80s0n8 Big 40 Countdown Schedule

[Aaron]

24

 

[scotchandcigar]

13. Not many good songs for me.

 

[HecticArt]

I'm only at 4.....

 

[hwkn]

29 for 80.

 

[sadchild]

ACTUAL ORDER:

Billy Joel "It's Still Rock" #35
ONJ "Magic" #27
Christoper Cross "Sailing" #15
Diana Ross "Upside Down" #1
Queen "Another One Bites" #3
Babs "Woman In Love" #25

white: listed as 'earlier' or 'later'
green: my candidates
brown: missing from my list

 

[sadchild]

Good 8
Okay 11
Bad 21

We heard this exact countdown just last year.

13: YOU'RE THE ONLY WOMAN - AMBROSIA

12: XANADU - OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN & ELO

Gonna be LasVegas Kid for a moment here. Mark Goodman said this went to #1 in the US and UK. Nope, #8 peak here.

1: UPSIDE DOWN - DIANA ROSS

I guessed correctly. No clue what anyone else guessed. The game host is slackin'.

#48 Peter Gabriel "Games Without Frontiers"
#66 Genesis "Turn It On Again"

Better than most songs in the top 40

Won't get into the top 40
#42 Linda Clifford "Red Light"
#48 Peter Gabriel "Games Without Frontiers"
#53 Ray Goodman & Brown "My Prayer"
#55 Journey "Good Morning Girl/Stay Awhile"
#56 Chicago "Thunder And Lightning"
#57 Split Enz "I Got You"
#58 Teddy Pendergrass "Can't We Try"
#59 Kings "Switchin' To Glide/This Beat Goes On"
#61 Chic "Rebels Are We"
#62 O'Jays "Girl, Don't Let It Get You Down"
#66 Genesis "Turn It On Again"
#69 Amii Stewart & Johnny Bristol "My Guy/My Girl"
#71 Deliverance "Leaving LA"
#72 Ali Thomson "Live Every Minute"
#75 Earth Wind & Fire "Let Me Talk"
#77 Allman Brothers Band "Angeline"
#80 Eddie Money "Running Back"
#85 Commodores "Heroes"
#87 Mickey Gilley "True Love Ways"
#88 Kurtis Blow "The Breaks (Part 1)"
#89 Dynasty "I've Just Begun To Love You"
#92 Rossington Collins Band "Don't Misunderstand Me"
#94 Poco "Under The Gun"
#95 Pat Benatar "You Better Run"
#96 Jon & Vangelis "I Hear You Now"
#98 Jay Black "The Part Of Me That Needs You Most"
#99 Whitesnake "Fool For Your Loving"
#100 England Dan Seals "Late At Night"

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

Won't get into the top 40
#48 Peter Gabriel "Games Without Frontiers"
#57 Split Enz "I Got You"
#59 Kings "Switchin' To Glide/This Beat Goes On"
#95 Pat Benatar "You Better Run"

These 4 are huge surprises to me. The Kings being Canadian less so but it was a good tune that got lots of play up here.

 

[HecticArt]

No serious surprises, but these are good songs"
#48 Peter Gabriel "Games Without Frontiers"
#57 Split Enz "I Got You"
#59 Kings "Switchin' To Glide/This Beat Goes On"
#66 Genesis "Turn It On Again"
#95 Pat Benatar "You Better Run"

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

Billboard has the song name backwards. The correct order is "This Beat Goes On / Switching to Glide" based upon the order of the songs on the LP. The songs have no separation grove so they were always played together. It was obviously by design as the change in tempo though abrupt is definitely well placed.

 

[seasalt43]

I'm working on a new format for bubbles. I added information I that I didn't have before. I pasted the link to last year's info: Sep 18, 2021

US Bubbling Under The HOT 100 For Week Ending 20th September, 1980

TW	LW	Artist	Title	Record Company	Week on Chart	Hot 100 Debut	Peak	Other Chart Positions
101	103	Clif Newton	The Rest Of The Night	Scotti Bros. (Atlantic)	3	-	101
102	106	Don Williams	I Believe In You	MCA	2	9/27/80 #92	24	#1 Country
103	101	The Vapors	Turning Japanese	United Artists	3	9/27/80 #86	36	UK #3
104	102	The Chipmunks	You May Be Right	Excelsior	7	-	101
105	-	Oak Ridge Boys	Heart of Mine	MCA	1	-	105	#3 Country
106	104	Toronto	Even The Score	A&M	2	-	104
107	-	Tim Weisberg	I'm The Lucky One	MCA	1	-	106
108	108	Joyce Cobb	How Glad I Am	Cream	4	-	101
109	107	Holly Penfield	Only His Name	Dreamland	6	-	105
110	106	Player	Givin' It All	Casablanca	3	-	105

Playlist - Note: The Clif Newton video isn't available anymore:

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

I am very familiar with #103 and #106. Both got lots of airplay in Saskatchewan. I noticed #103 did get to the top 40 at least.

 

[sadchild]

The Chipmunks

You May Be Right

The Chipmunks singing about dirty jokes and an electric chair?!

 

[MonoStereo]

The Chipmunks singing about dirty jokes and an electric chair?!

Well, it is from their "Chipmunk Punk" album.

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

 

[MonoStereo]

I knew The 'Munks did "My Sharona" on that record, which makes sense in regards to when it came out. But today I learned that there's actually THREE songs from "Get The Knack" on the friggin' thing. "Good Girls Don't", which also makes sense as it was the other hit from the record. And "Frustrated", which is the final track on "GTK", & bit more odd of a choice.

 

[sadchild]

Did they clean any of it up??

Such a dirty mind, I always give it up
For the touch of the younger kind

Running down the length of my thighs

And she makes you want to scream
Wishing you could get inside her pants

An in-between age madness
That you know you can't erase
'til she's sitting on your face

She'll make you crazy in the head
Better off if you were dead

 

[MonoStereo]

Did they clean any of it up??

Such a dirty mind, I always give it up
For the touch of the younger kind

Running down the length of my thighs

And she makes you want to scream
Wishing you could get inside her pants

An in-between age madness
That you know you can't erase
'til she's sitting on your face

She'll make you crazy in the head
Better off if you were dead

I listened to little bits 'n' pieces ( I don't think I could make it thru a whole song of the Chipmunk voices ) & yeah, they did. "Get inside her pants" became "Get another chance" or something like that. I didn't catch what they replaced "sittin' on your face" with. Little part of me hopes they snuck it in. That Alvin's a filthy little shit.

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

I listened to little bits 'n' pieces ( I don't think I could make it thru a whole song of the Chipmunk voices ) & yeah, they did. "Get inside her pants" became "Get another chance" or something like that. I didn't catch what they replaced "sittin' on your face" with. Little part of me hopes they snuck it in. That Alvin's a filthy little shit.

That sounds like the radio cut of the real song. They never played the album version on the radio.

 

[MonoStereo]

That sounds like the radio cut of the real song. They never played the album version on the radio.

Yeah, I imagine lyrics-wise they just used the single versions of all the songs. I'd love it if there's a dirty version out there in the vaults that they cut as a goof.

 

[sadchild]

I remembered a bunch, more than usual I think, but there's just too many from 87-89 to keep track of.

EARLIER
George Michael "Faith"
Whitney Houston "So Emotional"
George Harrison "Got My Mind"
Michael Jackson "The Way You"
Debbie Gibson "Foolish Beat"
Rick Astley "Never Gonna"
George Michael "Father Figure"
Michael Jackson "Man In The Mirror"
Whitney Houston "Where Do Broken"
Rick Astley "Together Forever"
Cheap Trick "The Flame"
George Michael "Monkey"
Michael Jackson "Dirty Diana"
Richard Marx "Hold On To"
Steve Winwood "Roll With It"

Spoiler: CANDIDATES

Bobby McFerrin "Don't Worry"
George Michael "One More Try"
Guns N Roses "Sweet Child"

LATER
Def Leppard "Love Bites"
Beach Boys "Kokomo"
Escape Club "Wild Wild West"
Bon Jovi "Bad Medicine"
Phil Collins "A Groovy Kind"
Chicago "Look Away"
Poison "Every Rose"