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This Week In The 80’s: A Slim Chance In Tight Pants

Eric Vardeman

This Week In The 80’s: A Slim Chance In Tight Pants February, 1988. It’s my last semester of high school and I DO NOT wanna be there. My daily class schedule is a joke and CONTINUE READING…

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This Week In The 80’s: Young Love & Nuclear Bombs

Eric Vardeman

This Week In The 80’s: Young Love & Nuclear Bombs February 7th, 1987. I’m a junior in high school. I drive a hot car (’71 Matador Red Chevelle Malibu), I’m in a band and I’m CONTINUE READING…

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This Week In The 80’s: It’s Only Love

Eric Vardeman

This Week In The 80’s: It’s Only Love It’s January of 1986. I’m a sophomore in high school and about six weeks from getting my drivers license. There’s A LOT of great music on the CONTINUE READING…

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This Week In The 80’s: The Death of Simon Le Bon Was Greatly Exaggerated. Or Was It?

Eric Vardeman

This Week In The 80’s: The Death of Simon Le Bon Was Greatly Exaggerated. Or Was It? It’s the end of January, 1985. Second semester of my freshman year of high school. Madonna is spending CONTINUE READING…

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This Week In The 80’s: Ground Control To Major Tom.

Eric Vardeman

This Week In The 80’s: Ground Control To Major Tom. It’s 1984. Michael Jackson and Paul McCartney sat near the top of the charts (#2) at the beginning of 1983 and now they sit at CONTINUE READING…

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This Week In The 80’s: Toni Basil Sues ‘Em All!

Eric Vardeman

This Week In The 80’s: Toni Basil Sues ‘Em All! It’s 1983. It’s 1983. Men At Work supplant Daryl Hall & John Oates’ “Maneater” in the #1 spot (which has been there for the past CONTINUE READING…

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This Week In The 80’s: Olivia Newton-John Gets “Physical”.

Eric Vardeman

This Week In The 80’s: Olivia Newton-John Gets “Physical”. It’s 1982. MTV had only been around for a short five months and was only available in a few markets because conservative cable operators refused to CONTINUE READING…

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Way Back Wednesday: The Year End Wrap Up

Eric Vardeman

1983: The Year End Wrap Up Well, kids…here we are. The final post in our year long look at the music of 1983. Several times this year, I’ve been asked why I consider 1983 as CONTINUE READING…

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Way Back Wednesday: The Top Music of December 23, 1983

Eric Vardeman

This Week In 1983: The Top Music of December 23, 1983 Well, folks…here we are. The last charting week of 1983. Big jumps this week by Matthew Wilder (who climbs nine spots to land at CONTINUE READING…

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Way Back Wednesday: The Top Music of December 16, 1983

Eric Vardeman

This Week In 1983: The Top Music of December 16, 1983 Not a ton of movement on the chart this week. The biggest drop of the week belongs to Michael Jackson as “P.Y.T” drops 16 CONTINUE READING…

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Way Back Wednesday: The Top Music of December 9, 1983

Eric Vardeman

This Week In 1983: The Top Music of December 9, 1983 Lionel Richie finally gives up the top spot making way for Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson’s second collaboration of the year, “Say Say Say”. CONTINUE READING…

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Way Back Wednesday: The Top Music of December 2, 1983

Eric Vardeman

This Week In 1983: The Top Music of December 2, 1983 We’re in the home stretch people! Only three chart weeks left in this year-long exercise. This is Lionel Richie’s last week in the top CONTINUE READING…

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Way Back Wednesday: The Top Music of November 25, 1983

Eric Vardeman

This Week In 1983: The Top Music of November 25, 1983 Lionel Richie and “All Night Long” still holds strong at the top again this week as our top five song remain unchanged. As a CONTINUE READING…

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Way Back Wednesday: The Top Music of November 18, 1983

Eric Vardeman

This Week In 1983: The Top Music of November 18, 1983 Lionel Richie and “All Night Long” still holds on to the top spot this week. Quiet Riot reaches their peak of #5. Even though CONTINUE READING…

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Way Back Wednesday: The Top Music of November 11, 1983

Eric Vardeman

This Week In 1983: The Top Music of November 11, 1983 Kenny and Dolly give way to Lionel Richie as he moves into the #1 spot this week with “All Night Long (All Night)”. He’ll CONTINUE READING…

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