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Post by Michael1973 on Jan 17, 2019 9:30:55 GMT -5
I know it is not the question, but to me it is fascinating seeing the artists who had a huge hit or two, and then had multiple hits after not getting anywhere near to where they once were. And it's fascinating to me because it really doesn't happen much. Rick Springfield would be another one. He had five top tens, but close to 15 total top 40 hits.
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Post by pb on Jan 17, 2019 14:08:22 GMT -5
Cyndi Lauper is another interesting one. Her and Madonna came out at the same time and everyone said Cyndi would be the superstar and Madonna would be the one hit wonder. Well as we all know that didn’t happen. Cyndi had a good run 1983-1989 she had two number ones I believe but by the end of the decade her luck was over. Another victim of image burnout. From my memory of that era I think Cyndi Lauper didn't move fast enough. By the time she had her second album Madonna had three albums and one or two movies.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Jan 25, 2019 23:48:49 GMT -5
Wham Made It Big in 1984. Then when it seemed they couldn't get any bigger, you gotta have Faith. George went on to have more biggies with Elt and Praying For Time. But then he got Older and the hits quickly dried up.
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Post by Michael1973 on Jan 31, 2019 11:09:05 GMT -5
How about Kenny Loggins? After a string of top ten hits up through Nobody's Fool, his top 40 career suddenly ended (though he continued to hit the AC chart).
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Post by pb on Jan 31, 2019 19:32:58 GMT -5
How about Kenny Loggins? After a string of top ten hits up through Nobody's Fool, his top 40 career suddenly ended (though he continued to hit the AC chart). I guess popular tastes shifted and he was too old and mellow, like Neil Diamond or Olivia Newton John by the mid 80's.
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Post by mga707 on Jan 31, 2019 20:02:26 GMT -5
How about Kenny Loggins? After a string of top ten hits up through Nobody's Fool, his top 40 career suddenly ended (though he continued to hit the AC chart). That was also the last of his string of soundtrack hits that had started eight years earlier with 'I'm Alright', then 'Footloose', 'I'm Free', 'Danger Zone', and 'Meet Me Half Way'. What I don't know is whether he stopped being offered soundtrack song opportunities or if he decided not to do any more of them. He definitely was 'king of the soundtrack hits' in the '80s.
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Post by trekkielo on Feb 2, 2019 9:06:23 GMT -5
How about Kenny Loggins? After a string of top ten hits up through Nobody's Fool, his top 40 career suddenly ended (though he continued to hit the AC chart). That was also the last of his string of soundtrack hits that had started eight years earlier with 'I'm Alright', then 'Footloose', 'I'm Free', 'Danger Zone', and 'Meet Me Half Way'. What I don't know is whether he stopped being offered soundtrack song opportunities or if he decided not to do any more of them. He definitely was 'king of the soundtrack hits' in the '80s. That's also ironically the bookend of his soundtrack hits from Caddyshack II in 1988 that had begun 8 years before with 1980's Caddyshack.
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Post by giannirubino on Feb 9, 2020 20:39:26 GMT -5
Didn't MCA give up on ONJ once she became pregnant? Or was that just the excuse given at the time? I don't have any proof, just a distant, moth-eaten memory.
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Post by OldSchoolAT40Fan on Feb 17, 2020 8:27:30 GMT -5
I am thinking MCA gave up on Olivia Newton-John but it wasn't due to pregnancy. It was most likely a case of budget cuts.
Pregnancy discrimination claims are just that. Many of those claims end up being proven false, as accounting records showing financial problems proves the reason for cutting ties with a celebrity, whether notable or not.
I also think MCA gave up on ONJ because her popularity was in decline after 1983. She never had a top ten hit since "Twist of Fate", if I recall. To the best of my knowledge, "Living in Desperate Times" and "Soul Kiss" were likely her last two top 40 records. She released "The Rumor" in 1988, but it flopped.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Mar 22, 2020 20:04:17 GMT -5
From 1977-84 Kenny Rogers was the biggest baddest ombre around, even earning a USA For Africa invite. Pop, AC, Country, Movies, TV it didn't matter. You probably couldn't name 3-4 artists that were hotter than Gambler. Then when the calendar turned to 1985, he couldn't catch a cold, let alone gold on the charts. After a couple more years even his country fortunes busted.
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Post by caseyfan100 on Mar 22, 2020 21:06:28 GMT -5
From 1977-84 Kenny Rogers was the biggest baddest ombre around, even earning a USA For Africa invite. Pop, AC, Country, Movies, TV it didn't matter. You probably couldn't name 3-4 artists that were hotter than Gambler. Then when the calendar turned to 1985, he couldn't catch a cold, let alone gold on the charts. After a couple more years even his country fortunes busted. In one of the stories I saw about Kenny Rogers death is that We Are The World was recorded at the studio he owned.
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Post by mga707 on Mar 22, 2020 23:13:14 GMT -5
From 1977-84 Kenny Rogers was the biggest baddest ombre around, even earning a USA For Africa invite. Pop, AC, Country, Movies, TV it didn't matter. You probably couldn't name 3-4 artists that were hotter than Gambler. Then when the calendar turned to 1985, he couldn't catch a cold, let alone gold on the charts. After a couple more years even his country fortunes busted. In one of the stories I saw about Kenny Rogers death is that We Are The World was recorded at the studio he owned. Yes, Kenny's business ventures were many and varied, as my frequent 1990's visits to my local Kenny Rogers' Roasters restaurant will attest...
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Post by lasvegaskid on Mar 31, 2020 11:53:19 GMT -5
He was a chart Wonder for 20+ years. But after Skeletons Stevie won't come near the Top 40 again.
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Post by lasvegaskid on May 6, 2020 17:25:14 GMT -5
Four #1s in a little more than 2 years and it looked like Blondie was gonna be big for a long long time. But Lost Souls might as well have been Gilligan's Island as they disappeared from the face of the earth.
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Post by Hervard on May 6, 2020 18:08:41 GMT -5
He was a chart Wonder for 20+ years. But after Skeletons Stevie won't come near the Top 40 again. Actually, he did have two more Top 40 hits - first, in 1997 as a featured artist on Babyface's Top 30 hit "How Come, How Long" and then the following year, with another duet, this time with 98 Degrees, the song "True To Your Heart". But yeah, other than that...
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