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Post by pb on Jan 27, 2020 18:43:02 GMT -5
Another, different sort of jinx on 1/27/73. Casey mentioned that Jethro Tull was the only successful band named for a real person who was not in the band. Later that year, two other similarly named bands, Lynyrd Skynyrd and the Marshall Tucker Band, would release their first albums.
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Post by jlthorpe on Jan 29, 2020 18:20:30 GMT -5
On last week's 1981 show Casey answered a question about which album had produced the most #1s, saying when you're hot, you're hot and BeeGees were hot holding both first and 2nd place. Brothers Gibb would never reach #1 again and their next release later that year would flop. And several years later, Michael Jackson's "Bad" would knock "Saturday Night Fever" out of first place.
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Post by mkarns on Jan 31, 2020 20:12:28 GMT -5
"KC and the Sunshine Band just keep on cookin'" with "their fourth big hit on American Top 40", said Casey on February 5, 1977 as he introed "I Like To Do It", which got no higher than that week's #37 after three straight #1's. KC & Co. did return to the top with their next release ("I'm Your Boogie Man"), though.
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Post by djjoe1960 on Feb 1, 2020 13:29:15 GMT -5
On 1-31-1976 show Casey says the Miracles have been hitting the charts (Billboard's pop charts) since 1959--17 years in a row; just before playing #15--Love Machine. The song would reach #1 several weeks later--and become their last Hot 100 entry.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Feb 5, 2020 13:11:29 GMT -5
On the CT40 from 2/1/92 Casey said Raitt's first CT40 entry was a top tenner and countdown I Can't Make You Love Me was headed there as well. Bonnie would peak at #12 the next panel.
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Feb 5, 2020 13:53:01 GMT -5
On the CT40 from 2/1/92 Casey said Raitt's first CT40 entry was a top tenner and countdown I Can't Make You Love Me was headed there as well. Bonnie would peak at #12 the next panel. That was a tough time to make predictions like that. Several songs would be moving up a few spots one week, then the following week do a U-turn and drop, sometimes significantly. It was sometimes challenging to feel out the momentum of a song on the chart. I'm listening to the 1992 CT40 shows in order, and currently on the 2/8 show (after the referenced show).
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Post by mkarns on Feb 6, 2020 21:07:59 GMT -5
On February 6, 1971 Casey called "Watching Scotty Grow" "one of the hottest songs in the country" as it jumped from #25 to #12. It only went one notch higher.
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Post by doofus67 on Feb 9, 2020 15:01:00 GMT -5
On this weeks 1983 show Casey said Rondstadt needed just 1 more top 40 remake to tie remake King Donny Osmond. Linda would reach the top 40 only three more times, none was a remake. "Don't Know Much" was a remake, LVK. Bill Medley charted with it in '81, and Bette Midler charted in '83 under the title "All I Need to Know."
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Post by doofus67 on Feb 9, 2020 15:23:52 GMT -5
"Don't Know Much" was a remake, LVK. Bill Medley charted with it in '81, and Bette Midler charted in '83 under the title "All I Need to Know." Neither of those versions was a prior top 40 hit. Sorry, maybe my original post wasn't clear. If you wanna include covers, it is probably almost every song in Linda's catalog. For example followup All My Life was on a prior Karla Bonoff album. No, that was me. I wasn't reading it right. I apologize.
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Post by freakyflybry on Feb 10, 2020 21:24:36 GMT -5
On February 12, 1994, Casey said Phil Collins was hoping for his next top 10 hit. Alas, "Everyday" failed to make it and by that time he was done with top 10 hits, with "Both Sides Of The Story", his previous single, being his last top 10.
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Post by burcjm on Feb 11, 2020 18:14:03 GMT -5
"Don't Know Much" was a remake, LVK. Bill Medley charted with it in '81, and Bette Midler charted in '83 under the title "All I Need to Know." Neither of those versions was a prior top 40 hit. Sorry, maybe my original post wasn't clear. If you wanna include covers, it is probably almost every song in Linda's catalog. For example followup All My Life was on a prior Karla Bonoff album. I believe "Somewhere Out There" written for the An American Tail soundtrack wasn't previously released.
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Post by Michael1973 on Feb 14, 2020 9:45:05 GMT -5
In a 1985 show, guest-host Charlie Van Dyke talks up the fact that Olivia Newton John was hitting the top 40 for the 13th consecutive year. She would never hit again after that song.
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Post by burcjm on Feb 16, 2020 11:12:31 GMT -5
An extreme reverse jinx on the February 12, 1983 show. Casey said Michael Jackson was tied for having the most #1 songs without having a #1 album. Two weeks later, Thriller would spend its first of a record 37 weeks at #1.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Mar 8, 2020 12:01:30 GMT -5
Lots on this week's 1982 show. Casey said Smokey was on fire with 24 straight years of charting hits 'and who knows when the streak might end'. It would, two short years later. Then he said ABBA was still going strong despite divorces within group.
Finally he pointed out RSO was T2nd among labels with the most #1s since 1970. They would cease to operate 1 year later.
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Post by pb on Mar 11, 2020 17:51:10 GMT -5
Sort-of jinx: on 3/8/75 Casey gave Chicago's "Harry Truman" a slightly strange intro saying that the song was sure to be a hit. It was, but not a big hit by Chicago's standards at the time (7 weeks on AT40 peaking at #13) and was their second-to-last AT40 entry with Robert Lamm on lead vocals.
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