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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Mar 1, 2023 19:08:39 GMT -5
If Casey was counting down R&R in 1978 like he was for CT40, those dates would equate to 7/1, 7/8, 7/15, and 7/22 - weeks 3-6 in the #1 run for "Shadow Dancing" out of 7.
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Post by trekkielo on Mar 1, 2023 19:35:44 GMT -5
"Shadow Dancing" spent 4 weeks at #1 in Radio & Records for May 26, June 2, 9 & 16, 1978, immediately preceding Baker Street's run on top.
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Post by trekkielo on Mar 1, 2023 19:39:09 GMT -5
Love Is Thicker Than Water never "sounded" like a #1 song to me and still doesn't. This topic makes me question everything.  I guess that's a good thing in a way, but it also gives me sea legs. Red Pill of questioning the legitimacy of those who succeed, or Blue Pill of blissfully acknowledging their superiority? It only peaked at #3 for 1 week in Radio & Records on 2/24/78. |
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Post by chrislc on Mar 1, 2023 21:24:19 GMT -5
Love Is Thicker Than Water never "sounded" like a #1 song to me and still doesn't. This topic makes me question everything. I guess that's a good thing in a way, but it also gives me sea legs. Red Pill of questioning the legitimacy of those who succeed, or Blue Pill of blissfully acknowledging their superiority? It only peaked at #3 for 1 week in Radio & Records on 2/24/78. It's such an injustice that the great Emotion couldn't make #1 while this song did. Even to make R&R #3 I can only assume that teen and preteen girls were just caught up in Andy, no matter what he did, and ran out to buy it, triggering the extra airplay. It doesn't make any sense. But all his other hits were very good. And Barry Gibb's Ain't Nothing Gonna Keep Me From You by Teri DeSario didn't even make the Top 40. Crazy. That was a great record. |
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Post by trekkielo on Mar 1, 2023 21:33:00 GMT -5
It only peaked at #3 for 1 week in Radio & Records on 2/24/78. It's such an injustice that the great Emotion couldn't make #1 while this song did. Even to make R&R #3 I can only assume that teen and preteen girls were just caught up in Andy, no matter what he did, and ran out to buy it. It doesn't make any sense. But all his other hits were very good. And Barry Gibb's Ain't Nothing Gonna Keep Me From You by Teri DeSario didn't even make the Top 40. Crazy. That was a great record. Here's another headscratcher, "More Than a Woman" by Tavares makes AT40 while the original Bees Gees version that's superior doesn't, unreleased as a single!  |
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Post by chrislc on Mar 1, 2023 21:39:58 GMT -5
It's such an injustice that the great Emotion couldn't make #1 while this song did. Even to make R&R #3 I can only assume that teen and preteen girls were just caught up in Andy, no matter what he did, and ran out to buy it. It doesn't make any sense. But all his other hits were very good. And Barry Gibb's Ain't Nothing Gonna Keep Me From You by Teri DeSario didn't even make the Top 40. Crazy. That was a great record. Here's another headscratcher, "More Than a Woman" by Tavares makes AT40 while the original Bees Gees version that's superior doesn't, unreleased as a single! I thought I read something about More Than A Woman being held back to stay out of Shadow Dancing's way. Maybe Stigwood realized that Andy's youth would be fleeting and he needed to make hay while the sun was shining. Barry Gibb was channeling Mozart for a couple of years there. Some real masterpieces. Too Much Heaven. My God. Check out the "First Time Hearing" YouTube videos for Too Much Heaven. People are stunned. 1979 Top 40 was just insane. We took it for granted. It's no wonder that Casey was losing it. |
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Post by trekkielo on Mar 1, 2023 22:02:56 GMT -5
Here's another headscratcher, "More Than a Woman" by Tavares makes AT40 while the original Bees Gees version that's superior doesn't, unreleased as a single! I thought I read something about More Than A Woman being held back to stay out of Shadow Dancing's way. Maybe Stigwood realized that Andy's youth would be fleeting and he needed to make hay while the sun was shining. Barry Gibb was channeling Mozart for a couple of years there. Some real masterpieces. Too Much Heaven. My God. I also like "Tragedy"! Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb wrote that and "Too Much Heaven" in an afternoon off from making Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band the movie, in which they were starring. In the same evening, they wrote "Shadow Dancing". PS-It reminds me of Jeff Lynne writing the entire 1977 Electric Light Orchestra album Out of the Blue in three and a half weeks after a sudden burst of creativity while hidden away in his rented chalet in the Swiss Alps. It took a further two months to record in Munich. Not to mention ELO's other output from 1974-1983!  |
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Post by chrislc on Mar 1, 2023 22:20:11 GMT -5
I thought I read something about More Than A Woman being held back to stay out of Shadow Dancing's way. Maybe Stigwood realized that Andy's youth would be fleeting and he needed to make hay while the sun was shining. Barry Gibb was channeling Mozart for a couple of years there. Some real masterpieces. Too Much Heaven. My God. I also like "Tragedy"! Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb wrote that and "Too Much Heaven" in an afternoon off from making Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band the movie, in which they were starring. In the same evening, they wrote "Shadow Dancing". PS-It reminds me of Jeff Lynne writing the entire 1977 Electric Light Orchestra album Out of the Blue in three and a half weeks after a sudden burst of creativity while hidden away in his rented chalet in the Swiss Alps. It took a further two months to record in Munich. Not to mention ELO's other output from 1974-1983! And I thought Love You Inside Out might have been the best of the three. We took it for granted. But seeing these people reacting to Too Much Heaven, CRYING, I think it probably was the best. And ELO wow. We were so lucky. To think that those three #1 songs were written in the same evening makes me want to laugh and cry at the same time. Absolute genius. |
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Post by slf on Mar 2, 2023 4:18:56 GMT -5
Here's another headscratcher, "More Than a Woman" by Tavares makes AT40 while the original Bees Gees version that's superior doesn't, unreleased as a single! I thought I read something about More Than A Woman being held back to stay out of Shadow Dancing's way. Maybe Stigwood realized that Andy's youth would be fleeting and he needed to make hay while the sun was shining. Barry Gibb was channeling Mozart for a couple of years there. Some real masterpieces. Too Much Heaven. My God. Check out the "First Time Hearing" YouTube videos for Too Much Heaven. People are stunned. 1979 Top 40 was just insane. We took it for granted. It's no wonder that Casey was losing it. On an AT40 show from the late '70's, Casey told the story of the Bee Gees and RSO being on the verge of releasing their version of "More Than A Woman" as a single, but then learning of Tavares' decision to release THEIR version of the song. Then the Bee Gees decided to pull their version from release at the last minute, realizing it would be downright greedy to steal Tavares' thunder. In retrospect, that was an admirable act of class and humanity on the part of Robin, Barry, and Maurice. (BTW, while the Bee Gees' version of "More Than A Woman" is a stunningly gorgeous pop gem, Tavares' version is quite good, too, and deserved to be a bigger hit than it would end up being.) |
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Post by trekkielo on Mar 2, 2023 7:44:49 GMT -5
I thought I read something about More Than A Woman being held back to stay out of Shadow Dancing's way. Maybe Stigwood realized that Andy's youth would be fleeting and he needed to make hay while the sun was shining. Barry Gibb was channeling Mozart for a couple of years there. Some real masterpieces. Too Much Heaven. My God. Check out the "First Time Hearing" YouTube videos for Too Much Heaven. People are stunned. 1979 Top 40 was just insane. We took it for granted. It's no wonder that Casey was losing it. On an AT40 show from the late '70's, Casey told the story of the Bee Gees and RSO being on the verge of releasing their version of "More Than A Woman" as a single, but then learning of Tavares' decision to release THEIR version of the song. Then the Bee Gees decided to pull their version from release at the last minute, realizing it would be downright greedy to steal Tavares' thunder. In retrospect, that was an admirable act of class and humanity on the part of Robin, Barry, and Maurice. (BTW, while the Bee Gees' version of "More Than A Woman" is a stunningly gorgeous pop gem, Tavares' version is quite good, too, and deserved to be a bigger hit than it would end up being.) April 22nd, 1978 |
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Post by LC on Mar 2, 2023 9:35:39 GMT -5
I also like "Tragedy"! Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb wrote that and "Too Much Heaven" in an afternoon off from making Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band the movie, in which they were starring. In the same evening, they wrote "Shadow Dancing". PS-It reminds me of Jeff Lynne writing the entire 1977 Electric Light Orchestra album Out of the Blue in three and a half weeks after a sudden burst of creativity while hidden away in his rented chalet in the Swiss Alps. It took a further two months to record in Munich. Not to mention ELO's other output from 1974-1983! To think that those three #1 songs were written in the same evening makes me want to laugh and cry at the same time. Absolute genius. With all the variables that can influence the trajectory of a released single, to write even ONE #1 hit in an evening is remarkable. To write THREE...that is indeed next-level genius. |
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Post by trekkielo on Mar 2, 2023 12:49:11 GMT -5
1979 Top 40 was just insane. We took it for granted. It's no wonder that Casey was losing it. And 41-100 had about 50 more insane moments, it's always stupid to have only a Top 40, 50 or 80 year-end instead of 100, but 1979 wins the bad timing award! |
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Post by chrislc on Mar 2, 2023 17:52:21 GMT -5
1979 Top 40 was just insane. We took it for granted. It's no wonder that Casey was losing it. And 41-100 had about 50 more insane moments, it's always stupid to have only a Top 40, 50 or 80 year-end instead of 100, but 1979 wins the bad timing award! I meant 1979 Top 40 radio, the format. But yes, there were a lot of great songs that Casey didn't get to play at the end of the year. Joe to the rescue! archive.org/details/197910001Being Cash Box, this includes Blow Away, which is a beautiful song. |
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Post by trekkielo on Mar 2, 2023 20:32:44 GMT -5
And 41-100 had about 50 more insane moments, it's always stupid to have only a Top 40, 50 or 80 year-end instead of 100, but 1979 wins the bad timing award! I meant 1979 Top 40 radio, the format. But yes, there were a lot of great songs that Casey didn't get to play at the end of the year. Joe to the rescue! archive.org/details/197910001Being Cash Box, this includes Blow Away, which is a beautiful song. Oh, OK, got it, then Opus also has "Blow Away", I agree that it's a beautiful song even with its music video! |
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Post by mkarns on Mar 3, 2023 0:24:57 GMT -5
To think that those three #1 songs were written in the same evening makes me want to laugh and cry at the same time. Absolute genius. With all the variables that can influence the trajectory of a released single, to write even ONE #1 hit in an evening is remarkable. To write THREE...that is indeed next-level genius. Similarly, Dolly Parton composed two of her greatest hits, "Jolene" and "I Will Always Love You", on the same day in 1972, which with nice understatement she says was "a good writing day". |
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I guess that's a good thing in a way, but it also gives me sea legs. Red Pill of questioning the legitimacy of those who succeed, or Blue Pill of blissfully acknowledging their superiority?
