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Post by matt on Feb 28, 2024 13:00:03 GMT -5
This week's optional extras: A: March 1, 1975:Hour #1: "Amie" - Pure Prairie League (#96; debuted) Hour #2: "They Just Can't Stop It (Games People Play)" - The Spinners (NR) Hour #3: "Killer Queen" - Queen (#79) The Spinners' song is probably there to honour group member Henry Fambrough, who died recently. It replaces "Before the Next Teardrop Falls". Good choice to replace Freddie Fender -- one of the most dreadful #1 songs of the first AT40 era IMHO. So 1975 still can get B shows when it's the A. Why do you think they would change that at this point and go back to stand-alone airings for 1975?
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Post by mga707 on Feb 28, 2024 20:30:12 GMT -5
[/quote]Good choice to replace Freddie Fender -- one of the most dreadful #1 songs of the first AT40 era IMHO. [/quote]
Respect your opinion, but I've always loved the song, especially the part 'en Espanol'. It was so different from nearly everything else on pop radio in spring '75. Along with "Shaving Cream" and "The Last Farewell".
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Feb 28, 2024 20:57:03 GMT -5
So 1975 still can get B shows when it's the A. Why do you think they would change that at this point and go back to stand-alone airings for 1975? Some of his posts warrant a 🙄, and/or a 🤦♂️. Or even an SMH (haven't seen that emoji yet! 😂) The 70s are slowly working their way out of many radio stations' playlists, which means we get to hear a lot more of 1976-1979.
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Post by seminolefan on Feb 29, 2024 14:55:39 GMT -5
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Post by rgmike on Feb 29, 2024 15:02:33 GMT -5
Man, that chart is bursting at the seams with forgotten, "oh wow" gems.
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Post by dukelightning on Feb 29, 2024 16:34:00 GMT -5
Casey was right when he said "I Get Lifted" was on its way if he was referring to it contributing to the really amazing top 40 chart performance of songs that KC was a part of. He wasn't referring to that of course! But except for his solo hit "Give It Up", KC was a part of 12 top 40 hits in his career including "Rock Your Baby", "Yes I'm Ready" and all the hits with the Sunshine Band. He only peaked at 4 positions with all of those hits...1,2,35 and 37. Even more bizarre is that he had at least 2 hits peak at every one of those positions. I doubt if anyone in the 50+ year history of AT40 has come close to doing that. I wonder if rgmike was referring to "I Get Lifted" as one of the forgotten gems. It's forgotten alright! Along with "I've Been This Way Before". Those have to be the 2 most forgotten songs in this show. They both peaked at their debut positions. I've Been is one of the worst performing 'highest of 6 debuts' hits in AT40 history. It held at 34 the next week and then fell all the way to 51 after that. And "I Get Lifted" is the first of 3 B sides in this show which may be a record. Casey alluded to the A side which only reached #50. The others are "Snookeroo" and "Black Water", the latter the B side to "Another Park, Another Sunday". There were 3 B sides the previous week too with the third being "Sally G". Speaking of Ringo, all 4 Beatles are mentioned in this show, one of them twice. John Lennon had "#9 Dream" and Jerry Corbetta sang 'John, Paul and George' with Sugarloaf!
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Post by mga707 on Feb 29, 2024 17:59:52 GMT -5
Just an hour from the start of the 3/1/75 show on WSQL. Leading off with a great Dan Fogelberg song from his second LP, "Souvenirs". He had a lot of help from Joe Walsh on the album, including the single "Part Of the Plan".
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Post by pizzzzza on Feb 29, 2024 18:10:00 GMT -5
Just glancing over the chart from this week's countdown from 3/1/75
Looks like 6 of the top 8 hit #1?
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Post by mga707 on Feb 29, 2024 19:05:12 GMT -5
Just glancing over the chart from this week's countdown from 3/1/75 Looks like 6 of the top 8 hit #1? Correct. And all but The Eagles at the top and the previous week's #1 by AWB at #7 had yet to reach the top spot.
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Post by mga707 on Feb 29, 2024 19:15:26 GMT -5
Man, I wanted a van in early spring of '75! But as a not-quite-17-year-old stll without 'wheels' of mt own, that wasn't going to happen. Still had to borrow Dad's '68 Fairlane or Mom's '69 Satellite for my mall trips. That Plymouth would be handed down to me a year later, when I turned 18. I did briefly scratch my 'cruising van' itch over a decade later, when I briefly inherited a '77 Dodge Tradesman cargo van as a debt payment. Turned around and sold it (at a profit), so I never got the chance to pick up a tanned, long-legged. barefoot hitchhiker.
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Post by jmack19 on Mar 1, 2024 0:00:12 GMT -5
I'll go with 3/4/78 over 3/10/73 & 3/9/79 for next weekend. 3/4/78 & 3/10/73 were last featured as A shows in 2014. 3/10/79 last aired in 2018.
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Post by at40petebattistini on Mar 1, 2024 8:04:04 GMT -5
B.J. Thomas debuted on 3-1-1975 with “Hey Won’t You Play Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song.” His previous appearance in the Top 40 – “Rock And Roll Lullaby” – was in the countdown … just last week.
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Post by dth1971 on Mar 1, 2024 9:57:05 GMT -5
I'll go with 3/4/78 over 3/10/73 & 3/9/79 for next weekend. 3/4/78 & 3/10/73 were last featured as A shows in 2014. 3/10/79 last aired in 2018. Would 3/11/1978 also be possible for the second weekend in March?
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Post by dth1971 on Mar 1, 2024 9:58:54 GMT -5
Casey was right when he said "I Get Lifted" was on its way if he was referring to it contributing to the really amazing top 40 chart performance of songs that KC was a part of. He wasn't referring to that of course! But except for his solo hit "Give It Up", KC was a part of 12 top 40 hits in his career including "Rock Your Baby", "Yes I'm Ready" and all the hits with the Sunshine Band. He only peaked at 4 positions with all of those hits...1,2,35 and 37. Even more bizarre is that he had at least 2 hits peak at every one of those positions. I doubt if anyone in the 50+ year history of AT40 has come close to doing that. I wonder if rgmike was referring to "I Get Lifted" as one of the forgotten gems. It's forgotten alright! Along with "I've Been This Way Before". Those have to be the 2 most forgotten songs in this show. They both peaked at their debut positions. I've Been is one of the worst performing 'highest of 6 debuts' hits in AT40 history. It held at 34 the next week and then fell all the way to 51 after that. And "I Get Lifted" is the first of 3 B sides in this show which may be a record. Casey alluded to the A side which only reached #50. The others are "Snookeroo" and "Black Water", the latter the B side to "Another Park, Another Sunday". There were 3 B sides the previous week too with the third being "Sally G". Speaking of Ringo, all 4 Beatles are mentioned in this show, one of them twice. John Lennon had "#9 Dream" and Jerry Corbetta sang 'John, Paul and George' with Sugarloaf! Does "I Am Love Part 2" by the Jackson 5 count as a B side too?
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Post by dukelightning on Mar 1, 2024 10:06:29 GMT -5
I have never heard Casey or anyone in the industry refer to part 2 versions of hits as being a B side.
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