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Post by dukelightning on Dec 5, 2023 18:15:55 GMT -5
12 one word titles, 11 two word titles for a total of 23. All of those numbers have to be close to the record. A lot of great songs among them including the #1 "Baby Boy". Now I have further data about what I was posting about a few weeks back. On the 12/11/93 AT40, Shadoe says there are a record 11 one word titles. Add in the 9 two word titles and the total of 20 means all of those numbers from the 2003 show are higher than this one and may indeed be the record. On this show I have already heard my fave one word titled song in it, "Anniversary". Another one word title and the biggest such hit in this show is "Dreamlover". Shadoe asked if anyone saw her TV special on Thanksgiving that year. Yes I did as a matter of fact! Think I heard "Hero" for the first time then. Says there are 15 ballads in this show. Seems like a lot. That 2003 show I referenced above had only a couple. That is one of the reasons I prefer the early 2000s though as I wrote, one of those ballads, "Anniversary" is a great song. I also went back 10 years to the 12/10/83 AT40 to see there were 9 ballads by my calculations in it. Ballads went down in the mid to late 80s before jumping back up in the early 90s. Certainly not any periods of ballad dominance this century.
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Post by dukelightning on Dec 6, 2023 17:00:23 GMT -5
A year and a week later than the last show and still on AT40 which means this is towards the end of the first run. 6 more shows after this 12/17/94 edition one of which will be the year end show. In the 1993 show, Shadoe was promoting the year end countdown which was the top 100. He has yet to promote the 1994 year end which is only a top 50 despite this show being one week closer to it than the 12/11/93 show was. And I am into the top 10. Just before that was the flashback to 1975. On the 12/16/89 show which I heard a few days ago, they also did a flashback to 1975 but despite the dates of these 2 sows being only one day apart, they did a different week. In the 1989 show, they did the week of 12/13/75 while they did the 12/20/75 chart on this show. Though in each case the dates used were the closest to the date of the show, both 3 days away. The 12/20/75 top 5 is all #1 hits by the way. Chart history is made as "Sukiyaki" becomes the second hit to make the top 10 three times. The first was "The Locomotion" in the 60s, 70s and 80s. Suki does it in the 60s, 80s and 90s. On CT40 around this time, Casey should be saying that it is the third hit to do that as on R&R, "Baby, I Love Your Way" made the top 10 for Peter Frampton(stalled at 12 on the Hot 100) and Will to Power and Big Mountain also did. Interesting how in all 3 cases, male and female lead singers alternate chronologically. Male-female-male for "Sukiyaki", female-male-female for "The Locomotion" and male-female-male for "Baby I Love Your Way". Shadoe announced the winners of the international guitar month giveaway, the aforementioned Peter Frampton being one of the stars who signed the guitars. Funny thing is that 6 of the 8 winners had no way of hearing their names on AT40 because they were from the US. AT40 had stopped being aired domestically in July! Kind of a secret to them huh! and that was the next song in the countdown. 15th dance chart #1 for Madonna, just over 10 years after Casey mentioned that Donna Summer's 8 #1 hits on that chart were the most followed by "Like a Virgin" in the countdown that was the 80s show last week. In the birthday news, Shadoe mentions a guy from Cheap Trick and quips, 'surrender but don't give yourself away'. I have heard at least a couple references to that Trick hit which missed the top 40 in these shows. Great song!
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Post by dukelightning on Dec 6, 2023 18:58:53 GMT -5
Second show in a row with just one debut. That 1994 AT40 had a big hit debuting, "Take a Bow". This 12/12/98 AT40 has its only debut kicking off the show and it's not nearly as well known, "Big Big World" by Emilia. Casey started by thanking Ed McMann for guest hosting the previous show. Didn't think Casey did that anymore but I thought it might be since it was the first time Ed guest hosted. Not quite, that was his second time as guest host. I was still subscribing to Rolling Stone back then so I had to have been part of the group of readers who voted Matchbox 20 the best new band in 1998 as Casey mentioned. Casey saying that Everything loves Virginia with the band saying that being outside there is like getting a hug from God makes me wonder about woolebull who has not posted in awhile. Question was sent in asking about the biggest movie hits of the 70s, 80s and 90s. Casey said each hit reflected the popular music of each decade. It was disco in the 70s and "Night Fever" was the biggest movie hit. New wave in the 80s and it was "Call Me". Female balladeers in the 90s and it was "My Heart Will Go On". Thought it might be "I Will Always Love You" and if the monitored airplay system had been effect by the end of 1992, that might have been the case. One of my top 10 sampling hits is in this show. "Miami" which samples the Whispers "And the Beat Goes On". Good grief! Still in the third hour and he mentions the other chart #1 hits. Next 2 hits were by Goo Goo Dolls, "Slide" and "Iris", the latter in its 28th week in the top 10. Definition of a massive hit there and the song that knocked it out of the #1 position is not even in the countdown anymore. "I Don't Wanna Miss a Thing". Those Goo Goo Dolls hits start a top 11 where 9 of them are one or two word titles including the top 6...20 in the show itself.
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Dec 7, 2023 9:29:21 GMT -5
Started AT20 HAC from 12/8/2001 yesterday, continuing it today. Casey introduced an extra by Ace Of Base, who were one of four Swedish acts to reach #1; the other three being Blue Swede, Roxette, and Eagle-Eye Cherry. Then, he said, "If you're wondering about ABBA, their highest charting hit, 'Dancing Queen', peaked at #4 in 1977 on our Radio & Records chart". Thankfully he explained that, because many of us remember him introducing it at #1 on AT40, which used Billboard.
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Post by dukelightning on Dec 7, 2023 10:12:57 GMT -5
That is the opposite of how a lot of people view artists hitting #1 on one chart and not the other. Most people look at the Hot 100 and say that Journey and Jane Child did not hit #1 but at least they did on R&R for example. I am through hearing December shows for this year. For the rest of it I will be circling back through to other months. Today it is the AT40 from 5/23/92. Shadoe runs down all the times that a song and an artist with the same or similar names/titles were in the top 40 at the same time in connection with "TLC" and TLC. This is the 4th year in a row that has happened with "Temptation" and the Temptations in 1991, "Poison" and Poison in 1990 and the Cover Girls and "Cover Girl" in 1989. Also happened in 1971 with Chicago, in 1966 with "The Happening" and the Happenings and they were back to back, in 1962 with "Sherry" and the Sherries and the first time in 1958 with the Silhouettes. There you go. Pretty sure that 4 year streak ended in 1993. Celine Dion is the youngest of 14 children. She was the accident as she said. Wonder how many accidents became superstar recording artists! Got stumped on this show. Shadoe says in the opening that the highest debut in 12 years was coming up and after "Steel Bars" debuted at 29, said it was quite a bit later in the show. Thought it was "I'll Be There" because I remember that debuting in the top 10. But that was the Sneek Peek! Did an interview with the men behind it, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, one of the best writing and producing teams of the last 10 years as Shadoe said. At #13, "The Best Things in Life Are Free". Did not hit #1 of course, only made it to #5! Highest debut since "Upside Down" at #10. No surprise that Shadoe says "My Lovin" is his favorite #1 hit of the year. On many occasions he mentions how much he likes En Vogue or one of their songs. Works for me.
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Post by doofus67 on Dec 7, 2023 16:49:14 GMT -5
...No surprise that Shadoe says "My Lovin" is his favorite #1 hit of the year. On many occasions he mentions how much he likes En Vogue or one of their songs. Works for me. Me too. Their sound was '70s girl group soul and '90s self-assured subject matter mixed together.
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Post by dukelightning on Dec 7, 2023 20:34:02 GMT -5
"My Lovin" was one of the 2 songs En Vogue played at this year's Boston Pops 4th of July special. The other was "Don't Let Go". So that AT40 had the highest debut to that point of the 90s, debuting at 13 and peaking at 5. Just heard the 5/21/94 CT40 and one of the promos had Casey saying that the previous week featured the highest debut of the 90s too. That was Jon Secada's "If You Go" at 15 and it also peaked at #5. Go figure! That being the highest debut probably comes with an asterisk because it was just a few weeks earlier that the R&R chart changed to a monitored airplay system which probably made debuting higher more likely as was the case with the Vandross and Jackson hit on AT40. These various hits can debut higher but hitting #1 is still just as difficult as before they went to monitored airplay! Good show btw. Seemed like a lot of rock songs in it as compared to other time frames in the 70s to the 2000s.
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Post by dukelightning on Dec 8, 2023 8:31:18 GMT -5
6/3/89 AT40 has one of those cool factoids that Shadoe was known for. "Into the Night" debuts to make Benny Mardones the second artist to hit the top 40 with his/their only hit. The Jamies had been the only artist to accomplish that with "Summertime, Summertime? in 1958 and 1962. He also noted that 15 hits had made the top 40 twice not including Christmas hits. Not sure how close Real Life came to being in this club. Their "Send Me an Angel" that made the top 40 for a second time that year was a new version. But they also had "Catch Me I'm Falling" squeeze into the 40 making it a moot point about Angel counting or not. Also found out that Peter Cetera did not find out that he had hit #1 for the first time until 5 days later. When "Glory of Love" hit the top, he was hiking in the Tetons of Wyoming a place I visited with my family as a child. Had many messages waiting for him when he came back down the mountain. Great story about Tom Petty stopping at a light and seeing Jeff Lynne of ELO also stopped. They got out of their cars and talked on the roadside. Ended up recording a couple songs together. And then since it came to them so quickly and easily, they decided to record an entire album, Tom's first solo album. "I Won't Back Down" is the first single from it and the week's biggest mover. Best story was about when Donny Osmond and Michael Jackson(with their brothers) were both in the same hotel in London in the early 70s. Girls were everywhere trying to get in there and see them. So they were trapped and ended up playing football in the hallway. Ended by breaking several chandeliers and being banned from the hotel!
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Post by dukelightning on Dec 8, 2023 17:38:25 GMT -5
Casey again on the 6/8/91 CT40. Says that the Tripletts don't mind being compared to Wilson Phillips. They looked forward to a group being compared to them the next year. I doubt that happened considering they were probably largely forgotten by then being a one hit wonder. Good hit though! Casey listed the top 10 painful experiences people feel according to a 1967 list that was several years in the making. Losing a job and having marital problems were in the top 10. Here's the top 5...5 is bankruptcy..4 is going to jail...3 is a marital separation...2 is divorce and #1 is the death of a spouse. You see that the top 3 are all about marriage. Yikes! Then he played "How Can I Ease the Pain". What a song that is. 'From the home of the Cubs, Bears, Bulls and Blackhawks, here is Styx. Forgot about the White Sox! Those Bulls were just a few days away from winning their first championship the date this show aired.
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Post by dukelightning on Dec 9, 2023 18:59:15 GMT -5
After eating dinner on the porch, it is a show from the time of the year that doing so would be normal, the AT40 from 6/26/93. In the mid 70s here today which is way above normal for December though still below normal for late June in NC. And 33 is the lucky number for a couple of ladies. Tina Turner sets the record for the longest chart span among female artists at 33 years with "I Don't Wanna Fight" debuting. And Whitney sets the record for most consecutive weeks with hits from the same movie for female artists at 33 weeks. Group record is 36 weeks for the Bee Gees and overall record is 44 weeks for Prince from Purple Rain. I always thought "If You Love Someone Set Them Free" was easily Sting's biggest solo hit. But "If I Ever Lose My Faith in You" only peaked one notch lower (4 and 3). If You is easily my fave Sting solo hit however. Most of his other hits put me to sleep. Glad they resurrected "I'm Gonna Be 500 Miles" for that Johnny Depp movie. Great song originally released in 1988.
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Dec 9, 2023 22:22:08 GMT -5
Love that Proclaimers hit; I remember a year and change ago when I was playing the 1993 CT40 shows in order, one of my managers, who usually listens to his own tunes, would pause whenever that song came on.
Just finished the AT40 from 4/23/1983, the last Bill Wardlow chart. Currently listening to AT40 from 4/21/1984 (one of my 1984 favorites was #1 that week), with 4/30/1983, one of my favorite 80s shows, on deck.
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Post by dukelightning on Dec 11, 2023 14:57:34 GMT -5
April shows which is spring time and another June show in the summer for me on a winter day. It's the AT40 from 6/30/90 which is labeled as the 20th anniversary show but that is a week later as Shadoe promoted the special. Says that "Love is" was really the first single from Alannah Myles' debut album. Re-released after the success of "Black Velvet". Thought he was going to list other such hits when he said that was a somewhat regular situation. The Clash, Prince and Hall & Oates are 3 such examples with "Should I Stay or Should I Go", "1999" and "She's Gone", respectively. In this case, "Love Is" did not chart on its first release and only reached #36 which is still better than what happened with the Clash hit. Casey told the story on multiple occasions of how Chicago once played a show at someone's house. Shadoe tells a similar story about Slaughter. A guy wrote to them offering them his parents' 7 bedroom house. They called him back thinking it was a prank. When it was not, they took him up on the offer and ended up playing there for 3 days. Then Shadoe quipped how the neighbors liked it and the line 'up all night, sleep all day' came on. Well done I must say! That's one of my faves in this show. This is the week that there are back to back "Hold On" hits. Has to be a first in AT40 history, maybe chart history. But in a surprise, Shadoe has nothing to say about it.
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Post by dukelightning on Dec 12, 2023 14:19:51 GMT -5
Going back 20 years to the third to last AT40 show Casey did, from 12/13/03. He promoted the year end top 100 a couple times which aired the next 2 weeks. Then the first week of January is his last show. Heard that one previously but not the year end yet. Show started with a familiar title "Me, Myself and I" but it is not a cover of the De La Soul 1989 hit which did not reach CT40 but did on AT40. This one is by Beyonce and it's a great song that I was not familiar with for whatever reason. The next song was a cover though, Sheryl Crow's "The First Cut is the Deepest", both of these being debuts. Liked the story Casey told of how Dr. Dre invited Eminem to visit him at his record label in LA. Eminem was intimidated by him with Dre being his idol but Dre was impressed nonetheless. They recorded 4 songs in 6 hours and their successful collaborative career got underway a few years earlier. This preceded 50 Cent's "P.I.M.P." because he was often part of that collaborative team. 2003 is one of my fave years of all the years that Casey hosted AT/CT40 so a lot of great songs in this show including Beyonce's other hit "Baby Boy" with Sean Paul. And the pair of hits by Outkast. They pulled off a rare triple play. They have the new #1 song, the new #1 urban hit and the biggest mover. Did it with 2 songs "Hey Ya" being that new #1 and "The Way You Move" which eventually replaced Hey at the top, being the urban #1 and biggest mover.
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Post by dukelightning on Dec 12, 2023 20:29:47 GMT -5
It's the 4th of the 5 AT40 shows with a 7/11 date. You know only 1 of those was hosted by Casey and that was the first ever show in 1970. Charlie Van Dyke did the 7/11/81 and 7/11/87 shows and David Perry did the 7/11/98 show. That leaves the show I am listening to, the 7/11/92 done by Shadoe of course. And he mentions AT40 starting in 1970 when he says that Elton John has set the record for most consecutive years hitting the top 40. Said the streak started when "Your Song" debuted near the end of 1970. However this is not quite true about the streak. Says that Elvis held the record with 22 years through 1977 and that Elton with "The One" debuting eclipses that mark. Problem is that Elvis squeezed one more week in the 40 the first week of 1978. So I say he gets a 23rd year in his streak meaning Elt has only tied the record. He will set the record nonetheless in 1993 with his 24th year in a row. The Shadoe factoid of the show is this. Song titles with the same word used once, twice and 3 times. Happened with Mercy and Shame, the latter everybody knows by Evelyn "Champagne" King and the triple "Shame, Shame, Shame" by Shirley & Co. The third instance of that is Baby. Carla Thomas had "Baby" in the 60s, Amy Grant had "Baby Baby" in 1991 and now TLC is in with "Baby Baby Baby". Good LDD dedicated to Freddie Mercury and Magic Johnson because the former died of AIDS and the latter retired from the Lakers because of AIDS both in November of 1991. Song was "We Are the Champions". 'From her movie A League of Their Own, that was Madonna with "This Used to be My Playground" moving to #8 after debuting at 14. She's looking to hit that one out of the park'. Not quite, her line drive was caught at #3. ![:P](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/tongue.png) Though that is yet another example of how the chart they were using was not all that accurate. Playground hit #1 on all other CHR charts IIRC.
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Dec 12, 2023 23:01:04 GMT -5
Rather ironic, that 1970 show is the only pop chart show dated 7/11 Casey would ever host. All the other 7/11 shows were guest-hosted, including 1992 and 1998 (Casey's Top 40 and AT40 2.0, respectively). And, right before the next date of 7/11/2009, AT20 and AT10 were no longer being produced. Got a quick listen to Casey's last pop chart show, AT40 from 1/3/2004. I noticed how he didn't give the address for any of the LDDs he read. Makes sense, as Ryan wouldn't quite continue that feature. Can't believe it'll be 20 years of the changeover in a little less than a month from now. ETA: dukelightning, I'm sure I've said this before, but I totally agree with you on the charts. R&R had the more accurate chart at that time (hence Casey referring to them as the industry's number one newspaper on 3/30/1991, eight months before AT40 abandoned the Hot 100, which that should be a telling sign.) Once the 1990s hit, I couldn't make much sense of the Hot 100. 1989, I couldn't really make up my mind. 😂 I followed both AT40 and CT40 that year. The Hot 100 was still very relevant in 1989.
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