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"Really Wanna Know You" is a 1981 song by Gary Wright that was a hit single in the U.S., reaching No. 16 on the Billboard Hot 100. [1] It was taken from the album The Right Place . The song spent 17 weeks on the chart and became Wright's third biggest U.S. hit.
Three songs by John Lennon appear on the Year-End Hot 100, charting posthumously after his murder in late 1980. This is a list of Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 songs of 1981 . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The Top 100, as revealed in the year-end edition of Billboard dated December 26, 1981, is based on Hot 100 charts from the issue dates of November 1, 1980 ...
Never Too Much is the debut solo studio album by American singer Luther Vandross, released on August 12, 1981, by Epic Records.Mostly composed by Vandross himself, the album reached number 19 on the US Billboard 200 and number one on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, and has been certified double platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
Do Right (Paul Davis song) Do You Know What I Mean; Do You Love as Good as You Look; Do You Love Me (Patti Austin song) Don't Give It Up (Robbie Patton song) Don't Go (Judas Priest song) Don't Know Much; Don't Let Go the Coat; Don't Let Him Go; Don't Let It Pass You By / Don't Slow Down; Don't Stand So Close to Me; Don't Stop Believin'
The hit song went to number one in their home country Australia in December 1981, and then topped the New Zealand charts in February 1982. The song topped the Canadian charts in October 1982. [ 11 ] In the United States, the song debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 on 6 November 1982 at No. 79, and reached No. 1 in January 1983.
"O Superman", also known as "O Superman (For Massenet)", is a 1981 song by performance artist and musician Laurie Anderson. The song became a surprise hit in the United Kingdom after it was championed by DJ John Peel, [3] rising to number 2 on the UK Singles Charts in 1981. [10]
Nelson received a tape of the song from Saturday Night Live Band bassist Tony Garnier after performing on the show [11] in the mid to late 1980s. According to Sublette, "Willie took it from there" [6] though Nelson recently found that demo in a drawer among a stack of his own while recording unreleased songs for iTunes at his Spicewood, Texas, home studio.
The song was released as the second single in support of the album Never Too Much. The single followed Vandross's number 1 R&B hit, "Never Too Much". In January 1982, Vandross scored his second top ten R&B hit when "Don't You Know That? peaked at No. 10 on the Billboard Hot R&B Singles. [1]