No. 1 Hits of the 80s Vol.23 Trivia Quiz

Answer: Amy Grant

Amy Grant had been referred to as "The Queen of Christian Pop" for her years of dedication to the genre. She has sold over 30 million records worldwide. Although she had a number of top selling hits on the U.S. Christian charts during the early and mid 1980s, her breakthrough record on the Billboard Hot 100 came as this duet with longtime Chicago member Peter Cetera, who left the band for a solo career. "The Next Time I Fall" spent a week at the top of the charts in the fall that year, giving Grant her first number one in the mainstream, and providing Cetera with back to back number ones.

He had scored earlier that same year with "Glory of Love" from the soundtrack of the motion picture "The Karate Kid II" (1986).

Answer: The Way It Is

It was "The Way It Is" which propelled Bruce Hornsby and the Range to the top of the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 charts for a one week stay in the fall of 1986. It also made it to the top of the charts in Canada and The Netherlands and was a Top 20 tune in many other countries. The song's lyrics dealt with welfare lines, racial segregation and the U.S. Civil Rights Act.

Answer: Dirty Dancing

The 1987 motion picture "Dirty Dancing" starring Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey gave us the hit single "(I've Had) The Time of My Life" which was put to music by Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes. The song was used in the closing scene of the film. It went to number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 charts for a one week stay in the fall that year.

Answer: Heaven Is a Place on Earth

"Heaven Is a Place on Earth" was a number one hit for Belinda Carlisle, formerly of The Go-Go's. The song spent a week at the top of the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 charts in the fall of 1987 as well as becoming a number one tune in the U.K. and at least a half dozen more countries.

It was Carlisle's only number one hit either as a solo artist or with the group, and was nominated for a 1988 Grammy Award.

Answer: Bad Medicine

"Bad Medicine" was the other number one tune from the album "New Jersey". The song spent two weeks at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 charts in the fall of 1988. The album itself set a record for the most Top Ten hits from a hard rock album in the history of the Billboard charts with five entries into the U.S. Top Ten.

In addition to the aforementioned songs the other Top Tens from the album were "Born to Be My Baby"(number three), "Lay Your Hands on Me"(number seven), and "Living in Sin"(number nine).

Answer: Will to Power

All these groups actually released music during 1988, but it was the group Will to Power who combined Peter Frampton's "Baby I Love Your Way" along with Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Freebird" and turned the medley into a number one tune on the U.S. Billboard charts in the fall of that year.

The group actually had some subsequent success on the Dance charts, but this song was their highest charting single in the mainstream area.

Answer: Look Away

"Look Away" is the correct answer. The song was the second number one for the group during the 1980s and their tenth Top 20 hit during the 1980s. It spent two weeks at the top of the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 charts in the fall that year. "I Don't Wanna Live Without Your Love" made it as high as number three on the charts, and the other two, although successful, never reached the Top 20.

Answer: Rain

"Blame It on The Rain" was a number one hit in the fall of 1989 for the duo Milli Vanilli. It spent two weeks at the top of the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 charts. This was before the information started to leak out that things were not as they appeared and they actually didn't sing this song, or various others that were credited to them.

Answer: We Didn't Start the Fire

"We Didn't Start the Fire" spent two weeks at the number one position on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 charts in the fall of 1989. Billy Joel states that he sat down and recounted some of the things that happened in the world since he was born in 1949. The result is a conglomeration of events and people which turned into this number one tune.

The song notes 119 individual events and 56 different people.

Answer: Paradise

"Another Day in Paradise" is the correct answer. The song spent the final two weeks of 1989 on top of the Billboard Hot 100 charts in the U.S. It was Collins' first release from an album called "...But Seriously" which would end up yielding three other top ten hits.