ahh the 1980's...whn you could hear the Gap Band, Cameo, Prince mixed with any of the following:

I Can't Go For That-- Hall and Oates
Rock The Casbah--The Clash
Look of Love -ABC
Shout-Tears For Fears
Din Daa Daa- George Kranz
I'm Ready--Kano
Genius of Love--Tom Tom Club
Funkytown--Lipps Inc
damn near anything by KC and Sunshine Band

meltwithu said:

They do here in Minneapolis real "PEOPLE STATION KMOJ!! Oh yeah instant request!" Where u garunteed any song u want. Daym I love KMOJ. Black radio in Minneapolis dont get no better than that.

Kano may have been a white group, but I don't ever remember hearing "I'm Ready" on white radio though so I never considered them pop, or George Kranz either.

I definately remember those days. Black radio also used to play:

Another One Bites The Dust - Queen
Passion - Rod Stewart
Talking In Your Sleep - The Romantics
Girls Just Want To Have Fun - Cyndi Lauper
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Back in the day,our local R&B radio station used to play stuff like...


"The Reflex" by Duran Duran (1984)
"Lucky Star" by Madonna (1984)
"Holiday" by Madonna (1984)
"She Blinded Me With Science" by Thomas Dolby (1983)
"Time (Clock Of The Heart)" by Culture Club (1983)
"It's A Miracle" by Culture Club (1984)
"Owner Of A Lonely Heart" by Yes (1984)
"She Bop" by Cyndi Lauper (1984)
"Method Of Modern Love" by Hall and Oates (1984)


These songs were played alongside songs by Chaka Khan,Rick James,Cameo,etc.It was exciting.These days,radio formats are so restricted.

Yup! Man, actually the late 70's to mid 80's!! They would also spin these:

Things Can Only Get Better - Howard Jones
Eye To Eye - Go West
Perfect Way - Scritti Politti
Mistake No.3 - Culture Club
I'll Tumble 4 Ya - Culture Club
Human- Human League
Jump - Van Halen
Devo - Whip It
Minute By Minute - Doobie Brothers
Real Love - Doobie Brothers
What A Fool Believes - Doobie Brothers
I Keep Forgettin' - Michael Mcdonald
I'm Still Standing - Elton John
Sailing - Christopher Cross
Coming Down from Love - Bobby Caldwell
What You Won't Do For Love - Bobby Caldwell
Open Your Eyes - Bobby Caldwell
Trans-Europe Express- Kraftwerk
Numbers - Kraftwerk
Computer Love - Kraftwerk
Tour De France - Kraftwerk
Shadow Dancing - Andy Gibb
I Just Wanna Stop - Gino Vanelli
Chuck E's In Love - Rickie Lee Jones


and, of course, the Bee Gees!




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Jeopardy - Greg Khin Band
Let's Dance - David Bowie
Fame - David Bowie
Abracadabra - Steve Miller Band
Infatuation - Rod Stewart
Rapture - Blondie
Heart Of Glass - Blondie
One On One - Hall & Oates
Adult Education - Hall & Oates
Physical - Olivia Newton John
Do Ya Think I'm Sexy - Rod Stewart

I remember when WBLS in NYC would play Don't Wanna Fall In Love by Jane Child and Keep It Together by Madonna.

I remember an extended mix of Culture Club's Miss Me Blind and It's a Miracle getting played a lot on R&B radio when I was a kid. I actually came across that single mix several years ago, and I'm STILL kicking myself for not picking it up.

paisleypark4 said:

That's cuz that's the only black radio in Minneapolis! Wait, is Solid Gold Soul still on the AM dial?

WBLS (NYC) was good for this.

I heard Kiss's "I Was Made to Love You" and The Who's "Eminence Front" (just to name a couple) on urban contemporary radio. Just can't remember if it was (Frankie Crocker rockin' it on) 'BLS or (Jerry Bledsoe) on WWRL.

UptownDeb said:

Frankie Crocker is the reason I bought Emancipation in '96. On the radio he said Prince was doing all his own music again, and it sounded good.

RipHer2Shreds said:

There's a cd called "Culture Club Remixed" and that song is on there... It's like 9 minutes or so. The cd used to be readily available at Virgin Megastore. It's got a bunch of b-sides and a few other nice rarities on it (and if memory serves, it was only 10 bux when I got it... though that was about 5 yrs. ago)

Clubkid said:

I stand corrected... it's called "12 inch Mixes plus"

paligap said:

A lot of these songs I thought were by black artist. Just recently learned that Devo, Kraftwerk were not black. But I never heard these songs on white radio, so to me, they are honorary black like Lady T.

Clubkid said:

Thanks. I'ma look it up.

prodigalfan said:

Yeah, and I think some people, to this day, are still trippin' on Bobby Caldwell('What You Won't Do For Love') being a white artist.... I think even some white folks were surprised at that one,

prodigalfan said:

You must be very young. Back in the day, Devo's "Whip It" video was all over MTV so everyone back then knew what they looked like.

sextonseven said:

I am 38, Didn't watch MTV because they didn't play black videos except LRC, and MJ videos. Got pretty boring to me. THANK GOD when VH1 came out. And we just about died and went to heaven when BET finally came to our cable. I finally found out what the Bar Kays looked like performing.

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RipHer2Shreds said:

Is that a satellite program? If it is, we used to have it on AM during the 1990s. That was the main broadcast I used to listen to in the mid to late 1990s. The radio station down here finally turned it into a black gospel station.
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I remember hearing these songs by white artists (non-R&B) on Chicago R&B radio:

Laid Back - White Horse
INXS - Need You Tonight
Billy Vera & The Beaters - At This Moment
ABC - How To Be A Zillionaire
Sinead O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U

And I remember these white/Hispanic dance artists that got played on R&B radio:

Cathy Dennis - Too Many Walls
Tara Kemp - Just Wanna Hold You Tight
Nu Shooz - I Can't Wait
Taylor Dayne - Tell It To My Heart
Taylor Dayne - Prove Your Love
Taylor Dayne - I'll Always Love You
Taylor Dayne - Love Will Lead You Back
Brenda K. Starr - I Still Believe

My first time seeing them perform was on "Soul Train". They are my third favorite artists of all time. You ain't seen nothing till you see them live in concert with the boa constrictor and putting the snake's head in his mouth and waving the snake between his legs. Larry also snaps his fingers and fire shoots out. They are wild as hell!
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vainandy said:

Ya know Vainandy, you sure know your music, and you're kind of cute.

Do you remember the Jets "Crush on you"?

How about George Michael's Monkey? The Flyte Time remix was EVERYWHERE, as far as I can remember.

i remember when kiss FM would play "naughy girls need love too" by samantha fox! that was and still is my jam!

dancerella said:

Black radio gave that song play because of Full Force.

prodigalfan said:

Yeah, I remember that jam. Thanks, I love my music. That's not me in the picture though, that's Esai Morales in his younger days from the movie "La Bamba". As "vain" as I am, if there's gonna be a picture next to my name, then it's gonna be something hot.

meltwithu said:

Yes. It was fun listening to the radio back then. You could also hear older songs from the 70's mixed in with the current hits (pop or R&B)

Ahhh the good ole days when radio programmers had the stones to be different.

vainandy said:

I don't care, I still think you are cute. and shut up Dave!

paligap said:

I thought the same thing back in the day for "Lowdown" by Boz Scaggs