Promo posters as seen on "WKRP in Cincinnati" #100

Albums: Huey Lewis and The News - Huey Lewis and The News (Chrysalis, 1980), The Doors - Greatest Hits (Elektra, 1980), Twennynine With Lenny White - Twennynine With Lenny White (Elektra, 1980), Times Square soundtrack, (RSO, 1980), The Babys - On the Edge (Chrysalis, 1980)
Episode: Season 3, Episode 12, "Venus and the Man"
Original air date: Saturday, January 31, 1981


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Album on the turntable is Candi Staton - Candi Staton (Warner Bros., 1980)

Also seen on studio door, a picture of John Lennon and Yoko Ono. Lennon was killed around the time this episode was filmed.

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Photographed on November 2, 1980 by Jack Mitchell

Promo posters as seen on "WKRP in Cincinnati" #99

Albums: Diana Ross - Diana (Motown, 1980)
Episode: Season 3, Episode 7, "Bah, Humbug"
Original air date: Saturday, December 20, 1980


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Promo posters as seen on "WKRP in Cincinnati" #98

Albums: Huey Lewis and The News - Huey Lewis and The News (Chrysalis, 1980), The Babys - On The Edge (Chrysalis, 1980)
Episode: Season 3, Episode 14, "Ask Jennifer"
Original air date: Saturday, February 14, 1981


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Promo posters as seen on "WKRP in Cincinnati" #97

Albums: The Romantics - National Breakout (Nemperor, 1980)
Episode: Season 3, Episode 15, "Ask Jennifer"
Original air date: Saturday, February 14, 1981


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MFD Random Five #57

In which I shuffle through some music files and listen to the first five songs from the years 1976-85 that randomly pop up.

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1. "Sandstorm" by Level 42 (1980)
   An driving instrumental from this group's early jazz/funk phase. Great synth and bass lines throughout.


2. "It's All for You" by Herb Alpert (1985)
   Mid-tempo instrumental that finds Alpert doing his best Grover Washington, Jr. impersonation. I don't have a copy of the Wild Romance album; my version is found on the A Portrait in Music compilation.


3. "Styrofoam" by Tyla Gang (1976)
   This was new to me when I purchased The Big Stiff Box Set. Not your typical Stiff punkish-New Wave offering, this is typical '70s funk-rock and I dig the hell out of it.


4. "World Goes On" by The Dishes (1985)
   Love it. I went in depth on this Houston power pop band in this previous post. Worth your time to check them out. Typical teenage angst:

   I think I'm gonna go crazy
   I don't know what I'm gonna do
   I sit at home alone at night and I think about you.
   
   The only time I get to go out
   is when I go to work at night
   But the girls all leave by the time I'm feelin' alright.
   
   But the world goes on and on and on and on and on
   But the world goes on and on and on and on and on
   
   I wish I had me a girlfriend
   someone who needs somebody, too
   But I don't believe that it's ever gonna come true
   
   Maybe someday I'll meet somebody
   Maybe somebody will meet me
   Maybe someday I'll talk some girl into marrying me
   
   But the world goes on and on and on and on and on
   But the world goes on and on and on and on and on
   
   



5. "Young Blood" by Rickie Lee Jones (1979)
   Lucky me - I get to close this random five with a delightful track from the brilliant debut album from Jones. Peaked at only #40 on the pop chart and that's a damn shame because it deserved more airplay and more sales. Tom Scott all over this track, including some tasty lyricon licks.

Promo posters as seen on "WKRP in Cincinnati" #96

Albums: Fleetwood Mac - Live (Warner Bros., 1980), Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Chance (Warner Bros., 1980)
Episode: Season 3, Episode 16, "I Am Woman"
Original air date: Sunday, February 21, 1981


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Promo posters as seen on "WKRP in Cincinnati" #95

Albums: Todd Rundgren - Healing (Bearsville, 1981), The Clash - Black Market Clash (Epic, 1980), Steve Winwood - Arc of a Diver (Island, 1980), Rod Stewart - Foolish Behavior (1980, Warner Bros.)
Episode: Season 3, Episode 16, "I Am Woman"
Original air date: Sunday, February 21, 1981


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Promo posters as seen on "WKRP in Cincinnati" #94

Albums: Ultravox - Vienna (Chrysalis, 1980), Warren Zevon - Stand in the Fire (Asylum, 1980)
Episode: Season 3, Episode 16, "I Am Woman"
Original air date: Sunday, February 21, 1981


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Promo posters as seen on "WKRP in Cincinnati" #93

Albums: Commodores - Heroes (Motown, 1980), Neil Young - Hawks and Doves (Reprise, 1980), Ry Cooder - Borderline (Warner Bros., 1980), The Blues Brothers - Made in America (Atlantic, 1980), The Jim Carroll Band - Catholic Boy (Atco, 1980)
Episode: Season 3, Episode 17, "Secrets of Dayton Heights"
Original air date: Sunday, February 28, 1981


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Promo posters as seen on "WKRP in Cincinnati" #92

Albums: Steve Winwood - Arc of a Diver (Island, 1980)
Episode:  Season 3, Episode 17, "Secrets of Dayton Heights"
Original air date: Sunday, February 28, 1981


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Promo posters as seen on "WKRP in Cincinnati" #90

Albums: Todd Rundgren - Healing (Bearsville, 1981), The Clash - Sandinista! (Epic, 1980)
Episode:  Season 3, Episode 17, "Secrets of Dayton Heights"
Original air date: Sunday, February 28, 1981


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Promo posters as seen on "WKRP in Cincinnati" #89

Albums: Neil Young - Hawks and Doves (Reprise, 1980)
Episode:  Season 3, Episode 18, "Out to Lunch"
Original air date: Sunday, March 14, 1981


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Promo posters as seen on "WKRP in Cincinnati" #88

Albums: Adam & The Ants - Kings of the Wild Frontier (Epic, 1980), The Scooters - Blue Eyes (EMI, 1981), Elvis Costello - Trust (Columbia, 1981)
Episode:  Season 3, Episode 19, "A Simple Little Wedding"
Original air date: Sunday, March 21, 1981


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CD Longbox #39

Queen - The Game (1980)

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Promo posters as seen on "WKRP in Cincinnati" #83

Albums: Kim Carnes - Mistaken Identity (1981, EMI), Supertramp - Paris (1980, A&M)
Episode: Season 4, Episode 4, "Rumors"
Original air date: Wednesday, October 28, 1981


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Roadrunner Album Reviews 1980

Roadrunner was a rock magazine published in Adelaide, Australia between 1978-83. Its founding editors were Stuart Coupe and Donald Robertson. Though primarily focused on Australian and overseas rock music, it also covered areas of the burgeoning counterculture and issues such as punk.

Full issues are currently archived at the University of Wollongong. Here's the album reviews available in each issue of 1980.

Issue	Date	Artist	Album
3(1)	8 February 1980	Fleetwood Mac	Tusk
		M	New York/London/Paris/Munich
		The Clash	London Calling
		Split Enz	True Colours
		Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers	Damn the Torpedoes
		The Kinks	Low Budget
3(2)	22 February 1980	The Sports	Suddenly
		Charlie Pride	Travellin'
		Specials	Specials
		Jane Aire & The Belvederes	Jane Aire & The Belvederes
		The Nauts	The Nauts
		George Jones	My Very Special Friends
		The Human League	Reproduction
		Boomtown Rats	The Fine Art of Surfacing
		The Motels	The Motels
		Daryl Hall & John Oates	X-Static
		Mike Oldfield	Platinum
		Public Image Ltd	Metal Box
3(3)	April 1980
		Pretenders	Pretenders
		Billy Joel	Glass Houses
		Elvis Costello & The Attractions	Get Happy
		Various Artists	Subterranean Modern
		Snakefinger	Chewing Hides the Sound
		Philip Rainbow	Shooting Gallery
3(4)	May 1980
		Gang of Four	Entertainment!
		This Heat	This Heat
		The Members	1980 - The Choice is Yours
		UK Squeeze	Argybargy
		The Aliens	Translator
		Rachel Sweet	Protect the Innocent
		David Johansen	In Style
		Wreckless Eric	Whole Wide World
		20/20	20/20
		Richard Lloyd	Alchemy
		Charlie Dore	Where to Now
		Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band	Against the Wind
		Lynyrd Skynyrd	Gold and Platinum
		Mickey Jupp	Legend
		David Werner	David Werner
3(5)	June 1980	Australian Crawl	The Boys Light Up
		Urban Verbs	Urban Verbs
		Wreckless Eric	Big Smash
		The Feelies	Crazy Rhythms
		Little River Band	Live in America
		McGuinn Hillman Clark	City
		Skyhooks	Hot for the Orient
		Robert Gordon	Bad Boy
		Robert Fripp	God Save the Queen/ Under Heavy Manners
		Bobbie & Laurie	The Very Best of...
		The Cretones	Thin Red Line
		The Fabulous Thunderbirds	The Fabulous Thunderbirds
		The Selecter	Too Much Pressure
		Barron Knights	Teach the World to Laugh
		B.A. Robertson	Initial Success
		The Chieftains	The Chieftains 8 & 9
		The Angels	Greatest Hits
		Status Quo	12 Gold Bars
		Genesis	Duke
		10cc	Look Here
3(6)	July 1980	Cold Chisel	East
		The Angels	Dark Room
		Mi-Sex	Space Race
		Magazine	The Correct Use of Soap
		Godley & Creme	Freeze Frame
		Pete Townshend	Empty Glass
		Paul McCartney	McCartney II
		Stiff Little Fingers	Nobody's Heroes
		Devo	Freedom of Choice
		The Beach Boys	Keepin' the Summer Alive
		The Electric Horseman	Film Soundtrack
		Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band	Shiny Beat (Bat Chain Puller)
		Whirlywirld	Second EP
		Various Artists	Fast Product
		The Jam	Setting Sons
		Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark	Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
		Sparks	Terminal Jive
		The Headboys	Shape of Things to Come
		Japan	Quiet Life
		Punishment of Luxury	Laughing Academy
		Mr. Partridge	Takeaway/The Lure of Salvage
3(7)	August 1980	Lou Reed	Growing Up in Public
		The Vapors	New Clear Days
		The Cure	Seventeen Seconds
		Graham Parker & The Rumour	The Up Escalator
		John Cooper Clarke	Snap, Crackle & Bop
		The Human League	Travelogue
		The Kinks	One for the Road
		Marianne Faithfull	Broken English
		Secret Affair	Glory Boys
		The Cramps	Songs The Lord Taught Us (Illegal)
		Ozark Mountain Daredevils	Ozark Mountain Daredevils
		New Musik	From A to B
		The Cure	Boys Don't Cry
		La Femme	La Femme
		UK Subs	Live in London
		The Psychedelic Furs	The Psychedelic Furs
		Daryl Hall	Sacred Songs
		The Dugites	The Dugites
		Billy Falcon	Falcon Around
		Peter Green	Little Dreamer
		Carole King	Pearls: Songs of Goffin & King
3(8)	September 1980	XTC	Black Sea
		AC/DC	Back in Black
		Mental as Anything	Espresso Bongo
		Cybotron	Implosion
		Def Leppard	On Through the Night
		The Monochrome Set	Strange Boutique
		Black Sabbath	Heaven and Hell
		Klaatu	Endangered Species
		Jimi Hendrix	Box Set
		Fischer Z	Going Deaf for a Living
		Dave Mason	Old Crest on a New Wave
3(9)	October 1980	David Bowie	Scary Monsters
		Flowers	Icehouse
		Gary Numan	Telekon
		James Freud	Breaking Silence
		Van Morrison	Common One
		Hawkwind	Live
		Richard Clapton	Dark Spaces
		Yes	Drama
		John Farnham	Uncovered
		Tangerine Dream	Tangram
		Tolley & Dara	Cutheart
		Jack Nitzsche	"Heart Beat" Soundtrack
		The Pop Group	We are Time
		Duffo	The Disappearing Boy
		Young Marble Giants	Colossal Youth
		Hazel O'Connor	Breaking Glass
		Joy Division	Closer
		Echo & The Bunnymen	Crocodiles
		Leo Sayer	Living in a Fantasy
		Carlene Carter	Musical Shapes
		Charlie Daniels Band	Full Moon
		Mikey Dread	World War Three
3(10)	November 1980	Bruce Springsteen	The River
		Redgum	Virgin Ground
		Dexy's Midnight Runners	Searching for the Young Soul Rebels
		Toy Love	Toy Love
		Robert Palmer	Clues
		The Systematics	Rural
		Various Artists	Growing Pains
		Lynton Kwesi Johnson	Bass Culture
		Joni Mitchell	Shadows and Light
		The Visitors	Extended Play 45 - 12"
		Crossfire	East of Where
		Andy Armstrong	Before I Forget
		Pat Benatar	Crimes of Passion
		Talking Heads	Remain in Light
		Philip Lynott	Solo in Soho
		Gary Myrick & The Figures	Gary Myrick & The Figures
3(11 & 12)	December 1980 - January 1981	Various Artists	The 5MMM Compilation
		The Birthday Party	The Birthday Party
		Cheap Trick	All Shook Up
		John Lennon/Yoko Ono	Double Fantasy
		Doctor Feelgood	A Case of the Shakes
		Blondie	Autoamerican
		The Easybeats	Absolute Anthology

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Promo posters as seen on "WKRP in Cincinnati" #75

Albums: The Doors - Greatest Hits (1980, Elektra), The Tubes - The Completion Backward Principle (1981, Capitol), Mink DeVille - Coup De Grâce (1981, Atlantic), and The Police - Ghost in the Machine (A&M, 1981).
Episode: Season 4, Episode 10,"Love, Exciting and New"
Original air date: Wednesday, January 6, 1982

Promo posters as seen on "WKRP in Cincinnati" #68

Albums: Sad Cafe - Sad Cafe (RCA, 1980), Jaco Pastorius - Word of Mouth (Warner Bros., 1981), Jeff Beck - There and Back (Epic, 1980), John Lennon photo, Pretenders - Pretenders II (Sire, 1981).
Episode: Season 4, Episode 13, "Changes"
Original air date: Wednesday, January 27, 1982

MFD Random Five #55

In which I shuffle through some music files and listen to the first five songs from the years 1976-85 that randomly pop up.

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1. "Drivin' My Life Away" by Eddie Rabbitt (1980, Elektra)
   I must have dug the thing back in '80 because I remember every word. I still like the percussive vocals in the verse but the chorus doesn't do much for me now. No bridge, no solo, just a below-average turnaround. But here I am still singing. Go figure.


2. "One Love in My Lifetime" by Diana Ross (1976, Motown)
   Miss Ross. A great Motown single. Sounds like a Supremes tune (especially the intro and chorus) and that's fine with me. As good as it is, it barely makes the top half of songs from that '76 self-titled album.


3. "Kingdom Come" by David Bowie (1980, RCA)
    I once succinctly described the entire Scary Monsters album as "all tension, no release" but this cover of a Tom Verlaine tune hidden halfway through side 2 might be the exception that proves that description. Full of Fripp's manic guitar work, this thing isn't exactly an easy listen, but it's quality stuff nonetheless.


4. "Stay With Me" by George Howard (1985, GRP)
   This is smooth jazz at its nadir - overproduced, mostly synth accompaniment, and Simmons or DMX Drum way up in the mix. And not much to the writing - mostly just one lick. Howard got a pleasant tone on the soprano sax, which isn't easy to do, so I'll give him that. But this was popular, hit #1 on the jazz charts, and moved a bunch of copies - hell, I've even got the CD. Shrug.


5. "Desert Moon" by Dennis DeYoung (1984, A&M)
   I'd almost forgotten this tune but here we go. Like many people, I lost interest in Styx with the Kilroy debacle. Still, DDY was able to later score one more top 40 hit with this ballad. It's not terrible, but sure could have used some Tommy Shaw crunch. 

Promo posters as seen on "WKRP in Cincinnati" #63

Albums: Shalamar - Three for Love (1980, Solar)
Episode: Season 4, Episode 15, "I'll Take Romance"
Original air date: Wednesday, February 17, 1982