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Post by dth1971 on Feb 23, 2024 7:47:04 GMT -5
The year of the amazing Bee Gees, 1978. Their sensational run of having three songs in the 40 was six straight weeks, from 2/11 to 3/18. Actually, their triple play streak was eight weeks long: Date | "How Deep..." | "Stayin' Alive" | "Night Fever" | Feb 11 | 10 | 1 | 32 | Feb 18 | 10 | 1 | 17 | Feb 25 | 10 | 1 | 8 | Mar 4 | 10 | 2 | 5 | Mar 11 | 15 | 6 | 2 | Mar 18 | 35 | 2 | 1 | Mar 25 | 33 | 2 | 1 | April 1 | 32 | 2 | 1 |
In Cash Box, it was "only" four weeks: Date | "How Deep..." | "Stayin' Alive" | "Night Fever" | Feb 18 | 13 | 1 | 25 | Feb 25 | 26 | 1 | 13 | Mar 4 | 34 | 3 | 6 | Mar 11 | 37 | 3 | 4 |
In Record World, a similar situation: Date | "How Deep..." | "Stayin' Alive" | "Night Fever" | Feb 11 | 17 | 1 | 35 | Feb 18 | 27 | 1 | 28 | Feb 25 | 35 | 1 | 17 | Mar 4 | 39 | 2 | 7 |
What about R&R?
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Post by dukelightning on Feb 23, 2024 8:07:28 GMT -5
Let's see if I can create a similar grid. R&R only had a top 30 chart then. Date How Deep Stayin Night 2/11 14 1 29 2/18 23 1 18 2/25 25 1 7 3/4 30 1 5 How Deep fell off the week of 3/11. But they accomplished this on that chart...#1 was "Stayin Alive", #2 was "Night Fever", #3 was "Emotion" which they sang backup on and "#4 was "Love is Thicker Than Water" which they produced and Barry co-wrote. So nearly a Beatlesque dominance of the chart. No I cannot create a similar grid! It looked like the grid above after I typed it but obviously did not post that way. This is too complicated.
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Post by johnnywest on Feb 23, 2024 15:50:16 GMT -5
The Gee Gees had some of the longest chart runs of the 1970s in R&R. Both "How Deep Is Your Love" and "Jive Talkin'" spent 19 weeks in the Top 40, while "Night Fever" was in for 18. I'm not certain, but I think the record for the decade was 22 weeks for "Love Will Keep Us Together" by The Captain & Tennille.
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Post by jmack19 on Feb 23, 2024 17:44:13 GMT -5
WQCY (Sun 11 am) goes with February 21, 1976.
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Feb 24, 2024 4:30:51 GMT -5
The year of the amazing Bee Gees, 1978. Their sensational run of having three songs in the 40 was six straight weeks, from 2/11 to 3/18. Actually, their triple play streak was eight weeks long: Date | "How Deep..." | "Stayin' Alive" | "Night Fever" | Feb 11 | 10 | 1 | 32 | Feb 18 | 10 | 1 | 17 | Feb 25 | 10 | 1 | 8 | Mar 4 | 10 | 2 | 5 | Mar 11 | 15 | 6 | 2 | Mar 18 | 35 | 2 | 1 | Mar 25 | 33 | 2 | 1 | April 1 | 32 | 2 | 1 |
In Cash Box, it was "only" four weeks: Date | "How Deep..." | "Stayin' Alive" | "Night Fever" | Feb 18 | 13 | 1 | 25 | Feb 25 | 26 | 1 | 13 | Mar 4 | 34 | 3 | 6 | Mar 11 | 37 | 3 | 4 |
In Record World, a similar situation: Date | "How Deep..." | "Stayin' Alive" | "Night Fever" | Feb 11 | 17 | 1 | 35 | Feb 18 | 27 | 1 | 28 | Feb 25 | 35 | 1 | 17 | Mar 4 | 39 | 2 | 7 |
Whoops, had forgotten "How Deep" rebounded the following two weeks. Thanks for setting me straight. 🙂 Just an amazing run, nonetheless!
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Post by Hervard on Feb 24, 2024 8:02:53 GMT -5
Let's see if I can create a similar grid. R&R only had a top 30 chart then. Date How Deep Stayin Night 2/11 14 1 29 2/18 23 1 18 2/25 25 1 7 3/4 30 1 5 How Deep fell off the week of 3/11. But they accomplished this on that chart...#1 was "Stayin Alive", #2 was "Night Fever", #3 was "Emotion" which they sang backup on and "#4 was "Love is Thicker Than Water" which they produced and Barry co-wrote. So nearly a Beatlesque dominance of the chart. I remember that week was featured on a Countdown America "Top Five Flashback" (played before the #1 song). At the beginning, John Leader mentioned that the Bee Gees dominated the Top Five. #5, BTW, was "Sometimes When We Touched" by Dan Hill, which had no connection to the Bee Gees whatsoever (wasn't even on the RSO label). On the Gavin chart, the song was gone by the end of January - but that's because, for whatever reason, their chart was only a Top 20. Plus, their chart tended to move quickly, as many smaller market stations, which tended to add many new songs at the same time, were on the reporting panel). Indeed, their charts could easily have contained a full 40 songs (not sure when they returned to a Top 40, BTW - sometime before December, 1982, as that is the earliest chart during the 1980s in their archive and it is a Top 40).
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Post by dth1971 on Feb 24, 2024 9:02:34 GMT -5
Let's see if I can create a similar grid. R&R only had a top 30 chart then. Date How Deep Stayin Night 2/11 14 1 29 2/18 23 1 18 2/25 25 1 7 3/4 30 1 5 How Deep fell off the week of 3/11. But they accomplished this on that chart...#1 was "Stayin Alive", #2 was "Night Fever", #3 was "Emotion" which they sang backup on and "#4 was "Love is Thicker Than Water" which they produced and Barry co-wrote. So nearly a Beatlesque dominance of the chart. I remember that week was featured on a Countdown America "Top Five Flashback" (played before the #1 song). At the beginning, John Leader mentioned that the Bee Gees dominated the Top Five. #5, BTW, was "Sometimes When We Touched" by Dan Hill, which had no connection to the Bee Gees whatsoever (wasn't even on the RSO label). Glad you remember Countdown America's "Top 5 Flashback", that would inspire the AT40 Flashback segment used in the Shadoe Stevens AT40 era from 1989 until the radio show's original cancellation in January 1995 (when the old AT40 was demoted to foreign markets after being withdrawn from the USA in Summer 1994).
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Post by mkarns on Feb 24, 2024 11:51:54 GMT -5
As mentioned before, KOKZ chose 1972 this week, which is somewhat surprising (they've often gone with B's from later.) But good that they did as they haven't botched it up as some other stations that I listen to during the same time (10 AM-1 PM) have: WZON skipped segments, and WKVA is playing 2/2/74 yet again.
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Post by kani on Feb 24, 2024 12:06:17 GMT -5
WPNC now airing Feb 21, 1976.., 9 british acts I would skip since I listened before back in 2020...
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Post by LC on Feb 24, 2024 14:37:35 GMT -5
On the 2/21/76 show, Casey told a rather rosy story about how Helen Reddy met and married her future manager Jeff Wald. Their marriage was volatile, and five years later, Reddy filed for divorce due to Wald's white powder addiction.
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Post by doofus67 on Feb 24, 2024 15:35:15 GMT -5
On the 2/21/76 show, Casey told a rather rosy story about how Helen Reddy met and married her future manager Jeff Wald. Their marriage was volatile, and five years later, Reddy filed for divorce due to Wald's white powder addiction. Could this be posted under "The Casey Kasem jinx"?
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Post by dth1971 on Feb 24, 2024 16:09:10 GMT -5
On AT40:The 70's 2/26/1972: For the #38 song by James Brown - "Talking Loud, Saying Proud" - Casey said it was the second debut of the week when that song was the first debut of the week!
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Post by mrjukebox on Feb 24, 2024 16:12:56 GMT -5
One of the featured songs from 2/26/72 was "Feelin Alright" by Joe Cocker-On 9/25/76,Cocker was the musical guest on "Saturday Night Live"-John Belushi joined him onstage-That was unforgettable!
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Post by jmack19 on Feb 24, 2024 17:07:48 GMT -5
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Post by mga707 on Feb 24, 2024 20:04:48 GMT -5
On AT40:The 70's 2/26/1972: For the #38 song by James Brown - "Talking Loud, Saying Proud" - Casey said it was the second debut of the week when that song was the first debut of the week! "Talking Loud and Saying Nothing (Part 1)" is the title of what was indeed this show's first debut at #38.
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