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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Dec 25, 2019 9:22:44 GMT -5
Today, it'll be the lone Christmas In America show with Bob Kingsley that I have, from 1998.
Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays, everyone! 🎄🎁
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Post by dukelightning on Dec 25, 2019 16:57:53 GMT -5
Heard half of this countdown yesterday and now the rest of it. Danny Hutton commented about "Black and White" and alluded to the problems between the races then. But he thought the problems would be taken care of in the next generation because people were getting more liberal. Right and wrong in his prognosis IMO. People have gotten more liberal since then but the race problem is still there, though lessened somewhat. Interesting to hear the artists take on things. Not sure if this countdown is based on the Hot 100 and even if it is, I doubt they will mention that because of legalities and such. But this is the first #1 song using the Hot 100 chart. Regardless of the chart used and Cashbox would have to be the chart if not Billboard, I am not surprised as "Black and White" was a quick riser and dropper on both charts. (#46) Opus Top 100 of 1972 btw. Same #1 song as AT40 for Roberta Flack. They played 'the unabridged version' as host Jimmy Rabbitt called it, of "American Pie" (#3). Something AT40 did not do btw.
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Post by Shadoe Fan on Dec 26, 2019 15:35:51 GMT -5
Paused the AT40 1989 year-end to listen to AT40 HAC 2019 year-end.
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Post by darnall42 on Dec 26, 2019 18:42:37 GMT -5
to get me in the mood for the 1985 year end show at the weekend i'm listening to the first part of the top 100 of 1984 show
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Post by keithr63 on Dec 29, 2019 11:03:29 GMT -5
KOKZ-Top 100 of 1985
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Jan 4, 2020 20:13:12 GMT -5
Been falling behind some of my shows. Just finished up CT40 from 12/28/1991 (Top 100 Of 1991, Part 2), and now it's AT40 from 12/29/1979 (Top 50 Of 1979).
Next up, nearing the end of the vinyl era as it'll be CT40 from 1/4/1992. The last CT40 show to be issued on vinyl was 2/29/1992. Following that, AT40 from 1/5/1980 (Top 50 Of The 1970s).
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Post by dukelightning on Jan 7, 2020 18:56:02 GMT -5
In this first week of the decade, that is what I am listening to...a show from the first week of a decade. This is from the 90s...AT40 from 1/6/90. Started with a song by a voice that we lost near the end of the last decade, Marie of Roxette on "Dangerous". First story Shadoe told was a tribute to the first rap record to make the top 40, which happened exactly 10 years earlier (on 1/5/80 though that event was preempted by the decade end countdown). He mentioned how rap first became popular in the late 70s with black teenagers in New York City. 3 of those teens eventually got together as disc jockeys to be the act that did that record, "Rapper's Delight" which Shadoe played a clip of. One of my fave rap records btw. Mentioned how 'singer Sylvia Robinson' (Sylvia to those of us familiar with "Pillow Talk" from 1973) formed the record label which the group took their name from...the Sugar Hill Gang. Called rap the trend of the 80s and said it was hotter than it ever been at that point in time. Said that Tone Loc's "Wild Thing" was the first rap record to sell 2 million copies. And then played Young MC's "Bust a Move" at #36 in its 20th week in the countdown and no hit had spent that many weeks in the top 40 since "Every Breath You Take". Btw, it samples one of my fave instrumentals of all time, Dennis Coffey's "Scorpio" that is on this week's 70s show. Young MC went back to back as his followup hit debuted at #35. More later...
Told a story of how Paul Abdul became a cheerleader for the Lakers (a Laker girl). She auditioned and was blown away by all the tall gals auditioning. She is 5'2" btw. But her 1 minute routine was off the charts. She is another artist with back to back songs as the story came in between "Just the Way You Love Me" and "Opposites Attract". Wonder what the record is for most instances of artists having back to back songs on a regular show.
Aerosmith toured Europe in October and November (1989) for the first time in 12 years. They were in East Germany just before the iron curtain came down. Remember that? Speaking of Germany, Shadoe shortly thereafter teased a story about 'the hottest duo on the planet'. I knew it was Milli Vanilli. Talked about how Rob was feeling alone as the only black kid in school until Michael Jackson came along and made being black acceptable to his German classmates. Prince and hip hop followed to make life much happier for him. 'That red hot duo' was how Shadoe started the outro to "Blame it on the Rain". How that would change during the course of 1990! In between the tease and the story was my fave song on the show so far..."I Remember You" from Skid Row. Did not last long as my fave song on the show because a couple songs later was "Two to Make it Right". Shadoe said it was the #1 dance song that week. Hope they play it at the 90s dance party I am signed up for in a couple weeks.
Someone asked what the longest playing top 10 record was. Answer: "American Pie". Shadoe said that the entire song made up both sides of the 45 but DJs did not play one side and then turn it over and play the other side. They played a special version specially recorded for radio or the cut off the album. Of course except for those times when AT40 played the album version(this week's 70s show is one of those weeks), they played that special version. Shadoe said it ran 8 minutes and 32 seconds. That is not what Casey said on the 1/20/79 show when he played it from the AT40 archives. Casey said it was 8 minutes and 22 seconds. And I seem to remember other times mentioned over the years for the song. This record would be broken by Guns 'n Roses' "November Rain" in 1992 btw.
LDD was the #7 song "This One's for the Children", dedicated by a woman who has been on all 3 sides of the adoption triangle. She was adopted as a child, after having a baby whose father deserted both of them, she gave up a child for adoption and after meeting the man she married, they adopted a child. And with no extras, this is one of those rare 4 hour shows with exactly 40 songs in it.
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Jan 7, 2020 22:11:06 GMT -5
And am halfway through the first hour of CT40 from 1/4/1992. Can definitely tell it's still on vinyl. Like the AT40 from 1/6/1990 that dukelightning listened to, there are back-to-back songs by the same artist, Hammer. He was at #37 with "2 Legit 2 Quit" (descending from #33), then debuted at #36 with "Addams Groove". And, back at #38, was the debut hit for Nirvana, "Smells Like Teen Spirit". This song wasn't heard on AT40 back then. Looking forward to the run through 1992, as well as 1980. Little factoid: 1992 was the last leap year to begin on a Wednesday, just like 2020. Thus, the rare occurrence of a February 29th chart date.
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Post by adam31 on Jan 8, 2020 8:59:46 GMT -5
AT40 1/20/01
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Post by dukelightning on Jan 9, 2020 18:13:49 GMT -5
Moving on from decade end countdowns or shows that started decades, I am listening to the CT40 from 1/5/91. Starts with the first hit for Celine Dion, "Where Does My Heart Beat Now". So that is a superstar artist kicking off the first countdown of the year in their first appearance on it. Not too many times that has happened. Then Vanilla Ice had back to back songs with his only 2 top 40 hits. Not too many times that has happened where an artists only top 40 hits were back to back in the countdown. Casey mentioned his real name in a tease to the group Alias where he mentioned several artists who uses aliases...Reginald Dwight aka Elton John, John Deutschendorf aka John Denver and a few others. Contradictions or at least discrepancies between charts is a topic here lately and here is another. Casey said that Robert Palmer first hit the top 40 in 1979 with "Bad Case of Loving You". Thought he might be wrong but he was right according to R&R. "Every Kinda People" that was his first top 40 hit on AT40 did not hit the R&R chart. Kind of odd because Bad Case was a #7 hit on R&R despite missing the top 10 on AT40 whereas People was almost as big a hit on AT40 and yet missed the R&R chart as I noted. His current hit "You're Amazing" is actually one I had forgotten. Good midtempo rocker. More later...
Ryan alluded to it in the decade end countdown recently and Casey told a story about the third cartoon act to make the top 40. The Chipmunks and Archies were the first two and Bart is the third. As was noted here "Do the Bartman" was only heard on CT40, not AT40.
A Freudian slip by Casey when he said before one of my fave songs, "Miles Away", 'these are the records you are buying and radio stations are playing'. No they are not, they are only the latter of those two things; and I think "Do the Bartman" is an example as that was not released as a single(which is why it could never be played on AT40 as I noted above). After Winger was a story about how Steve Winwood was kicked out of a prestigious music school when he was 15 for playing rock and R&B with the Spencer Davis Group who he was already playing with at the time. He was told by his teacher that such music was sleazy! "One and Only Man" is his current hit and one of my favorites of his. Cannot tell without some research* whether this is his last week in the top 40. R&R chart webpage says that debuted on 11/10/90 and spent 8 weeks on the chart which would make this its last week. But it is only down a notch to #16 so that would mean it fell out of the top 40 the next week. (The weeks on chart may not include the frozen week(s) over the holidays.) Anyway as a solo artist, Steve's career is right at 10 years. First debuted in the top 40 in Feb. 1981 and it ends in Jan. 1991. That was followed by Will to Power's remake of "I'm not in Love". While I prefer the production and especially the instrumentation of the 10CC original, I think the female vocal is more appropriate for this song and I also like the sax bridge in it.
* I miss the Old Radio Shows website that has been taken down. It had the listing of the CT40 shows on it so I could check out such things fairly easily. I have a site that lists the top 40 CHR charts from the inception of AT40 to the present. While it eventually switches from AT40 and Billboard to R&R, it is still using AT40 in 1991 so that does not help for CT40. Later on...I did not realize that I have the R&R magazines accessible from a site and was able to look up the charts in question. This is the next to last week that Steve Winwood is in the top 40.
Casey tells the story of how the most requested song in history came to be. Speaking of album cuts, that is what it is. Led Zeppelin was thinking in 1972(Casey said that year but it had to have been in 1971 because that is when it was recorded) that they needed an anthem. First they got the instrumentation and then Robert Plant sang what came to him. He had been reading a book about Celtic mythology and now we know where the words from "Stairway to Heaven" came from. That last part is my analysis btw not Casey's words.
Normally the CT40 show date is 8 days after the date of the R&R issue that the chart is pulled from. But the issue that the chart comes from for this show is Dec. 14, 1990. And the next show whose date is 1/12/91 comes from the chart in the Dec. 21, 1990 issue. Here is why there is such a difference between those dates. There were 2 weeks with no issue published following the 12/21 issue. Not sure when any R&R issue was actually available on the streets but CT40 took 2 weeks to do the year end countdown. The first issue dated in 1991 was Jan. 11 which included the chart for the 1/19/91 show. So in order to continue having regular shows, they had to use those issues dated 12/14 and 12/21 for the first 2 shows in 1991. A bit confusing and maybe not that important anyway!
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Post by dukelightning on Jan 10, 2020 18:39:48 GMT -5
The next show for me is the next time an AT40 or CT40 was done on the 5th of January...the AT40 from 1/5/02. Ed McMann is guest hosting. There are 4 debuts starting with a rocker from Eagle Eye Cherry, then a ballad from Brian McKnight, then the #1 alternative song "In the End" by Linkin Park and the highest debut "Can't Fight the Moonlight" from the movie Coyote Ugly by LeAnn Rimes, a country song. That is CHR for you. 4 debuts representing 4 music genres. More later...
Here is another case where the R&R CHR chart #1 did not match what was said on AT40. Ed said the #1 song 25 years ago this week was "Tonight's the Night". The last issue date where that was #1 on R&R was Dec. 10, 1976 which if there was a countdown using that chart would have had a chart date of 12/18/76. The #1 on the next issue was "You Make Me Feel Like Dancing" (12/17/76) and again in the next issue which was not until 1/7/77. On AT40 or the Hot 100, Tonight was #1 until the week ending 1/1/77 which btw is the first ever frozen week they had. That must be what he was referring to. Let's see how he does with other #1 songs from 10 or 20 years ago, etc.
Good story about the Baby Ruth candy bar. Ed said it was not named for Babe Ruth as a lot of people, myself included, thought it was even though it was introduced in 1921, the same year that the Babe joined the Yankees. It was instead named for President Grover Cleveland's daughter who was Baby Ruth Cleveland. Btw, a few years later, the Babe tried to put out his own candy bar called Babe Ruth's Home Run candy but the US patent office denied the request because they thought it would infringe on the Baby Ruth bar. Great story told before playing "Caramel" by City High and Eve, tying into the candy bar.
You don't associate 2002 with a lot of Jackson as in Michael and Janet on the charts; but 2 weeks after this show both will be in countdown as MJ's last solo top 40 hit "Butterflies" debuts and Janet's "Son of a Gun", her collaboration with Carly Simon on the latter's "You're So Vain"(in the style of "Tom's Diner" by DNA and Suzanna Vega that I heard on the 1/5/91 CT40) will both be in the countdown. Along with Alien Ant Farm's cover of MJ's "Smooth Criminal". The latter two are in this countdown.
Said that "Walk Like an Egyptian" was the #1 song 15 years ago and since it was that way on both the Hot 100 and R&R, you can't tell which chart he was referring to.
Most of my fave songs in this show are in an unusual part of it from a chart activity. Every hit from #20-11 except #16 was up or down 2 notches. Noting the titles of my faves, #20 "Hit "Em Up Style" was down 2, #19 "Differences" was up 2, #18 and 17 were both down 2, #15 "Hey Baby" was up 2, #14 "Fallin'" was down 2, #13 was down 2, #12 and 11 were both up 2. Another of my faves was at #10 dropping 3 after reaching #1, "I'm Real". Then Ed told a story about how Barry and Robin Gibb who wrote "Emotion" that Destiny's Child was covering were along with Maurice Gibb part of the most successful family group of the rock era. Noted how they had hit #1 9 times including 6 in a row and listed them starting with "How Deep is Your Love" and ending with "Love You Inside Out". Except that is based on the Hot 100 NOT R&R! Love You did not hit #1 on R&R and "More Than a Woman" interrupted their #1 streak too. Maybe since their chart activity started before R&R's inception including one of their #1 hits, they decided to stick with the Hot 100 instead of hybridizing it!
Nickelback scores their first #1 hit with their first single this week with "How You Remind Me". Displaced "Family Affair", one of my faves by Mary J. Blige. You know on a show back in December 2001 Casey said that the #1 song from 30 years ago had the same title as the current #1 song. That song is on the 70s show this week of course. The first AT40 shows in 1972 and 2002 both featured the most recent former #1 song being "Family Affair"! Mentioned how I like the MJB "Family Affair" but I like the Sly and the Family Stone song even better.
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Jan 10, 2020 19:12:45 GMT -5
Was listening to ACC from 1/10/1998 this morning at work. Bob pulled a Rick Dees and skipped both the #40 and #39 songs, since they were Christmas related. I know Rick has been notorious for skipping songs in his countdowns, yes, including year-enders. Although I'm not nearly as versed in ACC shows as I am with AT40, I can't recall any other time that's happened. dukelightning, or briguy52748, maybe @paul - any of you know any other instances where that's happened on ACC? Was curious, no biggie. Before that, AT40 from 1/5/2008 and 1/8/2005.
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Post by dukelightning on Jan 10, 2020 19:24:34 GMT -5
^Yes that has happened on other occasions. In fact, I think that is more the rule than the exception with ACC or CT40 with Bob. I remember him saying something like 'since we have already taken down the Christmas tree and put away the decorations, we will skip such and such song'.
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Post by briguy52748 on Jan 10, 2020 19:49:45 GMT -5
The Jan. 8, 2000 ACC was such an instance. Skipped holiday songs were replaced by songs moving up the Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart but not yet within the top 40.
Brian
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Jan 10, 2020 21:38:18 GMT -5
Thank you both for your replies. I happen to have all but one of the 1998 ACC shows, all original broadcasts. I have many of the ACC Rewind shows too, but without that first hour, I wouldn't know if songs were skipped early on like that. Hopefully someday I can have all of them, the classic run at least.
Thanks again!
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