1984: The Year In Top 40 Hits (Week 11: March 17, 1984)
Thompson Twins, Paul Young, Laid Back, Midnight Star, plus Tracey Ullman introduces me to one of my favorite songwriters
(Note: If you’re new here, you might want to read an introduction to this series to get caught up on what we’re doing. Glad you could make it.)
Welcome to the third week in March, traditionally spring break week in Texas public schools and therefore the week where I started looking forward to summer being only about eight weeks away. We’ll talk in depth about one of those weeks when we get to it. There were only seven new entries this week, the highest being “Head Over Heels” by The Go-Go’s at 58. We’ll definitely get to that one, too.
At #19, “Hold Me Now” by Thompson Twins
For the second week in a row, I’ve already written about all the songs in the Top 10, so we’re starting down a notch and adding a second bonus track. Anyway, I was an early adopter of Thompson Twins. KBCO-FM, the increasingly new wave-oriented radio station I listened to in my former hometown of Longmont, Colorado, latched on to their breakthrough single “In The Name Of Love” in the fall of 1982. Also, Arista Records cleverly priced their US debut album (a compilation of the best…
