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Post by chrislc on Apr 19, 2020 21:02:59 GMT -5
For 2 weeks back in April 1970, John Lennon had 2 of the Top 3 songs on Billboard's Hot 100. He was in the Top 3 with "Instant Karma (We All Shine On)" and "Let It Be". What is interesting is that "Instant Karma (We All Shine On)" was recorded as a solo artist and "Let It Be" as a Beatle. Is he the only artist to have 2 of the Top 3 songs on the Hot 100, with one song as a solo artist and the other as a member of a group at the same time? Wow good one. The closest I can think of is Bruce making it to #6 with I'm On Fire when USA For Africa was #1.
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Post by chrislc on Apr 12, 2020 21:54:04 GMT -5
Sorry; "Lean on Me" clearly violates social distancing. You know, Billboard has its own banned song list, and it's much longer than mine. "It's Gonna Be a Lovely Day" is on there too. But rumor has it "Ain't No Sunshine" is an out-of-the-box #1! Here is an article from Billboard regarding Bill Withers songs and streaming increases-- Hey Joe, that BJ Thomas song on your new countdown never sounded more appropriate than now.
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Post by chrislc on Apr 11, 2020 23:12:17 GMT -5
This is excellent. I wonder if there is a way for us to access those Nielsen Spin stats. We could do all kinds of analyses, including which Top 10s and Top 40s of the Casey Era (and before and after that) had the songs with the most and least overall airplay staying power.
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Post by chrislc on Apr 11, 2020 15:22:22 GMT -5
I am listening to Joe's brand new Cash Box Countdown from today in 1970, and I thought I would check out something about Kentucky Rain.
So it turns out it's "up ahead's another town that I'll go walking through".
It isn't "another hedge - another town that I'll go walking through".
I guess I thought his search for her was being hedged or hindered.
For 50 years.
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Post by chrislc on Mar 28, 2020 17:57:27 GMT -5
And yet another new countdown today! God bless you, Joe. These are being made available at the perfect time.
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Post by chrislc on Mar 25, 2020 18:21:06 GMT -5
It's a much, much better idea right now than Hands Across America 2020! But seriously, Lionel , please don't.
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Post by chrislc on Mar 24, 2020 18:24:44 GMT -5
This is a fun little thread. Don't let it end. And in doing so, you'll have the best of times. And now a message for anyone who thinks this threadjack is going to go away quietly - you're just fooling yourself.
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Post by chrislc on Mar 24, 2020 18:19:09 GMT -5
Since Kenny Rogers passed away over the week end, I posted a countdown featuring his first hit with the group The First Edition. It's from the Cash Box chart for the week ending March 30, 1968-- archive.org/details/1968033001By the way, the song at #1 didn't reach the top in Billboard. Thanks-- Joe Joe, we must have just missed Soul Coaxing, or did it even make the Cash Box Top 40 at all?
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Post by chrislc on Mar 23, 2020 0:51:51 GMT -5
In the last verse of "The Best of Times," Styx's Dennis DeYoung sings, "The headlines read / These are the worst of times / I do believe it's true." (In our current state of affairs, the rest of that verse is very relevant, which someone on here already mentioned.) But Dennis sings the word "read" as though it were in the past tense, when clearly the verse as a whole is in the present tense. He pronounces it "red" instead of "reed." Devil's Advocate Time - I think one could pronounce it red or reed once the headline has been published, even if on the same day it was published, or centuries later, if Dennis believes at least one person has seen the headline before he saw it. And even if hundreds of years later, "I do believe it's true" could be construed as Dennis saying he believes the opinion in the headline was correct at the time. Although he already said that she believes that these are the worst of times. But that doesn't mean he doesn't believe the headline was correct and she is wrong. There. I ruined that song for everyone. Yes I must have had too much time on my hands.
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Post by chrislc on Mar 22, 2020 18:33:48 GMT -5
Thnak you, Joe! I just saw it!
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Post by chrislc on Mar 22, 2020 17:46:37 GMT -5
I was a DJ at a country station in 1980 & 81 and my girl friend and I at the time both liked I Don't Need You--which became our song. I suppose it also became a prophetic title when we broke up. R.I.P. Kenneth Donald Rogers
Great song. My favorite Kenny song. I always thought it was the most "Lionel Richie sounding" Kenny song, but Lionel didn't write it, though he did produce it. I also loved What About Me, especially when he took over about 2/3 of the way through. Goosebumps.
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Post by chrislc on Mar 18, 2020 18:20:45 GMT -5
Wow, Joe, things must have been much more relaxed back then for CBS to be okay with ABC using the theme song from one of their shows. But at least Roone Arledge didn't steal "Boy the way Glenn Miller played" or "And then there's Maude" or "You're gonna make it after all" for Nadia Comaneci. Actually, Chris, I don't think there was any love lost between CBS and ABC, however, since the music was first used in a movie, I think they both felt it was OK to use it for other purposes. It would have been really something if ABC had used "and you knew who you were then..." for the decathlon champ.
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Post by chrislc on Mar 17, 2020 23:55:15 GMT -5
I just thought of something. What was the theme song of The Young And The Restless in 1976? Surely ABC wouldn't have used a CBS program theme in their Olympics coverage, would they? Actually the song was Cotton's Dream from the movie Bless The Beasts and The Children (from 1971) before it was used on the Young & The Restless (beginning in 1973). ABC used the music on a Wide World of Sports re-broadcast of Nadia Comaneci's Summer Olympics gymnast routine (July/August of 1976), which is how the song came to gain it's new title--Nadia's Theme and was released as a single in August of 1976; making it to #8 in December, 1976.
And Now You Know The Rest Of The Story (as a famous news commentator used to say).... Wow, Joe, things must have been much more relaxed back then for CBS to be okay with ABC using the theme song from one of their shows. But at least Roone Arledge didn't steal "Boy the way Glenn Miller played" or "And then there's Maude" or "You're gonna make it after all" for Nadia Comaneci.
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Post by chrislc on Mar 16, 2020 18:56:21 GMT -5
Also the beginning of "St. Elmo's Fire (Man In Motion)" always sounded clipped to me, like it was cued in a half second. I always think it was loaded into automation poorly, but when you listen to the original or the video on YouTube, it's the same! It is absolutely brutal. I wonder if there was some ambient sound over the beginning of the very first note that made the record company feel they had to do that. If not, it was so careless. Another I thought of is Hooked On A Feeling by Blue Swede. I guess they didn't speak English, but some of the lyrics they switched to made no sense. Got a bug from you, girl But I don't need no cure I just stay affecting If I can for sure Huh?
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Post by chrislc on Mar 16, 2020 18:44:50 GMT -5
I just thought of something. What was the theme song of The Young And The Restless in 1976? Surely ABC wouldn't have used a CBS program theme in their Olympics coverage, would they?
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