Chart Toppers: Romantic Hits of the 80s (1998)

About this title: Priority's Chart Toppers series is an excellent budget-line collection, offering a strong selection of 15 original hits, grouped by a specific theme and decade, on each disc. Chart Toppers: Romantic Hits of the 80's combines soft-rock, adult contemporary, urban soul, power ballads, new wave, album rock and pop-rock hits -- an eclectic bunch, to say the least, but the variety helps capture the feeling of the decade. A few of the songs haven't dated well, but for the most part, the selection of songs is terrific, albeit a little predictable. Among the highlights on the disc are Air Supply's ... read more

Tracks:

1. Lost in Love [Russell]
2. True [Kemp]
3. Truly [Richie]
4. Everytime You Go Away [Hall]
5. Sexual Healing [Gaye/Brown/Ritz]
6. Waiting for a Girl Like You [Gramm/Jones]
7. Sara [Wolf/Wolf]
8. Tonight I Celebrate My Love [Masser/Goffin]
9. Always on My Mind [James/Thompson/Chri]
10. The Lady in Red [DeBurgh]
11. Flame [Mitchell/Graham]
12. Drive [Ocasek]
13. Here and Now [Elliott/Steele]
14. Baby, I Love Your Way/Freebird Medley (Free Baby) [Medley] [Collins/Frampton/Va]
15. All I Need [Magness/Ballard/Pac]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.