Can you name the artist and song:
You do something to me that I can’t explain
Hold me closer and I feel no pain
Every beat of my heart
We got something going on
Last Song: “Misled” by Kool & The Gang from Emergency (1985)
Great job Craig (@cdennis0130), Adora (@Adora2000), and Lisa (@gabbyg89)!!!
What’s this crazy place, you want to take me to?
Tell me, what’s the price if I go with you?
What better way to start a new Return to the ’80s series than a little “Celebration”?! On this day, “Celebration” by Kool & the Gang became the #1 song in America. To this day, there cannot be a happy gathering without this song being played. Lead singer J.T. Taylor’s mother predicted that the song would be a smash hit. Taylor told Billboard: “My mother told me when she heard it, ‘You’re gonna play this song for the rest of your life – so get ready!” The song was released as the first single from their twelfth album, Celebrate!, and it was the band’s first and only single to reach No. 1 on the US Billboard Hot 100. On March 24, 2021, “Celebration” was added to the National Recording Registry for being “culturally historically or aesthetically significant”.
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Can you name the artist and song:
I’ll be more together
Stretched by fewer thoughts that leave me
Chasing after my dreams, disown me, loaded with danger
Last Song: “Fresh” by Kool & The Gang from Emergency (1985)
Great job Adora (@Adora2000)!!!
Conversation is going ’round
People talking ’bout the girl who’s come to town
Lovely lady pretty as can be
No one knows her name she’s just a mystery
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Can you name the artist and song:
people round here
Wear beatdown eyes sunk in smoke dried face
So resigned to what their fate is
Last Song: “Too Hot” by Kool & The Gang from Ladies’ Night (1980)
Great job Adora (@Adora2000) and Erwin (@erwin_green)!!!
Flyin’ high we never took the time
To stop and feel the need
Funny how those years go by
Changing you, changing me
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Welcome back to a new week of the Top 40 countdown! This will be a slightly different format. My comments will be limited to 1 or 2 sentences. If you would like to hear the song/see the video on YouTube, you can click on the song title. If you’d like to listen or buy the song from Amazon, you can click on the album cover. We are in the heart of the 80s for this countdown, so there will be some great songs this week. So, let’s Return to the week ending January 19, 1985, and begin the countdown.
Mistake No. 2 = Thinking Boy George was a woman, despite his name
That wraps up today’s list of songs. I’m liking this countdown so far. Come back tomorrow as we continue the countdown.
Follow @returntothe80sCan you name the artist and song:
You know, in some ways you’re a lot like me
You’re just a prisoner, and you’re tryin’ to break free
Last Song: “Cherish” by Kool & the Gang from the album Emergency (1984)
Great job Andy (@andytorah)!!!
I often pray before I lay down by your side
If you receive your calling before I awake
Could I make it through the night
Can you name the artist and song:
All alone,
I sit home by the phone
Waiting for you, baby
Through the years
How can you stand to hear
My pleading for you dear?
Last Song: “Fresh” by Kool & the Gang from Emergency (1984)
Great job Brent (@jonbrent13)!!!
What a feeling and I can’t stop it baby
Miss frisky lady take me away
Can you name the artist and song and complete the lyrics:
I think of all the education that I missed.
But then my homework was _____ _____ ____ ____
Last Song: “Get Down On It” by Kool & the Gang from Something Special (1981)
Great job Jim (@JimVilk)!!!
How you gonna do it if you really don’t wanna dance
By standing on the wall?
(Get your back up off the wall)
Hair’s to Friday!!!
Can you name the artist and song:
Cops on the corner always ignore
Somebody’s getting paid
Last Song: “Celebration” by Kool & the Gang from the album Celebrate! (1980)
Great job Andy (@andytorah)!!!
It’s time to come together
It’s up to you, what’s your pleasure?
Hair’s to Friday!!!
Can you name the artist and song:
When the daylight
Is falling down into the night
And the sharks try
To cut a big piece out of life
Last Song: “Joanna” by Kool & the Gang from In the Heart (1983)
I’m in love, and I won’t lie
She’s my girl and always on my mind
She gives me her love and a feeling that’s right
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