1980s Top 10 Will Make You Wonder What Happened To Music? | Professor of Rock

We count down the top 10 songs of this VERY same week from the year 1981. 40 years ago and then we rerank them based on their performance since, with your stories and artist commentary. Including hits from hall and Oates, Tom Petty and Stevie Nicks, Journey, Lionel Richie and Diana Ross The Rollins Stones and Christopher Cross. Drake has nothing on these artists. #1 - Arthur’s Theme (Best That You Can Do) Christopher Cross YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/results?searc... #2 - Endless Love Diana Ross and Lionel Richie YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/results?searc... #3 - Start Me Up The Rolling Stones YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/results?searc... #4 - For Your Eyes Only Sheena Easton YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/results?searc... #5 - Step by Step Eddie Rabbitt YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/results?searc... #6 - Private Eyes Daryl Hall & John Oates YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/results?searc... #7 - Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around Stevie Nicks & Tom Petty YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/results?searc... #8 - Who’s Crying Now Journey YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/results?searc... #9 - Hard to Say Dan Fogelberg YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/results?searc... #10 - The Night Owls Little River Band YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/results?searc... We Have New MERCH! https://bit.ly/ProfessorsMerch Thank you to this Episodes Sponsor, Zenni Optical Incredible Prices on New Glasses - https://bit.ly/ZenniOpticalShop ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Executive Producer Brandon Fugal Honorary Producers Anthony Fedora, Dustin Wooten, M Gonzales, Peggy Wolf ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check Out My Hand Picked Selection Below Professor's 80s Store 100 Best Selling Albums https://amzn.to/3h3qZX9 Ultimate History of 80s Teen Movie https://amzn.to/3ifjdKQ 80s to 90s VHS Video Cover Art https://amzn.to/2QXzmIX Totally Awesome 80s A Lexicon https://amzn.to/3h4ilrk Best In Ear Headphones (I Use These Every Day) https://amzn.to/2ZcTlIl ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Access To Backstage Content Become a Patron - http://bit.ly/ProfessorofRockVIPFan Purchase The Albums Help out the Channel by purchasing your albums through our links! As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases at no extra cost to you, thank you for your support. Click here for Premium Content: https://bit.ly/SignUpForPremiumContent​ https://bit.ly/Facebook_Professor_of_... https://bit.ly/Instagram_Professor_of... ​#80s #Rock #Story Hey music junkies and vinyl junkies Professor of Rock always here to celebrate the greatest artists and the greatest 80s songs of all time for the music community and vinyl community. If you’ve ever owned records, cassettes and CD’s at different times in you life or still do this is your place Subscribe below right now to be a part of our daily celebration of the rock era with exclusive stories from straight from the artists and click on our patreon link in the description to see our brand new show there. It’s time for another edition of our show th Hit Song Redux where we travel back to a week in the golden era of the rock and roll and re rank the top 10 songs of THAT SPECIFIC week based on their legacy since THEIR PEAK POSITION ON THE BILLBOARD HOT 100. We also include your stories and dedications. and make sure to keep watching all the way to the end because we have a new twist for you! This program is a tip of the hat to my hero Casey Kasem… this time we travel back to the end of October 1981 before we go into the top ten to get us in the nostalgic mood, the top movie at the box office for this week were: The Continental Divide, Arthur, Paternity, Raiders of the Lost Ark and Body Heat and the top tv shows were: Dallas, Three’s Company, The jeffersons and Dukes of hazzard so let’s get into it.