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Saturday, August 20, 1983

Air Supply chart with Greatest Hits

8/20/1983:

First posted 9/10/2020.

Greatest Hits

Air Supply

Recorded: 1980-1983

Charted: August 20, 1983

Peak: 7 US, -- UK, -- CN, 1¹ AU

Sales (in millions): 5.0 US, -- UK, 5.0 world (includes US and UK)

Genre: adult contemporary

Tracks:

Song Title (date of single release, chart peaks) Click for codes to singles charts.

Lost in Love (2/9/80, 3 US, 1 AC, 13 AU, airplay: 2 million)
Even the Nights Are Better (6/12/82, 5 US, 44 UK, 1 AC, 35 AU, airplay: 1 million)
The One That You Love (5/16/81, 1 US, 2 AC, 10 AU, sales: 1 million, airplay: 1 million)
Every Woman in the World (10/25/80, 5 US, 2 AC, 8 AU, sales: 2 million)
Chances
Making Love Out of Nothing at All (July 1983, 2 US, 2 AC, 80 UK, 3 CN, 45 AU)
All Out of Love (6/14/80, 2 US, 11 UK, 5 AC, 9 AU, sales: 1 million, airplay: 2 million)
Here I Am (Just When I Thought I Was Over You) (9/19/81, 5 US, 1 AC, 43 AU, airplay: 1 million)
Sweet Dreams (12/12/81, 5 US, 4 AC, airplay: 1 million)

Total Running Time: 37:27

Rating:

3.550 out of 5.00 (average of 4 ratings)

About the Album:

Air Supply released four albums in their native Australia before finding success in the United States, thanks to signing a deal with Arista Records. From 1980 to 1983, the group released three albums which produced seven consecutive top-five hits on the Billboard Hot 100. The 1980 album Lost in Love produced the title cut, All Out of Love, and Every Woman in the World.

The title song to their 1981 album The One That You Love was the group’s only U.S. #1. It was followed by Here I Am and Sweet Dreams. They landed another top-five hit with Even the Nights Are Better from their 1982 Now and Forever album.

They landed their eight and final top-ten hit with Making Love Out of Nothing at All, the one new song featured on their 1983 Greatest Hits compilation. The song was penned by Jim Steinman, who’d most famously worked with Meat Loaf on his Bat Out of Hell album. He also wrote Bonnie Tyler’s “Total Eclipse of the Heart,” the song which kept “Making Love” from reaching the top spot in America.

Unfortunately, this was Air Supply’s last trip to the top ten in the states. They only managed one more top 40 hit, the 1985 song “Just As I Am,” which peaked at #19. That makes this collection a pretty good sampling of the band, certainly during their heyday in the early ‘80s. At only nine songs, though, the collection feels a little light. They did have two minor hits (“Two Less Lonely People in the World” and “Young Love”) during this era which could have easily been added. Instead, the set features “Chances,” a non-single album cut from the band’s Lost in Love album.

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Saturday, September 25, 1982

Dave’s Faves: The Columbia House Record Club

First posted 8/12/2020.

Dave’s Faves:

Columbia House

September 25, 1982. I was 15 years old and had just started my sophomore year in high school. Arguably, there is no more significant time for musical discovery. I was very much a slave to whatever was popular at the time, but my tastes were starting to shift from more middle-of-the-road artists like John Denver, Neil Diamond, and Barry Manilow to more rock-oriented fare like Journey, Queen, and Styx.

A week before, I’d put together my very first personal song chart. I’d listened to a local radio station’s countdown of the hits of the summer and decided to create my own list of all-time favorites. However, within the week I revamped it and I was on my way to more than a decade’s worth of creating weekly personal song charts.

By that second week, I was hit by an influx of “new” music. Actually, it would be more appropriate to call it “newly acquired music” as the six new albums in my collection were all at least nine months old:

Air Supply The One That You Love (1981)
Foreigner 4 (1981)
Journey Escape (1981)
The Police Ghost in the Machine (1981)
Queen Greatest Hits (compilation: 1973-81, released 1981)
Styx Paradise Theater (1981)

To what did I owe this new treasure trove? Columbia House’s Record and Tape Club. Anyone from my generation should remember the omnipresent ads in magazines to buy 13 albums for a dollar, sometimes a penny, under the agreement that you bought X number more albums over the next few years. The catch was they would automatically send an album each month if you didn’t specifically refuse it, sticking some people with albums they didn’t want.

My friend Nic and I decided to jump into the venture together, each getting half the albums and therefore only spending half as much money. I believe Nic took on the responsibility of mailing in the cards and I think he only got stuck once with the automatically mailed album.

I’d started my music collection three years earlier with the K-Tel compilation High Energy (1979) on eight track. Now I was beginning my transition from eight track to cassette. I’d already bought Styx Cornerstone (1979) and the Xanadu soundtrack (1980) on tape and now, with six new titles in my collection, I was well on my way toward this newer medium surpassing the old. Before year’s end, I would also have John Cougar’s American Fool (1982), J. Geils Band Freeze Frame (1981), and Olivia Newton-John’s Olivia’s Greatest Hits Vol. 2 (1982). In December of that year, I also hit the jackpot when my local rock station played a Beatles’ album every day at midnight for a week. I recorded the Beatles’ 1962-1966 and 1967-1970 collections as well as Magical Mystery Tour (1967), Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967), and Hey Jude (1968).

The impact on my personal chart was immediately apparent. Songs from the above tapes which showed up on my charts in the next few weeks included:

Air Supply “The One That You Love,” “Here I Am,” “Sweet Dreams”
Foreigner “Urgent,” “Juke Box Hero,” “Waiting for a Girl Like You”
Journey “Who’s Crying Now,” “Don’t Stop Believin’,” “Open Arms”
The Police “Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic”
Queen “You’re My Best Friend,” “Flash,” “Another One Bites the Dust”
Styx “The Best of Times,” “Too Much Time on My Hands,” “Rockin’ the Paradise,” “Nothing Ever Goes As Planned”

Some of the songs from those tapes still rank on my top 100 songs of all-time list (Foreigner “Waiting for a Girl Like You,” Journey “Open Arms,” Queen “Bohemian Rhapsody,” Queen “We Will Rock You/We Are the Champions,” and Styx’s “The Best of Times”). Styx Paradise Theater and Journey Escape rank amongst my top 100 albums of all time. Perhaps no other week in my life has had more impact on me musically.

Resources and Related Links:

Dave’s Music Database (9/18/1982). “My First Personal Song Chart”
Dave’s Music Database (1/3/2020). “Dave’s Faves: My Top 100 Albums”
Dave’s Music Database (3/2/2020). “Dave’s Faves: My Top 100 Songs”

Saturday, September 18, 1982

My First Personal Chart

My First Personal Chart:

9/18/1982

I was 15 in the summer of 1982 and was pretty enthralled with the popular music of the day. When my local top 40 radio station did a countdown of their all-time songs, I decided to emulate the list and make my own. It was a mix of classics alongside current hits. It turned into my own weekly countdown list which I maintained through high school, college, and into young adulthood. I consider it ground zero for my fascination with charts.

Click here to see other Dave’s Faves song lists.

Spotify Podcast:

Check out the Dave’s Music Database podcast My First Chart: 40 Years Ago (premiere: September 13, 2022) based on this list. New episodes based on Dave’s Music Database lists are posted every Tuesday at 7pm CST.

So here is the very first chart I did:

1. Styx “Babe” (1979)
2. Climax Blues Band “I Love You” (1980)
3. Olivia Newton-John “Magic” (1980)
4. Journey “Open Arms” (1981)
5. Kenny Rogers “Coward of the County” (1979)
6. The Beatles “Fixing a Hole” (1967)
7. Queen “Body Language” (1982)
8. Air Supply “American Hearts” (1980)
9. Barry Manilow “Copacabana (At the Copa)” (1978)
10. Styx “Renegade” (1978)

11. Olivia Newton-John “Suspended in Time” (1980)
12. Olivia Newton-John “Heart Attack” (1982)
13. Kenny Rogers “The Gambler” (1978)
14. Chicago “Hard to Say I’m Sorry” (1982)
15. The Alan Parsons Project “Eye in the Sky” (1982)
16. Asia “Only Time Will Tell” (1982)
17. Paul McCartney “Take It Away” (1982)
18. Olivia Newton-John “Make a Move on Me” (1981)
19. Electric Light Orchestra “The Fall” (1980)
20. Journey “Don’t Stop Believin’” (1981)

21. Styx “The Best of Times” (1981)
22. Neil Diamond “Love on the Rocks” (1980)
23. Kermit “The Rainbow Connection” (1979)
24. Queen “You’re My Best Friend” (1976)
25. Blondie “Shayla” (1979)
26. Kenny Rogers “Lady” (1980)
27. Dan Fogelberg “Leader of the Band” (1981)
28. Soft Cell “Tainted Love” (1981)
29. The Police “Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic” (1981)
30. Olivia Newton-John “Physical” (1981)

31. Olivia Newton-John & Cliff Richard “Suddenly” (1980)
32. America “You Can Do Magic” (1982)
33. Electric Light Orchestra “I’m Alive” (1980)
34. Survivor “Eye of the Tiger” (1982)
35. Olivia Newton-John “Carried Away” (1981)
36. Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder “Ebony and Ivory” (1982)
37. Neil Diamond “Be Mine Tonight” (1982)
38. Olivia Newton-John & Electric Light Orchestra “Xanadu” (1980)
39. The Human League “Don’t You Want Me?” (1981)
40. John Cougar Mellencamp “Jack and Diane” (1982)

41. Chicago “If You Leave Me Now” (1976)
42. REO Speedwagon “Keep on Loving You” (1980)
43. Joan Jett & the Blackhearts “I Love Rock and Roll” (1981)
44. Steve Miller Band “Abracadabra” (1982)
45. Fleetwood Mac “Hold Me” (1982)
46. Charlene “I’ve Never Been to Me” (1977)
47. Toto “Rosanna” (1982)
48. Styx “Come Sail Away” (1977)
49. Kansas “Play the Game Tonight” (1982)
50. Joan Jett & the Blackhearts “Crimson and Clover” (1982)

51. Blondie “Heart of Glass” (1978)
52. George Harrison “All Those Years Ago” (1981)
53. Elton John “Blue Eyes” (1982)
54. Billy Joel “Just the Way You Are” (1977)
55. Joan Jett & the Blackhearts “Do You Wanna Touch” (1981)
56. Air Supply “I Can’t Get Excited” (1980)
57. Sheena Easton “When He Shines” (1981)
58. Elton John “Empty Garden” (1982)
59. J. Geils Band “Freeze Frame” (1981)
60. Billy Squier “The Stroke” (1981)

61. Neil Diamond “America” (1981)
62. The Cars “Shake It Up” (1981)
63. Greg Kihn Band “The Breakup Song” (1981)
64. Air Supply “Lost in Love” (1980)
65. Blondie “Dreaming” (1979)
66. Air Supply “Sweet Dreams” (1980)
67. KC & the Sunshine Band “Please Don’t Go” (1979)
68. Dan Fogelberg “Run for the Roses” (1981)
69. Pure Prairie League “Let Me Love You Tonight” (1980)
70. Dirt Band with Linda Ronstadt “An American Dream” (1979)

Resources and Related Links:

Dave’s Music Database: “Dave’s Faves: Song Lists”
Dave’s Music Database: “Dave’s Faves: Albums/Works”
Dave’s Music Database: “Dave’s Faves: Top 100 Acts”
Dave’s Music Database: Other Best-of Song Lists

First posted 12/1/2018; last updated 9/14/2022.

Saturday, June 19, 1982

Air Supply’s Now and Forever charted in the U.S.

First posted 1/18/2009; updated 9/10/2020.

Now and Forever

Air Supply

Charted: June 19, 1982

Peak: 25 US, -- UK, -- CN, 27 AU

Sales (in millions): 1.0 US, -- UK, 1.0 world (includes US and UK)

Genre: adult contemporary

Tracks:

Song Title (date of single release, chart peaks) Click for codes to singles charts.

Now and Forever
Even the Nights Are Better (6/12/82, 5 US, 44 UK, 1 AC, 35 AU, airplay: 1 million)
Young Love (9/18/82, 38 US, 13 AC)
Two Less Lonely People in the World (11/13/82, 38 US, 4 AC, 46 AU)
Taking the Chance
Come What May
One Step Closer
Don’t Be Afraid
She Never Heard Me Call
What Kind of Girl

The Players:

Russell Hitchcock (vocals)
Graham Russell (vocals, rhythm guitar)
Rex Goh, David Moyse (guitars)
Dave Green (bass)
Frank Esler-Smith (keyboards)
Ralph Cooper (drums)

Rating:

2.626 out of 5.00 (average of 5 ratings)

About the Album:

Now and Forever sort of marked the end of an era for Air Supply. After their fifth album, Lost in Love, finally broke them in America in 1980, the soft-rock group went on a streak of seven top-five hits, three each from Lost in Love and follow-up album The One That You Love and then one more (Even the Nights Are Better) from Now and Forever.

The group followed up that single with two more top 40 hits – Two Less Lonely People in the World and Young Love – from Now and Forever. However, it was their last studio album to go platinum. The next year, the band would find success with their Greatest Hits collection, a multi-platinum, top 10 album which featured all seven of the aforementioned top-ten hits plus their eighth and final top-ten, “Making Love Out of Nothing at All.” After that, the band didn’t go platinum again, didn’t hit the top ten again, and only made one more trip into the top 40 (“Just As I Am,” #19 in 1985).

A five-year run isn’t bad in the pop world, but Air Supply might have fared better with, well, better fare. “Like all…[Air Supply] albums, [Now and Forever] has an uneven selection of material; the best songs were the singles…Even when the group performs weak material, they sound fine, but the lack of first-rate songs became disheartening after a while.” ^AMG.

Resources and Related Links:

Air Supply’s DMDB Encyclopedia entry
Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide
^WK Wikipedia

Thursday, December 31, 1981

My Personal Top 100 Songs (pre-1982)

Dave’s Faves:
My Top 100 Songs

(Pre-1982)

I was 15 in the summer of 1982 and was pretty enthralled with the popular music of the day. When my local top 40 radio station did a countdown of their all-time songs, I decided to emulate the list and make my own. It turned into my own weekly countdown list which I maintained all through high school, college, and even into my young adult years. I consider it ground zero for my fascination with charts.

Here are my top 100 songs from before 1982. While this list was created many years later, it is designed to reflect my tastes at that time.

1. Styx “Babe” (1979)
2. Styx “Renegade” (1978)
3. Styx “The Best of Times” (1981)
4. Pink Floyd “Another Brick in the Wall Part II” (1979)
5. Olivia Newton-John “Magic” (1980)
6. Chic “Le Freak” (1978)
7. Journey “Open Arms” (1981)
8. Foreigner “Waiting for a Girl Like You” (1981)
9. Air Supply “Lost in Love” (1980)
10. Soft Cell “Tainted Love” (1981)

11. Styx “Come Sail Away” (1977)
12. Kenny Rogers “Coward of the County” (1979)
13. Blondie “Heart of Glass” (1978)
14. Neil Diamond “America” (1981)
15. Billy Joel “It’s Still Rock and Roll to Me” (1980)
16. John Williams “Star Wars” (1977)
17. The Beatles “I Want to Hold Your Hand” (1963)
18. Debby Boone “You Light Up My Life” (1977)
19. Kermit “The Rainbow Connection” (1979)
20. REO Speedwagon “Keep on Loving You” (1980)

21. Barry Manilow “I Write the Songs” (1975)
22. Andrea McCardle “Tomorrow” (1977)
23. Eagles “Heartache Tonight” (1979)
24. Olivia Newton-John “Physical” (1981)
25. Little River Band “Lonesome Loser” (1979)
26. Kool & the Gang “Ladies Night” (1979)
27. Little River Band “Cool Change” (1979)
28. Billy Joel “Just the Way You Are” (1977)
29. Harry Chapin “Cat’s in the Cradle” (1974)
30. Climax Blues Band “I Love You” (1980)

31. Kenny Rogers “The Gambler” (1978)
32. Foreigner “Hot Blooded” (1978)
33. Supertramp “The Logical Song” (1979)
34. Blondie “Dreaming” (1979)
35. Eagles “I Can’t Tell You Why” (1979)
36. Queen “Another One Bites the Dust” (1980)
37. Rupert Holmes “Escape (The Pina Colada Song)” (1979)
38. Air Supply “American Hearts” (1980)
39. Blondie “Call Me” (1980)
40. Kool & the Gang “Celebration” (1980)

41. Charlie Dore “Pilot of the Airwaves” (1979)
42. Kenny Rogers “Lady” (1980)
43. Foreigner “Juke Box Hero” (1981)
44. Journey “Who’s Crying Now” (1981)
45. Neil Diamond “Love on the Rocks” (1980)
46. Queen “Crazy Little Thing Called Love” (1979)
47. Supertramp “Take the Long Way Home” (1979)
48. Foreigner “Double Vision” (1978)
49. Queen “We Will Rock You” (1977)
50. Queen “We Are the Champions” (1977)

51. Commodores “Three Times a Lady” (1978)
52. Electric Light Orchestra “Don’t Bring Me Down” (1979)
53. Sister Sledge “We Are Family” (1979)
54. Gloria Gaynor “I Will Survive” (1978)
55. Nick Lowe “Cruel to Be Kind” (1979)
56. Sniff ‘N’ the Tears “Driver’s Seat” (1979)
57. Eddie Rabbitt “I Love a Rainy Night” (1980)
58. Dolly Parton “9 to 5” (1980)
59. Journey “Don’t Stop Believin’” (1981)
60. Kansas “Dust in the Wind” (1977)

61. Olivia Newton-John with Electric Light Orchestra “Xanada” (1980)
62. Bee Gees “Stayin’ Alive” (1977)
63. Charlie Daniels Band “The Devil Went Down to Georgia” (1979)
64. Kansas “Carry on Wayward Son” (1976)
65. J. Geils Band “Centerfold” (1981)
66. Joan Jett & the Blackhearts “I Love Rock and Roll” (1981)
67. Lionel Richie & Diana Ross “Endless Love” (1981)
68. Kim Carnes “Bette Davis Eyes” (1981)
69. Styx “Too Much Time on My Hands” (1981)
70. Billy Joel “You May Be Right” (1980)

71. Dirt Band with Linda Ronstadt “An American Dream” (1979)
72. Paul McCartney & Wings “Silly Love Songs” (1976)
73. Barry Manilow “Copacabana (At the Copa)” (1978)
74. Village People “Y.M.C.A.” (1978)
75. Commodores “Still” (1979)
76. John Denver “Take Me Home, Country Roads” (1972)
77. The Beatles “All My Loving” (1963)
78. REO Speedwagon “Ridin’ the Storm Out (live)” (1977)
79. Rush “Tom Sawyer” (1981)
80. Blondie “Shayla” (1979)

81. Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band “Against the Wind” (1980)
82. Foreigner “Urgent” (1981)
83. The Cars “Shake It Up” (1981)
84. Eagles “Take It Easy” (1972)
85. Pratt & McClain “Happy Days” (1976)
86. Van McCoy “The Hustle” (1975)
87. Chicago “If You Leave Me Now” (1976)
88. John Denver “Rocky Mountain High” (1972)
89. Hues Corporation “Rock the Boat” (1974)
90. Stars on 45 “Medley I” (1981)

91. The Beatles “Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite” (1967)
92. Willie Nelson “On the Road Again” (1980)
93. The Human League “Don’t You Want Me?” (1981)
94. The Beatles “With a Little Help from My Friends” (1967)
95. KC & the Sunshine Band “Please Don’t Go” (1979)
96. Waylon Jennings “Just Good Ol’ Boys (Theme from The Dukes of Hazzard)” (1980)
97. John Denver “Sunshine on My Shoulders” (1971)
98. Paul McCartney & Wings “My Love” (1973)
99. Gerry Rafferty “Baker Street” (1978)
100. Rick Springfield “Jessie’s Girl” (1981)

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Last updated 6/27/2022.

Saturday, June 13, 1981

Air Supply’s The One That You Love hit the U.S. charts

First posted 1/18/2009; updated 9/20/2020.

The One That You Love

Air Supply

Charted: June 13, 1981

Peak: 10 US, -- UK, 21 CN, 10 AU

Sales (in millions): 1.0 US, -- UK, 1.0 world (includes US and UK)

Genre: adult contemporary

Tracks:

Song Title (date of single release, chart peaks) Click for codes to singles charts.

Don’t Turn Me Away
Here I Am (Just When I Thought I Was Over You) (9/19/81, 5 US, 1 AC, 43 AU, airplay: 1 million)
Keeping the Love Alive
The One That You Love (5/16/81, 1 US, 2 AC, 10 AU, sales: 1 million, airplay: 1 million)
This Heart Belongs to Me
Sweet Dreams (12/12/81, 5 US, 4 AC, airplay: 1 million)
I Want to Give It All
I’ll Never Get Enough of You
Tonite
I’ve Got Your Love

Total Running Time: 39:59

The Players:

Russell Hitchcock (vocals)
Graham Russell (vocals, rhythm guitar)
Rex Goh, David Moyse (guitars)
Dave Green (bass)
Frank Esler-Smith (keyboards)
Ralph Cooper (drums)

Rating:

3.573 out of 5.00 (average of 4 ratings)

Awards:

About the Album:

“The One That You Love was Air Supply’s second international release and perhaps their finest all-around studio outing.” ^AMG Like its predecessor, Lost in Love, the album was produced by future-Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Clive Davis. Both albums also spawned three top-five Billboard Hot 100 hits. the lead single, “the heart-wrenching title track,” ^AMG became Air Supply’s first and only chart-topper.

“The sheer drama of Here I Am and the swooping orchestration of Sweet Dreams complete this smash-hit trilogy.” ^AMG The former was “closely related to the style of Barry Manilow, one of the band’s influences” ^WK while the latter came closer than anything the group had done to a foray into rock. The song also lent itself to a more bombastic, orchestral treatment, as demonstrated in the video below.

“As suggested by their name, a sense of air and space pervades other pop-tastic ballads such as This Heart Belongs to Me and Keeping the Love Alive.” ^AMG I’ll Never Get Enough of You was the main theme of a Japanese TV novel, leading it to become the group’s first entry on any Asian chart. ^WK

Notes: --

Resources and Related Links:

Monday, March 3, 1980

Air Supply’s Lost in Love released

Lost in Love

Air Supply

Released: March 3, 1980

Peak: 22 US, -- UK, -- CN, 21 AU

Sales (in millions): 2.0 US, -- UK, 3.0 world (includes US and UK)

Genre: adult contemporary

Tracks:

Song Title (date of single release, chart peaks) Click for codes to singles charts.

Lost in Love (2/9/80, 3 US, 1 AC, 13 AU, airplay: 2 million)
All Out of Love (6/14/80, 2 US, 11 UK, 5 AC, 9 AU, sales: 1 million, airplay: 2 million)
Every Woman in the World (10/25/80, 5 US, 2 AC, 8 AU, sales: 2 million)
Just Another Woman
Having You Near Me
American Hearts
Chances
Old Habits Die Hard
I Can’t Get Excited
My Best Friend

Total Running Time: 36:37

The Players:

Russell Hitchcock (vocals)
Graham Russell (vocals, rhythm guitar)
David Moyse (guitars)
Dave Green (bass)
Frank Esler-Smith (keyboards)
Ralph Cooper (drums)

Rating:

3.388 out of 5.00 (average of 5 ratings)

Awards: (Click on award to learn more).

About the Album:

Air Supply had released four albums from 1976 to 1979 without much impact. Even in their native Australia, they’d really only found success with one top-ten hit, 1976’s “Love and Other Bruises.” The group’s fate changed, however, when they signed a new contract with Arista Records. Producer Clive Davis, a future Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, helped Air Supply finally break into the U.S. market. During the early ‘80s, they had “a successful run of soft pop love songs” ^AMG yielding ten top 40 hits over the next three albums.

“Graham Russell’s overly poetic, overly romantic lyrics were usually accompanied by the fragile plucking of an acoustic guitar or the soft tinkling of piano.” ^AMG “Throughout every album their insipid musical style never strayed” ^AMG from their “faithful allegiance to their sentimentally flavored tastes.” ^AMG

The title song hit #3 in the U.S. and is often considered the group’s signature song and Russell Hitchcock has said it is his favorite. ^WK An earlier version was released in Australia in 1979 on their Life Support album. The rerecorded version, however, is what gave the band its first taste of international fame.

The second single, All Out of Love, is “regarded as their most famous song,” ^WK reaching #2 on the Billboard Hot 100. It was followed by Every Woman in the World, giving the band its third top-five hit from the album. “The rest of the tracks on Lost in Love are carbon copies of the hits.” ^AMG

While never released as a single, Chances became one of the group’s better-known songs, thanks to its inclusion on multiple compilations of the group’s hits. Also of note – Just Another Woman was first recorded – as a disco song – for the Life Support album. It was a hit in Malaysia. ^WK

Resources and Related Links:

DMDB Encyclopedia entry for Air Supply
^AMG Mike DeGagne, All Music Guide
^WK Wikipedia

Other Related DMDB Pages:

First posted 1/18/2009; last updated 9/3/2021.

Air Supply “American Hearts” released on Lost in Love album

(album cover for Lost in Love)

American Hearts

Air Supply

Writer(s): Graham Russell, Dominic Bugatti, Frank Musker, Clive Davis (see lyrics here)

Released: March 3, 1980 (as an album cut)

First Charted: --

Peak: 1 DF (Click for codes to singles charts.)

Sales (in millions): --

Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, 0.54 video, -- streaming

Awards:

Click on award for more details.

About the Song:

Air Supply formed in Australia in 1975. While their have been multiple members of this soft-rock group over the years, they’ve come to be known more as the duo of Graham Russell, an English-born singer/songwriter, and Russell Hitchcock, an Australian-born singer. They met in 1975 as part of the chorus for an Australian production of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical “Jesus Christ Superstar.

They released four albums in Australia from 1976 to 1979 before achieving their international breakthrough with 1980’s Lost in Love. The album went double-platinum in the United States on the strength of three top-5 hits – “Lost in Love,” “All Out of Love,” and “Every Woman in the World.” That newfound success had much to do with Clive Davis. He became the founder and president of Arista Records in 1974. Lost in Love was the first album by Air Supply after they signed to Arista. Davis even served as a co-songwriter on the songs “All Out of Love” and “American Hearts.”

The latter wasn’t a single, but became a personal favorite. In my early teen years, many of my favorites fell into the soft-rock category, including Neil Diamond, Barry Manilow, and John Denver. However, Air Supply may have been the most embarrassing of the lot for a teenage boy. No matter. I’ve long believed that when it comes to music you like what you like and don’t have to offer any apologies.

The song about a couple’s idyllic romantic dream-gone-wrong ranked in the top-10 on my first personal chart on September 18, 1982. As a response to a local radio station’s countdown of the best songs of all time, I compiled my own list. I intended to make it a one-time list of favorites, but it turned into a weekly personal chart which I maintained for a little more than a decade.

Resources:

DMDB encyclopedia entry for Air Supply
^WK Wikipedia page for Lost in Love album

Saturday, February 9, 1980

Air Supply's “Lost in Love” charted in the U.S.