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The only one that I can remember is a 45 I found while going through my records at my parents home last month.
It was by Chrystal Gayle & Garry Morris who sang the theme song for the old soap Another World at one point.
A few other songs related to the soaps..
The 1980s were big for songs that were on the soaps and then making it big on the charts. DOOL and Santa Barbara were known for using pop music for montages. One reason I suspect you will never see old eppies of Days and Santa Barbara on soapnet due to copyright relating to the songs.
Freinds and Lovers - Gloria Loring and Carl Anderson
Think of Laura - Christopher Cross
Tonight I Celebrate my Love - Roberta Flack
All I have - Beth Nielsen Chapman
and those are the ones I can think of right now. Many of the shows were notorious for using wrapup montages at the end of the week and it would have a pop song connected to them.
Other pop songs at the time included:
Broken Wings
Lady in Red
Always is also used a lot on a couple of shows