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Post by pizzzzza on Mar 14, 2011 20:23:33 GMT -5
I'll add these songs: From 1973 Let's Pretend - The Raspberries (Peak #35) Jesus Is Just Alright - The Doobie Brothers (Peak #35) From 1975 Part Of The Plan - Dan Fogelberg (Peak #31) From 1978 Warm Ride - Rare Earth (Peak #39) I own many of these songs and was disappointed that none of them reached the Top 20. I have to agree with all of these too! |
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Post by pizzzzza on Mar 14, 2011 21:02:45 GMT -5
Here's another one for me:
(1978) Rubicon - I'm Gonna Take Care Of Everything - I remember when this song jumped 11 spots into the top 40 at #32 - and then stalled at #28 a few weeks later, then plummeted to #64 the following week - I was so disappointed - that song deserved so much better
(1977) Glen Campbell - Sunflower - peaked at #39 - not a bad little song - but thought it deserved much better.
Now, probably my ALL-TIME favorite song that never really made it:
1973 - Aretha Franklin - Master Of Eyes - I don't know where to begin - thought this was going to be a MONSTER hit when I first heard - loved that intro - but something happened along the way - I never heard it on local radio stations, and it stalled at #33.
At the same time - another of my personal favorites Hello Hurray by Alice Cooper peaked at #35 - Billion Dollar Babies, to me, was one of the best albums of the year - and this song just wasn't given it's proper due, in my humble opinion..
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Post by dukelightning on Mar 14, 2011 21:19:08 GMT -5
3 more for you..........
Check it Out by Tavares peaked at 35, their first hit which received a lot of airplay in my town...a slow song that builds...1973
Fantasy by Earth, Wind & Fire peaked at 32, despite a lot of top 10 hits before and after this, somehow this ran out of steam..1978
By the way, I think it was played right before or after the only time Casey answered one of my questions
Shock the Monkey by Peter Gabriel peaked at 29, was a better song in my opinion than his #1 hit, Sledgehammer...1983
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Post by Mike on Mar 14, 2011 22:28:05 GMT -5
How bout back to back Meatloaf singles that peaked at #39...Paradise by the Dashboard Light and You Took the Words Right Out of my Mouth. He might have the top 2 most played songs that peaked at that position in the rock era. Someone mentioned Atomic which peaked at 39 but does any station play that song? I suppose it was the length of those Meatloaf songs that did them in although he went all the way to #1 with an equally long song, "I'd Do Anything for Love but I Won't do That". Well, not only was Paradise long, but it was VERY controversial back in '78...controversial enough to earn a front-page memo on its debut week of 9/16/78. If anything, #39 is pretty remarkable for that one. In contrast, not only was "I'd Do Anything For Love" not controversial at all, but even if it was...we were now in 1993, and it would've been able to skate by a lot easier anyway. |
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Post by canat40fan on Mar 14, 2011 22:40:47 GMT -5
Here's another one for me.....At the same time - another of my personal favorites Hello Hurray by Alice Cooper peaked at #35 - Billion Dollar Babies, to me, was one of the best albums of the year - and this song just wasn't given it's proper due, in my humble opinion.. I agree with you on the fine Alice Cooper tune. It should have done much better. Don't know why but a couple of years ago while on a european vacation that song was on my brain the whole trip and I was driving my wife crazy humming it :-) A couple of songs that I owned and thought should have done much better: 1974 - Workin At the Car Wash Blues - Jim Croce (#32 peak) 1973 - Close Your Eyes - Edward Bear (#37 peak) |
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Post by bestmusicexpert on Mar 15, 2011 4:59:45 GMT -5
Workin At The Car Wash Blues was good but it was just posthumous greed by the record company I always thought. I mean, when it charted it was going on 9 months after he died.
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Post by at40petebattistini on Mar 15, 2011 5:52:36 GMT -5
Workin At The Car Wash Blues was good but it was just posthumous greed by the record company I always thought. I mean, when it charted it was going on 9 months after he died. Jim Reeves, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson, and the list goes on. As you know, there's a fine line between record company greed and fan demand. |
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Post by pizzzzza on Mar 15, 2011 10:03:10 GMT -5
Thought of another one...definitely a personal favorite...should've done better:
Sunrise - Eric Carmen - especially the longer version, with the longer intro - this guy put out some great pop songs in the 70s - this is "Beach Boy" like song that just flows right along - peaked at only #34 in the fall of '76 - if you've never heard this song, give it a listen.
Also - a song that was out about the same time - problem is it only peaked at #41, so it never made the AT 40, which I think is a real shame - Take A Hand - Rick Springfield - probably one of his lesser known earlier hits - between his "Speak to the Sky" days and "Jesse's Girl" breakout - this song should've at least been a top 20 hit, in my humble opinion.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2011 10:20:42 GMT -5
Vox humana by Kenny Loggins.
Sugar free by Wa Wa Nee.
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Post by franky on Mar 15, 2011 10:33:39 GMT -5
For new wave fans, such as me, 3 songs come to mind.
"Change" by Tears For Fears only reached # 73, while "Pale Shelter" didn't even chart.
And both Missing Persons songs "Words" and "Destination Unknown" missed the Top 40 by a whisker. What a shame.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2011 11:02:45 GMT -5
Judging from the amount of airplay it still gets these days: "Peaceful Easy Feeling" by the Eagles.
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Post by pizzzzza on Mar 15, 2011 11:33:47 GMT -5
For new wave fans, such as me, 3 songs come to mind. "Change" by Tears For Fears only reached # 73, while "Pale Shelter" didn't even chart. And both Missing Persons songs "Words" and "Destination Unknown" missed the Top 40 by a whisker. What a shame. I wasn't aware of EITHER Missing Persons songs not making the Top 40 - wow! I just had 'assumed' they were Top 40 hits based on all of the MTV airplay of the music videos. |
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Post by pizzzzza on Mar 15, 2011 11:35:47 GMT -5
Judging from the amount of airplay it still gets these days: "Peaceful Easy Feeling" by the Eagles. I agree - and Todd Rundgren's "I Saw The Light" seems like it gets a lot of airplay on the oldies stations, even though it only peaked at #16 in the summer of '72 - great tune! |
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Post by mkarns on Mar 15, 2011 12:00:32 GMT -5
For new wave fans, such as me, 3 songs come to mind. "Change" by Tears For Fears only reached # 73, while "Pale Shelter" didn't even chart. And both Missing Persons songs "Words" and "Destination Unknown" missed the Top 40 by a whisker. What a shame. I'd also add, from 1982-83, Scandal's "Goodbye To You", which only got to #65 at the time but is much heard today (Premiere even included it as an optional extra in a recent AT40 broadcast), and Modern English's "I Melt With You", which peaked at #78 (and at #76 in remixed form in 1990), but has long outlasted its modest chart showing; nowadays I hear it in a TV commercial. |
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Post by 80sfreak on Mar 15, 2011 12:03:52 GMT -5
For new wave fans, such as me, 3 songs come to mind. "Change" by Tears For Fears only reached # 73, while "Pale Shelter" didn't even chart. totally agree. Everyone thinks Songs was a great album but The Hurting was so awesome. And yet no songs did anything of significance in the states. Not even Mad World which was one of their best songs. |
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