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Post by dukelightning on Sept 24, 2023 7:33:03 GMT -5
Mixed up those 'heart' titles by Richard Marx. So Mike that is another case of a Sneek Peek failing to reach AT40. Do you have a list of all the Sneek Peeks that missed the top 40? Good example woolebull of an artist coming close to being at #40 and 41. There is one that is almost as close that I can think of and an occasion where the #41 song was mentioned. On the 5/4/85 show, Casey mentioned that Madonna almost had a third hit on the countdown when "Angel" was at #41. "Material Girl" was at 37.
Back to the 1992 show that I am finishing up. Shadoe mentioned that "Come and Talk to Me" was one of 14 hits that were on the R&B chart. I know the 1992 shows had a lot of R&B hits because of the chart they used. But it's nowhere near the record for most R&B hits in the countdown. We are at the 50 year anniversary of when that happened according to my calculations that I once did. On the 9/22/73 show, I counted 20 such songs.
Shadoe played a clip of "Slow Motion" before playing a clip of Blood, Sweat & Tears' "Spinning Wheel" because he/the AT40 staff thought they sounded similar. Then Shadoe said it was not the first time a hit had sounded like Wheel and played a clip of "All or Nothing" by Milli Vanilli. One or more very cognizant people on the staff to catch stuff like that and that happened a lot on the Shadoe hosted shows.
Not close to the record for most R&B hits in the countdown but when Shadoe mentioned that there were 30 songs written by the artist, that had to be close to the record. Not sure what that record is but Casey liked to mention that in the mid 70s shows and with Pete's book as my reference, I came across 3 shows in 1975 and 76 with 29 songs written by the artist.
Shadoe opened the show by saying he would be reading a LDD that he might have trouble getting through. It was from a nun about a young girl who came into the Covenant House with a paint can that she took with her everywhere. Eventually found out it had the girl's mothers ashes in it. The mother had thrown her baby, this girl, in the trash can the second day of her life. Then when she was old enough to know about her situation(living in foster homes), she went searching for her mother and found her at a hospital the day before she died of AIDS. Yes that was a tough listen.
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Post by dukelightning on Sept 25, 2023 8:30:44 GMT -5
Back to July for my next show and it's the AT40 from 7/14/90. 6 debuts and Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis have a hand in 2 of them, "Jerk Out" for their reunited Time at 32 and "Come Back to Me" for their protege Janet at 30. Good songs but in between is my fave of the 6 debuts, "Epic" at 31. Shadoe mentioned how Louie Louie got Dizzy Gillespie to play on another fave, "Sittin in the Lap of Luxury". The phrase 'get busy' was popular then according to Shadoe. Louie Louie changed that up and told his label to 'get Dizzy' which they did and he ended up playing on the record. When I think of the phrase 'get busy', I think of the #1 hit by that title by Sean Paul some 13 years later.
If it's a mid 1990 AT40, it's time for a less than 2 minute version of "The Humpty Dance". One of the most frequently answered questions is that of the shortest #1 song title. "If" by Perry Como is the shortest from 1951. But in the rock era, it is a 5 way tie between "Why", "War", "ABC", "Ben" and "Bad", the latter 3 sung by MJ as Shadoe said. There are at least 3 more since then that I am aware of, "Fly", "SOS" and "Low". "SOS" by Rihanna knocking out the aforementioned Sean Paul's "Temperature" from the top.
Shadoe says there are 30 song titles which have the artist name in them in connection with "Make You Sweat" by Keith Sweat. Not what he was referring to but this is around the time that songs that mentioned the artist name in the lyrics really increased in frequency mainly because of hip hop.
Slight mistake when he says En Vogue are from San Francisco. They are from across the bay in Oakland. When it comes to the bay area, it is virtually a racial thing. Black artists are from Oakland, everyone else is from San Francisco(Faith No More at #31), San Jose(Doobie Brothers) or Marin county(Steve Miller band).
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Post by woolebull on Sept 25, 2023 10:56:48 GMT -5
Shaode mentioned how Louie Louie got Dizzy Gillespie to play on another fave, "Sittin in the Lap of Luxury". The phrase 'get busy' was popular then according to Shadoe. Louie Louie changed that up and told his label to 'get Dizzy' which they did and he ended up playing on the record. One of my favorite songs ever. Actually, "The State I'm In" is one of my favorite albums as well. While I don't think Louie Louie was ever mentioned on AT 40 before 1990, but many people would remember him as the love interest of Madonna in her, "Borderline" video from six years before. The song actually offers what could have been an awesome sidenote: had Dizzy Gillespe been given a feature credit (and if anyone deserved one, it was certainly him) he would have been 72 years old with an official top 40 hit. That would have been wild! |
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Post by Mike on Sept 26, 2023 7:51:20 GMT -5
#26. So yes, HoJo runs the table there. "Lift Me Up" might also be the single biggest Biggest Mover I've ever seen that leaped straight to its peak position when it did so: It leaped 13 notches to peak at #26 on 5/23/92 (tied with Arrested Development's "Tennessee" for the move, though they were not peaking). Can anyone find an even bigger one that peaks the same week it Biggest Moves? I am pretty sure, "Blurred Lines" did it in July of 2013. Other big leapers to #1 ("I Don't Wanna Cry", "Rapture") did not. Did not check "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey". No and no. The question is asking for a Biggest Mover, that leaped more than 13 notches, and was leaping straight to its peak position - all in the same week. Robin Thicke and Paul McCartney each leaped 10 and 11 notches respectively - and as it turns out, neither was their week's Biggest Mover. (On the week in 2013, it was "Same Love", up 18, and on the week in 1971, it was "Maggie May", up 17.) |
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Post by dukelightning on Sept 26, 2023 8:41:00 GMT -5
Casey is back at it after a couple Shadoe shows, this one being the CT40 from 6/28/97. Stevie Wonder is mentioned not once, not twice but three times in the show. First in connection with a song I was not familiar with but a good one, "Virtual Insanity" by a Soul II Soul type of act, Jamiroquai. (They are the brainchild of one man and Casey said he sounds like Stevie Wonder, a teenage Stevie I might add). That was a debut and the second Stevie mention was before playing the highest debut "Gotham City" by R. Kelly. His high school music teacher told R. Kelly that he was going to be a superstar like Stevie Wonder after having a dream about him that included him writing a song for Michael Jackson. Eventually she would latch onto him and teach him several classes like Music Theory. He did end up writing a song for MJ and a big hit at that, "You Are Not Alone". Third time Stevie was mentioned was on his duet with Babyface a couple songs later. In between was the week's biggest mover 'To the Moon and Back" (35-30) which gave us the highest debut (Gotham) and biggest mover back to back. Babyface will also be mentioned three times, first on his own hit "Every Time I Close My Eyes" and lastly as the writer and producer of En Vogue's "Whatever". Followup to "Don't Let Go" which they played at the Boston Pops 4th of July concert. You know I was introduced to a great song at that show. Released early this year it was "Pearls" by Jessie Ware. Jessie is a cross between Sia and Dua Lipa in that she is an older artist by CHR standards(38) with a disco sound, all those women being from the UK.
We lost another recording artist about a month ago and Casey mentioned him too. He said 'Fans of Jimmy Buffett call themselves parrot heads, fans of the Grateful Dead call themselves deadheads and fans of this artist call themselves donuts as in Dunkin Donuts. Here is Duncan Sheik'.
3 of the 4 #1 hits mentioned have been at the top either 6 or 7 weeks. 6 weeks for "Mmmbop"* and on the AC chart "Butterfly Kisses" and 7 weeks on the Alternative chart for "Semi Charmed Life". The Black chart has a new #1 hit which I am not familiar with "Stomp" by God's Property.
*In one of the show promos, Casey said that the previous week was the first time ever that there were 3 teen acts in the top 10, Robyn, the Spice Girls and Hanson. This week the last two occupy the top 2 positions. That may or may not be a first in AT/CT40 history. In 1971, the Osmonds and Jackson Five occupied the top 2 positions. Although Alan Osmond was 21 at the time but the average age of the group was in the teens.
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Sept 26, 2023 10:22:12 GMT -5
Love that God's Property song, "Stomp". It would debut on CT40 in August 1997. Sure wish it charted higher; I think it only got up somewhere in the 30s (can't remember its exact peak ATM).
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Post by woolebull on Sept 26, 2023 12:19:08 GMT -5
I am pretty sure, "Blurred Lines" did it in July of 2013. Other big leapers to #1 ("I Don't Wanna Cry", "Rapture") did not. Did not check "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey". No and no. The question is asking for a Biggest Mover, that leaped more than 13 notches, and was leaping straight to its peak position - all in the same week. Robin Thicke and Paul McCartney each leaped 10 and 11 notches respectively - and as it turns out, neither was their week's Biggest Mover. (On the week in 2013, it was "Same Love", up 18, and on the week in 1971, it was "Maggie May", up 17.) Reading comprehension is tough, lol. I apologize for reading that wrong. But take the 13 out of play, I don't think you will find too many biggest movers that peaked at the position they leaped to. So cool catch on, "Lift Me Up"! |
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Post by woolebull on Sept 26, 2023 12:19:51 GMT -5
Love that God's Property song, "Stomp". It would debut on CT40 in August 1997. Sure wish it charted higher; I think it only got up somewhere in the 30s (can't remember its exact peak ATM). I think it peaked at 34 around this time 26 (!!!!) years ago. NOTE: Crazy that it has been over a quarter of a century since 1997. |
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Post by dukelightning on Sept 26, 2023 14:46:02 GMT -5
If I had to rank the songs that made a resurgence in 1989 it would be tough. I think I will go: 1) Send Me An Angel 2) Into The Night 3) What About Me? 4) Where Are You Now? 5) When I'm With You It should be noted that "What About Me" didn't hit the top 40 in 1989, but it had a good run on the Hot 100 in 1989. A very good run, in fact. Also, we don't talk about it much but "Don't Tell Me Lies" by Breathe has a case for being a part of this group, even though it was new to us living in the US in 1988/89. If you include, "Lies" it would be for me second on this list, not far from Real Life. You forgot one woolebull. Whitesnake hit late in the year with a slightly longer version of their 1980 hit which only reached #53 then, "Fool For Your Loving". Almost peaked at the same position on both charts...37 and 38. We all forgot another such hit. Shadoe opens the 7/15/89 show by saying that Sweet Sensation's "Hooked on You" reached #64 in 1987. Anyone aware of that? This is a similar scenario to Hall & Oates and others that had initially missed the 40 with a release, had a hit and then re-released the earlier hit. It was "Sara Smile" that led to the resurrection of "She's Gone". In this case, it was "Sincerely Yours" that led to the resurrection of Hooked. Then he tells a story about another second chance 1989 hit, "Into the Night". It was the scariest moment in Benny Mardones' life. When he was 15, he was at a club and started dancing with this girl. Then a guy pulled up and stuck his gun at Benny, first pointing it at his mouth and then his forehead. Police had been called and after being in that position for 5 minutes, they stormed in and told the guy to drop the gun. He did not. So they slowly moved closer and with a long riot stick, swung and shattered the guy's arm. Yeah no doubt about his scariest moment! And the first line of "Into the Night" is 'She's just 16 years old..leave her alone, they said'. Sounds like this song was about that night! Except it was not. Had back to back artists from Boston, New Kids and Donna Summer.* In between, Shadoe listed the 15 artists that have hit the top 10 by decade. There was one in the 50s, two in 60s, 7 in the 70s and 5 in the 80s. Except he made a mistake when he listed the Cars among the 70s artist hitting the top 10. They did not hit the top 10 until 1981 with "Shake it Up". Said Donna was the most successful artist from Boston and that has to be true. She still has that distinction according to Joel Whitburn. In his 2012 Pop chart book of the top artists, she is ranked at #56 with Aerosmith second at #96. Cannot have changed much since. "Rooms On Fire" is an example of an artist's last hit that is my fave or among my faves by that artist. For Stevie Nicks, it is between that, "Stop Draggin My Heart Around", "Stand Back" and "Talk to Me". I'll give an example of such a hit for the other 3 decades that Casey and Shadoe counted down the hits. In the 70s, "Love Machine" was my fave hit by the Miracles. In the 90s, "Cradle of Love was my fave by Billy Idol. And in the 2000s, "Be Without You" was my fave by Mary J. Blige.* Got to engage on some trivial pursuit when Shadoe said the flashback would feature the biggest selling hit of the 70s. Thought about it for while and came up with "Hot Stuff". Thought it was still in the top 5 that week 10 years earlier and like many disco records, it was a big seller. But as the song before the flashback was ending, another song came into my thought..."Rock Your Baby". I remember that song being mentioned as a big seller. I was right! Shadoe said it sold 11 million copies which has to be far and away more than any other hit in the 70s. Then he said something unusual for a flashback. He asked whatever happened to George McCrae. He mentioned that 2 books stated that he had died in 1986. Then Shadoe said he had a very good source which disputed that claim. It was a tease and in the next segment, he told a story of how George was doing a show in Belgium earlier in 1989 and someone came up and said according to this book, he was supposed to be dead! Unbelievable! Great stuff on these shows. *Donna was mentioned later in the show, much later, before #2 when Shadoe said that "Express Yourself" had hit #1 on the dance chart breaking the tie that Madonna was in with Donna Summer for most dance chart #1 hits. It was her 9th. She will easily get into double digits there. After playing it, he said "Madonna is looking for her 8th pop chart #1 hit. Next week?" Nope! *The artist at #1 nearly made that list for me. Simply Red's next to last hit is my fave of theirs, "Something Got Me Started". Btw, that God's Property song "Stomp" is a good one. The groups' name is appropriate as that sounds like a song you would hear in church. Been checking the R&R charts while listening to these shows for any other instances of an artist having hits at #40 and 41. Checked from the inception of the 50 position chart in 1995 to halfway through 1997 so far and the closest occurred on the third 50 position chart(6/3/95). Des'ree had "You Gotta Be" at 41 and "Feel so High" at 39. |
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Post by woolebull on Sept 27, 2023 4:25:29 GMT -5
You forgot one woolebull. Whitesnake hit late in the year with a slightly longer version of their 1980 hit which only reached #53 then, "Fool For Your Loving". Almost peaked at the same position on both charts...37 and 38. We all forgot another such hit. Shadoe opens the 7/15/89 show by saying that Sweet Sensation's "Hooked on You" reached #64 in 1987. Anyone aware of that? This is a similar scenario to Hall & Oates and others that had initially missed the 40 with a release, had a hit and then re-released the earlier hit. It was "Sara Smile" that led to the resurrection of "She's Gone". In this case, it was "Sincerely Yours" that led to the resurrection of Hooked. Good one! And let me add yet ANOTHER one from 1989 that fits exactly the same mold as Sweet Sensation: Paula Abdul's "(It's Just) The Way That You Love Me". Originally released at Abdul's second single in 1988 it would peak at 88. After the success of "Straight Up", "Forever Your Girl", and "Cold Hearted", it would be re-released just a little over a year after its first run, the second time peaking at number 3. Maybe, just maybe, we have exhausted the 1989 re-release list  |
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Post by dukelightning on Sept 27, 2023 9:28:42 GMT -5
That's a good one and one of the best examples of a re-release by an eventual superstar. Got the 7/17/93 CT40 playing and Casey mentions Steve Miller being 49 years old. "Wide River" is his last top 40 hit so he will fall just short of the small list of artists who had a top 40 hit after the age of 50. He tried to have one of those re-released hits after his breakthrough hit with "Living in the USA". But it stalled at 49 on that second attempt. River also prevented Miller from having one of those last top 40 hits being my fave as his previous hit over 10 years earlier was "Abracadabra". River is his worst hit IMO. Only reached 64 on the Hot 100 so not surprised!
Casey told a story of how Jon Bon Jovi decided that he would never act in a movie again after being in Young Guns II. The constant waiting around for a scene to be scripted made him very nervous. It was very contrary to his routine onstage where he was being himself. So he vowed never to act again. Can't have a CT40 without a major edit and this shows' victim is Jade's "One Woman" at barely over a minute and a half. 2 or 3 were also in the 2-2:30 range.
When Casey said that "I Don't Wanna Fight" was the 5th top 10 solo hit for Tina Turner, I questioned it. But he was right. She was stopped at 12 with 3 hits on the R&R chart. Turns out her 5 top 10 hits were all top 5 hits and they peaked at each number in the top 5. In addition, her #1 hit spent 1 week at the top, #2 hit was 2 weeks and #3 hit was 3 weeks at their peaks. Then Casey talked about instant CDs. First he said that 43% of the people that went into a store looking for a CD found out that it was out of stock. So IBM had teamed up with Blockbuster Video to design a way for people to go to a kiosk and get the CD that they were looking for right on the spot. The process was supposed to take about 5 minutes to create both the CD and the packaging. Don't think this ever came to fruition.
A bit of a Casey Kasem jinx at #1. He talked about how girl groups were at their highest level since the 60s with 5 such groups hitting #1 to date in the 90s. SWV will be the last girl group to hit the top in the decade. It would not be until 2000 when Destiny's Child did so that a girl group would hit #1.
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Post by dukelightning on Sept 27, 2023 18:39:41 GMT -5
8/24/02 AT40 had the #38-37-36 segment that was typical back in the CT40 days. You could bet that a song would be edited in that segment on CT40. Things had changed by 2002. Despite there being a neo soul* and a hip hop song in that segment which typically got the axe on CT40, that segment was 14 minutes long. The neo soul song was by Ashanti who nearly had 4 songs in the countdown. "Happy" was that song at 37 and it replaced "Foolish" which dropped out from 17 which means the recurrent rule must have come into play there. She was also on Irv Gotti's "Down 4 U" and Fat Joe''s "What's Luv". Wracking my brain trying to remember a time when an artist had 4 songs in the countdown. Probably has happened since at least.
This is another show when an artist's apparent death was mentioned. This time it was for Khia who media reports had said was murdered by her boyfriend. Not true! Casey also got to mention an artist who really did die that some people have thought was still alive over the years. That was Elvis who had one of the droppers with "A Little Less Conversation" featuring JXL. Was only on the countdown the previous week at 40 and that was a guest hosted show. In this show are both "I Need a Girl" parts 1 and 2 after they were back to back on that guest hosted show. Part 2 has the most artists on it of any song with 5 according to Casey.
*On one of America's biggest hits, Casey mentioned that neo soul is R&B sprinkled with a little hip hop and funk to end up with a song that is groovy. Played "Alicia Keys' "Fallin'". Great song as is her duet with Eve at #16 "Gangsta Lovin'. Double dose of Alicia there and a double dose of No Doubt in the countdown with 2 more great songs, the highest debut "Underneath it All" and "Hella Good".
J Lo sets a new record for female artists being in the countdown the most consecutive weeks. There was a third place tie between Alanis Morrisette and Britney Spears at 75 weeks, Janet was second with 86 weeks and now J Lo is up to 90 weeks.
Peppers have the #1 song "By the Way" on 3 of the 4 rock genre charts (#18 Triple A) and Casey mentioned 2 of them but it never surfaces on AT40. Interesting.
Oops! Casey gave the address after a LDD as 'American Top 20'. I'm sure that happened on other occasions!
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Sept 28, 2023 22:01:00 GMT -5
Good ol' production error there...oops indeed!
4 years ago today, unknown to many of us then, Bob Kingsley would announce his final #1 on the Country Top 40, "Living" by Dierks Bentley. While I wish I had the time to listen to the entire show, I listened to the final segment. Fitz has done a masterful job continuing the show through this decade, and I've been catching CT40 every weekend. (Amazing stat: I don't think Fitz has ever had a guest host since he took over on 1/4/2020.)
At work this morning, was listening to the other CT40 (Casey's Top 40), from 4/6/1996.
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Post by dukelightning on Sept 29, 2023 19:22:42 GMT -5
I just found another error that is not of the production variety in that 2002 show. I was somewhat preoccupied while listening to the first part of the show which explains why I missed the error. So listening to the first part of the show again, in the tease for a story about Ashanti, Casey said that he was counting down to "Foolish". It was actually "Happy". He did mention "Foolish" as one of the droppers after playing it.
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Post by woolebull on Sept 29, 2023 21:28:52 GMT -5
Finished a couple of shows in the last few days. The first was CT 9/26/92. I love 1992 shows, particularly in the fall and winter, because of all the years listening to top 40 music, this era has the most songs I legitimately never heard on the radio. I don't even mean like songs that peaked in the lower part of the charts. I swear I don't remember ever hearing, "Nothing's Broken But My Heart" on the radio. And yet here it was in the top 10. It was cool hearing Michael W. Smith twice on the show as "I Will Be Here For You" debuted, as well as "Place In This World" played as a "Request and Dedication". At number one, something I felt odd happened: "End Of The Road" was edited down. I don't remember ever hearing a #1 song edited down from its original radio edit. I might be totally off-base with this, but I really can't think of another time I heard that.
Now I am finishing up 9/30/78. Great show...I mean, if I can hear City Boy, then it is a good day! Plus the debut of two songs in the top 30: "MacArthur Park" and "How Much I Feel" (Ambrosia had a penchant of debuting inside the top 30 with another artist. They would do it again in 1980). Interesting that there were three remakes in a row...I don't remember that happening through the years. However, caught a mistake when Casey would later in the show say that there were a total of five remakes on the 40. Actually there were six: Casey omitted "Almost Like Being In Love" by Michael Johnson.
Also, either I have listened to this show thousands of times, or through the years Casey had to have done the same story of the Simon Sisters and "Winken, Blinken, and Nod". I know it had to have been used multiple times, but can't think of when else it happened.
Onto 9/30/89!
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