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Post by at40petebattistini on May 26, 2021 9:44:55 GMT -5
Here’s a lost 70s classic from June 3, 1972. Following the success of his #22 hit “Crazy Mama” a few weeks earlier, J.J. Cale was climbing the Hot 100, from #83 to #72, with “After Midnight.” At the time, many believed that this was a remake of Eric Clapton’s hit from 1970. However, Cale wrote the song, and his 1972 release was a remake of his own version from the mid-60s. With a mellow, blues performance, J.J. Cale’s “After Midnight” peaked at #42 on Billboard’s Hot 100 on July 15, 1972 and spent nearly 3 months on the chart. www.youtube.com/watch?v=j81Vx-0uM0k
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Post by at40petebattistini on Jun 1, 2021 2:31:43 GMT -5
This lost 70s classic actually first charted in 1968 and lasted only two weeks on the Hot 100. But fans of the Steve Miller Band's "Living In The USA" never let it go. And it continued to receive AOR/FM requests and airplay when it was released as a single again in 1974. On Billboard's Hot 100 for June 8, 1974, the song had climbed to #59, on its way to a #49 peak. To coincide with the song, here's a slick Americana-themed music video, along with comments that youtube has yet to remove. Gotta enjoy this one with a cheeseburger. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TybkYXx1FAQ
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Post by at40petebattistini on Jun 2, 2021 6:03:08 GMT -5
This week’s lost 70s classic for June 7, 1975 comes from the newly-released Paul McCartney/Wings album, Venus And Mars. With its roots in McCartney’s enjoyment of Marvel comics, “Magneto And Titanium Man” soon became one of the featured tracks on many FM radio playlists. The song eventually was released as the B-side to “Venus And Mars Rock Show.” Vintage mid-70s McCartney. With animation, “…and the Crimson Dynamo came along for the ride…” www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFp9wRCiZ10
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Post by at40petebattistini on Jun 4, 2021 2:49:37 GMT -5
At #97 on the Hot 100 dated June 5, 1971, “Love’s Made A Fool Of You” by Cochise is another one of this week’s lost 70s classics. This guitar-driven remake of a Buddy Holly recording spent all of 4 weeks on Billboard’s chart. But 50 years ago this week, it was a Top 10 hit on Chicago’s WLS singles survey. Lost, but not forgotten. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVbN21f3EuU
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Post by 1finemrg on Jun 4, 2021 4:05:18 GMT -5
At #97 on the Hot 100 dated June 5, 1971, “Love’s Made A Fool Of You” by Cochise is another one of this week’s lost 70s classics. This guitar-driven remake of a Buddy Holly recording spent all of 4 weeks on Billboard’s chart. But 50 years ago this week, it was a Top 10 hit on Chicago’s WLS singles survey. Lost, but not forgotten. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVbN21f3EuULove Cochise's version. Also like the unique Union Jack label United Artists used on the 45. Believe I have 4 copies in my collection. In it's brief heyday on the WLS charts (6 weeks, #10 peak), it was a featured 45. It would play at the top of the hour, every 2-3 hours. Thanks for highlighting this one, Pete.
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Post by at40petebattistini on Jun 6, 2021 18:07:20 GMT -5
For June 17, 1972, moving into the number one position on Billboard’s album chart was Exile On Main Street by the Rolling Stones. And a lost 70s classic from that LP – Rip This Joint – is 2½ minutes (barely) of rock and roll. Someone at Watermark (Tom Rounds? Nikki Wine?) decided to add the song to this week’s countdown as a top-of-the-chart album extra. But just because it’s a Stones classic doesn’t imply airplay on today’s 'Classic' Hits or 'Classic' Rock stations. Turn’em off, turn this up and “rip this joint.” www.youtube.com/watch?v=NehZl_X3hjQ
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Post by mga707 on Jun 6, 2021 20:56:49 GMT -5
For June 17, 1972, moving into the number one position on Billboard’s album chart was Exile On Main Street by the Rolling Stones. And a lost 70s classic from that LP – Rip This Joint – is 2½ minutes (barely) of rock and roll. Someone at Watermark (Tom Rounds? Nikki Wine?) decided to add the song to this week’s countdown as a top-of-the-chart album extra. But just because it’s a Stones classic doesn’t imply airplay on today’s 'Classic' Hits or 'Classic' Rock stations. Turn’em off, turn this up and “rip this joint.” www.youtube.com/watch?v=NehZl_X3hjQReminds me of another short Stones song--of almost identical length--that was recorded later in the decade and wound up on the band's 1981 'We need an album to go along with our American tour so let's put together a bunch of unreleased tracks we've got in the can' "Tattoo You" LP. Unlike 'Joint', this one was released as the third single from that album, in 1982: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yC_iVqr61io
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Post by at40petebattistini on Jun 9, 2021 6:50:53 GMT -5
The lost 70s classic for June 9, 1973 – the Electric Light Orchestra’s “Roll Over Beethoven” – was listed at #100 on Billboard’s newly-computerized/tabulated Hot 100 survey. However, a disclaimer article on page 4 of Billboard’s 6/9/73 issue pointed out that “’Roll Over Beethoven’ should enjoy a higher position on this week’s Hot 100 Chart than is shown.” The article further explained how an internal error caused the discrepancy. And concluded, “Next week’s chart will rectify this error.” After debuting on the Hot 100 at #90 on April 28, 1973, here is the single’s chart performance: 85 – 78 – 74 – 66 – 65 – 100 – 79 – 59 – 54 – 52 – 50 – 44 – 42 – 57 – 65 It totaled 16 weeks on the survey after peaking at #42 on July 28, 1973. Note also that, while the song peaked on Cashbox at #48 on 7/21/73 (and again on 8/11/73), it climbed as high as #31 on 7/14/73 on Record World’s Top 100 Singles Chart. Whether or not Billboard’s error cost ELO their first AT40 hit can only be speculated. Regardless, it became a radio airplay fixture on many AOR and Top 40 stations in June and July ’73. Enjoy! www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLNR4xfh1Qc
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Post by chrislc on Jun 9, 2021 12:50:31 GMT -5
The lost 70s classic for June 9, 1973 – the Electric Light Orchestra’s “Roll Over Beethoven” – was listed at #100 on Billboard’s newly-computerized/tabulated Hot 100 survey. However, a disclaimer article on page 4 of Billboard’s 6/9/73 issue pointed out that “’Roll Over Beethoven’ should enjoy a higher position on this week’s Hot 100 Chart than is shown.” The article further explained how an internal error caused the discrepancy. And concluded, “Next week’s chart will rectify this error.” After debuting on the Hot 100 at #90 on April 28, 1973, here is the single’s chart performance: 85 – 78 – 74 – 66 – 65 – 100 – 79 – 59 – 54 – 52 – 50 – 44 – 42 – 57 – 65 It totaled 16 weeks on the survey after peaking at #42 on July 28, 1973. Note also that, while the song peaked on Cashbox at #48 on 7/21/73 (and again on 8/11/73), it climbed as high as #31 on 7/14/73 on Record World’s Top 100 Singles Chart. Whether or not Billboard’s error cost ELO their first AT40 hit can only be speculated. Regardless, it became a radio airplay fixture on many AOR and Top 40 stations in June and July ’73. Enjoy! www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLNR4xfh1QcAnd this was the event that inspired the hit, Don't Bring Me Down. Or not. But maybe even subliminally.
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Post by trekkielo on Jun 9, 2021 17:05:15 GMT -5
The lost 70s classic for June 9, 1973 – the Electric Light Orchestra’s “Roll Over Beethoven” – was listed at #100 on Billboard’s newly-computerized/tabulated Hot 100 survey. However, a disclaimer article on page 4 of Billboard’s 6/9/73 issue pointed out that “’Roll Over Beethoven’ should enjoy a higher position on this week’s Hot 100 Chart than is shown.” The article further explained how an internal error caused the discrepancy. And concluded, “Next week’s chart will rectify this error.” After debuting on the Hot 100 at #90 on April 28, 1973, here is the single’s chart performance: 85 – 78 – 74 – 66 – 65 – 100 – 79 – 59 – 54 – 52 – 50 – 44 – 42 – 57 – 65 It totaled 16 weeks on the survey after peaking at #42 on July 28, 1973. Note also that, while the song peaked on Cashbox at #48 on 7/21/73 (and again on 8/11/73), it climbed as high as #31 on 7/14/73 on Record World’s Top 100 Singles Chart. Whether or not Billboard’s error cost ELO their first AT40 hit can only be speculated. Regardless, it became a radio airplay fixture on many AOR and Top 40 stations in June and July ’73. Enjoy! www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLNR4xfh1QcAnd this was the event that inspired the hit, Don't Bring Me Down. Or not. But maybe even subliminally. at40petebattistini & chrislc I did an edit photo embed! The song was dedicated to the NASA Skylab space station, which re-entered the Earth's atmosphere and burned up over the Indian Ocean and Western Australia on July 11th, 1979. This was the first song by ELO not to include a string section. The drum track is in fact a tape loop, coming from "On the Run" looped and slowed down. The song ends with the sound of a door slamming. According to producer Jeff Lynne, this was a metal fire door at Musicland Studios where the song was recorded. On November 4th, 2007, Lynne was awarded a BMI (Broadcast Music, Inc) Million-Air certificate for "Don't Bring Me Down" for the song having reached two million airplays. PS-Ironically, Roll Over Beethoven should have been Electric Light Orchestra's first AT40 hit and Don't Bring Me Down #1 on Billboard's Hot 100!
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Post by chrislc on Jun 9, 2021 18:00:22 GMT -5
And this was the event that inspired the hit, Don't Bring Me Down. Or not. But maybe even subliminally. The song was dedicated to the NASA Skylab space station, which re-entered the Earth's atmosphere and burned up over the Indian Ocean and Western Australia on July 11th, 1979. This was the first song by ELO not to include a string section. The drum track is in fact a tape loop, coming from "On the Run" looped and slowed down. The song ends with the sound of a door slamming. According to producer Jeff Lynne, this was a metal fire door at Musicland Studios where the song was recorded. On November 4th, 2007, Lynne was awarded a BMI (Broadcast Music, Inc) Million-Air certificate for "Don't Bring Me Down" for the song having reached two million airplays. PS-Ironically, Roll Over Beethoven should have been Electric Light Orchestra's first AT40 hit and Don't Bring Me Down #1 on Billboard's Hot 100! Good stuff. I like how Brad Garrett is on the LP cover. Maybe the song should have been called Don't Bring Me Down Because Everybody Loves My Brother And I'm Already There.
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Post by trekkielo on Jun 9, 2021 19:14:34 GMT -5
The song was dedicated to the NASA Skylab space station, which re-entered the Earth's atmosphere and burned up over the Indian Ocean and Western Australia on July 11th, 1979. This was the first song by ELO not to include a string section. The drum track is in fact a tape loop, coming from "On the Run" looped and slowed down. The song ends with the sound of a door slamming. According to producer Jeff Lynne, this was a metal fire door at Musicland Studios where the song was recorded. On November 4th, 2007, Lynne was awarded a BMI (Broadcast Music, Inc) Million-Air certificate for "Don't Bring Me Down" for the song having reached two million airplays. PS-Ironically, Roll Over Beethoven should have been Electric Light Orchestra's first AT40 hit and Don't Bring Me Down #1 on Billboard's Hot 100! Good stuff. I like how Brad Garrett is on the LP cover. Maybe the song should have been called Don't Bring Me Down Because Everybody Loves My Brother And I'm Already There. Thanks. at40petebattistini & chrislc I redid my photo embed link! In one of his earliest jobs, comedian/actor Brad Garrett, dressed in Middle Eastern clothes and turban, appears on the back cover as the menacing palace guard who is drawing his scimitar. The model seen on the back cover of the Discovery album is the actor/comedian Brad Garrett, well before he became famous as an actor (famous for his role in the Everybody Loves Raymond series). Brad himself confirmed this via a Twitter post, "Thinner, younger (18 ugh) Got me my first agent. Jews had to play Arabs back then. Ahhhh, simpler times. #ELO #1978", although he did not confirm which picture(s) were of him. Jim Shea was the photographer and confirmed that it is Brad on the album's back cover, standing menacingly in a doorway holding a sword. An alternate shot was also used for the Confusion single advertisement. My comment Brad Garrett kinda looks like Lou Ferrigno here It is not Brad on the album's front cover, nor on the inside cover holding the ELO spaceship treasure and running across the desert. Brad would have been about 19 at the time the images were shot and it was done well before Brad's comedy and acting career. Sources The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn, February 2000 The Bob & Tom Show, January 2000 Jeff Lynne Song Database - Exposing the Secrets!
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Post by lasvegaskid on Sept 12, 2021 20:03:20 GMT -5
Seals and Crofts would share the 'Love for their discoy final top 40. Their followup peaking this week in 1978 would be one of the catchiest tunes of the 70s, Easy. I guess radio didn't know what to make of It as It barely scratched the charts. It was far different than You're the Love or their earlier 70s soft rock offerings. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMjb4zV9qSU&ab_channel=SealsandCrofts-Topic
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Post by mga707 on Sept 13, 2021 0:54:39 GMT -5
Seals and Crofts would share the 'Love for their discoy final top 40. Their followup peaking this week in 1978 would be one of the catchiest tunes of the 70s, Easy. I guess radio didn't know what to make of It as It barely scratched the charts. It was far different than You're the Love or their earlier 70s soft rock offerings. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMjb4zV9qSU&ab_channel=SealsandCrofts-TopicWow. First time I've ever heard this song. Sure doesn't sound like anything else they did. Kind of like Bread with "Mother Freedom".
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Post by 1finemrg on Dec 23, 2021 14:38:08 GMT -5
I thought I'd offer another lost classic from the end of 1970, since there will be no AT40 1970 shows until July 2014. From the December 25, 1970 charts, Michael Nesmith's country-tinged follow up to "Joanne" was on its way to a #42 peak during a 9 week chart run. Silver Moon - Michael Nesmith and the First National BandBumping up in memory of Michael Nesmith's passing earlier this month.
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