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Post by chrislc on Mar 14, 2020 16:40:45 GMT -5
There is a woman's laugh at the end of Benjamin Orr's song "Stay the Night" that always sounds like a mistake to me. Wow I never noticed her before. I guess it probably isn't the Hungry Like The Wolf Girl three years older.
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Post by chrislc on Mar 14, 2020 15:54:10 GMT -5
Then a few months later it was Nadia's Theme from ABC's Olympics Coverage. CBS got a piece of that action as well, as "Nadia's Theme" was, and still is, the theme to "The Young and the Restless". It has to be the only 1976 Top 40 hit that has been played five times a week on network TV for 44 years.
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Post by chrislc on Mar 14, 2020 15:39:06 GMT -5
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Post by chrislc on Mar 14, 2020 15:37:58 GMT -5
Maybe we need a new definition of March Madness (especially since there won't be any this year)...listening to too many Countdown Shows--anyway, here is one you can add to your list--It is the Top 40 pop singles from Cash Box for the week ending March 15, 1969. The countdown includes songs from A (Aretha Franklin) to Z (The Zombies)-- Enjoy the show-- Joe
This was a weird Top 40, Joe. No Beatles or Stones or Elvis or Beach Boys and even the Motown artists were down on average, after their incredible end of 1968. So lots of room for strange songs, even Frankie Laine! What was THAT all about! It didn't really feel like "1969" until all those Hair songs appeared. They must have been just about to do that at this point. Maybe I am projecting my own memory of my mood at this time. Traces! OMG I was 12 and was broken-hearted over some girl and that song was on ALL the time - every night. God. It was like listening to the Hungarian Suicide Song. I'm rooting for 1968 next. I was in a much much better mood then.
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Post by chrislc on Mar 13, 2020 20:21:30 GMT -5
I always found it interesting that the 4 TV themes were in the Top 40 at the same time and all were shows that were on ABC. I wonder if the network appreciated the free publicity?! Then a few months later it was Nadia's Theme from ABC's Olympics Coverage. Maybe Harry Reasoner and Barbara Walters should have filled in for Casey. Probably in separate recording sessions, though, since the two didn't get along very well. Heahs Wiud Chewwy and Pway That Funky Music!
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Post by chrislc on Mar 8, 2020 13:37:24 GMT -5
I remember seeing this thread but didn’t pay it much mind. However, his excitement in 1970.. “HERES BST AND LUCRETIA MCEVIL!! “ clearly gives way to quiet Casey. Just listening to 3/4/72 this week, there is absolutely no other way to describe him. Listening to 74 on Sirius now he’s much more upbeat. Almost every person in my life thinks I’m absolutely nuts ! Who pays attention to such nonsense You're so right--the '72 show has 'mellow Casey' at his mellowest. With that Top 10, any Casey other than Mellow Casey would have sounded insane. I don't know if the Top 40 has ever been mellower than it was in early 1972. It was brutal.
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Post by chrislc on Mar 7, 2020 14:35:39 GMT -5
Born 1956 Favorite AT40 Year 1976
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Post by chrislc on Mar 1, 2020 0:19:34 GMT -5
I guess I will go with my first inclination when seeing this question which is, generally speaking, Top 20. Current songs below that point were usually just filler or even "paper adds". The Top 20 is about the number (maybe 16 or 18) that would be in the primary and secondary rotations, and any songs not in one of those rotations couldn't really be considered a hit, when current, IMO. Of course some songs like Piano Man (if we're talking about Billy Joel) go on to become popular oldies, but obviously it wasn't played as often as "hits" were played when it was current. So those songs usually don't make the recurrent rotation either. But then they test well and all of a sudden they're back as oldies or even recurrents. With some stations being exceptions of course, as with any record. Piano Man or any song in the 20s must have been primary rotation songs somewhere. And of course if a song charted a lot higher on the AC charts (like Piano Man) a lot of people thought it was a hit, since they heard it all the time. A lot of people were switching to AC stations in the 1970s. God that AC could be depressing radio to listen to, especially when you had to listen to your own show 20-30 hours a week. I need to stop thinking about it immediately, it's SO depressing! I should have gotten out in 1993 like Joe did. Or 1983.
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Post by chrislc on Feb 29, 2020 16:29:58 GMT -5
Listening right now to 05/25/68. Great, great countdown. Soul may never have been better. Aretha, Wilson, Otis. Temps, Four Tops, etc etc. And Herb Alpert and Richard Harris debuting. And this is all before getting to the Top 20.
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Post by chrislc on Feb 10, 2020 21:54:46 GMT -5
I was listening to one of Joe's Cash Box Countdowns today and noticed that Junior Walker and the All Stars mentioned Twine Time in the lyrics to Shotgun, which was pretty cool because Twine Time by Alvin Cash and the Crawlers had just played right before Shotgun.
Has anything like that ever happened on AT40?
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Post by chrislc on Feb 4, 2020 14:43:09 GMT -5
Just noticed that the Jackson 5 were mentioned in Hallelujah Day (by themselves) and of course by Stevie Wonder in You Haven't Done Nothin'. So what other Casey-Era artists were mentioned in multiple Casey-Era songs by multiple artists? What do you mean by "Casey-Era"? 1970- August 1988 or up to when he retired from the Top 40 game in 2004? If you go beyond 1988, the Jackson 5 make another appearance in 1991 with "Here We Go, Let's Rock & Roll" by C + C Music Factory. Thinking a little more about that particular song, it would also help the Beatles to make the list as they were mentioned in "Rock & Roll", and also in "Life In A Northern Town" by The Dream Academy in 1986. Yeah, I should have been clearer on that, but I meant 1970-88. One song I thought of was Life Is A Rock by Reunion which mentioned many 1970-88 artists (including both the Osmond Brothers and Donny Osmond) but I don't know if any of those artists were mentioned in other 1970-88 hits.
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Post by chrislc on Feb 2, 2020 21:33:21 GMT -5
Just noticed that the Jackson 5 were mentioned in Hallelujah Day (by themselves) and of course by Stevie Wonder in You Haven't Done Nothin'.
So what other Casey-Era artists were mentioned in multiple Casey-Era songs by multiple artists?
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Post by chrislc on Feb 2, 2020 0:27:54 GMT -5
I was listening to an early 1975 countdown recently and I thought Black Water was starting during the first few seconds of Morning Side Of The Mountain. I wonder if that happened to folks listening to the radio back then. Quite a shock and arguable letdown!
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Post by chrislc on Jan 21, 2020 20:40:03 GMT -5
I'm always fascinated by the possiblity of a lyric I've heard my way for 40+ years to not be the "actual" lyric. I've always heard "local police". You guys are messing with my mind though! lol Today I got around to asking my wife what she thought (she was 14 when the song came out). I didn't mention any of the theories before she said she thought it started with "Louise". I wish there was a remastered version somewhere to prove the Louise/movies interpretation. The best quality available has a real "wall of sound" quality which makes it tough. Even if Louise/movies was proven, though, it wouldn't explain whay Kenny has switched to the local police version that he sang on Live From Daryl's House. To me. listening on Youtube with headphones, it sounds more than anything like Louie (not Louise) and "no moe moe vees". There is no hint of words starting with L or P. It's all very strange. On Wikipedia it is stated as fact that the kid was arrested. Louise's father wouldn't have done that. It's such a good record. The competition in the Top 5 was stiff to say the least with You're So Vain and Superstition and Me and Mrs. Jones and Crocodile Rock. Even though I am long since burned-out on Superstition and Crocodile Rock I must admit we were so spoiled with the great songs on Top 40 radio that winter. That level of competition makes the meteoric chart rise of You're So Vain all the more impressive. What a great singer and songwriter she was!
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Post by chrislc on Jan 20, 2020 15:44:44 GMT -5
And now all the countdowns from January 1964-1970 are uploaded. Here is the Top 40 from Cash Box for the week ending January 21, 1967-- If you haven't listened to the other shows from the month of January be sure to do a search for them. Thanks, Joe
Wow Joe that was an amazing chart discrepancy for It Takes Two. #14 in Billboard and I think you said #43 in Cashbox? I wonder what happened.
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