Selection A1: Robbie Nevil -- C'est La Vie

This is my favorite song, and will probably be so until the day I die.  The opening, the eighth notes prominent through the song, the bridge (Hey, Jay Jay!).  It just works for me.  Not long after hearing the song (probably on MTV) I owned the 45.  Not long after that, I bought the album (probably a cassette by that time).

This song came out near the end of 1986, and got all the way to number 2 for two weeks.  It made it to number 6 for the 1987 year end countdown, the highest non-number one song of that year.  It was held out of the top spot by Gregory Abbott's Shake You Down, and Billy Vera and the Beaters' At This Moment.  This is truly a tragedy in chart history in my honest opinion.

Robbie Nevil was a writer first, writing for the likes of the Pointer Sisters, El Debarge, and Earth, Wind and Fire. This was his first shot at making his own music.  This could technically be labeled as a remake, however.  To make it weirder, it's a remake of a song he co-wrote for Beau Williams in 1984.

The B side was Time Waits For No One.  It's not a bad song, but it is a B side song for a reason.  Followup singles from the album were Dominoes, and Wot's It To Ya.