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 April 16, 1983. Click here if you missed last week’s show featuring 1999.
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
At the movies, you were watching
Return of the Jedi
Flashdance
And Tom Cruise in Risky Business
On television:
Dallas
60 Minutes
The A-Team
And an estimated 125 million people watched the final TV episode of M*A*S*H
Top 10 Countdown Show Trivia Question
In the summer of 1983, a Nintendo arcade game was released in Japan which initially was labeled as the third game in the Donkey Kong series. When this iconic game came out it was a modest success in arcades, but after being released as a cartridge for Nintendo and Atari, it went on to sell nearly 4 million cartridges worldwide making it one of the best-selling games of 1983. Do you know which video game that was? Take a listen to the show below for the answer.
Song Spotlight
In 1982, the Culture Club released their debut album Kissing to Be Clever and thanks to its international breakthrough hit single, Do You Really Want to Hurt Me, the album sold 4 million copies worldwide including over 1 million in the U.S. The second single made its debut this week back in 1983 at #36 and would spend 19 weeks on the charts eventually peaking at #6: Time (Clock Of The Heart)
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Sit back, relax and enjoy your favorite love songs from the week of April 16, 1983.
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.