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Post by mga707 on Mar 11, 2020 21:42:40 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. Wracking my brain trying to think of the last Lamm-sung Chicago top 40 single. I give up, what was it?
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Post by pb on Mar 11, 2020 21:49:33 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. Wracking my brain trying to think of the last Lamm-sung Chicago top 40 single. I give up, what was it? I was thinking of "Another Rainy Day In New York City," but I guess Cetera sang it, although Lamm wrote it. So unless I'm forgetting a later song, "Harry Truman" was Lamm's last.
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Post by mkarns on Mar 12, 2020 21:06:42 GMT -5
Wracking my brain trying to think of the last Lamm-sung Chicago top 40 single. I give up, what was it? I was thinking of "Another Rainy Day In New York City," but I guess Cetera sang it, although Lamm wrote it. So unless I'm forgetting a later song, "Harry Truman" was Lamm's last. Of Chicago's pop top 40 hits, "Harry Truman" was indeed the last where Lamm sang lead vocals. Starting with its followup, "Old Days", the leads were all Cetera until he left in 1985, and those from 1986-91 were sung by Jason Scheff and/or Bill Champlin.
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Post by mga707 on Mar 13, 2020 0:27:23 GMT -5
I was thinking of "Another Rainy Day In New York City," but I guess Cetera sang it, although Lamm wrote it. So unless I'm forgetting a later song, "Harry Truman" was Lamm's last. Of Chicago's pop top 40 hits, "Harry Truman" was indeed the last where Lamm sang lead vocals. Starting with its followup, "Old Days", the leads were all Cetera until he left in 1985, and those from 1986-91 were sung by Jason Scheff and/or Bill Champlin. One of what I consider to be the band's best songs, "Little One", peaked at #44 the week ending April 1,1978. The second single from the '11' LP, "Little One" was written and had lead vocals by the then-recently deceased Terry Kath, who had shot himself to death on January 23 of that year. Whether Kath's death was accidental or deliberate is still uncertain. Anyway, IMHO "Little One" deserved to be a much bigger hit than it was.
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Post by pb on Mar 13, 2020 14:32:45 GMT -5
Of Chicago's pop top 40 hits, "Harry Truman" was indeed the last where Lamm sang lead vocals. Starting with its followup, "Old Days", the leads were all Cetera until he left in 1985, and those from 1986-91 were sung by Jason Scheff and/or Bill Champlin. One of what I consider to be the band's best songs, "Little One", peaked at #44 the week ending April 1,1978. The second single from the '11' LP, "Little One" was written and had lead vocals by the then-recently deceased Terry Kath, who had shot himself to death on January 23 of that year. Whether Kath's death was accidental or deliberate is still uncertain. Anyway, IMHO "Little One" deserved to be a much bigger hit than it was. I hadn't known they released "Little One" as a single. One note, although Kath sang it, drummer Danny Seraphine and Hawk Wolinski (a keyboardist who eventually joined Rufus and played on Michael Jackson's "Rock With You") wrote it.
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Post by mga707 on Mar 13, 2020 15:20:10 GMT -5
One of what I consider to be the band's best songs, "Little One", peaked at #44 the week ending April 1,1978. The second single from the '11' LP, "Little One" was written and had lead vocals by the then-recently deceased Terry Kath, who had shot himself to death on January 23 of that year. Whether Kath's death was accidental or deliberate is still uncertain. Anyway, IMHO "Little One" deserved to be a much bigger hit than it was. I hadn't known they released "Little One" as a single. One note, although Kath sang it, drummer Danny Seraphine and Hawk Wolinski (a keyboardist who eventually joined Rufus and played on Michael Jackson's "Rock With You") wrote it. Thanks. Assumed that Kath had written or co-written it.
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Post by rgmike on Mar 14, 2020 12:39:45 GMT -5
Probably been mentioned somewhere in the last 59 pages, but on this week's 1974 show Casey predicts Gladys & the Pips' "Best Thing That Ever happened" will be bigger than "Midnite Train to Georgia". Close but no cigar.
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Post by djjoe1960 on Mar 15, 2020 10:29:35 GMT -5
Casey hinted that Steve Miller's Fly Like An Eagle, which was at #2 on March 12, 1977; was going to be #1. Sadly, it was not to be as the Eagle couldn't soar up to the top spot.
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Post by dth1971 on Mar 15, 2020 12:16:40 GMT -5
Another Shadoe AT40 jinx: Shadoe said in a 1993 AT40 he would play the live version of "Little Miss Can't Be Wrong" by the Spin Doctors the next week, but he didn't.
He did the same jinx in a 1994 AT40 to play the accapella version of "So Much in Love" by All 4 One the next week, but he also didn't.
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Post by mkarns on Mar 15, 2020 22:40:16 GMT -5
Probably been mentioned somewhere in the last 59 pages, but on this week's 1974 show Casey predicts Gladys & the Pips' "Best Thing That Ever happened" will be bigger than "Midnite Train to Georgia". Close but no cigar. And this too has probably been mentioned, but in this week's 1983 show Casey listed #1 hits mentioning animals and said that "Stray Cat Strut" could be the next one. It peaked at #3, where it was that week; maybe someone didn't listen to Brian Setzer's warning "Don't cross my path!", bringing bad luck? (And speaking of animals in hits the top 5 also had "Hungry Like the Wolf", another big hit that narrowly missed #1, also hitting #3).
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Post by mga707 on Mar 16, 2020 1:09:44 GMT -5
Probably been mentioned somewhere in the last 59 pages, but on this week's 1974 show Casey predicts Gladys & the Pips' "Best Thing That Ever happened" will be bigger than "Midnite Train to Georgia". Close but no cigar. And this too has probably been mentioned, but in this week's 1983 show Casey listed #1 hits mentioning animals and said that "Stray Cat Strut" could be the next one. It peaked at #3, where it was that week; maybe someone didn't listen to Brian Setzer's warning "Don't cross my path!", bringing bad luck? (And speaking of animals in hits the top 5 also had "Hungry Like the Wolf", another big hit that narrowly missed #1, also hitting #3). No other 'animal' #1s in '83, but two the following year: "Karma Chameleon" and "When Doves Cry". Then none until '88, when again there were two: "Monkey" and "Baby I Love Your Way/Freebird Medley". '89 would have "Batdance" and '90 had "Black Cat".
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Post by dth1971 on Apr 3, 2020 9:39:07 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). Was this almost the same for the Billboard Top 40 Radio Monitor era of Shadoe Stevens AT40?
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Post by mkarns on Apr 5, 2020 21:13:20 GMT -5
On April 2, 1988, Casey told a story about hit songs mentioning devils and angels, and noted that several songs about angels had hit #1, "the devil has always been spurned from the top spot". This led into INXS' "Devil Inside", which kept that shutout alive by peaking at #2. Maybe Casey jinxed the song by pointing that out...
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Post by dth1971 on Apr 6, 2020 6:26:43 GMT -5
On April 2, 1988, Casey told a story about hit songs mentioning devils and angels, and noted that several songs about angels had hit #1, "the devil has always been spurned from the top spot". This led into INXS' "Devil Inside", which kept that shutout alive by peaking at #2. Maybe Casey jinxed the song by pointing that out... "The Devil Went Down To Georgia" by Charlie Daniels also missed hitting #1.
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Post by mkarns on Apr 25, 2020 23:22:45 GMT -5
Casey said on 4/27/74 that Bobby Womack was "one of the hottest artists around", leading out of his "Lookin' For a Love", peaking at #10 that week. After that he never had another pop top 40 hit (though in 2005 Mariah Carey name dropped him in one of the biggest AT40 hits ever, "We Belong Together".)
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