Billy Vera and the Beaters - "At This Moment"

In 1987, number 1 this week in the US charts was Billy Vera and the Beaters with the song "At this Moment". Don't ask me what it was, I have no clue! But here is a live version of it:

YouTube was forced by MTV to remove its video, so the only video I found is one sung by Tom Jones and actually that's at least as good! Click the following link to watch it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEnqHAELL94

Though I might be wrong, I'm quite sure this song never reached Europe and even in the US, its success was not that easy...

Actually the song was written in the seventies already, but no one wanted to record it! The song was only recorder 10 years later and even then it stay quite unknown... So how come this song finally reached the top?!? Thanks to television's magic!

In 1982 started the show that will reveal Michael J.Fox : "Family Ties". The success of this show will grow up from year to year until 1989. One day the producer asked to use the song in one of the episodes... In 1986's first show, the song is used where Michael J.Fox loses his girlfriend... and that's exactly what the song is about! NBC received tons of mails asking details about that song. And that's the way this song finally hit the top of US charts.

Nevertheless, this success didn't really help Billy Vera and the Beaters to become real big stars... Since then, they continue to do what they were doing before and that they really like, I mean play in L.A. area clubs where they still have their loyal lovers...

Steve "Silk" Hurley - "Jack Your Body"

Last week in januray '87 and first week in february '87, Steve "Silk" Hurley was number one in UK charts... Who? Steve "Silk" Hurley and his hit "Jack Your Body". The best is probably to watch the sample below to see if it's remind you something...

Even if this song might appear insignificant, that was quite a "revolution" as it was the first "house" song to reach the top of the charts and this opened the way for the next music style: "acid music"...

If, as for me, this name doesn't ring a bell, we probably have some excuses as this was Steve's unique big hit... But Steve was and still is first and foremost a great DJ... What he does best are remixes and arrangements on others' songs... And on that side of the job, the least we can say is he worked with the best! Just have a look at some stars he worked for: Michael Jackson ("Jam", "Remember The Time") - Prince ("Get Off") - Janet Jackson ("Runaway") - Madonna ("Take a Bow") - Mary J.Blige - Jennifer Lopez - and many others...

So, it's a good name to recall to show-off as an expert at your next party! :-))

"New" videos now available!

YouTube is really amazing! It really looks like all the greatest hits from the eighties can be found there...

I've updated all my old posts to add the videos I was talking about. I've added around 15 of them and I've really had a good time watching and listen to those!

I hope you'll enjoy the ride too... and from now on, I'm looking forward to help you remember number ones from 1987!

What's new in here ?!?

Soooooooooooo I'm finally back to this blog more than a year after my last post!

What happened during that year... well, lot of things of course, but there are 2 things that make me coming back to this blog:

- The new and improved Blogger version.
- The ability to post YouTube videos on this blog.

Those 2 things should greatly improved this blog, our memory might forget some songs or videos but it seems that all of them can now be found on YouTube... So stay tune, and this time I hope, I'm back for good! :-)

Lionel Richie's "Say You, Say Me"

Pet Shop Boys' "West End Girls"

Shakin's Stevens' "Merry Christmas Everyone"

Whitney Houston - Saving All My Love (Grammy Awards 1986)