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Post by dukelightning on Dec 12, 2012 9:04:00 GMT -5
On the 11/30/74 show Casey said this......... "It looks like we just might have a Beatles reunion after all. Now I don't mean that the super group is getting back together. That's still in the rumor stage. But this week we have three of the former members of the super group in the countdown. And the 4th member, George Harrison is at #53 on the Hot 100 and if he makes the 40 next week, it will be the first time that all four members are in the top 40 with solo hits". Didn't happen the next week and that's why the controversy arose the week after, 12/14, when he DID make it into the top 40. But could his mentioning it on that earlier show have been the influence necessary to keep John Lennon at #40?  |
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Post by lasvegaskid on Dec 20, 2012 15:39:18 GMT -5
On last week's 1978 show Casey mentioned the debuting Glen Campbell had more chart records than anyone else on the countdown. After holding at #38 with Can You Fool the following week, the Rhinestone Cowboy would never reach the top 40 again and the Hot 100 only three more times!
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Post by dukelightning on Jan 5, 2013 12:32:14 GMT -5
In the Top 100 of 1975, Casey makes several references to the survey period being from Nov. 1974 to Nov. 1975. At one point, he says "If you are wondering where big hits from the last couple months from 1975 are, they will be in next year's countdown." Well, as it turned out, no non-#1 hit from Nov. or Dec. 1975 made the Top 100 of 1976. Maybe AT40 should have compiled their own survey to rectify that situation. (They did the year after in 1977). |
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Post by mkarns on Jan 5, 2013 12:35:17 GMT -5
In the 1978 year end show, leading into "Boogie Oogie Oogie", Casey noted the many disco records in that year's countdown and said that Billboard predicted that the number of disco records on the pop charts would go way up in the following year. Maybe if you cut the statistics off in July or August 1979 he might have been right...
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Post by lasvegaskid on Jan 20, 2013 22:41:52 GMT -5
Reverse jinx;
On this week's episode from 1973, Casey said #4 Croc Rock was Elt's biggest hit ever. Casey hadn't seen nothing yet!
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Post by tarobe on Jan 23, 2013 14:33:37 GMT -5
Reverse jinx; On this week's episode from 1973, Casey said #4 Croc Rock was Elt's biggest hit ever. Casey hadn't seen nothing yet! I remember a show from 1972 where he refered to "Rockin' Robin" as "the biggest hit that Michael Jackson's ever had." If he could have only known... |
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Post by lasvegaskid on Jan 23, 2013 15:46:40 GMT -5
On this week's 1977 show, Casey mentions MM & BDJ as the "hottest new married duo." They would reach the top 40 once more .
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Post by mkarns on Jan 26, 2013 10:27:23 GMT -5
Not quite a jinx, but on 1/29/77 Casey admitted he was wrong on his chart movement guesses when "Blinded by the Light", by Manfred Mann's Earth Band, only moved up one, from 9 to 8, after jumping ten notches the previous week. He said "I expected it to go way up this week".
Ultimately he was right, though, just a little delayed, as three weeks later it hit #1.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Feb 15, 2013 17:00:19 GMT -5
On this week's 1986 show, Casey said Stevie was within shouting distance of Elvis' record number of top tenners. Go Home would drop 16-11 that week after a recent top 10 run and Wonder would never get that high on the charts again. He would only manage to reach the top 40 twice more.
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Post by woolebull on Feb 19, 2013 11:45:51 GMT -5
I was thinking over the weekend about a time when there wasn't a jinx, but an amazing coincidence. I believe on the CT 40 2/10/90 show, which was hosted by Mark Elliot, he was going over some of the biggest love songs of the last three decades as extras. He played, "I Just Called To Say I Love You", and talked about how it was banned in South Africa because in the Oscar (or Grammy...can't recall) acceptance speech he talked about how Nelson Mandela should be freed. The amazing coincidence is that on February 11, Mandela was freed. Almost a reverse jinx with a guest host  |
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Post by jdelachjr2002 on Feb 19, 2013 20:01:04 GMT -5
I was thinking over the weekend about a time when there wasn't a jinx, but an amazing coincidence. I believe on the CT 40 2/10/90 show, which was hosted by Mark Elliot, he was going over some of the biggest love songs of the last three decades as extras. He played, "I Just Called To Say I Love You", and talked about how it was banned in South Africa because in the Oscar (or Grammy...can't recall) acceptance speech he talked about how Nelson Mandela should be freed. The amazing coincidence is that on February 11, Mandela was freed. Almost a reverse jinx with a guest host I'll have to look at it. I want to say Oscar because the Academy Awards shows generally get bigger audiences than the Grammy shows (especially since the Oscars were on Monday nights and the Grammys were mid-week). Of course even if it was the Oscars, Stevie would've been overshadowed by these seven words: "You like me! You really like me!" (Sally Field). |
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Post by JMW on Feb 19, 2013 20:39:02 GMT -5
I was thinking over the weekend about a time when there wasn't a jinx, but an amazing coincidence. I believe on the CT 40 2/10/90 show, which was hosted by Mark Elliot, he was going over some of the biggest love songs of the last three decades as extras. He played, "I Just Called To Say I Love You", and talked about how it was banned in South Africa because in the Oscar (or Grammy...can't recall) acceptance speech he talked about how Nelson Mandela should be freed. The amazing coincidence is that on February 11, Mandela was freed. Almost a reverse jinx with a guest host I'll have to look at it. I want to say Oscar because the Academy Awards shows generally get bigger audiences than the Grammy shows (especially since the Oscars were on Monday nights and the Grammys were mid-week). Of course even if it was the Oscars, Stevie would've been overshadowed by these seven words: "You like me! You really like me!" (Sally Field). It was the Oscars. I did a search on Google and found this site that said this: |
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Post by mga707 on Feb 19, 2013 20:42:55 GMT -5
Of course even if it was the Oscars, Stevie would've been overshadowed by these seven words: "You like me! You really like me!" (Sally Field). ...all through "Lincoln" I kept picturing Mary Todd blurting out that line! ;D |
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Post by mkarns on Feb 20, 2013 11:12:25 GMT -5
On 2/6/71 (using the 2/13/71 chart), Casey said that Creedence Clearwater Revival were "still looking for their first #1 single in Billboard. Maybe this'll be it" before playing "Have You Ever Seen the Rain?" Nope; the song only peaked at #8, and they had only one further top 10 hit.
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Post by seminolefan on Mar 1, 2013 18:10:42 GMT -5
On this week's 3/1/80 show, Casey said that Andy Gibb was "heading for another #1 song" with "Desire", which was at #5. The following week it would peak at #4.
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