29 July 2009: it's... 1986

[RGMike]

And BOS4 to this I Didn't Mean to Turn You On Song by Robert Palmer. (Or is it Plant? I keep on getting those two confused.  Edit: ok, it's Palmer.)

Agreed, I'm cluesless about this song.  If I have only listened to KFOG during this period of time, would I have heard this song?

No idea if KFOG played it in '86; it was a Top 40 pop single, a cover of an R&B hit by Cherelle & Alexander O'Neal.

[ggould]

And BOS4 to this I Didn't Mean to Turn You On Song by Robert Palmer. (Or is it Plant? I keep on getting those two confused.  Edit: ok, it's Palmer.)

Agreed, I'm cluesless about this song.  If I have only listened to KFOG during this period of time, would I have heard this song?

No idea if KFOG played it in '86; it was a Top 40 pop single, a cover of an R&B hit by Cherelle & Alexander O'Neal.

I don't think I've listened to top 40 radio since 73-74 when I worked in the post office and had a Chevy with only an AM radio.  Those were the days of "Seasons in the Sun" and so on.

[Gazoo]

Another escapee from 1987.

BOS Bon Jovi, just because

I'm assuming the LP was a late-'86 release; I seem to recall the first single didn't do that well but this rescued the album. (or did I imagine all that?)

AMG sez it was Aug '86, and "You Give Love A Bad Name" was also a chart-topper in that year.  "Wanted Dead or Alive" only reached #7 in '87, but that is the tune that has the legs twenty years later.

Bon Jovi was *the* *biggest* *thing* in my high school '86-'87; my memories of 8th grade have an inescapable soundtrack of YGLABN throughout the fall and LOAP throughout the winter.

[Big Fingers McGee]

BOS Bobby Palmer over the Smithereens and Bon Jovi. Bon Jovi would be on my list for "hated it at the time, but grew on me".

[RGMike]

7/29/09 - Wednesday!  Good times in...1986!!

   1.  The Bangles - Walk Like an Egyptian
 

Li'l Steven played this on his show Sunday nite too -- I've always speculated that, since it was written by Liam Sternberg, there must be a Rachel Sweet version somewhere. Steven said Sternberg gave it to the Bangles after Toni basil turned it down!