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 )

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!

* 1981 – The IBM Personal Computer is released.

From Roy Ayers in the 1970s to Randy Weston in the 1990s, there have been collaborations which have resulted in albums such as Africa: Centre of the World by Roy Ayers, released on the Polydore label in 1981.

In 1981, Manço released Sözüm Meclisten Dışarı with Kurtalan Ekspres, containing many hit songs including " Alla Beni Pulla Beni ", " Arkadaşım Eşşek ", " Gülpembe ", " Halhal " and " Dönence " among others.

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

He took over the writing of Call of Cthulhu, and the game was released in 1981, using a simplified version of the Basic Role-Playing system used in RuneQuest.

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 .)

In 1981, Jaguar released a cylinder head that allowed up to 14: 1 compression ; but settled for 12. 5: 1 in production cars.

* Inchon ( 1981 ) Scenes cut from released print

In 1981, this episode was made into anime ( called " Doraemon Comes Back "), and in 1998, this was released as an anime movie.

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.

The film premiered on October 15, 1981, and was released in 128 theaters on April 15, 1983.

MGM's special edition of the 1981 film was not released until 2003 because the original negative had disappeared.

It was later ported to the IBM PC and released when the PC was announced in 1981.

In 1980 and again in 1981, Gaynor released two disco albums which were virtually ignored in the United States due to the backlash against disco, which began late in 1979.

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 first 7 " EPs, Minor Threat and In My Eyes, were released in 1981.

* First Demo Tape ( 1981, released 2003 )

* 1977 – Star Wars ( retitled Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope in 1981 ) is released in theaters, inspiring the Jediism religion and Geek Pride Day holiday.

In November 1981, their debut album Too Fast for Love was self-produced and released on Leathür, selling 20, 000 copies.

When the first movie was released on February 22, 1981, it was regarded as the beginning of a new age of anime.

The first two movies, Mobile Suit Gundam and Mobile Suit Gundam: Soldiers of Sorrow, were released in 1981.

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 ".

Strength Thru Oi !, an album compiled by Bushell and released in May 1981, stirred controversy, especially when it was revealed that the belligerent figure on the cover was a neo-Nazi jailed for racist violence ( Bushell claimed ignorance ).

Following the success of Moving Pictures and the completion of another four studio albums, Rush released their second live recording, Exit ... Stage Left, in 1981.