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

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

I'm not a big on sci-fi or aliens, but for some reason I bought a package of movie trading cards for this one:

Having hauled these around for 40 years and never looking at them, I've decided to unload them on eBay just to see if I can get 10¢ for them. But isn't this (allegedly) a music blog?

The discofied version of the John Williams theme peaked at #13 on the Billboard pop chart in 1978.

The inferior Meco disco version peaked at #25 on the Billboard chart in 1978.

Today's music education lesson: the hand signs used in the movie are the actual Solfege hand signs for the movie's five note theme motif:

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But there was more to November, 1977 than the release of the Close Encounters movie. Here's a reminder as to what was topping the Billboard charts on November 19, 1977.

	Top LP Rumours Fleetwood Mac
	Hot 100 "You Light Up My Life" Debby Boone
	Soul Album Brick Brick
	Soul Single "Serpentine Fire" Earth, Wind & Fire
	Country Album Elvis in Concert Elvis Presley
	Country Single "The Wurlitzer Prize" Waylon Jennings
	Adult Contemporary  "You Light Up My Life" Debby Boone
	Classical Album Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3 London Symphony Orchestra

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