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Post by mga707 on May 22, 2021 19:09:15 GMT -5
On AT40: The 70's 5/26/1973, Casey said Dobie Gray had his biggest hit ever with "Drift Away", but Dobie never made the top 40 after that (Too bad Dobie's original "All I Wanna Do Is Make Love to You" in 1979 later covered by Heart in 1990 never got released as a single nor radio airplay, but should have!) Untrue. Dobie hit the 40 one more time: "You Can Do It" peaked at #37 in early 1979.
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Post by dth1971 on May 22, 2021 19:13:46 GMT -5
On AT40: The 70's 5/26/1973, Casey said Dobie Gray had his biggest hit ever with "Drift Away", but Dobie never made the top 40 after that (Too bad Dobie's original "All I Wanna Do Is Make Love to You" in 1979 later covered by Heart in 1990 never got released as a single nor radio airplay, but should have!) Untrue. Dobie hit the 40 one more time: "You Can Do It" peaked at #37 in early 1979. Well, he didn't make the top 10 with "You Can Do It" anyway.
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Post by burcjm on May 23, 2021 17:13:35 GMT -5
On AT40: The 70's 5/26/1973, Casey said Dobie Gray had his biggest hit ever with "Drift Away", but Dobie never made the top 40 after that (Too bad Dobie's original "All I Wanna Do Is Make Love to You" in 1979 later covered by Heart in 1990 never got released as a single nor radio airplay, but should have!) Untrue. Dobie hit the 40 one more time: "You Can Do It" peaked at #37 in early 1979. He was also featured in Uncle Kracker's cover version of "Drift Away".
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Post by burcjm on May 23, 2021 23:07:52 GMT -5
On May 23, 1987 Casey said all 13 of Lionel Richie's hits after leaving the Commodores went top 10. His 14th, "Se La", would get no higher than #20. Not only that he wouldn't hit the top 40 again until 1992, for the last time.
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Post by mga707 on Jun 3, 2021 20:35:00 GMT -5
Casey jinxes Chicago on the '75 show, but only for a year and a few months. "Old Days" wouldn't hit #1, but "If You Leave Me Now" would.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Jun 3, 2021 21:52:12 GMT -5
On last week's 1979 show Casey said that Peaches and Herb were Reunited with chart power. They would only reach AT40 one more time.
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Post by dth1971 on Jun 5, 2021 8:42:20 GMT -5
On AT40: The 70's 6/7/1975 Casey mentioned Ray "The Streak" Stevens as the KING OF NOVELTY RECORDS. However, "Misty" by Ray Stevens would be his final top 40 pop hit, but Ray would still hit the top 40 on Billboard's Country Chart (used for American Country Countdown) for the next couple of years.
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Post by freakyflybry on Jun 5, 2021 9:32:33 GMT -5
On AT40: The 70's 6/7/1975 Casey mentioned Ray "The Streak" Stevens as the KING OF NOVELTY RECORDS. However, "Misty" by Ray Stevens would be his final top 40 pop hit, but Ray would still hit the top 40 on Billboard's Country Chart (used for American Country Countdown) for the next couple of years. He'd have one more top 40 hit - his cover of "In The Mood" credited to Henhouse Five Plus Too.
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Post by mga707 on Jun 5, 2021 9:33:43 GMT -5
On AT40: The 70's 6/7/1975 Casey mentioned Ray "The Streak" Stevens as the KING OF NOVELTY RECORDS. However, "Misty" by Ray Stevens would be his final top 40 pop hit, but Ray would still hit the top 40 on Billboard's Country Chart (used for American Country Countdown) for the next couple of years. Technically correct, but Henhouse Five Plus Too was Stevens under a 'nom de plume'. #40 in 1977 with "In the Mood". And "I Need Your Help Barry Manilow" came close in '79, #49.
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Post by mga707 on Jun 5, 2021 9:34:24 GMT -5
On AT40: The 70's 6/7/1975 Casey mentioned Ray "The Streak" Stevens as the KING OF NOVELTY RECORDS. However, "Misty" by Ray Stevens would be his final top 40 pop hit, but Ray would still hit the top 40 on Billboard's Country Chart (used for American Country Countdown) for the next couple of years. He'd have one more top 40 hit - his cover of "In The Mood" credited to Henhouse Five Plus Too. We posted concurrently!
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Post by mkarns on Jun 5, 2021 13:09:25 GMT -5
In the same show Casey reverse-jinxed Joe Simon, noting that he'd never had a top 10 pop hit and that "Get Down, Get Down" might become his first. Id did, peaking at #8. (Unfortunately he never made the top 40 again thereafter).
But he also perhaps subtly jinxed the Carpenters, noting that "Only Yesterday" was their 12th top 10 hit so far. They never had another. (The song had peaked at #4, and Casey jinxed it in an earlier show by saying it looked like a potential #1).
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Post by lasvegaskid on Jun 5, 2021 17:40:02 GMT -5
On last week's 1976 show Casey said Bros Johnson had #2 song on Soul chart & "it looks like they are headed in same direction here on AT40". I'll Be Good would come up just short, topping out at #3.
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Post by dth1971 on Jun 6, 2021 8:20:43 GMT -5
On AT40: The 80's 6/4/1988 there was a QUESTION LETTER to Casey about the song spending the most weeks a #1 in the rock era. The 3 were, of course, "Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White", "You Light Up My Life", and "Physical". However, during the Shadoe Stevens AT40 era that record was broken first by "End of the Road" by Boyz II Men (Fall 1992 - 13 weeks), and then by "The Sign" by Ace of Base (14 weeks in early 1994 - just months before the original AT40 demise from US radio airwaves).
Also on AT40: The 80's 6/4/1988 Casey mentioned "Angel" is the biggest hit of Aerosmith's career, however, on the second AT40 incarnation in 1998, Aerosmith had a even bigger hit: The #1 smash "I Don't Want To Miss a Thing".
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Post by dth1971 on Jun 6, 2021 8:25:37 GMT -5
On AT40: The 70's 6/7/1975 Casey mentioned Ray "The Streak" Stevens as the KING OF NOVELTY RECORDS. However, "Misty" by Ray Stevens would be his final top 40 pop hit, but Ray would still hit the top 40 on Billboard's Country Chart (used for American Country Countdown) for the next couple of years. Technically correct, but Henhouse Five Plus Too was Stevens under a 'nom de plume'. #40 in 1977 with "In the Mood". And "I Need Your Help Barry Manilow" came close in '79, #49. Well, I knew I would be confused. I even remember some Ray Stevens songs that should have crossed over to top 40 pop radio in the late 1980's but made Billboard's Country chart: "Would Jesus Wear a Rolex" (1987 - The 45 single was sold at Caldor, Target, Fred Meyer, Kmart, Venture, Woolworth, and Walmart stores - maybe other discount store chains?), and "I Saw Elvis in a UFO" (1989 - I heard that song during a radio show hosted by Ron 'O Brian called "On The Radio" at that 1989 time, it aired on WYTZ Z-95 FM Chicago Sunday mornings 3 hours before AT40 with Shadoe Stevens came on).
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Post by mkarns on Jun 6, 2021 21:42:43 GMT -5
On June 4, 1988, Casey led into Daryl Hall & John Oates' "Everything Your Heart Desires", at #4, by saying "They're back, big as ever". That song was a big hit (peaked at #3 the next week), but that's not really "big as ever" for a duo who had six #1's. And they never again made the top 10, with only the aptly titled "So Close" in 1990 coming close (#11).
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