HEARD IT ON THE RADIO Volume 1 [1998]

Two made the Top 20 and another four cracked the Top 40...
maybe you heard them on the radio maybe you didn't

HERC hadn't heard most of these songs which are from the decade 1977-1986. (Which is just a year later than Mark's Favorite Decade of 1976-1985.)  All the songs included on this 1998 CD from Renaissance Records were originally issued on the RCA or Arista labels and as you can see in the chart below, none of them could be considered hits but like he said at the top of the post, HERC had heard some of these songs on the radio:

• Autograph's "Turn Up The Radio" is pure party-metal; play it loud or don't play it at all.  Like the song says "Daytime, nighttime, anytime/Things go better with rock". The song also made it to #17 on the Mainstream Rock chart.
• Chilliwack's "My Girl (Gone, Gone, Gone)" is an annoyingly catchy tune.  HERC's sis bought the 45 and drove everyone in the house mad with it when they were growing up.  Time heals all wounds and the song is back in HERC's good graces again.  It was a #16 song on the Mainstream Rock chart.
• Robert Hazard's "Escalator Of Life" sounds very dated but that's a good thing in this case as the song instantly takes HERC back to the single greatest year in music history - 1982.  The lyrics are inane, the vocal delivery is pretentious and the instrumentation is primitive even by early 80s standards and still there was nothing quite like the thrill of this song playing while you rode the escalator at the mall.
• Steel Breeze's "You Don't Want Me Anymore" was early synthpop-metal, laying the groundwork for bands like Bon Jovi and Night Ranger.  It's kinda catchy but does not rock up to Autograph's level.  Still, it was a Top 10 single on the Mainstream Rock chart.

	title	artist	year	Hot 100
1	Hunters Of The Night	Mr. Mister	1984	57
2	Such A Woman	Tycoon	1979	26
3	Say Hello To Ronnie	Janey Street	1984	68
4	Right Between The Eyes	Wax U.K.	1986	43
5	Turn Up The Radio	Autograph	1984	29
6	Headliner	Fandango	1977
7	Shades Of '45	Gary O'	1984
8	Seasons	Grace Slick	1980	95
9	Down By The Neon Lights	Bullet	1983
10	Nobody Said It Was Easy	Le Roux	1982	18
11	My Girl (Gone, Gone, Gone)	Chilliwack	1981	22
12	I Couldn't Say No	Robert Ellis Oral & Carlene Carter	1983	32
13	If Looks Could Kill	Player	1982	48
14	Escalator Of Life	Robert Hazard	1982	58
15	You Don't Want Me Anymore	Steel Breeze	1982	16
16	She Wants You	The Breaks	1983
17	Lovin' The Night Away	The Dillman Band	1981	45
18	Echo Beach	Martha & the Muffins	1980
19	Save Your Love	Jefferson Starship	1981

A few of these songs appear on Barry Scott Presents: The Lost 45s of the '70s and '80s; either on volume one or volume two of the two disc series.  The song "Echo Beach" is the most anthologized song on the disc, appearing on no less than 60 other compilations, according to allmusic.  This CD fetches fairly high prices on the secondary market, in the $65-$80 range. Fortunately, the album is available to listen to on Spotify, so turn it up!