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Post by adam31 on Aug 4, 2013 6:37:37 GMT -5
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Post by pgfromwp on Aug 4, 2013 7:45:02 GMT -5
After their grossly overplayed #2 hit, YMCA (owing to thousands of subsequent dj'd parties and receptions), I recall that the Village People only scored in the top 40 with "In the Navy", then disappeared from AT40 action.
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Post by pb on Aug 4, 2013 12:17:50 GMT -5
Steve Winwood comes to mind. He came on strong in 1986 with the "Back In The Highlife" album, followed by "Roll With It" in 1988. Those two albums produced 7 top 20s, and two #1s. Also reaching the top 10 in 1987 was the remix of Valerie from "Chronicles". However, his 1990 album "Refugees of the Heart" was not a pop success. See ya Mr. Winwood. Higher Love" Billboard Hot 100 1 "Freedom Overspill" Billboard Hot 100 20 "Back in the High Life Again" Billboard Hot 100 13 "Valerie" Remix Billboard Hot 100 #9 (1987) "The Finer Things" Billboard Hot 100 8 "Roll With It" Billboard Hot 100 1 "Don't You Know What the Night Can Do?" Billboard Hot 100 6 Holding On" Billboard Hot 100 11 The next album was a Traffic reunion so he sort of went non-commercial.
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Post by jmack19 on Aug 7, 2013 1:33:45 GMT -5
I remember when SBK records was dominating the charts in the early 90s before the label was sold to EMI. It seemed overnight that SBK artists like Wilson Phillips, Jesus Jones and Vanilla Ice disappeared from the chart.
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Post by jcs72 on Aug 7, 2013 2:01:13 GMT -5
Steve Winwood comes to mind. He came on strong in 1986 with the "Back In The Highlife" album, followed by "Roll With It" in 1988. Actually, Steve Winwood first charted in 1981 with "When You See A Chance", which hit #7 on AT40.
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Post by matt on Aug 7, 2013 16:53:38 GMT -5
Steve Winwood comes to mind. He came on strong in 1986 with the "Back In The Highlife" album, followed by "Roll With It" in 1988. Those two albums produced 7 top 20s, and two #1s. Also reaching the top 10 in 1987 was the remix of Valerie from "Chronicles". However, his 1990 album "Refugees of the Heart" was not a pop success. See ya Mr. Winwood. Higher Love" Billboard Hot 100 1 "Freedom Overspill" Billboard Hot 100 20 "Back in the High Life Again" Billboard Hot 100 13 "Valerie" Remix Billboard Hot 100 #9 (1987) "The Finer Things" Billboard Hot 100 8 "Roll With It" Billboard Hot 100 1 "Don't You Know What the Night Can Do?" Billboard Hot 100 6 Holding On" Billboard Hot 100 11 The next album was a Traffic reunion so he sort of went non-commercial. He hit with "One and Only Man" late in 1990 (which was a good song, btw), but nothing after that on the Top 40. Keep in mind he turned 40 in 1988, which is getting up there for most CHR/rock/pop artists. He did come out with a new album in 2004 with a leadoff single called "Different Light"--didn't see any chart action, but a great song IMO.
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Post by matt on Aug 7, 2013 16:57:23 GMT -5
After their grossly overplayed #2 hit, YMCA (owing to thousands of subsequent dj'd parties and receptions), I recall that the Village People only scored in the top 40 with "In the Navy", then disappeared from AT40 action. Yeah, their chart debut was on 7/29/78 with "Macho Man", and I believe "In the Navy" was gone from the charts by the end of July 1979, making their 3-hit chart ride that included two #2 hits less than a year long.
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Post by tpanther775 on Aug 7, 2013 20:43:31 GMT -5
After their grossly overplayed #2 hit, YMCA (owing to thousands of subsequent dj'd parties and receptions), I recall that the Village People only scored in the top 40 with "In the Navy", then disappeared from AT40 action. Yeah, their chart debut was on 7/29/78 with "Macho Man", and I believe "In the Navy" was gone from the charts by the end of July 1979, making their 3-hit chart ride that included two #2 hits less than a year long. Don't forget their last charted single on the Hot 100 "Ready for the 80's". Apparently they weren't ready for that decade. They actually made a new wave album. That bombed. You know the way the Village People were portrayed for disco you think they were around for 3-4 years. And in reality only made Top 40 territory just under 12 months.
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Post by mga707 on Aug 7, 2013 20:49:25 GMT -5
Yeah, their chart debut was on 7/29/78 with "Macho Man", and I believe "In the Navy" was gone from the charts by the end of July 1979, making their 3-hit chart ride that included two #2 hits less than a year long. Don't forget their last charted single on the Hot 100 "Ready for the 80's". Apparently they weren't ready for that decade. They actually made a new wave album. That bombed. You know the way the Village People were portrayed for disco you think they were around for 3-4 years. And in reality only made Top 40 territory just under 12 months. If you've never seen "Can't Stop the Music" you're missing a so-bad-it's-almost-good treat!
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Post by tpanther775 on Aug 7, 2013 21:16:56 GMT -5
Don't forget their last charted single on the Hot 100 "Ready for the 80's". Apparently they weren't ready for that decade. They actually made a new wave album. That bombed. You know the way the Village People were portrayed for disco you think they were around for 3-4 years. And in reality only made Top 40 territory just under 12 months. If you've never seen "Can't Stop the Music" you're missing a so-bad-it's-almost-good treat! No, I never saw that movie but I heard it was a waste of time and film. Much like Xanadu. At least Xanadu soundtrack had a few decent song on it. Mainly from ELO.
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Post by mkarns on Aug 7, 2013 21:29:11 GMT -5
After their grossly overplayed #2 hit, YMCA (owing to thousands of subsequent dj'd parties and receptions), I recall that the Village People only scored in the top 40 with "In the Navy", then disappeared from AT40 action. Yeah, their chart debut was on 7/29/78 with "Macho Man", and I believe "In the Navy" was gone from the charts by the end of July 1979, making their 3-hit chart ride that included two #2 hits less than a year long. Actually, "In the Navy" only hit #3. And it interestingly wasn't their last song to be heard on AT40; in the July 1979 disco special, Casey played as an extra "San Francisco", which bubbled under the Hot 100 in 1977.
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Post by quatermass on Aug 7, 2013 21:37:49 GMT -5
If you've never seen "Can't Stop the Music" you're missing a so-bad-it's-almost-good treat! No, I never saw that movie but I heard it was a waste of time and film. Much like Xanadu. At least Xanadu soundtrack had a few decent song on it. Mainly from ELO. Xanadu a bad movie? Not in my book. I still to this day consider it one of my all time favorite movies.
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Post by tpanther775 on Aug 7, 2013 22:00:52 GMT -5
No, I never saw that movie but I heard it was a waste of time and film. Much like Xanadu. At least Xanadu soundtrack had a few decent song on it. Mainly from ELO. Xanadu a bad movie? Not in my book. I still to this day consider it one of my all time favorite movies. Hey to each it's own. I was never much on those types of movies anyways. But if you like it. Hey I mean that's what you like. When the movie came out I was only five. I saw it years after that and by then it may have been dated some.
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Post by mga707 on Aug 7, 2013 22:42:58 GMT -5
Xanadu a bad movie? Not in my book. I still to this day consider it one of my all time favorite movies. Hey to each it's own. I was never much on those types of movies anyways. But if you like it. Hey I mean that's what you like. When the movie came out I was only five. I saw it years after that and by then it may have been dated some. Coming hot on the heels of "The Warriors", "Xanadu" launched Michael Beck on his path to Hollywood superstardom. At least Olivia had her music career to fall back on...
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Post by yankee44 on Sept 13, 2013 19:39:00 GMT -5
Just reading over this thread, one that came to my mind was Paul Young and another was Corey Hart, who are both on this weeks 9/13/85 AT40 Chart
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