Album ads from December 1977

 

Speaker Death! Heavy Metal Head-Bangers (1981)

1981 promotional sampler from Columbia Records

Recently came across this LP and while it isn't exactly my thing, I bought it anyway. The use of the term "heavy metal" is certainly questionable in some cases, but the whole thing reminds me of music I heard blaring out of cars and pickup trucks when I first went cruising in high school. In my little town, the cruising strip ran from the Dairy Queen to the movie theater. So open up your t-top, blast some pop-metal, and drive your sports car 20 mph. Good times.

Judas Priest - "Hot Rockin'" from Point of Entry
Frank Marino - "The Power of Rock and Roll" from The Power of Rock and Roll
Blue Öyster Cult - "Heavy Metal: The Black and Silver" from Fire of Unknown Origin
The Joe Perry Project - "No Substitute for Arrogance" from I've Got The Rock 'N' Rolls Again
Ted Nugent - "The Flying Lip Lock" from Intensities in Ten Cities

Journey - "Dead or Alive" from Escape
Ozzy Osborne - "Crazy Train" from Blizzard of Ozz
Brad Whitford & Derek St. Holmes - "Whiskey Woman" from Brad Whitford/Derek St. Holmes
Loverboy - "Teenage Overdose" (Live Version)

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Two Hit Wonders 1976-85 [1 of 16]

More rare than the one hit wonder is the elusive two hit wonder (common sense tells me that's true, I haven't really done any research into that claim so I'm just guessing). [ed. note 10/26/18 - we've done further research and the previous statement appears to be accurate.] I've never heard a retro radio station do a "two-hit wonder flashback weekend" or a "two-hit Tuesday" but that's their loss. Many of these artists are occasionally mistaken for a one hit wonder or have hit other charts in Billboard, but each hit the Top 40 only twice. In no particular order, here's four of the 64 that I found:

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STEVIE WOODS
Born in Columbus, Ohio. Male R&B singer/songwriter. Son of jazz great Rusty Bryant.

Title	Top 40 Debut	Chart Peak
Steal the Night	11/14/81	25
Just Can't Win 'Em All	3/20/82	38

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SALSOUL ORCHESTRA
Disco orchestra conducted by producer/arranger Vincent Montana.
Vocalists included Phyllis Rhodes, Ronni Tyson, Carl Helm, Philip Hurt and Jocelyn Brown.

Title	Top 40 Debut	Chart Peak
Tangerine	2/14/76	18
Nice 'N' Naasty	10/30/76	30

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TEENA MARIE
Born Mary Christine Brockert on 3/5/56 in Santa Monica; raised in Venice, California.
White funk singer/songwriter.

Title	Top 40 Debut	Chart Peak
I Need Your Lovin'	1/17/81	37
Lovergirl	2/2/85	4

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BLUE ÖYSTER CULT
Hard-rock group from Long Island, New York: Eric Bloom (vocals), Donald "Buck Dharma" Roeser (guitar),
Allen Lanier (keyboards), and brothers Joe (bass) and Albert (drums) Bouchard.

Title	Top 40 Debut	Chart Peak
(Don't Fear) The Reaper	9/4/76	12
Burnin' for You	10/3/81	40

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*to qualify as a MFD two hit wonder, the artist or group can have placed only two singles in the Billboard Top 40 and those two singles must have entered the Top 40 during the years 1976-85. Data and artist descriptions taken from The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, 7th edition (2000).