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Post by laura on Jul 30, 2023 12:52:58 GMT -5
On the AT40 1/28/89 episode, Shadoe stays that Steve Winwood's "Holding On" was heading toward the top 10 as it moved to #11. It would actually peak that week and starting dropping the next week.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Aug 3, 2023 14:30:10 GMT -5
On 8/5/78, Casey introduced Andy Gibb's "An Everlasting Love" with "you can almost bet it's going to be his fourth straight #1." Hopefully anyone so inclined stopped with the "almost" and didn't put down any money, as it "only" peaked at #5. This might have been one of Casey's biggest sells ever. |
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Post by mga707 on Aug 3, 2023 20:26:21 GMT -5
No 'jinxing' "Brother Louie": 'Could be a numba one song--watch it!'
Not so for "Live and Let Die", which at this point seemed to be a sure bet for the top spot.
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Post by djjoe1960 on Aug 5, 2023 6:09:17 GMT -5
In what may be one of the earliest jinxes, Casey says during the introduction to In The Summertime by Mungo Jerry (#22) that the record was a #1 hit in England and might do the same here in the U. S. The record would reach #1 in Record World but would come up short in Billboard , reaching #3.
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Post by dth1971 on Aug 5, 2023 6:45:17 GMT -5
In what may be one of the earliest jinxes, Casey says during the introduction to In The Summertime by Mungo Jerry (#22) that the record was a #1 hit in England and might do the same here in the U. S. The record would reach #1 in Record World but would come up short in Billboard , reaching #3. Did "In The Summertime" by Mungo Jerry reach #1 on Cash Box? |
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Post by djjoe1960 on Aug 5, 2023 10:51:01 GMT -5
In what may be one of the earliest jinxes, Casey says during the introduction to In The Summertime by Mungo Jerry (#22) that the record was a #1 hit in England and might do the same here in the U. S. The record would reach #1 in Record World but would come up short in Billboard , reaching #3. Did "In The Summertime" by Mungo Jerry reach #1 on Cash Box? #2 in Cash Box. |
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Post by mga707 on Aug 5, 2023 10:56:04 GMT -5
In what may be one of the earliest jinxes, Casey says during the introduction to In The Summertime by Mungo Jerry (#22) that the record was a #1 hit in England and might do the same here in the U. S. The record would reach #1 in Record World but would come up short in Billboard , reaching #3. Had Janus Records released it a month earlier in the U.S., it may well have hit the top spot. It did in my area, in August. Like so many other 'summertime' songs, it didn't reach its national chart peak until mid-September. |
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Post by lasvegaskid on Aug 5, 2023 19:40:25 GMT -5
On next week's 1980 show Casey said the Stoners were Rolling up 4-7 on the way to #1. Emotional Rescue would stop rolling at number three.
On the same show Casey said Ross was marching on #1, Diana would soon turn the top Upside Down
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Post by chrislc on Aug 5, 2023 20:44:01 GMT -5
In what may be one of the earliest jinxes, Casey says during the introduction to In The Summertime by Mungo Jerry (#22) that the record was a #1 hit in England and might do the same here in the U. S. The record would reach #1 in Record World but would come up short in Billboard , reaching #3. Had Janus Records released it a month earlier in the U.S., it may well have hit the top spot. It did in my area, in August. Like so many other 'summertime' songs, it didn't reach its national chart peak until mid-September. And Mid-October (!) for Sly and the Family Stone in 1969. I wonder if there are any later-in-the-fall examples of this. There are "looking back at summer" songs like Wonderful Summer and Summer Rain and Summer Nights but those were obviously retrospective. |
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Post by mga707 on Aug 5, 2023 23:08:27 GMT -5
Had Janus Records released it a month earlier in the U.S., it may well have hit the top spot. It did in my area, in August. Like so many other 'summertime' songs, it didn't reach its national chart peak until mid-September. And Mid-October (!) for Sly and the Family Stone in 1969. I wonder if there are any later-in-the-fall examples of this. There are "looking back at summer" songs like Wonderful Summer and Summer Rain and Summer Nights but those were obviously retrospective. "Beach Baby" comes close, peaking at #4 the first two weeks of October '74. Bobby Goldsboro's "Summer (The First Time)" is another good example of a 'looking back at summer' (and what a summer!) song with a mid-fall (early November) peak. |
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Post by djjoe1960 on Aug 6, 2023 4:56:12 GMT -5
And Mid-October (!) for Sly and the Family Stone in 1969. I wonder if there are any later-in-the-fall examples of this. There are "looking back at summer" songs like Wonderful Summer and Summer Rain and Summer Nights but those were obviously retrospective. "Beach Baby" comes close, peaking at #4 the first two weeks of October '74. Bobby Gpldsboro's "Summer (The First Time)" is another good example of a 'looking back at summer' (and what a summer!) song with a mid-fall (early November) peak. I always thought it was interesting that Summer Breeze by Seals & Crofts reached the Top 10 in November 1972--maybe a song that references Summer doesn't have to be a hit at that time of year. |
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Post by burcjm on Aug 6, 2023 8:12:30 GMT -5
"Beach Baby" comes close, peaking at #4 the first two weeks of October '74. Bobby Gpldsboro's "Summer (The First Time)" is another good example of a 'looking back at summer' (and what a summer!) song with a mid-fall (early November) peak. I always thought it was interesting that Summer Breeze by Seals & Crofts reached the Top 10 in November 1972--maybe a song that references Summer doesn't have to be a hit at that time of year. Correct. Richard Marx's "Endless Summer Nights" peaked in March of all times. |
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Post by mkarns on Aug 6, 2023 14:03:27 GMT -5
On 8/6/88, Casey noted that Rick Astley's first two hits went to #1 and "we'll see" if "It Would Take a Strong, Strong Man" repeated the feat. It did not, peaking at #10. (And Casey of course did not tell us of that on radio, though it did make "America's Top 10" on TV for a week.)
A few songs later he outroed Michael Jackson's debuting "Another Part of Me" by noting it was the 6th single from his "Bad" album , and added "and remember, the others all hit #1." This did not, or even make the top 10, stalling at #11. One more "Bad" single reached the top 10 but not #1, that being "Smooth Criminal" (it peaked at #7, but is now actually one of MJ's better remembered and replayed hits of the era.)
Later still, Casey noted that it was Whitney Houston's birthday that week and she might have a birthday wish that "Love Will Save the Day" would become her 8th #1 in a row. If she did, it wasn't granted as it peaked at #9.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Aug 10, 2023 21:09:16 GMT -5
Call it the reverse curse of CVD... this week in 1985 he said no solo act had topped Elvis record of 5 straight #1s but there was an artist on that show that would soon nail down seven in a row.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Aug 14, 2023 10:20:56 GMT -5
In a Supersized 1979 reverse jinx Turbo Casey said there were a whopping three double dippers on the countdown. That would be nothing as in Spring '83 the number of acts charting twice in the 40 would reach seven.
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