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| THE MAJOR'S MASSIVE MEMORIES |
| A VAST COLLECTION OF CLASSIC HIT SONGS REPRESENTING 20 YEARS OF GREAT MEMORIES FOR MAJOR HITWAVES |
| 1 9 9 4 |
| PK | WKS | PTS | YRS | SONG TITLE & COMMENTS | ARTIST / SITE |
| -- | -- | -- | 1994 & 1995 | Another Night This was the first of a three-year string of pop-dance hits for Real McCoy. I believe it not only played a major role in the rejuvenation of American hit music radio in 1995 (it was something new and different at the time), but it also signaled the start of the European dance music invasion onto the American pop charts. | Real McCoy |
| -- | -- | -- | 1994 | Choose Color Me Badd scored 9 U.S. TOP 40 hits in a row from 1991 to 1996, and this was my favourite of them all. It was released early in 1994 - one of the most memorable and enjoyable times of my life. It was a great time for me and my friends. I remember a lot of fun times from back then. I was still living in Melbourne Florida and working in Tampa at the time. I remember cranking up this breezy tune on cassette single loud and proud virtually every day on my portable boombox ! | Color Me Badd |
| -- | -- | -- | 1994 & 1995 | December 1963 (Oh, What A Night) This # 1 smash from the Spring Of 1976 is truly a pop classic from the early days of disco. A dozen years later in 1988 Dutch DJ Ben Liebrand remixed it into a more modern-sounding heavier dance track, and it took off all across Europe. 5 years later in 1993 Curb Records based out of Nashville Tennessee released 3 versions of the dance remix on cassette single for the North American market. A year later during the Summer Of 1994 it finally began to climb the American pop charts. It eventually hit # 14, and spent over 6 months on the chart well into 1995. | Four Seasons |
| -- | -- | -- | 1994 | Don't Go Breaking My Heart Elton John revived his 1976 # 1 pop smash duet with Kiki Dee 18 years later with a 1994 techno duet with RuPaul. It was a smash hit in the U.K. where it hit # 7, but it was essentially a flop here in the U.S. where it barely cracked the HOT 100 (# 92). This chart was dormant in 1994, but I believe that it would have spent many weeks in a row at # 1 if it had existed back then. After all it was a runaway MASSIVESMASH during the early part of 1994 in the Melbourne Florida area, and it was the perfect song to jam to while cruising the A1A along the Atlantic coast ! | Elton John & RuPaul |
| -- | -- | -- | 1994 & 1995 | Get Ready For This It was a worldwide techno smash that took over 3 years to hit it big here stateside. It was actually the debut single from 2 Unlimited out of Amsterdam Netherlands. It was originally released in Europe in 1991, and towards the end of that year it was a # 2 U.K. pop smash. But it barely made a ripple on the U.S. pop chart late in 1992 after its release here. Over 2 years later it quietly re-emerged onto the chart scene as U.S. hit music radio slowly picked-up on it during the peak of the mid-1990s Eurodance craze that swept the nation. It actually cracked the bottom of the TOP 40 as a regional smash in many of our big cities early on in 1995, and it spent over 6 months on the U.S. pop chart. | 2 Unlimited |
| -- | -- | -- | 1994 | I'll Take You There Back in the 1980s General Public were a six-piece band out of Birmingham England. They disbanded in 1987, but then two of the members reunited in 1994 for this fresh new remake of The Staple Singers' U.S. # 1 smash from 1972. It was featured in the 1994 movie "Threesome" which also included music from U2, Duran Duran, Tears For Fears, New Order, The The, and Bryan Ferry. | General Public |
| -- | -- | -- | 1994 | Loser Beck (David Campbell) has released a lot of songs and CDs over the past decade, but this was his only major chart hit here in the U.S. It reached the TOP 10 during the Spring Of 1994, and it spent nearly 6 months on the HOT 100. No other song since then has come close to this immense success. This is truly a pop classic - a breakthrough smash - an anthem of the time. | Beck |
| -- | -- | -- | 1994 | Regular Thang It's from the 1993 album "Schadenfreude", and it's a long-forgotten tune from a decade ago when it was a regional radio hit around the U.S. It was a great pop record that had that certain early-1970s feel-good vibe to it with its prominent piano hooks, strong drum tempo, and quirky lyrics. Ovis once worked with The B-52s as a sound engineer. | Ovis |
| -- | -- | -- | 1994 & 1995 | The Rhythm Of The Night Eurodance was HUGE all over the world during the middle-1990s, and Corona was part of that mainstream hit music explosion. This was an instant smash in Corona's home-base country of Italy where it spent 3 months at # 1. Corona was not a single person but rather a project. The public 'face' of Corona was a Brazilian (transplanted to Italy) who actually did not sing any of the songs. She merely danced to them. | Corona |
| -- | -- | -- | 1994 | Shine Collective Soul out of Stockbridge Georgia scored a trio of hits on our chart from 1995 to 1999 - "December", "The World I Know" (a # 1 smash), and "Run". Before that they hit it big with this debut smash that rocked the U.S. during much of 1994. It was one of the first big rock hits that lifted us out of the doldrums that grunge dumped us in earlier in the 1990s. | Collective Soul |
| -- | -- | -- | 1994 | Stay (With Me Tonight) I just heard this one for the first time in nearly a decade, and it sounds as fresh today as it did back in 1994. It would blend in quite well with today's urban-flavoured dance music. Eternal were a female quartet from London, and this was their only hit stateside. It was their 1ST of a string of 15 TOP 20 hits in a row in their native U.K. through the remainder of the 1990s. | Eternal |
| -- | -- | -- | 1994 | The Sign When you think of pop culture in 1994 you think of Ace Of Base and their string of 4 MASSIVESMASH hits in a row from their CD "The Sign". The title-track was the biggest of them all. It spent 41 weeks on the national pop chart in 1994 including 6 weeks at # 1. The Major used to jam to this smash on I-4 and U.S. 192 in Central Florida between Tampa and Melbourne while commuting to and from work. | Ace Of Base |
| -- | -- | -- | 1994 | What's Up The California band 4 Non Blondes scored their only hit during the Summer Of 1993 with "What's Up". It hit # 14 on the American pop chart and # 2 on the U.K. chart. The following summer DJ Miko from Italy produced an intense techno version of the song featuring British vocalist Louise Gard. The second version of the song only hit # 58 on the American pop chart (# 6 in the U.K.), but it was a MASSIVESMASH in the dance clubs. | DJ Miko |
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