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Post by retrodaddy on Apr 19, 2024 9:22:31 GMT -5
This week's optional extras: April 23, 1983:Hour #1: "Love My Way" - Psychadelic Furs (#44) Hour #2: "Faithfully" - Journey (#41) Hour #3: "Don't Let It End" - Styx (NR) Hour #4: "I Melt With You" - Modern English (#91) "Don't Let It End" entered the Hot 100 at #35 the following week. Two of the three others never made the top 40 at all, though they're well known today. From jdelachjr2002 on the Pulse Music Board: Premiere has replaced The Tubes' "She's A Beauty" as the Hour #2 op extra and Kajagoogoo's "Too Shy" as the Hour #3 op extra with "Faithfully" and "Don't Let It End" respectively. IMHO the two new songs are downgrades from the ones they had before, particularly the Styx cut. To each their own I guess... Yeah, it's kind of a bummer when the changes in OEs are downgrades. I've never liked She's A Beauty, so Faithfully is an upgrade. I dig Styx, but I much prefer Too Shy to Don't Let It End. |
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Post by dukelightning on Apr 19, 2024 15:40:27 GMT -5
"It Might be You" is not the only song nominated for the 1983 best song Oscar in this show. The first LDD "Eye of the Tiger" was the other one in the show. And another nominee which never reached the countdown was from Best Friends, another duet by James Ingram and Patti Austin, "How Do You Keep the Music Playing", peaked at 45.
Just as the Pretenders were inspired by "Chain Gang" by Sam Cooke, the 90s band Garbage was inspired by 2 Pretenders songs "Brass in Pocket(I'm Special)" and "Talk of the Town", the latter a popular album cut from 1981 for their 1999 hit "Special".
I must say that I am surprised a third 1983 A show this year is being played while only 1 A show from 1985, 86 and 88 have been played. I heard this show in 2011. Was that the last time it was an A show?
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Post by Hervard on Apr 19, 2024 16:44:03 GMT -5
Well, the 1983 show was cut off right before they got to the Top Five by a d**n ball game. Oh well...
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Post by lasvegaskid on Apr 19, 2024 22:31:11 GMT -5
Casey almost always opened the show with a statement like that, it was his way of selling it. There was really nothing glaring I could see about this chart. The changes were more subtle and not really notable unless you looked at the Hot 100 over time and compared the with those from Spring 1983. The most significant were the elimination of massive drops from the top 40. This week in 1982 alone there were six 35+ point fallers lead by Motels 83-19!! The other were fewer long holds on random places on the chart... the same Motels tune was coming off four weeks at #9. And after "Every Breath Your Take" finished its #1 chart run of 8 weeks, it would be a long several year dry spell before the next 7 or 8 or more weeks at #1 happened. Not to mention the first post Wardlow chart 4/30/83 was when Journey fell 12-8. Not significant on its own. But it ended six weeks at #8 and I can't think of many more chart runs like that in future panels. |
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Post by jblues on Apr 20, 2024 9:10:51 GMT -5
Our local AC station in Connecticut,WEBE 108,plays "I Melt With You" on a regular basis. Ours too in Motown (WOMC) does - sometimes twice a day  They also play a remade version of Great White's 'Once Bitten, Twice Shy' that is apparently stuck in Audacy's system... |
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Post by dukelightning on Apr 21, 2024 6:59:24 GMT -5
And after "Every Breath Your Take" finished its #1 chart run of 8 weeks, it would be a long several year dry spell before the next 7 or 8 or more weeks at #1 happened. Not to mention the first post Wardlow chart 4/30/83 was when Journey fell 12-8. Not significant on its own. But it ended six weeks at #8 and I can't think of many more chart runs like that in future panels. I was listening to AT40 back in 1983 and had no access to Billboard. So a few weeks later, when "Jeopardy" spent a single week at #2 and dropped, I took notice. There had not been such a hit since Rita Coolidge's "Higher and Higher" in 1977. Yes except for the #1 position, from that point forward, hits spent less weeks at their peaks than had been the case since the mid 70s. |
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Post by dth1971 on Apr 21, 2024 8:12:25 GMT -5
4/23/1983 was not only the final Wardlow chart, but the week before on 4/16/1983 Bob Eubanks guest hosted for Casey on AT40 (this was Bob Eubanks' second AT40 guest host show having done one on 1/9/1982, at the 1983 time Bob Eubanks was hosting the NBC daytime game show "Dream House", which aired after a game show where the since 1981 host is about to be replaced by the current AT40 host this Fall 2024).
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Post by dth1971 on Apr 21, 2024 8:14:10 GMT -5
Our local AC station in Connecticut,WEBE 108,plays "I Melt With You" on a regular basis. Speaking of "I Melt With You", a slightly re-recorded version was done in 1990 on the TVT label but despite charting on the Hot 100 like the 1983 version never made the AT40 reaches which would have made then AT40 host Shadoe Stevens proud. |
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Post by mkarns on Apr 21, 2024 11:02:14 GMT -5
I don't know if this was an original or Premiere edit, but it's not too often that we hear half of a Long Distance Dedication song cut out. Then again, it's not as if we don't much get to hear "Don't Stop Believin'" otherwise. (If it was Premiere, I can see the thinking: "It's not part of the chart and it's played to death anyway".) The week's other (unedited) LDD was the similarly still-ubiquitous "Eye of the Tiger".
Interesting story about Hall & Oates’, er, modest celebration of a #1 song. I wonder how Dexy’s Midnight Runners celebrated after learning of this chart? Hopefully they lived it up, as unlike H&O this was their only big moment in the sun (at least in the US; three years earlier they hit #1 in Britain with “Geno.”)
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Apr 21, 2024 11:35:00 GMT -5
I don't know if this was an original or Premiere edit, but it's not too often that we hear half of a Long Distance Dedication song cut out. Then again, it's not as if we don't much get to hear "Don't Stop Believin'" otherwise. (If it was Premiere, I can see the thinking: "It's not part of the chart and it's played to death anyway".) The week's other (unedited) LDD was the similarly still-ubiquitous "Eye of the Tiger". Interesting story about Hall & Oates’, er, modest celebration of a #1 song. I wonder how Dexy’s Midnight Runners celebrated after learning of this chart? Hopefully they lived it up, as unlike H&O this was their only big moment in the sun (at least in the US; three years earlier they hit #1 in Britain with “Geno.”) Premiere edit. |
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Post by listenerwants2know on Apr 21, 2024 14:10:48 GMT -5
The original idea for "Come On Eileen" came to Kevin Rowland in Sweden in an unusual situation. During an interview in Stockholm in 1981, a journalist asked about the spiritual roots of the music of Dexys Midnight Runners. Kevin actually wanted to ask the journalist out on a date, but she seemed very moved by the songs. And then Kevin remembered his youth at 14 or 15, when he was surrounded by Irish Catholic girls. He couldn´t show his feelings openly in that (then) world because it simply wasn´t allowed. However, there was no girl called "Eileen", but the name "Eileen" came about because of the title "Labelled With Love" by Squeeze. Kevin sang the lyrics "I, me and myself", but his sister understood "Eileen and myself".
In the album version, the song slowly fades out after just over 4 minutes - a typical 80s fade-out. But after about 5 seconds, Kevin returns with an acapella version of the Irish traditional "Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms" by Thomas Moore. And this also explains the instrumental intro at the beginning of "Come On Eileen".
"Come On Eileen" was released at a time when Irish music was not exactly wanted in England. The local radio station BRMB in Birmingham played the song the day after an IRA bomb attack in London´s Hyde Park (7/20/1982). Shortly afterwards, the radio station apologized for playing the song that day - unbelievable for Kevin. He was only concerned with his own Irish socialization. His uncles always came at the weekend, had a few drinks and started singing.
Kevin Rowland found out about the #1 in the USA at a festival in Belgium. Unlike the other band members, he was not necessarily happy about it, as he was afraid of being labeled a "one hit wonder". He was proved right, as the follow-up single "Jackie Wilson Said", originally sung by Van Morrison in 1972, didn´t reach Billboard´s Hot 100.
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Post by burcjm on Apr 21, 2024 18:32:44 GMT -5
I predict 5/3/86 for the weekend of May 4. It last aired as a standalone in..... 2010!
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Post by mrjukebox on Apr 21, 2024 18:37:03 GMT -5
Hi,listenerwants2know-I think you meant to say Kevin Rowland not Kewin Rowland.
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Post by Jessica on Apr 22, 2024 0:54:58 GMT -5
In the 1983 show Casey said that Prince was 22, in 83 he would’ve been 24 (turning 25 that year, born in 1958 same as Madonna and Michael Jackson).
I wasn’t sure if it was just me or if the LDD from “Debbie” was incomplete. It seemed shorter than the usual LDD.
On another note, I enjoyed the amusing story about Daryl Hall and John Oates being stranded outside a restaurant. Imagine being the driver that picked up Hall and Oates. Hope the driver at least got free concert tickets or something.
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Post by dth1971 on Apr 22, 2024 7:43:07 GMT -5
I predict 5/3/86 for the weekend of May 4. It last aired as a standalone in..... 2010! My guess for the first weekend in May 2024: May 5, 1984 - last aired in 2016. |
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