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Post by lasvegaskid on Dec 13, 2013 15:27:30 GMT -5
On this week's 1982 show, he said John Cougar "leaped" with Hand To Hold Onto, despite moving up only 4 notches 29-33. Any other examples where Casey tried to sell a modest chart movement?
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Post by 1finemrg on Dec 14, 2013 7:10:07 GMT -5
On this week's 1982 show, he said John Cougar "leaped" with Hand To Hold Onto, despite moving up only 4 notches 29-33. Any other examples where Casey tried to sell a modest chart movement? Just my opinion, I don't know if Casey was trying to sell a modest move. It may have been more of a "leaping Cougar" play on words.
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Post by chrislc on Dec 14, 2013 21:09:33 GMT -5
On this week's 1982 show, he said John Cougar "leaped" with Hand To Hold Onto, despite moving up only 4 notches 29-33. Any other examples where Casey tried to sell a modest chart movement? Just my opinion, I don't know if Casey was trying to sell a modest move. It may have been more of a "leaping Cougar" play on words. Or perhaps by the end of that year, one or two notches, let alone four notches, was considered impressive chart movement!
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Post by woolebull on Dec 15, 2013 13:22:28 GMT -5
Just my opinion, I don't know if Casey was trying to sell a modest move. It may have been more of a "leaping Cougar" play on words. Or perhaps by the end of that year, one or two notches, let alone four notches, was considered impressive chart movement! I thought of that as well, but I checked and there were at least four, maybe more, songs that had bigger jumps, including good size jumps.
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Post by 80sat40fan on Jan 18, 2014 18:41:46 GMT -5
On the 1/19/74 show, Casey mentioned that "Joy (Pt. 1)" by Isaac Hayes was moving up three "big" notches... from 36 to 33. That's an even smaller move than "Hand To Hold On To" from 1982, and lower in the chart as well. A song moving from #6 to #3... I could see Casey saying the song was moving up three big notches, but 36 to 33? The writers also had a nice intro to the song about Isaac Hayes so it seemed like the show was trying to sell the song.
Right after that, Casey mentioned that "Rock On" by Davis Essex was moving up eight "big" notches to 32. Apparently, any climb on that countdown was a "big" move.
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Post by bobbo428 on Jan 20, 2014 20:19:31 GMT -5
On the 1/19/74 show, Casey mentioned that "Joy (Pt. 1)" by Isaac Hayes was moving up three "big" notches... from 36 to 33. That's an even smaller move than "Hand To Hold On To" from 1982, and lower in the chart as well. A song moving from #6 to #3... I could see Casey saying the song was moving up three big notches, but 36 to 33? The writers also had a nice intro to the song about Isaac Hayes so it seemed like the show was trying to sell the song. Right after that, Casey mentioned that "Rock On" by Davis Essex was moving up eight "big" notches to 32. Apparently, any climb on that countdown was a "big" move. In addition, the Hayes song would peter out at #30 just two weeks later. He wouldn't return to the pop top 40 until "Don't Let Go" nearly six years later.
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Post by mga707 on Jan 20, 2014 20:51:53 GMT -5
On the 1/19/74 show, Casey mentioned that "Joy (Pt. 1)" by Isaac Hayes was moving up three "big" notches... from 36 to 33. That's an even smaller move than "Hand To Hold On To" from 1982, and lower in the chart as well. A song moving from #6 to #3... I could see Casey saying the song was moving up three big notches, but 36 to 33? The writers also had a nice intro to the song about Isaac Hayes so it seemed like the show was trying to sell the song. Right after that, Casey mentioned that "Rock On" by Davis Essex was moving up eight "big" notches to 32. Apparently, any climb on that countdown was a "big" move. In addition, the Hayes song would peter out at #30 just two weeks later. He wouldn't return to the pop top 40 until "Don't Let Go" nearly six years later. Yeah, but are you going to tell 'Black Moses' that his record's not a hit? Inside the museum that is my avatar is Hayes' over-the-top, gold-encrusted, pimped-out '72 Eldorado. If you've seen "Wattstax", it's the car in which he is driven up to the stage at the LA Coliseum. Around the car on it's pedestal at the Stax Museum are placards that have his glowering "Shaft"-era visage and the simple command: "Don't touch my ride!"
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Post by lasvegaskid on Jul 13, 2014 21:38:10 GMT -5
Maybe the best example yet of a Casey sell; on this week's 1973 show he said Osmonds were "moving up three BIG notches this week" 36-39. There were countless stronger upward climbs that week.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Jul 13, 2014 21:52:31 GMT -5
On the same show Casey said "ah, this one has been around a long, long time" referring to NYCs 12 week stay with Doin' Fine.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Jan 12, 2015 18:14:17 GMT -5
Another way Casey sold a song was by doing a countdown within the countdown..."this song as been on the chart for five, Six, SEVEN weeks!" That method seemed to go away in the mid 70s.
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Post by doofus67 on Apr 26, 2015 17:59:12 GMT -5
How about the countless times when Casey would tell us that a song was moving from somewhere "all the way up to" somewhere, even if the move was, say, seven or eight notches (in other words, not a bad move, but not a great one)?
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Post by mkarns on Jun 14, 2015 23:02:20 GMT -5
On 6/16/84, Casey said that Duran Duran made a big two-notch move with "The Reflex". It moved from 4 to 2; only that high in the chart could that be considered "big".
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Post by OldSchoolAT40Fan on Jun 15, 2015 4:11:24 GMT -5
^ Especially if "The Reflex" would hit #1 the next week or the week after that.
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Post by dukelightning on Jun 16, 2015 10:29:24 GMT -5
On the 6/10/78 show, Casey said that "It's a Heartache" made a giant move from 15 to 6. Just for kicks, when I noticed that "Total Eclipse of the Heart" also climbed into the top 10 from 15 but only moved 15 to 8, I checked out what Casey said then. He said in the intro that it leaped into the top 10 and in the outro he said it was acting like a #1 song. So he was right about that. But she obviously had that 'giant' 15 to 6 move with IAH which did not hit #1. Many times the chart movements of songs by the same artist can be the inverse of where they ended up peaking.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Jun 5, 2018 13:53:33 GMT -5
On last week's 1974 show Casey sold Payback as being on AT40 for 'eight BIG weeks'
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