Each day at 7:10 we go digging for nuggets about K103's biggest songs that maybe you didn't know. Or maybe you do, that's why it's fun to play along.
Today's song was #1 in 1986
The song is about a person who finds relief and fun in a lover. It was this singer’s first number-one single on the US Billboard Hot 100, After it reached number one, this song made her and her superstar brother the first, and so far only, siblings to both have solo number-one singles on the Hot 100. At the time she was 20 years old, making her the youngest artist since Stevie Wonder to top the Billboard Hot 100. Proof that there is a stat for everything: This Song Was the 32nd biggest Hot 100 single of 1986
This 1986 number one is this singer’s first number-one single on the US Billboard Hot 100, After it reached number one, when she was just 20 years old, this song made her and her superstar brother the first, and so far only, siblings to both have solo number-one singles on the Hot 100.
The video for this song was choreographed by Paula Abdul who broke through as a singer just a few years later.
Producers Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis teamed up with this young singer and said they became her personal chef during the production: "...we cooked her some home-cooked meals because she was sick of eating hotel food." This was actually part of a tactic to help her get comfortable with the team. "We spent a week getting her to open up to us...With artists you sometimes have to be a psychologist, a counselor, a masseuse - anything."