I graduated high school the same year she was born. That is a little scary (for me) ...
http://www.popculturemadness.com/Music/Top55-Plus/1988.html
Here are the top hits that year:
1. What A Wonderful World* - Louis Armstrong
*didn't even make it in the top 100 when released in 1967!
2. Wind Beneath My Wings - Bette Midler
3. Da Butt - EU
4. It Takes Two - Rob Base & E-Z Rock
5. I'll Always Love You - Taylor Dayne
6. Pump Up The Volume - M/A/R/R/S
7. Sweet Child Of Mine - Guns N Roses
8. Red Red Wine - UB40
9. Just Got Paid - Johnny Kemp
10. Pink Cadillac - Natalie Cole
11. Pour Some Sugar On Me - Def Leppard
12. Every Rose Has Its Thorn - Poison
13. Welcome To The Jungle - Guns N Roses
14. Don't Be Cruel - Bobby Brown
15. The Flame - Cheap Trick
16. Wild Wild West - The Escape Club
17. KoKoMo - Beach Boys
18. So Emotional - Whitney Houston
19. Need You Tonight - INXS
20. Candle In The Wind - Elton John
my daughter recently bought dvds for Saved by the Bell, Full House, Fresh Prince tv shows, and she loves the Brat Pack movies. i find it so odd, but less so now that i saw this article and see that it's being pushed commercially, and so she didn't really come up with it on her own. She is re-living her PRE-youth i suppose!
God, I HATED "Red Red Wine." Might be my most hated song of all time.
You know, I could have been wrong. The key to all bogus nostalgia is that all the bad songs (or bad baseball players, etc) are forgotten and only the good ones are remembered. There are some GREAT songs on that list (INXS, etc.) but a lot of crap.
Oh man, I just had a pep rally flashback.
WADR - where did you get that list? Louis Armstrong? Too many metal and hard rock bands on that list to be real (sorry, they're never that popular!). Billboard I believe:
1 FAITH, George Michael (Columbia)
2 NEED YOU TONIGHT, INXS (Atlantic)
3 GOT MY MIND SET ON YOU, George Harrison
4 NEVER GONNA GIVE YOU UP, Rick Astley (RCA)
5 SWEET CHILD O' MINE, Guns N' Roses
6 SO EMOTIONAL, Whitney Houston
7 HEAVEN IS A PLACE ON EARTH, Belinda Carlisle (MCA)
8 COULD'VE BEEN, Tiffany (MCA)
9 HANDS TO HEAVEN, Breathe (A&M)
10 ROLL WITH IT, Steve Winwood (Virgin)
11 ONE MORE TRY, George Michael (Columbia)
12 WISHING WELL, Terence Trent D'Arby (Columbia)
13 ANYTHING FOR YOU, Gloria Estefan and the Miami Sound Machine (Epic)
14 THE FLAME, Cheap Trick (Epic)
15 GET OUTTA MY DREAMS, GET INTO MY CAR, Billy Ocean (Jive)
16 SEASONS CHANGE, Expose (Arista)
17 IS THIS LOVE, Whitesnake (Geffen)
18 WILD, WILD WEST, The Escape Club (Atlantic)
19 POUR SOME SUGAR ON ME, Def Leppard (Mercury)
20 I'LL ALWAYS LOVE YOU, Taylor Dayne (Arista)