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Post by dukelightning on Feb 25, 2024 8:17:04 GMT -5
Listening to a show from the only year in the 90s I had not heard yet this year, the 3/25/95 CT40 hosted by David Perry. He started with the recap and "Take a Bow" was #1. That is Madonna's 15th and last #1 hit on the R&R chart. On this week's AT40, Ryan Seacrest mentioned that Taylor Swift was at #4 with what could become her 14th #1 hit. It will be interesting to see what Ryan will say if she gets to #1 regarding the most #1 hits in history or AT40 history, if anything. He won't refer to R&R because they have not used that chart in all of the 20 years he has hosted the show. He cannot just refer to AT40 history because there was that 3 years with no AT40 that this show is from. I would recommend including all hits from both AT40 and CT40 history to cover all the bases. Here is how the leaders stack up in that case. Michael Jackson has the most #1 hits with 15 if you include "The Love You Save" and "I'll Be There" with his brothers. Madonna has 14 because one of her 15 R&R #1s was "Material Girl" which did not hit #1 on AT40(neither did "Cherish" but it did on CT40). Mariah Carey also has 14 so Taylor Swift would be creating a 3 way tie for second place. Incidentally this week is the 15 year anniversary of her first #1 hit on AT40 with "Love Story". MJ was the subject of a story David told about TLC. They are normally very confident after a string of hits. But when they attended a benefit concert in 1994 that MJ was part of, they saw him backstage and lost their confidence, becoming the equivalent of groupies in his presence. A couple remakes in the show that are either the last or only hits for all the artists who had hits with the songs. First was "You Got It" that was Bonnie Raitt's last top 40 hit and is remaking Roy Orbison's last hit in 1989. Then "Sukiyaki" is 4PM's only hit, covering the Kyu Sakamoto original that was his only hit and also A Taste of Honey's last hit and only hit as a female duo. David says that the song that has spent the most time in the top 10 so far in the 90s is "Another Night". At #10, it has been there 6 months as he said.
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Post by woolebull on Feb 25, 2024 22:31:01 GMT -5
I have listened to tons of shows in February. Here is a short commentary on the shows I have listened to through February. AT 40 2/2/85. Great show, but the thing that stuck out to me the most was the promo. Casey teased that "Do It Again" by the Kinks might be debuting on the 2/2 show. Fitting it was Groundhog Day because I have been waiting over and over again for that to come true for over 2031 weeks, lol. RD 2/4/84: I always forget that the 84 Dees shows are based on Cashbox charts. So I was blown away that "Break My Stride" was spending its second week at #2. Nice surprise on a great show. AT 2/6/82: As someone who didn't start listening to AT until July of 1982, it still blows my mind to hear, "Hooked On Classics" in the top 10. Love it, but surreal to me. Also I found it weird that, "Waiting For A Girl Like You" drops to number three after the 10 week run at position 2 and Casey said absolutely nothing in regards to that. I guess he used up his ammo the week before. Dees 2/8/92: Best parts for me was at the top. At #2, "Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me" goes back up a notch after falling to #3. Dees even commented that it was a rare feat (especially at that time) for a song to do that. And I heard, "Diamonds and Pearls" for the first time at the top on a top 40 show. Awesome stuff. Plus, a really good interview with Eddie Money talking about the passing of Bill Graham. Solid show all the way around. Plus, first week for "Masterpiece"... a song that, kind of like "The First Time" a year before has grown on me precipitously over the years AT 2/11/78: Hard to believe it had only happened, I think, three times since the Beatles, but this was the first week of the Bee Gees having three songs in the top 40. Also Wet Willie had a song on there I had never heard before so I was digging it. Bad part for me? No Bob Welch. AT 2/13/93: Prince and Duran Duran in the top 3? Will take it every single time! Also surprised Charles and Eddie was still in the top 40 with, "Would I Lie To You", but here for it. Also Spin Doctors back to back, so there's that lol. AT 40 2/14/81: Back before this board, there was another board where people could blog. I remember one person, who I don't think is on this board, wrote a blog about a February 81 show almost be unlistenable. While I understand that argument, I do not agree. This show started with The Outlaws and AC/DC so we were off to a quick, good start. I also love Delbert McClinton hit the top 10 as well. And I don't care where I am, "Together" by Tierra comes on the speakers go all the way up. I also wasn't aware that Lennon would go back to back in the top 10, but he did this week. Solid show. AT 2/17/90: Like dukelightning I listened to the Donny Osmond hosted show. And I can confirm that Osmond also got the Elton streak wrong as well (Something dukelightning eluded too a few posts back). It's funny: I had only listened to the very beginning of this show on 2/18/90 and the only thing I remembered from the show was Donny busting Michael Damian's chops for keeping him out of the #1 spot a few months before. Also missed Kevin Paige, Lisa Stansfield and Kiss as they were at 41,42, and I think 44, respectfully, so not happy about that. However Depeche Mode, Biz, Michel'le, Michael Penn, D Mob and Seduction made up for it. The coolest thing for me was I remembered in March of 1990 "Rolling Stone" did an article on the resurrection of girl groups and how three were in the top 10 in February of 1990. Really cool to hear Donnie mention it on this show as Seduction, Cover Girls, and Expose became the first three girl groups to be in the top 10 simultaneously since I believe 1962 or 1964. Great stat that I had been holding onto for 34 years. Great show. CT 2/22/97: I am not the David Perry hater some of you are, so I enjoy hearing him do 1996,97, and 98 shows in particular. But I will admit David shows can be a bit different. The best part of the show, "Un-Break My Heart" at #3 and David played the dance remix (which I am sure was a welcome relief for many). He even stated that they were playing it because the dance version was getting many spins at the time. Loved how he explained why they were playing thedifferent version instead of just playing it. However, on the next song, David in the intro to "Lovefool" talks about how Nina Persson, lead singer of The Cardigans, looks like Jane from Melrose Place. Not Josie Bissett, the actress who played Jane, but "Jane from Melrose Place". Thought that was odd. Also different: as we are still in the era of the female voice dominating CHR, the last male voice you would hear outside of David Perry on the show was R Kelly at #9. I am also like five days old knowing that 311 hit CT. I honestly never knew it. AT 2/27/88: We had a mini 70's/ early 80's seismic downward movement as the number one song fell to 6 while the number 3 song fell to number 11. I love most of these songs from the show (especially PSB and Dusty, M/A/R/R/S, Paul Carrack, and Terrance Trent D'Arby) so love listening to them but since I know the 1988 shows fairly well, they do get a little boring to me. Best story to me was Casey talking about Michael Hutchence having a machine gun to his head in Paris. Casey acting out the story with French words is worth listening to the entire show! There is my February so far...thanks for indulging me!
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Post by dukelightning on Feb 26, 2024 6:53:14 GMT -5
That's one way to do it woolebull, posting all your shows for a given month in one post. That would require a lot of note taking or memorizing so doing it as I hear them works best for me. That would be something to figure out is how many times Casey and the staff thought a song would debut but never did. ZZ Top's "La Grange" was the first such example of course. But then there would be several in the 80s once they started doing the promos. Having 3 songs in the top 40 has been done 3 times since the Beatles? Uh, you're off on that one...lol. Of course I listed all the times it happened in AT40 history and forgot the Bee Gees that you heard. If you list all the times it has happened since the Beatles did it for the first time 60 years ago, the number is probably north of 20. Happened 10 times in the 70s, 80s and 90s on either AT or CT40. And it has to have happened at least that many times this century as it is a lot easier to accomplish that with the monitored airplay based charts. Heard Donny Osmond butcher the Elton streak huh! For March, you should hear the 1993 CT40 when Casey got it right. I watched the whole Melrose Place series a couple years back. You know Jane's man was the character played by Jack Wagner. He hosted the 3/7/92 AT40 which I have heard and was reminded of when hearing the 3/14/92 show when Shadoe thanked him for hosting.
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Post by woolebull on Feb 26, 2024 7:59:12 GMT -5
That's one way to do it woolebull, posting all your shows for a given month in one post. That would require a lot of note taking or memorizing so doing it as I hear them works best for me. That would be something to figure out is how many times Casey and the staff thought a song would debut but never did. ZZ Top's "La Grange" was the first such example of course. But then there would be several in the 80s once they started doing the promos. Having 3 songs in the top 40 has been done 3 times since the Beatles? Uh, you're off on that one...lol. Of course I listed all the times it happened in AT40 history and forgot the Bee Gees that you heard. If you list all the times it has happened since the Beatles did it for the first time 60 years ago, the number is probably north of 20. Happened 10 times in the 70s, 80s and 90s on either AT or CT40. And it has to have happened at least that many times this century as it is a lot easier to accomplish that with the monitored airplay based charts. Heard Donny Osmond butcher the Elton streak huh! For March, you should hear the 1993 CT40 when Casey got it right. I watched the whole Melrose Place series a couple years back. You know Jane's man was the character played by Jack Wagner. He hosted the 3/7/92 AT40 which I have heard and was reminded of when hearing the 3/14/92 show when Shadoe thanked him for hosting. Lol...yeah I am going to do it show by show from now on. I went back and checked what Casey said about acts since The Beatles placing three hits on the 40. I think you misunderstood what I was saying, but I was also slightly off. On the 2/11/78 show Casey mentioned the Bee Gees being the fourth act since the Beatles to do it. The Bee Gees, however, were only the third act to do it on AT. The acts since The Beatles were Herman's Hermits, Melanie, and Marvin Gaye. Trust me I know it has happened many times since 1991, starting I think with Jade in 1993 and continuing to this day. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I am thinking it must have only happened five times between the start of the show in 1970 until the end of 1991 on AT 40 (including Diana and NKOTB). If I am missing someone, let me know.
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Post by dukelightning on Feb 26, 2024 8:42:32 GMT -5
Yeah I figured you might have been referring to something else with that 3 times since the Beatles comment as far off as it was. I had counted Paul McCartney as doing it in 1976 with his own 2 hits plus the Beatles' "Got to Get You Into My Life". I can see why Casey did not count that as Paul is not getting his name on that record. (Not on the other 2 hits either technically as the label was Wings then but I say that anything he did post 1970 is his song regardless of how it was listed on the label). I count it since he sang on all 3 hits and that is good enough for me. As for Jade, they did not pull it off but SWV did in 1993. Here is the list for AT40, CT40 or Dees in the 20th century...Melanie 1972, Marvin Gaye 1973, Sir Paul 1976, Bee Gees 1978, Diana 1980, Madonna 1985(twice), NKOTB 1989, Whitney and SWV 1993, Mariah 1994 and 1996, Real McCoy 1995 and Ricky Martin 1999.
And a shoutout to OnWithTheCountdown who just got to 4000 posts!
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Post by woolebull on Feb 26, 2024 8:58:12 GMT -5
Yeah I figured you might have been referring to something else with that 3 times since the Beatles comment as far off as it was. I had counted Paul McCartney as doing it in 1976 with his own 2 hits plus the Beatles' "Got to Get You Into My Life". I can see why Casey did not count that as Paul is not getting his name on that record. (Not on the other 2 hits either technically as the label was Wings then but I say that anything he did post 1970 is his song regardless of how it was listed on the label). I count it since he sang on all 3 hits and that is good enough for me. As for Jade, they did not pull it off but Whitney did in 1993. Here is the list for AT40, CT40 or Dees in the 20th century...Melanie 1972, Marvin Gaye 1973, Sir Paul 1976, Bee Gees 1978, Diana 1980, Madonna 1985(twice), NKOTB 1989, Whitney 1993, Mariah 1994, Real McCoy 1995 and Ricky Martin 1999. And a shoutout to OnWithTheCountdown who just got to 4000 posts! OK, between you and me we are going to get this right, lol. I said Jade inadvertently. I meant SWV...didn't they do it in 1993 for multiple weeks on at least AT? And absolutely huge props to OnWithTheCountdown ! Truly appreciate all you bring to this board!
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Post by dukelightning on Feb 26, 2024 8:59:53 GMT -5
I was just correcting my post above when you posted that! Yes SWV pulled it off in August. You were onto it man!
Had to correct it again. Mariah also pulled this off in March of 1996. So she is the only one to do it twice with 3 different songs each time. Madonna did it twice in 1985 but not with 3 different songs each time.
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Post by dukelightning on Feb 26, 2024 19:27:31 GMT -5
No artists with 3 songs in this show or even 2 songs. It's the 3/16/91 CT40 and 2 groups are spending their last ever weeks on CT40 though one has a lot more hits to their credit than the other. They are Warrant and Chicago. The latter may have a lot more hits but "Chasin the Wind" does not hold a candle to "I Saw Red". Back then I was seeing their #33 AOR chart "Uncle Tom's Cabin" a lot on MTV. Great song as were all of their 5 or 6 songs that I know. Poison's "Ride the Wind" is also better than the Chicago wind hit. Headline on the R&R issue that has this show's chart in it indicates that the 'AC reporter base undergoes a major expansion this week to better reflect the format's national music trends.' That may be the reason Casey has not been mentioning the AC chart #1s to this point and beyond. Maybe this change led to them starting the AC show about a year later. Casey tells how Robert Palmer got his sound. He had 3 albums, by Otis Redding, James Brown and Marvin Gaye. He listened to them continuously until he had made their sound his own. He was able to sing in the low voice of Marvin Gaye and in the energetic style of James Brown. His medley covers of "Mercy Mercy Me/I Want You" is a gem though I wish he started and ended it with "I Want You" with Mercy in the middle instead of the other way around. The obvious highlight of the show is Janet getting her 8th top 10 hit from Rhythm Nation. Casey mentions Thriller, Bad and Born in the USA generating 7 top 10s. He was right in saying that this record may stand for a long time. This also means that the top 5 divas of the 90s are all in the top 10.
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Post by woolebull on Feb 26, 2024 22:06:49 GMT -5
No artists with 3 songs in this show or even 2 songs. It's the 3/16/91 CT40 and 2 groups are spending their last ever weeks on CT40 though one has a lot more hits to their credit than the other. They are Warrant and Chicago. The latter may have a lot more hits but "Chasin the Wind" does not hold a candle to "I Saw Red". I know you are listening to an R and R countdown but it gives me a second to say, IMO, that Timmy T would pull off something amazing the next week on AT: after three weeks at number 3, and two weeks at number 2, "One More Try" would hit for one week at #1 on 3/23/91. My favorite countdown besides the imaginary countdown I have in my head for 4/14/90 when Jane Child would imaginarily hit #1 on AT. But my real comment for you is did you know Jani Lane, lead singer of Warrant, had a daughter that was supposed to sing at carolina's graduation in 2020? True story: she was a senior and she remade for all the heathens (lol) one of her dad's songs to sing at graduation. The problem was COVID obviously hit and she never got a chance to sing it. That just sucks. And for the record, as time marches on...Warrant was amazing. I will stand by that forever. Here is a link, my goodness she looks just like her dad RIP: www.hairbandheaven.rocks/single-post/2020/04/12/maddi-lane-daughter-of-late-warrant-singer-jani-lane-covers-stronger-now#:~:text=HOME-
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Post by freakyflybry on Feb 26, 2024 22:56:43 GMT -5
Earlier today, was listening to March 4, 1978, now it's March 3, 1984.
While music evolved a lot during this time span, including from disco to new wave and the emergence of rap, two classic rock superstars were on both shows: Queen and Billy Joel. Queen evolved from anthem rock (We Are The Champions) to a new wave anthem that ended up giving one of today's biggest pop stars her name (Radio Ga Ga), while Billy had a more retro-influenced sound on "An Innocent Man" than the very 70's storytelling "The Stranger", incidentally likely his two biggest albums ever.
Some near misses included Ray Parker Jr. (only on 1978), Olivia Newton-John (only on 1984), Lionel Richie (only on 1984, just fell out of the 1978 show with the Commodores), KC (only on 1984, but just below the 1978 chart at #47) and the artist who was at #1 on the 1984 show with "Jump" that was about to reach the top 40 at that time in 1978 - Van Halen. "You Really Got Me" was #41 that week in 1978.
Also, "Thank You For Being A Friend", which was on the 1978 chart, was also an LDD in 1984, as it was commonly, right up to the end of Casey's radio career where it was the last LDD in his history.
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Post by woolebull on Feb 26, 2024 23:20:37 GMT -5
Earlier today, was listening to March 4, 1978, now it's March 3, 1984. While music evolved a lot during this time span, including from disco to new wave and the emergence of rap, two classic rock superstars were on both shows: Queen and Billy Joel. Queen evolved from anthem rock (We Are The Champions) to a new wave anthem that ended up giving one of today's biggest pop stars her name (Radio Ga Ga), while Billy had a more retro-influenced sound on "An Innocent Man" than the very 70's storytelling "The Stranger", incidentally likely his two biggest albums ever. Some near misses included Ray Parker Jr. (only on 1978), Olivia Newton-John (only on 1984), Lionel Richie (only on 1984, just fell out of the 1978 show with the Commodores), KC (only on 1984, but just below the 1978 chart at #47) and the artist who was at #1 on the 1984 show with "Jump" that was about to reach the top 40 at that time in 1978 - Van Halen. "You Really Got Me" was #41 that week in 1978. Also, "Thank You For Being A Friend", which was on the 1978 chart, was also an LDD in 1984, as it was commonly, right up to the end of Casey's radio career where it was the last LDD in his history. If you stretched it out to 1988 from 1978, the only artist (I think) that would have been close to being on both shows from the first week of March would have been Dan Hill, and you would have had listened to Dees for that because "Never Thought" had a cup of coffee around that time on the "Weekly Top 40".
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Post by freakyflybry on Feb 26, 2024 23:27:50 GMT -5
I thought that Dan Hill song was underrated. Should've made it onto AT40.
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Post by dukelightning on Feb 27, 2024 7:36:47 GMT -5
Maddi Lane did a fine job on that song. Is that a song about something that actually happened? Not sure when Warrant recorded that song originally but did Jani lose a son to drug addiction? I had forgotten that he himself died and at a youngish age at that. Yeah COVID wrecked a lot of people's lives, certainly students that were graduating in 2020. Love that Timmy T song do you?! Some people on this board cannot stand it. I can take it or leave it. Mariah's hit is at the top of my list for that time frame. You and freakyflybry have heard some 1978 shows lately. I have yet to hear any this year since I am simply listening to whatever the Premiere A shows are when it comes to the 70s and 80s having already heard every one since I started listening to them in 2010. So Van Halen debuts on the 3/11/78 show. Debuting the next week is "Feels so Good". Debuting 11 years later is Van Halen with "Feels so Good"!
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Feb 27, 2024 19:55:35 GMT -5
Thank you both, dukelightning and woolebull, for the shoutout. 🙂 It took me a bit longer to reach 4,000 (from 2,000) than it did my first 2,000. Got another anniversary approaching: I joined this board on 3/17/2016. Can't believe it's been almost eight years already. 😯 With Leap Day in the vicinity, I loaded up CT40 from 2/29/1992 (yet again). This will be my third time hearing that show since 2017, the previous time back in 2020. A lot of good pop songs in here, and as always, great storytelling by Casey. When it comes to the CT40 era, I think Casey was at his best during the earlier years. I was a junior in high school when this show aired. Gonna try to get a couple more Leap Day shows in before it's too far in the rear view: the Cash Box Countdown from 1964, AT40 from 2020, and maybe if time permits, the Country Top 40 from 2020. doofus67, really looking forward to your 1992 Leap Day chart. 🙂 (And, hey, I see you closing in on 4,000 posts also!)
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Post by freakyflybry on Feb 27, 2024 23:18:45 GMT -5
Just before this, was listening to AT40 from February 19, 2000 (with Christina Aguilera's only week at #1 with "What A Girl Wants" - interesting story about how she had an in-store appearance at a Target store that got a greater than expected turnout that it turned into pure chaos - a sure sign of a fast-rising star!) and now AT40 from February 26, 1994. Why this show? Well, to quote CeCe thingyton's debut song on this show - "I'm in the mood" to hear some Shadoe, and I just recently listened to a CT40 from a similar time period, so why not?
There was some overlap in artists between the two shows, despite a large musical shift in these six years: Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey and Celine Dion were on both charts. Additionally, "Please Forgive Me" by Bryan Adams was an LDD on the 2000 show - it was charting in 1994, and "The Sign" by Ace of Base - holding at #1 on the 1994 show, was also an America's Top Hits extra in 2000. And Madonna's "I'll Remember" - itself an LDD in 2000, wasn't too far off from making the top 40 in 1994 - and she was in the top 40 in 2000 with her cover of "American Pie".
Speaking of Madonna, I'm currently in San Francisco for her concert tomorrow night, it'll be my first time seeing her.
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