Let's look at what songs were peaking on the singles chart 35 years ago today on February 7, 1981. (And to give you an idea how long ago this was, Alicia Keys was only 2 weeks old on this date.) #1 - "Celebration" by Kool & the Gang. The all-time party anthem. #5 - "Passion' by Rod Stewart. One of my favorite Rod Stewart songs because of its arrangement and the way it builds up, cools down and then heats up again at the end. I remember seeing this video on Solid Gold when I was 5. Pre-MTV times. And to date it further, there's that Jimmy Carter reference on the fade-out. #14 - "Miss Sun" by Boz Scaggs. Not one of my favorites from Boz's catalogue because of the dopey lyrics, but otherwise a pleasant tune. #76 - "Wynken, Blynken & Nod" by Doobie Brothers. And for your true oddity, here we have a group named after a marijuana joint singing a children's lullaby from a Sesame Street album. This cover of a folk song that originally charted at #73 for Carly and Lucy Simon in 1964 probably wouldn't even have made it if the Doobies weren't mega-hot at time, but as the tune was competing with the band's own releases from its One Step Closer album, it lost. Once you can get your mind past the oddity of the whole endeavor, the instrumentation is pretty. Maybe this is what Alicia Keys' mother sang her to sleep with.
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