US Top 25 Singles Week Ending December 12, 1981. Pick Your Favourites.

Physical - Olivia Newton-John
Why Do Fools Fall In Love - Diana Ross
Leather & Lace - Stevie Nicks (with Don Henley)
I Can’t Go For That (No Can Do) - Daryl Hall & John Oates
Private Eyes - Daryl Hall & John Oates

Darryl

 

Only major stateside hit but as far as the west coast goes, Fly At Night and I Believe were played a lot on the stations I listened to so they did have some moderate success outside of that tune .

 

I actually liked the Hooked On Classics medley. Like those Jive Bunny medleys, it made for some overstimulating listening.

 

Best version here:

 

This was by far the highlight on Rod’s Tonight I’m Yours album, which wasn’t one of his best. These were the bleached blond, spandex years.. I don’t think it was his finest hour.

 

I think this chart has a pretty solid top 5. Aside from perhaps the Commodores, all those songs are still well-known today. Nice to see Hall & Oates approaching their career peak. I Can’t Go For That would knock Physical off the top spot a few weeks later.

 

I had to change my vote and add the Commodores—at first I was thinking of another song. But ‘Oh No’ is just heart-wrenching—anyone else remember this from the movie “Last American Virgin”? I voted for 12 songs overall.

 

US album chart for this week.

Top 200 Albums

 

The Hall & Oates tunes are tops but Rod, Olivia, Earth Wind & Fire and The Go-go's all have great tunes as well. All those and my obligatory vote for Ms. Ross.

 

Some of the singles released in the UK this week.

 

Obviously, I just love the tune. At least Rod was cool in the video.

 

I still hear 'Oh No' played locally every now and then (great song ). I'm actually surprised Foreigner's 'Waiting' did so well. Cool Night should of been up there!

 

Young Turks was definitely the highlight but I also love the title track. It made it to the top 20 as the second single from the album but has pretty much been forgotten.

 

Terrible week, voted for the GoGos, Lindsay B. , the Police, and J. Geils. The only one I keep on my iPod is Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic.

 

Stuck at #2 behind "Physical" for several weeks, never made #1.

 

Paul Davis as an artist and songwriter was kind of under appreciated. I think his song catalog is excellent, and really worthy of higher mainstream success!

 

Paul Davis is a "song here a song there" artist for me. That being said, "Cool Night" is a fantastic pop single that brings takes me back to my childhood.

 

I chose:
Foreigner
The Police
Earth, Wind & Fire
Rod Stewart
Journey
Both of Hall and Oates songs
J. Geils Band

 

Most of the stuff at the top is just terrible IMO, it doesn't start getting decent until #12 with Trouble, and then after that I like #13. I Can’t Go For That (No Can Do), #17. The Sweetest Thing, #21. Cool Night and the really fantastic and long forgotten My Girl (Gone,Gone, Gone) at #22 by Chilliwack (surprised that made the top 25).

 

Fantastic time for pop/rock singles. I chose just over half of the list.

Lindsey Buckingham's "Trouble" is a sleeper I forget about sometimes.

 

Only two for me: "Trouble" and "Our Lips Are Sealed". "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic" is close, but I guess I don't like it enough to choose it.

 

First thing that came to mind when I started reading through this thread! I just watched many of my SCTV DVDs recently. Also, for our non-US/Canada viewers, the SCTV cast also came up with a brilliant punk song. One of Martin Short's finest moments!

 

Here's the rest of the chart info for this week from the Weekly Top 40 site:

26 28 STEAL THE NIGHT –•– Stevie Woods (Cotillion)-14 (26)
27 32 SOMEONE COULD LOSE A HEART TONIGHT –•– Eddie Rabbitt (Elektra)-5 (27)
28 10 START ME UP –•– The Rolling Stones (Rolling Stones)-17 (2)
29 15 THE OLD SONGS –•– Barry Manilow (Arista)-10 (15)
30 36 I WOULDN’T HAVE MISSED IT FOR THE WORLD –•– Ronnie Milsap (RCA)-8 (30)

31 17 ARTHUR’S THEME (Best That You Can Do) –•– Christopher Cross (Warner Brothers)-18 (1)
32 43 SHAKE IT UP –•– The Cars (Elektra)-4 (32)
33 34 POOR MAN’S SON –•– Survivor (Scotti Brothers)-9 (33)
34 29 NO REPLY AT ALL –•– Genesis (Atlantic)-12 (29)
35 40 UNDER PRESSURE –•– Queen and David Bowie (Elektra)-6 (35)
36 70 WAITING ON A FRIEND –•– The Rolling Stones (Rolling Stones)-2 (36)
37 52 SHE’S GOT A WAY –•– Billy Joel (Columbia)-4 (37)
38 39 WRACK MY BRAIN –•– Ringo Starr (Boardwalk)-6 (38)
39 31 TRYIN’ TO LIVE MY LIFE WITHOUT YOU –•– Bob Seger (Capitol)-14 (5)
40 44 CASTLES IN THE AIR (1981 Version) –•– Don McLean (Millennium)-7 (40)

THIS WEEK’S DROPS

43 33 NEVER TOO MUCH –•– Luther Vandross (Epic)-10 (33)
44 37 THE THEME FROM “HILL STREET BLUES” –•– Mike Post (Featuring Larry Carlton) (Elektra)-17 (10)
51 35 THE NIGHT OWLS –•– Little River Band (Capitol)-17 (6)
69 38 TWILIGHT –•– ELO (Electric Light Orchestra) (Jet)-8 (38)

POWER PLAYS

41 62 COME GO WITH ME –•– The Beach Boys (Caribou)-4 (41)
42 46 MORE THAN JUST THE TWO OF US –•– Sneaker (Handshake)-7 (42)
45 45 LIVING EYES –•– The Bee Gees (RSO)-6 (45)
46 42 JUST ONCE –•– Quincy Jones Featuring James Ingram (A&M)-18 (17)
47 41 I’VE DONE EVERYTHING FOR YOU –•– Rick Springfield (RCA)-17 (8)
48 69 YOU COULD HAVE BEEN WITH ME –•– Sheena Easton (EMI-America)-3 (48)
49 82 TAKE IT EASY ON ME –•– Little River Band (Capitol)-2 (49)
50 55 WORKING FOR THE WEEKEND –•– Loverboy (Columbia)-5 (50)

DEBUTS

74 — SWEET DREAMS –•– Air Supply (Arista)-1 (74)
80 — ALL OUR TOMORROWS –•– Eddie Schwartz (Atco)-1 (80)
81 — SEA OF LOVE –•– Del Shannon (Network)-1 (81)
88 — KEEPING OUR LOVE ALIVE –•– The Henry Paul Band (Atlantic)-1 (88)
90 — CLOSER TO THE HEART (Live Version) –•– Rush (Mercury)-1 (90)
92 — A WORLD WITHOUT HEROES –•– Kiss (Casablanca)-1 (92)
93 — EVERY HOME SHOULD HAVE ONE –•– Patti Austin (Qwest)-1 (93)
94 — CHARIOTS OF FIRE – TITLES –•– Vangelis (Polydor)-1 (94)

 

Trouble would have made a great FM song and would have easily fit on Mirage.

 

I like a good number of these pop songs - decent chart.