So that's that for this week, except to say that you should hang around for another hour of 1989 bangers in Off The Chart Too! Join us again at 9pm next Tuesday when we'll be looking at 1984. G'bu! #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio

Like the Freestyle Orchestra track we played way back at the start of the show, Black Box's "Ride On Time" used samples from Loleatta Holloway's "Love Sensation", but very little else, which may be why it spent six weeks at no.1 instead of peaking at 99. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio

#OffTheChart SOTN Top Fifteen
Erasure
Debbie Harry
Tears For Fears
Wedding Present
Richard Marx
Roger Christian
Hue & Cry
Gloria Estefan
Sonia
Billy Ocean
Candy Flip
Tracy Chapman
Fat & Frantic
Technotronic
Kym Mazelle

Thx @stevebinnie.me.uk & @babel17.bsky.social for a great show, CU next week

Up a place to peak at no.2, "Pump Up The Jam" by Technotronic doesn't actually feature Felly, because although Congolese model Felly Kilingi appears on the record sleeve and in the video, the vocals are actually performed by Technotronic's regular vocalist Ya Kid K. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio

Peaking at no.3, "If Only I Could" was the biggest hit for US singer Sydney Youngblood who, disappointingly, is actually called Sydney Ford. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio

Peaking at no.4, "Drama!" was the first single from Erasure's fourth album "Wild!". The shouts of "Guilty!" in the chorus are by the Jesus & Mary Chain, who were recording in the studio next door. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio

Down 3 at no.5, "Right Here Waiting" was Richard Marx's breakthrough hit in the UK where it peaked at no.2. It reached no.1 in the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and Poland. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio

New at 18 on the Other Chart, "Last Night My Wife Hoovered My Head" was the debut single by Fat & Frantic, although they had released three cassettes on their own label: "Waxing A Hottie", "Aggressive Sunbathing" and "Live at the Wonky Donkey Bar & Grill". #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio

No.35 on the West German chart this week in 1989, "Sexy" by Marius Müller-Westernhagen; it was his second of 22 hits on the German chart, none of which ever reached the top ten. #ICEOTWF #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio

Peaking at 16, "Oye Mi Canto (Hear My Voice)" was the second solo hit for Gloria Estefan, although she hadn't really gone solo, they'd just stopped crediting the Miami Sound Machine on her records. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio

New at 27, "Can't Forget You" was the follow-up to Sonia's no.1 debut "You'll Never Stop Me Loving You" and the second of her eleven top 40 hits. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio

Formed in Leeds in 1985, "Kennedy" was the first of eighteen top 40 hits for The Wedding Present. New at 34, it climbed all the way to... no.33. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio

Look out, we're heading into the '90s with Candy Flip, no.42 on the Dance Chart with their debut single "Love Is Life" ahead of their top three hit in early 1990 with a cover of "Strawberry Fields Forever". #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio

The Who is my choice of gig #OffTheChart

Meanwhile the Thompson Twins were still making their own records which absolutely nobody was buying. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio

New at 52 this week, "I Want That Man" was only the third solo top 40 hit for Blondie's Debbie Harry, now calling herself "Deborah" for some reason. The song was written by Tom Bailey and Alannah Currie of the Thompson Twins and peaked at no.13. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio

Kym Mazelle made her first record in 1987 with Marshall Jefferson, and scored a top ten hit early in 1989 duetting with the Blow Monkeys' Dr Robert on "Wait". Although "Love Strain" peaked at 52, she has had three solo top 40 hits as well as two with Jocelyn Brown. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio

Down to no.60 this week, "Sweet Invisibility" was the fourth single from Hue & Cry's second album "Remote", failing to follow "Looking For Linda" and "Violently" into the top 40, despite a hip new remix from New York DJ Tony Moran. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio

"Crossroads" was the title track of Tracy Chapman's second album, which was released this week in 1989 and would topple Tears For Fears from the no.1 spot on the album chart next week. The single, on the other hand, peaked at 61. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio

"Badman's Song" from "The Seeds of Love", the third Tears For Fears album, new at no.1 this week. The album went Platinum but also drove a wedge between Curt and Roland; they didn't make another album together until 2005. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio