Daryl Hall & John Oates " I Can't Go For That" reaches #1 1982

The second single from Private Eyes, the tenth studio album by Daryl Hall & John Oates, I Can't Go for That (No Can Do) reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100, January 30, 1982.  It knocked Olivia Newton-John's Physical from the top spot where it had been for a record-setting 10 weeks. Ironically, Physical had knocked the Hall & Oates single Private Eyes from the top spot ten weeks earlier.  

VH-1 listed I Can't Go for That as one of the 100 Greatest Songs of the '80's. 

"Macarena" by Los Del Rio hits #1 1996

The Bayside Boys remix of Macarena by Los Del Rio reaches #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and stays there for a record of 14 weeks.  It was originally recorded in 1992 and Los Del Rio recorded six versions.  It was released in the U.S. in 1995.

VH1 ranked it as #1 of the Greatest One-Hit Wonders of all Time.  Its record-setting run at #1 stayed in place for 15 years, when Adele's Rolling in the Deep surpassed it.

"Pac-Man Fever" breaks into the Top 10 1982

Pac-Man Fever reached its peak, #9, on the Billboard Hot 100, March 27, 1982.  It is the only song about a video game to achieve this much success.  Released in December 1981, songwriting duo Jerry Buckner and Gary Garcia wrote the song after playing Pac-Man for two hours.  The song is about someone who plays too much Pac-Man.

They got a friend of these who was a DJ on a morning show on an Atlanta radio station to play it.  It got the attention of CBS Records, who approached them to issue it as a single in wide-release.  Then CBS decided to cash in on the craze and decided they wanted a whole album of video-game themed songs.

The single Pac-Man Fever sold over two million copies and was certified Gold, but the album did not do as well, as none of the other singles did.  Do The Donkey Kong only reached #103.

VH-1 listed it as #98 on the best 100 One-Hit Wonders of the 1980s. 




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