Hall & Oates recorded Everytime You Go Away for their 1980 album Voices. Here it is on good ol' YouTube:
Billboard Top 500 Songs of Summer
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Maybe H&O didn't see the hit potential of the song, this original version doesn't have the slick production.
Good find by Paul Young to turn somebody's album track into a #1
Good find by Paul Young to turn somebody's album track into a #1
Songwriter Daryl Hall told Music Connection:
I never thought of (“Every Time You Go Away”) any other way than the way it was ‘til Paul Young did it … I was just doin’ a kind of gospel/soul song; that was all I had in mind for it. I was really surprised to hear the production they did because it kept the elements but commercialized it – made it sound like a pop record.
I never thought of (“Every Time You Go Away”) any other way than the way it was ‘til Paul Young did it … I was just doin’ a kind of gospel/soul song; that was all I had in mind for it. I was really surprised to hear the production they did because it kept the elements but commercialized it – made it sound like a pop record.
Ok sorry if I'm hijacking this thread but I have a few other dumb pop summer songs I dig:
FREE BRITNEY!!!
Justin is a hottie:
My God she was a gorgeous woman when I was like 16:
And this one is a bit more obscure but def hit the radio (at least in the Philly market) hard:
FREE BRITNEY!!!
Justin is a hottie:
My God she was a gorgeous woman when I was like 16:
And this one is a bit more obscure but def hit the radio (at least in the Philly market) hard:
IdRatherBeSkiing
Sherbert is NOT and NEVER WILL BE ice cream.
Are you referring to Hanson's 1997 hit MMMBop? "Mmmm Mmmm Bob" sounds like one of the characters on The Waltons – or maybe a tagline from a Campbell's soup commercial. 
And now, because nobody asked, here is the number-one song of summer 1921, one hundred years ago. Paul Whiteman's Cherie was number one for six weeks in August-September. It was written by Irving Bibo, who composed the scores for more than 300 motion picftures and Broadway plays in the 1920s-30s-40s. Among the many hits he wrote are Ev'ry Night I Cry Myself To Sleep Over You, Profiteering Blues, Ty-Tee (Tahiti), Sweet Little You, Am I Wasting My Time On You, Sympathy Waltz, Good Night, That Old Gang Of Mine, My Man and Huggable Kissable You.
And now, because nobody asked, here is the number-one song of summer 1921, one hundred years ago. Paul Whiteman's Cherie was number one for six weeks in August-September. It was written by Irving Bibo, who composed the scores for more than 300 motion picftures and Broadway plays in the 1920s-30s-40s. Among the many hits he wrote are Ev'ry Night I Cry Myself To Sleep Over You, Profiteering Blues, Ty-Tee (Tahiti), Sweet Little You, Am I Wasting My Time On You, Sympathy Waltz, Good Night, That Old Gang Of Mine, My Man and Huggable Kissable You.