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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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Post by listenerwants2know on Apr 22, 2024 8:57:48 GMT -5
Hi,listenerwants2know-I think you meant to say Kevin Rowland not Kewin Rowland. Thanks for the information - I was thinking more about the pronunciation when I was writing.
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Post by JMW on Apr 22, 2024 9:43:05 GMT -5
KOLA has next week's show as 5/5/1984.
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Post by michaelcasselman on Apr 22, 2024 10:12:25 GMT -5
Extras in 2016 (it's only previous airing?) for 5/5/1984 were: Hour 1: "Stay The Night" - Chicago Hour 2: "I Can Dream About You" - Dan Hartman Hour 3: "Eyes Without A Face" - Billy Idol Hour 4: "Who's That Girl" - Eurythmics
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Post by JMW on Apr 22, 2024 10:17:32 GMT -5
Extras in 2016 (it's only previous airing?) for 5/5/1984 were: Hour 1: "Stay The Night" - Chicago Hour 2: "I Can Dream About You" - Dan Hartman Hour 3: "Eyes Without A Face" - Billy Idol Hour 4: "Who's That Girl" - Eurythmics Yes, next week will be its second airing.
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Post by mga707 on Apr 22, 2024 10:37:48 GMT -5
Yes, next week will be its second airing. Didn't realize that there were still Premiere shows that have only had a single previous airing.
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