Magazine Cover of the Week

Rolling Stone Magazine

October 29th 1981

"Elvis - The Party Years" by Albert Goldman

Magazine Cover of the Week

TV Guide

Alan Alda of "M*A*S*H"

April 25th 1981

Ralph Sampson

In 1981, 1982 and 1983 Ralph Sampson of the University of Virginia won the Adolph Rupp Award, Oscar Robertson Award and The Naismith Award as college basketball's player of the year.

In 1982 and 1983 he also included The John Wooden Award as player of the year.  The Sporting News picked him as Player of the Year in 1982

In his freshman year he led the Virginia Cavaliers to the 1980 NIT Championship and in 1981 he took them to the NCAA Final Four.

Classic Movie Poster of the Week

RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK

The #1 film of 1981

released June 12th 

$212.2  million

Academy of Country Music Awards - 1981

George Jones with his ACM Awards for 1980

Song of the Year, Single of the Year and Top Male Vocalist 

The winning Song and Single of the Year has been called the ultimate country song and also won the Country Music Association Song of the Year for 1980 and 1981.  George also won the CMA Male Vocalist of the Year for 1980 and 1981.

He Stopped Loving Her Today
(Bobby Braddock and Curly Putnam)

Billboard Hot 100 - No. 1 Song of 1981

All the songs to reach #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1981

Top of the Pops (John Lennon Edition)

This week in 1980 the UK Charts were dominated (and rightly so) by the late John Lennon.  Tragically he was murdered a month before and now in sorrow and honor his legions of UK fans put 3 of his singles in the Top 5 of the UK singles chart for the week ending January 10th 1981.

5 - (Just Like) Starting Over - John Lennon




4 - Antmusic - Adam and the Ants




3 - Stop the Calvary - Jona Lewie


2 - Happy Christmas (War is Over) - John and Yoko


1 - Imagine - John Lennon
(4 consecutive weeks at #1)

Top 5

Today's Top 5 is a look at the Top 5 bestselling novels on the New York Times Bestseller list November 22nd 1981
This weeks list contained some of the biggest names in novels and some of their most famous works.


5 - The Legacy by Howard Fast

The Lavette family of ''The Immigrants'' and ''The Establishment'' reaches the turbulent 60's.

4 - Noble House by James Clavell

 A British-Chinese struggle for control of one of Hong Kong's oldest trading houses. 
The first of Clavell's 2 #1 novels and spent 15 weeks at #1 from May until August 1981.

3 - Cujo by Stephen King

Monsters haunt a New York family seeking peace in rural Maine.
This was the 3rd #1 for Stephen King, spending 5 weeks at #1.

2 - The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving
Life with an eccentric family

John Irving's first #1 novel, spending 9 weeks at the top of the list.

1 - An Indecent Obsession by Colleen McCullough
A nurse and her charges in a special-care ward of a WWII hospital
This is the second and last novel to reach the top of the Times bestseller list. The 'Thorn Birds' spend 15 weeks at #1 in the summer of 1977.  
This was the 2nd of 13 weeks at #1 for "Obsession".