Great songs that were Top 40 hits that you never hear on the radio

[cARLOS Blake]

...And the anti-hits just keep on comin'!...........

Kayleigh-Merillion
How am i supposed to live without you-Laura Brannigan
Somebody's Knockin'-Terry Gibbs
Cannonball-Supertramp
My Kind of Lady-Supertramp
One Tin Soldier-Cover
One tin Soldier-Original Cast
Midnight at the oasis-Maria Muldar
Somethin' goin' on-Frida
Alibis-Sergio Mendes
The Rain-Oran Juice Jones
Everything must change-Paul Young
That ain't enough-Corey Hart
I'm gonna tear your playhouse down-Paul Young
One in a million-Romantics(another favorite)
Jackie Blue-Ozark Mountain Daredevils
If ever you're in my arms again-Peabo Bryson
Family Man-Hall & Oates
A Night at the Apollo/The way you do the things you do(live)Hall & Oates
Back together again-Hall & Oates
Method of Modern Love-Hall & Oates
Say it isn't so-Hall & Oates
Welcome Back-John Sebastian
Laverne & Shirley Theme-Cyndi Grecco
Love on a rooftop-Desmond Child
Party town-Glen Frey
True Love-Glen Frey
Sexy Girl-glen Frey
Never gonna fall in love again-Eric Carmen
Devil Woman-Cliff Richard
Object of my desire-Starpoint
Every kinda people-Robert Palmer
Sentimental Street-Night Ranger
Goodbye-Night Ranger

 

[Ssummers]

Another funny one: "Damn, I Wish I Was Your Lover" (Sophie B. Hawkins) into a CHURCH SERVICE!!

Just about laughed myself right off the road....

Try "Running With the Devil" into a worship service on for size. The only two times in my entire career my dad (a textiles exec) ever critiqued my radio skills (both times were very early in my career)was that time and the time I laughed while reading obituaries because I mispronounced a word.

 

[ZAX Double J]

How about these..

I Wanna Be Your Lover/Prince
Yes I'm Ready/Teri DeSario with KC
One Chain Don't Make No Prison/Santana
Is She Really Going Out With Hime/Joe Jackson
Time/The Alan Parsons Project
Stronger Than Before/Carol Bayer Sager
Lost Without Your Love/Bread
Tusk/Fleetwood Mac
Double Vision/Foreigner
Took The Last Train/David Gates
Goodbye Girl/David Gates
I Was Made For Dancin'/Leif Garrett
All I Wanted/Kansas
Songbird/Kenny G
Don't Make Me Wait For Love/Kenny G
Tribute to Steveie Wonder/Stars On 45
A Rock n Roll Fantasy/Kinks
I'd Really Love To See You Tonight/England Dan and John Ford Coley
Nights Are Forever Without You/England Dan and John Ford Coley
It's Sad To Belong/England Dan and John Ford Coley
Gone Too Far/England Dan and John Ford Coley
We'll Never Have To Say Goodbye Again/England Dan and John Ford Coley
Love Is The Answer/England Dan and John Ford Coley
I'll Never Love This Way Again/Dionne Warwick
No Night So Long/Dionne Warwick
Heartbreaker/Dionne Warwick
Love PowerDionne Warwick
Holding Out For A Hero/Bonnie Tyler
Typical Male/Tina Turner
Private Dancer/Tina Turner
We Don't Need Another Hero/Tina Turner
Whenever I'm Away From You/John Travolta
Oh No/Commodores

And still more to come!!

 

[marsneedsscoop]

There are, indeed, a lot of songs you never hear on the radio here. But there are a few that are back on the radio if you know where to look for them:

* Herb Alpert/"Rise" -- A staple of most Smooth Jazz stations these days, if there's still one in your market;

* Andy Kim/"Rock Me Gently" -- Starting to show up on more Oldies stations as that format moves into the '70s. (Has the advantage of being a pure pop '70s record that you won't hear on AC and an artist with a '60s connection.)

* Prince/"I Wanna Be Your Lover" -- Actually a staple of WLTW (not so Lite 106.7) New York in recent years. And never disappeared from Urban AC.

* England Dan & John Ford Coley/"I'd Really Love To See You Tonight" -- Most of their others are indeed forgotten, but an AC station that plays the '70s will usually play this. So, again, will most Oldies stations these days.

* Firefall/"Just Remember I Love You" -- Not as easy to find on the radio as "You Are The Woman," but, again, shows up on some ACs that play the '70s.

* Pilot/"Magic" -- Like "Rock Me Gently," I'm hearing it a lot more on Oldies stations and some older-leaning ACs these days.

* Rocky Burnette/"Tired Of Toeing The Line" -- Showed up again on some of the Jack/Bob-type stations, most notably KPKX (the Peak) Phoenix.

 

[ZAX Double J]

* Herb Alpert/"Rise" -- A staple of most Smooth Jazz stations these days, if there's still one in your market;

Nope not here in Eastern North Carolina.

* Andy Kim/"Rock Me Gently" -- Starting to show up on more Oldies stations as that format moves into the '70s. (Has the advantage of being a pure pop '70s record that you won't hear on AC and an artist with a '60s connection.)

Possible, AllenV wanna comment here..

* Prince/"I Wanna Be Your Lover" -- Actually a staple of WLTW (not so Lite 106.7) New York in recent years. And never disappeared from Urban AC.

Probably so, but not on a AC/Classic Top 40 oriented station as we're discussing here.

* England Dan & John Ford Coley/"I'd Really Love To See You Tonight" -- Most of their others are indeed forgotten, but an AC station that plays the '70s will usually play this. So, again, will most Oldies stations these days.

I agree here, I'd Really Love To See You Tonight does see more airplay than their other hits and their other hits should be played.

* Firefall/"Just Remember I Love You" -- Not as easy to find on the radio as "You Are The Woman," but, again, shows up on some ACs that play the '70s.

* Pilot/"Magic" -- Like "Rock Me Gently," I'm hearing it a lot more on Oldies stations and some older-leaning ACs these days.

This is true.

* Rocky Burnette/"Tired Of Toeing The Line" -- Showed up again on some of the Jack/Bob-type stations, most notably KPKX (the Peak) Phoenix.

Again not in Eastern North Carolina does this one play.

 

[cklw800]

From the lists I had time to read, the following are on every Smooth Jazz station I've listened to:

Morning Dance-Spyro Gyra
Sweet Baby-The Clarke-Duke Project
Rise-Herb Alpert
The Hustle-Van McCoy
Real Love-Doobie Brothers
Yah Mo B There- James Ingram/Michael McDonald
Songbird-Kenny G

Amazing how that happened.

 

[ZAX Double J]

To my knowledge of, there is NOT a Smooth Jazz station in Eastern North Carolina unless someone wants to volunteer calls, frequency and city of license of said station. So those songs are not played here.

And besides all of those songs played on Top 40 radio since they were in my The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits Volume 7 By Joel Whitburn, but you don't hear them on an AC/Classic Top 40/Oldies formatted staion.

 

[quadraphonic]

101.1 WZTK plays smooth jazz on the weekends, but lots of times around Raleigh it fights with The PartyFM I think it's called, so there probably is not much chance of getting that in Eastern NC. :-[

 

[jerrold]

Wow... thirteen solid pages of "Forgotten Classics", and I'm the first person to mention "More Than Just The Two Of Us" by Sneaker? :-\

 

[ZAX Double J]

Wow... thirteen solid pages of "Forgotten Classics", and I'm the first person to mention "More Than Just The Two Of Us" by Sneaker? :-\

I hadn't forgotten it, but you beat me to it! That was going to be in my next list. Great song.

 

[Ssummers]

How about:

Raise a Little Hell/Trooper
Eres Tu/Mocedades

They might've already been mentioned, but I'm getting old and, well, the eyesight is, well, never mind.

 

[jerrold]

Not sure whether these have already been mentioned, but how about:

"Cherchez La Femme" – Dr. Buzzard’s Original Savannah Band
"What Do All The People Know" – The Monroes
"What About Me?" – Moving Pictures

(I can't think of more than two or three at a time... if I attempt to do so, my brain will explode. ;D)

 

[dadetim]

lots of great songs on this post...i can't think of any that hasn't already been posted, but this is great...lots of songs to bring back memories and others...well....i won't go there. if this "station" ever gets off the ground and has an online stream...i want to listen to it....

 

[BenTehelenbach]

A lot of these songs show up now and then on my favorite online station, www.1650oldiesradio.com.
It's not all-forgotten-favorites-all-the-time, but when was the last time you heard "Free," or "Lowdown," both by Chicago? Heard 'em both in recent weeks.

 

[allenv]

Poco-Shoot For The Moon
Lonely Eyes-Robert John WRAL played the hell out of this.....

Not Top 40's but huge AC hits

Allen

 

[Marathon Don]

I hope no one's called these yet:

How Do You Do - Mouth & McNeal
Gimme Dat Ding - The Pipkins
Never Ending Song of Love - Delany & Bonnie
Back When My Hair Was Short - Gunhill Road
Here Comes the Judge - Shorty Long

 

[cARLOS Blake]

Wow... thirteen solid pages of "Forgotten Classics", and I'm the first person to mention "More Than Just The Two Of Us" by Sneaker? :-\

Good one...here's more...
I'm outa work-Gary U.S Bonds
This little girl-Gary U.S Bonds
Mr. telephone man-New Edition
If it isn't love-New Edition
Candy Girl-New Edition
Shaddappa you Face-Joe Dolce
Draw of the cards-Kin Carnes
The way to your heart-Soul Sister
Mr. Sandman-Dottie West
Almost over you-Sheena Easton
I could never miss you more than I do-Lulu
Being with you-Smokey Robinson
Baby I lied-Deborah Allen
Heart to heart-Kenny Loggins
The Voice-Moody Blues
Don't let him know-Prism
Heaven on the 7th floor-Paul Nichols
The party's over-Journey
We said hello goodbye-Phil Collins
To live & die in L.A-Wang Chung
Love is in the air-John Paul Young
I love you-Climax blues band
Valley Girl-Frank & Moon Unit Zappa
Don't Give up on us-David Soul
That was then this is now-Monkees
Captain of her heart-Double
This is the time-Billy Joel
While the night is still young-Billy Joel
Tunnel of love-Bruce Springsteen
I'm on fire-Bruce Springsteen
Taken in-Mike & the Mechanics
Breaking Away-Balance
Take it easy-Andy taylor
Re-Election Day-Arcadia
Don't look down girl-Go West
What is love-Howard Jones
Shame on the moon-Bob Seger
For your eyes only-Sheena Easton
Almost over you-Sheena Easton
Telefone(long distance love affair-Sheena Easton
Wasted on the way- C,S,N,Y
Palomo Blanka-George Baker Selection
...and one of the worst songs of all time IMO...
Playground In My Mind(My name is Michael I got a nickel)-Clint Holmes ;D ;D ;D

 

[ZAX Double J]

WOW! some good songs there guys!

How about..

I Still Believe/Brenda K. Starr
What You See Is What You Get/Brenda K. Starr
I Need Your Help Barry Manilow/Ray Stevens (wasn't Top 40, but I remember it playing on the radio and I have the 45)
Shriner's Convention/Ray Stevens
Eat It/Wierd Al Yankovic
Thinking Of You/Sa-Fire
Hooked on Classics/Royal Philharmoic Orchestra
Emotional Rescue/Rolling Stones (We used to play this on ZAX before the format change. )
I'm Not Lisa/Jessie Colter
Endless Love/Lonel Richie & Diana Ross
Say You Say Me/Lionel Richie
Ballerina Girl/Lonel Richie
Deep River Woman/Lionel Richie and Alabama (huge AC hit, WRAL played this a lot too. love it!)
Special Way/Kool and the Gang (again huge AC tune)
Every Which Way But Loose/Eddie Rabbitt
Step By Step/Eddie Rabbitt
Someone Could Loose A Heart Tonight/Eddie Rabbitt
Still Right Here In My Heart/Pure Prairie League
I'm Almost Ready/Pure Prairie League

Still more to come!

 

[cARLOS Blake]

There are, indeed, a lot of songs you never hear on the radio here. But there are a few that are back on the radio if you know where to look for them:

* Herb Alpert/"Rise" -- A staple of most Smooth Jazz stations these days, if there's still one in your market;

* Andy Kim/"Rock Me Gently" -- Starting to show up on more Oldies stations as that format moves into the '70s. (Has the advantage of being a pure pop '70s record that you won't hear on AC and an artist with a '60s connection.)

* Prince/"I Wanna Be Your Lover" -- Actually a staple of WLTW (not so Lite 106.7) New York in recent years. And never disappeared from Urban AC.

* England Dan & John Ford Coley/"I'd Really Love To See You Tonight" -- Most of their others are indeed forgotten, but an AC station that plays the '70s will usually play this. So, again, will most Oldies stations these days.

* Firefall/"Just Remember I Love You" -- Not as easy to find on the radio as "You Are The Woman," but, again, shows up on some ACs that play the '70s.

* Pilot/"Magic" -- Like "Rock Me Gently," I'm hearing it a lot more on Oldies stations and some older-leaning ACs these days.

* Rocky Burnette/"Tired Of Toeing The Line" -- Showed up again on some of the Jack/Bob-type stations, most notably KPKX (the Peak) Phoenix.

Some of those still get regular airplay.

 

[cARLOS Blake]

The Last Farewell-Roger Whittaker
I've Got a rock-n-roll heart-Eric Clapton
I can help-Billy Swan
Private Dancer-Tina Turner
Respect Yourself-Bruce willis
Theme from Moonlighting-Al Jarreau
A Better love-Londonbeat
Don't look back-Fine Young Cannibals
Wipe out-Fat Boys
The Twist-Fat Boys/Beach Boys
Lonely Boy-Andrew Gold
Love zone-Billy ocean
Never ending story-Lamahl
Love Power-Dionne Warwick/Jeffrey Osbourne
You should be mine-Jeffrey Osbourne
On the wings of love-Jeffrey Osbourne
Say La-Lionel Richie
Drivin' my life away-Eddie Rabbit
Suspicions-Eddie Rabbit
One Heartbeat-Smokey Robinson
You don't know-Scarlett & Black
Stumblin' In-Suzie Quatro/Chris Norman
Take Off-Bob & Doug McKenzie
One Fine Morning-Lighthouse
Sunny Days-Lighthouse
Please come to boston-Randy Vanwarmer
Gold-John Stewart
Arthur's Theme-Christopher Cross
2 Occasions-Deele
Damn good times-David Lee Roth