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Post by chrislc on Jan 19, 2020 23:24:22 GMT -5
"Louie, you're comin' with me. The local police" -- L&M version "You're coming with me Said the local police" -- Poison version This darn song has been an earworm for me for about a week. I just listened with headphones to L&M on YouTube and now I'm leaning towards the Louise/movies theory (meaning the guy shining the flashlight was Louise's father). I don't hear the words local police at all. I must add - it's a great record. I think I've listened to it more times in my brain in the last week than I did on the radio when I was 16 years old, 47 winters ago. Now - on Live From Daryl's House, Kenny clearly sang Ooowee and local police. But maybe he just went along with Poison on that?
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Post by chrislc on Jan 18, 2020 0:27:26 GMT -5
The first weekly show of the 1980s...AT40 from 1/12/1980, with Mike Cleary guest-hosting. Very interesting show. First off, he mentions chart movements based on the 1/5/1980 chart, which as we all know, wasn't counted down due to the Top 50 Of The 1970s special aired that weekend. (To which I'm sure some are relieved that they won't ever hear "Please Don't Go" announced at #1...LOL! ) Many weekly shows coming off the year-end countdowns don't mention the chart movements (but this one does), some of which include a chart not counted down, which may throw off some listeners. I'm still early in hour #2. Great stories on Supertramp, "turntable turkeys" (car stereo tech), and more to come. Some listeners might have considered the choice of #1 songs on that weekend a no-win situation!
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Post by chrislc on Jan 17, 2020 18:16:24 GMT -5
"Louie, you're comin' with me. The local police" -- L&M version "You're coming with me Said the local police" -- Poison version Thanks. It always sounded to me something like - Ooowee you're comin'with me - something something POlice - but I just got around to looking it up.
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Post by chrislc on Jan 17, 2020 16:30:22 GMT -5
Okay so was it -
Oowee, you're coming with me. The local police or Louie, you're comin' with me. The local police or Louise, you're comin' with me And no more movies or Oo-wee You're coming with me Said the local police
or a hybrid of those? or something else entirely?
I have never before seen FOUR different interpretations in the first four Google hits!
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Post by chrislc on Jan 15, 2020 20:15:40 GMT -5
Better late than never. The delay was ridiculous. Now Pat Benatar seems to be the WTF omission.
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Post by chrislc on Jan 12, 2020 21:18:24 GMT -5
I was listening yesterday to a show from late February 1973 on Archive Org. Casey began the show saying that there were "five fresh songs" entering the Top 40.
The first fresh song at #40 was the one about a dead skunk. The joke didn't seem intentional but maybe it was. Or maybe the writers intended the joke and Casey just read the script without thinking about what he was reading.
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Post by chrislc on Jan 11, 2020 18:10:29 GMT -5
I know there is a philosophy that annoying ads can be effective - but I swear I would rather go without insurance. Or pay twice as much somewhere else. I would much enjoy seeing a flock of agitated emus turned loose in their corporate boardroom... I know, right? Seriously, it is really aggravating when it's clear that a company is choosing to annoy us rather than inform or entertain us. But it must work! I don't get it. And the thing is - I don't hear the message about them customizing insurance - because I grab the remote when their stupid ads come on. I hate that company. Okay so I just looked up their ad agency. It's Goodby Silverstein & Partners. So I hate them too. I think I will boycott all of their clients. Oh crap - Frito-Lay. Okay MOST of their clients.
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Post by chrislc on Jan 11, 2020 18:03:16 GMT -5
You know, whether or not they advertise on Premiere, I've gotta say - these Liberty Mutual TV commercials absolutely suck (and have ever since they started with the statue in the background a few years ago - and now there are those - and the emu - and other variations). I do believe someone high up at the company thinks they are amusing like the GEICO spots which for the most part are brilliant. But Liberty Mututal employees must just CRINGE when one of those ads comes on, and they are on ALL the time. They are ponderous. But you know that Liberty customizes your car insurance, so you only pay for what you need. Don't you think that everybody in American needs to hear that message at least ten times a day?! I know there is a philosophy that annoying ads can be effective - but I swear I would rather go without insurance. Or pay twice as much somewhere else.
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Post by chrislc on Jan 11, 2020 17:38:05 GMT -5
You know, whether or not they advertise on Premiere, I've gotta say - these Liberty Mutual TV commercials absolutely suck (and have ever since they started with the statue in the background a few years ago - and now there are those - and the emu - and other variations). I do believe someone high up at the company thinks they are amusing like the GEICO spots which for the most part are brilliant. But Liberty Mututal employees must just CRINGE when one of those ads comes on, and they are on ALL the time. They are ponderous.
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Post by chrislc on Jan 11, 2020 17:16:25 GMT -5
Just heard this one on Archive Org. On 11/04/1978 Casey said that Alive Again by Chicago "looks like it could be one of their biggest". Ohh Casey, you should have known better by then to overreact to a big early chart move!
It wound up being their 16th biggest hit to date.
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Post by chrislc on Jan 10, 2020 21:52:45 GMT -5
Clearly you haven't heard the Guy Lombardo version. Is that on the same album as the calypso version of "Bad to the Bone"? Yes! Available at fine music stores across Austria.
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Post by chrislc on Jan 10, 2020 17:07:01 GMT -5
You can do the foxtrot to "Dirty Laundry." Whiskey Tango Foxtrot? Now we know... Clearly you haven't heard the Guy Lombardo version.
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Post by chrislc on Jan 6, 2020 22:37:59 GMT -5
Have we done this one yet? I don't remember. I know we did Arms and Charms and there were a lot of those.
Anyway..I'm old, so I'll start with Pre-Casey (and after all groovy is pre-1970 though I think Shaggy must have said the word more than a few times)
Do You Believe In Magic and Spooky
And hey they were hits in the 70s too!
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Post by chrislc on Dec 26, 2019 0:09:15 GMT -5
In reference to the great Phil Spector Christmas album, I thought I read once that Phil Spector deferred the release of the album until Christmas 1964 because of the Kennedy assassination. If you have info on that, please fill me in. The original release date of the album is 11/22/63. It wasn't changed. And also released that day - With The Beatles
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Post by chrislc on Dec 23, 2019 13:38:06 GMT -5
I was thinking possibly it was 1970, with Feliz Navidad and Merry Christmas Darling and maybe others that year? But then I thought of 1963, with Phil Spector's Christmas Album and the Andy Williams Christmas Album - just between those two LPs there must be a least a half dozen songs we have heard every year since then, and Do You Hear What I Hear by Bing, and probably others, so 1963 has to be #1, right? I guess #2 might be 1987 - the year the first A Very Special Christmas CD came out. Chris, You missed Christmas classics like The Chipmunk Song , a #1 hit from 1958. I know that many of the trades (Billboard, Cash Box & Record World) had separate Christmas music charts but I wonder what the top selling Christmas LP's would be--Mannheim Steamroller, perhaps--I checked the RIAA website and found out that Fresh Aire Christmas has sold over 6 million copies. Of course, the #1 selling Christmas single is White Christmas by Bing Crosby with sales at about 50 million copies (worldwide). Merry Christmas,
Joe
Hey Joe, Merry Christmas, and thank you so much for the year-round gift of those great countdown shows. 1958 and 1957 both have to rank right up there with Brenda Lee and The Chipmunks in 58 and Bobby Helms and Elvis in 1957. But 1963 has to be the champ, with Darlene Love, the Crystals, the Ronettes and Andy Williams all having two or three songs released that year that we have heard every year since then (almost 60 years!) Also in 63 the aforementioned Do You Hear What I Hear by Bing and Pretty Paper by Roy Orbison.
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