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Post by woolebull on Aug 2, 2013 18:05:46 GMT -5
Speaking of Eye to Eye, a group with a similar name would hit the bottom of the Top 40 two years later. I don't know if it has been mentioned but I didn't remember, "10-9-8" by Face to Face at all from 1984. "10-9-8", in my opinion, is an amazing song, and I have AT 40 to thank for that. BTW, looking at the charts for the three weeks it was on it spent all three weeks at 38.
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Post by jdelachjr2002 on Mar 24, 2014 18:13:25 GMT -5
On last week's 1985 show, This Is Not America by David Bowie. I don't recall ever hearing it outside AT40 then and haven't heard it until classic AT40 since. Have you seen "The Falcon And The Snowman" (where the song was from)? Personally, I haven't but I'm curious.
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Post by bobbo428 on Mar 24, 2014 19:05:02 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... A lot of those "one-hit wonder" shows are bogus. VH1, Clear Channel, and other radio/TV companies seem to want to hire incompetent people. On several occasions, I have sent informative material to local radio stations and deejays, only to have it ignored. It must be the Peter Principle at work. I recall a Memorial Day special on One Hit Wonders on a Clear Channel top-40 station about a decade ago, and it was full of inaccuracies.
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Post by chrislc on Mar 24, 2014 19:24:56 GMT -5
The first "classic" AT 40 that I (and many others here) heard was in July of 1975. There were at least a half dozen songs I had never heard before on that show. The highest chart hit on that show that I had never heard was Love Land at #18. So whenever I hear Love Land (seldom) I think of AT 40 instead of thinking of the summer of 1970.
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Post by countdownmike on Mar 24, 2014 22:00:41 GMT -5
The most intriguing, expensive (for me and my sister) "lost" songs from AT40. I also heard AT40 in July 1975 and it was a rerun of the first show from July 1970. It was my first time hearing a show from before February 1971, when it hit my market. "Love Land" played on our two Top 40s and our R&B here but at different times. Our R&B played it starting in early January 1970. Then around March 1970 the FM Top 40 started playing it, then the AM Top 40 hit it around May so it stayed around a long time. It was confusing because my sister decided to buy the new album called "Express Yourself" that July 4th weekend to have the song, but "Love Land" was not on it as we found out when we got home! It was on the previous album we didn't even know about called "In The Jungle, Babe." So we settled for the single. Later we saw a friend's copy of "Express Yourself"--- it was reissued with a note on the album "Also includes the hit 'Love Land'" but our money was spent on that song. I don't recall anything being written about this.
It was the timing. We started really liking the song in the late spring but then the "Express Yourself" LP came out while "Love Land" was still on the radio. I later discovered the "Jungle" album and it was cool, but the album was by "The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band." So the group changed their name between the time that album came out and the time they released the "Love Land" single from it apparently. The song appears under two group names. The "Jungle" LP with "Love Land" is by The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band---the "Love Land" single from it is by Charles Wright & The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band.
And then to boot I found out watching a "Soul Train" rerun a few years ago that Charles Wright doesn't even sing the song. It's his drummer James Gadsen that sings the lead. It's Wright's composition though. Now when you listen you can tell, of course.
And THAT'S why "Love Land" is the most intriguing "lost" AT40 hit that I've ever known! And I love 1970 AT40s! Can't wait 'til summer. Thanks for posting, chrislc!
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Post by rayshae3 on Mar 25, 2014 19:08:40 GMT -5
On last week's 1985 show, This Is Not America by David Bowie. I don't recall ever hearing it outside AT40 then and haven't heard it until classic AT40 since. Have you seen "The Falcon And The Snowman" (where the song was from)? Personally, I haven't but I'm curious. Not on the top 40 radio. But I remember automated early smooth jazz/new age radio networks like The Wave and The Breeze (that also had the likes of Level 42, Dream Academy and Alan Parsons Project in their playlists in the mid-80s) had the song all over. See my b-side pick’s quick intro to Pat Metheny and the movie on page 5 of the thread from last week March 17: at40fg.proboards.com/thread/3528/weeks-side-classic?page=5
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Post by davewollenberg on Mar 25, 2014 20:52:27 GMT -5
bandit, Ian Gomm's 'Hold on', is prominently featured on Super hits of the '70s, volume 22.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Mar 25, 2021 15:48:27 GMT -5
How about songs you've never heard outside (classic) AT40? For me the main one is... from last week's 1985 show, This Is Not America by David Bowie ft. Pat Metheny.
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Post by mga707 on Mar 25, 2021 19:21:25 GMT -5
How about songs you've never heard outside (classic) AT40? For me the main one is... from last week's 1985 show, This Is Not America by David Bowie ft. Pat Metheny. Ah, unearthing a 'dead thread'. Always fun to go back and see if I added any long-forgotten verbiage (I did not, until now), and to remember those once-prolific posters who have disappeared... I have that particular 45, not that anyone cares, or should...
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Mar 25, 2021 21:01:50 GMT -5
How about songs you've never heard outside (classic) AT40? For me the main one is... from last week's 1985 show, This Is Not America by David Bowie ft. Pat Metheny. Ah, unearthing a 'dead thread'. Always fun to go back and see if I added any long-forgotten verbiage (I did not, until now), and to remember those once-prolific posters who have disappeared... I have that particular 45, not that anyone cares, or should... I care...well, I think it's cool you still have it. Wasn't much later in 1985 I started building a collection of 45s. First one was "Shout". I happen to really like "This Is Not America". I have that song as well. Will go back and read through this entire thread; I might be able to come up with something.
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Post by mga707 on Mar 25, 2021 21:26:36 GMT -5
Ah, unearthing a 'dead thread'. Always fun to go back and see if I added any long-forgotten verbiage (I did not, until now), and to remember those once-prolific posters who have disappeared... I have that particular 45, not that anyone cares, or should... I care...well, I think it's cool you still have it. Wasn't much later in 1985 I started building a collection of 45s. First one was "Shout". I happen to really like "This Is Not America". I have that song as well. Will go back and read through this entire thread; I might be able to come up with something. By '85 I was pretty much only buying 45s with picture sleeves, like this one, or 45s by artists who always put non-LP 'B'-sides on their 45s. And usually they had picture sleeves as well. Springsteen, Mellancamp, and Joel are three who by this time were putting non-album cuts on the backs of their 45 releases.
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Post by trekkielo on Mar 25, 2021 22:20:41 GMT -5
I care...well, I think it's cool you still have it. Wasn't much later in 1985 I started building a collection of 45s. First one was "Shout". I happen to really like "This Is Not America". I have that song as well. Will go back and read through this entire thread; I might be able to come up with something. By '85 I was pretty much only buying 45s with picture sleeves, like this one, or 45s by artists who always put non-LP 'B'-sides on their 45s. And usually they had picture sleeves as well. Springsteen, Mellancamp, and Joel are three who by this time were putting non-album cuts on the backs of their 45 releases. Electric Light Orchestra, Phil Collins and Genesis were also starting to put non-album cuts on the B-sides of their 45 releases in 1981, 1985 & 1986 respectively.
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Post by dth1971 on Mar 28, 2021 9:04:56 GMT -5
By '85 I was pretty much only buying 45s with picture sleeves, like this one, or 45s by artists who always put non-LP 'B'-sides on their 45s. And usually they had picture sleeves as well. Springsteen, Mellancamp, and Joel are three who by this time were putting non-album cuts on the backs of their 45 releases. Electric Light Orchestra, Phil Collins and Genesis were also starting to put non-album cuts on the B-sides of their 45 releases in 1981, 1985 & 1986 respectively. I think Men at Work also put non-album cuts on B-sides of their 45's mostly.
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Post by dth1971 on May 2, 2021 8:20:33 GMT -5
On AT40: The 70's 4/28/1979 = The Pointer Sisters "Happiness" may or may not be a lost 1979 song to me.
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Post by retrodaddy on May 2, 2021 9:29:27 GMT -5
Donna Allen's Serious is in this week's '87 countdown. Upon hearing it for the first time on a classic AT 40 show a few years back I didn't recognize it, but I liked it. Was surprised I didn't know a song that made it to #22 as I was listening to a lot of pop radio at the time, and definitely a lot of dance music.
Then I checked out the video for the song on YouTube. I immediately recognized it. That happens sometimes, not recognizing a song I haven't heard in a long time but remembering its accompanying video when I see it. Same thing happened with The Blow Monkeys' Digging Your Scene.
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