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Post by Shadoe Fan on Nov 21, 2019 14:16:45 GMT -5
November 23, 1991, the last show to use the Hot 100. I like how Shadoe mentions the Hot 100 by name during the show.
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Post by dukelightning on Nov 26, 2019 19:13:40 GMT -5
^Shadoe did the previous show I heard. Now from exactly a year later is Casey's Top 40 from 11/25/89. A unique situation it would seem happened when New Kids on the Block debuted with a song from their Merry Merry Christmas album that had nothing to do with the holiday. Can't remember any other song from a Christmas which made the top 40 and had nothing to do with it. "This One's For the Children" was the song and after it played Casey referenced another unique situation though less unique than what I just alluded to...it was the first of 3 songs in the countdown for NKOTB. The other 2 were "Cover Girl" and "Didn't I Blow Your Mind". The last time Casey did a show where an artist had 3 songs in the 40 was 11/29/80, this week's 80s show ironically, when Diana Ross did it. In the 9 years between these shows Jermaine Jackson did appear on 3 songs in the countdown when 2 of his solo songs and the Jacksons' "Torture" were in the top 40 in 1984. Casey did a story about rock in the then Soviet Union and China. There was a Chinese rock artist who was very popular there and was acknowledged as such by the Chinese government. But after the Tiananmen Square incident a few months before this show, they changed their tune and disavowed rock music. That artist was banned thereafter. Not good! Of course neither was what happened in that square. One of my fave songs in the show was "We Didn't Start the Fire" and the next to last reference to current events Billy makes is to that event('China's under martial law'). Before playing it, Casey told the often told story of how Billy Joel was a boxer before he was a musician. It is amazing that boxing is still a major sport what with all the damage to one's body occurs. Billy got a broken nose in the first round of his first professional bout and that was it for him in the ring. Another amazing thing is how delayed big R&B hits are in becoming pop hits. Casey reviewed the other chart #1s and "Here and Now" by Luther Vandross was the #1 song on the black chart. It would be another month before that would reach the pop charts. And this from an established R&B and pop artist no less. Strange. Casey told a story about Milli Vanilli in connection with their having the new #1 song "Blame it on the Rain". They liked to wear a lot of stylish clothes. Of course it was all downhill from this point on for the duo. And they could not blame the rain on that! Thought I knew every song in any 70s or 80s show that I hear but not this time. Heard a duet by Prince and Sheena Easton "The Arms of Orion". Like both artists a lot but cannot remember ever hearing that song. Unlike their previous collaborations either singing together or a singing/producing combo, this was a ballad. Of course my fave by Sheena was a hit earlier in 1989..."The Lover in Me".
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Post by freakyflybry on Nov 26, 2019 21:05:32 GMT -5
Can't remember any other song from a Christmas which made the top 40 and had nothing to do with it. Celine Dion and R. Kelly hit with "I'm Your Angel"; it was on her Christmas album.
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Nov 26, 2019 22:14:42 GMT -5
Into the third hour of 11/24/1979, which has been an absolute treat to my ears. What's missing from this show is France Joli's "Come To Me", which was up from #16 to #15 in the previous show, then took a mighty drop to #57. Casey also has two one-minute spots in this program for The Hunger Project, which obviously wouldn't be included in a Premiere re-airing.
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Nov 28, 2019 11:54:12 GMT -5
Casey's Top 40 from 11/30/1991; the same weekend AT40 ditched the Hot 100, or as worded, "A brand new official Billboard chart".
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Post by Hervard on Nov 30, 2019 8:57:07 GMT -5
Thanks onwiththecountdown. I may be back on a more regular basis. I have a ton of shows to hear from 1989 on. Btw, I figured someone would quibble with my claim (had to edit what I originally posted...the word I used was censored!)that the Def Leppard Hysteria album's 4th single was the biggest hit from the album. 4th hit was "Pour Some Sugar on Me" which reached #2 while the next release "Love Bites" went to the top. However, in the year end survey, Sugar came in at #19 while Bites was #30. I think that is the better barometer of what is the bigger hit. Similar to John Mellencamp having "Hurts So Good" a #2 hit outranking the #1 hit "Jack and Diane" in the 1982 year end survey. LOL - I disagreeumption is that the word you used earlier is - well, you know. (I generally use dollar signs in place of the s's to get past the censors, but "claim" is also a good substitution). BTW, I know I'm ten days late, but welcome back!
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Post by keithr63 on Nov 30, 2019 11:34:39 GMT -5
12/1/73 on KOKZ
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Post by dukelightning on Dec 1, 2019 19:46:43 GMT -5
Thanks onwiththecountdown. I may be back on a more regular basis. I have a ton of shows to hear from 1989 on. Btw, I figured someone would quibble with my claim (had to edit what I originally posted...the word I used was censored!)that the Def Leppard Hysteria album's 4th single was the biggest hit from the album. 4th hit was "Pour Some Sugar on Me" which reached #2 while the next release "Love Bites" went to the top. However, in the year end survey, Sugar came in at #19 while Bites was #30. I think that is the better barometer of what is the bigger hit. Similar to John Mellencamp having "Hurts So Good" a #2 hit outranking the #1 hit "Jack and Diane" in the 1982 year end survey. LOL - I disagreeumption is that the word you used earlier is - well, you know. (I generally use dollar signs in place of the s's to get past the censors, but "claim" is also a good substitution). BTW, I know I'm ten days late, but welcome back! Thanks to your suggestion I can write the word I intended originally. It was a$$ertion. Over 5000 posts and I doubt that I ever tried to use that word before here! Anyway thanks for the welcome back. I was not going to post until I was deeper into the show and had more to write about it; but the show I am listening to now is Casey's Top 40 from 12/2/95. Started with 5 droppers before Def Leppard was up 5 notches to #35 with "When Love and Hate Collide". There is only one debut record and it is playing right now at #33..Everything but the Girl and "Missing". Heading to #1 so one of those rare shows when the only debut is a future #1 hit. I used to know or at least have an idea how many such shows there are like that. But I have gone nearly 2 years without hearing shows and have forgotten that tidbit of trivia. Casey did a Where are they now? segment on David Lee Roth. He had given up his rock act to go to Vegas and was doing Vaudeville and Burlesque then. Must have been successful because he had shows lined up for Atlantic City, Rio De Janiero and Monte Carlo. This is the time frame where Casey asks those ridiculously easy trivia questions. He said Tom Scholz led a band who hit #1 in 1986 with "Amanda". He asks was the band Chicago, Boston or Berlin? Got a good laugh out of that! The next intro he id'd radio stations and one of them was Radio Charlie in Berlin! And a few songs later was Fun Factory from Hamburg, Germany. More later... The #1 song on AT40 exactly a decade earlier was a future #1 song that was an only debut record..."Broken Wings" by Mr. Mister. Had to take a break from the countdown to hear the unedited version of "Tell Me" by Groove Theory, one of my fave songs in the show. Those jokers cut a 3:48 song to about 2:30. Absolutely no reason to be editing songs in a 4 hour show! @*#% Casey did a tribute of sorts to Freddie Mercury who had died 4 years earlier. Said the remaining 3 members took this long to record an album of tracks recorded in the last weeks before Freddie died. Titled Made in Heaven. First single was a hit in the UK but it had no traction in America. The album featured a 22 minute song about the afterlife. Btw the first R&D was "Tears in Heaven" and "One Sweet Day" is coming up later.
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Post by Hervard on Dec 2, 2019 10:17:46 GMT -5
^Ah, that was back when the R&D's were basically the same five songs every week ("Because You Loved Me" being another).
That first single from Made In Heaven - was that "Too Much Love Will Kill You"? That was a great, underrated song. It did actually make a one-week appearance on the Gavin Top 40 at the end of 1995, but was gone by the New Year. Not long after that, I bought the album just for that song.
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Post by dukelightning on Dec 2, 2019 18:01:04 GMT -5
The first single was "Heaven For Everyone", an optimistic song where Freddie was hoping that there would be heaven for everyone as Casey said. I saw that the song you mentioned reached #118 on the Hot 100 or at least the bubbling under portion of it. I don't know any song from that album so you are more familiar with that than I am. 2nd R&D was another of those 5 recycled songs..."Right Here Waiting". 3rd R&D as I listen to the rest of the show is not one of those recycled songs. It was "Can I Touch You There", Michael Bolton's last hit, a couple months after it dropped off the chart. Btw, when I wrote above about "Broken Wings", that was not referencing part of the show. Casey mentions songs that were #1 such and such years ago and did say that 5 years ago "I'm Your Baby Tonight" was #1. I was wracking my brain trying to remember other only debuts that went to #1 and had a hunch that Wings was one of them. This show is really 1 week short of 10 years later that Wings hit #1. At #4 is "One Sweet Day", the biggest mover for the second straight week. And the week before that it was the highest debut at #22. And that was another time where there was only one debut record and it was a future #1 hit. So that happened in 2 out of 3 weeks that the only debut was a future #1. Day has gone 22-14-4. Waiting to see if Mariah is still #1 with her previous hit "Fantasy". I know on the Hot 100 there was one week between her 2 songs being at #1. And the same thing happens here. "Fantasy" spends a 6th week on top before(I looked it up)giving way to the Goo Goo Dolls' "Name" (#3 this week) next week and then Mariah and the boys hit the top the week after. Mariah does to Janet what she did to her 2 years earlier when "Dreamlover" kept "If" out of the top spot. This time it is "Runaway" sitting at #2 for a 6th week by Janet.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 3, 2019 8:25:09 GMT -5
Casey’s Top 40 12/2/89.
The amount of edits and early pullouts of songs on these early CT40 episodes is almost unreal.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 3, 2019 10:14:09 GMT -5
Good lord this is the week Casey told the story of how Milli Vanilli has to have a coach teach them syllable by syllable for their songs since they didn’t know English. What a backstory they made up for this duo!
Seriously all I can say is in hindsight if you have this show, listen to the story leading into #1 if nothing else for a laugh!
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Post by dukelightning on Dec 3, 2019 16:01:05 GMT -5
The edits and such were not confined to the early CT40 shows as my last post here noted. Not any obvious edits so far however in the show playing now for me, the CT40 from 12/3/94. Found out that Nirvana's "About a Girl" that they recorded on MTV Unplugged was originally on their first album and was recorded in New York City a year earlier. Casey told how the Stones were the first to have a concert available over the internet. Casey used the 'information superhighway' term. Remember that term being used a lot in the mid 90s? Casey also used a long winded phrase which would be unnecessary these days of 'the world wide web of the internet'. Mentioned how you needed a super processor and all these then-new gadgets to hear the concert. Ah the infancy of the internet and personal computer age. I was years away from getting my first pc myself. What was the status of cell phones back then? Smart phones were many years away from being invented! Btw, this was not a story leading into a Stones song as their last top 40 hit "Out of Tears" fell out a month earlier after reaching #37. Hearing about half of this show today and my fave songs so far are "Rhythm of the Night", ""Shine" and "Interstate Love Song". Biggest mover is Ini Kamoze's "Here Comes the Hotstepper" with a 7 notch climb to #22. Another R&D that leaves your head shaking. This guy wrote in about a friend of his who had gone to console an old female friend. He got there and then her boyfriend showed up and shot him, the girl and himself. Song requested was "Hero". None of them survived. Senseless.
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Dec 6, 2019 12:11:39 GMT -5
Good lord this is the week Casey told the story of how Milli Vanilli has to have a coach teach them syllable by syllable for their songs since they didn’t know English. What a backstory they made up for this duo! Seriously all I can say is in hindsight if you have this show, listen to the story leading into #1 if nothing else for a laugh! I will certainly put that show in my queue. Ironically, it was a recent 1991 show I heard with a commercial talking about a class action lawsuit regarding Milli Vanilli. Once 1992 rolled around, I hardly heard anything about them.
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Post by adam31 on Dec 6, 2019 15:23:27 GMT -5
Good lord this is the week Casey told the story of how Milli Vanilli has to have a coach teach them syllable by syllable for their songs since they didn’t know English. What a backstory they made up for this duo! Seriously all I can say is in hindsight if you have this show, listen to the story leading into #1 if nothing else for a laugh! I will certainly put that show in my queue. Ironically, it was a recent 1991 show I heard with a commercial talking about a class action lawsuit regarding Milli Vanilli. Once 1992 rolled around, I hardly heard anything about them. There is likely a lot of truth to that story. They probably had to learn how to lip sync each word syllable by syllable, and the coaches were likely the real singers - Charles Shaw and Brad Howell.
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