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Post by chrislc on Feb 3, 2021 19:39:44 GMT -5
Non-Casey AT40 jinx: in the October 11, 1975 guest hosted show, Wink Martindale said of the Four Seasons' "Who Loves You", "I call that a good contender for a future #1 position". It only reached #3, though that was better than the group had done in a decade, and they hit #1 next time around. Back to Gambit with you, Wink!
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Post by burcjm on Feb 4, 2021 10:01:38 GMT -5
Meanwhile, 1/30/82 had sort of a reverse jinx in which Casey noted that the Beatles were the only group to that point to have four members all hit the top 10 solo, but that Fleetwood Mac were now runners up with three (Bob Welch, Stevie Nicks, and Lindsey Buckingham). Two years later Fleetwood Mac tied the Beatles' record when Christine McVie had a solo top 10 hit ("Got a Hold On Me"). If you consider the entire top 40, the Eagles have done Fleetwood Mac one better. Randy Meisner hit in 1980 with "Deep Inside My Heart" and again in 1982 with "Never Been In Love"; Glenn Frey hit the top 40 several times between 1982-1990, as did Don Henley; Joe Walsh hit before during and after he was with the Eagles with "Rocky Mountain Way", "Life's Been Good" and "Life Of Illusion" respectively; and Timothy B. Schmit hit the top 40 with "Boys Night Out" in 1987, for a total of 5.
It could have been six, but Don Felder just missed the top 40 in 1981 with "Heavy Metal (Takin' A Ride)".
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Post by mga707 on Feb 4, 2021 11:18:53 GMT -5
Meanwhile, 1/30/82 had sort of a reverse jinx in which Casey noted that the Beatles were the only group to that point to have four members all hit the top 10 solo, but that Fleetwood Mac were now runners up with three (Bob Welch, Stevie Nicks, and Lindsey Buckingham). Two years later Fleetwood Mac tied the Beatles' record when Christine McVie had a solo top 10 hit ("Got a Hold On Me"). If you consider the entire top 40, the Eagles have done Fleetwood Mac one better. Randy Meisner hit in 1980 with "Deep Inside My Heart" and again in 1982 with "Never Been In Love"; Glenn Frey hit the top 40 several times between 1982-1990, as did Don Henley; Joe Walsh hit before during and after he was with the Eagles with "Rocky Mountain Way", "Life's Been Good" and "Life Of Illusion" respectively; and Timothy B. Schmit hit the top 40 with "Boys Night Out" in 1987, for a total of 5.
It could have been six, but Don Felder just missed the top 40 in 1981 with "Heavy Metal (Takin' A Ride)".
Good post. Meisner also had "Hearts On Fire" (at #19, the highest-charting of his three top 40 hits), and Walsh also had a #19 song from 'Urban Cowboy', "All Night Long". In the '82-'90 period, Frey had 7 top 40 singles and Henley had the most, 9 (including his duet with Stevie Nicks). Frey did slightly better, chart peak-wise, hitting #2 twice ("The Heat Is On" and "You Belong To the City"). Henley's highest-charter, "Dirty Laundry", reached #3.
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Post by dth1971 on Feb 5, 2021 10:18:19 GMT -5
Also on 1/17/76, Casey noted the one-notch-at-a-time movement of Sweet's "Fox On the Run", having gone 11-10-9-8-7-6-5 and saying "at this rate, in four weeks it should be #1". But #5 was its peak. He had done the same thing to Phoebe Snow's "Poetry Man" the previous April when it had moved 8-7-6-5, saying she could be at No. 1 in four weeks. The very next week, Snow plunged 5-25. Though a little off topic, remember when in November-December 1984 on Billboard's Hot 100 when "Hands Tied" by Scandal almost made AT40 territory moving 44-43-42-41?
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Post by dth1971 on Feb 6, 2021 9:14:48 GMT -5
On AT40: The 70's 2/4/1978 Casey called Donna Summer "The first lady of love" with "I Love You" by Donna at #37 since her first 3 top 40 hits had the word "love" in its titles, but the next top 40 hit for Donna Summer would break the word "love" in the song title streak - "Last Dance".
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Post by mga707 on Feb 6, 2021 10:51:41 GMT -5
On AT40: The 70's 2/4/1978 Casey called Donna Summer "The first lady of love" with "I Love You" by Donna at #37 since her first 3 top 40 hits had the word "love" in its titles, but the next top 40 hit for Donna Summer would break the word "love" in the song title streak - "Last Dance". Only two more of Donna's many top 40 singles would be 'love' songs: "Cold Love" and "Love Is In Control".
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Post by dth1971 on Feb 6, 2021 21:11:37 GMT -5
2/4/1978 also had Casey mentioning that a follow up Joel Brooks film (title not mentioned by Casey - what was it, anyone?) will be released Spring 1978 and Debby Boone would sing the title song to it - but Debby never made AT40 reaches after that 10 week #1 champ of "You Light Up My Life" though she would still hit Billboard's Country Chart a few more years. Also: Debby turned down the next Joel Brooks film's title song and it was passed on to Roberta Flack.
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Post by dth1971 on Feb 7, 2021 10:14:40 GMT -5
A Shadoe jinx in 1993: When Shadoe outroed Duran Duran's "Ordinary World" in an April 1993 AT40 show (The week which was the first ever with no debuts and no droppers) Shadoe mentioned Duran Duran's follow up "Come Undone" could turn up as an AT40 Sneak Peek, but the next week with 4 debuts "Come Undone" debuted on the AT40 chart not even ending up in the Sneak Peek segment.
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Post by bobbo428 on Feb 8, 2021 16:03:07 GMT -5
He had done the same thing to Phoebe Snow's "Poetry Man" the previous April when it had moved 8-7-6-5, saying she could be at No. 1 in four weeks. The very next week, Snow plunged 5-25. Though a little off topic, remember when in November-December 1984 on Billboard's Hot 100 when "Hands Tied" by Scandal almost made AT40 territory moving 44-43-42-41? It was doubly frustrating for that band because their next single, "Beat of a Heart," also stalled at No. 41!
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Feb 8, 2021 16:20:11 GMT -5
Though a little off topic, remember when in November-December 1984 on Billboard's Hot 100 when "Hands Tied" by Scandal almost made AT40 territory moving 44-43-42-41? It was doubly frustrating for that band because their next single, "Beat of a Heart," also stalled at No. 41! That's a great song. I thought that was top 40 worthy. Frustrating indeed!
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Post by dth1971 on Feb 8, 2021 17:24:00 GMT -5
Though a little off topic, remember when in November-December 1984 on Billboard's Hot 100 when "Hands Tied" by Scandal almost made AT40 territory moving 44-43-42-41? It was doubly frustrating for that band because their next single, "Beat of a Heart," also stalled at No. 41! However, both Scandal missing AT40 territory songs "Hands Tied" and "Beat of a Heart" both sneaked into the R&R Top 40 CHR chart! I wonder if one or both made the Cashbox pop top 40?
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Post by doofus67 on Feb 8, 2021 21:42:17 GMT -5
It was doubly frustrating for that band because their next single, "Beat of a Heart," also stalled at No. 41! However, both Scandal missing AT40 territory songs "Hands Tied" and "Beat of a Heart" both sneaked into the R&R Top 40 CHR chart! I wonder if one or both made the Cashbox pop top 40? "Hands Tied" hit #39 in Cash Box, and "Beat of a Heart" went to #40.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Feb 9, 2021 22:26:50 GMT -5
In a reverse jinx on last week's Supersized 1978 show, Casey said it looked like Andy Gibb was headed to #1. Love Is Thicker Than Water would get there.
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Post by djjoe1960 on Feb 13, 2021 14:00:24 GMT -5
On the 2-14-76 show Casey said that Elton John was probably headed toward another Number one, while playing Grow Some Funk Of Your Own at #17. The song not only didn't make #1 OR the Top 10 but peaked at #14 (in just 5 weeks in the Top 40)--and then fell completely out of the Top 40.
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Post by dth1971 on Feb 14, 2021 9:14:56 GMT -5
On AT40: The 80's 2/16/1985 Casey did a story on George Harrison - "The Quiet Beatle" - which mentioned George is not going to record again, but George made a comeback 2 years later with "Got My Mind Set On You", but it didn't last long and then in late 2001 George Harrison passed away of cancer and became the second Beatle to die.
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