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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on May 6, 2020 18:17:22 GMT -5
Four #1s in a little more than 2 years and it looked like Blondie was gonna be big for a long long time. But Lost Souls might as well have been Gilligan's Island as they disappeared from the face of the earth. Well, not entirely...they had a top 10 Hot AC hit in 1999 with "Maria". It wasn't a huge hit in CHR, but a good song.
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Post by saltrek on May 6, 2020 19:31:43 GMT -5
Four #1s in a little more than 2 years and it looked like Blondie was gonna be big for a long long time. But Lost Souls might as well have been Gilligan's Island as they disappeared from the face of the earth. Well, not entirely...they had a top 10 Hot AC hit in 1999 with "Maria". It wasn't a huge hit in CHR, but a good song. Deborah Harry started a solo career in 1981 - I'm sure that didn't help their cause.
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on May 6, 2020 20:59:15 GMT -5
Well, not entirely...they had a top 10 Hot AC hit in 1999 with "Maria". It wasn't a huge hit in CHR, but a good song. Deborah Harry started a solo career in 1981 - I'm sure that didn't help their cause. You could say it, well, backfired.
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Post by lasvegaskid on May 6, 2020 21:13:56 GMT -5
The Go Gos exploded onto the scene as pop music's it girls for like 5 minutes. But after Talk Show they were gone gone.
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Post by mga707 on May 7, 2020 0:38:48 GMT -5
The Go Gos exploded onto the scene as pop music's it girls for like 5 minutes. But after Talk Show they were gone gone. Having their lead singer go solo, and, unlike Debbie Harry, have a lot of success with her solo career, pretty much meant that the band was finished.
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Post by mga707 on May 7, 2020 0:42:10 GMT -5
Deborah Harry started a solo career in 1981 - I'm sure that didn't help their cause. You could say it, well, backfired. Besides Debbie Harry's unsuccessful solo LP, Blondie co-leader Chris Stein developed a serious illness around the same time. Plus, both Harry and Stein were sued by one of the other band members (can't recall his name) who alleged that the two of them forced him out of the band. A lot of 'stuff' was conspiring against Blondie's long-term success in 1981-82.
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Post by lasvegaskid on May 7, 2020 11:04:52 GMT -5
The Go Gos exploded onto the scene as pop music's it girls for like 5 minutes. But after Talk Show they were gone gone. Having their lead singer go solo, and, unlike Debbie Harry, have a lot of success with her solo career, pretty much meant that the band was finished. This brings up another classic disappearing act. Carlisle had moderate impact with her debut but reached 'Heaven with the followup. Success was fleeting, when the next release was far from a Runaway hit, Belinda was pretty much done on the charts.
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Post by matt on May 7, 2020 12:12:04 GMT -5
The Go Gos exploded onto the scene as pop music's it girls for like 5 minutes. But after Talk Show they were gone gone. LVK rolling out all the puns here. Actually the Go-Go's are a great example--surprised nobody had mentioned them yet. Same thing with the Bangles. Both of these bands were ones that had a quick burst of success and fame, but broke up when they were still riding high and presumably would have had a lot left to give. And both had four years between their first big hit and their break-up (Go-Go's first hit in 1981 with "Our Lips Are Sealed" then broke up in 1985; Bangles first hit in 1986 with "Manic Monday" then broke up in 1990). The Bangles had two #1s as well. One person not mentioned yet is Gilbert O'Sullivan. Had a huge #1 with "Alone Again Naturally", had another top 10 ("Claire"), and two more Top 40s -- all between June 1972 and the end of 1973. Then disappeared from the top 40 completely, and is a guy whose songs you rarely hear in recurrent airplay.
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Post by Glass Joe on May 7, 2020 14:58:28 GMT -5
I wonder why Debbie Gibson, Tiffany, and Martika didn't continue to have hits into the 90s... The records show that their popularity faded after 1989. Maybe because other artists their age: Mariah Carey, Celine Dion, and Wilson Phillips gained in popularity. Of course Wilson Phillips also seemed to disappear from the music scene after 1992, so they are in the same boat as the others. Mariah and Celine on the other hand had hits through the entire 90s decade and even after that.
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Post by mga707 on May 7, 2020 18:40:51 GMT -5
The Go Gos exploded onto the scene as pop music's it girls for like 5 minutes. But after Talk Show they were gone gone. LVK rolling out all the puns here. Actually the Go-Go's are a great example--surprised nobody had mentioned them yet. Same thing with the Bangles. Both of these bands were ones that had a quick burst of success and fame, but broke up when they were still riding high and presumably would have had a lot left to give. And both had four years between their first big hit and their break-up (Go-Go's first hit in 1981 with "Our Lips Are Sealed" then broke up in 1985; Bangles first hit in 1986 with "Manic Monday" then broke up in 1990). The Bangles had two #1s as well. One person not mentioned yet is Gilbert O'Sullivan. Had a huge #1 with "Alone Again Naturally", had another top 10 ("Claire"), and two more Top 40s -- all between June 1972 and the end of 1973. Then disappeared from the top 40 completely, and is a guy whose songs you rarely hear in recurrent airplay. Gilbert O' had THREE more top 40 singles after 'Claire': "Out Of the Question", heard on last week's 1973 show, then his last 'big' hit, "Get Down", #7 that summer, and finishing up with "Ooh Baby", #25 in fall '73. His final US chart single, "Happiness Is Me and You", only reached #62 in spring '74.
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Post by trekkielo on May 7, 2020 19:12:27 GMT -5
You could say it, well, backfired. Besides Debbie Harry's unsuccessful solo LP, Blondie co-leader Chris Stein developed a serious illness around the same time. Plus, both Harry and Stein were sued by one of the other band members (can't recall his name) who alleged that the two of them forced him out of the band. A lot of 'stuff' was conspiring against Blondie's long-term success in 1981-82. That would be Frank Infante who also got into it with Deborah Harry at Blondie's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction in 2006 over performing together as a group!
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Post by lasvegaskid on Dec 10, 2020 16:44:21 GMT -5
Hootie came outta nowhere. But after a Fairweather followup, their success was mostly in their Cracked Rear View.
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Post by slf on Dec 10, 2020 17:23:43 GMT -5
Hootie came outta nowhere. But after a Fairweather followup, their success was mostly in their Cracked Rear View. I don't know about the Blowfish, but Hootie certainly didn't disappear. He just changed residence from the pop charts to the country charts using his real name Darius Rucker.
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Post by Michael1973 on Dec 11, 2020 15:11:36 GMT -5
Did anybody mention Babyface? He was huge as a producer and had a string of decent-sized chart hits, but by 2000 he had vanished into thin air.
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Post by freakyflybry on Dec 11, 2020 22:24:47 GMT -5
Did anybody mention Babyface? He was huge as a producer and had a string of decent-sized chart hits, but by 2000 he had vanished into thin air. The thing that baffles me the most about his production discography: He produced Fall Out Boy's "Thnks Fr Th Mmrs". Definitely not sounding like the Boyz II Mens or Toni Braxtons he'd worked with in the 90's!
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