US #3 Hits (1980 and 1981)

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Final poll of the '80s set, covering 1980–81 (quite an amount of adult contemporary/soft rock hits here).

Previous polls:
1982 and 1983
1984 and 1985
1986 and 1987
1988 and 1989

Poll Results

Option	Votes
The Police – "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic"	7
Stevie Nicks and Tom Petty – "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around"	6
Earth, Wind and Fire – "Let's Groove"	5
The S.O.S. Band – "Take Your Time (Do It Right)"	4
The Rolling Stones – "Emotional Rescue"	4
Air Supply – "Lost in Love"	4
Bette Midler – "The Rose"	3
Pointer Sisters – "He's So Shy"	2
Elton John – "Little Jeannie"	1
Barbra Streisand and Barry Gibb – "Guilty"	1
A Taste of Honey – "Sukiyaki"	1
Kenny Rogers – "I Don't Need You"	0
Styx – "The Best of Times"	0
Kenny Rogers – "Coward of the County"	0
Ambrosia – "Biggest Part of Me"	0
Donna Summer – "The Wanderer"	0

― Frontier Psychiatrist, Saturday, 1 February 2014 12:55 (twelve years ago)

"Let's Groove," of course.

― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 1 February 2014 13:01 (twelve years ago)

Runners-up:

The Wanderer
He's So Shy

― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 1 February 2014 13:02 (twelve years ago)

Easily the Police track for me, if it weren't in this poll I'd probably go with "Let's Groove"

― Frontier Psychiatrist, Saturday, 1 February 2014 13:02 (twelve years ago)

Nicks/Petty

― Ian from Etobicoke (Phil D.), Saturday, 1 February 2014 13:40 (twelve years ago)

The Police.

― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Saturday, 1 February 2014 13:58 (twelve years ago)

love the sos band, ewf, stones, and police but gotta vote for 'guilty'.

― balls, Saturday, 1 February 2014 19:54 (twelve years ago)

"He's So Shy"

― Alfre, Lord Woodard (Eric H.), Saturday, 1 February 2014 20:08 (twelve years ago)

Police. I don't remember this version of Sukiyaki.

― LimbsKing, Sunday, 2 February 2014 04:57 (twelve years ago)

It's the version Slick Rick adapted for this classic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phhStmwMmg0&t=2m48s

― Frontier Psychiatrist, Sunday, 2 February 2014 05:27 (twelve years ago)

not a fan of this band at all, but the icy disco of emotional rescue is pretty breathtaking.

― Daniel, Esq 2, Sunday, 2 February 2014 05:28 (twelve years ago)

top 5:

Let's Groove
Take Your Time (Do It Right)
Stop Draggin' My Heart Around
Coward of the County
He's So Shy

― charitable remainder unitrust (crüt), Sunday, 2 February 2014 05:29 (twelve years ago)

Earth, Wind and Fire

― Ramona, Sunday, 2 February 2014 05:34 (twelve years ago)

"He's So Shy" co-written by Cynthia Weil.

― timellison, Sunday, 2 February 2014 06:05 (twelve years ago)

"Take Your Time (Do It Right)"

― Bee OK, Sunday, 2 February 2014 06:21 (twelve years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Friday, 7 February 2014 00:01 (twelve years ago)

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

― System, Saturday, 8 February 2014 00:01 (twelve years ago)

LOLost in LOLove

― Dylan spoke to PEOPLE (Eazy), Saturday, 8 February 2014 01:11 (twelve years ago)

Poor Kenny Rogers

― mr.raffles, Monday, 10 February 2014 00:52 (twelve years ago)

I'm sorry I missed these polls!! Lots of tracks here, 77-81 is a favorite period for me. My favorite cars come from this time, too! I would vote "He's So Shy" because it evokes that period for me the best! Excellent waste of gasoline, it was.

― Amne$ha (I M Losted), Monday, 10 February 2014 01:46 (twelve years ago)

Little Jeannie is underrated, but it makes me cry, too.

― Amne$ha (I M Losted), Monday, 10 February 2014 01:47 (twelve years ago)

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