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Coming up, we’re going to go count down the Top 10 songs of this very same week from the year 1983. It’s the lates edition of our program the hit song redux … And after we count them down, we are going to recalibrate them… revise them based on their all time performance since then. We’re going to show you what the real Top 10 is. Plus, we’re giving you exclusive artist commentary on the songs and including your memories and dedications… So who is the real #1? Is it David Bowie? Daryl Hall & John Oates, Pat Benatar, John Mellencamp, Michael Jackson, a one hit wonder or a maybe an ex-Beatle. Let’s find out next as we compare it to today’s mainstream music.. and it isn’t pretty...

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It’s time for another edition of our show the Hit Song Redux where we travel back to a week in the golden era of the rock and roll and re-rank the top 10 songs of THAT SPECIFIC week based on their legacy since THEIR PEAK POSITION ON THE BILLBOARD HOT 100. Just to clarify, this isn’t my Top 10. This is the actual Top 10 from this same week in 1983 . As always, we include your stories, your dedications, and get a first hand look what the artists themselves have to say about their hit songs. This show is a Tribute to my hero Casey Kasem. So this time we travel back to December of the year 1983.

So, its been 39 years. But back then at the movie theaters you could catch Tom Cruise in one his early roles... All the Right Moves. Or could see the multi-Oscar winner The Right Stuff which actually bombed at the box office, but picked up steam on home video. Or there was the all-time holiday classic, A Christmas Story. On television you could catch the first season of Fraggle Rock, Love Connection, The A-Team, and Friday Night Videos or you could run to the mall and watch parents kill each other to try and get a cabbage patch kid for their children.
So, let’s get into the countdown.

Coming in at #10 it’s the smooth voiced cross dressing brit and his colorful band , Culture Club with their lead-off single from their quadruple platinum sophomore album Colour by Numbers. The song is Church of the Poison Mind. Harbingers of the “new pop” movement that swept through the UK charts in the early 80s, Culture Club consisted of Boy George on vocals, Roy Hay on guitar and keyboards, Mikey Craig on bass, and John Moss on drums. Their first album ‘Kissing to Be Clever’ featured the #2 US hit Do you Really Want to Hurt Me, and then followed that up with another #2 song, Time (Clock of My Heart).

By this time, George was one of pop’s major talking points with his dreadlocks, make-up, and androgynous persona. The launch of MTV ensured that many UK acts were infiltrating the US charts and the colorful persona of George, coupled with the irresistible charm of Culture Club’s melodies, effectively broke them in America early in 1983. Church Of the Poison Mind, helped push this success forward. It was a stomping, Tamla-Motown style song with Helen Terry singing backing vocals. Although Church of the Poison Mind would peak at #10 in the US, it reached #2 in the UK, only kept from the top spot by David Bowie's ‘Let's Dance’.