“Seeing Purple Rain makes it clear that the man from Minneapolis is certainly going to give anybody else making music this year a real hard time,” according to a movie preview in the July 28, 1984, ...

On Oct. 27, 1984, Alabama’s “If You’re Gonna Play in Texas” rose to No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart. The classic was co-written by Murry Kellum and Dan Mitchell and produced by the band ...

Every October it comes back from the dead — but this so-called Halloween anthem was a total summer smash first.

“If you’re lost, you can look and you will find me / Time after time / If you fall, I will catch you, I’ll be waiting / Time after time.” Lauper had actually come very close to topping the chart ...

"Thriller" by Michael Jackson, "Monster Mash" by Boris Pickett & the Crypt-Kickers, "Ghostbusters" by Ray Parker Jr., ...