1980 - Heartland - Michael Stanley Band

40 Years Ago - 1980 Michael Stanley Band released their sixth album Heartland.

If you are from or were in Northeast Ohio in the 70s and 80s, you know how big this was!

This is the album that put them in the Top 40.

Michael Stanley is a music God in Cleveland.

Stanley was the co-host of PM Magazine on WJW Channel 8 from 1987 to 1990 and its follow-up, Cleveland Tonight, until 1991. He also appeared on The Drew Carey Show, playing himself.

Following a short stint on Cleveland radio station WMMS, from 1990 until a few weeks before he died in 2021, Stanley was the afternoon drive disc jockey for classic rock radio station WNCX, in Cleveland.

"He Can't Love You" peaked at #33

"Lover" made #68.