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The Jukebox From Hell 6: “Because I Love You (The Postman Song)”
If Stevie B. really loved us, he would never have recorded this song, which parked itself at #1 for four weeks as 1990 bled into 1991, and became the #1 song of the year. Yes, folks. In a year that brought us “Nothing Compares 2 U”, “Vision of Love”, hell, even “Ice Ice Baby” and “Step by Step”, the biggest dog of them all was a treacly ballad made by a guy who had trouble staying in tune. When we […]
The Jukebox From Hell 01: “Wildside”
You know you’re hot when you can take your little brother and turn him into a star-and there were very few people hotter in the early Nineties than Donnie Wahlberg. His group, New Kids on the Block, was a pop phenomenon, starting with their first Top 10 hit, “Please Don’t Go Girl”, in the fall of 1988 and peaking with the simultaneous number one success of the “Step by Step” single and album in 1990. Donnie’s younger brother, Mark, was […]