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).
Hey look -- we're halfway through this countdown -- and we're ALL the way to the first of two mall singers from our youth. Because, let's face it -- if you grew up when we did, you escaped your parental units and you learned all kinds of socialization skills (or anti-socialization skills, depending on the group of folks with whom you hung) by walking around the mall all hours of the day and night. I'm pretty sure that Debbie Gibson never made it to the Lebanon Valley Mall (which was the mall for our high school ... the rich suburb kids had taken over the Plaza on the south end of town), but if she had done so, then she surely would have sung the song that gave her the record for the "youngest person to write, produce and perform a [Billboard 100] number-one single entirely on her own" (or so says the Wiki): 'Foolish Beat'.
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 #15:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qf8BoWKeHow
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