A pair of divas topped the Billboard Hot 100 the week of May 24, 1986: Whitney Houston with ‘Greatest Love of All‘ and Madonna with ‘Live to Tell.’ Alas, I’ve already written about both.
That brings us to #3, where we find another diva teaming up with one of the great soul singers. Patti LaBelle and Michael McDonald’s ‘On My Own’ eventually spent three weeks at #1 and became the biggest hit for either artist.
Les Miserables was the first musical cast recording I ever owned. The soundtrack was given to me by my girlfriend in our senior year of high school. She was a musical theater type herself — the lead actress in all of our school plays — and I suppose she wanted me to better appreciate her world.
I never became much of a drama kid — backstage work and a bit part in The Man Who Came to Dinner pretty much covered it — but I did wear out my cassette of Les Miserables (recorded by the London cast, a very important distinction according to my girlfriend).
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