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 December 19, 1987. Click here if you missed last week’s show featuring 1976.
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 1987:
Red M&Ms were back in the marketplace after being banned for 11 years.
At the movies, you were watching
Lethal Weapon
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3
Platoon
On television:
The Cosby Show
Cheers
Golden Girls
and Married…with Children, Full House and 21 Jump Street all made their debuts
Top 10 Countdown Show Trivia Question
On April 10, 1987, Fox debuted The Tracey Ullman Show, a primetime variety show. Rolling Stone ranked the four season series 25th in its 40 Greatest Sketch-Comedy TV Shows of All Time. But what you may not have remembered, the show produced a series of animated shorts about a Midwest family that is the longest running American animated series and the longest running American sitcom. Do you which TV show this is? Take a listen to the show below for the answer.
Song Spotlight
Just three weeks ago, Christine McVie passed away after a brief illness. A member of several bands in the mid-60s, she began playing with Fleetwood Mac in 1968, initially as a contract session player, before formally joining the band in 1970. Then, emerging as a songwriter by 1971, with her first composition appearing on her fourth album with the group. Fast forward to their 14th album Tango in the Night in 1987, Christine wrote one of the group’s biggest hits that would go on to hit #1 in just a few weeks. For now, in its third week on the chart Everywhere is at #17.
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Sit back, relax and enjoy your favorite love songs from the week of December 19, 1987.
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.