8 of the 80s: 10/24/13 (1986)...

Hey gang - I'm here with eight more nuggets from the 80s, and this week I'm throwin' back to 1986, the year the Fox Broadcasting Company was launched (ugh)...

Trans-X - "Living On Video"
from the album Living On Video (1986)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: 61
Songwriter: Pascal Languirand

This post-synthpop single was a huge hit around the world, but not in America, where the public had moved on from the blips and beeps of the early 80s...

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E.G. Daily - "Say It, Say It"
from the album Wild Child (1985)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #70
Songwriters: Stephen Bray, Toni Childs, E.G. Daily

The hi-NRG singer spend a big chunk of her career voicing cartoons, but now she's back as a contestant on The Voice this season on Blake Shelton's 'team'...

TKA - "One Way Love"
from the album Scars Of Love (1987)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #75
Songwriters: Jeff Mann, Marco Olivo

The New York freestyle trio's debut album placed six singles on the dance chart, but this was the one that crossed over to pop radio...

Animotion - "I Engineer"
from the album Strange Behavior (1986)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #76
Songwriters: Mike Chapman, Holly Knight, Bernie Taupin

Elton John's longtime collaborator side-jobbed as lyricist on this single from the groups forgotten second album...

Platinum Blonde - "Somebody Somewhere"
from the album Alien Shores (1985)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #82
Songwriter: Mark Holmes

This Canadian new wave band went to the top-40 five times in their homeland, but this was their only American success...

 Baltimora - "Living In The Background"
from the album Living In The Background (1985)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #87
Songwriters: Maurizio Bassi, Naimy Hackett

The Italian new wave group with Irishman Jimmy McShane fronting the group (at least visually) followed up their worldwide hit "Tarzan Boy" with this nugget in the US...

One to One - "Angel In My Pocket"
from the album Forward Your Emotions (1985)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #92
Songwriters: Leslie Howe, Louise Reny

This former top-40 Canadian hit made a dent in America from this really cool new wave/pop group from Ottawa.

Nick Jameson - "Weatherman"
from the album A Crowd Of One (1986)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #95
Songwriters: Nick Jameson, Kim O'Leary

This singer/songwriter has had a bigger career as a voice actor, providing characters for The Critic and Star Wars: The Clone Wars...

That's it for tonight...I'll be back tomorrow with another Song of the Day and my top-100 tunes for the week.. good night!