658: Close But No Cigar Hits of 1989 - Part 1
Stuck in the '80s Podcast
English - February 20, 2023 18:18 - 50 minutes - 29.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 286 ratingsTV & Film Music 80s john culture cusack hughes movies music pop stuck the Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Our "Close But No Cigar" series for the 1980s is almost over. Here are the first four songs from 1989 that reached No. 2 on the charts but no higher, including tunes by Tone Loc, Taylor Dayne and Sheena Easton.
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