My Top Songs of All Ti9me 776-800

776. Hello Hooray                                               Alice Cooper
777. Flavor of the Week                                      American Hi Fi
778. Tell Me Something Good                             Rufus
779. Cruel Summer                                             Bananarama
780. Turn Around Look At Me                           Vogues
781. Georgy Girl                                                 Seekers
782. Everywhere                                                 Fleetwood Mac
783. Its Wonderful                                              Young Rascals
784. Hungry                                                        Paul Revere and the Raiders
785. PYT(Pretty Young Thing)                            Michael Jackson
786. Its My Life                                                   Bon Jovi
787. Love Machine                                              Miracles
788. Woman Woman                                           Gary Puckett and the Union Gap
789. 19th Nervous Breakdown                            Rolling Stones
790. For Your Love                                             Yardbirds
791. Takin' Care of Business                                Bachman Turner Overdrive
792. What You Need                                           INXS
793. Strange Way                                                 Firefall
794. Manic Monday                                             Bangels
795. FM                                                               Steely Dan
796. Everybody Plays the Fool                              Main Ingredient
797. Boogie Oogie Oogie                                      A Taste of Honey
798. We Ain't Got Nothin' Yet                               Blues Magoos
799. Suite Judy Blue Eyes                                      Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young
800. I Got You Babe                                             Sonny and Cher

The Bangels hit Billboard's Top 100 12 times from 1986-1996 including two #1 hits--Walk Like an Egyptian and Eternal Flame. This is the first of three Bangels songs on my list and was written by Prince. For most of their career the band has been Susanna Hoffs, the Peterson sisters(Debbie and Vicki) and Michael Steel but is now just the first three. A new album, "Sweetheart of the Sun" is due out September 27th.

The Main Ingredient hit the Top 100 11 times from 1970-75 and Everybody Plays the Fool was their highest charting hit, peaking at #3. It is the first of 4 songs by Main Ingredient on my list however. After 5 minor hits in 1970-71 lead singer Donald McPherson died unexpectedly and Cuba Gooding joined the group as lead and the band enjoyed a good run from through 1975. Not long later the band broke up. The band has gotten together a couple of times since and Gooding has attempted solo efforts. Original member Tony Silvester died in 2006 and I don't believe the band is currently active.

We Ain't Got Nothin' Yet was the only big hit by the Bronx-based Blues Magoos and it peaked at #5 on Billboard in December 1966. They had 4 minor hits--none of which made the Top 40. The band is credited with being in the forefront of the psychedelic music trend. The band broke up in 1968. Lead singer Peppy Castro and the rest of the band went their separate ways--neither meeting with any success. Castro charted again in 1981 with the group Balance with "Breaking Away". Three original members inclusing Castro reunited for two concerts in 2008-2009.

A Taste of Honey was a four person band founded by Perry Kibble and Donald Johnson and included Janice Johnson and Hazel Payne. Boogie Oogie Oogie topped the charts for 3 weeks in 1978. The band had three additional Top 100 hits from 1979-82 including the #3 smash Sukiyaki but in 1980 Johnson and Payne reformed the group as a duo. Johnson and Payne reunited in 2004 for a PBS special in New Jersey which I saw. KC and the Sunshine Band was the lead attraction. The bands websight only talks of Janice Johnson and there is nothing listed since 2008.