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Post by tarobe on Mar 20, 2011 9:59:24 GMT -5
Songs that made AT40...but shouldn't have? Why, Diana Ross "Pieces of Ice"! ...for the week ending August 13, 1983. It was #38, which should've been "It's Inevitable" by Charlie.  Heh... in that vein, how about "La Grange" by ZZ Top.  "La Grange" did hit the Top 40! True, it only made #41 on the Hot 100, but AT40 made up its own chart and it made #33 there. |
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Post by PapaVanTwee on Mar 25, 2011 14:32:59 GMT -5
Anything by Leif Garrett. "Heartbeat" by Don Johnson. "Respect Yourself" by Bruce Willis. In that vein, she's like the wind, by Patrick Swayzee. |
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Post by lasvegaskid on Aug 23, 2024 18:59:38 GMT -5
Songs that made AT40...but shouldn't have? Why, Diana Ross "Pieces of Ice"! ...for the week ending August 13, 1983. It was #38, which should've been "It's Inevitable" by Charlie. Was Charlie getting robbed out of 1 of their two top 40 weeks the biggest AT40 screw job ever?? |
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Post by LC on Aug 23, 2024 21:48:17 GMT -5
Songs that made AT40...but shouldn't have? Why, Diana Ross "Pieces of Ice"! ...for the week ending August 13, 1983. It was #38, which should've been "It's Inevitable" by Charlie. Was Charlie getting robbed out of 1 of their two top 40 weeks the biggest AT40 screw job ever?? I'd put not getting to hear Alice Cooper's "Clones" because of a special countdown up there, too. Of course, the biggest *Billboard* screw job was denying Gerry Rafferty that week at #1 with Baker Street.... |
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Post by dth1971 on Aug 24, 2024 16:59:41 GMT -5
"Me So H" by 2 Live Crew should have not made the Shadoe AT40 reaches. Same for "Mind Playing Tricks on Me" by the Geto Boys.
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Post by mkarns on Aug 24, 2024 19:25:08 GMT -5
One song heard on AT40 that shouldn't have been was "Los Paraguayos" by Rod Stewart; it was the B-side of "Angel" which made the top 40 for only one week (12/16/72) and Casey played the wrong side. (This has been corrected in Premiere's replays of that show.)
A couple of "screw jobs" like those discussed above happened to "Can I Get a Witness" by Lee Michaels (12/25/71) and "Tell Her She's Lovely" by El Chicano (12/22/73), both of which were denied their sole week on AT40 due to special Christmas countdowns. In El Chicano's case it was their only top 40 hit of the AT40 era--but if the countdown had started just two months earlier they would have been heard on it with "Viva Tirado", which peaked at #28 in May 1970.
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