This list is seriously missing some:
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Good week!
Some radio stations are replaying old episodes of “American Top 40” on the weekends. Nobody could count them down like Casey Kasem.
All dawgs IMHO.... Anything by Toto is a joke.
At one time Waaaaay back in my dim dark past (1960s) I printed Billboard magazine. Back when they had a printed magazine. Every Friday from late Friday morning when the copy arrived until it was finished. If you worked late shift as I did, sometimes that meant lots of OT.
Funny thing, for as influential as Billboard was, the press run was really not that high. Somewhere around 50,000 copies, if memory serves.
Barf. Toto? Eye of the Tiger?
Pick any week of mediocre music from the 1970s and it will be far better than the best week of any 1980s music.
I think of Hank singing “Eye of the Tiger” in Breaking Bad.
That is a good 5 songs to play on the juke box at my next bar visit.
Killjoy reporting. First three are pretty good, #4 middling, #5 unlistenable without weed.
Sorry. Horrible choice. My wife is named Rosanna too.
I prefer the 79’s myself. I remember looking at the top 100 for 1973. Almost every song is very memorable.
I was only ten in 1973 so I wasn’t listening to much of that then.
This list is seriously missing some:
All great except the last one.
Great... I was in Biloxi Mississippi on that date...
I can’t think of many ‘80s songs I like, although I do like Michael Jackson’s stuff from them.
The ‘70s — that’s my fave decade for music. It used to be fun to dance to back then. Then it was good background for house cleaning. Now ... chair exercise. 🙄
I was in high school in 82 and this is about the time we started accusing rockers of going disco by adding horns and synthesizers.
Last hurrah oh the 70’s.
So I have started a project where I am making playlists for the decades in my life. I am using the billboard top 100 songs for the year as a starter and, when I have gone through all of the years, I will go back and find songs I liked at that time that didn’t make the top 100.
I go through the top 100 using an online list and I have iTunes open to create the playlists. Sometimes I have to listen to a song to remember it. It has been a fun way to pass the time.
The playlists are named The First 10, The Second Ten, etc. The first ten is 1962 to 1971, the second ten is 1972 to 1981.
I only add songs that I like or that bring back strong memories.
The First 10 has 485 songs in it.
The Second 10 has 624 songs in it.
The Third 10 has 552 songs in it.
The Fourth 10 has 227 songs in it.
The Fifth 10 has 62 songs in it, but I am only halfway through.
Haven’t started the Sixth 10 yet.
“Eye of the Tiger”
Obviously, Rocky III made that a huge hit. What some people don’t know is that it replaced another song, “You’re the Best” by Bill Conti and performed by Joe Esposito... which became a hit a couple years later when it was recycled for The Karate Kid.
The dawn of the MTV music video era.
I’ll take April 4, 1964.
1 Can’t Buy Me Love
2 Twist and Shout
3 She Loves You
4 I Want to Hold Your Hand
5 Please Please Me