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Post by jlthorpe on Jan 18, 2014 9:31:36 GMT -5
What Top 40 hits had the same names as TV series (not counting theme songs such as "Happy Days")?
I can think of:
Chic - "Good Times" Rolling Stones - "Angie" Rihanna - "Cheers (Drink To That)" Shadows of Knight/Enchantment/Laura Branigan - "Gloria" Eddie Rabbitt/New Kids On The Block - "Step By Step" Jody Watley - "Friends" Dwight Twilley - "Girls" Golden Earring - "Twilight Zone" Robbie Williams - "Millennium" (R&R/AT40 only) Madonna/Aerosmith/Jon Secada - "Angel" Greg Kihn Band - "Jeopardy" Kay Starr - "Wheel Of Fortune" Destiny's Child - "Survivor" Moody Blues - "The Voice"
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Post by jlthorpe on Jan 18, 2014 12:44:36 GMT -5
hifi, I missed another big recent example, one that I used to joke to myself about:
Ed Sheeran - "The A Team"
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Post by rayshae3 on Jan 18, 2014 17:31:54 GMT -5
I’ll play this one.
1.One Day at a Time-Marilyn Sellars (#37 in 1974) 2.On Our Own-Bobby Brown (#2 in 1989); also title of a CBS comedy from 1977 3.Out of the Blue-Debbie Gibson (#3 in 1988); sitcom from 1979 4.Breaking Away-Balance (#22 in 1981); 1980 comedy/drama with Shaun Cassidy, inspired by the famous movie 5.Fame-David Bowie (#1 in 1975); unrelated to another movie inspired series in the 1980s. 6.Dreams-Fleetwood Mac (#1 in 1977) as well as several other Top 40 titles in the following decades; CBS drama from 1984 7.Our House-Madness (#7 in 1983) or –CSN&Y (#30 in 1970); drama on NBC from the mid-1980s. 8.Wildfire-Michael Murphey (#3 in 1975); Hanna-Barbera Saturday morning cartoon. 9.Sweet Surrender-John Denver (#13 in 1975) or -Bread (#15 in 1972); NBC sitcom from 1987. 10.Day by Day-Godspell (#13 in 1972) or –Hooters (#18 in 1986); late 80s sitcom. 11.Superman-Herbie Mann (#26 in 1979) 12.Paradise-Sade (#16 in 1988); CBS western 13.Murphey’s Law-Cheri (#39 in 1982); ABC comedy-drama 14.Dream On-Aerosmith (#6 in 1976) or –Righteous Brothers (#32 in 1974), HBO sitcom that ran during most of the 1990s.
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Post by vto66 on Jan 18, 2014 18:13:35 GMT -5
"Valerie"-Steve Winwood "Mad About You"-Belinda Carlisle
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Post by jlthorpe on Jan 18, 2014 22:04:10 GMT -5
Matchbox 20 - "Real World" Good Charlotte - "Lifestyles Of The Rich And Famous"
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Post by woolebull on Jan 18, 2014 23:10:26 GMT -5
The one that always pops in mind, because they were both big at the same time yet had nothing to do with each other:
"Sledgehammer" - Peter Gabriel
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Post by chrislc on Jan 20, 2014 16:27:12 GMT -5
Diana Ross and Bill Cullen (Move over, Marvin!) - Chain Reaction Nilsson and Lloyd Thaxton - Everybody's Talkin'(g) The Who and Craig Shoemaker - My Generation Marvin Gaye (moved over), Kim Weston, and Vin Scully - It Takes Two 38 Special and Jim Peck - Second Chance Bing Crosby and Art James - Temptation The Surfaris and Whoever - Wipeout Him again? and Lee Bowman - What's Going On Larry Zeno and Michael Jackson - Off the Wall
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Post by woolebull on Jan 20, 2014 16:57:28 GMT -5
Bing Crosby and Art James - Temptation Corina hit number 6 in 1991 with another song entitled "Temptation"
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Post by OldSchoolAT40Fan on Jan 20, 2014 17:03:14 GMT -5
"Fantasy" - Earth, Wind & Fire/Aldo Nova. Also a short-lived reality show from 1982-83 with by Peter Marshall and Leslie Uggams.
And I don't think "Chain Reaction" by Diana Ross made it to AT40. I'd be surprised if it did.
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Post by bestmusicexpert on Jan 20, 2014 17:14:52 GMT -5
"Fantasy" - Earth, Wind & Fire/Aldo Nova. Also a short-lived reality show from 1982-83 with by Peter Marshall and Leslie Uggams. And I don't think "Chain Reaction" by Diana Ross made it to AT40. I'd be surprised if it did. Peaked at #66 so no.
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Post by chrislc on Jan 20, 2014 17:21:19 GMT -5
RCA sure spent a lot of money promoting Chain Reaction to make #66!
Or maybe I'm thinking of - well - just about any of her RCA releases. That was like the A-Rod contract of 1980s music.
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Post by bestmusicexpert on Jan 20, 2014 17:31:18 GMT -5
None of her RCA material is anywhere near as good as her Motown stuff except Missing You.
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Post by OldSchoolAT40Fan on Jan 20, 2014 17:44:15 GMT -5
"Missing You" is probably the only good song by Diana Ross under the RCA label. Everything else by her under the RCA label is not that great. No wonder her popularity was in decline. I think the stuff was pretty good when they were composed by Chic members, Ashford & Simpson and any other composer from the 70's.
Personally, I think Ms. Ross's last good song under the Motown label was "I'm Coming Out".
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Post by mytwocents on Jan 25, 2014 20:44:08 GMT -5
What Top 40 hits had the same names as TV series (not counting theme songs such as "Happy Days")? After a week of letting the trivia-clogged recesses of my mind play with this one, I've come up with: "The Cisco Kid" (syndicated TV series, 1950 to 1956; also a #2 Hot 100 song by War in 1973) "Come Dancing" (BBC TV series, sporadically from 1949 to 1998; also a #6 Hot 100 song by The Kinks in 1983) and, thinking a bit outside the box, the NBC TV series "Friends" had a two-part episode about midway through its sixth season where an "alternate reality" is essentially depicted; where the six main characters imagine what their lives would be like, individually and interacting with one another, if pivotal events in each of their lives had unfolded differently -- complete with different scenes in the opening credits, couch and all! One could perhaps refer to that particular airing ("The One That Could Have Been", Parts I and II, February 2000) as "Fake Friends" (also a #35 Hot 100 song by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts in 1983).
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Post by jdelachjr2002 on Jan 26, 2014 15:47:19 GMT -5
and, thinking a bit outside the box, the NBC TV series "Friends" had a two-part episode about midway through its sixth season where an "alternate reality" is essentially depicted; where the six main characters imagine what their lives would be like, individually and interacting with one another, if pivotal events in each of their lives had unfolded differently -- complete with different scenes in the opening credits, couch and all! One could perhaps refer to that particular airing ("The One That Could Have Been", Parts I and II, February 2000) as "Fake Friends" (also a #35 Hot 100 song by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts in 1983). In addition, a season later, in the episode "The One With The Truth About London", Monica admitted that she really wanted to sleep with Joey instead of Chandler (incidentally, TBS re-aired the hour-long "The One With Ross's Wedding" this morning). There was a brief sequence showing what would've happened if Monica married Joey. Simply put, he would've been more fatter than Monica ever was simply because he can't get enough of her cooking. True confession: I own all 10 seasons of "Friends" on DVD. In addition, I have the special DVD that came out after the last episode aired (featuring the pilot and the finale) and "The One With All The Parties".
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