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Post by listenerwants2know on Apr 4, 2021 2:23:10 GMT -5
Casey mentions that this week’s Top 12 is the same as last week’s. Every song in the same position (in the Top 12 that is). Had that ever happened before? No one could get Michael Jackson out of that Top spot. Culture Club, Duran Duran (at the height of their popularity), Lionel Richie..no one could bump MJ out of number one. Must have been frustrating as hell (yes I know they would all have number one hits but still). Of course Dexy’s Midnight Runners would end MJ’s rein at number one. I find the charts interesting I guess is what I’m saying, especially back then. Not the Top 12, but the Top 11. At #12 is the Greg Kihn Band (moving up 2) with "Jeopardy".
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Post by listenerwants2know on Apr 4, 2021 3:07:48 GMT -5
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Post by dth1971 on Apr 4, 2021 6:12:50 GMT -5
If it weren't for a dispute between Greg Kihn and Bob Seger, we could have had a Thirsty 13 !!! Maybe this was the show that put Bill Wardlow "on notice" . There were 19 out of the 40 survey songs that made no movement from the previous week. Aside from the Bizarro chart action, 4-2-83 is a great show to celebrate National Countdown Day 4-3-21 APRIL 2, 1983, ACROSS THE CHARTS As many of you know, "Twilight Zone" never made the Radio & Records top 30 chart. Also, "Stray Cat Strut" and "We've Got Tonight" had fallen out by this point. # | Billboard | Cash Box | Radio & Records | Fantasy Top 20 | 1 | BILLIE JEAN [1] | BILLIE JEAN [1] | SEPARATE WAYS [3] | SEPARATE WAYS [4] | 2 | DO YOU REALLY WANT TO... [2] | YOU ARE [3] | BILLIE JEAN [1] | BILLIE JEAN [1] | 3 | HUNGRY LIKE THE WOLF [3] | DO YOU REALLY WANT TO... [2] | ONE ON ONE [2] | YOU ARE [5] | 4 | YOU ARE [4] | HUNGRY LIKE THE WOLF [4] | MR. ROBOTO [5] | HUNGRY LIKE THE WOLF [2] | 5 | BACK ON THE CHAIN GANG [5] | BACK ON THE CHAIN GANG [5] | COME ON EILEEN [6] | I KNOW THERE'S SOMETHING...[6] | 6 | WE'VE GOT TONIGHT [6] | ONE ON ONE [7] | JEOPARDY [10] | LIES [7] | 7 | MR. ROBOTO [7] | MR. ROBOTO [8] | YOU ARE [4] | ONE ON ONE [9] | 8 | SEPARATE WAYS [8] | COME ON EILEEN [9] | BEAT IT [14] | TWILIGHT ZONE [10] | 9 | ONE ON ONE [9] | SEPARATE WAYS [10] | I KNOW THERE'S SOMETHING... [13] | BACK ON THE CHAIN GANG [3] | 10 | TWILIGHT ZONE [10] | JEOPARDY [13] | BACK ON THE CHAIN GANG [9] | I DON'T CARE ANYMORE [11] | 11 | COME ON EILEEN [11] | STRAY CAT STRUT [6] | DER KOMMISSAR [16] | I MELT WITH YOU [12] | 12 | JEOPARDY [14] | WE'VE GOT TONIGHT [11] |
| JEOPARDY [14] | 13 | I KNOW THERE'S SOMETHING... [13] | DER KOMMISSAR [18] | HUNGRY LIKE THE WOLF [7] |
| 14 | BEAT IT [15] | I KNOW THERE'S SOMETHING... [15] |
| COME ON EILEEN [18] | 15 | DER KOMMISSAR [16] | BEAT IT [22] |
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| BEAT IT [-->] | 20 |
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| DER KOMMISSAR [-->] | 22 | STRAY CAT STRUT [21] |
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What about Record World and Gavin Report?
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Apr 4, 2021 6:52:33 GMT -5
Casey mentions that this week’s Top 12 is the same as last week’s. Every song in the same position (in the Top 12 that is). Had that ever happened before? No one could get Michael Jackson out of that Top spot. Culture Club, Duran Duran (at the height of their popularity), Lionel Richie..no one could bump MJ out of number one. Must have been frustrating as hell (yes I know they would all have number one hits but still). Of course Dexy’s Midnight Runners would end MJ’s rein at number one. I find the charts interesting I guess is what I’m saying, especially back then. Just four years and change earlier, on 8/19/1978, is the Billboard chart dubbed the "Frozen Fourteen". Yep, the top 14 songs held their position, including a former #1.
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Post by doofus67 on Apr 4, 2021 7:14:26 GMT -5
APRIL 2, 1983, ACROSS THE CHARTS... What about Record World and Gavin Report? Good question. Even WorldRadioHistory.com is missing most of the 1983 Gavin back issues. And Record World published its last issue in April, 1982.
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Post by mkarns on Apr 4, 2021 8:18:28 GMT -5
Casey mentions that this week’s Top 12 is the same as last week’s. Every song in the same position (in the Top 12 that is). Had that ever happened before? No one could get Michael Jackson out of that Top spot. Culture Club, Duran Duran (at the height of their popularity), Lionel Richie..no one could bump MJ out of number one. Must have been frustrating as hell (yes I know they would all have number one hits but still). Of course Dexy’s Midnight Runners would end MJ’s rein at number one. I find the charts interesting I guess is what I’m saying, especially back then. Just the previous summer (8/21 and 8/28/82) the top 12 were the same for two weeks. And for the entire month of August 1982--four weeks running--the entire top 5 was the same.
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Post by dth1971 on Apr 4, 2021 8:30:23 GMT -5
Casey mentions that this week’s Top 12 is the same as last week’s. Every song in the same position (in the Top 12 that is). Had that ever happened before? No one could get Michael Jackson out of that Top spot. Culture Club, Duran Duran (at the height of their popularity), Lionel Richie..no one could bump MJ out of number one. Must have been frustrating as hell (yes I know they would all have number one hits but still). Of course Dexy’s Midnight Runners would end MJ’s rein at number one. I find the charts interesting I guess is what I’m saying, especially back then. Just the previous summer (8/21 and 8/28/82) the top 12 were the same for two weeks. And for the entire month of August 1982--four weeks running--the entire top 5 was the same. In April 1983 it was the frozen top 11, not the frozen top 12.
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Apr 4, 2021 8:55:28 GMT -5
In April 1983 it was the frozen top 11, not the frozen top 12. Already mentioned.
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Post by kani on Apr 4, 2021 9:14:00 GMT -5
Apr 2, 1983 my thoughts
6 diff cars, 3 diff record acts. top 40 diff versions model cars, especially with Corvette.
other charts: #1 adult contemp: Lionel Richie - You Are, #1 rock Def Leppard - Photograph
First LDD: 13 yr old Jimmy in CT to Aunt Bonnie, #1 song 1975 late Minnie Ripertson
1 home video game: pacman
Headline act for ELO for After the Fire band, story of it
Steve McQueen movie, the getaway: Greg Kihn
11 English acts, 15 foreign acts
Come on Eileen #1 England, Australia, would later then make #1 usa
Blue Monday would be climbing dance chart USA, remake Orgy 1999 would be charting. New Order wouldn't be charting USA in early 1988
1 remake we got tonight
Second ldd: woman in PA separated from boyfriend, met high school 14 yrs old, to Jim from pam
Duran Duran story, for people's choice awards
Overkill highest 100 debut, wk later... first in 1971
#11-#2 same position
Stephen Bishop It Might Be You, movie soundtrack
I will update more when I fully listened.. forgive me if I made typos
Toto story
thanks.. great that Casey introducing latest technology: CD..
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Post by at40nut on Apr 4, 2021 10:51:25 GMT -5
Kani, don't forget the Compact Disc story. Casey said that CD's themselves cost about $17 which is one of the very few consumer products that hasn't fluctuated in price in the past 35+ years. The players were the costly unit-Casey said that they ran $1000. In 1986-1987, a Crapnovox Boombox CD player at Sears ran about $300-$400 dollars. By 1991, you could get a really decent one for just under $200. I am a vinyl fan today, and I have vinyl and CD copies of Cutting Crew's "Broadcast", Def Leppard's "Hysteria" and GN'R's "Appetite For Destruction". My vinyl copies sound better than those original CD's from 1987. The early CD's sounded really compressed, but the sound quality got better in 1991 -1992 once colors and artwork were finding their way on to the CD itself. Vinyl died in the 80's because CD's were the "New Thing", they took up less space, and they were portable but not so much in cars (I had a Sony "Wayne's World" player that needed a cigarette lighter adapter and a cassette adapter which would skip every time I hit a bump) Today, CD's are becoming like the 8 Track. You don't find much of them in retail stores. Even in brand new cars there is no CD player to be found.
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Apr 4, 2021 11:49:57 GMT -5
I think most car makers stopped putting in CD players in the early to mid 2010s. My 2014 didn't have one.
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Post by BrettVW on Apr 4, 2021 11:58:24 GMT -5
My 2017 does have one and I was surprised
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Post by mga707 on Apr 4, 2021 13:36:21 GMT -5
Casey mentions that this week’s Top 12 is the same as last week’s. Every song in the same position (in the Top 12 that is). Had that ever happened before? No one could get Michael Jackson out of that Top spot. Culture Club, Duran Duran (at the height of their popularity), Lionel Richie..no one could bump MJ out of number one. Must have been frustrating as hell (yes I know they would all have number one hits but still). Of course Dexy’s Midnight Runners would end MJ’s rein at number one. I find the charts interesting I guess is what I’m saying, especially back then. The top 11, not 12. #12 was "Jeopardy", up from #14. I mentioned this on a previous page. As noted above, there had been a static top 12 the previous year, w/e 8/28/82, and of course the (in)famous 'Frozen 14' of the week ending August 19, 1978.
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Post by mga707 on Apr 4, 2021 13:37:54 GMT -5
I think most car makers stopped putting in CD players in the early to mid 2010s. My 2014 didn't have one. It is the one feature I miss the most from my previous vehicle. I finally 'bit the bullet' and went from an '05 to a '20 in November. I didn't use my CD player in my previous vehicle very much, but it was nice to have it there.
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Post by mga707 on Apr 4, 2021 13:43:34 GMT -5
APRIL 2, 1983, ACROSS THE CHARTS As many of you know, "Twilight Zone" never made the Radio & Records top 30 chart. Also, "Stray Cat Strut" and "We've Got Tonight" had fallen out by this point. # | Billboard | Cash Box | Radio & Records | Fantasy Top 20 | 1 | BILLIE JEAN [1] | BILLIE JEAN [1] | SEPARATE WAYS [3] | SEPARATE WAYS [4] | 2 | DO YOU REALLY WANT TO... [2] | YOU ARE [3] | BILLIE JEAN [1] | BILLIE JEAN [1] | 3 | HUNGRY LIKE THE WOLF [3] | DO YOU REALLY WANT TO... [2] | ONE ON ONE [2] | YOU ARE [5] | 4 | YOU ARE [4] | HUNGRY LIKE THE WOLF [4] | MR. ROBOTO [5] | HUNGRY LIKE THE WOLF [2] | 5 | BACK ON THE CHAIN GANG [5] | BACK ON THE CHAIN GANG [5] | COME ON EILEEN [6] | I KNOW THERE'S SOMETHING...[6] | 6 | WE'VE GOT TONIGHT [6] | ONE ON ONE [7] | JEOPARDY [10] | LIES [7] | 7 | MR. ROBOTO [7] | MR. ROBOTO [8] | YOU ARE [4] | ONE ON ONE [9] | 8 | SEPARATE WAYS [8] | COME ON EILEEN [9] | BEAT IT [14] | TWILIGHT ZONE [10] | 9 | ONE ON ONE [9] | SEPARATE WAYS [10] | I KNOW THERE'S SOMETHING... [13] | BACK ON THE CHAIN GANG [3] | 10 | TWILIGHT ZONE [10] | JEOPARDY [13] | BACK ON THE CHAIN GANG [9] | I DON'T CARE ANYMORE [11] | 11 | COME ON EILEEN [11] | STRAY CAT STRUT [6] | DER KOMMISSAR [16] | I MELT WITH YOU [12] | 12 | JEOPARDY [14] | WE'VE GOT TONIGHT [11] |
| JEOPARDY [14] | 13 | I KNOW THERE'S SOMETHING... [13] | DER KOMMISSAR [18] | HUNGRY LIKE THE WOLF [7] |
| 14 | BEAT IT [15] | I KNOW THERE'S SOMETHING... [15] |
| COME ON EILEEN [18] | 15 | DER KOMMISSAR [16] | BEAT IT [22] |
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| TWILIGHT ZONE [20] |
| BEAT IT [-->] | 20 |
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| DER KOMMISSAR [-->] | 22 | STRAY CAT STRUT [21] |
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What about Record World and Gavin Report? Assume 'Fantasy Top 20' is something you've made up?
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