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

[Wayne Piew]

Wishing (If I Had a Photograph of You)" ---A Flock of Seagulls
1982


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[Wayne Piew]

Tahiti --David Essex
1983


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[Wayne Piew]

"Boys Don't Cry" was the second single to be released by The Cure,
released in June 1979.
In April 1986 it was re-released under the title "New Voice · New Mix".
The updated version can however be heard in the music video for "Boys Don't Cry".



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[Wayne Piew]

"Steal Away"--Robbie Dupree
1980


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What's Another Year" was Johnny Logan's first Eurovision Song Contest winner, achieving success in the 1980 edition of the Contest.
This was Ireland's second Contest victory.

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"This Masquerade" is a song written by Leon Russell. The song appeared on the B-side of the single for Russell's 1972 hit "Tight Rope".
The song has also been recorded by many other artists. The Carpenters recorded a version of the song and released it on their 1973 Now & Then album, as well as on the B-side of "Please Mr. Postman" in 1974. Shirley Bassey has also recorded this song, first released on her 1982 album All By Myself. Other artists to perform it include Sergio Mendes & Brasil '77, No Mercy, Robert Goulet, Helen Reddy, Bob Berg and Kenny Rogers.


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[Wayne Piew]

They Don't Know---Tracey Ullman
1983
The video for "They Don't Know" featured a cameo from Paul McCartney.



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Machine Gun is the first album from Commodores, released on July 22, 1974 on the Motown label.

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"Brick House (song)" is a funk/disco song from Commodores' 1977 album Commodores and is one of their most popular songs. It peaked at #5 in the U.S. and #32 in the U.K.


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"Easy" is a 1977 hit single by Commodores for the Motown label, from their fifth studio album, Commodores.

Written by Commodores lead singer Lionel Richie, the song, a slow ballad with country and western roots, expresses a man's feelings as he leaves his lover and ends their relationship. Since the narrator finds the girlfriend to be a bit of a drag, rather than being depressed about the break-up, he states that he is instead "easy like Sunday morning."
The single was released in the wake of the failure of the Commodores' single "Just to Be Close to You" at pop radio. Richie wrote "Easy" with the intention of it becoming a crossover hit for the group. "Easy" reached number-one on the Billboard R&B chart, and number-four on the Billboard Hot 100. [2]. Before "Easy's" success, the Commodores had primarily been a funk band, but the success of "Easy" paved the way for similar Richie-composed ballads such as "Three Times a Lady", and also for Richie's later solo hits.
This song features an electric guitar solo, in the instrumental section, backup vocals, in the Chorus, from the Commodores, plus an unusual feedback noise with an echo in the bridge section of the song.

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Hello" is a song by Lionel Richie. Taken as the third single from Richie's multi-platinum album Can't Slow Down.
The song is particularly memorable for the line "Hello, is it me you're looking for?". In an interview broadcast in the UK on Channel 4's Top 100 Number One Hits, Richie said he had been thanked by a large number of normally tongue-tied men who had proposed marriage after a slow dance to the song.



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Arguably the music video attracted more attention than the song, for its story of Richie's character (a music teacher) having a seemingly unrequited love for a blind arts student (played by Laura Carrington, an actress who is not blind) until he discovers she shares the feeling as demonstrated by the discovery that she is sculpting a likeness of his head (which was actually created by a professional sculptor who never met Lionel). The video has been parodied a number of times including a Starburst commercial when the sculpture is made from Starburst candy. According to the video's appearance in VH1's Pop Up Video, the video was an adaptation of an unproduced screenplay called "Spaldeen Summers".

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Julio Iglesias & Diana Ross - All of you " 1984"

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Kylie Minogue & Jason Donovan - Especially for you 1989

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Billy Preston & Syreeta Wright - With You I'm Born Again 1979
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'Being with You" is a song recorded by Smokey Robinson and is the title-track from his 1981 album with the same name.
The song spent five weeks at number one on the Hot Soul Singles chart during the Spring of 1981 and reached number two on the Billboard Hot 100 chart [1].behind "Bette Davis Eyes" by Kim Carnes, his highest charting solo hit on the pop charts. The song was a number one hit in the UK for two weeks in June 1981

 

[Wayne Piew]

"The Model" -- Kraftwerk
1981.



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The song was Baker's first big hit single.
Baker won two Grammy Awards at the 1987 ceremony. The song "Sweet Love" won in the category Best R&B Song, earning her (along with Gary Bias and Louis Johnson) a songwriting award. Also, the album containing this song, Rapture, won in the category Best Female R&B Vocal performance.

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"When a Man Loves a Woman" is a song recorded by Percy Sledge in 1966 at Norala Sound Studio in Sheffield, Alabama. It made number one on both the Billboard Hot 100 and R&B singles charts.
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