Bubbling Under 1982 [Part 5 of 5]

Using information found in the above supplement, below is an annotated list of songs that didn't quite crack the Billboard Hot 100, provided with links in hopes of helping you find some vintage tunes that are new to you. Click on the title to hear the tune or see the video, click on the artist for a Wikipedia entry, and click on the album for the Discogs entry. In all, there were 105 tracks that "bubbled under" the Hot 100 in 1982, here's the final 21.

Title	Artist	Album	BU	Rock	AC	RB	Dance	Country
Try Jah Love	Third World	You've Got the Power	101			23	17
Nobody but Me	George Thorogood & The Destroyers	Bad to the Bone	106	32
The Walk	The Time	What Time is It?	104			24	42
Wordy Rappinghood	Tom Tom Club	Tom Tom Club	105				1
Which Man are You	Tommy Tutone	Tommy Tutone-2	101
Face Dances, Pt. 2	Pete Townshend	All the Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes	105	15
Say Goodbye	Triumph	Say Goodbye	102	50
Somebody to Love	Dwight Twilley	Scuba Divers	106	14
That's the Way That It Is	Uriah Heep	Abominog	106	25
Don't You Know That?	Luther Vandross	Never Too Much	107			10
Nasty Girl	Vanity 6	Vanity 6	101			7	1
Come to Me	Jennifer Warnes	Best of Jennifer Warnes	107		40
Jamming	Grover Washington, Jr.	Come Morning	102
The Best is Yet to Come	Grover Washington, Jr.	The Best is Yet to Come	104			14
In the Raw	Whispers	Love is Where You Find It	103			8	8
Waiting by the Hotline	Deniece Williams	Niecy	103			29
Theme from E.T.	John Williams	E.T. Soundtrack	103
If You Think You're Lonely Now	Bobby Womack	The Poet	101			3
Work that Sucker to Death	Xavier	Point of Pleasure	104			6	21
Dance Floor (Part 1)	Zapp	Zapp II	101			1	62
Doo Wa Ditty (Blow That Thing)	Zapp	Zapp II	103			10

1984 - The Golden Age of Soundtracks?

This post follows up a previous post that posed the same question for 1985.  In 1984, 20 singles reached the #1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100. Of those 20, seven came directly from movie soundtracks.  That's 35%, slightly higher than the 33% of 1985 (9 of 27).

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		"Footloose" Kenny Loggins #1 for three weeks, Mar 31 - Apr 14  from the movie Footloose
"Against All Odds (Take A Look At Me Now)" Phil Collins #1 for three weeks, Apr 21 - May 5 from the movie Against All Odds
		"Let's Hear It For The Boy" Deniece Williams #1 for two weeks, May 26 - June 2 from the movie Footloose
"When Doves Cry" Prince #1 for five weeks, July 7 - Aug 4 from the movie Purple Rain.
		"Ghostbusters" Ray Parker, Jr. #1 for three weeks, August 11-25 from the movie Ghostbusters
"Let's Go Crazy" Prince and the Revolution #1 for two weeks, Sept 29 - Oct 6 from the movie Purple Rain
		"I Just Called To Say I Love You" Stevie Wonder #1 for three weeks, Oct 13 - 27 from the movie The Woman in Red

As far as the number of weeks that a soundtrack single topped the Billboard chart, 1984, with twenty-one weeks, easily bests 1985's fourteen weeks. Looking at those numbers, 1984 wins in terms of quantity, but I'm going to give the subjective edge to 1985 in terms of quality. 

Of these 7, my favorites are "Footloose" and "Let's Go Crazy".  I've never seen Against All Odds or The Woman in Red, but I watch Footloose fairly regularly - "I thought this was a party. LET'S DAAAANCE!"

Other soundtrack hits from 1984 that didn't make the top spot include:

• "I Can Dream About You" by Dan Hartman from Streets of Fire  (peaked at #6)
• "Twist of Fate" by Olivia Newton-John from Two of a Kind (#5)
• "Almost Paradise" by Mike Reno & Ann Wilson from Footloose (#7)
• "Breakin'... There's No Stopping Us" by Ollie & Jerry from Breakin' (#9)
• "Dancing in the Sheets" by Shalamar from Footloose (#17)
• "On the Dark Side" by John Cafferty & The Beaver Brown Band from Eddie & The Cruisers (#7)

The winner of the Oscar for Best Original Song at the 57th Academy Awards was "I Just Called To Say I Love You."

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