Hello everyone. This blog post is not sponsored by K Jewelers, who remind you this holiday season, that every diss begins with "K." Question for all of you, especially if you follow racing of any sort. You ever watch or visualize a car (or an athlete) have an insurmountable lead in said race only to crash out (or pull up lame). Actually, I have the perfect analogy. If any of you follow Indy Car racing, particularly the Indy 500, you may remember the bonkers finish to the 2011 race. JR Hildebrand somehow found his way in the lead late in the race, but with one lap, check that one CORNER to go before reaching the checkered flag, he got high off turn four and slammed the wall. This would allow Dan Wheldon to storm from behind and pass him for the win at the finish line. Another sports analogy I could make would be Russell Wilson calling a pass play at the goal line in the Super Bowl instead of giving the ball to Marshawn Lynch. The pass was intercepted, and the Seattle Seahawks lost the game. I bring those up because over the course of this past week, something happened regarding my life that could be quite similar to those situations mentioned, which gives me this reaction:
Also, I have another have another GIF to describe my feelings:
Oh well. I'm okay by the way, I just have a little more money to spend this holiday season now...
Anyway, back to the subject at hand, this is the second installment of my random Top 40 flashback from a day in the past. Early last week, I did one for the beginning of March 1989. This week, instead of rolling a D20 die to determine the week, I got inspiration from a TikTok I saw regarding how the arrangement to one of my favorite songs, "With Or Without You" by U2 was created. So, for this week, I'm going to pick the week ending May 15-16, 1987, which was the first week that song was number one on both the Billboard Hot 100 and the Radio and Records pop charts. And like the previous entry, it will be a hybrid of both Billboard and Radio and Records charts for that week. So, without further ado, here were the Top 40:
40. Don't Disturb This Groove by The System (#39 BB, #35 R/R--8 points). This one-hit wonder is a lost favorite from that 1987. I remember it from an ad for a radio station based out of Wilmington, NC on TV back in the day.
39. Alone by Heart (#33 R/R--8 points). This monster ballad and the band's biggest hit would debut on this date in 1987.
38. Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now by Starship (#34 BB--12 points). Easing its way off the countdown was this track that I think is better than "We Built This City," which is considered by some metrics to be the worst song of the 80's. The movie it came from ("Mannequin") wasn't too bad, either.
37. Stone Love by Kool & The Gang (#32 BB--14 points)
36. Fascinated by Company B (#36 BB, #31 R/R--15 points). I swear the first time I heard this song, it was during a high school talent show my freshman year. Two girls, Angela Crews and Cyndi Ellis, did a choreographed routine to this song at Hoke High School. Angela's now a curator of a museum in Texas, as for Cyndi, I don't know for sure. She probably avoids social media like the plague (and I wouldn't blame her to be honest) but I hope she's doing okay.
35. Serious by Donna Allen (#28 BB--15 points). Every time the Tampa Bay Buccaneers are on Sunday Night Football, and the game goes to commercial, you'll hear this song because Donna Allen once upon a time was a Tampa Bay Bucs cheerleader.
34. Lessons In Love by Level 42 (#37 BB, #24 R/R--21 points). Indulge me for a second. Some think I need some (lessons in love), but I'm standing on business. I sometimes don't understand the younger generations of people, and I'm sure they don't understand us. I really don't care though...
33. Just To See Her by Smokey Robinson (#33 BB, #27 R/R--22 points)
32. Get That Love by The Thompson Twins (#31 BB, #30 R/R--23 points)
31. Songbird by Kenny G (#35 BB, #23 R/R--24 points). A very rare accomplishment these days, an instrumental that charted on the Top 40. You don't see that anymore.
30. I Wanna Dance With Somebody Who Loves Me by Whitney Houston (#38 BB, #20 R/R--24 points). Nothing more can be said about Whit's signature hit (I Will Always Love You will always be considered a Dolly hit to me), other than too bad she's no longer around to perform it.
29. Heartbreak Beat by Psychedelic Furs (#30 BB, #29 R/R--25 points). I think Love My Way was a better song by PF.
28. What's Going On? by Cyndi Lauper (#16 R/R--30 points). Her remake of the Marvin Gaye classic wasn't released as a single, so it never made the Billboard Hot 100. But it got a ton of airplay, although not in Fayetteville, North Carolina, because I don't remember hearing it.
27. I Knew You Were Waiting For Me by Aretha Franklin & George Michael (#22 BB, #38 R/R--32 points)
26. The Right Thing by Simply Red (#27 BB, #26 R/R--33 points)
25. You Can Call Me Al by Paul Simon (#29 BB, #21 R/R--34 points). Before most of us realized Chevy Chase was not a good guy, he was cast to hijack Paul's music video for this song.
24. Sign O' The Times by Prince (#17 BB, #39 R/R--36 points). Give this song a listen sometime, if you think that the 80's were nothing but good times, think again. That decade had more than its share of bad news, tragedies, and crises. Some of them were alluded to in this song.
23. Day In Day Out by David Bowie (#25 BB, #22 R/R--37 points)
22. Se La by Lionel Richie (#20 BB, #25 R/R--41 points)
21. Diamonds by Herb Alpert (#23 BB, #17 R/R--42 points). Janet Jackson did the vocals for this song and even made a cameo at the beginning of the music video.
20. Meet Me Halfway by Kenny Loggins (#26 BB, #15 R/R--45 points). This was one of those songs that one couldn't reach for the radio dial fast enough, and probably only gets airplay nowadays on that friggin' Delilah show. Ugh.
19. The Finer Things by Steve Winwood (#18 BB, #28 R/R--46 points). This song doesn't get enough love in my opinion.
18. Don't Dream It's Over by Crowded House (#15 BB, #32 R/R--52 points). Barring an absolute miracle, I think it is. For some of you, IYKYK. For others, don't worry about it.
17. Head To Toe by Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam (#19 BB, #14 R/R--52 points). If you all remember the end of this song, there was a pregnant pause that lasted about a measure (musical term) before it sang the one line in the chorus. I recall G105 radio in Raleigh at the time would install certain sound drops during that pause, one of them being some pastor saying, "SAY HALLELUJAH!" If it were up to me, it would be a sound drop of Dave Mishkin yelling "SCOOORRREEE!!!"
16. If She Would've Been Faithful by Chicago (#21 BB, #12 R/R--56 points). Faithful? In this day and age (and in this economy)?? Pffffft...
15. In Too Deep by Genesis (#24 BB, #10 R/R--57 points)
14. Wanted Dead Or Alive by Millie Bobbie Brown's father-in-law's band (#14 BB, #13 R/R--58 points). Yes, I'm talking about Bon Jovi. Yes, I had to throw in a "Stranger Things" reference. That said, I'm kinda surprised we haven't heard a Bon Jovi song on that program...yet. There's still five episodes left.
13. Nothing's Gonna Change My Love For You by Glenn Medeiros (#13 BB, #19 R/R--58 points). Tiebreaker goes to him because while both it and DoA were #13 on different charts, this song was on longer at the time of the chart than DoA
12. Talk Dirty To Me by Poison (#9 BB, #18 R/R--75 points)
11. Right On Track by Breakfast Club (#11 BB, #11 R/R--78 points). To think that if not for this song, this group would be the answer to a trivia question: which band did Madonna get her start with?
10. I Know What I Like by Huey Lewis & The News (#12 BB, #8 R/R--88 points)
9. Always by Atlantic Starr (#10 BB, #6 R/R--102 points)
8. Heat Of The Night by Bryan Adams (#6 BB, #9 R/R--112 points). I once thought NBC missed an opportunity here. A little over a year after this song came out, the TV show (based off the 1967 movie) "In The Heat Of The Night" debuted. At the time, fourteen-year-old me thought to myself, "why doesn't NBC use the Bryan Adams song for the promotional videos regarding that program?" In retrospect, I'm glad they didn't because the song has a completely different vibe from the TV show. I just didn't realize it at the time. God I was naive back then.
7. La Isla Bonita by Madonna (#4 BB, #16 R/R--115 points). I had such a crush on her back then that I badly wanted to see her music videos, unfortunately, we didn't have cable TV back in May of 1987. Dammit.
6. The Lady In Red by Chris Deburgh (#5 BB, #7 R/R--132 points). Pardon me while I run to the restroom and projectile vomit...
5. Big Love by Fleetwood Mac (#7 BB, #4 R/R--142 points)
4. You Keep Me Hanging On by Kim Wilde (#8 BB, #3 R/R--144 points). One hit wonder? No, not really. "Kids In America" reached the top 20 in the early part of the decade, plus she's more popular in the United Kingdom.
3. (I Just) Died In Your Arms Tonight by Cutting Crew (#3 BB, #5 R/R--180 points). A figure of speech, I would love to do that just one time, but at my age I might actually die if I ever do that. Yikes.
2. Looking For A New Love by Jody Watley (#2 BB, #2 R/R--220 points). Why I just may be Jody.
1. With Or Without You by U2 (#1 BB, #1 R/R--265 points). I wonder if this will find its way onto "Stranger Things." Probably not though, because to me it doesn't vibe with the storyline. Unless it's used towards the end between Mike and Eleven, but we'll see.
It took me three whole days to finish this entry. I haven't really been feeling myself the whole weekend. Got to get that turned around, somehow. Until next time, friends.
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