"That Girl" by Christopher Cross

Few artists have had such a promising start to their careers like Christopher Cross. He kicked off the start of the 80s with a landmark debut album that spawned smash hits like "Ride Like The Wind" (#2), "Sailing" (#1), "Never Be The Same" (#15), and "Say You'll Be Mine" (#20). "Sailing" won Grammys for Record and Song of the Year (1980).

Cross continued his winning streak before releasing his second album by contributing the #1 hit "Arthur's Theme" to the hit movie staring Dudley Moore. His subsequent albums never attained the monster success of his debut (a hard bar to surpass, granted). By the middle of the decade, Cross ran out of chart momentum.

That doesn't mean his material went south - on the contrary, his 80 records are filled with quality melodic rock and pop. Take "That Girl" for example, which appeared on his third album, "Every Turn of the World", but didn't chart. That album only got to #127 in 1985 and Cross has been absent from the album charts since then. He just released an excellent new record in 2014 called "Secret Ladder".