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Not all of the entries on this lost hits blog are about the song itself. Some of them are about my memories of events that took place while I heard the song.
For instance, this hit will forever be known as the song that was playing when we coaxed a booger from the inside of our Atari 800.
Imagine sitting at your computer and working on BASIC programs such as a flatulence simulator or a game in which you slay Sesame Street characters. Imagine if a dried hunk of mucus flies in from out of nowhere and falls down between the keys of the keyboard. This really happened when I was 12. A crusty crew got flung across the den, landed between the keys, and fell down inside the computer. Best all, it happened while the computer was in use.
This was not intentional. The goal was for the booger to land on the TV screen instead.
Sometime later, we lugged the computer into the kitchen to pry out the terrible boog.
We removed the base of the computer with a screwdriver. As the base was slowly lifted away, the gob of mucus that had earlier slipped through the keyboard plopped squarely onto the kitchen table. A cheer was heard: "Taa-daa!"
We had a radio on in the kitchen, and guess what song was on?
WCLU was the only radio station I remember that regularly played "Cry." I remember that the record always skipped during the second verse. The song appeared on a few Q-102 surveys found on the ARSA website, but I don't remember hearing it on Q-102 outside of American Top 40.
"Cry" was better known for its video with the faces morphing. Some of the people in the video were said to resemble celebrities such as Mr. T and Ed McMahon. Most of them looked like nobody in particular, so everyone just said they looked like "a member of the Ronald Reagan Club" or something like that.
If the booger had destroyed our computer, it would have made me want to cry!
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