94.5 WZOU Playlist from 19 years ago (2/23/91)

[Retro]

Now I may as well jump in and annoy people with this playlist too:

Source: Billboard Magazine, 2/23/91

Rank = TW/LW
A = Add
EX = Extra(?)

EX/EX Wilson Phillips "You're In Love"-------------Yes
EX/EX Susanna Hoffs "My Side Of The Bed"--- No
A/-- Robert Palmer "Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)/I Want You"----Yes
30/EX Rick Astley "Cry For Help"----Yes
A29/-- Vanilla Ice "I Love You"---No
A28/-- Another Bad Creation "Iesha"----Yes
27/29 George Michael "Mother's Pride"--No
26/30 Enigma "Sadeness Part 1"___Yes
25/28 Janet Jackson "State Of The World"__No
24/27 Lisette Melendez "Together Forever"---Yes
23/25 Urban Dance Squad "Deeper Shade Of Soul"---Yes
22/26 Tevin Campbell "Round And Round"--Yes
21/24 Pebbles "Love Makes Things Happen"--NO
A20/-- Chris Isaak "Wicked Game"--Yes
19/21 After 7 "Heat Of The Moment"--Should remember, but don't
18/23 Sting "All This Time"----Yes
17/22 Stevie B "I'll Be By Your Side"--Yes
16/20 Gloria Estefan "Coming Out Of The Dark"---Yes
15/18 George Michael "Waiting For That Day"---Yes
14/9 INXS "Disappear"_Yes
13/8 Vanilla Ice "Play That Funky Music" ---Yes
12/16 Tara Kemp "Hold You Tight"--Yes
11/5 Keith Sweat "I'll Give All My Love To You"-No
10/14 LL Cool J "Around The Way Girl"---Yes
9/12 Celine Dion "Where Does My Heart Beat Now" --Yes
8/10 Warrant "I Saw Red"--Yes
7/3 Oleta Adams "Get Here" ----Yes
6/11 Mariah Carey "Someday" --Yes
5/7 Madonna "Rescue Me"--Yes
4/2 Surface "The First Time"---Yes
3/6 Timmy -T- "One More Try"---Yes
2/4 Whitney Houston "All The Man That I Need"---Yes
1/1 C & C Music Factory "Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)"___Yes

Oh WZOU, the good old days. Steve Perun ran a very balanced CHR station. Kiss was very tight under Steve Rivers, and still more Rhythmic than 'ZOU.

Did I spell anyone's name wrong? I apologize in advance if I did.

 

[paulcano]

This is an awesome playlist.

Completely agree! Even the lame tunes at that time like the Wilson Phillips were better than any Top 40 crap today. Of course, this was at a time when I was a young pre-teen with my ear tied to the radio.

What a great mix of dance, pop, rock, and urban (love that New Jack Swing!!).

And look at that, Lisette Melendez "Together Forever". Got that 12" single next to me.

 

[paulcano]

7/3 Oleta Adams "Get Here"

^ Does anyone remember the "custom mixes" that stations used to play of this song during the Gulf War? (Military personnel sending greetings to their loved ones back home)... I recall a bunch of stations here in Boston, and around the country doing this...

Yes!! I was just thinking about that 3 days ago! A couple months back I heard the song and my wife mentioned "oh I remember this" and I was mentioning the custom versions with the phone calls.

 

[paulcano]

Wow, that's awesome! I thought Stevie B was a one-hit wonder with "Because I Love You (The Postman Song)."

Hah! No. He is one of the most successful dance acts from Miami. He had about 10 singles between 1987 and 1992 and 5 or 6 of them were HUGE hits. Spring Love, Party Your Body, Love and Emotion are just a few.

 

[paulcano]

A couple months ago (I live in San Diego now) I was in the car listening to the radio (Magic 92.5).  They're an "old school" station that somehow manages to play the same 20 songs (from a catalog of 40 years, imagine that).  However, they pulled this one out of their library and complete blind sided me and brought me back to the days when my ear was glued to WZOU from 1989 to 1992...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFvlKVzq810

Surface - The First Time....

I started having childhood flashbacks.