80's songs you never hear on the radio these days

[George 1978]

Nik Kershaw, Howard Jones - they both remind me of Sunday lunchtimes in 1984, listening to the charts on the radio.

[80sChav]

Another one I heard yesterday 5 Star "Rain or Shine" .... it always was a cattchy song - I only knew until about a year back the lines "caught in a Million Miles" upon hearing it once in 1986 and it taking me so so long to establish it

Another one too is Nik kershaw - I wont Let The Sun Go Down On Me - he was very underated singer in my book and I am so pleased he finaly got a Number one (one which way or the other) by writing I Am The One And Only for the equaly un-erated Chesney Hawks ..... who I believe in turn that Chesney on Coronation St is named after!

[George 1978]

Sunglasses was also one of Ullman's hits, and that is even rarer on the radio - last time I heard it was when Pick of the Pops did a 1984 chart in the late 2000s, and thankfully, they didn't skip it. Because of that, I always think of her as a singer rather than a comedienne.

Mind you, I think that it was what NOW 80s and YT were both invented for...

[Richard1978]

Hearing Tracey Ullman's They Don't Know in Matalan when I was about to pay for my items sometime in the 2000s ago really got me excited for some reason.

I really like that song, but they usually play Breakaway when they need to play one of her songs.

[George 1978]

Hearing Tracey Ullman's They Don't Know in Matalan when I was about to pay for my items sometime in the 2000s ago really got me excited for some reason.

[Richard1978]

I remember the Poundworld near to me used to always seemed to be playing lesser remembered songs from the 1980s.

[George 1978]

Just heard a corker of a song - Hazel Dean with Who's Leaving Who that is never played on the Radio but was on a Supermarket one today

Whatever happened to Hazell "with two Ls" Dean who had a few hits in the mid to late 1980s? Not to be confused with Hazel Grove in Greater Manchester.

One of her songs from 1984 (and quite appropriate for Valentine's Day) was Searchin' (I Gotta Find A Man) and those singles must have a lot of dust on them if and radio stations still have them. Not radio but it was played on TOTP2. The introduction to the song (as well as the musical interlude) sounds so much like the Clothes Show theme tune - I bet thet the same composer was responsible for both.

You will find the odd obscure song played in places like Matalan, TK Maxx, Home Bargains and so on as you wait to pay for your shopping at the checkout - I assume that it could be a Performing Rights Society issue as a lot of those songs are not played on Radio 2 or elsewhere.

[George 1978]

You know, when one finds old C90s recorded in around 1984 from Radio 1 or commercial radio that has that week's Top 40 on it, and there are one or two songs it that have a scorching tune, but one cannot remember the title, or who had sung it, and of course, the pause button is pressed before the DJ has a chance to announce who it is?

I often think of music from that time that never get played, and when Pick of the Pops do 1984 or a similar year, I rack my brains to think whether it could have been in that week's chart but it was six months off. Or of course, it was in the same week's chart, but someone like Paul Cappuccino (or however is surname is spelt) deliberately overlooked it to go onto the next chart position because it was too obscure, hence no one played it outside its year of origin. It's like Milk and Money's Hallelujah - the 1979 winner of the Eurovision Song Contest winner for Israel which was in a POTP chart for that year - I correctly guessed it was in that chart when it featured on that programme 2016, but lo and behold, Tony Blackburn just gave it a brief mention and moved on to the next song, probably mentioning time limits as a reason for not playing it.

If it's too obscure then there is a reason why isn't played very often, and the chances are, don't expect it to be played anytime soon either.

[Richard1978]

Just heard a corker of a song - Hazel Dean with Who's Leaving Who that is never played on the Radio but was on a Supermarket one today

Up with Niki Kershaw for the Men she is the most un-erated Singer of the 80s ever

I had a great CD I used to play before we got nother Car with no CD Player in of Stock, Aitkn and Waterman .... and Hazer has a few hits on there - but tbh all the Songs S.A.W had never got true credit and still never really don Radio

Yes it's a good song, I certainly liked it when it was in the charts.

[80sChav]

Just heard a corker of a song - Hazel Dean with Who's Leaving Who that is never played on the Radio but was on a Supermarket one today

Up with Niki Kershaw for the Men she is the most un-erated Singer of the 80s ever

I had a great CD I used to play before we got nother Car with no CD Player in of Stock, Aitkn and Waterman .... and Hazer has a few hits on there - but tbh all the Songs S.A.W had never got true credit and still never really don Radio

[George 1978]

Re: 80's songs you never hear on the radio these days

Can you imagine asking for a request for a song on a radio station, and not knowing what it is called or who sung it? "I think it goes like this..." and hums the tune, sounding rather like someone who is a slice short of a loaf.

[Richard1978]

Re: 80's songs you never hear on the radio these days

Isn't it annoying when one gets the earworm of a tune from a certain year but cannot find who sung the damn thing or what the title was? Back in the 1980s I found a C90 with a Sunday Top 30 on it from 1984, and one of those songs were played. I even searched via the Everyhit and the Official Charts website, spending some hours searching for song titles on YouTube and playing them. I keep thinking "does it sound like him?" or what it could have been called.

I was like that with Dolce Vita by Ryan Paris for years. I assumed it was by Howard Jones or one of the other keyboard wizards of the 1980s.

Luckily the Top Of The Pops repeats on BBC4 featured a performance.

[George 1978]

Re: 80's songs you never hear on the radio these days

Isn't it annoying when one gets the earworm of a tune from a certain year but cannot find who sung the damn thing or what the title was? Back in the 1980s I found a C90 with a Sunday Top 30 on it from 1984, and one of those songs were played. I even searched via the Everyhit and the Official Charts website, spending some hours searching for song titles on YouTube and playing them. I keep thinking "does it sound like him?" or what it could have been called.

[George 1978]

Re: 80's songs you never hear on the radio these days

"What's Another Year?" by Johnny Logan would be worth playing again.

Appropriately enough for the day of the ESC, Pick of the Pops had the 1980 chart last Saturday and Logan was number one with What's Another Year.

[George 1978]

Re: 80's songs you never hear on the radio these days

Wasn't there a third song that he wrote but someone else sang? I'm thinking Niamh Kavanagh, perhaps? (I could easily look it up but trying to remember is more fun!)

I think there was, but I cannot remember what it was called.