There’s a site called Grab.it TV that has collected the top 20 music videos from every week starting when MTV debuted all the way through Napster. If you go to the site you can check out what the most popular videos were for any week of significance to you in this time period and click on the links to watch these.
For example, my wife and I were married on October 10, 1986 (the week of October 4), and by checking out that week I re-discovered that the number one video just so happened to be “Happy to Be Stuck With You” by Huey Lewis & the News.
Not only that, but the weekly top 20 also included “Friends & Lovers” by Gloria Long & Carl Anderson, “When I Think of You” by Janet Jackson, “Two of Hearts” by Stacey Q, and “Love Zone” by Billy Ocean. There was also a song by my wife’s favorite actor at the time, “Heartbeat” from Don Johnson.
Also on the charts was “Heaven in Your Eyes” by the appropriately named Loverboy, “Take My Breath Away” by Berlin and “A Matter of Trust” by Billy Joel.
That was certainly an auspicious beginning for us, even if the list that week included “Throwing it all Away” by Genesis, “Walk This Way” by Run DMC/Aerosmith and “Didn’t Mean to Turn You On” by Robert Palmer!
Hey NW, thanks so much for the nostalgia!! As a teen ager that year, my room was a veritable shrine to Huey Lewis &the News!!
A bit of trivia: Huey’s girlfriend in the “Stuck With You” video is today married to actor Pierce Brosnan.
OK, so listening to classic rock and oldie stations have pretty much kept me out of the loop on current music. I had no clue who would have been hot the week that MM and I got married—Jan 8, 1994.
Mariah Carey was #1. Then there were other names such as: Michael Bolton, Snoop Dog, Toni Braxton, Janet Jackson, and some others that I’ve never even heard of. Brian Adams was the only performer that I would have heard music by back then.
I think they should come out with an all Lynard Skynard station. I’d listen to that.