Does anyone remember the name of this song from the early 90's?

Question

The guy in the song doesn't sing but more so, he quotes different years and events that happened in that time. And strange, but for some reason the number 19 keeps coming to mind, it must be in the song .

Answer 1

I remember Michael Jackson doing that in his song "History".

Answer 2

Are you thinking of Billy Joel's We Didn't Start The Fire?

No years are mentioned, but it does recount different events from 1949 through 1989 ...

I think the song was released in 1989, though, which is earlier than what you're describing.

Lyrics:

Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnny Ray
South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio

Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, Television
North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe

Rosenbergs, H Bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom
Brando, The King And I, and The Catcher In The Rye

Eisenhower, Vaccine, England's got a new queen
Maciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev
Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc

Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, Dancron
Dien Bien Phu Falls, Rock Around the Clock

Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team
Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland

Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Khrushchev
Princess Grace, Peyton Place, Trouble in the Suez

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, Bridge On The River Kwai

Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball
Starkwether, Homicide, Children of Thalidomide
Buddy Holly, Ben Hur, Space Monkey, Mafia
Hula Hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go

U2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy
Chubby Checker, Psycho, Belgians in the Congo

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

Hemingway, Eichman, Stranger in a Strange Land
Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion

Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania
Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson

Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British Politician sex
J.F.K. blown away, what else do I have to say

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again
Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock
Begin, Reagan, Palestine, Terror on the airline
Ayatollah's in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan

Wheel of Fortune, Sally Ride, heavy metal, suicide
Foreign debts, homeless Vets, AIDS, Crack, Bernie Goetz
Hypodermics on the shores, China's under martial law
Rock and Roller cola wars, I can't take it anymore

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

Answer 3

I can't remember the name of the song or the man who did the speech but it wa a graduation speech that became so famous that they did the song. The hook phrase to the whole thing when it was getting press was "and always use sunblock"..something about that being his best advice. Sorry i can't remb. but try looking up that line and Jenns' on a lyric search.

Answer 4

Paul Hardcastle, '19', I guess, but I thought that was late 80s.

Answer 5

the song is 19 something by martin stenmarck
I saw Star Wars at least 8 times
Had the Pac-Man pattern memorized
And I’ve seen the stuff, they put inside..
Stretch Armstrong
I was Roger Moore back in my backyard
Had a shoebox full of movie-stars
And a couple of Evil Knievel scars..
On my right arm

I was a kid when Elvis died..
And my momma cried..

It was nineteen seventy-somethin’
In the world that I grew up in
Farrah Fawcett hairdo days
Bell bottoms and two track tapes
Lookin’ back now I can see me..
Oh man, did I look crazy
I wouldn’t trade those days for nothin’..
Oh it was nineteen seventy-somethin’

It was the dawning of a new decade
We got our first microwave
Dad broke down and finally shaved..
Them old sideburns off
I took the stickers off my Rubik’s Cube
I watched MTV all afternoon
And my first love was daisy duke..
With them cut off jeans
Space Shuttle fell out of the sky
And the whole world cried..

It was nineteen eighty-somethin’
In the world that I grew up in
Skatin’ rinks and black Trans-Ams
Big hair and parachute pants
Lookin’ back now I can see me..
Oh man, did I look crazy
I wouldn’t trade those days for nothin’
Oh, it was nineteen eighty-somethin’

Now I’ve got a mortgage and an SUV
But all this responsibility..
Makes me wish...
Sometimes...

It was nineteen eighty-something
In the world that I grew up in
Skatin’ rinks and black Trans-Arms
Big hair and parachute pants
Lookin’ back now I can see me..
Oh man, did I look crazy
I wouldn’t trade those days for nothin’
Oh it was nineteen eighty-somethin’..
Nineteen seventy-somethin’..
Oh it was nineteen.. somethin’

Answer 6

Dan Fogerty? or Toto? its called Hey Nineteen I think.

Answer 7

i remember that song, but i don't remember the name...it was like be kind to elders as you will be one someday, something like that.

i think it was for graduations like class of 1996 maybe was the name of the song???

Answer 8

Need more info.

Answer 9

We didn't start the fire- Billy Joel?