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Post by tarobe on May 29, 2012 11:58:25 GMT -5
I don't what the other one is, but the sixth one is "Stoney End" by Barbra Streisand
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Post by reachinforthestars on May 29, 2012 11:58:34 GMT -5
The Cowsills' "Hair" in 1969. So this 3 year period bridges decades! Not on the Cowsills version of the song. |
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Post by chrislc on May 29, 2012 12:09:03 GMT -5
I don't what the other one is, but the sixth one is "Stoney End" by Barbra Streisand That is correct and it leaves just one more! |
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Post by dukelightning on May 29, 2012 12:11:08 GMT -5
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Post by chrislc on May 29, 2012 12:15:13 GMT -5
Those lyrics websites can be unreliable. Also it might have been on the LP version and it might even have been on the single but I don't remember ever hearing that line on WABC. I don't know if there is a way to prove this one way or another. Even listening to the single might just mean there were more than two versions of the single. I have little doubt that Jesus was mentioned in the Broadway musical but that might be the source for some of these lyrics websites. |
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Post by pizzzzza on May 29, 2012 12:20:44 GMT -5
Does "Jesus Christ Superstar" count?
I remember the "God Rock" period very well in the early 70s....songs by Ocean, Brewer & Shipley, Norman Greenbaum, Godspell and Jesus Christ Superstar movies/soundtracks, among others.
It seemed an appropriate way to start the 70s, after such a turbulent ending to the late 60s, with the deaths of MLK and Bobby Kennedy, as well as the Stones Concert with Hell's Angels at Altamont.
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Post by chrislc on May 29, 2012 12:24:36 GMT -5
Nope. Although I am curious as to whether this Top 40 was the "most songs about Jesus in one Top 40", Superstar did not make the Top Ten.
Nor did Superstar by the Temptations.
But the Carpenters did!
And all three in the same year. Talk about confusion of source.
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Post by chrislc on May 29, 2012 12:28:52 GMT -5
You're all going to be kicking yourselves because the missing song is the biggest hit of them all.
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Post by OldSchoolAT40Fan on May 29, 2012 12:29:59 GMT -5
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned this yet:
"Jesus He Knows Me" - Genesis. Circa 1992. Not sure if it made the top ten.
I'm also surprised that nobody has mentioned "Mrs. Robinson" by Simon & Garfunkel.
"And here's to you, Mrs. Robinson
Jesus loves you more than you will know, wo wo wo"
EDIT: Just realized that "Mrs. Robinson" was a top ten hit but in 1968 - 2 years before AT40 debuted.
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Post by chrislc on May 29, 2012 12:41:20 GMT -5
Annnnnd we are done. Congratulations everyone!
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Post by at40petebattistini on May 29, 2012 12:46:21 GMT -5
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Post by Caseyfan4everRyanfanNever on May 29, 2012 12:54:28 GMT -5
"Jesus He Knows Me" reached #9 on CT40 in the fall of 1992. On AT40, "Jesus He Knows Me" peaked at #21
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Post by chrislc on May 29, 2012 12:57:14 GMT -5
"Jesus He Knows Me" reached #9 on CT40 in the fall of 1992. On AT40, "Jesus He Knows Me" peaked at #21 I wonder if these seven songs are the only Top Ten songs to mention Jesus by name. If so I think it is quite remarkable that all seven happened within three years! |
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Post by reachinforthestars on May 29, 2012 13:00:53 GMT -5
Those lyrics websites can be unreliable. Also it might have been on the LP version and it might even have been on the single but I don't remember ever hearing that line on WABC. I don't know if there is a way to prove this one way or another. Even listening to the single might just mean there were more than two versions of the single. I have little doubt that Jesus was mentioned in the Broadway musical but that might be the source for some of these lyrics websites. That section of the original broadway musical lyric was removed when the Cowsills recorded their version of the song. |
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Post by CountEmUp on May 30, 2012 21:35:45 GMT -5
I think Poison's "Something To Believe In" mentioned Jesus a couple of times. And it made the top 10.
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