This Week`s Flashback!

Each week am I going to present the top 3 on the Billboard chart at this date a past year.

And whats more natural then start with my birth year, 1986.

February 1st, 1986. On the third spot at the Billboard Chart there was a female Urban/Funk Band formed in Los Angeles between 1979 and 1990. The group consisted of drummer/founder Bernadette Cooper, vocalist Lorena Porter, bassist Joyce Irby, keyboardists Lynn Malsby and Robbin Grider and guitarist Cheryl Cooley. This band became the first and last (so far) all-female band in this style of music to all play an instrument. Their debut album, Never Underestimate The Power Of A Woman, was released on Solar Records. Single included "Multi-Purpose Girls". The team wrote and produced the song "Wild Girls" for that second album Girls Will Be Girls. After the second Solar album in 1983, they switched to the Constellation label (via MCA) for Meeting In The Ladies' Room which featured the 1986 hit "I Miss You" which peaked at #3 on both the Adult Contemporary and Billboard Hot 100 charts. "I Miss You" stayed on Billboard's Hot 100 for 29 weeks, an extremely long chart run at the time, and good enough to rank it as the third-biggest pop hit of 1986.

Yes we`re talking about Klymaxx, and their hit "I Miss You", here`s song.

The second place was held by a well-known man, I`m sure you all have heard about him. He is an Academy Award and Grammy award-winning American singer, songwriter, record producer, and occasional actor who has sold over 100 million records. He had many hits through the years, "Say You, Say Me" is the hit number two on the Billboard Hot 100 on February, 1986. The Academy Award winning song was featured on the soundtrack of the movie White Nights featuring Mikhail Baryshnikov and Gregory Hines. However, the song is not available on the movie soundtrack album. Motown Records did not want his first single since the Can't Slow Down album to appear on another record label. It finally appeared on the Dancing on the Ceiling album released in 1986 Its Lionel Richie off course, and here it is.


The fist place was held by a song thats far better known for its cover version by Dionne Warwick and Friends, a one-off collaboration featuring Gladys Knight, Elton John and Stevie Wonder. This version was released as a charity single in the United Kingdom and the United States in 1985, was recorded as a benefit for American Foundation for AIDS Research, and raised over three million dollars for that cause. The tune peaked at #1 for four weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 in February 1986 and became Billboard's number one single of 1986. In 1988, the Washington Post wrote: So working against AIDS, especially after years of raising money for work on many blood-related diseases such as sickle-cell anemia, seemed the right thing to do. "You have to be granite not to want to help people with AIDS, because the devastation that it causes is so painful to see. I was so hurt to see my friend die with such agony," Warwick remembers. "I am tired of hurting and it does hurt." Here it is, enjoy!