Robbed Hit of the Week 11/26/12 - Melissa Manchester's "Nice Girls"...

Melissa Manchester - "Nice Girls"
from the album Greatest Hits (1983)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #42

This week's robbed hit is by singer Melissa Manchester, who had the biggest hit of her career in 1982 with the Grammy-winning "You Should Hear How She Talks About You". After a lack of hit followups from that album, her record company issued a greatest hits set the year after, with a new track selected for the radio single, "Nice Girls". The midtempo track, written by Jan & Steve Buckingham with Mark Gray, was just a touch too early-80s soft-rock for the now new-wave-infected pop radio scene...

The single almost made the top-40, though, and did well on adult-contemporary radio, where it peaked at #22. I'm sure if this was released a year earlier, it would've been a more worthy hit single.