RETRO LIGHTNING – 1983

(Show #979; aired on 08-04-2012)

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1983…New Wave, Techno-Club-Pop and Polished Rock.  ‘Nuff said!  Enjoy the show and feel free to share this playlist with all of your Twitter and Facebook friends! — Fred

ARTIST TITLE ALBUM
Thomas Dolby She Blinded Me With Science The Golden Age of Wireless  (debut)
Missing Persons Destination Unknown Spring Session M  (debut)
The Moody Blues Blue World The Present
#1 THIS WEEK – The Police Every Breath You Take Synchronicity
Night Ranger Sister Christian Midnight Madness
Yello I Love You You Gotta Say Yes to Another Excess
Culture Club Time (Clock of the Heart) Kissing to Be Clever  (debut)
The Alarm Sixty-Eight Guns Declaration  (debut)
The B-52′s Legal Tender Whammy!
Nena 99 Luftballons (self-titled)
Foreigner I Want To Know What Love Is Agent Provocateur
R.E.M. Talk About the Passion Murmur  (debut)
Dire Straits Twisting by the Pool Twisting by the Pool (EP)
Van Morrison Irish Heartbeat Inarticulate Speech of the Heart
TV THEME “Charles in Charge”
Madness Our House (12″ club single)
Cyndi Lauper All Through the Night She’s So Unusual  (debut)
Bruce Cockburn The Trouble with Normal The Trouble with Normal
Genesis Home by the Sea–>Second Home by the Sea (self-titled 1983)
MOVIE – Irene Cara Flashdance…What a Feeling “Flashdance”  (OST)
UB40 Red Red Wine Labour of Love
Pete Townshend Love Reign O’er Me Scoop
Duran Duran Union of the Snake Seven and the Ragged Tiger
Big Country In a Big Country The Crossing  (debut)
LOCAL – Donna Summer She Works Hard for the Money She Works Hard for the Money
LOCAL – Practical Stylists She’s Got Lots “Local Heroes”  (WRVU compilation)
LOCAL – Steve Forbert (live) Samson & Delilah’s Beauty Shop Best of…What Kinda Guy?
Robert Plant Big Log The Principle of Moments
The Kinks Don’t Forget to Dance State of Confusion
Cheap Trick I Can’t Take It Next Position Please
Kim Mitchell Go for Soda Akimbo Alogo
Jackson Browne Tender Is the Night Lawyers in Love
Zebra Who’s Behind the Door? (self-titled debut)
ZZ Top Legs Eliminator
Talking Heads Burning Down the House Speaking in Tongues
Yes Changes 90125
THEN – Colin Hay (w/Men @Work) Overkill Cargo
NOW – Colin Hay Half a Million Angels Gathering Mercury
The John Hall Band Little Miss Maybe Search Party
The Fixx Stand or Fall Shuttered Room  (debut)
Def Leppard Photograph Pyromania
Tears for Fears Pale Shelter The Hurting  (debut)
Falco Der Kommissar (orig. German version) Einzelhaft  (debut)
Violent Femmes Blister in the Sun (self-titled debut)
BEATLE – Paul McCartney Pipes of Peace Pipes of Peace
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NEXT SATURDAY:  1990
(WITH MARY BRACE)

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