CHR Flashback for March 7, 1986

[Hervard]

For our first CHR  Flashback in the March series, we go back to the year that Stevie Nicks declared "I Can't Wait" (a sentiment Nu Shooz would repeat a few months later), and Loverboy predicted "This Could Be The Night", a time when Heart was having "These Dreams", possibly about "How To Be A Millionaire" by ABC, or maybe being like Atlantic Starr and being "Secret Lovers" which, like Sade says, is "The Sweetest Taboo".  But when you're found out, "Goodbye Is Forever", says Arcadia.  The year was indeed 1986 and here is the Top 40 chart from March 7, 1986:

LC TC wc SONG/ARTIST
03 01 08 These Dreams/Heart
02 02 09 Sara/Starship
05 03 07 Secret Lovers/Atlantic Starr
01 04 12 Kyrie/Mr. Mister
09 05 04 Rock Me Amadeus/Falco
08 06 06 R.O.C.K. In The U.S.A/John Cougar Mellencamp
07 07 08 King For A Day/Thompson Twins
10 08 07 Nikita/Elton John
04 09 13 How Will I Know/Whitney Houston
15 10 05 What You Need/INXS
13 11 06 This Could Be The Night/Loverboy
14 12 06 Sanctify Yourself/Simple Minds
06 13 10 Silent Running/Mike + The Mechanics
19 14 05 Let's Go All The Way/Sly Fox
21 15 02 Kiss/Prince
22 16 04 Manic Monday/The Bangles
11 17 12 The Sweetest Taboo/Sade
24 18 06 Night Moves/Marilyn Martin
22 19 05 No Easy Way Out/Robert Tepper
12 20 13 Life In A Northern Town/Dream Academy
32 21 03 Tender Love/The Force MD's
23 22 06 Another Night/Aretha Franklin
25 23 06 How To Be A Millionaire/ABC
30 24 04 Calling America/ELO
34 25 03 I Can't Wait/Stevie Nicks
36 26 03 Addicted To Love/Robert Palmer
16 27 07 Russians/Sting
18 28 08 Stages/ZZ Top
17 29 12 Living In America/James Brown
33 30 04 I'm Not The One/The Cars
27 31 14 When The Going Gets Tough The Tough Get Going/Billy Ocean
35 32 03 Beats So Lonely/Charlie Sexton
20 33 09 A Love Bizarre/Sheila E
40 34 02 I Think It's Love/Jermaine Jackson
28 35 05 Goodbye Is Forever/Arcadia
XX 36 01 So Far Away/Dire Straits
XX 37 01 West End Girls/Pet Shop Boys
XX 38 01 Your Love/The Outfield
XX 39 01 Live Is Life/Opus
XX 40 01 For America/Jackson Browne

Droppers:
From #29: Day By Day/The Hooters (7 weeks)
From #31: Tarzan Boy/Baltimora (9 weeks)
From #37: Burning Heart/Survivor (17 weeks)
From #38: That's What Friends Are For/Dionne & Friends (16 weeks)
From #39: Conga/Miami Sound Machine

[Hervard]

Don't forget - the Mystery Song is back.

[craig]

is it charlie sexton beats so lonely

[Hervard]

It sure is.

I was going to start giving out clues, the first one being that one week on the Hot 100, the 2W, LW TW and WOC column all contained the same number (17). And, coincidentally enough, Charlie was 17 years old at the time. Weird...

[620 Soul Train]

ulij20 said:

It sure is.

I was going to start giving out clues, the first one being that one week on the Hot 100, the 2W, LW TW and WOC column all contained the same number (17).  And, coincidentally enough, Charlie was 17 years old at the time.  Weird...

Yeah, Joel Whitburn mentioned that in his Billboard Book Of Top 40 Hits in one his early edtions.

[Hervard]

And finally, the CHR Flashback feature is back on. March became sort of weird during mid-month, what with the death of my favorite aunt, as well as a bunch of other crap that followed. By April, I just forgot about it, but now I remember and I'll try to get caught up this week. Currently, I've decided to eliminate the Mystery Song, but if and when I get caught up, I'll re-implement it.
Now, we go back to the year that Bon Jovi lay down in a Bed Of Roses, complete with a Comforter, compliments of Shai while Ugly Kid Joe said the Cat's In The Cradle, but not with Annie Lennox's Little Bird. It was 1993, and here is the R&R CHR chart for the week of March 12, 1993:

LC TC wc SONG/ARTIST
02 01 09 I'm Every Woman/Whitney Houston
01 02 12 Ordinary World/Duran Duran
03 03 07 That's What Love Can Do/Boy Krazy
04 04 09 Bed Of Roses/Bon Jovi
07 05 08 Two Princes/The Spin Doctors
08 06 13 The Right Kind Of Love/Jeremy Jordan
11 07 08 Don't Walk Away/Jade
05 08 08 Get Away/Bobby Brown
10 09 08 Forever In Love/Kenny G
17 10 04 I Have Nothing/Whitney Houston
18 11 05 Informer/Snow
13 12 07 Angel/Jon Secada
14 13 07 Man On The Moon/R.E.M.
15 14 06 Cat's In The Cradle/Ugly Kid Joe
16 15 06 Sweet Thing/Mary J Blige
20 16 06 Love Is/Vanessa Williams w/Brian McKnight
06 17 12 A Whole New World (Aladdin's Theme)/Peabo Bryson & Regina Belle
19 18 05 Bad Girl/Madonna
22 19 04 If I Ever Lose My Faith In You/Sting
09 20 10 Mr. Wendal/Arrested Development
12 21 10 Here We Go Again/Portrait
26 22 05 Comforter/Shai
21 23 16 7/Prince & The New Power Generation
28 24 04 Beautiful Girl/INXS
30 25 04 I See Your Smile/Gloria Estefan
33 26 03 Simple Life/Elton John
31 27 03 Freak Me/Silk
32 28 04 Nothing But A G Thang/Dr. Dre
23 29 07 Stand/Poison
35 30 03 Love U More/Sunscreem
38 31 02 Somebody Love Me/Michael W. Smith
XX 32 01 Nothin' My Love Can't Fix/Joey Lawrence
40 33 02 I'm So Into You/S.W.V.
37 34 03 Rebirth Of Slick (Cool Like Dat)/Digable Planets
36 35 03 Passionate Kisses/Mary Chapin Carpenter
25 36 08 Tell The Truth/Jude Cole
24 37 08 Little Bird/Annie Lennox
XX 38 01 What You Won't Do For Love/Go West
39 39 02 I'm Gonna Get You/Bizarre Inc.
XX 40 01 I Got A Man/Positive K

Droppers:
From #27: Give It Up (Turn It Loose)/En Vogue (14 weeks)
From #29: No Mistakes/Patty Smyth (9 weeks)
From #34: Saving Forever For You/Shanice (19 weeks)

Note: As always, the "weeks charted" column includes the two weeks that R&R took a break for the holidays.

[Hervard]

Now, we go back to the year that Ronald Reagan was once again elected president, Wendy's had everyone saying, "Where's the beef?", break dancing became a fad across the country, and on the big screen were blockbusters like "Beverly Hills Cop", "Gremlins", "The Karate Kid" and of course, "Ghostbusters" (all three movies would have sequels). It was 1984, and here is the chart for the week of March 23, 1984:

LC TC wc SONG/ARTIST
02 01 08 Footloose/Kenny Loggins
01 02 11 Jump/Van Halen
03 03 08 Somebody's Watching Me/Rockwell
04 04 08 Here Comes The Rain Again/The Eurythmics
11 05 04 Against All Odds (Take A Look At Me Now)/Phil Collins
08 06 06 Adult Education/Hall & Oates
10 07 07 Automatic/The Pointer Sisters
12 08 04 Miss Me Blind/Culture Club
06 09 09 I Want A New Drug/Huey Lewis & The News
07 10 09 Got A Hold On Me/Christine McVie
13 11 05 Hold Me Now/Thompson Twins
05 12 10 Girls Just Want To Have Fun/Cyndi Lauper
09 13 07 The Language Of Love/Dan Fogelberg
19 14 04 Hello/Lionel Richie
14 15 07 Back Where You Belong/38 Special
18 16 07 Runner/Manfred Mann
15 17 11 99 Luftballons/Nena
20 18 05 Come Back And Stay/Paul Young
25 19 03 Eat It/"Weird Al" Yankovic
24 20 04 Girls/Dwight Twilley
30 21 02 Love Somebody/Rick Springfield
26 22 04 Radio Ga-Ga/Queen
29 23 04 They Don't Know/Tracey Ullmann
16 24 11 Thriller/Michael Jackson
22 25 06 New Song/Howard Jones
17 26 10 New Moon On Monday/Duran Duran
37 27 02 You Might Think/The Cars
21 28 08 Give It Up/KC
33 29 03 Leave It/Yes
31 30 04 Red Red Wine/UB40
27 31 05 Livin' In Desperate Times/Olivia Newton-John
38 32 02 Tonight/Kool & The Gang
40 33 02 Don't Answer Me/Alan Parsons Project
39 34 02 The Kid's American/Matthew Wilder
23 35 10 Nobody Told Me/John Lennon
28 36 11 Wrapped Around Your Finger/The Police
XX 37 01 Holding Out For A Hero/Bonnie Tyler
XX 38 01 Head Over Heels/The Go-Go's
XX 39 01 A Fine Fine Day/Tony Carey
XX 40 01 Authority Song/John Cougar Mellencamp

Droppers:
From #32: Let The Music Play/Shannon (11 weeks)
From #34: Let's Stay Together/Tina Turner (4 weeks)
From #35: Don't Let Go/Wang Chung (3 weeks)
From #36: The Politics Of Dancing/Re-Flex (6 weeks)

[Bob]

that 1993 chart is hot

[Hervard]

Bringing up the rear of the March, 2004 series is the year of Saturday Night Fever and Grease. Yes, 1978 (it's late, so that's why the intros are getting weaker and weaker). Now for the Top 30 chart for the week of March 31, 1978 (the day of a huge industrial fire in LaPorte County):

LC TC wc SONG/ARTIST
01 01 09 Night Fever/The Bee Gees
04 02 08 Dust In The Wind/Kansas
02 03 08 Can't Smile Without You/Barry Manilow
03 04 09 Lay Down Sally/Eric Clapton
07 05 05 If I Can't Have You/Yvonne Elliman
08 06 07 Ebony Eyes/Bob Welch
12 07 05 Goodbye Girl/David Gates
05 08 14 Stayin' Alive/The Bee Gees
13 09 05 We'll Never Have To Say Goodbye Again/England Dan & John Ford Coley
11 10 06 Jack And Jill/Raydio
16 11 04 Our Love/Natalie Cole
06 12 14 Emotion/Samantha Sang
15 13 05 Running On Empty/Jackson Browne
14 14 05 Sweet Talkin' Woman/ELO
10 15 10 Thunder Island/Jay Ferguson
17 16 05 Thank You For Being A Friend/Andrew Gold
09 17 12 Love Is Thicker Than Water/Andy Gibb
28 18 02 The Closer I Get To You/Roberta Flack w/Donny Hathaway
18 19 16 Sometimes When We Touch/Dan Hill
26 20 03 Before My Heart Finds Out/Gene Cotton
21 21 06 Always And Forever/Heatwave
19 22 07 Falling/LeBlanc & Carr
23 23 04 Hot Legs/Rod Stewart
27 24 02 Count On Me/Jefferson Starship
XX 25 01 Fooling Yourself/Styx
25 26 17 Just The Way You Are/Billy Joel
XX 27 01 With A Little Luck/Wings
30 28 02 Imaginary Lover/Atlanta Rhythm Section
XX 29 01 Feels So Good/Chuck Mangione
22 30 08 Happy Anniversary/Little River Band

Droppers:
From #20: The Way You Do The Things You Do/Rita Coolidge (9 weeks)
From #24: The Name Of The Game/Abba (6 weeks)
From #29: Peg/Steely Dan (10 weeks)

[mst3k]

ulij20 said:

Yes, 1978

Yay, my favorite year in music! I like pretty much every song on that chart, except for the Gene Cotton one, and that's only 'cause I don't remember what it sounds like.

[Slinky]

Bob said:

that 1993 chart is hot

[Hervard]

mst3k said:

Yay, my favorite year in music! I like pretty much every song on that chart, except for the Gene Cotton one, and that's only 'cause I don't remember what it sounds like.

Maybe reception can post the like to a full audio clip of the song. It's a typical late '70s mid-tempo song and it's a really good song - I think I remember it from when it was popular, because when I heard it on a station in Michigan called Cozy FM (which has since gone country), it took me back to spring, 1978 and when I looked up the song in one of my Joel Whitburn books, by jove, that was exactly when the song was popular!

1978 wasn't exactly my favorite year in music, but it was a hell of a lot better than the crap we're hearing today! 1982 was more my style of music.

[mst3k]

Ah, found it! :) It's on my copy of AT40 from 3/18/78 (featuring a story on how Gene Cotton got help starting his music career from a loan officer... everytime he cuts a new record, he sends an advance copy to the guy with a note of thanks).

Yeah, I remember this song now. And, naturally, I like it.

[craig]

oh where oh where is the chr flashback we miss it