This Week In The 80s

#TWIT80s. Incessant babbling about all the songs that peaked in popularity "This Week In The 80s' - 4th week of January. Is this #1 pop, dance/disco, R&B hit the "Greatest Song Of The 80s?" Your host seems to think it may be! PLUS - Madonna's first, Marvin's last, Medley mania, vintage shampoos, Christian Metal and... Ray Parker Jr: Man Slut! This thing is SOPPING with David Foster. Thanks for listening! #TWIT80s

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#TWIT80S- Episode #21. Let's chat about every single song to peak on the American pop music charts "This Week In The 80s" - the 3rd week of January. Is Peter Cetera... GOTH??? Michael Jackson gets grey, PUNK goes pop, Billy Joel at the correct speed, singing raisins (Whaaat???)... and what do Bob Seger and yours truly have in common?!? Thanks for listening! #TWIT80s

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#TWIT80s - Episode #20! Let's get "granular" with all the songs that peaked in popularity on the American pop music charts, the 2nd week of January. Hip-hop starts to go pop thanks to two very different "novelty" records. Not one, but three different "soap stars" have chart entries we'll talk about. PLUS - what went wrong with Diana Ross in the 80s, some Men At Work bottlenecking and the Fleetwood Mac solo hit I think is better than anything Fleetwood Mac did as a group. It's a long one, so strap in and thanks for listening! #TWIT80s

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#TWIT80s Episode #19 - All the songs that peaked in popularity on the American pop music charts "This Week In The 80s" - the 1st week of January. Including the 1st #1 hit of the 1980s PLUS my rant against Andy Taylor (formerly) of Duran Duran. And a song so bad, cocaine MUST have been involved at least on some level. Happy New Year! Thanks for listening, sharing and subscribing. Please leave a review on iTunes to help spread the word! #TWIT80s

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#TWIT80s - The national music charts always took the last week of the year off, but not "My Top 10" - That's the chart I made each week between January 1985 (age 10) and October 1990 (age 16). In this episode, I'll review my top 10s "This Week In The 80s" between 1985 and 1989. Happy New Year!!!! New episodes every Monday. Thanks for listening! #TWIT80s

#TWIT80s. Episode #17. It's Christmas week in the 80s! We'll go thru all the songs that peaked in popularity Christmas week in the 80s- and I'll discuss some of my more memorable Christmas gifts in the 80s. From Mr. Microphone to the Casio Sk-1 Digital Sampling Keyboard to my 1st CD player. Whoaaaaa! Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays & thanks for listening! #TWIT80s

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#TWIT80s - Ep. #16: All the songs that peaked in popularity the 3rd week of December, "This Week In The 80s". Pat Benatar's 1st top 10, Madonna's 1st "number one", Kiss' first chart hit without the make-up and the iconic 80's song that ONLY got as high... as #9??? All that & more on another fun-filled, exciting (debatable!) episode of "This Week In The 80s!". Thanks for listening. Please share, subscribe, leave a comment/write a review and help spread the word. Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays!

#TWIT80s - Episode 15/December Week 2. My apology to Billy Joel PLUS the song that George Michael ripped-off for "I Want Your Sex", my all time favorite Police song, the Motley Crue stiff inspired by... Jack Wagner??? And... an unfortunate Queen tidbit they left out of that revisionist "Bohemian Rhapsody" movie! Drink everytime I use the word "iconic". You'll be hammered by the time we get to '83! It's "This Week In The 80s" and I thank YOU for listening! #TWIT80s

#TWIT80s - Ep. 14/December Week 1. We may have found the worst song of the 80s! PLUS - Paul Shaffer keyboard solos, new wave Earth, Wind & Fire, hip-hop Hall & Oates, the mastermind behind both Alanis Morrissette & a mid-80s TV soap star, Barbara Streisand & Don Johnson cover.... Juice Newton AND a top 50 orgasm that would make even Donna Summer blush. It's the "Worst Episode Ever"... It's the 1st week of December... This Week In The 80s! Thanks for listening, sharing, subscribing, leaving reviews, commenting and enduring. :)

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#TWIT80s- Ep. #13 - All the songs that peaked in popularity the last week of November "This Week In The 80s". The longest running #2 hit of the 80s (or all-time?). Are we adding Barry Manilow to the "Jerk List?" PLUS - The unsung hero of the Lionel Richie sound. The only top 40 hit by my all-time favorite female artist.... and the moment Phil Collins "jumped the shark!". Plus MUCH more! Thanks for listening. Please share, subscribe, comment and help spread the word!

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