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Michael Jackson had the highest number of top hits at the Billboard Hot 100 chart during the 1980s (9 songs). In addition, Jackson remained the longest at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart during the 1980s (27 weeks). Madonna ranked as the most successful female artist of the 1980s, with 7 songs and 15 weeks atop the chart.
The Dozens is a game played between two contestants in which the participants insult each other until one of them gives up. Common in African American communities, the Dozens is almost exclusively played in front of an audience, who encourage the participants to reply with increasingly severe insults in order to heighten the tension and consequently make the contest more interesting to watch.
The 1980s produced chart-topping hits in pop, hip-hop, rock, and R&B. Here's a list of the best songs from the time, ranging from Toto to Michael Jackson.
Song Artist(s) Wks. 1984 October 20 "I Just Called to Say I Love You" Stevie Wonder: 3 November 10 "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" Wham! 4 December 8 "Out of Touch" Daryl Hall and John Oates: 2 December 22 "Like a Virgin" Madonna: 5 1985 January 26 "You're the Inspiration" Chicago: 1 February 2 "I Want to Know What Love Is" Foreigner: 2 February 16
Wuf Ticket's "Ya Mama" achieved its greatest notoriety and airplay as a music bed for bits by shock jock The Greaseman on WWDC-FM in Washington, D.C. and later his nationally syndicated radio show where Greaseman would argue with a surly service industry worker.
Rufus George Perryman (October 23, 1892 – January 2, 1973), [2] known as Speckled Red, was an American blues and boogie-woogie piano player and singer [1] noted for his recordings of "The Dirty Dozens", exchanges of insults and vulgar remarks that have long been a part of African-American folklore.
As with Alabama's first greatest hits album, Greatest Hits Vol. II includes many of the band's biggest hits of the 1980s, a decade in which they sold millions of albums, had 26 No. 1 singles on Billboard magazine's Hot Country Singles chart and won the "Entertainer of the Decade" honor from the Academy of Country Music. Seven of the album's 10 ...
While the previous entries relied on homophonic double-entendres, this one mines another classic comedy trope: Little kids cracking "yo mama" jokes in the schoolyard. Yes, Kmart is playing the Dozens.