CHR Flashback - October 13, 1989 Chart

[Hervard]

Guess what? At long last, I found the CHR Flashback year schedule!! That means that I can catch up on the CHR Flashbacks I've been behind on.
This time, we go back to the year that Roxette advised Listen To Your Heart, Young MC wanted to Bust A Move, Richard Marx was calling Angelia and Warrant was in Heaven. Here is the R&R CHR chart from the weekend of October 13, 1989:

LC TC wc SONG/ARTIST
01 01 08 Miss You Much/Janet Jackson
03 02 08 Listen To Your Heart/Roxette
05 03 05 Cover Girl/New Kids On The Block
04 04 07 Sowing The Seeds Of Love/Tears For Fears
02 05 10 Cherish/Madonna
06 06 09 When I Looked At Him/Expose
16 07 04 When I See You Smile/Bad English
08 08 09 It's No Crime/Babyface
12 09 07 Rock Wit'cha/Bobby Brown
13 10 07 Love In An Elevator/Aerosmith
07 11 10 Love Song/The Cure
09 12 07 Mixed Emotions/Rolling Stones
15 13 07 Dr. Feelgood/Motley Crue
18 14 04 Didn't I Blow Your Mind This Time/New Kids On The Block
20 15 03 (It's Just) The Way That You Love Me/Paula Abdul
21 16 05 Love Shack/The B-52s
19 17 06 Healing Hands/Elton John
11 18 11 Girl I'm Gonna Miss You/Milli Vanilli
22 19 05 The Best/Tina Turner
29 20 02 Angelia/Richard Marx
10 21 12 Heaven/Warrant
24 22 06 Call It Love/Poco
26 23 05 Bust A Move/Young MC
14 24 13 If I Could Turn Back Time/Cher
35 25 02 Blame It On The Rain/Milli Vanilli
27 26 05 Glamour Boys/Living Colour
32 27 03 Get On Your Feet/Gloria Estefan
23 28 05 I Feel The Earth Move/Martika
33 29 03 Sunshine/Dino
17 30 10 It's Not Enough/Starship
36 31 02 Poison/Alice Cooper
37 32 02 Sugar Daddy/Thompson Twins
34 33 03 Let Go/Sharon Bryant
40 34 02 Don't Know Much/Linda Ronstadt & Aaron Neville
XX 35 01 We Didn't Start The Fire/Billy Joel
39 36 02 The Way To Your Heart/Soulsister
XX 37 01 Don't Close Your Eyes/Kix
25 38 11 18 And Life/Skid Row
XX 39 01 Leave A Light On/Belinda Carlisle
28 40 08 What I Like About You/Michael Morales

Droppers:
From #30: Don't Look Back/Fine Young Cannibals
From #31: Don't Wanna Lose You/Gloria Estefan
From #38: One/The Bee Gees

Ahhh, what good memories! Takes me back to my senior year in high school.
Janet Jackson was in her second of three weeks with what would become the top song of the entire year, "Miss You Much". But hot on her heels was Roxette's "Listen To Your Heart" which would be held at bay for another week and I was thinking might not make it after all, but it managed to sneak in a week at the top before the John Waite led band Bad English would dislodge them for a pair of weeks at the top. Then, Milli Vanilli, a group that, a year later, we found out never sang on any of their hits, would also hit the number one spot, also for two weeks. As far as I'm concerned, the number one song after this may not have even been recorded yet! It was Phil Collins' song about the plight of homeless people "Another Day In Paradise", which would have easily become the top song of 1989 had all cumulative points been considered, even for weeks charted in adjacent years. That song would step onto the chart in late October.
Well, I gotta go wprk on the next CHR Flashback. Good luck on the mystery song!

[Hervard]

Just bumping this (and the three other CHR Flashbacks I posted the other day) back to the top so some of you music buffs who may have been away during the long weekend can take a guess at the Mystery Song.
BTW, I posted the "last week" and "weeks on" for the mystery song to make it easier.

[mst3k]

Mystery song: Starship, "It's Not Enough"... and thanks for posting the LW and WC for the mystery song. Not only does it make it somewhat easier, but for those of us saving the chart info, it makes it more complete. :)

[Michael1973]

I remember my local pop station, for some unknown reason, avoided "It's Not Enough" like the plague. They also avoided The Cure's "Love Song" as well, but that one they'd start playing as a gold some years later. See, radio was weird even back then!

[BillboardBoy]

Ahhh, what good memories! Takes me back to my senior year in high school.

Me too. It was my homecoming dance that weekend. Well, actually the weekend after which was when that chart for Casey's Top 40 aired. I didn't take very good notes back then, so the only thing I have listed for an R&D is "I Love You." I don't even know who sang it. Rick Dees didn't air where I was living at the time.

As for AT40:

Flashback Year 1987
5. I Think We're Alone Now
4 Lost In Emotion
3. You Got The Look
2. Causing A Commotion
1. Bad

LDD: The Rose

Album - Dr. Feelgood
Country - Living Proof - Ricky Van Shelton
Dance - French Kiss - Lil Lewis
Black - Miss You Much

Shadoe pointed out that Bobby Brown had been in the Top 40 for 62 consecutive weeks.

The Rolling Stones were also the oldest rock band to ever have a Top 10 hit.

And the #1 story going into "Miss You Much" was how 5 acts so far in 1989 had spent at least 3 weeks at #1 (that would be a "non story" these days).

[Hervard]

BillboardBoy said:

Ahhh, what good memories! Takes me back to my senior year in high school.

Me too. It was my homecoming dance that weekend. Well, actually the weekend after which was when that chart for Casey's Top 40 aired. I didn't take very good notes back then, so the only thing I have listed for an R&D is "I Love You." I don't even know who sang it.

Climax Blues Band. I remember hearing that song too, but I didn't remember which week.