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Post by lasvegaskid on Oct 14, 2019 15:51:31 GMT -5
On last week's 1977 show Casey said Andy Gibb was tying Bobby Darin's weeks in the top 10 at 16. However this record would only last a few months before that other act of Gibb's would can 17 top tenner weeks with How Deep Is Your Love.
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Post by djjoe1960 on Oct 15, 2019 13:46:39 GMT -5
October 16, 1971 show Casey says during the intro to Yo-yo by the Osmonds that they might be headed toward another #1. The song was at #3 and that would be it's peak position in Billboard. By the way, the song did top the Record World chart for 2 weeks.
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Post by mkarns on Oct 19, 2019 20:29:57 GMT -5
On 10/18/86, Casey said that Paul McCartney and Lionel Richie were tied for having written #1 songs in the most consecutive years, and that Lionel could break the tie if his debuting single, "Love Will Conquer All", hit #1. It only peaked at #9.
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Post by mkarns on Oct 26, 2019 15:20:38 GMT -5
In the October 25, 1975 show Casey told a story about George Harrison's Beatles composition "Something" and Frank Sinatra's praise for it, then noted how big a hit it was and that George's current single "You" "looks like another smash". It was at #23 that week, but only reached #20 which wasn't a smash for someone with his track record.
A non-jinx earlier in the show was regarding Pete Wingfield's "Eighteen With a Bullet", of which Casey said "Naturally". It in fact was in that exact chart position a month later (11/22/75); it then peaked at #15.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Oct 28, 2019 17:28:52 GMT -5
On last week's 1975 show Casey said Elt had at least temporarily taken the 70s top 10 lead over Carpenters. While Elt would continue to rack up top tenners, Carpenters would never see that part of the chart again.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Nov 1, 2019 15:24:16 GMT -5
On the 11/7/87 show Commentary Casey said debuting Is This Love was helping Whitesnake make up time when it came to scoring top 40s. They would reach the forty only twice more. On the same show Commentary Casey said Kevin MacMichael had lost three guitars in fires, but he was having better luck on the charts. 'Crew would never reach the top 40 again.
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Post by mkarns on Nov 2, 2019 11:46:56 GMT -5
From November 11, 1978: "Ambrosia, headed for #1, up four notches to #4 with "How Much I Feel". It stalled at #3.
And on October 30, 1971, Casey said Al Green was headed toward the top 10 with "Tired of Being Alone", then at #12. It fell short by one notch, peaking at #11, but "Memphis Al", as Casey sometimes called him, had a solid string of top 10's over the next several years.
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Post by pb on Nov 4, 2019 18:50:24 GMT -5
Mild jinx on 10/30/71: Casey mentioned that the Grass Roots "just keep rolling along," but "Two Divided By Love" would be their final top 20 hit.
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Post by mkarns on Nov 10, 2019 0:50:20 GMT -5
Pointed out in the 70s thread: on November 13, 1976 (this week's show) Casey noted that Wild Cherry's Bob Parissi wondered how they would come up with a hit followup to "Play That Funky Music" and Casey agreed that it was a problem. Geez, Casey, did you have to say it? (Though in the early 1990s Vanilla Ice probably helped Bob get some big additional royalty checks.)
And in the same show, Casey said of his future countdown competitor Rick Dees and his dancing feathered friend, "That duck is trying to get back into the #1 spot", sitting for a fourth week at #2. But Rick and his Cast of Idiots apparently didn't anticipate Rod Stewart broad-jumping from #8 to #1 and bolting that door shut for the rest of the year.
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Post by mga707 on Nov 10, 2019 10:43:13 GMT -5
Pointed out in the 70s thread: on November 13, 1976 (this week's show) Casey noted that Wild Cherry's Bob Parissi wondered how they would come up with a hit followup to "Play That Funky Music" and Casey agreed that it was a problem. Geez, Casey, did you have to say it? (Though in the early 1990s Vanilla Ice probably helped Bob get some big additional royalty checks.) Yep, poor Wild Cherry, couldn't come up with a hit follow-up: Four additional 'Hot 100' appearances over the next year and a half, with nothing getting higher than #43 ("Baby Don't you Know", the first single after 'PTFM'). But they were masters of the sexy, Ohio players-esque album covers! Google them. Guess I'm lucky in not recalling Vanilla 'Hey Beavis, get a load of this dork!' Ice's borrowing...
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Post by pb on Nov 18, 2019 18:53:02 GMT -5
Bit of a reverse jinx in 11/17/79: Casey mentions how Cliff Richard rarely had U.S. hits although he had been charting since 1959, but he was at the start of a good stretch with 5 more hits (including one duet) through 1982.
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Post by mkarns on Nov 29, 2019 20:30:35 GMT -5
On December 1, 1973 Casey said of Neil Diamond’s then-current single, “It’s a big one, titled ‘Be’”. It went no higher than the #34 it was at that week, not a big hit by most standards and certainly not for Neil at the time.
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Post by pb on Nov 29, 2019 20:40:15 GMT -5
On December 1, 1973 Casey said of Neil Diamond’s then-current single, “It’s a big one, titled ‘Be’”. It went no higher than the #34 it was at that week, not a big hit by most standards and certainly not for Neil at the time. I intrepreted that as Casey saying it was a grandiose, "big" song, not that it was a big hit.
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Post by mga707 on Nov 29, 2019 20:49:46 GMT -5
On December 1, 1973 Casey said of Neil Diamond’s then-current single, “It’s a big one, titled ‘Be’”. It went no higher than the #34 it was at that week, not a big hit by most standards and certainly not for Neil at the time. I intrepreted that as Casey saying it was a grandiose, "big" song, not that it was a big hit. The big-budget movie it was from--"Jonathan Livingston Seagull"--laid a big egg as well. The relative failure of Diamond's song and the soundtrack LP it was from must have been maddening for Columbia, as they had just signed him away from Uni/MCA with a then-record-setting contract. They would eventually get their moneys worth from Neil, but this first effort was definitely underwhelming.
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Post by pb on Nov 29, 2019 21:35:53 GMT -5
Although the movie was a flop, Neil's soundtrack LP was a success if I recall right. Looking at Wiki the album reached #2 and was double platinum.
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