{"id":1027,"date":"2025-01-08T01:14:13","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T06:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danjkroll.com\/blog\/?p=1027"},"modified":"2025-01-18T11:34:02","modified_gmt":"2025-01-18T16:34:02","slug":"the-80s-balladeers-how-is-your-supply-of-beautiful-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danjkroll.com\/blog\/the-80s-balladeers-how-is-your-supply-of-beautiful-music\/","title":{"rendered":"The 80s Balladeers: How is your supply of beautiful music?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Hello! Welcome back to 80s countdown top 5 recap. Every week SiriusXM’s 80s on 8 channel broadcasts a countdown from the “decade of excess” hosted by the original MTV VJs. (Remember music videos?)<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
The week’s 80’s topic is based on one of my favorite groups and how they changed ballads in the 80’s. Every week, it’s a different year or topic and I will be providing fun feedback about the song and trivia tidbits about songs that I recap. We’re calling it Nick’s Mix as a nod to the mixtapes we all made back in the day.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Happy New Year 2025!! Welcome to a new year. So a little programming note. At the end of last week’s 80s Countdown, it was announced that this week’s show would be for 1983. That struck me as weird since they’d just done 1983 three weeks earlier. When this week’s show kicked off, they actually chose to do the chart from 1980. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For a little something different, I am going to do a deep dive into the ballads of one of my favorite bands: Air Supply.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First, a fun fact: the last Top 40 single by Air Supply group was 1985’s “Just as I Am”. It reached #15.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Without further ado, let’s discuss my five favorite songs from them. I can’t take credit for the, “Shhhhhhh! Air Supply is on.” That is all our leader, Dan. And remember: Dan has started building a community here<\/a> on his new web site. Please check it out!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Number Five: Are the nights better?<\/h3>\n\n\n
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“Even The Nights Are Better”. This is one of the few upbeat ballads by Air Supply. It was one of the eight<\/em> Top 5 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 that they’ve had in their career. It’s pretty remarkable for any artist to get eight Top 10 hits that all hit the top 5! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Even The Nights Are Better” reached #5 on the Hot 100 and #1 on the Adult Contemporary charts!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FUN FACT<\/strong>: Air Supply is not a duo, even though just two of the singers are the leads. They are considered a band.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Number four: Which one hit #1?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

One of the great things about Air Supply is the face you can crank up all the songs and sing from the top of your lungs!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FUN FACT<\/strong>: “The One That You Love” was their ONLY #1 single on the Billboard<\/em> charts. Keep reading to see my <\/em>number one song and why I think this was their only chart topper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Number Three: Are all dreams sweet?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

“Sweet Dreams” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The beginning of this song is short, but cool. This song reached #5. Russell has the pipes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FUN FACT<\/strong>: Russell and Graham share vocals on this. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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