80s0n8 Big 40 Countdown Schedule

sadchild said:
1986

40. KING FOR A DAY – THE THOMPSON TWINS
39. HE’LL NEVER LOVE YOU (LIKE I DO) – FREDDIE JACKSON
38. SECRET LOVERS – ATLANTIC STARR
37. DIGITAL DISPLAY – READY FOR THE WORLD
36. BROKEN WINGS – MR. MISTER
35. EVERYBODY DANCE – TA MARA & THE SEEN
34. TARZAN BOY - BALTIMORA
33. SEX AS A WEAPON – PAT BENATAR
32. THE SUN ALWAYS SHINES ON TV – A-HA
31. EVERYTHING IN MY HEART – COREY HART
30. SILENT RUNNING – MIKE & THE MECHANICS
29. SARA - STARSHIP
28. SEPARATE LIVES – PHIL COLLINS/MARILYN MARTIN
27. FACE THE FACE – PETE TOWNSHEND
26. A LOVE BIZARRE – SHEILA E.
25. LIFE IN A NORTHERN TOWN – THE DREAM ACADEMY
24. YOU’RE A FRIEND OF MINE – CLARENCE CLEMONS AND JACKSON BROWNE
23. LIVING IN AMERICA – JAMES BROWN
22. THE SWEETEST TABOO – SADE
21. KYRIE – MR. MISTER
20. SIDEWALK TALK - JELLYBEAN
19. GOODBYE – NIGHT RANGER
18. IT’S ONLY LOVE – BRYAN ADAMS/TINA TURNER
17. HOW WILL I KNOW – WHITNEY HOUSTON
16. CONGA – MIAMI SOUND MACHINE
15. TONIGHT SHE COMES – THE CARS
14. SMALL TOWN – JOHN COUGAR MELLENCAMP
13. GO HOME – STEVIE WONDER
12. ALIVE & KICKING – SIMPLE MINDS
11. WHEN THE GOING GETS TOUGH, THE TOUGH GET GOING – BILLY OCEAN
10. SPIES LIKE US – PAUL MCCARTNEY
9. PARTY ALL THE TIME – EDDIE MURPHY
8. I MISS YOU – KLYMAXX
7. WALK OF LIFE – DIRE STRAITS
6. MY HOMETOWN – BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
5. I'M YOUR MAN - WHAM
4. TALK TO ME – STEVIE NICKS
3. BURNING HEART - SURVIVOR
2. SAY YOU, SAY ME – LIONEL RICHIE
1. THAT’S WHAT FRIENDS ARE FOR – DIONNE WARWICK & FRIENDS
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Debuts:

37 44 Digital Display – Ready for The World
38 45 Secret Lovers – Atlantic Starr
39 48 He’ll Never Love You (Like I Do) – Freddie Jackson
40 52 King for A Day – Thompson Twins

This Weeks Drops from the 40:

41 25 Perfect Way – Scritti Politti
48 30 Love Is the Seventh Wave – Sting
52 37 Sleeping Bag – ZZ Top
53 35 Election Day – Arcadia
 
sadchild said:
Good 9
Okay 12
Bad 19

8. I MISS YOU – KLYMAXX

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1. THAT’S WHAT FRIENDS ARE FOR – DIONNE WARWICK & FRIENDS

At least one of the other two people guessed this one - probably both. I went with "These Dreams" at #45. So, I got creamed.

#98 Nick Lowe "I Knew the Bride (When She Used to Rock 'n' Roll)"

Sounds vaguely familiar. Maybe heard it once or twice back in the day? The video does something I absolutely hate. Nick is strumming cowboy chords an acoustic guitar through the entire video, but there's no acoustic guitar anywhere in the song. Drives me nuts!

Will never enter the top 40
#43 Barbra Streisand "Somewhere"
#46 Asia "Go"
#51 Isley Jasper Isley "Caravan Of Love"
#57 Chaka Khan "Own the Night"
#62 Rush "The Big Money"
#65 Twisted Sister "Leader Of The Pack"
#67 OMD "Secret"
#69 New Edition "With You All The Way"
#70 Queen "One Vision"
#71 Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam "Can You Feel The Beat"
#73 Alarm "Strength"
#74 Wang Chung "To Live And Die In LA"
#76 Alisha "Baby Talk"
#83 Dan Seals "Bop"
#84 Chicago Bears Shufflin' Crew "The Super Bowl Shuffle"
#85 Eugene Wilde "Don't Say No Tonight"
#87 Jack Wagner "Too Young"
#89 Divinyls "Pleasure And Pain"
#90 Oingo Boingo "Just Another Day"
#94 Meli'sa Morgan "Do Me Baby"
#96 David Pack "Prove Me Wrong"
#98 Nick Lowe "I Knew the Bride (When She Used to Rock 'n' Roll)"
#99 Evelyn 'Champagne' King "Your Personal Touch"
#100 Fortune "Stacy"
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I figured I'd add the debuts for this week:

This Weeks Hot 100 Debuts:

#64 - Sanctify Yourself – Simple Minds (peaked #14)
#80 - No Easy Way Out – Robert Tepper (peaked #22)
#83 - Bop – Dan Seals (peaked #42)
#86 - Manic Monday – The Bangles (peaked #2)
#88 - Live Is Life – Opus (peaked #32)
#89 - Pleasure and Pain – Divinyls (peaked # 76)
#90 - Just Another Day – Oingo Boingo (peaked #45)
#94 - Do Me Baby – Meli’sa Morgan (peaked #46)
#96 - Prove Me Wrong – David Pack (peaked #95)
 
MonoStereo said:
39. HE’LL NEVER LOVE YOU (LIKE I DO) – FREDDIE JACKSON

I thought we might've played this on our Adult Contemporary AM station ( 1340 KNZS...call letters that I LOVE to this day, but don't think are being used ) but it's not familiar at all. I know we played "You Are My Lady" there. OK song.
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I didn't remember this one, but the video looked familiar. His songs seemed to blend together for me.

MonoStereo said:
35. EVERYBODY DANCE – TA MARA & THE SEEN

We never played this, but I remember seeing mentions of it in Radio & Records and The Gavin Report. I had a vague feeling it was Prince-related, & after Googling I see they're from Minneapolis & sound VERY Prince-ish. Produced by Jesse Johnson, so there's the connection. I don't think I'd ever heard it before, though. It's not bad, but I can see why it didn't explode.
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This one was big on our local Urban station too. The Minneapolis sound was a driving force at this time. The follow-up, "Affection", was played on Urban radio too, but didn't crack the Hot 100.

 
This week is a non-Bubbling Under year so I decided to explore the New Singles Reviews for this week. There are two categories for the reviews: Picks and Recommended. They are defined as follows:

• Picks: New Releases with The Greatest Chart Potential
• Recommended: Records with potential for significant chart action

Picks:
• Heart - These Dreams (entered the chart on 1/18/86 at #54, peaked at #1)
• Eddie Murphy - How Could It Be (didn't debut on the Hot 100)
• Arcadia - Goodbye Is Forever (entered the chart on 2/1/86 at #64, peaked at #33)
• Quarterflash - Walking on Ice (didn't debut on the Hot 100)
• Tom Petty And the Heartbreakers with Stevie Nicks - Needles and Pins (entered the chart on 2/1/86 at #75, peaked at #37)

Recommended:
• Fine Young Cannibals - Johnny Come Home (entered the chart on 4/5/86 at #86, peaked at #76)
• Jon Butcher Axis - Between the Lines (didn't debut on the Hot 100). I couldn't find a clip for this one either.
• Jon Miles - Blinded (didn't debut on the Hot 100)
• Robert Palmer - Addicted to Love (entered the chart on 2/8/86 at #83, peaked at #1)
• Lisa Rhodes - Heat It Up (no Wiki page, didn't debut on the Hot 100). She's still making music: PRESS KIT | Lisa R & Lucky Stars
• Prefab Sprout - Appetite (didn't debut on the Hot 100)
• Telluride - Breaking Away (no Wiki page, didn't debut on the Hot 100). I placed some information about the band below.

Telluride is a Birmingham-based rock band founded in 1977 by guitarists Moose Harrell and Rick Carter with keyboardist Roger Bailey, drummer Robert Churchill, and bassist Jim Liner. The group started out playing country-tinged rock, but soon focused on rock.

Bailey and Liner left not long afterward and were replaced by Kevin Derryberry and Scott Walker. Other some-time members included Kent Peterson, Barry Waldrep, Joe Breckinridge and Chip Snow.

The band was in heavy rotation in the Southeastern US during the late 70s and early 80s. In 1980 they had a local hit with Derryberry's song "Birmingham Tonight", which was broken by Lee Masters on WKXX-FM. Their radio fame helped boost regular attendance at their club shows from 100 or so to over 500. Especially well-attended were the "Hotride" shared bills with the members of Hotfoot.

They were finalists in a Miller-sponsored band search contest in 1985, which led to their signing a contract with RCA Records. Their single "Breaking Away" reached number 77 on the Billboard chart that year.

They performed at the 1990 and 1997 City Stages. They were invited to perform at two Alabama gubernatorial inaugurations, and have been named musical achievers by the Alabama Music Hall of Fame, a precursor to being inducted into the hall.

 
Sorry a little off topic. I will always remember the Heart concert I saw in 1986. Not just for the concert but for what happened in the car after the show in the parking lot. The girlfriend and I had great “conversation”.
 
1981/02/07

Repeat countdown

This week's drops:
(37) 48: I NEED YOUR LOVIN' - TEENA MARIE
(38) 47: SUDDENLY - OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN & CLIFF RICHARD
(40) 45: SHINE ON - L.T.D.

The Top 40: (debut's in red, * = current or future #`, ** = past #1)
(45) 40: BACK IN BLACK – AC/DC
(39) 39: WHO’S MAKING LOVE – THE BLUES BROTHERS
(44) 38: AH! LEAH! – DONNIE IRIS
(50) 37: HEARTS ON FIRE – RANDY MEISNER
(35) 36: LADY – KENNY ROGERS **
(30) 35: TELL IT LIKE IT IS - HEART
(26) 34: DE DO DO DO, DE DA,DA,DA – THE POLICE
(33) 33: HE CAN’T LOVE YOU – THE MICHAEL STANLEY BAND
(24) 32: HUNGRY HEART – BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
(15) 31: TIME IS TIME - ANDY GIBB
(36) 30: TREAT ME RIGHT – PAT BENETAR
(34) 29: GAMES PEOPLE PLAY – THE ALAN PARSONS PROJECT
(29) 28: KILLIN’ TIME – FRED KNOBLOCK AND SUSAN ANTON
(31) 27: SMOKEY MOUNTAIN RAIN – RONNIE MILSAP
(10) 26: I MADE IT THROUGH THE RAIN – BARRY MANILOW
(32) 25: HELLO AGAIN – NEIL DIAMOND
(28) 24: A LITTLE IN LOVE – CLIFF RICHARD
(25) 23: HEARTBREAK HOTEL – THE JACKSONS
(13) 22: GUILTY – BARBRA STREISAND & BARRY GIBB
(23) 21: SEVEN BRIDGES ROAD – THE EAGLES
(27) 20: CRYING – DON McLEAN
(20) 19: TOGETHER - TIERRA
(21) 18: I AIN’T GONNA STAND FOR IT – STEVIE WONDER
(22) 17: THE BEST OF TIMES - STYX
(18) 16: THE WINNER TAKES IT ALL - ABBA
( 7) 15: LOVE ON THE ROCKS – NEIL DIAMOND
(16) 14: MISS SUN- BOZ SCAGGS
(19) 13: KEEP ON LOVING YOU – REO SPEEDWAGON *
(14) 12: SAME OLD LANG SYNE – DAN FOGELBERG
(12) 11: HEY NINETEEN – STEELY DAN
(11) 10: GIVING IT UP FOR YOUR LOVE – DELBERT McCLINTON
( 9) 9: IT’S MY TURN – DIANA ROSS
(17) 8: WOMAN – JOHN LENNON
( 5) 7: EVERY WOMAN IN THE WORLD – AIR SUPPLY
( 2) 6: (JUST LIKE) STARTING OVER – JOHN LENNON **
( 6) 5: PASSION – ROD STEWART
( 8) 4: 9 TO 5 – DOLLY PARTON *
( 4) 3: I LOVE A RAINY NIGHT – EDDIE RABBITT *
( 1) 2: THE TIDE IS HIGH - BLONDIE **
( 3) 1: CELEBRATION – KOOL & THE GANG *
 
Good 7
Okay 9
Bad 24

Thank goodness for the top 5, otherwise it would have been only 2 good.

(40) 45: SHINE ON - L.T.D.

So close to crossing another #40 peaking song off the list! Would have brought the number down to 4.

Just responded to a tweet by Mark Goodman, who said "we must have" gone through each week from Jan 1, 1980 to Dec, 31 1989 on the VJ by now. Maybe they have since they started way back when, but over the last nine years these 5 haven't aired.



22: GUILTY – BARBRA STREISAND & BARRY GIBB

"And we've got nothing to be guilty of". Yeah you do, making lame music!

17: THE BEST OF TIMES - STYX

Sometimes when a Styx song plays I wonder if it's Supertramp. And sometimes the other way round. From now on, I'm referring to both bands as Styxertramp.

13: KEEP ON LOVING YOU – REO SPEEDWAGON *

My guess at #1

7: EVERY WOMAN IN THE WORLD – AIR SUPPLY

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6: (JUST LIKE) STARTING OVER – JOHN LENNON **

Someone guessed this

1: CELEBRATION – KOOL & THE GANG *

Someone guessed this. I'm in third place yet again.

Won't reach the top 40
#46 Queen "Flash's Theme"
#53 Rita Coolidge "Fool That I Am"
#54 Elvis Presley "Guitar Man"
#55 Shalamar "Full Of Fire"
#56 Peter Allen "Fly Away"
#59 Teddy Pendergrass "Love TKO"
#66 Glen Campbell "I Don't Want to Know Your Name"
#68 Aretha Franklin "United Together"
#69 Suzi Quatro "Lipstick"
#70 Dire Straits "Skateaway"
#73 Association "Dreamer"
#74 Lakeside "Fantastic Voyage"
#75 Charles Fox "Seasons"
#76 Doobie Brothers "Wynken, Blynken & Nod"
#79 Slave "Watching You"
#82 Fleetwood Mac "Fireflies"
#87 Earth Wind & Fire "And Love Goes On"
#88 McGuffy Lane "Long Time Lovin' You"
#89 Spyro Gyra "Cafe Amore"
#90 Touch "Don't You Know What Love Is"
#94 Queen "Need Your Loving Tonight"
#96 Rockpile "Teacher Teacher"
#97 Earth Wind & Fire "You"
#98 Sugarhill Gang "8th Wonder"
#100 Reddings "Remote Control"
 
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