Night Fever - Bee Gees
Use ta Be My Girl - O'Jays
Take a Chance on Me - Abba
You're the One That I Want - John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John
The Closer I Get to You - Roberta Flack w/Donny Hathaway
Too Much, Too Little, Too Late - Johnny Mathis & Deniece Williams
It's a Heartache - Bonnie Tyler
If I Can't Have You - Yvonne Elliman
Because the Night - Patti Smith
You Belong to Me - Carly Simon
Last Dance - Donna Summer

6/12/1982

Ebony and Ivory - Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder
Empty Garden - Elton John
Hurts So Good - John Cougar
'65 Love Affair - Paul Davis
Any Day Now - Ronnie Milsap
Always on My Mind - Willie Nelson
Don't Talk to Strangers - Rick Springfield
Fantasy - Aldo Nova
The Other Woman - Ray Parker, Jr.
Did It in a Minute - Daryl Hall & John Oates
Caught Up in You - .38 Special
Rosanna - Toto
Heat of the Moment - Asia
867-5309/Jenny - Tommy Tutone
Let It Whip - The Dazz Band
Body Language - Queen
Tainted Love - Soft Cell
Only the Lonely - The Motels
Don't You Want Me - The Human League
Crimson and Clover - Joan Jett & The Blackhearts
Love's Been a Little Bit Hard on Me - Juice Newton
It's Gonna Take a Miracle - Deniece Williams

6/11/1988

I Don't Want to Live Without You - Foreigner
The Flame - Cheap Trick
Pour Some Sugar on Me - Def Leppard
New Sensation - INXS
Nothin' But a Good Time - Poison
Shattered Dreams - Johnny Hates Jazz
Two Occasions - The Deele
Strange But True - Times Two
Under the Milky Way - The Church
Wait - White Lion
Tall Cool One - Robert Plant
Dirty Diana - Michael Jackson
Nite and Day - Al B. Sure
Anything for You - Gloria Estefan and Miami Sound Machine
Rush Hour - Jane Wiedlin
Circle in the Sand - Belinda Carlisle

[listenerwants2know]

6/12/82 (A):

Elton John - Empty Garden
Joan Jett & The Blackhearts - Crimson And Clover
Karla Bonoff - Personally
Patrice Rushen - Forget Me Knots
Queen - Body Language

6/11/88 (B):

Daryl Hall & John Oates - Everything Your Heart Desires
Def Leppard - Pour Some Sugar On Me
Rod Stewart - Lost In You
Sade - Paradise
The Church - Under The Milky Way

A special show for Corpus Christi (6/8/2023):

1/12/80 (guest-host: Mick Cleary):

Abba - Chiquitita

Captain & Tennille - Do That To Me One More Time
Dr. Hook - Better Love Next Time
Prince - I Wanna Be Your Lover
Rupert Holmes - Escape (The Pina Colada Song)

75 years of Porsche - motorsport history from Salzburg

"In the beginning, I looked around but couldn´t find the car I dreamed of: a small, lightweight sports car that uses energy efficiently. So I decided to build it myself." (Ferry Porsche)

For 75 years, everything can be traced back to this one dream. It founded a colorful history like no other. On 6/8/1948, the first vehicle bearing the Porsche name was registered: the 356 "No.1" Roadster. The designer and namesake was Ferry Porsche. The siblings Louise Piëch and Ferry Porsche moved the headquarters of Porsche Konstruktionen GmbH to Alpenstrasse in Salzburg in 1949. Porsche soon dominated international motorsport and ensured success at the legendary domestic races on the Gaisberg and at Lake Zell in the 1960s. To this day, Porsche has the headquarters of various development and design offices in Salzburg.

And here are the "car radio"-editions of the week:

6/12/82 (A):

38 Special - Caught Up In You
Asia - Heat Of The Moment
John Cougar - Hurts So Good
Paul Davis - ´65 Love Affair
The Human League - Don´t You Want Me

6/11/88 (B):

Bruce Hornsby & The Range - The Valley Road
Jane Wiedlin - Rush Hour
Pebbles - Mercedes Boy
Poison - Nothin´ But A Good Time
Times Two - Strange But True

1/12/80 (guest-host: Mick Cleary):

Kenny Rogers - Coward Of The County
Kool & The Gang - Ladies Night
Sugarhill Gang - Rapper´s Delight
Supertramp - Take The Long Way Home
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Don´t Do Me Like That

Time for an extra: Astrud Gilberto

In 1968, Brazilian singer Astrud Gilberto released an album that pointed beyond what she is mainly associated with. The Bahia-born artist recorded "Windy," a genuine pop record. Bossa nova had now entered the U.S. mainstream. Astrud Gilberto was now, in a sense, reaping her deserved artistic harvest. Actually, she had never intended to become a singer. She had accompanied her husband João, considered one of the inventors of bossa nova, to the USA. With virtually the entire bossa nova scene, they had set out to present a new music on a grand scale.

The Brazilian kids had created something new largely unnoticed. And thus reached a new level of intercultural exchange. The Brazilian protagonists were tired of the music of the local radios. So they obsessively pursued U.S. cool jazz. Until they finally invented a new musical style themselves. A cool jazz timbre is also often attributed to Astrud Gilberto. The fact that her voice was ever recorded, however, is due to a coincidence. When João Gilberto recorded "The Girl From Ipanema" with Stan Getz, a female voice was needed. Since Astrud was the only Brazilian present who spoke English, she took the microphone. The recording is a classic today. So is "Corcovado," the other song on the "Getz/Gilberto" album on which she sang.

These two songs spread bossa nova worldwide. To this day, their legacy continues to influence the development of music worldwide. But to reduce Astrud Gilberto to this birth would be unfair. Some sometimes excellent bossa nova and jazz albums were followed by "Windy" in 1968. On this the singer interpreted pop songs between bossa and sunshine pop.




from my musical category "daydreamer"
My motto: "Not always the often heard hits.

[mkarns]

Doing it Sean Ross style (including low points as well as high ones):

June 10, 1978:
Faves: Take a Chance On Me, Because the Night, Baker Street, Last Dance
Least: Imaginary Lover, This Time I’m In It For Love, Almost Summer
Gems: I Can’t Stand the Rain, Use Ta Be My Girl
Like but overplayed: You’re the One That I Want, Follow You Follow Me, Night Fever
Guilty-ish pleasure: Cheeseburger in Paradise

June 12, 1982:
Faves: Don’t You Want Me, The Other Woman, 867-5309, Heat of the Moment, Only the Lonely, Love’s Been a Little Bit Hard On Me, Caught Up In You, Crimson and Clover
Least: I’ve Never Been To Me, 65 Love Affair, Ebony and Ivory, Body Language
Gems: Forget Me Nots, Fantasy, Personally, Let It Whip
Permaburn: Tainted Love, Hurts So Good

[80sat40fan]

^mkarns ... I like your categories!

While I really like or love 33 songs from the 6/22/86 countdown, these 5 are my absolute faves:
Holding Back The Years, Sledgehammer, When The Heart Rules The Mind, Digging Your Scene, Modern Woman*

While I really like or love 27 songs from the 6/22/74 countdown, these 13 are my absolute faves:
You Make Me Feel Brand New, Sundown, If You Love Me Let Me Know*, Hollywood Swinging, Midnight At The Oasis, Rock The Boat, Rock Your Baby, Help Me, The Locomotion, The Show Must Go On, Don't You Worry 'Bout A Thing, I'm In Love, Radar Love

* Billy Joel and Olivia Newton-John are This Week's Pick Hits. "Modern Woman" and "If You Love Me, Let Me Know" get little airplay today which is a shame. I love the frantic tempo on Billy Joel's tune. On ONJ's song, is it okay to admit I sing along with the backup singer with the super deep voice ?