Saturday Night (Cold Chisel song) Released March 1983 Format 7″ vinyl Recorded 1983 Genre Pub rock Label WEA Writer(s) Don Walker Producer(s) Mark Opitz and Cold Chisel “Saturday Night” was a 1984 single from Australian rock band Cold Chisel, the second released from the album Twentieth Century and the first to be issued after the …
Wouldn’t It Be Good B-side “Monkey Business” Released 21 January 1984 Format 7″, 12″, CD Single, CD Maxi Recorded Summer 1983 Genre Synthpop, New wave Length 4:32 “Wouldn’t It Be Good” is a song by the English singer-songwriter Nik Kershaw. It was released one month prior to his debut studio album Human Racing. The release …
Drive B-side “Stranger Eyes” Released July 23, 1984 Format 7″ single, 12″ vinyl , Mini Cd Recorded 1983 Length 3:54 Label Elektra 69706 Writer(s) Ric Ocasek “Drive” is a 1984 song by The Cars, the third single from the band’s Heartbeat City album released in March 1984 and their biggest international hit. Written by Ric …
Can’t Slow Down (Lionel Richie album) – 1983 Can’t Slow Down is the second solo studio album by American recording artist Lionel Richie. It was released on October 11, 1983 by Motown Records. In a contemporary review for The Village Voice, music critic Robert Christgau gave the album a “B+” and called it a “surprisingly …
Wynonna & Naomi – 1983 Wynonna & Naomi is the first extended play by the American country music duo The Judds. Released by RCA Records in 1983, the album’s name is derived from the duo’s two members, mother Naomi Judd and her daughter, Wynonna Judd. The first single, “Had a Dream (For the Heart)”, was …
Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) – 1983 “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)” is a song written and performed by the British new wave music duo Eurythmics. The song is the title track of their album of the same name and was released as the fourth and final single from the album in early …
Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) (album) – 1983 Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) is the second studio album by British new wave duo Eurythmics, released by RCA Records on 4 January 1983. After almost two years of initial commercial failure for Eurythmics, this album became a commercial breakthrough for the duo on both …
I Was Only Nineteen – 1983 “Only Nineteen”, “I Was Only Nineteen” or “A Walk in the Light Green” is the most widely recognised song by Australian folk group Redgum. The song was released in March 1983 as a single, which hit number one on the national Kent Music Report Singles Chart for two weeks. …
Every Breath You Take – 1983 “Every Breath You Take” is a song by English rock band The Police from their 1983 album Synchronicity. Written by Sting, the single was the biggest hit of 1983, topping the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for eight weeks (the band’s only number-one hit on that chart), and the …
Islands in the Stream (song) – 1983 “Islands in the Stream” is a song written by the Bee Gees and sung by American country music artists Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton. Named after the Ernest Hemingway novel, it was originally written for Marvin Gaye in an R&B style, only later to be changed for the …