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 January 12TH 1997:

1. “Wannabe” – The Spice Girls
2. “Don’t Cry For Me Argentina” – Madonna
3. “Do You Miss Me ?” – Jocelyn Enriquez
4. “Lovefool” – The Cardigans
5. “Don’t Speak” – No Doubt

It’s the all-female Top 5. (The Cardigans and No Doubt were led by women.)

Of those 5 hits my favorite 25 years later is “Do You Miss Me ?”. It peaked at # 3, and it spent 21 weeks on my chart at the end of 1996 and the start of 1997. It was a long-running radio smash here in Miami Florida.

Next #RetroFriday I’ll go back 30 years ago to January 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 !

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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 December 15TH 1991:

1. “Black Or White” – Michael Jackson
2. “All 4 Love” – Color Me Badd
3. “Cream” – Prince And The New Power Generation
4. “Set Adrift On Memory Bliss” – P.M. Dawn
5. “The One And Only” – Chesney Hawkes

Brothers Prince Be and DJ Minutemix were P.M. Dawn out of Jersey City New Jersey, and they took the world by storm with their unique fusion of catchy pop-oriented hip hop and R & B. They scored with a trio of huge hits during the early-1990s – “Set Adrift On Memory Bliss”, “I’d Die Without You”, and “Looking Through Patient Eyes”. As opposed to much of the Eurodance music on the radio at the time this music allowed you to chill. It was relaxing. It was soothing to the soul. It was good music for its era.

Here’s the official music video for the blissful “Set Adrift On Memory Bliss”:

Next Friday on RETRO I’ll go back 35 years ago to December 1986.

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) 2021 Christopher M. Day, CountUp Ministries

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 December 08TH 1996:

1. “Love Rollercoaster” – Red Hot Chili Peppers
2. “Head Over Feet” – Alanis Morissette
3. “I’ve Finally Found Someone” – Barbra Streisand & Bryan Adams
4. “Let’s Make A Night To Remember” – Bryan Adams
5. “Please Don’t Go” – No Mercy

That was the Top 5 of my Top 30 chart of the 50TH week of 1996.

Red Hot Chili Peppers scored a surprise # 1 smash with their wild cover of “Love Rollercoaster” (from the “Beavis And Butt-Head” movie). It was my favorite #RHCP track. It was the perfect song for U.S. Top 40 radio late in 1996 during the afternoon and evening hours. I also liked the original (and funkier) late-1975 / early-1976 version from Ohio Players.

Next Friday on RETRO I’ll go back 30 years ago to December 1991. The King Of Pop was on top.

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) 2021 Christopher M. Day, CountUp Ministries

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 November 17TH 1991:

1. “The One And Only” – Chesney Hawkes
2. “All 4 Love” – Color Me Badd
3. “Romantic” – Karyn White
4. “Emotions” – Mariah Carey
5. “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 !

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. I’ll be back next Thursday and Friday with 2 more blog posts.

All rights reserved (c) 2021 Christopher M. Day, CountUp Ministries