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Post by mkarns on Jan 7, 2023 1:56:40 GMT -5
Not a part of the Big 40 countdown, but a song included in this week's show: 70s on 7 just played "Yes, I'm Ready" by "KC/Sunshine Band". Teri who?
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Post by skuncle on Jan 7, 2023 12:10:04 GMT -5
Haven’t chimed in in a while, but Alan Hunter said the Fleetwood Mac song “Sara” was about Stevie Nicks’ almost marriage to Don Henley and the kid they might have had, which she would have named Sara. There was no “almost marriage” to Don Henley. Stevie was however pregnant with his kid, which she terminated. “There’s a heartbeat and it never really died”.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Jan 7, 2023 12:39:55 GMT -5
In addition to a vintage good/ bad/ ugly comment, Alan kept mentioning this and that song were 1979 holdovers. If there had been a real AT40 that week, production would have begun around Dec 26th when they first got an advance of the 1/5/80 chart...EVERY song is a holdover because sales/ airplay would have been from the last full week in 1979.
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Post by mkarns on Jan 8, 2023 18:30:34 GMT -5
Alan said “Better Love Next Time” by Dr. Hook was “peaking at #14”. It actually would peak at #12.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Jan 8, 2023 21:01:06 GMT -5
Alan said “Better Love Next Time” by Dr. Hook was “peaking at #14”. It actually would peak at #12. Actually I think he said Head Games not Dr. Hooker was topping off there.
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Post by Michael1973 on Jan 9, 2023 10:52:50 GMT -5
In addition to a vintage good/ bad/ ugly comment, Alan kept mentioning this and that song were 1979 holdovers. Related to this, I noticed that the title card for several songs showed "79" as the year. I found this noteworthy because they've been known in the past to change the information in January shows to reflect the year being played, even when it was unnecessary (such as saying How Can I Fall is from 1989), and yet here when it would make sense to do so they chose not to.
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Post by laura on Jan 12, 2023 18:48:17 GMT -5
Nina said that Stevie Wonder was a "child protege". Didn't she mean "prodigy"?
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Post by doofus67 on Jan 13, 2023 1:37:08 GMT -5
Nina said that Stevie Wonder was a "child protege". Didn't she mean "prodigy"? Yeah. Not her first time making that oops, and not her last.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Jan 13, 2023 21:06:41 GMT -5
It's interesting Mark Goofman got the March 8th peak of Silent Running right but ID'd this chart as "1/17/86"
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Post by laura on Jan 13, 2023 21:10:18 GMT -5
It's interesting Mark Goofman got the March 8th peak of Silent Running right but ID'd this chart as "1/17/86" They've been doing this for weeks though. 1/17/86 fell on a Friday, so that's what they've been doing for a while. I don't get the need to always bring it up when apparently going with the Friday date instead of the Saturday's is their thing now.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Jan 13, 2023 21:13:32 GMT -5
In their ever changing definition of a hit, Alan said countdown Tarzan Boy would be Baltimora's only one. Followup Living In The Background would graze the bottom of the Hot 100. Then OMG he referred to Baltimora as a band out of Italy. On the real thing from 2/22/86 Casey pointed out Baltimora was an alias for (Irish) Jimmy McShane.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Jan 13, 2023 21:26:22 GMT -5
In her weekly chart screw up Nina placed Sleeping Bag at #32, really #37 then in her weekly content screw up, she said Tarzan was from Turtles III.... that was the 1993 rerelease.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Jan 13, 2023 23:00:10 GMT -5
Mark peaked Go Home at #2, really #10
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Post by mkarns on Jan 14, 2023 11:06:07 GMT -5
In their ever changing definition of a hit, Alan said countdown Tarzan Boy would be Baltimora's only one. Followup Living In The Background would graze the bottom of the Hot 100. Then OMG he referred to Baltimora as a band out of Italy. On the real thing from 2/22/86 Casey pointed out Baltimora was an alias for (Irish) Jimmy McShane. McShane was (Northern) Irish, but Baltimora began in Italy when he collaborated with Maurizio Bassi (some claim that Bassi and not McShane usually sang on their records). Bazzi is Italian as were the session musicians he and McShane worked with, and their music was probably recorded there, so Alan's characterization of them as an Italian act is at least defensible.
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Post by Michael1973 on Jan 14, 2023 18:32:30 GMT -5
Mark peaked Go Home at #2, really #10 It hit #2 on the R&B chart. Once again, they looked at the wrong numbers on Wikipedia. He also said that Go Home was written several years earlier and had been performed on SNL in 1983. That was actually Overjoyed.
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