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Post by chrislc on Feb 8, 2024 16:51:10 GMT -5
>Not sure who wants to hear a fabricated non-original extra by a now obscure singer from the late 50's in a 1977 show< Just a shot in the dark here, just a feeling, call me crazy, but I'm guessing you would not be one of those folks?
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Post by chrislc on Feb 6, 2024 17:42:06 GMT -5
“Send Me An Angel”. Such an underrated song. Should have been a much bigger hit. Should’ve charged higher IMO. It was re-released in 1989 but didn’t get much higher than when it was released in 1984. Great song! It's always the first song I think of when remembering Winter 1984. Then Wrapped Around Your Finger, Think Of Laura, Here Comes The Rain Again, and that Vincent Price mess - but Send Me An Angel first.
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Post by chrislc on Feb 4, 2024 14:40:02 GMT -5
It's likely that Casey would have been selling the 24-6 move by Vikki Carr in October 1967. And selling it big time.
But then - My dear God! - Vikki ran into a real lulu of a roadblock. A would-have-been Casey Jinx.
And Sam and Dave blocked Vikki from even making it to #2.
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Post by chrislc on Feb 2, 2024 18:07:16 GMT -5
As usual,the second verse of "I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues" was cut. Is that the verse where Elton explains why they call it the blues? That song was like a click-bait headline with no payoff.
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Post by chrislc on Feb 2, 2024 14:16:07 GMT -5
Before it's too late, somebody needs to get those two working on a new version of Hey Paula. Or a vocal version of Telstar. Bobby Rydell already put words to "Telstar." I've never heard it, but supposedly it's horrible. Not Bobby's fault, I'm guessing. Think of the folks at YouTube today wondering "why is Telstar Bobby Rydell trending?" patientLYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY Ten comments and they're all positive. What is wrong with people???
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Post by chrislc on Feb 1, 2024 22:36:15 GMT -5
Maybe if they were Catholic instead of Mormon, they could have done "Dominique" (in French and/or English) and had a hit with a third 1963 song that hit #1 just after the other two. Or, they could've redone "Louie, Louie", and slurred the allegedly 'dirty' lyrics! The song that should've reached the top spot at least for one week in December '63/January '64, when it was stuck behind the Nun and Bobby Vinton. Or that medley of Dominique and Jungle Fever we've been hearing about. The Nun and Bobby Vinton. Sounds like a sitcom. Like The Governor and J.J.
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Post by chrislc on Feb 1, 2024 15:42:47 GMT -5
"Deep Purple" (Nino Tempo and April Stevens) and "I'm Leaving It Up To You" (Dale and Grace) were #1 hits back to back in November 1963, and both were remade into hits in the 70s by Donny & Marie Osmond. Another 1963 #1, Steve Lawrence's "Go Away Little Girl", was also a #1 hit for Donny solo. Before it's too late, somebody needs to get those two working on a new version of Hey Paula. Or a vocal version of Telstar.
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Post by chrislc on Feb 1, 2024 14:36:46 GMT -5
What's so dirty about Chuck Berry fishing on a windy day?
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Post by chrislc on Jan 31, 2024 16:19:51 GMT -5
Okay how about this angle for Van Halen. Top 40 remakes of three hits that were in the Top 40 at the same time! October 1964 (and in the Top 20 at the same time in November). Does anyone know if Casey ever commented on this about Van Halen or Linda Ronstadt? 11 8 OH, PRETTY WOMAN –•– Roy Orbison 12 5 DANCING IN THE STREET –•– Martha and the Vandellas 20 32 YOU REALLY GOT ME –•– The Kinks top40weekly.com/1964-all-charts/#US_Top_40_Singles_for_the_Week_Ending_7th_November_1964
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Post by chrislc on Jan 31, 2024 6:18:47 GMT -5
I assume 1964/Van Halen must be the all-time record combination for this, wIth three Top 40 remakes of Top 40 hits from the same year? It was only three, right? I didn’t miss Hello Dolly or Java by Van Halen, did I? It seems like Linda Ronstadt or someone might have done a couple from the same year once or twice, but three or more? EDIT Yikes Linda Ronstadt and 1963. So she did it before Van Halen did it. And then she did it again with 1965. She really was a remake machine. EDIT EDIT Oh my God I Knew You When. That’s four from 1965. Sorry, Van Halen!
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Post by chrislc on Jan 29, 2024 19:17:55 GMT -5
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Post by chrislc on Jan 29, 2024 18:30:33 GMT -5
A-ha I just remembered the other one - I had mentioned it in a thread. Same multiple weeks in Top 40. One week short of being in the Top Ten at the same time! Morning Side Of The Mountain and Black Water - just think of the supercool Doobies fans tricked into thinking that Black Water is starting and then it's Donny and Marie of all people! Someone should produce a mashup. Or Down By The Lazy Black Water River. Meanwhile... this same week in early 1975... www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6FIVEUld4U If this isn't 1970s TV in a nutshell I don't know what is. It has everything but Telly Savalas. And Sammy Maudlin. And circling back to the OP - the beginning sounds like Save It For A Rainy Day. Seriously though - those guys did have great harmonies.
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Post by chrislc on Jan 29, 2024 18:22:26 GMT -5
"If You Don't Know Me By Now" and "Take it to the Limit". And for those of us that listen to newer music, "One More Chance" and "Foolish". I always thought that Harold Melvin/Eagles thing was a coincidence or a George Harrison-type subconscious lift but then a few years ago I found out that it was an intentional homage.
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Post by chrislc on Jan 29, 2024 16:48:11 GMT -5
Listening to 03/15/1969 Barbara Acklin Extra - Am I the Same Girl YIKES! It sounds like they ran out of studio time and they just went with whatever she was able to throw out there. I'm picturing her singing this in some hotel conference room for Simon and Paula and Randy. And no further. Not going to Hollywood. I think I'll take the Swing Out Sister version. And Corinne is missing some notes too, now that I listen to it. Is this song really so hard? Joe, between Acklin, and You're The Reason I'm Living, I think maybe this was your prank/troll episode. I know you couldn't avoid You Gave Me A Mountain since that was in the CB Top 40, so not playing that would have been censorship. Brunswick Records removed Barbara Acklin's vocals on "Am I The Same Girl". The resulting instrumental "Soulful Strut" became a #3 hit for Young-Holt unlimited. Barbara may or may not have married Eugene Record, lead vocalist for the Chi-Lites. They wrote several songs together including the Chi-Lites #2 hit "Have You Seen Her". Oh I'm all over Soulful Strut. I was listening to WABC back then and I heard Soulful Strut once per hour for a couple of months. Funny, I was just reading about the Chi-Lites over the weekend. Not a spotless criminal record (no pun intended - record not Record).
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Post by chrislc on Jan 29, 2024 15:38:41 GMT -5
Wow - Worst That Could Happen - and Atlantis. I'll bet listeners were fooled, thinking one was starting when it was the other one. They're pretty darn close. Actually Brooklyn Bridge had just fallen off (okay it was six weeks earlier cut me some slack here) but it was a recurrent. They had recurrents back then - I hope? Otherwise this thread is worthless. There was another example I noticed last year and now I can't put my finger on it, which is really informative and entertaining, right? It'll come to me eventually, so watch this space. Any other examples you can think of?
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