Have you heard these songs?

[jeffreyab]

To break down the top hits of your 18th year meme, the songs I did not recognize:

I have never heard of the following performers, have any of you?

22. Always And Forever - Heatwave
39. Shame - Evelyn Champagne King
50. Ca Plane Pour Moi - Plastic Bertrand
55. Lovely Day - Bill Withers
56. Let's All Chant - Michael Zager Band
66. Hot Shot - Karen Young
67. In The Bush - Musique
70. # 1 Dee Jay - Goody Goody
73. The Groove Line - Heatwave

I have heard of these artists but not these songs:

20. Shaker Song - Spiro Gyra
43. Cheeseburger In Paradise - Jimmy Buffett
71. Listen Too Her Heart - Tom Petty

I believe the following is a mixtre of funk, R&B, and disco which did not get mush airplay on the radio stations I listened to or get played much in my college pub. I do recognize most of the artist’s names:

18. Dance (Disco Heat) - Sylvester
24. Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah) - Chic
37. Fantasy - Earth Wind and Fire
38. Blame It On The Boogie - Jacksons
54. More Than a Woman - Tavares
63. Flash Light - Parliament
74. Soft and Wet – Prince

Art Rock songs I don’t remember hearing but I might even own on CD:

29. Follow You Follow Me - Genesis
27. Deacon Blues - Steely Dan

Classic Stadium Rock from the 1970’s, which I was never into. Although it got played on WRIF in Detroit:

25. Anytime – Journey
32. What's Your Name - Lynyrd Skynrd
36. Lights - Journey
62. Roll With The Changes - REO Speedwagon
64. Portrait (He Knew) - Kansas
68. You Got That Right - Lynyrd Skynyrd

The Country and Western song that did not become a classic:

58. What A Difference You've Made In My Life - Ronnie Milsap

Finally two songs I now remember hearing, I like the Steely Dan and I am indifferent to the Rod Stewart:

28. You're In My Heart (The Final Acclaim) - Rod Stewart
31. Josie - Steely Dan

Comments

[whynotsteve.livejournal.com]

Wow, I know a lot about music but of that first group I have only heard of Evelyn Champagne King and Bill Withers.

[thebitterguy]

Yeah, Cheeseburger in Paradise is sort of a red headed stepchild to Margaritaville.

He really only had one song in him.

[boywhocantsayno.livejournal.com]

I've heard "Cheeseburger In Paradise," mostly because my ex-in-laws had a satellite dish and we used to occasionally turn on a channel called MOR Music. They used to play it a lot. I actually didn't realize that the song was from 1978, since I would have seen the video some time between 1992 and 1997. (500 channels, and we were watching music videos. Sigh. But that's a rant for another time. ;) )

And I have "Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah)" on a 70s compilation CD, but I don't recall it being a big hit. Perhaps I just listened to the wrong radio station back then.

50. Ca Plane Pour Moi - Plastic Bertrand

[greyhat.livejournal.com]

I remember Ca Plane Pour Moi - Plastic Bertrand, just from a few years ago. It was featured in one of the episodes of "The Lone Gunmen," the spin-off show from The X-Files. I downloaded the song from a Lone Gunmen fansite, I think. I had never heard it before, though.

[foms.livejournal.com]

I've heard of Evelyn Champagne King.
I know of a Karen Young but she is a Montreal-based jazz singer rather than an Philadelphian disco queen.
I had forgotten the name of the group that did In the Bush but I remember it for what was possibly the most annoying chant in disco.