From the pre-MTV era, these are the music videos that I could scrounge up of the songs that made Billboard's year-end Hot 100 for the year 1980. You'll see some early adapters who made what's now considered a standard music video, but there are also quite a few pretend concerts. I also included a few that are not music videos at all, as long as the performance is a lip-synch from the time of the song's release. A lot of songs are missing, either because a video was never made or I couldn't find it. In most cases, that's bad; in other cases you can thank your lucky stars.
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Blondie - "Call Me"
Pink Floyd - "Another Brick in the Wall"
Olivia Newton-John - "Magic"
Michael Jackson - "Rock with You"
Captain & Tenille - "Do That to Me One More Time"
Queen - "Crazy Little Thing Called Love"
Paul McCartney - "It's Coming Up"
Lipps Inc - "Funkytown"
Billy Joel - "It's Still Rock and Roll to Me
Rupert Holmes - "Escape (The Pina Colada Song")
Gary Newman - "Cars"
Spinners - "Working My Way Back to You"
Air Supply - "Lost in Love"
Christopher Cross - "Ride Like the Wind"
Diana Ross - "Upside Down"
K.C. & the Sunshine Band - "Please Don't Go"
Styx - "Babe"
Billy Joel & Syreeta - "With You I'm Born Again"
Manhattans- "Shining Star"
Commodores - "Still"
Robbie Dupree - "Steal Away"
Ambrosia - "Biggest Part of Me"
Christopher Cross - "Sailing"
Kim Carnes - "More Love"
M - "Pop Muzik"
Pretenders - "Brass in Pocket"
Cliff Richard - "We Don't Talk Anymore"
Brothers Johnson - "Stomp"
Rockey Burnette - "Tired of Toein' the Line"
Rupert Holmes - "Him"
Donna Summer - "On the Radio"
Rolling Stones - "Emotional Rescue"
Herb Alpert - "Rise"
Air Supply - "All Out Of Love"
Andy Gibb - "Desire"
Pete Townshend - "Let My Love Open the Door"
Eagles - "I Can't Tell You Why"
Isaac Hayes - "Don't Let Go"
Michael Jackson - "She's out of My Life"
Irene Cara - "Fame"
Genesis - "Misunderstanding"
Dirt Band - "An American Dream"
Carole King - "One Fine Day"
Billy Joel - "You May Be Right"
Linda Ronstadt - "Hurts So Bad"
Eagles - "The Long Run"
Pat Benatar - "Heartbreaker"
Dionne Warwick - "Deja Vu"
Fleetwood Mac - "Sara"
Boz Scaggs - "JoJo"
George Benson - "Give Me the Night"
Fleetwood Mac - "Tusk"
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - "Refugee"
Also from that year:
Dire Straits - "Skateaway"
Olivia Newton-John - Xanadu
ELO - "All Over the World"
ELO - I'm Alive"
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See also:
Videos: Billboard 1988
Videos: Billboard 1987
Videos: Billboard 1986
Videos: Billboard 1985
Videos: Billboard 1984
Videos: Billboard 1983
Videos: Billboard 1982
Videos: Billboard 1981
argg...not much here...
cept for maybe the Pretenders..and Tom Petty, and that's cutting it close..
Pink Floyd gets an H.M.
Posted by: csason at June 7, 2006 07:17 AMNot much in there music-wise or video-wise? I see some good music in there, definitely. The Pretenders video is a good one.
Posted by: Donnah at June 7, 2006 03:56 PMHow did you miss "Word Up" by Cameo?
(nice codpiece)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_7Kp_TapA4
Because this isn't 1986.
I'll take that apology now.
Du'oh!
That's what I get for posting before the 1st coffee.
Abject humble apologies!
I've got a few more years to go, but I will get to them.
Apology accepted.