Category: 1990s

My Top 5 Hits RETRO – 1996

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date December 10, 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 2ND Friday of the month, so I go back 25 years ago. Here it is – for the week ending Sunday December 08TH 1996:

“Love Rollercoaster” – Red Hot Chili Peppers
“Head Over Feet” – Alanis Morissette
“I’ve Finally Found Someone” – Barbra Streisand & Bryan Adams
“Let’s Make A Night To Remember” – Bryan Adams
“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 !

Tags 1996, Music, Radio

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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 !

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.

Tags 1991, Music, Radio

1990s Blogging Music Radio

My Top 5 Hits RETRO – 1996

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date November 12, 2021

It’s the 2ND Friday of the month, so I go back 25 years ago. Here it is – for the week ending Sunday November 10TH 1996:

“Head Over Feet” – Alanis Morissette
“One And One” – Robert Miles
“Do You Miss Me ?” – Jocelyn Enriquez
“Let’s Make A Night To Remember” – Bryan Adams
“If It Makes You Happy” – Sheryl Crow

I’m gonna do this “Mini-Thoughts” style. Longtime readers of my blog know what that means:

Alanis was HUGE back in the mid-to-late-1990s.
She scored with 9 hits on my chart through 1999.
“Head Over Feet” was her 3RD (and final) # 1 smash (for me).
Everyone remembers “Children” from Robert Miles.
It was a European dance smash that broke-through the U.S. market.
But “One And One” was less successful.
It did break-through here in Miami; hence, it’s # 2 peak on my chart.
British Trance singer Maria Nayler performed the vocals on “One And One”.
“Children” could be considered as one of the first trance hits on my chart.
“One And One” – the 2ND trance hit.
Trance music would later explode and take over my chart in 2002. #EDM
“Do You Miss Me” was a regional hit in dance-favored U.S. radio markets.
It was a long-lasting smash here in dance-friendly Miami.
I think Y-100 played it 10 times a day for more than half-a-year.
It spent 21 weeks on my chart – including its first 19 in my Top 10.
Like myself – Jocelyn Enriquez is part Filipino.
She was only 21 when “Do You Miss Me ?” was a hit on the radio.
Nowadays Jocelyn is a born-again Christian !
In fact she’s a Worship Pastor alongside her husband of 22 years.
They serve at Calvary Chapel Of San Antonio (Texas).
It’s awesome to discover that a mainstream pop artist follows Christ now.

Next Friday on RETRO I’ll go back 30 years ago to November 1991. “I’m so glad you’re my girl. I’ll do anything for you. Call you every night, and give you flowers too. I thank the Lord for you, and think about you all the time. I ask Him everyday that you’ll forever be mine.” That Top 5 hit will be featured next week. Thanks for going RETRO with me !

Tags 1996, Music, Radio

1990s Blogging Music Radio

My Top 5 Hits RETRO – 1991

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date October 15, 2021

It’s the 3RD Friday of the month, so I go back 30 years ago. Here it is – for the week ending Sunday October 20TH 1991:

“Do Anything” – Natural Selection
“Wind Of Change” – The Scorpions
“I’ll Be There” – The Escape Club
“It Hit Me Like A Hammer” – Huey Lewis And The News
“Hole Hearted” – Extreme

Natural Selection were a band out of Minneapolis Minnesota who sounded very much like Prince – at least they did on “Do Anything” – which they carried to the top of the pop charts late in 1991. They scored a follow-up hit early in 1992, and that was the end of their Top 40 success.

My middle 3 hits 30 years ago were also on my Top 5 a month earlier.

Extreme were a hard rock band out of Boston who enjoyed their greatest mainstream pop success when they slowed things down a bit. They scored a # 1 smash with “More Than Words”, and they quickly followed it up with “Hole Hearted” – a # 4 hit from coast-to-coast.

Here’s the official music video for “Hole Hearted” – filmed on downtown Boston’s Tremont Street in 1991:

Next Friday on RETRO I’ll go back 35 years ago to October 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 !

Tags 1991, Music, Radio