Karla Bonoff "Standing Right Next to Me"

The generation that grew up during the 1990s lost one of their former teenage heartthrobs last month: Luke Perry. While he's best known as Dylan McKay in Beverly Hills, 90210, Perry exited the teenage soap after five seasons to take on more grown-up roles in films (Perry returned to 90210 for the show's final two seasons). The year before leaving 90210, Perry starred as rodeo legend Lane Frost in the film 8 Seconds. While not a hit at the box office, the film's soundtrack gave us the Adult Contemporary hit "Standing Right Next to Me" from singer/songwriter Karla Bonoff.

Shanice "Saving Forever for You"

How do you envision the third re-boot of Beverly Hills, 90210? It's said to feature the majority of the original cast in an unconventional take on a re-boot. Guess we'll just have to speculate and wonder whether the Peach Pit has a gluten-free menu. The original show helped introduce artists and music to the show's fans -- so much so that the show released Beverly Hills, 90210 The Album which included hits like "Love Is" from Vanessa Williams & Brian McKnight and "Saving Forever for You" from Shanice.

Jamie Walters - "Hold On"

Jamie Walters played the mercurial Ray Pruit on Beverly Hills, 90210 and some fans just couldn't separate him from his television character.  He said that fans of 90210 would come up to him on the street and yell at him for throwing Donna down a flight of stairs.  While Ray Pruit may not have been the most likable, Walters' music was.  He scored a #1 hit with "How Do Talk to An Angel" with The Heights in 1993 and then saw "Hold On" become another hit in 1995.  In a strange twist that sounds eerily ripped from an Aaron Spelling-produced script, Walters put music aside and went to work as a paramedic in Los Angeles during the mid-2000s.

The Heights - "How Do You Talk To An Angel?"

What happens when a TV theme song is more popular than the show?  In this case, Fox was looking for a teen soap opera to complement Beverly Hills, 90210 and launched The Heights in 1992.  The show never really caught on and wound up being cancelled a week after it's theme song, "How Do You Talk To An Angel?", fell out of the #1 spot on the Hot 100.  Lead singer of The Heights Jamie Walters would later go on to star as the temperamental Ray Pruit on Beverly Hills, 90210.  

Vanessa Williams & Brian McKnight - "Love Is"

Beverly Hills 90210 helped launch the music careers of several artists...Brian McKnight is one of them.  His duet with Vanessa Williams in "Love Is" was featured on the teen series in 1992 and immediately hit #1 on the AC chart.  Once you hear the song, you can't help but regret your decision to stop taking piano lessons.