Billboard’s top 5 songs from July 31, 1982. This is my favorite top 5 from any week.

Wordpress ^ | July 28, 2022 | Dan from Squirrel Hill

[aynrandfreak]

Good week!

[Revel]

Some radio stations are replaying old episodes of “American Top 40” on the weekends. Nobody could count them down like Casey Kasem.

[nwrep]

Back when America was America. The real deal. Reagan era greatness.

[bigdaddy45]

SiriusXM 70s on 7 plays it every week.

[TexasGator]

“Back when America was America. “

And cops used planes to nab people going 61 mph on interstates.

[Rummyfan]

All dawgs IMHO.... Anything by Toto is a joke.

[icclearly]

Back when America was America. The real deal. Reagan era greatness.

Yes, it was! The absolute best of times. Whoever would have dreamed it would turn into such sh*#t.

Don't you know Reagan is flipping in his grave?

[Tupelo]

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.

[dfwgator]

Hydra was the only good album they did.

[dfwgator]

John Cougar is a frickin’ Commie.

[Responsibility2nd]

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.

[plain talk]

I think of Hank singing “Eye of the Tiger” in Breaking Bad.

[dblshot]

That is a good 5 songs to play on the juke box at my next bar visit.

[BraveMan]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1DZagWZ5U_A

Toto - Hydra full album.

[dfwgator]

It’s amazing how many records by other artists Lukather played on in the 80s.

The most bizarre one was in “Cheech and Chong’s Next Movie”, that’s him....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6PpCA7BV7E

[alstewartfan]

Killjoy reporting. First three are pretty good, #4 middling, #5 unlistenable without weed.

[freedomjusticeruleoflaw]

Sorry. Horrible choice. My wife is named Rosanna too.

[cyclotic]

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.

[cyclotic]

Sorry 70’s