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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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Post by chrislc on Mar 28, 2024 17:56:46 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! It was My Cup Runneth Over. Great record. And what a pair of lungs. I had forgotten about Who Will Answer, and several years ago I heard it on the radio during Christmas season. When it reached the harpsichord part at 2:00 I thought the song had ended and it was segueing into the Partridge Family or something.
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Post by chrislc on Mar 28, 2024 16:37:39 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. The Greatest Generation sure did love their Send In The Clowns. Maybe the backstory resonated with a lot of married couples.
Also this was back in the days before clowns were monsters. They were just clowns.
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Post by chrislc on Mar 28, 2024 12:06:31 GMT -5
Thank you! Do you happen to know if he did that because Frankenstein was such a big hit in the Spring of '73? It had already re-charted in August of 1970, but only lasted 3 weeks on the Hot 100 and peaked at 91. Hadn't thought about any connection with 'Frankenstein', that's interesting. Demento's radio show was only heard in Los Angeles until 1974 when a two-hour edit of his four-hour L.A. broadcast was first offered in syndication, per Wiki. So not sure if he would have had much effect on airplay nationally in '73. My next question is...why did they keep re-releasing Monster Mash in the early summer? I would think, oh, maybe, September or October would work better? But what do I know? Yes, Monster Mash, supposedly the closest we've ever come to the last #1 hit ever (Cuban Missile Crisis). Also one of two consecutive #1 songs (He's A Rebel) sung at least in part by a singer who got no label credit (Darlene Love).
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Post by chrislc on Mar 28, 2024 11:49:33 GMT -5
Looks like Send In The Clowns was because of the "So Early in the Spring... The First 15 Years" LP released in 1977. That was easy to find once I took a moment to look it up. Not sure why I didn't do that before, it's been bugging me for years! It is kind of odd to re-release a Top 40 single only two years later, but it paid off as it charted higher the second time. I wonder if there were discussions at the label about releasing another song instead of Send In The Clowns, it was a double album so there were plenty to choose from. I can easily imagine the pressure from the promoters to play that record, pushing it up to #17 or whatever the peak was. Almost all of the listeners already knew her version of that song from 1975. It won a Grammy for Song Of The Year so it wasn't exactly flying under the radar. It's also odd that two of her four Top 40 hits were NOT included on the Double LP, Amazing Grace and Cook With Honey. Maybe everyone at Elektra was too stoned to notice these things. Or coked-up like that guy in the Nakatomi Building.
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Post by chrislc on Mar 28, 2024 11:44:55 GMT -5
Monster Mash was re-released because Dr. Demento started playing it heavily. Thank you! Do you happen to know if he did that because Frankenstein was such a big hit in the Spring of '73?
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Post by chrislc on Mar 27, 2024 18:53:59 GMT -5
Does anyone know the specific reasons these were released again?
Monster Mash Send In The Clowns Into The Night Send Me An Angel
And any others for which you know the reasons...Twist and Shout and Do You Love Me we know, the movies...
I know why they made the Top 40 twice, but why were they released twice, giving them that opportunity, when 99.9% of Top 40 hits are not released again?
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