It’s the debut of Mr. Romance’s Top 10 Countdown Show, a look at the 10 most popular songs on the Adult Contemporary chart for the week of March 8, 1980.
We’ll share 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
1980: The year a loaf of bread was $.50 and a gallon of gas was $1.22.
At the movies, you were watching
The Empire Strikes Back
The Blues Brothers
Airplane!
On television:
The Love Boat
The Jeffersons
Three’s Company
And the big conversation around the water cooler was: “Who Shot J.R”, on the TV show Dallas.
Top 10 Countdown Show Trivia Question
In 1980, a Hungarian sculptor and professor of architecture licensed his game to the Ideal Toy Company which as of today has sold over 450 million units making it the best-selling toy in history. Do you know which toy it is? Take a listen to the show below for the answer.
Song Spotlight
This week, we’ll take a look at a song sitting right outside the Top 10 chart at #11: From movie Fastbreak starring Gabe Kaplan, it’s the duet of Billy Preston and Syreeta which spent 13 weeks on the chart, but never reached higher than it’s #11 position: With You I’m Born Again.
Listen Live
Mr. Romance’s Top 10 Countdown show comes to you every Saturday night at 7 p.m. with an encore presentation Sunday morning at 10 a.m. (Pacific Time) on 97 Lite FM.
Listen On Demand
Sit back and relax with your favorite love songs from the week of March 8, 1980.
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.