Post Your Chart From 1980 - 1991

[soundmagazine]

On the American Top 40 message board, I began posting my old Top 40 charts to correspond to the classic American Top 40 program with Casey Kasem that Premiere radio network was airing. I thought this would be an appropriate place for me to do this as well and I hope others who charted during this timeframe will do the same.

This week Premiere is airing AT40 from September 18, 1982.

TW = This Week
LW = Last Week
TTLW = Total Weeks On Chart
* = gold record award

September 17, 1982:

TW..LW..TTLW
..1…..1…..7…..How Can I Live Without Her (Christopher Atkins)
..2…..2…..8…..Never Been In Love (Randy Meisner)
..3…..7….10…..I Ran (A Flock Of Seagulls)
..4…..4…..8…..Oh Julie (Barry Manilow)
..5…..8…..6…..You Can Do Magic (America)
..6….12….5…..Voyeur (Kim Carnes)
..7…..3…..9…..And I’m Telling You I’m Not Going (Jennifer Holliday)
..8….11….6…..Hold On (Santana)
..9….15….5…..What’s Forever For (Michael Murphy)
10…..6….12.….Blue Eyes (Elton John) *
11….14.….8…..Gloria (Laura Branigan)
12….13.….9…..Jack & Diane (John Cougar)
13…..5…...8…..Do You Wanna Touch Me (Joan Jett & The Blackhearts)
14….24…..3…..Break It To Me Gently (Juice Newton)
15….10…..8…..Let Me Tickle Your Fancy (Jermaine Jackson)
16…..9.…..7…..Still In The Game (Steve Winwood)
17….25.….3…..The One You Love (Glenn Frey)
18….18.….4…..Sweet Time (REO Speedwagon)
19….20.….4…..Back To The Islands (Janis Siegel)
20….28.….2…..Heart Attack (Olivia Newton-John)
21….21.….4…..Make Believe (Toto)
22….19.…15….Hard To Say I’m Sorry (Chicago) *
23….30.….2…..Gypsy (Fleetwood Mac)
24….31.….2…..I Get Excited (Rick Springfield)
25….26.….5…..Somebody’s Baby (Jackson Browne)
26….16.…10….Wasted On The Way (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
27….38.….2…..Don’t Fight It (Kenny Loggins with Steve Perry)
28….34.….2…..You Dropped The Bomb On Me (Gapp Band)
29….29.….3…..You Keep Runnin Away (38 Special)
30….33.….2…..Johnny Can’t Read (Don Henley)
31….---….1…..Southern Cross (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
32...35…..2…..For You (Dionne Warwick)
33….37…..2…..Holdin On (Tane Cain)
34….---….1…..Valley Girl (Frank & Moon Zappa)
35….---….1…..Workin For A Livin (Huey Lewis & The News)
36….---….1…..Let It Be Me (Willie Nelson)
37….17.…11.….Love Is In Control (Donna Summer) *
38….32.…12.….Do I Do (Stevie Wonder) *
39….21.….5…...I’m The One (Roberta Flack)
40….40.…13…..Who Can It Be Now (Men At Work)

My #1 song for this week was never played on AT40, although it spent nearly two months in Billboard's Hot 100 chart, peaking at #71. A one-hit wonder for me. Plus, a couple of songs that never even made the Hot 100, but both are by well respected singers. See if you can pick them out.

[prenatt1166]

Sept 13, 2009 1:49:13 GMT -5 soundmagazine said:

Plus, a couple of songs that never even made the Hot 100, but both are by well respected singers. See if you can pick them out.

Dionne Warwick and Janis Siegel of The Manhattan Transfer?

UU-BRU Radio Playlist
For Week Ending September 18, 1982

01 01 Melissa Manchester You Should Hear How She Talks About You
02 05 Fleetwood Mac Gypsy
03 03 Joan Jett & The Blackhearts Do You Wanna Touch Me
04 04 John Cougar Jack And Diane
05 06 Dolly Parton I Will Always Love You
06 02 Donna Summer Love Is In Control
07 09 Jermaine Jackson Let Me Tickle Your Fantasy
08 08 A Flock Of Seagulls I Ran
09 11 Michael McDonald I Keep Forgetting
10 17 Olivia Newton-John Heart Attack
11 07 Jennifer Holliday And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going
12 14 Christopher Atkins How Can I Live Without Her
13 13 Michael Murphy What's Forever For
14 18 Gap Band You Dropped A Bomb On Me
15 19 Don Henley Johnny Can't Read
16 16 Men At Work Who Can It Be Now
17 20 Kim Carnes Voyeur
18 10 Frank Zappa & Moon Unit Zappa Valley Girl
19 23 Joe Cocker & Jennifer Warnes Up Where We Belong
20 12 Barry Manilow Oh Julie
21 25 Kenny Loggins & Steve Perry Don't Fight It
22 26 Steel Breeze You Don't Want Me Anymore
23 24 Huey Lewis & The News Working For A Living
24 29 The Who Athena
25 28 Sylvia Nobody
26 33 Laura Branigan Gloria
27 30 Sheena Easton Machinery
28 36 Rick Springfield I Get Excited
29 32 Motels Take The L
30 35 Toni Basil Mickey
31 21 Jackson Browne Somebody's Baby
32 34 Paul Carrack I Need You
33 38 Michael Stanley Band When I'm Holding You Tight
34 37 Neil Diamond Heartlight
35 15 Kenny Rogers Love Will Turn You Around
36 39 ABC The Look Of Love
37 31 Santana Hold On
38 ** Pointer Sisters I'm So Excited
39 ** Crosby, Stills & Nash Southern Cross
40 ** Stray Cats Rock This Town

[soundmagazine]

Sept 14, 2009 22:35:08 GMT -5 prenatt1166 said:

Sept 13, 2009 1:49:13 GMT -5 soundmagazine said:

Plus, a couple of songs that never even made the Hot 100, but both are by well respected singers. See if you can pick them out.

Dionne Warwick and Janis Siegel of The Manhattan Transfer?

Good job! Those two songs had limited spins on radio, but I believe "For You" was Top 20 AC. I think "Back To The Islands" missed out on all charts, which is a shame because it is quite good.

Enjoyed viewing your chart! Some interesting things to note:
* I was happy to see Christopher Atkins in the Top 12 on both of our charts considering it wasn't even close to being on AT40.
* The Melissa Manchester song peaked on my chart at #12 towards the end of June and had since fallen off. But I know it had incredible staying power on radio. It would be an amazing coincidence if Christopher Atkins peaked at #12 on your chart because then we would have opposite peaks for those two songs.
* Cool to see the Dolly Parton song up so high on your chart. I had been a fan of the song since the mid-70's and although the 1982 version was newly recorded and released, it only managed a #33 peak on my chart a couple weeks prior to this chart. I must have thought it sounded so much like the original that it didn't offer much interest to me as a new release.
* Only two of your Top 40 songs didn't make my chart. One was "Athena", which I didn't care for much at the time. But over time it has grown on me. The other was by the Michael Stanley Band, which probably suffered from very little exposure. But a quality group and their music holds up well today.

This weekend Classic AT40 will be airing the program from September 8, 1984. Hope to see your chart this weekend!

[prenatt1166]

Christopher Atkins did peak at #12 on my chart. In fact he only spent one more week within the top 40 at #12 before falling off never to return. A performance on SOLID GOLD was a great source to propel a song up my chart at the time and I think Atkins was a benefactor. Same can be said for Melissa Manchester. She ended up at #2 for the year with YSHHSTAY

Dolly Parton's 1982 version of "I Will Always Love You" was the only one I was familiar with at the time. She would eventually reach #2 after seeing her in "The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas".

I grew up about 2 hours away from Cleveland, OH where the local stations played Michael Stanley on a regular basis.

As for Janis Siegel, I may charted her if I had been exposed to her solo album at the time. I don't think I listened to it until a few years later, which is odd considering The Manhattan Transfer had a handful of hits on my chart.

[blfdguy1]

Ooh, Oooh....I wanna play too..lol. I'll respond tonigth with my chart....have to dig for those old paper charts...lol

[blfdguy1]

Wow... kind of a boring week on my chart..lol. No debuts and not alot of movement.

9/21/82

1 1 Gloria - Larua Branigan
2 15 I Ran - A Flock Of Seagulls
3 3 Who Can It Be Now - men At Work
4 4 You Should Hear How She Talks About You - Melissa Manchester
5 5 Kids In America - Kim Wilde
6 6 Only The Lonely - Motels
7 16 Jack and Diane - John Cougar
8 10 Only Time Will Tell - Asia
9 12 Blue Eyes - Elton John
10 13 Hey Et - Dickie Goodman
11 11 Vacation - GoGo's
12 2 Rosanna - Toto
13 17 Voyeur - Kim Carnes
14 9 Don't Throw It All Away - Stacy Lattisaw
15 7 Love Is In Control - Donna Summer
16 8 Hold Me - Fleetwood Mac
17 14 Think I'm In Love - Eddie Money
18 21 Do You Wanna Touch - Joan Jett & The Blackhearts
19 18 Protection - Donna Summer
20 19 Livin' In America - Donna Summer
21 20 Lush Life - Donna Summer
22 22 Hard To Say I'm Sorry - Chicago
23 26 Mystery Of Love - Donna Summer
24 27 Eye In The Sky - Alan Parsons Project
25 24 Themes From ET - Walter Murphy
26 23 Inside Out - Odyssey
27 25 And I'm Telling You I'm Not Going - Jennifer Holiday
28 30 Never Been In Love - Randy Meisner
29 31 Love Come Down - Evelyn King
30 36 Heart Attack - Olivia Newton-John
31 33 Jump To It - Aretha Franklin
32 28 Abracadabra - Steve Miller Band
33 35 Steppin' Out - Joe Jackson
34 34 Somebody's baby - Jackson Brown
35 37 Heartlight - Neil Diamond
36 29 Don't You Want Me - Human League
37 32 Just An Illusion - Imagination
38 40 What Kind Of Fool Am I - Rick Springfield
39 38 Without You - Franke & The Knockouts
40 47 Take The L - Motels
41 46 Up Where We Belong - Joe Cocker & Jennifer Warnes
42 45 If This World Were Mine - Luther Vandross & Cheryl Lynn
43 44 Change - John Waite
44 48 Hold On - Santana
45 39 Stranger's Touch - Olivia Newton-John
46 41 Caught Up In You - 38 Special
47 42 You can - Madeline Kane
48 49 Let Me Tickle Your Fancy - Jermaine Jackson
49 50 Rock This Town - Stray Cats
50 43 Landslide - Olivia Newton-John

[soundmagazine]

Sept 15, 2009 9:56:36 GMT -5 prenatt1166 said:

Christopher Atkins did peak at #12 on my chart. A performance on SOLID GOLD was a great source to propel a song up my chart at the time and I think Atkins was a benefactor. Same can be said for Melissa Manchester. She ended up at #2 for the year with YSHHSTAY

Oh yes, not only was Atkins on Solid Gold, but also on American Bandstand in the summer of '82. He was making the rounds promoting the song & the movie from which it came from (The Pirate Movie). I also recall the multiple appearances of Manchester on SG. Actually, I think they just reaired the same performance of YSHHSTAY on multiple programs. Definitely a show favorite.

[soundmagazine]

Sept 15, 2009 23:19:34 GMT -5 blfdguy1 said:

Wow... kind of a boring week on my chart..lol. No debuts and not alot of movement.

You had some significant movement near the top. Looks like "I Ran" was just one week away from overtaking the #1 spot on your chart. It would reach #1 on my chart the following week as well.

Looks like you allowed album cuts on your chart with a number of songs from Donna Summer's self-titled album. That album reached #1 on my Top 40 album chart the prior month. Yes, I even had an album chart! I guess it was my way to compensate for the limitation I placed on my singles chart to only include single releases.

Another interesting observation is the lack of country singles, and instead, including songs that were exclusive to the soul charts.

The biggest surprise was Dickie Goodman's latest novelty break-in debuting in the Top 10. I have many fond memories of his releases in the 70's, but by the 80's, it seemed like he was all but forgotten by radio. So it was great to see him on your chart.

Thanks for sharing and hope to see your September 8th, 1984 chart this weekend!

[blfdguy1]

Sept 16, 2009 1:36:36 GMT -5 soundmagazine said:

Sept 15, 2009 23:19:34 GMT -5 blfdguy1 said:

Wow... kind of a boring week on my chart..lol. No debuts and not alot of movement.

You had some significant movement near the top. Looks like "I Ran" was just one week away from overtaking the #1 spot on your chart. It would reach #1 on my chart the following week as well.

Looks like you allowed album cuts on your chart with a number of songs from Donna Summer's self-titled album. That album reached #1 on my Top 40 album chart the prior month. Yes, I even had an album chart! I guess it was my way to compensate for the limitation I placed on my singles chart to only include single releases.

Another interesting observation is the lack of country singles, and instead, including songs that were exclusive to the soul charts.

The biggest surprise was Dickie Goodman's latest novelty break-in debuting in the Top 10. I have many fond memories of his releases in the 70's, but by the 80's, it seemed like he was all but forgotten by radio. So it was great to see him on your chart.

Thanks for sharing and hope to see your September 8th, 1984 chart this weekend!

It would actually take "I Ran" a couple more weeks to get to the top to only be overtaken again by "Gloria", which was, by far, my #1 song of the year.

My chart originally started out with only songs (45's) that I actually owned eligible to chart back when I started in 1977. Then I started with album cuts shortly after, thanks to 2 soundtracks. First, Saturday Night Fever, then Thank God It's Friday....I was and still am very much a disco baby...lol. When that started to get too expensive I allowed all songs to chart....around the beginning of 1982. Donna Summer has always been my favorite artist, so it's no surprise that she also has the most album cuts to have charted.

Being in the New York Area, country has never been a big charter for me. Country radio never does well here and I had very little exposure to it. I probably have had more country on the charts in the last few years than ever before thanks to internet radio (shout out to Dave..lol) and to CMT.

I had forgotten all about the Dickie Goodman song til I saw it on my chart last night..lol. I don't even really remember how it went.

Funny how the 2 of you have both "Oh Julie" and the Chris Atkins somgs relatively high on your charts. I vaguely remember "Oh Julie", the other one not at all....and I was a faithful Solid Gold watcher.

Can't wait to see the September 1984 charts!

[WotUNeed]

No charts to post, but I just wanted to say I love reading these retro personal charts - all an awesome mix of big hits, forgotten classics, and cool obscurities. I hope y'all will keep 'em coming.

[soundmagazine]

Sept 16, 2009 13:17:31 GMT -5 blfdguy1 said:

It would actually take "I Ran" a couple more weeks to get to the top to only be overtaken again by "Gloria", which was, by far, my #1 song of the year.

My chart originally started out with only songs (45's) that I actually owned eligible to chart back when I started in 1977. Then I started with album cuts shortly after, thanks to 2 soundtracks. First, Saturday Night Fever, then Thank God It's Friday....I was and still am very much a disco baby...lol.

I had forgotten all about the Dickie Goodman song til I saw it on my chart last night..lol. I don't even really remember how it went.

Wow, "Gloria" sounded like a monster on your charts! There were only a couple of occasions on my chart where a song moved back into the #1 position after falling out and just like your example, those songs ended up being my #1 songs of their respective years. And coincidentally, the #1 song on my chart this weekend just happens to be one of them.

Just like you, my initial charts only included 45's I owned. That was way back in 1971 ( I was very young! ;)). After a few months I stopped and didn't resume personal charting again until 1980. By that time I already had a few years of following Billboard charts and it was natural to start up again using the format I would stick with for the next 12 years. I would award gold and platinum singles, along with using the star system for songs that were gaining interest to me. Today I count on those charts to create my personal music compilations.

I was a big fan of disco in the late 70's also. And don't get me started on the Thank God It's Friday soundtrack. Songs like "With Your Love", "After Dark", "I Wanna Dance", "Lovin Lovin Givin', etc, were played regularly on my turntable in 1978.

Here's an interesting coincidence regarding the "Hey ET" single on your chart. The song it leaped over at #11 ("Vacation") just happens to be the first break-in song used in the "Hey ET" record.

[soundmagazine]

Sept 16, 2009 18:13:03 GMT -5 WotUNeed said:

No charts to post, but I just wanted to say I love reading these retro personal charts - all an awesome mix of big hits, forgotten classics, and cool obscurities. I hope y'all will keep 'em coming.

Thanks for the interest! When I met the first person who created personal charts just like me over 20 years ago, I learned about some great obscure songs from the 60's and early 70's that he charted back then. Yes, there was someone who was creating personal charts every week starting in the mid-60s! So I love to review other charts too.

[prenatt1166]

When that started to get too expensive I allowed all songs to chart....around the beginning of 1982

hey, Cesar! how true...I wish I had the foresight to do the same!

[Vic]

What an awesome thread. I hope this becomes a weekly thread with a new week in mind!

Here is mine from Sept 18, 82

09 01 Voyeur - Kim Carnes
03 02 You Should Hear How She Talks About You - Melissa Manchester
05 03 Jack And Diane - John Cougar
04 04 Love Is In Control - Donna Summer
01 05 Vacation - Go-Go's
02 06 Hold Me - Fleetwood Mac
10 07 Eye In The Sky - Alan Parsons Project
11 08 Don't It Make You Feel - Headpins
12 09 Only Time Will Tell - Asia
14 10 Take It Away - Paul McCartney
23 11 Heart Attack - Olivia Newton-John
15 12 Do You Wanna Touch Me - Joan Jett & the Blackhearts
07 13 Your Daddy Don't Know - Toronto
25 14 I'll Always Love You - Dolly Parton
08 15 Beach Bum - Scotty Pete Gang
19 16 Take The L - Motels
24 17 If The Love Fits - Leslie Pearl
16 18 Hard To Say I'm Sorry - Chicago
18 19 Landslide - Olivia Newton-John
22 20 Boys Of Summer - David Roberts
26 21 Love Will Turn You Around - Kenny Rogers
32 22 Somebody's Baby - Jackson Browne
17 23 You Drive Me Crazy - Shakin Stevens
20 24 Hurts So Good - John Cougar
33 25 Break It To Me Gently - Juice Newton
21 26 What Kind Of Fool Am I - Rick Springfield
47 27 Gypsy - Fleetwood Mac
38 28 Blue Eyes - Elton John
35 29 Hot In The City - Billy Idol
36 30 Someday Someway - Marshall Crenshaw
49 31 Athena - Who
30 32 Think I'm In Love - Eddie Money
29 33 Eye Of The Tiger - Survivor
41 34 I Keep Forgetting - Michael McDonald
48 35 Night Shift - Quarterflash
28 36 Wasted On The Way - Crosby Stills & Nash
37 37 Only The Lonely - Motels
31 38 Calling All Girls - Queen
39 39 Love Is A Four Letter Word - Glen Chipkar
50 40 Hey Operator - Coney Hatch


-Voyeur still holds the record for biggest jump to #1

Nice to see some Olivia love happening here. She was definatly at her peak in the early 80's.

[prenatt1166]

Sept 17, 2009 18:48:03 GMT -5 Vic said:

-Voyeur still holds the record for biggest jump to #1

27 years is very impressive for any record, especially this one!

[Deleted]

I was 1 in 1991... :( I had no chart...Boo!

[soundmagazine]

Sept 17, 2009 18:48:03 GMT -5 Vic said:

What an awesome thread. I hope this becomes a weekly thread with a new week in mind!

Here is mine from Sept 18, 82

09 01 Voyeur - Kim Carnes........

-Voyeur still holds the record for biggest jump to #1

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Great to see a representative from our friends up north! One of the first music acts I went crazy over was The Poppy Family in 1970. The "Which Way You Goin' Billy" LP was incredible and a song from their follow-up album was a monster #1 on one of my first early charts ("Where Evil Grows"). Then groups like the Stampeders, Five Man Electrical Band, and Lighthouse became major contributors to the soundtrack to my childhood years in the 70's.

And with your Canadian background, we see a number of songs represented for the first time in our charts. I was exposed to the Toronto & Headpins songs thanks to promo videos that were made for them. I believe the David Roberts song was titled "Boys Of Autumn" (just so no one confuses it with the Don Henley song). A nice ballad. The Scottie Pete Gang tells me that you must have been a CKOC listener. And my favorite of the obscure tunes is "Hey Operator" by Coney Hatch debuting in the Top 40. Never heard it in 1982, but wish I had. Where did this song ultimately peak on your chart?

We were giving Kim Carnes a lot of love before your chart was posted considering she only peaked on the Billboard Hot 100 at #29. But now with your chart, it is unanimous that the song should have been a bigger hit than the #29 peak suggests. I don't believe I had any song jump to #1 from so far down the chart, so it was quite impressive to see the record-breaking performance on your chart.

This weekend we will be celebrating September 8, 1984, so I hope to see your chart right here in this thread. I hope to dig mine out tomorrow night.

[blfdguy1]

Sept 17, 2009 18:48:03 GMT -5 Vic said:

What an awesome thread. I hope this becomes a weekly thread with a new week in mind!

Here is mine from Sept 18, 82

09 01 Voyeur - Kim Carnes
03 02 You Should Hear How She Talks About You - Melissa Manchester
05 03 Jack And Diane - John Cougar
04 04 Love Is In Control - Donna Summer
01 05 Vacation - Go-Go's
02 06 Hold Me - Fleetwood Mac
10 07 Eye In The Sky - Alan Parsons Project
11 08 Don't It Make You Feel - Headpins
12 09 Only Time Will Tell - Asia
14 10 Take It Away - Paul McCartney
23 11 Heart Attack - Olivia Newton-John
15 12 Do You Wanna Touch Me - Joan Jett & the Blackhearts
07 13 Your Daddy Don't Know - Toronto
25 14 I'll Always Love You - Dolly Parton
08 15 Beach Bum - Scotty Pete Gang
19 16 Take The L - Motels
24 17 If The Love Fits - Leslie Pearl
16 18 Hard To Say I'm Sorry - Chicago
18 19 Landslide - Olivia Newton-John
22 20 Boys Of Summer - David Roberts
26 21 Love Will Turn You Around - Kenny Rogers
32 22 Somebody's Baby - Jackson Browne
17 23 You Drive Me Crazy - Shakin Stevens
20 24 Hurts So Good - John Cougar
33 25 Break It To Me Gently - Juice Newton
21 26 What Kind Of Fool Am I - Rick Springfield
47 27 Gypsy - Fleetwood Mac
38 28 Blue Eyes - Elton John
35 29 Hot In The City - Billy Idol
36 30 Someday Someway - Marshall Crenshaw
49 31 Athena - Who
30 32 Think I'm In Love - Eddie Money
29 33 Eye Of The Tiger - Survivor
41 34 I Keep Forgetting - Michael McDonald
48 35 Night Shift - Quarterflash
28 36 Wasted On The Way - Crosby Stills & Nash
37 37 Only The Lonely - Motels
31 38 Calling All Girls - Queen
39 39 Love Is A Four Letter Word - Glen Chipkar
50 40 Hey Operator - Coney Hatch


-Voyeur still holds the record for biggest jump to #1

Nice to see some Olivia love happening here. She was definatly at her peak in the early 80's.

Woohoo! Was hoping you'd join in. Good to see some Donna Summer love as well.

[soundmagazine]

We were just giving Kim Carnes a bunch of love in 1982 and here she is leaving the #1 spot two years later on my chart. Unfortunately, the song didn't chart on the Billboard Hot 100. But what a great dance song and a 12'' remix single was even released for it. The Cars reached #1 for the first and only time, but what a visit. The song would spend 4 weeks at #1, drop to #2 for a couple of weeks, then return to #1 for 3 more weeks. Very unusual on my chart and resulted in the song being my record of the year.

Look forward to seeing your 9/8/1984 chart!

TW = This week
LW = Last week
TWK = Total Weeks
* = gold record award

September 7th, 1984

TW LW TWK SONG (ARTIST)
.1....2....7...Drive. (Cars)
.2....1....8...Hurricane (Kim. Carnes) *
.3....5....6...Hard. Habit. To. Break. (Chicago)
.4....7....5...Torture. (Jacksons)
.5....6....9...Dynamite (Jermaine. Jackson)
.6....8....6...The. Glamorous. Life. (Sheila. E)
.7...10....6...Let’s. Go. Crazy. (Prince)
.8....4....8...She. Bop. (Cyndi. Lauper)
.9...13....4...(What). In. The. Name. Of. Love. (Naked. Eyes)
10...11....6...Cruel. Summer. (Bananarama)
11...14....4...Turn. Around. (Neil. Diamond)
12...12....8...All. Of. You. (Julio. Iglesias. &. Diana. Ross)
13....3....8...You. Were. Made. For. Me. (Irene. Cara)
14...17....4...Strut. (Sheena. Easton)
15...16....5...Hold. Me. (Teddy. Pendergrass. &. Whitney. Houston)
16...18....4...On. The. Dark. Side. (John. Cafferty. &. The. Beaver. Brown. Band)
17...19....4...Cover. Me. (Bruce. Springsteen)
18...22....3...Can’t. Wait. All. Night. (Juice. Newton)
19...23....3...The. More. You. Live. The. More. You. Love. (A. Flock. Of. Seagulls)
20...28....2...Who. Wears. These. Shoes. (Elton. John)
21...24....4...The. Lucky. Ones. (Laura. Branigan)
22...30....2...Straight. From. The. Heart. (Coyote. Sisters)
23...26....3...Lucky. Star. (Madonna)
24...27....3...There. Goes. My. Baby. (Donna. Summer)
25...29....3...Are. We. Ourselves. (Fixx)
26...33....2...Bop. ‘Til. You. Drop. (Rick. Springfield)
27....9...11...I. Can. Dream. About. You. (Dan. Hartman)
28...32....3...Go. Insane. (Lindsay. Buckingham)
29...15...14...Friend. Of. A. Friend. (Homi. &. Jarvis). *
30...31....3...Only. When. You. Leave. (Spandau. Ballet)
31..---....1...Caribbean. Queen. (Billy. Ocean)
32..---....1...Shine. Shine. (Barry. Gibb)
33...34....2...To. Me. (Lee. Greenwood. &. Barbara. Mandrell)
34...25....6...Missing. You. (John. Waite)
35...---...1...Strung. Out. (Steve. Perry)
36...---...1...Lights. Out. (Peter. Wolf)
37...20...10...My. Oh. My. (Slade).
38...21....7...Alibis. (Sergio. Mendez)
39...35...12...State. Of. Shock. (Jacksons)
40...---...1...When. You. Close. Your. Eyes. (Night Ranger)

[prenatt1166]

UU-BRU Radio Playlist
For Week Ending September 8, 1984

01 01 Scandal The Warrior
02 02 Cyndi Lauper She Bop
03 03 Ray Parker, Jr Ghostbusters
04 06 Madonna Lucky Star
05 04 Tina Turner What's Love Got To Do With It
06 08 Donna Summer There Goes My Baby
07 07 Stevie Wonder I Just Called To Say I Love You
08 11 Prince & The Revolution Let's Go Crazy
09 05 Huey Lewis & The News If This Is It
10 12 Laura Branigan The Lucky One
11 14 Pointer Sisters I'm So Excited
12 13 Steve Wariner Why Goodbye
13 19 Jacksons Torture
14 16 Bruce Springsteen Cover Me
15 17 Julio Iglesias & Diana Ross All Of You
16 10 Peter Wolf Lights Out
17 15 Eurythmics Right By Your Side
18 31 Diana Ross Swept Away
19 09 Karla Bonoff Somebody's Eyes
20 20 Twisted Sister We're Not Gonna Take It
21 26 John Waite Missing You
22 24 Quiet Riot Mama, Weer All Crazee Now
23 23 Neil Diamond Turn Around
24 18 Jermaine Jackson Dynamite
25 33 Shelia E. The Glamorous Life
26 25 Billy Joel Leave A Tender Moment Alone
27 29 Lindsey Buckingham Go Insane
28 30 The Cars Drive
29 34 Sheena Easton Strut
30 35 Rod Stewart Some Guys Have All The Luck
31 39 Deneice Williams Next Love
32 38 Juice Newton Can't Wait All Night
33 ** Tina Turner Better Be Good To Me
34 37 Everly Brothers On The Wings Of A Nightingale
35 ** Chicago Hard Habit To Break
36 36 The Bus Boys Cleaning Up The Town
37 ** Rick Springfield Bop 'Til You Drop
38 ** Bonnie Tyler Here She Comes
39 ** Sergio Mendes Alibis
40 40 Barry Gibb Shine Shine

This week saw Patty Smyth & Scandal spend their 8th of 11 weeks at number one. Cyndi Lauper's first two singles reached number one, but "She Bop" would stall at #2.

I see "Hold Me" moving up your chart. How high would Whitney Houston eventually go? She made it to #25 in June 1984 for me.

"Drive" unfortunately never clicked with me. It reached it's peak at #28 this week. I don't remember hearing "Hurricane" more than once or twice. I had it listed as "New & Active" on my chart for two weeks in August, a feature I seemed to use once in awhile when there wasn't enough room for all the songs I wanted to chart at the time.

[shadster]

I started in '84 but wasn't able to retain my records OF '84. Subsequently I dont even remember what my #1 was for most of the year. Somewhere I had figured it out an wrote it down somewhere but I've lost that too. For Sept, maybe it was Ghostbusters? I know that went to #1. I do remember ALL of August, the #1 song was Dan Hartmans, "I can dream about you".

[blfdguy1]

1 2 You Me & He - Mtume
2 5 I Would Die 4 U - Prince
3 3 High Energy - Evelyn Thomas
4 6 Let's Go Crazy - Prince
5 7 The Glamorous Life - Sheila E
6 8 She Bop - Cyndi Lauper
7 9 Lucky Star - Madonna
8 1 Sunglasses At Night - Corey Hart
9 11 Swept Away - Diana Ross
10 12 The Beautiful Ones - Prince
11 13 All Of You - Julio Iglesias & Diana Ross
12 14 Just The Way You Like It - SOS Band
13 15 There Goes My Baby - Donna Summer
14 4 10-9-8 - Face To Face
15 10 99 1/2 - Carol Lynn Townes
16 17 When You Close Your Eyes - Night Ranger
17 16 Missing You - John Waite
18 18 If This Is It - Huey Lewis & The News
19 27 The Lucky One - Laura Branigan
20 28 The Last Time I Made Love - Joyce Kennedy & Jeffrey Osborne
21 26 Purple Rain - Prince
22 22 The Warrior - Scandal
23 23 Leave A Tender Moment Alone - Billy Joel
24 25 I'm So Excited - Pointer Sisters
25 32 Only When You Leave - Spandau Ballet
26 33 Cruel Summer - Bananarama
27 31 Better Be Good To Me - Tina Turner
28 29 Drive - Cars
29 30 Carribean Queen - Billy Ocean
30 19 17 - Rick James
31 20 I Can Dream About You - Dan Hartman
32 21 My Heart's Divided - Shannon
33 24 The Lebanon - Human League
34 34 What's Love Got To Do With It - Tina Turner
35 36 We're Not Gonna Take It - Twisted Sister
36 42 You Were Made For Me - Irene Cara
37 37 Block Party - Stacy Lattisaw & Johnny Gill
38 43 On The Dark Side - John Cafferty & The Beaver Brown Band
39 39 The Two Sides Of Love - Sammy Hagar
40 47 Dynamite - Jermaine Jackson
41 48 Hard Habit To Break - Chicago
42 46 The More You Live - A Flock Of Seagulls
43 44 Go Insane - Lindsay Buckingham
44 NE Some Guys Have All The Luck - Rod Stewart
45 45 When Doves Cry - Prince
46 49 (What) In The Name Of Love - Naked Eyes
47 35 Legs - ZZ Top
48 41 Hold Me - Teddy Pendergrass & Whitney Houston
49 40 Alibis - Sergio Mendes
50 38 Reach Out - Giorgio Moroder



Neither one of your two number 1's made it very far on my chart :(

"Drive" eventually peaked at #18 and "The Warrior" was at it's #22 peak this week. I'm sure you could probably tell that the soundtrack to Purple Rain did very well in my chart..lol.

"I Can Dream About You" also was #1 on my chart at the end of July/beginning of August.

I'm surprised there was no Corey Hart love...unless I was late on it and you guys had already charted it?


Whitney's "Hold Me" peaked at #14 for me beginning of August.

[prenatt1166]

Sept 19, 2009 10:03:08 GMT -5 blfdguy1 said:

I'm surprised there was no Corey Hart love...unless I was late on it and you guys had already charted it?

"Sunglasses At Night" peaked at #6 on 6-23-84, but I remember it burned out quickly and was off my chart by the end of July.

I missed out on Mtume comepletely. It didn't chart at all!

Nice to see Prince taking over your top ten. Looking back PR was really a landmark album and should have won the Grammy for Best Album over Lionel Richie.

[Vic]

(still on 82)

Hey soundscene...yeah I meant "Boys of Autumn" ack. my hands sometimes don't type what my head wants! OMG! You actually picked up on the CKOC song. HAHA. I actually liked that back then...and I would still like an pm3 of that. CKOC was MY hitradio choice back then. I am a Toronto boy...but CKOC had the best music that time!

Will post my 84 chart tomorrow!

[soundmagazine]

Sept 19, 2009 1:35:51 GMT -5 prenatt1166 said:

This week saw Patty Smyth & Scandal spend their 8th of 11 weeks at number one. Cyndi Lauper's first two singles reached number one, but "She Bop" would stall at #2.

I see "Hold Me" moving up your chart. How high would Whitney Houston eventually go? She made it to #25 in June 1984 for me.

"Drive" unfortunately never clicked with me. It reached it's peak at #28 this week. I don't remember hearing "Hurricane" more than once or twice. I had it listed as "New & Active" on my chart for two weeks in August, a feature I seemed to use once in awhile when there wasn't enough room for all the songs I wanted to chart at the time.

11 weeks at #1! That's two more weeks than the longest span at #1 of all-time on my chart, so that's quite remarkable. We were definitely opposites on our #1's since the Scandal song never caught on with me. I was partial to some of their other songs, like their first two singles and especially "Beat Of A Heart".

Whitney peaked that week at #15. Her career really went downhill from there! LOL But seriously, she didn't perform nearly as well on my chart as she did nationally for the rest of her career.

Nice to see a surprise country music entry on your chart with the Steve Wariner song. Although I didn't chart it, it's nice song. Same with what seemed like the 100th single release from the "Footloose" soundtrack as Karla Bonoff just dropped from your Top 10. You must have been a big soundtrack fan with obscure tunes by the Bus Boys (Ghostbusters) and Bonnie Tyler (Metropolis) also making your Top 40. Our common chart obscurity this time around is Neil Diamond's "Turn Around". I never allowed the Pointer Sisters to rechart in 1984 with "I'm So Excited" since it was too close to the original 1982 version that I had already charted back then.

I'm still waiting to see what next weeks scheduled Classic AT40 replay will be for our next chart date, so I will keep everyone posted.

[soundmagazine]

Sept 19, 2009 9:36:56 GMT -5 shadster said:

I started in '84 but wasn't able to retain my records OF '84. Subsequently I dont even remember what my #1 was for most of the year. Somewhere I had figured it out an wrote it down somewhere but I've lost that too. For Sept, maybe it was Ghostbusters? I know that went to #1. I do remember ALL of August, the #1 song was Dan Hartmans, "I can dream about you".

That Dan Hartman song had a killer 12'' remix released that I discovered after my chart run of the song had completed.

I'm guessing next weeks classic AT40 will be a couple years later, so hopefully you will have that chart available.

[soundmagazine]

Sept 19, 2009 10:03:08 GMT -5 blfdguy1 said:

Neither one of your two number 1's made it very far on my chart :(

"Drive" eventually peaked at #18 and "The Warrior" was at it's #22 peak this week. I'm sure you could probably tell that the soundtrack to Purple Rain did very well in my chart..lol.

"I Can Dream About You" also was #1 on my chart at the end of July/beginning of August.

I'm surprised there was no Corey Hart love...unless I was late on it and you guys had already charted it?

Whitney's "Hold Me" peaked at #14 for me beginning of August.

Nice slow jam at #1 with the Mtume song. And another R&B biggie at #3 with "High Energy" that I bet was getting some serious rotation in the New York dance clubs. Oh yes, the "Purple Rain" soundtrack was hot and it would reach #1 on my LP chart the following week. Corey Hart peaked at #14 the prior month and had already dropped off my chart by this week.

Another great combination of various musical genres represented on your chart.

[WotUNeed]

Sept 19, 2009 10:03:08 GMT -5 blfdguy1 said:

I'm sure you could probably tell that the soundtrack to Purple Rain did very well in my chart..lol.

Out of curiosity, did "Take Me With U" ever impact? Love that one.

Sept 19, 2009 15:37:23 GMT -5 Vic said:

I actually liked that back then...and I would still like an pm3 of that.

Possibly I can help.

[Vic]

Sept 8, 1984

02 01 She Bop - Cyndi Lauper
07 02 The Warrior - Scandal
01 03 When Doves Cry - Prince
06 04 Turn To you - Go-Go's
03 05 New Romance - Holly Woods & Toronto
04 06 Sad Songs Say So Much - Elton John
09 07 What's Love Got To Do With It - Tina Turner
11 08 10-9-8 - Face To Face
15 09 Round And Round - Ratt
05 10 State of Shock - Jacksons w/Mick Jagger
13 11 All Of You - Julio Iglesias & Diana Ross
08 12 Ghostbusters - Ray Parker Jr.
18 13 If Ever You're In My Arms Again - Peabo Bryson
17 14 Cooling The Medium - M+M
10 15 Boys Do Fall In Love - Robin Gibb
27 16 Cruel Summer - Bananarama
12 17 Jump (For My Love) - Pointer Sisters
19 18 My, Oh My - Slade
28 19 New Girl Now - Honeymoon Suite
23 20 Panama - Van Halen
16 21 Legs - ZZ Top
14 22 Sunglasses At Night - Corey Hart
25 23 If This Is It - Huey Lewis & the News
24 24 Rock Me Tonite - Billy Squier
33 25 Cover Me - Bruce Springsteen
20 26 Dancing In The Dark - Bruce Springsteen
30 27 I Can Dream About You - Dan Hartman
32 28 Leave A Tender Moment Alone - Billy Joel
22 29 Se;f Control - Laura Branigan
--- 30 Go Insane - Lindsey Buckingham
--- 31 The Lucky One - Laura Branigan
--- 32 Drive - Cars
34 33 Stuck On You - Lionel Richie
21 34 Almost Paradise - Mike Reno & Ann Wilson
--- 35 Go For Soda - Kim Mitchell
38 36 Missing You - John Waite
40 37 Lights Out - Peter Wolf
--- 38 Two Tribes - Frankie Goes To Hollywood
26 39 Infatuation - Rod Stewart
29 40 A Little Love - Juice Newton




"Drive" hit #6 for me. That was good for the Cars for me. Their best was thier #2 "You Might Think"

"Sunglasses At Night" took a LONG time for me to catch on. It was a hit here in Canada months before....but it was the video that really won me over. It hit #3

The summer of 1984 was really awesome in my book...so many groups and artists clicking for me. At this time with Cyndi already scored her 2nd # 1 here for me, I thought she would be the more successful over Madonna. "Holiday" hit #2 and "Borderline" #3

[prenatt1166]

Sept 20, 2009 11:36:04 GMT -5 Vic said:

02 01 She Bop - Cyndi Lauper
07 02 The Warrior - Scandal

We were close on our top 2 that week! "She Bop" was one of the first songs I remember charting the 12" version

I agree about 1984, many acts that emerged that year remain my favorites today.