OHW – Session musicians Neil Larsen & Buzz Feiten formed a band in New York called Full Moon and released an album in 1972. Larsen Feiten Band – Who’ll Be The Fool Tonight You should be sweaty after this is over.ģ3. Maybe it was due to the popularity of WestCoast music in the late 70s but this isn’t a jam you drunk Riunite on ice to. OHW, PD – This Atlanta R&B band used to be called Santa Monica for no apparent reason. It will be his 6th #1 Country hit and a future Top 20, his first.ģ4. The producer needed Willie to cough up a theme song for the movie so he wrote one on the back of an airplane barf bag. Punk was created to kill this.Īfter his turn as Wendell Hickson in 1979’s The Electric Horseman, Sweet Willie headlined his first film in 1980 called Honeysuckle Rose. Disco had its own power and was an inclusive movement. This former Top 20 single finds a member of one generation singing down to the lost kids of a younger generation with lines like no one owes you nothin’ and nobody hands you any guarantee without even asking them what they want or what they’re looking for. It would get worse as the decade worn on, but his Glass Houses album cover is a great early example. We would also learn that Billy doesn’t know how to deliver a metaphor subtly. PD – Billy’s first #1 song takes me back to those of days of my first swimming lessons during that 1980 Summer. Billy Joel – It’s Still Rock And Roll To Me But what happened to the money? No one knows.ģ7. The legend is that a trio of rednecks kill an old man for his mason jars full of money, dump him in the swamp and then they die in quicksand. Charlie Daniels Band – The Legend Of Wooley SwampĬharlie’s at it again with another countrified tale that doing well on the Pop charts, eventually scaring itself up to #31. The words on this one are written by new wave artist Tom Robinson known for the songs 2-4-6-8 Motorway and Glad to Be Gay, an early LGBT anthem. Elton John – Sartorial Eloquence (Don’t Ya Wanna Play This Game No More?)Ģ1 At 33 was the album that featured songs with lyrics by four different songwriters. If someone was doing a vocal recital in the early 80s, chances are they sang this song.ģ9.

Here’s the first of two songs in the Top 40 from the Fame soundtrack, both sung by Irene Cara. Music was my medicine and so, here’s the first twenty doses. I didn’t know it then but this period of life would inform by thorough immersion into WestCoast music many year later.

I was framing my changing world to a Top 40 soundtrack in order to cope with my life. Most of the songs on this countdown from September 27th, 1980 feel like a carry over from that Summer of watching the New York Cosmos, doctors appointments, hospital visits and long stretches left alone at the Sunrise Mall to watch movies.

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