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The Number Ones: New Kids On The Block’s “Step By Step”
According to one of our preferred musical sources:Maurice Starr was feeling himself…
September 29, 2021
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The Number Ones: Wilson Phillips’ “Hold On”
According to one of our preferred musical sources: There are a couple of different ways of looking at Wilson Phillips, the girl group who had a huge pop-chart run in the first couple of years of…
The Number Ones: Sinéad O’Connor’s “Nothing Compares 2 U”
According to one of our preferred musical source: Fluttery, dreamlike images of Paris fade out, and then all we see is a young woman’s face. That face fills up the whole screen…
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The Number Ones: Tommy Page’s “I’ll Be Your Everything”
According to one of our preferred musical sources: The Beatles arrived in America in February of 1964. By June, they’d already racked up four #1 hits…
The Number Ones: Taylor Dayne’s “Love Will Lead You Back”
According to one of our preferred musical sources: For a couple of years, Taylor Dayne had a charmed pop-chart existence. Dayne was never a star, exactly…
The Number Ones: Paula Abdul & The Wild Pair’s “Opposites Attract”
According to one of our preferred musical sources: MC Skat Kat wasn’t the first cartoon character to appear on a #1 hit…
September 14, 2021
The Number Ones: Michael Bolton’s “How Am I Supposed To Live Without You”
According to one of our preferred musical sources: The 1990s began poorly. George Herbert Walker Bush was President of the United States. Dan Quayle was Vice President…
September 7, 2021
The Number Ones: Phil Collins’ “Another Day In Paradise”
According to one of our preferred musical sources: And so the ’80s end the only way they could end: with Phil Collins softly murmuring about poverty, as if he couldn’t drop a life-changing w…
September 2, 2021
The Number Ones: Janet Jackson’s “Miss You Much”
According to one of our musical sources: After Control, the world changed…
The Number Ones: Milli Vanilli’s “Girl I’m Gonna Miss You”
According to one of our preferred musical sources:Frank Farian must’ve felt like the dog that caught the car…
The Number Ones: New Kids On The Block’s “Hangin’ Tough”
According to one of our preferred musical sources: When the New Kids On The Block recorded “Hangin’ Tough,” the title track from their sophomore album, nobody really thought of the group a…
The Number Ones: Gloria Estefan’s “Don’t Wanna Lose You”
According to one of our preferred musical sources:As a teenager, Gloria García got up to sing a couple of songs with her cousin at a wedding in Miami…