Starting this week, I'll try to add #1s for the charts that Casey didn't typically mention during the show.
Good idea. I will also mention #1s on other magazines besides Billboard (the ones I have anyway). I’ll group 70s and 80s-related #1s, and call it maybe “Trade Newsstand”.
In Music News:
Wednesday 9/6/72: John and Yoko on Jerry Lewis’ Muscular Dystrophy Telethon
Friday 9/21/79: Release date of Cheap Trick’s fourth and most commercially successful album ‘Dream Police’
Tuesday 9/25/79: Andrew Lloyd Weber-Tim Rice musical ‘Evita’, their third collaboration, opens on Broadway (three years after its London premiere.)
Artist spotlights for the weekend of September 8-9, 1984 countdown radio:
American Christian Countdown (Harvest); American Gospel Rock Countdown (Joe English); Countdown America w/John Leader (Cars); Rick Dees’ Weekly Top 40 (Pointer Sisters); Top 30 USA (Beach Boys); Weekly Country Music Countdown (Willie Nelson)
Trade Newsstand:
Gavin Report issue 9/1/72 CHR #1 GUITAR MAN-Bread
Gavin Report issue 9/8/72 CHR #1 BLACK AND WHITE-3 Dog Night
Cashbox Top 100 Singles 9/9/72 I’M STILL IN LOVE WITH YOU-AL GREEN
Cashbox #1 Album 9/9/72 Chicago V
Record World #1 Single 9/9/72 Long Cool Woman-The Hollies
Record World #1 Album 9/9/72 Chicago V
Record World #1 Soul Single 9/9/72 POWER OF LOVE JOE SIMON
Record World #1 Country Single 9/9/72 IF YOU LEAVE ME TONIGHT I’LL CRY-JERRY WALLACE
Record World #1 Jazz Album 9/9/72 FUNK INC.
Radio&Records issue 9/14/79
Top-40 LITTLE RIVER BAND/Lonesome Loser (last of 3 weeks at #1)
AOR Albums LED ZEPPELIN/In Through The Out Door (2nd week at #1)
Country CHARLEY PRIDE/You’re My Jamaica
Pop/Adult EARTH, WIND & FIRE/After The Love Has Gone
Gavin Report issue 9/14/79 CHR LONESOME LOSER-Little River Band
Radio&Records issue 9/21/79
Top-40 COMMODORES/Sail On (first of 3 weeks at #1)
AOR Albums LED ZEPPELIN/In Through the Out Door (3rd week at #1)
Country DON WILLIAMS/It Must Be Love
Pop/Adult HERB ALPERT/Rise
Gavin Report issue 9/21/79 CHR#1 SAIL ON-Commodores
Variety issue Wednesday 9/19/79 Best-Selling Pop Singles #1 MY SHARONA-THE KNACK (For the 8th and the final week)
Cashbox Top 100 Singles 9/22/79 MY SHARONA-THE KNACK
Cashbox #1 Album 9/22/79 IN THROUGH THE OUT DOOR-LED ZEPPELIN
Record World #1 Single 9/22/79 SAD EYES-ROBERT JOHN
Record World #1 Album 9/22/79 IN THROUGH THE OUT DOOR-LED ZEPPELIN
Record World #1 Soul Single 9/22/79 DON’T STOP ‘TIL YOU GET ENOUGH-MICHAEL JACKSON
Record World #1 Country Single 9/22/79 JUST GOOD OL’ BOYS-MOE & JOE
Record World #1 Jazz Album 9/22/79 STREET LIFE-CRUSADERS
R&R issue 8/31/84
#1 Country Top 50 OAK RIDGE BOYS/Everyday
#1 Jazz Top 30 L. McCANN/H.PERSON/Road Warriors
#1 AOR/ALBUMS Top 40 (for the 2nd week) BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN/Born In The U.S.A. (most played track for this survey period: “Cover Me”; followed by “Born in the U.S.A.”, and then “No Surrender”)
#1 AOR/HOT TRACKS Top 60 BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN/Cover Me
#1 Contemporary Hit Radio Top 40 JOHN WAITE/Missing You
#1 Black/Urban Top 40 S.O.S. BAND/Just The Way You Like It
#1 Adult / Contemporary Top 25 BILLY JOEL/Leave A Tender Moment Alone
R&R issue 9/7/84
#1 Country Top 50 OAK RIDGE BOYS/Everyday
#1 Jazz Top 30 L. McCANN/H.PERSON/Road Warriors
#1 AOR/HOT TRACKS Top 60 BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN/Cover Me
#1 AOR/ALBUMS Top 40 (for the 3rd week) BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN/Born In The U.S.A. (most played track for this survey period: “Cover Me”; followed by “Born in the U.S.A.”, and then “No Surrender”)
#1 Contemporary Hit Radio Top 40 JOHN WAITE/Missing You
#1 Black/Urban Top 40 S.O.S. BAND/Just The Way You Like It
#1 Adult / Contemporary Top 25 CARS/Drive
Cash Box Top 100 Singles 9/8/84 WHAT’S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT-TINA TURNER
Also in theaters this week in 1972: “Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Sex (but Were Afraid to Ask)” (comedy, Woody Allen’s fourth film); “The Godfather” (premiered six months earlier, still hanging around on the wide-basis in the big screen); “Rainbow Bridge” (docu. about counter-cultural figures like Jimi Hendrix gathering on Maui, Hawaii)
Network TV’s day-by-day capsule highlights from TV-Guide listings (repeats excluded)
Wednesday 9/6/72; ABC: Olympics; CBS: “C.B.S. Reports-Mr. Justice Douglas” (special w/Eric Severeid about Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas)
Thursday 9/7/72; ABC: Olympics; NBC: “Dean Martin Presents the Bobby Darin Amusement Co.” (w/guest Smothers Brothers); CBS: “It Was a Short Summer, Charlie Brown” (30-minute animated feature starring the Peanuts gang as they return to school.)
Friday 9/8/72; ABC: Olympics
Saturday 9/9/72; NBC: “Three Cheers for the Redskins” (sports special about the Washington football team, narrated by Burl Ives), “Make Mine Red, White and Blue” (musical special w/Fred Astaire); ABC: Olympics
Sunday 9/10/72; ABC: Olympics, “Zenith Presents a Salute to Television’s 25th Anniversary” (90-minute star-filled special); NBC: “Liza with a Z” (concert film w/Liza Minnelli, its soundtrack released on the same day); CBS: “The Life of Leonardo da Vinci” (English-dubbed airing of the Italian mini-series, part 5 of 5 episodes)
New Fall season officially starts on Monday 9/11/72
Monday 9/11/72; ABC: “The Rookies” (premiere of the crime-drama series, pilot aired as made-for-TV movie in March ’72, with pre-‘Charlie’s Angels’ Kate Jackson among the regulars; episode title: “Concrete Valley, Neon Sky”), Movie-“The Odd Couple” (network TV premiere of the 1968 comedy classic w/Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau) ; CBS: “The New Bill Cosby Show” (variety with skits, first episode’s guests include Sidney Poitier); NBC: Movie-“The Anderson Tapes” (network premiere of the 1971 entertaining heist film w/Sean Connery and Dyan Cannon)
Tuesday 9/12/72; CBS: “Maude”; ABC: “Temperatures Rising” (new sitcom); NBC: “Bonanza” (the 14th and the last season’s premiere of the western moving from its regular Sunday schedule which leads to early cancellation of the series in four months, the new season’s premiere sees Little Joe Cartwright, played by Michael Landon marrying. She gets killed during the story, so still no regular female cast member); “N.B.C. Reports-Pensions: The Broken Promise” (premiere of the news series, about the private pension plan)
Also in theaters this week in 1979:
“Yanks” (World War II drama w/Richard Gere and Vanessa Redgrave); “The Onion Field” (strong adaptation of the 1963 true LAPD crime story, w/James Wood and Ted Danson in his film debut); “Mr. Mike’s Mondo Video” (spoof comedy in various segments from SNL’s writer/director Michael O’Donoghue w/Dan Aykroyd, Paul Shaffer, Bill Murray and many celebrities starring as themselves incl: Jane Curtin, Teri Garr, Gilda Radnor plus Deborah Harry, Sid Vicious, …)
Published Wednesday 9/19/79 TV Ratings for the week of 9/10/79 to 9/16/79: ABC-TV dominates Top 8 with #1 “Charlie’s Angels” and #2 “The Love Boat”; ABC only misses the Top 10 at #9 (60 Minutes). #6 (“Benson”), is the top new series premiere.
Published Wednesday 9/26/79 TV Ratings for the week of 9/17/79 to 9/23/79: Top 2 are the ABC series, #1 “Eight Is Enough” and #2 “Charlie’s Angels”
Network TV’s day-by-day capsule highlights from TV-Guide listings (repeats excluded)
Wednesday 9/19/79; NBC: “Real People” (comedic reality series); “Mrs. R’s Daughter” (two-hours made-for-TV drama movie w/Cloris Leachman); ABC: “Eight Is Enough”; CBS: “Struck by Lightning” (premiere of the short-lived sitcom), Made-for-TV movie-“Sex and the Single Parent” (comedy w/Mike Farrell and Susan Saint James, 2 hrs.)
Thursday 9/20/79; CBS: “The Waltons” (two hours season premiere w/Jason joining the army reserves), “Barnaby Jones” (season premiere of the crime drama) ; ABC: “Benson”, “Barney Miller” (sitcom), “Soap” (parody sitcom), “20/20” (profile of Donna Summer among the stories of the news-mag); NBC: “Buck Rogers in the 25th Century”
Friday 9/21/79; NBC: “Eischied” (premiere of the short-lived crime drama series)
Saturday 9/22/79; CBS: “Working Stiffs” (short-lived sitcom w/Michael Keaton and Jim Belushi depicting two bumbling brothers who work as janitors); NBC: “A Man Called Sloane” (premiere of the spy drama series w/Robert Conrad); ABC: “Hart to Hart” (premiere of the crime drama series w/Robert Wagner and Stefanie Powers as husband-and-wife detective team; 2-hour pilot shown last month)
Sunday 9/23/79; ABC: “The Associates” (premiere of the sitcom w/Martin Short and Wilfrid Hyde-White); CBS: “60 Minutes”, “Archie Bunker’s Place”; “Trapper John, M.D.”
Monday 9/24/79; NBC: “Little House on the Prairie” (conclusion of the two-part season premiere), “The Last Convertible” (the first 2-hour installment of the 3-part mini-series drama shown on consecutive nights); ABC: N.F.L. Football; CBS: “The White Shadow” (sport drama series), “M*A*S*H”, “WKRP on Cincinnati” (conclusion of the two-part season premiere), “Lou Grant”
Tuesday 9/25/79: ABC: “Angie” (sitcom), “Three’s Company”, “Taxi”, “The Lazarus Syndrome” (medical drama); CBS: “California Fever” (premiere of the hour-long comedy-drama series); NBC: “The Last Convertible” (Part II)