70's, 80's 'Feel Good' Music

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"Feelings" is a song based on a melody composed by Loulou Gasté and made famous by Morris Albert, who recorded it as the title track of his 1975 debut album. The song's lyrics, recognizable by their "whoa whoa whoa" chorus, concern the singer's inability to "forget my feelings of love." Albert's original recording of the song was very successful, scoring #6 on the pop and #2 on the Adult Contemporary charts in America and performing well internationally. Over the next few years "Feelings" was performed by many other vocalists including Ella Fitzgerald, Nina Simone, José José, Frank Sinatra, Engelbert Humperdinck, Shirley Bassey, Glen Campbell, Sarah Vaughan and Johnny Mathis. It was also recorded by numerous easy listening bandleaders and ensembles such as Percy Faith, Ferrante & Teicher and 101 Strings.

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80's hits Medley

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Trouble --- Lindsey Buckingham.
1981


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"The Air That I Breathe" is a song written by Albert Hammond and Mike Hazlewood, initially recorded by Phil Everly of the Everly Brothers.
It is best remembered as having been a major hit for The Hollies in 1974, reaching No. 2 in the UK - their last major hit single, apart from a reissue of "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother" in 1988 - and No. 6 in the US. "The Air That I Breathe" was engineered by Alan Parsons.

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Everly - Air that I Breath

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The Air That I Breathe - Simply Red
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Talking in Your Sleep --- The Romantics.
It was a US hit in 1983.


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New Year's Day --- U2.
1983


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On The Shelf" is a disco-dance song from in the 1978 motion picture soundtrack of Goin' Coconuts featuring Donny and Marie Osmond. The duet received slight radio airplay in the Provo, Utah area when the film was released

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"Love Me for a Reason" is a song by The Osmonds, and released in 1974. Twenty years after, Boyzone covered the song. Both versions were successful, reaching the top ten of the charts in many countries.
The song was revived by Boyzone in 1994, becoming their breakthrough single in the UK, reaching #2 on the UK singles chart in December that year. It was the 20th biggest selling boyband single of the 90's in the UK.
The song was the 19th best selling single of 1994 in the UK.
The song has received a Gold sales status certification for sales of over 400,000 copies in the UK.


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"Hero" is a song written and produced by American singer Mariah Carey and Walter Afanasieff, and recorded for Carey's fourth album, Music Box (1993). Its protagonist declares that even though we may feel discouraged or down at times, in reality we are "heroes" if we look inside ourselves and see our own inner strength; in time, this will help us "find the way."
"Hero" became Carey's eighth number 1 single on the U.S Billboard Hot 100. It reached number 1 in its tenth week and spent four weeks at the top..

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"Get Down" is a song by Gilbert O'Sullivan, from his album I'm a Writer, Not a Fighter. Released as a single, it spent two weeks at the top of the UK Singles Chart in April 1973, and was also a number-one hit in Ireland and a top-ten hit in the United States and Canada

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Lulu & Gilbert O'Sullivan - Get down

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That Thing You Do! is a 1996 film written and directed by Tom Hanks. Set in the summer of 1964, the movie tells the story of a one-hit wonder rock band, called The Oneders "Wonders", following their whirlwind rise to the top of the pop charts, and just as quickly, their dissolution. The film also resulted in a real life musical hit with the song, "That Thing You Do".

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The music video was an imitation of The Godfather and supermodel Iman played Jackson's love interest who eventually betrays him by trying to shoot him. After his henchmen take her away, it is not revealed what happened to her.
Do What You Do" is the title of a single by American R&B singer Jermaine Jackson, sibling of singers Michael and Janet Jackson and former member of The Jackson 5. It was released off his album, which was called Jermaine Jackson in the U.S. and Dynamite in the U.K. and other countries.
This was one of Jackson's first releases with Arista Records after a long recording career with Motown Records, first as a member of The Jackson 5, then later as a solo artist. Although Jermaine Jackson never achieved the same level of solo success as sister Janet or brother Michael, "Do What You Do" was one of six top 20 solo hits on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for the singer.


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The music video for "Broken Wings" was directed by Oley Sassone and filmed in black & white[2]. It features lead vocalist Richard Page driving through the desert in a classic old convertible. There is a scene of striking imagery where Page is sitting in a church when an eagle flies in through the window and lands next to him on the pew and they exchange a gaze. The full band is also featured in performance scenes during the video. Also appearing in the video are an unknown man and woman dancing Tango. They are only shown from the waist down and their faces are never seen.
"Broken Wings" is a #1 hit song released as a 1985 single by the band Mr. Mister.

The band's first single from their 1985 Welcome to the Real World album, "Broken Wings" reached the number one position on the U.S. charts in December 1985, where it remained for two weeks. It was released as the band was just about to embark on a U.S. tour opening for Tina Turner. The song reached number four in the UK Singles Chart, the highest the group ever achieved in that country.


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Maria Vidal (born Maria Elena Fernandez-Vidal on August 1, 1960) is an American singer who had one hit single with the song, "Body Rock" (#48 on the Hot 100) (the theme song to the film Body Rock) in 1984; it also reached #8 on the US dance charts, and #11 in the UK.

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"The More You Live, The More You Love" is the name of a 1984 single by the rock band A Flock of Seagulls. It is taken from their third album, The Story of a Young Heart. The single was the first out of three singles taken from the album. The single was able to chart in both the band's native United Kingdom and in the United States, and as well as in Germany and the US Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, but it was not as successful as another of the band's previous singles, "I Ran (So Far Away)".

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Shadows in the Moonlight" is a song recorded by country and pop music singer Anne Murray. Released in 1979, the song reached #1 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart that July, and was one of three chart-toppers for her during the year. "Shadows in the Moonlight" was Murray's third No. 1 single on the country chart and fourth overall (counting "You Needed Me," which topped the Billboard Hot 100 in 1978).
"Shadows in the Moonlight" was released during Murray's peak as a crossover artist, and the song was one of several that also charted on the Hot 100. The song peaked at #25 in July, around the time it topped the country chart. The song also spent three weeks at #1 on the Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks chart in 1979.
The song was included on Murray's 1979 album New Kind of Feeling.

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"Owner of a Lonely Heart" is a song by the progressive rock band Yes. It is the opening track of their 1983 album 90125. Written primarily by Trevor Rabin (who was new to the band at the time), the song reached number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 — to date Yes' biggest chart success

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"Hide and Seek" --- Howard Jones.
It was released in February 1984.



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