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Post by slf on May 20, 2017 12:03:29 GMT -5
I just love it when I listen to a countdown and hear a particular song followed up by a song that's the polar opposite, either in musical style, subject matter, or attitude. On this week's '70's show (5/19/73) I noticed two such examples:
1. In the first hour, Barbara Fairchild's sappy country ballad "The Teddy Bear Song" was followed by John & Ernest's "Superfly Meets Shaft", a hilarious, gimmicky, soul-themed break-in record.
2. In the second hour, Jud Strunk's tender folk ballad "Daisy A Day" was followed by "Hocus Pocus" by Focus---a truly bizarre, spastic, yodeling-infused, heavy metal mess. (An amusing, mildly-enjoyable mess, but a mess just the same)
I guess it just goes to show what an amazing variety of songs would hit it big in the 70's. There was truly something in the Top 40 to suit everybody's taste.
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Post by 80sat40fan on May 20, 2017 12:25:25 GMT -5
This week's chart from 1975 (5/24/75) has a great example at the end of the show:
#2: "Before The Next Teardrop Falls" by Freddy Fender... a country tune, and a song that sounded old for 1975 #1: "Shining Star" by Earth, Wind & Fire... an absolutely joyous tune that still sounds fresh today
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Post by pb on May 20, 2017 12:50:33 GMT -5
6/24/72 had one of the most ridiculous pairings right at the beginning of the show - #40 "School's Out" (Alice Cooper) followed by #39 "Isn't Life Strange" (Moody Blues).
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Post by slf on Sept 2, 2017 14:34:16 GMT -5
Another fascinating study in contrast appeared this weekend on the Sept 7, 1974 show in the first hour: we had Cheech & Chong's embarrassing "comedy" record "Earache My Eye" followed by the smooth, soothing countrypolitan record "I Love My Friend" by Charlie Rich. (I think it's safe to assume Alice Bowie never opened for him in concert.)
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Post by berewyn on Sept 3, 2017 17:45:21 GMT -5
The weirdest juxtaposition I can recall on AT40 came from the 8/1/81 show, but didn't involve two entries on that week's Billboard chart. At the end of the first hour the #32 song "Double Dutch Bus" by Frankie Smith was immediately followed by a song from the #1 archives, the New Vaudeville Band's "Winchester Cathedral."
Both records may have been novelty-tinged, but they're about as musically distinct as you can get. I strongly suspect that Casey was the only DJ in radio history to play those songs back-to-back.
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Post by mga707 on Sept 3, 2017 18:09:01 GMT -5
The weirdest juxtaposition I can recall on AT40 came from the 8/1/81 show, but didn't involve two entries on that week's Billboard chart. At the end of the first hour the #32 song "Double Dutch Bus" by Frankie Smith was immediately followed by a song from the #1 archives, the New Vaudeville Band's "Winchester Cathedral." Both records may have been novelty-tinged, but they're about as musically distinct as you can get. I strongly suspect that Casey was the only DJ in radio history to play those songs back-to-back. A clever club DJ could create quite a 'mash-up' of those two songs! Playing them in my head, the BPM counts on both seem pretty similar.
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Post by pb on Sept 4, 2017 10:57:14 GMT -5
I think I mentioned it in another thread but 8/24/74 had a hilarious one, James Brown's "My Thang" followed by..."Annie's Song."
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Post by mga707 on Sept 4, 2017 13:00:29 GMT -5
I think I mentioned it in another thread but 8/24/74 had a hilarious one, James Brown's "My Thang" followed by..."Annie's Song." Yeah, don't think a DJ could do a 'mash-up' of those!
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Post by Mike on Sept 4, 2017 23:46:17 GMT -5
The regular 9/2/89 has a great one for this, though many will probably not be familiar with the latter...the week's LDD, Dionne Warwick's "I'll Never Love This Way Again", is immediately followed by Eddie Murphy's "Put Your Mouth on Me".
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Sept 5, 2017 10:13:27 GMT -5
The weirdest juxtaposition I can recall on AT40 came from the 8/1/81 show, but didn't involve two entries on that week's Billboard chart. At the end of the first hour the #32 song "Double Dutch Bus" by Frankie Smith was immediately followed by a song from the #1 archives, the New Vaudeville Band's "Winchester Cathedral." Both records may have been novelty-tinged, but they're about as musically distinct as you can get. I strongly suspect that Casey was the only DJ in radio history to play those songs back-to-back. A clever club DJ could create quite a 'mash-up' of those two songs! Playing them in my head, the BPM counts on both seem pretty similar. They're close - "Winchester Cathedral" comes in at 125 BPM, and "Double Dutch Bus" comes in at 119.5 BPM (according to my DJ app). I'm sure it could be pulled off.
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Post by mkarns on Sept 9, 2017 11:24:17 GMT -5
Currently playing on SXM is an odd feline-themed juxtaposition: on 9/10/77, Ted Nugent's raunchy hard rocker "Cat Scratch Fever" debuted at #38 and was followed by Harry Chapin's soft story song "Cat's In the Cradle" as an extra. Whether this was just a coincidence I don't know, but the fact that CITC was an extra means that this can't be blamed on Billboard.
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Post by slf on Jan 27, 2018 9:25:01 GMT -5
This week's '70's countdown (from 1/29/1972) had two more of those fascinating contrasting pairs. (Not counting the songs before and after "Once You Understand", because that contrast would be obvious, no matter what the bookend songs may be. ) No, I'm talking about the raucous, obnoxious, yet fun Zeppelin classic "Black Dog", followed by the touching, down-to-earth country classic by Charlie Pride, "Kiss An Angel Good Morning". In addition, Mr. Pride was followed by that fun but sleazy Rod Stewart/Faces song "Stay With Me", still another study in contrast. In Charlie's song, he wants to kiss his woman in the morning; in Rod's song, he wants to kick the woman out in the morning. Needless to say, Charlie Pride is by far the more honorable, decent man. (In the context of those songs, that is. I assume ol' Rod is an OK person in real life.) Back to the LedZep/Charlie Pride pairing: I find it interesting that the first group was a white band who often replicated the sound of the blues, a music style associated with black people, while Charlie Pride is a black man who made a career singing country music, an almost exclusively white music genre.
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Post by at40petebattistini on Jan 27, 2018 10:38:28 GMT -5
Back to the LedZep/Charlie Pride pairing: I find it interesting that the first group was a white band who often replicated the sound of the blues, a music style associated with black people, while Charlie Pride is a black man who made a career singing country music, an almost exclusively white music genre. To add to this point, the "blue-eyed soul" group Rare Earth and their "Hey Big Brother" spent 6 weeks on Billboard's Soul Singles chart.
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Post by mga707 on Jan 27, 2018 11:51:58 GMT -5
This week's '70's countdown (from 1/29/1972) had two more of those fascinating contrasting pairs. (Not counting the songs before and after "Once You Understand", because that contrast would be obvious, no matter what the bookend songs may be. ) No, I'm talking about the raucous, obnoxious, yet fun Zeppelin classic "Black Dog", followed by the touching, down-to-earth country classic by Charlie Pride, "Kiss An Angel Good Morning". In addition, Mr. Pride was followed by that fun but sleazy Rod Stewart/Faces song "Stay With Me", still another study in contrast. In Charlie's song, he wants to kiss his woman in the morning; in Rod's song, he wants to kick the woman out in the morning. Needless to say, Charlie Pride is by far the more honorable, decent man. (In the context of those songs, that is. I assume ol' Rod is an OK person in real life.) Back to the LedZep/Charlie Pride pairing: I find it interesting that the first group was a white band who often replicated the sound of the blues, a music style associated with black people, while Charlie Pride is a black man who made a career singing country music, an almost exclusively white music genre. Yes! Great post--the 'just don't be here in the morning when I wake up' line from "Stay With Me' always cracks me up!
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Post by pb on Jan 27, 2018 18:18:40 GMT -5
I guess you can check the sentimental "You're In My Heart" from the 1978 show a couple weeks ago to see how Rod turned out in the years after "Stay With Me."
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