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Post by JMW on Dec 21, 2012 15:14:07 GMT -5
As a companion piece to this thread, this thread here is about low charting songs that could have been bigger hits if they were released earlier than they were. One example is a song that's at #34 on this week's 80s show, Tavares' "A Penny For Your Thoughts" (peaked at #33 on Christmas Day and was at that position for the rest of its Top 40 run). I think that song could have been their second Top 10 hit if it were released in 1981 instead; it just does not sound like a late '82/early '83 song.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Dec 21, 2012 15:27:27 GMT -5
Amanda hit #1 in 1986, but five years earlier I think it would have had an EL/BDE type run at the top.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Dec 21, 2012 15:28:52 GMT -5
Don't Wanna Lose You by Lionel reached #39 in 1996 but would have charted much, much higher a decade earlier.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Dec 21, 2012 15:45:16 GMT -5
BeeGee's Living Eyes would have gotten a lot higher two years earlier.
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Post by doomsdaymachine on Dec 21, 2012 17:08:07 GMT -5
The Stray Cats' "Rock This Town" should've come out in 1956, not 1982!
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Post by chrislc on Dec 21, 2012 18:19:20 GMT -5
Free As A Bird and Real Love - they both might have made #1 a dozen or so years earlier.
Also the Traveling Wilburys - would have been bigger a few years earlier.
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Post by pointpark04 on Dec 21, 2012 18:42:20 GMT -5
"Little Lies" by Fleetwood Mac.
I think it would have torn up the charts in 1982/83. It's a great song, deserving of more than a number four peak in 1987.
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Post by OldSchoolAT40Fan on Dec 23, 2012 19:01:51 GMT -5
Elvis Presley's "A Little Less Conversation" would have done a lot better no later than 1970. It's a wonder it peaked at #40 when it charted in 2002!
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Post by mkarns on Dec 24, 2012 1:59:54 GMT -5
While it was a top 10 hit, I always thought that Bertie Higgins' "Key Largo" didn't really fit in 1982. It sounds more like a mid-or late-1970s song.
Several uptempo soul/dance oriented hits in the early 1980s, such as Rick James' "Super Freak", Yarbrough & Peoples' "Don't Stop the Music", and Skyy's "Call Me", to name a few, were possibly hampered by post-disco backlash at radio. In the late 1970s (until summer 1979) they might have done better.
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Post by doomsdaymachine on Dec 24, 2012 13:38:19 GMT -5
Elvis Presley's "A Little Less Conversation" would have done a lot better no later than 1970. It's a wonder it peaked at #40 when it charted in 2002! It first charted in 1968, topping out at #69.
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Post by jdelachjr2002 on Dec 24, 2012 17:21:30 GMT -5
Elvis Presley's "A Little Less Conversation" would have done a lot better no later than 1970. It's a wonder it peaked at #40 when it charted in 2002! It first charted in 1968, topping out at #69. Interestingly Scott Shannon's True Oldies Channel plays the updated version.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Jan 20, 2013 14:17:28 GMT -5
In 1983, Matthew Wilder released Break My Stride which hit the top 5. A year later, the first single from his next album should have charted much higher. But with MTV exploding and new stars like Madonna and George Michael, I guess he didn't have the right look for Bouncing Off The Walls to be a big hit.
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Post by countdownmike on Jan 20, 2013 16:05:27 GMT -5
"Love And Happiness" by Al Green would have hit it big in 1972 had it been released as a single from his "I'm Still In Love With You" album. Instead only "Look What You Done For Me" and "I'm Still In Love With You" were released. "Love And Happiness" was finally released as a single in the summer of 1977. It flopped but also it was well-known as an album cut by then for years. Not sure why "Get Down Tonight" by K.C. & The Sunshine Band didn't hit earlier. It was released in February 1975. Didn't hit Hot 100 until July that year. I really liked "Walk This Way" by Aerosmith when I bought the single after hearing it as an album cut off of "Toys In The Attic" in September 1975. It was the followup to their summer '75 hit "Sweet Emotion." Somehow it didn't hit radio until their "Rocks" album was out a year later. A college buddy bought the "Rocks" album thinking "Walk This Way" was on it.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Jan 20, 2013 23:23:25 GMT -5
If Whitney Houston's Million Dollar Bill had come out a decade earlier, US radio would have gone apenuts. Instead, it spent one week at #100.
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Post by pgfromwp on Jan 24, 2013 16:10:53 GMT -5
Always thought Robert John's remake of the Tokens' "Lion Sleeps Tonight" (1972) was more of an early 1960's - sounding tune than a standard early 1970's recording.
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