Can anyone name Corey Hart's other "hits"?

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After hearing "Never Surrender" in line at the cafeteria a little while ago I performed a quick Allmusic search. The guy had nine Top 40 hits! I can only hum "Sunglasses at Night." Does anyone remember them?

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 11 May 2006 15:34 (nineteen years ago)

BOY IN THE BOX.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 11 May 2006 15:38 (nineteen years ago)

fuck, I should be able to do this.

Also in the "Bands I thought were one-hit wonders but actually have about a dozen hits each": Loverboy and .38 Special

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Thursday, 11 May 2006 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

and, as with Corey, the one-hit was not even the band's highest charter. I think Loverboy and .38 both have like six singles that charted higher than the one that everyone remembers.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Thursday, 11 May 2006 15:59 (nineteen years ago)

"It Ain't Enough" (ballad, not bad)

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 11 May 2006 16:02 (nineteen years ago)

I remember "It Ain't Enough" quite well.

x-post, and jinx

― brittle-lemon (brittle-lemon), Thursday, 11 May 2006 16:03 (nineteen years ago)

"Eurasian Eyes" "Take My Heart" and "Bang" come to mind. My sister had a crush on Mr. Hart, yet I somehow ended up with the vinyl...

― EZ Snappin (EZSnappin), Thursday, 11 May 2006 16:07 (nineteen years ago)

If "Boy in the Box" is the one that goes "the wolf cried fox to the boy in the box," then I guess I remember that one too.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 11 May 2006 16:10 (nineteen years ago)

Understandably, I sometimes think he sang "Square Rooms" (but that was Al Corey).

― brittle-lemon (brittle-lemon), Thursday, 11 May 2006 16:20 (nineteen years ago)

He also covered "Can't Help Falling in Love."

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Thursday, 11 May 2006 17:20 (nineteen years ago)

Comrade Kiev (don't know if that was a hit, but I liked that song a whole bunch when the album came out)

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 11 May 2006 18:10 (nineteen years ago)

I just downloaded "I Am By Your Side," his last Top 20 hit; not bad for a "Never Surrender" knockoff.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 11 May 2006 18:29 (nineteen years ago)

The only ones I remembered without prompting were:

Sunglasses
Never Surrender
Can't Help Falling in Love

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Thursday, 11 May 2006 19:11 (nineteen years ago)

you people are all in canada right?

― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 11 May 2006 19:12 (nineteen years ago)

Something about a Coalmine? That was a hit in Canada, at least.

― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Thursday, 11 May 2006 19:20 (nineteen years ago)

Corey Hart was such a proto-David Duchovny.

― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Thursday, 11 May 2006 19:20 (nineteen years ago)

According to Allmusic, he writes and produces for Celine Dion now. At least his bank balances are ok.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 11 May 2006 19:22 (nineteen years ago)

He put out a new album within the last 5 years or so, too.

― derrick (derrick), Thursday, 11 May 2006 19:30 (nineteen years ago)

Loverboy and .38 Special one-hit wonders? Both bands were all over the radio for several years.

― Mark (MarkR), Thursday, 11 May 2006 19:34 (nineteen years ago)

Right, but .38 Special have only one Top 10, and probably not one their fans are fond of ("Second Chance").

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 11 May 2006 19:44 (nineteen years ago)

Loverboy and .38 Special one-hit wonders? Both bands were all over the radio for several years.

well, yeah...only one hit for each has survived to any sort of degree though. For those of us who weren't around for their hitmaking days it's pretty surprising.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Thursday, 11 May 2006 20:08 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I guess I was around hearing the radio a lot then. Which Loverboy hit has survived? "Working for the Weekend"?

― Mark (MarkR), Thursday, 11 May 2006 20:35 (nineteen years ago)

I still hear "Lovin' Every Minute Of It" on occasion too.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Thursday, 11 May 2006 21:00 (nineteen years ago)

Wickipedia says:

Corey Hart Billboard hits

"Sunglasses At Night" (#7)
"It Ain't Enough" (#17)
"Never Surrender" (#3)
"Boy in The Box" (#26)
"Everything in My Heart" (#30)
"I Am By Your Side" (#18)
"Can't Help Falling In Love" (#24)
"In Your Soul" (#38)
"A Little Love" (#37)

"In Your Soul" was pretty good IIRC.

― LeRooLeRoo (Seb), Thursday, 11 May 2006 21:17 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I guess I was around hearing the radio a lot then. Which Loverboy hit has survived? "Working for the Weekend"?

yeah (and "Hold on Loosely" for .38 Special).

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Thursday, 11 May 2006 22:35 (nineteen years ago)

the .38 Special song I know is 'Teacher Teacher'.

Loverboy still have 'Turn Me Loose' in solid hockey game rotation.

― derrick (derrick), Thursday, 11 May 2006 23:25 (nineteen years ago)

fifteen years pass...

"I Am By Your Side" at CVS today!

His attempt to repeat "Never Surrender," still earned considerable MTV airplay the fall of 1986.

― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 10 March 2022 18:53 (four years ago)

My wife's first rock concert would have been Corey Hart, but the night of the show it was snowing too hard for her parents to take her to town. A typically sad story of rural Canadian youth.
I myself remember all of the hits listed above except "A Little Love". At least for his first album, he was played on AOR radio here, apparently he passed muster as a Montreal Sting rather than a New Waver.

― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 11 March 2022 22:24 (four years ago)

three months pass...

I saw my friend’s 9-year-old singing “Never Surrender” to herself on my friend’s Instagram stories, so I’m guessing that one’s made it to Stranger Things?

― deep luminous trombone (Eazy), Sunday, 10 July 2022 04:35 (three years ago)

I deeply associate “Never Surrender” with Cyndi Lauper’s “Time After Time.” Maybe it’s the tempo, or maybe the videos had similar storylines.

― deep luminous trombone (Eazy), Sunday, 10 July 2022 04:42 (three years ago)

Every now and then there's a corny 80s song where you fully buy into the emotion the song is shooting for, and "Never Surrender" is that song for me

― Vinnie, Sunday, 10 July 2022 06:23 (three years ago)

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