Wow, the Fixx -- I don't recall this getting much play at the time.
I was listening to the kinds of stations that played it, but haven't heard it since. BOS #3 from me.
I was listening to the kinds of stations that *should* have played it, but for whatever reason ignored it. I don't remember hearing this Shawn Colvin in '89 either.
I don't think I had ever even heard of Shawn Colvin before "Sunny Came Home" - the stations I was listening to at the time had no use for the genre.
I heard this song back in the day, along with the original of that new Eddie Vedder track "Hard Sun"*, on KTYD in Sta. Barbara & on XTRA (out of TJ) in SanDiego.
Not sure I paid any attention to who Shawn Colvin was then, nor could I have ID'd this song today without peaking.
*it got played on KFOG about 7:45 this morning & Dave deftly ID'd it as "Eddie Vedder's cover of a song by Indio", which pleased me.