80s0n8 Big 40 Countdown Schedule

2/14/81

40: Riders in The Sky - The Outlaws
39: Back In Black - AC/DC
38: Living In A Fantasy - Leo Sayer
37: De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da Da - The Police
36: What Kind Of Fool - Barbra Streisand & Barry Gibb
35: Ah! Leah! - Donnie Iris
34: Killin' Time - Fred Knoblock And Susan Anton
33: Kiss On My List - Daryl Hall & John Oates
32: Rapture - Blondie
31: Time Is Time - Andy Gibb
30: Hearts On Fire - Randy Meisner
29: I Made It Through The Rain - Barry Manilow
28: Guilty - Barbra Streisand & Barry Gibb
27: Love On The Rocks - Neil Diamond
26: Games People Play - The Alan Parsons Project
25: Smokey Mountain Rain - Ronnie Milsap
24: Treat Me Right - Pat Benetar
23: A Little In Love - Cliff Richard
22: Heartbreak Hotel - The Jacksons
21: Seven Bridges Road - The Eagles
20: Hello Again - Neil Diamond
19: Together – Tierra
18: It's My Turn - Diana Ross
17: Crying - Don Mclean
16: I Ain’t Gonna Stand For It – Stevie Wonder
15: The Winner Takes It All - Abba
14: Miss Sun - Boz Scaggs
13: Every Woman In The World - Air Supply
12: The Best Of Times - Styx
11: Same Old Lang Syne - Dan Fogelberg
10: Hey Nineteen - Steely Dan
9: Giving It Up For Your Love - Delbert McClinton
8: Keep On Loving You - Reo Speedwagon
7: Starting Over - John Lennon
6: Woman - John Lennon
5: Passion - Rod Stewart
4: The Tide Is High - Blondie
3: I Love A Rainy Night - Eddie Rabbitt
2: 9 To 5 - Dolly Parton
1: Celebration - Kool & The Gang

* = Debut

This Week’s Drops

41 32 Hungry Heart - Bruce Springsteen
44 35 Tell It Like It Is - Heart
47 36 Lady - Kenny Rogers
51 33 He Can’t Love You - The Michael Stanley Band
52 39 Who’s Making Love - The Blues Brothers
 
The Blues Brothers' Who's Making Love is a remake of a Johnnie Taylor song which was number one on the R&B chart for three weeks in November-December 1968 and reached #5 on the Hot 100. The song was written by Homer Banks, Don Davis, Bettye Crutcher and Raymond Jackson. (Banks also co-wrote Luther Ingram's I Don't Want To Be Right and the Staple Singers' If You're Ready Come Go With Me.) Who's Making Love has been recorded by more than 30 artists including Tony Joe White, Elkie Brooks, Edwin McCain, Gerald Albright, O.B. McClinton, Melissa Etheridge and the Commodores. The S.O.S. Band, best known for their 1980 hit Take Your Time (Do It Right, recorded Who's Making Love for their 1983 album On The Rise:

 
Correct Order. I missed two big ones, the #1 and the #3.

Queen "Another One Bites" #70
Barbra Streisand "Woman In Love" #93
Kenny Rogers "Lady" #47
John Lennon "Just Like Starting" #7
Blondie "The Tide Is High" #5
Kool & The Gang "Celebration" #1
Dolly Parton "9 to 5" #2
Eddie Rabbit "I Love A Rainy" #3
REO Speedwagon "Keep On Loving You" #8
Blondie "Rapture" #32
Hall & Oates "Kiss On My List" #33
Sheena Easton "Morning Train" #74
..
Air Supply "The One That You Love"

green: my candidates
white: on my list and the hot 100
brown: on the hot 100 but missing from my list
orange: on my list but not on hot 100
 
Good 8
Okay 9
Bad 23

Six of the top 8 are chart-toppers.

36: What Kind Of Fool - Barbra Streisand & Barry Gibb

beavis


4: The Tide Is High - Blondie

My guess. I typo'd on my post above (accidentally put "#5").

2: 9 To 5 - Dolly Parton

My friend's kid chose this.

1: Celebration - Kool & The Gang

My friend's old roommate chose this.

Won't get into the top 40
#42 Queen "Flash's Theme"
#48 Elvis Presley "Guitar Man"
#55 Peter Allen "Fly Away"
#58 Rita Coolidge "Fool That I Am"
#59 Suzi Quatro "Lipstick"
#60 Shalamar "Full Of Fire"
#64 Teddy Pendergrass "Love TKO"
#66 Association "Dreamer"
#67 Lakeside "Fantastic Voyage"
#72 Fleetwood Mac "Fireflies"
#77 Earth Wind & Fire "And Love Goes On"
#78 Slave "Watching You"
#79 Spyro Gyra "Cafe Amore"
#81 Touch "Don't You Know What Love Is"
#82 Doobie Brothers "Keep This Train A-Rollin'"
#85 Spinners "Yesterday Once More/Nothing Remains The Same"
#86 Dire Straits "Skateaway"
#88 McGuffy Lane "Long Time Lovin' You"
#90 Joe Chemay Band "Proud"
#92 Aretha Franklin "United Together"
#95 Doobie Brothers "Wynken, Blynken & Nod"
#96 Sugarhill Gang "8th Wonder"
#97 Charles Fox "Seasons"
 
seasalt43 said:
2/14/81

40: Riders in The Sky - The Outlaws
39: Back In Black - AC/DC
38: Living In A Fantasy - Leo Sayer
37: De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da Da - The Police
36: What Kind Of Fool - Barbra Streisand & Barry Gibb
35: Ah! Leah! - Donnie Iris
34: Killin' Time - Fred Knoblock And Susan Anton
33: Kiss On My List - Daryl Hall & John Oates
32: Rapture - Blondie
31: Time Is Time - Andy Gibb
30: Hearts On Fire - Randy Meisner
29: I Made It Through The Rain - Barry Manilow
28: Guilty - Barbra Streisand & Barry Gibb
27: Love On The Rocks - Neil Diamond
26: Games People Play - The Alan Parsons Project
25: Smokey Mountain Rain - Ronnie Milsap
24: Treat Me Right - Pat Benetar
23: A Little In Love - Cliff Richard
22: Heartbreak Hotel - The Jacksons
21: Seven Bridges Road - The Eagles
20: Hello Again - Neil Diamond
19: Together – Tierra
18: It's My Turn - Diana Ross
17: Crying - Don Mclean
16: I Ain’t Gonna Stand For It – Stevie Wonder
15: The Winner Takes It All - Abba
14: Miss Sun - Boz Scaggs
13: Every Woman In The World - Air Supply
12: The Best Of Times - Styx
11: Same Old Lang Syne - Dan Fogelberg
10: Hey Nineteen - Steely Dan
9: Giving It Up For Your Love - Delbert McClinton
8: Keep On Loving You - Reo Speedwagon
7: Starting Over - John Lennon
6: Woman - John Lennon
5: Passion - Rod Stewart
4: The Tide Is High - Blondie
3: I Love A Rainy Night - Eddie Rabbitt
2: 9 To 5 - Dolly Parton
1: Celebration - Kool & The Gang

* = Debut

This Week’s Drops

41 32 Hungry Heart - Bruce Springsteen
44 35 Tell It Like It Is - Heart
47 36 Lady - Kenny Rogers
51 33 He Can’t Love You - The Michael Stanley Band
52 39 Who’s Making Love - The Blues Brothers
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This is a repeat countdown: Feb 14, 2016
 
US Top 40 Singles Week Ending 14th February, 1981


TW
LW
Artist
Title
Record Company
Week on Chart
Hot 100 Debut
Peak

101
-
Jimmy Buffett
It's My Job
MCA
1
2/21/81
#87
57

102
104
Night
Love On The Airwaves
Planet
2
2/21/81
#88
87

103
108
Joel Diamond
Theme From Raging Bull
Motown
2
2/21/81
#88
82

104
107
Ambrosia
Outside
Full Moon (Warner Bros.)
3
-
102

105
106
A Taste Of Honey
Sukiyaki
Capitol
3
3/7/81
#83
3

106
102
Jim Stafford
Cow Patti
Warner Bros.
2
-
102

107
105
Patrice Rushen
Look Up
Elektra
4
-
102

108
-
Sister Sledge
All American Girls
Cotillion
1
3/21/81
#87
79

109
-
Rupert Holmes
Backjack
MCA
1
-
103

110
-
Whitesnake
Ain't No Love In The City
Mirage (Atlantic)
1
-
109

This Week's Drops

-- 101 Bon Bon Vie (Gimme The Good Life) - T.S. Monk (entered the chart on 2/21/81 at #90)
-- 103 Once In A Lifetime -Talking Heads
-- 109 Here Is My Love -Tommy Dee
84 110 How 'Bout Us - Champaign

Comments:
  • The week before was featured last year: Feb 7, 2022
  • "Sukiyaki" is probably the most successful bubble we've seen so far.
  • "Ain't No Love in the Heart of the City" is a re-make (Bobby "Blue Bland, 1974). This was a live version. The studio version was released in 1978, but didn't chart. My fav for the week.

Playlist:

 
seasalt43 said:
Jim Stafford
Cow Patti
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From the good lands came the cowgirl
Patti was her name
She was hot on the trail of that killer
On a moped she called Flame
'Cause the killer had killed her daddy
Just for spittin' in the road
You only had to kill her daddy once
To get that gal P.O.'d

Yippie eye eh Cow Patti
She rode into town to find the man that killed her daddy

It ends with the killer slipping in cow shit (hence the heroine's name Cow Patti). What a song! LOL.
 
From the Pulse forum:

This week's Casey lite... Top 46 artists of the 80s!

No regular countdown this weekend? I guess there goes our chances of doing both 1983 and 1989 in February. Neither have been featured since 2019.
 
sadchild said:
From the Pulse forum:

This week's Casey lite... Top 46 artists of the 80s!

No regular countdown this weekend? I guess there goes our chances of doing both 1983 and 1989 in February. Neither have been featured since 2019.
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They advertise it on air as top 47.

IdRatherBeSkiing said:
President's Day Weekend they are doing special countdowns. The 80s along with the 90s an y2k channels will each be counting down the top 47 artists of their respective decades. Starting Friday @ 9 on the 80s. Moving in sequence though the decades along with replays throughout the weekend. No VJ Big 40 it sounds like. Also looks like the 70s got left out.
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