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Post by bobbo428 on Oct 12, 2021 23:52:44 GMT -5
"I Go Crazy" was only one spot away from hitting the Top 40 for the 10-15-77 episode. It would end its Top 40 run on 4-15-78! In addition, one of the optional extras, "Falling," debuted in the Hot 100 forty-four years ago this week but wouldn't peak until early April, almost the exact opposite time of year. The record company had realized the tune in late August because they probably thought a song with that title had an autumnal sound because of falling leaves. However, it sounded more like a late-winter/early-spring tune musically to me--a possible explanation why it was such a late bloomer on the chart. It entered the top 40 the same week as the decidedly springy "Always and Forever," by Heatwave (2/4/78). On the other hand, "I Go Crazy" had an autumnal sound in my opinion. If it had a normal chart run (like Davis's 1978 hit "Sweet Life"), it would have made the top 40 by early October and fallen off by mid or late December, thus staying within the fall-season parameters.
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Post by matt on Oct 13, 2021 10:45:16 GMT -5
Never liked "Run Joey Run"-I enjoyed the follow up hit a lot better-That was "Last Game Of The Season". Opposite for me--"Last Game Of the Season" is one of the worst things ever recorded, IMO. As I said above, "Joey" has a touch of self-parody that I kind of like. I don't like either, but if I never heard "Last Game of the Season" again it would be too soon. Songs like that just aren't my thing.
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Post by mga707 on Oct 13, 2021 13:09:37 GMT -5
Casey says "I Am Woman" is "the first women's lib song" to make the 40, but Laura Lee's "Women's Love Rights" was in the 40 in the fall of '71. As far back as 1964, Lesley Gore had a top-five hit with "You Don't Own Me." Yes! Leslie wised up and is through crying over 'Johnny'. 'Judy' can have that loser!
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Post by LC on Oct 13, 2021 22:23:49 GMT -5
Couple of cringy tearjerkers in that countdown.... 'Rocky' and 'Joey', of course... "Rocky, I've never had to die before. Don't know if I can do it" has to be one of (if not the) stupidest lyrics I've ever heard.
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Post by LC on Oct 13, 2021 22:38:31 GMT -5
"I Go Crazy" was only one spot away from hitting the Top 40 for the 10-15-77 episode. It would end its Top 40 run on 4-15-78! I was thinking about that song a few years ago, and I thought somebody should do a remake that took the title literally. Some of the words, if sung in a more sinister/unhinged fashion, can come across as threatening, almost like "Every Breath You Take." But then again, maybe I'm just weird....
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Post by mga707 on Oct 14, 2021 0:18:07 GMT -5
'Rocky' and 'Joey', of course... "Rocky, I've never had to die before. Don't know if I can do it" has to be one of (if not the) stupidest lyrics I've ever heard. Exactly why I used that line as my 'cringe-worthy' example earlier...
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Post by seminolefan on Oct 14, 2021 10:12:51 GMT -5
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Post by mga707 on Oct 14, 2021 19:27:41 GMT -5
Even being 'the biggest mover in the 40' (#40 to #24) didn't keep "S.O.S." from being severely edited on this week's '75 show. And speaking of ABBA, I remember seeing them perform their then-current single (along with 'Waterloo") 'live' (tape delay in my time zone) as one of two musical guests on what was only the fifth broadcast of "NBC's Saturday Night", on November 15, 1975. Hosted by all-but-forgotten comic Robert Klein. The now 46-year-old show would drop the 'NBC's' and add 'Live' to it's title the following season. In the fall of '75 the 'Saturday Night Live' title was already being used on ABC by, believe it or not, a short-lived prime time variety show hosted by Howard Cosell! Yes, at one time ABBA was 'hip' enough to be on 'SNL'!
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Post by mkarns on Oct 14, 2021 20:46:10 GMT -5
Even being 'the biggest mover in the 40' (#40 to #24) didn't keep "S.O.S." from being severely edited on this week's '75 show. And speaking of ABBA, I remember seeing them perform their then-current single (along with 'Waterloo") 'live' (tape delay in my time zone) as one of two musical guests on what was only the fifth broadcast of "NBC's Saturday Night", on November 15, 1975. Hosted by all-but-forgotten comic Robert Klein. The now 46-year-old show would drop the 'NBC's' and add 'Live' to it's title the following season. In the fall of '75 the 'Saturday Night Live' title was already being used on ABC by, believe it or not, a short-lived prime time variety show hosted by Howard Cosell! Yes, at one time ABBA was 'hip' enough to be on 'SNL'! Howard Cosell’s show does have the musical footnote of having as its first musical guest the Bay City Rollers, who had hits in Britain but not yet in America at that point—which would soon change, though not necessarily due to Cosell. He also had comedians called the “Prime Time Players”, which the more successful SNL parodied with its “Not Ready For Prime Time Players”.
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Post by mga707 on Oct 14, 2021 22:40:54 GMT -5
Howard Cosell’s show does have the musical footnote of having as its first musical guest the Bay City Rollers, who had hits in Britain but not yet in America at that point—which would soon change, though not necessarily due to Cosell. He also had comedians called the “Prime Time Players”, which the more successful SNL parodied with its “Not Ready For Prime Time Players”. Yes, that's a real 'memory jogger'! I remember seeing the Rollers on that premiere episode, in September of '75. They were live, via satellite, from London. I think that was the only time I ever watched Cosell's show, which was cancelled the following January after only half a season. There was a lot of 'Beatle-esque' hype about the Rollers at that time, and Cosell probably thought he could be like Jack Paar, who showed film clips of The Beatles on his prime-time variety show in late 1963, before they hit big in the U.S. and appeared on Ed Sullivan. One other interesting trivia fact about Cosell's 'Saturday Night' vs. the late-night NBC show: Bill Murray, who would replace Chevy Chase on 'SNL' in late 1976, was one of the comedy players on Cosell's show!
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Post by briguy52748 on Oct 15, 2021 10:38:04 GMT -5
OK, OK, OK ... what makes "Rocky" a "cringy tearjerker"? I remember the song when I was a kid and always thought it was a good story song. Brian "...Rocky I've never had to die before, don't know if I can do it..." That line, for one. Up there with "Honey" among weepy death songs. I always thought "Run, Joey, Run" had more of a tongue-in-cheek, self-parody 'feel' to it than "Rocky', which went for the pathos. Geddes' follow-up, though, was certainly in the melodramatic mold, IMO: "The Last Game Of the Season". "Cringy" to me means creepy. "Cringy" might mean – to take a 1980s example, but – the version of Michael Jackson's "I Just Can't Stop Loving You" that includes the prologue. Sure, he might have meant it for whispers in a monogamous, consensual setting, but knowing he'd have future accusations against him ... that's what makes that song, that version at least, "cringy." Call "Rocky" and "Run, Joey, Run" maudlin or even narmish if you will, but those aren't creepy – let alone cringeworthy – in the least. As I see it, "Rocky" tells a story of faith, that even in the end after the young beautiful woman dies (presumably of a rare illness or cancer), she'll be there in spirit and watch over the title character and their young daughter. "Run Joey Run" might be actually relevant today if what I think is true about the Joey character (he's of a different race than Julie) and that she indeed was pregnant ... . (There's another story I think of how Julie got pregnant ... that Joey indeed didn't get her pregnant ... and neither did the father. But that's just my interpretation.) Brian
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Post by mrjukebox on Oct 15, 2021 11:51:11 GMT -5
Abba appeared as guests on "American Bandstand" 11/15/75-They performed "SOS" & "I Do,I Do,I Do,I Do,I Do"-Obviously,their segment was recorded a few weeks earlier as they were seen on "Saturday Night Live" the same day.
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Post by Hervard on Oct 16, 2021 7:12:36 GMT -5
Prediction: They play 1975. Brian And you're right. It's possible that WPNC may be the only option for four hour 1979. Not quite - WPAC is playing it as well.
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Post by mrjukebox on Oct 16, 2021 9:03:44 GMT -5
Kinda odd that Premiere gave us another 1979 show so soon.
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Post by kani on Oct 16, 2021 13:05:58 GMT -5
WPNC now airing Oct 20, 1979 though..
WVWP fm 1975!. Michael Murphy song a tribute to his wife, 4 remakes
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