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Post by Mike on Apr 17, 2023 6:22:25 GMT -5
Hour #2: "What Is Love" - Howard Jones (#84) Somebody really really really likes this song. How many 1984 shows has it been an extra for? And it only lasted those four weeks in the countdown, as well...
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Post by Jessica on Apr 17, 2023 6:36:32 GMT -5
Hour #2: "What Is Love" - Howard Jones (#84) Somebody really really really likes this song. How many 1984 shows has it been an extra for? And it only lasted those four weeks in the countdown, as well... I’m happy it’s an extra. I love that song . One of Howard Jones’ best songs IMO.
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Post by dth1971 on Apr 17, 2023 7:20:28 GMT -5
My guess for the last weekend of April 2023: 4/30/1983 last played in 2018.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Apr 17, 2023 9:33:07 GMT -5
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Post by doofus67 on Apr 17, 2023 13:15:38 GMT -5
For the week of April 29 I predict 4/30/83. It's been a 3 month drought for '83 so it's time. The 40th anniversary of the first post-Bill Wardlow chart, with "a lot of action," as Casey would observe, is the perfect occasion to rerun this show.
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Post by dth1971 on Apr 17, 2023 15:02:32 GMT -5
For the week of April 29 I predict 4/30/83. It's been a 3 month drought for '83 so it's time. The 40th anniversary of the first post-Bill Wardlow chart, with "a lot of action," as Casey would observe, is the perfect occasion to rerun this show. And the first debut of the week doesn't occur until #35.
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Post by dth1971 on Apr 17, 2023 17:48:15 GMT -5
I could replace "Mexican Radio" and "New Years Day" with: * "Gimme All Your Lovin'" - ZZ Top * "Never Gonna Let You Go" - Sergio Mendes
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Post by lasvegaskid on Apr 18, 2023 14:11:37 GMT -5
Even though '65 was Davis' highest charter, it's super obscure today. When oldies radio plays Paul, they Go Crazy or once in a while have a Cool Night. I think that's because, despite its title, '65 Love Affair sounds more like '50s nostalgia than '60s. (In fact, I thought I read somewhere that the orig title was '55 Love Affair but that Clive Davis insisted it be changed.) Actually Casey told the story on last week's 1982.
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Post by johnnywest on Apr 18, 2023 21:36:03 GMT -5
Next weekend's optional extras: April 21, 1984:Hour #1: "Run Runaway" - Slade (#50) Hour #2: "What Is Love" - Howard Jones (#84) Hour #3: "Dance Hall Days" - Wang Chung (#88) Hour #4: "Self Control" - Laura Branigan (#49) The two highest debuting songs on the Hot 100 the week of April 21, 1984 "The Reflex" and " The Heart Of Rock'n'Roll" did not make the cut. Both songs were a week away from the countdown. Both were used as optionals in 2008.
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Post by cursereversed on Apr 19, 2023 10:48:14 GMT -5
IIRC in 1982 Vietnam veterans were still receiving the type of reception Charlie Daniels sings about. "Still in Saigon" probably would have done better if it had been released a few years later after they started getting the respect they deserved and PTSD was finally acknowledged as being real and not just an excuse for current bad behavior.
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Post by Mike on Apr 19, 2023 11:53:02 GMT -5
IIRC in 1982 Vietnam veterans were still receiving the type of reception Charlie Daniels sings about. "Still in Saigon" probably would have done better if it had been released a few years later after they started getting the respect they deserved and PTSD was finally acknowledged as being real and not just an excuse for current bad behavior. ...maybe? I can see two potential windows for it - either toward the end of '84, with both "Born in the USA" and "Walking on a Thin Line" also hitting (though Huey's song was the only Top 10 miss off Sports), or in the summer of '85, alongside "19". But that's a BIG maybe, and even at either of those times I'm not too sure of how likely, as Charlie's Southern country rock style was VERY much out of fashion after 1982 (unless your name was .38 Special, though they were never "country").
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Post by trekkielo on Apr 19, 2023 12:33:49 GMT -5
IIRC in 1982 Vietnam veterans were still receiving the type of reception Charlie Daniels sings about. "Still in Saigon" probably would have done better if it had been released a few years later after they started getting the respect they deserved and PTSD was finally acknowledged as being real and not just an excuse for current bad behavior. ...maybe? I can see two potential windows for it - either toward the end of '84, with both "Born in the USA" and "Walking on a Thin Line" also hitting (though Huey's song was the only Top 10 miss off Sports), or in the summer of '85, alongside "19". But that's a BIG maybe, and even at either of those times I'm not too sure of how likely, as Charlie's Southern country rock style was VERY much out of fashion after 1982 (unless your name was .38 Special, though they were never "country"). Also, "Goodnight Saigon" by Billy Joel that was on the Billboard Hot 100 for 4/30/1983 in its 7th and final week after it peaked at #56 two weeks before! "Goodnight Saigon" is regularly featured in Joel's concerts, and live versions were released on the albums Kontsert, 12 Gardens Live, Live at Shea Stadium: The Concert, and My Lives. It has also been included on several compilation albums, including Greatest Hits – Volume I & Volume II (1985) A shortened version of "Goodnight Saigon" was sung by Will Ferrell in a Saturday Night Live sketch, on May 16, 2009, a sketch that also featured cameos by Green Day, Norm Macdonald, Maya Rudolph, Amy Poehler, Tom Hanks, Paul Rudd, Artie Lange, and Anne Hathaway, among others, as background musicians. "Goodnight Saigon" was included in the play Movin' Out in a scene where one of the characters has a nightmare of his experiences fighting in Vietnam. They were all part of an early 1980s wave of attention to the subject, presaging treatments such as Bruce Springsteen's "Shut Out the Light", then somewhat later Steve Earle's "Copperhead Road".
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Post by 1finemrg on Apr 19, 2023 12:44:30 GMT -5
Saw Billy Joel perform "Goodnight Saigon" live that year.
40 years later, it still stands as one of the best concert moments I have ever seen.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Apr 19, 2023 13:36:17 GMT -5
IIRC in 1982 Vietnam veterans were still receiving the type of reception Charlie Daniels sings about. "Still in Saigon" probably would have done better if it had been released a few years later after they started getting the respect they deserved and PTSD was finally acknowledged as being real and not just an excuse for current bad behavior. Spring 82 was approaching the end of the Urban Cowboy country era. A couple years later after MTV took foothold, it would have done better on the Country and AC charts where these kinda pop leaning tunes got relegated but diddly on the Hot 100.
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Post by mga707 on Apr 19, 2023 17:09:21 GMT -5
Saw Billy Joel perform "Goodnight Saigon" live that year. 40 years later, it still stands as one of the best concert moments I have ever seen. As did I, that October.
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