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Post by dth1971 on Apr 12, 2020 20:36:12 GMT -5
Well, we know this weekend is Easter 2020, but with the Coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic making it feel like Halloween that it's scary, I am presenting BOTTOM OF THE CHARTS from the Shadoe Stevens AT40 era Halloween weekends: 10/29/1988: At #100 was "Indescructible" by the Four Tops, and at #99 is "Hands to Heaven" by Breathe, and we go to #98 and dropping from #76 after peaking at #59 is songwriter (and Device member) Holly Knight with "Heart Don't Fail Me Now": www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMrozNP4UOU10/28/1989: Falling to #100 after peaking at #84 are the Australian group Icehouse with "Touch the Fire": www.youtube.com/watch?v=JN5KN96tNh010/27/1990: Falling to #100 from #94 after peaking at #73 are a female group named Ms. Adventues with "Undeniable": www.youtube.com/watch?v=JS-eW49XrtY10/26/1991: Debuting at the bottom but only getting up to #96 is Stevie B with "Forever More": www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJwHGh-Fx4gBONUS! 10/24/1992 (from the AT40 Radio Monitor chart source era with 75 positions - however, that 10/24/1992 week Shadoe did a Halloween themed AT40 show because the next weekend - 10/31/1992 - Jay Thomas had to guest host for Shadoe): Falling to #75 from #69 are the "Live and Learn" group Joe Public with "Do You Everynite": www.youtube.com/watch?v=colCAGg5yh0
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Post by 1finemrg on Apr 12, 2020 20:51:27 GMT -5
Falling from their #62 peak is Survivor and "Summer Nights." Killer song from a great album "Premonition". Album also included their first Top 40 hit "Poor Man's Son". Both songs were all over Chicago FM radio.
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Post by jmorgan on Apr 19, 2020 18:21:40 GMT -5
4/17/71:
Debuting at #100 is a soul group from Baltimore named the Whatnauts. Here's "I'll Erase Away Your Pain" which peaked at #71.
4/18/87:
The Beastie Boys and "You Gotta Fight..." fell from #65 to the bottom. Now, here's the heavy metal band Ratt and "Dance." Their song fell from #91 to #99 after it peaked at #59.
The BOTC for 4/22/78 can be found on page 22.
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Post by jmorgan on Apr 26, 2020 16:43:51 GMT -5
The BOTC's for 4/26/80 and 4/26/86 can be fond on pages 8 and 20 respectively.
Now, for 4/27/74:
Debuting at #100, and peaking at #63, is Barry White's back-up band Love Unlimited Orchestra and "Rhapsody In White."
Incidentally, next week's BOTC songs are on the same page. Both 5/5/73 and 5/4/85 are found on page 8.
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Post by jmorgan on May 10, 2020 19:45:10 GMT -5
5/8/76:
Debuting at #100, and peaking at #81, is Smokey Robinson and "Open."
5/14/83:
Falling from their #79 peak are Golden Earring with "The Devil Made Me Do It."
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Post by jmorgan on May 17, 2020 17:04:44 GMT -5
BOTC's for 5/16/81 and 5/16/87 are found on pages 8 and 22, respectively.
5/20/72:
Debuting at the bottom, and peaking at #70, are The Guess Who and "Guns, Guns, Guns."
5/12/79:
Rick James and "High On Your Love Suite" held at #100. Since that song was mentioned on page 8, we'll move on to #99. Falling from #82 after a #49 peak is Ray Stevens and "I Need Your Help Barry Manilow."
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Post by jmorgan on May 24, 2020 18:17:32 GMT -5
5/24/75:
Debuting at #100 is Daniel Boone and "Run Tell The People."
5/22/82:
Falling from #84 after a #57 peak is a soul singer from North Carolina named O'Bryan Burnette. Billed as just O'Bryan, here's "The Gigolo."
5/28/88:
Falling one spot from his #99 peak is "Weird Al" Yankovic's parody of "Bad" called "Fat."
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Post by jmorgan on May 31, 2020 19:42:53 GMT -5
5/27/78:
100. 98. Doucette "Mama Let Them Play" (pg. 8) 99. 95. Paul Davis "I Go Crazy" (#7)
Falling from their #84 peak is Van Halen and "Running With The Devil."
5/31/86:
Jermaine Jackson's #16 record "I Think It's Love" fell from #88 to #100. Now, here's the group called Voices Of America. Their "Hands Across America" fell from #95 to #99 after a #65 peak.
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Post by dth1971 on Jun 1, 2020 6:21:40 GMT -5
5/27/78: 100. 98. Doucette "Mama Let Them Play" (pg. 8) 99. 95. Paul Davis "I Go Crazy" (#7) Falling from their #84 peak is Van Halen and "Running With The Devil." 5/31/86: Jermaine Jackson's #16 record "I Think It's Love" fell from #88 to #100. Now, here's the group called Voices Of America. Their "Hands Across America" fell from #95 to #99 after a #65 peak. "Running With the Devil" I think was once played as an OPTIONAL EXTRA on a past May 1978 AT40: The 70's broadcast. "Hands Across America" was tied in with the 1986 event to fight world hunger (Why not reboot the song for the new normal when that COVID-19 vaccine is finally released before 2020 ends?)
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Post by jmorgan on Jun 7, 2020 19:08:42 GMT -5
6/5/71's BOTC is on the very first page of this thread.
6/8/74:
Debuting at #100, and peaking at #79, is the girl group Fanny and their version of the Bell Notes' #6 hit from 1959 "I've Had It."
6/13/87:
100. 86. Lou Gramm "Midnight Blue" (#5) 99. 96. Luther Vandross/Gregory Hines "There's Nothing Better Than Love" (pg. 17)
Falling from #82 to #98 is the duo called Frozen Ghost. It was made up of two members of the band Sheriff named Arnold Lavni & Wolf Hassel. Here's their song called "Should I See" which peaked at #69.
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Post by jmorgan on Jun 14, 2020 19:04:32 GMT -5
6/11/77:
100. 99. Bobby Vinton "Only Love Can Break A Heart" (pg. 30)
Debuting at #99, and peaking at #82, is Walter "Magnet And Steel" Egan with "Only The Lucky."
The BOTC for 6/15/85 is found on page 9.
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Post by jmorgan on Jun 21, 2020 17:43:16 GMT -5
6/23/79:
The Bee Gees' #1 song "Tragedy" fell from #93 to the bottom. Now, here's Leif Garrett and "Feel The Need." This fell from #80 after peaking at #57.
6/23/73:
Debuting at the bottom, and peaking at #86, is Johnny Rodriguez and "You Always Come Back (To Hurting Me)". Two weeks earlier, it became his first #1 country song.
The BOTC's for 6/19/82 and 6/18/88 are on pages 17 and 9, respectively.
As for next week's shows, they are all on different pages. 6/26/76 is on page 2, 6/24/72 and 6/28/80 are on page 9, and 6/28/86 is on page 24.
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Post by dth1971 on Jun 27, 2020 12:55:33 GMT -5
Since we are approaching the 50th. anniversary weekend of Casey Kasem's first AT40 from July 4, 1970. I am doing this special BOTTOM OF THE CHARTS. What if American Top 40 was launched in July 1969 instead of waiting the next year in July 1970 (At the July 1969 time you heard Casey Kasem's voice in cartoons - voicing Robin the Boy Wonder in Filmation's Batman cartoon series airing on CBS Saturday mornings, and it was a few months away before the Hanna-Barbera Scooby-Doo cartoon premiered where Casey voiced Shaggy for a long run), this would have been the BOTTOM OF THE CHARTS for the first 2 July weekends depending on date or when the chart was used a week before the published date like in early AT40 shows: 7/5/1969: Entering at the bottom but only getting up to #99 are the group famous for the songs "Build Me Up, Buttercup" and "Baby Now That I Found You" called The Foundations with a song that's the same line as a W.C. Fields quotation called "My Little Chickadee": www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyCWfK2pATg7/12/1969: Entering at the bottom is a singer named Shannon (not to be confused with the singer who hit the top 40 in 1984 with "Let the Music Play" nor that 1976 song by Henry Gross that was in 1985 a subject for the dead dog LDD that made Casey go ballistic for an outtake) with the song "Abergavenny" which peaked at #47: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGkhb63giMw
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Post by jmorgan on Jul 5, 2020 11:39:27 GMT -5
The BOTC for the debut show can be found on page 7, while 7/12/75 and 7/7/84 are on page 10.
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Post by jmorgan on Jul 12, 2020 18:27:22 GMT -5
7/16/88's BOTC is found on page 10, and the BOTC's for 7/14/73 and 7/9/83 are found on page 24.
Next week's BOTC's (7/20/74 and 7/20/85) can be found on pages 10 and 2, respectively.
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