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Post by seminolefan on May 16, 2024 11:34:38 GMT -5
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Post by mga707 on May 16, 2024 18:01:14 GMT -5
White Squirrel Radio kicking it off for the week right now with "Love Is Alive"!
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Post by mga707 on May 16, 2024 18:21:43 GMT -5
It's been a good while since I've heard a more forgotten 45 on a '70s show than Frankie Valli's "Fallen Angel". Not a bad tune!
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Post by mga707 on May 16, 2024 19:47:48 GMT -5
Error in the answer to a listener question: "I Want To Hold Your Hand" hit #1 on Billboard the week ending February 1, 1964, not four weeks later on the week ending February 29 (leap day) as Casey said. That week was the fifth of its seven weeks on top.
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Post by mga707 on May 16, 2024 20:17:40 GMT -5
Bit of a stretch to call bar-band standard "Wooly Bully" a 'novelty song'!
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Post by vince on May 16, 2024 21:51:54 GMT -5
"I Go Crazy" only ranked at #12 in 1978 probably because it was already on the chart for 10 weeks before the 1978 survey period began with the 11/5/1977 chart. Also in 1978, more bonus points were awarded for #1 songs making it more difficult for a non #1 to rank in the top 10. Billboard and AT40 used the same methodology in their respective 1973 countdowns. BB's cut off was 11/17/1973, while AT40's cut off was 12/8/1973. This gave "Why Me" 3 more weeks counted by AT40, resulting in its higher ranking on AT40's chart. Thanks vince. So no or less bonus points for #1 hits in 1973. I think they needed bonus points for not only #1 but #2 hits. In the Billboard top 100, there were 12 hits which peaked at #2 but only 2 placed in the top 40. And an oddity based on the survey periods. If AT40's survey period ended later, did it also start later? If so, the only #2 hit which placed in the AT40 top 40 of 1973 but did not in the Billboard top 40 was "Clair". 35 AT0 and 72 Billboard. Yet if AT40's survey period started later, then "Clair" would have had less time within their survey year than in Billboard's. And yet it ranked much higher in the former. But I am more perplexed by there being 10 hits between 45 and 90 on the Billboard listing that peaked at #2. AT40's survey period started on 12/16/1972 which is later than BB's. But, AT40 counted a song's entire chart run with a cut off of 12/8/1973, where as BB did not count anything prior to 11/25/1972 in their 1973 survey period. |
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Post by jmack19 on May 16, 2024 23:39:18 GMT -5
1971 is due. Each of the available years have been featured as the A show at least twice this year except 1971.
I'll go with 5/29/71 over 5/22/71 for next weekend. The only time the 5/29/71 show aired was in 2012.
5/22/71 only airing was in 2014. For the B show, 5/27/78, which last aired in 2020.
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Post by ecio on May 17, 2024 15:21:05 GMT -5
Casey starts the show by mentioning that 20 artists in the survey already had hit #1. Eventually 6 more will: ABBA, Billy Ocean, Commodores, Queen, Fleetwood Mac and Hall & Oates.
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Post by LC on May 17, 2024 17:48:59 GMT -5
Casey starts the show by mentioning that 20 artists in the survey already had hit #1. Eventually 6 more will: ABBA, Billy Ocean, Commodores, Queen, Fleetwood Mac and Hall & Oates. Is 26 a record for #1 acts in a single countdown? |
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Post by jmack19 on May 17, 2024 22:50:35 GMT -5
Is 26 a record for #1 acts in a single countdown? February 22, 1975 had at least 28. Here is a list of the artists that were in hour #3 that week: Average White Band Eagles Grand Funk Doobie Brothers Olivia Newton-John America Frankie Valli Linda Ronstadt John Lennon Carole King Tony Orlando & Dawn Ohio Players John Denver Styx |
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Post by LC on May 18, 2024 9:52:24 GMT -5
Interesting trivia question Casey answered on 5/15/76 about leap year/leap day chart date #1s. It wouldn't happen again until 1992, when Mr. Big's "to Be With You" did it.
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Post by mga707 on May 18, 2024 10:47:07 GMT -5
Interesting trivia question Casey answered on 5/15/76 about leap year/leap day chart date #1s. It wouldn't happen again until 1992, when Mr. Big's "to Be With You" did it. Incorrectly answered, as I explained above in regard to "I Want To Hold Your Hand". And, after checking further, the staff gave him incorrect info about "Theme From 'A Summer Place'" also. That huge instrumental (which always reminds me of the 'Otter'/Dean Wormer's wife seduction scene in 'Animal House'  ) actually also reached #1 on the Hot 100 before Leap Day week in 1960--one week prior, the week ending Feb.22. Billboard's chart weeks ended on Monday in 1960, they had switched to Saturday by '64. Which explains why there were two Leap Day-ending chart dates only four years apart. "To Be With You" did reach #1 the week ending 2/29/92. |
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Post by LC on May 18, 2024 12:12:41 GMT -5
Interesting trivia question Casey answered on 5/15/76 about leap year/leap day chart date #1s. It wouldn't happen again until 1992, when Mr. Big's "to Be With You" did it. Incorrectly answered, as I explained above in regard to "I Want To Hold Your Hand". And, after checking further, the staff gave him incorrect info about "Theme From 'A Summer Place'" also. That huge instrumental (which always reminds me of the 'Otter'/Dean Wormer's wife seduction scene in 'Animal House' ) actually also reached #1 on the Hot 100 before Leap Day week in 1960--one week prior, the week ending Feb.22. Billboard's chart weeks ended on Monday in 1960, they had switched to Saturday by '64. Which explains why there were two Leap Day-ending chart dates only four years apart. "To Be With You" did reach #1 the week ending 2/29/92. I guess I understood the question as "was there ever a #1 song on a Leap Day," not "did a song reach its #1 peak on Leap Day." |
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Post by dth1971 on May 18, 2024 12:26:40 GMT -5
Interesting trivia question Casey answered on 5/15/76 about leap year/leap day chart date #1s. It wouldn't happen again until 1992, when Mr. Big's "to Be With You" did it. Incorrectly answered, as I explained above in regard to "I Want To Hold Your Hand". And, after checking further, the staff gave him incorrect info about "Theme From 'A Summer Place'" also. That huge instrumental (which always reminds me of the 'Otter'/Dean Wormer's wife seduction scene in 'Animal House' ) actually also reached #1 on the Hot 100 before Leap Day week in 1960--one week prior, the week ending Feb.22. Billboard's chart weeks ended on Monday in 1960, they had switched to Saturday by '64. Which explains why there were two Leap Day-ending chart dates only four years apart. "To Be With You" did reach #1 the week ending 2/29/92. And on Ryan Seacrest AT40, what was the #1 song on the 2/29/2020 Leap Year Day holiday? |
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Post by dth1971 on May 18, 2024 12:29:05 GMT -5
It's been a good while since I've heard a more forgotten 45 on a '70s show than Frankie Valli's "Fallen Angel". Not a bad tune! Also a rare AT40 song: The B side of Elvis Presley's "Hurt" played on 5/15/1976 AT40 called "From The Heart". |
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) actually also reached #1 on the Hot 100 before Leap Day week in 1960--one week prior, the week ending Feb.22. Billboard's chart weeks ended on Monday in 1960, they had switched to Saturday by '64. Which explains why there were two Leap Day-ending chart dates only four years apart.