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Post by johnnywest on Aug 11, 2011 12:27:55 GMT -5
Voices That Care, but that was in 1991.
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Post by MrGeno502 on Aug 13, 2011 14:45:35 GMT -5
Do singular/plural names count? (i.e. "Afternoon Delight/the Afternoon Delights; "Emotion"/the Emotions) If so, you could include Heart and Marty Balin's "Hearts". Ringo Starr had a single out in 1977 called "Wings'' but it didn't chart at all. Wings is a good song and it's not about Paul's group!
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Post by dukelightning on Jan 20, 2012 18:55:19 GMT -5
Wow, has it been 5 months since we were coming up with these? Man, time flies the older you get......
Seduction
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Post by dukelightning on Feb 4, 2012 0:28:19 GMT -5
doomsday, that's another good idea for a thread that you just started although we covered it a while back in this thread. I think you listed a couple that we missed though....
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Post by OldSchoolAT40Fan on Feb 5, 2012 7:31:45 GMT -5
Black Sabbath and Bad Company. Those bands did have top 40 hits, but I am not certain if any of those songs entered the top 40. How about D**n Yankees? It was a song title, though I am not sure it made the top 40. The band did for sure. Wow, has it been 5 months since we were coming up with these? Man, time flies the older you get...... Seduction Who sang that song Seduction?
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Post by dukelightning on Feb 5, 2012 8:17:01 GMT -5
The James Last Band did an instrumental called "The Seduction" in 1980.
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Post by OldSchoolAT40Fan on Feb 5, 2012 14:51:21 GMT -5
I did a Google search, and found the following:
"Aqualung" by Jethro Tull. Aqualung was also the name of a singer who had the hit "Brighter Than Sunshine" - which received radio airplay. Not sure if Brighter Than Sunshine charted.
Also, there was a song by Wings called "Jet" (not sure if it played on AT40) - that title was also a name of a band who hit the top 40 in 2004 with "Are You Gonna Be My Girl". Pluralize the title, and you get a name of a popular 1980s family group who had hits such as "Crush On You", "You Got It All" and "Rocket 2 U".
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Post by vto66 on Feb 5, 2012 16:39:30 GMT -5
I did a Google search, and found the following: "Aqualung" by Jethro Tull. Aqualung was also the name of a singer who had the hit "Brighter Than Sunshine" - which received radio airplay. Not sure if Brighter Than Sunshine charted. Also, there was a song by Wings called "Jet" (not sure if it played on AT40) - that title was also a name of a band who hit the top 40 in 2004 with "Are You Gonna Be My Girl". Pluralize the title, and you get a name of a popular 1980s family group who had hits such as "Crush On You", "You Got It All" and "Rocket 2 U". "Jet" by Wings did indeed make AT40, and I believe it peaked somewhere in the Top 10 (No. 7, if I'm not mistaken).
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Post by OldSchoolAT40Fan on Feb 5, 2012 20:38:11 GMT -5
Not sure if the song made it to Ryan Seacrest's AT40, but Duck Sauce had a hit called - oddly enough - Barbra Streisand. The latter being a singer who had hits such as "Woman In Love" and "The Way We Were".
I know Duck Sauce's song peaked at #89 on the Billboard Hot 100. So chances are likely that it didn't appear on AT40.
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Post by jlthorpe on Feb 5, 2012 22:03:53 GMT -5
Taylor Swift hit #40 with "Tim McGraw" (although the singer McGraw didn't hit until the 1990s).
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Post by mkarns on Feb 5, 2012 22:16:36 GMT -5
I did a Google search, and found the following: "Aqualung" by Jethro Tull. Aqualung was also the name of a singer who had the hit "Brighter Than Sunshine" - which received radio airplay. Not sure if Brighter Than Sunshine charted. Also, there was a song by Wings called "Jet" (not sure if it played on AT40) - that title was also a name of a band who hit the top 40 in 2004 with "Are You Gonna Be My Girl". Pluralize the title, and you get a name of a popular 1980s family group who had hits such as "Crush On You", "You Got It All" and "Rocket 2 U". "Jet" by Wings did indeed make AT40, and I believe it peaked somewhere in the Top 10 (No. 7, if I'm not mistaken). It hit #7 in March 1974. I think we'll be hearing it the next time Premiere does 1974. And the Duck Sauce track never made AT40. The Taylor Swift song "Tim McGraw" didn't make AT40 ("Teardrops on My Guitar" was her first song to do so.) But it was a country top 10 hit in 2007; the same year Jason Aldean had a country top 10 hit with a song named "Johnny Cash". Regarding current hits, perhaps partial credit should be given for "Moves Like Jagger", a recent AT40 #1.
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Post by johnnywest on Feb 7, 2012 21:04:20 GMT -5
If memory serves me right, the group Linear had a song called "T.L.C." while the group T.L.C. was in the Top 40 with "Ain't Too Proud To Beg."
A couple years ago, Jessie James had a song called "Wanted" and now a group called The Wanted is in the Top 40.
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Post by freakyflybry on Feb 8, 2012 0:01:20 GMT -5
Chiddy Bang is currently approaching the top 40 with their song called "Ray Charles". If it makes the top 40, that's another one.
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Post by PapaVanTwee on Feb 8, 2012 9:07:29 GMT -5
I'm sure this won't count, but the band "Art in America" had a song called "Art in America". I don't think it made the 40, however.
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Post by mkarns on Feb 8, 2012 13:11:56 GMT -5
Black Sabbath and Bad Company. Those bands did have top 40 hits, but I am not certain if any of those songs entered the top 40. How about D**n Yankees? It was a song title, though I am not sure it made the top 40. The band did for sure. No songs by those titles made the top 40, and Black Sabbath never made the US top 40 singles chart at all. I thought of another one, though it's kind of a special case: Stars on 45.
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