|
|
Post by mrjukebox on Jul 3, 2022 14:33:55 GMT -5
Speaking of "Baker Street",our local rock station in Connecticut,WPLR is playing 1,776 songs with no repeats-A few minutes ago,they played The Foo Fighters version-Wasn't aware they covered it-It was quite good!
|
|
|
|
Post by woolebull on Jul 3, 2022 14:37:21 GMT -5
Two songs that made it to #1 in Cash Box that didn't make it to the top in Billboard, and so not recognized by most people as #1's (since it wasn't at the top spot on AT40)--The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald by Gordon Lightfoot (1976) and Baker Street by Gerry Rafferty (1978). I always recognized "Baker Street" as a #1 song, as it hit the top in R&R and was played as a former #1 on "Countdown America" in 1983, the year that the show started and the year that I found out about R&R. Since the song spent four weeks on top, I was rather surprised when I found out that it never hit #1 on the Hot 100. It was also played on Countdown America on 6/30/85 for the same reason. |
|
|
|
Post by Hervard on Jul 3, 2022 14:47:27 GMT -5
I always recognized "Baker Street" as a #1 song, as it hit the top in R&R and was played as a former #1 on "Countdown America" in 1983, the year that the show started and the year that I found out about R&R. Since the song spent four weeks on top, I was rather surprised when I found out that it never hit #1 on the Hot 100. It was also played on Countdown America on 6/30/85 for the same reason. I think it was also played in 1984, when they were doing a countdown of the Top Five summer songs of the past ten years. |
|
|
|
Post by at40nut on Jul 3, 2022 18:38:32 GMT -5
Speaking of "Baker Street",our local rock station in Connecticut,WPLR is playing 1,776 songs with no repeats-A few minutes ago,they played The Foo Fighters version-Wasn't aware they covered it-It was quite good! It was not on "The Colour And The Shape" CD back in 1997 when I bought the Foo Fighters' second CD. I bought a re-issue CD several years ago, and that song was on there as a bonus track. I first heard that cover in early 1998 on a rock station in Lincoln, Ne called 106.3 The Blaze. It was a B-Side to the Foo Fighters single "My Hero". |
|
