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Post by dukelightning on Mar 27, 2023 5:48:24 GMT -5
Finished Top 40 and the last hour had one cool story that the lot of us can understand. "Torn" by Natalie Imbruglia jumped to number nine and he told a story of how people were going to record stores and buying the wrong single. Of course we know why...it hadn't been released as a single yet. Jeff also made an error in the last segment as he began it saying that we were "one hit away from the number one song...but first, at number three..." Still, I thoroughly enjoyed the show from beginning to end. I can't say enough about the job Jeff, Gonzalo Venecia and the crew did in an unusual situation. Very well done. Now a question for the group: I started listening to Dees 3/25/95. I was excited at first because they had Ray Pruit (Jamie Walters) and Melissa Ethridge guest hosting with Dees. I started the show: the sure shot was "Tell Me When" by Human League which didn't surprise me from a timing standpoint. However, it seems that the show actually starts at number 30. I checked all four hours and I don't think I am wrong...am I missing something here? None of the numbers seemed to match the R and R chart it should have. I gave up and started listening to to CT from the same day. Just my luck...I get a guest host and unfortunately it is not Ray Pruit...sitting in for David Perry this week is Casey Kasem. I kid, I kid...I actually like David. Mark Elliott was my favorite CT guest host, but I certainly am not like others who do not like Perry. I am excited for the show: it is near the beginning of a group that low key was a major player on CT/AT from March 95 to the beginning of 2000, Blessid Union of Souls. Also, the debut of a song from a group that was huge for a time but never had a song chart on American Top 40, Blues Traveler. Should be fun! Ha! My first choice for a show yesterday was the 3/23/96 CT40. But when I saw it was guest hosted and I knew David Perry would be that host, I went to plan B. I went from a show with a less than appealing host and just a smattering of great songs(the latter statement applies to a lot of shows from the mid and even early 90s) to a show with the greatest host there is and a ton of great songs. That being the 3/30/02 AT40.
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Post by dukelightning on Mar 27, 2023 15:43:30 GMT -5
It's the AT40 from 4/6/91 today. Wonder what the record for the longest time between Shadoe or Casey or a guest host mentioning a song and that hit making the top 40. Before playing "Rescue Me", Shadoe mentioned how Madonna was going to be acting in Evita and that she might be singing "Don't Cry For Me Argentina" therefore. Yep, she did just that...in 1996. It spent its last week in the countdown(CT40 of course) exactly 6 years later. Exactly 6 years earlier Madonna had back to back hits in the top 5(one of those weeks we were discussing awhile back) at 4 and 3. At #2 that week was USA for Africa and the next superstar gathering is this week's biggest mover as Voices That Care moves 40-25.
Shadoe had evidently mentioned a few weeks earlier that Janet's new record deal would be eclipsed by her brother soon. This was the week that he revealed the details. Her deal was for $30,000,000. His deal had the potential to be worth 32 times that as Shadoe said or a cool million. His math is off, it needed to be 33 times as much to be a million. Mentioned various acting roles he would be doing and that it was for 6 albums. Not aware of any of that acting happening and I am only aware of 3 albums that had any hits from this point forward for MJ.
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Post by Mike on Mar 27, 2023 16:20:01 GMT -5
Her deal was for $30,000,000. His deal had the potential to be worth 32 times that as Shadoe said or a cool million. His math is off, it needed to be 33 times as much to be a million. $30,000,000, or 30 million, times 33 (or 32), equals...a million?
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Post by dukelightning on Mar 27, 2023 17:05:29 GMT -5
Make that a billion...lol His sister was heard from in the show despite not having any hits in the top 40. "Come Back to Me" was the LDD.
One lol comment deserves another. Shadoe says Timmy T. recorded "One More Try" after his second breakup with this girl. Guess he was saying you get 3 strikes before you strikeout...lol
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Post by woolebull on Mar 29, 2023 15:23:38 GMT -5
Finished Top 40 and the last hour had one cool story that the lot of us can understand. "Torn" by Natalie Imbruglia jumped to number nine and he told a story of how people were going to record stores and buying the wrong single. Of course we know why...it hadn't been released as a single yet. Jeff also made an error in the last segment as he began it saying that we were "one hit away from the number one song...but first, at number three..." Still, I thoroughly enjoyed the show from beginning to end. I can't say enough about the job Jeff, Gonzalo Venecia and the crew did in an unusual situation. Very well done. Now a question for the group: I started listening to Dees 3/25/95. I was excited at first because they had Ray Pruit (Jamie Walters) and Melissa Ethridge guest hosting with Dees. I started the show: the sure shot was "Tell Me When" by Human League which didn't surprise me from a timing standpoint. However, it seems that the show actually starts at number 30. I checked all four hours and I don't think I am wrong...am I missing something here? None of the numbers seemed to match the R and R chart it should have. I gave up and started listening to to CT from the same day. Just my luck...I get a guest host and unfortunately it is not Ray Pruit...sitting in for David Perry this week is Casey Kasem. I kid, I kid...I actually like David. Mark Elliott was my favorite CT guest host, but I certainly am not like others who do not like Perry. I am excited for the show: it is near the beginning of a group that low key was a major player on CT/AT from March 95 to the beginning of 2000, Blessid Union of Souls. Also, the debut of a song from a group that was huge for a time but never had a song chart on American Top 40, Blues Traveler. Should be fun! Ha! My first choice for a show yesterday was the 3/23/96 CT40. But when I saw it was guest hosted and I knew David Perry would be that host, I went to plan B. I went from a show with a less than appealing host and just a smattering of great songs(the latter statement applies to a lot of shows from the mid and even early 90s) to a show with the greatest host there is and a ton of great songs. That being the 3/30/02 AT40. I am so with you on shows particularly from 1994, and then late 1997 through 1999. What's funny is I love music from that time, but not as much the songs that would hit AT/CT. 1995 for me gets a pass, I think, because there are so many "last hits" for prominent AT artists including Van Halen, Stevie B, Londonbeat, Adam Ant, Simple Minds, Firehouse, Human League and Foreigner. I absolutely love hearing those shows. Also one of my best friend's cousin's group had a nice cup of coffee on CT in 1995 (Letters To Cleo). 1996 for me was just a cool year for pop music...however if having to choose I choose Dees in 1996 for more of (some) of the urban hits that did not or barely made CT. A cool last story from listening to the 3/21/98 show...you know I live in the Triad. I was listening to it and was running near Reynolds High School in Winston-Salem. As I was running by, "Brick" by Ben Folds came on. Ben is a Reynolds grad...I think class of 1985. Kinda surreal and cool! It also helped me to come up with another question I will ask the group in another post lol. As for the 3/25/95 show...just starting hour four. David Perry is staying in his lane: nothing earth shattering, nothing horrible. Real McCoy is at #12 and #10, only separated by Blessid Union of Souls at #11. It is the closest I can remember an artist having back to back songs at the end/beginning of the hour when there was the beginning of the hour bummer that connected the end and the beginning of the top of the hour. It would have been cool to have McCoy, then the top of the hour bumper, followed by McCoy again. Alas, it didn't happen.
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Post by dukelightning on Mar 29, 2023 20:51:02 GMT -5
It seems like on CT40 and AT40 2.0 they always tried to split up back to back songs by an artist with either a break or a dedication in between. The 11/22/97 CT40 that I heard recently was an exception as back to back Backstreet Boys songs were played without anything in between. That is unlike Dees to play more urban hits than Casey seeing as he was always skipping hip hop songs. I would like those shows better too.
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Post by woolebull on Apr 1, 2023 10:19:51 GMT -5
It seems like on CT40 and AT40 2.0 they always tried to split up back to back songs by an artist with either a break or a dedication in between. The 11/22/97 CT40 that I heard recently was an exception as back to back Backstreet Boys songs were played without anything in between. That is unlike Dees to play more urban hits than Casey seeing as he was always skipping hip hop songs. I would like those shows better too. The Dees paradox was wild: skip hip hop songs in 1993 and 1994, go to a more urban chart in 1995. I love the late '96/early '97 Dees where I can hear "Let's Get Down" by Toni Tony Tone and DJ Quik, which never hit on CT.
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Post by Mike on Apr 1, 2023 14:26:53 GMT -5
The Dees paradox was wild: skip hip hop songs in 1993 and 1994, go to a more urban chart in 1995. I love the late '96/early '97 Dees where I can hear "Let's Get Down" by Toni Tony Tone and DJ Quik, which never hit on CT. And then when he switched back to R&R in 1997, he'd go back to skipping those - not quite as heavily at first, but then by 99 at least, he'd even keep such songs out of the countdown entirely, keeping that up through...I'd say the first half of 2001. After that, once CHR started slanting more hip hop altogether, he couldn't keep doing that (and, obviously, hasn't since).
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Post by dukelightning on Apr 2, 2023 8:33:17 GMT -5
Don't think I have ever heard "Let's Get Down" by TTT. Need to check that one out. A rarity for me today. Listening to a show from the same date as today, the AT40 from 4/2/94. You know I think the difference between Shadoe and Casey is that you get the feeling at times that Shadoe would rather be doing something else. Got that feeling when Dick Clark and Hall & Oates guest hosted. Never get that feeling with Casey. Highlight of the show is the flashback to 1964. That is the week the Beatles had the entire top 5 so it's the one week when every song in the flashback is by the same artist. Back then Paul, Ringo and George were alive but only Ringo did the opening and Paul had a few words at the end of it. Noting from George..of course he was the 'quiet one' anyway. Will hear from Paul again a little later when he tells how the Beatles met Elvis.
Tying in the Beatles who were at #1 30 years earlier with Ace of Base who are at #1 on this show, both were in the middle of spending 14 weeks on top of the chart. No artist accomplished that in the 30 years in between.
Before playing Mariah's cover, Shadoe told how Nilsson thought that "Without You" was a Beatles song when he was recording his Nilsson Schmilsson album. Of course it was not by them but by Badfinger, who sounded like the Beatles.
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Post by woolebull on Apr 3, 2023 18:13:11 GMT -5
Don't think I have ever heard "Let's Get Down" by TTT. Need to check that one out. It's a good one. It was a sure shot on 11/16/96 or 11/23/96. Not sure when it hit Dees, but was still on Dees as of at least 2/8/97. So a decent stretch for a song that never hit CT to be on Dees, for sure!
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Post by dukelightning on Apr 3, 2023 18:50:14 GMT -5
It hit #30 on the Hot 100. I think the top 40 of that chart is probably my fave top 40 for the 1995-97 time frame. Checked it out on youtube and definitely liked it. BIG's "Hypnotize" which spent several weeks at #1 on that chart in 97 is a fave that the R&B throwback station plays. In the home stretch of the 6/5/93 AT40. Had a great interview with Diane Warren who had just won the ASCAP award as best songwriter for the second year in a row. She was influenced by Holland-Dozier-Holland, Lennon-McCartney and others from the 60s. Shadoe said that it was exactly 10 years earlier that she had her first top 10 hit as a songwriter with Laura Branigan's "Solitaire". Seems like it took her awhile to get going if she was getting inspired in the 60s. Certainly made up for lost time. Expose's "I'll Never Get Over You" is a notch from away from getting her back into the top 10 and is the 37th top 40 hit she has written.
Shadoe made a mistake in this show but it had nothing to do with the charts or a musician. It was in the lead up to the flashback to 1986. He said that Chris Evert won her 14th Grand Slam tennis title that year. Except that it was her 18th that she won right around the time of the flashback at the French Open. Tennis fan here so I will know whatever he says about that!
SWV is one of those artists whose hits rank in descending order as far as how much I like them. In other words, "I'm so Into You" is my fave followed by "Weak" and so on. Those 2 hits are in this show and they are both climbing.
The biggest 90s hits by both superstar Jackson siblings are in this show, "Black or White" as a LDD and "That's the Way Love Goes" is at #1.
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Post by woolebull on Apr 3, 2023 21:01:14 GMT -5
That is wild that Diane Warren's first top 10 hit was "Solitare". 37 top 40 hits in 10 years without singing a one of them is, to me, mind blowing. Good catch on the Chris Evert gaffe! Also, did you get the feeling listening to "I'll Never Get Over You" was by Wilson Phillips and not Expose? I still do, to this day. Love the song!
Like you, I am listening to a show exactly on the date, 4/3/82. Man, Casey sounds crisp! Great energy, great presence...just awesome. I always crack up when Casey is introing "Take Off" and he lets Dave and Rick say the first line, "this is where the DJ talks, don't say anything", and always comes back with a chuckle in his voice.
Also, this would be the show that would inadvertently lead to the closest thing that American Top 40 had to a rival as this was the first show with ABC Watermark. It would help to lead to an exodus of stations from playing American Top 40 including KIIS in LA which asked their morning guy to come up with a top 40, a young DJ by the name of Rick Dees. It would be less than two years from this date that Weekly Top 40 would go nationwide and has not been off the air in over 39 years.
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Post by dukelightning on Apr 7, 2023 7:44:04 GMT -5
Less than 6 months away from Rick reaching the 40 year milestone. He has obviously eclipsed Casey who stopped at 39 years of course, the 5 month and 1 month hiatuses in 1988 and 1998 notwithstanding.
Neither is hosting the show for this morning, the AT40 from 2/1/92. Great song to kick it off, Mint Condition's "Breakin' My Heart", love that sax. Then Shadoe says that "On a Sunday Afternoon" samples a couple of 60s hits, one of which is the source for the title. That is a line sung in the refrain from the Rascals' "Groovin'". He said after playing it that both that and "Crystal Blue Persuasion" were sampled. Had to hear it again to catch Persuasion which is one of my fave songs from the 60s. It's just the riff that is the song's hook with no vocals that they sampled.
Before playing #28, Shadoe said Bonnie Raitt's producer Don Was said "I Can't Make You Love Me" was the best song he had ever heard. Great musically and lyrically. He hit the nail on the head there. About as heartfelt as you can get there, a "She's Out of My Life" moment there for Bonnie. The vibe really penetrates your soul. After that was the Storm with 2 former members of Journey. Shadoe mused was there a chance that Journey would get back together. The answer was that they were all too busy at the time. But not to rule it out in the future. Sure enough, it happened 4 years later!
About a month ago, I heard the 11/23/91 AT40 and Hammer debuted at 37 with "2 Legit 2 Quit". And on this show, he does the same thing. What's odd is that he had a hit with "Addams' Groove" in the interim. Not sure what caused Legit to re enter the survey. But after holding at 37 the following week and then falling off, I am going to make a call here. And say this is the first hit in AT40 history to spend 3 weeks in the countdown with those weeks non-consecutive but all at the same position. (After that week on 11/23/91, it fell out the next week with the change to a monitored chart). And that's why I am making this call because I think the monitored chart makes this kind of scenario more likely and they were only 2 months into that era then.
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Post by freakyflybry on Apr 7, 2023 11:57:39 GMT -5
In memory of S Club 7's Paul Cattermole, I'm listening to AT40 from April 14, 2001. Their song "Never Had A Dream Come True" is in the top 10 that week, at #8.
Casey gave the answer to a trivia question: Which artist is the only female artist to have #1 hits in three decades? The choices were Madonna, Janet Jackson, Whitney Houston and Diana Ross. The answer was Diana Ross - but she wasn't alone for long as Janet Jackson would hit #1 shortly thereafter with "All For You", which was at #6 that week.
Casey also misidentified Train's lead singer; Pat Monahan is actually their lead singer, and to this day, the only member who has remained in their line-up for the band's entire existence.
Coldplay was also misidentified as being from Edinburgh, giving a short history of the city and mentioned that's where the Encyclopaedia Britannica was first published. In reality, Coldplay is actually from London.
And LOL that in the end credits, to follow from the #1 song being "Angel" by Shaggy, which he mentioned that there were a record number of single-named artists on the chart, every staff member was referred to simply by their first name!
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Post by dukelightning on Apr 7, 2023 14:16:51 GMT -5
Casey has mentioned Pat Monahan on several occasions. Odd mistake there. One of my fave 2001 hits is in that show but not the version I prefer, "Baby Come on Over". I've got Casey at the mic too, on the CT40 from 10/20/90. Good story about how disco was the rage in the late 70s but had become a bad word by the early 80s and how several artists who had big disco hits could not get a hit in any genre in the 80s. Then in the late 80s acts like Sweet Sensation and Technotronic had resurrected disco. It was Lisa Stansfield that Casey mentioned as having grown up loving disco and was not bashful about utilizing it in her music before playing her third hit. Disco was too popular to be kept dead forever and people have the urge to dance regardless IMO.
2 mentions of the Doobie Brothers in this show. Once when saying just as there are no brothers in said group, there are no guys named Tony in Tony Toni Tone and then when he said the #1 song 10 years earlier was "Real Love" by those Doobies. One of those #1 hits on R&R but not the Hot 100. In mentioning their first top 10 hit and a few of their #1 hits, I wonder if Hall & Oates are the act with the most #1 hits (six) that are the same on the Hot 100 as in R&R. Not only that, their #2 hit "Say It Isn't So" peaked there on both charts. Usually there is a disparity among that many hits.
Just as in the show that freakyflybry is listening to had a question with an updated answer, this show has one such question. It was asking what artist had hit #2 the most times without ever hitting #1. Answer: CCR with 5 such hits. In 2 years that record will be tied by Bobby Brown. Of course that is based on the R&R chart which pertains to CT40. Wonder if that was ever mentioned by Casey.
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