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Post by lasvegaskid on Jul 7, 2013 21:43:28 GMT -5
Meri Wilson's 1977 Telephone Man has 71/72 written all over it.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Aug 29, 2013 14:41:41 GMT -5
In the early 80s there was the demise of disco. But in the mid 80s, there was also the more subtle death of Urban Cowboy Country.
If Bop had been released pre Like A Virgin, Dan Seals' song would have been a top tenner IMO.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Jan 15, 2014 12:17:51 GMT -5
Everly Bros On The Wings Of A Nightingale should have been a much bigger hit and probably would have been if released in circa 1980.
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Post by Hervard on Jan 15, 2014 13:14:42 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. The other two Third Stage singles probably would have been Top Five hits as well. "I Need Your Love", their mid-charter in 1994, would have been much bigger if released sometime in the latter half of the 1970s, during their first wave of popularity.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Feb 27, 2015 21:41:21 GMT -5
If This Woman had come out a year earlier, I think it would have been remembered as one of Kenny's career biggest. But by this week in 1984, Urban Cowboy country was rapidly on the decline. Instead it is now a Rogers' lost hit.
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Post by ivanzero on Feb 28, 2015 12:00:02 GMT -5
There's one on this week's '80s show - Chilliwack's "I Believe", which sounds mid-'70s.
It only went to #33 in '82, but would've done much better in '75 or '76.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Feb 5, 2016 14:37:58 GMT -5
One song I can't believe didn't do better when charting earlier is Never Been To Be. It would have been a nice change of pace to all the up-tempo tunes of the late 70s.
I find it hard to believe that in early 1982 with the charts already over overflowing with Kenny Rogers and Air Supply that radio decided it needed another softy and dug up a 5 year old tune by Charlene.
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Post by jlthorpe on Feb 6, 2016 9:38:42 GMT -5
Back in September, I posted Dido's "Here with Me" (a song that peaked at #116 in 2000) in this thread and commented how the song sounded like it should have been released years earlier. It kind of sounded like a big romantic ballad from a 90s movie soundtrack.
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Post by OldSchoolAT40Fan on Feb 9, 2016 5:37:08 GMT -5
I don't know if it even charted, but DJ Casper's "Cha Cha Slide" was, I believe, popular in the early-2000s, still popularly played at weddings and adult dances to this day. Given the beats, I think it should have charted around 1995 or so. I think some of the early 2000s music was heavily influenced by 1990s culture.
However, I didn't hear the song until 2009, and boy, I wish I never heard it. I hate it so much, I no longer go to dances or parties. That song is not on my playlist.
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Post by at40nut on Feb 9, 2016 11:45:23 GMT -5
I've always wondered what could have happened if the last three singles from MJ's "Thriller" album would have been released differently. In August of 1983, PYT could have been released instead of "Human Nature" In the fall of 1983, imagine if the single "Thriller" would heen released. Around Halloween, that could have been MJ's biggest #1 hit of his career trumping "Billie Jean" from earlier that year. It would have given The Police and Irene Cara a run for their money for the biggest #1 hit of the year. At the time, "Islands In The Stream" wouldn't have stood a chance. Of course "Human Nature" would have been the final single from the "Thriller" album, and I've always felt that would have been more fitting for the winter of 1984.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Oct 29, 2022 20:11:05 GMT -5
What About Me by Kenny, Kimmy, and Jimmy would have been a biggie a couple years earlier but the MTV influenced playlists of late 1984 were no longer all in on Gambler.
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Post by chrislc on Oct 29, 2022 22:52:25 GMT -5
Seals and Crofts should have made their Top 40 debut in May, not on October 21st, peaking around Thanksgiving.
Same with Lazy Day by Spanky and Our Gang making the Top 40 on October 28th, 1967. That made no sense. It might have made #1 if released in April, 1967 or 68.
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Post by dth1971 on Oct 30, 2022 7:59:24 GMT -5
Anyone remember the MTV music video for "Smuggler's Blues" by Glenn Frey first airing on MTV circa end of Summer 1984? That would have been the Fall 1984 follow up to "Sexy Girl" by Glenn Frey but it wasn't ready for single release yet, not until late Spring-Summer 1985 thanks to the Miami Vice TV show exposure. At least there were 2 other Glenn Frey singles that were released after "Sexy Girl" and before "Smuggler's Blues": "The Allnighter" (which never made the Billboard Hot 100) and "The Heat is On" (which made the top 40).
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Post by lasvegaskid on Jan 7, 2023 11:55:29 GMT -5
I don't know if the Disco backlash helped Train Train chart but Blackfoot's tune sounded straight outta 1974
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Post by dth1971 on Jan 7, 2023 16:10:26 GMT -5
Was a 1987 top 40 hit by Shirley Murdock called "As We Lay" had a sound that it should have been released in 1981?
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