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Welcome to Hit Parade, a podcast of Pop chart history from Slate magazine, about the hits from Coast to Coast. I'm Chris Malamphi, chart analyst, pop critic, and writer of

Slate's Why Is This Song Number One series.

On today's show, 40 years ago at the 1980 Grammy Awards,

the night's big winners, taking home four grammophones, were a band originally formed 10 years earlier in San Jose, California, that had transformed themselves into pop stars.

Their name, Duby Brothers, was taken from the slang word for marijuana.

But by 1980, their music sounded more like a chilled rosé. That week in late February 1980 that the Dubies swept the Grammys.

Billboard's Hot 100 was awash in similarly sleek, jazzy, ultra smooth music from Dubie's friend Kenny Loggins.

You think that maybe it's over.

Only if you want it to be.

Are you going to wait for your side your miracle?

To the equally smooth band of session players Todo To the debut of new easy listening singer-song writer Christopher Cross. All of this music by white performers on the charts owed something to the sound of contemporary black music,

but even the R&B performers of the day, previously known for funk and disco hits, were

...