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Post by mkarns on Jul 22, 2019 12:04:07 GMT -5
A later period Casey jinx: on March 27, 1999, he said Savage Garden were "heading for their third top 10 hit on the pop chart" with "The Animal Song". It moved up to #13 that week, but only peaked at #11.
And in the same show he said Monica's "Angel of Mine" seemed "destined to be her biggest hit ever". It was at #5, where it peaked, tying her previous "For You I Will" (as Casey pointed out) but didn't match the Brandy duet "The Boy Is Mine", which hit #3.
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Post by pb on Jul 22, 2019 18:04:19 GMT -5
Casey, Casey, Casey...why'd you have to go and jinx 10cc (leaping from #10 to #3) on this week's 1975 show... Another interesting sort-of jinx in this episode comes when Casey mentioned being surprised that Ringo Starr's "Goodnight Vienna" didn't move past its previous position of #31. That turned out to be its peak and Ringo's solo recording career would start a steep decline.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Jul 22, 2019 21:13:06 GMT -5
Casey, Casey, Casey...why'd you have to go and jinx 10cc (leaping from #10 to #3) on this week's 1975 show... In a reverse jinx Casey said Glen Campbell was 'doing alright' with his latest.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Jul 27, 2019 11:40:20 GMT -5
Oh Casey could jinx movies as well displayed by this week's 1984 show saying Breakin' was such a hit there would be a sequel w/ more O&J music. Breakin' 2 was a box office disaster and Ollie and Jerry would never reach the countdown again.
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Post by djjoe1960 on Jul 27, 2019 13:19:14 GMT -5
On the satellite radio re-broadcast from July 26, 1975--Casey notes that Elton John moves from 15 to 8 with Someone Saved My Life Tonight--and it looks like a #1 song; well if AT40 had been using either Cash Box or Record World that would've been correct--but on Billboard, Elton peaked at #4.
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Post by mkarns on Jul 27, 2019 14:20:40 GMT -5
Oh Casey could jinx movies as well displayed by this week's 1984 show saying Breakin' was such a hit there would be a sequel w/ more O&J music. Breakin' 2 was a box office disaster and Ollie and Jerry would never reach the countdown again. Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo has at least kept its title in the cultural consciousness, as a synonym for an unnecessary sequel that was produced merely to squeeze more money out of a hit franchise, and it wasn’t successful even at that (it didn’t even have a hit soundtrack.) At least unlike so many other 80s hit films, nobody to my knowledge has recently thought to reboot or remake “Breakin’”.
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Post by mkarns on Jul 27, 2019 17:49:48 GMT -5
In the July 28, 1973 show, Casey noted Aretha Franklin's many gold records, 13 singles to that point, and asked of her current single "Angel", "Could this be the 14th?" It wasn't. But her next hit, "Until You Come Back To Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do)", was.
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Post by mga707 on Jul 28, 2019 11:46:08 GMT -5
Casey, Casey, Casey...why'd you have to go and jinx 10cc (leaping from #10 to #3) on this week's 1975 show... In a reverse jinx Casey said Glen Campbell was 'doing alright' with his latest. To give Casey credit, at that point in it's chart run the song looked nothing like a future #1. Just listened to the following week's '75 show on XM Sirius (rental car) and it moved up three spots, a little better than the anemic one-position move in this show.
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Post by mga707 on Jul 28, 2019 11:47:46 GMT -5
In the July 28, 1973 show, Casey noted Aretha Franklin's many gold records, 13 singles to that point, and asked of her current single "Angel", "Could this be the 14th?" It wasn't. But her next hit, "Until You Come Back To Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do)", was. And yet 'Angel' remains my all-time favorite Franklin song. Her vocal performance on it is mind-blowing.
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Post by pb on Jul 29, 2019 17:43:28 GMT -5
7/28/73 also had kind of an epic fail in the #1 prediction category when the staff nominated "Yesterday Once More," "Bad Bad Leroy Brown" and "Shambala" for the following week. As it turned out, all three songs moved down and "The Morning After" jumped from #9 to #1.
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Post by mga707 on Jul 29, 2019 17:54:42 GMT -5
7/28/73 also had kind of an epic fail in the #1 prediction category when the staff nominated "Yesterday Once More," "Bad Bad Leroy Brown" and "Shambala" for the following week. As it turned out, all three songs moved down and "The Morning After" jumped from #9 to #1. The second oddball jump to #1 of that year, following Vicki Lawrence's awful song that jumped from #10 to #1 the first week of April.
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Post by mkarns on Aug 3, 2019 10:19:11 GMT -5
What must have been one of if not the earliest such jinxs appears in the August 1, 1970 show (the fourth ever aired), when Casey noted that Mungo Jerry's "In the Summertime" had hit #1 in England and with the reaction it was getting might do the same in the US. It peaked at #3 on AT40, and was their only American hit (in Britain they had some more hits like "Baby Jump" and "Alright Alright Alright".)
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Post by mga707 on Aug 3, 2019 11:20:37 GMT -5
What must have been one of if not the earliest such jinxs appears in the August 1, 1970 show (the fourth ever aired), when Casey noted that Mungo Jerry's "In the Summertime" had hit #1 in England and with the reaction it was getting might do the same in the US. It peaked at #3 on AT40, and was their only American hit (in Britain they had some more hits like "Baby Jump" and "Alright Alright Alright".) I've always thought that the song might well have hit #1 in the US had it been released over here a month earlier, in May rather than June. It's #3 peak came after Labor Day. Of course, other 'summer' songs have peaked even later, like "Beach Baby".
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Post by freakyflybry on Aug 3, 2019 13:32:21 GMT -5
What must have been one of if not the earliest such jinxs appears in the August 1, 1970 show (the fourth ever aired), when Casey noted that Mungo Jerry's "In the Summertime" had hit #1 in England and with the reaction it was getting might do the same in the US. It peaked at #3 on AT40, and was their only American hit (in Britain they had some more hits like "Baby Jump" and "Alright Alright Alright".) I've always thought that the song might well have hit #1 in the US had it been released over here a month earlier, in May rather than June. It's #3 peak came after Labor Day. Of course, other 'summer' songs have peaked even later, like "Beach Baby". And then, Don Henley's "The Boys Of Summer" peaked in the WINTER of 1984-85!
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Post by djjoe1960 on Aug 3, 2019 13:56:41 GMT -5
Casey, on the show from August 4th, 1979, said Barbra Streisand had seven Top 10's and a couple of #1's and this song was headed that way as well. The song was The Main Event/Fight, which made it to #3.
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