Quote Originally Posted by soulster View Post
Exactly! But, if I say that around some people, they accuse of calling people racists for not recognizing it. When you mention this period to most people, all they think about is new wave and lite-country. A lot of the songs in my comp did hit the Billboard Top 10 singles chart, but, strangely, no one seems to remember that either.
A lot of whites seemed to stop listening to R&B music in the early '80s. I don't know what happened. They were the ones talking about Rick James and had their Peaches and Herb 8 track, but as soon as 1981 rolled around, it's like they had selective amnesia and or went "country."

That's what a lot of these songs are forgotten--and the only way a lot of these acts hit the pop charts again is when they watered-down their sound, like Atlantic Starr...Thankfully this seemed to end by the end of the '80s. The charts were so odd during the early '80s--yet they certainly reflected the times.