These posts are about the songs that can accurately claim to crossed the key line of chart success, becoming Top 40 hits on Billboard, but just barely. Every song featured in this series peaked at number 40. Evelyn King got the nickname “Champagne” because she had a bubbly personality, which couldn’t have hurt when she was recording music designed for the discotheque. King’s first album, Smooth Talk, was released in 1977 and it was meant for the dance floor as surely as Tony Manero’s white suit. Supposedly, King was working as a cleaning lady at a record label when a … Continue reading Top 40 Smash Taps: “I’m in Love”

These posts are about the songs that can accurately claim to crossed the key line of chart success, becoming Top 40 hits on Billboard, but just barely. Every song featured in this series peaked at number 40. The Cure were hardly new faces in the mid-nineteen-eighties when they first started to garner some significant commercial attention in the United States. The band first got together in 1976 and released their first single, the controversial and occasionally disowned “Killing an Arab”, two years later. They quickly developed into a perennial presence on the charts in their English homeland, but had to … Continue reading Top 40 Smash Taps: “Just Like Heaven”