July 2, 2025 • 48 mins
1987 Summer SongsJIm and Lindsay count down the top 10 songs of the summer from 1987. Lindsay wishes that she could pick her favorites while Jim is sticking strictly to the formula.
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Speaker 1 (00:18):
Welcome back to Children of the Eighties. I am one
of your hosts, Jim, and I am joined as always
by the lady who lived downstairs from Luca. It's my
co host, Lindsay.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
I feel like you've used that one before.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
No, I don't think I've used the Luca before.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
I thought that you had. But I'm also feeling a
little salty for some reason.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Yeah, what's up with that?
Speaker 2 (00:38):
I don't know. It's been a long day, I'm tired,
and I didn't eat dinner, and I'm you know, I'm
very much a creature of routine.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Yeah, No, I get that, and I know that you
are a creature of routine, which is usually why we
end up recording at the very last moment.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
I know, I know, I work about it at the
last moment, do you, yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Or is that like the excuse that I made back
when I was a kid, when I would have a
paper due like four weeks from now, and I'd wait
till the last night to write it, and I'd be
like I worked best under pressure, and really it was
just because I didn't want to do it until I
absolutely had to. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Probably, Okay, So what kind of feedback did you get
from the last episode.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Uh, I didn't get a whole lot of feedback. I
mean people liked the episode. What I did get feedback
on because we didn't talk about it last show was
Remember at the end of the Cheers episode, I said,
I would ask my dad, since he was an adult,
what was better Cheers or Frasier.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Oh? Yeah, and you called him a few minutes ago
from the bathroom. What did he say?
Speaker 1 (01:43):
No, what would you say that? I didn't call him
a few minutes ago from the bathroom. I did accidentally
butt dial.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Um though, Oh butt dial from the bathroom.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
You are too funny. So when I asked him, he said, wow,
that's hard. I thought that Fraser had better writers, but
Cheers had more characters that were also funny. And then
he mentioned the dog eat dog. Yes, you know, and
I'm wearing milkman underwhere he mentioned that, and then he
(02:16):
talked about Fraser. He remember when Niles was telling the
story of when his dad had been shot and the
hospital asked him if he wanted to remove the life
support and he said no, and then he said, believe me,
I'll never make that mistake again. So he had a
couple of funny one liners from Fraser, but he said
to him, Fraser had a little bit more belly last
than Cheers did.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
And I totally agree with your dad on that. I
love Fraser, So if anybody wanted to do a Fraser podcast,
I'd be in.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
But he did say I loved both shows, so I
think there were two of his favorites for sure.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
So our show drops early on Wednesday morning. So Deaf Dave,
who's a friend of ours, he listens first thing. And
one of the things now that I look forward to
on Wednesdays is getting an AI picture from Deaf Dave
through you, depicting kind of something that we talked about,
(03:12):
something that we talked about in the episode.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Yes, it is classic deaf Dave. He's usually texting me
before I've had my coffee, which I don't mind. I'm
not complaining about it. I'm just saying that on the
ball he is.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
It gives me that motivation to get up and it
just makes my morning.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Yeah. So the last one he sent me was a
picture of a guy holding a sign. And now everybody
in the picture are wearing rhinestone jean jackets and there's
one guy in front holding up a sign that says
Falco New So Dave, we love that. Thank you so much.
(03:50):
Keep it up.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
That just makes me happy.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
All right, Well, this is an episode that has been
in the making for almost two years now, as we
started it last year, and we're gonna do it again
this year. But why don't you go ahead and tell
the folks what this podcast is about before I tell
them what the episode is about.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
This is a podcast that looks back on the decade
of the nineteen eighties. We talk about things that were
important to us as children and what we look back
on with fond memories as adults. Ultimately, this is a
nostalgia podcast.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Yes, and as we said, few things bring back nostalgia
like music, and especially music in the summer. And if
you remember, last year, we did a top ten songs
from the summer of nineteen eighty nine as voted on
by our Twitter poll, nineteen eighty ninety one. That but
nineteen eighty seven finished second. And since nineteen eighty seven
is probably the summer that I remember the most when
(04:46):
it comes to music, we're going to cover nineteen eighty
seven this year.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Okay, since I got to do last week, you get
to do this week.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Yeah, So when you think of songs of the summer.
Is there a year or a song or anything that
comes to your mind, whether it's eighties or or nineties
for sure, or two thousands.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Well, sticking with the eighties, nineteen the summer of nineteen.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Eighty nine, eighty nine, the one that we did last year. Yep, yeah,
that was That was a fun one.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
We've got all my faves, Chicago, Poison, Paula Abdul, throw
in a little Millie Vanilli in there, maybe some Richard Marx.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Yeah you were digging that.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
I mean, I can't think of a better mixtape right there.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
That would be a pretty good mixtape. And this one
maybe we'll have to put in the show notes of
a Spotify playlist for the ones that we're going to
count down here? What do you think? Yep? All right,
so you know what time it is?
Speaker 2 (05:42):
What time is it? Not a lot?
Speaker 1 (05:47):
I mentioned this last year, but I'll go ahead and
mention it this year for any new listeners that we
have or folks that might have forgot. I love lists.
I loved Casey Caseum's American Top forty in the eighties.
I really love the end of the year countdown, and
I just like to compare stuff, especially if it's statistics,
and I like to come up with things that formulas
(06:08):
or whatever that separate things, whether it's baseball players, TV
shows or songs of the summer. And so that's what
I've done here. I've looked at the Billboard Hot one
hundred from Memorial weekend to Labor Day weekend in nineteen
eighty seven. I made a list of each song that
hit the top one hundred for each week, and then
the song got points based on their ranking for each week.
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So for instance, let's say you mentioned Millie Vanilli. Let's
say Girl Don't Forget My Number hit number one on
Memorial Day. It would get one hundred points. And then
let's say the next week it dropped to number five,
it would get ninety six points, and so on and
so forth. So that's what I did. Then I added
up all the points. Well that you have time to
(06:51):
do this, I didn't, but Excel did, okay, And that
is how we get the top ten songs. I did
spend a ton of time on it, mentioning time, but
I started this like four or five months ago because
I knew it would take forever. Okay, But I always
have fun doing it right, and it was kind of
exciting as I went through the songs, adding up points, wondering, Okay,
(07:12):
is this song going to hop into the top ten?
Is this song gonna hop what I've got listed as
number one right now? That kind of thing. So let
me ask you this, Are there any particular songs you
think of when you hear the Summer of nineteen eighty seven?
This was something that I asked myself, but this was
also something that I asked the followers out there on Twitter.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Yeah, so summer of eighty seven, I would have been eight. Oh,
it's I gotta go with Whitney Houston. I'm going to
dance with somebody.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Yeah, that's one that I think of when I hear
Summer in nineteen eighty seven? What about had to Toe
by Lisa Lisa and.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Koltjeb Oh yeah, I love that one. That's a good one.
I just died in your Arms.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
That's a good one. I think that might have been
pre summer.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Though, Oh was that before the summer?
Speaker 1 (08:03):
I think it was. So here's some of the things
that people Oh.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Wait wait wait, wait, wait wait wait wait wait?
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, you always liked that or rup.
But that's fine. It's your show too.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
I know we struggle with that sometimes, don't we Walk
Like an Egyptian?
Speaker 1 (08:19):
I don't think that was summer, Yes it was. I
don't think it was.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Yes it was. It had to have been.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Do you want to hear some of the things that
some of our followers and some of our listeners said, Oh.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
I got to figure out when was walk Like in Egyptian?
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Walk Like an Egyptian was nineteen eighty seven.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
It was released in September of eighty six. When did
it chart?
Speaker 1 (08:43):
It charted at the end of eighty six, in the
beginning of eighty seven, so it was gone by the summer.
So here are some of the things that people wat
down iron John Angels said, where the Streets have No Name?
You two Lost in Emotion, Les and Cult Jane Girls
Girls Girls by Motley Crue, Push It by Salt and Peppa,
(09:05):
and Devil Inside by an Excess Jason jg Showstopper, one
of our loyal listeners from Minnesota Girls Girls Girls La
Bamba Wanted Dead or Alive, Heart and Soul by Tapau
Here I Go Again, which is might be your favorite
song of all time? Right only in my Dreams Debbie Gibson,
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and he said, and for some reason the Fat Boys
with Wipeout.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Where did that come from?
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Well, that was popular in eighty seven. Beach Boys or
the Goat said Good Times by Hoodoo Gurus, DC Blessed
Now said Here I Go Again, White Snake, Kathy Loves
Braves said never Going to Give You Up by Rick Astley,
Oh Yeah, Rick rold totally eighties and nineties recall said
(09:55):
I want to dance with somebody. Point of No Return,
Expose Girls, Girls, Girls, rock Steady by the Whispers. I
just died in your arms is what you said. Here
I Go Again Islow, Bonita Madonna and Little Lives by
Fleetwood mac sean Niehoff one of our listeners Heart Alone,
(10:15):
You Two With or Without You, I want to Dance
with Somebody Whitney Houston and White Snake Here I Go Again.
So a lot of the same kind of sound and songs,
but that was certainly interesting. To get their take. I
will mention mine as we go through and tell you
what I missed and what I hit on. Okay, perfect,
All right, So I think you're going to be surprised
when you see this list, because I was so why
(10:39):
don't you give us some of the stats. Even though
I am the stats guy, I've given you some information,
and I think you've pulled some information yourself.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
I did a little bit of research today.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Yeah, why don't you give us some of those stats?
Like how many weeks were there between Memorial Day and
Labor Day? We our counting Memorial Day and Labor Day weekend?
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Okay, there were sixteen weeks counting real Day weekend to
Labor Day weekend. That means that there were sixteen number
one songs. So how many different songs do you think
hit number one in that time span?
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Well, I know it wasn't sixteen, because I know there
were a couple that hit it more than once.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
So I'm going to say like eleven, close ten. Ten
different songs hit number one during that timeframe. One of
those didn't finish in the top forty.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Oh no, it didn't finish in the top forty. I
think I know which one that is. That was something
that somebody mentioned. So this song wouldn't have been on
the American Top forty countdown with Casey Caseum at the
end of the year or at the end of the
summer in.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
This case, So which one do you think it is?
Speaker 1 (11:52):
It is With or Without You by you two round?
You know, I know because they were the number one
song at the beginning of the summer.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Okay, so so.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Memorial Day weekend and the week after, but it started
to fall after that.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Here's an interesting stat So you two started the summer
at Memorial Day weekend with the number one song which
we just talked about, yes, with or Without You, which
finished at number.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Forty four for this countdown.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Yes, you two also had another number one hit that
summer with I still haven't found what I'm looking for.
Both songs spent two weeks at number one during the summer.
With or Without You actually started its number one run
the week before the summer unofficially started.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Right, So with or Without You was actually the bigger
hit because it was number one on the charts for
three weeks, but one of them was before Memorial weekend,
so it doesn't count in this countdown. So that was
really interesting.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
So many rules to follow here in this game, not
really any rules, just rules.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
No, I mean I made up rules to do the songs,
but there's no more rules now now it's just facts.
So there were nine songs that spent the entire summer,
which was all sixteen weeks in the top one hundred
and three of those nine did not make our top ten,
and two of those did not make our top twenty.
But the three that did make the top twenty, you
(13:23):
know what, we'll talk about those later because they're going
to be in the top twenty. We're going to talk
about Oh really we are, okay, so you ready to
count down from twenty to ten before we start playing
our number ten? All right, why don't you give us
number twenty.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Back in the high life again? Steve Winwood.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
That's a great song.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
I love that song.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Yeah, I love Steve Winwood.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Is that on your feel good list?
Speaker 1 (13:52):
It was not, but it easily could have been. It
probably should have been. So this one finished with nine
hundred and eighty four points, so it wasn't really even
close to the top ten. It was. It was well
over one hundred points off the top ten.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
So it only missed Memorial Day weekend and it never
hit the top ten, which is why.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
The points are so low. If it had hit the
top ten during the summer, it probably jumps up to
number fifteen, number fourteen, number thirteen, something like that. All Right,
our next song, number nineteen. One of the saddest songs
I've ever heard. My name is Luca.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
I really wish we could have just not even mentioned.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
And I live on the second floor, Suzanne Vega. Nine
hundred and ninety nine points just missed? Is it nine
nine nine or six sixty six? I mean this song
spent five weeks in the top ten, and it peaked
at number three in nineteen eighty seven. I actually did
hate this song, but I love it now. Why what
is there at a long nostalgia? Oh goodness, all right,
(14:54):
riad us are our number eighteen?
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Okay, kiss him goodbye? The Nylons No no, no.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
No, hey, hey hey goodbye, yes goodbye. Because you didn't
make the top ten three points. Yes, number seventeen with
one thousand and nine points was always by Atlantic Star,
which I'm sure you would have loved to have heard
that song. You love that song. Yeah, So that one
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spent the first six weeks of the summer in the
top ten, and it hit number one on June thirteenth,
But it fell so fast after that that it wasn't
even in the top one hundred by the end of
the summer.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Fall off the Earth.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
It fell off the end of the Earth like the
flat earthers.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
So does a flat earth fall off the end of
the Earth?
Speaker 1 (15:41):
I get if they get to the end, No, because
there is no end of the Earth because it's round.
But you know what they should.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
H Okay, just check in, Okay. Number sixteen, Yes, I'd
still say yes.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
By climax, they're the ones who's saying I miss you
back in the early eighties. Remember that one? Yep, that
was one thousand and thirty seven points. The next one
of the Jets, one of the classic late eighties like
Latino sounding groups, Crossed My Broken Heart, finished with one
thousand and thirty nine points. It spent three weeks in
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the top ten.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Did the Jets rotate band members like Minudo, possibly and
Cool in the game? Yes, Yes, I think they did. Yeah,
I feel like they did all right. Number fourteen The
Pleasure Principle Janet.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Jackson one fifty eight points. Now, this was something that
Jason Colevin, when I reached out to him, said he
thought that this would be one of the top songs
of the summer, and he was right. It just didn't
hit our top ten. Number eight is the one that
shocks me at his head to Toe by Lisa Lisa
and Cult Jam.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Are you surprised just because it didn't make the top ten?
Speaker 1 (16:58):
I thought it was going to be top three.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
The three songs that I really remember playing all the
time were Whitney Houston, I Want to Dance with Somebody
Alone by Heart and had to Toe by Lisa Lison
Colt Jam. So this finished with one thousand and seventy
one points. It spent seven weeks in the top ten,
and it hit number one on June twentieth. But I'm
guessing it peaked too early because it was out of
the charts the last two weeks of the summer, which
(17:23):
is why it didn't make the top ten. But yeah,
I thought for sure it'd be top five.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Oh, I'm sorry we even have to mention this next one? Goodness,
gracious Kenny g Songbird.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Yes, this actually finished ahead of Lisa Lison.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
What's wrong with our world when that's the case.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Well, it's spent fifteen to sixteen weeks on the chart,
and it was top ten for four weeks below. Why
it's the only instrumental on this countdown because the duke,
Because the saxophone was huge in the eighties and nobody
played the sax like Kenny g you had some hair.
He did have some hair, all right. And then number eleven,
just missing our countdown by a mere five points, is
(18:07):
point of no return by Expose. This song spent fifteen
to the sixteen weeks on the chart, only missed the
last week Labor Day weekend. And you know what's interesting,
last year's nineteen eighty nine episode Expose was also on
that list with What You Don't Know, and it was
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number sixteen on that list. So we've had two Expose songs.
I guess Expose was the band of the Summer back
in the day, the girl band of the Summer. All right,
so you're ready to get to the top ten?
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Are you gonna play some of the songs.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
I'm gonna play all of the songs in the top ten?
You ready? Here is number ten, The Sun of All.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
That's a making dinner song, is it?
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Now?
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Don't disturb this groove the system. I feel like the
sign is like a what is it? A scrunchy on
the door?
Speaker 1 (19:23):
A sign upon the door?
Speaker 2 (19:24):
Okay, how many points? I'm not keeping up with points,
so you gotta give me that. Okay. So fifteen of
the sixteen weeks on the chart, and it only missed
Labor Day weekend.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
It was the groove was over by the time Labor
Day rolled around.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
It's dayed.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Topp.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Ten for four weeks in a row. It topped down
at number four on July eighteenth.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
You know what held it off at number four on
that thing? What it was? The top three songs that
week will be the top three songs of summer on
this list. So I got something to say about this. Yes,
I've never heard the song before in my life. Seriously, yeah,
I've never heard it. Where were you at the summer
of nineteen eighty seven? Well, not on plane of earth?
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Not talking about the groove or whatever? Putting a sign
up on my door? I can tell you that. I mean,
how old was I? I was eight?
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Sounds a little.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Earth wind and fireish without the horns, Yeah it does.
It sounds a little too early eighties for me maybe, Sorry.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
So this would end nineteen eighty seven is the fifty
seventh biggest song of the year on the year in
top one hundred.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
And I've never heard it before. What rock have I
lived under? Not the third rock from the sun? All right,
here is our number nine song, which was previously mentioned
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that is I still Haven't found what I'm looking for
by YouTube, finishing with one one hundred and sixteen points.
It was in the top one hundred for thirteen of
the sixteen weeks during the summer. Twelve of those thirteen
weeks it was in the top forty, so it shot
up like a rocket. It was top ten for eight
weeks in a row and hit number one for two
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weeks in August. So rarely does a band come along
and just do what youtwo does right, Like I I
want to say, once in a lifetime, but it's probably
more than that.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
Probably more than once in a lifetime. But here's the thing.
Back in the eighties, I didn't really love you too.
I love them now.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Well, okay, don't you feel like their sound was a
little different though?
Speaker 1 (22:08):
It was a lot different? Yeah, And that was why No.
I did like some songs. I did like this, but
I wasn't crazy about it because it was different. I
wanted happy, fun songs in the summer and like our
next one's gonna be but this one wasn't a happy
fun song. But now that I'm older, I've aged, I've
(22:31):
got a little time behind me. I love this song.
I love you too, Oh, I love you too? Well?
Thank you? You know that got Ricky Schroeder and Elliott
in Trouble and Scrubs. All right, Uh, here's our number
eight song. And this may sound familiar to you because
this was on our countdown just a few weeks ago.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
The one and only Debbie Gibson Only in My.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
Dreams Have One finished with twenty three points, just seven
points ahead of YouTube.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
So this is just one of nine songs that spent
all sixteen weeks on the chart for the summer. Yes, uh,
slow and steady climb from number seventy three on Memorial
Day weekend to number four on Labor Day weekend.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
So yeah, very few songs, if any ever, continue to
climb throughout the whole summer. Normally they climb and then
they peak and then they start to fall, right, But
this climb the whole entire summer.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
So it's spent the last eleven weeks of the summer
in the top forty.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
That's that's impressive. So it would end the year as
the twenty sixth the biggest song of nineteen eighty seven.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
So we talked about those a few weeks ago. So
not a whole lot else to cover other than I
think we all love Debbie Gibson in nineteen eighty seven,
did we not?
Speaker 2 (24:15):
I did?
Speaker 1 (24:17):
I did so very talented young young miss Debbie Gibson
not young anymore young in nineteen eighty seven, All right,
our next song number seven, I know You're gonna love
this one you. Rhythm is going on gatchen.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Rthom is goinged Gadget, Rhythm is gone to gadget Rism
is going again. Rhythm is going again.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
That is is Rhythm is gonna get you by Gloria Estefan.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Can I tell you something real quick before you get
into all your steps?
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Yeah? You go right?
Speaker 2 (25:08):
This song makes me anxious really yes, why because it's
something about the stacado And then she's like, the rhythm
is gone, yeah get you. Yeah, the rhythm is gone.
It gets you. And as a kid, I was just like, Oh,
it's gonna get me, It's gonna get it.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
I thought it was like coming after me, like like, uh,
I think I listened to McGruff too much or something,
or if I if I heard this song after watching
and Unsolved Mysteries, I felt like Gloria Stephan was singing
it in a trench coat.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
So that's and it took listening to it just now,
it took me right back.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
It certainly does. It certainly does. So that finished eleven points.
I had a Debbie Gibson at eleven thirty four.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
This song only missed Memorial Day weekend in the summer,
and then it was on the chart the rest of
the summer. It was a top ten song for five
weeks and it peaked at number five. It would end
the year as it's the seventy second biggest song of
nineteen eighty seven. But here's what's interesting. In twenty eighteen,
this song was selected for preservation in the National Recording
(26:10):
Registry by the Library of Congress as being culturally, historically,
or esthetically significant.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
Yeah, and I've said this before. Her music did not
reach me as a kid, but I was not her audience.
And I have no doubt she deserves to be there, absolutely,
but I don't. It's that's not for me.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
This is one of the songs by her that I
do like, even though it does creep me out a
little bit. But I didn't like a whole lot of
Glorious Stefan's music Back in the day, anything else.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
That's it?
Speaker 1 (26:45):
All right? Move it on number sixth.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
God something so strong by Crowded House. So that's a
perfect beach song right right, just chilling out under the umbrella.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
Yes, so we've talked about this before, this song versus
their other song. Yeah, and we both I think said
that we probably liked the other song better. However, this
song's happier.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
It is so much happier.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
You know, then Don't Dream It's Over, which is what
we listened to a few weeks ago on our Sleeps
and Dreams countdown. But this song is certainly much happier
than Don't Dream It's Over.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
So it spent the whole summer on the charts. So
a lot of people were listening to this song at
the beach. Absolutely, it was a top ten song for
three weeks. It peaked ultimately at number seven. It was
at number forty two on Memorial Day weekend and then
again on August fifteenth as it was falling.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
I always think it's interesting when they hit the same spot,
one going up, one coming down, but they landed the
same spot. It's always very interesting to me.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
So it would end the year as the eighty third
biggest song for nineteen eight.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
What do you think about that ring eighty third?
Speaker 2 (28:29):
I mean I might be a little low. Honestly, it's
a feel good song. It is me happy, and so
I feel like it could it could stand to be
a little higher.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
Yeah, I would agree with that, all right. So you
would say that's controversial that it's eighty seven, yeah, a
little bit. Speaking of controversy, our next song at number
five causes some controversy, and nobody handled the controversy better
than our buddy Casey casem Well. This next song is
another debut and it's a hit. You may not be
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hearing a lot in your home town. Some radio stations
aren't playing it because of some controversy over the song's
title and lyrics. Here's the latest hit by George Michael.
It was you Trust Girls that time.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
This little show Yes way shows.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
Tell you.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
That is George Michael. With our number five song, it
ends at uh and sixty points, which is about twenty
points higher than something So Strong was. And there's a
big giant separation between the top four and then the
rest of the countdown because this doesn't even come within
one hundred points of our number four song.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
I can guarantee you Little Lens wasn't listen to this
song because Nanny was not gonna allow that.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
She was not going to allow that in her I
guarantee either.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
But why does he sound like he's hurting?
Speaker 1 (30:10):
And he sings that he does? And I always thought
that too. In nineteen eighty seven, so would This was
his first single from his solo album Faith. Did you
know that?
Speaker 2 (30:19):
No?
Speaker 1 (30:19):
I did not, And it missed the first two weeks
of the summer on the chart, and it was a
top ten song for six weeks. It would end up
peaking at number two on August eighth, and held off
by You two. I still haven't found what I was
looking for, And it was still a top twenty song
at the end of the summer and would finish nineteen
eighty seven as the twenty fourth biggest song. So this
was his first song from a solo album. You know,
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he had a bunch of number one hits with Wayam,
then he had a number one hit with a Wretha Franklin,
and then he dropped Faith and this did not hit
number one, But then after that, like four or five
songs in a row would hit number one on that album.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
Do You think they went with this one to be
his first single from a solo album just to like
be to shock people.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
I think so, yeah, I do think so this.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
Feels cheap to me, Like I feel like George Michael
was better than that.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Yeah, I would agree, but hey, he asked me. Yeah.
He would follow this up with Faith, which was number
one for like four weeks and just huge. I think
number four is probably gonna be. If this isn't your
favorite song on the countdown, I think it's it's like
a close second or third. I see you over there grooving.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
I know I love this song. Hard and Soul by
T Pow T pow.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
How would you say it TP? No, I would say
it to pal.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
To hard and soul by to pal, like so a
batman punch. This song makes me want to go find
a lighter somewhere and just hold it up. Oh yeah, yeah,
like we did back in the day.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
Back in the day. Now now you hold yourself up. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
So all of our top four spent the whole summer
on the charts, so we can just quit saying that.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
Okay, yeah sounds good.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
Okay, that's done. This was a top ten song for
five weeks. It was in the top forty for fourteen
of the sixteen weeks, and was still at twenty eight
on Labor Day weekend.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
So yeah, it was. It went strong for the lanked it. Oh,
I loved it.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
It ultimately peaked at number four, which I'm well bummed about.
But that's okay, number four, that's something to be proud of.
It would end the year as the thirty third biggest
song for nineteen eighty seven. That's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
Yeah, that's what you're talking about. So this song is
notable for its usage of various vocal overdubs, causing the
singer to be duetting with herself on the original studio recording.
Is that tea poweh, which made this song hard to
do in concert. You know they had to have backup
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singers because she couldn't overdub herself. Well, oh that would
be hard to do. That would be a little bit difficult.
So you love this song?
Speaker 2 (33:51):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
One hit wonder, yes, yeah, I think so too, but
definitely one of the better one hit wonders of the eighties.
There was no doubt in my mind this song was
going to be at the top of the charts. This
is nineteen summer of nineteen eighty seven, to me is
te Pow Lisa lisaon Colt, Jam Whitney Houston, George Michael
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and lethal Weapon.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
I was going to say it was the Ladies, but
maybe not then lethal Weapon.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
All right, number three, you're ready for our number three song?
Here we go, show me how and when.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
With some.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
With Somebody? So that is I Want to Dance with
Somebody by Whitney Houston, which we've been talking about this
whole time, right, we knew it was going to be
on here. By the way, this song, the top three
songs are the only songs that had more than thirteen
hundred points, so this is thirteen hundred and twenty nine points.
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It peaked at number one for two weeks at the
end of June, and then on the fourth of July
it fell to number two. The next week as our
number one song of the summer, knocked it out, and
this would end the year of nineteen eighty seven as
the fourth biggest song. So what more can we say
about this song?
Speaker 2 (35:33):
I mean, I don't even know, because in the summer
of nineteen eighty seven, there was no one more talented,
There was no one prettier. There was no one better.
I mean, she she had it all she did.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
But we have talked about this song so much, and
I feel like this song has appeared on the podcast
more than I have. In fact, I've got something for
Whitney because she's been on our podcast so much. Here
you go, Whitney. Listen, welcome to the Five Times Club
to present you with your very own five Timers Jack
a congratulator. Whitney is now part of the Five Timers
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Club because we've had this song on way too much.
Speaker 2 (36:13):
Brad, isn't Brad on the five Timers?
Speaker 1 (36:16):
Yes, Whitney and Brad Brad, there you go. You can, uh,
you can share your glory with Whitney, which I'm sure
you won't mind. I think it's probably time to put
this song to bed after this episode. I don't think
it needs to appear on our countdown ever again.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
Ever, agree to that?
Speaker 1 (36:33):
All right? You ready for the number two?
Speaker 2 (36:35):
So this next one, this is somebody we don't talk
about enough.
Speaker 1 (36:38):
This is somebody we certainly don't talk about enough.
Speaker 3 (36:42):
It's okay, one, just step across that way.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
Break down shakedown. Honey, just figured that is the great
Bob Seger. With Shakedown. I love this part coming up
here where it kind of comes back up listing here,
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I'm gonna turn it back up.
Speaker 2 (37:27):
Does he say busted or rusted?
Speaker 1 (37:29):
You're busted. No, he's not the B fifty twos. So
this is Bob Seger with Shakedown. This finishes just three
points ahead of Whitney Houston. I Want to Dance with Somebody.
This was a top ten song for seven weeks and
was top five for six of those weeks. How the
song was a topic charts on August first, and it
knocked our number one song coming up out of the
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top spot that week. It was in the top forty
for fourteen of the sixteen weeks.
Speaker 2 (37:56):
That's impressive.
Speaker 1 (37:58):
So this is from the Beverly Hills Cop two soundtrack,
which is funny because Glenn Fry did the Heat Is
On for Beverly Hills Cop right, and they wanted him
to do the song for Beverly Hills Cop two.
Speaker 2 (38:16):
They wanted him to do Shakedown.
Speaker 1 (38:17):
Yes, and he didn't. He wasn't really digging it and
he also was having some throat problems at the time,
so he turned him down. And then Bob Seger got
it and hit number one. Which Glenn Fry didn't with
the Heat Is On. Glen Fry only hit number two
with the Heat Is On, and Glen Fry called his
buddy Bob segrew up and said, hey, at least we
kept the money in Detroit. So this would in the
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year as the ninth biggest song for nineteen eighty seven.
Now I've got some trivia for you, Okay, is this
the only song that would finish the top ten in
nineteen eighty seven with the words shake and down in
the title?
Speaker 2 (38:53):
Well, I mean, since you've asked such a specific question,
my guess is.
Speaker 1 (38:57):
No, it is not. The number three song of the
year in nineteen eighty seven was Shake You Down by
Gregory Abbott, which I loved that song, but I feel
like Shakedown by Bob Seekers should be higher. So one
of the reasons why I love this song not only
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because from Beverly Hills Cop two. Remember when we did
our baseball episode and I played the Saint Louis radio
stations the Heat is On with Baseball highlights in between
the vocal parts. The same thing happened in nineteen eighty
seven with Shakedown. They did another one, but I cannot
find that anywhere on the interwebs really, so if any
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of our Saint Louis listeners have that, please send that
to me. It was our buddy pastor Pete who sent
me the Heat is On one when I asked for it,
and I was able to play that, but I cannot
find this one. But that one was pretty and it
was pretty cool because there were both songs from Beverly
Hills cop Wow, and both put the cardinal highlights, so
that was pretty cool. What are your thoughts on Shakedown
(40:02):
by Bob Seger?
Speaker 2 (40:03):
I love Bob Seger. This is not one of my favorites.
Speaker 1 (40:06):
Though, oh really, see, this is one of my favorites.
Speaker 2 (40:08):
Yeah, it's a little too rough.
Speaker 1 (40:12):
Around the edges for me, a little heavier than what
Bob normally did. But man, he really rocked it out,
and he was getting older at the time too, so
we appreciate Bob. All right, are we ready to get
to our number one song? My favorite Lady duo Heart Heart.
(41:21):
What a great song.
Speaker 2 (41:22):
Huh oh man, I just want to listen to all
of it.
Speaker 1 (41:25):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (41:25):
It was a top ten song for eight weeks. It
topped the charts for three weeks. It replaced Whitney Houston
and then was replaced by Bob Secert.
Speaker 1 (41:36):
So yeah, so those were our top three songs of
the summer. Each are replacing each other. And the interesting
thing is that alone beat Bob Seeker by twenty points
and Bob Seger beat Whitney Houston by three points. So
the top three songs were just separated by twenty three points,
whereas if you take that, you know, you drop down
to like number five, George Michael Like, it's like a
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two hundred point different. So the top three really just
dominated the charts in eighty seven.
Speaker 2 (42:04):
So here's the most impressive thing about this song's run.
I had mentioned that all of the top six songs
and the seven others were the top one hundred all
summer long. Uh huh okay, did I mention that or
did you mention it? One of us mentioned that whoever
mentioned it, this is the only one that was in
the top forty for fifteen of.
Speaker 1 (42:22):
The sixteen week That's crazy.
Speaker 2 (42:24):
So you would have heard Casey Casem talking about this
song for fifteen straight weeks from Memorial Day to right
before Labor Day. This song would end the year as
the second biggest song of eighty seven.
Speaker 1 (42:37):
You know what song was the biggest song of eighty seven?
What you mentioned it at the beginning of this podcast,
which was walk Like an Egyptian.
Speaker 2 (42:44):
Oh, yeah, there you go.
Speaker 1 (42:46):
I think this song's better, and I like walk like
an Egyptian, but this song's better. I just love Anne's
scream there at the beginning of this clip that we played.
Speaker 2 (42:55):
But it sounds effortless, so it's not even really a screen, right.
Speaker 1 (42:58):
She's not even really pushing it as it's like, this
is what I can do, and the rest of you suck.
Speaker 2 (43:03):
Yep, that's it.
Speaker 1 (43:06):
So what are your thoughts about this list?
Speaker 2 (43:13):
I think that you probably loved this list a lot
more than I did.
Speaker 1 (43:17):
I did because eighty seven was such a big summer
for me. I was what thirteen, Yeah, so we were teenagers,
hanging out with friends, not outside playing as much as
we did when we were a little a little bit
more listening to the radio station. But also baseball season
came around, the end of the summer comes around, and
we have I've spoken about this before. We had an
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international tournament at our home park and we hosted two
fellas from the Netherlands, and so I got to spend
a week or two with them. They stayed in my room,
and so it was like having like two little best
friends that were from another country and bringing culture and
things that I didn't know or understand into my life
(43:58):
and just kind of ex banding my little tiny pea brain.
Speaker 2 (44:03):
So I think this list hadsome huge hits. Yeah, that
knocked it out of the part. But then I think
this list also had some foul balls too.
Speaker 1 (44:14):
Yeah, I would have taken some of the things out
of the top ten, and I would have put like
Head to Toe by Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam in there.
I would have put Back in the High Life again
by Steve Winwood in there. If I was picking just
my favorites from the If I was picking like my
ten favorites from these this top twenty, then I would
have had Back in the High Life for sure, always
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by Atlantic Star, Had to Tow by Lisa, Lisa, and
Cult Jam, and I probably would have replaced those with
Gloria Stefan. Let's see, I gotta because I got to
replace three of them. Then Gloria Stephan I would probably
replace Don't Disturb This Groove, even though I liked that song,
And then I probably would have replaced George Michael.
Speaker 2 (45:00):
Yeah, I'm not loving it.
Speaker 1 (45:02):
So, I mean really close there between George Michael and
Steve Winwood. But I always go with Steve Winwood over
George Michael. So just my personal opinion. I know I'll
probably hear from Matt from the Spinning the Wheel podcast
now since he does a podcast on George Michael himself.
Speaker 2 (45:19):
But so you have any other nerdiness that you need
to talk about before we wrap this thing up.
Speaker 1 (45:27):
Yes, and no. This is always a fun project for me.
I like doing it. Next year. I'm gonna try and
pick something maybe from the early eighties, because oh really,
I won't remember that as much, and I think it
might be fun to just jump into and see what
was big in the summer. Why what would you suggest.
I'll let you know. I'll let you pick sometimes.
Speaker 2 (45:45):
The early eighties, Oh boy, you can fall hard.
Speaker 1 (45:48):
I mean you can, I think when it comes to
top forty. But I'm thinking, like for the summer, I
don't think there'll be too many really bad songs on
there from like say, like nineteen and eighty two. Okay,
So if I'm gonna mention anything at all, So one
of the songs of the summer that I thought for
sure would be at least top twenty, if not top ten.
(46:11):
That I can't believe fell to number twenty one was
the Whispers rock Steady, Yeah, but it didn't. It wasn't
on the charts the first two weeks, and then it
kind of did a slow climb where it started at
like eighty four, eighty three and then jumped up into
the sixties and then the fifties and then the forties,
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but didn't even get to the top forty until July eleventh,
and then after that, you know, it had a pretty steady,
strong run into the top ten for the last several
weeks of the summer. But I was surprised that rock
Steady by the Whispers didn't make it. And then Funky Town.
Speaker 2 (46:48):
Ooh, I want to take you, Yes, you.
Speaker 1 (46:50):
Do want to take me to Funky Town, but it's
not working. You know, it just fell below. It fell
at twenty two. So this didn't quite make it. But yeah,
that was that was some fun stuff.
Speaker 2 (47:04):
So if you haven't, we would appreciate if you go
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Speaker 1 (47:12):
You can always reach us on social media at Children
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Speaker 2 (47:29):
So most importantly, though, tell someone, yeah, you read the word.
Speaker 1 (47:34):
Always appreciate that absolutely. And if you ask me why,
I'm gonna pretend like I'm Robbie Neville in nineteen eighty
seven and say what's.
Speaker 3 (47:43):
It to you?
Speaker 2 (47:46):
I don't even know what that means.
Speaker 1 (47:49):
All right, Well, until next time, I'm Jim
Speaker 2 (47:53):
And I'm Lindsay, and we are Children of the Eighties.
Welcome back to Children of the Eighties. I am one
of your hosts, Jim, and I am joined as always
by the lady who lived downstairs from Luca. It's my
co host, Lindsay.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
I feel like you've used that one before.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
No, I don't think I've used the Luca before.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
I thought that you had. But I'm also feeling a
little salty for some reason.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Yeah, what's up with that?
Speaker 2 (00:38):
I don't know. It's been a long day, I'm tired,
and I didn't eat dinner, and I'm you know, I'm
very much a creature of routine.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Yeah, No, I get that, and I know that you
are a creature of routine, which is usually why we
end up recording at the very last moment.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
I know, I know, I work about it at the
last moment, do you, yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Or is that like the excuse that I made back
when I was a kid, when I would have a
paper due like four weeks from now, and I'd wait
till the last night to write it, and I'd be
like I worked best under pressure, and really it was
just because I didn't want to do it until I
absolutely had to. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Probably, Okay, So what kind of feedback did you get
from the last episode.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Uh, I didn't get a whole lot of feedback. I
mean people liked the episode. What I did get feedback
on because we didn't talk about it last show was
Remember at the end of the Cheers episode, I said,
I would ask my dad, since he was an adult,
what was better Cheers or Frasier.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Oh? Yeah, and you called him a few minutes ago
from the bathroom. What did he say?
Speaker 1 (01:43):
No, what would you say that? I didn't call him
a few minutes ago from the bathroom. I did accidentally
butt dial.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Um though, Oh butt dial from the bathroom.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
You are too funny. So when I asked him, he said, wow,
that's hard. I thought that Fraser had better writers, but
Cheers had more characters that were also funny. And then
he mentioned the dog eat dog. Yes, you know, and
I'm wearing milkman underwhere he mentioned that, and then he
(02:16):
talked about Fraser. He remember when Niles was telling the
story of when his dad had been shot and the
hospital asked him if he wanted to remove the life
support and he said no, and then he said, believe me,
I'll never make that mistake again. So he had a
couple of funny one liners from Fraser, but he said
to him, Fraser had a little bit more belly last
than Cheers did.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
And I totally agree with your dad on that. I
love Fraser, So if anybody wanted to do a Fraser podcast,
I'd be in.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
But he did say I loved both shows, so I
think there were two of his favorites for sure.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
So our show drops early on Wednesday morning. So Deaf Dave,
who's a friend of ours, he listens first thing. And
one of the things now that I look forward to
on Wednesdays is getting an AI picture from Deaf Dave
through you, depicting kind of something that we talked about,
(03:12):
something that we talked about in the episode.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Yes, it is classic deaf Dave. He's usually texting me
before I've had my coffee, which I don't mind. I'm
not complaining about it. I'm just saying that on the
ball he is.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
It gives me that motivation to get up and it
just makes my morning.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Yeah. So the last one he sent me was a
picture of a guy holding a sign. And now everybody
in the picture are wearing rhinestone jean jackets and there's
one guy in front holding up a sign that says
Falco New So Dave, we love that. Thank you so much.
(03:50):
Keep it up.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
That just makes me happy.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
All right, Well, this is an episode that has been
in the making for almost two years now, as we
started it last year, and we're gonna do it again
this year. But why don't you go ahead and tell
the folks what this podcast is about before I tell
them what the episode is about.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
This is a podcast that looks back on the decade
of the nineteen eighties. We talk about things that were
important to us as children and what we look back
on with fond memories as adults. Ultimately, this is a
nostalgia podcast.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Yes, and as we said, few things bring back nostalgia
like music, and especially music in the summer. And if
you remember, last year, we did a top ten songs
from the summer of nineteen eighty nine as voted on
by our Twitter poll, nineteen eighty ninety one. That but
nineteen eighty seven finished second. And since nineteen eighty seven
is probably the summer that I remember the most when
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it comes to music, we're going to cover nineteen eighty
seven this year.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Okay, since I got to do last week, you get
to do this week.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Yeah, So when you think of songs of the summer.
Is there a year or a song or anything that
comes to your mind, whether it's eighties or or nineties
for sure, or two thousands.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Well, sticking with the eighties, nineteen the summer of nineteen.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Eighty nine, eighty nine, the one that we did last year. Yep, yeah,
that was That was a fun one.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
We've got all my faves, Chicago, Poison, Paula Abdul, throw
in a little Millie Vanilli in there, maybe some Richard Marx.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Yeah you were digging that.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
I mean, I can't think of a better mixtape right there.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
That would be a pretty good mixtape. And this one
maybe we'll have to put in the show notes of
a Spotify playlist for the ones that we're going to
count down here? What do you think? Yep? All right,
so you know what time it is?
Speaker 2 (05:42):
What time is it? Not a lot?
Speaker 1 (05:47):
I mentioned this last year, but I'll go ahead and
mention it this year for any new listeners that we
have or folks that might have forgot. I love lists.
I loved Casey Caseum's American Top forty in the eighties.
I really love the end of the year countdown, and
I just like to compare stuff, especially if it's statistics,
and I like to come up with things that formulas
(06:08):
or whatever that separate things, whether it's baseball players, TV
shows or songs of the summer. And so that's what
I've done here. I've looked at the Billboard Hot one
hundred from Memorial weekend to Labor Day weekend in nineteen
eighty seven. I made a list of each song that
hit the top one hundred for each week, and then
the song got points based on their ranking for each week.
(06:29):
So for instance, let's say you mentioned Millie Vanilli. Let's
say Girl Don't Forget My Number hit number one on
Memorial Day. It would get one hundred points. And then
let's say the next week it dropped to number five,
it would get ninety six points, and so on and
so forth. So that's what I did. Then I added
up all the points. Well that you have time to
(06:51):
do this, I didn't, but Excel did, okay, And that
is how we get the top ten songs. I did
spend a ton of time on it, mentioning time, but
I started this like four or five months ago because
I knew it would take forever. Okay, But I always
have fun doing it right, and it was kind of
exciting as I went through the songs, adding up points, wondering, Okay,
(07:12):
is this song going to hop into the top ten?
Is this song gonna hop what I've got listed as
number one right now? That kind of thing. So let
me ask you this, Are there any particular songs you
think of when you hear the Summer of nineteen eighty seven?
This was something that I asked myself, but this was
also something that I asked the followers out there on Twitter.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Yeah, so summer of eighty seven, I would have been eight. Oh,
it's I gotta go with Whitney Houston. I'm going to
dance with somebody.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Yeah, that's one that I think of when I hear
Summer in nineteen eighty seven? What about had to Toe
by Lisa Lisa and.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Koltjeb Oh yeah, I love that one. That's a good one.
I just died in your Arms.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
That's a good one. I think that might have been
pre summer.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Though, Oh was that before the summer?
Speaker 1 (08:03):
I think it was. So here's some of the things
that people Oh.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Wait wait wait, wait, wait wait wait wait wait?
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, you always liked that or rup.
But that's fine. It's your show too.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
I know we struggle with that sometimes, don't we Walk
Like an Egyptian?
Speaker 1 (08:19):
I don't think that was summer, Yes it was. I
don't think it was.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Yes it was. It had to have been.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Do you want to hear some of the things that
some of our followers and some of our listeners said, Oh.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
I got to figure out when was walk Like in Egyptian?
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Walk Like an Egyptian was nineteen eighty seven.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
It was released in September of eighty six. When did
it chart?
Speaker 1 (08:43):
It charted at the end of eighty six, in the
beginning of eighty seven, so it was gone by the summer.
So here are some of the things that people wat
down iron John Angels said, where the Streets have No Name?
You two Lost in Emotion, Les and Cult Jane Girls
Girls Girls by Motley Crue, Push It by Salt and Peppa,
(09:05):
and Devil Inside by an Excess Jason jg Showstopper, one
of our loyal listeners from Minnesota Girls Girls Girls La
Bamba Wanted Dead or Alive, Heart and Soul by Tapau
Here I Go Again, which is might be your favorite
song of all time? Right only in my Dreams Debbie Gibson,
(09:26):
and he said, and for some reason the Fat Boys
with Wipeout.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Where did that come from?
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Well, that was popular in eighty seven. Beach Boys or
the Goat said Good Times by Hoodoo Gurus, DC Blessed
Now said Here I Go Again, White Snake, Kathy Loves
Braves said never Going to Give You Up by Rick Astley,
Oh Yeah, Rick rold totally eighties and nineties recall said
(09:55):
I want to dance with somebody. Point of No Return,
Expose Girls, Girls, Girls, rock Steady by the Whispers. I
just died in your arms is what you said. Here
I Go Again Islow, Bonita Madonna and Little Lives by
Fleetwood mac sean Niehoff one of our listeners Heart Alone,
(10:15):
You Two With or Without You, I want to Dance
with Somebody Whitney Houston and White Snake Here I Go Again.
So a lot of the same kind of sound and songs,
but that was certainly interesting. To get their take. I
will mention mine as we go through and tell you
what I missed and what I hit on. Okay, perfect,
All right, So I think you're going to be surprised
when you see this list, because I was so why
(10:39):
don't you give us some of the stats. Even though
I am the stats guy, I've given you some information,
and I think you've pulled some information yourself.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
I did a little bit of research today.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Yeah, why don't you give us some of those stats?
Like how many weeks were there between Memorial Day and
Labor Day? We our counting Memorial Day and Labor Day weekend?
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Okay, there were sixteen weeks counting real Day weekend to
Labor Day weekend. That means that there were sixteen number
one songs. So how many different songs do you think
hit number one in that time span?
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Well, I know it wasn't sixteen, because I know there
were a couple that hit it more than once.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
So I'm going to say like eleven, close ten. Ten
different songs hit number one during that timeframe. One of
those didn't finish in the top forty.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Oh no, it didn't finish in the top forty. I
think I know which one that is. That was something
that somebody mentioned. So this song wouldn't have been on
the American Top forty countdown with Casey Caseum at the
end of the year or at the end of the
summer in.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
This case, So which one do you think it is?
Speaker 1 (11:52):
It is With or Without You by you two round?
You know, I know because they were the number one
song at the beginning of the summer.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Okay, so so.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Memorial Day weekend and the week after, but it started
to fall after that.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Here's an interesting stat So you two started the summer
at Memorial Day weekend with the number one song which
we just talked about, yes, with or Without You, which
finished at number.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Forty four for this countdown.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Yes, you two also had another number one hit that
summer with I still haven't found what I'm looking for.
Both songs spent two weeks at number one during the summer.
With or Without You actually started its number one run
the week before the summer unofficially started.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Right, So with or Without You was actually the bigger
hit because it was number one on the charts for
three weeks, but one of them was before Memorial weekend,
so it doesn't count in this countdown. So that was
really interesting.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
So many rules to follow here in this game, not
really any rules, just rules.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
No, I mean I made up rules to do the songs,
but there's no more rules now now it's just facts.
So there were nine songs that spent the entire summer,
which was all sixteen weeks in the top one hundred
and three of those nine did not make our top ten,
and two of those did not make our top twenty.
But the three that did make the top twenty, you
(13:23):
know what, we'll talk about those later because they're going
to be in the top twenty. We're going to talk
about Oh really we are, okay, so you ready to
count down from twenty to ten before we start playing
our number ten? All right, why don't you give us
number twenty.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Back in the high life again? Steve Winwood.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
That's a great song.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
I love that song.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Yeah, I love Steve Winwood.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Is that on your feel good list?
Speaker 1 (13:52):
It was not, but it easily could have been. It
probably should have been. So this one finished with nine
hundred and eighty four points, so it wasn't really even
close to the top ten. It was. It was well
over one hundred points off the top ten.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
So it only missed Memorial Day weekend and it never
hit the top ten, which is why.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
The points are so low. If it had hit the
top ten during the summer, it probably jumps up to
number fifteen, number fourteen, number thirteen, something like that. All Right,
our next song, number nineteen. One of the saddest songs
I've ever heard. My name is Luca.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
I really wish we could have just not even mentioned.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
And I live on the second floor, Suzanne Vega. Nine
hundred and ninety nine points just missed? Is it nine
nine nine or six sixty six? I mean this song
spent five weeks in the top ten, and it peaked
at number three in nineteen eighty seven. I actually did
hate this song, but I love it now. Why what
is there at a long nostalgia? Oh goodness, all right,
(14:54):
riad us are our number eighteen?
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Okay, kiss him goodbye? The Nylons No no, no.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
No, hey, hey hey goodbye, yes goodbye. Because you didn't
make the top ten three points. Yes, number seventeen with
one thousand and nine points was always by Atlantic Star,
which I'm sure you would have loved to have heard
that song. You love that song. Yeah, So that one
(15:20):
spent the first six weeks of the summer in the
top ten, and it hit number one on June thirteenth,
But it fell so fast after that that it wasn't
even in the top one hundred by the end of
the summer.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Fall off the Earth.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
It fell off the end of the Earth like the
flat earthers.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
So does a flat earth fall off the end of
the Earth?
Speaker 1 (15:41):
I get if they get to the end, No, because
there is no end of the Earth because it's round.
But you know what they should.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
H Okay, just check in, Okay. Number sixteen, Yes, I'd
still say yes.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
By climax, they're the ones who's saying I miss you
back in the early eighties. Remember that one? Yep, that
was one thousand and thirty seven points. The next one
of the Jets, one of the classic late eighties like
Latino sounding groups, Crossed My Broken Heart, finished with one
thousand and thirty nine points. It spent three weeks in
(16:17):
the top ten.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Did the Jets rotate band members like Minudo, possibly and
Cool in the game? Yes, Yes, I think they did. Yeah,
I feel like they did all right. Number fourteen The
Pleasure Principle Janet.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Jackson one fifty eight points. Now, this was something that
Jason Colevin, when I reached out to him, said he
thought that this would be one of the top songs
of the summer, and he was right. It just didn't
hit our top ten. Number eight is the one that
shocks me at his head to Toe by Lisa Lisa
and Cult Jam.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Are you surprised just because it didn't make the top ten?
Speaker 1 (16:58):
I thought it was going to be top three.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
The three songs that I really remember playing all the
time were Whitney Houston, I Want to Dance with Somebody
Alone by Heart and had to Toe by Lisa Lison
Colt Jam. So this finished with one thousand and seventy
one points. It spent seven weeks in the top ten,
and it hit number one on June twentieth. But I'm
guessing it peaked too early because it was out of
the charts the last two weeks of the summer, which
(17:23):
is why it didn't make the top ten. But yeah,
I thought for sure it'd be top five.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Oh, I'm sorry we even have to mention this next one? Goodness,
gracious Kenny g Songbird.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Yes, this actually finished ahead of Lisa Lison.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
What's wrong with our world when that's the case.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Well, it's spent fifteen to sixteen weeks on the chart,
and it was top ten for four weeks below. Why
it's the only instrumental on this countdown because the duke,
Because the saxophone was huge in the eighties and nobody
played the sax like Kenny g you had some hair.
He did have some hair, all right. And then number eleven,
just missing our countdown by a mere five points, is
(18:07):
point of no return by Expose. This song spent fifteen
to the sixteen weeks on the chart, only missed the
last week Labor Day weekend. And you know what's interesting,
last year's nineteen eighty nine episode Expose was also on
that list with What You Don't Know, and it was
(18:28):
number sixteen on that list. So we've had two Expose songs.
I guess Expose was the band of the Summer back
in the day, the girl band of the Summer. All right,
so you're ready to get to the top ten?
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Are you gonna play some of the songs.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
I'm gonna play all of the songs in the top ten?
You ready? Here is number ten, The Sun of All.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
That's a making dinner song, is it?
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Now?
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Don't disturb this groove the system. I feel like the
sign is like a what is it? A scrunchy on
the door?
Speaker 1 (19:23):
A sign upon the door?
Speaker 2 (19:24):
Okay, how many points? I'm not keeping up with points,
so you gotta give me that. Okay. So fifteen of
the sixteen weeks on the chart, and it only missed
Labor Day weekend.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
It was the groove was over by the time Labor
Day rolled around.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
It's dayed.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Topp.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Ten for four weeks in a row. It topped down
at number four on July eighteenth.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
You know what held it off at number four on
that thing? What it was? The top three songs that
week will be the top three songs of summer on
this list. So I got something to say about this. Yes,
I've never heard the song before in my life. Seriously, yeah,
I've never heard it. Where were you at the summer
of nineteen eighty seven? Well, not on plane of earth?
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Not talking about the groove or whatever? Putting a sign
up on my door? I can tell you that. I mean,
how old was I? I was eight?
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Sounds a little.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Earth wind and fireish without the horns, Yeah it does.
It sounds a little too early eighties for me maybe, Sorry.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
So this would end nineteen eighty seven is the fifty
seventh biggest song of the year on the year in
top one hundred.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
And I've never heard it before. What rock have I
lived under? Not the third rock from the sun? All right,
here is our number nine song, which was previously mentioned
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that is I still Haven't found what I'm looking for
by YouTube, finishing with one one hundred and sixteen points.
It was in the top one hundred for thirteen of
the sixteen weeks during the summer. Twelve of those thirteen
weeks it was in the top forty, so it shot
up like a rocket. It was top ten for eight
weeks in a row and hit number one for two
(21:43):
weeks in August. So rarely does a band come along
and just do what youtwo does right, Like I I
want to say, once in a lifetime, but it's probably
more than that.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
Probably more than once in a lifetime. But here's the thing.
Back in the eighties, I didn't really love you too.
I love them now.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Well, okay, don't you feel like their sound was a
little different though?
Speaker 1 (22:08):
It was a lot different? Yeah, And that was why No.
I did like some songs. I did like this, but
I wasn't crazy about it because it was different. I
wanted happy, fun songs in the summer and like our
next one's gonna be but this one wasn't a happy
fun song. But now that I'm older, I've aged, I've
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got a little time behind me. I love this song.
I love you too, Oh, I love you too? Well?
Thank you? You know that got Ricky Schroeder and Elliott
in Trouble and Scrubs. All right, Uh, here's our number
eight song. And this may sound familiar to you because
this was on our countdown just a few weeks ago.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
The one and only Debbie Gibson Only in My.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
Dreams Have One finished with twenty three points, just seven
points ahead of YouTube.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
So this is just one of nine songs that spent
all sixteen weeks on the chart for the summer. Yes, uh,
slow and steady climb from number seventy three on Memorial
Day weekend to number four on Labor Day weekend.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
So yeah, very few songs, if any ever, continue to
climb throughout the whole summer. Normally they climb and then
they peak and then they start to fall, right, But
this climb the whole entire summer.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
So it's spent the last eleven weeks of the summer
in the top forty.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
That's that's impressive. So it would end the year as
the twenty sixth the biggest song of nineteen eighty seven.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
So we talked about those a few weeks ago. So
not a whole lot else to cover other than I
think we all love Debbie Gibson in nineteen eighty seven,
did we not?
Speaker 2 (24:15):
I did?
Speaker 1 (24:17):
I did so very talented young young miss Debbie Gibson
not young anymore young in nineteen eighty seven, All right,
our next song number seven, I know You're gonna love
this one you. Rhythm is going on gatchen.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Rthom is goinged Gadget, Rhythm is gone to gadget Rism
is going again. Rhythm is going again.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
That is is Rhythm is gonna get you by Gloria Estefan.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Can I tell you something real quick before you get
into all your steps?
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Yeah? You go right?
Speaker 2 (25:08):
This song makes me anxious really yes, why because it's
something about the stacado And then she's like, the rhythm
is gone, yeah get you. Yeah, the rhythm is gone.
It gets you. And as a kid, I was just like, Oh,
it's gonna get me, It's gonna get it.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
I thought it was like coming after me, like like, uh,
I think I listened to McGruff too much or something,
or if I if I heard this song after watching
and Unsolved Mysteries, I felt like Gloria Stephan was singing
it in a trench coat.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
So that's and it took listening to it just now,
it took me right back.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
It certainly does. It certainly does. So that finished eleven points.
I had a Debbie Gibson at eleven thirty four.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
This song only missed Memorial Day weekend in the summer,
and then it was on the chart the rest of
the summer. It was a top ten song for five
weeks and it peaked at number five. It would end
the year as it's the seventy second biggest song of
nineteen eighty seven. But here's what's interesting. In twenty eighteen,
this song was selected for preservation in the National Recording
(26:10):
Registry by the Library of Congress as being culturally, historically,
or esthetically significant.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
Yeah, and I've said this before. Her music did not
reach me as a kid, but I was not her audience.
And I have no doubt she deserves to be there, absolutely,
but I don't. It's that's not for me.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
This is one of the songs by her that I
do like, even though it does creep me out a
little bit. But I didn't like a whole lot of
Glorious Stefan's music Back in the day, anything else.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
That's it?
Speaker 1 (26:45):
All right? Move it on number sixth.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
God something so strong by Crowded House. So that's a
perfect beach song right right, just chilling out under the umbrella.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
Yes, so we've talked about this before, this song versus
their other song. Yeah, and we both I think said
that we probably liked the other song better. However, this
song's happier.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
It is so much happier.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
You know, then Don't Dream It's Over, which is what
we listened to a few weeks ago on our Sleeps
and Dreams countdown. But this song is certainly much happier
than Don't Dream It's Over.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
So it spent the whole summer on the charts. So
a lot of people were listening to this song at
the beach. Absolutely, it was a top ten song for
three weeks. It peaked ultimately at number seven. It was
at number forty two on Memorial Day weekend and then
again on August fifteenth as it was falling.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
I always think it's interesting when they hit the same spot,
one going up, one coming down, but they landed the
same spot. It's always very interesting to me.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
So it would end the year as the eighty third
biggest song for nineteen eight.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
What do you think about that ring eighty third?
Speaker 2 (28:29):
I mean I might be a little low. Honestly, it's
a feel good song. It is me happy, and so
I feel like it could it could stand to be
a little higher.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
Yeah, I would agree with that, all right. So you
would say that's controversial that it's eighty seven, yeah, a
little bit. Speaking of controversy, our next song at number
five causes some controversy, and nobody handled the controversy better
than our buddy Casey casem Well. This next song is
another debut and it's a hit. You may not be
(28:59):
hearing a lot in your home town. Some radio stations
aren't playing it because of some controversy over the song's
title and lyrics. Here's the latest hit by George Michael.
It was you Trust Girls that time.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
This little show Yes way shows.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
Tell you.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
That is George Michael. With our number five song, it
ends at uh and sixty points, which is about twenty
points higher than something So Strong was. And there's a
big giant separation between the top four and then the
rest of the countdown because this doesn't even come within
one hundred points of our number four song.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
I can guarantee you Little Lens wasn't listen to this
song because Nanny was not gonna allow that.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
She was not going to allow that in her I
guarantee either.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
But why does he sound like he's hurting?
Speaker 1 (30:10):
And he sings that he does? And I always thought
that too. In nineteen eighty seven, so would This was
his first single from his solo album Faith. Did you
know that?
Speaker 2 (30:19):
No?
Speaker 1 (30:19):
I did not, And it missed the first two weeks
of the summer on the chart, and it was a
top ten song for six weeks. It would end up
peaking at number two on August eighth, and held off
by You two. I still haven't found what I was
looking for, And it was still a top twenty song
at the end of the summer and would finish nineteen
eighty seven as the twenty fourth biggest song. So this
was his first song from a solo album. You know,
(30:42):
he had a bunch of number one hits with Wayam,
then he had a number one hit with a Wretha Franklin,
and then he dropped Faith and this did not hit
number one, But then after that, like four or five
songs in a row would hit number one on that album.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
Do You think they went with this one to be
his first single from a solo album just to like
be to shock people.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
I think so, yeah, I do think so this.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
Feels cheap to me, Like I feel like George Michael
was better than that.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Yeah, I would agree, but hey, he asked me. Yeah.
He would follow this up with Faith, which was number
one for like four weeks and just huge. I think
number four is probably gonna be. If this isn't your
favorite song on the countdown, I think it's it's like
a close second or third. I see you over there grooving.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
I know I love this song. Hard and Soul by
T Pow T pow.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
How would you say it TP? No, I would say
it to pal.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
To hard and soul by to pal, like so a
batman punch. This song makes me want to go find
a lighter somewhere and just hold it up. Oh yeah, yeah,
like we did back in the day.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
Back in the day. Now now you hold yourself up. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
So all of our top four spent the whole summer
on the charts, so we can just quit saying that.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
Okay, yeah sounds good.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
Okay, that's done. This was a top ten song for
five weeks. It was in the top forty for fourteen
of the sixteen weeks, and was still at twenty eight
on Labor Day weekend.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
So yeah, it was. It went strong for the lanked it. Oh,
I loved it.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
It ultimately peaked at number four, which I'm well bummed about.
But that's okay, number four, that's something to be proud of.
It would end the year as the thirty third biggest
song for nineteen eighty seven. That's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
Yeah, that's what you're talking about. So this song is
notable for its usage of various vocal overdubs, causing the
singer to be duetting with herself on the original studio recording.
Is that tea poweh, which made this song hard to
do in concert. You know they had to have backup
(33:43):
singers because she couldn't overdub herself. Well, oh that would
be hard to do. That would be a little bit difficult.
So you love this song?
Speaker 2 (33:51):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
One hit wonder, yes, yeah, I think so too, but
definitely one of the better one hit wonders of the eighties.
There was no doubt in my mind this song was
going to be at the top of the charts. This
is nineteen summer of nineteen eighty seven, to me is
te Pow Lisa lisaon Colt, Jam Whitney Houston, George Michael
(34:13):
and lethal Weapon.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
I was going to say it was the Ladies, but
maybe not then lethal Weapon.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
All right, number three, you're ready for our number three song?
Here we go, show me how and when.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
With some.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
With Somebody? So that is I Want to Dance with
Somebody by Whitney Houston, which we've been talking about this
whole time, right, we knew it was going to be
on here. By the way, this song, the top three
songs are the only songs that had more than thirteen
hundred points, so this is thirteen hundred and twenty nine points.
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It peaked at number one for two weeks at the
end of June, and then on the fourth of July
it fell to number two. The next week as our
number one song of the summer, knocked it out, and
this would end the year of nineteen eighty seven as
the fourth biggest song. So what more can we say
about this song?
Speaker 2 (35:33):
I mean, I don't even know, because in the summer
of nineteen eighty seven, there was no one more talented,
There was no one prettier. There was no one better.
I mean, she she had it all she did.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
But we have talked about this song so much, and
I feel like this song has appeared on the podcast
more than I have. In fact, I've got something for
Whitney because she's been on our podcast so much. Here
you go, Whitney. Listen, welcome to the Five Times Club
to present you with your very own five Timers Jack
a congratulator. Whitney is now part of the Five Timers
(36:10):
Club because we've had this song on way too much.
Speaker 2 (36:13):
Brad, isn't Brad on the five Timers?
Speaker 1 (36:16):
Yes, Whitney and Brad Brad, there you go. You can, uh,
you can share your glory with Whitney, which I'm sure
you won't mind. I think it's probably time to put
this song to bed after this episode. I don't think
it needs to appear on our countdown ever again.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
Ever, agree to that?
Speaker 1 (36:33):
All right? You ready for the number two?
Speaker 2 (36:35):
So this next one, this is somebody we don't talk
about enough.
Speaker 1 (36:38):
This is somebody we certainly don't talk about enough.
Speaker 3 (36:42):
It's okay, one, just step across that way.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
Break down shakedown. Honey, just figured that is the great
Bob Seger. With Shakedown. I love this part coming up
here where it kind of comes back up listing here,
(37:21):
I'm gonna turn it back up.
Speaker 2 (37:27):
Does he say busted or rusted?
Speaker 1 (37:29):
You're busted. No, he's not the B fifty twos. So
this is Bob Seger with Shakedown. This finishes just three
points ahead of Whitney Houston. I Want to Dance with Somebody.
This was a top ten song for seven weeks and
was top five for six of those weeks. How the
song was a topic charts on August first, and it
knocked our number one song coming up out of the
(37:50):
top spot that week. It was in the top forty
for fourteen of the sixteen weeks.
Speaker 2 (37:56):
That's impressive.
Speaker 1 (37:58):
So this is from the Beverly Hills Cop two soundtrack,
which is funny because Glenn Fry did the Heat Is
On for Beverly Hills Cop right, and they wanted him
to do the song for Beverly Hills Cop two.
Speaker 2 (38:16):
They wanted him to do Shakedown.
Speaker 1 (38:17):
Yes, and he didn't. He wasn't really digging it and
he also was having some throat problems at the time,
so he turned him down. And then Bob Seger got
it and hit number one. Which Glenn Fry didn't with
the Heat Is On. Glen Fry only hit number two
with the Heat Is On, and Glen Fry called his
buddy Bob segrew up and said, hey, at least we
kept the money in Detroit. So this would in the
(38:38):
year as the ninth biggest song for nineteen eighty seven.
Now I've got some trivia for you, Okay, is this
the only song that would finish the top ten in
nineteen eighty seven with the words shake and down in
the title?
Speaker 2 (38:53):
Well, I mean, since you've asked such a specific question,
my guess is.
Speaker 1 (38:57):
No, it is not. The number three song of the
year in nineteen eighty seven was Shake You Down by
Gregory Abbott, which I loved that song, but I feel
like Shakedown by Bob Seekers should be higher. So one
of the reasons why I love this song not only
(39:18):
because from Beverly Hills Cop two. Remember when we did
our baseball episode and I played the Saint Louis radio
stations the Heat is On with Baseball highlights in between
the vocal parts. The same thing happened in nineteen eighty
seven with Shakedown. They did another one, but I cannot
find that anywhere on the interwebs really, so if any
(39:40):
of our Saint Louis listeners have that, please send that
to me. It was our buddy pastor Pete who sent
me the Heat is On one when I asked for it,
and I was able to play that, but I cannot
find this one. But that one was pretty and it
was pretty cool because there were both songs from Beverly
Hills cop Wow, and both put the cardinal highlights, so
that was pretty cool. What are your thoughts on Shakedown
(40:02):
by Bob Seger?
Speaker 2 (40:03):
I love Bob Seger. This is not one of my favorites.
Speaker 1 (40:06):
Though, oh really, see, this is one of my favorites.
Speaker 2 (40:08):
Yeah, it's a little too rough.
Speaker 1 (40:12):
Around the edges for me, a little heavier than what
Bob normally did. But man, he really rocked it out,
and he was getting older at the time too, so
we appreciate Bob. All right, are we ready to get
to our number one song? My favorite Lady duo Heart Heart.
(41:21):
What a great song.
Speaker 2 (41:22):
Huh oh man, I just want to listen to all
of it.
Speaker 1 (41:25):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (41:25):
It was a top ten song for eight weeks. It
topped the charts for three weeks. It replaced Whitney Houston
and then was replaced by Bob Secert.
Speaker 1 (41:36):
So yeah, so those were our top three songs of
the summer. Each are replacing each other. And the interesting
thing is that alone beat Bob Seeker by twenty points
and Bob Seger beat Whitney Houston by three points. So
the top three songs were just separated by twenty three points,
whereas if you take that, you know, you drop down
to like number five, George Michael Like, it's like a
(41:56):
two hundred point different. So the top three really just
dominated the charts in eighty seven.
Speaker 2 (42:04):
So here's the most impressive thing about this song's run.
I had mentioned that all of the top six songs
and the seven others were the top one hundred all
summer long. Uh huh okay, did I mention that or
did you mention it? One of us mentioned that whoever
mentioned it, this is the only one that was in
the top forty for fifteen of.
Speaker 1 (42:22):
The sixteen week That's crazy.
Speaker 2 (42:24):
So you would have heard Casey Casem talking about this
song for fifteen straight weeks from Memorial Day to right
before Labor Day. This song would end the year as
the second biggest song of eighty seven.
Speaker 1 (42:37):
You know what song was the biggest song of eighty seven?
What you mentioned it at the beginning of this podcast,
which was walk Like an Egyptian.
Speaker 2 (42:44):
Oh, yeah, there you go.
Speaker 1 (42:46):
I think this song's better, and I like walk like
an Egyptian, but this song's better. I just love Anne's
scream there at the beginning of this clip that we played.
Speaker 2 (42:55):
But it sounds effortless, so it's not even really a screen, right.
Speaker 1 (42:58):
She's not even really pushing it as it's like, this
is what I can do, and the rest of you suck.
Speaker 2 (43:03):
Yep, that's it.
Speaker 1 (43:06):
So what are your thoughts about this list?
Speaker 2 (43:13):
I think that you probably loved this list a lot
more than I did.
Speaker 1 (43:17):
I did because eighty seven was such a big summer
for me. I was what thirteen, Yeah, so we were teenagers,
hanging out with friends, not outside playing as much as
we did when we were a little a little bit
more listening to the radio station. But also baseball season
came around, the end of the summer comes around, and
we have I've spoken about this before. We had an
(43:38):
international tournament at our home park and we hosted two
fellas from the Netherlands, and so I got to spend
a week or two with them. They stayed in my room,
and so it was like having like two little best
friends that were from another country and bringing culture and
things that I didn't know or understand into my life
(43:58):
and just kind of ex banding my little tiny pea brain.
Speaker 2 (44:03):
So I think this list hadsome huge hits. Yeah, that
knocked it out of the part. But then I think
this list also had some foul balls too.
Speaker 1 (44:14):
Yeah, I would have taken some of the things out
of the top ten, and I would have put like
Head to Toe by Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam in there.
I would have put Back in the High Life again
by Steve Winwood in there. If I was picking just
my favorites from the If I was picking like my
ten favorites from these this top twenty, then I would
have had Back in the High Life for sure, always
(44:37):
by Atlantic Star, Had to Tow by Lisa, Lisa, and
Cult Jam, and I probably would have replaced those with
Gloria Stefan. Let's see, I gotta because I got to
replace three of them. Then Gloria Stephan I would probably
replace Don't Disturb This Groove, even though I liked that song,
And then I probably would have replaced George Michael.
Speaker 2 (45:00):
Yeah, I'm not loving it.
Speaker 1 (45:02):
So, I mean really close there between George Michael and
Steve Winwood. But I always go with Steve Winwood over
George Michael. So just my personal opinion. I know I'll
probably hear from Matt from the Spinning the Wheel podcast
now since he does a podcast on George Michael himself.
Speaker 2 (45:19):
But so you have any other nerdiness that you need
to talk about before we wrap this thing up.
Speaker 1 (45:27):
Yes, and no. This is always a fun project for me.
I like doing it. Next year. I'm gonna try and
pick something maybe from the early eighties, because oh really,
I won't remember that as much, and I think it
might be fun to just jump into and see what
was big in the summer. Why what would you suggest.
I'll let you know. I'll let you pick sometimes.
Speaker 2 (45:45):
The early eighties, Oh boy, you can fall hard.
Speaker 1 (45:48):
I mean you can, I think when it comes to
top forty. But I'm thinking, like for the summer, I
don't think there'll be too many really bad songs on
there from like say, like nineteen and eighty two. Okay,
So if I'm gonna mention anything at all, So one
of the songs of the summer that I thought for
sure would be at least top twenty, if not top ten.
(46:11):
That I can't believe fell to number twenty one was
the Whispers rock Steady, Yeah, but it didn't. It wasn't
on the charts the first two weeks, and then it
kind of did a slow climb where it started at
like eighty four, eighty three and then jumped up into
the sixties and then the fifties and then the forties,
(46:31):
but didn't even get to the top forty until July eleventh,
and then after that, you know, it had a pretty steady,
strong run into the top ten for the last several
weeks of the summer. But I was surprised that rock
Steady by the Whispers didn't make it. And then Funky Town.
Speaker 2 (46:48):
Ooh, I want to take you, Yes, you.
Speaker 1 (46:50):
Do want to take me to Funky Town, but it's
not working. You know, it just fell below. It fell
at twenty two. So this didn't quite make it. But yeah,
that was that was some fun stuff.
Speaker 2 (47:04):
So if you haven't, we would appreciate if you go
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Speaker 1 (47:12):
You can always reach us on social media at Children
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also email us at Children of the nineteen Eighties at
gmail dot com.
Speaker 2 (47:29):
So most importantly, though, tell someone, yeah, you read the word.
Speaker 1 (47:34):
Always appreciate that absolutely. And if you ask me why,
I'm gonna pretend like I'm Robbie Neville in nineteen eighty
seven and say what's.
Speaker 3 (47:43):
It to you?
Speaker 2 (47:46):
I don't even know what that means.
Speaker 1 (47:49):
All right, Well, until next time, I'm Jim
Speaker 2 (47:53):
And I'm Lindsay, and we are Children of the Eighties.
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