#TWIT80s - Ep. 1/September Week 1: Yappin' about all the songs that peaked in popularity on the American pop music charts the 1st week of September in the 1980s. Plus- did Billy Squier's "Rock Me Tonite" video really kill his career? I Revisionists be damned! #TWIT80siHeartRadio playlist > https://ihr.fm/2lz9IOu You Tube playlist > https://bit.ly/2zFYLhT Spotify playlist > https://spoti.fi/2jXRSnE

#TWIT80s - Ep. 2/September Week 2: Hall & Oates Alert!!! The R rated movie my parents let me watch... at age 6! Plus - Did the world really almost END in the fall of 1983? Revisionists be damned! #TWIT80siHeartRadio playlist > https://ihr.fm/2kx5vdLYouTube playlist > https://bit.ly/2lg3FhvSpotify playlist > https://spoti.fi/2lH3EDl

#TWIT80s - Ep. 3/September Week 3: I reference the MTV story from when I was 7 that some would deem SCANDALOUS! Was John Denver really a jerk? Why are people so mean to Michael Bolton? Plus - How much is Huey Lewis really packing? Fat Boys album reviews and Rest in peace, Eddie Money (Show recorded: August 2019). Revi sionists be damned! #TWIT80siHeartRadio playlist > https://ihr.fm/2kx5vdLYouTube playlist > https://bit.ly/2lzSKzaSpotify playlist > https://spoti.fi/2m6h2kT

#TWIT80s - Ep. 4/September Week 4: All the songs that peaked in popularity the last week of September every year in the 80s - PLUS - the 1st album I ever bought, the F-bomb laden b-side that blew my mind in the summer of '84, the only Wham! 45 I ever bought and did the Grateful Dead rip-off a short-lived (albeit AWESOME) NBC sitcom for its dopey "A Touch Of Grey" video? Thanks for listening!iHeartRadio playlist > https://ihr.fm/2miti1KYouTube playlist >https://bit.ly/2mfAFXDSpotify playlist > https://spoti.fi/2ki8FC5

#TWIT80s - Ep. 5/October Week 1: Everyone around me during the 1982-1983 school year was PUKING! The legendary band with roots in my birthplace of Potsdam NY, the 1981 "stiff" that became a huge #1 hit six years later. Are we adding Johnny Cougar & Peter Cetera to the #TWIT80s "Jerk List?" PLUS - Daryl Hall Alert!, the Don Henley flop that may have gotten a reference in a Season 7 episode of "Three's Company", my 2nd favorite Madonna song of all-time and much more. This is a long one. Thanks for listening, please share & subscribe! #TWIT80siHeartRadio playlist > https://ihr.fm/2klCNg0YouTube playlist > https://bit.ly/2miIps0Spotify playlist > https://spoti.fi/2klCBxi

#TWIT80s - Ep. 6/October Week 2: ***Special guest star***: Corey Rotic from 100.7 WMMS/Cleveland stops by to discuss Poison, New Kids & the 1986 Monkees resurgence. PLUS - I'll break down Hall & Oates' relationship with the R&B audience, Stevie Wonder on "the Cosby Show", the dark side of.... Anne Murray??? And much MORE! You thought last week's episode was a long one? This is lengthier than 4 back-to-back episodes of "Too Close For Comfort"! Thanks for listening, please share & subscribe! #TWIT80siHeartRadio playlist: https://ihr.fm/2m89n5jYouTube playlist: https://bit.ly/2kN5wL2Spotify playlist: https://spoti.fi/2m8mxze

#TWIT80s - Ep. 7 October Week 3: Legendary radio programmer Guy Zapoleon talks about his part in bringing "Red Red Wine" by UB40 "back from the dead" and making it a #1 hit nearly 5 years after it "stiffed" in 1984! PLUS - Madonna's 1st top 5 hit, the 1982 dance classic that gave "Macarena" its "giggle", the only time a Zappa ever went top 10 and much more. Thanks for listening. Please share, comment & help spread the word! #TWIT80siHeartRadio Playlist > https://ihr.fm/2kKfVahYouTube Playlist > https://bit.ly/2m0ebKjSpotify Playlist > https://spoti.fi/2mthn

#TWIT80s - Ep. 8/October Week 4: A 1983 flop is brought back to life this week in 1984 all due to the Power Of HBO! PLUS - Was early MTV really "racist" or just.... rock? The nearly forgotten top 10 Bruce Springsteen hit that bumped "Pink Cadillac" off the "Born In The USA" album, the 1986 stiff referenced in the Dead Milkmen's MTV classic, "Punk Rock Girl". Your patience is appreciated as the host is 2 days away from root canal surgery. Plenty of cheese to go with his whine in this almost-as-hard-to-endure-AS-oral-surgery episode of "This Week In The 80s". Please share, like, subscribe & review. Thanks for listening! iHeartRadio playlist: https://ihr.fm/2IsmmHvYouTube playlist: https://bit.ly/2Ved1YWSpotify playlist: https://spoti.fi/2pGFs66

#TWIT80s - Ep. 9/Halloween In The 80s: Egg throwing, Boy George costumes, Nerds candy! It must be Halloween in the 80s! PLUS - the October 1983 earthquake I slept thru (!!!) and *Special Guest* Corey Rotic - the world's BIGGEST Motley Crue fan - pops-in to discuss the band's 1st top 10 pop radio hit. Your plastic pumpkin will be overflowing with so much useless information and so many nostalgic anecdotal tidbits, you may spew baloney all over your punk, hippie and/or "bum" get-ups! Thanks for listening. Please share, subscribe & post a review! #TWIT80siHeartRadio Playlist: https://ihr.fm/2IFZ6WtYouTube Playlist: https://bit.ly/2onkj0LSpotify Playlist: https://spoti.fi/2IGt64K

#TWIT80s - Ep. 10: What do AC/DC, Little River Band, Grandmaster Flash, Def Leppard, a "Star Search" vocal champ, New Kids On The Block and... "Burt Reynolds?!?!"... have in common? They all had songs that peaked in popularity "This Week In The 80s". PLUS - An Oscar winning #1 duet featuring a woman one of my elementary school teachers thought was (ahem) "unattractive", the song Michael Jackson DIDN'T rip-off from Donna Summer, (despite what Quincy Jones says!), the Debbie Harry solo flop that Jermaine Jackson DID (appear to) rip-off and... the final 80's chart entry for the greatest singles act (host/author's opinion) of the 1980s - Daryl Hall & John Oates . Thanks for listening! Please share, subscribe, write reviews and leave comments. #TWIT80s YouTube playlist: https://bit.ly/35IbjnHSpotify playlist:https://spoti.fi/2J4MvfE

#TWIT 80s- Ep. #11 - 2nd week of November. Is a certain #1 song from this week in 1985 really the "Worst Song Ever?". PLUS - the "bright" side of Prince's death, the 1982 stiff by an A-lister that inspired a long-running toothpaste ad campaign. We'll tackle all that and 82 other hits & stiffs that peaked in popularity this week in the 80s. Thanks for listening. Please share, subscribe, review & leave comments. #TWIT80s. YouTube playlist: https://bit.ly/2Pnbb77

#TWIT80s - Ep. #12/November Week 3: The longest running #1 song of the decade and 80 more songs that peaked in popularity "This Week In The 80s". It may be our "Yachtiest" and "hairiest" episode yet. Thanks for listening! Please share, comment & subscribe. #TWIT80sYouTube playlist > https://bit.ly/2NF4Qld

#TWIT80s- Ep. #13 - All the songs that peaked in popularity the last week of November "This Week In The 80s". The longest running #2 hit of the 80s (or all-time?). Are we adding Barry Manilow to the "Jerk List?" PLUS - The unsung hero of the Lionel Richie sound. The only top 40 hit by my all-time favorite female artist.... and the moment Phil Collins "jumped the shark!". Plus MUCH more! Thanks for listening. Please share, subscribe, comment and help spread the word!YouTube playlist: https://bit.ly/2NQiGkU

#TWIT80s - Ep. 14/December Week 1. We may have found the worst song of the 80s! PLUS - Paul Shaffer keyboard solos, new wave Earth, Wind & Fire, hip-hop Hall & Oates, the mastermind behind both Alanis Morrissette & a mid-80s TV soap star, Barbara Streisand & Don Johnson cover.... Juice Newton AND a top 50 orgasm that would make even Donna Summer blush. It's the "Worst Episode Ever"... It's the 1st week of December... This Week In The 80s! Thanks for listening, sharing, subscribing, leaving reviews, commenting and enduring. :)YouTube playlist: https://bit.ly/2Q14cBn

#TWIT80s - Episode 15/December Week 2. My apology to Billy Joel PLUS the song that George Michael ripped-off for "I Want Your Sex", my all time favorite Police song, the Motley Crue stiff inspired by... Jack Wagner??? And... an unfortunate Queen tidbit they left out of that revisionist "Bohemian Rhapsody" movie! Drink everytime I use the word "iconic". You'll be hammered by the time we get to '83! It's "This Week In The 80s" and I thank YOU for listening! #TWIT80s

#TWIT80s - Ep. #16: All the songs that peaked in popularity the 3rd week of December, "This Week In The 80s". Pat Benatar's 1st top 10, Madonna's 1st "number one", Kiss' first chart hit without the make-up and the iconic 80's song that ONLY got as high... as #9??? All that & more on another fun-filled, exciting (debatable!) episode of "This Week In The 80s!". Thanks for listening. Please share, subscribe, leave a comment/write a review and help spread the word. Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays!

#TWIT80s. Episode #17. It's Christmas week in the 80s! We'll go thru all the songs that peaked in popularity Christmas week in the 80s- and I'll discuss some of my more memorable Christmas gifts in the 80s. From Mr. Microphone to the Casio Sk-1 Digital Sampling Keyboard to my 1st CD player. Whoaaaaa! Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays & thanks for listening! #TWIT80sYouTube Playlist: https://bit.ly/36Fg5SE

#TWIT80s - The national music charts always took the last week of the year off, but not "My Top 10" - That's the chart I made each week between January 1985 (age 10) and October 1990 (age 16). In this episode, I'll review my top 10s "This Week In The 80s" between 1985 and 1989. Happy New Year!!!! New episodes every Monday. Thanks for listening! #TWIT80s

#TWIT80s Episode #19 - All the songs that peaked in popularity on the American pop music charts "This Week In The 80s" - the 1st week of January. Including the 1st #1 hit of the 1980s PLUS my rant against Andy Taylor (formerly) of Duran Duran. And a song so bad, cocaine MUST have been involved at least on some level. Happy New Year! Thanks for listening, sharing and subscribing. Please leave a review on iTunes to help spread the word! #TWIT80sYouTube Playlist: https://bit.ly/39jrIkd

#TWIT80s - Episode #20! Let's get "granular" with all the songs that peaked in popularity on the American pop music charts, the 2nd week of January. Hip-hop starts to go pop thanks to two very different "novelty" records. Not one, but three different "soap stars" have chart entries we'll talk about. PLUS - what went wrong with Diana Ross in the 80s, some Men At Work bottlenecking and the Fleetwood Mac solo hit I think is better than anything Fleetwood Mac did as a group. It's a long one, so strap in and thanks for listening! #TWIT80sYouTube Playlist > https://bit.ly/2Qqc6DU