Can you name the artist and song:
She’s got the eyes that make you realize
She won’t be hypnotized by your usual charm
Last Song: “We Got The Beat” by The Go-Go’s from Beauty and The Beat (1982)
Great job Adora (@Adora2000)!!!
See the people walking down the street
Fall in line just watching all their feet
They don’t know where they want to go
But they’re walking in time
Question: On The Dukes of Hazzard, who was the local mechanic friend of the “Dukes”?
Last Question: Which Go-Go’s video featured the band members driving in a convertible and dancing in a fountain?
Answer: “Our Lips Are Sealed”
Can you name the artist and song:
Close your eyes don’t run and hide
Easy love is no easy ride
Just wakin’ up from what we had
Could stop good love from going bad
Last Song: “Our Lips Are Sealed” by The Go-Go’s from Beauty and the Beat (1981)
Great job Adora (@Adora2000), Peter (@JamsieBlonde007), and Robert (@robertdavis147)!!!
Can you hear them?
They talk about us
Telling lies
Well, that’s no surprise
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Can you name the artist and song:
The way that you love is good as money
I swear by stars above, sweet as honey
People think you’re down and out
You show them what it’s all about
Last Song: “Vacation” by The Go-Go’s from the album Vacation (1982)
Great job Tanya, She Who is Late to the Party (@mstrichter) and Martin (@mcmaenza)!!!
I see I was wrong
And I’m not so strong
I should’ve known all along
That time would tell
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Can you name the artist and song:
Baby make a speech, Star Wars fly
Neighbors just shine it on
But if a night falls and a bomb falls
Will anybody see the dawn?
Last Song: “We Got The Beat” by The Go-Go’s from the album Beauty and The Beat (1982)
Great job Steve (@steve45220)!!!
See the kids just gettin’ out of school
They can’t wait to hang out and be cool
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Here is last week’s Remember That Song answer. New songs will return in the coming weeks.
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Last Song: “Mad About You” by Belinda Carlisle from the album Belinda (1986)
Great job Ross, and Andy (@andytorah)!!!
Couple of fools run wild aren’t we
Pushing the day into the nighttime
Somewhere between the two
We start to see
And here is a pic of loyal Returnee, Andy, meeting Belinda and the rest of the Go-Go’s:
Can you name the artist and song:
Puppets with strings of gold
East L.A. at midnight
Papa won’t be home tonight
Found dead with his best friend’s wife
Last Song: “We Got the Beat” by the Go-Go’s from Beauty and the Beat (1981)
Great job John (@JLeytonNGTP)!!!
See the people walking down the street
Fall in line just watching all their feet
They don’t know where they want to go
But they’re walking in time
Can you name the artist and song:
I feel her breath on my face
Her body close to me
Can’t look in her eyes
She’s out of my league
Last Song: “Vacation” by The Go-Go’s from the album Vacation (1982) in honor of Belinda Carlisle’s birthday. She turned 57 yesterday.
Great job Jim (@jimvilk)!!!
And thanks, once again, to Andy (@andytorah) for the submission!
A week without you
Thought I’d forget
Two weeks without you and I
Still haven’t gotten over you yet
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Welcome back to this week’s Top 40 Countdown! If you missed yesterday’s songs, you can always go ahead and check them out. There were some classics songs yesterday, and we get more of the same today. What were you doing this week in 1984? I was heading down the home stretch of junior high school, and getting ready for high school. Cable TV was still new in our area. I had my MTV for less than a year at this point. So, there were a lot of changes and transitions at this point in my life. And by this point, music had pretty much transitioned from the soft pop and disco sound of the late ’70s/early ’80s to the classic ’80s sound. Let’s continue the countdown, and see what was popluar this week of April 14, 1984…
We begin today’s list of songs with a pleasant surprise for me. I had never heard of Tony Carey before. It turns out that he was the keyboard player for the rock band Rainbow for a short time in the mid-to-late ’70s. After he left Rainbow, Carey embarked on a solo career. That career did not exactly take off, but he had a pretty good hit with this song.
This fun, doo-wop song was the fourth single released from Billy Joel’s classic album, An Innocent Man. A lot of his songs from that album got overplayed, but this was one that I never really grew tired of. I also enjoyed the video. It did fool me though. I had never known, until in recent years, that it is actually Billy Joel singing all the lead and backing vocals on this track.
This is classic ’80s! It was an anti-war protest song by the band from Germany. The original German version was such a huge success that an English version was also created (“99 Red Balloons“). I believe that the German version still got most of the airplay in the U.S. One thing I know for sure is that “Captain Kirk” are about the only words I understand in either version.
Dan Fogelberg is best known for his soft rock hits in the early ’80s (“Longer“, “Leader of the Band“, and “Same Old Lang Syne“). But this was my introduction to him, and it is my favorite of all his songs. I always just felt that this was a bright, upbeat tune.
This is an interesting song and video by the prog-rock band, Yes. There is nothing wrong with your screen. The video was shot upside down, and was one of the first music videos to use computer-generated imagery.
This is a classic by John Cougar Mellencamp. This is off of his 1983 album, Uh-Huh, which was the first album in which he used his real last name, going from being known as John Cougar to John Cougar Mellencamp.
This is Fleetwood Mac’s keyboardist/vocalist Christine McVie’s biggest solo hit. This is probably my favorite song of the day. Christine McVie is very good and very underrated.
We’ll take a break for a minute, and check out a song that debuted this week. This one is “Don’t Waste Your Time” by the R&B duo of Yarbrough & Peoples. I had never heard this song before. It’s not a bad song. But, I chose it so you could check out a V-E-R-Y young Ice-T towards the beginning of the video, driving the Mercedes.
On with the countdown….
This was another pleasant surprise for me. I don’t remember this song at all. It kind of has a pop-rock-new-wavey feel to it.
Another classic tune by a classic band.
We’ll finish up today’s list with a cool song and video. The video tells it’s story through a comic book. Alan Parsons was known as being more prog-rock, but this song has more of a pop-rock Wall of Sound style. Yet another ’80s classic.
I hope you guys are enjoying this week’s countdown. Let me know what you think so far, as we are halfway through. Tomorrow, we will be back to continue the countdown, and we will have Long Distance Dedication.
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