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1980
Air Supply: All Out Of Love
Air Supply: Chances
Air Supply: Every Woman In The World
Air Supply: Having You Near Me
Air Supply: Lost In Love
Air Supply: My Best Friend
Alan Parsons Project: Games People Play
Alan Parsons Project: The Turn Of A Friendly Card (Part 1)
Alan Parsons Project: The Turn Of A Friendly Card (Part 2)
Alan Parsons Project: Time
Ambrosia: Biggest Part Of Me * K
Ambrosia: Cryin’ In The Rain
Ambrosia: Livin’ On My Own
Ambrosia: You’re The Only Woman (You And I) * K
America: Might Be Your Love
America: One In A Million
America: Right Back To Me
America: Survival
Chicago: Song For You
Chicago: Thunder And Lightning
Chicago: Where Did The Lovin’ Go
Chris Rainbow: The Turn Of A Friendly Card (Part 1)
Chris Rainbow: The Turn Of A Friendly Card (Part 2)
Daryl Hall & John Oates: Diddy Doo Wop (I Hear Voices)
Daryl Hall & John Oates: Everytime You Go Away
Daryl Hall & John Oates: How Does It Feel To Be Back
Daryl Hall & John Oates: Kiss On My List
Daryl Hall & John Oates: You Make My Dreams
Daryl Hall & John Oates: You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’
Dash Crofts and Jim Seals: First Love
Eric Woolfson: Time
Hall & Oates: Diddy Doo Wop (I Hear Voices)
Hall & Oates: Everytime You Go Away
Hall & Oates: How Does It Feel To Be Back
Hall & Oates: Kiss On My List
Hall & Oates: You Make My Dreams
Hall & Oates: You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’
Herb Alpert and Lani Hall: Come What May
Jim Seals and Dash Crofts: First Love
John Farnham: Help
John Farnham: Please Don’t Ask Me
John Oates & Daryl Hall: Diddy Doo Wop (I Hear Voices)
John Oates & Daryl Hall: Everytime You Go Away
John Oates & Daryl Hall: How Does It Feel To Be Back
John Oates & Daryl Hall: Kiss On My List
John Oates & Daryl Hall: You Make My Dreams
John Oates & Daryl Hall: You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’
Kenny Loggins: Lead The Way
Kenny Rogers: Lady
Kenny Rogers: Love The World Away
Kenny Rogers and Kim Carnes: Don’t Fall In Love With A Dreamer
Kim Carnes and Kenny Rogers: Don’t Fall In Love With A Dreamer
Lani Hall: I Don’t Want You To Go
Lani Hall and Herb Alpert: Come What May
Lenny Zakatek: Games People Play
Seals & Crofts: First Love
Stevie Wonder: Lately
Stevland Morris: Lately


1981
Air Supply: Don’t Turn Me Away
Air Supply: Here I Am (Just When I Thought I Was Over You)
Air Supply: I Want To Give It All
Air Supply: I’ll Never Get Enough Of You
Air Supply: I’ve Got Your Love
Air Supply: Keeping The Love Alive
Air Supply: Sweet Dreams
Air Supply: The One That You Love
Air Supply: This Heart Belongs To Me
Air Supply: Tonight
Angela Bofill: Break It To Me Gently
Angela Bofill: Stop, Look, Listen (To Your Heart)
Angela Bofill: You Should Know By Now
Christopher Cross: Best That You Can Do (Theme From “Arthur”)
Clarke & Duke: Sweet Baby * K
Clarke & Duke: Touch And Go
Commodores: Lady (You Bring Me Up)
Commodores: Oh, No
Dan Fogelberg: Hard To Say
Dan Fogelberg: Leader Of The Band
Dan Fogelberg: Leader Of The Band | Washington Post March
Dan Fogelberg: Run For The Roses
Dan Fogelberg: Same Old Lang Syne
George Duke and Stanley Clarke: Sweet Baby * K
George Duke and Stanley Clarke: Touch And Go
Hall & Oates: I Can’t Go For That (No Can Do)
Hall & Oates: Private Eyes
James Ingram: Just Once
James Ingram: One Hundred Ways
Jose Feliciano: Everybody Loves Me
Jose Feliciano: Find Yourself
Jose Feliciano: I Wanna Be Where You Are
Journey: Don’t Stop Believin’
Journey: Mother, Father
Journey: Open Arms
Journey: Still, They Ride
Journey: Stone In Love
Journey: Who’s Crying Now
Kenny Rogers: I Don’t Need You
Kenny Rogers: Through The Years
Manhattan Transfer: Smile Again
Manhattan Transfer: Spies In The Night
Marty Balin: Hearts
Paul Anka: Lady, Lay Down
Paul Anka: Think I’m In Love Again
Paul Anka: What’s Forever For
Paul Davis: Cool Night
Phil Collins: I Missed Again
Phil Collins: In The Air Tonight
Phil Collins: You Know What I Mean
Quincy Jones: Just Once
Quincy Jones: One Hundred Ways
Stanley Clarke and George Duke: Sweet Baby * K
Stanley Clarke and George Duke: Touch And Go
Styx: Nothing Ever Goes As Planned
Styx: She Cares
Styx: The Best Of Times
Styx: Too Much Time On My Hands


1982
Alan Parsons Project: Eye In The Sky
Alan Parsons Project: Old And Wise
Alan Parsons Project: Silence And I
Alliance: I Need You Now
America: Desperate Love
America: Inspector Mills
America: Jody
America: Love On The Vine
America: Never Be Lonely
America: Right Before Your Eyes
America: Sometimes Lovers
America: You, Girl
America: You Can Do Magic
Bugatti & Musker: So Much In Love
Chicago: Hard To Say I’m Sorry * K
Chicago: Hard To Say I’m Sorry | Get Away * K
Chicago: Love Me Tomorrow * K
Chicago: Rescue You
Chicago: What Can I Say
Colin Blunstone: Old And Wise
Crosby, Stills, & Nash: Song For Susan
Crosby, Stills, & Nash: Wasted On The Way
Dan Fogelberg: Leader Of The Band
Dan Fogelberg: Make Love Stay
Dan Fogelberg: Missing You
Dionne Warwick: A Love So Right
Dionne Warwick: Betcha By Golly Wow
Dionne Warwick: Never Gonna Let You Go
Dionne Warwick and Johnny Mathis: Friends In Love
Elton John: Empty Garden (Hey, Hey, Johnny) * K
Eric Woolfson: Eye In The Sky
Eric Woolfson: Silence And I
Four Tops: I Believe In You And Me * K
Glenn Frey: The One You Love * K
Hall & Oates: Maneater
Hall & Oates: One On One
Jackson Browne: Somebody’s Baby
John Denver: Home On The Range
John Denver and Placido Domingo: Perhaps Love
Johnny Mathis and Dionne Warwick: Friends In Love
Kenny Loggins: Heart To Heart * K
Kenny Loggins: I Gotta Try
Kenny Loggins: Only A Miracle
Kenny Loggins: The More We Try * K
Kenny Rogers: A Love Song
Kenny Rogers: Love Will Turn You Around
Leo Sayer: Have You Ever Been In Love
Leo Sayer: Heart (Stop Beating In Time)
Lionel Richie: Just Put Some Love In Your Heart
Lionel Richie: My Love
Lionel Richie: Truly
Lionel Richie: You Are
Lionel Richie: You Mean More To me
Michael McDonald: I Gotta Try
Michael McDonald: I Keep Forgettin’ (Every Time You’re Near)
Michael McDonald: If That’s What It Takes
Michael McDonald: No Such Luck
Phil Collins: You Can’t Hurry Love
Placido Domingo and John Denver: Perhaps Love
Scorpions: No One Like You
Scorpions: When The Smoke Is Going Down
Stevie Woods: Never Gonna Let You Go
Survivor: American Heartbeat
Survivor: Ever Since The World Began
Survivor: Eye Of The Tiger (Theme From “Rocky 3”)
Survivor: Feels Like Love
Survivor: Hesitation Dance
Survivor: I’m Not That Man Anymore
Survivor: The One That Really Matters
Toto: Africa
Toto: I Won’t Hold You Back
Toto: Make Believe
Toto: Rosanna
Toto: Waiting For Your Love
Toto: We Made It


1983
America: The Border
Christopher Cross: Best That You Can Do (Theme From “Arthur”)
Christopher Cross: Think Of Laura
Cliff Richard: Ocean Deep
Crosby, Stills, & Nash: Blackbird
Donna Summer and Matthew Ward: Love Has A Mind Of Its Own
Hall & Oates: Say It Isn’t So
James Ingram and Michael McDonald: Yah Mo B There
James Ingram and Patti Austin: How Do You Keep The Music Playing
Joe Pizzulo: Alibis
Joe Pizzulo: Let’s Give A Little More This Time
Joe Pizzulo: Real Life
Joe Pizzulo and Leeza Miller: Never Gonna Let You Go
Journey: After The Fall
Journey: Faithfully
Journey: Send Her My Love
Journey: Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)
Kenny Rogers: You And I
Kenny Rogers: You Are So Beautiful
Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton: Islands In The Stream
Kenny Rogers and Sheena Easton: We’ve Got Tonight
Leeza Miller and Joe Pizzulo: Never Gonna Let You Go
Lionel Richie: All Night Long (All Night)
Lionel Richie: Hello
Lionel Richie: Penny Lover
Lionel Richie: Stuck On You
Michael Martin Murphey: Maybe Next Time
Michael McDonald and James Ingram: Yah Mo B There
Michael Sembello: Rainbow’s End
Paul Anka and Peter Cetera: Hold Me ‘Til The Mornin’ Comes * K
Peabo Bryson and Roberta Flack: Can We Find Love Again
Peabo Bryson and Roberta Flack: I Just Came Here To Dance
Peabo Bryson and Roberta Flack: Maybe
Peabo Bryson and Roberta Flack: Tonight, I Celebrate My Love
Peabo Bryson and Roberta Flack: You’re Lookin’ Like Love To Me
Peter Cetera and Paul Anka: Hold Me ‘Til The Mornin’ Comes * K
Roberta Flack and Peabo Bryson: Can We Find Love Again
Roberta Flack and Peabo Bryson: I Just Came Here To Dance
Roberta Flack and Peabo Bryson: Maybe
Roberta Flack and Peabo Bryson: Tonight, I Celebrate My Love
Roberta Flack and Peabo Bryson: You’re Lookin’ Like Love To Me
Sergio Mendes: Alibis
Sergio Mendes: Let’s Give A Little More This Time
Sergio Mendes: Never Gonna Let You Go
Sergio Mendes: Rainbow’s End
Sergio Mendes: Real Life
Styx: Don’t Let It End
Styx: Haven’t We Been Here Before
Styx: Mister Roboto


1984
A-ha: Take On Me
Alan Parsons Project: Ammonia Avenue
Alan Parsons Project: Dancing On A High Wire
Alan Parsons Project: Don’t Answer Me
Alan Parsons Project: Since The Last Goodbye
Alan Parsons Project: You Don’t Believe
America: We Got All Night
Ann Wilson and Mike Reno: Almost Paradise
Bonnie Tyler: Holding Out For A Hero
Carol Kenyon and Tommy Shaw: Outside In The Rain
Cars: Drive
Chaka Khan: Through The Fire
Chicago: Along Comes A Woman
Chicago: Hard Habit To Break * K
Chicago: Once In A Lifetime
Chicago: Only You
Chicago: Remember The Feeling
Chicago: Stay The Night * K
Chicago: You’re The Inspiration * K
Chris Rainbow: Since The Last Goodbye
Colin Blunstone: Dancing On A High Wire
Dan Fogelberg: Believe In Me
Dan Fogelberg: Sweet Magnolia And The Traveling Salesman
Dennis DeYoung: Dear Darling (I’ll Be There)
Dennis DeYoung: Desert Moon
Dennis DeYoung: Don’t Wait For Heroes
Dennis DeYoung: Gravity
Dennis DeYoung: Suspicious
Dennis DeYoung and Rosemary Butler: Please
Eric Woolfson: Ammonia Avenue
Eric Woolfson: Don’t Answer Me
Hall & Oates: Out Of Touch
Jennifer Rush: The Power Of Love
Kenny Loggins: Footloose * K
Kenny Loggins: I’m Free (Heaven Helps The Man) * K
Kenny Rogers, Kim Carnes, and James Ingram: What About Me
Lenny Zakatek: You Don’t Believe
Mike Reno and Ann Wilson: Almost Paradise
Moving Pictures: Never
Peabo Bryson: If Ever You’re In My Arms Again
Peabo Bryson: Learning The Ways Of Love
Phil Collins: Against All Odds (Take A Look At Me Now)
Rosemary Butler and Dennis DeYoung: Please
Scorpions: I’m Leaving You
Scorpions: Still Loving You
Steve Perry: Foolish Heart
Steve Perry: Go Away
Steve Perry: Oh, Sherrie
Stevie Wonder: I Just Called To Say I Love You
Survivor: Broken Promises
Survivor: Everlasting
Survivor: First Night
Survivor: I Can’t Hold Back
Survivor: I See You In Everyone
Survivor: It’s The Singer Not The Song
Survivor: The Search Is Over
Tommy Shaw: Free To Love You
Tommy Shaw: Kiss Me Hello
Tommy Shaw: Lonely School
Tommy Shaw and Carol Kenyon: Outside In The Rain
Toto: Endless
Toto: How Does It Feel
Toto: Isolation
Toto: Lion
Wham: Careless Whisper
Wham: Everything She Wants
Wham: Freedom
Wham: Heartbeat
Wham: Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go


1985
Air Supply: The Power Of Love
Alan Parsons Project: Days Are Numbers (The Traveller)
Alan Parsons Project: Separate Lives
Alan Parsons Project: Sooner Or Later
Alan Parsons Project: The Same Old Sun
Chris Rainbow: Days Are Numbers (The Traveller)
Corey Hart: Everything In My Heart
Corey Hart: Never Surrender
David Pack: I Just Can’t Let Go
David Pack: Just Be You
David Pack: That Girl Is Gone
David Pack: Won’t Let You Lose Me
Dionne Warwick, Elton John, Gladys Knight and Stevie Wonder: That’s What Friends Are For
Elton John, Dionne Warwick, Gladys Knight and Stevie Wonder: That’s What Friends Are For
Eric Woolfson: Separate Lives
Eric Woolfson: Sooner Or Later
Eric Woolfson: The Same Old Sun
Everly Brothers: All I Have To Do Is Dream
Everly Brothers: Let It Be Me
George Benson: Hold Me
George Benson: No One Emotion
George Benson: I Just Wanna Hang Around You
George Benson: Nothing’s Gonna Change My Love For You
George Benson: Please Don’t Walk Away
George Benson and Roberta Flack: You Are The Love Of My Life
Gladys Knight, Dionne Warwick, Elton John, and Stevie Wonder: That’s What Friends Are For
Jermaine Jackson and Whitney Houston: Nobody Loves Me Like You Do
Jermaine Jackson and Whitney Houston: Take Good Care Of My Heart
Juice Newton: Hurt
Kenny Loggins: Forever * K
Kenny Loggins: I’ll Be There
Kenny Loggins: Lorraine
Kenny Loggins: Love Will Follow
Kenny Loggins: No Lookin’ Back
Kenny Loggins: Vox Humana
Luther Vandross: If Only For One Night
Mister Mister: Broken Wings
Mister Mister: Kyrie
Paul Young: Every Time You Go Away
Paul Young: Everything Must Change
Paul Young: Soldier’s Things
Paul Young: Standing On The Edge
Phil Collins: Don’t Lose My Number
Phil Collins: One More Night
Phil Collins and Marilyn Martin: Separate Lives
Roberta Flack: People On A String
Starship: We Built This City
Stevie Wonder: Overjoyed
Stevie Wonder: Part-Time Lover
Stevie Wonder, Dionne Warwick, Elton John, and Gladys Knight: That’s What Friends Are For
Tommy Shaw: Count On You
Tommy Shaw: This Is Not A Test
Whitney Houston: All At Once
Whitney Houston: How Will I Know
Whitney Houston: Saving All My Love For You
Whitney Houston: You Give Good Love
Whitney Houston and Jermaine Jackson: Nobody Loves Me Like You Do
Whitney Houston and Jermaine Jackson: Take Good Care Of My Heart
Whitney Houston and Teddy Pendergrass: Hold Me


1986
Amy Grant and Peter Cetera: The Next Time I Fall * K
Anita Baker: Caught Up In The Rapture
Anita Baker: Mystery
Anita Baker: No One In The World
Anita Baker: Sweet Love
Anita Baker: You Bring Me Joy
Chicago: If She Would Have Been Faithful
Chicago: Will You Still Love Me * K
Crowded House: Don’t Dream It’s Over
Deniece Williams: Healing
Dennis DeYoung: Call Me
Dennis DeYoung: This Is The Time
Dennis DeYoung: Unanswered Prayers
Dennis DeYoung: Warning Shot
Joe Pizzulo: Here Where I Belong
Joe Pizzulo: It Hurts A Whole Lot More
Joe Pizzulo: Take This Love
Joe Pizzulo and Lisa Bevill: What Do We Mean To Each Other
Journey: Girl Can’t Help It
Journey: I’ll Be Alright Without You
Journey: It Could Have Been You
Journey: Once You Love Somebody
Journey: Why Can’t This Night Go On Forever
Kenny Rogers: They Don’t Make Them Like They Used To
Lionel Richie: Ballerina Girl
Lionel Richie: Deep River Woman
Lionel Richie: Love Will Conquer All
Lionel Richie: Say You, Say Me
Lisa Bevill and Joe Pizzulo: What Do We Mean To Each Other
Michael McDonald and Patti LaBelle: On My Own
Patti LaBelle and Michael McDonald: On My Own
Peter Cetera: Glory Of Love * K
Peter Cetera: Only Love Knows Why
Peter Cetera and Amy Grant: The Next Time I Fall * K
Phyllis Hyman: Old Friend
Restless Heart: I’ll Still Be Loving You
Restless Heart: New York (Hold Her Tight)
Sergio Mendes: Here Where I Belong
Sergio Mendes: It Hurts A Whole Lot More
Sergio Mendes: Take This Love
Sergio Mendes: What Do We Mean To Each Other
Toto: Could This Be Love
Toto: I’ll Be Over You
Toto: Till The End


1987
Agnetha Faltskog and Peter Cetera: I Wasn’t The One (To Say Goodbye)
Big Trouble: All I Need Is You
Dan Fogelberg: Hearts In Decline
Dan Fogelberg: Lonely In Love
Dan Fogelberg: Our Last Farewell
Dan Fogelberg: Seeing You Again
Dan Hill: Never Thought
Dan Hill and Vonda Sheppard: Can’t We We Try
George Michael: Faith
George Michael: Father Figure
George Michael: One More Try
Kenny Loggins: Meet Me Half Way * K
Kenny Rogers and Ronnie Milsap: Make No Mistake, She’s Mine
Ronnie Milsap and Kenny Rogers: Make No Mistake, She’s Mine
Laura Branigan: Power Of Love
Peter Cetera and Agnetha Faltskog: I Wasn’t The One (To Say Goodbye)
Richard Marx: Endless Summer Nights
Richard Marx: Hold On To The Nights
Rick Astley: Never Gonna Give You Up
Rick Astley: Together Forever
Robin Zander: In This Country
Roxette: It Must Have Been Love (Christmas For The Broken-Hearted)
Starship: Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now
Starship: Set The Night To Music
Tommy Shaw: Ever Since The World Began
Whitney Houston: Didn’t We Almost Had It All
Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)
Whitney Houston: Where Do Broken Hearts Go


1988
Boys Club: I Remember Holding You
Cheap Trick: Don’t Be Cruel
Cheap Trick: Ghost Town
Cheap Trick: The Flame
Chicago: I Don’t Wanna Live Without Your Love * K
Chicago: Look Away * K
Chicago: Run Around
Chicago: Victorious
Chicago: What Kind Of Man Would I Be * K
Chicago: We Can Last Forever
Chicago: You’re Not Alone
Leslie Wunderman: Carry Your Heart
Leslie Wunderman: Don’t Rush Me
Leslie Wunderman: I’ll Always Love You
Leslie Wunderman: Prove Your Love
Leslie Wunderman: Tell It To My Heart
New Kids On The Block: I Need You
New Kids On The Block: I’ll Be Loving You (Forever)
New Kids On The Block: Please Don’t Go, Girl
New Kids On The Block: You Got It (The Right Stuff)
Phil Collins: A Groovy Kind Of Love
Phil Collins: Two Hearts
Peabo Bryson: Hurt
Peabo Bryson and Regina Belle: Without You (Theme From “Leonard Part 6”)
Regina Belle and Peabo Bryson: Without You (Theme From “Leonard Part 6”)
Taylor Dayne: Carry Your Heart
Taylor Dayne: Don’t Rush Me
Taylor Dayne: I’ll Always Love You
Taylor Dayne: Prove Your Love
Taylor Dayne: Tell It To My Heart
Toto: Anna
Toto: Home Of The Brave
Toto: Pamela
Toto: Stop Loving You


1989
Cher Sarkisian and Peter Cetera: After All * K
Dennis DeYoung: Beneath The Moon
Dennis DeYoung: Outside Looking In Again
Dennis DeYoung: Won’t Go Wasted
Elaine Caswell: It’s All Coming Back To Me Now
Jimi Jamison: Ever Since The World Began (Theme From “Lock Up”)
Leo Sayer: Love Hurts
Leslie Wunderman: Love Will Lead You Back
Pandora’s Box: It’s All Coming Back To Me Now
Patti LaBelle: If You Asked Me Now
Peter Cetera and Cher Sarkisian: After All * K
Phil Collins: Another Day In Paradise
Richard Marx: Angelia
Richard Marx: Right Here Waiting
Richard Marx: Satisfied
Taylor Dayne: Love Will Lead You Back


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