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Post by lasvegaskid on May 12, 2023 18:52:40 GMT -5
Maybe the ultimate jinx last week in 1985 when Casey ran down the top 5 Aussie acts and said rankings could change because all were still active:
5. Men At Work (never hit top 40 again) 4. LRB (never hit top 40 again) 3. Rick Springfield (would reach again in a couple months and then for the last time in 1988) 2. Air Supply (were weeks away from final top 40) 1. Helen Reddy (never hit top 40 again)
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Post by freakyflybry on May 13, 2023 1:16:59 GMT -5
Maybe the ultimate jinx last week in 1985 when Casey ran down the top 5 Aussie acts and said rankings could change because all were still active: 5. Men At Work (never hit top 40 again) 4. LRB (never hit top 40 again) 3. Rick Springfield (would reach again in a couple months and then for the last time in 1988) 2. Air Supply (were weeks away from final top 40) 1. Helen Reddy (never hit top 40 again) Yet a band who would eventually find their way into that grouping, INXS, had only hit with the "one thing" that they did in 1983 to that point... little did anyone know "what you need" to get in was a top 5 that they got the year after... and opened the floodgates for the "Kick" epic singles run in 1988.
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Post by dth1971 on May 13, 2023 6:38:19 GMT -5
Maybe the ultimate jinx last week in 1985 when Casey ran down the top 5 Aussie acts and said rankings could change because all were still active: 5. Men At Work (never hit top 40 again) 4. LRB (never hit top 40 again) 3. Rick Springfield (would reach again in a couple months and then for the last time in 1988) 2. Air Supply (were weeks away from final top 40) 1. Helen Reddy (never hit top 40 again) Though Helen Reddy never had top 40 hits after the late 1970's, she would pass away in 2020.
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Post by lasvegaskid on May 13, 2023 17:24:30 GMT -5
On this week's 1979 show, Casey said Wings had five #1s and Goodnight Tonight was trying to make it six. Not so fast, Paul & Co would only get to #5.
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Post by dth1971 on May 13, 2023 17:46:58 GMT -5
On this week's 1979 show, Casey said Wings had five #1s and Goodnight Tonight was trying to make it six. Not so fast, Paul & Co would only get to #5. But "Goodnight Tonight" would go to #1 on R&R, I guess.
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Post by freakyflybry on May 13, 2023 18:44:55 GMT -5
On this week's 1979 show, Casey said Wings had five #1s and Goodnight Tonight was trying to make it six. Not so fast, Paul & Co would only get to #5. But "Goodnight Tonight" would go to #1 on R&R, I guess. Actually, it got #2 on R&R. Couldn't get past "Reunited". At least Paul and Wings got in another #1 the year after with the live version of "Coming Up" though.
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Post by freakyflybry on May 14, 2023 0:11:44 GMT -5
On May 21, 1977, Casey said that, when Stevie Wonder broke the tie for most #1's by an American act in the 70's, that the overall leader, then Elton John, would have to watch out for Stevie. Turns out, neither of them had another #1 in the 70's - and three brothers with the last name Gibb, the Bee Gees, would add on to their existing three #1's with another 6 by the end of the decade, taking the overall lead.
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Post by mkarns on May 14, 2023 12:27:18 GMT -5
On May 14, 1988 Casey said that the Jets had "gone from hot to cold--not musically, but geographically", referring to their move from Tonga to Minneapolis. Unfortunately the same thing soon happened musically, as the hit song included here, "Make It Real", was their last top 40 hit.
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Post by mkarns on May 20, 2023 11:49:25 GMT -5
Here's an international chart jinx: on May 18, 1974 Casey noted that Olivia Newton-John's "Let Me Be There" was a pop and country hit in the US, but didn't chart in the UK, which he then called Olivia's home country (Australia of course has claimed her too), quoting the Bible with "A prophet is not without honor except in his (or her) own country, among his own relatives, and in his own house".
Leading into "If You Love Me (Let Me Know)", he said "we'll be watching" if it became a hit at home, but while it may have been a hit in Olivia's house and family, according to my official UK charts book it didn't chart nationally there, either. (Wikipedia says that it hit #56 in Britain on something called the "Breakers List", but even that's far behind its #5 US peak.)
And speaking of Australia, Casey said in the same show that Helen Reddy was the most successful female singer ever from there. If we consider Olivia Newton-John to be Australian, she eventually overtook Helen (maybe other Aussie female singers since have as well.)
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Post by freakyflybry on May 21, 2023 10:25:55 GMT -5
I can't imagine anyone coming close to Olivia's success among Australian female artists on the US charts. Sia I know did have some success in the 2010's, with "Cheap Thrills" hitting #1 and several other hits, but I don't think it's quite enough.
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Post by Hervard on May 21, 2023 11:42:52 GMT -5
On May 14, 1988 Casey said that the Jets had "gone from hot to cold--not musically, but geographically", referring to their move from Tonga to Minneapolis. Unfortunately the same thing soon happened musically, as the hit song included here, "Make It Real", was their last top 40 hit. I'm surprised (and frankly disappointed) that "The Same Love", the first release from their next album, didn't get any higher than #87. That was a great song, especially for the time of year it was released. At least it was a decent-sized AC hit.
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Post by mkarns on May 21, 2023 20:46:05 GMT -5
On May 14, 1988 Casey said that the Jets had "gone from hot to cold--not musically, but geographically", referring to their move from Tonga to Minneapolis. Unfortunately the same thing soon happened musically, as the hit song included here, "Make It Real", was their last top 40 hit. I'm surprised (and frankly disappointed) that "The Same Love", the first release from their next album, didn't get any higher than #87. That was a great song, especially for the time of year it was released. At least it was a decent-sized AC hit. Actually “You Better Dance” was the first single from the Jets’ 1989 album “Believe”, but it only peaked at #59 on the Hot 100, indicating that their moment in the sun had passed. “The Same Love” was next and reached #87 pop, but #15 AC. Their only subsequent single to make any chart was “Special Kinda Love”, #83 R&B in 1990.
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Post by lasvegaskid on May 29, 2023 18:10:13 GMT -5
In a Supersized 77 reverse jinx Casey said Gaye was stuck at #5 trying to get to #1. Marvin would soon get moving 'Up again.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Jun 1, 2023 15:02:56 GMT -5
On last week's 1976 show, Casey said Silver Convention's Fly Robin Fly reached #1 and Boogie was in striking distance of doing the same. But peaking at #2 it could not Get Up to the summit.
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Post by laura on Jun 5, 2023 18:41:14 GMT -5
In a couple of promos for the 7/1/89 CT40 show, Casey mentioned that Peter Gabriel's re-released "In Your Eyes" was making its way toward the chart but it never made it. In another promo, he also mentioned several rap-inspired songs that had a chance of debuting but out of the ones he mentioned, only LL Cool J was able to make it.
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