{"id":10638,"date":"2021-08-11T16:54:05","date_gmt":"2021-08-11T20:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/?p=10638"},"modified":"2024-08-28T14:07:37","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T18:07:37","slug":"reaching-for-the-stars-vol-60","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/2021\/08\/11\/reaching-for-the-stars-vol-60\/","title":{"rendered":"Reaching for the Stars, Vol. 60"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chart Week: August 8, 1987
\nSong: \u201cI Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)\u201d – Whitney Houston
\nChart Position: #17, 13th week on the chart. Peaked at #1 for two weeks in June and July.<\/p>\n

I tend to shy away from songs that hit number one since they will get the Tom Breihan treatment over at Stereogum<\/a>. I squeezed in \u201cWest End Girls\u201d before he got to it, but now that he\u2019s just about done with the \u201880s, he\u2019s covered every song of the Casey Kasem era. <\/p>\n

I making an exception for this track simply because of a little blurb that Casey shared on another summer of \u201987 countdown.<\/p>\n

Casey told a story from Narada Michael Walden, the mega-producer behind this and so many other monster songs of the late \u201880s and \u201890s<\/a>. Walden mentioned how his success meant he was able to meet some of his musical heroes. Once of those heroes was Prince. <\/p>\n

At some point they were in studios next to each other: Narada with Elton John and Aretha Franklin while Prince was working with Morris Day. Prince invited Narada over, they chatted for a bit, and then Prince invited Narada and Day outside to shoot some hoops.<\/p>\n

Despite wearing \u201cseven-inch, high heeled boots,\u201d Prince won the game of 21 rather easily.<\/p>\n

HOLY SHIT! Remember when folks confirmed that the legendary Chapelle Show Charlie Murphy\u2019s True Hollywood Stories sketch on The Chapelle Show was true? And here we had evidence from way back in 1987!<\/p>\n