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Post by shadoeargentina on May 7, 2007 21:07:05 GMT -5
Very good topic. Internet brings me the posibilitty to find this lost gems that only hear in AT 40 shows, 15 or 20 years ago My lost gems recovered: 1989 - JHONNY KEMP - Birthday suite 1989 - STARSHIP - Its not enough 1990 - BRENT BOURGEOIS - Dare To Fall In Love 1991 - KEITH WASHINGTON - Kissing You 1991 - BREATHE - Does She Love That Man
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Post by pgfromwp on Jun 8, 2012 10:06:17 GMT -5
Just thought of a favorite "lost oldie" from 40 years ago:
"Small Beginnings" by Flash
Spent the entire month of August 1972 in the lower half of the top 40, but has rarely even been heard on the radio since. Thought it had a sound similar to that of Yes.
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Post by mayberrymiles on Jun 8, 2012 11:02:11 GMT -5
Guess this isn't technically the right topic for this comment, but one of my favorite "lost" songs from the 70's never reached AT 40 as far as I know. It spent three weeks in the Cashbox Top 100 (7/1-7/15/1978), reaching as high as #84. It got quite a bit of airplay on WOW in Omaha at the time, but I think Mike was from Kansas, so that might have had something to do with it. Great song, and you can check it out: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrX9WYALj9w
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Post by baylink on Jun 8, 2012 11:51:26 GMT -5
For myself, I find it interesting what songs I hear all the time, what songs I remember having heard, though no one ever plays them anymore, and what songs I don't remember ever having heard (there are generally one or two of those per countdown, tops).
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Post by artsmusic on Jun 9, 2012 12:52:38 GMT -5
cdman71031, not to plug a show but Barry Scott's lost 45s airs on WODS Boston Sunday nights. You can hear a lot of cool things there, and if you want to you can get a membership to listen online streams or download the shows.
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Post by mrjukebox on Jun 10, 2012 8:43:16 GMT -5
Thanks,artsmusic for mentioning "The Lost 45's"-It's a fabulous show!
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Post by caseyfan100 on Jun 10, 2012 10:56:30 GMT -5
I wish that sometimes VH-1 would listen to some of these 80's countdowns. I watched a One Hit Wonders show recently and they had John Cafferty and The Beaver Brown Band as a one hit wonder,I know that radio now only plays On The Dark Side,but I like Tough All Over much better.
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Post by rgmike on Jun 10, 2012 14:04:05 GMT -5
They have plenty of show playing the top hits of the 70's up to the 90's even the 00's but they should make a show playing the lower charting hits. It would be a show i would listen to every week. That was sort of like "Future Hits" -- they'd play the songs before they hit the top 40. In New York, that show was always on before CT40, which made a lot of programming sense. In a way, if you took Future Hits and combined it with CT40, it was sort of like listening to the top 50 songs. Just perusing this thread for the first time -- wow, I hadn't thought of "Future Hits" in years. It was a great concept. Back in the early '70s NYC's WPIX-FM, an excellent Top 40 station (that also happened to run AT40 on Sun mornings) had a weekend show for several years (late '72 to early '75 iirc) called "The Newies". The title was a play on "Oldies", as the legendary 'CBS-FM had just switched to its oldies format in '71. Every Sat and Sun afternoon for 2 hours they played new single releases, and listeners voted (by postcard!) on their favorites -- the Top 3 were played back the following week.
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Post by jlthorpe on Jun 10, 2012 14:36:21 GMT -5
I wish that sometimes VH-1 would listen to some of these 80's countdowns. I watched a One Hit Wonders show recently and they had John Cafferty and The Beaver Brown Band as a one hit wonder,I know that radio now only plays On The Dark Side,but I like Tough All Over much better. Yeah, I was watching one of those shows recently. They listed Tiffany (for "I Think We're Alone Now") and Bonnie Tyler (for "Total Eclipse of the Heart") as one-hit wonders.
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Post by mkarns on Jun 10, 2012 17:10:24 GMT -5
I wish that sometimes VH-1 would listen to some of these 80's countdowns. I watched a One Hit Wonders show recently and they had John Cafferty and The Beaver Brown Band as a one hit wonder,I know that radio now only plays On The Dark Side,but I like Tough All Over much better. Yeah, I was watching one of those shows recently. They listed Tiffany (for "I Think We're Alone Now") and Bonnie Tyler (for "Total Eclipse of the Heart") as one-hit wonders. That is idiotic. They don't even have to listen to the old countdowns to get the facts right, though I'd recommend it. They could simply buy a book of chart facts, look them up online, or in many cases use their own memories. Just because an artist may have had only one song played in the last month or so on the increasingly narrow oldies/retro stations and shows doesn't mean it was their only hit.
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Post by baylink on Jun 10, 2012 23:28:31 GMT -5
Or, they could check the relatively comprehensive Wikipedia article on this topic, which goes more than somewhat into depth on what exactly makes an act a one-hit wonder (and that's apart from "Centerfield" and its ilk: songs which never made the top 40 but program big on Classic Rock nowadays).
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Post by SFGuy on Jun 11, 2012 19:46:20 GMT -5
I wish that sometimes VH-1 would listen to some of these 80's countdowns. I watched a One Hit Wonders show recently and they had John Cafferty and The Beaver Brown Band as a one hit wonder,I know that radio now only plays On The Dark Side,but I like Tough All Over much better. Yeah, I was watching one of those shows recently. They listed Tiffany (for "I Think We're Alone Now") and Bonnie Tyler (for "Total Eclipse of the Heart") as one-hit wonders. I saw one today on VH-1 Classic videos from movies and they called Ray Parker, Jr. a one hit wonder. Ignoring Raydio, he had two top 5 hits and two more that hit the top 20. No way he's a one hit wonder.
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Post by superfan on Jun 12, 2012 11:30:36 GMT -5
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Post by matt on Jun 12, 2012 14:51:33 GMT -5
I wish that sometimes VH-1 would listen to some of these 80's countdowns. I watched a One Hit Wonders show recently and they had John Cafferty and The Beaver Brown Band as a one hit wonder,I know that radio now only plays On The Dark Side,but I like Tough All Over much better. Yeah, I was watching one of those shows recently. They listed Tiffany (for "I Think We're Alone Now") and Bonnie Tyler (for "Total Eclipse of the Heart") as one-hit wonders. Just about every VH-1 countdown that I have watched, I have found myself shaking my head at multiple times throughout the show. They always seem to have some real oddball choices - it's almost as if they are begging us to be annoyed with their selections. For instance, how they included Mr. Mister's "Broken Wings" on their "50 Most Awsomely Bad" songs of all time. I mean...maybe the writers of the list didn't care for that song, but seriously?? Not really a song that much of anyone would say when asked what are the worst songs ever. The John Cafferty song I can somewhat understand - probably are very few people who weren't into Top 40 music in the mid 80's that would remember "Tough All Over" or "C.I.T.Y." Tiffany--though I am not a fan of hers--is a laughable choice...not only did she have 4 or 5 top 10 hits, she had two #1s!! How do you ever justify putting her on that list?? And Bonnie Tyler...if you are going to try to claim that she's a one-hit wonder, which hit do you choose? Assuming they mean "Total Eclipse", but geez..."It's a Heartache" was a huge hit for her as well. Guessing that VH-1 was solely basing that list on what is in recurrent airplay today, and gave no regard to how all of each artist's hits fared back during their time of release.
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Post by bestmusicexpert on Jun 12, 2012 15:31:24 GMT -5
They do not hire people with ANY music knowledge at VH1, at least not that they let plan these shows.
They have also claimed (in various shows) that Murray Head, Martika & Falco were one hit wonders... None of them were in ANY WAY SHAPE OR FORM!
Personally, A one hit wonder is one that only had one top 40 hit. even if they hit #41 with another (Like Deodato for example). I don't care if you don't "remember" Vienna Calling, it was a hit...
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