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

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Leslie Pearl is an American pop songwriter born in Pennsylvania. She wrote cover song hits for Crystal Gayle, Karen Carpenter, Kenny Rogers, and Dr. Hook, among others. She recorded one album, scoring a chart hit single with the RCA Records single, "If the Love Fits Wear It". The song peaked at #28 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #7 on the Adult Contemporary chart in 1982.She also wrote jingles for Pepsi, Folgers Coffee, Ford, Gillette and others..

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A Horse with No Name is a song by the band America.
1972


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You Can Do Magic--- America
1982


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"The Hustle"---Van McCoy and the Soul City Symphony.
1975

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Sirius & Eye in the Sky by the Alan Parsons Project.
1982
The 1:54 minute instrumental piece entitled Sirius immediately precedes Eye in the Sky on the original recording, which then seamlessly leads into Eye in the Sky as a second track. However, most radio stations choose to play Eye in the Sky alone, due to time constraints.
"Sirius" is perhaps best known for its use during the elaborate pre-game player introductions at Chicago Bulls home games during the Michael Jordan era of the 1990s.



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"I Like Chopin"---Gazebo
1983


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Major Tom (Coming Home)--- Peter Schilling
1983


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"Three Times a Lady" is a 1978 single from the funk/soul band the Commodores, from their 1978 album Natural High. It was produced by James Anthony Carmichael and the Commodores and it was the most popular track of the album.
In an appearance on The Early Show on June 12, 2009, Richie said he was inspired to write it by a comment his father made about his mother. Reportedly his father said to his mother "I love you. I want you. I need you. Forever" hence the three times.[ It became the Commodores's first Billboard Hot 100 number-one hit, topping the chart for two weeks on August 12, 1978. It was also the only Motown song to reach the Top 10 that year.


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"Three Times a Lady" is a 1978 single from the funk/soul band the Commodores, from their 1978 album Natural High. It was produced by James Anthony Carmichael and the Commodores and it was the most popular track of the album.
In an appearance on The Early Show on June 12, 2009, Richie said he was inspired to write it by a comment his father made about his mother. Reportedly his father said to his mother "I love you. I want you. I need you. Forever" hence the three times.[ It became the Commodores's first Billboard Hot 100 number-one hit, topping the chart for two weeks on August 12, 1978. It was also the only Motown song to reach the Top 10 that year.


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"When You Tell Me That You Love Me" is a 1991 song released as a single by American soul singer Diana Ross. The song was subsequently covered by various artists.
Diana Ross re-recorded her song, When You Tell Me That You Love Me, with Irish boy band Westlife, in 2005 for their Face To Face album. It was the second single taken from the album.
The song was the 39th best selling single of 2005 in the UK.

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In 1998 Iglesias re-recorded the duet with Chinese singer Coco Lee (李玟) and released it as a single to promote his compilation My Life: The Greatest Hits. Despite this, CoCo Lee's version was not included on the actual album, but rather Parton's. A music video was released featuring Iglesias and Lee singing together in a recording studio intercut with scenes of Lee walking around in a trench coat. At the end of the video Iglesias and Lee sit down to a candlelit dinner.

 

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"When You Say Nothing at All" is a country song written by Paul Overstreet and Don Schlitz. It is among the best-known hit songs for three different performers: Keith Whitley, who took it to the top of the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart on December 24, 1988; Alison Krauss, whose version became her first solo top-10 country hit in 1995; and Irish pop singer Ronan Keating, whose version was his first solo single and a chart-topper in the UK in 1999.

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Keating's version of "When You Say Nothing at All" was released as a single in the third quarter of 1999 and reached number one on the UK chart. It also reached the top position in Ireland. In the UK, the single was certified gold.

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"Let's Groove" is a 1981 song from the album Raise! by the R&B act Earth, Wind & Fire. The song peaked at #3 in the U.S. and in the UK

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"Let's Groove" was nominated for a Grammy for Best R&B Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group. The single sold over a million copies and it has been certified gold as up until the RIAA lowered the sales levels for certified singles in 1989, a Gold single equaled 1 million units sold.

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My Oh My ---Slade
1983


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Sometimes Love Just Ain't Enough" is the title of a 1992 single (see 1992 in music) performed as a duet by the American singers Patty Smyth and Don Henley.
The lyrics refer to a past relationship between the two singers and their efforts to move on with their respective lives and make sense of the aftermath: There's a reason why people don't stay where they are / Baby sometimes love just ain't enough. In the final chorus, there is a slight lyrical change to this line ("where they are" becomes "who they are").

 

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The Final Countdown (album), a 1986 studio album by the Swedish hard rock band Europe

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The Land of Make Believe--- Bucks Fizz
1981


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"Baby, I Love Your Way" is a song written and performed by singer Peter Frampton that was first featured on his 1975 album, Frampton.
A live version (4:37) of the song was later released on his 1976 multi-platinum album Frampton Comes Alive!, where it gained popularity as a hit song.

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Frampton with daughter
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"Faithfully" is a popular song and power ballad by the band Journey, and the second single from their album Frontiers.The music and lyrics were written by keyboardist Jonathan Cain. While the song was relatively successful on the charts, it has gone onto become one of their most recognizable songs, and has enjoyed lasting popularity.
The song describes the relationship of a "music man" on the road. The difficulties of raising and maintaining a family, two strangers having to fall in love again, and staying faithful while touring are brought up. However he suggests that he gets the "joy of rediscovering" her, and insists "I'm forever yours... Faithfully."

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The music video featured a "life on tour" theme parallel to the song's lyrics, showing the band's performances in different venues and their travels around the USA. Steve Perry can be seen shaving his short-lived but talked-about moustache in the video. This video utilized footage from the documentary video Journey: Frontiers and Beyond narrated by John Facenda, voice of NFL Films, shortly before he died. The concept of the "road video" has been utilized by several other bands, including Bon Jovi, Guns N' Roses, Genesis, Mötley Crüe and Richard Marx.

A Cantonese version, with a more pronouced piano presence, was recorded by Anita Mui.

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"Every Rose Has Its Thorn" is a power ballad/rock song by American glam metal band Poison. It was released in 1988 as the third single from Poison's second album Open Up And Say...Ahh!. It is the band's first and only number-one hit in the U.S., reaching the top spot on Christmas Eve in 1988 for three weeks (carrying over into 1989).
Brett Michaels wrote this song in a Texas Laundromat one night after learning that his stripper girlfriend had been cheating on him.
The music video to Every Rose was similar to those filmed for other eighties power ballads. It features Michaels sitting down, playing the guitar, and singing along to the song, interspersed with black and white clips from concerts, and color frames of a storyline that follows the song.


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I'll Be There for You" is a single written by Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora.
Both Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora sing, Sambora usually sings the song live. The song came out during the pinnacle of Bon Jovi's popularity and instantly became number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.

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