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Post by bobbo428 on Jan 2, 2014 1:53:51 GMT -5
Forty years ago at this time, I was becoming curious as to what new songs would make the countdown. Our local pop station was airing songs such as Ian Thomas's "Painted Ladies," Lighthouse's "Pretty Lady," El Chicano's "Tell Her She's Lovely," and Hall and Oates's "she's Gone" regularly, though they were borderline hits. At the time, it appeared that Love Unlimited Orchestra's "Love's Theme" would be way up in the countdown because of extensive airplay. Barbra Streisand's "The Way We Were" also appeared tone hot. However, the borderline hits appeared to be hot from my early January vantage point.
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Post by jmack19 on Jan 7, 2014 13:50:01 GMT -5
In 1972, ABC Records released an album by a newly signed artist that peaked at #30 in October & produced 2 top 40 hits. The follow up album also peaked at #30 and produced 2 top 40 hits & was on its way off the chart.
Before the third album was released, an ABC made-for-television movie She Lives!, which aired on September 12, 1973, featured prominently a relatively unknown album cut from the 1972 album.
On Thursday, September 20, 1973, the artist and five others were killed when the airplane they was traveling in crashed in Louisiana.
That 1972 album "You Don't Mess Around with Jim" reached #1 in its 47th week on the chart January 12, 1974 right after the album cut "Time In A Bottle" spent 2 weeks on top of the Hot 100 making Jim Croce the third artist with a posthumous No. 1 single.
Btw, the second album resurged and peaked in the Top 10 & the third album was prevented from reaching #1 by "You Don't Mess Around with Jim".
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Post by Deleted on Jan 8, 2014 14:39:39 GMT -5
What I learned listening to the show from 40 years ago this week: Cheech & Chong really, really suck!
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Post by mkarns on Jan 8, 2014 15:15:16 GMT -5
What I learned listening to the show from 40 years ago this week: Cheech & Chong really, really suck! SHADD-UPP!! Actually, it's somewhat hard to believe that "Sister Mary Elephant" became a top 40 single, even with C&C's popularity, as it's entirely a spoken (and yelled) record, with no song or musical backing. At least "Basketball Jones" and "Earache My Eye" had music.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 8, 2014 16:14:58 GMT -5
What I learned listening to the show from 40 years ago this week: Cheech & Chong really, really suck! SHADD-UPP!! Actually, it's somewhat hard to believe that "Sister Mary Elephant" became a top 40 single, even with C&C's popularity, as it's entirely a spoken (and yelled) record, with no song or musical backing. At least "Basketball Jones" and "Earache My Eye" had music. I wasn't alive back then so I do not understand how this crap was ever popular. Something else that had to get old back in that era (not 40 years ago exactly) but the songs where someone would say something and the response would be part of a previously popular song. Like the Convention songs. I could see one, maybe 2 being neat but there seemed to be several back then.
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Post by dukelightning on Jan 8, 2014 17:55:53 GMT -5
Yes and no. Several compared to other decades but I'm not sure it is several in the normal sense of the word. You will hear one in a few weeks when your 40 years ago show includes "Energy Crisis 74". That was the 'breakin' hit as these records are called of 1974. Dickie Goodman did it as he did "Mr. Jaws" which was the breakin hit of 1975. He produced the breakin hit of 1973 "Superman Meets Shaft". Finally or should I say firstly was "Convention 72" in that year. So there was one breakin hit every year from 1972 to 75 but that's it for the 70s.
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Post by pgfromwp on Jan 8, 2014 20:00:37 GMT -5
Forty years ago this week I presented a high school project that consisted of playing a cassette tape which contained thirty songs, in chronological order from January 1964 through January 1974, each with the word "love" in its title. As I recall, the first song was "Can't Buy Me Love" and the final song was "Love's Theme". I spent many weekends researching the songs from billboard magazine issues stored on microfiche in a NYC library for the performing arts. I used a combination of vinyl record albums and 45 rpm discs to transfer 20 second excerpts of each song onto the tape.
The ironic aspect of this presentation is that a classmate later approached me, in disgust, saying that he intended to do a similar project but I essentially got there first. Life goes on ...
I recognize my post is not about any particular AT40 show; however, my use of billboard magazine information is relevant here, I believe.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 8, 2014 21:03:13 GMT -5
That's pretty cool. What class was it for?
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Post by pgfromwp on Jan 9, 2014 5:02:56 GMT -5
That's pretty cool. What class was it for? Hi Paul; thanks for your interest. It was a class on interpersonal relationships, titled "Love, Sex and Marriage".
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Post by 1finemrg on Jan 9, 2014 20:51:19 GMT -5
Forty years ago at this time, I was becoming curious as to what new songs would make the countdown. Our local pop station was airing songs such as Ian Thomas's "Painted Ladies," Lighthouse's "Pretty Lady," El Chicano's "Tell Her She's Lovely," and Hall and Oates's "she's Gone" regularly, though they were borderline hits. At the time, it appeared that Love Unlimited Orchestra's "Love's Theme" would be way up in the countdown because of extensive airplay. Barbra Streisand's "The Way We Were" also appeared tone hot. However, the borderline hits appeared to be hot from my early January vantage point. By the way Ian Thomas's brother Dave would chart in the Top 40 about 10 years later. As one of SCTV's McKenzie brothers (Doug), they would reach #16 with a little help from Geddy Lee. Actually "Take Off" would chart 5 positions higher than Rush only Top 40 hit "New World Man".
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Post by dukelightning on Jan 10, 2014 16:44:27 GMT -5
Speaking of Ian Thomas and 40 years ago, the whole year of 1974 was full of Canadian artists on AT40. Besides him, there was in no particular order the Guess Who, BTO, Terry Jacks, Byron MacGregor, Gordon Sinclair, Joni Mitchell, Anne Murray, Wednesday, Paul Anka, Gordon Lightfoot, Gino Vannelli, Andy Kim and the DeFranco Family. My fave Canadian hit of 1974....Seasons in the Sun.
Just kidding.....it's Help Me by that lady from Saskatchewan or is it Alberta?
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Post by freakyflybry on Jan 10, 2014 23:01:48 GMT -5
Speaking of Ian Thomas and 40 years ago, the whole year of 1974 was full of Canadian artists on AT40. Besides him, there was in no particular order the Guess Who, BTO, Terry Jacks, Byron MacGregor, Gordon Sinclair, Joni Mitchell, Anne Murray, Wednesday, Paul Anka, Gordon Lightfoot, Gino Vannelli, Andy Kim and the DeFranco Family. My fave Canadian hit of 1974....Seasons in the Sun. Just kidding.....it's Help Me by that lady from Saskatchewan or is it Alberta? Born in Alberta, raised in Saskatchewan. As a resident of Saskatchewan, we definitely claim her as our own as she was raised here.
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Post by davewollenberg on Jan 11, 2014 9:57:03 GMT -5
Actually,dukedeb, the hit from John and Ernest was, 'SuperFLY meets Shaft'.
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Post by dukelightning on Jan 11, 2014 11:01:35 GMT -5
Oops! Back to the Canadians, Charlie Van Dyke just said on the 1/10/87 show that 13 Canadian artists had hit #1 in chart history. 7 of them had at least a top 40 hit in 1974 ironically. And in case anyone wonders, no I am not listening to this show because next week's 80s show is 1/17/87. It may or may not be but I am not privy to that information.
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Post by 80sat40fan on Jan 18, 2014 19:24:56 GMT -5
What I learned listening to the show from 40 years ago this week: Cheech & Chong really, really suck! Paul... you're not kidding. I just subjected myself to "Sister Mary Elephant (Shaddup)" courtesy AT40 on AM970/Louisville. What a horrible recording! I don't remember hearing this song on the radio back then (I was 7 at the time), but holy crap... what a horrendous thing I just had to hear. I don't know what's worse... that song, or "Basketball Jones" from the previous year.
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