It’s time for another edition of Mr. Romance’s Top 10 Countdown Show, a look back at the 10 most popular songs on the Adult Contemporary chart for the week of June 13, 1981. Click here if you missed last week’s show featuring 1992.
Get ready for pop culture, trivia and all your lite hits that might just bring back some memories or maybe you’ll discover some new soft rock favorites.
Top 10 Countdown Show Pop Culture
1981: The price of gas was $1.31 a gallon. It was the year MTV launched. And Donkey Kong is released as an arcade game, debuting a character named Mario.
At the movies, you were watching
Raiders of the Lost Ark
On Golden Pond
Superman II
On television:
Dallas
60 Minutes
The Jeffersons
And 700 million people worldwide watched the televised wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana.
Top 10 Countdown Show Trivia Question
1981: The year the first production of a futuristic sports car with stainless steel body panels and other unique features debuted. Over the next two years nearly 9,000 cars were produced until the manufacturer went bankrupt in 1982. Can you guess this mystery car? Take a listen to the show below for the answer.
Song Spotlight
Take My Time was the debut album by Scottish singer and actress Sheena Easton which scored her 2 huge hits. The first, Morning Train (9 to 5) which spent 2 weeks at #1 just a few months earlier. And our next song which is at #27 in its 2nd week on the chart, eventually winding up at #13: Modern Girl
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Sit back, relax and enjoy your favorite love songs from the week of June 13, 1981.
An avid record collector, lover of all desserts and sometimes seen wearing multiple Swatch watches, Dave has been lending his voice for over 20 years heard on such prominent brands as Intel, RCA, Eddie Bauer, Kellogg‘s, Pizza Hut, Lexus, and infomercial giants Guthy-Renker and Beachbody. His narration projects include Japan’s preeminent automobile series Best Motoring International and Hot Version, along with GTChannel, QVC, Universal Music Enterprises, and ViSalus Sciences.