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Post by blackbowl68 on Oct 14, 2014 5:34:01 GMT -5
Seeing they haven't been confirmed yet, these are my optional extra predictions for 10/17/1987:
Skeletons - Stevie Wonder Just Like Heaven - The Cure Dude Looks Like A Lady - Aerosmith Tell It To My Heart - Taylor Dayne
Note: My first guess is the last original top 40 pop single Motown had under BG's ownership.
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Post by Scott Lakefield on Oct 14, 2014 12:44:15 GMT -5
I'll confirm the extras: "Shake Your Love" / Debbie Gibson "Catch Me (I'm Falling)" / Pretty Poison "Just Like Heaven" / The Cure "Faith" / George Michael
So looks like cpokilroy wins the week with two correct guesses.
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Post by bobbo428 on Oct 14, 2014 12:45:53 GMT -5
oops--I realized that Scott had posted right before this--these would have been my choices.
1987 Optional Extra derby entries:
--Motortown-Kane Gang (this will probably get me knocked out of the running because it is an obscure one!0 --Skeletons-Stevie Wonder (his final top-40 pop hit) --We'll Be Together-Sting --Don't You Want Me-Jody Watley
I wasn't into CHR much by late 1987, so a lot of the titles on the Hot 100 were unfamiliar with me (I was 26 and trending toward adult contemporary).
AC-only song I liked most: Lonely in Love-Dan Fogelberg--went top five (I believe) on the AC chart but failed to make the Hot 100. It might have bubbled under had there been a bubbling under chart.
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Post by mkarns on Oct 14, 2014 13:36:55 GMT -5
"Faith" is the latest optional extra choice to not be on the Hot 100 in the featured week, though under the criteria of using optional extras moving up the chart, "Faith" wouldn't ever be used; it entered the Hot 100 on 10/24/87 when AT40 was guest hosted, and the following week entered the top 40. They did the same with Madonna's "Causing a Commotion" last year; also her "True Blue" a few weeks ago was used as an optional for the week before it entered the chart at #40.
"Just Like Heaven" has been used several times before, of note since this is the only way we get to hear it as part of AT40-the 80s, since the only week it was on the top 40 (1/9/88) was guest hosted. But it's a still well known/played song by a widely recognized band, making it a clear choice despite its then-rather modest chart performance.
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Post by rayshae3 on Oct 14, 2014 16:27:24 GMT -5
"Faith" is the latest optional extra choice to not be on the Hot 100 in the featured week, though under the criteria of using optional extras moving up the chart, "Faith" wouldn't ever be used; it entered the Hot 100 on 10/24/87 when AT40 was guest hosted, and the following week entered the top 40. They did the same with Madonna's "Causing a Commotion" last year; also her "True Blue" a few weeks ago was used as an optional for the week before it entered the chart at #40. "Just Like Heaven" has been used several times before, of note since this is the only way we get to hear it as part of AT40-the 80s, since the only week it was on the top 40 (1/9/88) was guest hosted. But it's a still well known/played song by a widely recognized band, making it a clear choice despite its then-rather modest chart performance. Maybe, the people who pick the optional extras, during the years there was no bubbling under (85-92), look at other Billboard features like Singles Action page (Radio Most Added/Breakout) or even titles in the Airplay and/or sales chart that was yet to make the Hot 100. I think, on a few occasions I ‘ve heard Larry Morgan has mentioned other sources besides Billboard, like CashBox or R&R, when referencing a chart action. Talking about Madonna, in one extreme case, “Into the Groove”, one of her most famous songs, was ineligible to make the Hot 100 at the time (it even didn’t make the Billboard Airplay chart, despite hitting #6 on R&R) , although I don’t know if it was ever used as an optional extra.
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Post by Dale Latimer on Oct 14, 2014 20:07:45 GMT -5
... As for the Linda Rondstadt blunder, agreed--that was a major whiff--the song they played wasn't even close. Do those two songs both show up on the same greatest hits album by chance? Just bewildering how that happened... Neither are on any of her compilations, including more-recent ones put out by Rhino. dL
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Post by michaelcasselman on Oct 14, 2014 20:29:01 GMT -5
With Premiere including the occasional album cut or non-Top 40 hit as an optional extra, including a song a week or so before it makes a concurrent T40/Hot 100 debut shouldn't be *that* much of a head-scratcher.
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Post by dukelightning on Oct 15, 2014 14:43:44 GMT -5
Some people predicted it would be this week's show, but a question Casey answered in the 10/15/83 show was way off the mark. Someone asked about male artists having hit the top 40 as solo artists, in a duo and in a trio. Answer was Paul Anka. While that is correct, off the top of my head I can think of 4 artists who also did that. Simon and Garfunkel obviously hit together as a duo and as solo artists. They also were part of a trio with Jame Taylor in 1978 with "What a Wonderful World". Graham Nash hit as a solo artist, in a duo with DAvid Crosby and as part of Crosby, Stills and Nash. A less obvious one is Paul McCartney who hit as a solo artist, in a few different duos and at one point Wings was just 3 people. What surprises me is that apparently no one ever sent in a correction because I don't see one in Pete's book.
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Post by mga707 on Oct 15, 2014 16:00:47 GMT -5
Some people predicted it would be this week's show, but a question Casey answered in the 10/15/83 show was way off the mark. Someone asked about male artists having hit the top 40 as solo artists, in a duo and in a trio. Answer was Paul Anka. While that is correct, off the top of my head I can think of 4 artists who also did that. Simon and Garfunkel obviously hit together as a duo and as solo artists. They also were part of a trio with Jame Taylor in 1978 with "What a Wonderful World". Graham Nash hit as a solo artist, in a duo with DAvid Crosby and as part of Crosby, Stills and Nash. A less obvious one is Paul McCartney who hit as a solo artist, in a few different duos and at one point Wings was just 3 people. What surprises me is that apparently no one ever sent in a correction because I don't see one in Pete's book. Correct. And since Wings on several albums was a quintet, Paul charted solo, duo, trio, quartet (two different ones, obviously), and quintet!
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Post by matt on Oct 15, 2014 16:22:09 GMT -5
Prediction for next week's show:
1st Guess: 10/29/83 2nd Guess: 10/27/84
Flip a coin--it almost has to be one of these two shows, and either one would be a show that Premiere has yet to play. Going with 1983 as the first guess since it's been slightly longer since we last heard '83...
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Post by seminolefan on Oct 16, 2014 10:28:07 GMT -5
Prediction for next week's show: 1st Guess: 10/29/83 2nd Guess: 10/27/84 Flip a coin--it almost has to be one of these two shows, and either one would be a show that Premiere has yet to play. Going with 1983 as the first guess since it's been slightly longer since we last heard '83... I'll echo those predictions. 10/25/86 is the only other possible choice, and that one would be a repeat.
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Post by dougbroda on Oct 16, 2014 15:50:46 GMT -5
... As for the Linda Rondstadt blunder, agreed--that was a major whiff--the song they played wasn't even close. Do those two songs both show up on the same greatest hits album by chance? Just bewildering how that happened... Neither are on any of her compilations, including more-recent ones put out by Rhino. dL Both, though, were on the 1999 box set creatively titled "Linda Ronstadt Box Set."
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Post by JMW on Oct 17, 2014 20:07:17 GMT -5
Just like last week, WGHN will air the countdown around 8:00 tomorrow night thanks to college football.
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Post by secretman on Oct 17, 2014 20:25:19 GMT -5
KOKZ going with 10/25/80!! Thanks for the info!
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Post by davewollenberg on Oct 18, 2014 6:41:37 GMT -5
For some reason, WMMX started the show before the top of the hour. It's now 6:41 central, and they've already started the 3 hour of the show.
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