Can you name the artist and song:
Looking good when it comes to the crunch
Looking good’s a state of mind
Last Song: “Opportunities (Let’s Make Lots of Money)” by Pet Shops Boys from the album Please (1986)
Great job David (@daviddwwalker)!!!
You can see I’m single-minded, I know what I could be
How’d you feel about it, come take a walk with me
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Time for another Top 40 countdown! With Election Day tomorrow, I decided to go with the week of an Election Day from the 80s. I had already done 1984 for this week. So, we will go towards the end of the Reagan era. This Presidential race was George H. W. Bush against Michael Dukakis. This was the first election I voted in.
I had graduated earlier in the year, and was now attending Community College. Well actually, I was registered at the Community College of Rhode Island. However, I attended DG’s Arcade instead of actual college classes. 3 months later I was heading to Great Lakes, in the dead of winter, for Navy boot camp.
Now, let’s Return to the week ending November 5, 1988, and see what songs may have come on the radio in my 1981 Chevy Citation, on the way to the arcade.
As usual, you can click on the song title to get the YouTube video, and you can click on the album cover to check out this song on Amazon.
That wraps up today’s list of songs. Not a bad start. Come back tomorrow to check out songs 30-21.
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Can you name the artist and song:
You have gone and made me such a fool
I’m so lost in your love
And oh, we belong together
Won’t you believe in my song?
Last Song: “It’s A Sin” by Pet Shop Boys from the album Actually (1987)
Great job Mel, Golden Memories and Silver Tears (@MarcCorbishley), Rose (@Rosefreckelton), and Tim (@burrowsjon)!!!
If you’d like to get this song from Amazon, you can click on the album cover below
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Welcome back as we conclude this week’s countdown! It has been fun getting back into this. There are some classic songs in this top 10. Again, you can click on the album cover to get the song from Amazon, and you can click on the song title to watch the video on YouTube. WARNING: If you click on the #3 song title, you can’t unsee or unhear that song! Now, let’s Return to the U.K. for the week ending July 12, 1987, and wrap up this week’s countdown!
That wraps up this week’s U.K. countdown! I hope you enjoyed it. The next one will be back at stateside. In the meantime, Keep your feet on the ground, and keep reaching for the stars.
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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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Can you name the artist and song:
I’ll be the sun
Shining on you
Hey Cinderella
Step in your shoe
Last Song: “It’s A Sin
Great job Jeri (@Jemattox)!!!
For everything I long to do
No matter when or where or who
Has one thing in common, too
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Can you name the artist and song:
Sometimes you tell the day
By the bottle that you drink
And times when you’re alone all you do is think
Last Song: “West End Girls” by Pet Shop Boys from the album Please (1986)
Great job bierpumpe, Jim (@JimVilk), and MC Chunky (@MCChunkyA)!!!
Too many shadows whispering voices
Faces on posters too many choices
If when why what how much have you got
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Hi Everybody! Welcome back as we conclude this week’s countdown! If you missed the previous songs, you can go ahead and check out songs 40-31, 30-21, and songs 20-11. This is an interesting top 10, as there is quite the variety of music. Now, let’s Return to the week ending May 21, 1988, and wrap up the countdown.
We kick off the top 10 with an R&B ballad. I had never heard of The Deele until recently. There were a couple of music moguls as part of this group – Babyface and L.A. Reid. I remembered this song when I heard it. I like it.
As we were approaching the end of the decade, we were approaching the end of Hall & Oates’ great run of hits. This song would peak at #3, and become the duo’s 16th, and final, Top 10 hit.
We are back with another rock song. I loved White Lion. The rocked, and had a little different sound than some bands at the time. Mike Tramp has an interesting voice, and Vito Bratta is an awesome guitarist. This song was White Lion’s big breakthrough hit.
Icehouse, not to be confused by the early ’90s hair band Firehouse, was an Australian synthpop band. This is another song that I recognized as soon as I heard it. This song was written by Icehouse lead singer Iva Davies (who happens to turn 60 today) and John Oates. I really enjoy this song.
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This rock ballad would also be Foreigner’s 16th, and final top 40 hit.
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As I mentioned earlier in the week, even though I was more of a rock fan, I loved freestyle music too. So I was a huge fan of Samantha Fox. This was big hit for Samantha, peaking at #3.
Earlier in the decade, Willie Nelson had a huge hit with this song. The Pet Shop Boys were successful with it as well, with their own synthpop take on it.
Now let’s take a look at what was topping some of the other charts this week:
Topping the Rock charts was “The Valley Road” by Bruce Hornsby and the Range, which we saw at #25 on the Hot 100 this week.
The #1 R&B hit was “Mercedes Boy” by Pebbles
The biggest Country hit was “Eighteen Wheels and a Dozen Roses” by Kathy Mattea
Topping the Dance charts was “Like a Child” by Noel
The biggest Album this week was Faith by George Michael
The #1 Adult Contemporary hit is also our #3 hit on the Hot 100 this week:
This song was a worldwide hit for the English pop group. It was a #5 hit in England in 1987. A year later it would be even more successful in the U.S., hitting #2.
The ’80s were a good time for George Michael. He had some huge hits as a member of Wham!, and he had an even bigger solo career. This was a #1 hit off of his classic Faith album. This is one of those songs that I didn’t care for much back then, but love it now.
Gloria Estefan and the Miami Sound Machine already had a handful of big hits in the U.S. by this point. But, this was their big breakthrough hit throughout the rest of the world. Just about every hit for Estefan this point forward was an adult contemporary song.
Well that wraps up this week’s countdown. Thanks so much for checking it out. I hope you enjoyed it. There will be more to come in the upcoming weeks. In the meantime, Keep your feet on the ground, and keep reaching for the stars.
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Can you name the artist and song:
Now, there’s no looking forward
Now, there’s no turning back
Last Song: “Always On My Mind” by Willie Nelson (who turned 82 yesterday) from the album Always on My Mind (1982)
Great job Emma (@emmakwall) and Jim (@JimVilk)!!!
And maybe I didn’t hold you
All those lonely, lonely times
And I guess I never told you
I’m so happy that you’re mine
Here is another version that ’80s fans may appreciate. The year that Willie turned 70, he did a couple of concerts where he sang with many different singers such as: Steven Tyler, Rob Thomas (Matchbox 20), Sheryl Crow, ZZ Top, and Elvis Costello. And here he is with Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora. This is a really good version.
And here is another ’80s version. This one is by the Pet Shop Boys. I do like how they made this their own:
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Hair’s to Friday!!
Can you name the artist and song:
And if you stay the night, hold me tight
We’ll make the wrong seem right
So come on now
Last Song: “What Have I Done to Deserve This?” by the Pet Shop Boys with Dusty Springfield from the album Actually (1987)
Great job Elissa and Robert (@mishouenglish)!!!
I bought you drinks, I brought you flowers
I read you books and talked for hours
Every day, so many drinks
Such pretty flowers, so tell me
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