Posts tagged "New York Hot Tracks"
40 (Or So) Playlists For 40 Years: 1983

40 (Or So) Playlists For 40 Years: 1983

“If 1983 wasn’t the year of Michael Jackson, it wasn’t the year of anybody.”

Jheri Curl Fridays: Hall & Oates' "Say It Isn't So"

Jheri Curl Fridays: Hall & Oates’ “Say It Isn’t So”

Daryl & John are having a good 2014, but it probably doesn’t compare to how good their 1983 was.

Jheri Curl Fridays: "The Pleasure Seekers"

Jheri Curl Fridays: “The Pleasure Seekers”

Some images beg to be made into memes.

Blerd’s Notes: A Guide to the Music of George Michael (Part One)

It was a Saturday night (actually a Sunday morning) in the summer of 1983, and I was watching “New York Hot Tracks”, one of several local shows that devoted itself to the then novel concept of playing music videos. Being a music geek at even this tender age (and being allowed to stay up WAY past my bedtime), things like this brought me way more pleasure than you’d expect from a 7 year old. One night, they played a video […]