Before I started this blog, I posted about songs from old AT40s on Facebook, January-July 2017. I’ll be moving them here over time. These two entries have been edited a bit from the originals.
3/8/80: Kicking off the countdown is this fine tune by J. Geils and crew; it climbed to #32. It’s another song for which it’s tough to find a decent video. Apologies for it being a little out-of-focus, but we can still see Peter Wolf go through his whole repertoire of moves! It’s pretty well overshadowed now by the follow-up, “Love Stinks,” which made #38 about three months later.
The man who gave his name to the band died about a month after I posted this originally.
5/31/80: When I posted this last year, the day before had been Canadian singer-songwriter Bruce Cockburn’s 72nd birthday–he’s almost back around for another one now. This was his sole US Top 40 song (#25 here, soon to reach #21), though he got a decent amount of airplay a few years later for “If I Had a Rocket Launcher.”
Enjoy the pix of numerous kings and queens of the jungle.
The Music of My Life 
Huge fan of both of these tracks.
“Come Back” was one of the first dozen tracks I successfully lobbied for and got added to B100.fm rotation with the caveat that I track down the single edit which was almost too easy.
The strangely chill political “If I Had A Rocket Launcher” was my gateway to Cockburn’s back catalog and the sublime “Wondering Where The Lions Are”
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