Future Retro: Blue Angel with Cyndi Lauper

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CHART ATTACK!: 4/11/87

Jason Hare April 10, 2009 49

Hi, everybody! This week’s CHART ATTACK! takes us back a whopping 22 years, and wow, do I feel old, considering I remember hearing just about every single one of these songs on the radio

Future Retro: RuPaul

DJ D November 5, 2008 9

A SIMPLE GIRL WITH A DREAM I have one thing to say – RuPaul Andre Charles was an unlikely success story to say the very least. As a young drag queen in San Diego,

CALLING GLORIA Laura Branigan is a classic example of a great and underrated talent whose life and career were cut short far too soon. Laura possessed an elastic alto voice with a stunning four-octave

Future Retro: Sheena Easton, “Fabulous”

DJ D September 3, 2008 7

SHE’S A MODERN GIRL (na na na na na) Back in the neon-colored days of the ’80s, Sheena Easton ruled the Adult Contemporary charts with a well-manicured fist. Sheena first began her ascension to

Future Retro: Vinyl Record Day

DJ D August 12, 2008 8

LOCATION: Anytown, USA TIME: The Early ’80′s A young, burgeoning music fan has got to start somewhere. This is the brief, snappily-written story of how a young man with a quick wit and a

Future Retro: The Weather Girls

DJ D August 3, 2008 5

TWO TONS O’ TALENT San Francisco’s Martha Wash and Izora Rhodes first rose to fame in 1977 as Two Tons O’ Fun, background singers of choice for drag-tastic disco diva and ’70′s icon Sylvester.

Future Retro: George Michael

DJ D July 13, 2008 10

WHAM! BAM! Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou seemed an unlikely choice to become a pop music superstar. However, after meeting schoolmate Andrew Ridgeley and forming a group called Wham!, a pop star is exactly what the

Future Retro: Blue Dolly

DJ D June 1, 2008 7

A TENNESSEE GODDESS Dolly Rebecca Parton has had one of the most enduring and multi-faceted careers in music history. She is beloved for her iconic status as a pop culture legend as well as

Future Retro: Tiffany, “The Color of Silence”

DJ D May 4, 2008 9

“IS THAT GIRL SINGING AT THE MALL?” Yes, she was. In 1987, Tiffany Darwish unleashed her self-titled debut album upon a world of dazed and confused teenagers swathed in stone-washed jeans, Day-Glo colors, and