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My Top 5 Hits RETRO – 2000

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date August 21, 2020

Every 2ND, 3RD, and 4TH Friday of the month 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, 20, or 30 years ago this weekend (rotating each week).

It’s the 3RD Friday of the month, so I go back 20 years ago. Here it is – for the week ending Sunday August 20TH 2000:

“Lucky” – Britney Spears
“I Think I’m In Love With You” – Jessica Simpson
“It’s My Life” – Bon Jovi
“Higher” – Creed
“Bent” – Matchbox Twenty

Good chart 20 years ago this week. Good music. “It’s My Life”, “Higher”, and “Bent” still play on my iPod Shuffles today. They still sound great. They were 3 of my Top 5 hits for the entire year of 2000. You know I’ve always considered 2000 to be the 12TH year of “’90s music”. The greatest decade of music for me began in 1989 and it continued on through 2000.

I just watched the official music video for Jessica Simpson’s “I Think I’m In Love With You”. Now I remember why I liked it so much back then. It’s a great summertime song. I think it’s my favorite Jessica Simpson jam. It borrows heavily from John Cougar Mellencamp’s “Jack & Diane”. In fact if you were in the dance clubs back during the Summer of 2000 (like myself) then you probably heard a wonderful mash-up of “Jack & Diane” and “I Think I’m In Love With You”. I need to add it to my iTunes Wish List. Yep. I’m still buying music on iTunes. Don’t judge me. #OldSchool

Over at the multiplex I saw “Nutty Professor II: The Klumps”. It was a summertime smash, but apparently I didn’t like it all that much. I rated it a “C”.

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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My Top 5 Hits RETRO – 2005

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date August 14, 2020

It’s the 2ND Friday of the month, so I go back 15 years ago. Here it is – for the week ending Sunday August 14TH 2005:

“Get It Poppin'” – Fat Joe Ft. Nelly
“Switch” – Will Smith
“Baby I’m Back” – Baby Bash
“How To Deal” – Frankie J
“La Tortura” – Shakira Ft. Alejandro Sanz

The forgettable year of 2005 continues. I don’t remember a single one of these songs. I don’t remember what they sound like at all. I’d have to go to YouTube and watch the music videos of these songs to remind me of how I liked them 15 years ago this week. I don’t really feel like doing that. Why bring back memories of a “down” year ?

Over at a movie theatre near Walt Disney World I saw “Red Eye” and “Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo” with my brother. I guess we both liked “Red Eye”. We rated it a perfect 4 stars back then. We spent 5 days in the Orlando area (with a brief visit to Tampa) right after Hurricane Katrina had made landfall in northern Miami-Dade County and moved erratically through the region. We attended two WWE events (one house show and one televised nationally). That was a fun trip !

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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My Top 5 Hits RETRO – 1985

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date August 7, 2020

It’s the 1ST Friday of the month, so it’s a special. Back in 1985 I was an 18-year-old USAF Airman Basic living in a dorm at Chanute AFB near Rantoul Illinois. I was in my first week of technical school after 6½ weeks of Basic Training at Lackland AFB near San Antonio Texas. It was my first week ever in Illinois. I lived (and trained) there for about 3 months, and I haven’t been back since. I’m actually having a lot of fun over on Facebook reminiscing with my fellow Chanute AFB colleagues about my short time there.

These were the hottest hits in the land exactly 35 years ago this weekend – for the week ending Sunday August 11TH 1985:

“Shout” – Tears For Fears
“Everytime You Go Away” – Paul Young
“If You Love Somebody Set Them Free” – Sting
“Never Surrender” – Corey Hart
“The Power Of Love” – Huey Lewis And The News

Good solid pop / light-rock music back then. It was the soundtrack of my 3RD month in the Air Force. I remember listening to a local Hot Adult Contemporary radio station at the time out of Champaign Illinois. Once I got my car (which only had AM radio) I listened to MusicRadio WLS – the “blowtorch” out of Chicago. (They made “Chi-CA-go” sound so nice during their top-of-the-hour station identification jingles.)

Next week on RETRO it’s back to my regularly-scheduled program. I’ll go back 15 years to the 2ND week of August of 2005.

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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My Top 5 Hits RETRO – 1970

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date July 31, 2020

It’s the 5TH Friday of the month, so it’s a special. Back in 1970 I was a 3-year-old living with my Mom and Dad at the Chelsea Wood Apartments in Greenbelt Maryland. My Grandmom and Granddad lived just a few miles away in Lanham Maryland. I was already listening to Top 40 radio, and these hits were the hottest in the land exactly 50 years ago this weekend – for the week ending Sunday August 02ND 1970:

“(They Long To Be) Close To You” – The Carpenters
“Make It With You” – Bread
“Mama Told Me (Not To Come)” – Three Dog Night
“Band Of Gold” – Freda Payne
“Signed, Sealed, Delivered I’m Yours” – Stevie Wonder

Bread’s “Make It With You” is currently in heavy rotation on my iPod Shuffles, and “Mama Told Me (Not To Come)” is currently in active rotation with 660 plays over the past 10 years (a play about every 5 to 6 days since 2010). Three Dog Night are (by far) my favorite band of the early-1970s. I have a bunch of their hits on my iTunes Library that I rotate in and out. One of my favorite performances of them (recently featured here on my blog) was when they hosted the cocktail party on a November 1971 episode of “Rowan And Martin’s Laugh-In”. They performed “Joy To The World” in-between the party jokes.

Next week on RETRO I’ll have another special. Maybe I’ll stay in the 1970s – the greatest decade of music that ever existed.

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 !