Can you name the artist and song:
I’d fall down on my knees
Kiss the ground that you walk on
If I could just hold you again
Last Song: “Working For The Weekend” by Loverboy from Get Lucky (1982)
Great job Craig (@cdennis0130) and Erwin (@erwin_green)!!!
You want a piece of my heart
You better start from the start
You wanna be in the show
Come on baby let’s go
Can you name the artist and song:
I know when to go out
Know when to stay in
Last Song: “When It’s Over” by Loverboy from the album Get Lucky (1982)
Great job David (@daviddwwalker), BirdsAreBest (@birds_best), and Adora (@Adora2000)!!!
Sometimes you think you’re playing the fool
He’s running around breaking all the rules
Somehow that don’t seem fair
There’s got to be a better way
You know what I’m trying to say
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Can you name the artist and song:
You could have a bumper car, bumping
This amusement never ends
Last Song: “Hot Girls In Love” by Loverboy from the album Keep It Up (1983)
Great job Adora (@Adora2000)!!!
Too many men to please
She counts them all on her rosary
You know you might get burned
So be careful where you touch
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Can you name the artist and song:
And when I came back to the room
Everybody just seemed to move
And I turned my amp up loud and I began to play
Last Song: “Lovin’ Every Minute of It” by Loverboy from the album Lovin’ Every Minute of It (1985)
Great job Denise (@denise_mcaleer)!!!
Oh, you want me to come alive
So flick the switch into overdrive
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Welcome back as we continue the countdown! If you missed the previous songs, you can go back and check out songs 40-31 and 30-21. The hits are getting bigger and bigger. However, there are still two songs on today’s list that I was unfamiliar with. That’s always exciting for me. Now, let’s Return to the week ending and move on with the countdown. And as usual, if you’d like to listen to the song on YouTube, click on the song title. And if you want to listen or buy this song on Amazon, you can click on the album cover.
That wraps up today’s list of songs. Come back Friday as we wrap up this weeks awesome countdown!
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Welcome back to another installment of this week’s Top 40 countdown. If you missed the previous entries, you can check out songs 40-31 and 30-21. So far, it’s been a pretty good week. Let’s see if it continues. Let’s Return to the week ending August 27, 1983, and move on with the countdown.
This smash hit by Bonnie Tyler is the second Jim Steinman song on this week’s countdown. This song still stands the test of time as I have heard it on several recent television commercials. And of course with the recent eclipse, the song has been getting even more airplay.
In the ’80s, there was a lot of nostalgia for the ’50s and ’60s. This song has that old time sound.
It is so refreshing to hear a Quarterflash song that is not “Harden My Heart”. They have several great songs, and this is one of them.
A good rocker. Loverboy was on a roll throughout the ’80s. Then grunge happened.
Time for the Prog Rock supergroup Asia! I always loved this song and band. This song did get a ton of MTV airplay.
I still think this should be called “Please, Please Tell Me Now”. Duran Duran was the ultimate ’80s group. This song is classic, just like the rest of their early 80s music.
This song got by me. I had never heard it before. It isn’t too bad. This title track from Browne’s seventh album was the highest charted song from this album, which also includes “Tender Is the Night” – which I have heard of.
This pretty song was the 5th single released from the legendary Thriller album. They must have broken the budget with all the previous singles, because there is no music video for this. This song was written by Steve Porcaro (the keyboardist from Toto) and John Bettis.
This was the first single released off of Billy Joel’s album, An Innocent Man. I loved it when it came out. Then got sick of it as it played on MTV constantly. Then I missed it when the follow-up single “Uptown Girl” got overplayed even worse.
This is one of the more iconic songs of the ’80s. There is no mistaking which decade this song belongs to. And no, perverts, this isn’t about safe sex. This is an anti-establishment song. The following is from a very cool article from Confessions of a Pop Culture Addict. Sam Tweedle interviewed the writer/lead singer of Men Without Hats, Ivan Doroschuk. Sam asked Ivan about the origins of the song. Ivan explained that “The Safety Dance” is a protest against bouncers stopping dancers pogoing to 1980s new wave music:
The inspiration for the song was from back in the days when Punk and “New Wave” were starting off and the discotheques were still playing disco music. But every now and then they’d slip in Blondie’s Heart of Glass or Rock Lobster by The B-52’s. Well, obviously, anybody who was into that kind of music would rush on the dance floor and start jumping up and down and would bang into the guys trying to do their disco two steps. I got thrown out of a lot of clubs because of that. So that’s basically the origin. I was kind of mad that they wouldn’t let me dance if I wanted to, so I took matters in my own hands and wrote an anthem for it.
That’s it for today. There were some very familiar songs, and others that don’t get much airplay on ’80s radio these days. Let’s see what tomorrow will bring when we wrap up the countdown.
Follow @returntothe80sCan you name the artist and song:
I don’t feel you any more
You darken my door
Whatever you’re looking for
Last Song: “Heaven In Your Eyes” by Loverboy from the Top Gun soundtrack (1986)
Great job Candy (@candyissodandy)!!!
I never really thought I’d see this love grow
But you helped me see
Now I know what my heart’s been lookin’ for
Can you name the artist and song:
I should have stuck up my hand
I should have got up to stand
And this is what I should have said
Last Song: “This Could Be the Night” by Loverboy from Lovin’ Every Minute of It (1985)
Great job Ty (@coug88)!!!
I’ve been down the streets of desire
Sometimes I was so uninspired
Hair’s to Friday!!!
Can you name the artist and song:
I gotta know tonight
If you’re alone tonight
Can’t stop this feeling
Can’t stop this fight
Last Song: “Turn Me Loose” by Loverboy from the album Loverboy (1980)
Great job Robert (@mishouenglish)!!!
And then you came around
Tried to tie me down
I was such a clown
You had to have it your way
Or no way at all
Can you name the artist and song:
In a lifetime
There is only love
Reaching for the lonely one
Last Song: “Queen of the Broken Hearts” by Loverboy from Keep It Up (1983)
Both sides are fightin’
You don’t know who to choose
You’re stuck in the middle
And you can’t lose
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