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 9, 1986. Click here if you missed last week’s show featuring 1979.
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 1986: American Girl Dolls, Cool Ranch Doritos and The Legend of Zelda game all made their debut.
At the movies, you were watching
Top Gun
Crocodile Dundee
Platoon
On television:
The Cosby Show
Family Ties
Cheers
Flashing forward to April of 2022, more than 30 years after Top Gun’s original release, Paramount Pictures released Top Gun: Maverick. Tom Cruise as Maverick returns to confront his past while training the new Top Gun graduates. Val Kilmer also reprised his role as Iceman.
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
It was Monkees’ Mania in 1986 as their comeback single and theme of their 20th Anniversary Tour was handpicked by Clive Davis of Arista Records for their compilation album Then & Now… The Best of The Monkees which went platinum during the tour. The video to the song which was filmed at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson, New Jersey received heavy airplay on MTV, helping it reach much success on the charts. This week, it’s up four to #24: That Was Then, This Is Now
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Sit back, relax and enjoy your favorite love songs from the week of August 9, 1986.
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.