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Post by woolebull on Mar 18, 2023 12:10:37 GMT -5
Just about to finish up the "Blizzard Show" from CT40 3/13/93. It's a wild show with everything from Dr. Dre and Snoop to Mary Chapin Carpenter. One cool thing about the show: As Casey was introducing, "Angel" by Jon Secada, he referenced that Jon was from the home of the Dolphins, the Heat, and the Marlins (Miami). What was cool is that at that moment the Marlins had not played their first regular season game. That would be a few weeks after the show. I remember that weekend well. Was in northeast PA at the time. I had to work that day, and had to walk a quarter mile in knee-deep snow. I heard that show last year. I was in southwest VA at the time. Since you were in northeast PA, you might remember this as well: on Christmas of 1992 I was in Edinboro, PA with my family visiting my uncle and aunt. On Christmas Eve, there was a storm that must have been at least a feet of snow. We drove from Edinboro to southwest VA on Christmas Day and literally almost died on US 19 in West Virginia because of the snow! Still don't understand why my parents were insistent on driving back home that day. |
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Post by dukelightning on Mar 18, 2023 12:12:10 GMT -5
I heard that CT40 show too, a few years ago. I was in southeast VA in 1993, Newport News to be exact. woolebull, Casey must have mentioned the Braves a few times along with the Falcons and Hawks. Got a few Atlanta artists over the years from ARS to TLC. Btw, in the AT40 that I just heard, Shadoe mentioned how it was an Atlanta station that got Collective Soul going when they were the first to play "Shine".
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Post by woolebull on Mar 18, 2023 12:32:19 GMT -5
I heard that CT40 show too, a few years ago. I was in southeast VA in 1993, Newport News to be exact. woolebull, Casey must have mentioned the Braves a few times along with the Falcons and Hawks. Got a few Atlanta artists over the years from ARS to TLC. Btw, in the AT40 that I just heard, Shadoe mentioned how it was an Atlanta station that got Collective Soul going when they were the first to play "Shine". I am pretty sure Casey even referred to them as the "world champion Atlanta Braves" at one point. Which would have meant he did it on a late 95/1996 show. I had never heard the show until this week. I do remember back on 3/13/93 that I was upset that CT40 for that one week didn't use the Hot 100 because we would have had jumping to #1, "Informer" by...Snow. With three and half feet of the white stuff it just felt apropos.  |
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Post by dukelightning on Mar 18, 2023 15:39:41 GMT -5
I have gone exactly 8 months into the future from that show woolebull heard, with the CT40 from 11/13/93. And 8 is also the number of debuts in this show. That's got to be the record for at least CT40 and maybe the whole time R&R was used for a Casey countdown. 2 of the debuts along with an older hit are the lowest charting hits by far for the respective artists and all ballads which are the exception for each one. First was Expose with "As Long As I Can Dream" which peaked at 35. Their next lowest peak was #13. Also debuting was Color Me Badd with "Time and Chance" which peaked at 23. They never peaked lower than 6 when they made the top 40 outside of this hit. Definitely a change of pace for them but it's a good one. And Taylor Dayne was spending her last ever week on CT/AT40 with "Send Me a Lover" which peaked at 21. She had never peaked lower than 9. Casey told a story about how Warren Beatty was looking for a gal to sing the theme to his new movie Love Affair. When he saw Taylor sing a song on the Jay Leno show, he found what he was looking for. Obviously that was not a hit, probably due to this being a remake of a 1939 film.
Knew what song was going to be dedicated well before Casey mentioned it. A gal was struggling but learned of Mariah and became familiar with her. Bought her second album and when she heard the 4th song, she kept on playing it. At that point, I knew it was "Make It Happen". Great song too and certainly one of those 'fit the dedication' songs. She also had songs in 3 of the 4 hours. Still looking for a show when an artist was represented in all 4 hours maybe including writing or production honors to achieve that.
Highest debut was also the highest peaking of those debuts. "Said I Loved You But I Lied" stopped at #6. This might be tied for the record for the lowest peak of any debut when there are at least 8 debuts. I am aware of 7 AT40 shows in the 70s and 80s with at least 8 debuts and every one had at least a top 3 hit except the first such show on 9/4/71. The other dates are 10/11/75, 7/8/78, 6/13/81, 8/1/81, 4/10/82 and 6/19/82. The 1971 show had "Do You Know What I Mean" which peaked at #6 among the 8 debuts that week. And Said tied "Both Sides of the Story" the previous week and En Vogue's "Runaway Love" for highest debut in 1993 at 23. None of them got anywhere near #1. Love also peaked at 6 and Story peaked at 9.
Casey made another reference to a place's sports teams. For the Spin Doctors, he said New York state had the Giants, Bills, Knicks, Yanks and Mets. Yours truly is a Giant and Yankee fan.
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Post by trekkielo on Mar 18, 2023 18:23:11 GMT -5
Got a few Atlanta artists over the years from ARS to TLC. Buckner & Garcia had their origins around Akron, Ohio, but ended up in Atlanta, Georgia, as they told Dick Clark on American Bandstand circa 1982!  |
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Post by woolebull on Mar 18, 2023 18:42:10 GMT -5
I have gone exactly 8 months into the future from that show woolebull heard, with the CT40 from 11/13/93. And 8 is also the number of debuts in this show. That's got to be the record for at least CT40 and maybe the whole time R&R was used for a Casey countdown. 2 of the debuts along with an older hit are the lowest charting hits by far for the respective artists and all ballads which are the exception for each one. First was Expose with "As Long As I Can Dream" which peaked at 35. Their next lowest peak was #13. Also debuting was Color Me Badd with "Time and Chance" which peaked at 23. They never peaked lower than 6 when they made the top 40 outside of this hit. Definitely a change of pace for them but it's a good one. Lowkey "Time and Chance" is one of the best songs of 1993, and the pinnacle of CMB's career. Amazing song. |
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Post by dukelightning on Mar 19, 2023 20:48:02 GMT -5
It's the AT40 from 8/24/91 this evening. I count 4 songs in which an artist or the artist is name checked. Countdown starts off with Natural Selection who ask if they could be your natural selection in "Do Anything", then later there's Marky Mark & the Funky Bunch doing so on "Good Vibrations" and finally there's Boyz II Men singing their group name on "Motownphilly". And Rod Stewart mentions the Temptations who sing with him on "The Motown Song". A unique situation when EMF sing the title of their second hit before singing the title of this first hit "Unbelievable". The first line of the song is 'You burden me with your questions; You'd have me tell no lies'. ""Lies" is the title of their second hit.
Had an interview with 2 of the guys from the Scorpions talking about the concert they were part of where the Berlin wall came down a couple years earlier. Not a rock concert as they played songs originally done by other artists. A real festive atmosphere. I thought "Wind of Change" and "Right Here Right Now" earlier in the countdown were the only songs about the changes in Europe back then. But one of Casey's biggest hits tracks revealed that Paula Abdul's "Promise of a New Day" was also about that. No mention about that in this or any other AT40 or CT40 show I have heard with that song in it.
Did not know any of the #1 hits from other charts. But the #1 album is Unforgettable. That is one of the most appropriate last top 40 hits ever, that title track manufactured duet between father and daughter.
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Post by Mike on Mar 20, 2023 0:33:41 GMT -5
Did not know any of the #1 hits from other charts. But the #1 album is Unforgettable. That is one of the most appropriate last top 40 hits ever, that title track manufactured duet between father and daughter. I'm going to assume #1 Adult Contemporary was not read for whatever reason? Not knowing that one would be, um......quite a circumstance?  |
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Post by dukelightning on Mar 20, 2023 7:18:21 GMT -5
I am going to assume that song is "Everything I Do". No only the country, R&B and dance chart #1 hits were mentioned. Actually I just looked up in my #1s 1950-1991 Joel Whitburn book and see that indeed Everything is the #1 AC hit. Had too look at it to review those other #1 hits and the closest that any of them came to the top 40 is the R&B hit "Can You Stop the Rain" by Peabo Bryson which reached #52 on the Hot 100.
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Post by dukelightning on Mar 20, 2023 9:33:42 GMT -5
In memory of Bobby Caldwell, I put on AT40 from March 17, 1979. "What You Won't Do For Love" was #10 that week. Got the CT40 from 3/27/93 playing that has the Go West cover in it. "What You Won't Do For Love" is one of several 1993 remakes of great songs that are as good or almost as good as the originals. Others are "I'm Every Woman" later in this show and "Lately" and "Can't Get Enough of Your Love". Casey tells a story about there being 2 rappers both named Dr. Dre/Doctor Dre. And there you have it as Casey said one spells out doctor and the other does not. Doctor Dre is from New York City while Dr. Dre is from California and he is the one rapping on "Nothin' But a 'G' Thing. Casey started by mentioning that there are 2 women named Vanessa Williams with one being an actress on Melrose Place and the other the recording artist. I figured that out when I binged watching the entire Melrose Place series a couple years ago. And I seem to remember someone recently posting about an artist being mentioned twice before their song was played on a show. That happens in this show as Vanessa is mentioned a second time when Casey says "Save the Best For Last" was the #1 song a year ago. Then "Love Is" is played later in the show. Cathy Dennis had her last solo hit fall out of the countdown a couple weeks earlier. Did not realize that she sang backup on PM Dawn's "Looking Through Patient Eyes" as Casey said. Casey answers a question about the biggest selling hit of the 90s. I knew the answer. There were 6 hits that had sold 2 million copies, in second place with 3 million was "Everything I Do" and with over 4 million sold was "I Will Always Love You". |
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Post by woolebull on Mar 20, 2023 10:29:32 GMT -5
In memory of Bobby Caldwell, I put on AT40 from March 17, 1979. "What You Won't Do For Love" was #10 that week. Got the CT40 from 3/27/93 playing that has the Go West cover in it. "What You Won't Do For Love" is one of several 1993 remakes of great songs that are as good or almost as good as the originals. Others are "I'm Every Woman" later in this show and "Lately" and "Can't Get Enough of Your Love". Casey tells a story about there being 2 rappers both named Dr. Dre/Doctor Dre. And there you have it as Casey said one spells out doctor and the other does not. Doctor Dre is from New York City while Dr. Dre is from California and he is the one rapping on "Nothin' But a 'G' Thing. Casey started by mentioning that there are 2 women named Vanessa Williams with one being an actress on Melrose Place and the other the recording artist. I figured that out when I binged watching the entire Melrose Place series a couple years ago. And I seem to remember someone recently posting about an artist being mentioned twice before their song was played on a show. That happens in this show as Vanessa is mentioned a second time when Casey says "Save the Best For Last" was the #1 song a year ago. Then "Love Is" is played later in the show. Cathy Dennis had her last solo hit fall out of the countdown a couple weeks earlier. Did not realize that she sang backup on PM Dawn's "Looking Through Patient Eyes" as Casey said. Casey answers a question about the biggest selling hit of the 90s. I knew the answer. There were 6 hits that had sold 2 million copies, in second place with 3 million was "Everything I Do" and with over 4 million sold was "I Will Always Love You". Good synopsis of the 3/27/93 show! Interesting to note: Casey on the 3/13/93 shows did a story on how Dr. Dre took his name from Julius Erving's nickname of Dr. J. Kinda cool that Dre got two stories almost in back to back weeks. One other thing I never realized until I just looked it up was how many weeks "G" stayed on the top 40. 12 weeks, never getting past 24, in the quick moving chart era (example: #1 "Ordinary World was on the chart just three weeks longer than "G"). |
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Post by woolebull on Mar 20, 2023 10:39:10 GMT -5
I am finishing up the 3/18/78 show. I am up to number three and I seemed to remember that "Staying Alive" was at number six the week before and dropping and yet I haven't heard it on this show...I wonder where it could be? I love this show for many reasons. Obviously you have the historical significance, however for me who was only four at the time the thought of hearing Chuck Mangione, Van Halen, and the Golden Girls theme all in like the first five songs is almost incomprehensible. Absolutely love it! Quick question: The big thing that Casey is plugging is the movie special that would air on 4/1/78. For any of you who have listened to the special: how was "Saturday Night Fever" referenced, if at all? Did "How Deep Is Your Love" make the list? Was special mention made of the juggernaut "Fever" was, or at that point in time was "Fever" not to the monster status that it would become? |
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Post by dukelightning on Mar 20, 2023 11:14:05 GMT -5
I am finishing up the 3/18/78 show. I am up to number three and I seemed to remember that "Staying Alive" was at number six the week before and dropping and yet I haven't heard it on this show...I wonder where it could be? I love this show for many reasons. Obviously you have the historical significance, however for me who was only four at the time the thought of hearing Chuck Mangione, Van Halen, and the Golden Girls theme all in like the first five songs is almost incomprehensible. Absolutely love it! Quick question: The big thing that Casey is plugging is the movie special that would air on 4/1/78. For any of you who have listened to the special: how was "Saturday Night Fever" referenced, if at all? Did "How Deep Is Your Love" make the list? Was special mention made of the juggernaut "Fever" was, or at that point in time was "Fever" not to the monster status that it would become? It definitely made the list, it was #3. And "Stayin' Alive" was #12. So Casey certainly referenced Saturday Night Fever. Give me a minute and I will listen to what he said about it. Before Alive, he says it is the only movie that has 2 hits in the countdown and before Deep, he says it is a record setting soundtrack, being the only one to have 4 hits in the top 40 at the same time. So not really anything about how big the movie is/was. A bit too early for that evidently. Btw I would add Flack & Hathaway among the great songs within the first five on that show. Oh where is "Stayin' Alive" in that show you ask. It's at #2. One of the strangest chart stats ever right there. Drops from 2 to 6 and then rebounds right back to #2 and for 5 weeks at that! Wonder if it should have been at #2 instead of #6 that week. |
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Post by Mike on Mar 20, 2023 11:14:54 GMT -5
One other thing I never realized until I just looked it up was how many weeks "G" stayed on the top 40. 12 weeks, never getting past 24, in the quick moving chart era (example: #1 "Ordinary World was on the chart just three weeks longer than "G"). Well, it was the "quick but getting less and less quick moving" era by that point. I'd say through at least the first half of 1992, it's still a pretty quick moving chart. From the second half of 92 up through when they finally changed the chart in April 1994, it gets gradually slower. Emphasis on "gradually" though as it's hard to notice through any individual chart, it takes going through the time period for it to really become apparent. "G" is easily more emblematic of the chart slowing down, I'd say, than "Ordinary World" is - no way a #24-peaker makes it to 12 weeks before this point. Actually, "Ordinary World" is not representative of a slowing-down chart at all - I think you might have been thinking of their follow-up "Come Undone" there, as "World" only lasted 13 weeks (#1 and 13 weeks had been basically par for the course for years up to 93). |
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Post by dukelightning on Mar 20, 2023 11:18:22 GMT -5
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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Hey we all goofed here. I goofed initially and all of you that catch my mistakes missed it too. The biggest instrumental of the 90s is neither of these. It's "Forever in Love" by Kenny G. Dropped from its #9 peak to 14 on the 3/27/93 CT40.
Whitney has 2 songs in the top 5 for the first time in the 90s as Casey said. I think the last time an artist had 2 hits in the top 5 in a Casey countdown was just under 10 years earlier on 4/16 and 4/23/83 when MJ had "Billie Jean" and "Beat It" there on AT40.
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