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Post by dth1971 on Jun 1, 2024 7:50:43 GMT -5
On this week's Embarrassment of Riches Casey said oft charting Little River Band was still trying to get to #1. Not only would LRB never get near the top, but they would graze the bottom of the top 40 only once more. In 1985 Little River Band had their last hot 100 song "Playing to Win" under the name L.R.B., but it didn't make AT40 reaches.
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Post by mga707 on Jun 1, 2024 14:36:29 GMT -5
Both a jinx and a reverse jinx on the same song at #22 on the '75 'B' show: Casey comments that Joe Simon hasn't quite been able to crack the top 10, peaking at 11 with "Drowning In the Sea Of Love". No mention though of "Power Of Love", which reached that same spot later that same year ('72). "Get Down, Get Down" would reach break that top 10 jinx two weeks after this chart, peaking at #8 the following week in June. However, it would pretty much mark the end of Joe's nine-year chart history. He would only chart one more single later in '75 that would only get to 94: "Music In My Bones".
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Post by mga707 on Jun 1, 2024 15:53:16 GMT -5
And another 'Casey jinx' on the '75 show: One of the two groups (who were both in the top 10) that Casey noted as having scored top 10 albums each and every year since 1970 had had their last one: Grand Funk (Railroad) with "All the Girls Of the World Beware!!!" earlier in '75. The other group, Chicago, would add two more years to their top 10 LP streak with "X' in '76 and "XI" in '77. They would also snag their fifth and final #1 album at the end of '75 with their 'Greatest Hits' LP, aka 'IX'.
Incidentally, while not a 'group', Elton John was also at this point in the 'Top 10 Albums Every Year since 1970' club. And Elton would add two more top 10 LPs in '75 (the first of which would debut at #1 the following week) and two in '76 to his streak.
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Post by mkarns on Jun 1, 2024 23:38:49 GMT -5
Not a Casey jinx, but Roger Voudouris self-jinxed in 1979 with his only top 40 hit ("You better get used to it, 'cause I'll be around.") Voudouris apparently had quite an ego evident not only in his hit's lyrics but in some overly self-confident comments he made to the press that Casey quoted (not in this week's show.)
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Post by LC on Jun 2, 2024 8:14:06 GMT -5
Not a Casey jinx, but Roger Voudouris self-jinxed in 1979 with his only top 40 hit ("You better get used to it, 'cause I'll be around.") Voudouris apparently had quite an ego evident not only in his hit's lyrics but in some overly self-confident comments he made to the press that Casey quoted (not in this week's show.) Sadly, Roger died from liver disease at age 48 in 2003.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Jun 2, 2024 8:25:14 GMT -5
Not a Casey jinx, but Roger Voudouris self-jinxed in 1979 with his only top 40 hit ("You better get used to it, 'cause I'll be around.") Voudouris apparently had quite an ego evident not only in his hit's lyrics but in some overly self-confident comments he made to the press that Casey quoted (not in this week's show.) Casey had a lot of fun with this song. I don't recall another where Casey opened with some sort of a story seemingly every week.
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Post by mkarns on Jun 2, 2024 18:57:45 GMT -5
Casey led into “Stranger In My House” on 6/4/83 by noting Ronnie Milsap’s proficiency at producing country #1’s, and said it was at “#6, and climbing” at country that week.
Ronnie ultimately notched 42 Billboard country #1 hits, but “Stranger” wasn’t one of them as it “only” peaked at #5 there. Reportedly it was too rock-oriented for some country stations, with one in Denver nixing it because the staff thought it sounded like a Led Zeppelin song.
In a reverse jinx in the same show, Casey noted that Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” was threatening the record of most weeks at # 1 by an album by a solo artist, set in 1963 when Andy Williams’ “Days of Wine and Roses” was #1 for 16 weeks. Thriller broke the record and then some, ultimately spending 37 weeks on top.
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Post by mkarns on Jun 7, 2024 21:13:53 GMT -5
On 6/10/72 Casey introed Michael Jackson’s debuting “I Wanna Be Where You Are” by noting that his two previous solo hits both went top 10 and saying “This’ll make it there too”. It only reached #16.
Later he reverse-jinxed the Moody Blues when he noted that they had only one top 10 hit (“Go Now”) to that point. Next time out the group hit #2 with “Nights In White Satin”.
And on 6/13/81 Casey noted that Dottie West had five country #1's and "on the pop charts she's just getting started". That of course led into "What Are We Doin' In Love" which was her only pop top 40 hit.
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Post by dth1971 on Jun 8, 2024 6:36:22 GMT -5
Casey led into “Stranger In My House” on 6/4/83 by noting Ronnie Milsap’s proficiency at producing country #1’s, and said it was at “#6, and climbing” at country that week. Ronnie ultimately notched 42 Billboard country #1 hits, but “Stranger” wasn’t one of them as it “only” peaked at #5 there. Reportedly it was too rock-oriented for some country stations, with one in Denver nixing it because the staff thought it sounded like a Led Zeppelin song. In a reverse jinx in the same show, Casey noted that Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” was threatening the record of most weeks at # 1 by an album by a solo artist, set in 1963 when Andy Williams’ “Days of Wine and Roses” was #1 for 16 weeks. Thriller broke the record and then some, ultimately spending 37 weeks on top. Prince came close to tying Michael's record with the "Purple Rain Soundtrack" in 1984-1985?
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Post by jgve1952 on Jun 11, 2024 6:40:22 GMT -5
On this week's 6-17-78 episode, Casey announces "Used Ta Be My Girl", as the fastest moving song of the week "has its sights on #1," but sorry, it makes to a not-so-bad #4.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Jun 16, 2024 15:19:31 GMT -5
In a Supersized jinx Casey said Heatwave had really made a name for themselves in the last year... but Casey started a cold snap as they never again even made the Hot 100 again.
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Post by jgve1952 on Jun 17, 2024 5:01:32 GMT -5
Although they didn't make the Hot 100 again after "Groove Line", they did have some minor hits on the R&B chart, but never the success of their first three singles.
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Post by dth1971 on Jun 17, 2024 6:22:34 GMT -5
Although they didn't make the Hot 100 again after "Groove Line", they did have some minor hits on the R&B chart, but never the success of their first three singles. But how did Heatwave fare with songs on Billboard's Disco chart?
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Post by lasvegaskid on Jun 23, 2024 10:16:56 GMT -5
In a Supersized 75 jinx Casey said ONJs last one 'Mellow went to #1 and it looked like Please Mr. Please was headed there too.
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Post by LC on Jun 23, 2024 13:54:56 GMT -5
In a Supersized 75 jinx Casey said ONJs last one 'Mellow went to #1 and it looked like Please Mr. Please was headed there too. Hearing the line "don't play B-17" reminds me of a comic strip from many years ago. In Jeff MacNelly's "Shoe," the characters were in Roz's Diner and someone was going to play B-17 on the jukebox over Shoe's protestations. Shoe pleaded with him not to do it, but he did anyway. Sure enough, in the last panel an old B-17 bomber flew in low and buzzed the diner. I wish I could find that strip again.
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