American Top 40-5/7/88

[Lee]

American Top 40 With Casey Kasem-May 7 1988:
40.Endless Summer Nights-Richard Marx
39.Nightime-Pretty Poison
38.Ritual-Dan Reed Network
37.I'm Still Searching-Glass Tiger
36.Foolish Beat-Debbie Gibson
35.I Still Believe-Brenda K. Starr
34.Rocket 2 U-Jets
33.Make It Real-Jets
32.We All Sleep Alone-Cher
31.Man In The Mirror-Michael Jackson
30.Circle In The Sand-Belinda Carlisle
29.One Good Reason-Paul Carrack
28.Strange But True-Times Two
27.Say It Again-Jermaine Stewart
26.My Girl-Suave
25.Together Forever-Rick Astley
24.Dreaming-Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
23.I Wish I Had A Girl-Henry Lee Summer
22.Pamela-Toto
21.Everything Your Heart Desires-Daryl Hall John Oates
20.I Saw Him Standing There-Tiffany
19.One Step Up-Bruce Springsteen
18.Piano In The Dark-Brenda Russell Featuring Joe Esposito
17.Girlfriend-Pebbles
16.Two Occasions-Deele
15.Get Outta My Dreams, Get Into My Car-Billy Ocean
14.One More Try-George Michael
13.Wait-White Lion
12.Devil Inside-INXS
11.I Don't Want To Live Without You-Foreigner
10.Naughty Girls(Need Love Too)-Samantha Fox
9.Electric Blue-Icehouse
8.Shattered Dreams-Johnny Hates Jazz
7.Prove Your Love-Taylor Dayne
6.Always On My Mind-Pet Shop Boys
5.Pink Cadillac-Natalie Cole
4.Where Do Broken Hearts Go-Whitney Houston
3.Angel-Aerosmith
2.Anything For You-Gloria Estefan & Miami Sound Machine
1.Wishing Well-Terence Trent D'Arby

[vashti1999]

Originally posted by webwarrior762002
American Top 40 With Casey Kasem-May 7 1988:

1.Wishing Well-Terence Trent D'Arby

Seriously underrated talent. Gifted singer /songwriter /producer /musician /live performer.

[jamesanthony]

Originally posted by vashti1999
Seriously underrated talent. Gifted singer /songwriter /producer /musician /live performer.

Terence Trent D'Arby had a big ego I remember. He vanished after just one album.

Looking back at the list it is amazing how many of these people either outright couldn't sing or had very thin voices or were just saddled with very unmemorable to poor material. This stuff hasn't aged well at all. The few I like or have liked for one reason or another are:

Endless Summer Nights- his voice is very grating but the melody is pleasant enough

I Still Believe- I liked this a lot in 1988, but in reflection her performance is way too overwrought, like she's having a tooth extracted at the dentist without novocaine

Make it Real- I liked it then, but it is very boring to hear now

Man in the Mirror- easily one of his best tunes as an adult (one of the very few if you ask me), but more so because of the quality of the songwriting and the background vocals etc. It succeeds in spite of Michael Jackson's usual hyena vocals

Everything Your Heart Desires- even on a relatively throwaway number they sound good. To me their best 80s single.

Piano In the Dark- I was a HUGE fan of this in 1988, bit in hindsight it is not so special. Wish they'd have given the guy singing in the background more to do. He's the guy from Donna Summer's Heaven Knows in1979 and is a much better singer than Brenda Russell whose vocals are a bit too tinny sounding.

I Don't Want to Live Without You- another song I loved in 1988. This one hasn't fallen off in my mind as much as Piano or I Still Believe, but is not excellence either. Very simple tune that is OK

Shattered Dreams- a lot better than I first thought but not a classic

Get Out of My Dreams, Get Into My Car- this song is very comical and Ocean's vocals are very boombastic like Rick Astley's

Where Do Broken Hearts Go- maybe the best record in this list, but it has a very plastic feeling to it, like it is lacking something. This was during Whitney's ultra pop period

[ptcruiserfan2004]

Wow, that's a great list!

Even the bad songs on that list top what passes for music these days. Even the rap music (which I never liked much) back then is better than today's rap, which usually involves money, Escalades (or H2s) on "dubs," ho's (their words not mine...), and stupid slang words like "thurr" for "there."

I yearn for those days back (even though I was only in 3rd grade in '88).

[Dean Winchester]

Originally posted by ptcruiserfan2004
Wow, that's a great list!

Even the bad songs on that list top what passes for music these days. Even the rap music (which I never liked much) back then is better than today's rap, which usually involves money, Escalades (or H2s) on "dubs," ho's (their words not mine...), and stupid slang words like "thurr" for "there."

I yearn for those days back (even though I was only in 3rd grade in '88).

I agree with all of that, and I was in the third grade in 88 too, lol.

My fave songs on the list are WE ALL SLEEP ALONE by Cher and WISHING WELL by Terrence Trent D'Arby. I personally think had he come out a few years later, he would've been more appreciated

[Brian]

My favorite songs from that list are Electric Blue and The Devil Inside. I'd hear both of those often on my once favorite but now defunct 80s station.