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Post by lasvegaskid on Apr 24, 2013 21:28:47 GMT -5
On this week's 1978 show, Johnny Mathis was pole vaulting to #10 from a debut at #20 the week before. Ten weeks later, Too Much, Too Little, Too Late would be spending its final week on AT40 at #20. Was there ever another hit in the Casey era where its entire top 40 run was inside the top 20?
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Post by kchkwong on Apr 24, 2013 21:38:52 GMT -5
In the 80s, there are two:
Eye Of The Tiger
Do They Know It's Christmas
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Post by freakyflybry on Apr 24, 2013 23:35:47 GMT -5
I seem to recall Chicago did the same with "Old Days" as well.
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Post by jmack19 on Apr 24, 2013 23:40:46 GMT -5
Old Days - CHICAGO 43-17-14-10-7-5-5-17-41
Calypso - John Denver 49-20-15-8-4-1-2-2-2-2-2-3-12-20-44
Fool To Cry - ROLLING STONES almost 46-20-13-12-11-10-10-21-63
Last week's 1979 show an Evelyn King song I Don't Know if it's Right was #40. It fell off the Hot 100 the following week. What was the next song to fall off the Top 40 out of the entire Hot 100?
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Post by Hervard on Apr 25, 2013 7:02:09 GMT -5
"Old Days" was the only of these songs to spend its entire Top 40 run well inside the Top 20.
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Post by pointpark04 on Apr 25, 2013 16:56:31 GMT -5
"Old Days" perplexes me. How could it rise so quickly, then just drop off of the chart in two weeks?
I know that there was some strange chart action in 1974-75, but this one really takes the cake.
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Post by canat40fan on Apr 26, 2013 22:08:43 GMT -5
^ true. For a song that got tons of airplay and is well remembered to this day..it only spent 7 weeks in the top 40? quite odd.
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Post by at40petebattistini on Apr 27, 2013 11:35:49 GMT -5
^ And just think, if "Old Days" had stayed in the Top 40 for 12 weeks like "Some Kind Of Wonderful", Chicago may have had the number 7 record in the Top 100 of 1975.  |
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Post by mct1 on Apr 27, 2013 16:12:06 GMT -5
Last week's 1979 show an Evelyn King song I Don't Know if it's Right was #40. It fell off the Hot 100 the following week. What was the next song to fall off the Top 40 out of the entire Hot 100? From what I understand, the phenomenon of songs falling out of the Hot 100 from within the Top 40 -- common in the '60s and early '70s, less common in the remainder of the '70s -- completely ceased after 1979. If this wasn't the last song to do this, it had to be one of the last. In the '80s, falling out of the Hot 100 from within the Top 40 was just unheard of. |
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Post by jmack19 on Apr 28, 2013 0:32:16 GMT -5
Thanks.
I know that the Tony Terry song With You fell from 19 to 25 to off the chart in 1991, but that was probably due to the 20 week rule as opposed to a drop of more than 75 spots.
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Post by 1finemrg on Apr 28, 2013 5:51:28 GMT -5
"Old Days" perplexes me. How could it rise so quickly, then just drop off of the chart in two weeks? I know that there was some strange chart action in 1974-75, but this one really takes the cake. Just my opinion, but I seem to recall the album that "Old Days" came from "Chicago VIII" was widely panned. It was one of their weaker efforts. It did have a cool iron-on transfer! Chicago was beginning a downward spiral. "Old Days" was their tenth top 10 to this point over about a five year period. Although they would go on to have their first #1 with "If You Leave Me Now", that song and "Baby What A Big Surprise" were the only top 10 singles over the next 5 years. The band's core was further shaken with the tragic loss of Terry Kath in the late 70s, but began their comeback with the #1 single "Hard To Say I'm Sorry" from Chicago XVII in the early eighties. |
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Post by chrislc on Apr 28, 2013 7:11:57 GMT -5
"Old Days" perplexes me. How could it rise so quickly, then just drop off of the chart in two weeks? I know that there was some strange chart action in 1974-75, but this one really takes the cake. Just my opinion, but I seem to recall the album that "Old Days" came from "Chicago VIII" was widely panned. It was one of their weaker efforts. It did have a cool iron-on transfer! Chicago was beginning a downward spiral. "Old Days" was their tenth top 10 to this point over about a five year period. Although they would go on to have their first #1 with "If You Leave Me Now", that song and "Baby What A Big Surprise" were the only top 10 singles over the next 5 years. The band's core was further shaken with the tragic loss of Terry Kath in the late 70s, but began their comeback with the #1 single "Hard To Say I'm Sorry" from Chicago XVII in the early eighties. I wouldn't be surprised to hear that Old Days is, for many people, one of those "I didn't like it then but I like it a lot now" songs. When we were younger we were more sensitive to what was considered hip by our peers, and by 1975 Chicago had lost much of their hipness with those AC hits in 73 and 74. It's a great song. I love when the strings come in. It's one of those songs that were nostalgic in the first place and now there is the double whammy of nostalgia for the time of the song itself, other examples being The Way We Were and Yesterday Once More. With Karen that intense nostalgia gets to me on just about all of her songs. She might be our generation's Judy Garland. Carpenters and Bread and Manilow. Back then we were afraid to even try to like the songs but now we no longer care about what is hip. |
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Post by blackbowl68 on Apr 29, 2013 8:40:33 GMT -5
I remembered Casey saying this on the 4/30/83 show regarding the top 40, but it turns out to be true for the entire Hot 100:
"Even Now" by Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band was the only song on the chart that was in the same position as the previous week! (#13) And it didn't even peak there!
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Post by reachinforthestars on Apr 29, 2013 21:54:16 GMT -5
Interesting opinions by everyone regarding "Old Days". But from someone who purchased the single in 1975 as a kid (and it was the only record I purchased by Chicago in the 70's), there really isn't much more to say other than it was a time when great songs by established artists would be instant hits and then Billboard would allow them to drop quickly to make room for the wealth of great music being released on a weekly basis. What a treat it was for listeners to be exposed to so many outstanding songs. For those of us who grew up during any year from 1966 - 1976, we experienced something very special that will never be repeated again.
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Post by countdownmike on Apr 29, 2013 22:52:43 GMT -5
On that 1966-1976 reachinforthestars...point on! Also my favorite R&B songs are from the period 1968-1974. But '66 with Good Vibrations, You Keep Me Hanging On (Supremes) and Last Train To Clarksville playing back-to-back...you had to be in heaven like me then! Discovered Led Zeppelin in '69 (Dazed and Confused was off the chain!) and all of 1970 were great!
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