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

postnew · Jan 9, 2012

"Words Get in the Way" was the third single released by the American band Miami Sound Machine led by Gloria Estefan on their second English language album, and ninth overall, Primitive Love. The song is a ballad and became the most successful song off the album.
As a ballad, "Words Get in the Way" marked a change in sound from the band's earlier singles and foreshadowed Estefan's success as an adult contemporary artist.
The song was their first to crack the Top 5 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, peaking at #5, and became their first number-one hit on Billboard's Adult Contemporary chart in 1986. They didn't achieve the same success internationally, but still managed to reach the Top 20 in other countries. The single was certified Gold by the ARIA for its sales of 35,000 copies.

Words Get In The Way - Gloria Estefan & The Miami Sound Machine

postnew · Jan 9, 2012

Earth, Wind & Fire " September " After The Love Has Gone "

postnew · Jan 9, 2012

"Last Dance" is a hit 1978 song by singer Donna Summer. The song appeared on the Thank God It's Friday movie soundtrack. It was written by Paul Jabara and was co-produced by Summer's regular collaborator Giorgio Moroder, along with Bob Esty. It was mixed by the Grammy Award winning record producer, Stephen Short, whose back-up vocals are featured on the song.
Donna Summer has a role in the film Thank God It's Friday as an aspiring singer who brings an instrumental track of "Last Dance" to a disco in hopes the disc jockey will play the track and allow her to sing the song for her fellow patrons: after refusing through most of the film the disc jockey eventually obliges Summer's character and her performance causes a sensation.
According to the song's co-producer Bob Esty, Paul Jabara had locked Summer in a Puerto Rico hotel bathroom and forced her to listen to a cassette of him singing a rough version of "Last Dance." Summer liked the song and Jabara asked Esty to work with him on an arrangement for Summer to make her recording. Esty recalls: "I changed some of the chords and extended the 'hook' to repeat three times to finish the last phrase of the chorus.
"Last Dance" won an Academy Award, and a Golden Globe for Best Original Song that same year. With a #3 peak on the Hot 100 in Billboard magazine, "Last Dance" became Summer's third US Top Ten hit after "Love to Love You Baby" and "I Feel Love" and almost matched the #2 hit "Love to Love You Baby" as Summer's best-charting single (at that time). "Last Dance" also afforded Summer a #5 R&B chart hit and was #1 on Billboard's Hot Disco Action Chart for six weeks eventually being ranked as the #1 Disco hit for the year 1978. Certified gold for sales of a million units in the US,"Last Dance" marked a downturn in Summer's chart fortunes in the UK where she'd previously had more chart impact than in the US with "Last Dance"'s UK chart peak being at #51; Summer would return to the UK Top Ten - at #5 - with her followup single "MacArthur Park" a single which afford Summer her first US #1.

Donna Summer " Last Dance "

postnew · Jan 11, 2012

"You and I" was a duet by Eddie Rabbitt and Crystal Gayle that became a big hit in 1982. In 1982, the two singers joined to record the song "You and I". When released to the public in 1982, "You and I" became a big country pop crossover hit for both singers, showing to the public they could be just as successful singing duets as they are capable of singing solo. Both singers gained equal respect for the song.
n 2005, the song ranked #7 on CMT's 100 Greatest Duets in Country Music. Gayle performed the duet with Raul Malo of The Mavericks since Rabbitt had died of lung cancer in 1998.
"You and I" went to number one on the Country chart for a single week and went to number seven on the Hot 100 .

"You and I" - Eddie Rabbitt , Crystal Gayle

erection2015 · Jan 11, 2012

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postnew · Jan 11, 2012

"Half the Way" is the name of Country-Pop crossover single, Crystal Gayle's third crossover Pop hit, released in 1979.
After recently achieving major Country crossover success in 1977 with "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue." , followed by a Top 20 Pop hit and No. 1 Country hit the next year ("Talking In Your Sleep"), it would be no surprise then that Gayle would again attempt another crossover hit.
After recently signing with Columbia Records in early 1979, Gayle immediately started recording for them. "Half the Way" was the first song recorded under her new record label. The song's up-tempo sound and Soft Rock-sounding melody, made the song reach Billboard's Top 20 chart, and even reaching the Top 15, peaking at No. 15 in 1979. The song also climbed to Billboard Magazine's No. 2 position on the Country charts, just missing the top spot. Like Gayle's other previous recordings, the song also hit the Adult Contemporary chart. "Half the Way" is one of Gayle's better-known Adult Contemporary hits, reaching the Top 10 at No. 9. Following "Half the Way"'s success, Gayle never achieved another Top 40 Pop hit on her own again. Her singles did chart outside the Pop Top 40 though following this, and also the Adult Contemporary chart.

Crystal Gayle - Half the way

postnew · Jan 12, 2012

"We've Got Tonight" (originally titled "We've Got Tonite") is the title of a song written by American Bob Seger, from his album Stranger in Town. It was a hit single for Seger and the Silver Bullet Band, reaching number 13 on the U.S. pop charts.
In 1983, country-pop star Kenny Rogers recorded the song as a duet with pop star Sheena Easton, and made it the title track of his album We've Got Tonight. It reached number one on the Billboard Country Singles chart, number six on the Billboard Hot 100 pop singles chart, and number two on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart.

Kenny Rogers / Sheena Easton - We've Got Tonight

Kenny Rogers / Linda Davis - We're Got Tonight

postnew · Jan 12, 2012

Sheena Easton - Telephone

postnew · Jan 12, 2012

"You Needed Me" is a song written by Randy Goodrum, who describes it as being about "unconditional undeserved love." It was a number one single in the United States in 1978 for Canadian singer Anne Murray. The song, included on her 1978 album Let's Keep It That Way, was also a top-five country single and won Song of the Year at the Academy of Country Music awards. Although the song reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100, it never topped the two Billboard charts where Murray had the most success - Country and Adult Contemporary. The song won Murray the Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance at the 21st Grammy Awards, the first to be awarded to a Canadian artist.
Anne Murray re-recorded the song with Shania Twain for Murray's 2007 album Duets: Friends & Legends.

Anne Murray - You Needed Me

YOU NEEDED ME - ANNE MURRAY featuring SHANIA TWAIN

postnew · Jan 12, 2012

We Got Tonight - Dolly Parton & Kenny Rogers live in 1985

erection2015 · Jan 12, 2012

Re: Why Not Elvis ?

one of the early successful multi racial bands

postnew · Jan 13, 2012

"I Will Always Love You" is a song written by American singer-songwriter Dolly Parton in 1973, who first released the song as a single in 1974.
Dolly Parton wrote the song in 1973 and it was released a year later, having been produced by Bob Ferguson. She has told numerous interviewers over the years that she wrote it for her one-time partner and mentor Porter Wagoner, with whom she was having a business splitting at the time. Recorded on June 17, 1973, in RCA's Studio "B" in Nashville, the song was included on Parton's album Jolene, and was released as a follow-up single, after the country chart-topping success of the title track, in April 1974. The single reached number 1 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs a month later, but had just modest success on the pop charts. The lyrics express a bittersweet and poignant ode to an ex-lover, and are delivered with Parton's distinctive twang.
Parton re-recorded the song in 1982 to include it on the soundtrack of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, the film version of the Broadway musical of the same name. Her 1982 version also reached number 1 on the U.S. Hot Country Songs, marking the first time the same song reached number 1 on the country charts twice by the same artist. The 1982 version also saw limited crossover pop success, reaching number 53 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 17 on the Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks.
Parton had success with the song again in 1995 in a duet with Vince Gill. This time the song peaked at number 15 in December of that year, making it the third time the song was a hit for Parton, albeit in duet form this time. In 2003, CMT ranked it number 16 on their 100 Greatest Songs in Country Music. A year later, CMT ranked it number 1 on their 100 Greatest Country Love Songs.

Dolly Parton - I Will Always Love You

Whitney Houston - I Will Always Love You

postnew · Jan 14, 2012

"Sad Eyes" is a song written and recorded by Robert John, and released in 1979.
Released in April 1979, "Sad Eyes" debuted May 19 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song slowly inched its way up the chart throughout the late spring and summer, finally reaching the top of the chart on October 6 — nearly three weeks into the fall.
"Sad Eyes" is one of 1979's few non-disco, or disco-influenced songs to top the pop charts, along with Peaches & Herb's "Reunited", which spent 4 weeks at #1 in May 1979. In the first nine months of 1979, nine out of 13 No. 1 songs on the Billboard Hot 100 were disco or disco-influenced records.

SAD EYES - ROBERT JOHN

postnew · Jan 14, 2012

Andy Gibb_ An everlasting Love

postnew · Jan 14, 2012

Gilbert O`Sullivan - ALONE AGAIN ( Naturally ) - 2011 BBC Live Radio Session

This might be of interest to anyone who heard Gilbert`s great live session on BBC Radio 2`s Ken Bruce Show on July 18th 2011 . Ken was in the BBC`s main studio in London and linked up to Gilbert and his band over in the Maida Vale studios , also in London . Gilbert performed five songs throughout Ken`s show including this version of Alone Again ( Naturally ) . All the pictures you see here are from the actual session and it gives you an idea of what went on behind the scenes that morning .

Gilbert O'Sullivan - Alone Again ( original version)

postnew · Jan 16, 2012

"Up Where We Belong" is a song from the 1982 film An Officer and a Gentleman. Written by Jack Nitzsche and Buffy Sainte-Marie, with lyrics by Will Jennings, it was performed by Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes.
The single, released by Island Records in 1982, became a number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 on November 6, 1982 and kept the position for three weeks, also reaching number 7 in the UK Singles Chart.
"Up Where We Belong" won the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song and the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1983. It also won the BAFTA Film Awards for Best Original Song in 1984. Cocker and Warnes also won the Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal in 1983 for their rendition of this song.

Joe Cocker & Jennifer Warnes - Up Where We Belong

postnew · Jan 17, 2012

"Magic" is a hit 1980 song performed by Olivia Newton-John, from the soundtrack to the film Xanadu. The song was #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts for four weeks beginning on 2 August 1980. It also reached a high of #4 on the Australian charts and #32 in the UK.
"Magic" became Newton-John's biggest Adult Contemporary hit to date, and her biggest pop hit until "Physical" ruled the Hot 100 for ten weeks beginning in November 1981. Billboard magazine ranked "Magic" as the third most popular single of 1980, behind only "Call Me" by Blondie and "Another Brick in the Wall, Part II" by Pink Floyd

Olivia Newton-John - Magic

erection2015 · Jan 17, 2012

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erection2015 · Jan 18, 2012

Fire Brigade by The Move.

Our own October Cherries did quite a good version of this ....but this rendition is by the original guys.

postnew · Jan 18, 2012

"Shine a Little Love" is a song by the Electric Light Orchestra. It was released as a single in the US in May 1979 and in the UK in June of the same year.
The song is the first track on their 1979 album Discovery. This was one of the band's most commercially successful singles, peaking at #6 in the UK Singles Chart and #8 in the US Billboard Hot 100. The song subsequently became one of their biggest worldwide hits as well. The single was also available in white vinyl. Two different promotional videos were filmed for the single, a recording studio version shot on 35mm film, minus the band's three string players and a video-taped version made for the Discovery video album, featuring the full touring line-up.

ELO - Shine A Little Love

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