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Post by lasvegaskid on Nov 2, 2019 11:06:24 GMT -5
IMO, it has to be Gene Cotton's Save The Dancer. It churned out three top 40s in 1978 yet today it is as obscure as obscure gets.
In a sad, ironic twist maybe the most forgotten country album was Jim Glaser's Man in the Mirror which booked six ACC top 40's including a remake of Cotton's You Got Me Runnin'.
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Post by pb on Nov 2, 2019 11:49:59 GMT -5
IMO, it has to be Gene Cotton's Save The Dancer. It churned out three top 40s in 1978 yet today it is as obscure as obscure gets. Yes. I can think of some now obscure albums that generated two top 40 hits (Three Dog Night's Hard Labor, Gerry Rafferty's Night Owl, maybe Good Trouble by REO Speedwagon) but can't think offhand of a lesser known album that produced three hits. |
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Post by mga707 on Nov 2, 2019 12:14:14 GMT -5
IMO, it has to be Gene Cotton's Save The Dancer. It churned out three top 40s in 1978 yet today it is as obscure as obscure gets. Yes. I can think of some now obscure albums that generated two top 40 hits (Three Dog Night's Hard Labor, Gerry Rafferty's Night Owl, maybe Good Trouble by REO Speedwagon) but can't think offhand of a lesser known album that produced three hits. "Hard Labor" had three: "The Show Must Go On", "Sure As I'm Sittin' Here", and "Play Something Sweet". |
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Post by pb on Nov 2, 2019 13:11:46 GMT -5
Yes. I can think of some now obscure albums that generated two top 40 hits (Three Dog Night's Hard Labor, Gerry Rafferty's Night Owl, maybe Good Trouble by REO Speedwagon) but can't think offhand of a lesser known album that produced three hits. "Hard Labor" had three: "The Show Must Go On", "Sure As I'm Sittin' Here", and "Play Something Sweet". Oops, you're right. Due to their track record I guess it's less obscure than Gene Cotton's album. |
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Post by at40petebattistini on Nov 2, 2019 13:37:22 GMT -5
From the original post, not only is the album obscure but most would agree that Gene Cotton is too.
But here's an example of an album not too well remembered. In late 1972, the Stylistics released an LP called "Round 2" which produced three Top 40 hits:
*I'm Stone In Love With You
*Break Up To Make Up
*You'll Never Get To Heaven
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Post by pb on Nov 2, 2019 14:38:50 GMT -5
But here's an example of an album not too well remembered. In late 1972, the Stylistics released an LP called "Round 2" which produced three Top 40 hits: *I'm Stone In Love With You *Break Up To Make Up *You'll Never Get To Heaven I know of this album because it is around in stores with two cover designs, the first showing raised fists in front of a globe, the second just a globe without the fists. |
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Post by chrislc on Nov 3, 2019 18:51:59 GMT -5
IMO, it has to be Gene Cotton's Save The Dancer. It churned out three top 40s in 1978 yet today it is as obscure as obscure gets. In a sad, ironic twist maybe the most forgotten country album was Jim Glaser's Man in the Mirror which booked six ACC top 40's including a remake of Cotton's You Got Me Runnin'. His previous LP had his first Top 40 hit and also Me And The Elephant which is one of the most heartbreaking songs there is, and which Bobby Goldsboro had to change to Elephants for some dumb reason. Sorry but whenever I hear the name Gene Cotton it makes me think of what Bobby Goldsboro did to that title. Argggh. One elephant is so much sadder than multiple elephants. |
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Post by at40nut on Nov 4, 2019 12:22:09 GMT -5
There is an album and an artist from the 80's that sticks out to me-Bryan Adams' 1987 album "Into The Fire" which yielded three Top 40 hits-"Heat Of The Night", "Hearts On Fire", and "Victim Of Love". The album was book-ended due to the mega success of "Reckless" and his 1991 album "Waking Up The Neighbours"
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Post by matt on Nov 4, 2019 12:44:37 GMT -5
IMO, it has to be Gene Cotton's Save The Dancer. It churned out three top 40s in 1978 yet today it is as obscure as obscure gets. In a sad, ironic twist maybe the most forgotten country album was Jim Glaser's Man in the Mirror which booked six ACC top 40's including a remake of Cotton's You Got Me Runnin'. His previous LP had his first Top 40 hit and also Me And The Elephant which is one of the most heartbreaking songs there is, and which Bobby Goldsboro had to change to Elephants for some dumb reason. Sorry but whenever I hear the name Gene Cotton it makes me think of what Bobby Goldsboro did to that title. Argggh. One elephant is so much sadder than multiple elephants. I'm not a Bobby Goldsboro fan. "Watching Scotty Grow", though I know it's supposed to be real cute, is still one of the more annoying songs from the original AT40 run. Does Naked Eyes' self titled album from 1983 qualify? It did have a top 10 in "Always Something There To Remind Me", but the other two songs peaked at #11 and #37. Naked Eyes had one more top 40 hit that peaked at #39 in 1984, but that was it for them. There is an album and an artist from the 80's that sticks out to me-Bryan Adams' 1987 album "Into The Fire" which yielded three Top 40 hits-"Heat Of The Night", "Hearts On Fire", and "Victim Of Love". The album was book-ended due to the mega success of "Reckless" and his 1991 album "Waking Up The Neighbours" Great call--and I actually thought Into the Fire was a good album. One of the first CDs I ever owned... |
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Post by woolebull on Nov 4, 2019 12:57:26 GMT -5
There is an album and an artist from the 80's that sticks out to me-Bryan Adams' 1987 album "Into The Fire" which yielded three Top 40 hits-"Heat Of The Night", "Hearts On Fire", and "Victim Of Love". The album was book-ended due to the mega success of "Reckless" and his 1991 album "Waking Up The Neighbours" I absolutely agree with this. I remember when "(Everything I Do) I Do It For You" came out and in my mind it had been like six years since I had heard from Adams. In reality, he had the three hits in 1987 in between! From around that same time, I would say Billy Joel's "The Bridge" would fit in there. Not his most critically acclaimed, two top 10 hits but they didn't seem to make much impact then and are really not played much now. Maybe the song that sticks out the most, the top 20, "This Is The Time", still doesn't to have the nostalgic feel as other Joel songs. Even though I am a big fan of "The Bridge", for many it seems like an album that has been forgotten. |
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Post by retrodaddy on Nov 5, 2019 10:06:49 GMT -5
Robbie Nevil's self-titled debut album which had C'est La Vie (#2), Wot's It To Ya (#10), and Dominoes (#14). I didn't like those songs, so I'm okay with this album being forgotten. Can't deny his success with that album, though.
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Post by matt on Nov 5, 2019 12:32:43 GMT -5
Robbie Nevil's self-titled debut album which had C'est La Vie (#2), Wot's It To Ya (#10), and Dominoes (#14). I didn't like those songs, so I'm okay with this album being forgotten. Can't deny his success with that album, though. Great call on this one -- I actually had the cassette of Robbie Nevil's debut album and it was one of my favorites from the time. There really isn't a bad song on it...so I guess our tastes differ a little there.  But indeed, it had three songs, two of which reached the top 10 (one of which probably could've been a #1 if it weren't stuck behind the #1 song of 1987), and the other that didn't miss the top 10 by much. Night Ranger's LP 7 Wishes is another that comes to mind. It spawned three top 40 hits, none of which receive a generous amount of recurrent airplay ("Sister Christian" seems to be the song all of the classic hits stations want to wear out): "Sentimental Street" "Four In the Morning" "Goodbye" |
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Post by mkarns on Nov 5, 2019 13:38:22 GMT -5
Expose's "What You Don't Know", in 1989-90 (Shadoe/Casey's Top 40 era) had four top 40 hits: "Tell Me Why", "When I Looked At Him", "Your Baby Never Looked Good in Blue", and the title song--none of which gets much if any replay.
Their previous "Exposure" album, in 1987-88, also had four hits, and those are the ones from them that get the recurrent play.
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Post by retrodaddy on Nov 5, 2019 17:37:25 GMT -5
Expose's "What You Don't Know", in 1989-90 (Shadoe/Casey's Top 40 era) had four top 40 hits: "Tell Me Why", "When I Looked At Him", "Your Baby Never Looked Good in Blue", and the title song--none of which gets much if any replay. Their previous "Exposure" album, in 1987-88, also had four hits, and those are the ones from them that get the recurrent play. And for good reason. Exposure's hit singles are much better, imo. I really dug Exposure and remember being disappointed with the next album's singles save for What You Don't Know when they were released. |
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Post by mga707 on Nov 5, 2019 21:15:47 GMT -5
[quote source="/post/160282/thread" author=" retrodaddy" timestamp="1572966409" Night Ranger's LP 7 Wishes is another that comes to mind. It spawned three top 40 hits, none of which receive a generous amount of recurrent airplay ("Sister Christian" seems to be the song all of the classic hits stations want to wear out): "Sentimental Street" "Four In the Morning" "Goodbye" To me, "Goodbye" is a great song. Like it so much better than anything else the band ever did, including their one remembered hit--although that one was used to excellent effect in "Boogie Nights". "Goodbye"s influence is heard in another Jack Blades song, D**n Yankees' 1991 hit "High Enough". Both have a similar structure and soaring chorus. Love them both, even with you-know-who being in the later group.  |
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But indeed, it had three songs, two of which reached the top 10 (one of which probably could've been a #1 if it weren't stuck behind the #1 song of 1987), and the other that didn't miss the top 10 by much.
