|
Post by trekkielo on Jul 8, 2018 12:07:20 GMT -5
Pre-AT40, "Sweet Caroline" by Neil Diamond
|
|
|
Post by djjoe1960 on Jul 8, 2018 13:16:20 GMT -5
Pre-AT40, "Sweet Caroline" by Neil Diamond Sweet Caroline has been wrongly assumed to be about Caroline Kennedy (when she would have been a teenager when the song was a hit in the late 1960's). Neil has said the song was about his wife at the time, Marsha, but Neil changed it to Caroline to fit the melody of the song.
|
|
|
Post by trekkielo on Jul 8, 2018 13:21:35 GMT -5
Pre-AT40, "Sweet Caroline" by Neil Diamond Sweet Caroline has been wrongly assumed to be about Caroline Kennedy (when she would have been a teenager when the song was a hit in the late 1960's). Neil has said the song was about his wife at the time, Marsha, but Neil changed it to Caroline to fit the melody of the song. Wrongly assumed my "ass", Neil Diamond has been back and forth on this for years now! In a 2007 interview, Diamond stated the inspiration for his song was John F. Kennedy's daughter, Caroline, who was eleven years old at the time it was released. Diamond sang the song to her at her 50th birthday celebration in 2007. On December 21, 2011, in an interview on CBS's The Early Show, Diamond said that a magazine cover photo of Caroline Kennedy as a young child on a horse with her parents in the background created an image in his mind, and the rest of the song came together about five years after seeing the picture. However, in 2014 Diamond said the song was about his then-wife Marcia, but he needed a three-syllable name to fit the melody.
|
|
|
Post by dth1971 on Jul 8, 2018 21:07:00 GMT -5
What about rap songs like "The Humpty Dance", "O.P.P.", and "Mind Playing Tricks on Me" - All were played first verse only during their runs on Shadoe Stevens AT40.
|
|
|
Post by retrodaddy on Jul 8, 2018 22:48:26 GMT -5
In April 1991, the rock band Warrant released a song called "Uncle Tom's Cabin" from their 1990 album Cherry Pie which peaked at #78 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart-By far their best song IMO. It contains the line "I know who put the bodies in the wishing well." Sadly, record executives forced "The Cherry Pie" thing which became a stigmatization of the band. Originally, "Uncle Tom's Cabin" was supposed to be the album's titled instead of "Cherry Pie". Uncle Tom's Cabin is a great song, imo. I recently happened upon a You Tube clip of Warrant doing that song in concert and I was blown away by the performance.
|
|
|
Post by briguy52748 on Jul 11, 2018 11:27:35 GMT -5
I doubt if “Summer” by Bobby Goldsboro gets any air play these days. I wish it never had back in 1973. I think you're pretty safe these days ... songs about an older woman seducing a teenaged boy are never played these days, and I think the only time you'll hear "Summer (The First Time)" is when an October-November 1973 AT40 is played. FTR, "Summer" only reached No. 100 on the Hot Country Singles chart, and I'm guessing got minimal airplay on country radio. (I was only about 2 at the time, so I definitely wouldn't remember whether the Quad-Cities area country radio stations played the song at all locally, let alone at a bigger station.) A few songs that did have the woman seducing the teen-aged boy for romance theme did come up in country music. Two went No. 1: " War Is Hell (On the Homefront Too)" by T.G. Sheppard in 1982, and " That Summer" by Garth Brooks in 1993. Additionally, there was a fair-sized hit that got loads of airplay in 1983, by a group called Atlanta, and it was " Atlanta Burned Again Last Night" (which used the analogy of the burning of Atlanta during the end of the Civil War to illustrate the passion in an encounter between a 30-year-old woman and a 17-year-old boy). While I'm sure there are other country songs that could be described as "sick," none come to my mind at this time. Brian
|
|
|
Post by johnnywest on Jul 11, 2018 14:00:01 GMT -5
“Before He Cheats” by Carrie Underwood. When this was on AT10/AT20, Casey listed all the fines and possible jail time for each type of vandalism committed in the song.
|
|
|
Post by briguy52748 on Jul 11, 2018 14:07:32 GMT -5
“Before He Cheats” by Carrie Underwood. When this was on AT10/AT20, Casey listed all the fines and possible jail time for each type of vandalism committed in the song. Ah ... forgot about this one, which was a huge country hit as well. Brian
|
|
|
Post by mkarns on Jul 12, 2018 2:15:30 GMT -5
I doubt if “Summer” by Bobby Goldsboro gets any air play these days. I wish it never had back in 1973. I think you're pretty safe these days ... songs about an older woman seducing a teenaged boy are never played these days, and I think the only time you'll hear "Summer (The First Time)" is when an October-November 1973 AT40 is played. FTR, "Summer" only reached No. 100 on the Hot Country Singles chart, and I'm guessing got minimal airplay on country radio. (I was only about 2 at the time, so I definitely wouldn't remember whether the Quad-Cities area country radio stations played the song at all locally, let alone at a bigger station.) A few songs that did have the woman seducing the teen-aged boy for romance theme did come up in country music. Two went No. 1: " War Is Hell (On the Homefront Too)" by T.G. Sheppard in 1982, and " That Summer" by Garth Brooks in 1993. Additionally, there was a fair-sized hit that got loads of airplay in 1983, by a group called Atlanta, and it was " Atlanta Burned Again Last Night" (which used the analogy of the burning of Atlanta during the end of the Civil War to illustrate the passion in an encounter between a 30-year-old woman and a 17-year-old boy). While I'm sure there are other country songs that could be described as "sick," none come to my mind at this time. Brian Well, there is Van Halen's "Hot for Teacher", in which "Maybe I should go to hell, but I'm doin' well, Teacher needs to see me after school. I think of all the education that I missed, But then my homework was never quite like this", which still gets classic rock/AOR recurrent play.
|
|
|
Post by johnnywest on Jul 12, 2018 7:26:07 GMT -5
Although I wouldn't consider it "sick," the subject matter of "I Touch Myself" by Divynls seems a little risqué for an airplay hit.
|
|