20 Questions

0 Person, Place or Thing
1 It is a song
2 First recorded prior to 2000
3 It was first recorded between 1970-99
4. A single person is not credited as the performer
5. Performing group not in the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame
6. The group is American
7. None of the lead vocalists are male
8 The song was recorded from 1970-1985
9. The song was released on or between Jan 1, 1978 and Dec 31, 1985?
10. The song was never on the billboard weekly top 40
11. The song was not released in any of the years 78, 79, 80, 81
12. The song was released in 82 or 83.
13. The song was released in 1982.

Blondie, The Go-Go's, The Pretenders, Pat Benatar, and Joan Jett are all in the HOF.

The Bangles, Bananarama, and Berlin are not. I'm trying to think of other bands with a female vocalist around the early 80s.

Fleetwood Mac is in the HOF, obviously. So is Heart.

Nasty Girl fits.

Maybe we ask if the composer of the song is in HOF.

The problem with this question is I don't know if it helps us in our search. Let's say that we know that it's definitively one of the first 3 tracks of an album, are we any closer to figuring out where to look next?

This also ignores the possibility that the song was never on an album or the complication that the same album can have different track listings in the US and UK as an example.

I was thinking finding out if it's an all-female band might be the way to go, but I haven't checked to see what would fit one way or the other.

I have never heard of this song. He said that I definitely would know it.

"Sex (I'm a...) by Berlin was on an album released in 1982, but the actual single didn't come out until 1983. Not sure how he would handle something like that.

Free clarification maybe?

In this circumstance, would you have said the year of the album or if the single?

Bananarama released a cover of "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye" in 1983 and it went to number 101 on the Billboard chart.

I've actually never heard their version, but of course I know the original 1969 version by Steam.

He said he thought you would know it, and it's not like he could be sure one way or the other.

I haven't heard it either fwiw, but apparently it was pretty big at the time.

Bananarama is British.

answering a couple of questions

song released "as a single" in 1982

While I think the song will be familiar at least, I doubt the band name would.

also, there are other billboard charts/rankings other than US top 40 Billboard or US top100 Billboard......just saying genre might be something to think about based on where you all are.

Oh... Well I wouldn't know many songs from that time period that wouldn't be considered rock, or at least crossing over to the main Billboard chart.

Good lord, are we looking for a country song?

I looked at a list of the top 100 country songs of 1982,nothing seemed to fit.

Official Video has over 60M views... not a country song. More popular in Europe than US. Still going to be hard to nail down.

It's probaby It's Raining Men.

Looks like it fits. Only went up to Billboard 46,which surprises me.

Did it make the top 40 of the US Billboard "Hot Black Singles" (now known as "Hot R&B/Hip Hop Songs") chart?

0 Person, Place or Thing
1 It is a song
2 First recorded prior to 2000
3 It was first recorded between 1970-99
4. A single person is not credited as the performer
5. Performing group not in the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame
6. The group is American
7. None of the lead vocalists are male
8 The song was recorded from 1970-1985
9. The song was released on or between Jan 1, 1978 and Dec 31, 1985?
10. The song was never on the billboard weekly top 40
11. The song was not released in any of the years 78, 79, 80, 81
12. The song was released in 82 or 83.
13. The song was released in 1982.
14. The song made the top 40 of the US Billboard Hot R&B/Hip Hop Songs (there is no reference to the "Hot Black Singles" chart on the song's wiki page)

Did it make the top 10 of the US Billboard Hot R&B/Hip Hop Songs chart?

0 Person, Place or Thing
1 It is a song
2 First recorded prior to 2000
3 It was first recorded between 1970-99
4. A single person is not credited as the performer
5. Performing group not in the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame
6. The group is American
7. None of the lead vocalists are male
8 The song was recorded from 1970-1985
9. The song was released on or between Jan 1, 1978 and Dec 31, 1985?
10. The song was never on the billboard weekly top 40
11. The song was not released in any of the years 78, 79, 80, 81
12. The song was released in 82 or 83.
13. The song was released in 1982.
14. The song made the top 40 of the US Billboard Hot R&B/Hip Hop Songs (there is no reference to the "Hot Black Singles" chart on the song's wiki page)
15. The song made the top 10 of the US Billboard Hot R&B/Hip Hop Songs chart.

Did it make the top 3 of the US Billboard Hot R&B/Hip Hop Songs chart?

"hot black singles" is what the chart was actually called in 1982. Wikipedia gives the chart positions with the current name.