1984: The Year In Top 40 Hits (Week 23: June 9, 1984)
The Cars, Icicle Works, a solo Bee Gee, Whitney’s first chart hit, and we say goodbye to Footloose at long last
(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.)
Interesting mix of the inescapable and the forgotten here, including the little-remembered first Billboard entry by an artist who went on to help define pop music in the latter half of the decade. There were 6 new entries, the highest being “Sad Songs (Say So Much)” by Elton John at 49.
At #19, “Almost Paradise” by Mike Reno and Ann Wilson
You know, I was really hoping not to cover this song, mostly because I’ve never really cared for it but also because this is [literally has to go to the soundtrack’s Wikipedia entry to count back] the fifth out of seven singles from the Footloose soundtrack that I’ve written about. Spoiler alert: I will probably not be writing about Kenny Loggins’ “I’m Free (Heaven Helps The Man)” or Karla Bonoff’s “Somebody’s Eyes.” And for the record, the only songs on this soundtrack not released as singles were Sammy Hagar’s “The Girl Gets Around” and “Never” by the little-remembered Australian…
