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“You’re A Friend Of Mine” – Clarence Clemons (and Jackson Browne)
Embedded from cache.vevo.com.Album: Hero
Year: 1985
“Rock On” – Michael Damian
Embedded from www.youtube.com.Album: Where Do We Go From Here
Year: 1989
“Pac-Man Fever” – Buckner & Garcia
Album: Pac-Man Fever
Year: 1981
“Baby I Love Your Way / Freebird” – Will To Power
Embedded from cache.vevo.com.Album: Will to Power
Year: 1988
“Tuff Enuff” – The Fabulous Thunderbirds
Embedded from cache.vevo.com.Album: Tuff Enuff
Year: 1986
“Beds are Burning” – Midnight Oil
Embedded from cache.vevo.com.Album: Diesel and Dust
Year: 1987
“Lean On Me” – Club Nouveau
Album: Life, Love & Pain
Year: 1987
[Photo Credit: Sussex]“The Ballad of Jayne” – L.A. Guns
Embedded from cache.vevo.com.Album: Cocked & Loaded
Year: 1989
“Far From Over” – Frank Stallone
Album: Staying Alive: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Year: 1983
“Friends And Lovers” – Gloria Loring & Carl Anderson
Album: Carl Anderson and Gloria Loring
Year: 1986
[Photo Credit: Getty Images]“Love Plus One” – Haircut 100
Embedded from cache.vevo.com.Album: Pelican West
Year: 1982
“Rappin’ Rodney” – Rodney Dangerfield
Album: Rappin’ Rodney
Year: 1982
[Photo Credit: RCA Victor]“Wouldn’t it Be Good” – Nik Kershaw
Album: Human Racing
Year: 1984
[Photo Credit: MCA]“Edge Of A Broken Heart” – Vixen
Embedded from cache.vevo.com.Album: Vixen
Year: 1988
“Forget Me Nots” – Patrice Rushen
Album: Straight From the Heart
Year: 1982
[Photo Credit: Elektra Records]“Tomorrow People” – Ziggy Marley And The Melody Makers
Embedded from cache.vevo.com.Album: Conscious People
Year: 1988
“Under The Milky Way” – The Church
Embedded from cache.vevo.com.Album: Starfish
Year: 1988
“Boom Boom Boom Let’s Go Back to My Room” – Paul Lekakis
Album: Tattoo It
Year: 1987
[Photo Credit: Getty Images]“Lunatic Fringe” – Red Rider
Embedded from cache.vevo.com.Album: As Far As Siam
Year: 1981
“Johnny Are You Queer?” – Josie Cotton
Embedded from www.youtube.com.Album: Convertible Music
Year: 1982
“Party All The Time” – Eddie Murphy
Album: How Could It Be
Year: 1985
[Photo Credit: Columbia]“Black Velvet” – Alannah Myles
Embedded from www.youtube.com.Album: Alannah Myles
Year: 1989
“Fantasy” – Aldo Nova
Embedded from cache.vevo.com.Album: Aldo Nova
Year: 1981
“Tenderness” – General Public
Album: All the Rage
Year: 1984
“Supersonic” – J.J. Fad
Album: Supersonic
Year: 1988
[Photo Credit: Ruthless]“Key Largo” – Bertie Higgins
Embedded from www.youtube.com.Album: Just Another Day in Paradise
Year: 1982
“What’s On Your Mind (Pure Energy)” – Information Society
Album: Information Society
Year: 1988
[Photo Credit: Tommy Boy]“19?” – Paul Hardcastle
Album: Paul Hardcastle
Year: 1985
[Photo Credit: Chrysalis]“Breakout” – Swing Out Sister
Album: It’s Better to Travel
Year: 1986
[Photo Credit: Mercury]“All I Need” – Jack Wagner
Album: All I Need
Year: 1984
[Photo Credit: Getty Images]“Axel F” – Harold Faltermeyer
Album: Beverly Hills Cop: Music From the Motion Picture Soundtrack
Year: 1985
[Getty Images: MCA]“Heart And Soul” – T’Pau
Album: Bridge of Spies
Year: 1987
[Photo Credit: Siren]“Major Tom” – Peter Schilling
Album: Error In the System
Year: 1983
[Photo Credit: Elektra]“Toy Soldiers” – Martika
Embedded from cache.vevo.com.Album: Martika
Year: 1989
“Angel Eyes” – The Jeff Healey Band
Embedded from cache.vevo.com.Album: See the Light
Year: 1989
“I Don’t Like Mondays” – The Boomtown Rats
Album: The Fine Art of Surfacing
Year: 1979
[Photo Credit: Columbia]“Steal Away” – Robbie Dupree
Album: Robbie Dupree
Year: 1980
[Photo Credit: Getty Images]“The Rain” – Oran “Juice” Jones
Embedded from cache.vevo.com.Album: Juice
Year: 1986
“Dear God” – XTC
Album: Skylarking
Year: 1987
[Photo Credit: Virgin]“Da Butt” – E.U.
Album: School Daze: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Year: 1988
[Photo Credit: EMI America]“I Can’t Wait” – Nu Shooz
Album: Poolside
Year: 1986
[Photo Credit: Atlantic]“Your Love” – The Outfield
Embedded from cache.vevo.com.Album: Play Deep
Year: 1985
“Heartbeat” – Don Johnson
Album: Heartbeat
Year: 1986
“We Don’t Have to Take Our Clothes Off” – Jermaine Stewart
Album: Frantic Romance
Year: 1986
[Photo Credit: Arista]“Voices Carry” – Til Tuesday
Embedded from cache.vevo.com.Album: Voices Carry
Year: 1985
“Just Got Paid” – Johnny Kemp
Embedded from cache.vevo.com.Album: Secrets of Flying
Year: 1988
“Lady in Red” – Chris DeBurgh
Album: Into the Light
Year: 1986
“Puttin’ On the Ritz” – Taco
Album: After Eight
Year: 1983
[Photo Credit: RCA]“In My House” – Mary Jane Girls
Album: Only Four You
Year: 1985
[Photo Credit: Motown]“Der Kommissar” – After the Fire
Embedded from cache.vevo.com.Album: ATF
Year: 1982
“Buffalo Stance” – Neneh Cherry
Embedded from cache.vevo.com.Album: Raw Like Sushi
Year: 1988
“Easy Lover” – Philip Bailey (w/ Phil Collins)
Embedded from cache.vevo.com.Album: Chinese Wall
Year: 1984
“Oh Yeah” – Yello
Album: Stella
Year: 1985
[Photo Credit: Mercury]“Catch Me I’m Falling” – Pretty Poison
Album: Catch Me I’m Falling
Year: 1987
[Photo Credit: Virgin]“Keep Your Hands To Yourself” – The Georgia Satellites
Album: Georgia Satellites
Year: 1986
[Photo Credit: Elektra]“C’est La Vie” – Robbie Nevil
Album: Robbie Nevil
Year: 1986
[Photo Credit: Manhattan]“Mexican Radio” – Wall of Voodoo
Album: Call of the West
Year: 1983
[Photo Credit: I.R.S.]“Let the Music Play” – Shannon
Album: Let the Music Play
Year: 1983
[Photo Credit: 20th Century Fox]“The Future’s So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades” – Timbuk 3
Album: Greetings from Timbuk3
Year: 1986
[Photo Credit: I.R.S.]“At This Moment” – Billy Vera
Album: Billy and the Beaters
Year: 1981
[Photo Credit: Alfa]“Video Killed the Radio Star” – The Buggles
Album: The Age of Plastic
Year: 1979
“Break My Stride” – Matthew Wilder
Album: I Don’t Speak the Language
Year: 1983
[Photo Credit: Getty Images]“Respect Yourself” – Bruce Willis
Album: The Return of Bruno
Year: 1987
[Photo Credit: Motown]“Funkytown” – Lipps, Inc.
Album: Mouth to Mouth
Year: 1980
[Photo Credit: China]“It’s Raining Men” – Weather Girls
Embedded from cache.vevo.com.Album: Success
Year: 1982
“Genius of Love” – Tom Tom Club
Album: Tom Tom Club
Year: 1981
[Photo Credit: Sire/Warner Bros.]“I Know What Boys Like” – The Waitresses
Album: Wasn’t Tomorrow Wonderful?
Year: 1982
[Photo Credit: Polydor]“Missing You” – John Waite
Album: No Brakes
Year: 1984
[Photo Credit: EMI America]“Harden My Heart” – Quarterflash
Album: Quarterflash
Year: 1981
“Don’t Worry, Be Happy” – Bobby McFerrin
Embedded from cache.vevo.com.Album: Don’t Worry, Be Happy
Year: 1988
“Turning Japanese” – The Vapors
Album: New Clear Days
Year: 1980
[Photo Credit: Getty Images]“Our House” – Madness
Embedded from cache.vevo.com.Album: The Rise & Fall
Year: 1982
“St. Elmo’s Fire (Man In Motion)” – John Parr
Album: St. Elmo’s Fire: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Year: 1985
[Photo Credit: Atlantic]“Two of Hearts” – Stacey Q
Album: Better Than Heaven
Year: 1986
[Photo Credit: Atlantic]“I Just Died In Your Arms” – Cutting Crew
Album: Broadcast
Year: 1986
[Photo Credit: Getty Images]“Pass the Dutchie” – Musical Youth
Album: The Youth of Today
Year: 1982
[Photo Credit: MCA]“What I Am” – Edie Brickell & New Bohemians
Embedded from cache.vevo.com.Album: Shooting Rubberbands At the Stars
Year: 1988
“Electric Avenue” – Eddy Grant
Album: Killer On the Rampage
Year: 1982
[Photo Credit: Portrait]“Maniac” – Michael Sembello
Album: Bossa Nova Hotel
Year: 1983
[Photo Credit: Warner Bros.]“We’re Not Gonna Take It” – Twisted Sister
Album: Stay Hungry
Year: 1984
“Somebody’s Watching Me” – Rockwell
Embedded from cache.vevo.com.Album: Somebody’s Watching Me
Year: 1984
“You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)” – Dead or Alive
Embedded from cache.vevo.com.Album: Youthquake
Year: 1985
“It Takes Two” – Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock
Album: It Takes Two
Year: 1988
[Photo Credit: Profile]“The Safety Dance” – Men Without Hats
Embedded from cache.vevo.com.Album: Rhythm of Youth
Year: 1983
“99 Luftballons” – Nena
Album: Nena
Year: 1983
[Photo Credit: Columbia]“Whip It” – Devo
Album: Freedom of Choice
Year: 1980
“In A Big Country” – Big Country
Album: The Crossing
Year: 1983
“She Blinded Me With Science” – Thomas Dolby
Album: The Golden Age of Wireless
Year: 1982
[Photo Credit: Getty Images]“Obsesssion” – Animotion
Embedded from cache.vevo.com.Album: Animotion
Year: 1984
“Cars” – Gary Numan
Album: The Pleasure Principle
Year: 1979
[Photo Credit: A&M]“Relax” – Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Album: Welcome to the Pleasuredome
Year: 1983
[Photo Credit: Salvo]“Too Shy” – Kajagoogoo
Album: White Feathers
Year: 1983
[Photo Credit: EMI]“I Want Candy” – Bow Wow Wow
Album: Last of the Mohicans
Year: 1982
[Photo Credit: Morgan Creek]“I Melt With You” – Modern English
Album: After the Snow
Year: 1982
[Photo Credit: 4AD]“Mickey” – Toni Basil
Album: Word of Mouth
Year: 1982
[Photo Credit: Island]“Tainted Love” – Soft Cell
Album: Non-stop Erotic Cabaret
Year: 1982
[Photo Credit: Mercury]“867-5309 / Jenny” – Tommy Tutone
Album: Tommy Tutone 2
Year: 1981
[Photo Credit: Columbia/CBS]“Take On Me” – A-Ha
Album: Hunting High and Low
Year: 1985
“I Ran (So Far Away)” – A Flock of Seagulls
Album: A Flock of Seagulls
Year: 1982
[Photo Credit: ZKP RTVL]“Come on Eileen” – Dexys Midnight Runners
Album: Too-Rye Ay
Year: 1982
[Photo Credit: Mercury]