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Post by bestmusicexpert on May 16, 2013 13:05:35 GMT -5
Basically what I mean is after a big hit, all of a sudden you never heard them again on the radio with new material.
Taylor Dayne after heart of stone, Billy ocean after get out of my dreams, those are 2 that come to mind for me.
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Post by jdelachjr2002 on May 16, 2013 13:16:12 GMT -5
Basically what I mean is after a big hit, all of a sudden you never heard them again on the radio with new material. Taylor Dayne after heart of stone, Billy ocean after get out of my dreams, those are 2 that come to mind for me. What about "The Colour Of Love"? That was the follow-up to "Get Out Of My Dreams, Get Into My Car". I assume it still gets some type of recurrent airplay somewhere, no?
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Post by bestmusicexpert on May 16, 2013 13:23:44 GMT -5
Essentially someone who hit the top 10 constantly then disappeared without declining...
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Post by bestmusicexpert on May 16, 2013 13:24:32 GMT -5
Ive only heard it on AT40's. Never on radio then or now.
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Post by pgfromwp on May 16, 2013 14:20:42 GMT -5
Basically what I mean is after a big hit, all of a sudden you never heard them again on the radio with new material. Taylor Dayne after heart of stone, Billy ocean after get out of my dreams, those are 2 that come to mind for me. Are you excluding "one-hit wonder" acts, as these -- if the one hit was indeed substantial -- might qualify and not be so rare? Dexy's Midnight Runners, a U.S. top 40 one-hit wonder group, comes to mind. Just curious.
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Post by michaelcasselman on May 16, 2013 14:27:00 GMT -5
Lisa Stansfield. Couple of big hits in 1990, another in 92, and then (essentially) Stansfield got sent to the cornfield.
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Post by dukelightning on May 16, 2013 15:46:00 GMT -5
Bread, the first go around. They had 6 straight top 15 hits and then after "Aubrey", it is poof....gone. Now granted David Gates leaving the group was probably the reason, but to not even have a followup single that bombed is rather unusual. Of course they got back together for an album in 1976. And "Lost Without Your Love" did have a followup single that bombed. Otherwise, they would have never missed the top 40 as a group. Not too many groups outside the Beatles have broken up (the first time anyway with Bread) when they were still very relevant in top 40 radio.
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Post by bestmusicexpert on May 16, 2013 15:46:34 GMT -5
I didn't really mean one hit wonders. But it is funny though how sometimes we hear them and their one hit a lot and then suddenly poof gone.
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Post by OldSchoolAT40Fan on May 16, 2013 16:20:51 GMT -5
Pink Floyd is a really good example. They had a lot of classic rock hits on the radio, but only two top 40 hits - "Money" and "Another Brick In The Wall". After the latter hit #1, they were never heard on the top 40 again.
Exposé is another example. They had a lot of great hits during 1987, but after they peaked at #3 with “I’ll Never Get Over You (Getting Over Me)” in the summer of 1993, they disappeared from the top 40 forever. “In Walked Love”, as far as I know, never made it to AT40.
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Post by mkarns on May 16, 2013 16:34:06 GMT -5
How about Kool & the Gang? Two top 10 hits in 1974 and ten from 1980-87, many of which still get recurrent play. Then after "Stone Love" (heard on last week's 1980s Casey show), nothing more even reached the top 40.
As for Taylor Dayne, after "Heart of Stone" ended her 1987-90 run of hits she did return to the top 10 (on CT40) in 1993 with a remake of Barry White's "Can't Get Enough of Your Love". The followup, "Send Me a Lover" went top 40, and that was her last CHR hit.
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Post by pb on May 16, 2013 16:58:27 GMT -5
Bread, the first go around. They had 6 straight top 15 hits and then after "Aubrey", it is poof....gone. Now granted David Gates leaving the group was probably the reason, but to not even have a followup single that bombed is rather unusual. Of course they got back together for an album in 1976. And "Lost Without Your Love" did have a followup single that bombed. Otherwise, they would have never missed the top 40 as a group. Not too many groups outside the Beatles have broken up (the first time anyway with Bread) when they were still very relevant in top 40 radio. They broke up in 1973. David Gates had surprisingly little success with his first solo albums but did reach #29 in 1975 with the title track of his second album Never Let Her Go.
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Post by pointpark04 on May 16, 2013 17:13:58 GMT -5
Speaking of David Gates, I'm surprised that his title song to "The Goodbye Girl" didn't get higher than 15 on the chart. I always thought that was a much bigger hit than that.
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Post by Mike on May 16, 2013 21:15:17 GMT -5
As for Taylor Dayne, after "Heart of Stone" ended her 1987-90 run of hits she did return to the top 10 (on CT40) in 1993 with a remake of Barry White's "Can't Get Enough of Your Love". The followup, "Send Me a Lover" went top 40, and that was her last CHR hit. That 3-year gap really put the kibosh on the momentum she'd had after 1990, though quite honestly, her hits from Can't Fight Fate (with the exception of her #1 hit "Love Will Lead You Back") seem to be lacking a musical "edge" that those from her first album had.
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Post by mga707 on May 16, 2013 21:53:37 GMT -5
I'm surprised I'm the first to mention Men At Work. Two huge LPs, two straight #1 singles, two more consecutive top 10 singles (including by far their best song--a great one: "Overkill"), then just one more that barely made it into the top 30. Then--nothing. The third LP pretty much tanked, as did the single(s) released from it. I think the band broke up shortly after that.
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Post by tarobe on May 16, 2013 23:26:39 GMT -5
Ladies and gentlemen, Miss Diana Ross. From 1970 to 1980 she had 16 Top 40 hits, during a period in which all her Top Ten records also hit #1 (five times). Then for the next five years or so she followed that with ten more Top 40 hits, six of which went Top Ten (but only one went to #1 - the duet with Lionel Richie, "Endless Love," which stayed at the top for nine weeks). And need I mention her career before 1970, when she was the lead singer of a group that racked up twelve #1 hits in the span of five and a half years (second ONLY to the Beatles)? But friends and neighbors, May 4, 1985 marked the last time Diana Ross (at #23 that week with "Missing You") EVER appeared in the countdown. AT40 would go on for almost a decade, but Ms. Ross wouldn't be on it again.
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