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Post by mstgator on Jun 4, 2023 21:50:40 GMT -5
I believe the single version of Asia's "Only Time Will Tell" was an out-of-sequence edit of the LP. I think Leo Sayer's "You Make Me Feel Like Dancing" also had some pieces moved around at the end (rather than just a standard edit).
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Post by mstgator on Mar 23, 2023 20:48:23 GMT -5
Was this produced and distributed by the same production company and syndication distributor of "America's Top 10"? Yes, it was.
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Post by mstgator on Jul 24, 2022 15:22:56 GMT -5
And similar to the Dr. Dre example, Fergie was a backup singer on Martika's "Toy Soldiers" (Rick Dees even mentioned her real name - Stacy Ferguson - in a countdown from that time) before she charted with Wild Orchid (on CT40), The Black Eyed Peas, or solo. On this week's AT40, Seacrest mentioned Fergie's singing on "Toy Soldiers", as her vocals have now appeared on number one hits in three separate decades (her hit "Glamorous" is prominently sampled on Jack Harlow's recent chart topper "First Class").
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Post by mstgator on Mar 22, 2015 11:50:16 GMT -5
Nicety has been around for over 600 years as a noun. The song uses it as an adjective. But doesn't she use it like a mix of "nice" and "nasty"? Even if the word exists, she uses it as a made up word, right? Yes, she also pronounces it differently (two syllables in her made up version vs. three syllables in the actual real word).
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Post by mstgator on Feb 5, 2015 22:59:10 GMT -5
The Beach Boys' cover of "California Dreamin'" also hit Solid Gold's top 10, IIRC.
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Post by mstgator on Oct 5, 2014 14:55:45 GMT -5
The version I purchased in 1989 was a vinyl 45 on Polydor. Billboard shows that there was also a cassette single with the Polydor version (although their charts weren't always 100% accurate with regards to configurations), so it's possible that most of the sales came from the original version anyway and not the new recording on Curb. Unfortunately we'll probably never know for sure, unless somebody happens to unearth an article from that time discussing the situation.
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Post by mstgator on Oct 2, 2014 18:30:11 GMT -5
Maybe the problem was that Benny did redo the song and some stations played the new version, cutting the number of airplays up between the two recordings (and to be honest I have no idea if Benny ever did release the 1989 version as a single). The 1989 re-recording was released as a single by Curb (incidentally the same label that released the 1990 re-recording of "Unchained Melody"). I can't say that I've ever heard it, just the original version rereleased on Polydor.
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Post by mstgator on Sept 29, 2014 17:28:02 GMT -5
I'm pretty sure they did. If the song wasn't actively being promoted by the label, they wouldn't rechart it. If I remember correctly, the same rule kept old songs from re-entering the chart in 2001 after 9/11. But "Into The Night" was being promoted, at least some version of the single. Benny even recorded a new version. That same year Sheriff wasn't even a group and they went to number one with a reissue. But I'm with you, something had to have held it back. We talked about it before and some people contend that they never really heard the song. I personally heard it quite a bit in 1989. I can't imagine it didn't have enough airplay to have cracked the Top 40. It went to #25 on Hot 100 Airplay, which was pretty comparable to R&R's pop chart at that time, so it definitely should have charted if R&R didn't have some other reason to keep it off. It is strange that of all the old singles that got a significant airplay rebirth in the 1986-90 period (and there were quite a few), Benny Mardones was the only one to not impact R&R.
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Post by mstgator on Sept 27, 2014 22:30:21 GMT -5
One from this era: The 2009 number one song, "Boom Boom Pow" by the Black Eyed Peas were "Two Thousand and Late" when mentioning 2008. I thought about that one, but if you listen closely to Fergie the specific year she mentions is 3008... so the song is in fact 999 years ahead of it's time.
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Post by mstgator on Sept 22, 2014 19:35:06 GMT -5
Yes, I noticed it too, as I too was going to pst this (I thought it went to #19?) whats even more odd is it was the 2nd song to come out of the EVEN NOW album. And the third and fouth single from the album, COPACABANA and SOMEWHERE IN THE NIGHT both hit the top 10, and ususally the 2nd single off a hit album does better than the 3rd and 4th. Actually, I believe it was the rush release of "Copacabana" that caused the sudden departure of "Even Now". Had "Copacabana" been released a few months later, "Even Now" would have likely hit the Top Ten. But I think they wanted to release "Copacabana" when they did in time for the summer, since it had that summerlike feel to it. "Even Now" might have done even better if it were released in the fall (around the time "Ready To Take A Chance Again" was released), or maybe even the winter (after RTTACA had its run). "Copacabana" may have also been rush-released when it was in order to tie in with the movie Foul Play, which hit theaters in July (the film also featured "Ready To Take A Chance Again"). In retrospect, as you said, "Even Now" should have just been held back and released as the fourth LP single after the two movie tie-in songs and "Somewhere In The Night" had run their course.
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Post by mstgator on Sept 22, 2014 19:01:56 GMT -5
And I can Iheartlaughing at all the people stuck in the traffic getting to it when I see it on the news. Yep, the backups on iHeart275 and iHeart4 will be epic.
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Post by mstgator on Sept 14, 2014 12:41:31 GMT -5
And one that we have argued on here before, but Phillip Bailey was never credited for "Easy Lover", at least by Billboard standards. Close... It was Phil Collins who got the shaft, as Philip Bailey was credited as sole artist on that song.
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Post by mstgator on Sept 14, 2014 12:30:23 GMT -5
I checked Google Books and they don't have any April 1975 issues. They do have the June 14,1975 issue however, and "Get Down Tonight" is listed as a "New Entry" at #93; not a re-entry. The next issue available on Google Books is 8/9/75 - 9 weeks later - and "Get Down Tonight" is listed as being on the chart for 9 weeks. Must be a case where Billboard "forgot" to include the first chart run, as Whitburn shows the song first debuting on the Soul chart on 4/12/75 (and would spend a cumulative 23 weeks on).
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Post by mstgator on Sept 14, 2014 12:10:23 GMT -5
Shadoe told of the same incident in a 1988 AT40 show as a stretch story for "How Can I Fall" by Breathe. That story has fascinated me since I first read about it in the Guinness Book of World Records back in 1982.
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Post by mstgator on Sept 14, 2014 11:57:14 GMT -5
I would be very interested in an R&R book, similar to the Billboard, Cash Box and Record World books he's put out. Since Rick and Casey used them for many years, it's the chart I'm the most familiar with. Well 1973-2006 anyway. When R&R was bought out by Billboard, it was basically just the Billboard Radio Monitor with R&R's name. Did R&R ever do deep charts with 75, 100, or more rungs like the BB/CB/RW charts did? Everything I've seen of theirs was 40 or 50 positions. Fine for what it is, but I think Whitburn's books have evolved in that one of their main purposes is in rediscovering and listing as many obscure and forgotten oldies as possible. Especially as most of them can now actually be heard on the internet. Thus the additions of the regional songs and the compilations of the obscurity-filled CB and RW "bubbling under" equivalents, and the disappearance of the "price guides." A 40 or 50 position chart just isn't going to uncover too many truly forgotten 45s that aren't on any of the already compiled charts. True enough, although for those of us who still listened to Top 40 radio post-1991, there are quite a few songs that hit the lower rungs of the R&R chart but failed to make the Hot 100 (or Hot 100 Airplay, or even Bubbling Under) due to not crossing over to other formats. And of course it's fun to be able to compare peak positions among the different trades without having to go online for the R&R peaks.
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