THE MAJOR'S MASSIVE MEMORIES

A VAST COLLECTION OF CLASSIC HIT SONGS REPRESENTING 21 YEARS OF GREAT MEMORIES FOR MAJOR HITWAVES

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PK	WKS	PTS	YRS	SONG TITLE & COMMENTS	ARTIST / SITE
2	15	353	1988 & 1989	Another Lover Colin Campsie & George McFarlane were the British duo known as Giant Steps, and back in late-1988 they scored this huge U.S. TOP 15 smash. You may remember it. The chorus went something like this: The world don't need "Another Lover". Now it's got you. Now it's got me. The world don't need "Another Lover". Cuz our love's more than the whole world needs.	Giant Steps
12	18	305	1988 & 1989	Armageddon It Def Leppard released their "Hysteria" album in August 1987, and out of the 12 tracks on it 7 were released as singles with 6 of them becoming U.S. TOP 20 hits. That just doesn't happen anymore here in the 21ST Century. Talk about a "Greatest Hits" collection - it's all right here on this one album. It kept Def Leppard busy on the U.S. pop charts for about 21 months clear into May 1989. This 6TH single from "Hysteria" was my favourite song from my favourite rock album from one of my favourite rock groups of all-time !	Def Leppard
1	14	361	1988 & 1989	Bad Medicine I've been a Bon Jovi fan for nearly 20 years now. Most Bon Jovi fans would probably pick "Slippery When Wet" as their favourite Bon Jovi album of all-time, but not me. I pick their follow-up album "New Jersey" as my all-time favourite. It contained 5 U.S. TOP 10 singles on it including two of my favourites - "Born To Be My Baby" and "I'll Be There For You" (a near MASSIVE Memory). But the single I officially pick to be a MASSIVE memory is this lead-off single that kicked things off for this hard rockin' album. It soared to the top of the U.S. pop charts in November 1988, and then it did the same on our pop chart a couple of weeks later.	Bon Jovi
1	13	293	1988	Do You Love Me ? The Contours out of Detroit Michigan enjoyed some success during the 1960s, but only 1 of their songs was a hit - twice. This was their debut smash during the final 5 months of 1962 when it hit # 3 on the U.S. pop chart. 26 years later during the Summer Of 1988 - fueled by the "Dirty Dancing" rage of the time - it was reissued as a single at the stores and on the radio, and it soared to # 11 nationwide - and # 1 here on our chart.	The Contours
26	4	42	1988	Fantasy Girl This was a club smash during the freestyle explosion of 1988, and there was no better place to experience it than Miami FL where WHQT HOT-105 was all over it.	Johnny O.
2	20	581	1988 & 1991	Get Outta My Dreams, Get Into My Car On a classic episode of "Yes, Dear" (CBS-TV) there was a funny scene where Greg Warner (played by Anthony Clark) was bragging about one of his mix tapes from his wild and crazy Spring Break days of 1988. When he slipped the tape into his portable cassette player, and he pushed play out came the chorus of "Get Outta My Dreams, Get Into My Car" !	Billy Ocean
10	6	162	1988 & 1989	Handle With Care As the legend goes Nelson (George Harrison), Otis (Jeff Lynne), Lefty (Roy Orbison), Lucky (Bob Dylan), and Charlie T. Jr. (Tom Petty) were half-brothers sired by the same father - Charles Truscott Wilbury. The Traveling Wilburys banded together to create some brilliant music, and this was their biggest hit. It reached # 45 in the U.S., # 21 in the U.K., and # 10 here on our chart.	The Traveling Wilburys
7	14	375	1988	I Saw Him Standing There Her first two songs - "I Think We're Alone Now" and "Could've Been" - went straight to # 1 on the national pop chart. This was her 3RD song, and it got to # 7 nationally as well as our own hit music chart at the time.	Tiffany
1	13	490	1988	I Should Be So Lucky Kylie Minogue shot straight onto our chart out of nowhere in April 1988 when this pure dance track debuted on our chart straight-in at # 1. It spent the next 9 weeks in a row at the top of our chart. It was the 1ST of 4 # 1 hits from her debut album. "I Should Be So Lucky", "Got To Be Certain", "The Loco-Motion", and "Je Ne Sais Pas Pourquoi" spent a combined 16 weeks at # 1 in 1988. "It's No Secret" also spent over a month stuck at # 3.	Kylie Minogue
6	13	213	1988 & 1989	It Takes Two Robert Ginyard (Rob Base) and DJ Rodney "Skip" Bryce (DJ E-Z Rock) took this dancehall anthem from 1988 straight to the TOP 10 on our chart. It sampled Lyn Collins' "Think (About It)" from 1972 (written / produced by James Brown). It takes two to make a thing go right. It takes two to make it outta sight ...	Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock
2	16	465	1988 & 1989	Kokomo The Beach Boys formed in 1961, and they enjoyed nearly 30 years of MASSIVE chart success here in the U.S. through the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. They scored 3 # 1 hits in 1964, 1965, and 1966. 22 years later in 1988 they scored a 4TH # 1 hit with this tropical delight. Places mentioned in this song (in alphabetical order): Aruba, Bahama, Bermuda, (off the) Florida Keys, Jamaica, Key Largo, ("Kokomo"), Martinique, Monserrat, Montego, Port Au Prince.	The Beach Boys
6	15	399	1988	Like A Child (At Play) Freestyle dance music ruled in 1988, and this was the biggest of them all. It spent 15 weeks on the chart including 12 weeks in the TOP 20. It was actually Noel's 2ND big hit, and the follow-up to "Silent Morning" which spent over 5 months on the Billboard HOT 100 towards the end of 1987 and into 1988.	Noel
3	25	671	1988 & 1989	My Prerogative Bobby Brown entered our chart with the biggest solo smash of his entire career during the 2ND weekend of November 1988. It spent 13 weeks in a row within our TOP 10 (eventually making it to # 3 for a couple of weeks in March 1989). Overall it spent 25 weeks on our chart through the end of April 1989. It finished the year as the # 7 smash overall in 1989. It was a # 1 smash on the U.S. pop chart in January 1989.	Bobby Brown
6	13	362	1988	Push It Salt (Cheryl James) N Pepa (Sandra Denton) with DJ Spinderella (Dee Dee Roper) scored their first hit ever early on in 1988. "Push it" spent nearly a half a year on the Billboard HOT 100. It spent 3 weeks in the TOP 10 here on our chart.	Salt-N-Pepa
7	9	214	1988	Rush Hour Belinda Carlisle wasn't the only former Go-Go who enjoyed a successful solo career. Guitarist Jane Wiedlin hit the U.S. TOP 10 with this smash from her "Fur" album that also included the follow-up single "Inside A Dream". That's exactly half as many TOP 10 hits (two) that The Go-Gos registered during their 3 years together. Jane was recently one of the occupants of "The Surreal Life" house on VH1.	Jane Wiedlin
2	22	581	1988 & 1991	Simply Irresistible Call it what you want. I call it a dance song, and back in the day Y-100 in South Florida made it sound practically techno in nature. Their extended remix of this pop smash kept us dancing to its raucous beat during much of the latter part of 1988. Are you still not sure if this should be classified as a dance song ? Perhaps you've forgotten the over-the-top action of its notorious music video !	Robert Palmer
1	7	234	1988	Somewhere In My Heart Aztec Camera were a Scottish band that enjoyed moderate success on the British pop charts for about a decade from 1983 to 1993. Their biggest hit by far occurred right in the middle of that span in 1988. This smash surged to # 3 in the U.K. during the Spring Of 1988, and it even hit # 1 on our own chart later that year. In 1990 Aztec Camera enjoyed some limited U.S. success with the back-to-back singles "The Crying Scene" and "Good Morning Britain".	Aztec Camera
17	14	187	1988 & 1991	Spring Love (Come Back To Me) This may actually be the most memorable freestyle dance smash of the time. Stevie B (Steven B. Hill) continued to release pop singles well into the 1990s.	Stevie B
11	6	104	1988	Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before The Smiths were only around for about 5 years during the 1980s, but they made the best of those 5 years by releasing a whole bunch of albums (8 - several of them compilations) and singles (17) off of those albums. During one 19-month stretch from the middle of 1986 through the end of 1987 they released 8 singles (about one every 2½ months). Most of these singles performed well on the U.K. charts - deep into the TOP 20 - but they were all short-lived (lasting about a month or so). This was one of their final singles from their album "Strangeways, Here We Come". It was an MTV video hit early on in 1988.	The Smiths
--	--	--	1988	Supersonic In this debut smash the trio from Los Angeles introduced themselves. They were J.J. Fad and they were there to rock. Rhymes like theirs could never be stopped. See there were three of them and you knew they were fresh. Party rockers, non-stoppers, and their names were def. See the 'J' was for 'Just' - the other for 'Jammin'. The 'F' was for 'Fresh' - 'A' - 'And' - 'D' - 'Def'. Behind the turntables was DJ Train. Mixin' and Scratchin' was the name of the game ... This was one of Dr. Dre's earliest works. He co-produced it along with the late Eazy-E.	J.J. Fad
2	16	450	1988 & 1989	The Promise If you were a big fan of the electronic dance era of the late-1980s (think The Pet Shop Boys, Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark, New Order, Depeche Mode, Erasure, Kon Kan, and Information Society) then this may just be one of your favourite songs of the era. It was actually an utter flop in their native U.K. (# 58 peak), but it was MASSIVE here in the U.S. as it hit the TOP 15 and spent 6 months on the HOT 100. It was even bigger here on our chart as it hit # 2 during the final weekend of January 1989.	When In Rome
1	8	224	1988	The Twist (Yo, Twist !) Brooklynites Mark 'Prince Markie Dee' Morales, Darren 'Buff the Human Beat Box' Robinson, and Damon 'Kool Rock-Ski' Wimbley were The Fat Boys. In 1983 they won a talent contest at Radio City Music Hall, and during the late-1980s they parlayed that success into a series of fun rap takes of classic hits from years gone by. This was their remake of Chubby Checker's enormous dance craze of the early-1960s, and Chubby himself fully participated in the recording and promoting of this new version for a new generation of twisters.	The Fat Boys With Chubby Checker
1	23	780	1988	Together Forever Rick Astley's 5TH consecutive TOP 3 smash on the U.K. chart was his 2ND # 1 smash in a row on the U.S. chart, as well as on our pop chart in 1988. Rick had to wait at # 2 for 6 weeks in a row before Kylie would give up the top spot to him.	Rick Astley
13	13	183	1988	Wait Mike Tramp (lead vocalist) and Vito Bratta (guitarist) formed White Lion about 25 years ago in New York City. After a rocky first few years as a band they finally regrouped, got their act together, and hit the big-time during the latter part of the 1980s when 'glam rock' was in full swing at U.S. TOP 40 radio. Their breakthrough album "Pride" was a real slow builder in 1987 that eventually became a MASSIVE platinum smash in 1988. This lead-off U.S. TOP 10 smash contributed greatly to its success.	White Lion
1	17	482	1988 & 1989	Waiting For A Star To Fall Boy (George Merrill) meets Girl (Shannon Rubicam). Boy and Girl write two hit songs for Whitney Houston during the mid-1980s ("How Will I Know" and "I Wanna Dance With Somebody Who Loves Me)". Boy marries Girl in 1988. Boy Meets Girl score their greatest commercial success with this late-1988 # 1 smash. Years later Boy divorces Girl, but now the're working together again. They released a new CD in 2003 called "The Wonderground".	Boy Meets Girl
2	12	284	1988	What's On Your Mind (Pure Energy) This electronic dance smash was MASSIVE during the Summer Of 1988 when it spent 4 weeks at # 2. A young Senior Airman Hitwaves was dancing to it at the old Confettis Dance Club in North Miami Beach Florida back then.	Information Society
4	17	304	1988 & 1989	When I'm With You Freddy Curci was the lead singer and Steve DeMarchi was the guitarist of this short-lived Canadian rock band. Shortly before they disbanded in 1983 they released a self-titled album featuring this single, but it only made it to # 61 on the U.S. pop chart. Their timing was just a little off. Power-driven rock ballads were just not the flavour at the time. (Electronic was in.) It was a different story though six years later when it was reissued as a single, and it became a U.S. # 1 smash in February 1989	Sheriff
4	19	561	1988 & 1989	Wild Wild West The Escape Club survived as a band for about a decade from 1982 to 1992. Although they were British (formed in London) they didn't secure a single hit in their homeland. Their biggest success was right here in the U.S. where they scored a trio of back-to-back-to-back hits in 1988 and 1989, and another couple of hits in 1991 (including the TOP 10 smash "I'll Be There"). This was their U.S. debut smash in 1988, and it went all the way to # 1 on the U.S. pop chart.	The Escape Club
1	9	301	1988	You Don't Know Robin Hild and Sue West were a one-hit wonder here in the U.S, but that's better than what they did in their native U.K. This electronic pop smash spent 18 weeks on the U.S. pop chart and hit # 20. It did even better on our chart as it topped it for 3 weeks. Robin and Sue met while working as back-up singers with the mid-1980s U.K. band Doctor And The Medics.	Scarlett & Black