This month ... it's all about the top 30 jukebox memories (see rules below) -- relevant because it was *our* class who got a jukebox installed in the cafeteria (along with Coke machines and one of those electronic message boards).
Truth telling time. There is a very *small* chance that I actually heard this song in our cafeteria on the jukebox before graduation in June of '89 -- despite it being released in 1988 But I know FOR SURE that I heard it blaring from a car or two making the rounds on "the strip" aka the 422 loop ('cause my hometown was small enough that, once you got a car or a friend with a car, you got out of the mall life in order to drive around for hours on end doing nothing much else but driving around for hours on end just to prove that you could). Sir Mix-a-lot's most famous song where Becky and the girls discussed big old butts wouldn't come along until a few years later in the 90's ... but first was this ode to square dancing, something our group actually did have to do in gym classes of yore. That's all the long way to say that you should enjoy 'Buttermilk Biscuits', taking an honorary position at this spot on the countdown.
RULES FOR THIS TOP 30 LIST: Songs are as remembered from when they were being played loudly in the cafeteria, making us all raise our voices at mealtimes in order to hear each other. All memories are believed to be accurate and will be fact checked on the interwebs to make sure that featured songs were actually released prior to June of 1989 (but since these memories are thirty years old, there is not a guarantee of 100% accuracy.) Also note that an appearance on this list is not necessarily an endorsement of the song or the artist. And if anyone out there wants to make a mixtape that we can all make copies of at the reunion, now is the time to start working on that task.
JUKEBOX MEMORY TRACK #13:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jvVCJp429A
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