Monthly Archive: December 2018
Pennsylvania-based band Poison made twelve appearances on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart, with ten of those songs hitting the Top 40 and six reaching the Top 10. Amid that success, the band’s biggest hit was their...
Two songs from The Rolling Stones‘ 1989 album Steel Wheels hit the Top 40 on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart. On this date that year, the second of that pair of songs, “Rock and a Hard Place,” was...
They just don’t play new songs from old music artists like they used to. I have noticed a few classic rock stations like 97.5 WONE in Akron, Ohio and Eddie Trunk’s weekly terrestrial radio...
Two songs from Toto‘s 1984 album Isolation made appearances on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart. On this date that year, the first of those two songs, “Stranger in Town,” was in its second week at a peak position...
To date, New York City-based duo A Great Big World has made two appearances on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart. While the second of those two songs, “Hold Each Other,” only made it to number 99,...
Four songs from Stevie Wonder‘s 1968 album For Once in My Life reached the Top 40 on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart. The biggest hit of the quartet was the album’s title track, which exactly 50 years...
Thirty years ago, for the 1988 Christmas season, Connecticut-born radio personality Bob Rivers and his Comedy Corp released the Christmas album Twisted Christmas. The album contained parodies of a number of classic Christmas songs, including...
Thirty-five years ago, for the 1983 Christmas season, Chet Atkins released his second Christmas album, East Tennessee Christmas. The album’s title track is today’s Daily Eighties Flashback.
Thirty years ago, for the 1988 Christmas season, Erasure released the EPÂ Crackers International. The album’s last song, the Christmas-themed “She Won’t Be Home,” is today’s Daily Eighties Flashback.
Four songs from Mariah Carey‘s 1993 album Music Box reached the Top 20 on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart, with the first two of those songs hitting number one. Exactly 25 years ago, the second of that...