Don’s Top 10 From December 28, 1989

(#4 last week) A platinum single, this peaked at #4 nationally, but we made it a 3-week local #1 hit. The song was originally a cappella on their album, but a remixed version featuring instruments was the single.

(#14 last week) Congratulations to Lou, who was inducted into the Songwriter's Hall Of Fame in 2013. A native of upstate New York, Gramm first played with a band called Black Sheep, which actually scored a recording contract but had no hits.

(#21 last week) Tom Waits wrote & first recorded it, many artists have covered it (Bob Seger, Everything But The Girl, Patty Smyth, Mary Chapin-Carpenter, among others), but Rod Stewart had by far the biggest. Grammy-nominated for Best Male Pop Vocal. That's Jeff Bweck on slide guitar.

(#5 last week) Written in 1980 by the classic songwriting team of Barry Mann & Cynthia Weil, & recorded by such artists as Bill Medley & Bette Midler, it took this version for it to become a classic. Didn't know at the time this would be Linda's last top 5 hit. Co-produced by Peter Asher (Peter & Gordon).

(#11 last week) The second of seven top 5 national pop chart singles from the "Rhythm Nation 1814" album. The video has been voted many awards over the years & made both MTV & VH1's lists of the 100 Greatest Videos Of All Time..

(#8 last week) Considering how hot Dayne's (real name: Leslie Wunderman) career was going from 1987 to 1990, it's puzzling that she never really had a big comeback on pop radio. She has, however, never stopped getting played in dance clubs, where she had top 10 hits as recently as 2011.

(#10 last week) In 2013, Michael Bolton's name was on everyone's lips again, due to those always-on Honda radio & TV commercials. Is that a good thing? I leave it to you to judge, dear reader & listener.

(#1 last week) Talk about a history lesson in under 4 minutes! One of Billy's biggest hits, it's gotten very little airplay since. Maybe radio considers this a novelty (Joel himself does). Undeniably catchy, though. Turns out Joel is a history nut who wanted to teach the subject.

(#3 last week) David Crosby does backing vocals here, & joined Phil to perform it at the Grammy Awards, where it won Record Of The Year. Muisically, eh, but lyrically, an important song on the subject of homelessness.

(#2 last week; 1st week at #1) Here it is, the last local #1 hit of the 80s! It peaked nationally at #2, but not until mid-January of 1990. Important historically as the first "house music" song to crossover to the pop market. The group was a Belgian studio band fronted by vocalist Ya Kid K. They had two other big hits, ":Get Up!" & "Move Over".