JBXMRN
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Post by JBXMRN on Apr 18, 2004 21:15:17 GMT -5
In 1975, Pete Wingfield had a Top 20 hit called, "Eighteen With A Bullet". It is one of the most amazing songs that I have ever heard. A couple of footnotes to this song:
1. On November 22, 1975, Eighteen with A Bullet was No. 18 with a bullet on AT40.
2. It sounds like a song that came out during the 1950's.
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Post by Hervard on Apr 19, 2004 15:34:14 GMT -5
This song also peaked at number eighteen on the R&R chart. Unfortunately, since it was running out of gas at that point, it did not have a bullet. If I were the editor at the paper, I would have stretched the rules a bit and given that song a bullet just for the fun of it. But, seeing as I was only three and a half back then, I wouldn't have made a very good editor - LOL!
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Post by city5705boy on Apr 24, 2004 7:18:44 GMT -5
Pete Wingfield may be a OHW as aperformer but he produced the top ten 1990 hit for Paul Young "Oh Girl".
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Post by Robbie on Apr 30, 2005 20:00:19 GMT -5
wasn't the record at #18 on all the trade charts at the time? Billboard, Cashbox and Record World? Always struck me as being, well let's just say, a little convenient  |
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Post by doofus67 on Nov 24, 2018 13:13:06 GMT -5
wasn't the record at #18 on all the trade charts at the time? Billboard, Cashbox and Record World? Always struck me as being, well let's just say, a little convenient Nope. For the week of 11/22/75, it was #18 with a bullet in both Billboard and Cash Box, and #19 with a bullet in both Record World and Radio & Records. |
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Post by mga707 on Nov 24, 2018 13:18:43 GMT -5
wasn't the record at #18 on all the trade charts at the time? Billboard, Cashbox and Record World? Always struck me as being, well let's just say, a little convenient Nope. For the week of 11/22/75, it was #18 with a bullet in both Billboard and Cash Box, and #19 with a bullet in both Record World and Radio & Records. Pretty sure you've just won the 'longest gap between replies' award.  |
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Post by doofus67 on Nov 24, 2018 13:20:34 GMT -5
Nope. For the week of 11/22/75, it was #18 with a bullet in both Billboard and Cash Box, and #19 with a bullet in both Record World and Radio & Records. Pretty sure you've just won the 'longest gap between replies' award. LOL! Hey, I'm a deep digger. What can I say? |
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Post by doofus67 on Nov 24, 2018 13:25:59 GMT -5
So, here is the full text of Mellow Casey's intro from the 11/22/75 show, playing now on SiriusXM 70's on 7:
"Didn't ya just know this would happen? Here's a case where the chart position and the song title are one and the same. At #18 with a bullet, here's...that's right...'Eighteen with a Bullet,' and movin' up. Pete Wingfield."
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Post by doofus67 on Nov 22, 2019 9:44:38 GMT -5
Nope. For the week of 11/22/75, it was #18 with a bullet in both Billboard and Cash Box, and #19 with a bullet in both Record World and Radio & Records. Pretty sure you've just won the 'longest gap between replies' award. Dang it, I was shooting for 13 years and seven months!  In college, I wrote a music column for the school newspaper called...that's right..."18 with a Bullet." |
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Post by johnnywest on Nov 22, 2019 10:51:02 GMT -5
This song was played as an optional extra at some point and I believe Larry mentioned what a "bullet" meant.
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