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Post by Ponderous Man on Jun 13, 2012 5:00:44 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. If you're talking about what VH1 Classic is airing, it's not a countdown. It's just a show called "One Hit Wonders". They play music videos on there. BTW, on that show, they listed Peter Cetera as a one hit wonder with "Glory Of Love", even though they forgot about "The Next Time I Fall". Well, the researchers make mistakes, but at least the show has great eye candy in Carrie Keagan.
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Post by jdelachjr2002 on Jun 13, 2012 17:05:06 GMT -5
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. If you're talking about what VH1 Classic is airing, it's not a countdown. It's just a show called "One Hit Wonders". They play music videos on there. BTW, on that show, they listed Peter Cetera as a one hit wonder with "Glory Of Love", even though they forgot about "The Next Time I Fall". Well, the researchers make mistakes, but at least the show has great eye candy in Carrie Keagan. And they don't even count the hits Cetera had with Chicago.
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Post by baylink on Jun 13, 2012 19:32:17 GMT -5
Chicago was a separate act. and wasn't Next Time a duet?
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Post by PapaVanTwee on Jun 13, 2012 22:15:01 GMT -5
Chicago was a separate act. and wasn't Next Time a duet? It was, with Amy Grant. But One Good Woman went to #4 in 1988, and Restless Heart to 35 in 1992. I don't see him as a one hit wonder.
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Post by PapaVanTwee on Jun 13, 2012 22:19:07 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. That hit #22 in 1985, and don't forget C-I-T-Y at #18 in '85, and Tender Years to #31 in 1984 from the Eddie and the Cruisers Soundtrack. Again, not quite a one hit wonder.
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Post by baylink on Jun 14, 2012 15:16:54 GMT -5
And not even, in my own favorite term, a "one-and-a-half hit wonder". :-)
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Post by michaelcasselman on Jun 14, 2012 18:12:12 GMT -5
VH1 's special is more of a "Acts that had one HUGE hit and then fizzled into pop-culture obscurity" show. And even then, that's not always accurate, either. Then again, I'm not going to hold VH1 to the same standards of 'chart accuracy' that I would the History Channel if they ran such a show.
Hell, it's hard enough holding them to a 'Video Hits' standard, given that videos have fallen off the radar with them and the other former video-centric Viacom channels. These specials are better known for the snarky comments made by the 'celebrities' that get roped into commenting on the songs... how many original ways ARE there for them to say "Oh, YEAH,... I remember THAT song..."?
They do (more often than not) acknowledge that these acts aren't 'pure' one-hit wonders in the literal or traditional sense when they talk about their history.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Aug 15, 2012 12:21:49 GMT -5
Some of the early 1970 shows have gems like Crabby Appleton, Casey spelling out M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I, and this past weekend's Groovy Situation by Gene Chandler.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Aug 15, 2012 17:32:52 GMT -5
Does anybody have any old copies of Future hits or no where i9 could get them and does anybody know the history of future hits. This was my all time favorite show nextr to AT40. From what I remember it was on from the fall of 1984 I descovered it around October/November until 1994 When i heard a version in the middle of the night i think around 4 in the morning once on Z-100 new york. ^^^^What he said.
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Post by OldSchoolAT40Fan on Aug 16, 2012 18:26:26 GMT -5
It was, with Amy Grant. But One Good Woman went to #4 in 1988, and Restless Heart to 35 in 1992. I don't see him as a one hit wonder. Speaking of Restless Heart, there is also a forgotten hit that was on the top 40 in June 1987. That country ballad was "I'll Still Be Loving You". It was the first country-crossover hit on the top 40 in a certain number of years, and, interestingly enough, the last one to hit the top 40 until "Achy Breaky Heart" 5 years later. Also, in June 1987, who can remember Europe's "Rock The Night"? Very rarely heard nowadays. And earlier in 1987, remember "We Connect" by Stacey Q, "Talk To Me" by Chico DeBarge, and "As We Lay" by Shirley Murdock? You never hear them on the radio anymore. You also don't hear Michael Jackson's "Butterflies" from 2002 on the radio or anywhere anymore. That was MJ's last top 40 hit, if I recall - he hasn't had a top 40 hit since. EDIT: "Don't Leave Me This Way" by The Communards, which spent one week on AT40 in March 1987, is virtually never heard in any U.S. radio station anymore. Maybe more so in Europe. I am hearing that particular song in Second Life as of this edit!
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Post by matt on Aug 17, 2012 14:00:58 GMT -5
It was, with Amy Grant. But One Good Woman went to #4 in 1988, and Restless Heart to 35 in 1992. I don't see him as a one hit wonder. Speaking of Restless Heart, there is also a forgotten hit that was on the top 40 in June 1987. That country ballad was "I'll Still Be Loving You". It was the first country-crossover hit on the top 40 in a certain number of years, and, interestingly enough, the last one to hit the top 40 until "Achy Breaky Heart" 5 years later. EDIT: "Don't Leave Me This Way" by The Communards, which spent one week on AT40 in March 1987, is virtually never heard in any U.S. radio station anymore. Maybe more so in Europe. I am hearing that particular song in Second Life as of this edit! Restless Heart had a great sound--somewhat akin to the Eagles with their country rock and vocal harmonies. I remember hearing their greatest hits back in the early 90's, and they had quite a few good songs in addition to this one. It is somewhat surprising what a dearth of country crossovers there were in the late 80's. Guess country just wasn't "cool" at the time. Somehow, Billy Ray Cyrus made it cool again...though in retrospect, it's hard to figure how that happened. As for the Communards, they had a very good disco flavored remake of "Never Can Say Goodbye" in early 1988 if I recall. One might refer to it as an uptempo gd number.
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Post by mct1 on Aug 18, 2012 16:29:19 GMT -5
Speaking of Restless Heart, there is also a forgotten hit that was on the top 40 in June 1987. That country ballad was "I'll Still Be Loving You". It was the first country-crossover hit on the top 40 in a certain number of years, and, interestingly enough, the last one to hit the top 40 until "Achy Breaky Heart" 5 years later. Restless Heart had a great sound--somewhat akin to the Eagles with their country rock and vocal harmonies. I remember hearing their greatest hits back in the early 90's, and they had quite a few good songs in addition to this one. It is somewhat surprising what a dearth of country crossovers there were in the late 80's. Guess country just wasn't "cool" at the time. Somehow, Billy Ray Cyrus made it cool again...though in retrospect, it's hard to figure how that happened. Before "I'll Still Be Loving You", the last Top 40 hit to feature a country artist was "What About Me?" by Kenny Rogers with Kim Carnes and James Ingram, which was on the chart in late 1984. Given that it was a collarboration between Rogers and two non-country artists, that it wasn't a particularly country-flavored song, and that it wasn't a country hit of any significance (per Wikipedia it only hit #70 on the country chart, and I suspect it wasn't really promoted to the country market at all), though, I'd put an asterisk next to it. Aside from "What About Me", the last Top 40 hit by a country artist was a solo single by Kenny Rogers, "This Woman", from early 1984. Even that one didn't actually cross over, though; it was on a single where one side was promoted to the country market ("Buried Treasure", a #3 hit on the country chart), the other to the AC and pop markets ("This Woman"). This was not an uncommon practice in the '70s and '80s. To my knowledge, the last country song before "I'll Still Be Loving You" to truly cross over was Deborah Allen's "Baby I Lied", which was in the Top 40 at the very end of 1983 and very beginning of 1984. In any event, if we don't count "What About Me?", there was a period of about eight years (exactly how long depends on whether you start the clock with "Baby I Lied" or "This Woman") in which "I'll Still Be Loving You" was the only country song to hit the Top 40. The only other country song I know of that even came close to the Top 40 during that period was Dan Seals' "Bop", which hit #42 in 1985. In 1985, John Fogerty also did the opposite of what Rogers did with "This Woman" -- while his song "The Old Man Down The Road" was on the pop chart, its flip side "Big Train (From Memphis)" was promoted to country radio and reached #38 on the country chart. "Achy Breaky Heart" hit #4 on the post-Soundscan Billboard Hot 100, but it wasn't as big of a pop airplay hit as that peak position might suggest to someone familiar with the tendencies of the pre-1991 chart. It only hit #38 on Billboard's airplay chart (which I think AT40 with Shadoe was using at the time) and #27 on R&R's airplay-based chart (which I think Casey and Rick Dees were both using at the time). I guess it was a consensus Top 40 hit, but not as big as you might think from its Hot 100 peak.
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Post by mkarns on Aug 18, 2012 16:39:11 GMT -5
In any event, if we don't count "What About Me?", there was a period of about eight years (exactly how long depends on whether you start the clock with "Baby I Lied" or "This Woman") in which "I'll Still Be Loving You" was the only country song to hit the Top 40. The only other country song I know of that even came close to the Top 40 during that period was Dan Seals' "Bop", which hit #42 in 1985. In 1985, John Fogerty also did the opposite of what Rogers did with "This Woman" -- while his song "The Old Man Down The Road" was on the pop chart, its flip side "Big Train (From Memphis)" was promoted to country radio and reached #38 on the country chart. "You Got It" by Roy Orbison went top 10 on both the pop and country charts in 1989, although I'd say that it was really a pop song that was successfully promoted to both formats, because of Roy's singing and sentimental value (it was released shortly after his death).
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Post by caseyfan100 on Aug 18, 2012 17:55:15 GMT -5
In any event, if we don't count "What About Me?", there was a period of about eight years (exactly how long depends on whether you start the clock with "Baby I Lied" or "This Woman") in which "I'll Still Be Loving You" was the only country song to hit the Top 40. The only other country song I know of that even came close to the Top 40 during that period was Dan Seals' "Bop", which hit #42 in 1985. In 1985, John Fogerty also did the opposite of what Rogers did with "This Woman" -- while his song "The Old Man Down The Road" was on the pop chart, its flip side "Big Train (From Memphis)" was promoted to country radio and reached #38 on the country chart. "You Got It" by Roy Orbison went top 10 on both the pop and country charts in 1989, although I'd say that it was really a pop song that was successfully promoted to both formats, because of Roy's singing and sentimental value (it was released shortly after his death). . You Got It also went top 10 on the album rock and adult contemporary charts making it the only song to hit the top 10 on those four very different and diverse charts.
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Post by matt on Aug 2, 2013 16:18:58 GMT -5
Good "lost" hit played on the 7/24/82 show: "Nice Girls" by Eye to Eye. A song that I don't recall ever hearing when it was out, but a fun discovery for me thanks to AT40 - The 80's...
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