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Post by foosesb on Jun 30, 2018 23:14:19 GMT -5
Jackson Browne's "Lawyers in Love" has a handful of references that are sooooo 1983. Here's a few:
* Among the human beings in their designer jeans
* Eating from TV trays, tuned into to Happy Days
* And I hear the U.S.S.R. will be open soon
Probably a reason you never hear it anywhere nowadays, even on SiriusXM 80's channel.
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Post by freakyflybry on Jul 1, 2018 11:48:21 GMT -5
The Canadian band April Wine had only three top 40 hits on AT40: "Bad Side of the Moon", "Roller" and "Just Between You and Me". Note the band name - their only three top 40 hits were on the chart in the month of April for at least one week. I don't recall "Bad Side Of The Moon" hitting the top 40. Fairly sure their top 40 hit from the "On Record" album was "You Could Have Been A Lady". |
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Post by at40petebattistini on Jul 1, 2018 12:30:01 GMT -5
Dated Top 40 hits? Yes. Back when I was a single, before I topped 40, I dated... *Brandy (she was a fine girl) *Michelle (my belle) *Good golly Miss Molly (she was a devil with a blue dress on) *Roxanne (she didn’t have a red light on) *Judy (she was in disguise) *Me & Mrs. Jones (she was in disguise too) *Mrs. Robinson (she tried to seduce me) *My sweet gypsy Rose (say, has anybody seen her?) *Ruby (saw her on Tuesday) *Angie (she was a rolling stone) *Black Betty (she was so rock steady, she was always ready) *Sara (smiled) *Janie (didn’t have a gun) *Little Susie (didn’t wake up) *Sally (didn’t lay down) *Eileen (she was a "come on" ... too ra loo ra too ra loo rye aye)  |
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Post by Hervard on Jul 1, 2018 13:05:37 GMT -5
Okay, how about some months mentioned in top 40 hits that are dated appropriately for the month currently in the top 40 then? One example is "Save the Best for Last" it contains the line "Sometimes the snow comes down in June" and it was on AT40 in June 1992. Oddly enough, that June, along with the rest of the summer, was unusually cool around my neck of the woods, and, though it did not snow, it got really cold one day (around the summer solstice, no less) and in some places, there was a killing frost. |
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Post by chrislc on Jul 1, 2018 14:19:27 GMT -5
Okay, how about some months mentioned in top 40 hits that are dated appropriately for the month currently in the top 40 then? One example is "Save the Best for Last" it contains the line "Sometimes the snow comes down in June" and it was on AT40 in June 1992. Oddly enough, that June, along with the rest of the summer, was unusually cool around my neck of the woods, and, though it did not snow, it got really cold one day (around the summer solstice, no less) and in some places, there was a killing frost. Then on the flip side, at Christmastime 1972 we had Sunny Days and Summer Breeze in the Top 40. But the really out-of-season hit to me was Summer (The First Time) the following Thanksgiving. |
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Post by mkarns on Jul 1, 2018 14:29:35 GMT -5
Okay, how about some months mentioned in top 40 hits that are dated appropriately for the month currently in the top 40 then? One example is "Save the Best for Last" it contains the line "Sometimes the snow comes down in June" and it was on AT40 in June 1992. Oddly enough, that June, along with the rest of the summer, was unusually cool around my neck of the woods, and, though it did not snow, it got really cold one day (around the summer solstice, no less) and in some places, there was a killing frost. And speaking of killing frosts, Michael Murphy’s “Wildfire” mentions them even though it was a hit in spring/summer 1975, out of season for such frosts in most of the US (except Alaska and maybe Maine.) |
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Post by listenerwants2know on Jul 1, 2018 14:49:28 GMT -5
Even if it doesn't fit in the Top 40, but: On 1/31/1976 the Scottish band Pilot entered the Hot 100 at #99 with "January" and reached #87 on 2/28/1976. But the song still has nothing to do with the month "January". "January" describes a girl who is sung about and does not give the protagonist any pleasure. Pilot bassist David Paton, who was a member of the Bay City Rollers until 1973, wrote the song. He was inspired by a book that his wife read at the time and whose heroine was named "January". |
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Post by Jessica on Jul 1, 2018 23:19:54 GMT -5
I don’t know if this counts, what about “1979” by Smashing Pumpkins?
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Post by chrislc on Jul 5, 2018 20:33:30 GMT -5
Oddly enough, that June, along with the rest of the summer, was unusually cool around my neck of the woods, and, though it did not snow, it got really cold one day (around the summer solstice, no less) and in some places, there was a killing frost. Then on the flip side, at Christmastime 1972 we had Sunny Days and Summer Breeze in the Top 40. But the really out-of-season hit to me was Summer (The First Time) the following Thanksgiving. Another one - I Am A Rock. Why in the world did Columbia release that single to peak in July??? |
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Post by johnnywest on Jul 6, 2018 7:09:37 GMT -5
It was fairly good timing for "Wake Me Up When September Ends." It hit the Top 40 in September 2005 and peaked in October.
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Post by djjoe1960 on Jul 27, 2018 16:45:39 GMT -5
I was listening to the song 'Call Me' by Aretha Franklin from 1970 (song reached #11) and Aretha asks her boyfriend (lover) to call her when he safely arrives home. Obviously this was pre-cell phone days and also before we could track (stalk) some one. I wonder what you would title a song now if you kept tabs on your significant other.  |
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Post by bobbo428 on Jul 28, 2018 0:30:31 GMT -5
In Don McLean's "american Pie," he mentioned that "February made him shiver. It was No. 1 as February 1972 began, and it was indeed a cold February for us that year.
The phrase "April snow" was mentioned in Donny Osmond's 1973 remake of "Twelfth of Never," and it was in the top 40 during the month of April and peaked around my 12th b-day. "April snow" reappeared in the lyrics of Barbra Streisand's "Evergreen," in 1977, which was in the top 40 all through April.
Guns 'N' Roses barely made it to November in 1992 with "November Rain." I believe there was another song with November in the title, circa 1997, and I believe it was on the chart then. The group Rejoice wasn't so lucky--their 1969 single "November Snow" bubbled under the Hot 100 during March back in 1969.
Merle Haggard just missed making the pop top 40 in December with "If We Make It Through December," which made the top 40 in January 1974.
The Temptations missed the month of May in 1965 by three weeks with "My Girl," which lasted until April 10.
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Post by jlthorpe on Jul 28, 2018 18:35:20 GMT -5
Guns 'N' Roses barely made it to November in 1992 with "November Rain." I believe there was another song with November in the title, circa 1997, and I believe it was on the chart then. The group Rejoice wasn't so lucky--their 1969 single "November Snow" bubbled under the Hot 100 during March back in 1969. You might be thinking of Wyclef Jean's "Gone Till November", although that didn't chart until February, 1998. |
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Post by OldSchoolAT40Fan on Jul 28, 2018 18:57:04 GMT -5
In Don McLean's "american Pie," he mentioned that "February made him shiver. It was No. 1 as February 1972 began, and it was indeed a cold February for us that year. Not to mention the song was a tribute to Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper who all died in that infamous plane crash on February 3, 1957. The song was #1 on the weekend of the anniversary of such plane crash. "Saturday in the Park" would be fitting for a weekly countdown, since the show aired on Saturdays. But the song mentions "you'd think it was the fourth of July" - if only the song had entered the top 40 six weeks earlier, as it debuted on AT40 on August 12, 1972. Even though AT40 didn't exist then, "December" by Collective Soul charted on CT40 in, oddly enough, December. Also, I remember there being an AT40 episode during the Shadoe Stevens era where there was a question about months appearing in the most top 40 song titles. Shadoe listed a number of song titles, and I do remember there being a fair number of titles containing April, including the old song "April in Paris" and I did discover Three Dog Night had a song called "Pieces of April" which was released in November of all months. My question is, what month appeared in the most top 40 song titles? |
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Post by johnnywest on Jul 30, 2018 7:26:46 GMT -5
My question is, what month appeared in the most top 40 song titles? I checked my (incomplete) database, and here's what I have listed under "Top 40 Months": April In Paris – Count Basie April in Portugal April Fools – Dionne Warwick April Love – Pat Boone Back To December – Taylor Swift December – Collective Soul December 1963 (Oh What A Night) – The Four Seasons If We Make It Through December – Merle Haggard It Might As Well Rain Until September – Carole King November Rain – Guns N Roses On the 4th of July – James Taylor (AC Chart) Pieces of April – Three Dog Night See You In September – The Happening/The Tempos September – Daughtry September – Earth, Wind & Fire September In The Rain – Dinah Washington September Morn’ – Neil Diamond Wake Me Up When September Ends – Green Day |
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