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1983

Way Back Wednesday

Way Back Wednesday: The Top Music of April 29th, 1983

Eric Vardeman

This Week In 1983: April 29th Only out of the top spot for a week, Michael Jackson retakes the #1 position with “Beat It”. In the bottom half of the Top Twenty, Duran Duran meets CONTINUE READING…

Features

Way Back Wednesday: The Top Music of February 26, 1983

Eric Vardeman

This Week In 1983: February 26th Patti Austin and James Ingram are holding strong at #1 with “Baby, Come To Me”. Toto and “Africa” fall fourteen spots to #19, Phil Collins drops twelve spots to CONTINUE READING…

Features

Way Back Wednesday: The Top Music of February 19, 1983

Eric Vardeman

This Week In 1983: February 19th We have a new #1 song this week. Patti Austin and James Ingram move into the top spot with “Baby, Come To Me”. The top 20 remains largely unchanged CONTINUE READING…

Features

Way Back Wednesday: The Top Music of February 5, 1983

Eric Vardeman

This Week In 1983: February 5th After three weeks in the top spot, Men At Work finally slip one notch making way for Toto and their only #1 hit “Africa”. The song was written by CONTINUE READING…

Columns

Way Back Wednesday: The Top Music of January 29, 1983

Eric Vardeman

This Week In 1983: January 29th Men At Work are still holding down the top spot. After being in the top ten since November of 1982, “Mickey” by Toni Basil starts it’s quick descent back CONTINUE READING…

Features

Way Back Wednesday: January 8, 1983

Eric Vardeman

This Week In 1983: January 8th Our first number one song of the year belongs to Daryl Hall & John Oates. The prototype for the song was a piece that John Oates had been banging CONTINUE READING…

Features

Way Back Wednesday: The Music of 1983

Eric Vardeman

There’s a scene in the movie, The Devil Wears Prada, where the character Andy (played by Anne Hathaway) is complaining to a co-worker, Nigel (played by Stanley Tucci), about her job, her boss and the CONTINUE READING…

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