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Post by mstgator on Jul 17, 2008 21:46:08 GMT -5
mstgator: Not to stay too far off the subject, but we had Alabama's "Feels So Right," and later on in 1981, Conway Twitty's "Tight Fittin' Jeans" falling from 1 to 43 in a single week. So what was the third song? The other one I found was "You Don't Know Me" by Mickey Gilley, which tumbled from #1 to #47 on 9/26. I never listened to ACC back then, so I'm wondering what Bob Kingsley said about these huge drops... or did it just become so commonplace that year that he didn't mention them at all. |
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Post by mkarns on Jul 21, 2008 15:51:43 GMT -5
mstgator: Not to stay too far off the subject, but we had Alabama's "Feels So Right," and later on in 1981, Conway Twitty's "Tight Fittin' Jeans" falling from 1 to 43 in a single week. So what was the third song? Also, I think that Earl Thomas Conley's "Fire & Smoke" was about the only former No. 1 song to remain in the Top 40 for more than two weeks (I think it stayed three, by my research). Brian I think there was another one in Barbara Mandrell's "I Was Country When Country Wasn't Cool", which (IIRC) according to the official Billboard country chart book spent only 8 weeks in the country top 40, and on the 8th week (7/11/81) it hit the top. |
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Post by number39 on Nov 3, 2008 17:16:59 GMT -5
Of course, all of these records are moot if we count the recent era of digital download sales, etc. Just in the last two months alone, there have been 3 singles that have broken the record for largest leap to #1: 9/6 it was T.I who jumped from #71-1 with "Whatever You Like". In late October, he broke his own record, taking "Live Your Life" from #80-1. And then, the week before last (11/1/08), Britney Spears went almost the distance - #96 to #1 with "Womanizer". This is obviously not "classic era" AT40, but interesting to note nonetheless. I doubt I'll be humming these songs in 20 years, let alone next week.
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Post by reachinforthestars on Nov 3, 2008 23:43:31 GMT -5
I doubt I'll be humming these songs in 20 years, let alone next week. Tough to hum songs that lack melodies.  |
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