Category: 1990s

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 2ND Friday of the month, so I go back 25 years ago. Here it is – for the week ending Sunday March 09TH 1997:

1. “I Want You” – Savage Garden
2. “Call Me” – Le Click
3. “I Like It Like That” – The Blackout Allstars
4. “Wannabe” – The Spice Girls
5. “Please Don’t Go” – No Mercy

Good solid chart from 25 years ago. I still like all of those songs today. Well actually I had to go on YouTube to actually hear “Please Don’t Go” from No Mercy because the only “Please Don’t Go” song that I remembered was the 1992 dance cover version from KWS of the original 1979 K.C. And The Sunshine Band ballad.

“Wannabe” was sitting at # 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Savage Garden (Darren Hayes and Daniel Jones) scored a # 1 smash with their very first single (“I Want You”), and this was its 3RD week atop my chart (out of 4). They would follow it up with 5 more hits after that through 2000. They broke-up in 2001. As far as I know Darren and Daniel have never performed together since. Their career as a duo was short-lived, but there were several memorable songs during the era including two of the most successful hits ever at U.S. Hot Adult Contemporary radio – “Truly Madly Deeply” and “I Knew I Loved You”. Both of those hits enjoyed unusually long 2½-year runs in heavy and active rotation at pop radio.

Next #RetroFriday I’ll go back 30 years ago to March 1992. It’s when a legendary country singer was sitting at # 1 on my pop chart.

It’s halftime my friends. I’ll be back on Sunday and Monday with 2 more blog posts for this weekend. Enjoy your Saturday. Thanks for going retro with me !

All rights reserved (c) 2022 Christopher M. Day, CountUp

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 3RD Friday of the month, so I go back 30 years ago. Here it is – for the week ending Sunday February 16TH 1992:

1. “I’m Too Sexy” – Right Said Fred
2. “Black Or White” – Michael Jackson
3. “I’ll Get By” – Eddie Money
4. “Can’t Let Go” – Mariah Carey
5. “Vibeology” – Paula Abdul

The late great Eddie Money enjoyed success on the radio during the late-1970s (“Baby Hold On”, “Two Tickets To Paradise”), and then again during the mid-1980s into the early-1990s (“Take Me Home Tonight”, “Walk On Water”, “Peace In Our Time”). “I’ll Get By” was Eddie’s last hit – a power ballad that was embraced by both Top 40 and Hot Adult Contemporary radio stations during late-1991 into early-1992. It was one of those Eddie Money songs that was played for a season, and then it quietly disappeared over time. You may not have heard it in over 30 years. That’s why I’m bringing it back – via the official music video:

Next #RetroFriday I’ll go back 35 years ago to February 1987. It’s the week that a long-running Australian band scored a # 1 smash on my chart that is one of my favorite songs of all-time that I still hear nearly every day on my iPod Shuffle that plays at my desk at my workplace. And I sing along to it every day. And I’ve probably played it more times than any other American, as it’s a virtual unknown song here in the U.S.A.

It’s halftime my friends. I’ll be back on Sunday and Monday with 2 more blog posts for this weekend. Enjoy your Saturday. Thanks for going retro with me !

All rights reserved (c) 2022 Christopher M. Day, CountUp

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 2ND Friday of the month, so I go back 25 years ago. Here it is – for the week ending Sunday February 09TH 1997:

1. “Don’t Cry For Me Argentina” – Madonna
2. “Spiderwebs” – No Doubt
3. “I Want You” – Savage Garden
4. “Wannabe” – The Spice Girls
5. “I Like It Like That” – The Blackout Allstars

My Top 5 hits a quarter of a century ago were all # 1 hits – 2 formers, 2 futures, and the current. Also – “I Want You” and “I Like It Like That” were 2 of my Top 5 hits for the entire year of 1997.

“I Like It Like That” was an ENORMOUS smash in 1997 here in Miami, but it wasn’t the radio mix of the single. It was the D’Ambrosio Club Mix [Edit] that became an anthem that year in heavy rotation for most of the year from start to finish. Whenever that jam was played on Y-100 I cranked it up in my 8-year-old 1989 Geo Spectrum while cruising up and down South Dixie Highway. (Now that’s retro !)

Next #RetroFriday I’ll go back 30 years ago to February 1992.

It’s halftime my friends. I’ll be back on Sunday and Monday with 2 more blog posts for this weekend. Enjoy your Saturday. Thanks for going retro with me !

All rights reserved (c) 2022 Christopher M. Day, CountUp