Top Ten Billboard Hot 100 1/26/1980

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Poll Results

Option	Votes
Rock With You - Michael Jackson	16
Sara - Fleetwood Mac	13
Crazy Little Thing Called Love - Queen	9
Cruisin' - Smokey Robinson	7
Escape (The Piña Colada Song) - Rupert Holmes	4
We Don't Talk Anymore - Cliff Richard	3
Coward of the County - Kenny Rogers	2
Do That to Me ONe More time - Captain & Tenille	1
The Long Run - Eagles	0
Send One Your Love - Stevie Wonder	0

― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 12 January 2012 20:58 (fourteen years ago)

Queen

― some dude, Thursday, 12 January 2012 21:00 (fourteen years ago)

Queen or MJ will win this. My vote:

Rock With You
Sara
Send One Your Love
Escape

― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 12 January 2012 21:02 (fourteen years ago)

i think i cd vote for any of these in the right mood

― Poppy Newgod and the Phantom Banned (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 12 January 2012 21:03 (fourteen years ago)

Cruisin' 4EVA!!!

― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 12 January 2012 21:04 (fourteen years ago)

oh god yes. That's my #3.

"Crusin" and "Sara" have sonic and thematic similarities.

― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 12 January 2012 21:05 (fourteen years ago)

Sara!

― Who wants to see the great Pavarotti sit on a pie? (jer.fairall), Thursday, 12 January 2012 21:39 (fourteen years ago)

Kenny Rogers.

― Mohombi Khush Hua (ShariVari), Thursday, 12 January 2012 21:54 (fourteen years ago)

Cliff Richard was big in the USA?

― Back Shift Backline (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Thursday, 12 January 2012 22:14 (fourteen years ago)

Ah, this was my sixth birthday.

― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 12 January 2012 22:21 (fourteen years ago)

Picked Smokey.

― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 12 January 2012 22:22 (fourteen years ago)

The lighthearted adultery of Escape always weirded me out.

― Darin, Thursday, 12 January 2012 23:15 (fourteen years ago)

Forget, Darin: it's the seventies.

― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 12 January 2012 23:16 (fourteen years ago)

Cliff Richard was big in the USA?

― Back Shift Backline (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Thursday, January 12, 2012 5:14 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

No. I'm pretty sure that was his only hit here.

Queen
MJ
FM
C&T

― ☆★☆彡彡 (ENBB), Thursday, 12 January 2012 23:17 (fourteen years ago)

devil woman was a hit in 1976 i think

― buzza, Thursday, 12 January 2012 23:21 (fourteen years ago)

also dreamin'

― buzza, Thursday, 12 January 2012 23:23 (fourteen years ago)

Alright! Sixth grade and I was definitely listening to top 40 this year. Voting for Cliff Richard - that's a good record.

― timellison, Thursday, 12 January 2012 23:28 (fourteen years ago)

Buzz - ah, I didn't know. Still, he's definitely not super famous her the way he is in England.

― ☆★☆彡彡 (ENBB), Thursday, 12 January 2012 23:29 (fourteen years ago)

oh i know, but he was a little more popular chart-wise than you'd think. he kinda was made for that 1976-1982 soft-rock, disco-lite era. those songs are really well-produced & hooky

― buzza, Thursday, 12 January 2012 23:31 (fourteen years ago)

queen / FM / MJ

― Jamie_ATP, Thursday, 12 January 2012 23:32 (fourteen years ago)

obligatory wire for sound video post

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sn9mLnKmPco

― Jamie_ATP, Thursday, 12 January 2012 23:33 (fourteen years ago)

MJ
Smokey
Queen
Rupert

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Thursday, 12 January 2012 23:33 (fourteen years ago)

my loathing of MJ is well-documented but you kinda can't fuck with Rock With You. Unless you are little perfectly crafted country ditty called Coward of the County, that is.

― job kreaytor (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 12 January 2012 23:35 (fourteen years ago)

Yeah the wired for sound vid is all time.

― ☆★☆彡彡 (ENBB), Thursday, 12 January 2012 23:37 (fourteen years ago)

now that I think about it, Kenny Rogers may have been my first exposure to country music. it was certainly the only country record my parents had.

― job kreaytor (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 12 January 2012 23:37 (fourteen years ago)

"Suddenly" (Cliff Richard duet with Olivia Newton John on the Xanadu soundtrack) was a top 20 hit in the U.S., too.

― timellison, Thursday, 12 January 2012 23:37 (fourteen years ago)

Fleetwood Mac. Rock with You and Cruisin are great too

― it means 'super-otm' (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 12 January 2012 23:38 (fourteen years ago)

"Rock with You." Life just got 70% worse.

http://www.onlygoodmovies.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/boogie-nights.jpg

― clemenza, Thursday, 12 January 2012 23:39 (fourteen years ago)

lol I had no idea that CR was the guy on Suddenly. All those songs were a little before my time but I know them from lite FM in my mom's car and, yeah, they're catchy as hell.

― ☆★☆彡彡 (ENBB), Thursday, 12 January 2012 23:39 (fourteen years ago)

wow I totally forgot about the gang-rape lines in Coward of the County

― job kreaytor (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 12 January 2012 23:40 (fourteen years ago)

rock with you, but weirdly i hate pretty much all the others

― blurgh (jjjusten), Thursday, 12 January 2012 23:41 (fourteen years ago)

i don't remember that stevie wonder song at all

― buzza, Thursday, 12 January 2012 23:43 (fourteen years ago)

One of his biggest hits, and the beginning of his Effortless Ballad run.

― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 13 January 2012 00:53 (fourteen years ago)

went with Rupert. Lot of good tracks to choose from.

― EZ Snappin, Friday, 13 January 2012 01:06 (fourteen years ago)

All of 'em, even the Captain & Tennille song which always seems to get votes for worst #1 of the 80's.

― jetfan, Friday, 13 January 2012 05:50 (fourteen years ago)

1 Crazy Little Thing Called Love
2 Cruisin'
3 Sara
4 Rock With You
5 Escape
6 Do That To Me One More Time

― Bee OK, Friday, 13 January 2012 06:02 (fourteen years ago)

I'd like to mash-up the narratives of "Escape" and "Coward of the County."

― do you not like slouching? (Eazy), Friday, 13 January 2012 06:04 (fourteen years ago)

rock w/you

― demolition with discretion (m coleman), Friday, 13 January 2012 10:16 (fourteen years ago)

of course "escape" is ah redolent of the times

― demolition with discretion (m coleman), Friday, 13 January 2012 10:18 (fourteen years ago)

crusin' still gives me goosebumps and crazy lil thing is that rare thing a non-overbearing queen song

― demolition with discretion (m coleman), Friday, 13 January 2012 10:20 (fourteen years ago)

Michael Jackson over Queen, but I am also strangely drawn to "Coward of the County."

― nah (crüt), Friday, 13 January 2012 10:32 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQ9fPnzcMHk

― nah (crüt), Friday, 13 January 2012 10:33 (fourteen years ago)

Fleetwood Mac and then either Cliff or Michael Jackson.

― Derartu Cthulhu (NickB), Friday, 13 January 2012 10:46 (fourteen years ago)

... and Smokey + Kenny. Queen is the worst thing here.

― Then in walked Barbara Castle with the Lady Eleanor (Tom D.), Friday, 13 January 2012 11:06 (fourteen years ago)

Going with "Rock with You," but I like "The Long Run" and, to some extent, "Sara" (although I have somehow don't remember hearing that song much then or in later years). Also I think I just properly listened to "Coward of the County" for the first time (despite having heard it a lot before) and it's good but story songs are mostly not my thing.

― _Rudipherous_, Friday, 13 January 2012 14:27 (fourteen years ago)

I should fuck w/y'all and be the lone vote for "The Long Run" for nostalgia reasons (and, really, that slide riff is fantastic), but this is a two-way contest between "Sara" and "Rock With You." I'm surprising myself by leaning towards the latter. I am second to none in my love for the Mac, but so, so many roller-skating memories of the latter.

― i couldn't adjust the food knobs (Phil D.), Friday, 13 January 2012 15:06 (fourteen years ago)

"The Long Run" is probably in my top 3, even with that horrible opening couplet

― lame adele rey (some dude), Friday, 13 January 2012 15:20 (fourteen years ago)

The dopey opening lines don't bother me. I don't expect different from this sort of song.

― _Rudipherous_, Friday, 13 January 2012 16:21 (fourteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Wednesday, 18 January 2012 00:01 (fourteen years ago)

I just heard the Rogers song: not bad!

― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 03:03 (fourteen years ago)

'Sara' by Fleetwood Mac, definitely.

― Turrican, Wednesday, 18 January 2012 03:24 (fourteen years ago)

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

― System, Thursday, 19 January 2012 00:01 (fourteen years ago)

fair results, except why would you vote Escape when you could vote Kenny Rogers telling a much more interesting story

― nah (crüt), Friday, 20 January 2012 03:12 (fourteen years ago)

The first results in one of my many polls whose results I like.

― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 20 January 2012 03:13 (fourteen years ago)

If you like piña POLLadas

― timellison, Friday, 20 January 2012 05:21 (fourteen years ago)

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