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“Hurts So Good” – John Cougar
Read more: “Hurts So Good” – John Cougar“Sink your teeth right through my bones, baby” Reached #2: August 7th, 1982 Number of Weeks at #2: Four Weeks #1 Song At the Time:…
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“Rosanna” – Toto
Read more: “Rosanna” – Toto“I can see your face still shining through the window on the other side / Rosanna, Rosanna / I didn’t know that a girl like…
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“Don’t Talk To Strangers” – Rick Springfield
Read more: “Don’t Talk To Strangers” – Rick Springfield(“And every man’s an actor, every girl is pretty / I don’t like what’s getting back to me”) Reached #2: May 22nd, 1982 Number of…
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“We Got The Beat” – The Go-Go’s
Read more: “We Got The Beat” – The Go-Go’s“See the people walking down the street / Fall in line just watching all their feet / They don’t know where they wanna go /…
Table of Contents
In The Shadows of Giants
A preamble introducing the project and laying out why I’m fascinated by #2 hits. Also included is the reason why I picked the 1980s instead of any other decade.
“But you’re drowning in the past, Mike! And I got your life jacket right here. It’s called The Eighties and it’s gonna be around forever.” – Yacht Rock, Episode 4
Covers #2 hits from March 1980 to November 1981.
The eighties begins with nothing resembling the decade that people wish to build time machines to return to. This list is full of artists that nobody tends to think of when they think of the decade.
1980-81 is a time where disco is dead and adult-contemporary songs reign supreme. A time when MTV is still a dream in Bob Pittman’s imagination. A strange in between where one decade has ended, but another one is just beginning to take shape…
Songs:
- #1 — “Yes, I’m Ready” – Teri DeSario with K.C. (March 1980)
- #2 — “Longer” – Dan Fogelberg (March 1980)
- #3 — “Working My Way Back to You / Forgive Me Girl” – The Spinners (March 1980)
- #4 — “Ride Like the Wind” – Christopher Cross (April 1980)
- #5 — “All Out Of Love” – Air Supply (September 1980)
- #6 — “More Than I Can Say” – Leo Sayer (December 1980)
- #7 — “Love On The Rocks” – Neil Diamond (January 1981)
- #8 — “Woman” – John Lennon (March 1981)
- #9 — “Just The Two Of Us” – Grover Washington, Jr. (May 1981)
- #10 — “Being With You” – Smokey Robinson
- #11 — “All Those Years Ago” – George Harrison (July 1981)
- #12 — “Theme From The Greatest American Hero (Believe It Or Not)” – Joey Scarbury (August 1981)
- #13 — “Slow Hand” – The Pointer Sisters (August 1981)
- #14 — “Queen Of Hearts” – Juice Newton (September 1981)
- #15 — “Start Me Up” – The Rolling Stones (October 1981)
- #16 — “Waiting For A Girl Like You” – Foreigner (November 1981)
- Interlude — Pictures Came and Broke Your Heart or, The Early Years of MTV
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Covers #2 hits from February 1982 to December 1983.
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