Sensational Songs that had everyone talking back in the day

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Do you remember when that certain song dropped like a bomb? A song with appeal that spread like wildfire? It was played everywhere. The Clubs, radio, on your boombox,thejuekbox, your walkman. When your Elementary school had a party, you borrowed your mom or Dads 45. Songs Like:

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Rock records so huge if you didn't dig the sound you still heard of them:

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This was so huge in 81.

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Songs that were straight gimmicks, buy they got our attention:

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I could barely stand Country music. Yet, these songs still reached the mainstream in the 70s:

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Played so much that summer, I hated it.

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Public Enemy beefed about not getting a lot of radio play, early on. That all Changed after:

[Mike Barnes]

Tab, Here's a few plates that cats we're running mad lovely and had cats getting the bone out they're backs at throwdowns in New York during the 1970's,80's, My man.

Much Respect
Mike Barnes

1.'Touch and go', By Extacy, Passion and Pain(1973)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeG4-...eature=related

2.'Let's Get in together', By El Coco(1976)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPqjOqBmecI

3.'Get on the Funk train', By Munich Machine(1977)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rh5B191zlDo

4.'Hotshot', By Karen Young(1978)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5TlpUF2GGw

5.'Ring my bell', By Anita Ward(1979)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8zuqsqdCAQ

6.Shame by Elvelyn Champane King(1977)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMbty5vEBGU

7.'Caught up in a one night love affair', By Inner Life(1979)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uq6HQG-cce0

8.'Got to be real', By Cheryl Lynn(1978)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWfTyEK-N_Y

9.Ain't no stoppin us know by McFadden and Whitehead(1978)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuAZT...eature=related

10.And the beat goes on by The Whispers(1979)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrkEd0dc9j8

11.Never too much by Luther Vandross(1981)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uv7y6PKEYms

12.Glow of love by Change(1980)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsgOMbERc4A

13.Dance to the Drummer's beat by herman kelly and Life(1977)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1YKlmyHtE4

14.Watchin you by Slave(1980)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeZeAcuIkgk

15.Dancin by Crown Heights Affair(1975)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xH0WkdvRpzM

[DaveR]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ne7fPpxAnuM

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Tab, Here's a few plates that cats we're running mad lovely and had cats getting the bone out they're backs at throwdowns in New York during the 1970's,80's, My man.

Much Respect
Mike Barnes

5.'Ring my bell', By Anita Ward(1979)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8zuqsqdCAQ


14.Watchin you by Slave(1980)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeZeAcuIkgk

Yeah these two, most def. I remember 'Ring my bell' the spring of 79. Just huge. played at my 8th grade sock-hop. Also 'watching you' or as we called it 'Walking down the street watchin ladies walk by'. LOL

Another big one Mike:

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More songs that got your attention and had ya talkin:

[Marshall Jefferson]

[Marshall Jefferson]

[Marshall Jefferson]

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I was 6 when What's going on was out, so I missed out on what it was like when the song first came out. But I do remember the buzz when this one hit. Folks were saying Marvin's back! LOL.

[Elbert Phillips]

I have to mention "Got to Give it Up" by Marvin Gaye. Although I wasn't crazy about it, the world was seemingly. My cousin Adrien, an adult who had a powerful stereo and all the latest (albeit commercial) hits, I remember him saying to my mother that he was on his way to Metro Music to pick it up. Heard the baseline to that, and many others continuously, as he lived below us-LOL!

[Phyllis Hyman Cherry]

Everyone seemed to be listening to this that year. I remember my aunt having a new years ever party and putting this on, the whole family was getiing down. It is a monster even to this day.

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Without a doubt, this record is the one that made think of this subject. It is the most talked about recording of my lifetime, that I recall. I remember us bringing radio tape players to school and playing this song anytime we could, to learn the words. Hell, it's the only rap song that I can completely recite, too this day without fuggin up the lyrics.LOL

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'She's got papers' was some funny shit. "Well, well, well What have we hear." LOL

[Ken1015]

Earlier this week I was thinking of how this one was all over the airwaves and at the house parties when it came out.

http://youtu.be/Q9NhK9nyN30

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I h-h-hated this record! Still do. But somehow, it was huge.

[JR JAM]

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The buzz about these three spread like crazy in the spring of 1988:

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Records that broke ground and had ya talking:











That Soul Makossa. We may not have known what it's title was but we knew it we heard it. LOL