Category Archives: throwback weekends

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Song of the Day #5,705: ‘The Way We Were’ – Barbra Streisand

Throwing back to the week of February 16, 1974, we find Barbra Streisand atop the Billboard Hot 100 with ‘The Way We Were,’ the theme song from her movie of the same name.

In addition to topping the charts for three non-consecutive weeks that year, ‘The Way We Were’ took home an Oscar, a Golden Globe, and the Grammy for Song of the Year. Streisand was also nominated at the Academy Awards for Best Actress, the last time the Best Song winner was performed by a nominated actress until Lady Gaga repeated the feat with 2018’s A Star is Born.

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Song of the Day #5,699: ‘I Want to Hold Your Hand’ – The Beatles

Throwing back to the week of February 8, 1964, we find a charming young quartet known as The Beatles reaching Billboard’s top spot for the first time with ‘I Want to Hold Your Hand.’

This song launched Beatlemania in the U.S., selling millions of copies and hanging on to #1 on the Hot 100 for seven weeks. It was eventually replaced by the band’s ‘She Loves You,’ which was already a hit in the UK.

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Song of the Day #5,698: ‘Secret Love’ – Doris Day

Throwing back to the week of February 6, 1954, we find that songs clung to the top spot of Billboard’s charts right from the beginning.

At #1 that week was Eddie Fisher’s ‘Oh! My Pa-Pa,’ just as it had been every week of that year. In the second spot was Dean Martin’s ‘That’s Amore,’ another repeat.

At #3 was a song that had been moving up the chart for weeks on it’s way to an eventual #1 berth: Doris Day’s ‘Secret Love.’

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Song of the Day #5,692: ‘Slow Jamz’ – Twista Featuring Kanye West & Jamie Foxx

Today we throw back to the week of January 31, 2004, when Outkast continued to have a stranglehold on the top two spots of the Billboard Hot 100 with ‘Hey Ya!‘ and ‘The Way You Move.’ At #3 was another holdover, Alicia Keys’ ‘You Don’t Know My Name.’

In the #4 spot that week was ‘Slow Jamz,’ a collaboration between rapper Twista, actor/singer Jamie Foxx, and a relative newcomer named Kanye West. West produced the track and co-wrote it with Twista, with songwriting credit also going to Hal David and Burt Bacharach due to its use of a sample of Dionne Warwick singing ‘A House is Not a Home.’

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Song of the Day #5,691: ‘All For Love’ – Bryan Adams, Rod Stewart & Sting

Throwing back to the week of January 29, 1994, the Billboard Hot 100 was topped by the unlikely team of Bryan Adams, Sting, and Rod Stewart on the song ‘All for Love’ from the soundtrack of the 1993 film The Three Musketeers.

I vaguely remember that movie, which starred Keifer Sutherland, Charlie Sheen, and Oliver Platt as the titular trio, but I don’t remember this song at all. That’s despite it staying in the #1 spot for three straight weeks.

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