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Post by dth1971 on Aug 8, 2021 9:03:12 GMT -5
On AT40: The 80's 8/8/1987: Casey mentioned "Give to Live" by Sammy Hagar was Sammy's first hit from his album "Sammy Hagar" (a/k/a "I Never Said Goodbye"), however, "Give to Live" would be Sammy's last solo top 40 hit though Sammy would still hit AT40 as a lead singer of Van Halen the next few years.
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Post by freakyflybry on Sept 1, 2021 1:00:13 GMT -5
On AT40 from September 5, 1998, Casey said that "When The Lights Go Out" by Five was on its way to becoming their first top 10 hit. It would stall at #15 the week after, and after their #40 follow-up fizzled, they never made the top 40 again.
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Post by chrislc on Sept 1, 2021 14:12:04 GMT -5
On that same show, Casey mentioned that Elton's "Someone Saved My Life Tonight", at #8 in its third week in the Top 40, was looking like it would hit #1. The song would peak at #4 three weeks later. #1 in both Cash Box and Record World, however. I wonder how many songs doing that peaked as low as #4 in Billboard.
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Post by djjoe1960 on Sept 1, 2021 14:30:09 GMT -5
On that same show, Casey mentioned that Elton's "Someone Saved My Life Tonight", at #8 in its third week in the Top 40, was looking like it would hit #1. The song would peak at #4 three weeks later. #1 in both Cash Box and Record World, however. I wonder how many songs doing that peaked as low as #4 in Billboard. Chris, i know that Sail On by the Commodores reached #4 in Billboard but reached #1 in Cash Box, Record World, and Radio & Records in the fall of 1979
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Post by mkarns on Sept 11, 2021 9:48:37 GMT -5
Casey said on September 10, 1977 that "if I were a betting man" he'd bet that Donna Summer's "I Feel Love" would make it to the top of AT40. Good thing he wasn't as it only reached #6--still a solid showing, and Donna would hit #1 four times over the next couple of years.
OTOH, Casey could have made a nice chunk of change betting that the second hour optional extra would get to #1 and stay there for some time...
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Post by mkarns on Sept 16, 2021 20:01:42 GMT -5
Here's a guest hosted reverse jinx. On August 7, 1976 Sonny Melendrez led into Chicago's "Another Rainy Day In New York City" with a piece about how Chicago had the distinction of the most top 10 hits (10 to that point) of any group in the rock era without ever hitting #1. Next time out they finally hit #1 with "If You Leave Me Now".
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Post by dth1971 on Sept 18, 2021 8:48:15 GMT -5
On AT40: The 70's 9/19/1970 Casey mentioned for the extra "The Green Door" by Jim Lowe that Jim Lowe was a DJ who also had a top 40 hit, and Casey mentioned other DJ's who had top 40 hits: Wink Martindale (also a game show host and later in 1975 a one time AT40 guest host for Casey), Sly Stone, and B.B. King. However...6 years later there was another DJ who also hit the top 40 - Rick Dees - Who would later be Casey's rival to host the AT40 rival Rick Dees Weekly Top 40! Rick Dees went to #1 with "Disco Duck", of course.
Casey even mentioned "Letter from Elena" that didn't make the top 40 reaches though it was charted on the pre AT40 years anyway...
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Post by mkarns on Sept 18, 2021 9:29:01 GMT -5
On September 16, 1978, Casey noted the fact that the Who had only one top 10 hit ("I Can See For Miles") despite their popularity and influence, and that they "take another shot at the top 10" with "Who Are You", which debuted that week. It only peaked at #14, though it has had a successful further life as a classic rock staple and the CSI theme.
And in a sad additional bit of irony, by the time listeners heard this story Keith Moon had already died. He received an AT40 tribute two weeks later.
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Post by mga707 on Sept 18, 2021 12:17:37 GMT -5
A really unfortunate 'jinx' on the 9/16/72 show, currently airing on Sirius-XM: "...if you've ever seen this man work, you'll agree he's going to ber around for a long time...", spoken as the intro to "You Don't Mess Around With Jim" at #21.
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Post by JMW on Sept 20, 2021 17:30:34 GMT -5
I spotted one jinx and one semi-jinx on the topical promos section of the 10/4/1986 cue sheet: Semi-Jinx: Casey mentions that Paul Simon's new hit You Can Call Me Al was climbing the Hot 100 and that we can "call him anything he wants -- as long as he joins us -- on American Top 40." He would not do so until the 4/25/1987 show thanks to its re-release after peaking at #44 the first time around. Jinx: Casey also mentions that Chicago's re-recording of 25 or 6 to 4 was also climbing the charts and could hit the Top 40; it only got as far as #48.
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Post by mkarns on Oct 9, 2021 2:22:29 GMT -5
These from Humble Harve Miller's guest hosted show (July 13, 1974):
Three Dog Night debuted with "Sure As I'm Sittin' Here", saying that they're a group "that hardly ever misses" and "they used to call Perry Como Mr. Consistency and now that title belongs to eight guys called Three Dog Night". After this song they only made the top 40 twice more, and none of those last three countdown entries made the top 10.
Dave Loggins made the week's highest debut, at #23, with "Please Come To Boston", and Harve outroed it by saying "We may hear a lot from that young man". That was his only top 40 pop hit.
"Don't Let the Sun Go Down On Me" was the biggest mover, leaping up 19 points to #6, and HH said "it looks like Elton John may soon be celebrating another #1 song". That prediction obviously made sense then but the song only peaked at #2 (though it topped the Hot 100 in 1992 in a live duet between Elt and George Michael.)
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Post by dth1971 on Oct 9, 2021 8:21:57 GMT -5
I spotted one jinx and one semi-jinx on the topical promos section of the 10/4/1986 cue sheet: Semi-Jinx: Casey mentions that Paul Simon's new hit You Can Call Me Al was climbing the Hot 100 and that we can "call him anything he wants -- as long as he joins us -- on American Top 40." He would not do so until the 4/25/1987 show thanks to its re-release after peaking at #44 the first time around. Jinx: Casey also mentions that Chicago's re-recording of 25 or 6 to 4 was also climbing the charts and could hit the Top 40; it only got as far as #48. Too bad Casey didn't plug in late 1986 AT40 show promos another re-recording: The Police's 1986 re-recording of their 1981 top 40 hit "Don't Stand So Close To Me" which also came close of AT40 reaches.
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Post by dth1971 on Oct 9, 2021 8:35:06 GMT -5
On AT40: The 70's 10/14/1972: Casey mentioned in a heard only once in the show question letter about sibling groups who hit #1 the most - A tie between the Everly Brothers and the Jackson Brothers - UH - Jackson Five. Believe it or not, by the end of the 1970's the Gibb siblings - the Bee Gees - would break that record with #1 songs mostly when the Saturday Night Fever craze took off.
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Post by djjoe1960 on Oct 9, 2021 14:22:28 GMT -5
These from Humble Harve Miller's guest hosted show (July 13, 1974): "Don't Let the Sun Go Down On Me" was the biggest mover, leaping up 19 points to #6, and HH said "it looks like Elton John may soon be celebrating another #1 song". That prediction obviously made sense then but the song only peaked at #2 (though it topped the Hot 100 in 1992 in a live duet between Elt and George Michael.) Maybe Humble Harve was keeping an eye on the Cash Box or Record World charts where Elton did make it to #1 with that Sun song.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Oct 11, 2021 14:08:13 GMT -5
On last week's 1982 show Casey led into Newton's "Break It To Me Gently" saying that she was looking for her 5th straight top tenner. But it peaked at #11 and Juice would never drink another top tenner.
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