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My Top 5 Hits RETRO – 1991

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date March 19, 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 3RD Friday of the month, so I go back 30 years ago. Here it is – for the week ending Sunday March 17TH 1991:

“One More Try” – Timmy T
“Waiting For That Day” – George Michael
“Joyride” – Roxette
“Baby Baby” – Amy Grant
“More Than Ever” – Nelson

Exactly 30 years ago this weekend I was at home – my teenage childhood home in McLean Virginia (just outside of Washington D.C.)

On the weekend prior I departed the pink desert sands of Al Kharj AB Saudi Arabia with some of my fellow Operations Desert Shield / Desert Storm airmen. We lifted-off from the runway in Saudi at 0326L on Saturday March 09TH 1991. After 7 hours and 7 minutes in the air we landed at Torrejon AB Spain (near Madrid). It was a longer-than-expected nearly 5½-hour stop before we took-off again for our stateside destination at Dover AFB Delaware. We touched-down there at 1656L (21½ hours after leaving Saudi). A bus transported us to Philadelphia where we spent the night at a hotel near the airport. We flew out (commercial) the next morning – Sunday March 10TH 1991 – arriving back in Miami at 1001L.

We returned to Homestead AFB with no fanfare at all, and the next morning I was back at my workplace office. I met my new supervisor. He replaced my previous supervisor who was “reassigned”. He told me to take up to 30 days of “R & R” (rest and recuperation) as a returning war veteran. That Wednesday March 13TH 1991 I was on-the-road northward heading towards the Washington D.C. area. I spent the night in South Carolina, and the next afternoon I arrived at my childhood home 1,096 miles from the base. I stayed there for the next 2 weeks enjoying family time.

I was sent to war as punishment by my supervisor at the time (end of 1990). I didn’t do anything wrong. She just hated me. She had issues with guys that looked like me. An investigation occurred while I was at war, and she was relieved of her duties. The war (and post-war) was the start of the best (and final) 26 months of my entire Active Duty Air Force career.

(I still work for the USAF today as a Federal Civilian – at now Homestead ARB.)

Next Friday on RETRO I’ll go back 35 years ago to March 1986 – towards the end of my first year working for the USAF.

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

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My Top 10 Hits – Week 213

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

Every Monday I post my all-new Top 10 Christian hit music chart based on personal preference and influenced by radio airplay from the previous week. It’s the continuation of a weekly hobby that goes back 40+ years. Here’s this week’s chart:

COUNTUP MINISTRIES	FOR THE WEEK ENDING SUNDAY MARCH 14TH 2021	WEEK 213

TW	LW	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	1	9	Say I Won’t [3RD week @ # 1]	MercyMe
2	4	4	Good God Almighty	Crowder
3	5	8	Fires	Jordan St. Cyr
4	3	8	Less Like Me	Zach Williams
5	2	16	Every Step Of The Way	Cade Thompson
6	10	2	Amen	for King & Country
7	7	23	Truth Be Told	Matthew West
8	6	18	Out Of My Hands	Jeremy Camp
9	8	12	Another In The Fire	Hillsong United
10	–	1	Help Is On The Way (Maybe Midnight)	TobyMac

# 1 This Week In:
2020 – “Almost Home” – MercyMe
2019 – “Confidence” – Sanctus Real
2018 – “No One Like Our God” – Lincoln Brewster
2017 – “I Have This Hope” – Tenth Avenue North

MercyMe spend their 3RD week at # 1 with “Say I Won’t”. It’s the band’s 19TH week at # 1 on my chart during this current era (since February 2017), and that surpasses the 18 weeks at # 1 for Casting Crowns.

Both Crowder and Jordan St. Cyr have a chance at # 1 next week. Crowder’s been at # 1 twice before (with “Forgiven” in 2017 and “Red Letters” in 2019).

TobyMac is back with his 8TH hit on my chart since 2017. That’s more than any other artist. He also scored with an additional 3 hits from 2007 to 2009 during the salvation era of my chart. His “Help Is On The Way” is the 200TH chart hit of this era. The 1ST chart hit ? – TobyMac’s “Love Broke Thru”.

This concludes another weekend of blog posts. I’ll do it again this upcoming weekend – with 5 new entries on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Sunday, and Monday. I don’t blog on Saturdays. That’s my day of rest.

Your likes, follows, and comments are always appreciated. Thank You for being part of my online ministry to share God’s Good News and win souls for Christ through His music. I’m also on Twitter and Flickr.

Be blessed my friends ! May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in Him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Tags Blog, Christian, KLOVE, Music, Radio

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My Top 5 Hits RETRO – 1996

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date March 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 March 10TH 1996:

“You Oughta Know” – Alanis Morissette
“The World I Know” – Collective Soul
“Close To You” – Fun Factory
“When I Come Around” – Green Day
“One Of Us” – Joan Osborne

Joan Osborne scored her first and only hit here stateside with the somewhat Christian track “One Of Us”. It was released early on in 1995, and it took nearly a year to build and emerge as a worldwide multi-format smash into 1996. On my chart it spent 23 weeks in my Top 20, and it was my # 7 hit overall in 1996.

Now obviously I didn’t understand the song back in 1996 when I was a 28 / 29-year-old of the world, but I knew it was about God because of its prominent lyrics that were easy to sing along to:

♫ If God had a name what would it be ?
And would you call it to His face ?
If you were faced with Him in all His glory
What would you ask if you had just one question ?

And yeah – yeah – God is great
Yeah – yeah – God is good
And yeah – yeah – yeah – yeah – yeah

What if God was one of us ?
Just a slob like one of us
Just a stranger on the bus
Tryin’ to make His way home ♫

Eric Bazilian – one of the founding members of the longtime band The Hooters wrote the song. It’s often ranked as one of the greatest songs of the 1990s. It was nominated for several Grammy Awards including Record Of The Year and Song Of The Year. It lost in both categories to “Kiss From A Rose” from Seal.

Here’s the official music video for “One Of Us”. You can watch it here, or link here on YouTube.

Next Friday on RETRO I’ll go back 30 years ago to March 1991. Post-Desert Storm I’m back home stateside, and the American pop charts are heating-up !

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 10 Hits – Week 212

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date March 8, 2021

COUNTUP MINISTRIES	FOR THE WEEK ENDING SUNDAY MARCH 07TH 2021	WEEK 212

TW	LW	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	1	8	Say I Won’t [2ND week @ # 1]	MercyMe
2	2	15	Every Step Of The Way	Cade Thompson
3	4	7	Less Like Me	Zach Williams
4	5	3	Good God Almighty	Crowder
5	6	7	Fires	Jordan St. Cyr
6	3	17	Out Of My Hands	Jeremy Camp
7	7	22	Truth Be Told	Matthew West
8	10	11	Another In The Fire	Hillsong United
9	8	5	Battle Belongs	Phil Wickham
10	–	1	Amen	for King & Country

# 1 This Week In:
2020 – “Almost Home” – MercyMe
2019 – “Red Letters” – Crowder
2018 – “No One Like Our God” – Lincoln Brewster
2017 – “I Have This Hope” – Tenth Avenue North

for King & Country return to my chart for the first time since the middle of December of 2019. “Amen” is their new radio single, and it’s their 5TH hit on my chart since 2017. It’s actually not such a new single. It’s from their 2018 album “Burn The Ships”, and it’s the 4TH single from that album.

“Amen” is all about that breathtaking and life-changing moment during baptism when the new body rises up from the water, and a new life in Christ has begun publicly.

I’m comin’ alive with You !

Here’s the official music video for “Amen”. You can watch it here, or link here on YouTube.

This concludes another weekend of blog posts. I’ll do it again this upcoming weekend – with 4 new entries on Thursday, Friday, Sunday, and Monday. I don’t blog on Saturdays. That’s my day of rest.

Be blessed my friends ! May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in Him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.