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

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"She Bop" is a song by American singer Cyndi Lauper, released as the third single from her album She's So Unusual. It reached number three on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart in September 1984. Worldwide, the song is her most commercially successful single after "Time After Time", and reached number 46 on the UK Singles Chart and number 6 on the ARIA Singles Chart. "She Bop" was her third consecutive Top 5 on the Hot 100.
The song was considered controversial, as it dealt with the subject matter of masturbation. It was also included on the Parents Music Resource Center's "Filthy Fifteen" list, due to its sexual lyrics; this led to the creation of the Parental Advisory sticker. (Other songs on the "Filthy Fifteen" list included tracks by Madonna, Prince, and AC/DC.) In an interview on The Howard Stern Show, Lauper stated that she recorded the vocals of the song while nude.
Lauper said she wanted little kids to think the song was about dancing, and to understand the real meaning as they got older. She never directly stated in the song what the meaning of the song was, so it could receive airplay.

Cyndi Lauper - She Bop

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When I Look Into Your Eyes is the sixth single released by the American rock band FireHouse. Upon release, the song became the band's second hit ballad, reaching #8 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the week ending October 17, 1992. In the UK, it peaked in the singles charts at number 65, in the week ending December 19, 1992.
The song was written by guitarist Bill Leverty and vocalist C.J. Snare.

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FOXY - GET OFF

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ABBA - SOS

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"Le Freak" is a successful 1978 disco song by the disco band Chic. It was the band's third single album and first Billboard Hot 100 and soul music number-one song. Along with the tracks, "I Want Your Love" and "Chic Cheer", "Le Freak" scored number one on the disco charts for seven weeks.
The single album has the distinction of being the best selling record ever for Atlantic Records company, and the best-selling single ever for Warner Music Group until it was displaced in 1990 (by Madonna's song "Vogue").
The single achieved sales of seven million and also scored number seven in the UK singles chart.
The song was ranked number 19 on Billboard Magazine's top 100 songs of the first 50 years of the "Hot 100" chart.
This song commemorates Studio 54 for its notoriously long customer waiting lines, exclusive clientele, and discourteous doormen. Concerning the history of the song, guitarist Nile Rodgers later stated that the song was devised during New Year's Eve of 1977, as a result of him and bassist Bernard Edwards being refused entrance to Studio 54, where they had been invited by Grace Jones, due to Jones' failure to notify the nightclub's staff. He said the lyrics of the refrain were originally "Fuck off!" rather than "Freak out!"
"Le Freak" was the first song to score the number one position on the Billboard Hot 100 three separate times. This record remained until 2008, when "Bleeding Love" by Leona Lewis became the second track to score number one three times. Later that same year rap artist T.I. tied this record twice with both "Whatever You Like" which he recorded by himself and "Live Your Life" which he recorded with Rihanna. On two of these occasions "Live Your Life" dethroned "Whatever You Like" from the Number One Position. In early 2011, Bruno Mars' "Grenade" also matched this record.

Chic -- Le Freak

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The Witch Queen Of New Orleans - Redbone

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"Give Me the Night" is a song by American jazz musician George Benson, from his studio album of the same name (1980). It was written and composed by former Heatwave keyboard player Rod Temperton and produced by Quincy Jones. Patrice Rushen provides the backing and scat vocals that are heard throughout., and would later record a song of her own with a similar sound, Forget Me Nots. Lee Ritenour also appears on the track. The song was a commercial success, becoming Benson's first single to hit number one on the U.S. Billboard R&B chart. It also peaked at number four on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart, making it his most successful pop entry. It also peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot Disco Singles chart. It also peaked at number seven in the Official UK Singles Chart.


George Benson - Give Me The Night

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ABBA - Gimme Gimme Gimme

My all time favorite ABBA song and video

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"Let Your Love Flow" is the title of a pop song written by Larry E. Williams, a former roadie for Neil Diamond and made popular by the American country music duo The Bellamy Brothers. It was offered to Diamond first, but he turned it down.
This record was a crossover hit in the United States, reaching Number One on the 1976 Billboard Hot 100 charts, #2 on Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks, and #21 on Hot Country Singles. It was also an international hit, landing on the charts in the UK, Scandinavia and West Germany, where the Bellamy Brothers' record spent five weeks at #1 followed by "Ein Bett im Kornfeld", a German language adaptation of the song recorded by Jürgen Drews, which spent the next six weeks at #1

The Bellamy Brothers - Let Your Love Flow

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German version of The Bellamy Brothers - Let Your Love Flow if anybody is interested Still a song that you will hear on every party nowadays.

Jürgen Drews - Ein Bett im Kornfeld 1976

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Kool & The Gang - Joanna

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Pink Floyd - Another Brick in the Wall Part 2

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Rockwell (born Kennedy William Gordy on March 15, 1964 in Detroit, Michigan) is an R&B performer who was signed to the Motown label.
Rockwell is the son of Motown founder and CEO Berry Gordy and Margaret Norton. His father named him Kennedy William Gordy after John F. Kennedy and William "Smokey" Robinson. To avoid seeming nepotistic, he secured his record deal without his father's knowledge. Motown actually came up with the name Rockwell and the young Gordy agreed to the change because he believed he "rocked well."
In 1984, Rockwell released his biggest hit single, "Somebody's Watching Me", featuring childhood friend Michael Jackson on guest vocals (notably in the chorus lyrics), and Jermaine Jackson singing back-up. "Somebody's Watching Me" became a Top 10 pop hit in both the US and UK, and a #1 R&B hit. Follow-up singles underperformed, however, with single "Obscene Phone Caller", being Rockwell's only other Top 40 single. This follow-up single reached #35 on the Billboard Hot 100. Rockwell soon ended his musical career with Motown.

Rockwell - Somebody's Watching Me , Knife

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Alphaville - Sounds Like A Melody

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Stars On 45 The 70's

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allow me to add a song

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Silicon Dream - Andromeda

 

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Boney M. -- "Ma Baker"

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Dire Straits - Money For Nothing

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ERUPTION - I Can't Stand The Rain

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Move Closer is a song by Phyllis Nelson, which reached the #1 spot in United Kingdom during 1985.
Phyllis Nelson wrote the ballad in 1984. It was a complete departure from the type of music she had been recording. The lyrics of Move Closer were based on a long-term love affair she had with a much younger man in Philadelphia, who was struggling to start his own computer business
Move Closer reached the Number One spot in United Kingdom, making her the first black woman to top the UK charts with her own composition. The song was originally released in April 1984 but failed to chart and was re-released in February 1985 after BBC Radio London started to play it. The song began to climb the charts, taking 12 weeks to reach the top spot. Move Closer remained on the charts for just over five months during 1985, ended up as the seventh biggest song of the year and the 82nd highest selling single of the decade. In 1994 it was reissued and returned to the UK Singles Chart, this time reaching #34, on the back of it being featured in an anti-persperant commercial.
The song failed to make any impact on the American charts, but did chart in Europe, Australia and New Zealand during 1984 and 1985.

Phyllis Nelson - Move Closer

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