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Can you name the artist and song:
Everybody wants you
Everybody wants your love
I’d just like to make you mine, all mine
Last Song: “Talk To Me” by Stevie Nicks from Rock a Little (1986)
Great job Adora (@Adora2000) and Craig (@cdennis0130)!!!
I can see we’re thinkin’ ’bout the same things
Yes, I see your expression when the phone rings
We both know there’s something happening here
Can you name the artist and song:
He’s for every one of us
Stand for every one of us
He’ll save with a mighty hand
Last Song: “Edge of Seventeen” by Stevie Nicks from Bella Donna (1982)
Great job Craig (@cdennis0130), and Erwin (@erwin_green)!!!
The clouds never expect it when it rains
But the sea changes colors
But the sea does not change
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Question: What star makes a non speaking cameo at the beginning of the movie Planes, Trains and Automobiles?
Last Question: Which ’80s duet featured members from Fleetwood Mac and Eagles?
Answer: “Leather and Lace” by Stevie Nicks and Don Henley
Great job Sweetpurplejune!!!
Question: What future talk-show host helped pen the theme song for The Facts of Life?
Last Question: After hearing the 1982 Prince song “Little Red Corvette” on the radio, Stevie Nicks was inspired to collaborate with Prince to write and record a song based on the melody of the Prince song. Which 1983 Stevie Nicks song was created by this collaboration with Prince?
Answer: Stand Back
The following is from Wikipedia, but you can hear the story from Stevie Nicks herself below:
Nicks has often told the story of how she wrote “Stand Back”. She wrote it on the day of her marriage to Kim Anderson on January 29, 1983. The newlyweds were driving up to San Ysidro Ranch in Santa Barbara when Prince’s song “Little Red Corvette” came on the radio. Nicks started humming along to the melody, especially inspired by the lush synthesizers on the song, and “Stand Back” was born. The couple stopped and got a tape recorder and Nicks recorded the demo in the honeymoon suite that night. Later, when Nicks went into the studio to record the song, she called Prince and told him the story of how she wrote the song to his melody. Prince came to the studio that night (on 8 February 1983 at Studio 55, Los Angeles) and played synthesizers on it, although his contribution is uncredited on the album. He and Nicks did agree however to split the publishing royalties on the song 50-50. Then, she says, “he just got up and left as if the whole thing happened in a dream.”
Question: After hearing the 1982 Prince song “Little Red Corvette” on the radio, Stevie Nicks was inspired to collaborate with Prince to write and record a song based on the melody of the Prince song. Which 1983 Stevie Nicks song was created by this collaboration with Prince?
Last Question: What car company’s pitchman lied in TV commercials but claimed, “You have my word on it.”?
Answer: Isuzu
Can you name the artist and song:
I been laid off from work
My rent is due
My kids all need
Brand new shoes
Last Song: “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around” by Stevie Nicks & Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers from Bella Donna (1981)
Great job Craig (@cdennis0130), Adora (@Adora2000), Peter (@JamsieBlonde007), Lori (@ThreezkyMusic), and Teen Movie Classics (@TeenClassics)!!!
Baby, you’ll come knocking on my front door
Same old line you used to use before
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Can you name the artist and song:
And I remember how we’d play, simply waste the day away
Then we’d say nothing would come between us
Two dreamers
Last Song: “Stand Back” by Stevie Nicks from the album Stand Back (1983)
Great job Great job Adora (@Adora2000)!!!
No one looked as I walked by
Just an invitation would have been just fine
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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:
We just want to dance here
Someone stole the stage
They call us irresponsible
Write us off the page
Last Song: “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around 
Great job Jim (@JimVilk)!!!!
I know you really want to tell me good-bye
I know you really want to be your own girl
Baby you could never look me in the eye
Yeah you buckle with the weight of the words
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Hi Everybody! Welcome back as we finally conclude the countdown. I’m sorry it took so long to wrap this up, but sometimes real life happens. If you missed the previous songs, you can check out songs 40-31, 30-21, and 20-11. What a blast going down memory lane! Now, let’s Return to the week ending August 27, 1983, and wrap up the countdown.
And don’t forget, if you click on the song title, you can see the video of the song. If you click on the album cover, you can listen to or purchase the song on Amazon.
The great David Bowie re-invented himself once again with the Let’s Dance album. This classic was the second song released off of that album. Bowie was one of the many of our 80s icons that passed away last year. He is missed.
Culture Club was one of the biggest acts in the early 80s. I was not on board with that at the time. But, now their music brings me some wonderful nostalgia.
In my opinion, The Human League is very underrated. I really like this song a lot. It has that classic 80s sound. I also recommend their 2011 album, Credo. They still sound the same, which is great!
This is a great signature song for Stevie Nicks’ solo career. Stevie is almost 70 and still going strong. In an interview with Rolling Stone, Stevie was asked how it felt to be turning 70 in 2 years. She said:
I don’t like that number. I see lots of people my age, and lots of people who are younger than me, and I think, “Wow, those people look really old.” I think it’s because they didn’t try. If you want to stay young, you have to make an effort. If I wanna walk onstage in a short chiffon skirt and not look completely age-inappropriate, I have to make that happen. Or you just throw in the towel and let your hair turn white and look like a frumpy old woman. I’m never gonna go there.
In the early ’80s, there were very few acts that were as hot as Men at Work. This was the third single released from their Cargo album, and peaked right here at #6.
This cover of the Irving Berlin song was a huge hit for Taco, eventually peaking at #4. This made Irving Berlin, then 95, the oldest ever living songwriter to have one of his compositions enter the top ten.
The disco queen, and fellow New Englander (Boston, MA), transitioned brilliantly into the ’80s, making this her signature song.
This was another huge hit from the Flashdance soundtrack. The following year, he would release another song from a movie soundtrack – “Gremlins…Mega Madness“.
This song was so overplayed that I would cringe every time I’d hear The Eurythmics. Luckily, enough time has been removed that I really love their music. I have no problem skipping over this one though. But, I love anything else they do.
Speaking of overplayed songs, this was the king of them. I clearly remembering listening to the year end countdown in December, and being so disappointed that this was the #1 song of the year. I love just about everything else from the Synchronicity album. But I guess I’m a weirdo. At least it’s better than a stalker.
That wraps up this week’s countdown. I hope you enjoyed this. There will definitely be more countdowns coming up. In the meantime, Keep your feet on the ground, and keep reaching for the stars.
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