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Post by bestmusicexpert on May 10, 2014 8:40:14 GMT -5
Today, doing 5-6-72 and 5-9-87
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Post by pointpark04 on May 12, 2014 10:25:33 GMT -5
Playing 5/11/85 right now.
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Post by johnnywest on May 12, 2014 20:32:49 GMT -5
I'm listening to the current CHR version of The Rick Dees Weekly Top 40. I think "All of Me" will be at #1 again.
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Post by pointpark04 on May 13, 2014 9:12:44 GMT -5
I'm listening to 5/17/86 today. So many great songs, and as usual, not always the biggest hits on the countdown. "Mothers Talk" by Tears for Fears and "I Wanna Be a Cowboy" by Boys Don't Cry are among them.
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Post by bestmusicexpert on May 13, 2014 10:07:30 GMT -5
5-17-86 is one of my favorites. Lots of great stuff and DOUBLE FALCO!
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Post by pointpark04 on May 13, 2014 10:33:34 GMT -5
5-17-86 is one of my favorites. Lots of great stuff and DOUBLE FALCO! Yes, 5/17/86 is right smack-dab in the beginning of a great run of music. IMHO, of course. I think Casey said there were 27(!) foreign acts in that week's survey. Music was never better than when foreign acts dominated it. Such diversity of sound and lyrical content. |
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Post by matt on May 13, 2014 14:31:46 GMT -5
5-17-86 is one of my favorites. Lots of great stuff and DOUBLE FALCO! Mine too--that show is maybe the best one of 1986. The other '86 show that's right up there for me is 7/19/86. |
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Post by pointpark04 on May 13, 2014 14:52:48 GMT -5
5-17-86 is one of my favorites. Lots of great stuff and DOUBLE FALCO! Mine too--that show is maybe the best one of 1986. The other '86 show that's right up there for me is 7/19/86. How can you go wrong with a show that features Genesis with their lone number one hit and Peter Gabriel right behind them with his soon-to-be lone number one song? I'm going to say it again - the summer of 1986 was the best music had to offer in the 1980s. Hands down. |
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Post by freakyflybry on May 14, 2014 0:11:05 GMT -5
Casey's Top 40 - May 17, 1997. Savage Garden was #1 that week with "I Want You", and Meredith Brooks debuted with one of my favourite songs to hear Casey introduce, "B!tch".
Currently on: #29: The Verve Pipe - The Freshmen. I prefer the rock version over the one Casey played.
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Post by pointpark04 on May 14, 2014 8:30:18 GMT -5
Today is a triple-play from 1983: April 30, May 7 & May 14.
Just noticed that the 5/7/83 countdown features seven artists with two songs apiece: Culture Club, Duran Duran, Hall & Oates, Michael Jackson, Journey, Lionel Richie and Styx.
Ahh, the "super star" era of AT40.
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Post by BrettVW on May 16, 2014 10:24:10 GMT -5
AT10 from 7/24/2004. Mid-2004 seems to be the time Casey's voice truly started to age, as I recently listened to one of the last Casey hosted AT40's from November 2003 and he was much more energetic
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Post by pointpark04 on May 16, 2014 10:30:37 GMT -5
I'm doing 5/19/79 today. The first hour is good, but the second hour I largely passed through. A lot of disco (which I love) in this countdown, but not really until the third hour, beginning with #17 and GQ's "Disco Nights (Rock Freak)".
Notable about this show: The three biggest movers within the 40 - Sister Sledge's massive hit "We Are Family" (27 to 13), "She Believes in Me" by Kenny Rogers (36 to 23) and "Chuck E's in Love" by Rickie Lee Jones (35 to 22) - would not go on to hit number one. Respectively, these three songs would peak at number two, five, and four.
In all, four songs made leaps of at least 11 notches, with the other being "Honesty" by Billy Joel, which climbed from 37 to 26 that week. Amazingly, that song would only reach number 11.
Conversely, three songs fell at least 11 spots within the survey, and two others fell completely out of the 40 from the 20s.
Wasn't that 1979 in a nutshell musically - big drops and big jumps?
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Post by dukelightning on May 16, 2014 11:28:45 GMT -5
pointpark, you mixed up the R&R and Billboard charts with that chart data. "Honesty" peaked at 11 on R&R and no countdown that I am aware of was using R&R in 1979 but failed to make the top 20 in Billboard. And FWIW, I think Billboard is more accurate than R&R esp in 1979. Disco songs were being snubbed by radio thereby making songs by the likes of Billy Joel chart higher in R&R. BTW, nice to have another disco fan on this forum too!
As for the show I will be listening to in a bit, well, it's from a tough date personally. The AT40 from 5/16/98 which is the day I lost my mom. FYI, I was not listening to AT40 or any countdown at that time so this will be another new territory show for me. Got a ton of those in my collection actually.
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Post by pointpark04 on May 16, 2014 12:13:18 GMT -5
I looked at the wrong column on the Ultimate Music Database. The number of weeks "Honesty" spent on the Hot 100 was 11. The song peaked at 24.
Disco is the best genre of music in my lifetime. Only the current EDM disco-ish revival comes close to matching it for my tastes.
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Post by BrettVW on May 19, 2014 9:28:56 GMT -5
Just started 1/1/72, the Top 40 of 1971
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