Welcome to our second installment of my mini series here on fifty plus. This one is forty years ago, nineteen eighty three. I can't believe j three, it is forty years ago. So those guys watching the show, I'm showing you my diploma from I guess K through eighth school, middle school from ninety three. I'm class of ninety three. This is my We were the first class of the school Lotsierra here in Los Angeles. We were the first
class eighth grade class. And so I graduated eighth grade forty years ago and started high school forty years ago later. That's where that fall. So I can't believe it. So I was, I was fourteen years old and I was thirteen and ten fourteen where he's in may. So I turned and so that was that was that, and lived in Los Angeles. We were an Inglewood under ingo at the time. Back in this house Lips, this room wasn't even here in nineteen eighty three. I was think in a room in
another room there with my brothers. So I think I'll tell you. I think, Wow, it's kind of a long time ago. I can't get it. Oh no, you remember that. So, like the last series, as we're doing this last week did nintally seventy three first fifty years ago. We're gonna continue with my ninety three through each other team today the rest of the year, and we'll go to top ten music singles, top ten music albums, top ten TV shows that season, at top ten movies.
It gives your gauge. Were kind of what's what was popular at the time. It literally was popular at the time. Again, we were, you know, with this wash. We had a few video games, cable was still young, MTV was only a couple of years old, like this was. This was. I mean, I was still playing outside. I know its crazy, So we gotta go up there. Well, let's get into it. I guess this kind of fun. I'll tell you a little stories like go along. So these are top ten singles of nineteen eighty three.
I have a little listening or we ever reading off this list. I don't know. By Harsh number ten. Your Rhythmics with their first American single, Sweet Dreams are made of this on that video number nine, She's a Maniac Maiac for Yes Michael Sambello from the Flashdance soundtrack. Number eight, Baby come to Me When you put your Arms around Me Patty Austin and James Ingram A Baby Come to Me. Number seven Man Eater by Holland Oates. I Love It, Love It, Love It, Number six totally Clips of the Heart
by Bonnie Tyler. This was the het and now we'll get to the top five. This is the height of Michael Jackson mania and thriller mania. He had two songs in the top five. That's how hot he was. Number five was beat It Yeah, number four and I Had I Had, I had a notebook with her album Business Usual on it. Their song number four was down Under by Men at Work. The other song from Flash Dance Irene
karaz Oscar winning song Flash Dance, What a Feeling. And number two Billie Gene is Not My Lover Folks Billy Jean Michael Jackson and the number one song I Love It, the song about stalking that thinks a love song, Every Breath You Take the Police. I saw the Police years later. I loved this album Synchronicity. Never saw them in concert, saw them years later when
they reunited, remember after this album had broke up? Sorry thereafter? Uh they were a great concerts the great concert Okay that was on to your top ten television programs of the eighty three eighty four season. I've decided to because I said, well, I'll do ah eighty three, but I said I'll do eight three eighty four. So I'm just choosing up. As measured by Neilsen Media Research of cour Use at number ten, Cagney and Lacy, Oh my God, the number ten on CBS, number nine show No One talks
about Hotel at ABC. Number eight Kate Nally, Oh my God on CBS now at I want to just say at number eleven was not slanding by just half a point a week. We'll know that it was right. It was just right below there? Where was the height of the soaps? Were big? So about to enter the top seven. The other soaps are in top seven. So number seven is Talking Crass on CBS. Number six is magnetm PI. Number five Simon and Simon's on CBS now Simon and Simon. I
did episode on my show Have you heard of Me? Check out that one. I did a whole episode on Simon and Simon. Number four. I can forget how big this show is. I never I think I never watched the episode the eighteen mister t On NBC. Number three was Dynasty on ABC on Dynasty. Number two was Sixty Minutes on CBS, and the number one show the A three eighty four season Dallas CBS. So Dallas Dynasty, foun Quest and not staying. We're in top eleven shows. Also need to mention
after mash which was that split off? Was there were fifteenth for the season. Some kind is interesting. Okay, so your top ten shows. Now we're going to top ten albums of nineteen eighty These are the best selling albums of nineteen eighty three. I believe I have all of them. I believe. Just below and every eleven I mentioned to mention it it's a flashtag soundtrack. Just it's like it's just it's missing my hair. But at number ten, do you want to see me down on my knees bending over backwards?
Now? Would you be please? I got the others out. It's Madonna's Madonna. I played that album to death, that was burning up. Number nine Frontiers by Journey Favorite, Number eight Sports Huey Lewis and News is just a fun band, right, Number seven Lance Dance, David Bowie, He's bringing it out. And of course my favorite groups of all time I've never seen a concert. Piromania by def Leppard Number five. Their videos were The Bomb Eliminator by Zezi Top the Top four, Here we Go, Top four
very I'm looking at all the covers are very colorful. The top four. Number four she show I can't say it, She's so unusual by Cyndi Lauper. Her debut album, such a great albums grade hits on there. Number three. They won Best Do Artists Grammy that year and boy George says the sentence that was never undered on Tomson before America has great taste. You know a good drag peed when you see one culture Club with color by numbers. That album was huge, huge, huge, number two, another huge album,
number huge album Synchronicity, the Police. I love all their videos. I think that they wrapped on your finger video was all the candles, Oh my god, Oh that's just screaming. And number one, He's outrageous, he said twenty one times. Whatever can't slow down, Lionel Rich. Now she had the number one album of I Tell You Three. That's so interesting, right, this is Cree Madonna's she was just getting started, kids, she was just getting started. Now the top movies I tall You three,
all over place, two, all over a place. I just want to say, underneath the top, the underneath, I'm I'm just because I can do this. It's my show. The number the top three, the excuse me three movies underneath the top ten. Number thirteen is Gandhi very important. Number twelve is Never Say Never Again, which, of course is a James Bond film. That's not really I mean, just whatever. Number three, Superman three, number eleven, super Man three. I can't leave that,
okay. The top ten movies of ninety three grossing movies I tay three are number ten, National Lampoons, Vacation Love Those number nine, The Star Wicking Turn for a Tom Cruise, Risky Business, number eight, the sequel to Saturday Night Fever Staying Alive. Number seven Michael Keaton was hilarious, Mister Mom. Number six, Octopusy, the actual James Bond film. Well, I mean there's a thing about Look all that up. There's whole thing about the
whole those two movies. Because Sean Connery came back. It was who thing. Number five, War Games Matthew Broderick, number four, Trading Places, number three, Flash Dance number two, a great film that's it's hilarious, Tritsy and the number and for me as a Star Wars fan, the number one movie of nineteen eighty three, and I saw in the theater like several times. Now it's Star Wars episode four because the twelve five, six, six, and then a confused now Star Wars episode six because the trilogy.
It's the end of the second trilogy. First, well, yeah, saying that the second return of the Jedi, which is my favorite. Let me return the Jedi, really good movie, but that was the number one movie of ninety eight three, it's Star Wars and what forty years later, Disney Plus has Star Wars series, which I do on his channel am I and my show Don Vay Is Your Father and listened to all the after shows. So that's the when we had ninety three. So as you can see,
very well rounded times, I say you three forty years ago. I there are people who are born Ay three I'm friends with. It's kind of funny who are are not living their lives as as forty year olds and they are in their forties. The forties were great for me out of the forties. So we're gonna continue this whole thing in tradition. I just another thing for me. I just look back at that time period and it was the year before I started working. I started working at fourteen fift I fifteen, I
started working. So the next year I get my first job, permitting, my first job as a daycam counselor at the Hollywood YMC with my sister Lauren. So I kind of that started my whole I've been working ever since, literally ever since. Uh so I've been working almost forty years. That's another thing that's kind of crazy, like, wow, forty years. So that's
what starts. And I started. I was in my high school career, my high school career, and it was fused, before I had a child, all kinds of stuff, so it's like it was still the innocent times. And also, I say three that summer I should mention this. I was my first one of the first computer camps that Apple ran. Went for the summer. I went to Santa Barbara was at Westmont College. I was like, anybody went there and contact me, I love to see you see
this. I don't see this. I had a great time and made some friends with the counselors and the friends. But I went and learned how to sail boats, and we played games and played sports, and we learned on Apple to e's and Apple to C computers, lived in dorms. It was one of the best experiences of my life. Thinking to my parents and friends who helped get me there. It was experienced, well, it was a expreien so for that time, I think it was like the thousands or whatever
however it was. But they got me there and I wanted to go, but I didn't go into computers, unfortunately, but I did the mis Sansisco going to dot COMBA Boom happened. So you know now as I say A three also, so I was there and now I'm sitting here on my Mac computer right now just talking to you. I'm James Anne. Follow me everywhere. Fifty pluses there were also Celebrate your past. We'll see you next week with nineteen ninety three. Bye.