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Post by dth1971 on Nov 9, 2024 21:36:57 GMT -5
WLVI Kankakee is now airing AT40: The 70's November 10, 1979 this Saturday afternoon starting with hour #2 with #32 by Elton John with the disco-ish "Victim of Love". I wonder if Elton John ever made Billboard's disco chart with "Victim of Love". I bet Elton didn't make the Billboard Disco/Dance charts in the 1970's and 1980's and maybe the 1990's. And Elton John's 1976 duet with Kiki Dee called "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" from 1976 isn't disco style. "Victim of Love (all cuts)" peaked at #55 on the Disco charts in 1979. "I Don't Wanna Go on with You Like That" peaked at #7 in 1988. Per the Hot Dance/Disco Billboard book by Joel Whitburn 1974-2003. Did Elton make Billboard's dance charts with his 1994 RuPaul duet single of "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" or not? |
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Post by LC on Nov 9, 2024 22:02:02 GMT -5
"Victim of Love (all cuts)" peaked at #55 on the Disco charts in 1979. "I Don't Wanna Go on with You Like That" peaked at #7 in 1988. Per the Hot Dance/Disco Billboard book by Joel Whitburn 1974-2003. Did Elton make Billboard's dance charts with his 1994 RuPaul duet single of "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" or not? It made #3 on the Dance Club Songs chart. |
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Post by jgve1952 on Nov 10, 2024 17:40:44 GMT -5
Hoping for 1974 next weekend--way overdue, and of course paired with a Christmas Special.
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Post by freakyflybry on Nov 10, 2024 17:42:35 GMT -5
WLVI Kankakee is now airing AT40: The 70's November 10, 1979 this Saturday afternoon starting with hour #2 with #32 by Elton John with the disco-ish "Victim of Love". I wonder if Elton John ever made Billboard's disco chart with "Victim of Love". I bet Elton didn't make the Billboard Disco/Dance charts in the 1970's and 1980's and maybe the 1990's. And Elton John's 1976 duet with Kiki Dee called "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" from 1976 isn't disco style. "Victim of Love (all cuts)" peaked at #55 on the Disco charts in 1979. "I Don't Wanna Go on with You Like That" peaked at #7 in 1988. Per the Hot Dance/Disco Billboard book by Joel Whitburn 1974-2003. If Billboard hadn't suspended the dance chart during COVID due to clubs being closed, I'd imagine "Cold Heart" with Dua Lipa could've easily gotten #1 there too. |
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Post by at40petebattistini on Nov 11, 2024 11:15:20 GMT -5
For anyone interested, here are the Optional Extras for this weekend’s Christmas program, which originally aired December 22, 1973…
Hour 1: Do You Hear What I Hear? – Bing Crosby
Hour 2: The Twelve Days Of Christmas – Ray Conniff Orchestra
Hour 3: We Wish You A Merry Christmas – The Hillside Singers
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Post by jmack19 on Nov 11, 2024 11:22:10 GMT -5
KQEL is going with November 11, 1978 this weekend. The show last aired in 2019.
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Post by dth1971 on Nov 11, 2024 12:48:54 GMT -5
KQEL is going with November 11, 1978 this weekend. The show last aired in 2019. So this weekend's AT40: The 70's show is November 11, 1978 - 4 hours with first hour optional? If so, maybe next weekend for the weekend before Thanksgiving could be November 22, 1975. |
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Post by jmack19 on Nov 11, 2024 18:48:30 GMT -5
"A" optional extras for 11-11-78 1. Ace Frehley’s “New York Groove” 2. Linda Ronstadt’s “Ooh Baby Baby” 3. Beach Boys “Sloop John B” 4. Bee Gees “Too Much Heaven” Quincy Jones "Stuff Like That" could be an optional extra this weekend. |
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Post by dukelightning on Nov 12, 2024 7:35:17 GMT -5
"A" optional extras for 11-11-78 1. Ace Frehley’s “New York Groove” 2. Linda Ronstadt’s “Ooh Baby Baby” 3. Beach Boys “Sloop John B” 4. Bee Gees “Too Much Heaven” Quincy Jones "Stuff Like That" could be an optional extra this weekend. That would be a 'solid' selection as it's my favorite hit with Quincy Jones name on the label featuring the vocals of Ashford and Simpson along with Chaka Khan. I usually play the 8 minute YouTube version when it's in the countdown. |
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Post by dukelightning on Nov 12, 2024 17:45:08 GMT -5
A rare chart feat is accomplished in this show by Billy Joel. He falls out of the 40 with the last THE STRANGER single and debuts with the first single from 52ND STREET, his next album. This type of thing probably happened so few times in the 18 years of this series that you can count them on one hand. It did happen the week after last week's 80s show when Madonnas last single from her debut album was replaced by "Like a Virgin", the title track from her next album.
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Post by mkarns on Nov 12, 2024 21:55:48 GMT -5
Optional extras for November 11, 1978:
Hour #1: "New York Groove" - Ace Frehley (#50)
Hour #2: "Ooh Baby Baby" - Linda Ronstadt (#59; highest debut)
Hour #3: "Sloop John B" - The Beach Boys (original AT40 extra)
Hour #4: "Too Much Heaven" - The Bee Gees (NR)
All the same as before. "Too Much Heaven" would enter the Hot 100 at #35 the following week.
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Post by dth1971 on Nov 12, 2024 23:09:32 GMT -5
Optional extras for November 11, 1978: Hour #1: "New York Groove" - Ace Frehley (#50) Hour #2: "Ooh Baby Baby" - Linda Ronstadt (#59; highest debut) Hour #3: "Sloop John B" - The Beach Boys (original AT40 extra) Hour #4: "Too Much Heaven" - The Bee Gees (NR) All the same as before. "Too Much Heaven" would enter the Hot 100 at #35 the following week. No Quincy Jones tribute for the OPTIONAL EXTRAS? I would have replaced "Ooh Baby Baby" with "Stuff Like That". |
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Nov 13, 2024 16:02:02 GMT -5
I think I'll just leave this here...
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Post by mct1 on Nov 13, 2024 21:40:48 GMT -5
A rare chart feat is accomplished in this show by Billy Joel. He falls out of the 40 with the last THE STRANGER single and debuts with the first single from 52ND STREET, his next album. This type of thing probably happened so few times in the 18 years of this series that you can count them on one hand. It did happen the week after last week's 80s show when Madonna's last single from her debut album was replaced by "Like a Virgin", the title track from her next album. We had a thread about this almost exactly ten years ago - which you yourself started! at40fg.proboards.com/thread/4247/hit-new-album-replacing-previousBesides Billy Joel and Madonna, we were able to identify two other artists in the classic AT40 era who did this: Andy Gibb (who actually overlapped with singles from two different albums) and Men At Work. Donna Summer, Duran Duran and New Kids On The Block all 'kinda sorta' did it, but probably merit an asterisk to varying degrees, as none were exactly a straightforward example of having singles from two consecutive studio albums in the Top 40 in consecutive weeks. In the near-miss category, Rick Springfield missed by a week, Culture Club by three weeks, and Prince by five weeks. All but one of the examples cited above are from a period between the late '70s and the mid '80s, and most fit a pattern where 1) the earlier of the two albums was either the artist's debut album, or their first album to really be a major hit, and that album wasn't an out-of-the-box hit, but took a little time to develop into one, and 2) this was at a time when pop/rock artists were still expected to put out a new album pretty much every year, so they were likely working on their follow-up album before it had become apparent how long of a shelf life the earlier album would have, and the old album was still riding high on the chart when the new album was completed and ready for release. Before the late '70s, albums didn't typically produce enough Top 40 singles or have a long enough chart span to carry through to an artist's next album, even if the album was a slow burner; after the mid '80s, artists began spacing their albums further apart, so that even if an album produced several hit singles, the artist still wasn't going to have a new album ready to go at that point. |
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Post by dukelightning on Nov 13, 2024 22:28:24 GMT -5
I remember posting about this previously. Did not realize it was 10 years ago. And it's not the first time and won't be the last that I repeat a previous comment seeing as I have been posting here for nearly 14 years. That said, there are also people posting or looking at these posts that were not doing so 10 or more years ago so any such post is new to them.
In any case, the points you make are valid. While Madonna only needed 3 singles off of her debut album before passing the baton to her next album, it it more likely to happen with an album that had 4 single releases. And the Billy Joel album was only the third non-soundtrack album to generate 4 top 40 hits in AT40 history. The first being the Sylistics debut album and RUMOURS. So it's not surprising that Joel was the first artist to pull this off. It's also a matter of timing. I mentioned Madonna pulling off the feat the week after last week's 80s show. While he was not trying to pull off this feat, Bruce Springsteen failed to accomplish the replacing himself in the countdown routine the week of that show as "Cover Me" fell out but "Born in the USA" could not quite get into the top 40, placing at #42. So pulling off this feat as Joel and Madonna did requires a little luck.
As mct1 mentioned, Men at Work pulled off of the feat. It was on 4/9/83 that "Down Under" fell out of the 40 with "Overkill", the first release from their next album debuting. Andy Gibb appears to be the only artist to overlap, doing so with "Love is Thicker than Water" and "Shadow Dancing".
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