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Post by pointpark04 on Oct 21, 2014 8:36:06 GMT -5
Right now it's 10/20/79, at number 22 with "Come to Me" by France Jolie. A great song and a great story about her first gig being playing for the fire department of Fire Island, New York.
Ahh, the 70s.
Here are the top 10 songs from that week:
10: STILL- COMMODORES 9: HEARTACHE TONIGHT - THE EAGLES 8: MY SHARONA - THE KNACK 7: SAD EYES - ROBERT JOHN 6: DIM ALL THE LIGHTS - DONNA SUMMER 5/LDD: I'LL NEVER LOVE THIS WAY AGAIN - DIONNE WARWICK 4: SAIL ON - COMMODORES 3: POP MUZIK - M 2: DON'T STOP 'TIL YOU GET ENOUGH - MICHAEL JACKSON 1: RISE - HERB ALPERT
I listened to all but two of them. Guess which two? Hint: They're from one of the most overrated acts in pop history.
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Post by pointpark04 on Oct 21, 2014 11:58:03 GMT -5
Now listening to the CT40 from 10/20/90. Some of the lesser-known hits are my favorites, such as "Time for Letting Go" by Jude Cole and "Everybody Everybody" by Black Box. Though, my top five would probably have been, in order:
ICE ICE BABY – VANILLA ICE (yes, I know) SUICIDE BLONDE - INXS CLOSE TO YOU – MAXI PRIEST SOMETHING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO HEAVEN – PHIL COLLINS PRAYING FOR TIME - GEORGE MICHAEL
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Post by BrettVW on Oct 21, 2014 12:07:32 GMT -5
I will openly say that 1989-1993 is my least favorite time period for music. That said, I love or at least really like all of those songs. Especially the George Michael tune
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Post by BrettVW on Oct 21, 2014 12:08:55 GMT -5
Today has been 5/21/88, AT20 HAC 9/1/01, and just started what The FDA could potentially market as a sleep aid. Casey's Countdown from 9/17/94 with David Perry.
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Post by matt on Oct 21, 2014 12:31:03 GMT -5
Now listening to the CT40 from 10/20/90. Some of the lesser-known hits are my favorites, such as "Time for Letting Go" by Jude Cole and "Everybody Everybody" by Black Box. Though, my top five would probably have been, in order: CLOSE TO YOU – MAXI PRIEST PRAYING FOR TIME - GEORGE MICHAEL I am a big fan of both of these songs, and have always been surprised that they haven't been heard more in recurrent airplay over the years. The George Michael song especially--thought that was one of his best, but it seems like the follow up, "Freedom '90" got played more over time. As for Jude Cole--I was a junior in high school at the time, and got his CD A View from 3rd Street after seeing him perform in Kansas City that fall. He was fantastic--just had himself and his guitar. Equally as fantastic was that CD, which still ranks among my all time favorites in my collection. I always thought it was unfortunate that Jude was not heard from much after that...
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Post by pointpark04 on Oct 21, 2014 12:32:47 GMT -5
I'd say my least-favorite time period for Top 40 radio is 1993-1996, the period directly after your least-favorite, Brett. The exception is 1994, or at least the spring/summer of that year, which was pretty decent.
"Praying for Time" is quite the unappreciated song, as George Michael is an unappreciated artist, IMHO.
BTW, if you combine Jude Cole's and George Michael's song titles, you get "Praying for Time for Letting Go". Neat, huh? And there were three songs with the word "pray" as well as four each with the word "time" and "heart" in their song titles this week in 1990. Odd.
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Post by BrettVW on Oct 21, 2014 12:44:29 GMT -5
I have got to say this 1994 CC is *not bad* - some good extras and lots of CHR/HAC crossover. These early 90s Soft AC shows can be absolutely brutal get through, even with Casey. Then again I am choosing to listen so I guess I'm a sucker for punishment
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Post by BrettVW on Oct 21, 2014 14:21:22 GMT -5
Since I hardly ever listen to a CC, I always forget that it has a completely different set of jingles and theme music and even its own unique R&D sounder compared to CT40 and CH20.
Also what I found interesting was the show clocked in at just over two hours with no commercials. A Premiere AT20 will clock in much closer to 2 1/2 hours
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Post by bottlerocket on Oct 21, 2014 17:18:20 GMT -5
So I was listening to AT40 from 4/26/75 and Casey played Ben E. King's "Supernatural Thing". Both in the intro and outro of the song he says it's "Supernatural Thing - Part 1". I was thinking about downloading it from iTunes but, when I went to the original album it was on, the version listed as Part I was a more discofied version of the one Casey played. His version sounded closer to what is listed as Part II. I couldn't help thinking maybe iTunes had it listed wrong but wikipedia had it listed that way too. Maybe some of you who remember the song playing on the radio back then could enlighten me? Thanks in advance.
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Post by pointpark04 on Oct 22, 2014 8:51:22 GMT -5
It's CT40 from 10/21/89, and Casey just told us what it meant to "bust a move".
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Post by BrettVW on Oct 22, 2014 9:12:13 GMT -5
I always crack up at those little moments. It's generally something that either doesn't need explaining or if it does it needs explained to someone in Casey's demographic rather than the average listener. Always would remind me of my grandfather trying to explain something to me that I already knew. But I always still love hearing it.
The 2008 AT20 I listened to the other night featured an old sounding Casey talking about a "bling convention" and he finished the story by saying "Crunk ain't dead"
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Post by dukelightning on Oct 22, 2014 12:48:37 GMT -5
10/22/88 and I think Shadoe just made a mistake in answering a question about people who have sung lead on #1 songs in the 60s, 70s and 80s. Said John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Stevie Wonder and Diana Ross did it. But what about George Harrison? He sand lead on "Something" that hit #1 in 1969...it's the only Beatles #1 song in which John and/or Paul does not sing lead on, and had solo #1s in the 70s and then earlier in 1988, he took care of the 80s with "Got My Mind Set on You".
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Post by pointpark04 on Oct 22, 2014 13:01:50 GMT -5
I do believe you are right, duke. That's a mistake on the part of the Whiplash Acrobatic team. LOL
Right now I'm halfway thru CT40 from 10/22/94. A lot of good songs. The year 1994 is definitely one of my musical favorites from the 90s.
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Post by bottlerocket on Oct 22, 2014 13:07:12 GMT -5
I believe "Something" was part of a double-sided hit with "Come Together" reaching #1 and "Something" peaking at #3.
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Post by dukelightning on Oct 22, 2014 13:43:41 GMT -5
Did a little research on this and it looks like a split decision. Joel Whitburn lists "Something" as peaking at 3 in his pop books that came out in 1979, 83, 87 and 94. But his last few books list it with "Come Together" as a #1 hit. On AT40, they only played "Come Together" and did not play or mention "Something" when doing the #1 from the archives. But in the Beatles special, these songs 'shared' as Casey said, their position because it was double sided hit. So that means they are both #1 hits since if one peaked at 3 and the other did not, they would be at different positions. Guess Shadoe, Rob Durkee and co. went with the 'separate' peaks for these songs. BTW, if "Something" were taken to be a #1, that would give the Beatles 21 songs that hit #1 which might confuse some people. Better to keep it simple I suppose.
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