January 1984

[Spellbound]

the 1980's had to be one of the worst era's for music ever

worst era until the 2000's came along

[buckaroo]

the 1980's had to be one of the worst era's for music ever

worst era until the 2000's came along

As John McEnore used to say "You cannot be serious!!" :lol: :lol:

Xena was a monster for me, as was George Kraantz, but otherwise we must have had a whole different lot of records doing the business for us, over here in the UK. Wonder what they were?

Well Quinny, according to my yellowing copy of Blues & Soul dated Jan 31st to Feb 13th 1984...



New British Singles:-
David Joseph "Joys of Life"
James Ingram "Yah Mo Be There"
Fascination "Out To Get You"
Third World "Lagos Jump"
Fat Larry's Band "Straight from the Heart"
Kinky Foxx "So Different"
Richard Joh Smith "In the Night"
Sharon Redd "You're a Winner"
Herbie Hancock "Aftershock"
Girls Can't Help it "Bady Doll"
Jimmy Cliff "We all are One"
David Sanborn "Neither one of us"
World Premiere "Share the night"
Stacy Lattisaw "Million Dollar Babe"
The B Boys "Cuttin' Herbie"
Manhattan Transfer "Spice of Life"

David Joseph and Kinky Foxx did the biz here BITD.

And...According to the mag's City Slicker's chart's top 10:
1 Evan Rogers "Secret Love"
2 Luther "Busy Body"
3 Charles Earland "Doogie Doogie Baby"
4 City Circle Band "Magic"
5 West Phillips "Sucker for a pretty face"
6 Deco "Fresh Idea"
7 Tyrone Brunson "Fresh"
8 World Premiere "Share The Night"
9 Womack & Womack "Love Wars"
10 Julius Brown "Never too Late"

Why did people say "Fresh" back then?

[FlyRobinFly]

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The following is the TOP 20 Disco/Dance songs for the month of January 1984 ( in alphabetical order) . What I am curious about are these two things ....................

1) Which of these songs did you buy/get then .............. (later?)

2) Which do you still listen to today ???

January 1984

Top 20 Dance/Disco Recordings

Art Of Noise - Beat Box (Island)
Basil, Toni - Over My Head (Chrysalis)
Burton, Jenny - Remember What You Like (Atlantic)
Cara, Irene - Why Me? (Geffen)
Culture Club - Colour By Numbers (LP) (Virgin)
Freeez - Pop Goes My Love / Scratch Goes My Dub (Streetwise)
Gang Of Four - Is It Love (Warner Bros.)
Hall, Daryl and John Oates - Say It Isn't So (RCA)
Kitt, Eartha - Where Is My Man? (Streetwise)
Kranz, George - Trommeltanz (Din Daa Daa) (Personal)
Laid Back - White Horse (Warner Bros.)
Lisa - Rocket To Your Heart (Moby Dick)
Pointer Sisters - Automatic / Jump (For My Love) (Planet)
Re-Flex - The Politics Of Dancing (Capitol)
Rolling Stones - Undercover Of the Night / Too Much Blood (Rolling Stones)
Romantics - Talking In Your Sleep (Epic)
Sylvester - Too Late / Trouble In Paradise (Megatone)
Xena - On the Upside (Emergency)
Yello - Pumping Velvet / No More Words (Elektra)
Yes - Owner Of a Lonely Heart (Atco)

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You guys are killing me with the "god awful" comments! I totally agree. The songs from this list that were disco danceable were Jenny Burton's "Remember What You Like ", Xena "On the Upside", Pointer Sisters' "Automatic", Art of Noise "Beat Box" (couldn't stop shaking my but to that one!)

The Reflex, Romantics and Yes -- I liked somewhat, not really danceable. I was in college at the time and extremely ADD (we didn't call it that then -- just unfocused ;) ) But the all time jam at that time was "White Horse". We would just dance and point at a friend on the dance floor -- Rich......B---tch!!! LOL!

[Noman]

84 was the last year I worked full time as a DJ. I got almost all dancemusic that was distributed in Sweden as promotional records. All the imports i had to buy..
And the chart here was slightly different but from your 1st list I got:
Art Of Noise - Beat Box (Island)
Cara, Irene - Why Me? (Geffen)
Culture Club - Colour By Numbers (LP) (Virgin)
Freeez - Pop Goes My Love / Scratch Goes My Dub (Streetwise)
Gang Of Four - Is It Love (Warner Bros.)
Hall, Daryl and John Oates - Say It Isn't So (RCA)
Kitt, Eartha - Where Is My Man? (Streetwise)
Kranz, George - Trommeltanz (Din Daa Daa) (Personal)
Laid Back - White Horse (Warner Bros.)
Pointer Sisters - Automatic / Jump (For My Love) (Planet)
Romantics - Talking In Your Sleep (Epic)
Yes - Owner Of a Lonely Heart (Atco)

and I baught

Lisa - Rocket To Your Heart (Moby Dick)

The ones I still could listen to are

Hall, Daryl and John Oates - Say It Isn't So
Kitt, Eartha - Where Is My Man? :oops:
and
Romantics. The 12" was nice with intro and breaks that made it quite danceable (Far from disco but ...)