Can you name the artist and song:
I know you understand
The little child inside the man
Please remember my life is in your hands
Last Song: “Out of the Blue” by Debbie Gibson from the album Out of the Blue (1988)
Great job Diane, Melanie (@melanieofoz), and Colleen (@ColleenIrishRo1)!!!
Suddenly my world has changed
And I just wonder why
All it took was just one smile
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Can you name the artist and song:
To make those rainbows in my mind
When I think of you sometime
And I wanna spend some time with you
Last Song: “Lost in Your Eyes” by Debbie Gibson from the album Electric Youth (1989)
Great job Melanie (@melanieofoz)!!!
I just fell, don’t know why
Something’s there we can’t deny
And when I first knew
Was when I first looked at you
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Welcome back to this week’s countdown! If you still need to see what the previous songs were, you can check out songs 40-31, and 30-21. I would also like to point out that T.G. Monahan and I started a new Return to the ’80s series called, Return to 1989. This will be a monthly series, going through all the news events, movies, and music from 30 years ago. So, if you’d like to Return to the glory days of 1989, you can check out our inaugural episode about January 1989.
Now, let’s Return to the week ending February 11, 1989, and continue this week’s countdown.
And don’t forget, you can click on the song title to listen to/watch the video on YouTube, and you can click on the album cover to get the song from Amazon.
That wraps up today’s songs. I’d love to hear what you think so far. We will wrap up the top 10 songs of the week, on Friday.
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Welcome to a new podcast series called, Return to 1989. Inspired by T.G Monahan’s Dreamin’ in ’89
– Jan 8 “42nd Street” closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 3,486 performances and “Starlight Express” closes at Gershwin Theater NYC after 761 performances
– Jan 9 “Pat Sajak Show” premieres on CBS
The Pat Sajak Show is an American late-night television talk show which aired on CBS from January 9, 1989 to April 13, 1990.
– Jan 10 LA Kings center Wayne Gretzky becomes NHL’s all-time leading scorer in combined regular season & playoff points; 4 assists in 5-4 home win over Edmonton brings his total to 2,011, 1 more than Gordie Howe.
– Jan 13 “Ryan’s Hope” ends 13½ year run on ABC-TV
– Jan 20 George H. W. Bush inaugurated as 41st US President, Dan Quayle becomes 44th Vice President
– Jan 22 Super Bowl XXIII, Joe Robbie Stadium, Miami, FL: San Francisco 49ers beat Cincinnati Bengals, 20-16; MVP: Jerry Rice, SF, WR
– Jan 28 46th Golden Globes: “Rain Man”, Dustin Hoffman, & Jodie Foster win
Gleaming the Cube
DeepStar Six
The January Man
No Retreat, No Surrender 2
Parents
Physical Evidence
Three Fugitives
January 9 A Show of Hands – Rush
January 10 New York – Lou Reed
January 23 Oh Yes I Can – David Crosby
Lōc-ed After Dark – Tone Lōc
January 24 Electric Youth – Debbie Gibson
Skid Row – Skid Row
January 25 After the War – Gary Moore
January 30 Fabulous Disaster – Exodus
Technique – New Order
January 31 Life Is…Too Short – Too Short
Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich – Warrant
If you’d like to contact Todd, and/or order the book, he can be reached in the following places:
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Amazon: Dreamin’ in ’89: A Novel
Twitter: @tgmonahan
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Facebook: Author TG Monagan
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Can you name the artist and song:
All those who remember the war
They won’t forget what they’ve seen
Destruction of men in their prime
Last Song: “Foolish Beat” by Debbie Gibson from the album Out of the Blue (1988)
Great job Bryan (@BryanBoo29)!!!
But now is a new time
There is a new place
Where dreams just can’t come true
It started the day when I left you
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Can you name the artist and song:
Well I’m heavenly blessed and worldly wise
I’m a peeping-tom techie with x-ray eyes
Last Song: “Foolish Beat” by Debbie Gibson from the album Out of the Blue (1988)
There was a place where
All you could do was wish on a four-leaf clover
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Can you name the artist and song:
Crushed velvet seats
Riding in the back, oozing down the street
Waving to the girls, peeling out of sight
Last Song: “Only In My Dreams
Great job, Andy (@Torahguy)!!!
Now I see I’m up to no good (no, no good)
And I wanna start again
Can’t remember when I felt good (felt good baby)
No I can’t remember when
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Here is another Remember That Song submission from another faithful member of the Return to the ’80s gang – bierpumpe from https://bierpumpe.wordpress.com/
Can you name the artist and song:
And I’m lookin’ in the mirror all the time
Wondering what she don’t see in me, I’ve been funny
I’ve been cool with the lines
Ain’t that the way love supposed to be
Last Song: “Foolish Beat” by Debbie Gibson from Out of the Blue (1987)
Happy birthday to Debbie Gibson who turned 46 yesterday, and is exactly 2 days older than me! Oh shit. Seeing that in print makes me realize that 50 is quickly approaching! Ugh!
There was a place where all you could do was wish on a four-leaf clover
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Can you name the artist and song:
Baby when you’re loving me
I feel like I could cry
‘Cause there’s nothing I can do
To keep from loving you
Last Song: “Electric Youth” by Debbie Gibson from the album Electric Youth (1989) in honor of Debbie Gibson’s 45 birthday yesterday.
Thanks to Andy (@andytorah) for picking this one out!
Don’t lose sight of potential mastermind
Remember when you were young
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Growing up, some of my favorite bands were AC/DC, Def Leppard, Journey, Kiss, Quiet Riot, Van Halen, Ozzy, and Judas Priest. So naturally, the first concert I ever went to was….Debbie Gibson!! Ah yes, the Out of the Blue tour!
Debbie Gibson may have been a teen-queen, but unlike the teen queens of today, she actually had talent.
Her debut album, Out Of The Blue was a huge success. Four singles from the album reached the top 5 of the Billboard charts: Only in My Dreams”, “Shake Your Love”, “Out Of The Blue”, and the # 1 hit “Foolish Beat”. “Foolish Beat” set a record for Gibson, making her (at 17) the youngest artist ever to write, produce, and perform a Billboard # 1 single, as entered in the 1988 Guinness Book of World Records, and she remains the youngest female artist to write, record, and perform a #1 single to date.
There was no sophomore slump for Ms. Gibson. The Electric Youth album spent five weeks at #1 on Billboard’s Top 200 Album Chart. The first single released, “Lost in Your Eyes”, was #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for three weeks, which gave Debbie another achievement with both the Electric Youth album and the single “Lost In Your Eyes” simultaneously at #1. She shared ASCAP Songwriter of the Year Award 1989 with Bruce Springsteen. She had other hits on the Electric Youth album, but not as big: Electric Youth (#11), No More Rhyme (#17) and We Could Be Together (#71).
However, just like Tiffany, Debbie’s popularity dwindled at the dawn of the dreaded ’90s. In 1995, she released the very underrated album Think With Your Heart. In the meantime, Gibson has starred in some Broadway shows, such as Les Misérables, Beauty and the Beast, Gypsy, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, and Grease.
Like Tiffany, Debbie posed in Playboy, and has also appeared in some reality/competition shows over recent years. In January 2006, she joined the cast of Skating with Celebrities on Fox Television, partnered with former Canadian World Champion figure skater Kurt Browning. She was voted out in the third episode. On January 6, 2008 Gibson appeared on Deal or No Deal along with Corey Feldman as part of an ’80s special.
“Mega Python vs. Gatoroid” is not Debbie Gibson’s first foray into cheesy sci-fi movies. She co-starred with actor Lorenzo Lamas in “Mega Shark Versus Giant Octopus” which was released on May 19, 2009 (and is also airing again earlier tomorrow at 5:00pm Eastern).
The one that started it all. You could tell that Debbie Gibson would become a star. She was cute and had a very good voice. This video is from the tour where I saw her:
Another very good song from her debut album. It was a welcom change after hearing so much of “Only In My Dreams” and “Shake Your Love”.
These are pretty good songs from the Electric Youth album. They both have a similar sound, but they are both good.
Again, I saw her do this in the concert I was at. Wow, it feels like yesterday!
Great ballad from the Think With Your Heartalbum. This is a very emotional sad song.
Debbie did an outstanding job on this remake on her Think With Your Heartalbum. I think this is one of the better versions.
The first dance song off of the album of the same name. Very awesome upbeat song.
This song came out around the same time that she appeared in Playboy. The song isn’t about Playboy, or posing naked though. It is a very good adult contemporary song. I can listen to this over and over.
My favorite song from Think With Your Heart. You can tell that Debbie put a lot of feeling into this.
This song was just released, and I can’t get enough of it! It is a great upbeat song with an Indian sound to it:
By far, this is Debbie Gibson’s best song. It stands the test of time.
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