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Post by chrislc on Mar 9, 2013 12:09:32 GMT -5
Was there a countdown on which Leblanc And Carr's song was falling and Bob Seger's song was still the same (as the previous week)?
And of course there was the famous Pete Wingfield song. And Coming Up.
Are there any other Top 40 songs like this? I know there was Rise and The Rising, but they are close but no cigar.
Maybe there was a week in which Maxine Nightingale's song was at the same position in which it debuted?
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Post by mct1 on Mar 9, 2013 13:07:28 GMT -5
Similar to Pete Wingfield, John Lennon saw his "#9 Dream" become reality. Maybe he should have aimed higher....
Face To Face's minor 1984 hit "10-9-8" never saw that three-week sequence -- it never any higher than the 30s on the chart.
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Post by rgmike on Mar 9, 2013 13:54:16 GMT -5
sadly, Alice Cooper's "Eighteen" peaked at #21.
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Post by at40petebattistini on Mar 9, 2013 14:10:30 GMT -5
More woulda-coulda-shouldas... *The Grass Roots failed at math by answering "Two Divided By Love" with a number 16 hit. *"Heaven On The Seventh Floor" by Paul Nicholas pushed the wrong elevator button and ended up at number 6. *"1, 2, 3 Red Light" by the 1910 Fruitgum Company didn't quite make it to the intersection, stopping at number 5.
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Post by vto66 on Mar 9, 2013 14:13:05 GMT -5
I vividly recall when "Up Where We Belong" reached No. 1 on AT40. In Casey's intro, he said something like, "Our new number-one song is one whose title virtually insists that it go straight to the top!"
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Post by pgfromwp on Mar 9, 2013 15:55:02 GMT -5
In fall 1965, Len Barry's "1-2-3" peaked for 1 week at # 2, then dropped to # 3. So, each number was represented during its chart history.
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Post by 1finemrg on Mar 9, 2013 16:11:53 GMT -5
John Leenon's "#9 Dream" peaked at #9.
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Post by mkarns on Mar 9, 2013 16:25:58 GMT -5
Was there a countdown on which Leblanc And Carr's song was falling and Bob Seger's song was still the same (as the previous week)? "Falling" dropped from 13 to 31 on 4/8/78. Three months later, on 7/15, "Still the Same" held at #5 (it peaked at 4 the next week.)
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Post by 1finemrg on Mar 9, 2013 16:34:11 GMT -5
Maxine Nightingale's "Right Back Where We Started From" Debuted at number 95 and spent it's last week on the chart at #57.
Unfortunately LeBlanc & Carr's "Falling" had its last appearance on the Hot 100 at #97 on April 22, 1978. Seger's "Still the Same" debuted May 13, 1978.
I would imagine Paul Revers and the Raiders "Ups And Downs" would be as good of a description for any record's chart life as I know.
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Post by Showman on Mar 10, 2013 4:30:30 GMT -5
In 1988 Yazz & The Plastic Population released 'The only way is up' which went to #1 in UK. Unfortunately only scraped into the US Hot 100 @ 96.
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Post by doomsdaymachine on Mar 10, 2013 5:19:40 GMT -5
In 1978, Stargard never answered their own question as "Which Way Is Up?" topped out at a modest #21.
In 1967, however, the 5th Dimension flew "Up, Up and Away" to #7. For good measure, it also won the Grammys for Record and Song of the Year.
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Post by OldSchoolAT40Fan on Mar 10, 2013 6:14:31 GMT -5
- "Two To Make It Right" by Seduction did peak at #2 in early 1990.
- "One More Night" by Phil Collins went to #1 in 1985.
- "1-2-3" by Gloria Estefan & Miami Sound Machine peaked at #3 in 1988.
- "Just The Two of Us" by Grover Washington, Jr. & Bill Withers peaked at #2 in 1981.
Sadly, in 1986, "Two of Hearts" by Stacey Q peaked at #3.
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Post by erik on Mar 10, 2013 7:23:01 GMT -5
Chicago's "25 or 6 to 4" moved from 6 to 4 the week of September 12, 1970.
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Post by erik on Mar 10, 2013 7:27:33 GMT -5
Casey noted in the December 25, 1976 year-end countdown that Foghat's "Slow Ride" took a slow ride up the charts. From the week it debuted at #40 to its peak of #20 , it took 11 weeks, for an average climb of two notches per week.
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Post by Mike on Mar 10, 2013 13:54:45 GMT -5
How about "Point of No Return" by Nu Shooz? It dropped five notches to #40 the week of October 25, 1986, and they were never to return after that song disappeared, despite very nearly doing so in 1988 with a song that stopped at #41. "I'm at the point, of no return.........I'm at the point, of nooooooo returrrrrrrrrrrrrrrn......"
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