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Post by at40petebattistini on Dec 16, 2023 16:36:30 GMT -5
With chart runs that typically overlapped two calendar years, timing may be right to compile a list of Billboard 45s that were ranked among the weekly Top 40 surveys for 5 or less weeks *and* missed out on AT40 airings due to preemptive year-end programming.
Here are 3 examples…
*Edwin Starr’s “Stop The War Now” (Top 40 weeks: 4 … AT40 airings: 2)
*Average White Band’s “School Boy Crush” (Top 40 weeks: 3 … AT40 airings: 1)
*Paul McCartney’s “Girls School” (Top 40 weeks: 4 … AT40 airings: 2)
How many singles overall were short-changed of their ‘complete’ AT40 notoriety?
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Post by freakyflybry on Dec 16, 2023 17:14:39 GMT -5
Sugarhill Gang - Rapper's Delight
Was in the top 40 for 2 weeks, 70's decade end special aired the first week. And for its second, Casey had a guest host!
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Post by mrjukebox on Dec 16, 2023 17:28:13 GMT -5
I thought of one:"Let's Live Together"-The Road Apples which had debuted in the countdown during the two weeks that "AT40" was counting down the top 100 of 1975-I believe it was only heard once on the countdown from 1/10/76.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Dec 16, 2023 18:26:43 GMT -5
With chart runs that typically overlapped two calendar years, timing may be right to compile a list of Billboard 45s that were ranked among the weekly Top 40 surveys for 5 or less weeks *and* missed out on AT40 airings due to preemptive year-end programming. Here are 3 examples… *Edwin Starr’s “Stop The War Now” (Top 40 weeks: 4 … AT40 airings: 2) *Average White Band’s “School Boy Crush” (Top 40 weeks: 3 … AT40 airings: 1) *Paul McCartney’s “Girls School” (Top 40 weeks: 4 … AT40 airings: 2) How many singles overall were short-changed of their ‘complete’ AT40 notoriety? Boy you know what Peteski, how about Let's Do It Again and Saturday Night, both screwed outta their only week #1 and for the Rollers it was their only #1. |
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Post by mga707 on Dec 16, 2023 21:28:37 GMT -5
I thought of one:"Let's Live Together"-The Road Apples which had debuted in the countdown during the two weeks that "AT40" was counting down the top 100 of 1975-I believe it was only heard once on the countdown from 1/10/76. Yes! Good song--it's on one of the 'Lost 45s of the '70s' CDs that I have. Don't know why I didn't buy the 45 48 years ago. It was a decent-sized airplay hit in my area. |
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Post by jmack19 on Dec 16, 2023 23:04:19 GMT -5
Bob Dylan - "George Jackson " (Top 40 weeks: 4 … AT40 airings: 2)
Styx - "Mademoiselle" (Top 40 weeks: 3 … AT40 airings: 1)
Al Green - "Keep Me Cryin'" (Top 40 weeks: 4 … AT40 airings: 2)
Hall & Oates - "Do What You Want, Be What You Are" (Top 40 weeks: 3 … AT40 airings: 1)
Eagles - "Please Come Home Christmas" (Top 40 weeks: 5 … AT40 airings 3)
4 weeks in the Top 20. 3rd week in Top 40 was guest hosted.
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Post by dth1971 on Dec 17, 2023 7:35:43 GMT -5
How about Air Supply's "Two Less Lonely People In The World" from 1982-1983 (Top 40 weeks: 5...AT40 airings: 3 - Including 1 week where there was an AT40 guest host).
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Post by chrislc on Dec 17, 2023 21:29:33 GMT -5
Sugarhill Gang - Rapper's Delight Was in the top 40 for 2 weeks, 70's decade end special aired the first week. And for its second, Casey had a guest host! Sugarhill Gang got Booned. Now they know how Heatwave felt. |
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Post by doofus67 on Dec 17, 2023 23:42:12 GMT -5
Sugarhill Gang - Rapper's Delight Was in the top 40 for 2 weeks, 70's decade end special aired the first week. And for its second, Casey had a guest host! Sugarhill Gang got Booned. Now they know how Heatwave felt. And KC & the Sunshine Band and Carly Simon and Crystal Gayle... |
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Post by mkarns on Dec 18, 2023 0:22:26 GMT -5
Lee Michaels' "Can I Get a Witness". One week at #39 in December 1971 when AT40 did a special Christmas countdown. Two years later, another Christmas show aired the only week El Chicano's "Tell Her She's Lovely" was in the top 40. (El Chicano previously charted in the top 40 in May 1970 with "Viva Tirado", and so would have made AT40 if it had debuted a couple of months earlier.)
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Post by dth1971 on Dec 18, 2023 7:39:59 GMT -5
Lee Michaels' "Can I Get a Witness". One week at #39 in December 1971 when AT40 did a special Christmas countdown. Two years later, another Christmas show aired the only week El Chicano's "Tell Her She's Lovely" was in the top 40. (El Chicano previously charted in the top 40 in May 1970 with "Viva Tirado", and so would have made AT40 if it had debuted a couple of months earlier.) The same 1973 AT40 Christmas show also shut out the only week for "I Can't Stand The Rain" by Ann Peebles. |
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Post by mga707 on Dec 18, 2023 11:17:56 GMT -5
Lee Michaels' "Can I Get a Witness". One week at #39 in December 1971 when AT40 did a special Christmas countdown. Two years later, another Christmas show aired the only week El Chicano's "Tell Her She's Lovely" was in the top 40. (El Chicano previously charted in the top 40 in May 1970 with "Viva Tirado", and so would have made AT40 if it had debuted a couple of months earlier.) Regarding "Tell Her She's Lovely": That song was huge in some areas, or at least in mine. If memory serves, it hit #1 on the top-rated top 40 station's chart for a week right around the end of '73. |
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