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Casey Skeets-Em

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Every 80s Billboard Hot 100, Bubbling Under or Single Pick + Cash Box/Record World chart singles and picks. Playlist at https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5PC0rpT8Hh8uH4FV69tZCo

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Casey Skeets-Em @every80spopsong.bsky.social · Oct 6

Hey everyone, I made a Spotify playlist where you can listen to the songs I post to this account!

Everything available on Spotify is there, with the 7" edit preferred (if different than the album cut), and the parent album preferred as a source, in that order. Updated daily as I post songs here.

Every 80s Pop Song

Every 80s Pop Song · Playlist · 202 songs

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 1d

Good morning! 🌅☕ It’s #livestream time!

The Internet Archive microfiche team is back, scanning away for another week. Tune in to watch preservation in action, accompanied by mellow #lofi vibes.

📡 www.youtube.com/live/SxUjwZY...

#DigitalPreservation #MondayMotivation @archive.org

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John Moe @johnmoe.bsky.social · 1d

You’re telling me Fleetwood Mac couldn’t knock out a very slightly altered version of “Tusk” for this show’s theme song?

You’re telling me Lindsey and the gang couldn’t patch things up long enough to do that?

That they were all too busy?

C’mon, man.

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Casey Skeets-Em @every80spopsong.bsky.social · 1d

Streaming has the 3:40 LP cut, but not hte 2:45 7" edit open.spotify.com/track/7MdQpy...

Pure Prairie League - I'm Almost Ready

YouTube video by Brent E.

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Casey Skeets-Em @every80spopsong.bsky.social · 1d

Pure Prairie League - I'm Almost Ready

Billboard debut at #79 on August 16, 1980
Peaked at #34
Cash Box #40 / Record World #36
Canada #30

5/10🎧

Smooth sailing through waters they already charted

German 7" picture sleeve of Pure Prairie League - I'm Almost Ready. Says "TOP HIT USA" twice in the top corners.

US 7" of Pure Prairie League - I'm Almost Ready on Casablanca

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Casey Skeets-Em @every80spopsong.bsky.social · 1d

There’s a channel on Pluto (a free ad-supported streaming app) that just plays 80s videos, it’s not bad!

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Hey Remember the 80s Podcast @hrt80s.bsky.social · 7d

Join Joe, Kari and special guest DJ Matt Bailer to discuss Matt's special project revisiting the music of 1980 to create his own personalized top 40 charts! He has discovered so many great lost songs he wants to share with you! 1980 usually means boring boring boring, but not this time.

Episode 282 - DJMattB's 1980 Treasure Trove - Hey! Remember the 80's?

Join Joe, Kari and special guest DJ Matt Bailer to discuss Matt's special project revisiting the music of 1980 to create his own personalized top 40 charts! This has led him to discover so many great ...

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Casey Skeets-Em @every80spopsong.bsky.social · 2d

Columbia has the 4:06 7" edit, which cuts more than a minute from the LP track, on the compilation Columbia Rarities (1971-88)
open.spotify.com/track/1pzCuF...

Boz Scaggs - Look What You've Done To Me (Official Audio)

YouTube video by BozScaggsVEVO

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Casey Skeets-Em @every80spopsong.bsky.social · 2d

Boz Scaggs - Look What You've Done To Me

Billboard debut at #69 on August 23, 1980
Peaked at #14 / AC #3
Cash Box #13 / Record World #13
7/10🎧

Urban Cowboy soundtrack tune is peak ballad-mode Boz

US 7" of Boz Scaggs - Look What You've Done To Me on the red/orange Columbia label

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Casey Skeets-Em @every80spopsong.bsky.social · 2d

WHFS reporting to Billboard Album Radio Action, August 23, 1980

WHFS -FM- Bethesda (D. Bibi.) PATBENATAR- Crimes Of Passion (Chrysalis) ULTRAVOX -Vienna (Chrysalis) POLYROCK -(RCA) LARSEN- PEITEN BAND -(WB) TREMBLERS -Twice Nightly (Johnston) * ROLLING STONES-Emotional Rescue (Rolling Stones) RECORDS -Crashes (Virgin) * THE VAPORS- New Clear Days(UA) NIGHTHAWKS -(Mercury)

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Casey Skeets-Em @every80spopsong.bsky.social · 2d

Missing from streaming.
*a comment on YouTube indicates this charted in the top 20 on Radio 5 in South Africa, which I can't verify, but would believe

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Casey Skeets-Em @every80spopsong.bsky.social · 2d

Jonathan Mars - Don't Pretend

Record World Pop Single Pick on August 16, 1980
Did not chart*
7/10🎧

AOR from Canada, a blend of MOR and prog that recalls Alan Parsons. Not bad!

This was a single-only affair, though the act did issue an LP, Heart Gallery, in 1984 on Montreal's Yul Records label

German 7" picture sleeve of Jonathan Mars - Don't Pretend

US 7" of Jonathan Mars - Don't Pretend on the Atlantic red and black label

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Casey Skeets-Em @every80spopsong.bsky.social · 2d

Streaming has the 4:25 LP cut from Let's Burn, but not the 3:54 7" edit open.spotify.com/track/5QuTVD...

Clarence Carter - Jimmy's Disco

YouTube video by UnidiscMusic

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Casey Skeets-Em @every80spopsong.bsky.social · 2d

Clarence Carter - Jimmy's Disco

Record World Front Page Sleeper pick on August 16, 1980
Did Not Chart
6/10🎧

US 7" of Clarence Carter - Jimmy's Disco on the Venture Records yellow label

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Casey Skeets-Em @every80spopsong.bsky.social · 2d

Missing from streaming
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PF64...

Quiet Storm - Heartbreak Graffitti (Part 1) (Tamla/Motown, 1976)

YouTube video by Casey Skeetsem

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Casey Skeets-Em @every80spopsong.bsky.social · 2d

Quiet Storm - Heartbreak Graffitti (Part 1)

Cash Box Singles Feature Pick on August 16. 1980
Did not chart
7/10🎧

This obscurity, produced by Smokey Robinson and arranged by Smokey and Roderick Rancifer, is a few notches more peppy than the name would suggest

US 7" of Quiet Storm - Heartbreak Graffitti (Part 1) on the Tamla / Motown label. Produced by Smokey Robinson

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Casey Skeets-Em @every80spopsong.bsky.social · 4d

The other rip-off that comes to mind is Warrant lifting Bourgeois Tagg's I Don't Mind at All with I Saw Red www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gUD...

Bourgeois Tagg - I Don't Mind At All

YouTube video by BourgeoisTaggVEVO

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Casey Skeets-Em @every80spopsong.bsky.social · 4d

Charlene: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjpu...

I've Never Been To Me

YouTube video by Charlene - Topic

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Casey Skeets-Em @every80spopsong.bsky.social · 4d

Has anyone ripped off an 80s hit as cleanly as Belle and Sebastian ripped off Charlene's I've Never Been to Me with Take Your Carriage Clock and Shove It?

To be clear, I love Take Your Carriage Clock and Shove It

Take Your Carriage Clock and Shove It

YouTube video by Belle & Sebastian - Topic

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Casey Skeets-Em @every80spopsong.bsky.social · 5d

Streaming has the LP cut, but not the 3:53 7" edit open.spotify.com/track/1hMbGb...

Maladie D'amour

YouTube video by Kid Creole and the Coconuts - Topic

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Casey Skeets-Em @every80spopsong.bsky.social · 5d

Kid Creole and the Coconuts - Maladie D'Amour

Record World Front Page Sleeper Pick on August 16, 1980
Did not chart
6/10🎧

UK 7" picture sleeve of Kid Creole and the Coconuts - Maladie D'Amour

US 7" of Kid Creole and the Coconuts - Maladie D'Amour

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Casey Skeets-Em @every80spopsong.bsky.social · 6d

open.spotify.com/track/2QqPIW...

No US 7" was issued, only a 6:58 12", though 7" edits were pressed in the UK, France, Italy, and Germany

Hot Hot Summer Day

YouTube video by The Sugarhill Gang - Topic

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Casey Skeets-Em @every80spopsong.bsky.social · 6d

Sugarhill Gang - Hot Hot Summer Day

Cash Box Hit Out of the Box on August 16, 1980
Did Not Chart
7/10🎧

German 7" picture sleeve of Sugarhill Gang - Hot Hot Summer Day

US 12" of Sugarhill Gang - Hot Hot Summer Day

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Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social · 8d

If DELIVER ME FROM NOWHERE is a hit, I believe this will be the inevitable prequel. (NYT 8-5-1974, the same week Nixon resigned.)

SPRINGSTEEN SINGS WITH ANNE MURRAY

Saturday's Schaefer Music Festival concert in Central Park suffered a severe case of audience division. Could Ann Murray, a mild‐mannered. Canadian folk‐oriented singer, overcome the heavier, even greasier sounds of Bruce Springsteen, a singer Whose star, in terms of audience appeal, appears to be in the ascendant? Perhaps it was a mistake to put Mr. Springsteen, who has been reviewed previously and is heavily into refashioning traditional rock 'n' roll into his own image, against Miss Murray, the headliner.

When Mr. Springsteen completed his performance, more than one‐third of the audience, the hard‐core Springsteen crowd, departed. Even during his performance, confrontations — his and hers — broke out among the assembled.

Actually, Miss Murray came on a little stronger. She is a singer who wears her Maple Leaf more in evidence than, say, Joni Mitchell, and appears to be trying for a little less folk and a little more soul in her act. She essayed some old rock 'n' roll and some, Carol King material, as well as her own considerable lineage of hits.

Miss Murray is thoroughly professional, carrying with her an elegant string section and a couple of women singers, the more properly to duplicate her recorded sounds.

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Brewer and Shipley opened the program.

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Casey Skeets-Em @every80spopsong.bsky.social · 9d

Missing from streaming and also from YouTube, until now

Tari Hensley - Send Me Somebody to Love (Epic Records, 1980)

YouTube video by Casey Skeetsem

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Casey Skeets-Em @every80spopsong.bsky.social · 9d

Tari Hensley - Send Me Somebody To Love

Billboard First Time Around pick on August 16, 1980
Did Not Chart
7/10🎧

Sweet promo-only debut from Hensley, who had a run of singles reach the lower rungs of the Country chart during the 80s

US promo 7" of Tari Hensley - Send Me Somebody To Love on Epic white label

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