Forgotten late-'80s/early-'90s pop singles

Ha, well I was specifically looking through a 1989 iTunes playlist. I will expand outwards from there. But it's one of my favorite pop music years, so it'll be gettin' some heavy representin' from me.

Glenn Medeiros ft. Bobby Brown, "She Ain't Worth It"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2BW9IKyc0A

Dino, "Romeo"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJGAX6vqewo

Also, for some dude's and anyone else's sake if they can't see my YooToobz, so far I've posted:

Fine Young Cannibals - "Don't Look Back"
Bardeux - "I Love The Bass"
Martika - "More Than You Know"
Kon Kan - "I Beg Your Pardon"

I haven't heard "Romeo" in years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0q7eBblVnp0

I can only think of totally barfy ones, like this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KC5InWPjtL8

Father MC, "I'll Do 4 U" (ft. an uncredited Mary J. Blige)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPreKgxHYXA

Jane Wiedlin - "Rush Hour"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4ZHP4HbA2M

Michel'le - "Nicety"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6m1Vz7I0BA

Soho - "Hippychick"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILaTgQBKRbE

Exposé - "When I Looked At Him"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=903wSlC4qTY

"Rush Hour" is dope! i bought that Wiedlin album on vinyl once but haven't listened in years

kon kan and soho not forgotten!

weidlin singles, yes, mostly forgotten...

This thread was (partially) prompted by finding a recorded-from-the-radio mixtape I made in 7th grade (1989, natch) and spiraling out of control in trying to track down all of the stuff I listened to back then. Such as this one (from that tape):

Radiorama - "Daddy, Daddy"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5i0A7BXDVCY

I get the impression this one never got much stateside play outside of Florida, but maybe I'm wrong?

"Rush Hour" is so awesome.

OOH YOU SEND MEEEE

Full tracklisting of that awesome mix, btw:

Side 1
Paula Abdul - "Cold Hearted"
Milli Vanilli - "Girl, I'm Gonna Miss You"
Prince - "Batdance"
Radiorama - "Daddy, Daddy"
Surface - "Shower Me With Your Love"
Prince - "Scandalous"
Kevin Paige - "Don't Shut Me Out"

Side 2
Yaz - "Situation '88"
Indigo Girls - "Closer To Fine"
Rick Astley - "Ain't Too Proud To Beg"
The Cure - "Love Song"
Stevie B - "In My Eyes"
Jody Watley - "Friends"
Soul II Soul - "Keep On Movin'"

Kevin Paige's "Don't Shut Me Out" is one of the great Scritti Politti clones.

Tara Kemp - "Piece Of My Heart"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lvpfk_fZAM

Sybil - "Don't Make Me Over"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYLlLq-9bbA

The Boys - "Dial My Heart"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBPpa8RROIo

(I love how many of these YouTube videos seem to have been ripped from Night Tracks.)

Kenny Loggins - "Nobody's Fool"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2GfY092aBQ

Big Pig - "Breakaway"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBCcnazy88U

Miami Sound Machine - "Falling In Love (Uh Oh)"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epVXWOBUJck

now you're posting young Alfred's American Top 40 with Shadoe Stevens listening.

"Falling in Love" is late '85 or '86 though.

According to my data, it was still charting in '87. A stretch, but still fair game!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOyGOjM8xbc

Betty Boo - "Doin' The Do"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sM_9As_2VAg

Giant Steps - "(The World Don't Need) Another Lover"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGxwWA10jHA

Inner City - "Good Life"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=998P6HEzCdI

Jets - "I Do You"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMGsgA2_d4g

Chunky A - "Owww"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1Exv8_tbTY

when people bring boxes of tapes to my store, these are the cassingles in the box. the height of cassingle-mania.

the Sybil cover was the first top 40 hit unavailable on 7-inch.

when people bring boxes of tapes to my store, these are the cassingles in the box. the height of cassingle-mania.

Absolutley. I have a "Good Life" cassingle, but I'm not giving it up.

I guess rap isn't really what this thread is asking for, but I want to put this here for some reason. I remember this primarily as its chorus hook, anyway. It's certainly very 1990.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3aRrokORjY

is "Good Life" forgotten? that would be outrageus!

^this

good life isn't forgotten. even big pig are remembered by some.

and have people really forgotten that sybil song? man, i remember when that was on the radio all the time in philly. great single.

good if not forgotten

londonbeat "ive been thinking about you"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eq6tW6792ss&ob=av2n

The idea here is less about singles forgotten by you guys (as if the ILM hivemind would ever let a song fall through the cracks of history) and more about singles that had a brief moment of popularity but never really became latter-day radio staples or overused in commercials/movies or whatever. I'm way familiar with a lot of this stuff, but only because I've made the effort to remain familiar with it.

dunno if '94 counts as early '90s but:

single gun theory - "fall"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvoEJqo5yjg

Maxi Priest, "Close to You"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSR3YgUcyU4

Terrence Trent D'Arby lite:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4KQnM5ogtw

Forgotten is right - - - I was born in 1981, started listening to the radio around '94, '95, and don't recognize anything that's been posted to the thread yet. Are all of these indeed lost treasure? Should I listen?

Jaymc's posts itt are speaking to me.

I would post that song "no myth," maybe, but everyone remembers that.

he had a couple of other pretty good singles from that album iirc?

"this and that" was ok
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4yZf8rujrs

When Leonard Pitts was still a music critic his mission was to proselytize on behalf of the misunderstood genius of Grayson Hugh.

Cathy Dennis, "Touch Me (All Night Long)":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9ddhTH7Rjc

Tracie Spencer, "This House"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIaFmiIyPcg&ob=av2n

seduction - (you're my one and only) true love

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IBJlUWDy9c

Jon Secada, "Just Another Day"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSqPbZnVjXQ

love that song

lisa stansfield "been around the world"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf9q0DN0dGw

rozalla "everybody's free"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WI42hQHfbi8

des'ree "you gotta be"

Feel like Jane Child isn't totally forgotten b/c of the nose-ear chain, but "Don't Wanna Fall in Love" rules:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWd__w5UWVc

! Wow. All That She Wants is top of my list of their worst.

sorry -- I meant "All That She Wants"

I thought for the longest time that "All That She Wants" was a song about trying to get pregnant.

I thought it was!

I didn't post it yet and I'm kinda youtubed out, but I hope no-one's forgotten When I See You Smile by Bad English. I think it's still one of those ballads that always ends up on a compilation every few years...I am not ashamed to say that I love love love it.
If only because Jon Waite had that not-so-hot-dude with hot-sounding-singing-voice thing going on.

I adore a couple of John Waite solo hits but Bad English is an excrescence. A relative bought me the tape of that first album in late '89. The only I can stand is the (forgotten!) second hit "Price of Love."

;_;

Here's a mix I'm working on...

Sandii & The Sunsetz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vj4J4lP3Ffs&feature=results_video&playnext=1&list=PL021420E865D4F4BF

Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqmFspZqr34

Polaris
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnqeeBdGhh4

Man or Astro-Man?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSxPdZoJAcI

Good stuff on this thread so far. Firefox users: Flashblock addon is very useful for Youtube-heavy threads like this.

Is this considered forgotten or just not very well known in North America?
Vanessa Paradis - Be my baby
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fmsx_bbuIC8

cf 90's Crushes - god I had totally forgotten about that song!!

Natural Selection - Do Anything

A top ten nineties song for me: a #2 hit I don't even hear on urban radio anymore.

cosign!!!!

I totally forgot about this. Such a great jam.

I had such a crush on the singer, he looked like a taller Alex Desert from the Heights, lol

woah Alex Desert from Hepcat was on The Heights

Breathe - "How Can I Fall" (1988)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1YALTps1_A

Danny Wilson - "Mary's Prayer" (1988)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hqgC3W9GUI&ob=av2e

Howard Jones - "Everlasting Love" (1989) (His last Top 10 hit I think?)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ypTzwQrQgE

Army Of Lovers - "Crucified" (1991). Nobody I know remembers this, but it's amazing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdooYar_A6g&feature=related

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYErxSsGO-8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVXR-5jWvFU&feature=related

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pxSUdfRASs&feature=related

nobody else but me.

one of my fave albums.

this was one of the singles :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lG5oYh4leLA

another single :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYRRo9rBygY

lots of cooler than thou remixers involved - 808 state, j cauty, paul oakenfold etc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzKuEefxjaA

Tevin Campbell's new-jack swing remake of "Strawberry Letter 23":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwgprId0mQk

Brent Bourgeois - "Dare To Fall In Love"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icagGXXN2R0

I don't know how I managed to completely forget this song's existence and yet still recall every note and word upon hearing it.

hears "This House" (Tracie Spencer) and Sybil's "Don't Make Me Over" on the adult R&B station this weekend.

was (not was) Shake Your Head

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nCJgsc_Bdk

Jesus Loves You / Generations Of Love

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBBuU1duj5g

Rythm Syndicate - "P.A.S.S.I.O.N."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IW1pPhaqgZ0

The Wee Papa Girl Rappers - "Heat It Up". I used to own the 45 for this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZB5IJ_WnAO4

The Pursuit Of Happiness - "I'm An Adult Now". I had the 7" for this too. It went to #6 on Billboard's Modern Rock chart.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSDF8VvU13M

There was a real video for this, but I've never seen it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqOSQvvj1ug

Guys. Seriously. Whistle - 'Right Next To Me':

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJ88JCM9eT4

Spotify playlist of all these songs, plz.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4yOa3tBrB8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iU_Azsue_mQ

Last year I picked up an entire episode of Rick Dee's Weekly Top 40 from May of 1990 at a Record Fair. Had quite a bit of songs that I had never heard before, like this one:

Perfect Gentlemen - Ooh La La
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAddModv-Kg

This is '86/87 so stretching it a little perhaps.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EydUM5g2Ms8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDzmJuXAgD8

Tasmin Archer - Sleeping Satelitte

this thread!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wB6FAQbVJbw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ox85dGD79K0

I will just keep on proselytizing about the A'me Lorain album until people hear the good word:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIU_XAgDlnE