As I wrote back in November, Vanilla Ice’s “Ice Ice Baby” was the first rap song by a rap artist to go to number 1 on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart.  However, some folks would argue that the first rap song (by any artist) to go to number 1 was Blondie’s “Rapture.”  Regardless of where you stand on that question, that song–”Rapture”–went to number 1 exactly 30 years ago, when it rose to the top for a two-week stay.  “Rapture” was the second straight number 1 song for Blondie, following “The Tide if High” a couple months earlier.  It was also the fourth and final number 1 song for the band, with all of them coming in a two-year span between April 1979 and March 1981.

Blondie’s reggae-based pop hit “The Tide is High,” which has since become an 80s classic, rolled into the number 1 spot on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart exactly 30 years ago today.  It was the third of four number 1 hits the band would score between 1979 and 1981.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnhKPw2NXIw

One of my favorite mash-ups or all-time. The vocals from the Door’s “Riders on the Storm” with the music/vocals of “Rapture” by Blondie.