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

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"I Lost My Heart to a Starship Trooper", sometimes cited as "(I Lost My Heart to a) Starship Trooper", is a 1978 single written by Jeff Calvert and Max West of Typically Tropical[1] and performed by Sarah Brightman and Hot Gossip. It is notable as the debut of the then teenage Brightman as a singer, and reached number six in the UK Singles Chart.
The song is a lightweight space disco track that cashed in on the media hype surrounding the original Star Wars film: the lyrics include the lines "And evil Darth Vader has been banished to Mars" and "Or are you like a droid, devoid of emotion".

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One on One is the soundtrack album to the movie of the same title, One on One starring Robby Benson. The music was written entirely by Charles Fox, with lyrics by Paul Williams. Seals and Crofts provided the vocals. The single "My Fair Share (Love Theme from One on One)" reached #28 on the charts in late 1977

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Lavender --- Marillion
May 1985



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Nikita --- Elton John
1985

In interviews Elton John admitted that Nikita was a male name in Russian,
hinting at the song's homosexual view point.




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Eye in the Sky contained the Project's greatest hit, the title track, which had lead vocals by Eric Woolfson and hit #3 on the Billboard charts in the US and #6 in Canada. Says Parsons of the song, "...I hated the song when we first started recording it — I was quite ready to drop it altogether. Then we hit upon the hypnotic guitar chugs and it all came together."

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I Feel Like Buddy Holly --- Alvin Stardust
1984




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"Just the Two of Us" is a 1981 Grammy Award-winning Jazz song recorded by Grover Washington, Jr. and Bill Withers.

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"Just the Two of Us" is the second single from Will Smith's first solo album, Big Willie Style. The rap song was inspired by Bill Withers' love song of the same title; Smith's version samples and incorporates lyrics from the original. Instead of love between a couple, "Just The Two Of Us" focuses on the relationship between a father and son. The song reached #20 in the U.S. and #2 in the UK, giving him one of his biggest solo hits

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Babe" was the lead single from Styx's 1979 triple-platinum album Cornerstone. The song was Styx's first, and only, U.S. number-one single.
The song was written by member Dennis DeYoung as a birthday present for his wife Suzanne. The finished track was recorded as a demo with just DeYoung and Styx members John Panozzo and Chuck Panozzo playing on the track, with DeYoung singing all of the harmonies himself.
The song was not originally intended to be a Styx track, but Styx members James "J.Y" Young and Tommy Shaw convinced DeYoung to put the song on Cornerstone. As a result, DeYoung's demo was placed on Cornerstone with Shaw overdubbing a guitar solo in the song's middle section. The track became a major hit, reaching #1 on the US Billboard Hot 100, and was their only major UK hit single, reaching #6.
VH1 ranked it the second most "softsational" soft rock song of all time.

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Hotel California is an album released by the American rock band the Eagles in late 1976. It is the first Eagles album without founding member Bernie Leadon and the first album with Joe Walsh. It is also the last album featuring original bass player and singer Randy Meisner.
Hotel California was the Eagles' fifth album of original material and became a critical success and a major commercial hit; since its release in late 1976, it has sold over 16 million copies in the U.S. alone.


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"(I Just) Died in Your Arms" is a power ballad written by Nick Van Eede and introduced by his band, Cutting Crew, in 1986. It was their biggest hit, peaking at #1 in the United States, Canada and Norway, and reaching the top five in the UK, South Africa, Sweden and Switzerland.
The words "I just died in your arms tonight" originally came to Van Eede while he was having sex with his girlfriend, "death" being an often-used metaphor for orgasm. Writing down the phrase, Van Eede later used it as the hook to "(I Just) Died In Your Arms."
Cutting Crew's "(I Just) Died in Your Arms" is featured in the 1999 film Never Been Kissed starring Drew Barrymore, as well as the 2007 movie Hot Rod.

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"Hey There Lonely Girl" is a 1970 song by R&B singer Eddie Holman.[1] An original version by Ruby and the Romantics was entitled, "Hey There Lonely Boy" in 1963. Holman's song hit #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. A version by Robert John was released in 1980 for the album Back on the Street.
"Hey There Lonely Girl" is most recognizable by its disconsolate, sentimental and heavyhearted lyrics. Here is a sample of the chorus:

Hey there lonely girl, lonely girl
Let me make your broken heart like new
Oh, my lonely girl, lonely girl
Don't you know this lonely boy loves you

The song itself was one of Holman's biggest selling songs and one of the most popular smooth soul hits of 1970. It
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"If You Don't Know Me by Now" is a song written by Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff and recorded by the Philadelphia soul musical group Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes, which became their first hit after being released as a single in 1972, topping the R&B chart and peaking at number three on the Pop chart.

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The song was originally written for Labelle (a trio led by Patti LaBelle) but they never recorded it. After some revisions, the song was offered to The Dells but they also never recorded it. Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes signed to Gamble & Huff's own Philadelphia International label in 1971 and they did record the song, with the late Teddy Pendergrass as lead vocalist. In addition to the single release, the song was included on their eponymous debut album.
Patti LaBelle made the song part of her concert repertoire in 1982. A live version appears on her 1985 album, Patti.
It was later covered by the English pop/soul band Simply Red, also becoming their best-known hit after reaching number one on the U.S. Hot 100 on July 15, 1989 and at number thirty-eight on the Hot Black Singles chart. Overseas, it peaked at number two in the UK Singles Chart. It also topped the Canadian Singles Chart. Seal recorded the song for his 2008 album Soul, and, in April 2009, it became his first top-ten Adult Contemporary hit since "Love's Divine" in 2004; the song was subsequently nominated for the Best Male Pop Vocal Performance Grammy
The song was chosen as one of the Songs of the Century by the RIAA. It was featured at the end of Michael Apted's movie Class Action.

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"Wired For Sound"---Cliff Richard
1981


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Hunting High and Low --- A-ha
1986



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Be Near Me --- ABC.
1985



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Summer of '42 is a 1971 American "coming-of-age" drama film based on the memoirs of screenwriter Herman Raucher. It tells the story of Raucher as a boy, in his early teens on his 1942 summer vacation on Nantucket Island, off the coast of New England, who embarked on a one-sided romance with a woman, Dorothy, whose husband had gone off to fight in World War II. The film was directed by Robert Mulligan, and starred Gary Grimes as Hermie, Jerry Houser as his best friend Oscy, Oliver Conant as their nerdy young friend Benjie, Jennifer O'Neill as Hermie's mysterious love interest, and Katherine Allentuck and Christopher Norris as a pair of girls whom Hermie and Oscy attempt to seduce.

The film's soundtrack consists almost entirely of compositions by Michel Legrand, many of which are variants upon "The Summer Knows", the film's theme.

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The movie in 4 minutes.

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•Born: 20 February 1948
•Birthplace: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
•Best Known As: Cover Girl model who's in the 1971 movie Summer of '42

Dark-haired beauty Jennifer O'Neill played the "older woman" in the 1971 movie Summer of '42 and was a spokeswoman for Cover Girl cosmetics for three decades. Raised in Connecticut and New York City, O'Neill studied acting and worked as a model while still in her teens. Soon after going to Hollywood she landed a small role as the object of a smitten teenager's desire in the movie Summer of '42. The movie was a surprise success and O'Neill was briefly a star. She has since worked steadily in the movies and television, but rarely in high-profile roles; she is probably recognized more for her long run as a Cover Girl representative. Her rollercoaster off-screen life has included nine marriages (to eight husbands) and a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the abdomen (1983). In the late 1980s she became a devout Christian and has since toured the nation and appeared on television on behalf of non-profit organizations, including Jennifer O'Neill Ministries. Her films include Rio Lobo (1970, starring John Wayne), The Innocent (1976) and Scanners (1981). O'Neill has also published books of autobiography and inspiration, including Surviving Myself (1999) and You're Not Alone: Healing Through God's Grace After Abortion (2005).

 

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"On My Own" was a hit duet by singers Patti LaBelle and Michael McDonald when it was released as a single in 1986. It was released from LaBelle's first platinum album, Winner in You and was written and produced by Burt Bacharach and his former wife Carole Bayer Sager. The song was based on a relationship that had reached its end with both parties going their separate ways in a melancholy state with the occasional option of coming back together again one day.
It was often stated the two performers were in separate cities when they recorded their individual parts which were then "married" during mastering. This was reflected in the music video produced to promote the song, which depicted LaBelle and McDonald performing the song simultaneously on different coasts. The singers were shown on separate sides of a split screen, each singing the song while walking through apartments which had identical layouts but different decor and furniture. The views from their respective porches, where they finished the song, made clear their separation by the continent.

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The song became the biggest single ever for both singers, both of whom were members of respective funk/R&B groups in the 1970s: LaBelle and The Doobie Brothers - as it hit number one on the Billboard magazine pop, for 3 weeks, the R&B and Adult Contemporary charts, as well as number two in the UK singles chart, going gold - (it was the 22nd best-selling single of 1986 in the UK). The song was initially not intended to be a duet at all, but LaBelle decided to invite McDonald to help her turn the song into a duet, as she stated: "The song was sent to me and I did a version of it but somehow it just didn't quite work. We were going over things I'd done and we talked about turning it into a duet. Someone asked, 'If you could do it with anyone, who would you sing it with,' and Michael was my first choice..."

In 1995, country music sinnger Reba McEntire covered the song on her 1995 album Starting Over. Her version, featuring guest vocals from Martina McBride, Linda Davis, and Trisha Yearwood peaked at #20 on Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart, although only McEntire received chart credit for it. Its music video was directed by Dominic Orlando and was filmed on the Chaplin Stage.

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"Wind of Change" is a 1990 power ballad written by Klaus Meine, vocalist of the Scorpions. It appeared on their 1990 album Crazy World, but did not become a worldwide hit single until 1991, when it topped the charts in Germany and across Europe, and hit #4 in the United States and #2 in the United Kingdom. It later appeared on the 1995 live album Live Bites, on their 2000 album Moment of Glory, with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, and on their 2001 unplugged album Acoustica.
The band also recorded a Russian-language version of the song, under the title Ветер Перемен (Veter Peremen) and a Spanish version called Vientos de Cambio.
The song is currently the 10th best-selling single of all time in Germany.
In 2005 the viewers of the German television network ZDF chose this song as the song of the century. It is the highest ever selling song in Germany, reputedly selling over 6 million copies in that country alone, and is frequently played on television shows presenting video footage of the fall of the Berlin Wall[citation needed]. In Germany it is remembered as the song of German reunification (and fall of communism in Eastern Europe generally)[citation needed], even though it only rose to popularity two years later.


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The lyrics celebrate the political changes in Eastern Europe at that time – such as the Polish Round Table Agreement and fall of the Berlin Wall, the increasing freedom in the communist bloc (which soon led to the fall of the USSR), and the clearly imminent end of the Cold War.
The Scorpions were inspired to write the song on a visit to Moscow in 1989, and the opening lines refer to the city's landmarks:

I follow the Moskva
Down to Gorky Park
Listening to the wind of change
The Moskva is the name of the river that runs through Moscow (both the city and the river are named identically in Russian), and Gorky Park is the name of an amusement park in Moscow.

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"Still Loving You" is a power ballad and signature song of Scorpions from their 1984 album Love at First Sting. It was the second single of the album, reaching #64 on Billboard Hot 100. In France, the single sold 1.7 million copies. The music video was filmed in Dallas, Texas at Reunion Arena.
The song is also considered a thinly veiled metaphor for a still divided Eastern & Western Germany. "Your pride has built a wall so strong that I can't get through, is there really no chance to start once again?" "only love can break down the walls someday" and "Yes I've hurt your pride and I know what you've been through, you must give me a chance, this can't be the end, I'm still loving you" were clear references to the Berlin Wall and the despair many Germans felt about their divided homeland.

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A remixed version of the studio album version was included on the album Still Loving You in 1992. The remixed version was also released as a single in Germany and some other European countries. The band has also re-recorded the song twice, with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in 2000 for the album Moment of Glory and an acoustic re-working for the album Acoustica in 2001.



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