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For the 1983 Christmas season, Amy Grant released A Christmas Album, the first of several Christmas albums she has turned out over the last three-and-half decades. The album’s first song, “Tennessee Christmas,” would eventually be...
Thirty-five years ago, for the 1983 Christmas season, Al Green released The Christmas Album. The first song on the album was a version of “White Christmas” that is today’s Daily Eighties Flashback.
Thirty year ago, for Christmas 1988, Mississippi-born musician Alexander O’Neal released a Christmas album titled My Gift to You. The first song on the album was the album’s title song, which is today’s Daily Eighties...
Mannheimer Steamroller has become synonymous with Christmas music, having released more than a dozen Christmas albums dating back to the mid-1980s. Exactly 30 years ago, for Christmas 1988, the group released their second Christmas...
For his 2013 album The Marshall Mathers LP 2, Eminem teamed up with Rihanna for the song “The Monster.” Exactly five years ago, the song rose to the top of Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart to begin...
Seattle-born musician Judy Collins made eleven appearances on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart, with five of those songs reaching the Top 40. Her biggest hit was her only Top 10 hit, “Both Sides Now,” which exactly...
Minneapolis-based band The Jets hit the Top 40 on Billboard‘s R&B singles chart with each of their first eight songs to make the chart. That run included all six of their songs that would also...
What do you get when you mash up the music from Ratt’s 1984 glam metal track “Round And Round” and the vocals from Marvin Gaye’s 1968 soulful Motown hit “Heard It Through The Grapevine”...
Three songs from Billy Idol‘s 1986 album Whiplash Smile hit the Top 40 on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart. On this date that year, the first of that trio of songs and the biggest hit of the three,...
Late 1970s/early 1980s teen idol Leif Garrett made ten appearances on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart. On this date in 1981, the last of those ten songs, “Runaway Rita,” climbed to a peak position of number...
