This week, Frank E. Lee brought us back to 1980 - the year Erno Rubik's Magic Cube, created seven years earlier, debuted worldwide as Rubik's Cube, The Miracle on Ice (the U.S. Men's Hockey Team defeated the Soviet National Ice Hockey Team in the Winter Olympics), and, on Monday Night Football, Howard Cossell broke news of John Lennon's assassination. Here’s everything Frank played:
Jam - “Smither-Jones”
Bob Marley & The Wailers - “Redemption Song”
Blondie - “Rapture”
Ramones - “Do You Remember Rock ‘n’ Roll Radio?”
Queen - “Another One Bites The Dust”
Romantics - “When I Look Into Your Eyes”
The Cure - “Jumping Someone Else’s Train”
Bruce Springsteen - “The River”
Alan Parsons Project - “Games People Play”
Linda Ronstadt - “Girls Talk”
Rolling Stones - “Let Me Go”
David Bowie - “Ashes To Ashes”
Dire Straits - “Solid Rock”
Stevie Wonder - “Master Blaster”
John Lennon - “Watching The Wheels”
Joe Walsh - “All Night Long”
Peter Gabriel - “I Don’t Remember”
Police - “Canary In A Coalmine”
Heart - “Even It Up”
John Mellencamp - “Ain’t Even Done With The Night”
Pete Townshend - “Let My Love Open The Door”
Steely Dan - “Time Out Of Mind”
Kings - “This Beat Goes On / Switchin’ To Glide”
Pretenders - “Brass In Pocket”
Jackson Browne - “Apocalypse Disco”
Prince - “When You Were Mine”
Talking Heads - “Crosseyed And Painless”
Vapors - “Turning Japanese”
AC/DC - “Shoot To Thrill”
Roxy Music - “Over You”
Genesis - “Turn It On Again”
Bob Seger - “You’ll Accompany Me”
Joy Division - “Love Will Tear Us Apart”
Next week, Johnny Mars takes us to 1971. The year Walt Disney World opened in Orlando, the Postal Reorganization Act replaced the U.S. Post Office Department with the United States Postal Service, and the very first Amtrak train departed New York for Philadelphia.