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Post by bestmusicexpert on May 17, 2013 5:23:32 GMT -5
With men at work I was surprised too. However Dr Heckyll and Mr Jive did pique quite low on the top 40 and was their last hit.
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Post by bestmusicexpert on May 17, 2013 5:26:28 GMT -5
I like all of Taylor Daynes hits except for the berry white cover, sometimes an original is just too good to cover. I know it's a separate topic but I think some songs should be off limits.
I did not think that any of her hits lacked anything.
Expose is a pretty good example as well, maybe in some of these cases they did not alter their sound for the changing times and time passed them by as it were.
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Post by 1finemrg on May 17, 2013 7:59:12 GMT -5
I'm surprised I'm the first to mention Men At Work. Two huge LPs, two straight #1 singles, two more consecutive top 10 singles (including by far their best song--a great one: "Overkill"), then just one more that barely made it into the top 30. Then--nothing. The third LP pretty much tanked, as did the single(s) released from it. I think the band broke up shortly after that. Mr. Mister took a similar path. Went to #1 with "Broken Wings" and "Kyrie", reached the top 10 with "Is It Love", then had one more Top 40 hit before breaking up. Trivia: I once heard a story that Chicago radio personality Jonathan Brandmeier bought Mr. Mister's concert gear and stage show for his own band Johnny and the Leisure Suits after their breakup.
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Post by pb on May 17, 2013 9:51:43 GMT -5
With men at work I was surprised too. However Dr Heckyll and Mr Jive did pique quite low on the top 40 and was their last hit. I read a book once where someone in the industry said the third Men At Work album was an example of a record failing because they picked the wrong first single. They also took a year's hiatus between the second and third albums and lost some members.
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Post by bestmusicexpert on May 17, 2013 9:58:55 GMT -5
But kept the primary ones I thought. It is a usual amount of time but the turnaround from Business to Cargo was quicker because they were ready soon. Must not have thought they would hit so big!
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Post by mga707 on May 17, 2013 15:37:21 GMT -5
But kept the primary ones I thought. It is a usual amount of time but the turnaround from Business to Cargo was quicker because they were ready soon. Must not have thought they would hit so big! The actual reason that the time between the first two Men At Work LPs seemed shorter than usual ("Business As Usual" charted July 82, "Cargo" May 83) is that the first album was already a year old when it hit in the US. It had been first released in Australia in 1981. So, using the Australian release dates of 1981 and 1983 for the first two LPs, the third LP's 1985 release was not abnormally long. For whatever reason it just did not click in the US (don't know how it did Down Under), and it's only charted single, "Everything I Need" only managed to reach #47 in the early summer of 1985.
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Post by jc on May 18, 2013 7:45:04 GMT -5
David Gates had a couple of Top 40 near misses in 1973 with "Sail Around the World" and especially "Clouds". He also had another almost AT 40 hit after his 1978 comeback in 1981 with "Where Does the Lovin" Go". All deserved to make the Top 40.
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Post by pamelajaye on May 18, 2013 10:07:31 GMT -5
Essentially someone who hit the top 10 constantly then disappeared without declining... Do the Osmonds (in any of their configurations) count? Donny specifically said his TV show destroyed his record career (even before it happened). He did a couple of comeback hits... then may have vanished yet again (he's in Vegas) The Osmond (brother)s however - they went off and did country stuff. No clue if they hit charts there. I remember one week, when The Proud One was in the 40, thinking "this was their last hit" then grabbing my Whitburn to verify.
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Post by pamelajaye on May 18, 2013 10:11:41 GMT -5
How about Kool & the Gang? Two top 10 hits in 1974 and ten from 1980-87, many of which still get recurrent play. Then after "Stone Love" and I would never notice cause every dance I went to in church for 23 years played Celebrate. Boy, I hate that song (now). I don't even remember Last Dance being as prevalent.
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Post by pb on May 18, 2013 13:25:14 GMT -5
David Gates had a couple of Top 40 near misses in 1973 with "Sail Around the World" and especially "Clouds". He also had another almost AT 40 hit after his 1978 comeback in 1981 with "Where Does the Lovin" Go". All deserved to make the Top 40. His solo debut was great but for whatever reason it did not enjoy anything close to the chart success Bread had.
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Post by mrjukebox on May 18, 2013 15:35:07 GMT -5
What about Paul Mc Cartney?-His last top forty hit was "My Brave Face" in 1989 which he co-wrote with Elvis Costello.
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Post by pb on May 18, 2013 16:01:50 GMT -5
Or Ringo Starr who Casey cited in 1974 as one of the few singers to reach #1 with two successive singles, and then after 1976 he was gone (with one exception "Wrack My Brain" #38 in 1981).
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Post by lasvegaskid on May 24, 2013 11:46:22 GMT -5
Jim Stafford; six very quick top 40s in 74/75 and then gone. Spiders & Snakes is the only one that still gets marginal airplay.
Rick Springfield; had a early top 40 then marginal hits throughout the 70s. Exploded 1981-1985, then disappeared with the exception of one 1988 forgotten comeback. Today radio acts like Jessie's Girl qualifies him as "one hit wonder".
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Post by lasvegaskid on May 24, 2013 11:56:04 GMT -5
(Turtle) LRB; respectable thirteen top 40s 75-83 and (hair) Air Supply; eleven fast top 40s 80-85. But both Aussie groups just seemed to vanish, though I still do hear the Melbourne guy's bigger hits 70s on oldies radio.
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Post by lasvegaskid on May 24, 2013 12:03:12 GMT -5
Hall and Oates had three phases; steady in the 70s, massive 80-85, and overlooked 88-90. However because they vanished so quickly after that how many people know that they had more 80s top 40s than Michael? More than Madonna? More than Whitney?
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