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Post by at40petebattistini on May 3, 2019 13:01:11 GMT -5
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Post by pb on May 3, 2019 13:42:37 GMT -5
Heard this on a deep cuts station recently, nice song, although I guess a bit too slow and moody to make top 40 at the time.
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Post by mga707 on May 3, 2019 14:50:24 GMT -5
All four of Tyrannosaurus/T. Rex's US chart singles--"Ride a White Swan", "Hot Love", "Get It On" (renamed "Bang a Gong [Get It On]" over here to avoid confusion with Chase's '71 hit), and "Telegram Sam" were #1 British hits, but only "Bang a Gong" did anything on this side of the Atlantic. This American follow-up only got to #67, and none of Marc Bolan/T.Rex's future releases would chart in this country. He died in 1977, car crash, still one of Britain's biggest '70s pop stars.
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Post by pb on May 17, 2019 14:22:17 GMT -5
Listened to an AT40 from 1976 aired a few years ago on CKWW and heard an interesting Canadian extra that sounded like early Elton John, as well as Todd Rundgren and a bit of 10cc. Looking it up I found it was by an artist who went by the named C.B. Victoria, but whose real name was Edwin Coppard. Sadly I also found that he passed away a few days ago. Here is a Canadian mid 70's hit "Come And See My Man." Come And See My Man - C.B. Victoria
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Post by at40petebattistini on May 20, 2019 12:07:50 GMT -5
Six years after its first appearance on Billboard's Hot 100, Steve Miller's "Living In The U.S.A." was once again climbing the chart on May 25, 1974. This second (and last) attempt at Top 40 notoriety pushed it no higher than #49. And while it may still receive limited radio airplay in 2019, it somehow lacked enough momentum to rank within an AT40 countdown. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyV41-tFPcQ
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Post by djjoe1960 on May 21, 2019 15:28:10 GMT -5
Six years after its first appearance on Billboard's Hot 100, Steve Miller's "Living In The U.S.A." was once again climbing the chart on May 25, 1974. This second (and last) attempt at Top 40 notoriety pushed it no higher than #49. And while it may still receive limited radio airplay in 2019, it somehow lacked enough momentum to rank within an AT40 countdown. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyV41-tFPcQHey Pete,
This song did sneak into the Top 40 on the Cash Box chart (#38)--and I always liked the ad lib Steve did near the end of the song--Somebody get me a cheeseburger.
Even though the song was from 1968, I guess the record company thought the song deserved a second chance and would be a good follow up to the #1 hit, The Joker, but I guess the joke was on them as you indicated the song didn't do much better the second time around.
Thanks for this reminder of a great tune--
Joe
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Post by mga707 on May 21, 2019 15:45:05 GMT -5
Six years after its first appearance on Billboard's Hot 100, Steve Miller's "Living In The U.S.A." was once again climbing the chart on May 25, 1974. This second (and last) attempt at Top 40 notoriety pushed it no higher than #49. And while it may still receive limited radio airplay in 2019, it somehow lacked enough momentum to rank within an AT40 countdown. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyV41-tFPcQHey Pete, This song did sneak into the Top 40 on the Cash Box chart (#38)--and I always liked the ad lib Steve did near the end of the song--Somebody get me a cheeseburger. Even though the song was from 1968, I guess the record company thought the song deserved a second chance and would be a good follow up to the #1 hit, The Joker, but I guess the joke was on them as you indicated the song didn't do much better the second time around. Thanks for this reminder of a great tune--
Joe
Like the tune as well. It was actually the second single that Capitol released after 'The Joker'. 'Your Cash Ain't Nothin' But Trash', also from the 'Joker' LP, was the first, peaking at #51. 'Living In the USA' had been a decent-sized hit in my area back in late '68, so I had always assumed that it had been a bigger hit nationally than it was the first time around. Same with "Going to the Country" in the late summer of 1970. Remember being surprised not to hear that song on the early AT40 shows.
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Post by mrjukebox on May 21, 2019 16:27:45 GMT -5
"Living In The USA" is a great song.
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Post by at40petebattistini on Jun 13, 2019 4:58:02 GMT -5
From this week's chart of June 17, 1978 comes this early new wave lost classic. As it peaked this week on the Hot 100 at #47, "American Top 40" listeners missed a lesson in French (using Casey's pronunciation skills) with Plastic Bertrand's "Ca Plane Pour Moi." Internationally, it was a Top 20 hit in many European countries including Great Britain, Germany, Austria, Belgium, and of course, France. Perhaps its foreign language title intimidated U.S. radio programmers, keeping it off of playlists. Shoulda, woulda, coulda been an AT40 hit. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ln31raI2ezY
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Post by at40petebattistini on Jun 19, 2019 9:18:36 GMT -5
This week’s lost 70s classic for… …June 26, 1971 At #65 (up from #75), the James Gang’s “Walk Away” (featuring Joe Walsh) eventually reached #51 on the Hot 100. More chart trivia. On Cashbox’s Top 100 singles chart, it peaked at #29 on July 17, 1971. During the preceding weeks, it had climbed from 42-34-32 and then to #29 on 7-17-71. The following week, it fell off the Cashbox survey. www.youtube.com/watch?v=34abRUUeslw…June 28, 1975 At #76 in its third and last week on the Hot 100, Roberta Flack’s “Feeling That Glow” was her first chart single after reaching #1 a year earlier with “Feel Like Makin’ Love.” Now at age 82, she publicly performed as recently as October 2018. But this is the now-forgotten song that was getting radio airplay on 6-28-75. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CezqtGNA3no
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Post by at40petebattistini on Jun 25, 2019 8:52:53 GMT -5
This week's lost 70s classic from June 29, 1974... Novelty recording artist Dickie Goodman’s Top 40 career was mostly ‘hit’ or ‘miss’, especially during the mid-70s. Here’s a miss from June 29, 1974. In its 3rd week on the Hot 100, “Mr. President” climbed no higher than #73 the following week. And that was its last on the survey. Why did such a timely recording filled with bits of hit songs miss the Top 40 and fail so quickly? Just a guess -- like what the AT40 staff did with this week's countdown -- but perhaps stations were wary of the single’s ‘mangled audio’ ending. Regardless, it’s Dickie Goodman doing what he did best. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6a4iBtJOU-w
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Post by pb on Jun 30, 2019 15:23:24 GMT -5
Some other interesting debuts from June 29, 1974...
Blood Sweat & Tears try to reinvent themselves as a Philly soul band. Debuting at #95, it would peak at #83.
Trying out a rocker as a followup for the breakthrough story song "Piano Man," this Billy Joel song debuted at #94 and would peak at #80.
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Post by djjoe1960 on Jun 30, 2019 20:05:23 GMT -5
This week's lost 70s classic from June 29, 1974... Novelty recording artist Dickie Goodman’s Top 40 career was mostly ‘hit’ or ‘miss’, especially during the mid-70s. Here’s a miss from June 29, 1974. In its 3rd week on the Hot 100, “Mr. President” climbed no higher than #73 the following week. And that was its last on the survey. Why did such a timely recording filled with bits of hit songs miss the Top 40 and fail so quickly? Just a guess -- like what the AT40 staff did with this week's countdown -- but perhaps stations were wary of the single’s ‘mangled audio’ ending. Regardless, it’s Dickie Goodman doing what he did best. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6a4iBtJOU-wMaybe Watergate was too painful a memory to 'laugh' at for long and so most stations chose to pass on this record.
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Post by djjoe1960 on Jun 30, 2019 20:19:18 GMT -5
This week’s lost 70s classic for… …June 26, 1971 At #65 (up from #75), the James Gang’s “Walk Away” (featuring Joe Walsh) eventually reached #51 on the Hot 100. More chart trivia. On Cashbox’s Top 100 singles chart, it peaked at #29 on July 17, 1971. During the preceding weeks, it had climbed from 42-34-32 and then to #29 on 7-17-71. The following week, it fell off the Cashbox survey. Y'know most every body points out some of the weird chart movements on the Billboard charts (between 1974-82)--but Cash Box and Record World certainly had some 'strange' chart shenanigans of their own. Especially RW's last 7 years of existence; lots of singles fell down the chart very s-l-o-w-l-y, while several songs had unusual peak positions.
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Post by at40petebattistini on Jul 11, 2019 6:24:46 GMT -5
This week’s lost 70s classic for… …June 26, 1971 At #65 (up from #75), the James Gang’s “Walk Away” (featuring Joe Walsh) eventually reached #51 on the Hot 100. More chart trivia. On Cashbox’s Top 100 singles chart, it peaked at #29 on July 17, 1971. During the preceding weeks, it had climbed from 42-34-32 and then to #29 on 7-17-71. The following week, it fell off the Cashbox survey. Y'know most every body points out some of the weird chart movements on the Billboard charts (between 1974-82)--but Cash Box and Record World certainly had some 'strange' chart shenanigans of their own. Especially RW's last 7 years of existence; lots of singles fell down the chart very s-l-o-w-l-y, while several songs had unusual peak positions. Cashbox and Record World charts are always fun to compare to Billboard. And there's always the 'what if' scenario if AT40 didn't have Billboard, what chart would have been used?
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