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Post by PapaVanTwee on Aug 8, 2011 17:15:37 GMT -5
This week's AT40 (8/2/1986) Casey talked up the #1 song by saying it was only the fourth time a member of a band had left and made it to #1 while the band played on. I hadn't heard the beginning (I was waiting on the end to stop the recording) but I immediately thought Sledgehammer by Peter Gabriel. Well, it wasn't, it was Peter Cetera's Glory of Love. I figured, maybe it hadn't hit #1 yet. Well, it had, just the week before.
Am I missing something here?
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Post by dukelightning on Aug 8, 2011 17:18:22 GMT -5
Yes you are missing something. The group had to have hit #1 with that leaving member. Genesis did not hit #1 with Peter Gabriel as a member.
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Post by PapaVanTwee on Aug 8, 2011 17:56:53 GMT -5
Well, there you go. I knew I missed something.
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Post by tarobe on Aug 11, 2011 22:57:10 GMT -5
And the other three were:
Diana Ross, who left the Supremes.
Eddie Kendricks, who left the Temptations.
Lionel Richie, who left the Commodores.
All these were Motown acts, by the way.
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Post by bestmusicexpert on Aug 12, 2011 7:07:22 GMT -5
Are we only talking leaving and a solo career or concurrently releasing material?
Because Phil Collins & Genesis would then count.
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Post by dukelightning on Aug 12, 2011 8:01:49 GMT -5
Casey was talking about leaving the group entirely. That's why Phil Collins does not count although at the time of that show in 1986, while Genesis had hit #1, Phil had not yet hit #1 after that. So it was a moot point at the time.
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Post by blackbowl68 on Aug 12, 2011 17:28:44 GMT -5
This might be a technicality, but wouldn't this list include Marilyn McCoo & Billy Davis Jr.?
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Post by bestmusicexpert on Aug 12, 2011 20:04:55 GMT -5
Phil hit #1 for the first time in 1984. Genesis in 1986.
Blackbowl has a point.
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Post by Mike on Aug 13, 2011 13:44:05 GMT -5
Actually, no. Casey says that the three who did it before (and including) Peter hit #1 solo; though Marilyn and Billy left the same group, a two-singer recording like theirs wouldn't be considered an example of hitting #1 "solo". I would argue that their case at least warrants mention, given the circumstances, but probably doesn't quite fit the definition they were going with.
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