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Post by at40fansince1984 on Apr 27, 2015 22:37:41 GMT -5
While looking at one of my Joel Whitburn "Book Of Top 40 Hits" I noticed that during the Casey Kasem years of AT40 that Elvis had 20 Top 40 hits but only 2 (The Wonder Of You in 70 & Burning Love in 72) made the Top 10. So I'm wondering if anyone had more or who may be 2nd or 3rd in that time.
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Post by ivanzero on Apr 27, 2015 23:38:54 GMT -5
James Brown had 19 top 40 hits in the '70s and not one cracked the top ten. Closest he got was #13 ("Super Bad", 1971). "Living in America" went to #4 in '86, and it was his only top 40 of the decade.
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Post by jmack19 on Apr 28, 2015 0:00:39 GMT -5
I believe Elton John had 19 Top 40 singles between the 1970-1988 AT40 era that did not reach Top 10. Aretha Franklin 14.
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Post by at40fansince1984 on Apr 28, 2015 13:57:34 GMT -5
I believe Elton John had 19 Top 40 singles between the 1970-1988 AT40 era that did not reach Top 10. Aretha Franklin 14. But by comparison to Elvis they had more Top 10 hits than 2. But from 7/4/70 - 8/6/88 the Top 2 have to be Elvis with 18 of 20 Top 40 hits not making the Top 10 & James Brown with 15 of 16 not making the Top 10 by percentage.
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Post by aguerriero on Apr 28, 2015 15:41:05 GMT -5
I wrote in and Shadoe answered this question for me on air in 1990. Which acts have the most top 40 hits without hitting the top ten. For the guys its Ronnie Dove with 11. For groups, at the time, it was Cinderella and Foghat with 5. I do not recall who the female act is. Anybody know?
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Post by pb on Apr 28, 2015 17:58:03 GMT -5
Not quite as notable a ratio as Elvis, but the Grass Roots had 14 Billboard top 40 hits between 1966 and 1972 with only three reaching top 10.
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Post by matt on Apr 28, 2015 18:39:44 GMT -5
James Brown had 19 top 40 hits in the '70s and not one cracked the top ten. Closest he got was #13 ("Super Bad", 1971). "Living in America" went to #4 in '86, and it was his only top 40 of the decade. Maybe that's because every one of James Brown's hits other than "I Got You" and "Living In America" pretty much sounded the same...
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Post by jlthorpe on Apr 28, 2015 20:12:57 GMT -5
Not quite as notable a ratio as Elvis, but the Grass Roots had 14 Billboard top 40 hits between 1966 and 1972 with only three reaching top 10. The Who had 16 between 1967 and 1982, and only one ("I Can See for Miles") reached the Top 10.
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Post by ivanzero on Apr 28, 2015 20:49:52 GMT -5
James Brown had 19 top 40 hits in the '70s and not one cracked the top ten. Closest he got was #13 ("Super Bad", 1971). "Living in America" went to #4 in '86, and it was his only top 40 of the decade. Maybe that's because every one of James Brown's hits other than "I Got You" and "Living In America" pretty much sounded the same... It didn't help that he saturated the market. All of those Top 40s charted before 1975! In addition, he had 15 additional Hot 100 entries that missed the 40 in that span.
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Post by mga707 on Apr 28, 2015 21:02:36 GMT -5
Maybe that's because every one of James Brown's hits other than "I Got You" and "Living In America" pretty much sounded the same... It didn't help that he saturated the market. All of those Top 40s charted before 1975! In addition, he had 15 additional Hot 100 entries that missed the 40 in that span. Probably safe to state that The Godfather of Soul has got this particular category locked up...
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Post by mga707 on Apr 28, 2015 21:06:40 GMT -5
James Brown had 19 top 40 hits in the '70s and not one cracked the top ten. Closest he got was #13 ("Super Bad", 1971). "Living in America" went to #4 in '86, and it was his only top 40 of the decade. In reality he had 20 Top 40 records in the '70s. "Doin' It To Death" (#22, summer 1973) is label-credited to Fred Wesley and the JBs, but JB himself is all over that record, in addition to writing and producing it.
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Post by blackbowl68 on Apr 29, 2015 7:32:15 GMT -5
Maybe that's because every one of James Brown's hits other than "I Got You" and "Living In America" pretty much sounded the same... Same case could be made for the Grass Roots, but it least they got to #9 with "Sooner or Later."
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Post by blackbowl68 on Apr 29, 2015 7:42:38 GMT -5
It didn't help that he saturated the market. All of those Top 40s charted before 1975! In addition, he had 15 additional Hot 100 entries that missed the 40 in that span. But to be fair, the Beatles oversaturated the market in the first half of 1964. They had 8 top ten hits including 4 #1's! So you can't use that as an excuse.
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Post by adam31 on Apr 29, 2015 10:59:52 GMT -5
I wrote in and Shadoe answered this question for me on air in 1990. Which acts have the most top 40 hits without hitting the top ten. For the guys its Ronnie Dove with 11. For groups, at the time, it was Cinderella and Foghat with 5. I do not recall who the female act is. Anybody know? Salt N Pepa (6) might be the female group leader for this question at least on AT40 if not the Hot 100. They had four Top 40's before the Hot 100 change in 1991, and two after (Shoop and Whatta Man, the latter peaked at #11 on AT40 4/2/94).
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Post by Shadoe Fan on Apr 29, 2015 12:53:49 GMT -5
On 17 March 1990, Shadoe answered the question for solo acts with the most top 40 hits without a top 10: Etta James, Ronnie Dove (Ronnie is the overall leader as well)
On 19 May 1990, Shadoe answered the same question, but for groups: Four Coins and Foghat
On 22 February 1992, Shadoe said that Salt-N-Pepa are tied with the Four Coins, Cinderella and Foghat for the most hits without a top 10.
On 9 April 1994, Shadoe said that Salt-N-Pepa have the most top 40s without a top 10, but that changed on 7 May 1994 when they reached the top 10 with "Whatta Man".
On 21 May 1994, Shadoe states that there are 3 groups tied for most acts without a top 10, the Four Coins, Cinderella and Foghat
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