Monthly Archive: January 2019
To date, Colorado-based band OneRepublic‘s biggest hits have been a pair of songs that have reached the runner-up position on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart. In 2007, as a featured artist alongside Timbaland, the band reached...
Dusty Springfield scored three of her four Top 10 hits on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart during the 1960s. Exactly 50 years ago today, the third of that trio of hits, “Son-of-a Preacher Man,” was in...
Seven songs from Bruce Springsteen‘s 1984 album Born in the U.S.A. hit the Top 10 on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart. On this date in 1986, the last of those seven songs, “My Hometown,” climbed to a peak...
Andy Gibb hit the Top 20 on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart with each of the first eight songs he placed on the chart. On this date in 1981, the last of those eight songs, “Time...
In 1981 Jennifer Warnes released the song “Could It Be Love” that would eventually appear on her 1982 compilation album The Best of Jennifer Warnes. On this day in 1982, “Could It Be Love” rose...
For the 1993 film The Three Musketeers, pop music superstars Bryan Adams, Rod Stewart, and Sting teamed up to record the song “All for Love.” It was released as a single, and exactly 25 years...
Exactly 35 years ago today, the television show Airwolf began its three-season run. To commemorate that anniversary, the show’s theme music, composed by Sylvester Levay, is today’s Daily Eighties Flashback.
Two of Phil Collins‘ seven number-one hits from his solo career came with the pair of singles released from the 1988 film Buster. After his remake of The Mindbenders’ “A Groovy Kind of Love” topped...
This coming week’s Birthday of the Week is former Journey lead singer Steve Perry, who turns 70 on Tuesday (January 22). Perry, of course, has enjoyed not just a multitude of hits with Journey,...
In addition to appearances with Styx and Damn Yankees, Montgomery, Alabama-born musician Tommy Shaw made four appearances on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart as a solo artist. On yesterday’s date in 1985, the second of that...