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

[80sat40fan]

I'll take the cue from seminolefan and do a twist on one of my posts for this week.

Since 1970 was just featured four weeks ago, I'll feature my absolute faves from this date covering 1965 thru 1969:
9/25/65: Hang On Sloopy, Help!, The 'In' Crowd*
9/24/66: Sunshine Superman, Yellow Submarine, Eleanor Rigby*, Last Train To Clarksville, Summer In The City
9/23/67: The Letter, Light My Fire, Pleasant Valley Sunday*
9/21/68: Revolution, Slip Away, I Say A Little Prayer, On The Road Again*, Midnight Confessions, Tuesday Afternoon, Sunshine Of Your Love, Classical Gas
9/20/69: Honky Tonk Woman, Green River, Get Together, Lay Lady Lay, Hot Fun In The Summertime, That's The Way Love Is*

* Five years of absolute faves means five Pick Hits, one from each year. Ramsey Lewis, The Beatles, The Monkees, Canned Heat and Marvin Gaye win my picks... that's a pretty big variety of artists!



While I really like or love 20 songs from the 9/26/87 countdown, these 6 are my absolute faves:
Lost In Emotion, When Smokey Sings, U Got The Look, Who Will You Run To*, Little Lies, Breakout

* Heart gets my Pick Hit this week. I have always really liked this song but it has just recently entered the "love zone" for me. The Wilson sister harmonies are outstanding here as is the guitar work. And... this tune is not being overplayed on radio today, unlike some of their other tunes. Love the rock instrumental ending:

[trekkielo]

9/19/1970-9/26/1970

25 or 6 to 4 - Chicago
It's a Shame - Spinners
Closer to Home - Grand Funk Railroad
Green-Eyed Lady - Sugarloaf
In the Summertime - Mungo Jerry
All Right Now - Free
Lookin' Out My Back Door - Creedence Clearwater Revival
Lola - Kinks
Hand Me Down World - Guess Who
Make It with You - Bread
Express Yourself - Charles Wright & The Watts 103rd St Bnd
Spill the Wine - Eric Burdon & War
War - Edwin Starr
Fire and Rain - James Taylor
Solitary Man - Neil Diamond
Cracklin' Rosie - Neil Diamond
Indiana Wants Me - R. Dean Taylor
Signed, Sealed, Delivered (I'm Yours) - Stevie Wonder
Rubber Duckie - Ernie (Jim Henson)
El Condor Pasa - Simon & Garfunkel
Look What They've Done to My Song Ma - New Seekers featuring Eva Graham
Candida - Dawn
(They Long to Be) Close to You - Carpenters
Snowbird - Anne Murray
Long Long Time - Linda Ronstadt
Ain't No Mountain High Enough - Diana Ross

9/23/1978

She's Always a Woman - Billy Joel
Hot Blooded - Foreigner
Just What I Needed - The Cars
5-7-0-5 - City Boy
Don't Look Back - Boston
Josie - Steely Dan
Reminiscing - Little River Band
Who Are You - The Who
Kiss You All Over - Exile
Miss You - Rolling Stones
Beast of Burden - Rolling Stones
Three Times a Lady - Commodores
Got to Get You into My Life - Earth, Wind & Fire
Come Together - Aerosmith
Hollywood Nights - Bob Seger
Right Down the Line - Gerry Rafferty
Fool If You Think It's Over - Chris Rea
Hot Child in the City - Nick Gilder
Grease - Frankie Valli
Magnet and Steel - Walter Egan
Whenever I Call You Friend - Kenny Loggins
An Everlasting Love - Andy Gibb
Love Is in the Air - John Paul Young
Summer Nights - John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John
Hopelessly Devoted to You - Olivia Newton-John
You Needed Me - Anne Murray
Prisoner - Barbra Streisand
I Love the Night Life - Alicia Bridges
Back in the U.S.A. - Linda Ronstadt
Boogie Oogie Oogie - A Taste of Honey

9/26/1987

Little Lies - Fleetwood Mac


Touch of Grey - The Grateful Dead
Here I Go Again - Whitesnake
La Bamba - Los Lobos
Casanova - LaVert
U Got the Look - Prince
Bad - Michael Jackson
I Just Can't Stop Loving You - Michael Jackson
Don't Mean Nothing - Richard Marx
Paper in Fire - John Cougar Mellencamp
Mony Mony - Billy Idol
One Heartbeat - Smokey Robinson
Doing It All for My Baby - Huey Lewis and the News
Wipeout - The Fat Boys and the Beach Boys
Breakout - Swing Out Sister
Can't We Try - Dan Hill with Vonda Shepard
I Think We're Along Now - Tiffany
I Heard a Rumour - Bananarama

[Jessica]

09-26-1987

“Rock Steady” by The Whispers, “It’s A Sin” by The Pet Shop Boys, “Who’s That Girl” by Madonna, “Victim Of Love” by Bryan Adams, “Mony Mony” by Billy Idol, “Breakout” by Swing Out Sister, “Bad” by Michael Jackson, “I Think We’re Alone Now” by Tiffany, “Little Lies” by Fleetwood Mac, “Causing A Commotion” by Madonna, “Let Me Be The One” by Expose, “Only In My Dreams” by Debbie Gibson, “One Heartbeat” by Smokey Robinson, “Can’t We Try” by Dan Hill and Vonda Sheppard, “Who Will You Run To” by Heart, “Wipeout” by Fat Boys and the Beach Boys, “U Got The Look” by Prince and Sheena Easton, “Touch Of Grey” by The Grateful Dead, “La Bamba” by Los Lobos, “When Smokey Sings” by ABC, “Lost In Emotion” by Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam, “I Heard A Rumour” by Bananarama, “I Just Can’t Stop Loving You” by Michael Jackson, “Here I Go Again” by Whitesnake, “Didn’t We Almost Have It All” by Whitney Houston

OE’s: “Holiday” by The Other Ones, “Heaven Is A Place On Earth” by Belinda Carlisle


09-23-1978

“Heartbreaker” by Dolly Parton, “Paradise By The Dashboard Light” by Meatloaf, “Devoted To You” by John Taylor and Carly Simon, “Josie” by Steely Dan, “Beast Of Burden” by The Rolling Stones, “Miss You” by The Rolling Stones, “Talking In Your Sleep” by Crystal Gayle, “I Love The Nightlife” by Alicia Bridges, “Who Are You” by The Who, “Just What I Needed” by The Cars, “She’s Always A Woman” by Billy Joel, “Come Together” by Aerosmith, “Back In The U.S.A” by Linda Ronstadt, “Grease” by Frankie Valli, “Get Off” by Foxy, “Shame” by Evelyn “Champagne” King, “Got To Get You Into My Life” by Earth, Wind and Fire, “Whenever I Call You Friend” by Kenny Loggins, “Hollywood Nights” by Bob Seger, “Love Is In The Air” John Paul Young, “Hot Child In The City” by Nick Gilder, “Hot Blooded” by Foreigner, “Don’t Look Back” by Boston, “Summer Nights” by Olivia Newton John, John Travolta, “An Everlasting Love” by Andy Gibb, “Three Times A Lady” The Commodores, “Hopelessly Devoted To You” by Olivia Newton John, “Kiss You All Over” by Exile, “Boogie Oogie Oogie” by A Taste Of Honey

[listenerwants2know]

9/26/87:

Europe - Carrie
Grateful Dead - Touch Of Grey
Kenny G - Don´t Make Me Wait For Love
The Cars - You Are The Girl
Whitesnake - Here I Go Again

From space

NASA´s "Osiris-Rex" spacecraft is scheduled to drop a sample from the asteroid Bennu over the desert of the U.S. state of Utah on Sunday. According to NASA estimates, the capsule contains about 250 grams of debris collected from the celestial body about three years ago. It is expected to leave the probe about 102,000 kilometers above Earth.

Protected by a heat shield, the capsule is then to enter the Earth's atmosphere (at around 4:42 p.m. Central European Summer Time) and touch down about 13 minutes later with the help of parachutes within an area measuring about 58 by 14 kilometers. After landing, it will be taken to NASA laboratories in the U.S. state of Texas for examination - where some 200 scientists will then work on the sample using 60 different examination methods.

If everything goes well, it would be the first asteroid sample ever successfully brought to Earth in NASA's history - and probably the largest such sample ever taken. In 2005, the Japanese space probe "Hayabusa" landed on an asteroid. In 2010, it brought back to Earth the first soil samples ever collected from such a celestial body. There have been other flights to asteroids, but no other probe has yet returned material to Earth.

"Osiris Rex" (Origins Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security-Regolith Explorer) had been launched from Cape Canaveral Spaceport in September 2016 and arrived at Bennu about two years later. In October 2020, the spacecraft took a sample from the asteroid during a complicated maneuver lasting several hours - the first U.S. spacecraft to do so in space history.

And here´s my magical, dreamlike, galactic, ... edition of the week:

9/26/87:

ABC - When Smokey Sings
Bananarama - I Heard A Rumour
Debbie Gibson - Only In My Dreams
Fleetwood Mac - Little Lies
REO Speedwagon - In My Dreams

Time for an extra: Dominoe

For 30 years, guitarist Robert Papst from Grafingen and singer Jörg Sieber from Munich have been making music together. Among many other projects, they are the masterminds behind Dominoe - a band with a tragic history: At its beginning in 1988, there was a phenomenal hit, "Here I Am," whose refrain practically everyone can sing along with. A car manufacturer used the catchy tune for a commercial - and catapulted the previously unknown Upper Bavarian band into the charts.

"Here I Am" was created on a farm in Grafing-Bahnhof, where Papst and his friends had transformed their practice room into a modern studio. "There was a dangerous dog, but also chestnuts from the wood stove and heaps of surprise eggs," he says, "it was a wonderful time." The band owes its name to a Genesis concert; in fact, Papst was very taken with the way Phil Collins pronounced "Domino."

But unfortunately, harmony and success soon came to an end: the second single "Let´s Talk About Life" could no longer match the success of "Here I Am," and managers unabashedly exerted influence on the band. "That was soon no longer mentally feasible, at least for me," says Papst. Dominoe temporarily disbanded as early as 1990, and things didn´t move on until ten years later.

The album "The Lost Radioshow", 30 years after "Here I Am", allows a musical journey back in time to the years 1988 to 2008. It gathers 15 songs from five different Dominoe records - and thus offers an hour of honest pop rock. The album title "The Lost Radioshow" is to be taken literally: In 2008, Dominoe were supposed to re-record some of their numbers in the studio during a live session for a British radio station.

But there was a breakdown, a hard drive stopped working and most of the material was lost. The plan to complete the recordings failed due to scheduling reasons, the band members couldn´t make it to the studio together in time. The radio show never happened, and the incomplete tapes disappeared into a drawer.

Until 2018, when Papst discovered the old material by chance and, together with Sieber, decided to restore the contemporary document. And where necessary, the originals were supplemented with new recordings. For the two musicians, the discovery offered a kind of "magical leap in time." "From a distance, sometimes you just see and hear better, you get a whole new approach. Sometimes things then turn out the way they were actually meant to be years earlier," Papst tries to describe the situation. In any case, he says, he and Sieber were immediately thrilled by the quality of the sound and the fantastic atmosphere of the session at the time: "You close your eyes while listening and see the band in front of you."

According to Papst, the band´s fan base is not large, but it is international. From Rosenheim to Italy to Brazil and America - there are people everywhere who like Dominoe´s sound, "and who also kick our butts from time to time." Papst and Sieber are happy about this, of course, but they don´t want to be pushed into new deeds: they only pick up the mic and guitar again "when the mood strikes". Or when old recordings suddenly turn up that simply sweep them off their feet.




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

[80sat40fan]

While I really like or love 30 songs from the 9/29/84 countdown, these 10 are my absolute faves:
Drive, She Bop, The Glamorous Life, Some Guys Have All The Luck, Lights Out, Who Wears These Shoes, Blue Jean*, Rock Me Tonite, Strut, I Feel For You

While I really like or love 25 songs from the 10/1/77 countdown, these 7 are my absolute faces:
Keep It Comin' Love, Strawberry Letter 23, Telephone Line, Jungle Love, Its Ecstasy When You Lay Next To Me*, Cat Scratch Fever, I Wouldn't Want To Be Like You

One of the skinniest guys to hit the Top 40 and one of the plumpest guys to hit the Top 40 get This Week's Pick Hits. If you ever watch some of David' Bowie's videos from the 70s, he almost looks anorexic (he was visibly exhausted after a 5-minute performance of "Stay" on the the "Dinah!" show (hosted by Dinah Shore... Bowie on Dinah!?!?). Meanwhile, Barry's size helped make him an instantly recognizable figure... as did his deep, deep voice. Since dth1971 has been complaining elsewhere about "Ecstasy" always being edited on AT40, here's the full version :



BONUS: Here's Bowie as he appeared on Dinah Shore's show.  I love the segues in between camera shots:

[listenerwants2know]

9/29/84:

Dennis DeYoung - Desert Moon
Huey Lewis & The News - If This Is It
Lionel Richie - Stuck On You
Madonna- Lucky Star
Sheila E. - The Glamorous Life

Kaiser Wiesn 2023



The Vienna Wiesn Festival is a popular festival and has been held annually on the Kaiserwiese in the Vienna Prater since 2011. For 18 days from the end of September to mid-October, numerous events are offered to visitors. Among the guests of the festival are also numerous celebrities from business, politics, art and culture. The focus is on Austrian customs and traditions, Austrian cuisine and folk music.
In 2023, Vienna´s largest Oktoberfest will take place from 9/21 to 10/8 on the Kaiserwiese in the Prater.
Guests at the Wiesn-Fest can enjoy a total of three marquees and five alpine pastures, as well as the Wiesn-Fest village for celebrating and strolling. Since its inception, the venue of the event has been the Kaiserwiese in the Vienna Prater at the foot of the Ferris wheel.

And here´s my "festival"-edition:

9/29/84:

Jermaine Jackson - Dynamite
Prince & The Revolution - Let´s Go Crazy
Scandal Featuring Patty Smyth - The Warrior
Sheena Easton - Strut
Twisted Sister - We´re Not Gonna Take it

Time for an extra: Nik Kershaw

"I Won´t Let The Sun Go Down On Me" has a strange history. It was Nik Kershaw´s first single in 1983 - and it was a flop. It wasn´t until Nik Kershaw had a worldwide hit with "Wouldn´t It Be Good" in 1984 that the single was re-released and now "I Won´t Let The Sun Go Down On Me" became a hit as well. In fact, the single was now Nik Kershaw´s biggest commercial success.

Nik Kershaw never tired of emphasizing that the lyrics were about the Cold War. The sun he did not want to set, thus meant the bomb that should not fall on his head. The original video from 1983 - produced in Maidstone in Kent, UK - was replaced by a video with live inserts in 1984. The second video has a higher quality production throughout, but Nik Kershaw had little time for filming due to radio dates throughout Europe. He wasn´t happy with the video later either, saying you could see the hectic nature of the production. Funny: the establishment in England has always been symbolized by old men with bowler hats on their heads, so Nik Kershaw sharpened the message of the hit to a generation conflict: young people should please take responsibility, assert themselves against the old men and make peace.

That the chorus of "I Won´t Let The Sun Go Down On Me" sounds like a folk song is no coincidence, the song was written as a protest song in a folk music version. But the production company didn´t have a suitable folk interpreter under contract, they needed a song for the young Nik Kershaw at the same time and therefore asked him to use the material for a pop song.




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

[seminolefan]

My faves from 09/29/1984:

Let's Go Crazy - Prince & The Revolution
Missing You - John Waite
Drive - The Cars
She Bop - Cyndi Lauper
What's Love Got To Do With It - Tina Turner
The Warrior - Scandal
The Glamorous Life - Sheila E.
Cruel Summer - Bananarama
Cover Me - Bruce Springsteen
If This Is It - Huey Lewis & The News
Hard Habit To Break - Chicago
Lucky Star - Madonna
Caribbean Queen (No More Love On The Run) - Billy Ocean
Dynamite - Jermaine Jackson
Torture - The Jacksons
Ghostbusters - Ray Parker Jr.
We're Not Gonna Take It - Twisted Sister
I'm So Excited - The Pointer Sisters
On The Dark Side - John Cafferty & The Beaver Brown Band
Some Guys Have All The Luck - Rod Stewart
Lights Out - Peter Wolf
Swept Away - Diana Ross
Sunglasses At Night - Corey Hart
Blue Jean - David Bowie
Strut - Sheena Easton
I Feel For You - Chaka Khan


10/01/1977:

Star Wars Theme / Cantina Band (Medley) - Meco
Keep It Comin' Love - KC & The Sunshine Band
Don't Stop - Fleetwood Mac
Best Of My Love - The Emotions
Strawberry Letter 23 - The Brothers Johnson
Nobody Does It Better - Carly Simon
Cold As Ice - Foreigner
I Just Want To Be Your Everything - Andy Gibb
Boogie Nights - Heatwave
I Feel Love - Donna Summer
Brick House - The Commodores
Float On - The Floaters
It's Ecstasy When You Lay Down Next To Me - Barry White
I Believe You - Dorothy Moore
Another Star - Stevie Wonder
Dusic - Brick

[trekkielo]

10/1/1977

Telephone Line - Electric Light Orchestra
Don't Stop - Fleetwood Mac
Cold as Ice - Foreigner
I Wouldn't Want to Be Like You - Alan Parsons
Star Wars Theme/Cantina Band- Meco
Just Remember I Love You - Firefall
Brick House - Commodores
Boogie Nights - Heatwave
Jungle Love - Steve Miller Band
Keep It Comin' Love - K.C. & The Sunshine Band
Help Is on Its Way - Little River Band
Smoke from a Distant Fire - Sanford-Townsend Band
Strawberry Letter 23 - Brothers Johnson
On and On - Stephen Bishop
Handy Man - James Taylor
Way Down - Elvis Presley
Cat Scratch Fever - Ted Nugent
Swayin' to the Music - Johnny Rivers
It Was Almost Like a Song - Ronnie Milsap
I Just Want to Be Your Everything - Andy Gibb
Best of My Love - Emotions
Nobody Does It Better - Carly Simon
Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue - Crystal Gayle
Higher & Higher - Rita Coolidge
You Light Up My Life - Debby Boone
I Feel Love - Donna Summer

9/29/1984

Ghostbusters - Ray Parker Jr.


Drive - The Cars


Hard Habit to Break - Chicago
We're Not Gonna Take It - Twisted Sister
If This Is It - Huey Lewis and the News
On the Dark Side - John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band
Let's Go Crazy - Prince and the Revolution
Go Insane - Lindsey Buckingham
Some Guys Have All the Luck - Rod Stewart
Cover Me - Bruce Springsteen
Sunglasses at Night - Corey Hart
Missing You - John Waite
Caribbean Queen (No More Love on the Run) - Billy Ocean
Stuck on You - Lionel Richie
I Just Called to Say I Love You - Stevie Wonder
The Warrior - Scandal featuring Patty Smyth
Cruel Summer - Bananarama
I'm So Excited - The Pointer Sisters
Strut - Sheena Easton
I Feel for You - Chaka Khan
What's Love Got to Do with It - Tina Turner
Lucky Star - Madonna

[80sat40fan]

While I really like or love 23 songs from the 10/13/79 countdown, these 10 are my absolute faves:
Sail On, My Sharona, Pop Muzik, After The Love Has Gone, Don't Bring Me Down, Heartache Tonight, Spooky, Hold On*, Gotta Serve Somebody, Driver's Seat

Since we just heard an '86 countdown 4 weeks ago, and I just reviewed an '89 countdown a few weeks ago...

While I really like or love 22 songs from the 10/8/88 countdown, these 7 are my absolute faves:
I Hate Myself For Loving You, What's On Your Mind (Pure Energy), Don't Know What You Got ('Til It's Gone), Desire, Perfect World, Dance Little Sister*, When It's Love

* One of my very first feature picks was Ian Gomm's "Hold On", and I am featuring it again this week. It's a perfect pop nugget from late '79 but somehow only peaked at #18. Meanwhile, "Dance Little Sister" should have peaked way higher than #30. Terrence Trent D'Arby is almost forgotten about today but he had three great hits from his '88 album:

[seminolefan]

My faves from 10/11/1986:

When I Think Of You - Janet Jackson
Don't Forget Me (When I'm Gone) - Glass Tiger
Throwing It All Away - Genesis
Typical Male - Tina Turner
Stuck With You - Huey Lewis & The News
True Colors - Cyndi Lauper
Dreamtime - Daryl Hall
All Cried Out - Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam w/Full Force
I Didn't Mean To To Turn You On - Robert Palmer
A Matter Of Trust - Billy Joel
Walk This Way - Run-DMC (feat. Aerosmith)
Love Zone - Billy Ocean
Sweet Love - Anita Baker
Human - The Human League
Dancing On The Ceiling - Lionel Richie
Take Me Home Tonight - Eddie Money
Words Get In The Way - The Miami Sound Machine
Take My Breath Away - Berlin
Point Of No Return - Nu Shooz (12" version comin' atcha!)
You Give Love a Bad Name - Bon Jovi
Word Up - Cameo
The Rain - Oran "Juice" Jones
I'll Be Over You - Toto
In Your Eyes - Peter Gabriel
Twist And Shout - The Beatles


10/13/1979:

Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough - Michael Jackson
Rise - Herb Alpert
Sail On - The Commodores
My Sharona - The Knack
I'll Never Love This Way Again - Dionne Warwick
Pop Muzik - M
Dim All The Lights - Donna Summer (Another 12" version comin' atcha!)
After The Love Has Gone - Earth, Wind & Fire
Heaven Must Have Sent You - Bonnie Pointer
Don't Bring Me Down - Electric Light Orchestra
The Boss - Diana Ross
Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin' - Journey
Come To Me - France Joli
Bad Case Of Loving You - Robert Palmer
Found a Cure - Ashford & Simpson
So Good, So Right - Brenda Russell

[trekkielo]

10/9/1971

Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey - Paul and Linda McCartney
Smiling Faces Sometimes - Undisputed Truth
Won't Get Fooled Again - Who
The Story in Your Eyes - Moody Blues
Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get - Dramatics
I Just Want to Celebrate - Rare Earth
Sweet City Woman - The Stampeders
Birds of a Feather - Raiders
Rain Dance - Guess Who
Do You Know What I Mean? - Lee Michaels
Maggie May - Rod Stewart
Tired of Being Alone - Al Green
Ain't No Sunshine - Bill Withers
If You Really Love Me - Stevie Wonder
Wedding Song (There Is Love) - Paul Stookey
Peace Train - Cat Stevens
Go Away, Little Girl - Donny Osmond
I Woke Up in Love This Morning - Partridge Family
Yo Yo - Osmonds
Superstar - Carpenters
Gypsies, Tramps, & Thieves - Cher
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down - Joan Baez
So Far Away - Carole King
Spanish Harlem - Aretha Franklin

10/13/1979

Don't Bring Me Down by Electric Light Orchestra


Heartache Tonight - Eagles
Tusk - Fleetwood Mac
Dirty White Boy - Foreigner
Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin' - Journey
Born to Be Alive - Patrick Hernandez
Pop Muzik - 'M'
Please Don't Go - K.C. & The Sunshine Band
Lonesome Loser - Little River Band
My Sharona - The Knack
After the Love Has Gone - Earth, Wind & Fire
Sail On - Commodores
Still - Commodores
Bad Case of Loving You (Doctor, Doctor) - Robert Palmer
Don't Stop Til You Get Enough - Michael Jackson
Sad Eyes - Robert John
Rise - Herb Alpert
You Decorated My Life - Kenny Rogers
Cruel to Be Kind - Nick Lowe
Dim All the Lights - Donna Summer
I'll Never Love This Way Again - Dionne Warwick
Heaven Must Have Sent You - Bonnie Pointer

10/11/1986

Throwing It All Away - Genesis


A Matter of Trust - Billy Joel


In Your Eyes - Peter Gabriel
Emotion in Motion - Ric Ocasek
Dreamtime - Daryl Hall
Dancing on the Ceiling - Lionel Richie
I Didn't Mean to Turn You On - Robert Palmer
Take Me Home Tonight - Eddie Money
Love Walks In - Van Halen
You Give Love a Bad Name - Bon Jovi
Paranoimia - The Art of Noise with Max Headroom
Stuck with You - Huey Lewis and the News
Twist and Shout - Beatles
Amanda - Boston
I'll Be Over You - Toto
Heaven in Your Eyes - Loverboy
Don't Forget Me (When I'm Gone) - Glass Tiger
Word Up - Cameo
Human - Human League
Walk This Way - Run-D.M.C.
Words Get in the Way - Miami Sound Machine
Take My Breath Away (Love Theme from "Top Gun") - Berlin
The Next Time I Fall - Peter Cetera with Amy Grant
Friends and Lovers - Gloria Loring & Carl Anderson
True Colors - Cyndi Lauper
When I Think of You - Janet Jackson
Typical Male - Tina Turner
Sweet Love - Anita Baker

[Jessica]

10-11-1986

“I Am By Your Side” by Corey Hart, “Twist And Shout” by The Beatles, “In Your Eyes” by Peter Gabriel, “True Blue” by Madonna, “The Rain” by Oran “Juice” Jones, “Word Up” by Cameo, “You Give Love A Bad Name” by Bon Jovi, “Point Of No Return” by Nu Shooz, “Take My Breath Away” by Berlin, “Girl Can’t Help It” by Journey, “Take Me Home Tonight” by Eddie Money, “Love Walks In” by Van Halen, “Dancing On The Ceiling” by Lionel Richie, “Human” by The Human League, “Sweet Love” by Anita Baker, “Walk This Way” by Run D.M.C and Aerosmith, “A Matter Of Trust” by Bill Joel, “Missionary Man” by The Eurythmics, “Heaven In Your Eyes” by Loverboy, “All Cried Out” by Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam, “Dreamtime” by Daryl Hall, “True Colours” by Cyndi Lauper, “Friends And Lovers” by Gloria Loring and Carl Anderson, “Stuck With You” by Huey Lewis and The News, “Typical Male” by Tina Turner, “Throwing It All Away” by Genesis, “Two Of Hearts” by Stacy Q, “Don’t Forget Me (When I’m Gone)” by Glass Tiger, “When I Think Of You” by Janet Jackson

10-13-1979

“Tusk” by Fleetwood Mac, “Still” by The Commodores, “Driver’s Seat” by Sniff ‘n’ The Tears, “Bad Case Of Loving You (Doctor Doctor), “Gotta Serve Somebody” by Bob Dylan, “Please Don’t Go” by KC And The Sunshine Band, “I Know A Heartache When I See One” by Jennifer Warnes, “Good Girls Don’t” by The Knack, “Lovin’, Touchin’, Squeezin’” by Journey, “The Boss” by Diana Ross, “Dirty White Boy” by Foreigner, “Born To Be Alive” by Patrick Hernandez, “Heartache Tonight” by The Eagles, “Don’t Bring Me Down” by Electric Ligh Orchestra, “Cruel To Be Kind” by Nick Lowe, “Heaven Must Have Sent You” by Bonnie Pointer, “Dim All The Lights” by Donna Summer, “Pop Muzak” by M, “My Sharona” by The Knack, “Don’t Stop Till You Get Enough” by Michael Jackson 

[listenerwants2know]

10/11/86:

Journey - Girl Can´t Help It
New Edition - Earth Angel

Nu Shooz - Pont Of No Return

The Art Of Noise With Max Headroom - Paranoimia

Van Halen - Love Walks In

The long night of museums

Around 700 museums, cultural institutions and galleries throughout Austria open their doors from 6 p.m. to 1 a.m. With just one ticket, all participating museums can be visited that evening.
The concept has proven itself for many years and is starting this year for the 23rd time. Visitors have numerous opportunities to marvel at the unseen, experience special exhibitions and guided tours, and take part in entertaining activities. The ticket is also valid as a ticket for all "Long Night" shuttle buses throughout Austria and even as a ticket for all public transportation in Vienna.

So, here´s my "night"-edition:

10/11/86:

Billy Ocean - Love Zone
Daryl Hall - Dreamtime
Janet Jackson - When I Think Of You
Loverboy - Heaven In Your Eyes
Peter Gabriel - In Your Eyes

Time for an extra: Billy Ocean

Billy Ocean´s "Love Really Hurts Without You" reached #22 on the Billboard Hot 100 back in 1976.
In November of 1986 a remixed version of this song had a single release which briefly charted in the UK at #81 and spent one week on the Netherlands Single Top 100 in March of 1987. On Belgium´s Flemish chart the 1986 mix of "Love Really Hurts Without You ..." got as high as #21 in January 1987:




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

[80sat40fan]

This week, I'm channeling my inner seminolefan and listenerwants2know for my pick hits... although both might disown me after my last pick ...

While I really like or love 31 songs from the 10/16/76 countdown, I crank these 10 tunes all the way up to 11:
Disco Duck++, Lowdown, Devil Woman, Shake Your Booty, Magic Man, Love So Right, Don't Fear The Reaper, The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald, Getaway+, The Rubberband Man

While I really like or love 30 songs from the 10/16/82 countdown, I crank these 12 tunes all the way up to 11:
Abracadabra, I Keep Forgettin' (Every Time You're Near), You Can Do Magic, Blue Eyes, Hold On, The One You Love, New World Man, Love Come Down+, You Dropped A Bomb On Me, Southern Cross, Steppin' Out, Pressure

This Week's Shooda Dun Betr Picks are by Earth Wind & Fire and Evelyn "Champagne" King (but she wasn't using "Champagne" in 1982). "Getaway" almost made it to the Top 10 but it should have been a Top 5 tune. It is so joyful that I am featuring the 12" Funky Purrfection clip here. I'm also featuring the full version of "Love Come Down" as it has a way cool groove. Eat your heart out, seminolefan :


Now time for my very irregular bonus pick for both listenerwants2know and seminolefan ... How could I not feature "Disco Duck" during its lone week at #1? So here's a radio-only promo version that combines Part 1 (vocal version) with Part 2 (instrumental version). If you have never listened to the instrumental section, you will not be disappointed :


Okay, I'll go hide in my specially designed bunker in an undisclosed location now...

[Jessica]

10-16-1982

“Hurts So Good” by John Cougar Mellencamp, “Mickey” by Toni Basil, “Pressure” by Billy Joel, “Steppin Out” by Joe Jackson, “Southern Cross” by Crosby, Stills and Nash, “You Dropped A Bomb On Me” by The Gap Band, “Love Come Down” by Evelyn King, “You Should Hear How She Talks About You” by Melissa Manchester, “The One You Love” by Glenn Frey, “Heartlight” by Neil Diamond, “Gloria” by Laura Branigan, “Hold On” by Santana, “Gypsy” by Fleetwood Mac, “Eye Of The Tiger” by Survivor, “Break It To Me Gently” by Juice Newton, “Blue Eyes” by Elton John, “I Ran” by Flock Of Seagulls, “You Can Do Magic” by America, “Somebody’s Baby” by Jackson Browne, “I Keep Forgettin’” by Michael McDonald, “Abracadabra” by The Steve Miller Band, “Hard To Say I’m Sorry” by Chicago, “Eye In The Sky” by The Alan Parsons Project, “Who Can It Be Now” by Men At Work, “Jack And Diane” by John Cougar Mellencamp

10-16-1976

“Summer” by War, “Don’t Go Breakin’ My Heart” by Elton John and Kiki Dee, “Say You Love Me” by Fleetwood Mac, “This One’s For You” by Barry Manilow, “The Rubberband Man” by The Spinners, “Do You Feel Like I Do” by Peter Frampton, “Muskrat Love” by Captain and Tennille, “More Than A Feeling” by Boston, “Nadia’s Theme” by Barry Deverzon and Perry Botkin Jr, “Fernando” by Abba, “Beth” by Kiss, “Don’t Fear The Reaper” by Blue Oyster Cult, “Love So Right” by The Bee Gees, “Magic Man” by Heart, “That’ll Be The Day” by Linda Ronstadt, “Rock ‘N Me” by Steve Miller Band, “I’d Really Love To See You Tonight” by England Dan and John Ford Coley , “She’s Gone” by Daryl Hall and John Oates, “Shake Your Booty” by KC And The Sunshine Band, “Still The One” by Orleans, “Play That Funky Music” by Wild Cherry, “If You Leave Me Now” by Chicago, “Lowdown” by Boz Scaggs, “A Fifth Of Beethoven” by Walter Murphy Band