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 August 18, 2001. Click here if you missed last week’s show featuring 1986.
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 2001: The Apple iPod was released and and during its 21 year run sold more than 450 million units before being discontinued earlier this year.
At the movies, you were watching
Moulin Rouge!
Shrek
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
On television:
The Cosby Show
Family Ties
Cheers
And in 2001, Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, was launched.
Top 10 Countdown Show Trivia Question
Sesame Street, The Muppets, Fraggle Rock. With television shows and feature films, the 80s loved the characters and worlds created by Jim Henson and The Jim Henson Studio. In 1986, with Jim Henson as director and George Lucas as executive producer, Terry Jones wrote a film based on the conceptual designs of Brian Froud. Like The Wizard of Oz, this story follows a young girl’s adventure in a strange world. Sarah trying to find her way back home after rescuing her infant half-brother. Can you guess our mystery film? Take a listen to the show below for the answer.
Song Spotlight
Train lead singer Pat Monahan stated that this song was inspired by his late mother, who had died after a struggle with cancer, and that the opening lines “came to him in a dream.”
He told VH1’s Behind the Music: “The process of creation wasn’t easy. I just couldn’t figure out what to write, but then I woke up from a dream about a year after my mother passed away with the words ‘back in the atmosphere’…It was just her way of saying what it was like – she was swimming through the planets and came to me with drops of Jupiter in her hair. Spending over a year on the chart hitting a peak position of #8. Drops Of Jupiter is up 4 this week to #22.
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Sit back, relax and enjoy your favorite love songs from the week of August 18, 2001.
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.