CHR Flashback 10/25/03

[Hervard]

Now, we go back to a year smack in between the last two CHR Flashbacks. It was the year that The Heights were asking "How Do You Talk To An Angel" (try calling 1-800-2HEAVEN), the Damn Yankees demanded "Where You Goin' Now?", Annie Lennox was "Walking On Broken Glass" (sure hope she wasn't barefoot) and Vanessa Williams had "Work To Do" (but the Isley Brothers helped her out!). It was 1992, and here is the CHR chart from October 23, 1992:

LC TC wc SONG/ARTIST
02 01 07 I'd Die Without You/PM Dawn
04 02 07 Free Your Mind/En Vogue
01 03 13 Sometimes Love Just Ain't Enough/Patty Smyth f/Don Henley
05 04 10 Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad/Def Leppard
10 05 04 How Do You Talk To An Angel/The Heights
09 06 08 Walking On Broken Glass/Annie Lennox
07 07 10 Would I Lie To You?/Charles & Eddie
03 08 09 Forever Love/Color Me Badd
16 09 03 Erotica/Madonna
13 10 05 Someone To Hold/Trey Lorenz
14 11 06 Love Is On The Way/Saigon Kick
06 12 12 When I Look Into Your Eyes/Firehouse
08 13 15 End Of The Road/Boyz II Men
17 14 05 Do You Believe In Us/Jon Secada
20 15 05 What About Your Friends/TLC
18 16 06 I Will Be Here For You/Michael W Smith
24 17 04 Layla/Eric Clapton
28 18 03 Good Enough/Bobby Brown
19 19 07 How About That/Bad Company
29 20 04 Real Love/Mary J Blige
25 21 05 Rhythm Is A Dancer/Snap
11 22 13 She's Playing Hard To Get/Hi-Five
?? 23 ?? Mystery Song/Mystery Artist
31 24 03 Where You Goin' Now/Damn Yankees
15 25 11 Please Don't Go/KWS
23 26 08 People Everyday/Arrested Development
35 27 02 Chains Around My Heart/Richard Marx
XX 28 01 To Love Somebody/Michael Bolton
37 29 02 Little Miss Can't Be Wrong/The Spin Doctors
21 30 08 You Lied To Me/Cathy Dennis
XX 31 01 Keep The Faith/Bon Jovi
26 32 13 Humpin' Around/Bobby Brown
34 33 03 The Message/Sofia Shinas
39 34 02 Diggin' In The Dirt/Peter Gabriel
22 35 07 Am I The Same Girl/Swing Out Sister
40 36 02 How Do You Do/Roxette
36 37 03 You Gotta Believe/Marky Mark & The Funky Bunch
XX 38 01 Work To Do/Vanessa Williams
XX 39 01 Johnny Have You Seen Her?/The Rembrandts
XX 40 01 If I Ever Fall In Love/Shai

Droppers:
From #27: Not Enough Time/INXS
From #30: Do I Have To Say The Words/Bryan Adams
From #32: Constant Craving/k.d. lang
From #33: Drowning In Your Eyes/Ephraim Lewis
From #38: I Wanna Love You/Jade

[Edf85]

What about your frieeeeeeeeends!

[Michael1973]

I like seeing the charts from this time period, as I wasn't following the R&R charts between March 1991-July 1994. My only source of music charts during that time was AT40, and once they switched charts that became very unreliable.

[Hervard]

Hints for the mystery song: This group had a minor hit in 1990. Two years later, they did a little better with the song in question, but still missed the Top Ten. Their biggest hit has the distinction of being the song with the shortest playing time to make the Top Ten (I'm pretty sure).

[BillboardBoy]

R&Ds: Just Another Day, That's What Love Is For, The Living Years.

Sure Shot: Never A Time - Genesis

#1 a year ago this week: Romantic

Adult Contemporary - I Will Be here For You
Country - Seminole Wind
Black - Right Now

Challenge Question: Love Will Never Do (Without You)
Challenge Answer: Good Stuff

Guest - Michael W. Smith

Requests:
Beds Are Burning - Midnight Oil
Do You Really Want To Hurt Me - Culture Club
1999 - Prince
Straight Up - Paula Abdul

[Michael1973]

I suspect the mystery song is "Always The Last To Know" by Del Amitri, one of my favorite songs from 1992.

[Ragin]

Michael1973 said:

I suspect the mystery song is "Always The Last To Know" by Del Amitri, one of my favorite songs from 1992.

That was bigger than "Roll With Me"?

[Hervard]

c670769 said:

That was bigger than "Roll With Me"?

Actually, it was quite a lot bigger that "Roll With Me", because Del Amitri never charted with such a song.
However, "Roll TO Me" was the bigger hit. Remember - I said that their most successful hit was the song with the shortest playing time, at just a little over two minutes, to hit the Top Ten.
Their first hit was called "Kiss This Thing Goodbye", which IMO was reminiscent of the late 1970s, which was becoming sort of a trend in the early 1990s. That song only got as high as 28.
"Always The Last To Know", which BTW was the right answer, peaked at #12 two weeks before this chart.

BillboardBoy, what's the deal with the list of "Requests' at the end of your post. I don't recall those being played on CT40 or Rick Dees.

[Ragin]

ulij20 said:

Actually, it was quite a lot bigger that "Roll With Me", because Del Amitri never charted with such a song.
However, "Roll TO Me" was the bigger hit. Remember - I said that their most successful hit was the song with the shortest playing time, at just a little over two minutes, to hit the Top Ten.
Their first hit was called "Kiss This Thing Goodbye", which IMO was reminiscent of the late 1970s, which was becoming sort of a trend in the early 1990s. That song only got as high as 28.
"Always The Last To Know", which BTW was the right answer, peaked at #12 two weeks before this chart.

BillboardBoy, what's the deal with the list of "Requests' at the end of your post. I don't recall those being played on CT40 or Rick Dees.

Roll With Me, Roll To Me, whatever. You'd think I would know though since I have about every album they've put out. Personally, Kiss This Thing Goodbye is the song I liked the most of their hits.

I make fun of your correction, but at the same time, if I'd read your posts more carefully, I'd do better with the hints and maybe have a shot at answering some of them. Oh well, I look forward to the next one.

[BillboardBoy]

BillboardBoy, what's the deal with the list of "Requests' at the end of your post. I don't recall those being played on CT40 or Rick Dees.

I believe they were extras and so-called requests from Rick Dees' show that week.

[johnnywest]

ulij20, what happened to your flashback threads? Aren't you doing them anymore?

[Hervard]

Actually, what I'm going to do is to try to do them the weekend that they're scheduled and just go back and catch up on the ones I haven't posted, even though those are after the fact. However, I'm only going to do the "mystery song" thing on the current ones. I'll try my best to get the December 27 one done sometime this weekend. Sorry for the delay.

[BillboardBoy]

I'll try my best to get the December 27 one done sometime this weekend. Sorry for the delay.

Two weeks later... ;)