In just 63 days, the LHS Class of 1989 will celebrate its 30th high school reunion (on Saturday, March 30, 2019 at 7pm in the back room of the infamous Downtown Lounge) ... which is why I've been posting special TOP 30 lists.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).
(Almost) in the #6 spot ... the only artist who (almost) made a second appearance on this countdown (see #28) -- except classmate Melissa H just recently reminded me that our class' little jukebox adventure was actually controversial, and that Tone Loc's 'Wild Thing' was pulled for being too sexual for high school students to hear, as if Mr. Rossi taught us *nothing* in health class. (To be clear, we went to school before shootings were commonplace, and so our controversies were a little less life-and-death.) In its stead, we'll put up a Whitney Houston ballad ('Where Do Broken Hearts Go') that was popular during our senior year ... and if Dr. Mawritz says something otherwise (although he won't ... 'cause the interwebs say that he passed away just four months ago), we'll remind him that Whitney was NOT the face of crack until long after we graduated and so no students were negatively influenced to take up the pipe by hearing this song whilst we ate our lunches.
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 #6 CENSORED:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=387ZDGSKVSg
JUKEBOX MEMORY TRACK #6:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wa3tfVjGCQ8
NEWS FROM OUR CLASS ON THE FACEBOOK (IF YOU ARE A MEMBER):
https://www.facebook.com/groups/189980661939188/
