Although he was best known for his chart-topping duet with his sister April Stevens on "Deep Purple", he had a very lengthy career as a multitalented musician and actor. 
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/articles/wrecking-crew-member-niino-tempo-112200907.html

His brother Roag, who has performed with him in the Pete Best Band since 1988, has announced that Pete is retiring "due to personal circumstances".
https://people.com/pete-best-beatles-original-drummer-announces-retirement-11711197

He had three top 40 hits in 1962-63, with "Theme From Dr. Kildare" and covers of "Love Me Tender" and "All I Have To Do Is Dream". In addition, he was the first artist to record "They Long to Be Close to You", as a B-side to his 1963 single "Blue Guitar".
https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/richard-chamberlain-dies-at-90-tv-icon-had-a-top-5-album-top-10-single-in-early-1960s/ar-AA1BX7OK

Love Is Blue - Paul Mauriat: The way that the record slows down at the end is a very beautiful ending to a beautiful record.
Abraham, Martin And John - Dion: The harp at the end is a perfect conclusion, particularly given the final words of the song.
Hurt - Elvis Presley: Elvis goes for the big finish and nails it.
My Way - Elvis Presley: This had another big finish, but the way that it ends with the words "We'll meet you again, may God bless you, adios" was incredibly poignant given its release a few months after his death. I think I might have read years ago that those words were added in from the end of another song, but even if that was the case I'm still ok with it. 
Way Down - Elvis Presley: This time it wasn't Elvis providing the finish, but J.D. Sumner taking his voice way down below the already low notes he'd been hitting at the end of each chorus of the song.
When I'm With You - Sheriff: According to its Wikipedia entry, 'Guinness World Records lists “When I’m With You” as having the “Longest-held vocal note in a US hit single” which “features a note timed at 19.3 seconds” by “lead singer Federico ‘Freddy’ Curci [who] performed the soaring vocal – starting at 3 minutes 26 seconds – on the recording.”'

She has now made a statement regarding her removal from the Order of Canada, saying that she has returned the medals that were awarded to her. 
https://www.ctvnews.ca/entertainment/article/buffy-sainte-marie-says-she-never-denied-having-american-citizenship-has-returned-her-order-of-canada/

Twisting By The Pool - Dire Straits

She was recently removed from the Order of Canada, and while no reasons were given for this, it would certainly seem that the Canadian government had looked into the allegations that she is not Indigenous and found them to be very credible. I had waited to see if she would respond to this, but she hasn't, and now she has also been removed from a Canadian Museum for Human Rights exhibit for the same reasons.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/human-rights-museum-buffy-sainte-marie-1.7469579

Charting in four different decades was an impressive enough achievement, but the way that Robert John did so was particularly noteworthy. He first made the Hot 100 as a 12-year-old in 1958, had to wait until 1968 to do so again, finally had his first top 40 hit in 1972 and his first #1 in 1979, and then had four more songs chart in the 1980s.  
https://www.syracuse.com/entertainment/2025/02/no-1-hit-singer-dies-at-79-charted-in-four-different-decades.html

His first hit came as lead singer of The Impressions in 1958 with "For Your Precious Love", and he subsequently displayed an imprressive ability to move with the times as a solo artist -- first charting in 1960 with “He Will Break Your Heart”, and continuing to do so on into the 1980s. Always loved his wonderfully smooth voice. 
https://chicago.suntimes.com/obituaries/2025/02/21/jerry-butler-iceman-impressions-curtis-mayfield-rock-roll-hall-fame-cook-county-board
 

Just heard "Daisy Petal Pickin'" by Jimmy Gilmer and the Fireballs recently and thought it could fit here as it's a reworked version of "Sugar Shack". It's also another example of me preferring the second version to the original, although that's at least in part because I've only heard it occasionally over the years ... "Sugar Shack" has become rather burned out for me, whereas despite the similarities I can enjoy "Daisy Petal Pickin'" more because it has a fresher sound.

Ron had begun his site in 1996, and so a lot of 1980s music was still pretty recent during the early years of the board. And yes, I remember that at one time he would delete posts about post-1970s music, but in his board's latter years I saw that he had stopped doing that.

In recent years, I've also seen that some stations with "oldies" in their names or branding are including 1980s music. And as someone who used to work in market research, that's made perfect sense to me -- that including at least some 1980s music as oldies was good for them from a demographics point of view. So I've also felt that it was good for the board to allow some discussion of 1980s music ... it's a way of making it relevant to newcomers who might not go back as far as many of us do. And personally, I'm actually on the cusp in that regard. Although I've always loved 1960s and 1950s music going back to when I was young, as someone who was born in 1960 I continued to also be into current music right through the 1970s and 1980s.

Finally, Taz's "don't cost nothin'" quote is quite literally true of this site. Not only is it hosted for free by Boardhost, but so far I haven't seen any limit from them on the number of messages that can be posted. If anything, I'd like to see more messages here, and so that also makes me want to be inclusive regarding what can be posted.

In the 1980s, there were two top 40 hits with titles referencing another artist who was having a top 40 hit at the same time. In 1984, Rick Springfield's "Bruce" was in the top 40 concurrently with Springsteen's "Born In The USA", and in 1987 ABC's "When Smokey Sings" was a top 40 hit at the same time as Robinson's "One Heartbeat".

When I was originally looking for an appropriate article to post, I saw that there was some dispute about whether his stage name of Brenton Wood (Alfred Smith being his real name) came from a parish in Louisiana or the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles. For what it's worth, Wikipedia states that "Following his high school graduation, Wood enrolled in East Los Angeles College. Soon after, he took the stage name Brenton Wood, possibly inspired by the wealthy Los Angeles enclave of Brentwood." Didn't see anything about where he got "Oogum Boogum" from, however. 

In the past year, he's won an Academy Award for a short film based on "Happy Xmas (War is Over)", and been nominated for a Grammy for producing a box set for the Mind Games album.
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/entertainment/music/now-caretaker-of-his-dad-s-work-sean-ono-lennon-seeks-to-innovate-not-merely-repeat/ar-AA1w8m5L

Although Darlene Love performed her Christmas classic last week on The Tonight Show, I thought I'd wait until today to post it ... it's as good a way as I know of to wish everyone here a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays. She delivers yet another amazing performance, backed up this year by Little Steven and The Disciples of Soul as well as Paul Shaffer.
https://rockcellarmagazine.com/darlene-love-christmas-baby-please-come-home-tonight-show-video-watch-2024/