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Post by mga707 on Feb 22, 2020 17:03:11 GMT -5
Summer of 1972: "Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)" by Lookin' Glass, as Casey usually called them, held at #2 for four straight weeks before sailing to the top spot. In 1975 the late Scott English sang "Brandy" which Barry Manilow turned into "Mandy". That would have been in 1974, not '75, as Msnilow's re-titled American remake charted in November of '74.
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Feb 22, 2020 18:10:46 GMT -5
Depends on how one classifies what year a song is from, which I remember a thread dedicated to that very topic. "Mandy" peaked in January 1975, so that's the year I associate it with.
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Post by mga707 on Feb 22, 2020 22:02:27 GMT -5
Depends on how one classifies what year a song is from, which I remember a thread dedicated to that very topic. "Mandy" peaked in January 1975, so that's the year I associate it with. Not disputing that. Just clarifying that the original "Brandy" by Scott English was from '74,and that Barry's cover, with the changed title, was recorded and released in that year also.
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Feb 22, 2020 23:11:57 GMT -5
Depends on how one classifies what year a song is from, which I remember a thread dedicated to that very topic. "Mandy" peaked in January 1975, so that's the year I associate it with. Not disputing that. Just clarifying that the original "Brandy" by Scott English was from '74,and that Barry's cover, with the changed title, was recorded and released in that year also. I'm thinking listenerwants2know was referring to "Mandy" in his post, which is how I read it, but I can see how others can think it refers to "Brandy". I could be wrong...I'm not perfect.
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Post by mga707 on Feb 22, 2020 23:24:12 GMT -5
Not disputing that. Just clarifying that the original "Brandy" by Scott English was from '74,and that Barry's cover, with the changed title, was recorded and released in that year also. I'm thinking listenerwants2know was referring to "Mandy" in his post, which is how I read it, but I can see how others can think it refers to "Brandy". I could be wrong...I'm not perfect. Manilow's "Mandy" is a cover of Scott English's British hit "Brandy". Manilow, or Clive Davis, or someone at Bell/Arista Records, changed the title of the song so as not to cause confusion with the 1972 Looking Glass hit "Brandy", which is a different song. And I would assume that the Looking Glass song was not a hit in the UK. Hope that clears up any confusion.
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Post by listenerwants2know on Feb 23, 2020 7:36:13 GMT -5
Just for information: Recently it occurred to me about the title "Brandy" that Barry Manilow´s song "Mandy" was originally named "Brandy". I´ve referred "Brandy" to the year 1975, but only because I came across a program from 1975 while searching for a video.
By the way: It´s not always easy for me to indicate the correct year, especially when the production year and the chart year are not identical.
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Post by listenerwants2know on Feb 23, 2020 8:44:35 GMT -5
"Leading off is an Austrian artist named "Falco" with a song about another Austrian artist who lived 200 years ago ..." In the mid 80s Falco´s manager Horst Bork was looking for a new producer, because Falco had quarreled with his former producer Robert Ponger. And he found it with the Dutch Bolland brothers. Rob and Ferdi Bolland had just produced an international hit for Status Quo with "In The Army Now". Rob Bolland had seen Milos Formans eight Oscar-winning "Amadeus" and composed "Rock Me Amadeus". Falco had initially blocked himself against the Dutch producer team ("What am I supposed to do with these cheese rollers ?"). He also refused to sing "Rock Me Amadeus". One song about Mozart he found to be a "stealing from the dead". Moreover, it didn´t suit him to be Viennese and to adopt the Salzburg-born. Until Falco gave in, weeks went by. Still in the recording booth, the then 27-year-old cried out: "I only sing this title under the greatest resistance and under pressure from my management !"
Falco was, not the first and not the last time, drunk as a skunk in the recording studio. As Ferdi Bolland told in an interview, his brother Rob had to stand next to him and prompt Falco line by line. With the drama in the recording studio the fight for "Rock Me Amadeus" wasn´t finished. During the video shoot Falco pregnant doged again. According to director Rudi Dolezal, he was particularly opposed to the colorful wig that made him a music punk Mozart: "I´m not a gay." To conquer the US charts, the American record company demanded a cooler version, the original was too cheesy for them. So the Bolland brothers sat down once more at "Rock Me Amadeus" - alone, because Falco refused to sing even one single line in English. The Bolland brothers named the mix after Mozart´s opponent "Salieri Version", pumped it up with drums and guitar riffs. The German language at the only German-speaking #1 in the USA is limited to just a few words like "Punker" and "wunderbar". Falco´s share in the "Salieri version" is correspondingly small.
On the evening of 3/29/1986 Falco ate with friends and colleagues in the Viennese restaurant "Oswald & Kalb". When the news arrived that his song "Rock Me Amadeus" was at #1 in America, the artist´s mood was down. While everyone around him broke out in cheers, Falco was overwhelmed by the coming expectations: "I can´t do that again. Now it´s over." The album "Falco 3" spent just a few weeks in the Top 10 and peaked at #3 ("Falco 3" at #3) on 4/26/1986. But the album with the most weeks in the Top 10 has also to do with Austria. And you have go back to the mid 60s. It´s a soundtrack which included songs like "Sixteen Going On Seventeen", "Do-Re-Mi" and "Climb Ev´ry Mountain". For more than 2 years (exactly 109 weeks) the soundtrack "Sound Of Music" is the album with the most weeks in the Top 10. ... and the countdown continues on American Top 40 ...
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Post by mga707 on Feb 23, 2020 12:36:00 GMT -5
By the way: It´s not always easy for me to indicate the correct year, especially when the production year and the chart year are not identical. Totally understood. My well-used, dog-eared copy of Joel Whitburn's "Top Pop Singles 1955-1990" is absolutely invaluable for that very reason. I check it even when I'm 'absolutely positive' I have the correct title/artist/chart date/highest position. I've been surprised more than once. And my 30-year-old printed Whitburn book is more accurate than any online source I've found so far, save for the actual 'Billboard' chart archive, which takes far longer to peruse.
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Post by alann on Feb 24, 2020 14:51:53 GMT -5
Just for information: Recently it occurred to me about the title "Brandy" that Barry Manilow´s song "Mandy" was originally named "Brandy". I´ve referred "Brandy" to the year 1975, but only because I came across a program from 1975 while searching for a video. By the way: It´s not always easy for me to indicate the correct year, especially when the production year and the chart year are not identical. Scott English hit #12 in the UK in 1971 with Brandy, so was a number of years before the Barry Manilow song The Looking Glass song Brandy failed to hit the UK top 40, despite getting radio airplay
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Post by mga707 on Feb 24, 2020 22:28:18 GMT -5
Scott English hit #12 in the UK in 1971 with Brandy, so was a number of years before the Barry Manilow song The Looking Glass song Brandy failed to hit the UK top 40, despite getting radio airplay Thank you for the clarification on both of those points.
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Post by burcjm on Feb 25, 2020 12:18:50 GMT -5
Prediction for next show:
3/7/81
1981 is the last year that has yet to be featured in 2020 plus that fact that it's ripe for replay. The only other possibility is 3/9/85 but we just had a 1985 show last month, though 5 weeks isn't all that recent so we'll have to see.
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Post by mrjukebox on Feb 25, 2020 12:48:23 GMT -5
If I'm not mistaken,3/7/81 has been played numerous times on the 24 hour "AT40" channel from I-Heart Radio.
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Feb 25, 2020 12:53:23 GMT -5
If I'm not mistaken,3/7/81 has been played numerous times on the 24 hour "AT40" channel from I-Heart Radio. Correct. At the end of that show, Casey announced the date as 3/8/1981. Some stations aired the show on Sundays...which 3/8 was (and will be this year).
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Post by Hervard on Feb 25, 2020 13:28:58 GMT -5
Prediction for next show: 3/7/81 1981 is the last year that has yet to be featured in 2020 plus that fact that it's ripe for replay. The only other possibility is 3/9/85 but we just had a 1985 show last month, though 5 weeks isn't all that recent so we'll have to see. I'm erring towards 1981 too, because we've actually had two 1985 shows this year (including Part 2 of the year-ender, although technically, that would be a 1986 show).
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Post by jmack19 on Feb 25, 2020 17:54:21 GMT -5
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