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Post by mkarns on May 9, 2009 18:52:41 GMT -5
"So Close" by Jake Holmes, which never actually made Billboard's top 40, was played at #39 on the 12/19/70 show due to a goof by a staffer; at that point the chart was read to the AT40 staff over the phone and someone mistakenly wrote down the wrong position. Since AT40 was a week ahead of the official Billboard chart at that time (a situation that remained until April 1971) there wasn't time to correct it with the official chart position before recording the show and sending it out for broadcast.
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Post by dougray2 on May 10, 2009 13:11:41 GMT -5
Thanks everyone. I knew this group would find some other examples. Regarding So Close, a similar event occured on 6/29/74 when AT40 guessed the chart positions because Casey had to go to Hawaii and they recorded the show well in advance. Le Grange by ZZ Top was played even though it never made the top 40. Of course ZZ Top did hit the top 40 later, but Jake Holmes never had another chart single.
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Post by mrjukebox on May 10, 2009 17:18:52 GMT -5
If I'm not mistaken,Rob Durkee has stated that the 6/29/74 countdown is a collector's item.
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Post by freakyflybry on Nov 9, 2013 18:24:42 GMT -5
On this week's 70's AT40, there was an LDD song by Lindisfarne; while they were huge in the UK, did they even have any top 40 hits in the US?
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Post by saltrek on Nov 9, 2013 18:53:57 GMT -5
The song they played - "Run For Home" was their only top 40 hit in the US - peaking at #33 in the latter part of 1978.
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Post by rayshae3 on Nov 9, 2013 21:49:51 GMT -5
On this week's 70's AT40, there was an LDD song by Lindisfarne; while they were huge in the UK ... By comparison, they weren’t that huge in the British singles chart either, not as big as they were on its album chart. For all practical purposes “Run for Home” was also their third (the first two were both in 1971) and the last of their top 10s in Britain too (; not counting a reworked version of one of their early 70s song “Fog on the Tyne” credited to Gazza and Lindisfarne with a different vocal altogether that was a #2 in 1990.)
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