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Post by mike1985 on Jun 27, 2021 17:15:59 GMT -5
I had to google Bruce Springsteen and Mexican Zebra, and sure enough the picture is there to be seen. Pretty hilarious to look at.
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Post by Mike on Jun 27, 2021 17:47:08 GMT -5
Rare weekly show that doesn't have a #40 jingle, since instead Casey explains the origin of the #40 song. (That, of course, means we get the slightly-less-elusive #39 jingle instead.) Casey states that Grace Slick (like Marty Balin) quit because she didn't like the new "hard rock" direction Jefferson Starship was going in - while that may have been true for Marty, it wasn't for Grace: Paul Kantner requested her resignation after her alcoholism led to her raising holy hell for them in Germany (one show had to be cancelled because she was too intoxicated to perform - which led the audience to riot, and during the other, she did perform, but was drunk during that too, and among other things, repeatedly asked the audience, "who won the war?") Oddly enough, Kantner himself had just recently left the band by the time of this show, feeling that the band had become too "pop". (Little did he know: If this was too Pop, we hadn't seen anything yet!) It's almost too bad we got 5/7 instead of 5/28/88 last month - that would've given us not one but two instances of Casey The Dancing Instructor this year. (But then, 5/28 was done just last year...) "Eyes Without a Face" doesn't get cut down, for a change.
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Post by mkarns on Jun 27, 2021 18:09:14 GMT -5
Rockwell had good momentum after the success of “Somebody’s Watching Me” and he followed it up with that song? Let’s face it, without Michael Jackson singing on “Somebody’s Watching Me” the song wouldn’t have been successful. "Obscene Phone Caller" is pretty catchy in a sense, and funny with the vocal parody. But it's basically a novelty song that used the same gimmick as his first hit, and that plus the fact that his bigger hit relied heavily on an uncredited but obvious superstar guest make it easy to see why he didn't have a lasting chart career.
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Post by retrodaddy on Jun 27, 2021 19:14:52 GMT -5
Lmao @ Grace Slick repeatedly asking a German audience, "Who won the war?"
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Post by dth1971 on Jun 27, 2021 19:15:50 GMT -5
Don't you mean "Back In Time" by Huey Lewis & The News? (Unless "Bad Is Bad" was a popular album cut (from Sports) in early 1985, right after "Walking On A Thin Line" had run its course. I don't recall that it ever was, though). "Never Say Goodbye" was offered as an Optional Extra with the 5/30/1987 show, back in 2014. Even though "We Said Hello, Goodbye" was remixed for the 1986 film Playing For Keeps, the radio stations in my area did not start playing it until early 1988. Chicago's Z95 began playing it in January and it made an appearance on their Top 30 playlist, peaking at #22. Then, around March of that year, WNDU in South Bend started playing the song, though it never hit their chart for some reason. I forgot about "Back in Time" by Huey Lewis. For "Bad is Bad", a music video for that song was made but that song appeared on the B side of Huey Lewis' "The Power of Love". And here's the music video for Huey Lewis and the News "Bad is Bad": www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CscPTI8fwA
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Post by Jessica on Jun 27, 2021 20:19:04 GMT -5
Rare weekly show that doesn't have a #40 jingle, since instead Casey explains the origin of the #40 song. (That, of course, means we get the slightly-less-elusive #39 jingle instead.) Casey states that Grace Slick (like Marty Balin) quit because she didn't like the new "hard rock" direction Jefferson Starship was going in - while that may have been true for Marty, it wasn't for Grace: Paul Kantner requested her resignation after her alcoholism led to her raising holy hell for them in Germany (one show had to be cancelled because she was too intoxicated to perform - which led the audience to riot, and during the other, she did perform, but was drunk during that too, and among other things, repeatedly asked the audience, "who won the war?") Oddly enough, Kantner himself had just recently left the band by the time of this show, feeling that the band had become too "pop". (Little did he know: If this was too Pop, we hadn't seen anything yet!) It's almost too bad we got 5/7 instead of 5/28/88 last month - that would've given us not one but two instances of Casey The Dancing Instructor this year. (But then, 5/28 was done just last year...) "Eyes Without a Face" doesn't get cut down, for a change. I was glad “Eyes Without A Face” wasn’t edited, I love that song.
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Post by mkarns on Jun 27, 2021 20:47:04 GMT -5
Very nice story and movements about breakdancing Good that they used that story when they did; the following week "Breakdance" fell right out of the top 40 from #17. I guess it could have been told in relation to "Breakin...There's No Stoppin' Us", but it wouldn't have worked as well as that song doesn't specifically mention popping and locking.
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Post by mkarns on Jun 27, 2021 21:09:01 GMT -5
Rare weekly show that doesn't have a #40 jingle, since instead Casey explains the origin of the #40 song. (That, of course, means we get the slightly-less-elusive #39 jingle instead.) Casey states that Grace Slick (like Marty Balin) quit because she didn't like the new "hard rock" direction Jefferson Starship was going in - while that may have been true for Marty, it wasn't for Grace: Paul Kantner requested her resignation after her alcoholism led to her raising holy hell for them in Germany (one show had to be cancelled because she was too intoxicated to perform - which led the audience to riot, and during the other, she did perform, but was drunk during that too, and among other things, repeatedly asked the audience, "who won the war?") Oddly enough, Kantner himself had just recently left the band by the time of this show, feeling that the band had become too "pop". (Little did he know: If this was too Pop, we hadn't seen anything yet!) It's almost too bad we got 5/7 instead of 5/28/88 last month - that would've given us not one but two instances of Casey The Dancing Instructor this year. (But then, 5/28 was done just last year...) "Eyes Without a Face" doesn't get cut down, for a change. I was glad “Eyes Without A Face” wasn’t edited, I love that song. Actually it was edited some; not all of the lines in the bridge were heard (nothing about hanging out by the state line changing holy water into wine). But at least we got to hear the second verse and chorus which were frequently cut out.
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Post by Mike on Jun 27, 2021 21:13:17 GMT -5
Also: What a difference a month makes. Just a month ago on May 19, every one of the "other" Billboard #1s that Casey read as far as singles go could be found in the countdown. - Country was "To All the Girls I've Loved Before".
- Soul was "Hello".
- Dance + Disco was "Let's Hear it For the Boy".
And for that matter, so too were the ones Larry Morgan read for this week's show. - Adult Contemporary was "The Longest Time".
- Rock was "Run Runaway".
- Canadian (really surprised he read this one) is the only repeat in this bunch, "To All the Girls I've Loved Before".
Cut to this week, and not one of the Country, Soul, or Dance + Disco #1s are in the countdown - and for that matter, neither is Adult Contemporary (itself a rarity, as it's the only such week all year). Just the Rock and Canadian #1s are in there.
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Post by mkarns on Jun 27, 2021 21:57:29 GMT -5
Cut to this week, and not one of the Country, Soul, or Dance + Disco #1s are in the countdown - and for that matter, neither is Adult Contemporary (itself a rarity, as it's the only such week all year). Just the Rock and Canadian #1s are in there. At least we got the #1 Dance hit ("Tell Me I'm Not Dreaming", which Casey called a "hot album cut") as an optional extra, and it would have likely been in the countdown if it were a commercial 45. Though for a song not ever heard in the countdown it would have been nice if Premiere hadn't cut it short....
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Post by burcjm on Jun 28, 2021 0:19:10 GMT -5
Prediction for next show:
7/10/82
1985 will almost certainly be featured in July but 7/13/85 has aired quite a lot and the show from three weeks before was a 'B'. The 1982 show last aired as a standalone in 2014 so is fairly ripe for replay. It would probably be paired with either 7/12/86 or 7/9/88.
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Post by Jessica on Jun 28, 2021 4:09:01 GMT -5
Lol at the “breakdancing” lesson. Casey talking about “popping and locking” made me laugh really hard. Even Casey had to laugh.
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Post by dth1971 on Jun 28, 2021 7:47:00 GMT -5
Lol at the “breakdancing” lesson. Casey talking about “popping and locking” made me laugh really hard. Even Casey had to laugh. Well, in the mid-late 2000's in the early years of the (SHUDDER) Ryan Seacrest AT40 era there was a song on the Ryan AT40 chart by Huey called "Pop, Lock, and Drop It" but it has nothing to do with breakdancing, I guess.
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Post by Hervard on Jun 28, 2021 9:18:52 GMT -5
Also: What a difference a month makes. Just a month ago on May 19, every one of the "other" Billboard #1s that Casey read as far as singles go could be found in the countdown. - Country was "To All the Girls I've Loved Before".
- Soul was "Hello".
- Dance + Disco was "Let's Hear it For the Boy".
And for that matter, so too were the ones Larry Morgan read for this week's show. - Adult Contemporary was "The Longest Time".
- Rock was "Run Runaway".
- Canadian (really surprised he read this one) is the only repeat in this bunch, "To All the Girls I've Loved Before".
Cut to this week, and not one of the Country, Soul, or Dance + Disco #1s are in the countdown - and for that matter, neither is Adult Contemporary (itself a rarity, as it's the only such week all year). Just the Rock and Canadian #1s are in there. Yeah, I was rather surprised that "Believe In Me" by Dan Fogelberg was #1 on the AC chart, seeing that the song did not hit the Top 40 - too bad, as I liked that song. But after "Language Of Love" earlier in the year, that was it for Fogelberg at Top 40 radio.
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Post by laura on Jun 28, 2021 9:28:45 GMT -5
Lol at the “breakdancing” lesson. Casey talking about “popping and locking” made me laugh really hard. Even Casey had to laugh. Well, in the mid-late 2000's in the early years of the (SHUDDER) Ryan Seacrest AT40 era there was a song on the Ryan AT40 chart by Huey called "Pop, Lock, and Drop It" but it has nothing to do with breakdancing, I guess. What does this have to do with the '80s show?
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