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Post by 80sfan on Apr 6, 2011 21:33:08 GMT -5
Heard Tom Sawyer by Rush recently. Used to hear it a lot in the 80s. I'm surprised that it never made the top 40.
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Post by canat40fan on Apr 7, 2011 20:33:31 GMT -5
Bog Segar & Silver Bullet Band: ........."Fire Down Below" (didn't chart!) "Rock and Roll Never Forgets" (41) "The Horizontal Bop" (42)......;Feel Like a Number" (48)......... All of those songs got heavy airplay in my area. Hard to believe that they couldn't crack the top 40.
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Post by mayberrymiles on Apr 9, 2011 8:27:32 GMT -5
Does anybody remember the song "Just One Minute More" by Mike Finnigan? It was out in the summer of 1978. LP was called "Black & White". It was played pretty regularly on an Omaha station that summer...I believe he was from Wichita, KS, so that may have been why we heard it. I listened to KOMA in Oklahoma City at nights back then, and maybe they were playing it, too. I can't remember for sure.
I did buy the 45, and always liked the song, but as far as I can tell, it never made the Top 40. I haven't looked at the Hot 100 to see how high it made it. His voice and style reminded me a lot of Boz Scaggs.
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Post by RNH on Apr 11, 2011 20:44:03 GMT -5
I would like to put my two cents in! Although it was the mid 80's, and this artist's only single was rock 'n rollin', and this artist was from New Jersey (which was big at the time: Springsteen, Bon Jovi, Tepper, etc.), somehow "Jungle Boy" by John Eddie only hit #52 during the summer of 1986.
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Post by dukelightning on Apr 11, 2011 20:54:08 GMT -5
Hearing Living Inside Myself on the 80s show right now. The followup should have made the 40....Nightwalker came up just short at 41.
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Post by bandit73 on Apr 13, 2011 17:11:18 GMT -5
I would like to put my two cents in! Although it was the mid 80's, and this artist's only single was rock 'n rollin', and this artist was from New Jersey (which was big at the time: Springsteen, Bon Jovi, Tepper, etc.), somehow "Jungle Boy" by John Eddie only hit #52 during the summer of 1986. Is it just me, or did "Jungle Boy" really sound almost just like that one Gary Glitter song?
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Post by canat40fan on May 14, 2011 21:05:16 GMT -5
A monster hit north of the border in '81, "The Friends of Mr. Cairo" by Jon & Vangelis didn't make AT40 or Billboard's Hot 100. I'm pretty sure that american radio stations in my area were playing it, so I'm quite surprised that it had no impact on the US charts.
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Post by chrislc on May 14, 2011 21:13:56 GMT -5
I remember Clouds by David Gates getting very heavy airplay on the TM Rock format (the big reels).
Also Mona Lisas And Mad Hatters by Elton John, and that City Suite thing by those guys who worked with Jim Croce.
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Post by jaxxalude on May 19, 2011 21:28:11 GMT -5
Lots of hip-hop classics the average person on the street these days recognizes didn't make the Top 40 in the 80's and very early 90's, generally due to both pop radio's and mass appeal retail's resistance to the genre during that time. Among them:
Afrika Bambaataa & The Solsonic Force - "Planet Rock", "Looking For The Perfect Beat" Kurtis Blow - "The Breaks" Run-DMC - "It's Like That", "Rock Box", "My Adidas", "It's Tricky" Grandmaster Flash - "The Message", "White Lines (Don't Do It)" EPMD, "You Got's To Chill" LL Cool J - "I Can't Live Without My Radio", "Rock The Bells", "I Need a Beat", "Go Cut Creator" UTFO - "Roxanne Roxanne" Whodini - "Freaks Come Out at Night" Eric B & Rakim - "Paid in Full" (Coldcut Remix) (a huge hit in the UK), "I Know You Got Soul", "Follow The Leader" A Tribe Called Quest - "Can I Kick It" (another respectable hit in the UK), "I Left My Wallet in El Segundo", "Bonita Applebum" De La Soul - "Say No Go", "3: The Magic Number", "Ring Ring Ring (Ha Ha Hey)", "A Roller Skating Jam Named 'Saturday'", "Keepin' The Faith" (some of these became hits in the UK) Queen Latifah - "Ladies First", "Latifah's Hat It Up 2 Here" Jungle Brothers - "I'll House You" (another huge one in the UK) The Beastie Boys - "No Sleep 'til Brooklyn", "Brass Monkey", "Hold It Now, Hit It" Biz Markie - "Nobody Beatz the Bizz" Big Daddy Kane - "Ain't No Half Steppin'", "Smooth Operator", "I Get The Job Done" Heavy D & The Boyz - "We Got Our Own Thang" Father MC - "Lisa Baby", "Treat Them Like They Want To Be Treated" Chubb Rock - "Treat 'em Right" NWA - "Express Yourself" (this one might have admittedly been hard, given their rep; still...) MC Hammer - "They Put Me in the Mix" (so much better than a lot of the stuff he effectively charted with!)
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Post by mkarns on May 19, 2011 22:10:39 GMT -5
and that City Suite thing by those guys who worked with Jim Croce. If you're referring to "American City Suite" by Terry Cashman and Tommy West, that did make the top 40, reaching #27 in the fall of 1972.
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Post by tarobe on May 20, 2011 22:12:36 GMT -5
"Growin'" by Loggins and Messina got lots of airplay in 1975. It never made the Top 40.
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Post by bestmusicexpert on May 20, 2011 22:39:36 GMT -5
Some of them mentioned (eg. Mona Lisas & Mad Hatters, Brass Monkey, Hold It Now, Hit It, etc) weren't singles, thus wouldn't make the top 40.
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Post by dukelightning on May 21, 2011 16:28:26 GMT -5
After it was just played as a LDD, Somewhere by Barbra Streisand should have climbed a little higher than 43 to make the 40 in 1986.
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Post by artsmusic on May 21, 2011 18:13:24 GMT -5
Now That We Found Love is a case maybe of twice denied its due, the Third World version was huge in the UK and on r&b radio. It didn't even make the Hot 100 for them.
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Post by dukelightning on May 21, 2011 18:35:51 GMT -5
Now That We Found Love is a case maybe of twice denied its due, the Third World version was huge in the UK and on r&b radio. It didn't even make the Hot 100 for them. I know that song and it's pretty good and it DID make the HOT 100. It's their only chart appearance, made it to 47 in 1979.
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