DEF: John Cougar Mellencamp “Small Town”

Indiana-born musician John Cougar Mellencamp scored nine of his ten Top 10 singles on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart in the 1980s. Coincidentally, the sixth of those Top 10 singles — “Small Town” — hit a peak position of number 6, and on this date in 1986, “Small Town” was in the second of four weeks it would spend at number 6. Today, John Cougar Mellencamp’s “Small Town” is the Daily Eighties Flashback.