Later in 1981, The Belmonts and Cannon joined forces in New York with Bo Diddley on guitar.

Rick Dees, at the time a radio DJ in Memphis, Tennessee, recorded " Disco Duck " ( 1976 ) and " Dis-Gorilla " ( 1977 ); Frank Zappa parodied the lifestyles of disco dancers in " Dancin ' Fool " on his 1979 Sheik Yerbouti album, and " Disco Boy " on his 1976 Zoot Allures album ; and " Weird Al " Yankovic's 1981 eponymous debut album includes a disco song called " Gotta Boogie ", an extended pun on the similarity of the disco subgenre name " boogie " to the American slang word " booger " and its British counterpart " bogey ".

The character and themes from the comic strip Little Nemo were used in a song " Scenes from a Night's Dream " written by Phil Collins and Tony Banks of the progressive rock group Genesis on their 1978 recording, ... And Then There Were Three ... Another progressive rock group, from Germany, called Scara Brae also recorded a musical impression of the comic on their rare self titled disc from 1981 ( the track was actually recorded 2 years earlier ).

* Manhattan ( album ), an album recorded in 1981 by jazz flugelhornist Art Farmer featuring the above composition

* Soundbytes ( 1994, compilation of tracks recorded 1981 – 1986 )

Merrily We Roll Along ( 1981 ), with a book by George Furth, is one of Sondheim's more " traditional " scores and was thought to hold potential to generate some hit songs ( Frank Sinatra and Carly Simon each recorded a different song from the show ).

* 1981: Jazz vocalist Carmen McRae recorded this song on her album " Live at Bubba's ".

* The Original Modern Lovers ( recorded 1972, released 1981 )

In 1981, the threesome recorded and released a single (" Getting Out Of Hand " b / w " Call on Me ") on DownKiddie Records ( their own label ).

Warriors was the last album Numan recorded for Beggars Banquet Records, and was supported by a 40-date UK tour ( again with support from robotic mime and music duo Tik and Tok ) – Numan's first live tour in the UK since his Wembley appearances in 1981.

The lowest recorded temperature is − 38. 0 ° C recorded in February 1981, and the highest temperature was 17. 8 ° C recorded in August 1942.

The popular Welsh folk song Yma o Hyd, recorded by Dafydd Iwan in 1981, recalls Macsen Wledig and celebrates the continued survival of the Welsh people since his days.

* The 1981 – 82 Comets reunion group recorded on single in 1982, Bring Back the Music / The Hawk Talks ( Music City Records ).

They started doing separate ventures ; Louis Johnson played bass on Michael Jackson's Thriller and recorded a gospel music album in 1981 with his own group Passage, which included his then-wife Valerie Johnson and former Brothers Johnson percussionist / singer, Richard Heath.

The Police's fourth album, Ghost in the Machine, co-produced by Hugh Padgham, was recorded at Air Studios on the Caribbean island of Montserrat, and released in 1981.

Over 1981 and 1982, Summers recorded his first album with Robert Fripp, I Advance Masked.

Nico recorded her next studio album, Drama of Exile, in 1981.

Wells also recorded the fastest British 100 / 200 times in 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983 and 100m in 1984.

He would go on to produce two reggae albums recorded in Jamaica ( 1979 and 1981 ) and two electronic funk albums recorded in New York ( 1984 and 1987 ).

In 1981, Art Garfunkel recorded " Scissors Cut ", " In Cars ", and " That's All I've Got to Say " for his album Scissors Cut, and Arlo Guthrie recorded " Oklahoma Nights " on his album Power of Love.

French and Saunders were featured on the 1981 live comedy album of The Comic Strip recorded by comedy entrepreneur Martin Lewis for his Springtime!

* Singer Songwriter Barry Manilow released a single " Bermuda Triangle " in 1981, taken from his 1980 album Barry

The group had no major hits in 1980, but by 1981 they released two Top Ten hits with " Oh No " (# 4 U. S .) and their first upbeat single in almost five years, " Lady ( You Bring Me Up )" (# 8 U. S .)

From its earliest inception as a single service initiative formed in 1981 by Columbia University undergraduates, Community Impact has grown into Columbia University's largest student service organization.

In his 16-year career in the NFL, Anderson made four trips to the Pro Bowl, won four passing titles, was named NFL MVP in 1981, and set the record for completion percentage in a single season in 1982 ( 70. 66 %).

When " Too Drunk to Fuck " came out in May 1981, the song caused much controversy in the UK as the BBC feared the single would reach the Top 30 ; this would require a mention of the song on Top of the Pops.

After uneven commercial success in the late 1970s, Bowie had UK number ones with the 1980 single " Ashes to Ashes ", its parent album Scary Monsters ( and Super Creeps ), and " Under Pressure ", a 1981 collaboration with Queen.

Bowie paired with Queen in 1981 for a one-off single release, " Under Pressure ".

It was only after the record became a success overseas that it was released in the U. S. The single hit # 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1981.

" Coal Mine " would be a pack-in bonus single with their 1981 release, New Traditionalists.

Fab 5 Freddy's friendship with Debbie Harry influenced Blondie's single " Rapture " ( Chrysalis, 1981 ), the video of which featured Jean-Michel Basquiat, and offered many their first glimpse of a depiction of elements of graffiti in hip hop culture.

After hearing Unwound, George Strait's debut single, in 1981, Brooks decided that he was more interested in playing country music.

During the 1981 Ashes, Botham set a record of six sixes in a single Ashes Test Match at Old Trafford.

In 1981 a group called The Mean Machine released a 12 " single on Sugar Hill Records called " Disco Dream " which was the first rap record to emphasize Spanglish.

The band's success peaked between 1980 and 1981 with a number of UK chart hits, including the classic single " Ace of Spades ", which is still a crowd favourite today and the # 1 on the live album No Sleep ' til Hammersmith.

The band's second single, " Who Can It Be Now ", was released in June 1981 and reached No. 1 on the Australian singles chart in August that year.

The two-disc release was an updated version of the Substance collection and contained every single released from their 1981 debut all the way through to " Waiting for the Sirens ' Call ".

Following the conclusion of their ' Positive Touch tour ' in June 1981, the Undertones released their second single of 1981, " Julie Ocean ".

In 1981, he released a 45 rpm single, his first solo record (" I'm Not Your Steppin ' Stone " b / w " Higher And Higher ") and did some club performances and live television appearances, including taking part in a " Win A Date With Peter Tork " bit on Late Night with David Letterman.

* " Pasadena " is a 1981 single by Maywood

Maršíková's single titles were at Rome, Toronto and Christchurch in 1978, Phoenix in 1980 and Berlin in 1981.

In late 1981, The Cure released the non-album single " Charlotte Sometimes ".

The first single, " Principles ", was released in 1981.