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Post by pb on Apr 11, 2015 11:05:23 GMT -5
Casey commented on the #15 debut for the Jackson Five's "Never Can Say Goodbye". 'I do believe it's headed for #1." Sorry Casey. Should have set your sights one notch lower. 'Course I would've said the same thing. And a few months earlier he had acknowledged hoping that their previous single "Mama's Pearl" would reach #1, but it also stopped at #2.
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Post by 1finemrg on Apr 11, 2015 21:53:52 GMT -5
Casey commented on the #15 debut for the Jackson Five's "Never Can Say Goodbye". 'I do believe it's headed for #1." Sorry Casey. Should have set your sights one notch lower. 'Course I would've said the same thing. And a few months earlier he had acknowledged hoping that their previous single "Mama's Pearl" would reach #1, but it also stopped at #2. Always found it odd that after the Jackson Five topped the charts with their first four Hot 100 singles they would never do it again. Hit #2 three times with "Dancing Machine" and the two others quoted in this post.
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Post by freakyflybry on Apr 12, 2015 14:33:06 GMT -5
A reverse jinx on the April 14, 2001 AT40: Casey did a trivia quiz asking who the only female artist who had #1 hits in three straight decades is: Madonna, Janet Jackson, Diana Ross or Whitney Houston. The correct answer at the time was Diana Ross (60's, 70's, 80's); however, just a month later, Janet joined the club when "All For You" hit #1 adding to her 80's and 90's #1's.
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Post by mkarns on Apr 18, 2015 10:43:45 GMT -5
On 4/19/75, Casey named Paul Anka's previous three #1 hits and said that Paul's current hit,"I Don't Like to Sleep Alone", was "headed in that direction". It only reached #8.
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Post by slf on Apr 18, 2015 10:43:57 GMT -5
On this week's '70's show from April 19, 1975, Casey noted the big jump from 12 to 6 for Ben E. King's "Supernatural Thing" and commented that it could go to #1, as it did on the R&B chart. It would climb only one notch higher, to #5.
Also, Casey elaborated on the phenomenal success of the Carpenters over the previous five years (much deserved, I might add) when introducing their latest hit "Only Yesterday". That would be their last Top 10 hit and pretty much end their time in the sun as major hitmakers.
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Post by mkarns on Apr 25, 2015 11:42:02 GMT -5
Not a jinx in the usual sense, but interesting: on the April 22, 1978 AT40 Casey noted that Donny Hathaway could be heard singing the theme song to the TV sitcom "Maude". That same day "Maude" aired its very last episode. (Reruns of it can now be seen on Antenna TV.)
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Post by slf on Apr 26, 2015 18:53:49 GMT -5
While listening to this week's '80's show (4-28-84) I detected a most unusual jinx that involved not a song, but a romantic relationship. Before Casey played the latest Pretenders hit, he told the story about Chrissie Hynde's teenage crush on Ray Davies of the Kinks and how they eventually became a dating couple by the time of the show's airing. I became curious as to whether they eventually got married and if so, they were still married, so I cracked open my Top Pop Singles book to get info on one or the other. And, lo and behold, under the entry for the Pretenders, it read that from 1984-90, Chrissie Hynde was indeed married. But to Jim Kerr of Simple Minds, not ol' Ray Davies. Using my powers of reasoning, I concluded that from late April to the end of '84, Chrissie would have had to break up with Ray, met Jim Kerr, and marry him in that short time span if Casey's info was accurate. (The info's accuracy is questionable to me.) But if it is an accurate story that Casey told, that should qualify as a quite unique jinx. (I welcome anybody's feedback on this issue.)
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Post by mga707 on Apr 26, 2015 20:08:55 GMT -5
While listening to this week's '80's show (4-28-84) I detected a most unusual jinx that involved not a song, but a romantic relationship. Before Casey played the latest Pretenders hit, he told the story about Chrissie Hynde's teenage crush on Ray Davies of the Kinks and how they eventually became a dating couple by the time of the show's airing. I became curious as to whether they eventually got married and if so, they were still married, so I cracked open my Top Pop Singles book to get info on one or the other. And, lo and behold, under the entry for the Pretenders, it read that from 1984-90, Chrissie Hynde was indeed married. But to Jim Kerr of Simple Minds, not ol' Ray Davies. Using my powers of reasoning, I concluded that from late April to the end of '84, Chrissie would have had to break up with Ray, met Jim Kerr, and marry him in that short time span if Casey's info was accurate. (The info's accuracy is questionable to me.) But if it is an accurate story that Casey told, that should qualify as a quite unique jinx. (I welcome anybody's feedback on this issue.) Funny you should bring this up: Just this morning while driving I was re-listening to the show over-the-air on KMXZ when this story was told. Since I knew that the Hynde/Davies relationship had ended and that she ended up marrying Jim Kerr I thought "Whoa, he just jinxed it"! It actually may have even been over by April of '84, since she married Kerr soon after. BTW, Hynde's first child, a daughter, was by Davies, in 1983. She later had another daughter with Kerr.
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Post by mkarns on Apr 26, 2015 21:27:05 GMT -5
On 4/13/74 (played last weekend by SXM), Casey said "At number 9, and I believe headed for number 1, Ringo Starr with 'Oh My My'". It peaked at #5. Updating myself here, the following week (4/20/74) Casey repeated his prediction about "Oh My My". Another misfire shortly thereafter in the same show was when he noted that "Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me" had hit #1 country (for Ray Price) and soul (for Gladys Knight & the Pips), and said that Gladys & Co. looked likely to do the same on the pop chart. It peaked at #3. Then, on the 5/4/74 show, Casey admitted his error re "Oh My My", introducing it with "Ohhh, I thought this would go all the way, but it lost its momentum" as it fell from 5 to 13.
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Post by mkarns on May 3, 2015 22:34:47 GMT -5
On 5/7/88, Casey led into the Pet Shop Boys' "Always On My Mind" (at #6), by saying that the US top 10 was becoming the PSBs' "home away from home". After that hit they never again made the top 10 and only made the top 40 once more, though they've remained successful in other ways.
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Post by mkarns on May 10, 2015 17:17:57 GMT -5
Not strictly a Casey jinx, but the cue sheet for the 5/12/79 AT40 includes a note from Tom Rounds to stations about Rod Stewart's "Ain't Love a [pregnant dog]" which it says "will very likely be top 10". It only peaked at #22, probably because of the radio resistance Rounds was addressing.
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Post by doofus67 on May 12, 2015 1:07:30 GMT -5
On March 26, 1977, Casey said Natalie Cole's "I've Got Love On My Mind", which was at #12 and at the same time #1 on the soul chart, might become her first pop chart #1. That never happened with it or any other single; "I've Got Love..." peaked at #5, her highest charting pop hit (1988's "Pink Cadillac" matched it.) Just last night, I got a quick shout-out from Lou Simon on SiriusXM's Talk Talk. I had e-mailed him a bit of trivia, as I do every week. The topic was female artists who have had the most top-40 hits without going to #1. Pat Benatar has had 15, Natalie Cole 12, and Dusty Springfield 10.
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Post by cstolliver on May 23, 2015 19:28:47 GMT -5
Not quite a jinx, but ... On the 1973 show this week, Casey promos the Disappearing Acts special, leading into ... "I'm Doin' Fine Now" by New York City, the group's only Top 40 hit.
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Post by blackbowl68 on May 24, 2015 16:50:51 GMT -5
Ken Martin apparently took this from the 11/24/1979 show. Casey must have no fear when he declared "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)" the 666th #1 hit in Billboard's pop chart! Holy Smokes, Batman!
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Post by mkarns on May 30, 2015 14:36:59 GMT -5
Reverse jinx: on 5/28/77, Casey said that Marvin Gaye's "Got To Give It Up" was trying to get to #1, but "seems to have stalled at #5". It reached the top four weeks later. Incidentally, in that week's show he played the hit A side of the record, after several weeks of playing the B.
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