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 July 27, 1991. Click here if you missed last week’s show featuring 2006.
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 1991:
The World Wide Web was launched to the public.
People Magazine’s Sexiest Man Alive was Patrick Swayze.
And Baseball officially banned Pete Rose from being elected into the Hall of Fame.
At the movies, you were watching
Terminator 2
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
And Beauty & the Beast
On television:
Cheers
Roseanne
And Murphy Brown
For holidays and birthdays, kids wanted Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles action figures, Rollerblade Barbie, and the Super Soaker.
Top 10 Countdown Show Trivia Question
The same year a psychological thriller adapted from a 1988 novel became the third film after It Happened One Night and One Flew Over the Cuckoo ‘s Nest to win the top five categories at the Oscars: Best Picture; Best Director; Best Actor; Best Actress; and Best Adapted Screenplay. The American Film Institute ranked it the fifth-greatest and most influential thriller film and the U.S. Library of Congress preserved it with the National Film Registry in 2011. Can you guess this mystery film? Take a listen to the show below for the answer.
Song Spotlight
After reading that James Taylor overcame writer’s block by going to a place he had never been, Marc Cohn visited Memphis to overcome a bout of his own writer’s block. He visited the church where soul singer Al Green was preaching, Elvis Presley’s former home of Graceland, and a small nightclub in nearby Mississippi, as well as wandering various streets of downtown Memphis. Marc returned to New York and began composing a song that would earn him a 1992 Grammy nomination for Song of the Year. Spending 24 weeks on the chart, Walking In Memphis.
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Sit back, relax and enjoy your favorite love songs from the week of July 27, 1991.
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.