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Post by dukelightning on Mar 3, 2023 11:22:58 GMT -5
Today is the AT40 from 7/20/91. Mentioned Seal in the previous posts and "Kiss From a Rose" is not my fave song from him. This show has that song, "Crazy". Played the 5 and a half minute version of "You Could Be Mine". I think the 45 is about :30 shorter than that. The Gunners had to be disappointed in the chart performance of Mine what with it being in Terminator 2. I think it sounds like at least a top 20 hit maybe even top 10. At least it was played on AT40. Did not even make it onto CT40. One of the most surprising hits that failed to reach the R&R top 40 IMO.
Shadoe played a clip of Otis Redding's original version of "Hard to Handle" before playing the Black Crowes hit. Had forgotten that it was originally released in 1990, just missing the top 40. That was an acoustic version. Horns were added to this version as the Crowes had their Prince "1999" and "Little Red Corvette" sequence. 99 just missed the 40, Corvette made the 40 then 99 was re-released and hit the 40. "She Talks to Angels" served as their "Little Red Corvette" getting them into the top 40.
Mentioned "Don't Wanna Fall in Love" as one of my fave hits by a one hit wonder the other day. Got another in this show, "How Can I Ease the Pain". Checked out all the songs on Lisa Fischer's album recently and she does a great cover of the Skylark 1973 hit "Wildflower".
Strange chart this week. 2 hits rebound 3 notches..."Do You Want Me" and "I'll Never Let You Go".
At #11 is what I am calling the biggest instrumental of the 90s, "Lily Was Here". Another instrumental that peaked at 11 was "Theme from Mission Impossible" in 1996. Not only did they peak at the same postion, they both spent 9 weeks in the top 40. But Lily spent 2 weeks at #11, this one being its second, to just one week for Impossible. Although if you go by R&R, it would be Impossible as Lily only got to #12 there. Tough call! No instrumentals have come anywhere near the top 10 since IIRC.
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Post by Michael1973 on Mar 4, 2023 8:38:46 GMT -5
I just started the 2/28/87 AT show. Out of the shoot, I realized something. I had never heard "Don't Need A Gun" on an AT 40 show so it was cool to hear Casey introing it. 1987 Idol is wild to me: He hit the top 40 three times before, "Mony Mony" in that year, yet when I think of 1987 Billy I always forget about the three other hits and just think of "Mony". Random chart trivia about Don't Need A Gun. It spent two weeks in the top 40, one in February and one in March. And somehow it was Billy Idol's only top 40 hit to chart in either month.
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Post by woolebull on Mar 4, 2023 8:58:04 GMT -5
I just started the 2/28/87 AT show. Out of the shoot, I realized something. I had never heard "Don't Need A Gun" on an AT 40 show so it was cool to hear Casey introing it. 1987 Idol is wild to me: He hit the top 40 three times before, "Mony Mony" in that year, yet when I think of 1987 Billy I always forget about the three other hits and just think of "Mony". Random chart trivia about Don't Need A Gun. It spent two weeks in the top 40, one in February and one in March. And somehow it was Billy Idol's only top 40 hit to chart in either month. Comments like this are why I love this board so much. Thanks Michael1973!
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Post by Michael1973 on Mar 4, 2023 13:46:13 GMT -5
Comments like this are why I love this board so much. Thanks Michael1973! Thanks. Happy to have other people to chat about music and charts with. I realized that about Billy Idol several years ago, when it occurred to me that, barring that one song, he never hit the top 40 at all from February through April. Highly unusual for someone with more than a half-dozen hits.
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Post by Mike on Mar 4, 2023 15:59:18 GMT -5
Conversely, someone like Whitney Houston covers the entire calendar year over the course of just her debut album:
"You Give Good Love": June-August "Saving All My Love For You": August-November "How Will I Know": December-April "Greatest Love of All": April-July
It's just that the weeks don't make up for a single consecutive string; she's not in with anything from December 7-21.
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Post by dukelightning on Mar 4, 2023 19:03:30 GMT -5
1993 was a big year for Whitney. Got the 8/14/93 CT40 playing. Heard 2 R&Ds before they got to #30 and one of them was "I Will Always Love You" and "Run to You" was in the countdown. Not too often I hear a song that I did not know which is from a movie I have never heard of. Such was the case with "It's For You" by Shanice from the movie The Meteor Man. Next song I did not know either, Silk's "Girl U For Me". Then a song I am doing by best to forget, "Numb" by U2. Definitely their worst song IMO, sung, co-written and produced by the Edge.
Show started with a great song, my fave Rod Stewart hit of the 90s, "Have I Told You Lately". That's a remake and there are a couple others that come very close to the greatness of the originals, "Can't Get Enough of Your Love" and "Lately", the latter missing the top 40 for Stevie Wonder in 1981. Casey listed all the members of Stereo Mcs which is 3 men and 3 women, the latter all vocalists. But I did not hear a female voice in "Step it Up". The R&R chart site which has photos for the artist has one with just the 3 men in it. Not disputing what he said, just sayin'.
An exciting battle presented by Casey in conjunction with "If" reaching the top 10. Going into this week, Mariah and Madonna each had 8 top 10 hits in the 90s while Janet and Michael Bolton each had 9. 3 of the 4 artists add to their totals right away. This week Janet reached 10 and next week both Mariah and Madonna will get their 9th of the decade. Bolton can forget it in this battle! Janet will get her 11th and Mariah will get her 10th later in the year with "Again" and "Hero". The in 1994 they will get their 12th and 11th, respectively with "Because of Love" and "Without You". Then their 13th and 12th with "Anytime, Anyplace" and "Anytime You Need a Friend". Then Mariah will finally chase Janet down with "Endless Love". She will win the battle.
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Post by dukelightning on Mar 5, 2023 19:12:30 GMT -5
Tonight is the AT40 from 7/7/90. Great story early in the show. Shadoe mentions Madonna playing 2 shows in Toronto. After the first show, she was confronted by the police and the DA. They said many complaints had been filed that the show was lewd and obscene. And that she had better straighten up her act for the second show. Her manager replied that if they wanted to, they could cancel the second concert, refund the 30,000 tickets sold and tell everyone why the concert was cancelled. That did not happen! Madonna usually begins her show with the statement, 'Do you believe in love', the opening line from "Express Yourself". Instead for the second show, she said 'Do you believe in freedom of expression?!' And the show went on exactly as the first show had gone. But instead of using a limo as they usually did to transport her after the show, they whisked her off in an unmarked van, getting her over the border to her next show in Detroit. You gotta love it!
And we're off on another Sunday night. Had a lot of interaction on this thread last Sunday night.
Longest I have ever heard "The Humpty Dance" on AT40. Ran for over 4 minutes. It's a funny song with a nice beat!
Shadoe says that Mariah grew up in household full of jazz, R&B and gospel and that you can definitely hear the gospel in "Vision of Love". Did she ever have another gospel flavored hit? Started off with one but stayed away from it for the rest of her career. Of course she had to do that to be as successful as she was. After 7 peaked at 7 with "Ready or Not", a great song btw. 7 is the 5th number that groups with the same number as they peaked at following 3,4,5 and 38 (.38 Special).
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Post by dukelightning on Mar 8, 2023 9:20:28 GMT -5
Just finished the 12/5/92 CT40 that I started last night. woolebull liked my last post and this sounds like something he would comment about. Or at least the question I am going to throw out there is one that woolebull would ask. (We all have our little nuances in listening to these shows!) The first R&D was "With or Without You" and the second R&D was "Always", the long version which makes a great song even greater IMO. That almost represents consecutive #1 hits and this is true for both the Hot 100 and R&R with "You Keep Me Hangin' On" being the only #1 hit in between that pair. Is this the closest AT40/CT40 has ever come to a 60s/70s #1 archive-style consecutive #1 hits as LDD/R&Ds? Another oddity that I am guessing has happened a few times was a segment outside the top 10 with every song up one notch. And all 3 songs were by rock bands. #14 by Bon Jovi, #13 by the Spin Doctors and #12 by d**n Yankees.
But the highlight of this show came at the end when "I Will Always Love You" became the quickest to reach #1 in the last 20 years as Casey said. It went 23-9-1 beating out "We Are the World" and "I'll Be There" which both took 4 weeks. He does not say it but by saying 'in the last 20 years', it means that it is the quickest to reach #1 in R&R chart history. What is the most amazing is that after saying in one of the promos for the show that the previous week featured both artists from a married couple being in the top 10 for the first time, he never got a chance to mention the obvious first of those 2 artists being at #1 and #2 this week. Bobby Brown was at #2 with "Good Enough". Shows how sometimes they want to pinpoint one chart achievement only on a show especially since it is so significant. By the way, Bobby Brown may be the most snake bit artist in CT40 history. He never hit #1 as a solo artist, reaching #2 with 5 different hits and it obviously took this historic climb to #1 by his wife of all people to deny him his first #1 that week!
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Post by dukelightning on Mar 10, 2023 12:09:44 GMT -5
The last year that Casey was counting down the hits on AT40 is one of my fave years musically. Listening to the 5/3/03 show and it is one of those unique shows as far as debuts. How many shows have a debut at 40, one in the 30s and one in the 20s? (The first such show was even more unique; the 10/31/70 show had debuts at 40, one in the 30s, one in the 20s and one in the teens.) All 3 debuts were by high profile women, first American Idol winner Kelly Clarkson kicked off the show, then Jewel was at #33 with a song that Casey said was from a CD that did not have folk songs on it saying that she had branched out into different styles and "Intuition" is right up there with one of those folk songs "Standing Still" as my fave song by her and the highest debut at 29 was by J Lo. Later on, her second song "All I Have" was preceded by Casey saying it sampled Debra Laws' "I'm Special". I read a few years ago how she tried unsuccessfully to sue J Lo for using that song. Both are great songs IMO.
Here's how Casey introduced one of my fave songs, 'Floating like a butterfly and singing like a queen, here's Christina Aguilera up 3 notches and knocking out her 8th top 10 with "Fighter"'. If there is a lot of emotion and energy in a vocal, it will almost always be among my fave songs.
Earlier Casey mentioned that Madonna was in the top 40 for a 21st consecutive year. She would just squeeze out a 22nd year as her duet with Britney Spears would hang on for a last week in the 40 the first week of 2004. Then "Hung Up" would get her a 23rd year in 2005. That would be the end of her streak, falling 3 years short of Elton's record 26 years. Btw it stayed in the 40 into 2006 but you can't count the same hit for 2 different years.
So Aerosmith had their first run of hits in the 70s. Then they had their much longer second run of hits from the 80s into the 2000s. That second run is bookended by hits sampling their 2 top 10 hits from the first run. Run DMC did the trick on "Walk This Way" and Eminem takes care of "Dream On" on "Sing For the Moment" in this show. Almost peaked at the same position with those hits, Way reached #4 and Moment #5 on AT40.
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Post by dukelightning on Mar 11, 2023 9:16:26 GMT -5
Not at all summerlike today but I am hearing the last CT40 special that I had not yet heard, the top 40 summer hits of the 80s. These are all #1 hits as Casey said. If they ever get the rights to broadcast these CT40 shows(I think we have been talking about that for the entire 12 years that I have been on this board!), many of these special shows will be good ones for radio. Most of the hits in them are from the 80s and most of them are also #1 hits. Both categories of hits are favorites for radio these days. No spoiler alert necessary for this show. When Casey is saying that they are counting down to the #1 summer song of the 80s, you know it is "Every Breath You Take". Does not matter what chart is used there as it spent 8 weeks at #1 on both the Hot 100 and R&R. Of course it is R&R that it is based on. "Slow Hand" is one of those #1 hits that only reached the top on the R&R chart. At least 3 such hits in this special with "Raspberry Beret" and the biggest such hit "Rosanna" the others. 5 weeks at #2 on the Hot 100 but 4 weeks at #1 at R&R for that one.
Guess what?! I am 0 for 2 in my prognosis. Breath is not #1 but #2 and "Rosanna" is nowhere to be found. At #1 is "Endless Love". But to not include "Rosanna" is baffling at best. As mentioned, it spent 4 weeks at #1 starting on 6/11. So maybe it was not considered to be a summer hit. But get this! "It's Still Rock and Roll to Me" also spent 4 weeks at #1 and did not make this survey either. It reached #1 on 6/20. Too early? Well, "I Wanna Dance With Somebody" was in the survey and it hit #1 on 6/19, for 3 weeks. Interesting to say the least.
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Mar 11, 2023 17:37:02 GMT -5
Whenever there is clearance to air Casey's Top 40, all those 80s specials Casey counted down would be great to re-air. I heard that summer special, well, last summer. I've been playing it almost every year. Summer is my favorite season, after all. And the 80s are my favorite decade.
The only time early in the CT40 era there wasn't a regular show was 11/24/1990, otherwise there was a regular show to go with every other special that was aired, from late 1989 through Labor Day weekend 1990.
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Post by dukelightning on Mar 11, 2023 18:55:49 GMT -5
That was indeed the only time there was no regular show when a chart was published for the given week in CT40 history. That was also the last time they did a special show on Thanksgiving weekend 1990. They did 6 special shows in a 12 month period, none before or after. Other than year end countdowns of course.
Back to AT40 right now. It's the 9/4/93 show guest hosted by Harry Anderson and Delane Matthews who are co-hosting the then new TV show Dave's World with Shadoe. They are doing an ok job with the show. In the LDD a minor mistake made by the writer. He said that he had not heard "Time After Time" in 10 years so could they play it. Except that song is not 10 years old yet! Was dedicated to Cyndi Lauper.
Told a story of how Van Morrison was benefiting financially from Rod Stewart covering his "Have I Told You Lately", to the tune of $140,000 based on sales alone. Harry mentioned how Rod had originally released it in late 1992. I had forgotten that. It just missed the top 40 on the Hot 100. That was a studio version. Rod's "Reason to Believe" debuted meaning both of his hits in this show were singles that originally missed the top 40. Of course that was over 20 years earlier for Reason, the B side of "Maggie May".
Got a chuckle out of Delane's comment after playing "That's the Way Love Goes". She said 'Did you see Janet on the cover of Ebony magazine?' Nothing funny about that but it reminded me of her being on the cover of Rolling Stone earlier that year. Nothing on her upper body with her boyfriend's hands strategically placed. Think I still have that issue as I was a subscriber back then! And that very cover was mentioned by Delane later in the show in the tease for a story about what Janet does in her free time. This was all planned obviously.
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Post by Mike on Mar 12, 2023 1:46:24 GMT -5
Told a story of how Van Morrison was benefiting financially from Rod Stewart covering his "Have I Told You Lately", to the tune of $140,000 based on sales alone. Harry mentioned how Rod had originally released it in late 1992. I had forgotten that. It just missed the top 40 on the Hot 100. That was a studio version. That didn't happen on the Hot 100 as a physical single wasn't issued for the studio version, so instead it was on the Radio Monitor. And oddly enough it would go slowly up that chart, before finally peaking at #43 on April 17. That was its 19th week on that chart. The following week, the Unplugged version would be released, while the studio spent its 20th and final week on the Monitor. The week after that, the studio went recurrent off the Monitor, while the Unplugged hit the Monitor in its place. The week after that, the Unplugged version hit the CHR countdowns.
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Post by dukelightning on Mar 12, 2023 9:07:59 GMT -5
When I looked that up in the 2012 Joel Whitburn Pop Singles book while listening to the show and saw it listed, I thought it was a Hot 100 hit. But Whitburn had started including non-released hits a few editions earlier. Indeed there is an (Air) next to that listing which I overlooked, denoting it making that chart as you noted. By the way in his 1993 book, he does not have a listing for it. Instead he has this statement under the unplugged version listing, 'studio version first made the AC chart on 11/28/92 (POS 33)'.
So yesterday I noted how CT40 had 6 specials and they all occurred within a 12 month period from Thanksgiving 1989 to Thanksgiving 1990. As for AT40 (the first run), all their specials came in a 20 year period from May 1971 to July 1991. Now I am listening to the only other non-year/decade end special in AT40 history, unless I am overlooking something. It is the Y2K Countdown 40 Days That Changed Music. Though it came out at the end of a year and decade, (New Years 2000), I classify it as a special like those others alluded to since it has nothing to do with a year's or decade's top hits.
The first 3 songs played all have Casey mentioning 1955. "Rock Around the Clock" was in the movie The Blackboard Jungle which premiered on March 21. Next was Chuck Berry who recorded "Maybelline" on May 21. And then "Heartbreak Hotel" was played with Casey saying that Elvis began recording at RCA studios on January 10th of that year.
An interesting sequence when Casey mentioned Bob Dylan ushering in the folk sound followed by the British invasion and "I Want to Hold Your Hand " being played. Then he said the Beatles were inspired by Bob Dylan's serious lyrics in his songs and Bob in turn was impressed by the Beatles musical prowess. So in July 1965 he used an electric guitar and played his formerly only acoustic songs with Casey saying that he was not sure if he was booed but that it was certainly an unfavorable reaction before playing "Positively 4th Street".
About 10 male artists mentioned/played before the first female artist was mentioned or played and that was Aretha Franklin. By the way, this is a 3 hour show, to my knowledge the only 3 hour AT40 show of any kind after 1978.
Second day in a row I have heard the long version of "When Doves Cry" in a special. The one with the cold ending. A bunch of #1 hits for the purple one but that one really stands out.
At least one of those 40 days(dates) is wrong. Casey says it was on January 25th, 1985 that USA for Africa recorded "We Are the World". It was actually on the 28th. But his next such mistake was off by a lot more than 3 days. Said Nirvana performed "Come As You Are" on MTV Unplugged in 1983 when it was in 1993.
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Post by dukelightning on Mar 12, 2023 17:51:27 GMT -5
Having heard all the non-year and decade end special shows, I am back to regular shows. There are 2 shows between AT40 and CT40 for every week from 1/21/89 to 1/28/95. Going into today, there were 3 such dates for which I had not heard either show. I am going to be down to one such show when I finish the show playing now which is the 10/6/90 CT40. Earlier was the 10/15/94 CT40 guest hosted by David Perry. And that had an interesting sequence to start the show. The Stones last hit "Out of Tears" kicked off the countdown followed by Huey Lewis & the News' last hit "But It's Alright". In fact that was their last ever week on CT40 or AT40. Next up was Hootie & the Blowfish debuting with their first hit "Hold My Hand". That's a rare baton passing type situation between major recording artists. Huey & company spending their last week in the countdown followed by Hootie spending his first week ever week in the countdown. Spot checked about 20 major artist debuts and never found another such situation. Closest I found was on 3/1/80 when Christopher Cross debuted with his first hit at 31 while Led Zeppelin was spending their last ever week in the 40 at #29. Btw, when Huey Lewis & the News debuted with their first hit in 1982, they were almost back to back with the Stones. They were 2 notches apart or one notch away from Huey spending his first and last weeks in the 40 back to back with the Stones. Wild stuff!
Faked out on a R&D. Thought he said it was going to be "I Will Always Love You" so I skipped it because that is dedicated so much. Turns out he said "I'll Always Love You" by Taylor Dayne. That is a big hit but hardly ever dedicated.
Madonna had the biggest mover of the week and the year with "Secret" moving 30 to 8. Did not hit #1. How many biggest movers of the year have not hit #1? Btw, that is also her biggest mover ever on the R&R chart. Second biggest is "Erotica' which moved up 19 notches and also failed to hit #1. "Take a Bow" is the #1 hit of hers that took the biggest move at 18 notches.
The 1990 show started with humorous sexual innuendo on Candyman's "Knockin' Boots". And Warrant's "Cherry Pie" is in the same category. My 2 fave upbeat Prince songs are in this show in some form. "Thieves in the Temple" was at 24 and a couple notches earlier was MC Hammer's "Pray" which samples "When Doves Cry".
And a great Taylor Dayne song in this show too..."Heart of Stone". At #10 right after Casey mentioned the other chart #1 songs, all 2 of them!
This month is a good example of why I prefer the Hot 100 charts to R&R. "Something Happened on the Way to Heaven" hit #1 on the latter but not the former. Opposite for "Close to You" by Maxi Priest. I prefer Close and it illustrates how radio goes for the known quantity while the record buyer goes for the catchier, hipper song.
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