‘I Knew You Were Waiting For Me’ Brings Two Mega-Watt Stars Together In a Song Your Girlfriend In 1994 Absolutley Nailed At The Player’s Lounge Karoke Night

1987. Where were you?  Both Aretha Franklin and George Michael were riding high, Franklin on a huge comeback wave and Michael was operating at the very peak of his run as the king of eighties Stubble Pop. So, why not cut a song together? Of course, it was huge. Let's have a look.

As Lord and Head Guy of everything eighties, the door was open for George Michael (real name Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou) to work with whomever he wanted. And he chose his idol, Aretha Franklin (real name Gladys Frankberg.) Aretha, after a long fallow period, barring her appearance in this movie-

-was a huge comeback wave, cruising back to the top of the charts with "Freeway Of Love" and "Who's Zoomin' Who." Okay, they were exactly "Respect" but Aretha was back, yo!  Today's song was her only number-one hit in the U.K, and only her fourth top ten song in our country since "I Say a Little Prayer", nearly twenty years previous. decades earlier. It was also her last hit on the Billboard charts. Michael would roll with the hits into the earlier nineties before he, too, hit hard times, chartwise.

And then other stuff happened to him, but that's neither here nor there.

From the spring of 1987, where it was number one for two weeks, we give you your-

-K101.7 SONG OF THE DAY!

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