Promo posters as seen on "WKRP in Cincinnati" #85

Albums: Peter Tosh - Wanted Dread & Alive (EMI America, 1981), Stiff Records (1980), Jefferson Starship - Modern Times (Grunt, 1981), The Rolling Stones - Tattoo You (Warner/Atlantic, 1981), The Tubes - The Completion Backward Principle (Capitol, 1981)
Episode:  Season 4, Episode 3, "The Union"
Original air date: Wednesday, October 21, 1981

Bonus: visible album sleeve is Tattoo You.

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Promo posters as seen on "WKRP in Cincinnati" #80

Albums: Joe Walsh - There Goes the Neighborhood (Asylum, 1981), Peter Tosh - Wanted: Dread & Alive (EMI, 1981), Rodney Crowell - Rodney Crowell (Warner Bros., 1981), Pretenders - Pretenders II (Sire, 1981), The Tubes - The Completion Backward Principle (Capitol, 1981)
Episode:  Season 4, Episode 4, "Rumors"
Original air date: Wednesday, October 28, 1981

Promo posters as seen on "WKRP in Cincinnati" #79

Albums & singles: Lene Lovich - "New Toy" (Epic, 1981), Peter Tosh - Wanted: Dread & Alive (EMI, 1981), Al Jarreau - Breakin' Away (Warner Bros., 1981), Dynasty - The Second Adventure (Solar, 1981), The Tubes - The Completion Backward Principle (Capitol, 1981)
Episode:  Season 4, Episode 5, "Straight from the Heart"
Original air date: Wednesday, November 4, 1981

It looks like Dr. Fever is perusing the September 19, 1981 issue of Billboard:

MFD Random Five #45

In which I click the shuffle icon on the terminal iTunes app and listen to the first five songs that pop up from the years 1976-85.

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1. "To All the Girls I've Love Before" by Julio Iglesias & Willie Nelson (1984, Columbia)
   An inauspicious start to this post. Hard pass.


2. "Johnny B. Goode" by Peter Tosh (1983, EMI)
   This song doesn't really need covering and this reggae version doesn't come close to the energy of the original.  The reggae groove is okay but there's strange synths and below-average noodling guitar solo. Meh.


3. "Here Comes II (new version)" by INXS (1983, ATCO)
   A mediocre ending to the Dekadance EP, this song can't decide what it wants to be: moody ballad or rocker. Plus Hutchence doesn't give himself a chance to let go. I can't muster much enthusiasm for this Random Five thus far.


4. "Away from Home" by Klark Kent (1980, A&M)
   Kent (a.k.a. Police drummer Stewart Copeland) put out a few singles before the Police hit it big. Not surprisingly, they sound like Stewart's contributions to Police albums. Copeland "re-purposed" the melody from this song's chorus (a simple descending arpeggio) for "Bombs Away" from Zenyatta Mondatta. 


5. "Nervous Wreck" by Radio Stars (1977, Chiswick)
   Average power pop/early New Wave, this quirky thing is enjoyable enough, but compared to the rest of this Random Five, it's a two minute, four chord masterpiece.

Promo posters as seen on "WKRP in Cincinnati" #30

Albums: Elvis Costello - Trust (Columbia, 1981), Joe Walsh - There Goes the Neighborhood (Asylum, 1981), Peter Tosh - Wanted Dread & Alive (EMI America, 1981), Stiff Records (1980, see below), The Clash - The Clash (CBS, 1977), The Rolling Stones - Tattoo You (Warner/Atlantic, 1981), The Tubes - The Completion Backward Principle (Capitol, 1981)
Episode:  Season 4, Episode 1, "An Explosive Affair: Part 1"
Original air date: Wednesday, October 7, 1981

Bonus: visible album jacket is RocKihnRoll by The Greg Kihn Band (Beserkley, 1981). The song playing under this scene is "Can't Stop Hurting Myself" which is track 4 on the album.

Promo posters as seen on "WKRP in Cincinnati" #16

Albums: Peter Tosh - Wanted: Dread or Alive (EMI, 1981) and Foreigner - 4 (Atlantic, 1981)
Episode:  Season 4, Episode 6, "Who's on First"
Original air date: Wednesday, November 11, 1981