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

postnew · Dec 1, 2012

"Never Knew Love Like This Before" is a Grammy Award-winning hit song written by James Mtume and Reggie Lucas and recorded by American R&B singer Stephanie Mills. The song is the second and final single from Mills' 1980 album, Sweet Sensation. The song became Mills' biggest hit on the Billboard Pop Singles Chart, where it peaked at No. 6, outperforming her previously highest charting single, "Whatcha Gonna Do with My Lovin'", which peaked at No. 22. The single was also successful on the R&B and Adult Contemporary charts, peaking at No. 12 and No. 5, respectively. On the UK Singles Chart, the track climbed to No. 4.
Mills was nominated for Favorite Soul/R&B Female Artist at the 7th and 8th American Music Awards. At the 23rd Grammy Awards the song won two awards: one for Best R&B Song, which is presented to the songwriter(s) (James Mtume and Reggie Lucas), and Best Female R&B Vocal Performance (Stephanie Mills).

Stephanie Mills - Never Knew Love Like This Before

postnew · Dec 3, 2012

"Shame" is a 1978 hit single recorded by American singer Evelyn "Champagne" King. It reached number nine on the Billboard Hot 100, number eight on the U.S. Disco Chart, and number seven on the U.S. R&B Chart, earning a Gold certification by the RIAA that same year. In the UK Singles Chart, "Shame" spent twenty three weeks in the chart but only one week in the top 40, peaking at number 39.
On September 20, 2004, King's "Shame" became one of the first records to be inducted into the Dance Music Hall of Fame at a ceremony held in New York's Spirit club.

Evelyn (Champagne) King - Shame

postnew · Dec 3, 2012

"Baby, Come to Me" is a classic love ballad written by Rod Temperton for a male-female duet. The original version, performed by Patti Austin and James Ingram (with Michael McDonald contributing background vocals), and produced by Quincy Jones, appears on Austin's 1981 album, Every Home Should Have One. When first released as a single, it had minor chart success in early 1982, peaking at No. 73 on the Billboard Hot 100 pop singles chart. Later that year, it gained new exposure as the romantic theme song for Luke Spencer, a leading character on the ABC soap opera General Hospital. ABC received so many inquiries about the song that Warner Brothers decided to re-release it as a single, and reached number one on the Hot 100 and Adult Contemporary charts in early 1983.

Baby, Come to Me (James Ingram duet with Patti Austin)

postnew · Dec 3, 2012

"If Ever You're in My Arms Again" is a 1984 popular song recorded by the American R&B singer Peabo Bryson. Released as a single from his album Straight from the Heart, the single became Bryson's first Top 10 single on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, where it peaked at #10 during the summer of 1984

Peabo Bryson - If Ever You're In My Arms Again

postnew · Dec 4, 2012

"Somewhere Out There" is a song written by James Horner, Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil, that is a reminiscent but stylized adaptation using parts of the main melody of the second movement of Beethoven's Pathetique (8th) Sonata as a backdrop intermingled with a modern arrangement and incorporating new melody elements to create the modern song and not a direct copy of the Beethoven tune as has been simplistically suggested before. Its single was released by American recording artists, pop rock icon Linda Ronstadt and R&B musician James Ingram. Originally, it appeared in the 1986 animated film An American Tail, recorded by actors Phillip Glasser and Betsy Cathcart in the role of their fictional characters as Fievel and Tanya Mousekewitz.

Somewhere Out There - Linda Ronstadt & James Ingram

postnew · Dec 4, 2012

"Livin' Thing" is a song written by Jeff Lynne and performed by Electric Light Orchestra. It appears on ELO's 1976 platinum-selling album, A New World Record. Patti Quatro sang uncredited vocals, particularly the 'higher and higher' parts of "Livin' Thing", according to Unzipped, an autobiography by her sister Suzi Quatro.
In August 2006, "Livin' Thing" was named by the UK's Q as the number 1 'Guilty Pleasure' single of all time – a list designed to celebrate 'uncool' but excellent records, and which received considerable publicity. The original single had the bonus of having "Fire On High" on the flip side, a song that became the band's most popular instrumental piece. The UK version was released in a blue vinyl format.
The song has appeared on the soundtrack to the 1997 film, Boogie Nights, the 2005 film Tjenare Kungen, the 2007 film, Chaos Theory, and the 2011 film Hunky Dory.

ELO- Livin' Thing

postnew · Dec 4, 2012

"Suddenly" is the love theme from the film Xanadu, and is also on the soundtrack to the 1980 film of the same name. The song is performed as a duet between Olivia Newton-John and Cliff Richard. It was written by John Farrar who also produced the record. It was released on Jet Records and reached No. 15 in the UK charts in October 1980 and reached No. 20 in the US. The video shows them in a penthouse singing the song to each other.

Olivia Newton-John / Cliff Richards ~ Suddenly

postnew · Dec 4, 2012

"Before the Next Teardrop Falls" is an American country and pop song written by Vivian Keith and Ben Peters, and most famously recorded by Freddy Fender.
In 1974, record producer Huey P Meaux approached Fender about overdubbing vocals for an instrumental track. Fender agreed, performing the song bi-lingual style — singing the first verse in English, then repeating the verse in Spanish.
"The recording only took a few minutes," Fender once told an interviewer. "I was glad to get it over with and I thought that would be the last of it."
However, "Before the Next Teardrop Falls" immediately took off in popularity when released to country radio in January 1975. The song ascended to #1 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart in March, spending two weeks atop the chart. Thereafter, the song caught on just as strongly at Top 40 radio stations and it wasn't long before Fender had a #1 Billboard Hot 100 hit as well.
The song is about a man's undaunted determination to save his heart for the just-departed object of his deep (but unrequited) love, and sincere hope that should the woman's new relationship not work out, she will remember his love and return to him.
A showcase of Fender's fluttering tenor and Meaux's Tex-Mex musical styling, "Before the Next Teardrop Falls" jump-started his career. (Fender's career had stalled in 1960 after his arrest on drug charges.) In the months and years that followed, Fender recorded several bi-lingual standards which became major hits, most notably "Secret Love".
BMI Songwriter Sterling Blythe claimed authorship and recalled having sold the rights to a portfolio of songs, among them "Before the Next Teardrop Falls", for $4,500 to settle debts when he left Nashville for the West Coast prior to Fender's recording.
"Before The Next Teardrop Falls" was certified gold for sales of 1 million units by the Recording Industry Association of America. The song also won the Single of the Year award from the Country Music Association in 1975, and was instrumental in Fender also winning that year's Album of the Year and Male Vocalist of the Year awards.

Freddie Fender - Before The Next Teardrop Falls

Dolly parton- Before the next teardrop falls

monkey110 · Dec 5, 2012

nice videos. keep them coming.

Big Sexy · Dec 10, 2012

Reflections Of My Life

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monkey110 said:
nice videos. keep them coming.

postnew · Dec 10, 2012

"Against the Wind" is the title of a song by Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band from the 1980 album Against the Wind. "Against the Wind" was the highest ranking single from the album, peaking at #5. Glenn Frey of the Eagles sang background vocals on this song.

Bob Seger - Against the Wind

Fishypie · Dec 10, 2012

Great lyrics & vocals !..those were my wayward times. :wink:

hairylee · Dec 10, 2012

[video=youtube_share;-nCedXvoaBE]http://youtu.be/-nCedXvoaBE[/video]

postnew · Dec 16, 2012

"Paranoid" is a song by the British heavy metal band Black Sabbath, featured on their second album Paranoid (1970). It is the first single from the album, while the B-side is the song "The Wizard". It reached number 4 on the UK Singles Chart and number 61 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song also topped the German Singles Chart. The song has been written in the key of E Minor.
"Paranoid" is consistently ranked as one of the greatest heavy metal songs of all time. It is typically associated with both Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath due to its popularity. After Osbourne left the band in 1979 to pursue a solo career, he continued to perform this track, normally at the end of the set. Various different live versions have been recorded with Osbourne. This is due to the changes in band line-up since the original Blizzard of Ozz in 1980. Popular live versions featuring various guitarists including Randy Rhoads, Brad Gillis, Jake E. Lee and Zakk Wylde were all recorded and later released.
It was ranked No. 34 on VH1's 40 Greatest Metal Songs.[6] In March 2005, Q magazine placed it at number 11 in its list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Tracks. Rolling Stone ranked it number 250 on their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time and called the song, "a two-minute blast of protopunk".

Black Sabbath -- Paranoid

postnew · Dec 16, 2012

Always somewhere - Scorpions

postnew · Dec 19, 2012

Lobo - I'd Love You To Want Me

postnew · Dec 19, 2012

Smokie - Living Next Door To Alice

postnew · Dec 27, 2012

Kim Wilde - You Keep Me Hangin' On

postnew · Jan 5, 2013

Western Union Band - Sausalito

postnew · Jan 5, 2013

Pink Lady (ピンク・レディー, Pinku Redī?) is a Japanese female pop music duo of the late 1970s and early 1980s, featuring Mitsuyo Nemoto ("Mie" born March 9, 1958) and Keiko Masuda ("Kei" born September 2, 1957). In Japan, they are remembered for a run of pop-chart hits from roughly 1976 to 1979, but in the United States, they are best known for their short-lived 1980 NBC TV variety show Pink Lady, later released on DVD under the title Pink Lady and Jeff.
Pink Lady is one of only two Japanese artists to have reached the Billboard Top 40, hitting #37 with the single "Kiss in the Dark;" the other was Kyu Sakamoto with the original Japanese-language version of "Sukiyaki." They are also the first Japanese act to have ever performed in Seoul, South Korea, in November 1980.
In June 1979 Billboard magazine stated the duo had sold 72 million in Japan, and stated in September 1980 that Pink Lady's singles had grossed over 40 million, their album releases over 25 million, and their appareances for TV, such as commercials and product sponsorship, near 35 million - having grossed over 100 million altogether.

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