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Post by at40nut on Jun 6, 2020 0:56:16 GMT -5
You just HAD to say it, Casey: "...headed for the top 10..." Nope, "Meet Me Half Way" would not get any higher than this week's (6/13/87) #11. Here's a bit of irony. At #11 on the 6-5-71, The Partridge Family had a song called "I'll Meet YOU Halfway" which would go Top 10. That was probably their best song IMO. The intro reminds me of Air Supply and the chorus reminds me of "You And Me" by Alice Cooper.
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Post by JMW on Jun 6, 2020 12:25:06 GMT -5
From 6/13/1987: On the question about artists with the most Top 10 hits, Casey said that Paul McCartney was one Top 10 hit away from having the same amount of Top 10s as Bing Crosby; this ended up not happening, as Paul's last Top 40 song from 1989 My Brave Face only got to #25.
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Post by dth1971 on Jun 6, 2020 16:37:41 GMT -5
From 6/13/1987: On the question about artists with the most Top 10 hits, Casey said that Paul McCartney was one Top 10 hit away from having the same amount of Top 10s as Bing Crosby; this ended up not happening, as Paul's last Top 40 song from 1989 My Brave Face only got to #25. Did Paul just make Ryan Seacrest's AT40 chart sometime in the 2010's?
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Post by mkarns on Jun 6, 2020 17:21:14 GMT -5
From 6/13/1987: On the question about artists with the most Top 10 hits, Casey said that Paul McCartney was one Top 10 hit away from having the same amount of Top 10s as Bing Crosby; this ended up not happening, as Paul's last Top 40 song from 1989 My Brave Face only got to #25. Did Paul just make Ryan Seacrest's AT40 chart sometime in the 2010's? Paul received credit on “ Four Five Seconds”, along with Rihanna and Kanye West, though he only made instrumental contributions. It went top 10 on AT40 in 2015.
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Post by mkarns on Jun 7, 2020 17:10:47 GMT -5
On June 13, 1987 Casey led into Fleetwood Mac's "Big Love" with a story about Lindsey Buckingham serving as the group's "song doctor". Shortly thereafter he left the band for the first, but not last, time (he wasn't on the 1987-88 Tango In the Night tour.)
And in the same show Casey said Kenny Loggins' "Meet Me Half Way" was "looking top 10 bound" as it moved up 4 notches to #11. It went no higher.
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Post by mga707 on Jun 7, 2020 18:31:01 GMT -5
On June 13, 1987 Casey led into Fleetwood Mac's "Big Love" with a story about Lindsey Buckingham serving as the group's "song doctor". Shortly thereafter he left the band for the first, but not last, time (he wasn't on the 1987-88 Tango In the Night tour.) And in the same show Casey said Kenny Loggins' "Meet Me Half Way" was "looking top 10 bound" as it moved up 4 notches to #11. It went no higher. I noted Casey jinxing Kenny on the previous page.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Jun 14, 2020 11:58:19 GMT -5
On the 6/11 embarrassment of riches, Casey introduced Rogers as the top album act of the 80s so far. Kenny would have one more biggie w/a BeeGees assist. But after that, Gambler couldn't hardly give away records.
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Post by mga707 on Jul 4, 2020 19:13:56 GMT -5
"The hottest threesome in the business today" proclaims Casey at the beginning of the #34 song on the 7/12/75 show. Oooh, sorry Tony, Joyce, and Telma--Casey just 'jinxed' you, and you'll only score two more top 40 singles, and none after 1976. However, the brother act that takes over that title for the second half of the decade is at #22 on this same show and headed toward #1 and the start of their impressive 1975-79 chart run of 8 #1s, 10 top 10s, and 13 top 40 singles over the next four years.
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Post by seminolefan on Jul 5, 2020 9:28:56 GMT -5
Listening to the first AT40 show from 1970, and in the intro to the #21 song, Mountain's "Mississippi Queen", Casey said "It's gonna be a biggie". "Mississippi Queen" would go no higher.
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Post by mkarns on Jul 11, 2020 21:20:27 GMT -5
On July 16, 1988 Casey noted that Al B. Sure's "Nite and Day" had reached #1 on the black singles chart (as it was then called), and it was "looking for a chance to do the same thing on the pop chart". It got no farther than its #7 ranking that week, and Al never again made the pop top 40.
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Post by djjoe1960 on Jul 18, 2020 15:44:44 GMT -5
The song that kicked off the countdown for 7-15-1978 (heard this week end on SiriusXM) debuting at #40, I've Had Enough by Wings--and Casey said that it had good chance of making the Top 10 since over two third's of Paul McCartney's hits reached Top 10 status. The song would only make it to #25.
By the way, if AT40 was based on Cash Box Magazine (or Radio & Records) the number one song this week would've been Baker Street by Gerry Rafferty.
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Post by dth1971 on Jul 18, 2020 15:51:32 GMT -5
The song that kicked off the countdown for 7-15-1978 (heard this week end on SiriusXM) debuting at #40, I've Had Enough by Wings--and Casey said that it had good chance of making the Top 10 since over two third's of Paul McCartney's hits reached Top 10 status. The song would only make it to #25. By the way, if AT40 was based on Cash Box Magazine (or Radio & Records) the number one song this week would've been Baker Street by Gerry Rafferty. And if AT40 used the R&R source in 1978 Baker Street was #1 on that chart too.
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Post by pb on Jul 18, 2020 17:19:20 GMT -5
Sort-of jinx on 7/20/74. Casey called War's "Ballero" "one of the best dance beats I've heard in a long, long time" but despite his enthusiasm it fell off the survey after peaking at #33 that week.
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Jul 18, 2020 18:14:05 GMT -5
The song that kicked off the countdown for 7-15-1978 (heard this week end on SiriusXM) debuting at #40, I've Had Enough by Wings--and Casey said that it had good chance of making the Top 10 since over two third's of Paul McCartney's hits reached Top 10 status. The song would only make it to #25. By the way, if AT40 was based on Cash Box Magazine (or Radio & Records) the number one song this week would've been Baker Street by Gerry Rafferty. And if AT40 used the R&R source in 1978 Baker Street was #1 on that chart too. That's what he said.
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Post by friarboy on Jul 19, 2020 11:10:14 GMT -5
Listening to the first AT40 show from 1970, and in the intro to the #21 song, Mountain's "Mississippi Queen", Casey said "It's gonna be a biggie". "Mississippi Queen" would go no higher. While it may not have been a “biggie” chart wise, if would be tough to say that song wasn’t huge, still gets a good bit of classic rock airplay today. More than your average #21 hit for sure.
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