Pure 80's Love: The #1 Hits

by PURE 80'S LOVE: THE #1 HITS / V

Overview

The phrase at the top of the sleeve for Pure 80's Love: The #1 Hits states, "18 Classic Love Songs From the Decade of Excess." With the existence of jokey compilations focusing on "mullet rock," who knows if UTV/Universal are being serious or ironic when they refer to these songs as classics? Regardless, this disc -- released just in time for Valentine's Day -- is based on romantic number one hits from the '80s. Most of the songs are ballads, including Cyndi Lauper's "Time After Time," Simply Red's "Holding Back the Years," Foreigner's "I Want to Know What Love Is," Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes' "Up Where We Belong," and Lionel Richie's "Truly." The only song that doesn't exactly fit into the one-on-one scheme of things is Christopher Cross' "Sailing," but it does fit right in from a musical standpoint. The stylistic range of the artists -- from adult contemporary to teen pop to hard rock to urban -- is quite broad, too. ~ Andy Kellman

Product Details

Release Date:	01/28/2003
Label:	Utv
UPC:	0044006961224
Rank:	71868

Tracks

1. Broken Wings  - Steve George  - John Lang  -  Mister Mister  - Richard Page
2. (I Just) Died in Your Arms  -  Cutting Crew  - Nick Van Eede
3. Time After Time  - Rob Hyman  - Cyndi Lauper
4. Could've Been  - Lois Blaisch  -  Tiffany
5. Truly  - Lionel Richie
6. There'll Be Sad Songs (To Make You Cry)  - Barry Eastmond  - Barry J. Eastmond  - Billy Ocean
7. Never Gonna Let You Go  - Barry Mann  - Sergio Mendes  - Cynthia Weil
8. Longer  - Dan Fogelberg
9. All Out of Love  -  Air Supply  - Clive Davis  - Graham Russell
10. Sailing  - Christopher Cross
11. Up Where We Belong  - Joe Cocker  - Will Jennings  - Jack Nitzsche  - Buffy Sainte-Marie  - Jennifer Warnes
12. On My Own  - Burt Bacharach  - Patti LaBelle  - Michael McDonald  - Carole Bayer Sager  - Claude-Michel Schonberg
13. True  - Gary Kemp  -  Spandau Ballet
14. Holding Back Yhe Years  - Mick Hucknall  - Neil Moss  -  Simply Red
15. When I See You Smile  -  Bad English  - Diane Warren
16. When I'm With You  - Arnold Lanni  -  Sheriff
17. I Want to Know What Love Is  -  Foreigner  - Mick Jones
18. The Search Is Over  - Jim Peterik  - Frankie Sullivan  -  Survivor

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Foreigner   Primary Artist
Tiffany   Primary Artist
Spandau Ballet   Primary Artist
Patti LaBelle   Primary Artist
Sheriff   Primary Artist
Survivor   Primary Artist
Bad English   Primary Artist
Billy Ocean   Primary Artist
Cyndi Lauper   Primary Artist
Christopher Cross   Primary Artist
Cutting Crew   Primary Artist
Joe Cocker   Primary Artist
Chris Cross   Primary Artist
Dan Fogelberg   Primary Artist
Lionel Richie   Primary Artist
Jennifer Warnes   Primary Artist
Michael McDonald   Primary Artist
Air Supply   Primary Artist
Mr. Mister   Primary Artist
Simply Red   Primary Artist
Sergio Mendes   Primary Artist

Technical Credits

Leslie Charles   Composer
Chris Cross   Composer
Billy Ocean   Composer
Jack Nitzsche   Composer
Cyndi Lauper   Composer
Christopher Cross   Composer
Will Jennings   Composer
Cynthia Weil   Composer
Lois Blaisch   Composer
Ute Friesleben   Production Coordination
Nick Van Eede   Composer
Jeff Schwartz   Digital Mastering
Nicholas Eede   Composer
Steve George   Composer
Jessica Wells   Arranger
John Ross Lang   Composer
Richard James Page   Composer
Wayne Anton Brathwwaite   Composer
Barry Eastmond   Composer
Steven P. George   Composer
Frank Michael Sullivan   Composer
Barry James Eastmond   Composer
Lewis Martinee   Composer
Dan Fogelberg   Composer
Frankie Sullivan   Composer
Graham Russell   Composer
Jeff Moskow   Compilation Producer
Jim Peterik   Composer
John Lang   Composer
Lionel Richie   Composer
Rob Hyman   Composer
Neil Moss   Composer
Mick Jones   Composer
Diane Warren   Composer
Arnold Lanni   Composer
Buffy Sainte-Marie   Composer
Burt Bacharach   Composer
Claude-Michel Schoenberg   Composer
Gary Kemp   Composer
Barry J. Eastmond   Composer
Barry Mann   Composer
Clive Davis   Composer
Carole Bayer Sager   Composer
Richard Page   Composer
Mick Hucknall   Composer
Adam Starr   Product Manager