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Star Time #92: Let's Get Serious



Admittedly, it is never easy for me to squeeze '80s music into normal episodes of Star Time, because the '80s are when the drum machines took over. I don't know about you, but I don't feel comfortable telling Clyde Stubblefield to move over for something called a "Linn LM-1." My twice-yearly solution has been to just do an all-'80s episode, and that's what you have here. Lots of familiar hits, some ballads, savage electro-funk, and the like. Also: WE HAVE JERMAINE. AWAIT FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS.

ArtistSongYearLabel
Set 1
S.O.S. BandTake Your Time (Do It Right)1980Tabu
Vaughn Mason & CrewBounce, Rock, Skate, Roll1980Brunswick
Jermaine JacksonLet's Get Serious1980Motown
One Way feat. Al HudsonPop It1980MCA
Stephanie Mills feat. Teddy PendergrassTwo Hearts198120th Century Fox
Ray, Goodman & BrownSpecial Lady1979Polydor
Set 2
O'BryanThe Gigolo1982Capitol
Instant FunkYou're Gonna Get Yours1983Salsoul
Donna Washington'Scuse Me, While I Fall In Love1981Capitol
Gwen GuthrieAin't Nothin' Goin' On But the Rent1986Polydor
Ashford & SimpsonSolid1984Capitol
The O'JaysYour Body's Here with Me (But Your Mind's on the Other Side of Town)1982Philadelphia Int'l
Set 3
George ClintonAtomic Dog1982Capitol
Trama (The Funk-R-Roll Drama)The Whip1982Spector
Rick JamesGhetto Life1981Gordy
Tom Tom ClubGenius of Love1981Sire
KlymaxxThe Men All Pause1984Constellation
Jacksons feat. Mick JaggerState of Shock1984Epic
Set 4/Outro
BB&Q(l'm a) Dreamer1986Elektra
Herbie HancockRockit1983Columbia
NewcleusJam On Revenge (The Wikki Wikki Song)1983Mayhew
PrinceSign o' the Times1987Warner Bros.
Philip BaileyWalking on the Chinese Wall1984Columbia

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