80s "omg I loved that one" one hit wonders mix tape thread

You're right I heard "Goodbye to you"! I checked and it only hit #65 though. There's been plenty of acts listed here who even had more than one top 10, such as Glass Tiger and Corey Hart.
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― LeRooLeRoo, Wednesday, 4 May 2011 22:19 (fifteen years ago)

Yeah, I knew that about Glass Tiger and Corey Hart w/o even looking it up, but I was trying to be non-pedantic at the time.

― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 4 May 2011 22:23 (fifteen years ago)

Surprised "Goodbye to You" charted that low, though. I hear it more often now than even "The Warrior".

― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 4 May 2011 22:24 (fifteen years ago)

Can't believe Corey Hart had nine Top 40 singles on the Billboard Hot 100!

― LeRooLeRoo, Wednesday, 4 May 2011 22:44 (fifteen years ago)

Wow, I didn't realize it was NINE! I only remembered Sunglasses, Never Surrender and I Can't Help Falling in Love With You.

― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 4 May 2011 22:48 (fifteen years ago)

Nine? Crikey. I only know Sunglasses and Never Surrender.

― VegemiteGrrl, Thursday, 5 May 2011 02:11 (fifteen years ago)

it's a mystery to me how anyone could hate jane child's "don't wanna fall in love"

but i still love u johnny forever

― j lol (surm), Thursday, 5 May 2011 02:13 (fifteen years ago)

You guys don't remember "Boy in the Box"? or "I Am By Your Side"?

― ginny thomas and tonic (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 5 May 2011 02:13 (fifteen years ago)

Madonna wannabe E.G. Daily - "Say It, Say It"

Another Miami freestyle station favorite, but, alas, not a Top 40 hit. Neither was the sublime "Just An Illusion."

― ginny thomas and tonic (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 5 May 2011 02:14 (fifteen years ago)

deniece williams "let's hear it for the boy"

no idea if she had more hits or not but whatevs

― j lol (surm), Thursday, 5 May 2011 02:15 (fifteen years ago)

I remember the album was called Boy in the Box, but I don't remember the song at all. Nor the other one.

it's a mystery to me how anyone could hate jane child's "don't wanna fall in love"

I probably didn't at first, but overexposure at the time didn't help matters. Also, at the same time, I was turning my back on popular music and become a mopey gothy teenager with my mopey gothy teenager friends. Silly now, but important distinction then.

― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 5 May 2011 02:17 (fifteen years ago)

but Jane Child was totally goth -- lookit the nose ring!

― ginny thomas and tonic (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 5 May 2011 02:17 (fifteen years ago)

that's actually a good point but i get what yer sayin

― j lol (surm), Thursday, 5 May 2011 02:18 (fifteen years ago)

Omg Al, I do remember "I Am By Your Side"...Corey hart knowledge appears to be wedged deep into the sofa cushions of my subconscious

He had a pretty good singing voice...also v crush worthy

― VegemiteGrrl, Thursday, 5 May 2011 02:24 (fifteen years ago)

okay the video is lololol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWlOQgeR-ek&sns=em

― VegemiteGrrl, Thursday, 5 May 2011 02:28 (fifteen years ago)

Canadian Emilio Estevez?

― VegemiteGrrl, Thursday, 5 May 2011 02:29 (fifteen years ago)

Nope, don't remember that at all.

― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 5 May 2011 02:29 (fifteen years ago)

but it's your new favorite now, right?

― VegemiteGrrl, Thursday, 5 May 2011 02:30 (fifteen years ago)

ALWAYS NEVER SURRENDER

(that reads strangely)

― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 5 May 2011 02:31 (fifteen years ago)

Sunglasses is good lolsy fun, though.

― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 5 May 2011 02:31 (fifteen years ago)

never surrender is great, sunglasses is fun for the shouty-pouty part

I found this one too...rings no bells at all. .Eurasian Eyes?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1QOxms_yvI&sns=em

― VegemiteGrrl, Thursday, 5 May 2011 02:34 (fifteen years ago)

Listening to all this Corey Hart stuff is making me think he was kind of an autonomous type in the 80s landscape. The closest parallels would be maybe Springfield (but he was never SERIOUS) and John Waite (but his solo career between Babys and Bad English was really too brief to make a mark). Corey Hart is kind of on his own.

― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 5 May 2011 02:39 (fifteen years ago)

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