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 21, 1993. Click here if you missed last week’s show featuring 2001.
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 1993:
The Pentium computer processor was released.
Robert James Waller’s The Bridges of Madison County was the #1 best seller in fiction.
And The Food Network premiered.
At the movies, you were watching
Jurassic Park
Mrs. Doubtfire
Sleepless in Seattle
On television:
Grace Under Fire
Home Improvement
Seinfeld
And Late Night with Conan O’Brien premiered on NBC, as Conan replaced David Letterman as host.
Top 10 Countdown Show Trivia Question
In 1993, after selling approximately 40 million records worldwide, this 27-year-old English artist retired. Well, until 2000. And since 2007 he and his music are still going strong in popular culture. The video for his first #1 has been viewed more than a billion times, placing it as the 4th song from the 80s to reach this milestone along with Michael Jackson’s Billie Jean, Take on Me by A-ha, and Sweet Child of Mine by Guns N’ Roses. Can you guess this mystery artist? Take a listen to the show below for the answer.
Song Spotlight
Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith formed Tears for Fears in 1981 in England and attained international chart success for much of the 80s with hits like Shout, Everybody Wants to Rule the World, and Sowing the Seeds of Love, but in 1991 the two parted ways.
A couple of years later Roland, still using the name Tears for Fears, released the album Elemental and upon its release Rolling Stone magazine gave the album a positive review with four out of five stars stating “Even with one Tear for Fear subtracted from the mix, the lush sound of Tears for Fears continues to improve.” And the big hit from that album is on the move up the charts, this week at #29: Break it Down Again.
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Sit back, relax and enjoy your favorite love songs from the week of August 21, 1993.
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.