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Post by jdelachjr2002 on Feb 11, 2011 18:42:59 GMT -5
I loved "They're Coming To Take Me Away". Didn't mental institutes complain about the song?
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Post by dukelightning on Feb 11, 2011 21:12:11 GMT -5
mkarns, I am not sure if you knew what Casey was referring to in that statement about America which I also heard. But the group said that the lyrics in "A Horse With no Name" did not mean anything. They just liked the way the words sounded. I would guess that the same applies to "Ventura Highway" since it is in a similar vein. Ditto for "Tin Man".
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Post by pizzzzza on Feb 11, 2011 21:33:10 GMT -5
I loved "They're Coming To Take Me Away". Didn't mental institutes complain about the song? Hey JD, Yes they DID complain - I remember that happening when that song came out. I think I liked that song for about 5 minutes........LOL
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2011 14:46:00 GMT -5
Dont know if it has been mentioned so far:
Madonna´s Like a virgin fell down from number 1 to number 7 on 02-02-85.
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Post by dukelightning on Jun 8, 2011 14:39:15 GMT -5
bumping up this thread for jlthorpe
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Post by dukelightning on Jun 10, 2011 17:17:19 GMT -5
Here are the biggest climbs to positions 2 through 5 in the Casey Kasem era expanded to include all of 1970 and to 1991 when the methodology changed. Also the biggest climb by songs that did not hit #1 are included.
Biggest climb to #1.....Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey.....12-1 Biggest climb to #2.....Fly Robin Fly......16-2 Biggest climb to #2 without hitting #1...Shattered Dreams...8-2 Biggest climb to #3....Live and Let Die...21-3 Biggest climb to #3 without hitting #1...same song, peaked at 2 Biggest climb to #4....Funkytown.......19-4 Biggest climb to #4 without hitting #1....Instant Karma, peaked at 3 and Open Arms, peaked at 2....15-4 Biggest climb to #5....He Don't Love You......23-5 Biggest climb to #5 without hitting #1.....Miracles, peaked at 3.....22-5
Kind of an honorable mention goes to Don't let the Sun go Down on Me, the original version. It has the biggest climb into the top 10 without hitting #1 at 25-6, peaked at 2. So it was poetic justice when the live version hit #1 in 1992.
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Post by mstgator on Jun 11, 2011 8:33:02 GMT -5
^ And another honorable mention to "Le Freak" by Chic, whose 37-6 jump remains the largest upward move in AT40 history (correct me if I'm wrong, since I don't listen to the current incarnation). (*This was topped only by the 35-2 jump for "Black Or White", which occurred during the great chart change of 11/30/91.)
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Post by dukelightning on Jun 11, 2011 8:41:50 GMT -5
^ And another honorable mention to "Le Freak" by Chic, whose 37-6 jump remains the largest upward move in AT40 history (correct me if I'm wrong, since I don't listen to the current incarnation). (*This was topped only by the 35-2 jump for "Black Or White", which occurred during the great chart change of 11/30/91.) Well the current incarnation has blown that record away but that is why most of us ignore anything from 11/30/91 on when the HOT 100 changed. So Black or White is part of the Soundscan era. There was a song that made that same 35-2 move before 1991 and it is Elvis' Are You Lonesome Tonight, the biggest move within the top 40 prior to 1991. Casey mentioned that on a show at least once.
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Post by bestmusicexpert on Jun 11, 2011 9:05:10 GMT -5
Always been one of my favorite novelty hits. People were just too uptight back then. I mean 6 years later Jungle Fever hit the top 40 and I think its a shade worse than Napoleon XIV's tune!
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Post by dukelightning on Oct 1, 2011 7:17:36 GMT -5
During the Casey era, 1970-1988, the biggest drop from #2 is Float On by the Floaters. It dropped to #19 in 1977. The biggest drop from #3 is Sexual Healing by Marvin Gaye. It dropped to #23 in 1983. thefredboy, I had dig around, this was on page 6...but I know I had answered this question before so just had to find it.
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Post by erik on Oct 1, 2011 9:16:20 GMT -5
During the Casey era, 1970-1988, the biggest drop from #2 is Float On by the Floaters. It dropped to #19 in 1977. The biggest drop from #3 is Sexual Healing by Marvin Gaye. It dropped to #23 in 1983. thefredboy, I had dig around, this was on page 6...but I know I had answered this question before so just had to find it. Thanks a lot! That's what I was looking for!
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Post by torcan on Oct 12, 2011 8:59:16 GMT -5
During the Casey era, 1970-1988, the biggest drop from #2 is Float On by the Floaters. It dropped to #19 in 1977. The biggest drop from #3 is Sexual Healing by Marvin Gaye. It dropped to #23 in 1983. Which goes to show how unlikely this really was. "Float On" moved from 5 to 2, with a star. Then it was forced to hold a 2 and lose its star - then the plunge to 19. Realistically, how is this possible? You wonder what its postion the week before the plunge to 19 really was, but we'll never know because it was forced to remain at No. 2 because of the chart rules. Same thing with "Sexual Healing" - it was a 3 with a superstar, then went 3 with a star, 3 with no star, then the plunge to 23. I really wonder why radio or retail didn't complain about the way the charts were handled.
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Post by dukelightning on Mar 25, 2013 13:34:10 GMT -5
Bumping up and I had to go further than I ever have to find it...to page 29!! Bumping because it was just mentioned in a post.
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Post by woolebull on Mar 25, 2013 16:27:52 GMT -5
Thank you dukedeb. I'm glad to have this information!
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Post by OldSchoolAT40Fan on Mar 25, 2013 18:16:30 GMT -5
I think there was a bigger drop from #1 than "Like A Virgin". During the early Shadoe era, early in 1989, "Two Hearts" by Phil Collins was at #1, and then fell to #10 the following week. Don't know if there was a bigger drop from #1 on AT40 before that.
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