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Post by mkarns on Sept 29, 2024 22:03:31 GMT -5
Sept 26 1981 few notes, WNSN and KOKZ: The Four Tops story Greg Kihn story 8 all white groups in #1 soul charts successful Australian born, topped US chart: male: Rick Springfield, female: Helen Redddy, group: Little River Band black group in country chart, but never in soul.. snippet top 40: Pointer Sisters - Fairytale in 1974 elvis presley don't cry daddy, Ronnie Milsap sang background vocals, first appearance, in 1970 #2 soul: She's a Bad Mama Jama This Place Hotel opt xtra 4, due to Tito Jackson recent passed away longest vocal #1 tied by duet In the Year 2525 It might have been even more notable if there had been a clip of Ronnie Milsap's 1965 single "Never Had It So Good", which hit #19 on the R&B chart, before he ever hit the pop or country chart. Playing a bit of a White artist making the soul/R&B chart would have made a nice supplement to a featured story of a Black group making the country chart, they of course being the Pointer Sisters.
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Post by dukelightning on Sept 30, 2024 5:57:44 GMT -5
Sept 26 1981 few notes, WNSN and KOKZ: The Four Tops story Greg Kihn story 8 all white groups in #1 soul charts successful Australian born, topped US chart: male: Rick Springfield, female: Helen Redddy, group: Little River Band black group in country chart, but never in soul.. snippet top 40: Pointer Sisters - Fairytale in 1974 elvis presley don't cry daddy, Ronnie Milsap sang background vocals, first appearance, in 1970 #2 soul: She's a Bad Mama Jama This Place Hotel opt xtra 4, due to Tito Jackson recent passed away longest vocal #1 tied by duet In the Year 2525 It might have been even more notable if there had been a clip of Ronnie Milsap's 1965 single "Never Had It So Good", which hit #19 on the R&B chart, before he ever hit the pop or country chart. Playing a bit of a White artist making the soul/R&B chart would have made a nice supplement to a featured story of a Black group making the country chart, they of course being the Pointer Sisters. Casey mentioned that Conway Twitty had the #1 country song that week. A couple hits later he would be at #1 on the country chart...with a cover of the Pointers' "Slow Hand".
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Post by dth1971 on Sept 30, 2024 7:20:20 GMT -5
Sept 26 1981 few notes, WNSN and KOKZ: The Four Tops story Greg Kihn story 8 all white groups in #1 soul charts successful Australian born, topped US chart: male: Rick Springfield, female: Helen Redddy, group: Little River Band black group in country chart, but never in soul.. snippet top 40: Pointer Sisters - Fairytale in 1974 elvis presley don't cry daddy, Ronnie Milsap sang background vocals, first appearance, in 1970 #2 soul: She's a Bad Mama Jama This Place Hotel opt xtra 4, due to Tito Jackson recent passed away longest vocal #1 tied by duet In the Year 2525 It might have been even more notable if there had been a clip of Ronnie Milsap's 1965 single "Never Had It So Good", which hit #19 on the R&B chart, before he ever hit the pop or country chart. Playing a bit of a White artist making the soul/R&B chart would have made a nice supplement to a featured story of a Black group making the country chart, they of course being the Pointer Sisters. I bet late 1980's-1990's white British singer Rick Astley never made the Billboard R&B singles chart even with the "Rick Rolling" song "Never Gonna Give You Up". As for the story of the Pointer Sisters being the only African-American group to make the country charts with "Fairytale", that would be told again on the March 3, 1984 AT40 show on that week when Charlie Van Dyke guest hosted for Casey Kasem.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Sept 30, 2024 9:55:07 GMT -5
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Post by mga707 on Sept 30, 2024 10:19:01 GMT -5
Casey mentioned that Conway Twitty had the #1 country song that week. A couple hits later he would be at #1 on the country chart...with a cover of the Pointers' "Slow Hand". The first time I heard "Slow Hand" in the spring of '81 I thought 'Now there's a country song!'
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Post by bm63 on Sept 30, 2024 18:14:08 GMT -5
When it last aired in 2020, the fourth extra was "Jump", a tribute to Eddie Van Halen who had recently passed away.
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Post by michaelcasselman on Sept 30, 2024 18:16:30 GMT -5
Good stream, but not a fan of their sweep from hour to hour with the AT40 theme. It appears they play fast and loose with the Optional Extras they use. For the 1985 show, they played the 'Heartbreak Hotel' extra from the 1981 show, but neglected to play 2 of the 1985 extras.
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Post by mkarns on Oct 1, 2024 21:18:41 GMT -5
This week's optional extras:
October 4, 1986:
Hour #1: "The Next Time I Fall" - Peter Cetera & Amy Grant (#45) Hour #2: "The Way It Is" - Bruce Hornsby & The Range (#60) Hour #3: "Walk Like An Egyptian" - The Bangles (#75) Hour #4: "Everybody Have Fun Tonight" - Wang Chung (#82; debuted)
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Post by burcjm on Oct 2, 2024 2:09:40 GMT -5
This week's optional extras: October 4, 1986:Hour #1: "The Next Time I Fall" - Peter Cetera & Amy Grant (#45) Hour #2: "The Way It Is" - Bruce Hornsby & The Range (#60) Hour #3: "Walk Like An Egyptian" - The Bangles (#75) Hour #4: "Everybody Have Fun Tonight" - Wang Chung (#82; debuted) One of the highest charting (3 #1s and a #2) and quite possibly the most fried set of extras in the series?
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Post by cursereversed on Oct 2, 2024 11:14:28 GMT -5
This week's optional extras: October 4, 1986:Hour #1: "The Next Time I Fall" - Peter Cetera & Amy Grant (#45) Hour #2: "The Way It Is" - Bruce Hornsby & The Range (#60) Hour #3: "Walk Like An Egyptian" - The Bangles (#75) Hour #4: "Everybody Have Fun Tonight" - Wang Chung (#82; debuted) One of the highest charting (3 #1s and a #2) and quite possibly the most fried set of extras in the series? Most fried?
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Post by doofus67 on Oct 2, 2024 12:02:29 GMT -5
One of the highest charting (3 #1s and a #2) and quite possibly the most fried set of extras in the series? Most fried? I'm pretty sure it means overplayed.
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Post by burcjm on Oct 2, 2024 14:12:55 GMT -5
I'm pretty sure it means overplayed. That is correct. Anyone who listens to thefoxoldies.com knows what the term "fried" means.
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Post by seminolefan on Oct 3, 2024 10:51:04 GMT -5
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Post by dukelightning on Oct 3, 2024 17:14:18 GMT -5
This could have been put in the Casey Kasem jinx thread. But in the original promos for this show, he said that both Paul Simon wifh "You can call me Al" and Chicago with a new version of "25 or 6 to 4" could hit the countdown. Neither did at least in 1986, peakng at 44 and 48, respectively.
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Post by dth1971 on Oct 3, 2024 20:33:31 GMT -5
This could have been put in the Casey Kasem jinx thread. But in the original promos for this show, he said that both Paul Simon wifh "You can call me Al" and Chicago with a new version of "25 or 6 to 4" could hit the countdown. Neither did at least in 1986, peakng at 44 and 48, respectively. "You Can Call Me Al" would get re-released in Spring 1987 and make AT40 finally.
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