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Post by chrislc on Aug 3, 2013 18:57:43 GMT -5
So if we were asked to put together a playlist of these five Top 40 titles from 1971, in this order, there would be 72 possibilities (unless I overlooked something?):
which I was - so 144 possibilities! and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope!
I DON'T KNOW HOW TO LOVE HIM
LOVE STORY
LOVE THE ONE YOU'RE WITH
NEVER CAN SAY GOODBYE
SUPERSTAR
YOU'VE GOT A FRIEND
So my question is, how many years had it been since that was possible with five Top 40 titles from the same year? I figure it must have been back to the mid 1950s at the latest.
SIX Top 40 titles! And ruthless efficiency!
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Post by at40petebattistini on Aug 3, 2013 19:31:06 GMT -5
chrislc, you may want to add "Never Can Say Goodbye" -- Isaac Hayes, Jackson Five
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Post by chrislc on Aug 3, 2013 19:37:53 GMT -5
chrislc, you may want to add "Never Can Say Goodbye" -- Isaac Hayes, Jackson Five I knew I must be missing at least one. Thank you. The new title of this thread is "144 Possibilities", everybody. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 3, 2013 19:40:11 GMT -5
I feel like Brett Somers right now. I don't understand the question.
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Post by chrislc on Aug 3, 2013 19:43:19 GMT -5
I feel like Brett Somers right now. I don't understand the question. Sorry I am being obscure again. There were three versions of two of the titles and two versions of four of the titles so 3 times 3 times 2 times 2 times 2 times 2 equals 144 In other words if you were doing a DJ gig for a 1971 Class Reunion and they requested those 6 titles in that order you would have a 1 in 144 chance of playing the right songs. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 3, 2013 19:45:44 GMT -5
Wouldn't that make 14? Why the multiplying?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 3, 2013 19:46:43 GMT -5
Oh wait, nevermind. I guess you are saying how many different playlists you could create with songs of these titles in 1971?
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Post by chrislc on Aug 3, 2013 19:50:32 GMT -5
Oh wait, nevermind. I guess you are saying how many different playlists you could create with songs of these titles in 1971? If you changed the order of the titles it would be a much higher number. Googolplex or something. |
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Post by mga707 on Aug 3, 2013 23:21:19 GMT -5
chrislc, you may want to add "Never Can Say Goodbye" -- Isaac Hayes, Jackson Five And "I'd Like To Teach the World To Sing", both versions of which charted in November/December '71 (although they peaked shortly after the new year). |
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Post by blackbowl68 on Aug 4, 2013 11:07:10 GMT -5
And there were three different songs out in 1971 called "Superstar:" one by Murray Head, another by the Carpenters, and a third one by the Temptations.
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Post by chrislc on Aug 4, 2013 20:34:36 GMT -5
And there were three different songs out in 1971 called "Superstar:" one by Murray Head, another by the Carpenters, and a third one by the Temptations. Oh yes I'm all over Superstar - that is one of the two "three titles making the Top 40 that year" songs, along with Love Story. Or Theme From Love Story, or whatever. Anyway I figure you'd have to go back to the early or mid 50s to the days when Perry Como and Frank Sinatra and Dick Haymes and Vic Damone and Eddie Fisher etc etc etc ad nauseum were charting with the same songs, to get another "144 Possibilities With Six Titles" year. I'm picturing a 1971 Class Reunion dance and right at the end some lady requests Superstar for a slow dance and some kid DJ plays the Temps or Murray - the kid would be like "what? what did I do wrong?" and everybody would be looking at the lady like "what the heck?" |
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