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 November 29, 1980. Click here if you missed last week’s show featuring 1995.
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
The year was 1980:
The US Olympic ice hockey team made history at the 1980 Lake Placid Winter Olympics in what was later called the Miracle on Ice by defeating the four-time gold medal winning team from the Soviet Union.
At the movies, you were watching:
The Empire Strikes Back
Raging Bull
The Shining
On television:
Dallas
The Jeffersons
One Day at a Time
….and Magnum, P.I., Bosom Buddies and Too Close for Comfort all made their prime time TV debuts.
Top 10 Countdown Show Trivia Question
The same year, the first of a series of novels were released based on a fictional spy with remarkable survival abilities who has retrograde amnesia, and must seek to discover his true identity. Can you guess the name of our mystery series of books that were made into a 1988 TV movie along with a feature film in 2002? Take a listen to the show for the answer.
Song Spotlight
Barry Manilow has recorded and released 51 Top 40 singles on the Adult Contemporary chart, including 13 that hit number one, 28 appeared within the top ten, and 36 in the Top 20. He has released 13 Platinum and six multi-Platinum albums. And in the 70’s Frank Sinatra was quoted as saying, “He’s next.” And Old Blue Eyes was right because Barry has sold more than 85 million records as a solo artist worldwide, making him one of the best-selling artists of all time. From his 1980 Platinum album Barry, in its second week on the chart, I Made It Through The Rain is up 17 spots to #16.
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Sit back, relax and enjoy your favorite love songs from the week of November 29, 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.