Writer's Block: What Kind of Wonderful?

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My fav has been An American Christmas Carol, a tv-movie from 1978 staring Henry Winkler. Other favs include Christmas Story and Hogfather.

and no, I'm not that big a fan of Wonderful Life, but some of that is due to saturation when every cable tv station licensed it and played it at some point (multiples times, and sometimes overlapping) over thanksgiving of '87, the year that the colorized version came out.

I refuse to argue with logic this profound...

Today's AT40

is December 15, 1984.  My first winter in DC, my first snows, freshman year.  Still 90 lb weakling at only 5'0", and absolutely hating having to take *wrestling* of all things in PE.  I never had much choice in what I was stuck with in those classes...

Lets see if this one works better than last week's technical hassle...( 40-11... )

And into the top ten...

10. Cyndi Lauper's All Through The Night.  I quite like this one, actually.
    
9. Pat Benatar's We Belong. Did any of us know she was actually 31 by then?  Of course, so was Cyndi Lauper, too.  Pat was older by only 6 months.
   
8. "Teen Idols" Wham (his words, not mine), with Wake Me Up Before You Go Go.  As I've written before, I tended to find out about Wham songs AFTER they peaked, and I've never been sure why.
   
7. New Edition, the boy band (average age at the time, 15 1/2) that would spin off Bell Biv DeVoe and platinum albums from the other members including Bobby  Brown, with Cool It Now.
   
6. Paul McCartney, with the help of David Gilmour, gives his regards to broad street with No More Lonely Nights
   
5. Robert Plant and his Honeydrippers on their retro hit Sea of Love.  Not a big fan of the song's style, then or now, so this has never gripped me at all.  I remain ungripped.
   
4. Chaka Kahn's I Feel For You.  Always a reason to switch channels *real fast*, then and now.  bleh.
   
3. Madonna's Like a Virgin.  I won't bother repeating Gallagher's comment at the time.
   
2. Duran Duran's Wild Boys, the obligatory studio track for their live album.  Not my fav, and I've never quite been sure what they were trying to achieve.  In hindsight, they probably weren't either, which is why they took time off to do Power Station and Arcadia for a couple of years.
   
   And the current number one...
   
   
1. Hall and Oats's Out of Touch, their 6th (and last) number one hit.

Not a bad set, I think, and makes up a lot for the last 3 weeks of boring years (1980) and technical crap.  No live-blog next week, 'cause we'll be listening to it in the car driving back from Christmas in North Carolina.