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Post by lasvegaskid on Sept 7, 2019 11:28:44 GMT -5
Casey told the audience this week in 1978 "Andy Gibb has already had two #1s this year and this could be his 3rd". Everlasting Love would also only get to #5.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Sept 14, 2019 22:43:25 GMT -5
On this week's 1976 show Casey said Lou Rawls was trying to get a #1 record. It would be leap frogged the following week by 'Funky Music who Casey reversed jinxed saying it was #1 soul and was trying to get to the top of the pop chart.
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Post by djjoe1960 on Sept 15, 2019 5:46:12 GMT -5
On this week's 1976 show Casey said Lou Rawls was trying to get a #1 record. It would be leap frogged the following week by 'Funky Music who Casey reversed jinxed saying it was #1 soul and was trying to get to the top of the pop chart. I recall Casey saying on the 1976 year end show that Play That Funky Music by Wild Cherry was one song he would never get tired of hearing--I suppose Casey was still listening to pop music because a few years later it was revealed that Casey mostly only listened to talk radio. (Probably why he wanted to see those pictures of the artists he was talking about--once Don got off the phone).
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Post by lasvegaskid on Sept 15, 2019 10:07:52 GMT -5
On this week's 1974 show, Casey mentioned Mac Davis was a hot act. He'd reach the top 40 only once more.
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Post by mkarns on Sept 19, 2019 15:45:34 GMT -5
Maybe this was mentioned before, but on September 6, 1975 Casey said "Looks like nothing's gonna stop the Carpenters. They've been charting for five years straight, and their latest is "Solitaire" at #21". That song only peaked at #17, their lowest charting top 40 hit in those five years, and nothing further from them made the top 10.
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Post by burcjm on Sept 21, 2019 22:20:30 GMT -5
On September 27, 1986 Casey mentioned that the first three songs by Miami Sound Machine all hit the top 10. Their next chart entry "Falling In Love (Uh-Oh)" would only get to #25.
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Post by Michael1973 on Sept 26, 2019 10:42:13 GMT -5
On September 27, 1986 Casey mentioned that the first three songs by Miami Sound Machine all hit the top 10. Their next chart entry "Falling In Love (Uh-Oh)" would only get to #25. An even bigger jinx came from guest host Charlie Van Dyke on 5/2/87, where he talks about Lionel Richie's lengthy top 10 streak while playing Se La -- the song which would not only break the streak, but end his top 40 career, aside from one brief comeback in the 1990's.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Oct 5, 2019 9:41:30 GMT -5
OMG, on this week's 1980 show did Casey really say Billy Joel's finances were now in good shape w/Liz Joel as his beancounter?!
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Post by lasvegaskid on Oct 5, 2019 22:39:23 GMT -5
On this week's 1980 show Casey said Cole was doing a good job of upholding the family hit making tradition. It would be 7 long years before Natalie would score another top 40.
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Post by mkarns on Oct 6, 2019 10:04:47 GMT -5
A nice reverse jinx occurred at the start of the 10/7/72 show, when Casey introduced the Spinners "I'll Be Around" at #40 and stated that he'd seen them in 1964 and that "They deserve what they're getting, they've paid a lot of dues". After over a decade together, "I'll Be Around" proved to be the Spinners' real breakthrough, kicking off a consistent string of big hits.
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Post by slf on Oct 6, 2019 11:16:05 GMT -5
OMG, on this week's 1980 show did Casey really say Billy Joel's finances were now in good shape w/Liz Joel as his beancounter?! Was it her accounting malfeasance that led to Billy Joel going broke in the early '90's (or around that time)?
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Post by mkarns on Oct 6, 2019 19:27:08 GMT -5
Not a chart jinx, but unfortunate: on 10/4/80 Casey did a story on the Jordanaires and said that Led Zeppelin had approached them about singing on an upcoming album. This countdown aired just a week after Zeppelin’s John Bonham died, and they disbanded shortly thereafter so there was no such album.
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Post by mkarns on Oct 13, 2019 14:47:06 GMT -5
On 10/15/77 Casey said that Shaun Cassidy was trying to make it two #1's in a row with "That's Rock and Roll", which peaked at #3, and that KC & the Sunshine Band were trying to make it 5 #1's with "Keep It Comin' Love", in its third week at its peak of #2 ("still knockin' on the door to #1"). Both were among the several potential #1's in late 1977 all blocked by the same song.
Also he noted that there were two bands that had made the top 10 on the album chart every year in the 1970s: the Rolling Stones and Chicago. But ultimately none were able to do so every year of the decade: Chicago missed the top 10 for the first time in 1978 ("Hot Streets" peaked at #12), and the Stones missed in 1979 by not putting anything out.
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Post by JMW on Oct 13, 2019 15:52:42 GMT -5
On the 10/12/1985 show, Casey said that Stevie Wonder currently was in third place with 26 Top 10 songs and that he was likely to pass the Beatles (in second place with 33) and close in on Elvis' (in first place with 38) record sometime in the early 90s. He only hit the Top 10 two more times (That's What Friends Are For and Go Home) and his last Top 40 hit (Skeletons) was in late 1987.
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Post by mga707 on Oct 13, 2019 18:50:18 GMT -5
On the 10/12/1985 show, Casey said that Stevie Wonder currently was in third place with 26 Top 10 songs and that he was likely to pass the Beatles (in second place with 33) and close in on Elvis' (in first place with 38) record sometime in the early 90s. He only hit the Top 10 two more times (That's What Friends Are For and Go Home) and his last Top 40 hit (Skeletons) was in late 1987. Always have thought that Stevie's lack of pop chart success after '85 was surprising.
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