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Post by woolebull on Dec 12, 2012 6:15:17 GMT -5
Thank you for doing it...it was tons of fun!
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Post by tpanther775 on Dec 12, 2012 9:46:38 GMT -5
Yeah I remember all those re-releases that year of '88 & '89. I think in Red Red Wine's take they added that rap at the end because when it first came out it didnt have that in the song. I guess since rap was on the up and up in 1988 and since UB40 was still going strong they figured they would put a new spin on the song. Thanks for answering my question woolebull about Sheriff. I had a hint that was why the song was put back in rotation but didnt know that for sure.
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Post by saltrek on Dec 12, 2012 19:46:35 GMT -5
Actually, the rap in Red Red Wine was always there. It just was edited out of the single when it was released in 1984. The stations I heard the song on in '84 played the whole version including the rap.
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Post by johnnywest on Dec 12, 2012 21:12:32 GMT -5
Though tpanther is correct as well about Sheriff. "When I'm With You suffers from "Amanda" syndrome. Old song (Amanda was written in 1980 and it sounds like it), no video...easily forgettable. Good point about not having a video. That's why I think "I Don't Have The Heart" is one of the most forgettable songs of 1990. Either that or "If Wishes Came True." If there was a video, it didn't get played much. |
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Post by woolebull on Dec 12, 2012 21:40:16 GMT -5
I would agree that both of those songs...along with the always picked on "One More Try" would vie for the most forgotten number one song of the 90's.
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Post by seminolefan on Dec 13, 2012 0:41:05 GMT -5
"I'll Be Your Everything" by Tommy Page has to be up there as well.
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Post by pointpark04 on Dec 13, 2012 23:08:05 GMT -5
I'll do a list for the 1980s:
1980 - "Woman in Love" Barbra Streisand (It would seem that American radio has forgotten all about Ms. Streisand. What a shame.)
1981 - "Stars on 45" Medley
1982 - "Ebony and Ivory" Stevie and Paul (I know Vangelis' "Chariots of Fire" is forgotten, too, but the Dynamic Duo's song was number one for seven weeks, and I never hear it.)
1983 - "Let's Dance" David Bowie. (Never hear it.)
1984 - "Say Say Say" Michael and Paul (Never hear it. Six weeks number one, too.)
1985 - "We are the World" USA for Africa (Never hear it, for obvious reasons. We don't care about Africa anymore being one of them.)
1986 - "Glory of Love" Peter Cetera (Really. Never hear it.)
1987 - "Shakedown" Bob Seger (Even Seger fans want to forget it.)
1988 - "Get Outta My Dreams, Get Into My Car" Billy Ocean (Yeah, remember that one?)
1989 - "Rock On" Michael Damian (Surely, that had to be a joke, right?)
But seriously...the one number one song of the 1980s that I lament saying never gets played, is "Another Day in Paradise" by Phil Collins.
Admittedly, I might live in the worst market for hearing old songs - Pittsburgh. If it isn't Journey or Bon Jovi, it doesn't exist from the 1980s. Seriously.
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Post by pb on Dec 14, 2012 9:19:11 GMT -5
Hmm, still hear "Let's Dance" and "Glory Of Love" all the time and I hardly listen to the radio. But I'm in Chicago, and perhaps radio stations here are more inclined to play Peter Cetera.
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Post by marv101 on Dec 14, 2012 19:41:41 GMT -5
Let's Dance is a library staple on several radio stations here in LA; I'm not sure why that's not the case on several Chicagoland stations either.
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Post by winfield on Dec 31, 2012 9:45:44 GMT -5
Does M's 'Pop Muzik' still get played much?
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Post by tpanther775 on Dec 31, 2012 18:44:40 GMT -5
Pop Muzik doesn't get played any here in Raleigh/Durham NC area. I live in between markets and i've heard it a couple of times on a station in Greensboro/Winston-Salem market. And come to think of it I only have heard it once on Sirius/XM. Really hard to believe it went to #1, but it had that more new wave feel that wasn't common in late 1979.
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Post by baylink on Jan 3, 2013 17:09:02 GMT -5
I'm going to go against the current here.
A lot of these #1s that everyone nominates as forgotten are some of my favorite songs of all time:
70: Everything is Beautiful
73: Night the Lights Went Out
74: Love's Theme
76: Convoy, Theme from SWAT (!), Disco Duck
79: Pop Muzik
81: Stars On 45, Love a Rainy Night (but yes, I'm a country listener)
84: Owner of a Lonely Heart
85: Separate Lives (!!)
And indeed, I do occasionally hear them on-air, though admittedly not all *that* often. :-)
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Post by woolebull on Jan 4, 2013 0:59:21 GMT -5
Pop Muzik doesn't get played any here in Raleigh/Durham NC area. I live in between markets and i've heard it a couple of times on a station in Greensboro/Winston-Salem market. And come to think of it I only have heard it once on Sirius/XM. Really hard to believe it went to #1, but it had that more new wave feel that wasn't common in late 1979. I haven't heard "Pop Muzik" that much recently (I'm in the Greensboro/W-S market as well), but I will say this. I can remember hearing when I was six "Pop Muzik" "Escape" and "Heartache Tonight" on the local radio stations in rural Virginia in late '79. I don't remember hearing any of the other songs at all that went to number one around that time. My parents didn't listen to Top 40 either, so to distinctly remember those three songs means I had to hear them other places. I don't know what that means, but I do know that "Pop Muzik" was played enough to get my attention when I was 6. And I can assure you I was in a very small market  The problem with "Pop Muzik" is that it is an 80's song trapped in another decade, albeit like two months away. I think that has led to problems with specific decade format programming. "Pop Muzik", "Video Killed The Radio Star" and "Cars" (to name just a few) could all be songs from four, five years down the road. Funny thing is that I don't think "Muzik" would have had the impact if it came out in 1983. The uniqueness is what helped it all the way to the top, IMHO. Many people (including myself) want to usher in New Wave and the 2nd British Invasion with Human League in '82. Maybe we should give some props to Robin Scott and what he pulled off in November of 1979. |
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Post by Caseyfan4everRyanfanNever on Jan 4, 2013 12:44:06 GMT -5
A bit of justice was done to "Pop Muzik" when AT40 counted it as one of its Top 100 of 1980. I always thought that the AT40 statisticians at the time configured the Top 50 of 1979 in such a way to include as much disco as possible in 1979 and push the other music types from late 1979 into 1980--they weren't totally successful as a few disco songs did make it into 1980s survey period ("Dim All The Lights, and "No More Tears" for example). However "Pop Muzik" and "Lovin Touchin Squeezin" did make it into the 1980 survey period while "Heaven Must've Sent You" landed in 1979 despite being around at approximately the same time in late 1979.
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Post by michaelcasselman on Jan 4, 2013 13:45:41 GMT -5
The Donna Summer hits were still rising as of the first week of November 1979, however "Heaven Must Have Sent You" peaked at #11 10/13 and 10/20/1979, whereas "Lovin Touchin Squeezin" peaked at #16 on 10/27 and 11/3/1979 and "Pop Muzik" peaked at #1 on 11/3/79.
So... was the cut-off between 1979 and 1980 in the end of October 1979? ABout a month earlier than most years, but perhaps to give them some lead-time to tabulate overall end-of-decade rankings?
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