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Post by pamelajaye on Jul 21, 2012 10:50:34 GMT -5
I wonder what made the original song from 1963 catch on and go all the way to #1? Undoubtedly the novelty factor. I'm guessing that's the same reason Kyu Sakamoto's "Sukiyaki" was #1 earlier the same year. after I went to wikipedia, as Casey didn't have "the rest of the story," I came here. Slightly off topic As for Sukiyaki -- when it was in an episode of Mad Men set in... maybe 1962, I forget, a bunch of people on Alan Sepinwall's blog (including me) caught it and asked why. The only answer I recall was that since it was a Japanese restaurant, it may have been heard sooner by the owners. Even more off topic Interesting about the repeated stories. I've only been listening (again) for about a month. First time I tried, I could never find stations playing it, even when they said they were, and I had no help. Then again, until about a month ago I thought I was the only person to ever write the Top 40 down in a notebook every week... I listened to AT40 religiously from 74 to 81 and I've been on the internet since 94 but those two things never "met" till a few weeks ago. Thanks for the added combined years of experience and insight :-)
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Post by mrjukebox on Jul 22, 2012 6:57:52 GMT -5
Casey's update on The Singing Nun was slightly inaccurate-"Dominique" went to #1 the week of 12/7/63-On January 5.1964,The Singing Nun appeared on "The Ed Sullivan Show" via satellite from her convent in Belgium-By that time,"Dominique" had been replaced at #1 by Bobby Vinton's "There I've Said It Again".
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Post by johnnywest on Aug 13, 2012 18:08:12 GMT -5
If you heard Rick Dees' August 1995 show replayed this past weekend, he played a drop of "The Singing Nun" while introducing bilingual artists. Selena was on the chart at #12.
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Post by johnnywest on Sept 6, 2013 16:00:18 GMT -5
Rick Dees mentioned "Dominique" again this week and played a drop-piece before playing "Somebody That I Used To Know" - the first Belgian artist with a #1 song since the Singing Nun.
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Post by johnnywest on May 29, 2015 7:59:36 GMT -5
If Casey was reviewing all the #1 songs of the 1960s, then he must've played the song in its entirety during the early 80s at one point.
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Post by mkarns on May 29, 2015 11:21:43 GMT -5
If Casey was reviewing all the #1 songs of the 1960s, then he must've played the song in its entirety during the early 80s at one point. He did, on 1/24/81 (not played by Premiere thus far.)
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Post by mkarns on Mar 15, 2016 21:25:51 GMT -5
Listening to the 3/9/74 show in which the Singing Nun was mentioned, in conjunction with another nun, Sister Janet Mead, whose rendition of "The Lord's Prayer" debuted that week.
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Post by chrislc on Mar 24, 2016 20:58:53 GMT -5
The story about Stevie Wonder playing piano on a coast-to-coast plane ride was told a few times, too. I wouldn't be surprised if Eivets Rednow was talked about a half dozen times by Casey. "Now listen to this!"
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Post by giannirubino on Mar 26, 2016 15:24:00 GMT -5
Not sure if this was answered, or if someone can better explain it. I was merely months old at the time, so this is highly influenced by others, but my guess as to why U.S. radio jumped on "Dominique" ... something to do with JFK's death? I just mean that it seemed like a safe, quaint, calming kind of song. Odd, but also innocuous. Hmmm, now that I think about it, maybe the Catholic aspect, too.
I've heard something sort of similar in respect to The Carpenters' "Close To You," being on the heels of Kent State and Vietnam weariness: The simplicity and believability of Karen's singing, she seemed safe and innocent? What do you guys think, was that the case? Or was it just well promoted by A&M?
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Post by mga707 on Mar 26, 2016 16:08:58 GMT -5
Not sure if this was answered, or if someone can better explain it. I was merely months old at the time, so this is highly influenced by others, but my guess as to why U.S. radio jumped on "Dominique" ... something to do with JFK's death? I just mean that it seemed like a safe, quaint, calming kind of song. Odd, but also innocuous. Hmmm, now that I think about it, maybe the Catholic aspect, too. I do not think that "Dominique" would have been #1 for four weeks in December 1963 had JFK not been assassinated. Conversely, I think "Louie, Louie" would have hit #1 had that alternate reality occurred.
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Post by chrislc on Mar 28, 2016 23:44:27 GMT -5
Not sure if this was answered, or if someone can better explain it. I was merely months old at the time, so this is highly influenced by others, but my guess as to why U.S. radio jumped on "Dominique" ... something to do with JFK's death? I just mean that it seemed like a safe, quaint, calming kind of song. Odd, but also innocuous. Hmmm, now that I think about it, maybe the Catholic aspect, too. I've heard something sort of similar in respect to The Carpenters' "Close To You," being on the heels of Kent State and Vietnam weariness: The simplicity and believability of Karen's singing, she seemed safe and innocent? What do you guys think, was that the case? Or was it just well promoted by A&M? I think it's just a great record. This Guy's In Love With You on steroids. Even before Kent State happened radio sounded like a funeral at times, with Bridge Over Troubled Water and Let It Be and He Ain't Heavy He's My Brother and Reflections Of My Life. But lots of hard songs at the same time too. 1970 felt like 1968 conflict had returned after something of a break in the months between Nixon's election and Chappaquidick/Moon/Manson/Woodstock/Mets. What a remarkable time it was! Move it ahead about a year and a half to early 1972 and I think the weariness you mention had become dominant. I think the Osmonds had the one uptempo record in the Top Ten one week early in 1972. And that's saying sonething.
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Post by johnnywest on Jan 25, 2018 10:23:15 GMT -5
During a segment of Casey's Top 40 Scrapbook on 8/5/89, Casey recapped the only four #1 songs to be sung in a foreign language, including drop pieces and one of them was "Dominique."
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Post by mkarns on Apr 1, 2018 14:16:30 GMT -5
A sad bit of irony in the 3/30/85 show: Casey listed the three female singers who hit #1 with their debut albums, and the Singing Nun "whose real name is Jeanine Deckers" was among them. But by the time most listeners heard that, the "is" was a "was", as Deckers and her closest friend/lover Annie Pecher committed suicide on March 29th.
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Post by johnnywest on Dec 8, 2018 13:27:30 GMT -5
On Rick Dees flashback show this weekend (Dec. 7, 1985), he recapped the Top 3 from this week in 1963, and #1 was “Dominique.” He mentioned that she’d committed suicide about a year ago.
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Post by johnnywest on Dec 18, 2021 17:32:26 GMT -5
In Rick Dees' 1994 show from this weekend, someone wrote in and asked what the #1 song was in December 1963, which tied with the remix by The Four Seasons, which was at #20. The answer was "Dominique" by The Singing Nun and he played a piece of it.
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