This week, Frank E. Lee revisits 1985 on Saturday Morning Flashback. The year Nintendo Entertainment System and two classic games, Super Mario Bros. and Duck Hunt, arrived just in time for the holidays, Live Aid concerts in Philadelphia and London raised more than $50 million for famine relief in Ethiopia, and Route 66 was officially removed from the U.S. Highway System which effectively brought the Mother Road to an end. Here's everything Frank played::
Echo & The Bunnymen - "Songs To Learn To Sing"
ZZ Top - "Sleeping Bag"
The Cure - "In Between Days"
Koko Taylor - "Come To Mama"
Prince - "Raspberry Beret"
Yello - "Oh Yeah"
David Bowie & Mick Jagger - "Dancing In The Street"
Oingo Boingo - "Dead Man's Party"
Stevie Wonder - "Part-Time Lover"
John Fogerty - "The Old Man Down The Road"
Simple Minds - "Sanctify Yourself"
Camper Van Beethoven - "Take The Skinheads Bowling"
Robert Plant - "Little By Little"
INXS - "This Time"
Jesus & Mary Chain - "Just Like Honey"
Sade - "Smooth Operator"
Pete Townshend - "Face The Face"
The Waterboys - "The Whole Of The Moon"
Big Audio Dynamite - "The Bottom Line"
Talking Heads - "The Lady Don't Mind"
Howard Jones - "Like To Get To Know You Well"
John Mellencamp - "Rumble Seat"
Dead Or Alive - "You Spin Me Round"
Stevie Ray Vaughan - "Look At Little Sister"
Husker Du - "Makes No Sense At All"
Robert Palmer - "I Didn't Mean To Turn You On"
New Order - "Love Vigilantes"
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - "Southern Accents"
R.E.M. - "Driver 8"
Tears For Fears - "Mother's Talk"
The Smiths - "How Soon Is Now"
Phil Collins - "Don't Lose My Number"
Next week, Johnny Mars takes us to 1971. It's the year John Belushi joins the cast of Second City. The musical Grease premieres at Kingston Mines, based on 1950s Chicago teenagers from Taft High School. Starbucks Coffee, email, VCRs, and the Apollo 15 "moon buggy" are all seen for the first time. Joe Frazier defeated Muhammad Ali in the 15-round "Fight of the Century," and Evel Knievel jumps a world-record 19 cars on a motorcycle.
