Smorgasbord Blog Magazine – The Breakfast Show with William Price King and Sally Cronin – Chart Hits 1999 Part Two – Lenny Kravitz, Sting, Enrique Iglesias, Blondie

Welcome to our show and we are excited to share decades of music with you in 2022.

Here is my second selection of top 1999 hits which I hope you will enjoy.

Lenny Kravitz – Fly away

“Fly away” was released from the album, “5” (1998) and peaked at #12 on the Billboard Hot 100. Internationally, “Fly Away” topped the charts in Iceland and the UK and peaked within the top ten of the charts in several countries, including Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the Republic of Ireland. The song won a Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Performance for his first of four consecutive wins in this category.

August 12th Shakira records her first live album in New York City, titled “MTV Unplugged” 

Sting – Brand New Day

“Brand New Day” is a song by British musician Sting, the title track of his sixth studio album (1999). The song features Stevie Wonder on harmonica. It was released as a single on 13 September 1999, peaking at number 13 in the United Kingdom and reaching the top 40 on two Canadian charts. In the United States, it peaked at number three on the Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100[3] and won a Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance in 2000  Sting

September 22nd 33rd Country Music Association Award: Shania Twain, Martina McBride and Tim McGraw win 

Now time for my second picks from 1999 and I hope you will enjoy my selection.

Enrique Iglesias – Bailamos

“Bailamos” (English: “We Dance”) is a single by Spanish singer Enrique Iglesias sung in Spanglish. The song was released in 1999 as part of the soundtrack to the film Wild Wild West (1999) and later as the lead single from Iglesias’s fourth and debut English-language album, Enrique (1999). “Bailamos” reached number one on the Spanish Singles Chart and on the US Billboard Hot 100, and it became a top-three hit in Canada, Hungary, New Zealand, Norway, and Sweden. In both New Zealand and Spain, it was the second-most-successful single of 1999. Enrique Iglesias

October 19th Cher releases “Believe” single (Billboard Song of the Year, 1999; Grammy Award Best Dance Recording, 2000) 

Blondie – Maria

“Maria” is a song by American rock band Blondie. The song was written by Blondie keyboardist Jimmy Destri and produced by Craig Leon. Taken from their album No Exit (1999), it was Blondie’s first new release since 1982. “Maria”, issued as a single in Europe on January 11, 1999, reached number one in the United Kingdom; Blondie’s sixth UK chart-topper. The song also topped the charts of Greece and Spain, becoming a top-20 hit across Europe and in New Zealand. BlondieMusicOfficial

November 8th Tenor Andrea Bocelli releases his “Sacred Arias” album, the world’s best-selling classical album by a single artist 

Additional sources: On This Day – Music – Hits of the 90s: Playback FM – Wikipedia

Your Hosts for The Breakfast Show

William Price King is an American jazz singer, crooner, and composer.

His interest in music began at an early age when he studied piano and clarinet in high school. At Morehouse College in Atlanta where he grew up, he sang in the Glee Club and studied classical music. After graduation he went off to the Yale School of Music where he earned a Masters degree. From there he journeyed to New York where he created a jazz trio ‘Au Naturel’ which performed in some of the hottest venues in Manhattan including gigs on Broadway and the famous ‘Rainbow Room.’ These gigs opened doors for performances in Montreal and a European tour.

While touring Europe he met a lovely French lady, Jeanne Maïstre, who, a year later became his wife. King left the group ‘Au Naturel’ and settled in the south of France where he started a new life on the French Riviera, opening his own music school – the “Price King Ecole Internationale de Chant.” He has had the pleasure over the years of seeing many of his students excel as singers on a professional level, and some going on to become national celebrities. He continues to coach young singers today, in his spare time.

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Sally Cronin is an author, blogger and broadcaster who enjoyed four years as part of the team on Onda Cero International’s English speaking morning show in Marbella and then for two years as a presenter on Expressfm the local radio station in Portsmouth. She co-presented two ‘Drive Time’ shows a week with Adrian Knight, hosted the live Thursday Afternoon Show and The Sunday Morning Show guests including musicians and authors. Following this she became Station Director for a local internet television station for two years, producing and presenting the daily news segment, outside broadcasts and co-presenting the Adrian and Sally chat show live on Friday evenings.

She and her husband David have now returned to Ireland where they live on the Wexford Coast where she blogs and continues to write books.

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Next week 2000 Part One- We hope you will tune in.. as always we love to hear from you.. thanks William and Sally.