It’s time for another edition of Mr. Romance’s Top 10 Countdown Show, a look back at the 10 most popular songs on the Adult Contemporary chart for the week of July 9, 1988. Click here if you missed last week’s show featuring 1997.
Get ready for pop culture, trivia and all your lite hits that might just bring back some memories or maybe you’ll discover some new soft rock favorites.
Top 10 Countdown Show Pop Culture
The year was 1988: The lights went on for the first time at Chicago’s Wrigley Field, which had been the only Major League Baseball park where night games were not played.
At the movies, you were watching
Who framed Roger Rabbit
Coming to America
Rain Man
On television:
The Cosby Show
Roseanne
A Different World
And, 37 years ago, the Discovery Channel debuted Shark Week…the annual event is still going strong.
Top 10 Countdown Show Trivia Question
The American Film Institute, includes this film on its list, 100 Years…100 Laughs, as one of the funniest movies in American cinema. Raking in over $50 Million, Sports Illustrated ranked it the #1 Greatest Sports Movie of All Time. Written in about 12 weeks and filmed in 58 days, can you guess our mystery film? Take a listen to the show below for the answer.
Song Spotlight
REO Speedwagon celebrated an unexpected return to the Billboard rock charts in 2020 thanks to a cameo on the Netflix drama Ozark. The band was featured in the season 3 episode titled Kevin Cronin Was Here – named after REO’s lead singer. And in 1988 REO release their Greatest Hits album that sold 4 million in the US. And from it a new song that enters our chart at #43 this week: Here with Me
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Sit back, relax and enjoy your favorite love songs from the week of July 9, 1988.
An avid record collector, lover of all desserts and sometimes seen wearing multiple Swatch watches, Dave has been lending his voice for over 20 years heard on such prominent brands as Intel, RCA, Eddie Bauer, Kellogg‘s, Pizza Hut, Lexus, and infomercial giants Guthy-Renker and Beachbody. His narration projects include Japan’s preeminent automobile series Best Motoring International and Hot Version, along with GTChannel, QVC, Universal Music Enterprises, and ViSalus Sciences.