Smorgasbord Blog Magazine – Music Column – The Breakfast Show with William Price King and Sally Cronin – Chart Hits 1984 Part Two – Cyndi Lauper , Tina Turner, Lionel Richie, Kenny Loggins-

Each week William and I select two top hits from the charts in the US and UK starting with 1960 for two weeks followed by 1961 etc..through to 1985. We will also include some of the notable events in those years for the up and coming stars who were centre stage at the time. We are now in the 1980s.

Welcome to our show and we are excited to share decades of music with you in 2021. Here is my second selection of top 1984 hits which I hope you will enjoy.

News Event: June 4th Columbia Records releases “Born in the USA”, the 7th studio album by Bruce Springsteen; His biggest commercial success topped the charts in 11 countries and sold over 30 million copies, worldwide

Cyndi Lauper  –  Time after time

“Time after time,” composed by Cyndi Lauper and Ron Hyman, was Lauper’s first #1 hit in the US. It peaked at #3 on the UK Singles Chart and reached #3 in Australia. It entered the Rolling Stone and MTV’s “100 Greatest Pop Songs” at #66 and VH1’s “100 Best Songs of the Past 25 Years” and “100 Greatest Songs of the 80s” lists, at #22 and #19 respectively. “Time After Time” was also nominated for a Grammy Award for “Song of the Year

News Event:  June 25th Prince releases his “Purple Rain” album

Tina Turner  –  What’s love got to do with it 

“What’s love got to do with it,” Turner’s most successful single, was from the album “Private Dancer.”  It was her first and only #1 single on Billboard’s Hot 100. At the time, she was 44, and became the oldest solo female artist to top the Hot 100 chart. The song received three Grammy Awards: Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best Female Pop Performance. The song’s title, in 1993, was used as the title for the biographical film of her life. In 2012, it was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame, giving Turner her third Grammy Hall of Fame Award.  Rolling Stone ranked the song at #309 on its list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.  The song also ranked #38 on the Songs of the Century list.

News Event: September 1st “What’s Love Got to Do With It” single tops the charts, giving Tina Turner her 1st #1 as a solo artist

Now time for my second picks from 1984 and I hope you will enjoy my selection.

Lionel Richie – Hello

“Hello” is a song by Lionel Richie. Taken as the third single from his second solo album Can’t Slow Down (1983), the song was released in 1984 and reached number one on three Billboard music charts: the pop chart (for two weeks), the R&B chart (for three weeks), and the adult contemporary chart (for six weeks). The song also went to number one in the UK Singles Chart for six weeks. acidburn950

News Event: December 3rd “Do They Know It’s Christmas” single written by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure and sung by Band Aid is released in the UK

Kenny Loggins – Footloose

“Footloose” is a song co-written and recorded by American singer-songwriter Kenny Loggins. It was released in January 1984 as the first of two singles by Loggins from the 1984 film of the same name (the other one being “I’m Free (Heaven Helps the Man)”). The song spent three weeks at number one, March 31—April 14, 1984 on the US Billboard Hot 100, and was the first of two number-one hits from the film. Billboard ranked it at the No. 4 song for 1984. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 1985 ceremony, losing to Stevie Wonder’s “I Just Called to Say I Love You” from The Woman in Red. Kenny Loggins

Additional sources: On This Day – Music – Hits of the 80s: Playback FM – Wikipedia

Your Hosts for The Breakfast Show

William Price King is an American jazz singer, crooner, and composer.

His interest in music began at an early age when he studied piano and clarinet in high school. At Morehouse College in Atlanta where he grew up, he sang in the Glee Club and studied classical music. After graduation he went off to the Yale School of Music where he earned a Masters degree. From there he journeyed to New York where he created a jazz trio ‘Au Naturel’ which performed in some of the hottest venues in Manhattan including gigs on Broadway and the famous ‘Rainbow Room.’ These gigs opened doors for performances in Montreal and a European tour.

While touring Europe he met a lovely French lady, Jeanne Maïstre, who, a year later became his wife. King left the group ‘Au Naturel’ and settled in the south of France where he started a new life on the French Riviera, opening his own music school – the “Price King Ecole Internationale de Chant.” He has had the pleasure over the years of seeing many of his students excel as singers on a professional level, and some going on to become national celebrities. He continues to coach young singers today, in his spare time.

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Sally Cronin is an author, blogger and broadcaster who enjoyed four years as part of the team on Onda Cero International’s English speaking morning show in Marbella and then for two years as a presenter on Expressfm the local radio station in Portsmouth. She co-presented two ‘Drive Time’ shows a week with Adrian Knight, hosted the live Thursday Afternoon Show and The Sunday Morning Show guests including musicians and authors. Following this she became Station Director for a local internet television station for two years, producing and presenting the daily news segment, outside broadcasts and co-presenting the Adrian and Sally chat show live on Friday evenings.

She and her husband David have now returned to Ireland where they live on the Wexford Coast where she blogs and continues to write books.

Books :Amazon US – And: Amazon UK – More reviews: Goodreads – blog: Smorgasbord Blog Magazine Twitter: @sgc58 – Facebook: Sally Cronin – LinkedIn: Sally Cronin

Next week 1985 Part One. We hope you will tune in.. as always we love to hear from you.. thanks William and Sally.