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Post by chrislc on Dec 22, 2019 16:47:04 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.
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Post by chrislc on Dec 20, 2019 18:58:34 GMT -5
I also enjoyed the countdown as well, and was really surprised to see that "A Letter To My Teenage Son" dropped from 6 to 40--what a plunge! OK, Joe and Doofus, is this a record for the biggest drop within the Top 40? I always love both of your insights to the CB charts! Holidays blessing to all! I think the 34 position plunge for that spoken word recording it the biggest drop I am aware of but perhaps Mike knows of a bigger one with in the Top 40. I know that a few songs dropped out of the top 40 from the Top 10--but as you suggest this is probably the biggest drop within the 40. And in just one week Victor Lundberg would HAVE...NO.... TOP... 40... HIT!
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Post by chrislc on Dec 20, 2019 17:25:25 GMT -5
As we head into the busy Christmas Holiday week end--here is another Cash Box Countdown from the week ending December 23, 1967. The countdown features two artist with the same song, a Christmas song and the first Top 40 hit for a singer born in Arizona. Merry Christmas to all the Countdown listeners &
Thanks for listening-- Joe
Joe this was a great surprise as I got to work today. Thanks for these great shows. That was a cool coincidence with Johnny Rivers and those posts last week! (unless my post inspired your comment, that is
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Post by chrislc on Dec 17, 2019 15:19:31 GMT -5
I feel like this must have happened at least twice with Johnny Rivers.
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Post by chrislc on Dec 17, 2019 15:03:18 GMT -5
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Post by chrislc on Dec 7, 2019 14:46:03 GMT -5
>38: AT THIS MOMENT - BILLY VERA & THE BEATERS (debut) - Meh-tasticness best describes this song. I didn't like this very much and what irked me is that, while many cool songs were whittled down on the Top 100 of 1987, they played this song in full, even the stinkin' ending where he was really milking it for all it was worth. I don't see why the freak everyone was egging him on by cheering him on at the end. <
They were drunk.
What that doesn't explain, however, is why people wanted to buy this single and hear it on the radio. I guess it was something like the appeal of Let Her In ten years earlier and Snoopy Vs The Red Baron ten years before that. Kids.
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Post by chrislc on Nov 26, 2019 21:12:24 GMT -5
Does phone count? In 1980 I talked to Helen Reddy for a while before she hung up on me. Long story.
And no she didn't say "leave me alone". She didn't roar either. But I guess she might have thought the way I was handling the call was no way to treat her.
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Post by chrislc on Nov 18, 2019 18:48:08 GMT -5
I wonder what this means for the jocks on the 70s Channel. Or is AT40 only on a couple of times each week?
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Post by chrislc on Nov 18, 2019 1:41:57 GMT -5
I discovered this song two days ago and I must have listened to it a dozen times since then www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HnOFwqpLRQDread, hopelessness and mourning, but the lyrics are positive. Wow. Just wow.
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Post by chrislc on Nov 13, 2019 21:12:02 GMT -5
Hey check this out. I had Carly Simon doing Kim Carnes' part and it turned out she was just warming up for this www.youtube.com/watch?v=rou_8F9o-zk&list=PLdSLbDcBCOwKYI9VMvcUCeKsI_UBYTBh6&index=4I never knew this song existed until I just heard it early in Eric Burdon's YouTube string. Wow. 237 Eric Burdon songs. YouTube is so awesome. Eddie Fisher has a great string. What a singer he was! Why did he get all the blame with Liz getting so little?
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Post by chrislc on Nov 10, 2019 20:52:37 GMT -5
Here is an early Halloween treat--it's the Top 40 pop hits from 50 years ago from the Cash Box chart, for the week ending November 1, 1969. The 1960's are coming to a close but there is no hint of the direction that pop music would take in the 1970's (yet).
There are still about 40 shows to be posted in this series of countdown shows that feature the hits from every month from January 1964-June 1970 (the Beatles years). Joe
Joe, I'm still trying to get over the October 1964 countdown. Very depressing. Death Of An Angel and Last Kiss and back-to-back, Don Covay and Marvin Gaye both singing that they were going to jump into a river over some girl (presumably two different girls). And Leader Of The Pack and Ringo were on the way. Yikes!
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Post by chrislc on Nov 10, 2019 0:58:10 GMT -5
Was this one mentioned yet? It always sounded to me like whoever was playing the piano hit a wrong key at 2:01 of Wishing You Were Here. It was really noticeable and kind of messed up the song for me because it seemed like Chicago didn't care enough to fix it, but it didn't have the charm of some other messups that were left in other hit songs. It just sounded sloppy. I hear it even on this remaster www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zv0OwvsP0ekOr is it just an intentional but very awkward-sounding attempt at a complex Beach Boys-type harmony? Maybe the same notes as at other points in the song but not played quite as smoothly that time?
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Post by chrislc on Nov 9, 2019 0:42:01 GMT -5
In Judy In Disguise, John Fred sings "come to me tonight" double tracked (or with another singer) the first time, but sings "come with me tonight" the second time as his double-track (or the other singer) is again singing "come to me tonight".
Definitely not something that was noticeable on 1968 AM radio!
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Post by chrislc on Nov 4, 2019 21:27:06 GMT -5
This is a fascinating thread. One performer nobody has thought of, but who'd fit right in with the cause, is the late Harry Chapin. In early '75, he was just coming off the success of his charttopper "Cats In The Cradle", plus he had the classic "Taxi" as a hit two years earlier. More importantly, eliminating world hunger was a charitable cause very near and dear to his heart. During his career, he performed MANY concerts solely for charity and raised thousands, perhaps millions, of dollars towards feeding the hungry. In fact, I could easily picture him organizing this whole "We Are The World '75". Absolutely right. Edited.
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Post by chrislc on Nov 4, 2019 18:41:25 GMT -5
How about the big name female soloists of the early 70s: Carol King, Linda Ronstadt, Joni Mitchell? I thought of Linda - but then realized that in January 75 her legacy was only a couple of hits and they were both several years before that. Of course she was then bulleting with a huge one but it wasn't her legacy yet. I thought of Carole and Joni but, being Hollywood, there weren't many female roles on We Are The World, so I didn't know where to put them.
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