Daily Eighties Flashback: John Cougar “Small Paradise”

After hitting the Top 40 with his first single to appear on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart, John Cougar (a.k.a., John Cougar Mellencamp) missed the Top 40 with his second appearance before going on a run of reaching the Top 40 with sixteen consecutive charting singles. On this date in 1980, that song before the streak began, “Small Paradise,” rose to a peak position of number 87.