Toni Braxton "Un-Break My Heart"

With new owners and a looming format change to pop-dance, 100.3 WPNT-FM started spinning dance versions of certain current songs when I worked there during the fall of 1996. Along with a remix to "Missing" from Everything But the Girl, the Adult Contemporary station mixed in a dance version of Toni Braxton's popular ballad "Un-Break My Heart". Ultimately, WPNT found another set of owners in 1997 (Bonneville) and "switched" formats. The station re-branded itself "Windy 100" -- a Mainstream Adult Contemporary format.

No Mercy - "Where Do You Go?"

For every classic hit TV show, there was usually a nearly identical show airing on a different network.  I'll take your Diff'rent Strokes and give you Webster; I'll take your Bewitched and give you I Dream of Jeanie, and so on.  The same thing goes with music: find a successful formula and then beat the shit out of it.  Everything But The Girl had a huge global dance hit with "Missing" in 1994.  In 1996, No Mercy took the same drum beat and turned it into the dance sensation "Where Do You Go?".  If you need me, I'll be watching the creepy bike shop episode of Diff'rent Strokes.

Everything But The Girl - "Missing"

Q: How much do you miss me?

A: Like the deserts miss the rain.