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Post by dukelightning on Aug 25, 2011 7:41:55 GMT -5
Pete, I remember the same feeling watching a 1976 Diana Ross song do something similar. "I Thought It Took A Little Time" came onto the Hot 100 pretty high as I recall(don't have the chart in front of me at the moment). It stayed on the Hot 100 for 7 weeks, peaking at #47. I thought it was a sure-shot to hit the 40. I believe the problem with this song was that radio bailed on this one and picked up on "Love Hangover" which of course was a major #1 hit... Steve When I listen to the chorus of "I Thought It Took A Little Time" I have to be thinking of "You are Everything" by the Stylistics and in fact it sounds more Philadelphia than Motown. As singles go it may not have had quite enough hook to go to the top. On the other hand "Love Hangover" was quite an early example of the emerging Disco era. The Motown gurus must have seen more commercial potential in this one but I am not about to rave. I had a post at the time of your quoted post in which I said that Motown rush released Love Hangover because the Fifth Dimension had released their version of Love Hangover. Of course the FD bombed with it and I never heard their version of LH at the time.
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Post by tarobe on Aug 25, 2011 10:45:32 GMT -5
I'm surprised that "Hello Darlin'" by Conway Twitty did not make the Top 40, or wasn't on that first AT40 show. It was a huge country hit in 1970, and other at least seven other big country hits DID make the Top 40 in the next two years.
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Post by georgeb on Aug 25, 2011 16:12:55 GMT -5
THROUGH THE EYES OF LOVE (love theme from ICE CASTLES), this sitll gets airplay and I am amazed it didnt even hi the top 50! Agreed. Melissa Manchester deserved better than # 76 for this one. Other than that, I feel that the AT40 gave her reasonable reward for her best efforts - "Midnight Blue" #6 and "You Should Hear How She Talks about You" #5 were both stunning. Perhaps "Just You and I" could have been Top 10 as well - some may have thought it was too similar to "Midnight Blue"? But it was on a separate studio album. Overall I still have much respect for AT40 in those days. #1s normally happened for a reason. However we find many of the enduring songs did not make #1 at all. I hear "Still the One" by Orleans on the radio more frequently than say "You Light Up My Life" (Debbie Boone) or any of the Andy Gibb #1s. I said that Orleans had a #1 hit there but it did not happen. Its staying power is both because it makes a great jingle, and because it is the perfect popular song in so many ways. I guess that was our frustration at the time. We would hear pure class in a song on the radio, and find that for some reason it could not make it to the Top 20 or even the Top 40. At least AT40 generally meant that we could HEAR the great artists and with any luck ALL of their great songs! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melissa_Manchester
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Post by vto66 on Jul 27, 2013 22:12:22 GMT -5
"Half A Boy, Half A Man"--Nick Lowe (1984). I am surprised this one never made the Top 40. It's one of the catchiest tunes I have ever heard.
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Post by chrislc on Jul 27, 2013 22:33:12 GMT -5
THROUGH THE EYES OF LOVE (love theme from ICE CASTLES), this sitll gets airplay and I am amazed it didnt even hi the top 50! Agreed. Melissa Manchester deserved better than # 76 for this one. Other than that, I feel that the AT40 gave her reasonable reward for her best efforts - "Midnight Blue" #6 and "You Should Hear How She Talks about You" #5 were both stunning. Perhaps "Just You and I" could have been Top 10 as well - some may have thought it was too similar to "Midnight Blue"? But it was on a separate studio album. Overall I still have much respect for AT40 in those days. #1s normally happened for a reason. However we find many of the enduring songs did not make #1 at all. I hear "Still the One" by Orleans on the radio more frequently than say "You Light Up My Life" (Debbie Boone) or any of the Andy Gibb #1s. I said that Orleans had a #1 hit there but it did not happen. Its staying power is both because it makes a great jingle, and because it is the perfect popular song in so many ways. I guess that was our frustration at the time. We would hear pure class in a song on the radio, and find that for some reason it could not make it to the Top 20 or even the Top 40. At least AT40 generally meant that we could HEAR the great artists and with any luck ALL of their great songs! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melissa_ManchesterStill The One, in the long run, might be the #1 song of 1976. Another I think with that kind of #1 staying power is Oh Pretty Woman for 1964. Maybe Margaritaville for 1977. Still The One might be looking in it's rear view mirror at a rapidly approaching competitor, however. You're My Best Friend. I don't think any act approaches Queen for staying power. Almost 40 years and still going strong. Eagles too.
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Post by 1finemrg on Jul 27, 2013 23:34:01 GMT -5
"Half A Boy, Half A Man"--Nick Lowe (1984). I am surprised this one never made the Top 40. It's one of the catchiest tunes I have ever heard. Speaking of the great Nick Lowe, "I Knew The Bride (When She Used To Rock And Roll)" by Nick Lowe And His Cowboy Outfit merited a better fate than its 1985 nine week run that peaked at #77. I'm guessing the song wasn't successful because it was different that the music that was popular at the time. Also Dave Edmunds covering Nick's song in the late seventies may have taken away some momentum from it. Can't argue with the pedigree. The band included Paul Carrack (Ace, Squeeze, Mike and the Mechanics, solo), and it was produced by Huey Lewis who contributed harmonica to the track. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kn1CXbf2xF8&list=PL0F9404833CFC7022&index=1
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Post by mga707 on Jul 27, 2013 23:46:02 GMT -5
"Half A Boy, Half A Man"--Nick Lowe (1984). I am surprised this one never made the Top 40. It's one of the catchiest tunes I have ever heard. Speaking of the great Nick Lowe, "I Knew The Bride (When She Used To Rock And Roll)" by Nick Lowe And His Cowboy Outfit merited a better fate than its 1985 nine week run that peaked at #77. I'm guessing the song wasn't successful because it was different that the music that was popular at the time. Also Dave Edmunds covering Nick's song in the late seventies may have taken away some momentum from it. Can't argue with the pedigree. The band included Paul Carrack (Ace, Squeeze, Mike and the Mechanics, solo), and it was produced by Huey Lewis who contributed harmonica to the track. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kn1CXbf2xF8&list=PL0F9404833CFC7022&index=1Bought the 45 back in '85. Great record!
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Post by davewollenberg on Aug 10, 2013 21:30:48 GMT -5
'We close our eyes' by Go West stopped at 41. Did make r&r's 40, though. 'Thinking of you' by Paul Davis, and 'Don't think...feel' by Neil Diamond made Hot 100 debuts in the 40s, but, airplay faded very quickly. Neither of 'em made it into AT40. What gives?
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Post by Hervard on Aug 10, 2013 22:01:48 GMT -5
'We close our eyes' by Go West stopped at 41. Did make r&r's 40, though. Actually, "We Close Our Eyes" did not hit R&R's Top 40. I'll bet it did not miss by much, though.
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Post by OldSchoolAT40Fan on Aug 11, 2013 7:00:49 GMT -5
I enjoyed "The Power of Love" by Jennifer Rush greatly, and that version never made the top 40, though the remakes by Laura Branigan and Celine Dion eventually did. Laura Branigan's remake went to the top 30, while Celine Dion's version was the only version that made the top 10 (in fact, it peaked at #2 in 1994). Jennifer Rush's version was ten times better than any remake, I do admit.
One would think that "The Power of Love" would be Jennifer Rush's biggest charting hit (given the radio airplay), but "Flames of Paradise" (with Elton John) was Jennifer Rush's only top 40 record.
Imagine if Jennifer Rush's "The Power of Love" had hit the top 40 around the same time Huey Lewis & The News' different song of the same title (from Back to the Future) was on AT40. I wonder if both songs were on the Hot 100 at one point?
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Post by davewollenberg on Aug 14, 2013 17:15:33 GMT -5
OK, maybe We close made Rick Dees' Top 40. I do remember hearin' it on a top 40 countdown show.
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Post by jdelachjr2002 on Aug 14, 2013 22:08:20 GMT -5
OK, maybe We close made Rick Dees' Top 40. I do remember hearin' it on a top 40 countdown show. Dees was using R&R then but he has played bubbling under songs as extras so it's not impossible.
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Post by freakyflybry on Aug 14, 2013 23:41:31 GMT -5
OK, maybe We close made Rick Dees' Top 40. I do remember hearin' it on a top 40 countdown show. Dees was using R&R then but he has played bubbling under songs as extras so it's not impossible. He played it on one of his "hottest hits of summer" specials in the summer of 1985.
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Post by davewollenberg on Aug 18, 2013 14:31:57 GMT -5
Y'know, maybe it was on Dan Ingram's top 40 satellite survey, that I heard 'We close our eyes' in the 40 of that show.
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Post by cpastrick on Aug 22, 2013 19:52:08 GMT -5
'We close our eyes' by Go West stopped at 41. Did make r&r's 40, though. 'Thinking of you' by Paul Davis, and 'Don't think...feel' by Neil Diamond made Hot 100 debuts in the 40s, but, airplay faded very quickly. Neither of 'em made it into AT40. What gives? Oh you are so right with "We Close Our Eyes"! I can remember how much my friends and I loved that album. "Call Me" also was a great one. My offerings: "Be Good Johnny" Men at Work "Mexican Radio" Wall of Voodoo "Remo's Theme (What If)" Tommy Shaw
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