This is another one that I will usually turn up on the rare occasion it finds its way onto the radio. #58 – Sammy Hagar, “ Your Love Is Driving Me Crazy.” This song was in the top 40 last week but just fell out. #67 – Yaz, “ Only You.” This was another staple of college radio, and it reached no higher than this on the charts. ![]() It’s a Bachrach-David song, previously done by Lou Johnson, Sandie Shaw, the Four Seasons, R.B. #69 – Naked Eyes, “Always Something There To Remind Me.” This will become a massive hit later that spring. #74 – Heaven 17, “ Let Me Go.” This is as high as this song got, and yet I’m guessing that if you have one of those various-artists CDs of 80s new wave, it’s on there. Why couldn’t we have had this version instead of Bette Midler’s, which I was made to play every week years later at WJTW? Sadly, this only made it to #65, not quite higher than an eagle. #82 – Lou Rawls, “ Wind Beneath My Wings.” No, really. Both this song and “Wind Him Up” from the same LP got a lot of airplay on Chicago’s WMET, and both should be getting airplay someplace now. #83 – Saga, “ On the Loose.” Talk about a tumble: this was at #35 just last week. You’ll never look at a bowl of pork and beans quite the same after seeing this video. #84 – Wall of Voodoo, “ Mexican Radio.” This never makes it into the Top 40, but gets a ton of airplay on MTV, which is where I know it from. It’s interesting to review the morality test in this record, since there’s a lot besides drinking and smoking that can be done nowadays. #87 – Adam Ant, “ Goody Two Shoes.” Also making its way down the charts from an earlier peak at #12. Later, in college radio, I played the grooves out of The Swing, the LP that came out the following year. ![]() INXS is a band that I somehow missed in high school, likely due to insisting on finding oldies shows on Saturday nights. #90 – INXS, “ The One Thing.” This song makes its debut on the chart this week, and will eventually make it up to #30. This is a song that will get turned up on the rare occasion I find it on the radio. I’ll put Night Ranger in the guilty pleasure category. #95 – Night Ranger, “ Don’t Tell Me You Love Me.” This song is on its way down the charts, having peaked at #40 a few weeks earlier. ![]() As we are wont to do on this blog, let’s bring ’em back to the forefront and give ’em a listen. Many have been played to death in the 34 years since their release, while others have slipped through the cracks. The pop charts featured a wide variety of great songs. Baseball fans on the South Side of Chicago were looking forward to opening day, not necessarily realizing that it would become one of the most exciting summers in years. The last week in March of 1983 I was looking forward to the end of my freshman year of high school. (Above: Michael Jackson, about to debut the moonwalk on Motown 25, taped.
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