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Post by bestmusicexpert on Mar 27, 2011 14:44:45 GMT -5
And In My Dreams' remake by the Mickey Mouse Club group: The Party charted briefly in the 90's... Sorry Dokken fans, I like their rendition better, the song fits a pop format better for me.
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Post by dukelightning on Mar 27, 2011 18:15:01 GMT -5
That's ok...I don't consider Dokken's music pop anyway....they never came close to making the top 40.....don't know that other version of In My Dreams
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Post by freakyflybry on Mar 27, 2011 22:44:21 GMT -5
"Beautiful Girl" by INXS I'm fairly sure did make AT40; it peaked at #24 on Billboard Top 40 Mainstream though it missed top 40 on the Hot 100.
Similarly, "Dream On" by Aerosmith was a big hit, but not until 1976... do you mean the original 1973 release?
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Post by dukelightning on Mar 28, 2011 20:59:11 GMT -5
Wow what a shock to find out that a certain song did NOT make the top 40. I don't know much about music and chart data from the 2000s so when I heard a song yet again in a grocery store today. I had to find out how it did. Now I was expecting it to hit #1 or close to it. So when I found out that "Fallen" by Sarah McLachlan peaked at 41, I had to pick myself up off the floor. Can someone please explain to me how this song peaked at 41? Especially when you consider that she had similar sounding songs make the top 10 like Adia and Angel. And how does it hit #3 on the dance chart off all charts? TOTALLY SHOCKED by all this. Yes I know this is not from the era that we typically discuss on this forum.
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Post by kahunaburger61 on Mar 29, 2011 1:56:58 GMT -5
Cheap Trick had several songs that deserved to be top 40 hits: "Surrender" (62) "If You Want My Love" (45) "She's Tight" (65) & "Tonight It's You" (44). Journey also had great songs that failed to reach the top 40: "Wheel In The Sky" (57) "Anytime" (83) "Lights" (68) "Just The Same Way" (58) "Too Late" (70) & "Good Morning Girl/Stay Awhile" (55).
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Post by franky on Mar 29, 2011 10:20:18 GMT -5
Does anyone remember the Beach Boys' 70s hit "Sail On Sailor?" I can't believe it didn't hit the Top 40.
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Post by franky on Mar 29, 2011 16:20:12 GMT -5
Another one that I can't believe did not hit the Top 40 in 1972 that still receives airplay on folk and light radio stations is "Beautiful" by Gordon Lightfoot. What a lovely ballad!!
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Post by canat40fan on Mar 29, 2011 22:00:58 GMT -5
Cheap Trick had several songs that deserved to be top 40 hits: "Surrender" (62) ...... Yes, surprising that Surrender didn't reach higher. It certainly got tons of airplay on Album Rock stations at the time and was the reason that I bought the "Heaven Tonight" album.
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Post by MrGeno502 on Mar 29, 2011 22:07:30 GMT -5
Has anyone mentioned Showdown by ELO? Never made the Top 40 nationally, but was a hit on WAKY and WKLO in Louisville.
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Post by Ponderous Man on Mar 31, 2011 17:16:16 GMT -5
ooh..Dokken..one of my fave hair bands...but In My Dreams is their best song My favorite Dokken song is "Breaking The Chains". It has one of the best cheesy music videos of all time.
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Post by Indycolt on Mar 31, 2011 17:46:25 GMT -5
WHEN LOVE HAS GONE AWAY -Riccardo Coccione (I really wish this hit the top 40 so i can hear opinions of this tune on this board) bigal, I remember watching this one climb the Hot 100 after its debut at #61. It seemed to be a sure shot for AT40, but stopped cold at #41. WDHF-FM (the AT40 station in Chicago at the time) played it for a week or two but must've pulled it from the playlist once it lost its chart momentum. I vaguely remember hearing it -- it seemed to have all the elements (strong vocal, production, etc.) to become a great chart hit. So what happened to it? We may never know. 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
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Post by dukelightning on Mar 31, 2011 18:23:33 GMT -5
I see that Love Hangover debuted just 2 weeks after (on the week of this week's XM show). Seems strange that Motown released it so quickly. Maybe someone realized it was big hit in the making and decided to pull the trigger early on it.
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Post by pizzzzza on Mar 31, 2011 18:59:36 GMT -5
bigal, I remember watching this one climb the Hot 100 after its debut at #61. It seemed to be a sure shot for AT40, but stopped cold at #41. WDHF-FM (the AT40 station in Chicago at the time) played it for a week or two but must've pulled it from the playlist once it lost its chart momentum. I vaguely remember hearing it -- it seemed to have all the elements (strong vocal, production, etc.) to become a great chart hit. So what happened to it? We may never know. 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 I remember that as well! So strange that a song can debut so high - at #59 on 3/20/76 - jumped 10 notches the next week to #49, then died at 47 the next week, and then plummeted to #74 what a very strange chart history for a song......what the heck happened to that song??? I remember this so well because another of my favorite songs was out on the charts at the same time - Michel Polnareff's "If You Only Believe (Jesus For Tonite)" - and it stalled around #48, which really disappointed me - he's the same guy that had the instrumental from the movie "Lipstick" - another great tune that made it only to #61 a few months later.
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Post by dukelightning on Mar 31, 2011 19:27:44 GMT -5
You see, the week that it hit #47 was the week that Love Hangover debuted. So it sounds like radio stations, maybe already sensing that it was going to be a huge hit, started playing Love Hangover instead. If it had been released by itself as a followup to LH, then I think it would have made the top 40 easily.
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Post by dukelightning on Mar 31, 2011 19:44:44 GMT -5
Now I can give you the whole story. I went to youtube to hear I Thought... and actually heard a version by Marilyn McCoo & Billy David Jr. first. Then I heard Diana's version and I agree, it is a good song. Here is one of the hosts under it....."The reason why it only reached #47 is that the Fifth Dimension decided to release their version of Love Hangover while this single was out. Motown quickly killed this single and rush-released Diana's version of Love Hangover." So there you have it. The irony is that both MMcCoo & B Davis and Diana recorded both of these songs. The Fifth Dimension's version of LH peaked at 80 and is their last chart single. So you can blame them for releasing one too many singles for Diana's other single peaking at 47. Sounds like a story for Casey to have told but he did not.
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