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 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

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 !

All rights reserved (c) 2022 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 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