Month: November 2021

My Top 5 Hits RETRO – 1986

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date November 26, 2021

Every Friday I post the Top 5 of one of my classic hit music charts based on personal preference and influenced by radio airplay from either 15, 25, 30, or 35 years ago this weekend (rotating each week).

It’s the 4TH Friday of the month, so I go back 35 years ago. Here it is – for the week ending Sunday November 30TH 1986:

“Waiting For The Ghost Train” – Madness
“French Kissin’ In The U.S.A.” – Debbie Harry
“Sometimes” – Erasure
“Everybody Have Fun Tonight” – Wang Chung
“Hip To Be Square” – Huey Lewis And The News

What great music. What fond memories of that wonderful time of my life – enjoying the company of my friends and the fun times that we shared together in the south of England. This was the 2ND (U.S.) Thanksgiving of my life away from my family back home stateside. (The 1ST was the year before in 1985. I had just arrived in England 2½ weeks earlier.)

Berlin’s “Take My Breath Away” was the # 1 smash all across the United Kingdom, and back home stateside Bon Jovi scored their very first # 1 smash with the hard-rockin’ “You Give Love A Bad Name” from their multi-platinum album “Slippery When Wet”.

Next Friday on RETRO I’ll go back 15 years ago to December 2006. Thanks for going RETRO with me !

This is the end of an abbreviated blog weekend, as #SundayScripture and #Top10Monday are on hiatus for the rest of this month of November. They will both return during the 1ST weekend of December. In fact a full weekend of blogging returns next weekend – with 5 new entries on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Sunday, and Monday. I don’t blog on Saturdays. That’s my day of rest.

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Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date November 25, 2021

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My Top 5 Hits RETRO – 1991

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date November 19, 2021

It’s the 3RD Friday of the month, so I go back 30 years ago. Here it is – for the week ending Sunday November 17TH 1991:

“The One And Only” – Chesney Hawkes
“All 4 Love” – Color Me Badd
“Romantic” – Karyn White
“Emotions” – Mariah Carey
“Can’t Stop This Thing We Started” – Bryan Adams

After New Kids On The Block (late-1980s) and before Backstreet Boys and ‘N Sync (late-1990s) there was Color Me Badd. They formed in 1985 in high school in Oklahoma City, but they didn’t hit it big until 1991 (after the New Kids success had begun to wane). They were pretty much the only “boy band” to enjoy success on the radio during the early-to-mid-1990s. They scored with 9 Top 40 hits here in the U.S. including their first 3 at # 1 or # 2.

“All 4 Love” was the 3RD of those 3 big early hits. It actually replaced Michael Jackson’s “Black Or White” at # 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in January 1992. (I loved both of those songs.) I loved the breezy – simple – poppy feel of “All 4 Love”. It really felt like a Springtime song, but it was a hit in the Autumn and Winter instead. I think (to this day) it’s my 2ND-favorite Color Me Badd song – 2ND to “Choose” in 1994. Still can’t get enough of both “All 4 Love” and “Choose” some 3 decades later.

Here’s the official music video for “All 4 Love”. It’s SO 1991 !

Fun Fact: I saw Color Me Badd LIVE in concert in Cincinnati Ohio – exactly 5 years ago tonight on November 19TH 2016. (They were part of the “I Love The 90s Tour”.)

Next Friday on RETRO I’ll go back 35 years ago to November 1986. Thanks for going RETRO with me !

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Hattiesburg Mississippi

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date November 18, 2021

#TravelThursday continues, and in this edition we visit “The Hub City” of Hattiesburg Mississippi.

It got its nickname “The Hub City” because it was a hub – a central point – of several railroad lines at the time (1910s) with a thriving lumber industry. Nowadays it’s known as “The Hub City” because it’s where old U.S. Routes 49 and 98 meet at the south end of the city. U.S. Route 11 also passes through the core of the city. It extends southward to near the Gulf Of Mexico, and northward to the Canadian border with New York. I-59 bypasses much of the city to the west. It is definitely “The Hub City” in the southeastern part of Mississippi. It’s a little less than 100 miles northwestward from Mobile Alabama, and it’s a little more than 100 miles north-northeastward from New Orleans Louisiana.

I’ve driven through Hattiesburg several times en route to and from North Texas. I’ve even spent a couple of hotel nights in Hattiesburg. On one of those hotel nights I had driven 657 miles from Wichita Falls Texas. I checked-in to my hotel room, and I looked at my iPhone. I had a voice mail from my Pastor. He told me to call him. I did. He asked me if I wanted to preach on Sunday. (That was a Thursday night.) An exhausted me gladly accepted. On that Sunday (October 02ND 2016) I preached my very first sermon to my church family. I was ready for that day. I had plenty of time on the road to think about and to pray about that first sermon.

I really want to spend more than a hotel night in and around the Hattiesburg area. There are lots of places to see and things to do there. The Hattiesburg Zoo and the Mississippi Armed Forces Museum would be on that list. #VisitHattiesburg.

Hattiesburg is a young college and military town with about 45,000 residents within the city limits and about 170,000 residents within the metro area. It is the home of the University Of Southern Mississippi and the black and gold Golden Eagles.

Join me next #TravelThursday as we visit another location on the face of this earth.

They keep you safe on your way, and your feet will not stumble. You can go to bed without fear. You will lie down and sleep soundly. You need not be afraid of sudden disaster or the destruction that comes upon the wicked, for the LORD is your security. He will keep your foot from being caught in a trap. (Proverbs 3:23-26 NLT)