25 Years Ago, These Were The #1 *R&B* Singles

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Not the funkiest summer on record, perhaps, but a memorable one, no? A companion to the 1985 pop singles poll

Poll Results

Option	Votes
(September 13 - September 21) Oh Sheila Ready For the World	17
(July 7-13) Hangin' on a String (Contemplating) Loose Ends	9
(June 15-July 6) Rock Me Tonight (For Old Times Sake) Freddie Jackson	2
(July 28-August 31) Freeway of Love Aretha Franklin	2
(September 1-September 7) Saving All My Love for You Whitney Houston	1
(September 8 - Sep[tember 14) Cherish Kool & the Gang	1
(July 14-27) Save Your Love (For #1) René & Angela	0

― lifetime supply of boat shoes (m coleman), Monday, 21 June 2010 16:27 (fifteen years ago)

voting Loose Ends but ready to entertain arguments

― lifetime supply of boat shoes (m coleman), Monday, 21 June 2010 16:28 (fifteen years ago)

"Oh Sheila" is still a great Minneapolis wannabe track. Plus, his accent is just magnificent in that "what's good for the goose" bit.

― EZ Snappin, Monday, 21 June 2010 16:29 (fifteen years ago)

"Cherish" is some repellent shit ("Misled" should have hit #1).

This, however, is a lovely sequence:

(June 15-July 6) Rock Me Tonight (For Old Times Sake) Freddie Jackson
(July 7-13) Hangin' on a String (Contemplating) Loose Ends
(July 14-27) Save Your Love (For #1) René & Angela

― Filmmaker, Author, Radio Host Stephen Baldwin (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 21 June 2010 16:32 (fifteen years ago)

I love love love "Oh Sheila"! Second choice would be the Loose Ends track, though.

― Johnny Fever, Monday, 21 June 2010 16:37 (fifteen years ago)

I like most of these! Tempted to go with Rene & Angela, for its Kurtis Blow rap, but Loose Ends gets my vote. Definitely play Rene & Angela's album more than RFTW's (have both as reissue CDs), though I like them both. One of these days I should probably buy a Freddie Jackson best-of.

― xhuxk, Monday, 21 June 2010 16:52 (fifteen years ago)

The problem is, if you weren't listening to black radio in the mid eighties you never heard Rene & Angela. I only got to them a few years ago.

― Filmmaker, Author, Radio Host Stephen Baldwin (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 21 June 2010 16:57 (fifteen years ago)

i wanna be the only Whitney Houston vote!

― dont forget B.Manning's shout-out to Dock Ellis (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 21 June 2010 16:57 (fifteen years ago)

Save all your love for her.

― Filmmaker, Author, Radio Host Stephen Baldwin (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 21 June 2010 16:58 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fI0Ie9vR3xo

― dont forget B.Manning's shout-out to Dock Ellis (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 21 June 2010 17:00 (fifteen years ago)

I think this is the elevator music chart. :-)

― ImprovSpirit, Tuesday, 22 June 2010 19:33 (fourteen years ago)

I'd ride in that elevator.

― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 22 June 2010 19:34 (fourteen years ago)

freddie

vote for freddie

only freddie deserves your love & besides he goes to great effort to explain to you why he deserves it

― get your bucket of free wings (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Tuesday, 22 June 2010 19:38 (fourteen years ago)

Where "You Don't Have To Cry" from Rene and Angela which was a radio hit in the Summer of '85

― The Startrekman, Thursday, 24 June 2010 08:02 (fourteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Monday, 5 July 2010 23:01 (fourteen years ago)

Rene and Angela "Save Your love" (club mix)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPdEKthsi70

― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 6 July 2010 01:35 (fourteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Tuesday, 6 July 2010 23:01 (fourteen years ago)

"Cherish" got a vote but Rene & Angela didn't?!

― Filmmaker, Author, Radio Host Stephen Baldwin (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 23:02 (fourteen years ago)

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