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Post by chrislc on Apr 22, 2024 20:22:14 GMT -5
Wow the movie producers were really mining that Autumn 1976 Top 40 for that soundtrack. I'm picturing Tony out on the floor and hearing "the legend lives on from the Chippewa on down" and being like okay what do I do now. But I guess Robert Stigwood drew the line at one of the biggest hit singles from that autumn, even though it was on RSO Records. 'Quack quack...' Yes, always an awkward segue between those two hits. Though water was a common theme.
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Post by chrislc on Apr 22, 2024 19:46:07 GMT -5
And while Thelma's version was a hit a good six months or more before the film came out, her recording of it was used in the disturbing 1977 movie "Looking For Mr. Goodbar", starring Diane Keaton. Can't hear the song without thinking of the film. I recall Casey telling a story in which Boz Scaggs, or at least his management, passed on allowing "Lowdown" to be used on the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack in favour of Looking For Mr. Goodbar. Oops... Wow the movie producers were really mining that Autumn 1976 Top 40 for that soundtrack. I'm picturing Tony out on the floor and hearing "the legend lives on from the Chippewa on down" and being like okay what do I do now.
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Post by chrislc on Apr 22, 2024 19:34:31 GMT -5
It was an interesting butchered first 1976 hour on Hoggy. Casey said Barry Manimellow kept rolling right along. 'Trying would soon become a top tenner. But John Denver wasn't so lucky when Casey mentioned he was the #1 male act of 1975, but Looking For Space was peaking right there at #29 and he'd only graze the bottom of the top 40 twice more in the 70s. Then he teased the #1 duo Everly Bros who would never reach the top 40 again, but the song just completed was Sara Smile and of course it was the guys that would soon fly by Evs. I always question my memory when recalling John Denver as the #1 male act of 1975. How in the world could it NOT have been Elton John? Caribou and The Bxtch Is Back and Whatever Gets You Through The Night and Greatest Hits and Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds and Pinball Wizard and Philadelphia Freedom and Captain Fantastic and Someone Saved My Life Tonight and Bad Blood and Rock Of The Westies and Island Girl. John Denver trumped all that? Okay.
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Post by chrislc on Apr 22, 2024 12:26:21 GMT -5
Listening for the umpteenth time to 07/26/1969
Joe mentions that Neil said Sweet Caroline was inspired either by Caroline Kennedy - or by his wife at the time, Marcia.
Well, it isn't called Sweet Marcia, so there's a clue.
The same week as Chappaquiddick and two months from the debut of The Brady Bunch. Small world!
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Post by chrislc on Apr 17, 2024 14:50:26 GMT -5
Great assortment of OE's for 4/23/77-Too bad "Mainstreet" wasn't a bigger hit-It's a great song! THIS
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Post by chrislc on Apr 12, 2024 13:04:24 GMT -5
Both of those hits are impossible for there to be a two notch move. The first peaked at 41 so never was played on AT40 and the second peaked at 40 so debuted when Casey never refers to its chart movement. Oh well at least they were all good. And Goodnight Tonight. Wow I never noticed this before. A really good time for Top 40. Or Top 41 anyway. New format. Top 41. Bill Drake would not have been a proponent. He was a Top 14 guy. If that. Maybe 7. And Eddie Money had Can't Keep a Good Man Down but it wasn't very good. Good God that's a lot of good.
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Post by chrislc on Apr 12, 2024 12:51:16 GMT -5
This week in a 1979 sell/ jinx Casey sold the two notch move of Good Times saying it was following in footsteps of #1 Le Freak I saw this and thought to myself "Good Times in early-mid April?" Maybe it was Good Times Roll or Good Timin' or the theme from the TV show?
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Post by chrislc on Apr 5, 2024 16:23:11 GMT -5
But at least Judy Collins wasn't one of the biggest one-hit wonders of all time. And prior to "Send in the Clowns" Judy hit AT40 with "Amazing Grace" and "Cook With Honey". This must be the only example of an apparent greatest hits LP with half of the artist's Top 40 hits not included on the LP. I wonder why she decided to include only Both Sides Now and Send In The Clowns.
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Post by chrislc on Apr 3, 2024 15:18:22 GMT -5
"Who Will Answer?" or "My Cup Runneth Over with Looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooove"? ...and ed could throw a mean tomahawk on Johnny Carson! Some synchronicity here, as my parents would hear Ed Ames on WNEW with DJ William B. Williams (the real one) while Lon Chaney Jr. hit the make believe William B. Williams in the groin with a rock here at 2:30. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqsGIMHNNcIThis version is better. They left in My Way at 2:55. www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0OGy7pdoNEI LOVE how Sammy says it happened sometime in the mid 60s and then when the highlight appears it's 1959. Those writers missed no opportunities. Just brilliant. “In over 50 years of our friendship, there were very few people as wise or hilarious when it came to comedy, teaching improvisation and the art of character work as Joe,” Short said. “In SCTV we called him the anchor. In life, he was simply the funniest man in the room. I just adored him.”
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Post by chrislc on Apr 2, 2024 12:29:50 GMT -5
A few of the major Top 40 stations started putting "Monster Mash" into heavy rotation in April of 1973 and others soon followed. That's why it hit at that time of the year and not at Halloween. I remember there being a lot of interest in old monster movies around that time. I even collected the Topps "You'll Die Laughing" trading cards and watching the old Universal horror movies on TV a lot that year. Wow it's been a long time since I thought about all those varieties of trading cards. TV shows, etc.
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Post by chrislc on Apr 2, 2024 11:10:14 GMT -5
I heard or saw somewhere that Barry Gibb made that sound into a mic. Of course, if so, then they modified the sound to make it more lightning strike-y. Maybe they added synthesizer?
I guess every 13 years a lightning song makes #1. Was there one in 1992? I don't know. I could look up the songs but probably couldn't tell you what half of them sounded like. Okay I gave in. 13 weeks. Good lord. Thank God for Grunge.
I'll try 1953.
God I love the internet. We really do take it for granted.
Okay, nothing in 1953 unless that doggie peed on a tree at the worst possible moment.
So was Rubber Duckie the first occurrence of this on AT 40?
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Post by chrislc on Mar 31, 2024 13:04:25 GMT -5
On AT40: The 70's 3/31/1973 Casey predicted for next week's #1 it would be "Neither One of Us" by Gladys Knight and the Pips, but next week the #1 song would be Vicki Lawrence with "The Night The Lights Went Out in Georgia" even though that next week was the AT40 Top 40 Hits of the Past 5 Years special. Casey, while wrong, was right. It's one of the all-time chart injustices.
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Post by chrislc on Mar 31, 2024 13:00:42 GMT -5
I think this means that Dancing Queen needed to be bought not only by Dorothy Kilgallen, Steve Allen, Arlene Francis and Bennett Cerf, but also by Peggy Cass, Orson Bean, and...ummmm...uhhhh....aww screw it you guys know where I'm going with this. And if there should be a remake any time soon, it could get a boost from Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sara Haines, Sunny Hostin, and Alyssa Farah Griffin! Please define "boost".
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Post by chrislc on Mar 30, 2024 16:33:35 GMT -5
In a reverse jinx, on this week's 1977 show Casey said ABBA was trying for #1 next week. It would take an extra panel but Dancing Queen reached #1. Why an extra panel? I think this means that Dancing Queen needed to be bought not only by Dorothy Kilgallen, Steve Allen, Arlene Francis and Bennett Cerf, but also by Peggy Cass, Orson Bean, and...ummmm...uhhhh....aww screw it you guys know where I'm going with this.
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Post by chrislc on Mar 28, 2024 18:11:03 GMT -5
My parents also bought Judith! I believe it was the only LP they bought in the 1970s and the first since Ed Ames back in 1967. "Who Will Answer?" or "My Cup Runneth Over with Looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooove"? ...and ed could throw a mean tomahawk on Johnny Carson! Some synchronicity here, as my parents would hear Ed Ames on WNEW with DJ William B. Williams (the real one) while Lon Chaney Jr. hit the make believe William B. Williams in the groin with a rock here at 2:30. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqsGIMHNNcIThis version is better. They left in My Way at 2:55. www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0OGy7pdoNEI LOVE how Sammy says it happened sometime in the mid 60s and then when the highlight appears it's 1959. Those writers missed no opportunities. Just brilliant.
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