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

[Wayne Piew]

I Drove All Night --- The Late Great Roy Orbison.
1987

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Orbison first recorded the song in 1987, but his rendition was not released until 1992.
A music video featuring Jason Priestley and Jennifer Connelly was also made for the single.

 

[Wayne Piew]

Cover Version
I Drove All Night ---Cyndi Lauper
1989


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[Wayne Piew]

It Must Be Love ---Labi Siffre
1971


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[Wayne Piew]

It Must Be Love ---Labi Siffre
1971



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England Dan and Joh Ford Coley's last top-40 hit, "Love Is the Answer" (#10 in May 1979).

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"Steppin' Out" is a song written by Joe Jackson, originally included on his 1982 album, Night and Day.
The song is about the anticipation and excitement of a night out on the town. Released as a single in August 1982, it became Jackson's biggest Billboard Hot 100 hit in the U.S., peaking at number six. It was his second biggest hit on the UK Singles Chart, also reaching number six. Only "It's Different for Girls", which reached number five in the UK in 1980 did better. The music video for the song, directed by Steve Barron, featured a housekeeper pretending she was a Cinderella figure. It was filmed over one night in the St. Regis Hotel in New York during the summer of 1982.
"Steppin' Out" eventually earned Grammy nominations for Record of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male.[4]

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"Baker Street" is a ballad by Gerry Rafferty, first released in 1978. It is a compassionate meditation on people who are living life stuck in a rut and meeting with profound disappointment. The heavily produced arrangement is especially famous for its saxophone solo. With its clearly enunciated singing, the lyrics are also memorable. Named after the famous London street of the same name, the song was included on Rafferty's second solo album, City to City, which was Rafferty's first release after the resolution of legal problems surrounding the formal breakup of his old band, Stealers Wheel in 1975.
A readers' poll conducted by Rolling Stone in 2008 placed it among the "100 greatest guitar songs of all time", and established artists covered it in the 1990s and 2000s.

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Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty

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Dan Seals, Nights Are Forever Without You
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England Dan & John Ford Coley - Nights Are Forever Without You

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"Double Vision" is a single by Foreigner from their second album of the same name. The song reached #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1978, and was a top 10 song in Canada.
In a 2009 interview, vocalist Lou Gramm explained the origin behind the song: " "Double Vision" was a song that was written in about late 1977 just before the Double Vision album came out. ...A lot of people think it's about being intoxicated or being high. When we were recording that song before we had the title, the New York Rangers hockey team was playing the Philadelphia Flyers and one of the big Flyers guys bumped into the Rangers' all-star goalie [John Davidson] and knocked him down and they had to take him out of the game because he was experiencing double vision."

According to the New York Rangers web site, the incident actually took place in April 1978 during a hockey game between the Rangers and the Buffalo Sabres. The game announcers repeatedly used the phrase "double vision" which then inspired Foreigner to use it as the song's title.

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"I Want to Know What Love Is" is a 1984 power ballad recorded by the British-American rock band Foreigner. The song hit #1 in both the UK and the U.S. and is the band's most successful single. It remains one of the band's best known songs and most enduring radio hits, charting in the top 25 in 2000, 2001 and 2002 on the Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary Recurrents chart.

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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 .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

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"And the Beat Goes On" is a 1980 single by the Los Angeles-based quintet, The Whispers. The song was their first of two number-one singles on the R&B chart, and their first Top 40 pop hit in the United States, peaking at number nineteen. "And the Beat Goes On" was The Whispers only number one on the dance chart. It was also their first and biggest hit in the United Kingdom, peaking at number two on the UK Singles Chart.

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Kenny Nolan is a Los Angeles, California based singer-songwriter.
He is best remembered for his 1977 self-penned song "I Like Dreamin'", which achieved the #3 chart position on the Billboard Hot 100 early that year.
He also co-wrote several hits with Bob Crewe, including Frankie Valli's "My Eyes Adored You" and Labelle's "Lady Marmalade" (both 1975).

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"Ma Baker" is a 1976 disco hit single by German disco band Boney M.. It was the first single of their second album Love for Sale and their third consecutive chart-topper in Germany and their best yet placing in the UK, peaking at #2 (only surpassed by Donna Summer's "I Feel Love") although only a minor single in the US (#96).

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"Afternoon Delight" is a 1976 song by the Starland Vocal Band, written by Bill Danoff, featuring close harmony and sexually suggestive wordplay. It became a number-one U.S. Billboard Hot 100 single on July 10, 1976.

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"Jeopardy" is a hit song released in 1983 by the Greg Kihn Band on their album Kihnspiracy. It is the band's first and only Top 10 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, reaching #2 in March 1983 and also hitting #1 on the dance charts the following month.

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[Talking Donkey]

Hi postnew,thanks for the posting on these oldies,i've been trying hard to get a video clip on this country singer eddie rabbit singing this 1981 classic song "room at the top of the stairs.",but cant find it..wonder whether you can help find and post it..thanks.

 

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Room At The Top Of The Stairs

Well I know a place when love comes easy
And I know a woman who meets me there
She takes my hand oh he gently leads me
And we go up to the room at the top of the stairs

I close the door and she pulls the curtains
When we make love it's a private affair
I've been around so I know for certain
There ain't no room like the room at the top of the stairs

When we climb up the stairway to heaven
Well we find love waiting there
And right at home just me and my baby
Oh the loving's good in the room at the top of the stairs
[ guitar ]
Yeah I know a place...
Oh the loving's good in the room at the top of the stairs

 

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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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