Week of January 15, 1994
In Moscow - President Clinton and President Boris N. Yeltsin conclude a two-day
meeting which emphasized Russia’s progress on their new free market economy.
Syrian President Hafez Assad meets with President Clinton and for the first time,
says he would like normal relations with Israel.
A 6.6 magnitude earthquake hits the Los
Angeles area. The pre-dawn quake killed
at least 33, flattened freeways and
buildings and sent commuters on
alternative routes. Authorities say they’ll
be traffic nightmares for months. 15 are
dead in a collapsed Northridge
apartment. Another aftershock hit better
than a 5 on the Richter scale.
Shane Minoaka Stant, the man suspected of carrying out the attack on Olympic
figure skater Nancy Kerrigan, surrenders to police in Arizona.
Tonya Harding’s hold on a berth in next month’s Winter Olympics may be less
than secure, as U.S. Olympic Committee officials contemplate whether it would
be in the best interest of other athletes to remove her from the team.
Lorena Bobbitt
tells a tense courtroom that she
cut off her husband’s penis with a carving knife
because she could no longer endure the rape,
beatings and other abuse to which she said she
was subjected during their four-year marriage.
Television news - Appearing on ABC’s “Good
Morning America” - Chevy Chase said he was
stunned that he was dropped from his Fox talk
show after just 5 ½ weeks.
Samsung Electronics is ordered by a judge to pay Vanna White $403,000 in
damages for running an ad featuring a robot in her likeness, on a so-called
“Wheel of Fortune” set.
Radio news - John Lander is the new morning man at Z-100 New York. His team
includes sidekick Patty Steele and producer Elliott Segal, both who had been
with him at Eagle 106 (WEGX) Philadelphia.
Week of January 15, 1994
KLOS Los Angeles moves syndicated Greaseman from nights to late nights.
Westwood One announces it is syndicating the Broke Daniels and Roberta Gale
show, which now airs on New Jersey 101.5. Daniels was once in a rock band
and Gale was a stand-up comedian.
Modern Rock -
Daughter - Pearl Jam
All Apologies - Nirvana
Mr. Jones - Counting Crows
Purple Haze - the Cure
Found Out About You - Gin
Blossoms
Locked Out - Crowded House
Kite - Nick Heyward
Cannonball - The Breeders
Laid - James
Into Your Arms - The Lemonheads
Today - Smashing Pumpkins
Top Rap -
U.N.I.T.Y - Queen Latifah
Getto Jam - Domino
Wha’t My Name? - Snoop Doggy
Dogg
Whoomp (There It Is) - Tag Team
Keep Ya Head Up - 2Pac
(I Know I Got) Skillz - Shaquille O’Neal
Dunkie Butt - 12 Gauge
Come Clean - Jeru The Damaja
Award Tour - A Tribe Called Quest
Real Muthaphuckkin G’s - Easy E
Comed Baby Come - K7
Really Doe - Ice Cube
Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia) - US3
Jazz albums -
Steppin’ Out - Tony Bennett
Swing Kids - Soundtrack
25 - Harry Connick Jr.
Wish - Joshua Redman
Week of January 15, 1994
Best of the Songbooks - Ella Fitzgerald
Blue Light ‘Til Dawn - Cassandra Wilson
Contemporary Jazz -
Lucky Man - Dave Koz
Breathless - Kenny G.
Between the Sheets - Fourplay
East River Drive - Stanley Clark
Dreams Beyond Control - Spyro Gyra
Love Remembers - George Benson
Hot Hits -
Hero - Mariah Carey
Again - Janet Jackson
All That She Wants - Ace of base
All For Love - Bryan Adams/Rod
Stewart/Sting
Can We Talk - Tevin Campbell
Said I Love You… But I Lied - Michael
Bolton
Gangsta Lean - DRS
Breathe Again - Toni Braxton
Shoop - Salt-N-Pepa
Keep Ya Head Up - 2Pac
Whoomp! (There It Is0 - Tag Team
I ’d Do Anything For You (But I Won’t
Do that) - Meat Loaf
Linger - The Cranberries
Please Forgive Me - Bryan Adams
Getto Jam - Domino
Mr. Vain- Culture Beat
Just Kickin’ it - Excape
Power of Love - Celine Dion
Because The Night - 10,000 Maniacs
Top Albums -
Vs - Pearl Jam
Doggy Style - Snoop Doggy Dogg
Music Box - Mariah Carey
That One Thing - Michael Bolton
Diary of a Mad Band - Jodeci
So Far So Good - Bryan Adams
Greatest Hits - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Week of January 15, 1994
Get A Grip - Aerosmith
Diary OF A Mad Band - Jodeci
Janet - Janet Jackson
Songs of the Eagles - Various
In Pieces - Garth Brooks
Toni Braxton - Toni Braxton
The Beavis and Butthead Experience -
Beavis and Butthead
Greatest Hits Volume Two - Reba
McEntire
Siamese Dream - Smashing Pumpkins
Lethal Injection - Ice Cube
Duets - Frank Sinatra
MTV Unplugged - 10,000 Maniacs
Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can’t
We? - Cranberries
In Utero - Nirvana
Top movies this week in 1994 -
Philadelphia
Mrs. Doubtfire
House Party III
Grumpy Old Men
The Pelican Brief
Iron Will
Tombstone
Shadowlands
The Air Up There
