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Post by jlthorpe on Sept 29, 2013 12:15:55 GMT -5
Have there been any times when a stretch story turned out to be wrong or was an outright lie?
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Post by giannirubino on Sept 29, 2013 14:03:00 GMT -5
This is off the top of my head. Please forgive me if I am incorrect.
The Captain & Tennille in early 1980 were mentioned as having their anniversary on Valentine's Day. Their song "Do That To Me One More Time" finally hit the top the week of VD, or thereabout. It was a publicity gimmick, I assume. Their anniversary is in November.
I don't know WHERE I heard this, but wasn't Rick Astley's age misrepresented? It may have been other than AT40.
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Post by michaelcasselman on Sept 29, 2013 14:50:03 GMT -5
"Indian Reservation"?
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Post by matt on Sept 29, 2013 15:21:37 GMT -5
That's the biggest one that comes to mind is the story about the Loudermilk dude who wrote Indian Reservation being kidnapped by Cherokee Indians and forced to write the song to tell their story. It was of course a hoax created by the lead singer of the Raiders who was upset that an AT40 staffer called him late at night and woke him up. As for the wrong ages being reported, that happened too many times to count. Prince and Madonna often had their ages reported as being two years younger than they were (ironically they are practically the same age--both were born in the summer of 1958). |
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Post by woolebull on Sept 29, 2013 15:52:50 GMT -5
That's the biggest one that comes to mind is the story about the Loudermilk dude who wrote Indian Reservation being kidnapped by Cherokee Indians and forced to write the song to tell their story. It was of course a hoax created by the lead singer of the Raiders who was upset that an AT40 staffer called him late at night and woke him up. As for the wrong ages being reported, that happened too many times to count. Prince and Madonna often had their ages reported as being two years younger than they were (ironically they are practically the same age--both were born in the summer of 1958). If you look in Fred Bronson's book, "The Billboard Book of Number One Hits", even in its fifth edition, he has in at least one spot Prince being born in June of 1960  |
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Post by mga707 on Sept 29, 2013 16:00:12 GMT -5
That's the biggest one that comes to mind is the story about the Loudermilk dude who wrote Indian Reservation being kidnapped by Cherokee Indians and forced to write the song to tell their story. It was of course a hoax created by the lead singer of the Raiders who was upset that an AT40 staffer called him late at night and woke him up. As for the wrong ages being reported, that happened too many times to count. Prince and Madonna often had their ages reported as being two years younger than they were (ironically they are practically the same age--both were born in the summer of 1958). If you look in Fred Bronson's book, "The Billboard Book of Number One Hits", even in its fifth edition, he has in at least one spot Prince being born in June of 1960 Prince, little buddy, be proud you're the same age as me: 55!  |
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Post by davewollenberg on Sept 29, 2013 16:25:30 GMT -5
I always thought that Daryl and Toni DID get married on Valentine's day!
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Post by at40petebattistini on Sept 29, 2013 18:16:14 GMT -5
That's the biggest one that comes to mind is the story about the Loudermilk dude who wrote Indian Reservation being kidnapped by Cherokee Indians and forced to write the song to tell their story. It was of course a hoax created by the lead singer of the Raiders who was upset that an AT40 staffer called him late at night and woke him up. As for the wrong ages being reported, that happened too many times to count. Prince and Madonna often had their ages reported as being two years younger than they were (ironically they are practically the same age--both were born in the summer of 1958). What's your definition of a stretch story? I wouldn't consider the origin of the song Indian Reservation a stretch story. Even though it turned out to be a hoax -- at the time it was told -- it had a direct connection to the song's writer and record origin. I believe better examples of stretch stories might be those of general subject matter -- the story of "Here Comes The Bride", songs about the moon, and fan conventions. |
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Post by jlthorpe on Sept 29, 2013 18:47:18 GMT -5
I thought of stretch stories as being any story told before a song, whether it was something with little or no connection to the next song being played, or a story directly related to the artist/song.
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Post by blackbowl68 on Sept 30, 2013 8:53:34 GMT -5
The one that always stuck out for me was in late '84 when Casey identifies the harmonica player on the 1964 hit "My Boy Lollipop" as...Rod Stewart!
This turned out not to be true, because the Brit was 16 at the time & the song was recorded in Jamaica.
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Post by vto66 on Sept 30, 2013 14:18:53 GMT -5
How about all those "Dawn" stories?
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Post by mkarns on Sept 30, 2013 14:43:43 GMT -5
On the very first AT40, Casey told a story about Melanie (then charting with "Lay Down (Candles In the Rain)" doing a single TV appearance in the Netherlands while on tour, and soon after half of all Dutch households had a Melanie record in their collections. That sounded dubious to me; could a single well-received TV appearance really have had THAT much impact, even in a relatively small country? (The Netherlands had about 13 million people and 4 million households in 1970.)
Apparently it probably couldn't, as in late 1971, when Melanie charted with "Brand New Key", the story was repeated with Casey expressing skepticism over the claim, but essentially saying "it's a good story so we'll tell it anyway."
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Post by OldSchoolAT40Fan on Oct 1, 2013 12:44:12 GMT -5
Apparently, when Exposé hit the top 40 with "Come Go With Me" and "Point of No Return" in 1987, Casey mentioned one of the singers as Gioia Carmen. But I believe, on the October 3, 1987 broadcast (aired a second time a year ago this weekend) when "Let Me Be The One" was climbing the top 40, I learned that it was a mistake, and her real name was Gioia Bruneau (someone please clarify the spelling?), not Carmen - and Casey mentioned that the information on the album's label was fixed to show the right information.
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Post by michaelcasselman on Oct 1, 2013 14:00:45 GMT -5
According to Wikipedia, her real full name is Carmen Gioia Bruno, however, she usually drops her 'real' first name.
Along with fiddling with ages to appear younger than they really are, many entertainers (prompted by agents, I would assume) alter their names for professional reasons. As a 'business practice', it seems more routine than outright fabricated anecdotes about anniversaries, appearances, reasons a song was written, etc.
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Post by UnknownEric on Oct 2, 2013 10:35:22 GMT -5
This is CT40 era, but while The Humpty Dance was in the chart, Casey told the sad, sad story of poor Humpty Hump, young R&B singer who burnt his nose working at McDonalds and now wears a fake nose and raps. It was all made up by Digital Underground. Humpty Hump was just Shock G in a mask.
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