Last Hot 100 #1 On Vinyl Only?

NightAire wrote: Discogs lists a cassette single of "(I Just) Died In Your Arms Tonight" in 1987 although they label it as a "reissue." They also list a mini CD single in 1988.

OK. I just re-read this. A later (not concurrent) release on CD single
shouldn't exclude a 45. Nor if the song was released in some video format,
like a CD-video or VHS.

But I guess it's not Cutting Crew if there was a cassingle released at the
same time as the vinyl.

And Brian, LOL, that's funny about Amazon! Some people didn't think the
CD format would become anything. And the same thing when cassettes of
albums were released.

As for Amazon, going even bigger, there were probably people early on that
didn't think this "internet thing" would catch on. :)

I remember buying ONE cassette single right when it came out - Whitney Houston's "Didn't We Almost Have It All". It was one of the first (I think). So since that was '87, I'd say the answer definitely lies in a 1987 single. I had Whitney's CD, but I bought this anyway, not with the intention of ever playing it (though it was my #1 song of 1987), but because I thought it would be a quickly fading fad. I was obviously wrong about that :)

I bought that Cassingle, too. Her previous #1 from a few months earlier, "I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)", had both a Cassette Single and
Cassette Maxi-Single. As I recall, both "I Wanna Dance" and "Didn't We" both had non-LP B-Sides, which is another reason I bought them. I'm going to have
to dig out my cassingle of "Didn't We" to see if it has that distortion issue that's been discussed on another thread. I'm sure it does, but I have to
say I never noticed it until I read about here on this forum. Now that I know it exists, I can't not hear it anytime I listen to the song.

As far as #1's go, I'd also like to mention that Club Nouveau's "Lean On Me" (#1 a few months before the Cutting Crew song) also had a cassingle issued
for it (though technically it was probably more like a Cassette Maxi-Single). I have it in my collection as well. As far as I know, that's the earliest
#1 I know of to be available in the format.

Yeah, I don't think I ever noticed that in "Didn't We Almost Have It All" until
Aaron pointed it out. And I'd heard the song maybe 1000 times. I love it only
slightly less than "All At Once", and both are in my top 10 of all time, if I had to
guess.

Oh and I don't recall "Didn't We Almost Have it All" cassette having a non-LP
B-side - because that would have been a great reason to buy it - and I know I
bought it because I thought the format wouldn't last and having this cassette
would be a novelty thing.

:)

Oh and I don't recall "Didn't We Almost Have it All" cassette having a non-LP B-side - because that would have been a great reason to buy it

The B-Side of "Didn't We...." was "Shock Me", her duet with Jermaine Jackson. It was from the movie "Perfect" with John Travolta and Jamie Lee Curtis and it was on the film's soundtrack, but it hadn't been on either of Whitney's albums at that point. That makes at least 4 duets she recorded with Jermaine, the others being "Nobody Loves Me Like You Do" and "Take Good Care Of My Heart" from her first album and "If You Say My Eyes Are Beautiful" from his "Precious Moments" Album.

I just remembered that I saw this listing on Discogs awhile ago and just remembered it now in relation to this thread. Apparently, there was a limited-edition Cassette Single issued in the US for Peter Gabriel's "Sledgehammer" in 1986, (although it only contains remixes and not the LP or Single Version). Never saw it in stores, but it has a barcode, so I guess it was available commercially.

Sledgehammer Cassette Single