Casey Skeets-Em
@every80spopsong.bsky.social
Every 80s Billboard Hot 100, Bubbling Under or Single Pick + Cash Box/Record World chart singles and picks. Playlist at https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5PC0rpT8Hh8uH4FV69tZCo
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Every 80s Pop Song · Playlist · 202 songs
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Hey everyone, I made a Spotify playlist where you can listen to the songs I post to this account!
Everything available on Spotify is there, with the 7" edit preferred (if different than the album cut), and the parent album preferred as a source, in that order. Updated daily as I post songs here.
Everything available on Spotify is there, with the 7" edit preferred (if different than the album cut), and the parent album preferred as a source, in that order. Updated daily as I post songs here.
For a while everyone named their dog Yngwie Malmsteen. A call down the block for Yngwie would summon a parade
January 3, 2026 at 3:57 PM
For a while everyone named their dog Yngwie Malmsteen. A call down the block for Yngwie would summon a parade
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So, who wants to join my band that does disco covers of Lou Reed tunes? We’re called the Velvet Underground & Meco
January 2, 2026 at 6:52 PM
So, who wants to join my band that does disco covers of Lou Reed tunes? We’re called the Velvet Underground & Meco
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📻🚨Do you listen to online radio? What do you love?
Looking for a new go-to with the demise of Charlie's 80s Attic. I love a good mix of familiar and deep, and anything with a chart lover's sensibility is a plus. Is there anything else like this out there? Thanks!
Looking for a new go-to with the demise of Charlie's 80s Attic. I love a good mix of familiar and deep, and anything with a chart lover's sensibility is a plus. Is there anything else like this out there? Thanks!
December 16, 2025 at 12:39 PM
📻🚨Do you listen to online radio? What do you love?
Looking for a new go-to with the demise of Charlie's 80s Attic. I love a good mix of familiar and deep, and anything with a chart lover's sensibility is a plus. Is there anything else like this out there? Thanks!
Looking for a new go-to with the demise of Charlie's 80s Attic. I love a good mix of familiar and deep, and anything with a chart lover's sensibility is a plus. Is there anything else like this out there? Thanks!
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David Bowie released his single ‘Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)’ on this day in 1981.
January 2, 2026 at 12:28 PM
David Bowie released his single ‘Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)’ on this day in 1981.
Anacostia - Love is Never Wrong was a Cash Box Single to Watch on August 30, 1980
Final release from the former Presidents, who had a #11 hit in 1970 with 5-10-15-20 (25-30 Years of Love), is a sweet Charles Kipps ballad, a 7/10🎧
Final release from the former Presidents, who had a #11 hit in 1970 with 5-10-15-20 (25-30 Years of Love), is a sweet Charles Kipps ballad, a 7/10🎧
40. ANACOSTIA : LOVE IS NEVER WRONG
YouTube video by トリコちゃんねる
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January 1, 2026 at 2:56 PM
Anacostia - Love is Never Wrong was a Cash Box Single to Watch on August 30, 1980
Final release from the former Presidents, who had a #11 hit in 1970 with 5-10-15-20 (25-30 Years of Love), is a sweet Charles Kipps ballad, a 7/10🎧
Final release from the former Presidents, who had a #11 hit in 1970 with 5-10-15-20 (25-30 Years of Love), is a sweet Charles Kipps ballad, a 7/10🎧
Happy new year to all the music sickos on Bluesky
ABBA - Happy New Year (Video)
YouTube video by AbbaVEVO
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January 1, 2026 at 2:00 AM
Happy new year to all the music sickos on Bluesky
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Outlook for the new year ...
December 31, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Outlook for the new year ...
Dusty Springfield - I Wish That Love Would Last was a Cash Box Single to Watch on August 30, 1980, the b-side to the Theme from Norma Rae has a heavy arrangement that doesn't do Dusty any favors, a 5/10🎧
Dusty Springfield - I Wish That Love Would Last (US B'Side Single 1980)
YouTube video by Dusty Springfield
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December 31, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Dusty Springfield - I Wish That Love Would Last was a Cash Box Single to Watch on August 30, 1980, the b-side to the Theme from Norma Rae has a heavy arrangement that doesn't do Dusty any favors, a 5/10🎧
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Who will stop the Piano Man's reign of terror?!
December 31, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Who will stop the Piano Man's reign of terror?!
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everything I feel about the punk-besotted UK press of the mid-late '70s can be summed up in the fact that Ted Nugent is the "new order" and Stevie Wonder is a "boring old fart"
"new order" v. "boring old farts" in Sounds, 6 Nov 1976.
December 30, 2025 at 6:40 PM
everything I feel about the punk-besotted UK press of the mid-late '70s can be summed up in the fact that Ted Nugent is the "new order" and Stevie Wonder is a "boring old fart"
The Manhattan Transfer - Nothin' You Can Do About It was a Cash Box Single to Watch and a Record World Single Pick on August 30, 1980, the full Transfer treatment of Airplay's single from a few months earlier. It's jazzier for sure. 6/10🎧
The Manhattan Transfer - Nothin' You Can Do About It (Official Audio)
YouTube video by The Manhattan Transfer
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December 30, 2025 at 8:25 PM
The Manhattan Transfer - Nothin' You Can Do About It was a Cash Box Single to Watch and a Record World Single Pick on August 30, 1980, the full Transfer treatment of Airplay's single from a few months earlier. It's jazzier for sure. 6/10🎧
Philly Cream - Cowboys to Girls was a Cash Box Singles Feature Pick on August 30, 1980 and a Record World Single Pick on September 13, 1980
Uptempo disco cover of the Gamble/Huff song the Intruders took to #1 R&B/#6 Pop in 1968, a 7/10🎧
Uptempo disco cover of the Gamble/Huff song the Intruders took to #1 R&B/#6 Pop in 1968, a 7/10🎧
Philly Cream - Cowboys to Girls (Album Version)
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December 30, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Philly Cream - Cowboys to Girls was a Cash Box Singles Feature Pick on August 30, 1980 and a Record World Single Pick on September 13, 1980
Uptempo disco cover of the Gamble/Huff song the Intruders took to #1 R&B/#6 Pop in 1968, a 7/10🎧
Uptempo disco cover of the Gamble/Huff song the Intruders took to #1 R&B/#6 Pop in 1968, a 7/10🎧
Shows at The Paradise, from the August 26, 1980 issue of the Boston Phoenix (1/2)
December 30, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Shows at The Paradise, from the August 26, 1980 issue of the Boston Phoenix (1/2)
Larry Keith - The Valley That Time Forgot
Longtime pro songwriter who co-wrote Player's 1978 US #10 This Time I'm in It for Love, and issued three promo-only singles himself, including this low key folker. 5/10🎧
Longtime pro songwriter who co-wrote Player's 1978 US #10 This Time I'm in It for Love, and issued three promo-only singles himself, including this low key folker. 5/10🎧
Larry Keith - The Valley That Time Forgot (RCA, 1980)
YouTube video by Casey Skeetsem
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December 30, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Larry Keith - The Valley That Time Forgot
Longtime pro songwriter who co-wrote Player's 1978 US #10 This Time I'm in It for Love, and issued three promo-only singles himself, including this low key folker. 5/10🎧
Longtime pro songwriter who co-wrote Player's 1978 US #10 This Time I'm in It for Love, and issued three promo-only singles himself, including this low key folker. 5/10🎧
Rockie Robbins - Hang Tough was a Cash Box Single Feature Pick on August 30, 1980 and reached #70 on the Billboard R&B chart.
Solidly inspirational; would make a nice decade-bookends pairing with NKOTB on a Same Name, Different Song show, 6/10🎧
Solidly inspirational; would make a nice decade-bookends pairing with NKOTB on a Same Name, Different Song show, 6/10🎧
ROCKIE ROBBINS --- HANG TOUGH
YouTube video by SoulConnection
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December 30, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Rockie Robbins - Hang Tough was a Cash Box Single Feature Pick on August 30, 1980 and reached #70 on the Billboard R&B chart.
Solidly inspirational; would make a nice decade-bookends pairing with NKOTB on a Same Name, Different Song show, 6/10🎧
Solidly inspirational; would make a nice decade-bookends pairing with NKOTB on a Same Name, Different Song show, 6/10🎧
The final hours of Charlie’s 80s Attic and these eyes are welled up folks
December 29, 2025 at 8:42 PM
The final hours of Charlie’s 80s Attic and these eyes are welled up folks
Maybe the most intensely 70s sounding song to become a big hit in 1980
Dr. Hook - Sexy Eyes • TopPop
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December 28, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Maybe the most intensely 70s sounding song to become a big hit in 1980
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jeremy strong in the springsteen movie looks like they made an oscar bait minions adaptation
December 27, 2025 at 6:50 AM
jeremy strong in the springsteen movie looks like they made an oscar bait minions adaptation
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🎧 Of all the gifts I received this holiday, I am especially excited about this one—it has a whole chapter on Larry Levan and 4 entries on Gilles Peterson (who, seriously, for over 40 years has been one of the most important people in my life!)
December 27, 2025 at 1:48 PM
🎧 Of all the gifts I received this holiday, I am especially excited about this one—it has a whole chapter on Larry Levan and 4 entries on Gilles Peterson (who, seriously, for over 40 years has been one of the most important people in my life!)
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again if you live in dc and environs you gotta follow steve - nobody's doing these kinds of listings anymore
Sat. Dec. 27 in DMV DC-Gogol Bordello 8pm @ Nevermore Hall;
the String Queens @ Keystone Korner; Kenny Lattimore w/ the Duke Ellington Orchestra @ Bethesda Theater; Jacky Cougar & the Vampyres from Africa's Record Release, That This, Christian Rutledge & Credit 6pm @ Black Cat Red Room; 🧵
the String Queens @ Keystone Korner; Kenny Lattimore w/ the Duke Ellington Orchestra @ Bethesda Theater; Jacky Cougar & the Vampyres from Africa's Record Release, That This, Christian Rutledge & Credit 6pm @ Black Cat Red Room; 🧵
December 27, 2025 at 1:34 PM
again if you live in dc and environs you gotta follow steve - nobody's doing these kinds of listings anymore
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Sad news from Memphis: the great soul singer & songwriter Don Bryant has died at 83. A Hi Records artist who penned hits for his wife Ann Peebles (including the immortal "I Can't Stand the Rain"), Bryant enjoyed a late-career comeback over the last decade www.commercialappeal.com/story/entert...
December 26, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Sad news from Memphis: the great soul singer & songwriter Don Bryant has died at 83. A Hi Records artist who penned hits for his wife Ann Peebles (including the immortal "I Can't Stand the Rain"), Bryant enjoyed a late-career comeback over the last decade www.commercialappeal.com/story/entert...
Hi, I just mistook the intro to Bon Jovi’s Living in Sin for George Michael’s Father Figure. Ask me anything
December 26, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Hi, I just mistook the intro to Bon Jovi’s Living in Sin for George Michael’s Father Figure. Ask me anything
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I was about to go to bed nine years ago when I learned about the death of George Michael, an hour after hearing "Last Christmas" for the 886th time that season. I still miss him. humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2016/09/22/i...
I was waiting for him: The career of George Michael
It could have been the pinstriped jacket. But credit the combination of thick generous hair and stubble. When George Michael, then and forever of Wham!, faced the camera in “Careless Whisper&…
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December 26, 2025 at 3:39 PM
I was about to go to bed nine years ago when I learned about the death of George Michael, an hour after hearing "Last Christmas" for the 886th time that season. I still miss him. humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2016/09/22/i...
Rock Justice - Rock 'N' Roll Dreams was a Cash Box Feature Pick on August 30, 1980 and a Record World Pop Pick on September 6, 1980
Future Dio/Dokken/Foreigner bassist Jeff Pilson doing his best high school musical impression on this completely bizarre Marty Balin footnote. Weird! 5/10🎧
Future Dio/Dokken/Foreigner bassist Jeff Pilson doing his best high school musical impression on this completely bizarre Marty Balin footnote. Weird! 5/10🎧
"Rock Justice" Soundtrack
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December 26, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Rock Justice - Rock 'N' Roll Dreams was a Cash Box Feature Pick on August 30, 1980 and a Record World Pop Pick on September 6, 1980
Future Dio/Dokken/Foreigner bassist Jeff Pilson doing his best high school musical impression on this completely bizarre Marty Balin footnote. Weird! 5/10🎧
Future Dio/Dokken/Foreigner bassist Jeff Pilson doing his best high school musical impression on this completely bizarre Marty Balin footnote. Weird! 5/10🎧
Randy Sharp - Could It Be Love was a Billboard Recommended Pop Single Pick on August 30, 1980
Single-only release is tight, professional AC (I mean that in a nice way!) with a strong Carly SImon feel. 7/10🎧
Single-only release is tight, professional AC (I mean that in a nice way!) with a strong Carly SImon feel. 7/10🎧
Randy Sharp - Could It Be Love (RCA, 1980)
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December 24, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Randy Sharp - Could It Be Love was a Billboard Recommended Pop Single Pick on August 30, 1980
Single-only release is tight, professional AC (I mean that in a nice way!) with a strong Carly SImon feel. 7/10🎧
Single-only release is tight, professional AC (I mean that in a nice way!) with a strong Carly SImon feel. 7/10🎧