Sunday, June 30, 2024

PEAK MUSIC 1982 - The High School Days?

 

This is a series that will attempt to Sport(ify) music by creating a 5 member All-Pro/All League/All Star team (Sort of like the NBA first team all-stars) for each year in Music starting with 1964. It will rely heavily on Top 20 Hits from the year but also take into account Concert Tours, Music awards, Music Videos (MTV Crowd-You Tube), TV, Films, Pop Culture etc….. 

1982 –

This list is not how I remembered my final year of high school (at least in term of music).

Duets included in the numbers


Stevie Wonder – 3 Top 20 hits including Ebony and Ivory

Paul McCarthy – 3 Top 20 hits

Journey – 2 top 20 hits including "Open Arms" which went to number 2

J Geils Band – Center Fold hit number one in late 1981 and was top of the charts when 1982 began – This music video helps with the ranking – They also had Freeze Frame

Olivia Newton John – 2 top 5 hits – she appeared on these list more than I ever expected.

 

1964

1965

1966

1967

1968

1969

The Beatles

The Beatles

The Beatles

The Beatles

The Beatles

5th Dimension

4 Seasons

Supremes

Rolling Stones

Monkees

Gary Puckett

3 Dog Night

Supremes

Rolling Stones

Frank Sinatra

Supremes

Simon & Garfunkel

Elvis Presley

Bobby Vinton

Herman Hermits

Beach Boys

Rascals

Aretha Franklin

The Beatles

Johnny Rivers

Byrds

Monkees

The Doors

Supremes

Rolling Stones

1970

1971

1972

1973

1974

1975

Jackson 5

Osmonds

3 Dog Night

Stevie Wonder

Elton John

John Denver

The Beatles

Marvin Gaye

Michael Jackson

Elton John

John Denver

Elton John

Simon & Garfunkel

Temptations

5th Dimension

Paul Simon

Newton John

Eagles

3 Dog Night

Jackson 5

Don McLean

Wings

Wings

Sunshine Band

Guess Who

3 Dog Night

Moody Blues

Rolling Stones

Chicago

Starship

1976

1977

1978

1979

1980

1981

Captain Tennille

Fleetwood Mac

Bee Gees

Donna Summer

Blondie

Hall Oates

Elton John

Eagles

Newton John

Bee Gees

Queen

Rolling Stones

Aerosmith

Foreigner

Andy Gibb

Michael Jackson

Newton John

Rick Springfield

Wings

Sunshine Band

Rolling Stones

Commadores

Diana Ross

Journey

4 Seasons

B. Manilow

Billy Joel

Earth Wind Fire

Kenny Rogers

Foreigner

1982

1983

1984

1985

1986

1987

Stevie Wonder

 

 

 

 

 

Paul McCarthy

 

 

 

 

 

Journey

 

 

 

 

 

J Geils Band

 

 

 

 

 

Newton John

 

 

 

 

 

1988

1989

1990

1991

1992

1993

Saturday, June 29, 2024

PEAK MUSIC 1981 - MTV

 

This is a series that will attempt to Sport(ify) music by creating a 5 member All-Pro/All League/All Star team (Sort of like the NBA first team all-stars) for each year in Music starting with 1964. It will rely heavily on Top 20 Hits from the year but also take into account Concert Tours, Music awards, Music Videos (MTV Crowd-You Tube), TV, Films, Pop Culture etc….. 

1981 – MTV

We are coming to my prime high school days and my Memory does not coincide with the Top of the Charts.  I guess memory is something that is fluid. Now for sports – my memory for years was based on the Encyclopedia knowledge of books and Sports Cards and watching TV (now Youtube) that help me remember the players, the games and the stats.

With music, which mostly dealt with hearing (until MTV) and deals with the emotions of reminiscing and sentimentalism. i.e They Are Playing Our Song.

Just as seeing a Baseball Card (1977 Topps George Foster or Dave Parker) from the past invokes a certain emotion or memory in me and hearing a song invokes from the same past invokes an emotion or memory only differently.

Hall Oates – They had 3 number one hit including the silly "Kiss on My List". I loved the Hall &Oates of the 70s – "She's Gone" is just an incredible song that drops the words Carbon and Monoxide in it. For me their creative genius was that. In the 1980s the produce silly 'earworm" songs that probably paid their bills.

Rolling Stones – 2 top 20 hits, including "Start Me Up" which went to No 2. – I swore this was a late 1970s song

Rick Springfield – 2 top 20 hits including "Jessie Girl"

Journey – 2 top 10 hits including "Don't Stop Believing" which only went to No 9.

Foreigner – 2 top 10 hits including "Urgent"

 

 

1964

1965

1966

1967

1968

1969

The Beatles

The Beatles

The Beatles

The Beatles

The Beatles

5th Dimension

4 Seasons

Supremes

Rolling Stones

Monkees

Gary Pucket

3 Dog Night

Supremes

Rolling Stones

Frank Sinatra

Supremes

Simon & Garfunkel

Elvis Presley

Bobby Vinton

Herman Hermits

Beach Boys

Rascals

Aretha Franklin

The Beatles

Johnny Rivers

Byrds

Monkees

The Doors

Supremes

Rolling Stones

1970

1971

1972

1973

1974

1975

Jackson 5

Osmonds

3 Dog Night

Stevie Wonder

Elton John

John Denver

The Beatles

Marvin Gaye

Micheal Jackson

Elton John

John Denver

Elton John

Simon & Garfunkel

Temptations

5th Dimension

Paul Simon

Newton John

Eagles

3 Dog Night

Jackson 5

Don McLean

Wings

Wings

Sunshine Band

Guess Who

3 Dog Night

Moody Blues

Rolling Stones

Chicago

Starship

1976

1977

1978

1979

1980

1981

Captain Tennille

Fleetwood Mac

Bee Gees

Donna Summer

Blondie

Hall Oates

Elton John

Eagles

Newton John

Bee Gees

Queen

Rolling Stones

Aerosmith

Foreigner

Andy Gibb

Micheal Jackson

Newton John

Rick Springfield

Wings

Sunshine Band

Rolling Stones

Commadores

Diana Ross

Journey

4 Seasons

B. Manilow

Billy Joel

Earth Wind Fire

Kenny Rogers

Foreigner

1982

1983

1984

1985

1986

1987