American Top 40 from April 23rd 1988

American Top 40 from April 23rd 1988. 4 songs debut this week. The 4 debuts are as follows, "One Good Reason" by Paul Carrack (#28), "Strange But True" by Times Two (#21), "Everything Your Heart Desires" by Hall & Oates (#3), "My Girl" by Suave (#20).

Whitney Houston scores her 7th #1 with "Where Do Broken Hearts Go" and her 8th Top 5 in a row. Knocking Billy Ocean's "Get Outta My Dreams, Get Into My Car" off of the top spot after 2 weeks.

The Biggest Dropper This Week is "Check It Out" by John Mellencamp (14 notches) the song peaked at #14 (Odd!) & the biggest mover is "I Don't Want to Live Without You" by Foreigner (10 notches) peaking at #5 becoming the group's 7th and final Top 5, 9th and final Top 10 & 16th and final Top 40 pop hit. (Don't Judge Me, I'm a number cruncher) LOL

One of the Debuts comes from an artist who's spending the rest of his life in prison. Suave (real name Waymond Anderson) was sentenced to life in prison in 1993 for arson murder in the torching of a crack house near the USC campus which proved fatal to a drug addict. During his years in the music business, he admitted to being a drug dealer as well as an adulterer. He also perjured himself in court by recanting an implication of police officer involvement in the death of Christopher Wallace (Drug Addict). Today Suave is still in prison although new information has been presented that he was in Jackson, Mississippi, visiting his sister the day of the alleged murder. Who knows What the Fuck Happened knowing California (KKKalifornia as i call it & it's Governor being a modern-day Castro...) anyway i digress.

2 LDDs this week. 1) Of how strangers can become some interesting friends. 2) how a member of the family can be a great friend.