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Post by mga707 on Jan 31, 2019 18:22:38 GMT -5
Interesting take on "Mmmbop". Agree that it should start to be heard again. Interestingly, a local 'Mix FM' station has started playing two somewhat similar (to me, at least) Backstreet Boys songs from the late '90s, "As Long As You Love Me" and "Quit Playing Games With My Heart". And it is actually nice to hear them, although I never really gave them the time of day when they were current 20 years ago.
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Post by chrislc on Feb 1, 2019 0:08:23 GMT -5
Okay, let's take Turn To Stone. It was Top 40 41 years ago this winter.
So in Winter 78, how many Artie Shaw songs were getting airplay? Begin The Beguine and Frenesi and ? The Big Band DJs had other favorites but the listeners didn't care.
We're old, people! I love Turn To Stone but we are a niche of a niche of a niche.
Survival of the fittest - Evil Woman and Don't Bring Me Down. And before long one of them will disappear and then the other one. Then the Beatles and Elvis.
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Post by mkarns on Feb 1, 2019 1:14:04 GMT -5
Interesting take on "Mmmbop". Agree that it should start to be heard again. Interestingly, a local 'Mix FM' station has started playing two somewhat similar (to me, at least) Backstreet Boys songs from the late '90s, "As Long As You Love Me" and "Quit Playing Games With My Heart". And it is actually nice to hear them, although I never really gave them the time of day when they were current 20 years ago. BSB actually are still charting at times today; they made the top 20 at CHR/AT40 just last year as well as likely at AC, and they’re a popular live act as well. I can’t say that I am or ever have been a fan, but I agree that they’re nice to hear at times now, more so than 20 years ago. Maybe it’s because we’re not being beaten over the head with them and too many similar sounding acts nowadays.
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Post by mga707 on Feb 1, 2019 1:44:23 GMT -5
Okay, let's take Turn To Stone. It was Top 40 41 years ago this winter. So in Winter 78, how many Artie Shaw songs were getting airplay? Begin The Beguine and Frenesi and ? The Big Band DJs had other favorites but the listeners didn't care. We're old, people! I love Turn To Stone but we are a niche of a niche of a niche. Survival of the fittest - Evil Woman and Don't Bring Me Down. And before long one of them will disappear and then the other one. Then the Beatles and Elvis. I actually heard "Shine a Little Love" on an oldies FM station today! That was quite a surprise. And one of the songs I'm most interested to hear on this week's 1980 show is the truly forgotten "Last Train To London". I'm sure 'trekelo' is smiling!
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Post by retrodaddy on Feb 1, 2019 8:40:49 GMT -5
Good article, Vegas. Thanks for posting.
Don't Wanna Fall In Love got a brief push out of nowhere last year on my local So Fla classic pop hits station, 102.7 The Beach. It was put on heavy rotation for a month or so before fading into oblivion again. This station plays a lot of late 80s / early 90s rhythmic hits, mainly freestyle songs which were big here in the 80s. They also add in local acts from time to time, Erotic Exotic being a recent example.
MJ gets a lot of play from Thriller and Off The Wall, not so much from Bad or anything later. Smooth Criminal would be an exception. Janet gets decent play from Control, but next to nothing from Rhythm Nation 1814.
So true about Always Something There To Remind Me. It's a good song but so overplayed compared to Promises, Promises. I feel the same way about Dead Or Alive's You Spin Me Round and Brand New Lover.
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Post by mkarns on Feb 1, 2019 14:24:03 GMT -5
Good article, Vegas. Thanks for posting. Don't Wanna Fall In Love got a brief push out of nowhere last year on my local So Fla classic pop hits station, 102.7 The Beach. It was put on heavy rotation for a month or so before fading into oblivion again. This station plays a lot of late 80s / early 90s rhythmic hits, mainly freestyle songs which were big here in the 80s. They also add in local acts from time to time, Erotic Exotic being a recent example. MJ gets a lot of play from Thriller and Off The Wall, not so much from Bad or anything later. Smooth Criminal would be an exception. Janet gets decent play from Control, but next to nothing from Rhythm Nation 1814. So true about Always Something There To Remind Me. It's a good song but so overplayed compared to Promises, Promises. I feel the same way about Dead Or Alive's You Spin Me Round and Brand New Lover. A new station in my area, 94.7 "The Drive", centers on the 80s (with some 70s and 90s) and uses MJ's "Bad"-era hit "The Way You Make Me Feel" as one of several songs in its TV ads typifying the songs they play. "Smooth Criminal" I always thought should have been bigger, as its production and intense performance nicely typify Michael's best stuff; maybe Alien Ant Farm's successful cover helped revive it? Post-Bad, only "Black or White" seems to get substantial replay. While "Always Something There to Remind Me" is a cover of a Burt Bacharach/Hal David composition, those two also wrote a song called "Promises, Promises" that was the title song of a musical. Dionne Warwick charted with it, one of many such songs by the duo, but it's not the same song as Naked Eyes' hit. Interesting coincidence, though.
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Post by davewollenberg on Feb 3, 2019 21:53:20 GMT -5
I don't understand how such low-charters as 'Tiny dancer' and 'Melt with you', can be so popular at oldies' radio.
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Post by Michael1973 on Feb 7, 2019 9:26:53 GMT -5
I don't understand how such low-charters as 'Tiny dancer' and 'Melt with you', can be so popular at oldies' radio. Songs like those tend to be ones that became hugely popular long after they charted. At the time of their release, nobody paid attention, but later on they got noticed and became very well-known. "Piano Man" is probably one of the best examples.
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Post by rgmike on Apr 18, 2020 12:47:18 GMT -5
I don't understand how such low-charters as 'Tiny dancer' and 'Melt with you', can be so popular at oldies' radio. Songs like those tend to be ones that became hugely popular long after they charted. At the time of their release, nobody paid attention, but later on they got noticed and became very well-known. "Piano Man" is probably one of the best examples. "Tiny Dancer", while just missing the Pop Top 40 (#41 in '72), was a very popular track at album radio when new, and much-loved by those who grew up with that format. It got a huge boost from its use in a memorable scene in "Almost Famous" in the year 2000 and has been on the radio consistently ever since. "I Melt With You" was huge at the then-new Alternative/Rock-of-the-'80s format in '83 -- it was one of the all-time top songs at that format thru the end of the decade, and was also used in the movie "Valley Girl". High school in 1985 = mid-40s now, so it's no surprise it tests well with that demo.
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Post by retrodaddy on Apr 18, 2020 14:52:07 GMT -5
Also, in the case of I Melt With You, the video was in heavy rotation on MTV.
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