EP. 119 Merch, Music Charts, And A Comeback Catch-Up

The lights are back on, the hat is on, and we’re rolling with a no-spin catch-up that turns a rough few weeks into fuel. I open the studio door on the cold, the flu, and the beard that survived it all, then lay out how we’re rebuilding momentum: new hats for the community, simpler ways to connect, and a renewed commitment to show up—even when the day job and the sniffles get loud.

From there, we stir in some joy. It’s National Hot Chocolate Day, and yes, we get precise: real milk, a touch of extra sugar, extra creamy whipped cream. Then the conversation widens. International Zebra Day leads to a quick riff on identity, and a string of sports birthdays—Jackie Robinson, Ernie Banks, Nolan Ryan—reminds us that toughness, grace, and routine make legends. We pull a lesson from the mound: strength comes from repetition and smart rest, not babying the work.

The centerpiece is a time capsule you can feel. We revisit the Billboard Top 40 from late January 1982 to see what lasts and why. Journey’s Don’t Stop Believin’ wasn’t the biggest chart hit at release yet became their cultural juggernaut. Loverboy’s Working for the Weekend outgrew its peak position to become a staple. Hall & Oates, Foreigner, The Cars, the Stones, Air Supply—each track offers a clue about pop culture, longevity, and the slow-burn climb that beats a quick flash. It’s music history as a mirror for creative life: keep showing up, keep refining, and let time do its work.

We also look ahead. Recent guests like Marisa Fullenkamp and friends will be back, new invites are out, and I’ve got episode notes stacked on the desk waiting to be shaped. Want to rep the show? Hats in navy, gray, and black are ready—drop a comment or DM to claim one while we spin up a simple payment option. If you’re new here, welcome; if you’ve stuck with me, thank you. Your listens, comments, and shares keep this thing alive. Tap follow, subscribe on your favorite app, rate it five stars, and tell a friend: what’s the one song from 1982 you still crank up today?

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Chapters

• 0:08 Welcome And Platform Plugs
• 3:20 The Hat, Hair, And New Merch
• 5:24 How To Get A Hat And Payment Plan
• 7:50 Health Setbacks And hiatus
• 15:03 Audience Engagement And Momentum
• 15:43 National Days: Hot Chocolate And Zebras
• 18:58 Sports Birthdays And Baseball Legends
• 24:23 Guests Recap And Invites Teased
• 26:24 Shoutouts And Birthday Wishes
• 27:36 Chart Dive: January 1982 Top 40
• 42:33 Top 10 Breakdown And Big Hits
• 52:57 Work, Upcoming Episodes, And Wrap
• 54:42 Final CTAs And Farewell

Transcript

SPEAKER_00: 0:08

Hey there. Welcome into the Ben Maynard program. Thanks for being here. It's been a little bit, hasn't it? It's been way, way too long. And I'll get you all caught up on the latest and greatest, or maybe not so greatest. Um, and we'll have a little bit of fun today, all right? Just a little bit of fun. I don't know. We'll we'll see how it all plays out. Like I said, it's been a little bit, I might even be rusty. I don't know. But before we get into any of that, I need to remind you guys, but you already know, this program is available wherever you get your podcast. Just search the Ben Maider program. Boom, it's right there. Go with it, download it, share it with all of your uh people. Um, and you know what? You can even give me a five-star rating, okay? Uh, then next, today you might not want to be watching on YouTube. Oh, for the ones that are watching, yeah, you know exactly what I'm talking about. Look at this. Look at this. I I put a hat on because really, honestly, I did. I put a hat on because the hair is an absolute disaster. Uh, I am going to get it cut when I'm finished uh recording this episode. But uh I thought, you know what? I don't care what it looks like. Who cares? Nobody watches anyway. They listen more than they watch. But uh, so so not very many people are gonna see anyway. But I thought, no, let me put the hat on. And uh I don't want to scare anybody off, uh, especially all the uh the uh the female uh portion of the audience. I don't want to scare you off. But uh listen, so if you are watching on YouTube, because most of the time you can't resist this, but not today, not today, uh, then thanks for doing that. But subscribe to the channel, okay? Subscribe to it, um, hit the notification bell and um give me a thumbs up and leave a comment. All right. I dig the comments, you guys know I've replied to them. Let's see. Oh, tell a thousand of your family and friends as well about the Ben Maynard program. And uh last but not least, follow me on Instagram, simply Ben Maynard program, all one word. And it's great. I got one one new follower yesterday on Instagram. Awesome. So awesome. And uh maybe it inspired the hat. I'll get into that in a minute. Uh so yeah, Instagram, Ben Maynard Program, all one word, or where I'm a little more active, and I need to start getting more active on Instagram. I need to steal my account back from Catherine. But where I'm a little more active on the TikTok, it is the Ben Maynard program. All right. So there are plenty of ways to take in this show for your dancing and listening pleasure. Okay, we got through the open. All right, we're done with that. So, oh, you know what? Doggone it. Let me shut the ringer off on my cell phone. So professional. So professional. Uh yeah. So it's been uh, I don't know, I think it's been at least two weeks, and uh, I'll get into a couple reasons. Well, I'm gonna put some glasses on so I can see what I'm doing. Um, again, okay, so let's start, let's start with the hat. Um, I said that the hair is a disaster, and I said that I got one new follower on Instagram yesterday, and that's a reason for this particular hat. For those of you that are watching, you can see that it is a hat promoting this podcast. It's um it's uh it's it's got uh it's got kind of our show phrase, which is it's so good on here. But it says, actually, I want to see if I can see this too. So let me enlarge the screen a little bit. Ha there. But it says the Ben Maynard program, and at the bottom, it's so good. So uh we do have, I don't want to say we have a merch line, but we do have merch. And that's the the the new Instagram follower had sent sent me a message and asked if I had merch. And so I said, yeah, of course. And we do, we actually we have merch, and and it's not like we have a stockpile of it. We don't have a store, so to speak, but there's the second hat right there, and it's got the this logo right here on the back wall on the hat. And the hats are available in, you know, I I think they're available in gray, navy blue, like this one I'm wearing, and um, and black. Those three colors I know for sure. And then, of course, the logo that itself will be different colors, like this this logo on on this particular hat is white. On the gray hat, it's it's it's black. And I think on the black hat it's it's a lighter shade of blue, but you know, we can change it up. It doesn't matter. The hats are about 30 bucks, something like that. And uh, if you're interested in one, just let me know in the comments. Some of you know me personally, so you can send me a text or whatever. We haven't figured out how we're gonna accept payment for it yet. Catherine and I, we were just talking right before I came on the air. And uh and we were talking about, well, we're gonna have to open up a PayPal account, I guess, you know, so people can pay for stuff, um, you know, for hats. So we're just gonna start with hats. Um, because I just want to promote the show. I want to get out there and promote, promote the uh the podcast. And uh what better way to do it? It's like everyone wears hats now, especially the you know, the trucker hats, they're they're really oh my gosh, that hair is bad.

unknown: 5:55

Whew.

SPEAKER_00: 5:56

Um the uh the trucker hats are very popular. I dig them. And I'm honestly, I have I probably have uh all told a couple hundred ball caps between the ones that I still have from my coaching days in baseball, plus ones that I have picked up here like at a at a concert or um just along the way, you know, because oh, that's a cool hat. Let me get it, you know, whatever 25, 30 bucks, whatever. Well, 20 years ago it was like 10 bucks. But um uh, you know, pick them up. And and I I really um don't wear hats. I haven't over the you know, my uh my uh life, I really haven't worn hats very much at all, just when I was playing baseball or when I was coaching. But over the last few years, uh I would say primarily in the last five or six years, uh now I'm wearing a ball cap all the time because I have a little, I have a little skin cancer here on the top of my skull and uh or my scalp. And and so I'm I actually have an appointment to have it removed. But uh so I've been trying to protect myself over the last few years, wearing hats at work and uh wearing certainly wearing hats when I'm outside working in the yard. I don't know how we got on hats, but we did, and that's okay, not a problem there. But if you do want a hat, just let me know. Just let me know. We'll get it worked out. Um, like I said, I don't have a store here at uh in studio or at the house. I don't have a stockpile of them, but they're so they're pretty readily available, and I can get them within a day, so it's not a big deal. But uh, so just let let me know. All right, greatly appreciate it. Uh all right, so what's been happening? Why has it been a couple of weeks? Well, I think okay, the last episode was uh Marissa Fullenkamp. Man, she was so much fun. What a just a wonderful uh young lady, just a sweet, uh, beautiful uh young lady, really, honestly. And um, you know, for all you guys out there, I candy. Um, but just a very talented young lady, great. I I love the way she writes songs, I love her voice. She's very talented, plays multiple instruments. And I consider myself lucky here because the last three artists that I've had on, all women, all incredibly beautiful, all incredibly talented with incredible voices. So I'm lucky that that I've had that happen. Um and you all out there, the home and car listener, you need to check it out if you haven't already. Um so, so good. And uh Marissa's on she's on the up, and she's got her debut CD coming out. I believe the release date is February 20th. And I think she's done with pre-orders. Pre-orders stopped, I think, a couple of weeks ago. I'm still waiting for mine to come in, uh, but uh I'm looking forward to it. Just just wonderful. And, you know, like I said, Marissa was dynamite, a lot of fun. She's definitely coming back. And um, you know, previous to that, I know Ashley Felton. I I'm I haven't asked her personally, you know, um, but I'm pretty sure she's gonna come back. And I know Olivia Harms is coming back. So let's just say all three will definitely be back on the podcast um in the in the very near future. And uh I look forward to it, and I know you guys look forward to it, just talented ladies, so talented. But um, and I'm working on some stuff. I am, even though I haven't been uh even though we we haven't had an episode in a couple weeks or so, um, and I have I gosh, the the the TikTok stuff, like non-existent. Non-existent. I haven't done anything, and I'll get into that too. Why? Well, first off, look at this face. I have uh I have a full beard going, and that's because I think I told you guys back towards the end of the year that uh I was I was you know I was dealing with uh uh a pretty bad cold, fighting it for weeks, like four or five weeks. Then I finally got over it. I'm still like phlemmy. I'm still real phleby from it. Uh so I guess I've never completely gotten over it, but um then uh the week of uh so I started feeling better anyway. I started feeling better right the um week of Christmas, and then uh I went back to work, and then the following week was the week of New Year's, and I got the flu. And I think I told you guys that if I didn't, well, I got the flu. I was in bed for like three days and then uh started feeling a little bit better, went back to work, and it's been up and down, and last week, uh midweek, I just started getting those fluish body aches again. And I'm thinking, what is going on here? But I had to rally. I rallied and and and and I got through the workday on that Wednesday, and then the following day, Thursday, and then the following day Friday. But each day, as soon as I got home from work, shower straight to bed. No workout. Sorry, Tonal, uh, no nothing. I think I barely even ate. I think I was I was like, you know, crying to Catherine, you know, can I have some cream of wheat? She would bring me cream of wheat. I'd eat it in bed, sleep, that was it, boom. And and the worst day was a week ago, you know, last Friday. It was horrible. Came home, did the same thing, shower, sleep, and the following day, Saturday, uh, just in bed all day long, in bed the following day on Sunday, same thing. Um, no church, no Sunday school, no nothing. And I was like, you know what? I don't know what's happening here. I don't know what's going on. I don't know why this is with this is happening. So uh I ended up taking Monday off. And uh so I thought, well, I got to get back in the saddle on Tuesday. It was a little bit better. Wednesday was good, Thursday was fabulous as far as the way I was feeling. And yesterday feeling really good, also. Too lazy to shave. That's just the way it is. I'll probably get it done today because uh yeah, we're gonna get the haircut and all that, gonna get this mop taken care of. So that's kind of what's been going on, and that's why there's been the lack of communication or the lack of a uh of a of an episode, the lack of any uh social media, uh play, that kind of thing. It's just, you know, when you're in bed and you're sick and you were just not feeling it, man, it hurt just to get out of bed. And uh it's like, yeah, that's the last thing I want to do. That's the last thing I want to do is just try to write a show. I didn't really need to write one for today. I just needed to get in this studio to talk to you people because it's been a little bit. And no matter what, no matter how big or how small your audience is, um if you're not engaging, then people will tend to tune out. And trust me, I know. I I see I see my numbers. I know. So it's time to get back in the saddle here, get in studio, talk to you, look at you. You guys can uh communicate with me. So that's you know, that's that's kind of what's been happening. So this is gonna be light today. This is gonna be probably a quick one, just uh, you know, like like I had said, I don't want to continue to re repeat myself, but you know, getting right back in the saddle, climbing back on this horse and and doing it. Um so is probably gonna be a bunch or a whole lot of nothing. But I know you guys will enjoy because I enjoy it, and I know you guys are really good. You you all are really, really good to me, and I greatly appreciate it. So even if I uh read the phone book, I I think some of you would would appreciate it and stick around. Well, I'm not gonna read the phone book though, okay? Wait, some of you are saying, What's the phone? No, actually, none of you are asking what the phone book is because I know my demographic too, and you're all close to my age. So we all know what a phone book is. It's all those young youngsters out there that have no clue. Anyway, um, so today is National Hot Chocolate Day. And boy, I couldn't be happier with that one. I really couldn't. That I am so stoked about that. I told Catherine, I said, uh, I said, we are gonna have hot cocoa tonight. And uh we're gonna really get down with it because it's National Hot Cocoa Day or hot chocolate day. I always say hot cocoa, um, but it's national hot chocolate day. And she says, it's national something every day. He's kind of barked back at me. It is true because I think the other, I don't know if it was yesterday or day before it was National Chocolate Cake Day. I missed out on it. I didn't, I didn't uh partake in any chocolate cake, and that's like my favorite. I should have. But uh, you know, I mean, what's so great about hot hot chocolate? We'll just go with hot chocolate since it's national hot chocolate and not cocoa. My buddies tease me because I say hot cocoa and they they they they tease me the way I say to hot cocoa, cocoa you know, they kind of rib me about that one, whatever. I don't care. Keep it up, fellas. But um so hot chocolate. Made with creamy milk. You have to make it with milk, not water. Uh-uh. You have to make it with milk and uh and of course some good hot cocoa mix. And for me, because I'm a I have a sweet tooth and I love my sweets, I even add some additional sugar into it, you know, and as it's all boiling, or not boiling, but you know, warming up and and and heating up and I'm stirring it, it's just so delicious. And I am a whipped cream guy. I gotta have whipped cream on my hot cocoa. All right. I know some people dig the marshmallows, and um that's fine. That's fine for me. No. Give me some whipped cream, and it's gotta be the extra creamy stuff, the real stuff, not whipped topping. That stuff is for phonies. No, whipped cream. And don't for don't forget, extra creamy. All right. Yeah, no, so that that's good stuff, you know, and you can do whatever you want to it. You can add some, you know, some people like to put a little extra cocoa powder on the their whipped cream or their marshmallows, or you know, look, for some of you, um, yeah, for some of you out there, you like to, you know, mix it with your favorite liqueur or something and really, you know, make it bite, I suppose. But no, not me. Just give me some regular hot chocolate. All right. Uh, today is also International Zebra Day. Zebras are awesome. I think that they're an incredible animal. They're part of the like the horse family and the the donkey family. They're all kind of, they're all relatives, let's put it that way. What I thought was really cool is that, and I don't know, correct me if I'm wrong, people, but I as a kid, and probably almost all of us, grew up thinking, okay, zebras are white with black stripes. And didn't I hear, isn't it said something that no, they're actually black with white stripes? I don't know if it matters, but that's kind of what I heard. You tell me if you heard the same thing. I don't know. But uh, whatever. But it's National Zebra Day, so you know, go uh go kiss a zebra. So today also is um I guess I should say, normally I don't, but when I do Friday Night Live, I you guys know the date. Today is Saturday, January 31st, okay? Um today also, as far as um celebrity birthdays go, and this just happened by chance. I didn't look for it, but I found it in putting it together. Today, Jackie Robinson was born in 1919. Jackie Robinson, tremendous baseball player for the Dodgers, the Brooklyn Dodgers, the LA Dodgers. I think he spent, I think he did make the trip to Los Angeles. Um, but I can't recall. Um, but he was, you know, he like I said, tremendous uh uh ball player, second baseman, um, hall of famer, six-time All-Star. He was a world champion in 1955 for the uh Brooklyn Dodgers, the only world championship that the Brooklyn Dodgers won. And he was an MVP also. He more uh more notable broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball. So I thought that was really cool. Branch Ricky brought him aboard, and uh it was all over after that, and uh baseball became a more integrated sport and better for it, of course. Ernie Banks, another Major League Baseball Hall of Famer, Mr. Cub. Ernie Banks was born on this day in 1931, 14-time all-star, shortstop, uh uh two-time MVP. And and as I said, his nickname was Mr. Cub. He spent his entire career with the Cubs. The Cubs always had a horrible team, but he stuck it out, was very um, very dedicated to the Cubs, very true to his team, and because of that, never appeared in a World Series. But uh his numbers speak for themselves. Just a tremendous ball player, tremendous person, let's just put it that way. Both Jackie and Ernie, tremendous individuals, great humans. Uh then it's like was this like the sports segment of the podcast? I don't know. But also born on this day, January 31st, in 1947, the great Nolan Ryan. Yeah. So another baseball player, Nolan Ryan, Hall of Fame pitcher, of course, the all-time leader in no hitters, seven, seven no hitters. And I think, if I remember correctly, the last no hitter Nolan Ryan threw, I think he was 42 years old. Something like that. I know he was in his 40s. 42 years old, I believe it was. He uh, let's see, Nolan Ryan came up with the New York Mets, then he played for the California Angels, or now the Anaheim Angels, or the Angels of Los Angeles, Anaheim. Whatever you want to call them. They're always going to be like the California Angels to me because that's what they were when they came into existence into Major League Baseball. All right. And, you know, I was I was I was a kid when all that happened. So they're always going to be the California Angels. But he played for, came up with the Mets, played for the Angels, then went to the Houston Astros, and then finished out his career with the Texas Rangers. Great career and great pitcher. I don't even, I think if I remember as well, he never developed any arm problems until he was in his 40s. Nolan Ryan was just, he look, if this is this is where I kind of go off as a baseball coach, one who taught baseball for many, many years. I go off on this whole babying players, especially as you're you're getting older, you know, you have to be mindful of stuff. But the way that you get stronger is by throwing the baseball. And it's just like, you know, for a bodybuilder, you don't tell a bodybuilder to stop lifting. Okay. The way they get stronger, the way they get bigger, the way they develop is through lifting. Okay. Now, same with the baseball player. The way you get better, the way you get stronger is through throwing. Yes, of course you have to have a certain amount of rest, but you know, there are throwing regimens, and and that's that's how you actually take care of your arm is through throwing and proper rest, not pitch counts and and uh okay, you know, throw as hard as you can for three innings, and then we'll take you out and you'll be all right, you'll be ready to go, you know, five days later. That's baby stuff. All right. Nolan Ryan was a man when it be, when it was, when it came down to pitching. And uh not so much so that I mean one of his biggest, one of the biggest videos you'll see of Nolan Ryan is you know taking it to uh taking it to Robin Ventur of the Chicago White Sox back in like 1990 or something like that, you know. I don't remember if he hit Robin Venture or he just went high and tight on him. But then Robin charges the mount and Nolan throws his glove off. That's it. Come on out here, boy, and uh gets him in a headlock and you know takes it to him. But um Nolan Ryan, tough guy, tough guy, tough body, pitch the way pitchers are supposed to pitch, using their legs. The legs and the hip action is where you get your um your power from. So I'm not gonna go any further into that, but Nolan Ryan, born on this day, 1947. What a man. Yes. Uh, and last but not least, I decided I'd throw this one in there. Justin Timberlake, born on this day in 1981. Uh, singer-songwriter, um, actor as well, you know, obviously known for, you know, being in, I don't remember which boy band it was. I honestly because I don't follow that stuff. I know there's like the Backstreet Boys, 98 degrees in in sync. I think he might have been in sync. I don't know. I just don't remember. But uh, you know, I'll say this to Justin. Sorry, you did not bring sexy back. Okay, I brought sexy back, and that's just the way it is. Sorry, fella. Too bad for you. Um, okay, so I already talked about the latest episode. We've got some stuff cooking. Um, I have some invites out there. I've extended some invitations to some people to come on the podcast. There's a couple of more that I'm gonna extend to as well. Um, I've got one maybe right now, and uh just waiting for a reply uh for a couple others. We'll see how it goes. I don't want to jinx it. Um so I'm not gonna say who it is, but uh I know I'm looking forward to it. And you guys should be looking forward to it, too. It's just really good stuff. Oh, let me back up really fast because I was talking about the celebrity birthdays. Yesterday, January 30th, excuse me, uh still flemmy. Um there were some birthdays that I celebrated, sent out my happy birthday wishes to these to these fellas and uh and uh wished them well. And uh they were very thankful uh for my birthday wish. And I want to wish a happy birthday to Steve Ageri. He was one. My buddy and past guest on this podcast, Adam Holland, who those guys are tied together, Adam Holland and Steve Ajeri. Adam got back, was like, hey, thanks, brother, appreciate it. And then Brother Jim, who was his birthday yesterday, too. I figured I'd just shout it out. I know it's past yesterday, but it's still close enough. And I wanted to shout those guys out um on the podcast here. Yeah, brother Jim was his birthday. So um, happy birthday to Brother Jim, to my buddy Adam Holland, and to my soon-to-be buddy, Steve Agerry. Um, what else? So um, I thought this would be kind of fun. Let me pop this open. You guys, because like I said, this is gonna be a quick episode. We're I'm gonna get you in and out of here. Um, but just wanted to communicate, say hello, say I love you, and hear you guys say you love me back. But you all know that I all right, this page is jumpy. Okay, there we go. That's what I I can't stand to get to a certain website and they just get real real jumpy and all that. And some of the some of the the websites that I like the most are the worst. But um, so I I did I did a little bit of looking here because you guys know that I love my like my my billboard top 40 charts and that kind of stuff, especially hold on. I got a stupid pop-up here. Let me shut, let me close that. There we go. All right. Um so I thought it would be fun. I look oh that kind of skipped. That kind of skipped. Let's get down down here. Get on down here. Here we there. Nope, almost, almost there, almost there, people. Sorry. I think this is it. Come on. Of course, like before there it is, there it is. All right, so I popped up, I popped up the uh the top 40 for um this week, weekending January 30th in 1982. And I'm not gonna go over all of it, but I thought it was just fun because I was looking at some stuff last night as well, like albums that were released in the month of February. And there were some significant ones that in my, you know, like in my world or you know, that I like. And um trying to remember what they were. Well, one of them was the Eagles' Greatest Hits, um, which was like their first greatest hits. That was released in that was released 50 years ago in 1976, February of 1976. And I've talked about it before about the Eagles' greatest hits, that it's one of the biggest selling albums of all time. And apparently, I think it was this week that it just surpassed 40 million records sold. And I believe that's just in the US, okay, because uh it became number one in the US at over 40 million copies sold, which makes it what what have we talked about before? It's four times platinum, not four, it's 40 times platinum, but it's four times diamond, right? We talked about a diamond record selling a diamond record is 10 million. So 40 million, four times diamond. Incredible. So it it is the number one seller in the United States. Um obviously it's on that chart, that top chart worldwide. Um I believe that Thriller has fallen to number two in the United States, but but worldwide thriller is still number one from uh Michael Jackson. So I just thought that was kind of interesting. It was funny that I saw that it that um it was released this month 50 years ago, and then at the same time it just hit four uh 40 million copies sold. So I just wanted to mention that real quick. Also, there was another album released in 76, in February 76. It was um Bad Company Running with the Pack, and not one of their biggest sellers, but one that's got some uh couple three songs on there that I really, really like. I think the the opening track on it is Live for the Music, good groove on that one. Then one, and then two of my two of my actually all-time favorite um bad company songs are on that album. One is Silver, Blue, and Gold, which is uh certainly a um a uh slower-tempoed song, but so good. It is just like the hat says right there, it's so good. Um check it out. It's a great song. And um, and then the title track. That's it. The title track, Running with the Pack. That one is probably my all-time favorite bad company song, is Running with the Pack. I don't know, there's just something about it. Something about it, something about the tempo, um the just the the the melody and the um the course on it, and maybe just the way that Paul Rogers in his velvetiness, you know, just great voice, of course. I think what what was he dubbed? The singer singer, I think. Um maybe just his his delivery on that, just so good. And uh there's a little orchestration in it as well, um, some string orchestration, and that really kicks in towards the end of the song. Um, maybe it's just all that, but Ed is a great song, and it's my I know it's my favorite bad company song of all time. But uh, so those those two albums kind of stuck out to me when I was when I was kind of looking that stuff up. And I don't know, I just thought I'd mention it. Besides, it gives me something to talk about, right? It gives me something to talk about while I'm keeping you here for, you know, I guess that quick one, so probably like 30 to 45 minutes. I don't even, I don't know how long have we even been going? I don't even know. It's it's hard. I got I got my camera in the way, so I can't see my timer um right now. So, but what I getting back to this um this top 40 list from this week ending January 30th, 1982. I've talked about so much of this stuff before. It's awesome. Um there's there's a few things in here that are interesting. Um the way that they like break down some cats. Oh, wrong week. That's I've got like the whole month here and it keeps kind of moving around. So let's get back to the week I'm looking for it skipped two, two weeks, it fell down, uh whatever it does. I don't know. Um come on. There we go. There it is. Yeah, that's yeah, that's the one. So it it it gives you like the the top 40 songs, and then there's a there's a small section or group that shows you the the the tracks that are the biggest drops in on the chart that week. And then there's the power plays, which are the ones that were probably making some of the biggest moves that week and getting a ton of radio play as well. Um so and then there's there's debuts, but those debuts are outside the top 40. All those debuts are are in the back the the lower half of the um the top 40. So um so I just thought I would share some of that because it's kind of fun. So the um the biggest drops, and I'll uh yeah, I'll show you because it shows where they what position they dropped to and then what position they were the week before. Um so falling from let's see, falling from I think 29, the way I'm trying to read this here. Falling from 29 to number 41 was under pressure from David Bowie and Queen, her queen and David Bowie. Everybody knows that song. It's a great song, actually. That's a really, really good song. Um, and then falling to number 42 from number seven, or maybe oh wait, you know what? No, no, no, no, no, hang on, time out. No, no, that doesn't right. That doesn't sound right. It gives you three different numbers here, so I'm trying to decipher what they are. Um so I yeah, so I think falling from number um seven to number 42 is why do fools fall in love from Diana Ross. And we I know we talked about that one a few episodes back. Um and then falling from number 17 to number 45. It's the the the the main title of the song is called Take Me to Heart or Take, I'm sorry, Take My Heart. Take Me to Heart was quarter flash, but Take My Heart, and then in parentheses, it's got You Can Have It If You Want It. And that's what everybody knows the song by because that's what they're that's what they're they're singing, you know, in the hook is You Can Have It If You Want It. Anyway, good song though. I do like that song. You guys know I dig my cool and cool in the gang, but that was uh that was a big drop. And then a uh a band called Sneaker, and I think I remember this track, it was probably on the chart like one week, maybe two weeks, but dropped from 34 to 69, and it was more than just the two of us, so so big drops. But I'll I'll I'll kind of run this down pretty quick. At um yeah, yeah, I think that's wait, wait, is that number four, number number nine, whatever. Um from the previous week at number 28, it was Don't Stop Believing, and it's at number 40 on this week, um, which we all know Don't Stop Believing is the biggest song in the journey catalog, the biggest song ever. And I mentioned it here before. It wasn't even the biggest hit on the escape album. It's it's weird, but that's what time does. That's what time and with this particular song, great song. I if I although I've said it before, if I never hear it again, I'm okay with that. Um, because I do love the song. It's a tremendous song. And I love the lyrics in it, and I love everything about the song, but I've just heard it so much. I it's like I it suffers with me, it suffers from the the uh the burnout factor. But uh, but when the album was released or the single was released back in 1981, I think the uh song topped the chart at like number four. I think it hit number four. I know it hit top 10, but I think it was number four, and it wasn't even the biggest track on the album, but is the biggest song in the journey catalog. Everyone knows that song. Everyone, whether you're a fan of Journey or not, everyone knows that song. Played at sporting events, just you hear it everywhere. Um, I'll just run down a few of these. I'm not gonna go into, I don't think, I don't think I'll go into all of them. But um Pac-Man Fever. Oh, yeah. That was such a cool song. Such a cool song. Released in 81, and it was still running around the top 40. I believe at this point here at 38, where it is, I believe it was on it on the downside. Um, my favorite Stevie Wonder song of all time, That Girl, was climbing the chart. That was new on the charts. That was at 37. Uh, let's see. Do you guys remember the song Sea of Love? Most of you probably remember that song from The Honey Drippers. That was um, what was that? Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, who else was in the Honey Drippers? Can't remember off the top of my head. Um, but uh whoops. This page here is giving me issues. But Del Shannon did a version of that song in 1982, and I his version was a cover. Who is it? Phil Phillips, I think. I don't know. Maybe I I I hope I I might have just pulled that one right out of my rear end. Um, I think Phil Phillips was the original artist on that song, like back in the like '56 or something like that. Anyway, so See of Love from Dell Shannon. That song, I don't even think it broke the top 30, but um, but it was at 35 that week. Um Working for the Weekend from Loverboy, their signature song, their signature track. It was, I think it was still climbing the chart at this point. It's at 33. Um, and talking about big songs like Don't Stop Believing and all that. Working for the Weekend, again, Loverboy's biggest song in their catalog, not their biggest hit on the top 40 chart. It's just one of those things that time does something to a certain song or to things in life, period. And um, it just it just, you know, time and and and and culture uh or pop culture um just gave that song just a completely different life. Uh come on. This stupid website keeps jumping. Um so yeah, but that song, I think it, I think it broke the top 30 from what I remember. Um certainly I'd have to research it. But um, yeah, so I think it broke the top 30, but not their biggest, not their biggest hit. If I if without having to double check, without having to look at anything, I suppose. Um, I think their um biggest hit was off the the next album, Keep It Up. And I think it was Hot Girls in Love. I think that one broke the top 10. I think that would reach like number nine. All right, so enough of Lover Boy. Enough of that one. Let's move on. Uh, a cool song that was an absolute slow crawl. Key Largo from Bertie Higgins. It's at number 31 right here. And when I say slow crawl, I mean an incredibly slow crawl. Uh and it, if I remember Key Largo, it I think it uh topped its top uh position was like number five on the top 40. But uh it was a just an incredible slow crawl, like one position one week, maybe two positions another week, just working its way up the chart. And another big song, another huge song, did the same thing the year before 1981. And you won't believe it, but it became the biggest song in this artist's catalog. And that's Jesse's Girl from Rick Springfield. That was an absolute just same thing. Maybe moving up a position one week, maybe holding for a week, but it crawled its way to the number one position in 1981. Took forever to get there. But it did, became the biggest song in Rick's catalog in his career. Everyone knows that song. Everyone does. So it's weird. It's just so weird how you know you get songs that that just race up the chart, but don't don't stay very long. And then they're kind of they're there and they're they're gone. And Forgotten, but these songs that that just take forever to move up the chart, they just they're ones that are they just last. I talked about a couple weeks ago. Staying power, you know, the life of a song. Um oh, my buddy Ronnie Milsap at 27 with I Wouldn't Have Missed It for the World, great. Oh, my guy Kenny Rogers through the years at number 25. And speaking of Rick Springfield, he's uh I think it was the third single off the uh working class dog album, Love is Alright Tonight. That's at number 24. The biggest song, the biggest single off of the Journey Escape album is making its way up the chart at 21. That's Open Arms. Um let's see at number number 20, You Could Have Been With Me. I think that's the second or third single from Sheena Easton. She was she was a uh a newbie at this time. Really, really good song, really sweet song, too. I like that one a lot. Um, sweet Dreams from Air Supply might be my favorite song from Air Supply. Really, really good song. That one's at number 19. And if you ever get a chance to go see Air Supply live, go see them. So, so good. Um leader of the band from Dan Fogelberg, a song he wrote about his dad. Um, really, really good song. Dan Fogelberg, tremendous artist. Um, a great song from the Stones, Waiting on a Friend. I think that was uh an early video on MTV as well. Tremendous song from The Car, Shake It Up, great song. Title track off of that album. Love it, love it, love it. Let's just do it. Let's just do the whole top 10 and probably cut you loose. How's that? All right, we'll make it sweet and simple. Um, but at number 10, you guys remember back in the early 80s, there was a lot of medley's. And it, I think what really started was stars on, and they had that stars on 45 medley. It was, it was, it was, it was a Beatles medley, but it wasn't called that because the opening song was um Sugar Sugar was their opening track uh on that one. And uh, which was that the Archies, and so it um so it really wasn't a Beatles medley, but all the songs besides the opening one were all Beatles songs. What was really cool about stars on 45 and an up boy, I just got off track here, um, was that it was an actual singing group. They were recreating those vocals, and they were so good at it. Man, if you if you put those those clips side by side with the actual Beatle tracks, man, you're gonna that that's some good stuff. That's some good stuff. Now it's just when they from that point on when they were doing medleys or medleys were being put together, it was just taking the actual clips from the from the artist, uh, the artist's recordings and then kind of stringing them together for a medley. But remember there was that run of medley's that so at number 10 was hooked on classics, and that was a real popular one. I mean, obviously it's at number 10. I think it climbed even higher than that, but good stuff. At number nine was this boy, that was long. That was a long road to hoe, wasn't it? Um at number nine, the sweetest thing. That was from Juice Newton. Uh, she was still just hitting it hard and heavy on the country and the pop charts, you know, crossing over big time. Number eight, a great song by a great band. Love this song, Let's Groove from Earth, Wind, and Fire. Those guys are just dynamite. Uh, another really good song at number seven, Turn Your Love Around from George Benson. Check my math on this one. I think, I think that song was written by David Page of Toto. I think it's that track. And then another great song. Obviously, these are all great songs. They're all in the top ten, right, on the chart. Um, Leather and Lace from Stevie Nicks. That was a medley, or not medley, that was a duet she did with Don Henley. I think I think the story was she wrote the song for was it for Whalen Jennings, I think, or she was trying to give it to him. I think I could have that wrong. I think it was a country artist. I believe it was a country artist she was trying to give that song to, and was unsuccessful. So she did it herself and called her buddy, ex-lover, all that good stuff, Don Henley, to do it with her. And it's a huge song, huge song off of uh, I think that was her debut album, Belladonna. Then at number five was Hard in My Heart from Quarter Flash. That was um their follow-up song to um what was the uh oh no no wait, it was hard. No, was Hard in My Heart the the the Yeah, I think that was the first single off of their debut album. Yeah, and then Find Another Fool was on there and uh something else. Yeah, Hard in My Heart. Well, that was the first one. That was uh what was it trying to remember their names? The last name was Ross. Rindy and Marv, I think. They were a married couple, Ross and uh Rindy. She she was the lead singer, played saxophone. People were just like so into that at the time when they broke, because it's a this pretty girl, you know, fronting a band with a sax hanging around her neck, very sexy, all that good stuff. Good song, good song, good band. Wish they had a little more staying power. Um, unfortunately, a short shelf life. At number four this week, dropping from the number one position that it held forever, the biggest song of the year 1981 was physical from Olivia Newton John. We talked about that previously. Tremendously huge song. Um at number three, centerfold from the Jay Giles band. The um the lead single from what was the album, Freeze Frame? And uh huge song, went to number one. I think it's still climbing the chart at this point, making its way to number one. Huge song, biggest song of their catalog, off of the biggest album of their catalog, too. Then uh number two, we talked about this one, stuck at the number two position for 10 weeks, waiting for a girl like you from Foreigner. Absolutely fabulous song, but kept in that position for 10 weeks because for nine of those weeks, I believe it was nine weeks, was physical. And then physical dropped out of the number one position and Hall of Notes, where they are this week at number one. I can't go for that. They jumped Foreigner into that number one spot and kept Foreigner out of the number one position for, you know. So those two artists combined for 10 weeks, keeping Foreigner out of the number one position. Um, and you know, look, a great song from Hall of Notes as well. I can't go for that. I think that's off the Private Eyes album. And uh, but look, if you're gonna have a number two song, I I'm look, I'd I'd love to have a number two hit song for 10 weeks. Why not? I just love to have a number two song to hit for one week. No, that's a that's a good thing to have, though. It's that's a good thing to have. But uh anyway, so I just thought I'd have a little bit of fun coming back, talking with you all, and saying hello and saying uh we're working on some stuff. I do have some stuff, but the problem is not only not only was I dealing with cold and flu and all that kind of yucky stuff, but um it sucked because work, it's always work, right? It's always work keeping me from doing a lot of stuff. So it takes a lot of time, uh, it takes a lot of time away from me being able to like write uh a show. I have got material sitting on my desk over here in the studio for three or four more episodes, but it's like let me put this together. I gotta put it together in the right, the right format, the right way, so that I don't keep you here for six hours for one whole episode. Who wants to do that? Not even me. And I love to hear myself talk, and I don't even want to do that. So anyway, but I just want to say hello, miss you guys. Honestly, I promise I miss you guys. I hope you miss me half as much as I miss you. Um and um yeah, just thanks for you know hanging for a little bit today, and um I'll try to get a little more active. I don't care if it's 30 seconds, I'll try to get a little more active on the TikTok and get some stuff out to you guys so that you remember me. You know, that's the important thing. You guys have to remember. I mean, I always remember you. I'll never forget you. I just need you guys to do the same for me. 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