US Top 25 Singles W/E 28th November 1981. Pick your favourites.

Our Lips Are Sealed - The Go-Go’s

Infectious beat, if not addictive.

 

Only about half a dozen there that I ever bought. The Police and Sones are great but Lindsay Buckingham and Mike Post are the picks for me. Trouble is probably still one of my favourite singles ever. Tanked in the UK sadly.

 

Trouble is great. The Police single too.

 

Trouble is one of my favourite songs. And I picked 10 others.

 

Foreigner
Police
Rolling Stones
Rod Stewart
Journey
Go-Go’s

 

ONJ, Foreigner, Hall And Oates (both), The Police, Stones, Quarterflash, Journey and The Go-Go's

 

The ones I have in my collection are...

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

I probably play the H&O tracks the most.

Darryl

 

What a smokin' rad chart!

My top 5:

1. Our Lips are Sealed
2. Tryin' to Live My Life Without You (my favorite BS song, actually)
3. The Night Owls
4. Harden My Heart
5. Trouble

 

Great to see Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic in the lead. That’s probably my favourite from this chart. That song just lifts you up.

 

“Harden My Heart” is phenomenal

 

Here's the Canadian chart, with "The Friends Of Mr. Caro" at #1, a smash in Canada (and nowhere else). At #3...

 

Here are the US album charts for this week.

Billboard 200 Chart | Billboard

 

There needs to be a 'none of the above' option.

 

I Can’t Go For That (No Can Do) - Hall & Oates
Arthur’s Theme (Best That You Can Do) - Christopher Cross
Harden My Heart - Quarterflash
Theme From “Hill Street Blues” - Mike Post (featuring Larry Carlton)

Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic - The Police
Private Eyes - Hall & Oates
Physical - Olivia Newton-John

 

The first six times, YES.

 

Or you can just ignore this thread. Seems easy enough.

 

That's an interesting chart. I had no idea that The Friends Of Mr Cairo was a single anywhere! Just sticking with the top 25, here are my favourites:

Jon & Van Gelis - The Friends Of Mr Cairo
Christopher Cross - Arthur's Theme
Chilliwack - My Girl
Foreigner - Waiting For A Girl Like You
Hall & Oates - Private Eyes
Genesis - No Reply At All
Loverboy - Working For The Weekend
Triumph - Magic Power
Dan Fogelberg - Hard To Say
Louis Clark - Hooked On Classics
Journey - Don't Stop Believing

The one band I've never heard of is Rough Trade. Any good?

 

Lots of interest here. I have 44 of them which was more than I was expecting although I bought most of them in retrospect, given I had only just started getting serious about music in '81.

Quite a few new names on me, in the charts. Never heard of any of these before today:

Bernadette Peters
Michael Henderson
The Whispers
Bobby & The Midnights
Switch
Pieces Of A Dream
Bob James
Johnny Lee
GQ
Donald Byrd
Carol Hensel (not so surprising, given it's an exercise record)
Skyy
LTD
Carl Carlton
Diesel
Barkays
Angela Bofill
One Way
The Time
Slave
Earl Klugh
Ronnie Laws
Roger

I assume most will be within the soul/disco/smooth jazz Venn diagram given they are probanly the genres I'm most clueless in.

The One that most intrigued me was Rainbow - Jealous Lover at #150. That's an EP, surely.

 

A lot of these aren’t familiar to me either. I know Bernadette Peters is a singer/actress. She had a US hit with Gee Whiz. Think Johnny Lee is a country singer. That’s about it!

 

I find it fascinating, I kept a close eye on the American charts back in the Eighties too.

Any ideas why there's a four track EP listed in the album charts?

 

Yeah, me too. I play a lot of SongPop, which is mostly US based as it’s amazing how many hits I’ve missed. Granted they weren’t top sellers, but even some top 40 songs apparently passed me by.

No idea why there’s an EP in the charts. Think it’s happened before though.

 

I was 17 at the time and can't get too fired up about this chart. The Go-Go's tune is easily my favorite.

 

Happily chose a baker’s dozen and could have picked a few more. Great stuff, but a slight advantage to the Canadian chart due to Triumph, Loverboy, Al Jarreau, and Prism tracks.

 

Start me up
Don't stop believin'
I can't go for that
Waiting for a girl like you