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Post by dukelightning on Jan 4, 2024 10:18:14 GMT -5
Another snowstorm back then? Funny I was in Boston over Christmas and this friend of my sister's that plows snow was discouraged because the long range forecast did not have any snow until February. So much for that! We are getting rain out of that storm. I have moved exactly 10 years forward from yesterday's show to the 1/12/02 AT40. In both shows, the #1 song of the previous year was mentioned in the first 5 minutes. In the 1992 show Bryan Adams kicked it off and Casey said that "Everything I Do" was the #1 hit of 1991. In this show at #39 is Lifehouse with Casey saying that they had the #1 hit of 2001 with "Hanging by a Moment". Casey says that Aerosmith is the longest charting act in the show dating back to "Sweet Emotion" in 1975. This is an example of the difference between CT40 and AT40 3.0. On CT40, Casey stuck to R&R for all his chart facts. But in his second stint on AT40, he did refer to chart facts referring to AT40 1.0 occasionally. In this case, Emotion did not hit the top 40 on R&R but did on AT40. The one area where he sticks with R&R chart data on AT40 3.0 is on #1 hits IIRC. I don't remember correctly because he said that the #1 song 20 years ago was "Physical" which was only on AT40. Did not hit #1 in R&R.* So he mentioned their first top 40 hit and debuting is their last top 40 hit "Just Push Play". This is their only R&R top 40 hit that did not reach the Hot 100 and only reached #34 the following week on AT40. Another artist that did not reach the Hot 100 in 2002 is Vanilla Ice. Casey did one of the whatever happened to segments on him. Said that he was trying to be a bipolar rapper having some songs in the hip hop style and others in the hard care rap style. But nothing came of it on the charts. His last Hot 100 appearance was in 1991. Casey said that Primitive Radio Gods had "Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth with Money in My Pocket" in 1996, an 11 word title. In the countdown is "Son of a Gun(I Betcha Think This Song is About You)" with 12 words. Though as you can see this song has a subtitle. "I Do" and "Livin it Up" which samples "Do I Do" were back to back, a couple of great songs there.
*In one of the America's Top Hits tracks, Casey talked about how Foreigner had 2 sounds in their career. First was a harder rock sound in the 70s and then a softer more melodic sound. He said the song that introduced that sound was the one played "I Wanna Know What Love Is". Except it was "Waiting For a Girl Like You' that introduced that sound a few years earlier IMO. A hit which hit #1 on R&R but not on AT40 ironically.
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Post by Shadoe Fan on Jan 4, 2024 18:55:19 GMT -5
I haven't got that far in the show yet, but now I'm not sure I want to! I don't mind Dees' shows most of the time, but this is ridiculous. Listening to Rick Dees Top 40 Of The 1980s (for the first time; I didn't hear this show originally), and I was reminded as to why I cannot get into his shows the way I can with Casey, Ryan, Shadoe, many others. I'm listening, and almost halfway through the show, Rick is at #26. I'm thinking, okay, something's gotta give, he's way behind. Well, something DID give, all right...in the TOP TEN. Rick had so much extra content throughout the show, he played a piece of #'s 6, 5, 4, and 3. Not quite skipping songs like he's been known for, but darnright close. For those that listen to countdown shows, be it from your own collection, or streaming, or live radio, is it disheartening when songs are skipped, or a short piece is played, especially when it's a song you like? The only time I don't mind would be a previous week's recap, at the beginning. But not in the show itself. Why I continue to subject myself to such punishment with Rick's shows...time I'll never get back... 🤦♂️ (Granted, it's been many months since I last listened to one of his shows.)
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Post by chrislc on Jan 4, 2024 19:06:33 GMT -5
Casey just literally gave me goosebumps with Rupert Holmes moving from #40 to #23. Casey was so good, never more than in 1979. Wow Casey just recounted several examples of Anne Murray being a real PITA but says by 1979 she was "sweet". But no supporting examples of said sweetness.
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Post by dukelightning on Jan 4, 2024 19:54:36 GMT -5
Casey was certainly the most energetic in 1979. Anyone that likes energy will definitely say that Casey was at his best then. I think he was best in 1987-88 until his first stint on AT40 ended. He was full of witty comments frequently turning a song title or an artist's name into a colorful statement. By the mid 90s he was good but not great. I would say the same for the music. So it comes as no surprise that halfway through the 1/13/96 CT40, I have only heard 2 great songs so far, "Be My Lover" and "Tell Me". Casey said that Groove Theory's Amel Larrieux patterned her vocal style after Sade. The act that gets the show to the halfway point is a microcosm of why I am not a big fan of mid 90s pop music. It's the hugely popular Hootie. So I was not into what a lot of people were into then. Third great song was "Dreaming of You" for Selena though I prefer "I Could Fall in Love". Casey told how she was killed at the age of 23 which was 14 years after she started singing professionally. Incidentally one of the many average songs on this show was the only debut in its only week in the countdown. Talking about the Beatles' "Free as a Bird". This is one of those shows when Casey never mentions how many weeks the #1 song had been there including in the promos for the show. It reached #1 on the last show of 1995 so it would be on top for either 3 or 5 weeks depending on whether or not they included the 2 weeks there was no issue. This happened in a lot during the CT40 years. "One Sweet Day" is the hit.
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Post by JMW on Jan 4, 2024 21:58:14 GMT -5
Wow Casey just recounted several examples of Anne Murray being a real PITA but says by 1979 she was "sweet". But no supporting examples of said sweetness. I've always figured the "sweetness" he was referring to was her music.
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Jan 5, 2024 11:18:45 GMT -5
Another snowstorm back then? Funny I was in Boston over Christmas and this friend of my sister's that plows snow was discouraged because the long range forecast did not have any snow until February. So much for that! We are getting rain out of that storm. Yep, you are right. It began on 1/6, just like this weekend's storm will. Blizzard Of 1996This current system isn't quite as potent, but still an eye-opener. Just about done with AT40 from 5/7/1983, which is the show after one of my favorite shows from the 1980s (4/30). Then 5/5/1984. Yep, still got two different marathons going on, each with two years.
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Post by dukelightning on Jan 5, 2024 15:30:52 GMT -5
The 5/7/83 AT40 that OnWithTheCountdown is listening to was the one that featured a then record for most artists having 2 hits in the countdown with 7. I am listening to the second of the 2 straight shows that the 20th century record occurred in, the 1/22/94 AT40. There were 9 artists with 2 hits in both the 1/15 and 1/22 shows although not the same artists. Toni Braxton was one of those artists in the 1/15 show but one of her hits fell out. However, Rod Stewart joins the club with "Having a Party" debuting. Incidentally, the following week another record nearly occurred. AT40 nearly had 2 artists with 3 hits in the countdown. Mariah did accomplish that feat with "Dreamlover" and "Hero" being joined by "Without You". And Janet had "Because I Love You" debut to join "Again" in the countdown but "If" fell out. Mariah became the 7th artist in AT/CT40 history to have 3 hits in the countdown. The first 6 were Melanie, Marvin Gaye, Paul McCartney, Diana Ross, New Kids and Whitney. Madonna had 3 in the R&R top 40 in 1985. Another record on this show is one word titles. There are 14 and Shadoe answered a question about the longest one word song title. Answer: "Misunderstanding". That's 16 letters. He said tied for second place with 14 letters are "Margaritaville" and "Indestructible"(Four Tops). Shadoe says that "I Love Music" by Rozalla is the #1 dance hit. This is another song that will not be heard on AT40 but will be heard on CT40. Great song though I do prefer the original.
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Post by dukelightning on Jan 5, 2024 19:44:08 GMT -5
Back to AT40 3.0 which is one of my fave periods musically in AT40 history. It's the 1/20/01 show and after R. Kelly anchored the countdown for the second week in a row as Casey said, the next 3 hits were down a notch and several hits are down a notch in this show. One of those was quite appropriate for the date of this show. In "What's Your Fantasy", Ludacris sings 'we can do it in the White House'. Of course the occupant of that house changed on the date of this show and the one who was leaving did it in the White House himself! The trivia questions are actually challenging at times once AT40 restarted after being layups on CT40. An example of such was in this show. Right after playing "Angel" by Shaggy, Casey asked what is the most used top 40 title in the rock era and the choices were "Lady", "Crazy" and "Call Me". I vacillated between "Lady" and "Call Me" but it was neither! Casey spelled it out with 7 hits titled "Crazy", 6 titled "Call Me" and 5 titled "Lady". The 7th "Crazy" hit which obviously broke a tie with "Call Me" in the process is in the countdown by K-Ci & JoJo. And an 8th by Gnarls Barkley came in 2006. Except those are not the top 3 most used song titles. Because guess what?! The song played just before this question is among them. Yup, "Angel" was the 6th and then Amanda Perez hit with that title in 2003 and then Natasha Beddingfield did so in 2008. So "Angel" and "Crazy" are tied at 8 according to my calculations. Bizarre that Casey omitted "Angel" among the choices after playing that same title. Back to back hits mentioning a lady whose last name is Jackson. First O-Town's "Liquid Dreams" which mentions Janet(and many ladies of pop music) and then Outkast's "Ms. Jackson" with Casey saying how it was about a real failed 2 year relationship with a lady with that name. Another story about a group playing a private concert a la Chicago in the 70s. This time it was NSYNC who agreed to play a Bar Mitzvah for $250,000. They became megastars not long after they accepted but played nonetheless. "This I Promise You" was written and produced by Richard Marx. Did not know that or think he had a hand in any hits in the 2000s. Not a fan of that song but definitely am of the next one, "Most Girls" by Pink.
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Post by dukelightning on Jan 6, 2024 9:24:16 GMT -5
Post #6000 for yours truly. After hearing an AT40 2.0 and then an AT40 3.0 show yesterday, it is an AT40 4.0 show today. That would be a Ryan Seacrest show. Celebrating the 20 year anniversary of Seacrest taking over the show by listening to his second show having already heard his first show as regular host a few years back. So it is the 1/17/04 show. You notice 2 changes from AT40 3.0 within the first 5 minutes. They do a top 5 recap by playing clips of the 5 hits. I prefer that to either playing any or all of the top 3 or simply mentioning them as was done in the first 25 years of doing recaps on AT40 1,2,3.0 and CT40. Then they go directly from #40 to 39 with nothing said by Ryan for the second new thing on AT40 4.0. Another first will occur either on this show or the next one. An artist will replace themselves at #1 when OutKast accomplished the feat. Casey never did a show when that happened. They should have let him host until the 4th of July before the switch since he started and ended his countdown career on that weekend. Then he would have experienced a show when that happened, in this time frame. Anyway, love the show. Lots of great songs from Matchbox 20 to the aforementioned OutKast to Beyonce to Fountains of Wayne that is playing now with Ryan saying he loves the video. Yeah so do I! Stacy's mom is in a bikini! Another new feature is really a reintroduction of the Sneek Peek feature from the Shadoe era. It is the Out of the Box feature and Ryan played Alicia Key's "You Don't Know My Name". Great song which I had not heard previously. Has a 70s R&B feel in the vein of Barbara Mason to it. Was in its 4th week on the chart would not reach AT40 until its 7th week when it debuted at 33, fell to 39, rose to 38 and then fell off. No wonder I had never heard it before. But that's what's great about AT40, being introduced to songs you had not heard before.
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Post by dukelightning on Jan 6, 2024 14:58:51 GMT -5
With the first ever CT40 apparently available on YouTube, I am a year later with the 1/20/90 show. Casey is counting down to what is in the running for my least favorite #1 hit in AT/CT40 history. It is between "How I Am Supposed to Live Without You", Michael Bolton's other #1 hit "When a Man Loves a Woman" and "Before the Next Teardrop Falls" for that distinction. But there are a lot of great songs before I get to that point of the show. One of those is "Back to Life". Casey tells a riddle about when a group is not a group. Soul II Soul is a group that is not a group but is made up of one person, Jazzy B. There are obviously other people involved but Jazzy B likens it to the keys of a piano. Certain keys are played depending on what sound is desired. So certain musicians are brought into the recording sessions for particular songs but he is the only one present for every one. (This cannot be an example of a duo or group artist billing that is really a solo artist since other artists are involved, just not the same ones.) Before Bad English, Casey talked about the language. Only 400,000 people out of the 5 billion in the world then(just reached 8 billion so it took 34 years to add 3 billion people to the world) speak English. Casey said Aerosmith first hit the top 40 in 1976 with "Dream On". That's based on the R&R chart. But in the 2002 AT40 show I heard the other day, he said they first hit the top 40 in 1975 with "Sweet Emotion". CT40 was always based on R&R chart data, AT40 3.0 not so much. Interesting story about Technotronic. They had a phrase on their album cover referring to saving elephants. Casey said their population which had been over a half million at the start of the century was down to about 20,000 in Asia and Africa due to the ivory in their tusks being used so much. Casey said 'According to the World Wildlife Fund, at this rate elephants will be extinct by the year 2020'. Interesting to hear him talk about a year that was somewhat far in to the future and yet now we are past that year. But I looked it up and there are 450,000 elephants in those 2 continents. So either that was incorrect information that Casey told about their population or a there was a massive effort to restore their population in the last 34 years. Casey says that "Another Day in Paradise" fell out after 5 weeks at #1, 'the longest stay at #1 on the R&R chart since "Jump" also spent 5 weeks on top in 1984' as he said. The Joel Whitburn R&R book credits Paradise with 6 weeks at #1 however so there was a frozen week that Casey did not count. "How Am I Supposed to Live Without You" while certainly not as good as Laura Branigan's version passes the test so to speak. It's either his other #1 hit or Freddie Fender for the worst #1 song for me.
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Post by dukelightning on Jan 8, 2024 13:50:44 GMT -5
1/23/99 AT40 has Casey telling the story of how Aaliyah deals with echoes of screaming fans. She reads a Stephen King book and the horrors that he depicts calms her nerves. Says that she cannot fathom his imagination. That makes 2 of us. I just read one of his books over the holidays and was blown away by his wacky mind. One of his stories went like this. A couple got lost in Oregon and ended up on this road that turned into a narrow dirt road with big ruts and tree branches scraping their car. They wanted to turn around but could not and would have had to back up for 2 miles. Finally they came out of it and reached a town. The title of this chapter was "Rock and Roll Heaven". And everyone in the town was a dead rock star from Janis Joplin to Elvis to Buddy Holly to Rick Nelson. Needless to say that couple wanted to get out of there! That's too much fiction for me. Back to the countdown and Casey mentions another #1 hit from the previous year. This time it's "Believe" that was the #1 song of 1998 in the UK. Shawn Mullins who Casey said was being touted as the 90s version of the likes of James Taylor and Dan Fogelberg, guys who sang about lost love, almost did what I think Exile was the only artist to do...hit #1 and #40 with their only hits. His followup peaked at 41.
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Post by dukelightning on Jan 9, 2024 13:03:18 GMT -5
1/23/93 CT40 starts out like no other show I have heard or at least remember hearing. The first 8 hits either dropped at least 10 notches or debuted. #40,35 and 34 were down 11, 39 and 38 were down 13, 33 was down 16 and 37 and 36 were debuts. So the first 8 hits all were either in the 40s, 20s or teens the previous week although the chart is only 40 positions so saying hits were in the 40s the previous week is a projection. Does anyone remember musical infomercials? Casey told how they were the newest thing then. Time/Life which had been running regular commercials for oldies since the 80s had teamed up with Arista records to produce these 30 minute shows. I vaguely remember those or later ones. Sometimes on these countdowns, a chart record or feat is not recognized until several weeks later. Such is the case when Casey notes that Michael Bolton's hit "To Love Somebody" gave him the most top 10s in the 90s back in November. It is his 9th one more than Madonna, Janet and Mariah. They will all catch and/or surpass him later that year. Of course I prefer the Bee Gees original by a lot. Michaels were back to back in the countdown with the other being MJ. Peaking at 20 this week is "Heal the World". You know that is his only hit from Off the Wall, Thriller, Bad or Dangerous that does not hit the top 10. In fact he had hits that peaked at #10 from each of the first 3 albums on the R&R chart.
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Post by dukelightning on Jan 13, 2024 15:30:26 GMT -5
Got the 1/22/00 AT40 playing and Casey says that Joe who accompanies Mariah had a big R&B hit with "Don't Want to be a Player". Yep they play that on the R&B throwback station. Great song. Amber has a great song in this show that is an example of classic disco as Casey said. That's "Sexual" which I heard earlier on the 90s Dance hits channel while on my exercise bike. Another good one is "Me, Myself and I" that samples Santana's "No One to Depend On". This sounds like a top 40 hit and yet it only reached #120 on the Hot 100. Seems real strange for a sampling song to peak so low. Those hits do a lot better on the Hot 100 than on AT40 normally In fact, that Mariah and Joe song "Thank God I Found You" is such a hit, reaching #1 on the Hot 100 but only 28 on AT40. Only one debut and the only dropper is "Auld Lang Syne". Joel Whitburn lists it as both an instrumental and a spoken word hit. Might be the only top 40 hit of its type. When Casey announced during his reading of the letter that the LDD would be "True Colors", I looked forward to a great Cyndi Lauper ballad. But they played Phil Collins' version which is lame IMO. Casey usually mentions when a hit reached the AC chart but not the CHR chart but not this time.
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Post by dukelightning on Jan 16, 2024 16:51:24 GMT -5
The record for most debuts on a show that Casey did is tied on the 1/26/91 CT40. There are 8. The only show that had more and I would guess that is still true to this day is the 10/11/75 AT40 when 9 hits debuted. But that was guest hosted. The highest debut is "Rescue Me" at 26. With Casey telling a story about how Madonna was one of the dancers hired to accompany Patrick Hernandez in his 1979 tour to support his hit "Born to be Alive" which led to her living in Paris for 6 months as a highly pampered but hardly working dancer that she abruptly cut short because that was not doing anything for her young career. This means there are 2 songs in the countdown that could not be heard on AT40 with "Do the Bartman" being the other, until March anyway when Rescue is finally released as a single. A trio of hits at 30,29 and 28 all by rock bands who get started in the mid 70s...AC/DC, Styx and Bad Company. 'In 1975, 10cc took that song to #5. Now Will to Power has gone one better'. That's what using the R&R chart does, allowing Casey to say that. Shadoe could not say that on AT40 because 10cc charted higher than Will to Power.
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Post by woolebull on Jan 21, 2024 10:26:19 GMT -5
dukelightning congrats on 6000 + posts! Referencing a couple of time periods you have mentioned recently: 1996 and Groove Theory. If I have a choice between listening to CT or Dees from this time in 1996, I usually will choose Dees for one reason: "Tell Me" made it all the way up to number 11 versus, I think, number 20 on CT! I just finished January 19, 1991 Dees...I have to say that I loved EVERY song in the top 10. What's so funny is that if you had actually asked me this on that actual date, I would have more than likely shrugged my shoulders (I was still mad in the moment that Madonna and Lenny Kravitz ripped off a Public Enemy beat for, "Justify My Love"). But hearing the Simpsons in the top 10 just makes me smile every time. I said it before: I wouldn't trade hearing Geto Boys or "Gett Off"on AT 40 later that year, but I would have loved to have heard Shadoe countdown, "Do The Bartman". Did he ever reference the song at all? He always seemed to throw in kernels of pop moments in real time, but don't remember a reference ever by Shadoe.
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