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Post by pb on Jun 26, 2019 17:49:30 GMT -5
On 6/28/75 the over-optimistic "headed for #1" prediction went to Olivia Newton John's "Please Mr. Please," which jumped from #34 to #15 second week, but in the end could not push past #3.
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Post by JMW on Jun 27, 2019 20:47:12 GMT -5
Just heard another major reverse jinx on the 2/12/1983 show: A listener asked who was the artist that had the most #1 songs without a #1 album; Casey's answer was that two artists were tied with seven #1 songs without a number one album: Frankie Valli and...Michael Jackson (obviously, that would change not too long afterward.)
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Post by freakyflybry on Jul 3, 2019 23:09:06 GMT -5
A reverse jinx on this week's 1976 show: Casey mentioned the Starland Vocal Band is the second quartet of two men and two women, following The Mamas & The Papas, to hit #1. Just the following year, another one - ABBA - would join the club.
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Post by burcjm on Jul 7, 2019 11:29:01 GMT -5
A jinx and reverse jinx. When mentioning acts in with a chance to catch Elvis streak of most years w/a top 40, two mentioned were Elt and Daryl Hall. EJ would of course continue to reach well into the 90s to shatter the King's record. On the other hand DHs 11 straight years would stop right there in 1987. Not quite but the streak would last only one more year. "Everything Your Heart Desires" went to #3 in 1988.
Another mentioned though was Lionel Richie whose streak ended that year since he had no hits in 1988.
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Post by mkarns on Jul 7, 2019 19:12:40 GMT -5
In this week's show (7/4/87) Bryan Adams debuted at #39 with "Hearts on Fire" and Casey called it "the hot followup to his recent top 10 hit 'Heat of the Night'". Maybe he was just riffing on the title, but the "hot followup" cooled down too quickly and only reached #26.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Jul 7, 2019 21:23:07 GMT -5
A jinx and reverse jinx. When mentioning acts in with a chance to catch Elvis streak of most years w/a top 40, two mentioned were Elt and Daryl Hall. EJ would of course continue to reach well into the 90s to shatter the King's record. On the other hand DHs 11 straight years would stop right there in 1987. Not quite but the streak would last only one more year. "Everything Your Heart Desires" went to #3 in 1988. Another mentioned though was Lionel Richie whose streak ended that year since he had no hits in 1988.
Aaah, Daryl would spend his final week in the top 40 12/13/86 with solo Foolish Pride and would not return until 4/88 with the guys Everything Your Heart Desires. Daryl's only 1987 chart entry, Someone Like You would peak at #57.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Jul 13, 2019 12:59:18 GMT -5
On this week's 1978 show, Casey said at the rate McCartney was hitting #1, debuting 'Enough had a one in three chance. Paul's percentage would fall precipitously from there as he'd have only three more chart toppers to date, and two were duets, with Wonder and MJ.
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Post by mkarns on Jul 14, 2019 22:38:11 GMT -5
On this week's 1988 show Commentary Casey said gardener Billy Ocean has a green thumb on the charts. He would only reach the Hot 100 once more. In that same show Casey said that INXS' "New Sensation" was "looking like a #1 sensation--maybe." Maybe his hedging jinxed it? In any case it peaked at #3, one notch higher than that week's position. And next, at #3, Casey said "Def Leppard are just roarin' to hit the top with 'Pour Some Sugar On Me'"--another miss, as it peaked at #2. DL did hit the top next time around with "Love Bites", but that fell to Shadoe to announce. And after that, at #2, was Pebbles' "Mercedes Boy" which Casey noted had hit #1 on the Black Singles chart and "it looks like she won't stop until she hits #1 on the pop chart". Strike three for Casey, who was always fond of baseball lingo. (All these songs were broad-jumped by Richard Marx' "Hold On To the Nights" and Steve Winwood's "Roll With It".) The INXS song came right after Casey answered a listener question about the groups that had the most top 40 hits in the 1980s, which at least to that point were Journey and Kool & the Gang--neither of whom had any more top 40 hits in the year and a half left in the decade. (Though Journey's biggest hit as noted by Casey, "Open Arms", was in this countdown as an LDD.)
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Post by djjoe1960 on Jul 15, 2019 13:57:31 GMT -5
Listening to the Wink Martindale hosted show from 10/11/1975 and Wink suggested that the 4 Seasons hit, Who Loves You (#14), may be #1 bound--and even though I think it's a great song it only made it to #3.
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Post by Michael1973 on Jul 18, 2019 8:36:36 GMT -5
Casey's gushing about how the Marley family finally hit the top 40 seems like a jinx considering it was for that one week only.
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Post by mga707 on Jul 18, 2019 20:44:56 GMT -5
Casey, Casey, Casey...why'd you have to go and jinx 10cc (leaping from #10 to #3) on this week's 1975 show...
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Post by laura on Jul 19, 2019 11:56:30 GMT -5
In a rare example of a guest host reverse jinx, when Lee Sherwood filled in for Casey on 3/27/82, he did a special report on #1 jinxes, where an artist would hit #1 and never make the top 40 again, and one of the artists he mentions is Johnny Mathis. Exactly two months later, Johnny breaks that jinx and makes the top 40 again, though for the last time, with "Friends in Love" with Dionne Warwick.
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Jul 19, 2019 14:10:28 GMT -5
Listening to the Wink Martindale hosted show from 10/11/1975 and Wink suggested that the 4 Seasons hit, Who Loves You (#14), may be #1 bound--and even though I think it's a great song it only made it to #3. That is probably my favorite song of theirs, though they have many, many good ones. I was disappointed it didn't make it to the top; one of my favorites from 1975.
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Post by freakyflybry on Jul 19, 2019 23:46:51 GMT -5
Casey's gushing about how the Marley family finally hit the top 40 seems like a jinx considering it was for that one week only. However, in 2017, Skip Marley (Bob's grandson) did appear on Katy Perry's "Chained To The Rhythm", so at least one other family member did hit the top 40.
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Post by mkarns on Jul 22, 2019 12:04:07 GMT -5
A later period Casey jinx: on March 27, 1999, he said Savage Garden were "heading for their third top 10 hit on the pop chart" with "The Animal Song". It moved up to #13 that week, but only peaked at #11.
And in the same show he said Monica's "Angel of Mine" seemed "destined to be her biggest hit ever". It was at #5, where it peaked, tying her previous "For You I Will" (as Casey pointed out) but didn't match the Brandy duet "The Boy Is Mine", which hit #3.
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