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Post by mkarns on Aug 8, 2020 21:42:35 GMT -5
Does the story on 8/6/77 about fans travelling to see Elvis count as a jinx? The fans got lucky there - that was the last show Elvis ever did. He died later that month. I think this is supposed to be mostly about chart positions, not life/death matters. Though the timing of the story is ironic in retrospect. At least those European fans who crossed the ocean multiple times, apparently determined to never again miss an Elvis tour, achieved their goal.
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Post by slf on Aug 15, 2020 12:55:45 GMT -5
On this week's August 15, 1970 show, Casey made reference to a recent (at the time) comment from Ringo Starr, in which stated his belief that the recent breakup of the Beatles would be only temporary, that he and the other three would eventually get back together to make more music.
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Post by mga707 on Aug 15, 2020 13:38:06 GMT -5
On this week's August 15, 1970 show, Casey made reference to a recent (at the time) comment from Ringo Starr, in which stated his belief that the recent breakup of the Beatles would be only temporary, that he and the other three would eventually get back together to make more music. Yes, I chuckled over that. Sounds like Ringo was 'out of the loop'.
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Post by mga707 on Aug 15, 2020 13:40:00 GMT -5
One from the '79 show: Casey said that EW&F's "After the Love Has Gone" was an all-but-certain #1. Missed it by THAT much...
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Post by pb on Aug 15, 2020 17:52:29 GMT -5
Ringo, John Lennon, Klaus Voormann and Billy Preston recorded John's album Plastic Ono Band together a month or two later. It's possible the "news" Casey mentioned was a garbled reference to that.
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Post by dth1971 on Aug 24, 2020 8:38:35 GMT -5
On AT40: The 80's 8/22/1987 show: Casey mentioned Smokey Robinson had 36 top 40 hits total including 9 solo hits (This includes Smokey's hits with the Miracles), however, Smokey's song "One Heartbeat" would be the last to make the top 40 Billboard Hot 100/AT40 reaches.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Aug 24, 2020 15:47:07 GMT -5
On AT40: The 80's 8/22/1987 show: Casey mentioned Smokey Robinson had 36 top 40 hits total including 9 solo hits (This includes Smokey's hits with the Miracles), however, Smokey's song "One Heartbeat" would be the last to make the top 40 Billboard Hot 100/AT40 reaches. However if there had been featuring in those days, he would have had one more with Indestructible Four Tops ft. Smokey Robinson
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Post by dth1971 on Aug 24, 2020 21:27:29 GMT -5
On AT40: The 80's 8/22/1987 show: Casey mentioned Smokey Robinson had 36 top 40 hits total including 9 solo hits (This includes Smokey's hits with the Miracles), however, Smokey's song "One Heartbeat" would be the last to make the top 40 Billboard Hot 100/AT40 reaches. However if there had been featuring in those days, he would have had one more with Indestructible Four Tops ft. Smokey Robinson I didn't know Smokey Robinson sang back up on the Four Tops final AT40 song "Indestructible".
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Post by dth1971 on Aug 29, 2020 8:23:43 GMT -5
On AT40: The 70's 8/28/1976 Casey mentioned Candi Staton's "Young Hearts Run Free" was Candi's biggest top 40 hit ever, but Candi never made the AT40 reaches again.
Also on 8/28/1976: There was a question letter to Casey about top 40 acts whose only hit went to #40 - Casey mentioned 8 of these, little did he know that on that same show "Teddy Bear" by Red Sovine which was at #40 would be its only week. And in the years to come came these others #40 one hit wonders: The Buggles with "Video Killed The Radio Star" (December 1979), Change with "A Lover's Holiday" (July 1980), Rainbow with "Stone Cold" (June 1982), The Communards with "Don't Leave Me This Way" (March 1987 - on a week Charlie Van Dyke guest hosted for Casey), Shana with "I Want You" (January 1990), and Blur with "Girls and Boys" (September 1994 - during the last months of the old AT40 then heard only in foreign markets after it was withdrawn from the USA in July 1994). However, if it wasn't for the incorrect Top 40 Radio Monitor chart in a December 1991 AT40 episode Angelica's "Angel Baby" would have spent its only AT40 week at #40!
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Post by jlthorpe on Aug 30, 2020 10:06:07 GMT -5
You forgot one of the most famous #40 one hit wonders - an act that sang about radio stars and video.
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Post by Hervard on Aug 30, 2020 10:39:12 GMT -5
If it wasn't for the incorrect Top 40 Radio Monitor chart in a December 1991 AT40 episode Angelica's "Angel Baby" would have spent its only AT40 week at #40! Fortunately, I heard it several times anyway - remember B96 used to play the song from time to time back in the day?
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Post by dth1971 on Aug 30, 2020 13:45:26 GMT -5
You forgot one of the most famous #40 one hit wonders - an act that sang about radio stars and video. Yes, the Buggles - "Video Kill The Radio Star". Just added it to my thread list.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Aug 30, 2020 18:04:12 GMT -5
Casey double jinxed Carly this week in 1980 saying after Simon sisters she had both solo success and married to JT. It would be 6 years before she reached top 40 again, for the final time and by then her and JT had long been history.
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Post by djjoe1960 on Aug 30, 2020 18:39:02 GMT -5
Casey said Rita Coolidge looked like she had a good chance at #1 with Higher and Higher , which was at #3 on the show aired on SiriusXM this week end (August 27, 1977 program). The song would inch up to #2 but not make the top spot in Billboard (although it did reach the top of the Cash Box chart).
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Post by lasvegaskid on Sept 1, 2020 17:34:21 GMT -5
In a reverse jinx on last week's 1976 show Casey said BeeGees had spent three weeks trying to nudge into that #1 spot. Well the next panel they were finally able to nudge Elt aside while 'Dancing to the top.
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