#132: Love Resurrection by Alison Moyet
City: Montreal, PQ
Radio Station: CKGM
Peak Month: July-August 1985
Peak Position in Montreal ~ #11
Peak position in Vancouver ~ did not chart
Peak Position on Billboard Hot 100 ~ #82
Peak Position on Italy Singles chart ~ #4
Peak Position on Ireland Singles chart ~ #8
Peak Position on UK Singles chart ~ #10
YouTube: “Love Resurrection”
Lyrics: “Love Resurrection”
Geneviève Alison Jane Moyet was born in 1961 in Billericay, Essex, England. After leaving school at 16, she worked as a shop assistant and trained as a piano tuner. She was involved in a number of punk rock, pub rock and blues bands in the South East Essex area during the late 1970s and early 1980s, including the Vandals, the Screamin’ Ab Dabs, the Vicars and the Little Roosters. At the age of 21, Moyet’s mainstream pop career began in 1982 with the formation of the synth-pop duo Yazoo with former Depeche Mode member Vince Clarke.
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#145: Land Of Hunger by Earons
City: Montreal, PQ
Radio Station: CKOI
Peak Month: September 1984
Peak Position in Montreal ~ #10
Peak position in Vancouver ~ did not chart
Peak Position on Billboard Hot 100 ~ did not chart
Peak Position on Billboard Dance Club chart ~ #1
YouTube: “Land Of Hunger”
Lyrics: N/A
The Earons were a band from Tampa Bay, Florida. They were inspired by the cosmic mythology of Sun Ra. Group members use the following stage names: .28 (a.k.a. Henry Pizzicarola, vocals), .22 (Percival Prince, guitar), .33 (Kevin Nance, keyboards), .69 (Melvin Lee, bass) and .18 (Lonnie Ferguson, drums). Prior to joining the Earons, Kevin Nance, Lonnie Ferguson and Melvin Lee were members of The Machine. This was a studio disco funk and rock group, active from 1977 to 1981. In an MTV interview, Earon bandmates wearing space suits, were asked what an Earon is and where do you come from? They responded, “Earons are earotronic energies from here on earth, with no names, only numbers. And we exist in all colors. We are actually products of a civilization known as Sumer, which existed some six to eight thousand years ago, near the spot where Africa, Asia and Europe, connect. Our earotronic energy was stored in an instrument used by the Sumerians called the earotron. This earotron enabled the user to store positive energies to be released at a time designated by the universe. Now is the time. Our energies have been released. And we’ve taken the form of musical beings here on earth to bring the message of sameness to everyone here on earth. We’re all earons, living in love here on earth.”
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#154: You Came by Kim Wilde
City: Montreal, PQ
Radio Station: CKOI
Peak Month: December 1988
Peak Position in Montreal ~ #12
Peak position in Vancouver ~ did not chart
Peak Position on Billboard Hot 100 ~ #41
Peak Position on Denmark Singles chart ~ #1
Peak Position on Finland Singles chart ~ #2
Peak Position on Ireland Singles chart ~ #3
Peak Position on Portugal Singles chart ~ #3
Peak Position on Swiss Singles chart ~ #3
Peak Position on UK Singles chart ~ #3
Peak Position on Italy Singles chart ~ #4
Peak Position on Norway Singles chart ~ #4
Peak Position on France Singles chart ~ #5
Peak Position on West German Singles chart ~ #5
YouTube: “You Came”
Lyrics: “You Came”
Kim Wilde was born in 1960 with the birth name Kim Smith. Her father, Reginald Smith, was a pop singer who took the stage name Marty Wilde. Kim Wilde’s first professional singing credit was as a backup singer to her brother Ricky Wilde’s 1972 song “I Am an Astronaut.” In 1981, at the age of 21 Kim Wilde became an international star with her hit single “Kids in America”. It topped the pop charts in Finland and South Africa, reached #2 in Ireland, Sweden and the UK, and the Top Ten in Australia, Belgium, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Switzerland, and West Germany. Later in 1981, “Chequered Love” topped the pop chart in South Africa, reached #2 in Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland and West Germany, and was also a Top Ten hit in Australia, Ireland, Sweden and the UK.
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#22: Blue Guitar by Richard Chamberlain
City: Montreal, PQ
Radio Station: CJAD
Peak Month: November 1963
Peak Position in Montreal ~ #2
Peak position in Vancouver ~ did not chart
Peak Position on Billboard Hot 100 ~ #42
YouTube: “Blue Guitar”
Lyrics: “Blue Guitar”
George Richard Chamberlain was born in 1934 in Beverly Hills, California. After high school graduation in 1952, he studied acting at a college in Pomona. But, he was drafted in December 1952, and sent to fight in the Korean War. He rose to the rank of sergeant. In 1959, Richard Chamberlain appeared in an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents. The following year, he made a guest appearance in the crime-drama series Rescue 8, about the Los Angeles County Fire Department. Other guest appearances in TV shows in the early ’60s include Gunsmoke, the crime series Bourbon Street Beat, Thriller hosted by Boris Karloff, The Deputy starring Henry Fonda, and another western titled Whispering Smith. In 1960, Chamberlain starred opposite Richard Falk in The Secret of the Purple Reef. In 1961, Chamberlain starred with Charles Bronson, Slim Pickens, and Duane Eddy in the western A Thunder of Drums.
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#118: Jesse by Roberta Flack
City: Montreal, PQ
Radio Station: CHOM
Peak Month: November 1973
Peak Position in Montreal ~ #3
Peak position in Vancouver ~ did not chart
Peak Position on Billboard Hot 100 ~ #30
YouTube: “Jesse”
Lyrics: “Jesse”
Roberta Flack was born in Black Mountain, North Carolina, in 1937. Her family moved to Arlington, Virginia, when she was five. Growing up in a large, musical family, she often accompanied the choir of Lomax African Methodist-Episcopal Zion Church by playing hymns and spirituals on piano. She also attended a Baptist in her neighborhood to listen to contemporary gospel music including songs performed by Mahalia Jackson and Sam Cooke. When Flack was nine, she began to play the piano. Into her teens, she excelled at classical piano, finishing second in a statewide competition for Black 13-year-old students. In connection with the competition, she won a full music scholarship to Howard University.
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