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Post by cayleytable on Sept 26, 2024 7:15:32 GMT -5
Eurythmics also did that with their last hit in 1989. There have to be others after 1982 to the present day. Paul Anka: "Hold Me Till The Morning Comes (1983) Yes: "Rhythm Of Love" (1988) Simple Minds: "See The Lights" (1991)
are 3 more.
Yes also peaked at #40 with their first hit, "Your Move." Future trivia research project for myself: identifying all acts whose first and last Top 40 hits peaked at the same position.
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Post by dukelightning on Sept 26, 2024 7:54:39 GMT -5
Had it not been for his comeback hit in 1993, this week's show #1 hit would by an artist who did that. Steve Miller hit #1 with his first and last hits without that 1993 hit. The only artists to hit #1 with their first and last top 40 hits in the 70s and 80s are Captain & Tennille and KC & the Sunshine Band. Found one that did this with a number outside the top 10. Robert Palmer peaked at 16 with his first and last top 40 hits.
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Post by albe on Sept 26, 2024 8:34:29 GMT -5
During the 9/28/85 show, Casey mentioned that they had received many LDD letters for Samantha Smith. If you need a refresher on her short life and tragic death, here’s the Wikipedia page… en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samantha_SmithPutin should try reading Samantha's and Yuri's letters maybe it will knock some sense into his thick skull.
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Post by seminolefan on Sept 26, 2024 11:07:36 GMT -5
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Post by mkarns on Sept 26, 2024 13:21:12 GMT -5
Had it not been for his comeback hit in 1993, this week's show #1 hit would by an artist who did that. Steve Miller hit #1 with his first and last hits without that 1993 hit. The only artists to hit #1 with their first and last top 40 hits in the 70s and 80s are Captain & Tennille and KC & the Sunshine Band. Found one that did this with a number outside the top 10. Robert Palmer peaked at 16 with his first and last top 40 hits. And KC had one further hit on his own, that being 1984's "Give It Up". Meanwhile, Steve Miller's last #1 has resurfaced in the current top 40 due to its sampling in Eminem's hit "Houdini".
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Post by jmack19 on Sept 26, 2024 18:00:46 GMT -5
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Post by burcjm on Sept 27, 2024 0:06:54 GMT -5
Had it not been for his comeback hit in 1993, this week's show #1 hit would by an artist who did that. Steve Miller hit #1 with his first and last hits without that 1993 hit. The only artists to hit #1 with their first and last top 40 hits in the 70s and 80s are Captain & Tennille and KC & the Sunshine Band. Found one that did this with a number outside the top 10. Robert Palmer peaked at 16 with his first and last top 40 hits. For as many times as Credence Clearwater Revival hit #2 they are very likely to fit the category. Can anyone confirm?
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Post by dukelightning on Sept 27, 2024 6:33:21 GMT -5
Tough category to be in having your first and last top 40 hits peak at the same position. CCR peaked at 11 and 25 with those hits.
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Post by dth1971 on Sept 27, 2024 7:32:43 GMT -5
"Sittin' On The Dock Of The Bay" by Otis Redding is one of the featured "AT40 Archive" songs on this week's A show presentation from 9/26/81-It was the biggest hit for this native of Dawson,Georgia-"Dock Of The Bay" was recorded on 11/22/67-On December 10th,1967,Redding & several members of his band,perished in a plane crash-"Dock Of The Bay" entered the Billboard Hot 100 on 1/27/68-Two months later,in March 1968,"Dock Of The Bay" went to # 1 where it stayed for four weeks-It became the first posthumous release to reach # 1. Another AT40 Archive song in 9/26/1981 is 1968's "Tighten Up" by Archie Bell and the Drells. A year later in 1969 there would be another Archie act - The Archies - hitting #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 with "Sugar Sugar". 9/26/1981 was originally in the AT40 Flashback series starting with hour #2 in September 2001 - it was the first 1981 show in the AT40 Flashback series since a March 1981 show in March 2001.
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Post by dukelightning on Sept 27, 2024 8:04:49 GMT -5
This week's A show is the only week in a 6 week period in which the hit at #40 is not peaking there. The next 3 weeks "Burnin for You" will be at 40. And it was nearly another hit wrapping up a 3 week stint at 40 this week. But after 2 weeks there, "I'm in Love" fell to 41. At 40 this week is the first of 2 live hits debuting which probably had not happened before in AT40 history.
Air Supply did overtake Little River Band as Casey hinted at. But years later, they were displaced as the top ranking group from Australia by INXS according to Record Research.
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Post by cursereversed on Sept 27, 2024 11:16:32 GMT -5
This week's A show is the only week in a 6 week period in which the hit at #40 is not peaking there. The next 3 weeks "Burnin for You" will be at 40. And it was nearly another hit wrapping up a 3 week stint at 40 this week. But after 2 weeks there, "I'm in Love" fell to 41. At 40 this week is the first of 2 live hits debuting which probably had not happened before in AT40 history. Air Supply did overtake Little River Band as Casey hinted at. But years later, they were displaced as the top ranking group from Australia by INXS according to Record Research. Speaking of which, last week we were talking about artists whose last Top 40 hit peaked at #40 (not counting One-Hit Wonders). Would Evelyn (Hold the Champagne) King qualify for that list or did she have another hit after "I'm In Love"? I don't think anybody mentioned her.
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Post by dukelightning on Sept 27, 2024 11:19:27 GMT -5
Evelyn King was not mentioned because she had a decent hit with "Love Come Down" in 1982. In fact, it debuted the week after last week's show. Too bad "I'm in Love" didn't climb another notch. It would have given her 4 hits that peaked in all 4 sections of the top 40...top 10, teens, 20s and 30s. I think I'm should have been a teens or 20s hit actually.
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Post by JMW on Sept 27, 2024 14:29:07 GMT -5
WWIS has been playing an announcement saying that next week's show is going to start at 3:00 PM ET due to special programming.
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Post by jmack19 on Sept 27, 2024 15:44:37 GMT -5
I bet for the OPTIONAL EXTRAS for the 9/26/1981 AT40: The 80's show the first OPTIONAL EXTRA of "Here I Am" by Air Supply would be replaced by "Her Town Too" by James Taylor and J.D. Souther to honor the recent death of J.D. Souther. "Her Town Too" by James Taylor and J.D. Souther was the first optional extra.
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Post by mrjukebox on Sept 27, 2024 17:03:07 GMT -5
The fourth hour OE from 9/26/81 was "Heartbreak Hotel" by The Jacksons which was played in memory of Tito Jackson who recently passed away.
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